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| US10904595B2 |
System and method for just in time embedded watermarking of streaming proxies
A system and method for just-in-time embedded watermarking of streaming digital content. The system employs sequential processing to transcode streaming content to embed a user-specific watermark into the streaming content. Additionally, the just-in-time embedded watermarking system transcodes short segments of content on an as-needed basis, in response to user requests, instead of performing bulk transcoding of large amounts of content at once. Accordingly, the just-in-time embedded watermarking system provides consistent and predictable user playback experience. Further, the system automatically supports adaptive bit rate optimization by providing interoperability with multiple potential adaptive bit rates requestable by the content player device. The system watermarks the requested content segment in real-time during the streaming of the content by causing burn-in of the user-specific watermark into the streaming content. |
| US10904594B2 |
Systems and methods for providing variable speeds in a trick-play mode
Systems and methods for providing variable trick-play mode playback of media content in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. A playback device stores images of the media content associated with presentation times and marker information for the media content that indicates the presentation time of moments of interest. When a trick-play mode is invoked, the playback device determines a presentation time of a next marker in the playback. The playback device determines whether the current presentation time of the playback is within a specified range of the presentation time of the next marker and adjusts the speed of the trick-play playback based on the determination. The next frame to present is determined based on the adjusted speed of the trick-play playback and displayed. |
| US10904592B2 |
Transmission apparatus, transmission method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, reception apparatus, and reception method
This is provided to achieve capability of avoiding hindrance of accurate reflection of intention at the time of production due to execution of frame interpolation on the reception side.A predetermined container including a video stream obtained by performing encoding operation on moving image data of a predetermined frame rate is transmitted. Information for restricting frame interpolation is inserted into one or both of a layer of the container and a layer of the video stream. For example, the information for restricting frame interpolation includes information for prohibiting frame interpolation. Moreover, for example, the information for restricting frame interpolation includes information indicating the number of times of frame repeats. |
| US10904590B2 |
Method and system for real time switching of multimedia content
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method and system for real time switching of multimedia content. The computer-implemented method and system corresponds to a multimedia content switching system. The multimedia content switching system receives a first set of data associated with a plurality of users. The multimedia content switching system fetches a second set of data and a plurality of technical parameters. The multimedia content switching system obtains a plurality of multimedia content streams. The multimedia content switching system creates a plurality of groups. The multimedia content switching system enables customization of the plurality of technical parameters. The multimedia content switching system enables switching of the plurality of multimedia content streams based on a right field of view. The multimedia content switching system merges switched multimedia content streams. The multimedia content switching system transfers a single customized multimedia content stream to a live broadcasting platform. |
| US10904589B2 |
Method and system for remotely controlling consumer electronic devices
A media system replaces content in a first sequence of media content. The media system presents the first sequence of media content to an end-user and generates a fingerprint of the sequence of media content. The fingerprint is for comparison with a plurality of reference fingerprints so as to identify the first sequence of media content and determine a reference position within the first sequence of media content. The media system sends a request for a replacement sequence of content to a content replacement system, and receives replacement media content selected based on the identified first sequence of media content. The media system presents the replacement media content to the end-user instead of the first sequence of media content. Presenting the replacement media content begins at a position in the first sequence of media content that is determined based on the reference position. |
| US10904588B1 |
Stitching content streams together
Methods and apparatus are described for stitching independently encoded content streams together such that they appear to be part of a single streaming session. |
| US10904586B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for detecting and transforming rotated video content items
Methods, systems, and media for detecting and transforming rotated video content items are provided. The method comprises: receiving a video having a plurality of frames, wherein the video is associated with a first fingerprint; determining a rotation value associated with at least a portion of the plurality of frames to obtain a plurality of rotation values; determining an overall rotation value associated with the video based on a portion of the plurality of rotation values; determining whether at least one additional fingerprint of the video should be generated based on the overall rotation value; in response to determining that the at least one additional fingerprint of the video should be generated based on the overall rotation value, selecting a rotation transform based on the overall rotation value that rotates the plurality of frames of the video to an initial rotation position; applying the rotation transform to at least a portion of the plurality of frames of the video; generating a second fingerprint that represents the transformed video; and comparing the second fingerprint of the transformed video to a plurality of fingerprints associated with reference videos to determine whether the video corresponding to the transformed video matches one of the reference videos. |
| US10904578B2 |
Video processing apparatus and video processing circuits thereof
A video processing apparatus and a video processing circuit of the video processing apparatus are provided. The video processing circuit includes a video processor, a first memory controller, a second memory controller and a distributor. The video processor includes at least one sub-processing-tasks processor which is configured to execute one or more sub-processing tasks respectively. The first memory controller controls a first memory. The second memory controller controls a second memory. The distributor stores the data outputted by the video processor to the first memory and the second memory through the first memory controller and the second memory controller respectively. |
| US10904577B2 |
Video compression system with post-processing of bitstream generated by hardware video encoding and associated video compression method
A video compression system includes a video encoder and a bitstream processing circuit. The video encoder is hardware that performs hardware video encoding upon frames to generate a first bitstream. The first bitstream is output from an entropy encoding circuit of the video encoder. The bitstream processing circuit performs a bitstream post-processing operation upon the first bitstream to produce a second bitstream that is different from the first bitstream, and outputs the second bitstream as a compression output of the frames. |
| US10904575B2 |
Compressing multiple video files using localized camera meta data
An approach is provided for compressing video frames captured by a camera. Clusters of the video frames are determined, where the clusters have correlations to respective sets of values of meta data associated with the video frames. The meta data includes a location, focal length, and direction of the camera, and a time of day during a capture of the video frames by the camera. Based on multiple video frames within each of the clusters being compared with each other but not being compared with a video frame in another cluster, base and delta frames are determined and stored for each of the clusters. An amount of storage required for the base and delta frames is based in part on each of the correlations to the respective sets of values of the meta data. |
| US10904574B2 |
Method and device using an out of band end of stream NAL unit in decoding
A method of and a device for decoding at least one video stream, each video stream of the at least one video stream associated with a respective Decoder Parameter Set. The method includes activating, by a decoder, the Decoder Parameter Set of a first video stream of the at least one video stream, processing, by the decoder, an End of Stream NAL unit that is made available to the decoder outside of the first video stream, and deactivating, by the decoder, the Decoder Parameter Set of the first video stream in response to the decoder processing the End of Stream NAL unit. |
| US10904573B2 |
Reduced multiplicative complexity discrete cosine transform (DCT) circuitry
System and techniques for reduced multiplicative complexity discrete cosine transform (DCT) circuitry are described herein. An input data set can be received and, upon the input data set, a self-recursive DCT technique can be performed to produce a transformed data set. Here, the self-recursive DCT technique is based on a product of factors of a specified type of DCT technique. Recursive components of the technique are of the same DCT type as that of the DCT technique. The transformed data set can then be produced to a data consumer. |
| US10904571B2 |
Hybrid cubemap projection for 360-degree video coding
A system, method, and/or instrumentality may be provided for coding a 360-degree video. A picture of the 360-degree video may be received. The picture may include one or more faces associated with one or more projection formats. A first projection format indication may be received that indicates a first projection format may be associated with a first face. A second projection format indication may be received that indicates a second projection format may be associated with a second face. Based on the first projection format, a first transform function associated with the first face may be determined. Based on the second projection format, a second transform function associated with the second face may be determined. At least one decoding process may be performed on the first face using the first transform function and/or at least one decoding process may be performed on the second face using the second transform function. |
| US10904566B2 |
Method and apparatus for index map coding in video and image compression
A method and apparatus of video coding using palette coding mode including run modes are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system determines a maximum palette run for a current pixel being coded based on coding information including block size of the current block, pixel location of the current pixel, and whether a last run type for the current block is the copy-index mode or the copy-above mode. The current run associated with the current pixel is then encoded into one or more binary strings or decoded from the bitstream according to the maximum palette run. A syntax element to indicate the last run type for the current block can be signaled or parsed from the bitstream. |
| US10904565B2 |
Memory-bandwidth-efficient design for bi-directional optical flow (BIO)
A device for decoding video data is configured to perform interpolation filtering using an N-tap filter to generate an interpolated search space for a first block of video data; obtain a first predictive block in the interpolated search space; determine that a second block of video data is encoded using a bi-directional inter prediction mode and a bi-directional optical flow (BIO) process; perform an inter prediction process for the second block of video data using the bi-directional inter prediction mode to determine a second predictive block; perform the BIO process on the second predictive block to determine a BIO-refined version of the second predictive block, wherein a number of reference samples used for calculating intermediate values for BIO offsets is limited to a region of (W+N−1)×(H+N−1) integer samples, wherein W and H correspond to a width and height of the second block in integer samples. |
| US10904563B2 |
Method and apparatus for improved zero out transform
A method of video decoding includes receiving a coded video bitstream including a current picture. The method further includes performing, to generate a prediction block, an optimized inverse transform process on a transform block that corresponds to a current block included in the current picture based on one of (i) a transform property of the inverse transform process and (ii) a block size of the transform block. The method further includes reconstructing the current block using the predicted block. |
| US10904561B2 |
Image decoding method and apparatus based on motion prediction in sub-block unit in image coding system
An image decoding method according to the present document includes obtaining motion prediction information for a current block from a bitstream, generating an affine MVP candidate list for the current block, deriving CPMVPs for CPs of the current block based on the affine MVP candidate list, deriving CPMVDs for the CPs of the current block based on the motion prediction information, deriving CPMVs for the CPs of the current block based on the CPMVPs and the CPMVDs, and deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the CPMVs. |
| US10904559B2 |
Block vector prediction in intra block copy mode
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block in a current coded picture. The prediction information indicates an intra block copy mode and a first block vector predictor (BVP) used for the current block. The first BVP points to a first reference block (RB). The processing circuitry determines whether the first RB is accessible from a memory. When the first RB is determined to be inaccessible from the memory, the processing circuitry determines a second RB that is accessible from the memory according to at least one of a default RB, the first RB, and the current block. The processing circuitry includes a second BVP in a BVP candidate list. The second BVP points to the second RB. The processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the BVP candidate list. |
| US10904556B2 |
Moving picture coding method and moving picture decoding method using a determination whether or not a reference block has two reference motion vectors that refer forward in display order with respect to a current picture
A moving picture coding apparatus includes: an inter prediction control unit which determines to code a motion vector using, among candidate predicted motion vectors, a candidate predicted motion vector having the least error with relative to a motion vector derived by motion estimation; a picture type determination unit which generates picture type information; a temporal direction vector calculation unit which derives a candidate predicted motion vector in temporal direct; and a co-located reference direction determination unit which generates, for each picture, a co-located reference direction flag. |
| US10904553B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of a sub-block based merge mode. Then, the processing circuitry decodes offset information from the coded video bitstream and reconstructs a sample in a sub-block of the current block according to motion information of the sub-block that is determined based on the sub-block based merge mode and the offset information. |
| US10904550B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for video decoding includes receiving circuitry and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture from a coded video bitstream. The prediction information is indicative of an affine based motion vector prediction. The processing circuitry determines a first affine model for the current block. The first affine model has first affine parameters. Then, the processing circuitry determines a second affine model for a first clipping region in the current block. The second affine model has second affine parameters with differences to the first affine parameters being smaller than a threshold. Motion vectors determined based on the second affine model satisfy a clipping requirement. The processing circuitry reconstructs a sample in the first clipping region based on the second affine model. |
| US10904549B2 |
Method and apparatus for signaling of multi-hypothesis for skip and merge mode and signaling of distance offset table in merge with motion vector difference
A method of video decoding performed in a video decoder includes receiving a coded video bitstream including signaling information for a current block. The method further includes determining block reconstruction information for the current block based on the signaling information. The method further includes reconstructing the current block using the determined block reconstruction information. |
| US10904547B2 |
Image decoding device, image encoding device, and image decoding method
A video encoding device (2) includes a side information determination section (21) and a side information encoding section (22). The side information determination section (21) sets a quantization parameter for each macroblock in such a manner that a difference between quantization parameters for each pair of macroblocks with successive encoding orders is equal to one of n difference values, and transforms the difference into one of n indices with respect to each pair. The side information encoding section (22) generates a binary sequence having a length corresponding to the size of the absolute value of the index. The total of absolute values of the n indices is smaller than the total of absolute values of the n difference values. |
| US10904546B2 |
Moving image processing device, moving image processing method, and recording medium having moving image processing program stored thereon
A moving image processing device includes: a storage unit storing, by dividing an image into pixel blocks and performing image processing for the individual pixel blocks, an execution state of image processing for each pixel block in encoding or decoding processing for the image; a determination unit determining whether image processing for a first pixel block is executable, based on an execution state of image processing for a second pixel block for which image processing for the first pixel block has a dependence regarding a processing order; and an execution unit performing, in parallel or pseudo-parallel, image processing for the first pixel blocks for which image processing is determined to be executable by the determination unit, and updating an execution state of image processing for the first pixel block, whereby encoding or decoding processing for a moving image is accelerated. |
| US10904544B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding
Aspects of the disclosure provide method and apparatus for video coding. In some examples, an apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry decodes a first portion of video data to obtain first data of a first reconstructed picture, the first data including a first data set that corresponds to a first information category and a second data set that corresponds to a second information category. The processing circuitry determines whether to store at least one of the first data set and the second data set as reference data, and stores the at least one of the first data set and the second data set of the first reconstructed picture as the reference data based on the determination. The processing circuitry also decodes a second portion of the video data to obtain second data of a second reconstructed picture based on the stored reference data. |
| US10904543B2 |
Method and apparatus for video coding and decoding
The invention relates to concatenating or splicing of scalable video bitstreams. There are disclosed various methods, apparatuses and computer program products for video encoding and decoding and modifying coded video bitstreams. In some embodiments, indications are provided in the coded video bitstream to indicate a layer-wise decoding start-up process. These indications may be generated by encoders or splicers. |
| US10904542B2 |
Image transcoding method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose an image transcoding method performed at a computing device. The image transcoding method includes: obtaining a source image quality parameter of a source image, the source image being a to-be-transcoded image, and the source image quality parameter being associated with a source image format and used for indicating image quality of the source image; obtaining, according to the source image quality parameter and a preset mapping relationship, a target image quality parameter that is associated with a target image format and that corresponds to the source image quality parameter of the source image; and transcoding the source image in the source image format according to the target image quality parameter to obtain a target image in the target image format. |
| US10904539B2 |
Method, device and system for encoding and decoding image
Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for encoding and decoding an image. The present invention provides an intra prediction unit receives an input image, removes high frequency ingredients by low pass filtering an encoded luma pixel value in the input image during intra prediction, and generates a prediction block by predicting a chroma pixel value by using a low pass filter (LPF) LM chroma mode for applying an LM chroma mode, which is an extended chroma mode technique for generating a prediction block by predicting the chroma pixel value by applying a correlation between color planes to the luma pixel value having removed therefrom the high frequency ingredients. |
| US10904532B2 |
Differential prefix coding for high throughput entropy coder in display compression
A method of entropy coding data samples includes for each entropy coding group, determining a native prefix value indicative of the bit size of the suffixes in the group; for each entropy coding group, evaluating at least one prefix coding condition for the group in the current block and the corresponding group in a previous block of sample values; in response to determining that the at least one prefix coding condition is met, applying differential prefix coding to code a differential prefix value for the group in the current block to generate a prefix for the group in the current block; and in response to determining that the at least one prefix coding condition is not met, applying direct prefix coding to code the native prefix value for the group in the current block to generate the prefix for the group in the current block. |
| US10904531B2 |
Adaptive parameters for coding of 360-degree video
Techniques and systems are provided for processing 360-degree video data. For example, a picture of the 360-degree video data can be obtained. The picture can include samples projected from a three-dimensional format to a two-dimensional format. A weight value can be determined for at least one sample of the picture. The weight value can be determined based at least on a position of the at least one sample in the picture. At least one adaptive parameter can be determined for the at least one sample using the determined weight value. The at least one adaptive parameter can include one or more of an adaptive weighted distortion, an adaptive weighted quantization parameter value, or an adaptive weighted lambda value. A cost associated with coding the at least one sample using one or more coding modes can be determined using the at least one adaptive parameter of the at least one sample. |
| US10904530B2 |
Chroma quantization in video coding
A method of signaling additional chroma QP offset values that are specific to quantization groups is provided, in which each quantization group explicitly specifies its own set of chroma QP offset values. Alternatively, a table of possible sets of chroma QP offset values is specified in the header area of the picture, and each quantization group uses an index to select an entry from the table for determining its own set of chroma QP offset values. The quantization group specific chroma QP offset values are then used to determine the chroma QP values for blocks within the quantization group in addition to chroma QP offset values already specified for higher levels of the video coding hierarchy. |
| US10904529B2 |
Quantization group for video coding
A method of coding video data comprising determining a quantization group (QG) based on one or more of a size of a CU splitting node and a value of a region-based parameter, determining a single quantization parameter for all blocks of video data within the determined quantization group, and performing a quantization process on transform coefficients of all blocks of video data within the determined quantization group using the determined single quantization parameter. |
| US10904528B2 |
Techniques for QP selection for 360 image and video coding
A method for adjusting a quantizer parameter (QP) value of a block of samples in a planar source picture that is input to an encoder for encoding may include identifying information associated with the planar source picture that is a projection of a non-planar surface. The method may include determining an initial QP value associated with the block of samples in the planar source picture. The method may include determining, based on the information associated with the planar source picture, a QP delta value associated with the block of samples. The method may include determining a final QP value associated with the block of samples based on the initial QP value and the QP delta value. The method may include coding the block of samples using the final QP value. |
| US10904527B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder which encodes image information includes memory and circuitry accessible to the memory. The circuitry binarizes a data value indicating the number of non-zero coefficients included in a current basic block which is one of one or more basic blocks in a frequency transform block, according to a conversion table, to encode the image information which includes the data value. When binarizing the data value, the circuitry selects the conversion table from a plurality of tables including two or more tables which differ from each other in difference between a longest bit length and a shortest bit length of a plurality of binary values associated with a plurality of data values, according to the position of the current basic block in the current frequency transform block which is the frequency transform block including the current basic block, and binarizes the data value according to the conversion table selected. |
| US10904524B2 |
Adaptive loop filtering for high dynamic range video
Methods, processes, and systems are presented for adaptive loop filtering in coding and decoding high dynamic range (HDR) video. Given an input image block, its luminance information may be used to adapt one or more parameters of adaptive loop filtering and compute gradient and directionality information, activity information, a classification index, and adaptive-loop-filtering coefficients. |
| US10904521B2 |
Extracting MCTS sub-bitstreams for video coding
An example device for processing video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to determine to extract a motion constrained tile sets (MCTS) sub-bitstream from an original bitstream including the video data based at least in part on information of an MCTS extraction information set (MCTS-EIS) supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message; and in response to determining to extract the MCTS sub-bitstream, omit all SEI network abstraction layer (NAL) units that contain non-MCTS-nested SEI messages from inclusion in the extracted MCTS sub-bitstream, regardless of a value of a NAL unit header layer identifier value for the non-MCTS-nested SEI messages. |
| US10904520B2 |
Method and device for indicating pixel, and method and device for processing pixel indication
Disclosed are a method and a device for indicating a pixel, and a method and a device for processing a pixel indication, in video encoding and decoding. A process of indicating a pixel by an encoder includes the steps of: determining at least one processing sub-interval, determining at least one processing sub-interval to be indicated, and indicating the at least one processing sub-interval to be indicated. A process of processing a pixel indication by a decoder includes the steps of: acquiring processing sub-interval indication information, determining at least one indicated processing sub-interval, and determining all of the at least one processing sub-interval. Under the premise that flexible selection of at least one processing sub-interval is guaranteed by applying the above-mentioned technical solutions according to embodiments of the present invention, indication information of the at least one processing sub-interval to be indicated, which is transmitted, is reduced. As a result, video compression performance is improved. |
| US10904518B2 |
Goggle imaging systems and methods
A goggle system is provided. The goggle system includes a computing device, a goggle device configured to be worn by a user and including a detector configured to simultaneously acquire image data of a subject in a first image mode and a second image mode, at least one eye assembly configured to display at least one of an image in the first image mode, an image in the second image mode, and a hybrid image including pixels of image data from the first image mode and pixels of image data from the second image mode, and a communications module configured to transmit acquired image data from the goggle device to the computing device. |
| US10904512B2 |
Combined stereoscopic and phase detection depth mapping in a dual aperture camera
In an imaging system having a first camera with a first field of view (FOV) and a second camera with a second FOV smaller than the first FOV, wherein the first and second FOVs overlap over an overlap region, a method for calculating a calibrated phase detection depth map over the entire first FOV comprises calculating a stereoscopic depth map in the overlap region using image information provided by the first and second cameras, obtaining a first camera phase detection (PD) disparity map in the entire first FOV, and using the stereoscopic depth map in the overlap region to provide a calibrated 2PD depth map in the entire first FOV. |
| US10904511B2 |
Systems and method for GPU based virtual reality video streaming server
Systems and methods of processing and streaming a virtual reality video using a graphics processing unit (GPU) are provided. A video server is configured to cause a processor to read, from a video data source, source video data including multiple spherical image frame data and store the source video data in a first memory. The video server is further configured to cause the GPU to convert, in response to storing first spherical image frame data in a first frame buffer of a second memory, the first spherical image frame data to first equirectangular image frame data that correspond to a portion of spherical image represented by the first spherical image frame data, encode the converted first equirectangular image frame data and store the encoded first equirectangular image frame data in an encoded frame buffer of the second memory. |
| US10904509B2 |
Method and system for encoding a video data signal, encoded video data signal, method and system for decoding a video data signal
Video data signals are encoded such that the encoded video data signal comprises at least a primary and at least a secondary video data signal. The primary and secondary video data signal are jointly compressed. The primary video data signal is compressed in a self-contained manner, and the secondary video data signal is compressed using data from the primary video data signal. The jointly compressed video data signal is split into separate bitstreams, at least a primary bitstream comprising data for the primary video data signal and at least a secondary bitstream comprising data for the secondary video data signal, whereafter the primary and secondary bitstreams are multiplexed into a multiplexed signal, and the primary and secondary signals are provided with separate codes. |
| US10904508B2 |
360 degree video with combined projection format
In a system for 360 degree video capture and playback, 360 degree video may be captured, stitched, encoded, decoded, rendered, and played-back. A device for video coding with adaptive projection format may include at least one processor configured to combine at least two different projection formats into a combined projection format and encode a video stream using the combined projection format. The at least one processor may be further configured to decode a video stream that is encoded with a combined projection formation that includes at least two different projection formats. |
| US10904505B2 |
Systems and methods for generating a digital image
A system, method, and computer program product for generating a digital image is disclosed. In use, a first image is received from a first image sensor, where the first image sensor detects visible light color, and a second image and a third image are received from a second image sensor, where the second image sensor detects non-visible light intensity. Using an image processing subsystem, a resulting image is generated by combining the first image, the second image, and the third image, where at least one of the first image, the second image, or the third image is sampled under strobe illumination. |
| US10904504B2 |
Electronic apparatus and control method thereof
An electronic apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a communicator, a camera, a memory storing a reference image including a plurality of gradation regions that have different gradation values, and a processor to photograph the display device that outputs the reference image and a background of the display device, through the camera, obtain correction data for correcting a gradation value of the photographed image based on a plurality of gradation regions included in the photographed image and a plurality of gradation regions included in the stored reference image, correct a background image corresponding to the background from the photographed image based on the obtained correction data, and control the communicator to output the corrected background image on the display device. |
| US10904503B2 |
Image processing device, information generation device, and information generation method
A correction information generation section 50 emits measurement light having uniform intensity onto a polarized image acquisition section 20 acquiring a polarized image. Further, on the basis of a measured polarized image acquired from the polarized image acquisition section 20, the correction information generation section 50 generates variation correction information for correcting sensitivity variations caused in the measured polarized image due to difference in polarization direction, and causes a correction information storage section 30 to store the generated variation correction information. A correction processing section 40 then corrects the sensitivity variations caused in the polarized image acquired by the polarized image acquisition section 20 due to the difference in polarization direction by using the pre-generated variation correction information stored in the correction information storage section 30. Therefore, the polarized image outputted from the correction processing section 40 becomes a high-quality polarized image with, for example, its sensitivity variations corrected. |
| US10904498B2 |
Light source apparatus, projector, and light source module
Alight source apparatus includes a light source, a first polarization separator that transmits a first polarization component of first light in the first direction and reflects a second polarization component of the first light in a second direction, a second polarization separator that reflects the first polarization component of the first light in the second direction, a first reflector that reflects the second polarization component of the first light, a first retarder between the first polarization separator and the first reflector, a wavelength converter that converts the first light into second light and outputs the second light, a first color separator, a second retarder, a second color separator, and a third retarder. |
| US10904493B2 |
Filter alignment for multi-spectral composite image
A method includes capturing, with an image capture device, a first image of a scene while a portion of the scene has a first alignment with a first detector of a focal plane array and a first bandpass filter is between the portion of the scene and the first detector. The method includes, in response to determining that the portion of the scene has a second alignment with a second detector of the focal plane array, the second alignment substantially matching the first alignment, and that a second bandpass filter having a second frequency range that is distinct from a first frequency range of the first bandpass filter is between the portion of the scene and the second detector, initiating storage of a second image of the scene, the second image captured while the portion of the scene has the second alignment with the second detector. |
| US10904490B1 |
Inferred activity based conference enhancement method and system
A method and system for optimizing conference session activities within a conference space, the system comprising at least a first sensor for sensing session characteristics and a processor receiving the sensed session characteristics and identifying a conference paradigm based on the sensed session characteristics, identifying an action sequence to perform as a function of the conference paradigm and performing the action sequence, wherein the action sequence results in automatic presentation of at least some information to at least a subset of conferees within the conference space. |
| US10904489B2 |
Multi-camera calibration method for a vehicle moving along a vehicle assembly line
A method of calibrating cameras of a multi-camera vision system for a vehicle moving along a vehicle assembly line includes equipping the vehicle as it moves along the vehicle assembly line with a plurality of cameras and equipping the vehicle with an image processor for processing image data captured by the cameras. As the vehicle moves along the vehicle assembly line, a driver-side target at a driver-side region of the vehicle assembly line is present within the fields of view of front, driver-side and rear cameras and a passenger-side target at a passenger-side region of the vehicle assembly line is present within the fields of view of the front, passenger-side and rear cameras. The cameras are calibrated responsive to processing image data of the driver-side target captured by the front, rear and driver-side cameras and image data of the passenger-side target captured by the front, rear and passenger-side cameras. |
| US10904485B1 |
Context based target framing in a teleconferencing environment
A method for determining camera framing in a teleconferencing system comprises a process loop which includes acquiring an audio-visual frame from a captured a video data frame; detecting objects and extracting image features of the objects within the video data frame, ingesting the audio-visual frame into a context-based audio-visual map in an intelligent manner, and selecting targets from within the map for inclusion in an audio-video stream for transmission to a remote endpoint. |
| US10904484B1 |
User interfaces to facilitate multiple modes of electronic communication
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interfaces to facilitate communication between users via multiple modes of electronic communication. The system displays a conversation view that presents messages exchanged between a first user and at least one other user in an electronic chat conversation. The conversation view includes an interactive element to enable the first user to initiate a video call with the at least one other user. Based on receiving user input corresponding to an interaction with the interactive element, the system initiates the video call with the at least one other user. The system displays an active call view to facilitate the video call with the at least one other user. The system toggles from displaying the active call view to displaying the conversation view in response to further user input. |
| US10904481B1 |
Broadcasting and managing call participation
The present application describes a new protocol for broadcasting and managing participation in virtual calls via a digital communication service, such as a social medial platform. The protocol allows broadcasting indications of virtual conversations between user accounts to other user accounts. In some embodiments, the indications may include invitations to join the virtual conversation. The protocol allows broadcasting and managing of virtual conversations between multiple devices via a real-time communication (RTC) channel. The protocol includes exchange messages to cooperatively establish the conversation, broadcast an indication of the conversation to at least one non-participating user, and/or manage a set of participants for the conversation. |
| US10904479B2 |
Video communication including holographic content
A video communication system uses a light field display to present a holographic image of a remote scene (e.g., a hologram of a remote participant). The system may include a local light field display assembly and a controller. The controller generates display instructions based on visual data corresponding to a remote scene received from a remote image capture system (e.g., a remote light field display system). The display instructions cause the local light field display assembly to generate a holographic image of the remote scene. |
| US10904477B2 |
Device identification using media device keys
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for identifying devices coupled a media device hub. A device map in the media device hub may create a map entry that associates a first device, a port to which the first device was at least previously coupled, and a first key of the first device. A second key is obtained from a media device that is coupled to a current port of the media device hub. A determination is made whether the second key is the same as the first key stored in the device map. If the first and second keys are the same, a determination is made whether the current port to which the second device is coupled is different than the port indicated in the device map. If the current port is different than the indicated port, the device map is updated to indicate the first device as coupled to the current port. |
| US10904476B1 |
Techniques for up-sampling digital media content
Techniques for automated up-sampling of media files are provided. In some examples, a title associated with a media file, a metadata file associated with the title, and the media file may be received. The media file may be partitioned into one or more scene files, each scene file including a plurality of frame images in a sequence. One or more up-sampled scene files may be generated, each corresponding to a scene file of the one or more scene files. An up-sampled media file may be generated by combining at least a subset of the one or more up-sampled scene files. Generating one or more up-sampled scene files may include identifying one or more characters in a frame image of the plurality of frame images, based at least in part on implementation of a facial recognition algorithm including deep learning features in a neural network. |
| US10904475B2 |
Optically readable codes in a content delivery system
Methods, apparatus, and software are described for using an optically-readable code. The optically-readable code may be caused to be displayed. Data may be received based on the optically-readable code. Content or other items may be determined based on the optically-readable code. |
| US10904470B2 |
Ramp signal generation device and CMOS image sensor including the same
A ramp signal generation device includes a sampling circuit suitable for sampling a ramp current, which flows on a plurality of ramp current paths, and storing a voltage corresponding to the sampled ramp current; a current maintaining circuit suitable for maintaining the ramp current; a current maintaining/transferring circuit suitable for maintaining and transferring a current corresponding to the voltage stored by the sampling circuit; a selection circuit suitable for selecting a ramp current path of the sampling block and the current maintaining/transferring circuit; and a current-to-voltage converter suitable for converting the current transferred from the current maintaining/transferring circuit and generating therefrom a ramp voltage. |
| US10904469B2 |
Imaging apparatus, imaging system, moving object, and circuit chip
An imaging apparatus is provided and is configured in such a manner that a plurality of first pixels are connected to a first AD conversion unit, and a plurality of second pixels are connected to a second AD conversion unit whereby the imaging apparatus has a beneficial connection relationship between the pixels and the AD conversion units. |
| US10904468B2 |
Signal processing apparatus and method, imaging element, and electronic apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing apparatus and method, an imaging element, and an electronic apparatus capable of suppressing an increase in area. The present disclosure divides a predetermined current generated by receiving a gain control signal that controls a gain into a plurality of output currents and a non-output current in accordance with a value of an input digital signal and outputs the plurality of output currents as a plurality of analog signals. The present technology can be applied to for example, electronic circuits such as a D/A converter circuit and an A/D converter circuit, imaging elements such as a CMOS image sensor, electronic apparatuses such as a digital still camera, and the like. |
| US10904467B2 |
Imaging systems having dual storage gate overflow capabilities
An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode that generates first charge for a first frame and second charge for a second frame, first and second storage gates coupled to the photodiode, a floating diffusion coupled to the first storage gate through a first transistor, a second transistor coupled to the second storage gate, and a capacitor coupled to the floating diffusion through a third transistor. The image sensor pixel may output image signals associated with the first charge generated by the photodiode for the first image frame while the photodiode concurrently generates the second charge for the second image frame. The second storage gate may be used to store overflow charge. Overflow charge for the second frame may be stored at the second storage gate while image signals associated with the first image frame are read out from capacitor and the floating diffusion. |
| US10904466B2 |
Digital correlated double sampling circuits and image sensors including the same
A digital correlated double sampling (CDS) circuit includes a first latch circuit, a first converting circuit, a second converting circuit, a second latch circuit, and a calculating circuit. The first latch circuit latches an input phase shift code based on a first control signal to store first and second phase shift codes. The first converting circuit converts the first and second phase shift codes into first and second Gray codes. The second converting circuit converts the first Gray code and the second Gray code into a first binary code and a second binary code. The second latch circuit latches an output of the second converting circuit based on a second control signal to store the first binary code. The calculating circuit operates on the first binary code and the second binary code to generate a third binary code, and outputs the third binary code. |
| US10904464B2 |
Imaging device
An imaging device comprising: a first pixel cell including a first photoelectric converter generating a first signal, the first photoelectric converter including a first electrode and a first photoelectric conversion region on the first electrode, and a first circuit coupled to the first electrode and detecting the first signal; and a second pixel cell including a second photoelectric converter generating a second signal, the second photoelectric converter including a second electrode and a second photoelectric conversion region on the second electrode, and a second circuit coupled to the second electrode and detecting the second signal. A sensitivity of the first pixel cell is higher than that of the second pixel cell. A circuit configuration of the first circuit is different from that of the second circuit. The first circuit includes a feedback circuit configured to negatively feed back a voltage of the first electrode to the first electrode. |
| US10904455B2 |
Lens moving apparatus and camera module and portable terminal including the same
Embodiments provide a lens moving apparatus including a housing supporting a magnet, a bobbin having an outer circumferential surface on which a first coil is disposed, the bobbin moving in the housing in a first direction, upper and lower elastic members each connected to both the housing and the bobbin, and a second coil disposed so as to be spaced apart from the first coil in the first direction, wherein the second coil generates induction voltage resulting from inductive interaction with the first coil when the bobbin moves in the first direction. |
| US10904453B2 |
Method and system for synchronizing illumination timing in a multi-sensor imager
Examples embodiments of a method and system for synchronizing active illumination pulses in a multi-sensor imager is provided. Example embodiments of the method disclosed herein include the provision of an illumination pulse for each of N sensors, each of N illumination pulses are set to have the same pulse period and active pulse width. Moreover, example embodiments include setting the active width pulse for each of the N illumination pulses to have maximum exposure time for each of N image sensors, and in further examples, ensuring that the time to capture a frame plus the time interval between subsequent image captures is the same for each sensor. In yet further examples, an offset period between subsequent frame synchronous signals is determined. In yet further example embodiments, an interval between frame captures is adjusted and a negative edge of the frame synchronous signal and an illumination pulse is aligned. |
| US10904452B2 |
Method of generating composite image using plurality of images with different exposure values and electronic device supporting the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, a camera module, and a processor electrically connected to the memory and the camera module. The processor is configured to determine a first exposure value based on a brightness of an external object, sequentially capture a plurality of images using a first exposure value, a second exposure value having an exposure value less than the first exposure value, the first exposure value, and a third exposure value having an exposure value greater than the first exposure value, when a specified condition is satisfied, select a set of continuous images from the plurality of images, and generate a composite image using the set of continuous images. |
| US10904448B2 |
Controlling flash behavior during capture of image data
A method, system, and computer program product controlling flash behavior of a camera during capture of image data. The method includes identifying a target object from among a plurality of objects in a current scene. The method further includes determining whether a distance to the target object is within an effective flash range associated with at least one flash module of an image capturing device. The method further includes measuring, via at least one camera, an ambient light level within the current scene and comparing the measured ambient light level to a predetermined flash light threshold. The method further includes, in response to determining the target object is within the effective flash range and the measured ambient level is less than the predetermined flash light threshold, triggering at least one flash module of the image capturing device to illuminate the current scene during capture of image data by the at least one camera. |
| US10904447B2 |
Metering compensation method and related monitoring camera apparatus
A metering compensation method for effectively increasing visibility of an image is applied to a monitoring camera apparatus. The metering compensation method includes acquiring a histogram of the image, setting a convergent target value and a minimal mapping value, utilizing the convergent target value and the minimal mapping value to set a weighting function, transforming the histogram into a weighted histogram via the weighting function for acquiring an intensity mean of the weighted histogram, and utilizing the convergent target value and the intensity mean to generate a first exposure compensation value. The first exposure compensation value can be used for determining whether to adjust an exposure parameter of the monitoring camera apparatus. |
| US10904446B1 |
Advanced video conferencing systems and methods
The present disclosure generally provides for advanced single camera video conferencing systems, and methods related thereto. The advanced single camera video conferencing system features a hybrid optical/digital camera, herein a camera device, having a controller that is configured to execute one or more of the methods set forth herein. In one embodiment, a method includes optically framing, a first portion of a video conferencing environment to provide an actual field-of-view, digitally framing a second portion of the video conferencing environment to provide an apparent field-of-view that is encompassed within the actual field-of-view, generating a video stream of the apparent field-of-view, surveying the actual field-of-view to generate survey data, and detecting changes in the survey data over time. The method may be performed using a single camera device using a single image sensor. |
| US10904439B2 |
Image pickup apparatus, lens unit, image pickup system, and control method for image pickup system
An image pickup system includes a camera body and a lens unit that is attachable to the camera body. The lens unit detects shaking by a shake detection unit. Drive control of an image shake correction unit is performed in accordance with an image shake correction amount calculated based on the shaking. The camera body sets timing of obtaining the shaking detected by the shake detection unit, based on information transmitted to the lens unit. In a first communication, a camera communication control unit transmits information on a base point to a lens communication control unit, and in a second communication, the camera communication control unit transmits information on a relative time from the base point that was transmitted in the first communication to a lens communication control unit. |
| US10904437B2 |
Control apparatus and control method
There is provided a control apparatus that includes an estimating section calculating motion of an entire image on the basis of an image signal corresponding to an optical image of a living organism input from an imaging section of a medical observation apparatus, to estimate blurring of the entire image according to a result of the calculation, and a control section controlling an operation related to correction of the blurring of the entire image by controlling a coefficient for controlling an amount of correction of the blurring on the basis of a zoom magnification of the imaging section such that a degree of correction of the blurring increases consistently with the zoom magnification. |
| US10904436B2 |
Image sensor and electronic device including the image sensor
An electronic device includes an image sensor including an image generator configured to generate and output a pixel image, an image processing device configured to process the pixel image, and a storage unit configured to store the pixel image, and an application processor configured to generate a mode setting signal and configured to transmit the generated mode setting signal to the image processing device. The image processing device is configured to generate a plurality of path selection signals for selecting a path to use by the image processing device to process the pixel image, based on the mode setting signal. The image processing device selects a compression ratio for the pixel image based on at least one of an input signal of a user, an analysis result of the pixel image, and a motion signal of the image sensor, and compresses the pixel image based on the selected compression ratio. |
| US10904434B2 |
Panoramic camera and image processing systems and methods
At least one combined image may be created from a plurality of images captured by a plurality of cameras. A sensor unit may receive the plurality of images from the plurality of cameras. At least one processor in communication with the sensor unit may correlate each received image with calibration data for the camera from which the image was received. The calibration data may comprise camera position data and characteristic data, and may translate the data about a translated virtual center point translated a predetermined distance in space from the virtual center point. The processor may combine at least two of the received images from at least two of the cameras into the at least one combined image by orienting the at least two images relative to one another based on the calibration data for the at least two cameras from which the images were received and merging the at least two aligned images into the at least one combined image. |
| US10904433B2 |
Multi-view optical system, optical apparatus, imaging apparatus, and moving body
A multi-view optical system includes an optical element. The optical element is configured to direct, in a predetermined direction, a first polarization component of a light beam coming from a first visual field, and a second polarization component, which is different from the first polarization component, of a light beam coming from a second visual field different from the first visual field. |
| US10904427B2 |
Coordinated cinematic drone
A camera is mounted on a drone, which is programmed to follow a flight path that is specified by trajectory parameters. The position of the drone is coordinated with a subject to be filmed by the camera, and may be coordinated with the position of one or more objects, including other automatically controlled drones, a manually controlled drone and virtual assets. The drone can also be coordinated with the behavior of a subject. |
| US10904421B2 |
Method and system for generation of images based on biorhythms
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, an apparatus for taking pictures or videos triggered by pre-selected changes in a user's biorhythms includes a wearable camera for taking one or more picture and/or videos. The wearable camera is configured to be worn by the user. The apparatus also includes at least one processor configured to receive a biorhythm signal indicative of at least one detected biorhythm of a user. The processor is configured to compare the received biorhythm signal to a biorhythm threshold and, in response to the received biorhythm signal exceeding the biorhythm threshold, to simultaneously trigger the wearable camera to take one or more pictures or videos. |
| US10904420B2 |
Control device and control method for managing a captured image
Provided is a control device including a control unit that determines a concentrating state of a creator of content and changes an effect on the content between a first part where a concentrating state to the content of a creator of the content is detected in the content and a second part different from the first part. |
| US10904418B2 |
Foldable electronic device and method for capturing view using at least two image sensors based on operating mode corresponding to folding angle
Embodiments herein provide a method for capturing view in an electronic device comprising at least two image sensors. The method includes determining a folding angle between a first side of the electronic device including a first image sensor and a second side of the electronic device including a second image sensor. Further, the method also includes capturing a first view of a scene using the first image sensor and capturing a second view of the scene using the second image sensor. Further, the method includes determining whether the first view and the second view partially overlap with each other, completely overlap with each other, or do not overlap with each other based on the folding angle. |
| US10904416B2 |
Method of assembling vehicular camera having coaxial connector
A method of assembling a camera assembly for a vehicular vision system includes providing a first housing portion, providing a printed circuit board (PCB), the PCB including circuitry, providing a mating connector at the PCB, disposing the PCB within the first housing portion, providing a second housing portion including a connector portion configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring, and disposing a coaxial connector at the connector portion of the second housing portion. The coaxial connector includes (i) a core connector element and (ii) a shield connector element that circumscribes the core connector element and that is spaced therefrom. Mating the second housing portion with the first housing portion, and electrically connecting a first end of the coaxial connector to the mating connector disposed at the PCB. The coaxial connector includes a second end for electrically connecting to the vehicle wiring when the camera assembly is installed at the vehicle. |
| US10904415B2 |
Electromagnetic wave phase/amplitude generation device, electromagnetic wave phase/amplitude generation method, and electromagnetic wave phase/amplitude generation program
An electromagnetic wave phase/amplitude generation device includes a radiation unit configured to radiate electromagnetic waves of a random radiation pattern on a spatial frequency in which a state of the electromagnetic waves to be radiated for each divided region is determined to an imaging object, an imaging unit configured to generate a captured image by imaging scattered electromagnetic waves that are electromagnetic waves generated when the imaging object scatters the electromagnetic waves of the radiation pattern radiated by the radiation unit, and a generation unit configured to generate information indicating at least a phase and amplitude of the electromagnetic waves from the imaging object by performing an arithmetic sparsity constraint operation according to sparsity of the imaging object on the basis of the captured image generated by the imaging unit, information indicating the radiation pattern, and information indicating a signal of the imaging object. |
| US10904413B2 |
Camera module and mobile terminal having the same
The present invention relates to a camera module and mobile terminal having the same, and more particularly, to a camera module, including: a printed circuit board in which a plurality of sensor holes separated from each other in a length direction are formed; a plurality of image sensors connected to the printed circuit board; and a lens module disposed on a top portion of each of the plurality of image sensors, wherein the image sensors are attached to positions corresponding to the plurality of sensor holes on a bottom surface of the printed circuit board, and mobile terminal having the same. |
| US10904411B2 |
Electronic equipment
An electronic equipment includes an attachment fixed to an object; and a main body. The attachment has a first fitting portion provided on an outer face of a first housing of the attachment and having a first glass, and a power transmitting coil to wirelessly transmit power. The main body has a second fitting portion provided on an outer face of a second housing of the main body and having a second glass, which is attachable to and detachable from the first fitting portion, and a power receiving coil to wirelessly receive the power transmitted from the power transmitting coil. |
| US10904410B2 |
Illuminated clapperboard
There is disclosed herein a device 1000 comprising: a lower lightbox 100; and an upper lightbox 300 arranged on top of the lower lightbox and connected thereto at one side by a hinge. The device may be operated as a clapperboard and may also function as a lightbox for providing direct or ambient lighting to its surroundings. |
| US10904407B2 |
Computer-readable storage medium and printing system
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer readable instructions that are executable by a computer in an information processing apparatus having a communication interface, through which the information processing apparatus is connected with a printer, is provided. The information processing apparatus has a first channel and a second channel configured to cause the printer to print an image based on image data. The computer readable instructions, when executed by the computer, cause the computer to conduct a first printing control to cause the printer to print the image through the first channel, determine whether image printing to print the image by the printer under the first printing control failed, based on a determination that the image printing under the first printing control failed, conduct a second printing control to cause the printer to retry the image printing based on the image data through the second channel. |
| US10904401B2 |
Self driving multifunction copier, server for controlling self driving multifunction copier and method for operating server
Disclosed are a self-driving multifunction copier capable of performing artificial intelligence learning through machine learning, a server controlling the self-driving multifunction copier, and a method for operating the server. A method for operating a server controlling a self-driving multifunction copier in an Internet of things (IoT) environment constructed through a 5G communication network, which is a method for operating a server controlling a self-driving multifunction copier, includes: in response to receiving an execution request for a job from a user terminal in a building, calculating a processing time of the job; selecting one self-driving multifunction copier among a plurality of self-driving multifunction copiers in the building based on the processing time of the job; and assigning the job to the selected self-driving multifunction copier to allow the selected self-driving multifunction copier to perform the assigned job. |
| US10904392B2 |
System and method for facilitating setup and joining of conference calls
A system for managing a conference call, the system comprising a call answering server configured to receive a call from an attendee device that has been forwarded from a host device, identify a conference call associated with the host device for the attendee device to join, receive a request from the attendee device to join the conference call, and connect the attendee device to the conference call. |
| US10904391B1 |
Visual interfaces for telephone calls
Incoming calls are received from audio capable devices. A call processing server receives an incoming call from an audio-capable device to a destination number, and detects availability for an ancillary source device linked to the audio-capable device. A set of data is provided to the ancillary source device. The set of data specifies graphical menu options for functions supported by the call processing server. The ancillary source device provides an indication of a selection of one of the graphical menu options. In response to the indication, a call transfer for the incoming call is implemented. |
| US10904389B2 |
System and method for a work distribution service
Systems and methods for a work distribution service. At a multi-tenant platform that provides a work distribution service for a plurality of external systems, a priority is assigned to a first work item of a first external system. The work item is received via a RESTful work item API call request. The priority is assigned based on work item attributes of the work item and a workflow instruction corresponding to workflow information specified by the work item. The workflow instruction is provided by the external system via a RESTful Workflow API. A worker is assigned to the work item based on: the priority of the work item, the workflow information, and worker state managed by the first external system via a RESTful Worker API. The worker state includes worker attributes. The work item is generated by the external system, and the workflow instruction is managed by the external system. |
| US10904386B2 |
Caller queue process and system to manage incoming video callers
A caller queue system and process for a video call-in system. The system includes a waiting room server that connects to a plurality of caller devices over a network. The waiting room server may provide content to the plurality of video caller devices and collects input received from the plurality of video caller devices. A queue managing module connected to the waiting room server prioritizes or sorts the plurality of video caller devices in a queue based on the input received from the plurality of video caller devices. The system allows a user or producer to prescreen and determine the priority of the callers and accept a higher number callers to be connected to the caller queue system. |
| US10904383B1 |
Assigning operators to incidents
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system assign an operator to service an incident. The method includes determining a type of incident. The method includes determining a command group based on the type of incident according to a first mapping. The first mapping is indicative of a mapping between the command group and the type of incident based on historical resolutions of historical incidents. The command group includes at least one command used in resolving the type of incident for a historical incident. The method includes determining an operator who has used the command group according to a second mapping. The second mapping is indicative of a mapping between the command group and the operator based on historical resolutions of historical incidents. The operator has used at least one command in the command group. The method includes assigning the operator to the incident. |
| US10904377B2 |
Passenger operation network concurrent with vehicle operation
A first client device detects driving of a vehicle. The first client device establishes a passenger operation network connection with a second client device. The first client device receives, based on the established network connection and based on the detected driving of the vehicle, at least one instruction directed towards a first client operation of the first client device. The first client device executes, responsive to the received at least one instruction and based on the established network, the first client operation. |
| US10904375B2 |
User interfaces for subscription applications
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces of the application store that are specific to a respective application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents application store user interfaces that include information about applications in a respective category. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents application store user interfaces for accessing a respective category of applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a visual indication of a number of application updates that are available in an application store user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces for launching and removing a respective application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces of a generic application store and a dedicated application store for a respective category of applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents notifications of the completion of a download. |
| US10904372B2 |
Phone storage and access system
There is disclosed a body worn mounting system (10) for a smart phone (30). The system (10) comprises a band member (12) attachable about an arm of a user. A track member (14) is mounted to the band member (12) and configured to extend at least partially along the forearm of the user. The track member (14) is configured to engage with the smart phone (30) such that the smart phone (30) is free to travel along the track member (14) between predetermined positions on the track member (14). Motion is applied to the smart phone (30) through the application of a hand motion which applies a force to the smart phone (30) causing the smart phone (30) to travel about the track member (14). |
| US10904365B2 |
Virtualized media processing pipeline
Aspects of the disclosed technology provide virtualized solutions for processing media frames. A process of the disclosed technology can include steps for receiving unprocessed media packets, de-packetizing the unprocessed media packets to produce unprocessed media frames, and sending the unprocessed media frames to a virtual media application. In some aspects, the process may further include steps for processing the unprocessed media frames, using the virtual media application, to produce processed media frames. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided. |
| US10904361B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for implementing JAVA application installation by means of cloud compilation
A method for implementing application program installation by cloud compilation includes sending, by a terminal device, hardware configuration information of the terminal device and version information of a target application program to an application market server, receiving, by the terminal device from the application market server, the upgrade information of the target application program, and performing, by the terminal device, optimized installation of the target application program according to the upgrade information to update a version of the target application program. |
| US10904356B2 |
Managing contact status updates in a presence management system
A system configured to perform operations to receive, via a network communication interface, an indication of a power event occurring at a first device. The first device is for an online identity. The power event causes the first device to switch from an external power source to an internal battery. The first device represents that the online identity is online while the first device receives power from the internal battery. The system is further configured to perform operations to hold, at a second device, at least one status update for an online contact of the online identity while the first device receives power from the internal battery. Furthermore, the system is configured to perform operations to release, for transmission to the first device, the at least one status update in response to determining that the first device switches back to the external power source. |
| US10904355B1 |
Enterprise workspaces
Concepts for associating an enterprise workspace user account with a service user account of a service are presented. One such concept comprises associating an identifier with service data provided by the service to the enterprise workspace, the service data being provided via a service authorization for a service user account. The identifier is provided to a user associated with the enterprise workspace user account. Responsive to the enterprise workspace user account executing a predetermined function with the identifier as a parameter of the function, the service data associated with the identifier is identified, and the service authorization the service data was provided via is determined. The enterprise workspace user account is then associated with the service user account that the service authorization is for. |
| US10904341B2 |
Method for using a control device in different data transmission systems, control device, and data transmission system for performing such a method
A control device is usable in a plurality of different data transmission systems in vehicles, where the control device includes a database which stores a set of configuration data records and is connected to a data transmission system selected from the plurality of data transmission systems. The control device is configured to establish data transmission between the selected data transmission system and the control device by initializing a configuration data record from the set of configuration data records. The control device is also configured to check the initialized configuration data record by receiving validation data relating to the selected data transmission system and comparing said validation data with previously-determined data-transmission-system-specific validation data stored in a memory of the control device. |
| US10904340B2 |
Method for operating an automation network
Various embodiments include a method for operating an automation network comprising a gateway device and a plurality of network devices. The methods include: subscribing a network device to subscription data with a respectively associated subscription identifier; publishing data on the gateway device under a identifier; publishing publication data as subscribed subscription data under a subscription identifier corresponding to the publication identifier so each of the plurality of network devices subscribed with the same subscription identifier as the respective identifier receive the data transmitted with the subscription identifier. The respective network devices each comprise: a field device subscribing to, collecting, and/or publishing measurement or control data, and a database subscribing to, storing, providing or publishing the data of the field device, device data about network devices present in the automation network, and data about users of the network devices. The transmission of data takes place according to a single specified protocol. |
| US10904339B2 |
Techniques for storing and distributing metadata among nodes in a storage cluster system
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for reducing the time required for a node to take over for a failed node or to boot. An apparatus includes an access component to retrieve a metadata from a storage device coupled to a first D-module of a first node during boot, the metadata generated from a first mutable metadata portion and an immutable metadata portion, and the first metadata specifying a first address of a second D-module of a second node; a replication component to contact the second data storage module at the first address; and a generation component to, in response to failure of the contact, request a second mutable metadata portion from a N-module of the first node and generate a second metadata from the second mutable metadata portion and the immutable metadata portion, the second mutable metadata portion specifying a second address of the second D-module. |
| US10904338B2 |
Identifying data for deduplication in a network storage environment
A computer controls deduplication of data. The computer generates a hash of a remote data and a hash of a local data. The computer generates a set of unmatched hash data based on a comparison of the hash of the remote data against the hash of the local data. The computer generates a splitting cost that is associated with splitting the set of unmatched hash data. The computer sends a request to a server based on a comparison of the splitting cost to a threshold. The request dictates sending of the remote data to a storage controller. |
| US10904335B2 |
Reducing distributed storage operation latency using segment routing techniques
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for reducing distributed storage operation latency using segment routing. In some examples, a method can involve receiving, from a client, a message identifying an intent to store or retrieve data on a distributed storage environment, and sending to the client a segment routing (SR) list identifying storage node candidates for storing or retrieving the data. The method can involve steering a data request from the client through a path defined by the SR list based on a segment routing header (SRH) associated with the request, the SRH being configured to steer the request through the path until a storage node from the storage node candidates accepts the request. The method can further involve sending, to the client device, a response indicating that the storage node has accepted the request and storing or retrieving the data at the storage node that accepted the request. |
| US10904330B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus to manage services in distributed systems
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture manage services in distributed systems are disclosed. An example distributed system includes a first virtual machine including a first storage device to store a first service registry for a plurality of virtual machines, and a second virtual machine, of the plurality of virtual machines, including a second storage device to store a second service registry for the second virtual machine, and a proxy service registrar having an interface to selectively provide a first service from the first service registry or the second service registry responsive to a query of the second virtual machine for the first service. |
| US10904323B2 |
Methods for server load balancing in a cloud environment using dynamic cloud pricing and devices thereof
The disclosed technology includes accessing a first network application programming interface exposed by a first cloud provider of the plurality of cloud providers to identify a first pricing profile, the first pricing profile associated with the first Cloud provider. Upon identifying the first pricing profile, accessing a second network application programming interface exposed by a second cloud provider of the plurality of cloud providers to identify a second pricing profile, the second pricing profile associated with the second Cloud provider. A load balancing decision is determined comparing the identified first pricing profile with the identified second pricing profile. Next, the determined load balancing decision is executed on a monitored computing-traffic. |
| US10904314B2 |
Endpoint URL generation and management
Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for endpoint URL generation and management. An entity identifier may be received. The entity identifier may be hashed with a hashing algorithm to generate an alphanumeric string. A custom endpoint URL may be generated by combining the alphanumeric string with a URL that identifies an endpoint located on a server of a cloud computing system. A CNAME record in a DNS database may be updated to associate the URL that identifies the endpoint located in a stack of cloud computing system with the custom endpoint URL. |
| US10904310B2 |
Method and apparatus for communicating streaming data in bluetooth-based wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for communicating streaming data in a Bluetooth-based wireless communication system is provided. An electronic device according to the present disclosure includes a communication interface configured to perform wireless Bluetooth communication with an external electronic device and a controller configured to control the communication interface, in which the controller is further configured to detect a communication state using a first packet data configuration and communicate with the external electronic device by using a second packet data configuration that is different from the first packet data configuration, based on the communication state. |
| US10904304B2 |
Cloud streaming service system, data compressing method for preventing memory bottlenecking, and device for same
The present invention relates to a cloud streaming service system, a data compressing method for preventing memory bottlenecking, and a device for same and, particularly, to a technology that: can prevent memory bottlenecking by compressing data when the transmitted amount of original buffer data exceeds a reference value, based on a system memory bandwidth; can provide a cloud streaming service by applying an order of priority by service type according to whether the processing limit, for the number of simultaneous connecting entities that can be processed by one server, is reached during a cloud streaming service; and can test whether a sever that provides a cloud streaming service is operating normally and whether a connection error occurs. |
| US10904303B2 |
Control message from streaming source to facilitate scaling
A cloud computing service is used to deploy a virtual computer cluster. The virtual computer cluster is initialized with a set of one or more streaming nodes for processing first messages of one or more streaming jobs. It is determined whether the virtual computer cluster is to process second messages of a non-streaming job. In response to determining that the virtual computer cluster is to process the second messages of the non-streaming job, for example using control messages, the cloud computing service is caused to start a non-streaming node in the virtual computer cluster. The non-streaming node is tasked to process the second messages of the non-streaming job. |
| US10904298B2 |
Machine-learning processing at native-location storage system to generate collections action plan
Techniques are disclosed for using machine-learning processing for generating resource-allocation specifications. A first data set may be received from a first data source. The first data set can include a first resource request and a first timestamp associated with entities. A second data set can be received from a second data source that includes communication data and allocation data associated with the entities. Target characteristics may be defined for training instances. The training instances can be used to train a machine-learning model using the first data set and the second data set. A third data set may be accessed and used to generate a user session within which, the trained machine-learning model may execute to generate a resource-allocation specification. The resource-allocation specification including a communication schedule. One or more communications compliant with the communication schedule may be output to an entity. |
| US10904297B1 |
Controlled-environment facility resident and associated non-resident telephone number investigative linkage to e-commerce application program purchases
Investigative systems and methods linking controlled-environment facility residents and associated non-resident telephone numbers to e-commerce application program (app) purchases capture (a) non-resident telephone number(s) associated with (an) electronic communication(s) with a controlled-environment facility resident and/or (a) telephone number(s) associated with a non-resident communicating with a controlled-environment facility resident. E-commerce app accounts associated with the captured telephone number(s) are determined, e-commerce app account(s) associated with the captured telephone number(s) is (are) accessed and information about purchases made by a non-resident associated with the accessed e-commerce app account(s), through the accessed app account(s) is gathered. A determination is then made whether information about (a) purchase(s) made through the accessed e-commerce app account(s) correlate with the resident, and an investigative lead resulting from information about the purchase(s) made through the at least one accessed e-commerce app account correlating with the resident is provided. |
| US10904296B1 |
Management of controlled-environment facility resident image and/or background during video visitation
Information associated with a controlled-environment facility resident communications and/or data device, such as device location within the controlled-environment facility, may be used to determine whether the resident device is approved for two-way video visitation or restricted to on-way video visitation. Video visitation may be initiated and voice and video captured and streamed by a non-resident communications and/or data device, as well as voice and/or video captured and streamed by the resident device, is received by a controlled-environment facility electronic communications management system. Voice and video captured at the non-resident device is transmitted to the resident device and, if the resident device is permitted two-way video visitation, voice and video captured by the resident device is transmitted to the non-resident device, if the resident device is restricted to one-way video visitation, only voice is transmitted to the non-resident device. |
| US10904294B2 |
Systems and methods for managing lost devices of multiple types with multiple policies using melded profiles associated with groups
This disclosure facilitates managing lost devices. In some embodiments, a system receives a first device type from a first agent on a first device, and a different second device type from a second agent on a second device. The system receives a first group associated with the first device and a different second group associated with the second device. The system determines that the first device and the second device are lost and accesses a database storing first and second configuration classes associated with the first and second devices, respectively. The system creates first and second device-dependent classes based on the first and second device types and the first and second configuration classes, respectively. The system melds the first device-dependent class into a first melded profile and the second device-dependent class into a second melded profile, using the respective groups, and applies the melded profiles to the corresponding device. |
| US10904293B2 |
System and method for providing network and computer firewall protection with dynamic address isolation to a device
A computer performs dynamic address isolation. The computer comprises an application associated with an application address, a network interface coupled to receive incoming data packets from and transmit outgoing data packets to an external network, a network address translation engine configured to translate between the application address and a public address, and a driver for automatically forwarding the outgoing data packets to the network address translation engine to translate the application address to the public address, and for automatically forwarding the incoming data packets to the network address translation engine to translate the public address to the application address. The computer may communicate with a firewall configured to handle both network-level security and application-level security. |
| US10904292B1 |
Secure data transfer device
Disclosed are various embodiments for determining security policy compliance and data integrity verification during a data transfer operation between devices. In one embodiment, among others, a computing device is configured to receive a data transfer request for a file from a first client device, access the file associated with the first client device, determine that the file fails to comply with a security policy, and perform a remedial action for the file in response to the determination that the file fails to comply with the security policy. The remedial action causes the file to be inaccessible to a second client device. |
| US10904289B2 |
Enabling user definition of custom threat rules in a network security system
The disclosed embodiments include a method performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving user input defining attributes of a threat rule, the attributes including a type of computer network entity and an anomaly pattern associated with the type of computer network entity. The method further includes generating the threat rule based on the user input, wherein the threat rule identifies a security threat to the computer network that satisfies the attributes of the threat rule based on one or more detected anomalies on the computer network. |
| US10904288B2 |
Identifying and deceiving adversary nodes and maneuvers for attack deception and mitigation
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computer system include a processor(s) receiving request from a first client for an attribute of a first service node to utilize to access the service provided. The processor(s) provides the attribute of the first service node to the first client. The processor(s) accepts an access to the service by the first client, based on the first client utilizing the attribute to connect to the first service node. The processor(s) identifies attributes of one or more clients accessing the service via the first service node, including the first client. The processor(s) experiences an event indicating a need to change security protecting access to the service. The processor(s) redistributes the one or more clients to at least two additional service nodes. |
| US10904284B2 |
Enabling software distribution
Distributing and executing software upon devices by providing a computer program; dividing the computer program into a set of shreds; improving the communications fault tolerance of the shreds; encrypting the shreds; and distributing individual shreds to a shadow processor of a device for assembly and execution. |
| US10904281B2 |
Cloud-based security testing interface with security scanners
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with cloud-based multi-layered security testing of a target application with multiple cloud-based security scanners using a single cloud-based graphical user interface are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request via a security testing interface to perform the cloud-based multi-layered security test on the target application. A single set of security test instructions to perform the cloud-based multi-layered security test on the target application using the selected cloud-based security scanners is generated and executed to initiate multiple security tests on the target application. A single set of scan results for the target application is generated based upon the execution of the multiple security tests, and is displayed by the single cloud-based graphical user interface. |
| US10904276B2 |
Systems and methods for anomaly detection
The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide a hybrid framework for augmenting statistical anomaly detection with contextual features, machine learning and human Subject Matter Expert (SME) input to learn significant characteristics of true anomalies for which alerts should be generated. The framework presented herein is domain agnostic and independent of the underlying statistical anomaly detection technique or the machine learning algorithm. The framework described herein is therefore applicable and adaptable to a number of real world service provider systems and applications, such as, for example, detecting network performance degradation in a service provider network or detecting anomalous conditions from data received from a sensor while filtering out false positives. |
| US10904275B2 |
Leveraging synthetic traffic data samples for flow classifier training
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives traffic data regarding a plurality of observed traffic flows. The device maps one or more characteristics of the observed traffic flows from the traffic data to traffic characteristics associated with a targeted deployment environment. The device generates synthetic traffic data based on the mapped traffic characteristics associated with the targeted deployment environment. The device trains a machine learning-based traffic classifier using the synthetic traffic data. |
| US10904274B2 |
Signature pattern matching testing framework
Systems and methods for testing Signature Pattern Matching (SPM) for a new signature associated with a cloud-based security system with a plurality of nodes and a testing node include operating the testing node with a same management software and SPM library as the plurality of nodes; obtaining a new signature derived to detect malicious content; compiling the new signature in the SPM library for the testing node; implementing one or more test cases related to the malicious content to analyze behavior of the testing node with the SPM library containing the new signature; and, responsive to success in the one or more test cases, providing the SPM library to the plurality of nodes for detection of the malicious content. |
| US10904273B1 |
Techniques for impeding and detecting network threats
In various embodiments, a name server transmits a canonical name as resolution to another canonical name. In operation, when a resource name is requested for resolution, a determination is made that the resource name corresponds to a trap resource name. A first canonical name is transmitted as resolution to the trap resource name. The first canonical name is requested for resolution, and a second canonical name is transmitted as resolution. By providing trap canonical names as resolutions to trap canonical names, unauthorized software making the resolution requests is kept occupied with requesting resolution of canonical name after canonical name, impeding the ability of the unauthorized software from traversing a network. |
| US10904272B2 |
Consumer threat intelligence service
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist in proactively warning a consumer they are a victim or possible target of a cyber-attack or cyber-threat. To discover whether a consumer may be a victim, the methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses will monitor the Surface Web, Deep Web, and Dark Web for potential cyber-threats and cyber-attacks. If one is discovered, the methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses will compare the criteria of victims of targeted in the cyber-attack and compare that criteria with consumer profiles. If a consumer profile matches the criteria, the methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses will notify the consumer of the threat. |
| US10904266B1 |
System and method for verifying the identity of email senders to improve email security within an organization
One variation of a method for verifying email senders includes: intercepting an email addressed to a target recipient within an organization, the email received from a sender at an inbound email address and including an inbound display name; accessing a whitelist including a verified display name and a set of verified email addresses corresponding to an employee within the organization; characterizing a display name difference between the inbound display name and the verified display name; in response to the display name difference falling below a threshold difference, comparing the inbound email address to the set of verified email addresses; in response to identifying the inbound email address in the set of verified email addresses, authorizing transmission of the email to the target recipient; and, in response to the set of verified email addresses omitting the inbound email address, withholding transmission of the email and flagging the email for authentication. |
| US10904263B2 |
System and method for verification of reliability and validity of crowd sourcing users
This invention refers to the systems and methods of verifying the reliability and validity of task executed by crowd sourcing users. Key task implementing procedures are computerized and mapped as system events 302 and/or user actions 304, which can trigger data obtaining when users navigate in the platforms and/or systems. The obtained data 300 from the triggered data obtaining is authenticated 108. Stamped data chain 600 is constructed from the obtained data 300. A reference data chain 200 is used to set the expected geographic location and/or time for task implementing. The reference data chain 200 is generated from the reference information 102 supplied by users. Matching process 112 is implemented by checking if the stamped data chain 600 can match with the preset geographic and/or temporal conditions by the reference data chain 200. The degree of reliability and validity is determined based on the matching results. |
| US10904257B2 |
Differentiated containerization and execution of web content based on trust level and other attributes
Systems and methods may provide for receiving web content and determining a trust level associated with the web content. Additionally, the web content may be mapped to an execution environment based at least in part on the trust level. In one example, the web content is stored to a trust level specific data container. |
| US10904252B1 |
Multi-node authentication method and apparatus based on block chain
The authentication method of a block chain authentication module includes: receiving an authentication preparation request; configuring a channel and generating a channel key allocated to the channel; generating a block including an authentication comparison data, the block further including a block key allocated to the block; commonly transmitting the channel key and the block key, and dividing and transmitting the authentication comparison data; transmitting an authentication preparation completion message including the channel key and the block key; receiving an authentication request message including the channel key, the block key, and authentication target data; dividing and transmitting the authentication target data; receiving a result of comparing the divided and transmitted authentication comparison data with the divided and transmitted authentication target; and determining whether the authentication of the terminal succeeds. |
| US10904250B2 |
Systems and methods for automated network-based rule generation and configuration of different network devices
Provided is a controller for configuring network devices at different network locations with rules that prevent different sets of clients from accessing specific network resources. The controller may receive a request with an identifier of a first resource from a particular network point of access. The controller may identify one or more network devices (e.g., wireless access point, router, switch, firewall, gateway, etc.) that are in the network path between the particular network point of access and the first resource. The controller may select a particular network device in the network path, may establish a connection to the particular network device, and may configure the particular network device with a rule that prevents access to the first resource from the particular network point of access, while permitting access to other resources from the particular network point of access. |
| US10904249B2 |
Terminal management apparatus, terminal management system, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A terminal management apparatus includes a connection unit that connects, through a network, to a terminal apparatus to be managed, an authentication unit that authenticates the terminal apparatus using predetermined authentication information, a specific state determination unit that determines whether a predetermined specific state, in which a normal connection is not established, has occurred in relation to the terminal apparatus, and a connection controller that controls data communication with the terminal apparatus on a basis of a result of the authentication performed by the authentication unit and a result of the determination made by the specific state determination unit. |
| US10904247B2 |
Server for authentication based on context information of particular location, control method thereof and electronic apparatus
A server, a control method thereof, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method of operating a server may include: transmitting question information to a first user terminal in response to receiving an authentication request from the first user terminal; receiving first response information in response to the question information from the first user terminal; transmitting the question information and first response information received from the first user terminal to an electronic apparatus; and determining whether the first user terminal is authenticated based on a confirmation result for the first response information being received from the electronic apparatus. |
| US10904245B1 |
Adaptive method for biometrically certified communication
A recipient communication device and method wherein a user authenticates a message that is being received. The method includes receiving, by a messaging utility of the recipient communication device, a message transmitted from a sender communication device. The messaging utility determines that one of (a) sender authentication of the message and (b) recipient authentication to open the message is required. In response to sender authentication being required, the recipient communication device transmits a request to the sender communication device for sender authentication of the message, and receives a certification of the message based on an authentication of a user input via the sender communication device. When recipient authentication is required, the recipient is prompted to enter biometric input at the recipient device. In one embodiment, a clearinghouse service authenticates a user of a communication device in order for the recipient communication device to receive certification of the user and/or the message. |
| US10904241B2 |
Digital certificate management
A mapping relationship of a device ID associated with a client, a certificate ID associated with a certificate to be applied by the client during a certificate application process, and identity verification methods to be used to verify the client is stored during the certificate application process. From the client, a request for a certificate to perform a service is received, and the request includes the device ID, an identification verification requirement associated with the service, and the identity verification requirement specifies at least one identity verification method. In response to receiving the request based on the mapping relationship, a certificate ID of an existing certificate that corresponds to the received device ID and satisfies the identity verification requirement is retrieved. In response to retrieving the certificate ID, a certificate response to the client including the retrieved certificate ID is sent. |
| US10904240B2 |
System and method of verifying network communication paths between applications and services
Disclosed are concepts for provided for managing application traffic. A method includes receiving a request to access a service from an application, confirming an entity of a user of the application and, based on the confirmation, generating, via an authentication service, a routing policy for data flows between the application and the service. The routing policy defines a mandated path between the application and the service. The method also can include storing proof-of-transit data in the traffic flow for tracking an actual path from the application to the service and determining whether the data path complies with the mandated path defined in the policy. When the determination indicates that the actual path followed the mandated path defined in the routing policy, the method includes granting access to the user for the service. When the actual path differs from the mandated path, the method includes denying access to the user. |
| US10904234B2 |
Systems and methods of device based customer authentication and authorization
A system for authorizing respective initiation of a plurality of remote services by or for mobile device users. The system comprises a processor, and storage devices, at an authorization service (AS). A storage device stores public key portions of authentication tokens for mobile device users and remote service identifiers. Stored program code executable by the AS processor receives only public key portions of authentication tokens created on mobile devices. For actions to initiate a remote service, the program code is for receiving a remote service identifier and challenge information from a remote service server, transmitting at least a portion of the challenge information to a user's mobile device, receiving messages from the user's mobile device, validating at least one of the received messages using the stored public key portion of the authentication token for the user, and if validated, initiating the remote service. |
| US10904230B2 |
Distributed encryption
Examples described herein include systems and methods for performing distributed encryption across multiple devices. An example method can include a first device discovering a second device that shares a network. The device can identify data to be sent to a server and calculate a checksum for that data. The device can then split the data into multiple portions and send a portion to the second device, along with a certificate associated with the server for encrypting the data. The first device can encrypt the portion of data it retained. The first device can receive an encrypted version of the second portion of the data sent to the second device. The first device can merge these two portions and send the merged encrypted data to the server, along with the checksum value. The server can decrypt the data and confirm that it reflects the original set of data. |
| US10904227B2 |
Web form protection
A request for a web page is received and the requested web page is retrieved. The web page is modified to obfuscate a set of form attribute values into a corresponding set of obfuscated form attribute values. The modified web page is transmitted to the requesting device. The modified web page does not include the set of form attribute values in their original form. Form data for the set of obfuscated form attribute values is received from the requesting device. The set of obfuscated form attribute values is deobfuscated thereby revealing the original set of form attribute values. The form data for the set of original form attribute values is further processed. |
| US10904222B2 |
Secure zone for digital communications
The systems, methods and apparatuses described herein provide a computing environment that includes a secure zone for executing tasks. An apparatus according to the present disclosure may comprise a screen, a secure zone and an indicator operatively controlled by the secure zone. The secure zone may be configured to execute a task and to assume control over an output to the screen while the apparatus is operating in a secure mode and to transfer control over the output to the screen to a non-secure zone while the apparatus is operating in a non-secure mode. |
| US10904205B2 |
Content delivery network optimization system
A CDN traffic is optimized by a client-side system that maps the servers in the CDN system. Content requests from client devices for domain names are forwarded to servers in the CDN system that may be selected from the map to prevent a cache miss in the a server for a particular request for content. |
| US10904204B2 |
Incompatible network gateway provisioned through DNS
A first packet of a first protocol version type that includes an incoming request for an action to be performed on an identified resource is received from a client at a proxy server as a result of a DNS request resolving to a network address of the proxy server. The proxy server transmits an outgoing request for the action to be performed on the identified resource to a network address of the destination origin server in a second packet that is of the second protocol version type. The proxy server receives a third packet that includes an incoming response from the destination origin server, the third packet being of the second protocol version type. The proxy server transmits a fourth packet to the client, the fourth packet being of the first protocol version type, wherein the fourth packet includes an outgoing response that is based on the incoming response. |
| US10904200B2 |
Systems, apparatus, and methods for platform-agnostic message processing
Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for intelligent communication over multiple communications platforms. A dispatch controller interfaces with at least one communication platform to obtain and convert messages to a platform-agnostic format annotated with user and source information. A processing and routing controller applies natural language processing and machine learning techniques to interpret user requests and simultaneously become better at interpreting user requests. A task performance controller invokes specific tasks extracted from routed messages and/or initiates responses to user requests. At least one message bus communicates between the dispatch controller, the processing controller, and the task performance controller, and at least one memory device stores data and processor-executable instructions employed by the dispatch controller, the processing controller, and the task performance controller. |
| US10904196B2 |
Task assistant
A task assistant identifies a correspondence received by a source associated with a user and determines that the correspondence includes a request. The task assistant further determines a ranking associated with the request based on one or more characteristics of the request and of the correspondence. In response to the ranking of the request exceeding a threshold, the task assistant generates a notification associated with the request and provides the notification to a client device associated with the user. |
| US10904194B2 |
Dynamic email content engine
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for assigning a content item to a subscriber record. Embodiments include electing a subscriber record from a database and assigning a persona record to the selected subscriber record. Then, a first and a second content item are added to a content pool based on a first and a second rule, respectively, where the first and the second rule are applied based on the persona record. Embodiments also include ranking the first content item and the second content item based on a first priority value and a second priority value associated with the first and the second rule, respectively. Then, the first content item is assigned to the subscriber record based on the ranking. |
| US10904192B2 |
Time series messaging persistence and publication
Techniques are described for time series based enrichment of messages that are persisted and published in a flow according to the time series data. Inbound messages may be received and processed to add timing information. The modified messages may be stored as a time series in data storage. In response for a request for a particular sequence or set of messages, the messages may be retrieved from data storage and provided in a flow instance to the requestor. The requestor, such as a consumer application, may replay the data from the messages according to the order of the time series of the messages. In this way, implementations enable a time ordered sequence of messages to be replayed at any time after the initial receipt of the messages, and enable any number of instances of such replay including simultaneous replay of a particular message sequence to multiple consumers. |
| US10904188B2 |
Initiating an action based on a determined navigation path data structure
A current sharing, in a system by a first user, of first content with at least one other user can be detected. A navigation path data structure indicating at least one navigation path from a second content to the first content within a network environment can be automatically determined. Responsive to determining the navigation path data structure indicating the at least one navigation path from the second content to the first content within the network environment, performance of at least one action can be automatically initiated based on the determined navigation path data structure. |
| US10904186B1 |
Email processing for enhanced email privacy and security
In accordance with an example implementation of this disclosure, an email processor comprises mailbox management circuitry and replacement email message generation circuitry. The mailbox management circuitry is operable to configure an email message filtering rule for an email mailbox such that email messages that meet criteria specified in the email message filtering rule: bypass an inbox of the email mailbox, and are assigned a first metadata value specified in the email message filtering rule. The mailbox management circuitry is operable to fetch, from the email mailbox, an original email message to which the first metadata value has been assigned. The replacement email message generation circuitry is operable to generate a replacement message for the original email message. |
| US10904183B2 |
Point in time expression of emotion data gathered from a chat session
A method rewrites a text message according to an emotional state of a sender of the text message while originally writing the text message. An electronic chat session monitoring device intercepts a current text message from an electronic chat session, where the current text message is generated by an initial sender at a sending device. The electronic chat session monitoring device receives a current photo, of the initial sender of the current text message, that depicts the initial sender while generating the current text message. The electronic chat session monitoring device determines that the emotional state of the initial sender, as evidenced by the current photo, is incongruous with a content of the current text message, and rewrites text in the current text message to comport with the emotional state of the initial sender while generating the current text message. |
| US10904180B2 |
Emoticon acknowledgment and reaction of email for fast feedback visualization without email overloading
A method, computer system, and/or computer program product for email processing. An email may be received by a plurality of recipients from a sender. An interactive icon may be integrated a summary display of the received email that provides at least one of the plurality of recipients' capability to provide a response to the received email. In response to a recipient of the plurality of recipients selecting the interactive icon, at least one emoticon may be displayed to the recipient for selection. In response to the recipient selecting from the at least one emoticon, the selected emoticon may be transmitted. The selected emoticon may be aggregated and displayed in respective summary displays of the at least one of the plurality of recipients or the sender. |
| US10904177B2 |
Lossy text source coding by word length
According to one embodiment, a method for lossy data compression is provided. The method may also include determining a length and a plurality of bounding characters associated with each data item within the data message. The method may further include encoding each data item within the data message by replacing each data item with the determined length and the determined plurality of bounding characters. The method may also include transmitting the data message to a recipient. |
| US10904172B2 |
Presence-based systems and methods using electronic messaging activity data
Access to a first instant messaging service using an online identity that is associated with a second instant messaging service is enabled. A profile is accessed. The profile indicates that another instant messaging service is to be provided with presence information regarding the use of the online identity to access the first instant messaging service. The other instant messaging service is provided with the presence information regarding the use of the online identity to access the first instant messaging service. |
| US10904169B2 |
Passing chatbot sessions to the best suited agent
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for an automated chat bot conversation session and an agent transfer system for the conversation session. The computer receives a user input from a user in an automated chat bot conversation session. The computer analyzes the user input for at least one sentiment, wherein an at least one analysis result is a value assigned to the at least one sentiment contained within the user input. The computer compares the at least one analysis result to a threshold value to determine if the user should be transferred from the automated chat bot conversation session to a conversation session with a suitable agent. The computer then transfers the user to the conversation session with the suitable agent. |
| US10904167B2 |
Incoming packet processing for a computer system
Aspects of the disclosure provide for mechanisms for processing incoming packets for virtual machines in a computer system. A method of the disclosure includes: processing, by a hypervisor executed on a host machine, a packet to be routed via a virtual machine in view of a packet processing program running on the virtual machine; determining, by the hypervisor, whether the packet is to be passed to a network stack in view of the processing; and in response to determining that the packet is not to be passed to the network stack, placing the packet in a first receive queue of a plurality of receive queues associated with a network interface card associated with the virtual machine, wherein the first receive queue comprises one or more packets to be processed by a packet processing program running on the virtual machine. |
| US10904162B2 |
System and method for selecting optimal path in multi-media multi-path network
A system and method for selecting an optimal path in a multi-media multi-path network. The system for selecting an optimal path in a multi-media multi-path network includes a memory storing a program for selecting an optimal path in the multi-media multi-path network and a processor for executing the program, wherein the processor uses a network performance parameter, which serves as state information, as an input value of a reinforcement learning algorithm and selects an optimal path using a Q-table obtained by applying the reinforcement learning algorithm. |
| US10904157B2 |
Telemetry for cloud switches queuing excursion
Telemetry for cloud switches queuing excursion may be provided. A first hysteresis threshold and a second hysteresis threshold for a queue of the network switch may be specified. Next, a queue position relative to the first hysteresis threshold and the second hysteresis threshold may be determined for each incoming packets for the queue. A number of crossings including the queue position passing the first hysteresis threshold and subsequently passing the second hysteresis threshold in a first predetermined time period may be determined. A number of data packets being sent to the queue of the network switch may then be altered based on one or more of the number of crossings, the first hysteresis threshold, and the second hysteresis threshold. |
| US10904155B2 |
Message broker system with parallel persistence
A message broker computer includes a master broker, a plurality of slave message brokers and event stores. A client system sends messages for processing to the master broker. The master broker generates a message event in response to receiving such a message, and distributes the message event in parallel to the slave brokers and the event stores. Each of the event stores store the message event in persistent storage, and notifies the master broker that the message event has been persisted. The master broker considers the message stabilized n a quorum of the event stores. As the master broker does not take action until a messaging event is stabilized, in the event of failover, a new master broker is able to re-construct a broker state of the old master with no loss of data. |
| US10904149B2 |
Machine learning-derived entropy path graph from in-situ OAM (iOAM) data
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives in-situ operations administration and management (iOAM) data regarding a plurality of traffic flows in the network. The iOAM data comprises entropy values for the plurality of traffic flows. The device receives network topology information indicative of network paths available in the network. The device generates a machine learning-based entropy topology model for the network based on the received iOAM data and the received network topology information. The entropy topology model maps path selection predictions for the network paths with entropy values. The device uses the entropy topology model to cause a particular traffic flow to use a particular network path. |
| US10904148B2 |
Flow-based local egress in a multisite datacenter
A method for a hypervisor to implement flow-based local egress in a multisite datacenter is disclosed. The method comprises: determining whether a first data packet of a first data flow has been received. If the first data packet has been received, then the hypervisor determines a MAC address of a first local gateway in a first site of a multisite datacenter that communicated the first data packet, and stores the MAC address of the first local gateway and a 5-tuple for the first data flow. Upon determining that a response for the first data flow has been received, the hypervisor determines whether the response includes the MAC address of the first local gateway. If the response includes a MAC address of another local gateway, then the hypervisor replaces, in the response, the MAC address of another local gateway with the MAC address of the first local gateway. |
| US10904145B2 |
Methods, system and apparatuses for routing data packets in a network topology
The embodiments herein relate to methods, a system and routers. One method includes assigning, to each router, at least one zone-ID; building a zone table based on the zone ID; exchanging each zone table between all routers in the network; building, for each router, a routing table; receiving, at a source router, a data packet from a host belonging to a zone of the source router; including a destination address of a host belonging to a network having a network ID; determining which destination zone-ID the destination address or the network ID is associated with; adding or including the destination zone-ID to the data packet; and sending the data packet towards a destination router having the assigned destination zone-ID indicated in the data packet. |
| US10904140B2 |
Integrated wire and wireless network packet broker and method for GTP correlation assigning method of the same
The present invention relates to a network packet broker device including a deep packet matching module which controls a GTP correlation module to match a GTP control plane packet and a GTP user plane packet and a deep packet matching method thereof. Packet information in a deep stage at a switch level is extracted to match flows of the GTP control plane packet and the GTP user plane packet and a correlation may be assigned to forward the GTP control plane packet and the GTP user plane packet to the same egress port. |
| US10904139B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus and network element
A method for data transmission includes receiving a packet, determining a first member link in a first group of member links based on a first decision manner. If the first member link is unavailable, the method includes determining a second member link in a second group of member links based on a second decision manner, where all member links in the second group of member links are available and the first group of member links includes the second group of member links and an unavailable member link. The method includes sending the packet through the second member link. |
| US10904138B2 |
Route selection system for a communication network and method of operating the same
A route selection system includes a hub controller in communication with multiple network hubs of a first network domain in which each of the hubs are in communication with a corresponding multiple routers of a second network domain. The hub controller is executed to obtain at least one performance measurement associated with a route terminating at the network hub, generate a border gateway protocol (BGP) advertisement with a preference value that is proportional to the received performance measurement, and transmit the generated advertisement to the network hub, the network hub forwarding the advertisement to the router configured in the other network domain. Upon receipt of the advertisements, the second network domain selects one of the routers for processing the route through the second network domain according to the performance measurement included in the advertisement. |
| US10904137B2 |
Loop avoidance for event-driven virtual link aggregation
Embodiments of the invention relate to virtual link aggregation. One embodiment includes forming one or more virtual links using physical links connecting a first networking element, a second networking element and a third networking element. A first trigger status indication is used for blocking network traffic for avoiding traffic loops occurring over the one or more virtual links. |
| US10904135B2 |
Method and apparatus for increasing reliability of packet delivery by dynamic packet cloning and route selection
Various embodiments relate to a method for increasing the reliability of a packet delivery by using dynamic packet cloning on a source node and an intermediate node, the method comprising the steps of calculating an achieved reliability, calculating a calculated reliability using the achieved reliability, determining which of a plurality of first routes that have a reliability greater than the calculated reliability, selecting a first route from the determined first routes wherein the selected first route has the lowest reliability of the determined first routes, when there is at least one determined first routes, selecting a first route from the plurality of first routes wherein the selected first route has highest reliability of the plurality of first routes, when there are no determined first routes, updating a required reliability in the packet header to the reliability of the selected first route and sending the packet on the selected first route. |
| US10904131B1 |
Systems and methods for configuring a communications network
Systems and methods are disclosed for configuring a communications network. In disclosed embodiments, a set of permissible service link decompositions and a set of basic service links may be obtained for the communications network. A spanning subset of service links for the communications may be generated. Generation of the spanning subset may include selecting a decomposition of a first service link from a set of permissible service link decompositions; updating the set of permissible service link decompositions based on the selected decomposition; and updating the set of basic service links using the updated set of permissible service link decompositions. In some embodiments, obtaining the set of permissible service link decompositions can include generating a set of permissible service link decompositions by traversing decomposition graphs generated for each of the service links. In some embodiments, the communications network can be configured to satisfy network demands using the spanning subset. |
| US10904130B2 |
Method for scalable computer network partitioning
Various techniques for partitioning a computer network is disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, control plane functions (e.g., computation of network routes) and/or forwarding plane functions (e.g., routing, forwarding, switching) may be partitioned and performed individually on per domain basis based on (1) a network configuration of a particular domain (e.g., end points and/or lower-level domains in the particular domain); and (2) one or more higher-level domains connected to the particular domain in the hierarchy. Thus, a particular domain can manage various network operations of the domain without concerns regarding end points or network nodes in other domains of the hierarchy. Thus, network configuration and operation may be partitioned to reduce hardware costs and operational complexity even as the size of the overall computer networks increases. |
| US10904124B2 |
System and method for dynamic stopping of cloud-based provisioning requests
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a service broker on a first computing device, a status probe associated with at least a portion of a service, wherein the status probe may be sent from a platform on a second computing device. A response to the status probe may be generated, wherein the response may include a status of at least the portion of the service, and wherein the response may further include additional information. The response may be sent with the status and the additional information to the platform. |
| US10904121B2 |
Data packet transmission method and device
This application discloses a data packet transmission method, a receiving device, and a sending device. The method includes: receiving, by a receiving device, a data packet, where the data packet includes at least one pair of a delimiter and an information element; the delimiter is used to separate two adjacent information elements; the delimiter includes a cyclic redundancy code field and an information element type field; in each pair of a delimiter and an information element, the information element type field is used to indicate a type of the information element; and one type of information element is uniquely corresponding to one information element length; and parsing, by the receiving device, the information element based on the cyclic redundancy code field and the information element type field. |
| US10904118B2 |
Background task execution over a network
Network activity of a client device that is coupled to a data network is monitored, to detect network activity idle time. Based upon detecting the idle time, an application running in the client device is automatically signaled that its background task be executed over the data network. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US10904112B2 |
Automatic capture of detailed analysis information based on remote server analysis
A system monitors a network or web application provided by one or more distributed applications and provides data for each and every method instance in an efficient low-cost manner. Agents may monitor the performance of the distributed application by the web services and report monitoring data as runtime data to the remote server, for example a controller. The controller may analyze the data to identify one or more performance issues or “hot spot” methods based on current or past performance, functionality, content, or business relevancy. Instructions and/or configuration information may be transmitted by the controller to the agents that correspond to a particular business transaction portion associated with a hot spot. The portions are then monitored to collect data associated with the hot spot and the hot spot data is reported back to the controller. |
| US10904107B2 |
Service resource management system and method thereof
A service resource management system, including: a cloud data unit for storing a resource collected from a cloud service; a service group management unit for allocating the resource included in the cloud data unit to set a service group for providing a service; and a service group automatic generation module for automatically generating the service group for classifying the resource according to the setting thereof with the name including a key value or a tag value. |
| US10904103B2 |
Electronic tool and methods for meetings
An electronic meeting tool and method for communicating arbitrary media content from users at a meeting comprises a node configuration means adapted to operate a display node of a communications network, the display node being coupled to a first display. The node configuration means is adapted to receive user selected arbitrary media content and to control display of the user selected arbitrary media content on the first display. A peripheral device adapted to communicate the user selected arbitrary media content via the communications network is a connection unit comprising a connector adapted to couple to a port of a processing device having a second display, a memory and an operating system, and a transmitter. A program is adapted to obtain user selected arbitrary media content, said program leaving a zero footprint on termination. The user may trigger a transfer of said user selected arbitrary media content to said transmitter. |
| US10904099B2 |
Formal model checking based approaches to optimized realizations of network functions in multi-cloud environments
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving logical model input that specifies a logical topology model of networking elements and/or computing elements for deployment at least partially in a private cloud computing infrastructure and at least partially in a public cloud computing infrastructure; receiving resource input specifying an inventory of computing elements that are available at least partially in the private cloud computing infrastructure and at least partially in the public cloud computing infrastructure; automatically generating an intermediate topology comprising a set of deployment instructions that are capable of execution at least partially in the private cloud computing infrastructure and at least partially in the public cloud computing infrastructure to cause physical realization of a network deployment corresponding to the logical topology model; determining whether the intermediate topology is functionally equivalent to the logical topology model; in response to determining that the intermediate topology is functionally equivalent to the logical topology model, transmitting the deployment instructions at least partially to the private cloud computing infrastructure and at least partially to the public cloud computing infrastructure. |
| US10904097B2 |
Concurrent network reformation for low-power and lossy networks
In one embodiment, a device in a mesh network rooted at a root node receives a subroot selection notification. The subroot selection notification indicates that the device should function as a root of a sub-directed acyclic graph (DAG) were a power outage to occur. The device determines that a power outage has occurred. The device forms, after determining that a power outage has occurred, a sub-DAG that is rooted at the device by establishing one or more other devices in the mesh network as routing children of the device in the sub-DAG. The device joins the sub-DAG to a DAG rooted at the root node. |
| US10904095B2 |
Network performance assessment without topological information
Techniques for network performance assessment are described. Techniques may include collecting initial measurements relating to transmission of probe traffic between endpoints of endpoint pairs in a plurality of endpoint pairs and clustering the plurality of endpoints into a plurality of endpoint groups. The method may also include determining a plurality of endpoint group pairs and generating a network performance assessment, based on measuring performance metrics pertaining to traffic between endpoints within the endpoint groups in the plurality of endpoint group pairs. |
| US10904094B2 |
Extending a known topology of a network using data obtained from monitoring the network
In embodiments, a known network relation is generated from a known topology of a network and is sent to a first data source agent associated with a first tool configured to monitor the network. A first contextual topology of the network is received from the first data source agent and is based on the known network relation and first data associated with the first tool. An extended topology is generated by reconciling the known topology with at least the first contextual topology. In further embodiments, a derived network relation is received from the first data source agent. The derived network relation is sent to a second data source agent. Second contextual topology based, at least in part, on the derived network relation can be received from the second data source agent. An updated extended topology based, at least in part, on the second contextual topology can be generated. |
| US10904084B2 |
Methods and apparatus for reconfiguring hosts in provider network environments
Methods and apparatus for reconfiguring hosts in provider network environments in which hosts are evaluated to determine if steps of a full rebuild can be skipped. The hosts may implement slots of different types for virtual machines (VMs). Upon detecting that slots of a particular type are needed, a host that implements slots of another type may be selected for reconfiguration. The host may be evaluated to determine if one or more steps of a full rebuild can be skipped. The host may then be reconfigured to implement slots of the target type according to results of the evaluation. In at least some reconfigurations, at least one step of a full rebuild procedure is not performed for the respective host. Results of previous reconfigurations may be fed back into the evaluation process and used as one of the criteria for determining if steps can be skipped. |
| US10904080B2 |
Automatic generation of template for provisioning services in a hosted computing environment
Systems and methods are provided for provisioning a hosted computing environment in accordance with customer requirements relating to a service. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes generating a graphical interface on a computing device and receiving input corresponding to an indication of one or more requirements, wherein the input is received using the graphical interface, and wherein the one or more requirements correspond to a hosted computing environment. The method further comprises converting each indication of the one or more requirements into one or more entries of a provisioning template, wherein the provisioning template includes multiple entries, and wherein the provisioning template is associated with the hosted computing environment. The method further comprises providing the provisioning template to a provisioning program to provision the hosted computing environment. |
| US10904076B2 |
Directing functioning of an object based on its association to another object in an environment
Directing functioning of an object based on its association to another object in an environment includes uniquely identifying, and obtaining properties of, each object of a plurality of physical objects in the environment, identifying an improper association between first and second physical objects of the plurality of physical objects in the environment, the improper association being identified based on physical proximity of the first object to the second object, and sending to a mobile device of a user an alert indicating the improper association and prompting the user to direct functioning of the first physical object. |
| US10904075B2 |
Preconfigured filters, dynamic updates and cloud based configurations in a network access switch
Methods and systems for providing a configuration file on a network access switch that may be configured by a third party. A third party remotely defines a set of filters for the network access switch, absolving the user of any responsibility to update or configure the filters on the device. The configuration files may be stored and accessed remotely in the cloud. The system and method also provide for a simple software interface to facilitate easy implementation of the filters stored in the configuration files. |
| US10904072B2 |
System and method for recommending automation solutions for technology infrastructure issues
A system and method to intelligently formulate automation strategies for technology infrastructure operations are disclosed. The system and method include analyzing infrastructure issue data from support tickets and predicting automation solutions. A cost-benefit analysis is then performed on the automation solutions. Solutions can be ranked and recommended according to the cost-benefit analysis. |
| US10904065B2 |
Method and device for performing sidelink communication in wireless communication system
Disclosed are a method and a device for performing sidelink communication in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method performed by a first terminal may comprise a step of transmitting a specific sidelink message including at least one piece of information among first information and second information to a second terminal, wherein: a transmission period of the first information is set to be longer than a transmission period of the second information; a first modulation order to be applied to the first information and a second modulation order of the second information are set differently from each other; and when the first information and the second information are concurrently transmitted through the specific sidelink message, modulation symbols of the first information and modulation symbols of the second information are mapped by considering a requirement noise ratio for each of the first modulation order and the second modulation order. |
| US10904064B2 |
Communication method and base station
Communication method and base stations are provided. One example includes determining, by a base station, that co-channel interference exists. For N consecutive symbols before a guard period (GP) in a special subframe in a radio frame, the base station sends a signal by using M1 middle resource blocks (RBs) of the N symbols, and reserves use of an RB other than the M1 RBs in the N symbols, where both N and M1 are positive integers. |
| US10904062B2 |
Apparatus, system and method of communicating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a training field
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, devices, systems and methods of communicating a PPDU including a training field. For example, an Enhanced Directional Multi-Gigabit (DMG) (EDMG) wireless communication station may be configured to determine one or more Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) Training (TRN) sequences in a frequency domain based on a count of one or more 2.16 Gigahertz (GHz) channels in a channel bandwidth for transmission of an EDMG PPDU including a TRN field; generate one or more OFDM TRN waveforms in a time domain based on the one or more OFDM TRN sequences, respectively, and based on an OFDM TRN mapping matrix, which is based on a count of the one or more transmit chains; and transmit an OFDM mode transmission of the EDMG PPDU over the channel bandwidth, the OFDM mode transmission comprising transmission of the TRN field based on the one or more OFDM TRN waveforms. |
| US10904059B2 |
Control channel for vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
A method for communication includes generating a control channel comprising a first symbol and a second symbol, the first symbol comprising a first symbol half and a second symbol half, the first symbol half of the first symbol comprising information relating to automatic gain control (AGC) training, the second symbol half of the first symbol comprising a cyclic shifted copy of a request symbol corresponding to a length of a transmission, and the second symbol comprising control content. |
| US10904049B1 |
Time domain discrete transform computation
In accordance with embodiments, a first counter of a plurality of counters of an apparatus receives a plurality of pulse width signals in the time domain. The first counter generates a first increment signal in the time domain from the plurality of pulse width signals based on a first row of a Discrete Transform matrix. A synchronizer of the apparatus receives the first increment signal. The synchronizer generates a first synchronized increment signal in the time domain from the first increment signal. A first accumulator of a plurality of accumulators of the apparatus receives the first synchronized increment signal. The first accumulator accumulates the first synchronized increment signal over a period of time to generate a first frequency domain signal. |
| US10904044B2 |
Serdes receiver with optimized CDR pulse shaping
An optimized pulse shaping clock data recovery system is provided that includes a slicer configured to receive a signal and provide an initial set of tentative decisions to a decision feedforward equalizer, where the decision feedforward equalizer provides a fully equalized output signal. The slicer may be incorporated as part of decision feedback equalizer to provide better quality tentative decisions. The clock data recovery system also receives the first output signal that is partially equalized in such a way as to optimally shape it for a clock to sample it at an ideal location by providing an adjustment signal to the analog to digital controller. |
| US10904042B2 |
Passive variable continuous time linear equalizer with attenuation and frequency control
A continuously or step variable passive noise filter for removing noise from a signal received from a DUT added by a test and measurement instrument channel. The noise filter may include, for example, a splitter splits a signal into at least a first split signal and a second split signal. A first path receives the first split signal and includes a variable attenuator and/or a variable delay line which may be set based on the channel response of the DUT which is connected. The variable attenuator and/or the variable delay line may be continuously or stepped variable, as will be discussed in more detail below. A second path is also included to receive the second split signal and a combiner combines a signal from the first path and a signal from the second path into a combined signal. |
| US10904041B2 |
Methods and arrangements for channel estimation
Some embodiments provide a method for channel estimation in a wireless device. According to the method, the wireless device obtains (1010) an indication that a set of antenna ports, or antenna port types, share at least one channel property. The wireless device then estimates (1020) one or more of the shared channel properties based at least on a first reference signal received from a first antenna port included in the set, or having a type corresponding to one of the types in the set. Furthermore, the wireless device performs (1030) channel estimation based on a second reference signal received from a second antenna port included in the set, or having a type corresponding to one of the types in the set, wherein the channel estimation is performed using at least the estimated channel properties. |
| US10904039B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for data transmission in a wireless communication system
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to downlink/uplink data transmission in a wireless communication system. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for downlink data transmission in a wireless communication system which comprises transmitting an indication for a new-type reference signal to a user equipment, wherein the new-type reference signal has an identical location in frequency domain to a legacy reference signal; and transmitting the new-type reference signal and the legacy reference signal to the user equipment for using in channel estimation. In a case of more than one antenna port, the new-type reference signal may be designed to have a different location in time domain from a legacy reference signal to avoid interference to other antenna ports. With embodiments of the present disclosure, it is possible to perform a channel estimation based on both the legacy reference signal and the new-type reference signal to achieve a higher accuracy of channel estimation, and thus a UE with a low SNR may be also used in LTE networks. |
| US10904037B2 |
Relaying apparatus, relaying method, and relaying system
A relaying apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: acquire, from a gateway device, a resource identifier for a network resource provided from a device in a first network to a server in a second network through the gateway device, the resource identifier indicating a location in the second network of the network resource, relate a gateway identifier corresponding to an address of the gateway device included in the resource identifier to the resource identifier, receive, from the server, a request for the network resource to the device, detect, from a correspondence relationship between the gateway identifier and the resource identifier, the resource identifier corresponding to the gateway identifier specified in the request, and relay the request to the device through the gateway device in accordance with the resource identifier that has been detected. |
| US10904034B2 |
Fractal tree structure-based data transmit device and method, control device, and intelligent chip
One example of a device comprises: a central node that is as a communication data center of a network-on-chip; a plurality of leaf nodes that are as communication data nodes of the network-on-chip and for transmitting the communication data to a central leaf node; forwarder modules for connecting the central node with the plurality of leaf nodes and forwarding the communication data, wherein the plurality of leaf nodes are divided into N groups, each group having the same number of leaf nodes, the central node is individually in communication connection with each group of leaf nodes by means of the forwarder module, a communication structure constituted by each group of leaf nodes has self-similarity, and the plurality of leaf nodes are in communication connection with the central node in a complete multi-way tree approach by means of the forwarder modules of multiple levels. |
| US10904028B2 |
System and method for registering home appliances via a gateway using a password generated based on a service set identifier (SSID) of the gateway
Disclosed is an automatic registration system for home appliances, which may simplify the process of registering a home appliance using a gateway. The automatic registration system for home appliances includes a home appliance that automatically accesses a gateway using a password that is generated based on an SSID of the gateway; accordingly, the user does not feel that home appliance registration is cumbersome because the user itself does not need to connect a gateway and a home appliance. |
| US10904017B2 |
Managing blockchain-based centralized ledger systems
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing blockchain-based centralized ledger systems. One of the methods includes transmitting a timestamp request for a to-be-timestamped block of a blockchain at a time point to a trust time server by a ledger server in a blockchain-based centralized ledger system that stores data in the blockchain, the trust time server being associated with a trust time authority and independent from the blockchain-based centralized ledger system, the blockchain including a plurality of blocks storing transaction data, and disregarding the timestamp request in response to determining that a predetermined time period has lapsed after the time point and that there has been no reply to the timestamp request from the trust time server. |
| US10904014B2 |
Encryption synchronization method
The claimed invention is a method for encryption synchronization and user authentication, which allows a user to set up an encrypted mark created by using an encryption algorithm and a user-provided encryption key. The method does not leave any information that would be used by internal staff or an authentication service provider to acquire user account credentials, and thus preventing hackers from acquiring such information to be used to gain unauthorized access to stored user data. |
| US10904011B2 |
Configuration updates for access-restricted hosts
A host machine operated for a specific purpose can have restricted access to other components in a multi-tenant environment in order to provide for the security of the host machine. The access restriction can prevent the host machine from obtaining updates to critical system-level configurations, but such information can be obtained through a signed command received to an API for the host machine. The command can be signed by a quorum of operators, and the host machine can be configured to verify the signatures and the quorum before processing the command. The host machine can store the updates to ephemeral storage as well as persistent storage, such that upon a reboot or power cycle the host machine can operate with current configuration data. |
| US10904010B2 |
System and method for verifying verifiable claims
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for claim verification. One of the methods includes: receiving, from a first entity, a request for verifying a verifiable claim (VC) that comprises a digital signature; obtaining, based on the VC, a public key associated with a second entity; determining that the digital signature is created based on a private key associated with the public key; and verifying the VC based on the determination. |
| US10904007B2 |
Authentication device based on biometric information, control server connected to the same, and login method based on biometric information thereof
A method of providing a login to website requested from a computing device, by a biometric information based authentication device which interworks with a control server, is provided. The method includes detecting a login request message transmitted from the computing device to a website server providing the website, extracting login session information from the login request message, outputting an authentication result with respect to received biometric information, and transmitting authentication information comprising the login session information and the authentication result to the control server. The login session information is transmitted from the control server to the website server to determine, by the website server, the login allowance of the website. |
| US10904006B2 |
Method and apparatus for cryptographic data processing
A mask is selected amongst a plurality of masks. A first masked random number is generated by converting a first random number using the selected mask, and a first key is generated from the first masked random number and a first biometric code generated from biometric information. In addition, mask information indicating the selected mask is stored. A second masked random number is generated by converting a second random number using the selected mask or a different mask having a predetermined relationship with the selected mask, and a second key is generated from the second masked random number and a second biometric code. A ciphertext is generated using one of the first key and the second key and an error-correction encoding method. |
| US10904002B2 |
Token security on a communication device
Techniques for enhancing the security of storing sensitive information or a token on a communication device may include sending a request for the sensitive information or token. The communication device may receive a session key encrypted with a hash value derived from user authentication data that authenticates the user of the communication device, and the sensitive information or token encrypted with the session key. The session key encrypted with the hash value, and the sensitive information or token encrypted with the session key can be stored in a memory of the communication device. |
| US10903997B2 |
Generating keys using controlled corruption in computer networks
The present invention is a platform and/or agnostic method and system operable to protect data, documents, devices, communications, and transactions. Embodiments of the present invention may be operable to authenticate users and may be operable with any client system. The method and system are operable to disburse unique portions of anonymous related information amongst multiple devices. These devices disburse unique portions of anonymous information and are utilized by the solution to protect sensitive data transmissions, and to authenticate users, data, documents, device and transactions. When used for authentication, login-related information is not stored in any portion of the solution, users and devices are anonymously authenticated. The solution also permits a user to access secured portions of the client system through a semi-autonomous process and without having to reveal the user's key. |
| US10903992B2 |
Systems and methods for encrypting communication over a fiber optic line
Point Optical Link communication security to help resolve the high resource requirements and lack of a trustworthy source of high randomness of existing communication security solutions is described herein. The scheme includes a novel model and a physical layer symmetric cryptographic key generation technique that focuses on exploiting the physical randomness manifested by the Polarization Mode Dispersion effect. This randomness makes it extremely difficult for an adversary to generate the same cryptographic keys as the communicating parties. 128 bit keys with low final mismatch rates (.ltoreq.10%) can be generated, which could easily be truncated for 64-bit and 32-bit keys if necessary. |
| US10903991B1 |
Systems and methods for generating signatures
System and method for digitally signing messages using multi-party computation. |
| US10903989B2 |
Blockchain transaction processing method and apparatus
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing blockchain transactions. One of the methods includes: obtaining, by a blockchain node of a consortium blockchain network, a blockchain transaction associated with a service; invoking a smart contract corresponding to the service; determining presentation information based on the smart contract and the service, wherein the presentation information is presented to a user through a client device in response to receiving a query from the client device; recording the presentation information into a blockchain transaction log based on the smart contract; and recording the blockchain transaction and the blockchain transaction log of the blockchain transaction into a blockchain. |
| US10903978B2 |
Method of encryption with dynamic diffusion and confusion layers
A method of encrypting messages in clear with the aid of a secret key, the method of encryption implementing at least one substitution layer using a substitution table and a diffusion layer using a diffusion matrix, the substitution layer and/or the diffusion layer being configured in a dynamic manner by a control parameter obtained by combining the secret key with the output word from a counter and by performing a non-invertible transformation on the combination. The counter is incremented at least once between two successive plaintext messages. The configuration of the substitution layer is manifested by an identical permutation of bits of each element of the substitution table and the configuration of the diffusion layer is manifested by a permutation of the elements of the diffusion matrix. |
| US10903977B2 |
Hidden electronic file systems
Systems and methods for creating hidden file systems on electronic storage devices are provided. Data to be hidden is stored among a number of payload blocks. An equal number of corresponding cipher blocks is provided. Each cipher block comprises random numbers to be used as a cipher for the corresponding one of the number of payload blocks. At least one of said payload blocks comprise user data. At least one other of said payload blocks comprises directory information. |
| US10903975B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing operation being secure against side channel attack
An apparatus and method for performing an operation which are secure against side-channel attack are provided. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the apparatus includes a first extractor configured to extract one or more first parameter candidate values corresponding to a seed value from a first parameter candidate value set, a first outputter configured to output a first output values using the extracted first parameter candidate values, a second extractor configured to extract one or more second parameter candidate values corresponding to the seed value from a second parameter candidate value set, and a second outputter configured to output a second output value using the extracted second parameter candidate values wherein the second output value is capable of being generated using the first output value. |
| US10903973B2 |
Distributed antenna system for time division duplex
According to an example embodiment of the inventive concept, a master unit for time division duplex includes a passive signal distributor for outputting, to a second node, a downlink signal input through a first node, and outputting, to the first node, an uplink signal input through a third node, and a signal transceiver for transmitting, to a remote unit, the downlink signal input from the second node, and outputting, to the third node, an uplink amplification signal received from the remote unit. |
| US10903971B2 |
System and method for indicating occupation of service resources via an indication channel
A method and apparatus for indicating occupation of resources through an indication channel, and a storage medium. The method includes, through pre-configuring, a time domain indication and a frequency domain indication for indicating the occupation of the second service resources by the first service through an indication channel. As few K+S bits as possible indicate a position for the transmission of the first service, the duration of the first service, and resource occupation by the first service in the frequency domain. This reduces the impact of the first service on the second service and the overhead of the indication channel for the transmission of the first service while ensuring the transmission of the first service. |
| US10903969B2 |
Modular control channel formats for uplink control information in a cellular communication system
This disclosure relates to performing cellular communication using modular control channel formats for uplink control information. A wireless device may determine a slot structure for uplink communication. The slot structure may be selected from multiple possible slot structures. Uplink control information may be transmitted via one or more uplink control channel modules during a slot. A number of uplink control channel modules on which uplink control information is transmitted during the slot may be selected based at least in part on the slot structure for uplink control communication. |
| US10903968B2 |
Information transmission method and device, and computer storage medium
Provided are an information transmission method and device, and a computer storage medium. The method includes sending signal indication information to a receiver and transmitting a signal according to the signal indication information; the signal indication information includes at least one of the following: a transmission mode, interference layer information, power ratio indication information, pre-coding or port information and physical resource block (PRB) indication information. |
| US10903965B2 |
Virtual time-domain multiplexing for reference signals and data with modified cyclic prefix
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and apparatus of time-domain multiplexing (TDM) for reference signals (RS) and data using a modified cyclic prefix. A reference signal (RS) and data are multiplexed either in a single symbol or in two time consecutive symbols that respectively including the RS and data. The cyclic prefix (CP) is added to the single symbol using a portion of the RS or to a first symbol of the two time consecutive symbols using a portion of the RS. The CP may be copied from the RS or the end of the symbol, but not the data, in a manner that affords a virtual Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) of the RS and data before discrete Fourier transform (DFT) spreading is performed in a transceiver to provide lower peak to average power ratios and no Inter-symbol interference. |
| US10903964B2 |
Techniques to enable physical downlink control channel communications
Embodiments may be directed to techniques to determine physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates to assign to a user equipment (UE) based on one or more aggregation levels, each PDCCH candidate in a highest aggregation level of the one or more aggregation levels assigned by a random distribution over a whole control channel element (CCE) domain, and each PDCCH candidate in one or more non-highest aggregation levels of the one or more aggregation levels assigned a random distribution over one or more CCEs utilized by PDCCH candidates of the highest aggregation level. Embodiments also include selecting at least one of the PDCCH candidates to utilize to send downlink control information (DCI) to the UE, and causing transmission of the DCI to the UE via the PDCCH candidates selected. |
| US10903958B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting reference signal in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a reference signal, the method of a terminal according to the present invention comprising: receiving, through a higher layer signaling, configuration information including first information indicating one of a first demodulation reference signal (DMRS)-related table and a second DMRS-related table; receiving control information including second information on DMRS information; analyzing, based on the second information, a DMRS-related table indicated by the first information; and receiving a DMRS based on the result of the analysis. |
| US10903957B2 |
Method for transceiving broadcast channel signals in a wireless communication system and apparatus thereof
A method for a transmission-side device to transmit a signal in a wireless communication system is disclosed. To this end, the transmission-side device forms a multiplexed block by multiplexing a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signal in time and frequency domains, wherein the PSS and the SSS form a synchronization signal (SS) by being multiplexed by the time-division multiplexing (TDM) method, and the SS and PBCH signals form the multiplexed block by being multiplexed by the TDM or frequency-division multiplexing (FDM) method. |
| US10903954B2 |
Reference signal mapping method and apparatus
A method includes: mapping, by a base station, N reference signals to a specified time-frequency resource; and transmitting, by the base station, a reference signal on the specified time-frequency resource to user equipment, where for any PRB, the specified time-frequency resource includes a first OFDM symbol in a data region in time domain; where the PRB includes a type-1 control channel and the data region, the data region includes a type-2 control channel and a data channel, the type-1 control channel includes first m OFDM symbols of the PRB in time domain, and the data region includes OFDM symbols other than the type-1 control channel in the PRB in time domain; and the type-2 control channel includes first n OFDM symbols in the data region in time domain, and the data channel includes OFDM symbols other than the type-2 control channel in the data region in time domain. |
| US10903952B2 |
Method and device for receiving signal in wireless access system supporting FDR transmission
The present invention relates to a wireless access system supporting a full duplex radio (FDR) transmission environment. A method by which a first UE receives a signal from a base station in a wireless access system supporting FDR transmission, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise the steps of: receiving a first reference signal from the base station; calculating first channel information on self-interference by using the first reference signal; receiving a second reference signal from the base station, and receiving a third reference signal from a second UE at the same time as the second reference signal; calculating second channel information from which the self-interference is cancelled, on the basis of the second reference signal, the third reference signal and the first channel information; and receiving the signal by using the second channel information and third channel information on a channel receiving the signal. |
| US10903951B2 |
Systems and methods for adaptive pilot allocation
System and method embodiments are provided for adaptive pilot allocation. In an embodiment, a method in a communication controller for adaptive pilot allocation includes determining at least one channel condition parameter for a wireless channel between the communications controller and a user equipment (UE). The method includes selecting a microframe pilot pattern to use for subsequent communications on the wireless channel according to the at least one channel condition parameter. Additionally, the method includes signaling an indication of the selected microframe pilot pattern to the user equipment. The method further includes transmitting data to the UE using the selected microframe pilot pattern. |
| US10903950B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink transport block in wireless communication system
A method and device for transmitting a transport block in a wireless communication system is provided. Particularly, a terminal receives, from a base station, information on the number of subcarriers in a partial band included in an allocated carrier. The terminal distributes a soft buffer possessed by the terminal in proportion to the number of subcarriers in the partial band. The terminal determines a transport block size for each partial band according to the size of the distributed soft buffer. The terminal transmits, to the base station, the transport block within the transport block size. |
| US10903949B2 |
Method and system for multiple active bandwidth parts per carrier
Devices and methods are provided that include transmitting or receiving data and control signals over an air interface on a plurality of bandwidth part (BWP) groups (BWGs) of a carrier, wherein each BWG comprises a plurality of BWPs and each BWP is a set of contiguous resource blocks (RBs). The control signals are transmitted or received on an active BWP of at least one of the BWGs and the data signals are transmitted or received on active BWPs of at least two of the BWGs. Devices and methods are also provided that include transmitting or receiving data and control signals over an air interface on a plurality of active BWPs of a carrier, wherein each active BWP is a set of contiguous RBs, wherein control signals are transmitted or received on at most one active BWP at a time. |
| US10903943B2 |
Enhanced LTE UL HARQ feedback indication for power saving and range improvement
Mobile devices, base stations, and/or relay stations may implement a method for an improved and reliable automatic repeat request feedback indication. A mobile device (UE) may establish communication within a wireless network, and indicate to the network that the UE is a special type device, e.g. a constrained device. The network (base station) may then not send an indication on a physical indicator channel to the UE when certain conditions are met, and instead, the mobile device may interpret control information received from the network on a physical control channel as a negative acknowledgment indication corresponding to an automatic repeat request from the network. The UE may then perform a retransmission according to the interpreted control information. A new control information format may be used to further define how the network and UE implement the automatic repeat request process, to reduce the total number of bits required in the control information. |
| US10903940B2 |
Method and arrangement for retransmission using HARQ
The present invention relates to a method and device for enhancing coverage of a power-limited mobile terminal by sending information relating to a single Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) process from the mobile terminal to a base station using several transmission time intervals. |
| US10903939B2 |
Terminal device, base station device, and communication method for setting TTI channel
[Object] To provide a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other.[Solution] A terminal device that communicates with a base station device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to set an STTI channel setting through signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; and a receiving unit configured to receive a first PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is not set and receive a second PDSCH in a case in which the STTI channel setting is set. The first PDCCH is mapped to one or more resource blocks, the second PDCCH is mapped to one or more sub resource blocks, and the second PDSCH is demodulated using a reference signal mapped to a symbol including the sub resource block or a resource element before the symbol. |
| US10903938B2 |
Techniques of additional bit freezing for polar codes with rate matching
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and wireless equipment are provided. The wireless equipment obtains an integer E and an integer N. E encoded bits are to be selected for transmission from N encoded bits output from an encoder. The wireless equipment determines F inputs from N inputs of the encoder based on E and N. The F inputs do not include S inputs that correspond to S outputs of the encoder generating encoded bits not to be transmitted. The wireless equipment sets the F inputs to a predetermined value. |
| US10903935B2 |
Channel state information reporting on licensed and unlicensed carriers
The present disclosure relates to methods for reporting channel state information. The present disclosure also provides mobile stations for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. For this purpose, the mobile station receives a trigger message that triggers the reporting of channel state information for at least one of the plurality of downlink component carriers, the trigger message being received in a subframe nTrigger, and reports the triggered channel state information for the at least one of the plurality of downlink component carriers based on reference signals present on the at least one of the plurality of downlink component carriers, in a subframe nReport later than nTrigger. The received trigger message indicates that the reference signals are present in a subframe nRS on the at least one of the plurality of downlink component carriers, where nTrigger≤nRS |
| US10903933B2 |
Method and apparatus for cyber security using light polarization
Systems and methods are provided for cyber security using light polarization. Data may be encoded in an optical signal. A seed may be converted to a target degree of polarization. The optical signal may be polarized to have the target degree of polarization and transmitted. The polarized optical signal may be received at a receiver and a degree of polarization of the received polarized optical signal measured. A seed may be converted by the receiver to an expected degree of polarization. The received polarized optical signal may be determined to be compromised based on a difference between the expected degree of polarization and the degree of polarization of the received polarized optical signal. |
| US10903931B1 |
Transmit power equalization in a reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer
An optical system including a ROADM including previously in-service channels; a SDN computing module in communication with the ROADM over a DCN, the SDN computing module providing an instruction to place in-service an additional channel at the ROADM; an optical controller included by the ROADM and configured to, in response to the instruction to place in-service the additional channel at the ROADM: obtain optical power targets for each in-service channel including the previously in-service channels and the additional in-service channel; equalize a transmit power for each in-service channel of the ROADM, including: identify the transmit power of each in-service channel; transition each in-service channel to a power mode; adjust the transmit power of each in-service channel based on, for each in-service channel, the optical power target for the in-service channel and the identified transmit power for the in-service channel; and transition each in-service channel to a steady state mode. |
| US10903929B2 |
Flexible ethernet group establishment method and device
This application discloses a flexible Ethernet group establishment method and a device. The method includes: determining that there are at least M physical layer PHY links; receiving at least M delay test requests sent by a near-end device; determining, by the far-end device, at least M receiving time points at which the at least M delay test requests are received; and determining M PHY links used to establish a flexible Ethernet group, from the at least M PHY links based on the at least M receiving time points, where a delay difference between any two of the M PHY links satisfies a preset delay condition. According to the method in this application, the delay difference between the any two PHY links is accurately determined based on time points at which delay test requests are received over any two PHY links. |
| US10903926B2 |
Terminal side and base station side device, terminal device, base station, and wireless communication method
A terminal and base station side device, a terminal device, a base station, and a wireless communication method. The terminal side device includes a searching unit, configured to adopt a synchronization signal sequence corresponding to a target frequency range to be searched to search a target cell; and a synchronization unit, configured to perform synchronization based on the synchronization signal detected by the searching unit to synchronize the device to the target cell, the case the target frequency range belongs to a first frequency range, the searching unit adopts the synchronization signal sequence in a first subset of a synchronization signal sequence set to search the target cell, the first subset being a proper subset of the synchronization signal sequence set. Thereby, a number of synchronization signal sequence matching in a cell searching procedure is reduced and time for user equipment to synchronize to the target cell is shortened. |
| US10903923B2 |
Signal processing device and image display apparatus including the same
The present invention relates to a signal processing apparatus and an image display apparatus including the same. The signal processing apparatus for processing a baseband signal demodulated from an RF signal, includes: a synchronizer; a channel estimator; an equalizer; an error corrector to perform error correction based on a signal output from the equalizer; and a mean square error calculator to calculate a mean square error based on a difference between an input signal from the equalizer and a reference signal, wherein when the RF signal includes a co-channel interference signal, the error corrector performs error correction by using a mean square error in a time domain or mean square errors in a time domain and a spatial domain. Accordingly, a baseband signal, from which a defect is removed, may be obtained in response to various communication channels or broadcast channels. |
| US10903913B2 |
Free air optical interconnect attach mechanism
A system includes a communication interface including separate electrical connectors configured to communicate power and ground using electrical conductors, the communication interface includes a free-air optical interconnect including at least one of: a laser emitter configured to transmit laser energy across an air gap to a separate device; or a photodiode configured to detect laser energy received across the air gap from the separate device. |
| US10903909B2 |
System and methods for cable fiber node splitting using coherent optics
A coherent optical transmitter is in operable communication with an optical fiber an includes a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) configured to (i) receive a plurality of radio frequency analog input signals, respectively, and (ii) convert the received plurality of RF analog input signals into a plurality of respective digital data streams. The transmitter further includes a source laser configured to output at least two orthogonal polarization component signals, and at least two polarization modulators configured to modulate (i) an in-phase portion output from a first ADC, (ii) an in-quadrature portion output from a second ADC, and (iii) one polarization component signal of the at least two orthogonal polarization component signals. The transmitter further includes a polarization beam combiner configured to (i) multiplex the respective outputs of the at least two polarization modulators, and (ii) transmit the multiplexed output from the polarization beam combiner to the optical fiber. |
| US10903897B2 |
Control method, unmanned aerial vehicle, and remote control device
A method is provided for controlling a signal transmission power of at least one of an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) or a remote control device. The method includes determining whether a remote control distance between the UAV and the remote control device increases or decreases. The method also includes increasing or maintaining a signal transmission power of at least one of the UAV or the remote control device if the remote control distance increases. The method further includes decreasing or maintaining the signal transmission power of at least one of the UAV or the remote control device if the remote control distance decreases. |
| US10903895B1 |
Scheduling MU-MIMO resources in relayed networks
A wireless network is configured to utilize a multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) operating mode. a first subset of wireless devices in a sector that are configured as relay nodes are identified. A second subset of wireless devices in the sector that are not configured as relay nodes are also identified. One or more wireless device in the first subset of wireless devices are instructed, allocated resources, or otherwise controlled to not utilize the MU-MIMO operating mode. |
| US10903894B1 |
Mobile wireless repeater
Methods and systems for operating a mobile wireless repeater station for wireless communication on a wireless local area network (WLAN) having a wireless access point (WAP) and a plurality of stations at a location of the WAP. An example implementation includes components coupled to one another to performs operations including sniffing communications channels to intercept communication packets; identifying a subset of one or more relay candidates among the stations to optimize for a relay of subsequent communications based on the intercepted communication packets; and spatially mapping the location of the WAP to determine an optimal spatial placement for the mobile wireless repeater station between the WAP and the identified subset of relay candidates. In an example, the mobile wireless repeater station is adjusted based on the optimal spatial placement. |
| US10903892B2 |
Method for performing uplink transmission in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
Disclosed herein is a method of performing uplink (UL) transmission in a wireless communication system, including receiving, by a user equipment (UE), configuration information on beam failure detection and beam failure recovery from a base station (BS) through RRC signaling, receiving a reference signal (RS) from the BS, transmitting, to the BS, a physical random access channel (PRACH) for a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) related with a new beam RS having a reception quality equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold based on the configuration information, if a beam failure for the RS is detected, receiving, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) for the PRACH, wherein the DCI is received in a beam failure recovery (BFR) search space in which a response for the PRACH is searched, and performing UL transmission, to the BS, based on the DCI, wherein the UL transmission is performed using the same spatial filter as a spatial filter used for transmission of the PRACH. |
| US10903891B2 |
Communication apparatus, communication method, and communication system
Even when the lengths of data items to be transmitted to users are not the same, the frames multiplexed at the same time finally have the same frame length and are transmitted. Even when the lengths of frames for the users are not the same at the time when a transmission request is received from a higher layer, a communication apparatus reconfigures at least two of the frames having short lengths into a frame having a long length through Aggregation so that the frames finally have the same frame length and transmits the frames at the same time in a multiplexed manner. On the transmitter side, the transmission power used per destination communication station can be increased due to a decrease in the total number of multiplexed frames. On the receiver side, an unstable AGC operation can be prevented. |
| US10903884B2 |
Method and apparatus for combining plurality of radio frequency signals
A base station for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless communication system is provided. The base station includes a transceiver, and at least one processor configured to obtain reception antenna weights for the base station including an array of a plurality of antennas, and transmission antenna weights for at least one user equipment (UE), convert signals received from the at least one UE through a plurality of reception paths, into beam-domain signals, based on the transmission antenna weights and the reception antenna weights, combine the converted beam-domain signals by applying predefined combining weights to the converted beam-domain signals, and obtain data from the combined signals. |
| US10903883B2 |
Antennas selection based on sensors
An example electronic device includes a first housing including, a first display, a first antenna, a second antenna, and a first rotational motion sensor. The electronic device also includes a hinge including a bend sensor. The electronic device further includes a second housing rotatable coupled to the first housing via the hinge. The second housing includes a second display, a third antenna, a fourth antenna, and a second rotational motion sensor. The electronic device further includes a communication device to select two of the first antenna, the second antenna, the third antenna, and the fourth antenna based on the first rotational motion sensor, the second rotational motion sensor, and the bend sensor. The communication device is also to transmit and receive data via each of the two selected antennas. |
| US10903882B2 |
Method and apparatus for wireless communications
A method for wireless communications includes: receiving a sounding packet from an access point; determining a rank of a channel matrix corresponding to a communications channel; and when the rank of the channel matrix is a full rank: selecting at least one of a plurality of pieces of codebook information previously stored in a memory, as beamforming information, transmitting the beamforming information to the access point, and applying channel smoothing to a communications channel provided by the access point. |
| US10903881B2 |
Method for updating hybrid CSI in multiple antenna communication system and device therefor
Disclosed is a method for a terminal reporting channel status information (CSI) to a base station in a wireless communication system. The method comprises receiving, via an upper later, information associated with a single CSI process comprising a firs enhanced multiple input multiple output (eMIMO) type and a second eMIMO type; reporting, to a base station, a first CSI updated on the basis of a first channel status information-reference signal (CSI-RS) corresponding to the first eMIMO type received from a first subframe; and receiving, from the base station, a triggering message of a second CSI calculated on the basis of a second CSI-RS corresponding to the second eMIMO type from a second subframe. |
| US10903878B2 |
Optimized multi-beam antenna array network with an extended radio frequency range
A system, in a radio frequency (RF) transmitter device, dynamically selects one or more reflector devices along a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) radio path based on a defined criteria. Further, the dynamically selected one or more reflector devices are controlled based on one or more conditions. In an RF receiver device, communicates with the dynamically selected one or more reflector devices comprising an active reflector device. The active reflector device comprises at least a first antenna array and a second antenna array. The first antenna array transmits a first set of beams of RF signals to at least the RF transmitter device and the RF receiver device. The second antenna array receives a second set of beams of RF signals from at least the RF transmitter device and the RF receiver device. |
| US10903874B2 |
Long preamble and duty cycle based coexistence mechanism for power line communication (PLC) networks
Embodiments of methods and systems for supporting coexistence of multiple technologies in a Power Line Communication (PLC) network are disclosed. A long coexistence preamble sequence may be transmitted by a device that has been forced to back off the PLC channel multiple times. The long coexistence sequence provides a way for the device to request channel access from devices on the channel using other technology. The device may transmit a data packet after transmitting the long coexistence preamble sequence. A network duty cycle time may also be defined as a maximum allowed duration for nodes of the same network to access the channel. When the network duty cycle time occurs, all nodes will back off the channel for a duty cycle extended inter frame space before transmitting again. The long coexistence preamble sequence and the network duty cycle time may be used together. |
| US10903870B1 |
Angle of propagation estimation in a multipath communication system
A system includes a transceiver configured to receive frequency dependent channel estimates or beamforming feedback in a multi-carrier, multi-antenna communication system, and a multi-layer perceptron feed forward neural network component, coupled with the transceiver, configured to estimate parameters of multipath reflections using representations of the channel estimates or beamforming feedback, and to generate transmission correction factors for the transceiver. |
| US10903869B2 |
Terminal enabling full-duplex vocal communication or data communication on an autonomous network simultaneously with a direct connection with other communication means on other networks
The portable communication terminal for communicating on at least two independent radio networks, comprises, in a single housing: Communication means (47, 49) by time multiplexing on a single radio channel, TDMA type full-duplex, for audio communication in “conference” and “hands-free” mode on a first autonomous network without infrastructure, Access means (43, 50) for half-duplex audio communication on a second autonomous network, independent from the first full-duplex network, A connection to a microphone (41) and a speaker (52), A wireless connection for a cellular telephone network, At least one pushbutton (45) for switching the communication of the microphone and the loudspeaker to and from the communication on the first network, the second network or the cellular telephone network by means of electronic switching circuits and An electronic codec type audio signal mixer (42, 51) having a plurality of inputs and outputs, configured to mix half-duplex communications on the full-duplex local area network to provide to a user, via the microphone and the loudspeaker, simultaneous access to multiple audio communications on different networks, depending on the press on the push button. |
| US10903867B1 |
Discrete time superheterodyne mixer
A receiver includes one or more mixers configured to sample an input analog signal at a plurality of discrete points in time to obtain a discrete-time sampled signal based on a local oscillating signal provided by a local oscillator; and a sample reordering circuit coupled to the one or more mixers and configured to reorder a sequence of samples received from the one or more mixers. |
| US10903862B2 |
Apparatus and a method for amplifying an input signal
An apparatus for amplifying an input signal is provided. The apparatus includes an output stage to generate an output signal. The apparatus further includes a compensation signal generator configured to generate a compensation signal based on at least one of a voltage value of the input signal or a voltage value of the output signal. The apparatus further includes a combiner configured to generate a control signal for the output stage based on a target signal, the compensation signal and a signal related to a current value of the output stage. The target signal corresponds to a desired output signal. The output stage is configured to generate the output signal using the control signal. |
| US10903861B2 |
Method and device for generating soft decision detection parameters
A method of generating soft decision detection parameters for a plurality of received signals. The method comprises defining a hard decision boundary and a plurality of quantisation intervals wherein each quantisation interval extends from the hard decision boundary by an interval distance, selecting a log likelihood value from a set of log likelihood values for each received signal based on the quantisation interval in which the received signal is detected, performing a soft decoding using a plurality of log likelihood values, adjusting the set of log likelihood values based on a result of the soft decoding, determining an error probability for a quantisation interval, comparing the error probability against a target error probability and adjusting the interval distance in order to obtain the target error probability. |
| US10903858B2 |
Dynamically variable error correcting code (ECC) system with hybrid rateless reed-solomon ECCs
Example apparatus and methods control whether and when hybrid rateless Reed Solomon (RS) error correcting codes (ECC) for a message are produced, stored, and distributed. The control may be based on a property (e.g., reliability, error state, speed) of a message recipient. Example apparatus and methods may also control whether and when fountain codes for the message are produced, stored, and distributed. Once again, the control may be based on a property of a message or ECC recipient. Both the hybrid rateless RS ECC and the fountain codes may be produced from data stored in a modified RS matrix. The modified RS matrix may store row-centric error detection codes (EDC) instead of conventional cyclic redundancy check (CRC) characters. The modified RS matrix may store column-centric ECC that may be produced serially. Different types or numbers of ECC may be produced, stored, and provided for different messages stored at different recipients. |
| US10903856B2 |
Low density parity check encoder having length of 64800 and code rate of 2/15, and low density parity check encoding method using the same
A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 2/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM). |
| US10903855B2 |
Convolutional LDPC decoding method and apparatus, decoder, and system
The present disclosure provides a method, system, and terminal device for data transmission in an unlicensed spectrum, effectively reduce mutual signal interference between different systems while meeting regulation constraints on use of the unlicensed spectrum. The method in the present disclosure includes: at a processing start moment of a terminal device in a current channel occupancy time window of a network device, when remaining duration of the current channel occupancy time window of the network device is greater than or equal to duration for the terminal device to transmit a to-be-sent data packet to the network device, selecting based on a user attribute of the terminal device and from a mapping relationship between a user attribute and a transmission mode; and sending the to-be-sent data packet to the network device in the selected transmission mode. |
| US10903851B2 |
Page filtering via compression dictionary filtering
Page filtering in a database using a compression dictionary. A page of a database table is compressed, creating a compression dictionary. The compression dictionary includes entries with a byte sequence from the page and a compression symbol associated with the byte sequence. A part of the compressed page, the compression dictionary, and a page symbol list with compression symbols from the dictionary present in the part of the page, are received. A query having a predicate with a predicate value is received. A predicate symbol list, including symbols in the dictionary whose byte sequences at least partially match the predicate value, is generated. Based on the predicate symbol list and the page symbol list, it is determined that at least one symbol from the predicate symbol list is also present in the part of the page. The query is performed by evaluating the predicate on the part of the page. |
| US10903846B1 |
Power efficient successive approximation analog to digital converter
Disclosed herein are related to systems and methods for a power efficient successive approximation analog to digital converter (SAR ADC). In one aspect, the SAR ADC includes a sample and digital to analog conversion (DAC) circuit to sample an input voltage. In one aspect, the SAR ADC includes a first comparator coupled to the DAC circuit, and a first set of storage circuits coupled between the first comparator and the DAC circuit. In one aspect, the SAR ADC includes a second comparator coupled to the DAC circuit, and a second set of storage circuits coupled between the second comparator and the DAC circuit. In one aspect, the SAR ADC includes a control circuit configured to select, for each of multiple bits corresponding to the input voltage, a corresponding comparator to determine a state of the each of the multiple bits during a corresponding time period. |
| US10903844B2 |
System and methods for mixed-signal computing
A mixed-signal integrated circuit that includes: a global reference signal source; a first summation node and a second summation node; a plurality of distinct pairs of current generating circuits arranged along the first summation node and the second summation node; a first current generating circuit of each of the plurality of distinct pairs that is arranged on the first summation node and a second current generating circuit of each of the plurality of distinct pairs is arranged on the second summation node; a common-mode current circuit that is arranged in electrical communication with each of the first and second summation nodes; where a local DAC adjusts a differential current between the first second summation nodes based on reference signals from the global reference source; and a comparator or a finite state machine that generates a binary output value current values obtained from the first and second summation nodes. |
| US10903843B1 |
SAR ADC with variable sampling capacitor
A successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) circuit comprises N weighted bit capacitors, wherein N is a positive integer greater than one; a sampling circuit configured to sample an input voltage onto the N weighted bit capacitors; and logic circuitry. The logic circuitry is configured to enable sampling of the input voltage onto the N weighted bit capacitors in a high-resolution mode; enable sampling of the input voltage onto N−M of the weighted bit capacitors in a low-resolution mode and sampling a common mode voltage onto the most significant M weighted bit capacitors, wherein M is a positive integer greater than zero and less than N; and initiate successive bit trials using the weighted bit capacitors to convert the sampled input voltage to a digital value. |
| US10903839B2 |
Article coated with integrated microsensor chemical detection elements
A coated article includes integrated circuit detection elements incorporated on a surface or embedded in a body, which elements are adapted to detect target chemical and/or target environmental conditions. The detection elements include microsensors applied with liquid and dry mixtures, including compounds of inks, dyes, print powders, aerosols and other suspensions. The microsensor state is detected and then processed to identify a detected value for the target chemical. Depending on the result, a readout substance is released to indicate a presence of the target chemical. |
| US10903835B2 |
High frequency switch
A length of a zone in which a power propagation direction from an input/output terminal (P251) toward a common terminal (P20) and a power propagation direction from the common terminal (P20) toward an external connection terminal (P10) are opposite to each other is longer than a length of a zone in which a power propagation direction from an input/output terminal (P211) toward the common terminal (P20) and a power propagation direction from the common terminal (P20) toward the external connection terminal (P10) are opposite to each other. A FET (251) and a FET (211) have structures that power transferred between a drain and a source of the FET (251) in accordance with predetermined input power is greater than power transferred between a drain and a source of the FET (211). |
| US10903834B1 |
Power electronic device with paralleled transistors
An electronic power device formed by a plurality of FETs formed on a circuit board formed of a plurality of layers, the plurality of transistors being formed on a first surface of the circuit board, the plurality of layers including a plurality of gate drive layers, a plurality of gate return layers, and a plurality of power layers. A gate drive circuit is formed on a second surface of the circuit board, the second surface being opposite the first surface, the gate drive circuit being connected to the gate and source of each of the plurality of transistors through the plurality of gate drive layers and the plurality of gate return layers. A voltage supply is connected to the drain of each of the plurality of transistors, the connections of the voltage supply to each of the plurality of transistors being interleaved through the plurality of power layers. |
| US10903828B2 |
Voltage regulator phase duty cycle control apparatus and method
Embodiments herein relate to multi-phase voltage regulator power phase duty cycle control in computer add-in cards. A computer add-in card may include a card body, a first power connector disposed on the card body, a second power connector, one or more multi-phase voltage regulators coupled with one or more of the first power connector and the second power connector, and a processor coupled with the one or more multi-phase voltage regulators, where the processor is to generate one or more power control signals and one or more of the one or more multi-phase voltage regulators is to adjust a duty cycle of one or more power phases in response to the one or more power control signals. In some embodiments, the power control signals may be serial voltage identification signals or may be provided over an inter-integrated circuit bus. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10903826B2 |
Glitch removal circuit and electronic device
A glitch removal circuit removes glitch noise contained in a Power-good signal and a Power-on Reset signal, and includes: a first glitch removal unit that operates according to a first clock signal, and removes glitch noise from a Power-good signal; and a second glitch removal unit that operates according to a second clock signal, and removes glitch noise from a Power-on Reset signal, in which the first glitch removal unit is configured so as to be initialized according to an output signal of the second glitch removal unit, and the second glitch removal unit is configured so as to be initialized according to an output signal of the first glitch removal unit. |
| US10903825B1 |
Phase correction circuit, phase correction method and electric energy metering device
A phase correction circuit, a phase correction method and an electric energy metering device are provided. The phase correction circuit includes a reference voltage circuit and a current correction circuit. The reference voltage circuit includes a first predetermined number of first delay D flip-flops and a first synchronization D flip-flop. The current correction circuit includes a second predetermined number of second delay D flip-flops, a second synchronization D flip-flop and a data selector. The data selector outputs a current signal of one of the second delay D flip-flops to the second synchronization D flip-flop. The second predetermined number is greater than or equal to the first predetermined number. In a case that the second predetermined number is equal to the first predetermined number, each of the second predetermined number and the first predetermined number is greater than 1. |
| US10903823B2 |
Oscillation signal production
An apparatus for radio-frequency (RF) oscillation signal production is disclosed. In example implementations, an apparatus includes an oscillator. The oscillator includes multiple oscillation stages that are coupled together in series into a ring. A respective oscillation stage of the multiple oscillation stages includes a transconductance amplifier and a core oscillator. The transconductance amplifier is coupled to a preceding oscillation stage. The core oscillator is coupled to the transconductance amplifier and to a succeeding oscillation stage, with the core oscillator including at least one output node configured to provide a respective output signal. In some implementations, at least one capacitor is coupled across at least the transconductance amplifier. In some aspects, at least one transistor of the transconductance amplifier is implemented with a silicon-on-insulator metal-oxide-semiconductor (SOI MOS) device that includes at least one back-gate terminal. |
| US10903817B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave resonator and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a bulk acoustic wave resonator includes: forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate protection layer; forming a membrane layer on the substrate protection layer to cover the sacrificial layer; and forming a cavity by removing the sacrificial layer using a gas mixture comprising a halide-based gas and an oxygen-containing gas, wherein a mixture ratio of the halide-based gas to the oxygen-containing gas in the gas mixture is in a range from 1.5 to 2.4. |
| US10903815B2 |
Acoustic wave resonator and electronic filter circuit
An acoustic wave resonator may be provided comprising a main body, which contains or consists of a piezoelectric material, and at least one electrode, which is arranged on the main body and covers at least a portion of the main body and which contains graphene, wherein the graphene of the electrode is provided with a metal coating, which is a partial coating of the graphene. An electronic filter circuit with such an acoustic wave resonator may also be provide. |
| US10903808B2 |
Amplification systems and methods with output regulation
Systems and methods are provided for amplifying multiple input signals to generate multiple output signals. An example system includes: a first channel configured to receive a first input signal and a second input signal and generate a first output signal and a second output signal based at least in part on the first input signal and the second input signal; and a second channel configured to receive a third input signal and a fourth input signal and generate a third output signal and a fourth output signal based at least in part on the third input signal and the fourth input signal. A first differential signal is equal to the first input signal minus the second input signal. A second differential signal is equal to the third input signal minus the fourth input signal. The first output signal corresponds to a first phase. |
| US10903800B2 |
Power amplifier system
A power amplifier system having a power amplifier with a signal input and a signal output, bias circuitry coupled to the signal input, and a radio frequency (RF) peak detector having an input coupled to the signal output is disclosed. The RF peak detector is configured to generate a peak voltage signal. Temperature-compensated overvoltage protection circuitry coupled between an output of the RF peak detector and a control input of the bias circuitry is configured to respond to the peak voltage signal crossing over a predetermined peak voltage threshold and to provide an overvoltage protection control signal to cause the bias circuitry to adjust biasing for the power amplifier to reduce an overvoltage condition at the RF peak detector input. |
| US10903799B2 |
Variable gain low noise amplifying apparatus with phase distortion compensation
An amplifying apparatus includes a variable gain amplifying circuit configured to operate in a gain mode selected from a plurality of gain modes in response to a first control signal during operation in an amplification mode, a variable attenuation circuit configured to have an attenuation value that is adjusted in response to a second control signal, and a phase compensation value which compensates for a phase distortion in the selected gain mode, and a control circuit configured to control the selecting of the gain mode, the adjusting of the attenuation value and the phase compensation value, based on the first and second control signals. |
| US10903797B2 |
Bias circuit based on BiFET technology for supplying a bias current to an RF power amplifier
A bias circuit for supplying a bias current to an RF power amplifier by using a field-effect transistor (FET) that is controlled by a logic control signal, such as a CMOS logic control signal, for turning on or turning off the bias current supplied to the RF power amplifier, wherein the bias current will be supplied to the RF power amplifier when the FET is on, and the bias current will not be supplied to the RF power amplifier when the FET is off. |
| US10903794B2 |
Power amplifier device with improved response speed
A power amplifier device includes a bias circuit to generate a startup current, which is based on an internal voltage and a startup voltage, during a startup time prior to a steady driving time point, and to generate a bias current, which is based on the internal voltage, after the steady driving time point, and a startup circuit to supply the bias circuit with the startup voltage during the startup time. |
| US10903790B1 |
Frequency reference generator
An LC oscillator has a tank driver connected to cause a matched-resistance LC tank to oscillate. The LC tank has an inductor leg in parallel with a capacitor leg. The inductor leg has an explicit inductor having an implicit resistance level RL. The capacitor leg has an explicit capacitor having an implicit resistance level RC connected in series with an explicit resistor having an explicit resistance level RR, where RM=(RC+RR) is substantially equal to RL. The LC oscillator may have a non-trimmable LC tank and be part of a temperature-compensated frequency reference generator having standalone frequency adjustment circuitry that offers better than ±0.1% frequency accuracy (after single trim and batch calibration) over process, voltage, and temperature variations, and lifetime, which can serve as a low-cost replacement for a crystal oscillator for many applications. |
| US10903789B2 |
System and method for optimizing energy generation
A system and method for optimizing energy generation. The method includes remotely connecting to an energy storage apparatus that is connected to a tested solar panel; receiving, from the energy storage apparatus, at least one test power measurement, wherein each test power measurement is an amount of power generated by the tested solar panel; obtaining at least one benchmarking power measurement, wherein each benchmarking power measurement is an amount of power generated by one of at least one benchmarking solar panel; determining, based on the at least one benchmarking power measurement, at least one optimization threshold; comparing each test power measurement to each optimization threshold; determining, based on the comparison, whether placement of the tested solar panel is at least an optimal placement; and generating a notification indicating whether placement of the tested solar panel is optimal. |
| US10903785B2 |
PV module mounting assembly with clamp/standoff arrangement
A mounting assembly for use in mid-grab and/or edge-grab applications may include a clamp secured to a stanchion by a clamping fastener. The mounting assembly may also include a mounting plate which may be secured to a mounting device by the stanchion. The mounting assembly may be used, for example, to secure photovoltaic modules (or other devices or structures) of varying heights to a roof or other building surface. |
| US10903782B2 |
Solar tracker system
A photovoltaic system includes a collection of photovoltaic modules, a base supporting the collection of photovoltaic modules, and a damper coupled between the collection of photovoltaic modules and the base. The damper resists movement of the photovoltaic modules relative to the base. The damper has a first damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a first rate relative to the base and a second damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a second rate relative to the base, and the damper passively transitions from the first damping ratio to the second damping ratio. |
| US10903781B2 |
Solar power system for marine dock
A solar power system for a marine dock includes a telescoping vertical member affixed to a dock via a bracket. A solar panel is pivotably and rotatably affixed to the top end of the telescoping vertical support. A weatherproof equipment container is affixed to the telescoping vertical support. A meter unit, battery, and inverter are housed within the weatherproof equipment container. First leads connect the solar panel to the meter unit, which is configured to measure and display energy and/or power generated by the solar panel. Second leads are configured so that current is passed through the meter unit to the battery in a charging configuration. A third lead connects one terminal of the battery to a measurement terminal on the meter unit, which is configured to measure and display the output voltage of the battery. Fourth leads connect the battery to the inverter in a discharge configuration. |
| US10903772B2 |
Multigroup-multiphase rotating-electric-machine driving apparatus
When the connection between a DC power source and a multigroup-multiphase electric-power conversion apparatus is cut off, a control apparatus controls switching devices so that the respective states of the two or more groups of electric-power conversion apparatuses included in the multigroup-multiphase electric-power conversion apparatus are each switched stepwise from all-phase short-circuiting state to an all-phase cutoff state at different timings. |
| US10903769B2 |
Rotary electrical machine control device, rotary electrical machine, and rotary electrical machine control method
Provided is a rotary electrical machine, which is reduced in size of a motor through use of reluctance torque being a feature of an IPM motor, and in which, in driving in times other than a rated time, a current phase angle is shifted from an angle at which a total torque is maximized so that an increase in torque ripple is suppressed even when the current phase angle changes, to thereby provide characteristics of small size, high output, and low torque ripple. |
| US10903767B2 |
Synchronous motor control apparatus
According to the present invention, in position sensorless control for switching between a 120-degree energization scheme for a low-speed region and a 180-degree energization scheme for a mid-to-high-speed region, stable and highly accurate speed control characteristics are provided by suppressing speed deviation Δωr in the low-speed region, and by preventing current jump-up caused by a discontinuous rotational speed occurring during switching to the mid-to-high-speed region. In the case of driving in the 120-degree energization scheme, a voltage command value is corrected such that an estimated speed value or a detected speed value follows a speed command. |
| US10903765B2 |
Programmable power tool with brushless DC motor
A power tool that includes a brushless DC motor, one or more motor sensors, and a controller, such as, for example, an electronic speed control (ESC) circuit. The controller is adapted to provide instructions to control the operation of one or more parameters of the brushless DC motor. The controller is also adapted to receive feedback from one or more motor sensors that reflect whether the motor is attaining the one or more parameters. The controller may also be adapted to have a learning mode, in which feedback provided during use of the power tool is stored by the controller as a program so that the same operating parameters may be subsequently replicated by using the program to operate the tool. The controller may also use the feedback to adjust the operation of the motor so that the motor maintains one or more selected or programmed operating parameters. |
| US10903761B2 |
Microgrid controller with one or more sources
A microgrid control system that can govern power provided to a load from various power sources. The microgrid control system can determine apportionment of power between the various sources based on characteristic power features of the various sources. |
| US10903760B2 |
Power conditioner
The power conditioner includes: a reactor; a capacitor; a first switching circuit that alternately switches, at a first frequency, between a first state where the DC current supplied from the DC power source is supplied to the reactor and supply of the DC current to the capacitor is shut off and a second state where an electric current is supplied to the capacitor from the reactor in which energy is accumulated by the supply of the DC current and the electric current from the DC power source to the reactor is shut off; and a second switching circuit that alternately switches, at a second frequency, between a first direction in which an electric current supplied from the capacitor flows toward a second output terminal through a first output terminal and a second direction in which the electric current flows toward the first output terminal through the second output terminal. |
| US10903751B2 |
Method and system of driving an electrically controlled switch with a snubber capacitor
Driving an electrically controlled switch with a snubber capacitor. At least some example embodiments involve operating a power converter, including: charging a snubber capacitor coupled to a secondary winding of a transformer arranged for flyback operation, the charging during a charge mode of a primary winding the transformer; charging a gate of a secondary field effect transistor (FET) with current from the snubber capacitor, the charging of the gate during a discharge mode of the primary winding, the discharge mode contiguous with the charge mode; providing current through a secondary rectifier and the secondary FET to a secondary output node of the power converter, the secondary rectifier coupled in series with the secondary FET; and making the secondary FET non-conductive. |
| US10903749B2 |
Flyback converter
The flyback converter generally has a capacitive divider operatively connectable to a voltage source for receiving an input voltage, the capacitive divider having a plurality of capacitive devices connected in series from one another; a transformer having a plurality of primary windings inductively coupled to at least one secondary winding, each one of the primary windings of the transformer being connected in parallel to a corresponding one of the capacitive devices of the capacitive divider via a switching device, each of the at least one secondary winding being connected to a forwardly biased and capacitive circuit connectable to an output load; and a controller connected to each one of the switching devices for operating the flyback converter to power the output load with the voltage source. |
| US10903748B2 |
Frequency modulation control for phase-shift full bridge converters
A phase shift full bridge (PSFB) converter includes: an isolation transformer; a full-bridge having a first pair of switch devices connected in series at a first node coupled to a first terminal of the primary side of the isolation transformer, and a second pair of switch devices connected in series at a second node coupled to a second terminal of the primary side of the isolation transformer; a rectifier coupled to the secondary side of the isolation transformer; and a controller for switching the first and second pairs of switch devices out of phase with each other. Under nominal input voltage conditions for the PSFB, the controller switches the first and second pairs of switch devices at a nominal switching frequency. Under reduced input voltage conditions for the PSFB, the controller switches the first and second pairs of switch devices at a frequency lower than the nominal switching frequency. |
| US10903746B2 |
Load dependent in-rush current control with fault detection across Iso-barrier
Methods and systems for providing electrical power using an isolated DC-DC converter include: using a power supply to provide multiple amplitudes of open loop current to a primary side of a transformer. The amplitudes are selected to increase stepwise, at predetermined times, to ramp a voltage across output terminals connected to a secondary side of said transformer so that after said power supply provides a maximum open loop current amplitude, said voltage reaches a threshold sufficient to enable a closed loop controller connected to said output terminals to send a feedback signal to said primary side. The threshold voltage is insufficient to fully power said output terminals. The feedback signal is selected to control said power supply to increase current to said primary side at closed loop current levels until said output terminals are fully powered. |
| US10903741B1 |
Regulated power converter with adiabatic charge pump
A power converter circuit included in a computer system may include an adiabatic charge pump which includes multiple capacitors different numbers of which are used to charge and discharge a switch node coupled to regulated power supply node via an inductor. A control circuit may control the dividing ratio of the charge pump circuit as well as determine respective durations of when the charge pump circuit is charging and discharging the switch node. |
| US10903739B2 |
Capacitor cross coupled 2-phase buck converter
A buck converter uses flying capacitors and cross coupling. The flying capacitors reduce the voltage stress across the inductors and the devices, and may provide high efficiency at very low duty cycle ratios. In addition to the high efficiency performance, the converters may provide a significant reduction in area, since smaller inductors can be used compared to typical buck converters. An example of realization shows up to 90% efficiency at 0.5V output and 10 A load from a 3.6V input with small flying capacitors, compared to what is typically used in a switched capacitor converter. |
| US10903738B2 |
High conversion-ratio hybrid switched power converter
A voltage converter circuit comprises a charge pump circuit, a pulse width modulation (PWM) filter stage circuit, and a control circuit. The charge pump circuit includes multiple switching transistors arranged as a switching bridge including a first bridge portion connected to a second bridge portion; a midpoint capacitor connected to a circuit node coupling the first bridge portion and the second bridge portion; and a first flying capacitor coupled to the first bridge portion and the second bridge portion. The PWM filter stage circuit is coupled to the charge pump circuit and a first input/output terminal and includes a first inductor coupled to the first flying capacitor and the second bridge portion of the switching bridge. The control circuit is configured to control activation of switching transistors of the switching bridge to generate a regulated voltage at the first input/output terminal. |
| US10903737B2 |
Power supply circuit for generating a predetermined voltage and a predetermined current
Provided is a power circuit in which a first input terminal is connected to a first end of a second inductor, a second end of the second inductor is connected to a first end of a first reactor, the second end of the second inductor is connected to a first end of a second reactor, the first input terminal is connected to a first end of a first inductor, a second end of the first inductor is connected to a first end of a bypass capacitor, a second end of the bypass capacitor is connected to a second output terminal, the first inductor and the second inductor are magnetically coupled to each other, and a control circuit performs switching control over first and second switching elements, using an interleaving method. |
| US10903736B2 |
Power converter
There is provided a power converter which can suppress a surge voltage and reduce noise flowing from an input of a power changer.The power converter includes an inverter circuit 140, a capacitor 514 for smoothing DC power, a capacitor 515 for removing noise, and conductors 564p and 564n. The conductors 564p and 564n are connected to the capacitors 514 and 515 when power side terminals 562p and 562n are connected to an inverter circuit 140, and power source side terminals 561p and 561n are connected to a battery 136. In the conductors 564p and 564n, a parasitic inductance L1 between capacitor terminals 563p and 563n and capacitor terminals 560p and 560n is larger than a parasitic inductance L2 between capacitor terminals 563p and 563n and the power side terminals 562p and 562n. |
| US10903732B2 |
Moveable core-type reciprocating motor and reciprocating compressor having a moveable core-type reciprocating motor
A movable core-type reciprocating motor and a reciprocating compressor having a movable core-type reciprocating motor are provided. The motor may include a stator including an inner stator and an outer stator; a magnet coil wound between the inner stator and the outer stator; a magnet fixed to at least one of the inner stator or the outer stator so as to be at least partially positioned within a range of the air gap; and a mover including a movable core disposed in the air gap and made of a magnetic material to perform a reciprocation movement with respect to the stator. |
| US10903730B2 |
Power tool
A power tool includes a motor, a first power source access circuit, a first drive circuit, a second power source access circuit and a second drive circuit. The motor includes a rotor, a stator, a plurality of first-type windings and a plurality of second-type windings. The rotor is configured to rotate about a central axis. The stator includes a ring-shaped yoke portion, and a plurality of teeth. The plurality of first-type windings are configured to be wound around part of the plurality of teeth and the plurality of second-type windings are configured to be wound around other part of the plurality of teeth. The first power source access circuit is configured to access a first power source with a first voltage. The first drive circuit includes a plurality of first-type electronic switches connected between the plurality of first-type windings and the first power source access circuit. The second power source access circuit is configured to access a second power source with a second voltage. The second drive circuit includes a plurality of second-type electronic switches connected between the plurality of second-type windings and the second power source access circuit. The plurality of first-type windings and the plurality of second-type windings are spaced in a circumferential direction of the central axis. |
| US10903723B2 |
Motor positional sensing
A motor includes a rotor housing, at least one magnet operably coupled to the rotor housing, a stator disposed within the rotor housing, and at least one sensor. The magnet corresponds to a rotor pole that provides a magnetic flux including a main flux and a leakage flux. The stator includes a plurality of stator poles. The main flux is configured to extend in a first direction towards at least one of the stator poles. The at least one sensor is configured to measure the leakage flux. The leakage flux is configured to extend in a second direction towards the at least one sensor. The first direction lies on a radial plane and the second direction lies out of the radial plane. |
| US10903721B2 |
Apparatus for charging electric mobility
An apparatus of charging an electric mobility may include a tire wheel having an external surface configured to be coupled to a tire and an internal surface in which an empty space is formed, a battery accommodated in the empty space of the internal surface of the tire wheel and mounted, like the tire wheel, on a rotation shaft fixed to the tire wheel to be rotationally driven, a stopper configured to selectively couple the battery to the rotation shaft, and a controller connected to the stopper and configured to control selective coupling of the rotation shaft to the battery by the stopper, wherein the stopper is controlled by the controller so that the battery is charged using an induced electromotive force generated between a coil wound on the battery and a permanent magnet which is mounted to face the battery. |
| US10903720B2 |
Starter/generator electrical joint
A starter generator located within a sump region of a turbofan engine and coupled to an adapter shaft. The adapter shaft rotationally coupled to the high pressure shaft, forward of a high pressure shaft bearing, and secured by a spanner nut. The engine makes use of two pluralities of electrical conductors, the first extends through an electrical conduit defined by a forward strut extending from the sump region to the outward casing, the second extends axially away from the electric starter. Each of the first plurality of electrical conductors makes reversible contact with a respective one of the second plurality of electrical conductors via an elbow/pin connector, producing a tight turn in area of limited space. |
| US10903717B2 |
Repaired rotor of a multi-phase electric motor and method of repair
A repaired rotor of a multi-phase electric motor includes a plurality of annular laminations stacked to form a cylindrical core about a central axis, each of the laminations having notches aligned to form axially extending slots about a periphery of the core; a plurality of electrical conductors extending through the slots; a pair of conductive end rings, each attached to a different end of the cylindrical core and electrically connected to the plurality of electrical conductors; and an outer end ring abutting and electrically connected to one of the pair of conductive end rings and electrically connected to adjacent ends of the plurality of electrical conductors, the outer end ring providing an uninterrupted electrically conductive path connecting the plurality of electrical conductors. |
| US10903713B2 |
Inner-rotor motor
An inner-rotor motor including: an armature assembly including a rotating shaft, an armature unit coupled to the rotating shaft and a pressing unit; a frame assembly including a frame housing the armature unit, a first bearing unit located on one side with respect to the armature unit in an axial direction, and a second bearing unit located on another side with respect to the armature unit in the axial direction; and an urging structure that urges the rotating shaft in a direction away from the second bearing unit and that presses the pressing unit toward the first bearing unit. |
| US10903707B2 |
Synchronous reluctance machine
A synchronous reluctance machine includes a stator and a rotor spaced apart from the stator by an air gap. The rotor is rotatably mounted about an axis and has laminations arranged axially behind one another. Each lamination has an anisotropic magnetic structure formed by flux blocking sections and flux conducting sections, wherein the flux blocking sections and the flux conducting sections form poles of the rotor. The flux blocking sections form axial channels, wherein in at least some flux blocking sections permanent magnets are provided that do not completely occupy the respective flux blocking section and thus allow axial airflow in all flux blocking sections. The laminated core of the rotor is axially subdivided into at least two component laminated cores, with radial cooling gaps formed between the poles in the region of the q axis as viewed in circumferential direction and between the component laminated cores as viewed axially. |
| US10903705B2 |
Motor
A motor includes a rotor to rotate about a motor axis, and a stator radially outside of the rotor. The rotor includes a shaft extending along the motor axis, and a rotor core surrounding the shaft from radially outside. The shaft includes a hollow portion including an inner circumferential surface extending along an axial direction, and a communicating hole extending in a radial direction to bring a space outside of the shaft and the hollow portion into communication with each other, the hollow portion being structured to allow oil to be fed thereinto. The inner circumferential surface of the hollow portion includes a recessed groove extending along a circumferential direction. The communicating hole opens into the hollow portion at the recessed groove. |
| US10903701B2 |
Motor cooling system utilizing axial cooling channels
A method of manufacturing an electric motor that includes a plurality of structural cooling features is provided, where the electric motor utilizes axial cooling channels integral to the stator teeth, thus allowing direct contact between the circulating coolant and the lamination stack. A coolant manifold assembly, incorporated into the stator between left and right stator portions, provides a means of distributing coolant to the axial cooling channels. |
| US10903699B2 |
Cross-coupled composite motor, cross-coupled composite power generator, and cross-coupled composite linear motor
Provided is a motor system adapted for modern society, which does not use a rare-earth magnet, improves a torque weight ratio by approximately one digit in comparison with the conventional motor, and has transfer efficiency of 90% between electric energy and rotational energy. A stator (1) has a dual-ring tooth-groove iron core, which has magnetic pole surface on both side surfaces and receives coils of basically two-phase structure divided to be multiplexed, with divided coils being interconnected. A rotor (2) is formed to be capable of rotating while holding eight sets of attraction poles having magnetic pole surfaces on both ends, with each set of attraction poles forming four air-gap-facing surfaces by positioning the dual-ring tooth-groove iron core between the attraction poles so that both side surfaces of the dual-ring tooth-groove iron core face the attraction poles via an air gap (6). Magnetic energy accompanying coil switching can be reduced to one part per dozens through the dual effect of reduction owing to coil division and dispersion owing to interconnection. The torque weight ratio can be improved approximately by one digit through synergistic effect of torque increase owing to integration of magnetomotive forces by interconnection, torque increase owing to composite structure of the attraction poles, and weight reduction of the iron core. |
| US10903697B2 |
Methods and systems for multi-phase coil control
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for multi-phase coil control in power transfer systems. One example power transfer device generally includes a plurality of coils configured to generate at least one charging field, the plurality of coils comprising a first coil and a second coil, and a controller configured to identify that a coupling factor between the first coil and a third coil, which is external to the power transfer device, is at or below a threshold, and to adjust, based on the identification, one or more parameters associated with a current applied to the first coil to transfer power from the first coil to the second coil. |
| US10903693B2 |
Multiple interleaved coil structures for wireless power transfer
In one embodiment, a multiple interleaved coil structure for wireless power transfer includes a plurality of incomplete coils, each of the plurality of incomplete coils configured such that an alternating current flowing in the incomplete coil produces a magnetic field, and at least one interconnect between the plurality of incomplete coils, the at least one interconnect including a plurality of conductors arranged in such a way that the alternating current flowing in the plurality of conductors does not produce a magnetic field. Each of the plurality of incomplete coils includes a plurality of non-contiguous segments arranged in such a way that the incomplete coil will emit magnetic flux in response to an applied alternating current. The multiple interleaved coil structure can be implemented in a wireless power transmitter or a wireless power receiver. |
| US10903690B2 |
Current sharing apparatus for wireless power transfer
An apparatus for current sharing for wireless power transfer is disclosed. The apparatus includes two or more power converter apparatuses. Each power converter apparatus is connected to a primary wireless power transfer pad. The apparatus includes one or more ferrite structures where each ferrite structure includes a conductor of at least one power converter apparatus of the two or more power converter apparatuses passing through the ferrite structure and each ferrite structure includes two or more conductors. The conductors passing through a ferrite structure of the one or more ferrite structures are arranged to maintain equal current sharing between the conductors passing through the ferrite structure. |
| US10903689B2 |
Power transmitting device, power receiving device, power supply system, and power supply method
Provided are a power transmitting device, a power receiving device, a power supply system, and a power supply method able to supply electric power by emitting electromagnetic waves. A power transmitting device comprises: a calculating unit for calculating the maximum value for the emitted output of electromagnetic waves meeting exposure standards on the basis of a response delay time measured by the communication link between the power transmitting device and a power receiving device; a power transmitting unit for transmitting power via a power supply link with the power receiving device at an output not exceeding the maximum value; an anomaly detecting unit for detecting an anomaly in the power supply link on the basis of communication with the power receiving device via the communication link; and an output control unit for controlling the output on the basis of the detection of an anomaly in the power supply link. |
| US10903687B2 |
Wireless power receiver with improved power transmission efficiency and power control method thereof
A method of supplying power in a wireless power receiver can include receiving an AC power via a reception coil in the wireless power receiver; rectifying the AC power to a DC power; transferring the DC power to a load during a charging mode when a voltage of the DC power is equal to or greater than a first threshold voltage corresponding to a target charging power for charging the load; and when the DC power being transferred to the load is less than the target charging power, maintaining the load in the charging mode while the voltage of the DC power is equal to or greater than a second threshold voltage in a state of the charging mode, in which the first threshold voltage is greater than the second threshold voltage. |
| US10903682B2 |
Power over ethernet emergency lighting system and method of detecting power loss of a link segment thereof
A system for providing power over Ethernet emergency lighting is disclosed. The system includes a rechargeable battery pack that is charged without interfering with data signals present on a power over Ethernet link that provides normal lighting. The system includes a power loss monitor for monitoring the presence of normal lighting power present on a power over Ethernet link without interference. |
| US10903681B2 |
Solar display device and power switching method
A solar display device and a power switching method are disclosed. The solar display device includes a plurality of solar pixel components, a plurality of micro display components and a power control circuit. The solar pixel components are configured to generate a first solar power and a second solar power. The power control circuit is configured to compare the first solar power and a reference signal. The power control circuit is further configured to drive the micro display components by using one of a system power and the second solar power according to a comparison result. |
| US10903675B2 |
Medical device draw current regulation
A variety of charging circuits and current control techniques are described that are well suited for use in portable medical devices to enable such devices to be powered by a mobile communication device such as a smart phone, tablet computer, etc. The described current regulating and charging circuitry and techniques are well suited for use in portable medical devices such as defibrillators, X-ray machines and other imaging machines, as well as a variety of other devices (both medical and non-medical). |
| US10903674B2 |
Power converter module
A power conversion system comprises a plurality of power converter modules, each including a bi-directional DC to DC converter and a current controller, wherein the bi-directional DC to DC converter is connected to the current controller, for charging or discharging a DC power source according to a distribution command received from the current controller, and a voltage controller, connecting to the plurality of power converter modules, for generating a current command to the current controller, wherein the voltage controller generates a current command to the current controller of the power converter module according to the detected capacity and voltage of the DC power source, whereby the current controller generates the distribution command to the bi-directional DC to DC converter with the received current command. |
| US10903671B2 |
Compressible contacts for interfacing charger
A rechargeable device is disclosed. The rechargeable device may include an enclosure, a rechargeable battery cell, a constellation assembly, and charging circuitry. The enclosure may include a receptacle defining a longitudinal opening into the enclosure. The constellation assembly may include a diaphragm, a puck, and a contact point affixed to the puck and configured to engage an electrode of a charging pad surface. The charging circuitry may be configured to charge the battery cell based on electrical power received from the charging pad surface via the contact point. The receptacle may further permit movement of the puck and the affixed contact point along the longitudinal opening. |
| US10903669B2 |
Control device and method for charging a rechargeable battery
A control device for controlling charging of a rechargeable battery, the control device being configured to: determine the voltage of the battery during charging of the battery, stop charging, when the determined voltage exceeds a predetermined upper voltage limit, determine the voltage of the battery after stopping charging, determine the voltage difference between the predetermined upper voltage limit and the determined voltage of the battery after stopping charging, and continue charging, when the determined voltage difference exceeds a predetermined threshold. A corresponding method controls charging of a rechargeable battery. |
| US10903663B2 |
Balancing circuit for an ultracapacitor module
Balancing circuits for an ultracapacitor module are provided. In some implementations, the balancing circuit can include a comparator. The comparator can have a sensing input. The comparator can be configured to compare an input voltage associated with the ultracapacitor received at the sensing input to a reference voltage and to provide an output via an output node of the comparator. The balancing circuit can include a switching circuit coupled to the ultracapacitor. The switching circuit can be controlled to discharge the ultracapacitor based at least in part on the output of the comparator circuit. The balancing circuit can further include a feedback element coupled between the switching circuit and the sensing input of the comparator. |
| US10903659B2 |
Control of energy production errors in a wind park
The invention relates to a method for correcting deviations of power produced by a power plant which includes at least one wind turbine generator and possibly other types of power generating units. The power deviations, i.e. deviations from a power reference for the power plant, are determined as energy errors. The invention addresses solutions for determining and compensating the energy errors. |
| US10903653B2 |
Voltage agnostic power reactor
Distributed series reactance modules and active impedance injection modules that are adapted to operating with electric power transmission lines over a wide range of transmission voltages are disclosed. Key elements include a virtual ground, an enclosure that acts as a Faraday shield, radio frequency or microwave control methods and the use of corona rings. |
| US10903652B2 |
Control architectures for power distribution networks with distributed energy resource
Architectures, apparatuses, methods, systems, and techniques for controlling electrical power distribution network are disclosed. Distributed, hierarchical controls including layered locational energy service control variables may be utilized to determine and control the provision of energy services, including real power, reactive power (VAR), and capacity reserves, by DERs in a distribution network. In a first ex-ante iteration a simulation may be performed to calculate a set of subnetwork-specific control variables based on subnetwork locational energy service prices and a plurality of sets of DER-specific control variables based on DER locational energy service prices. In a second ex-ante iteration a set of actual subnetwork-specific control variables based on subnetwork locational energy service prices and a plurality of sets of actual DER-specific control variables based on DER locational energy service prices. Provision of energy services by DERs in a distribution network occur in response to the determined control variables. |
| US10903650B2 |
Grid asset manager
An asset manager controls power distribution within an aggregated distributed energy resources system (“DERs system”) having a plurality of assets. The asset manager is configured to operate with a given asset. As such, the asset manager has 1) an interface to receive asset information relating to the given asset and to communicate with another asset manager in the DERs system, and 2) a function generator configured to produce a local cost function using data relating to the given asset only. The local cost function represents a portion of a system cost function for the DERs system. The asset manager also has 3) a controller configured to use the local cost function for the given asset to manage operation of the given asset in the DERs system. In addition, the controller also is configured to determine, using the local cost function, an operating point for the given asset. |
| US10903649B1 |
Static transfer switch with turn off circuit
A static transfer switch is provided for supplying power to a load alternately from two different power sources. Switching between the two power sources may occur within a fraction of one electrical cycle. In response to sensing degraded performance in the power source supplying the load, a gate signal is turned off to a first switch coupled between the power source and the load. A third switch coupled between an energy storage and the first switch is also closed to release a current to the input or output of the first switch The current forces a drop in current conducted through the first switch and causes the first switch to open and stop conducting current. A second switch coupled between the alternate power source and the load is then closed to supply power to the load from the alternate power source. |
| US10903647B2 |
Surge protection device
A surge protection device with stack spark gaps, whereby a stack spark gap is formed from multiple electrodes and insulating elements that are arranged between the electrodes, with an ignition switch for influencing the ignition behavior of the stack spark gaps, with a first electrically conductive clamping element and with a second electrically conductive clamping element, whereby the clamping elements are arranged on opposite sides of the stack spark gaps, with at least one connecting element by which the clamping elements are connected to one another, and with connection elements for electrical connection of the stack spark gaps. |
| US10903646B2 |
Electrostatic protection circuit
The present disclosure relates to electrostatic protection terminals. One example terminal includes a target interface, a protected circuit, a protection unit, a switch unit, and a switch control unit. The protected circuit is configured to suppress an electrostatic discharge (ESD) current or an electrical overstress (EOS) current. A first end of the protection unit is electrically connected to a first pin of the target interface. A second end of the protection unit is electrically connected to a second pin of the protected circuit. The first pin is any pin of the target interface. The second pin is a pin that is in the protected circuit and that needs to be electrically connected to the first pin. The switch unit is connected to the protection unit in parallel. The switch control unit is configured to control the switch unit to be open or closed. |
| US10903645B2 |
Electrical link comprising an electrical protection system
An electrical link including a protective sheath surrounding at least two conductors each covered by an insulating jacket and an electrical protection system includes: a conductive sheath on each of the insulating jackets, a circuit breaker for each conductor; a direct current generator generating a direct current to be successively applied to each conductive sheath; and a leakage current detection circuit for each conductive sheath; a sequencer successively supplying the direct current to each conductive sheath; the detection circuit measures a current in each conductive sheath and compares a voltage proportional to the current to a first and second ranges of values, the detection circuit activating the circuit breaker if: the voltage is outside of the first range of values while the current generator generates a non-zero current; or the voltage is outside of the second range of values. |
| US10903644B2 |
Control device
Provided is a control device that stops the power supply when the first FET is short-circuited. In the control device, a boost circuit increases the voltage of one end of a resistor on the boost circuit side to a predetermined voltage that is higher than the source voltage of the first FET. An AND circuit instructs the discharge circuit to decrease the voltage at the other end of the resistor when the voltage at the other end of the resistor is less than a threshold voltage if the AND circuit instructs the boost circuit to increase the voltage at the one end of the resistor on the boost circuit side. The threshold voltage exceeds the voltage at the one end of the resistor if the voltage at the one end of the resistor on the boost circuit is the predetermined voltage and if the first FET is short-circuited. |
| US10903641B2 |
Fast overvoltage protection circuit with digital control
A wired communication apparatus includes a receiver, a transmitter and a control circuit. The receiver includes a signal detection circuit. The transmitter includes a number of digital-to-analog converter (DAC) cells. The control circuit can receive an overvoltage signal from the receiver and can disable an output of the transmitter based on the overvoltage signal. The signal detection circuit is operable in a special mode to detect an overvoltage event at an input port of the receiver, and the control circuit can disable the output of the transmitter for a programmable time period. |
| US10903634B2 |
Electrical junction box
Provided is an electrical junction box 10 including: a box body 12; an electrical component block attachment portion 36 that is open to an upper side of the box body 12 and extends in an upper-lower direction of the box body 12; and a plurality of electrical component blocks 38a and 38b attached in multiple stages in the upper-lower direction to the electrical component block attachment portion 36. A partitioning portion 44 is arranged between a lower face 42 of the electrical component block 38a arranged on an upper side in the upper-lower direction and an upper face 81 of the electrical component block 38b arranged on the lower side thereof, with gaps 82a and 82b being interposed between the partitioning portion and the faces. An electric wire 50 extending from the lower face 42 of the upper electrical component block 38a is held on the partitioning portion 44. |
| US10903633B2 |
Interlocking cable cleat
An interlocking cable cleat secures cables to a ladder rack. The interlocking cable cleat is formed from a first cable cleat half and a second cable cleat half. Each cable cleat half includes an outer surface, an inner surface, and at least one mounting hole extending from the outer surface to the inner surface. Semi-circular keys extend from the inner surface of each cable cleat half around the mounting holes in the cable cleat halves defining slots in the remainder of each mounting hole. Each slot receives one of the semi-circular keys from an opposing inverted cable cleat half to interlock the first cable cleat half to the second cable cleat half. |
| US10903626B2 |
Spark plug for increasing combustion speed of gasoline engine
A spark plug for increasing a combustion speed of a gasoline engine may include electrodes of a spark plug, which ignite a mixture of fuel and air in a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, wherein the electrodes of a spark plug are positioned at a position where a flow velocity is high, and one end portion of a body of the spark plug and an end portion of a cylinder head on which the spark plug is disposed are positioned on a diagonal line to induce a tumble flow downward and allow a flame generated at the spark plug to expand toward a center portion of the combustion chamber where turbulent flow energy is high, such that both an initial combustion speed and a main combustion speed are high. |
| US10903623B2 |
Method and structure for manufacturable large area gallium and nitrogen containing substrate
The present disclosure provides a method and structure for producing large area gallium and nitrogen engineered substrate members configured for the epitaxial growth of layer structures suitable for the fabrication of high performance semiconductor devices. In a specific embodiment the engineered substrates are used to manufacture gallium and nitrogen containing devices based on an epitaxial transfer process wherein as-grown epitaxial layers are transferred from the engineered substrate to a carrier wafer for processing. In a preferred embodiment, the gallium and nitrogen containing devices are laser diode devices operating in the 390 nm to 425 nm range, the 425 nm to 485 nm range, the 485 nm to 550 nm range, or greater than 550 nm. |
| US10903608B1 |
Multi-directional motion monitoring of plugged electrical connector
Multi-directional monitoring of connector motion is provided to facilitate identifying potential wear of one or more connector electrodes. A sensor assembly is configured to sense in multiple directions motion of a plug connector relative to a connector receptacle when the plug connector is operatively plugged to the connector receptacle, and to generate sensor data based on sensed motion of the plug connector relative to the connector receptacle. A control system is provided to monitor, based on the sensor data, motion of the plug connector relative to the connector receptacle to facilitate identifying potential wear of one or more electrodes of the plug electrode(s) and the receptacle electrode(s) due to the motion. |
| US10903607B2 |
Electronic unit
An electronic unit is provided. The electronic unit includes a circuit board provided with an electronic component and a terminal, a terminal holder fixed to the circuit board and holding the terminal, a first casing assembled so as to abut on the terminal holder, and a second casing assembled to the first casing so as to sandwich the terminal holder between the first casing and the second casing, and configured to maintain a state where the terminal holder and the first casing abut on each other by being engaged with the first casing so as to restrict movement of the first casing away from the terminal holder and by elastically pressing the terminal holder against the first casing through a pressing piece extending from the second casing. |
| US10903605B2 |
Connector with a retainer operable by a tool
A housing (10) includes a terminal holding portion (12) and a fitting space (23) facing the front surface of the terminal holding portion (12). A retainer (33) is mounted in a front part of the terminal holding portion (12). The retainer (33) is movable between a partial locking position and a full locking position. A moving plate (44) facing the front surface of the retainer (33) is accommodated in the fitting space (23), and the moving plate (44) is formed with openings (48) penetrating in the front-rear direction. The retainer (33) is formed with operated portions (41) facing the openings (48) from behind, and a tool (51, 52, 54) inserted into the opening (48) can contact the operated portion (41). |
| US10903599B2 |
Cable sealing and arrangement with a housing
Cable sealing having a carrier formed as a hard component and having an opening, and a seal formed as a soft component and being arranged at least on the carrier. Protection against longitudinal water is achieved by the fact that the seal is formed from a silicone and is injection-moulded together with the carrier. |
| US10903592B2 |
Memory card and electronic apparatus including the same
A memory card includes a substrate, first row terminals and second row terminals. The substrate has a first pair of side edges extending in a first direction and a second pair of side edges extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The first row terminals are arranged adjacent to an insertion side edge of the substrate, the first row terminals including a first power terminal, the insertion side edge being one of the first pair of side edges. The second row terminals are arranged further from the insertion side edge than the first row terminals, the second row terminals including a second power terminal. At least one recessed terminal among the first and second row terminals includes a recess area in an exposed surface of the at least one terminal. |
| US10903588B2 |
Dual contact bent IDCC header pin and two-thickness IDCC header pin
Each IDCC header pin is comprised of an upper section, a pin barb section, and a lower section. Each IDCC header pin has at least a first pin barb on its pin barb section, to allow it to be anchored and retained into a housing. The upper section of each IDCC header pin also has a blade to contact a wire and displace the insulation thereof. The lower section of the pins has an associated compliant retention feature which allows the IDCC header pin to be retained into respective holes in a PCB. A dual contact bent IDCC header pin can include two upper sections which each have a blade and create a dual contact with a wire, and another embodiment can have a two-thickness upper section. |
| US10903582B2 |
Antenna array and communications device
An antenna array and a communications device are provided. The antenna array includes a feeding waveguide and a waveguide cover. A waveguide port is disposed on the feeding waveguide, and an array of radiation slots are arranged along the length of the waveguide cover. The slots are configured to transmit signals fed from the waveguide port, and are classified into a first subarray and a second subarray. At a center frequency of the antenna array, the difference between a beam angle of the first subarray and a required beam angle, and a difference between a beam angle of the second subarray and the required beam angle, is each less than a specified threshold. With a frequency change of the antenna array, the beam angle of the first subarray and the beam angle of the second subarray change in opposing directions. Therefore, when the first and second subarray beams are combined, the combined beam angle has reduced frequency dependence. |
| US10903580B2 |
Multi-band, dual-polarization reflector antenna
An antenna includes a reflector and a waveguide assembly. The waveguide assembly includes a feed assembly and a support member that extends from behind the reflector to orient the feed assembly for direct illumination of the reflector. The waveguide assembly includes a first waveguide coupled to a first portion of a common waveguide, a second waveguide coupled to a second portion of the common waveguide, and a septum layer that includes a septum polarizer coupled between the common waveguide and the first and second waveguides. |
| US10903579B2 |
Sheet-type metamaterial and sheet-type lens
A sheet-type metamaterial includes: a film-shaped dielectric substrate; a first and second wire array formed on the dielectric substrate's front surface and back surface respectively. The first wire array includes elongated metallic first cut wires of a length aligned in a y-axis direction with a gap g therebetween and in an x-axis direction with space s therebetween. The second wire array includes second cut wires having the same shape as first cut wires and aligned so as to overlap first cut wires and to be symmetric with the first cut wires. With a design frequency set at 0.51 THz, the dielectric substrate's thickness d is set at about 50 μm, space s is set at about 361 μm, gap g is set at about 106 μm, and the length of first and second cut wires is set at a length approximate to a value to generate resonance at a working frequency. |
| US10903578B2 |
Hybrid MIMO architecture using lens arrays
Various examples are provided related to hybrid multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) architectures. Beam steering can be provided using lens arrays. In one example, a hybrid antenna system includes a plurality of lens antenna subarrays (LAS), each of the LAS including a plurality of antenna elements configured to selectively receive a radio frequency (RF) transmission signal from RF processing circuitry, and a lens extending across the plurality of antenna elements. The RF transmission signal can be provided to a selected antenna of the plurality of antenna elements via a switching network and a common phase shifter for transmission. The lens can be configured to steer a RF transmission generated by the selected antenna in a defined direction. The selected antenna can be determined by the switching network configuration. |
| US10903576B2 |
Antenna assembly and electronic apparatus
An antenna assembly may include an excitation source configured to generate an excitation signal, an antenna radiator including a first end and an opposing second end, a reference ground disposed corresponding to the antenna radiator, adjacent to the first end and including a first surface adjacent to the first end and an opposing second surface adjacent to the second end, a support body arranged on the second surface of the reference ground and extending along a direction from the first end to the second end, and a conductive sheet arranged on the support body, adjacent and coupled to the second end and configured to transmit the excitation signal from the excitation source to the antenna radiator, the antenna radiator may be configured to generate an electromagnetic signal according to the excitation signal. |
| US10903566B2 |
Electronic device antennas for performing angle of arrival detection
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes antenna structures used to determine the position and orientation of the electronic device relative to external wireless equipment. The electronic device may include a housing having a planar conductive layer, a first slot antenna that includes a first bent slot element in the planar conductive layer, and a second slot antenna that includes a second bent slot element in the planar conductive layer. The first and second bent slot elements may be configured to receive radio-frequency signals at the same frequency. The first and second bent slot elements may have the same shape. The electronic device may include control circuitry configured to measure a phase difference between the radio-frequency signals received by the first and second slot antennas. The control circuitry may identify an angle of arrival of the received radio-frequency signals based on the measured phase difference. |
| US10903559B2 |
Liquid-crystal antenna device and manufacturing method of the same
A method for manufacturing a liquid-crystal antenna device is provided. The method includes step (a) providing a first mother substrate. The first mother substrate includes a first region and a second region. The first region has a plurality of first sides. An extension line of at least one of the first sides divides the second region into a first part and a second part. The method also includes the following steps: (b) forming a first electrode layer on the first region and the second region, and (c) cutting the first mother substrate along the first sides of the first region. |
| US10903554B2 |
Machine learning models for detecting the causes of conditions of a satellite communication system
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training and using machine learning models to detect problems in a satellite communication system. In some implementations, one or more feature vectors that respectively correspond to different times are obtained. The feature vector(s) are provided as input to one or more machine learning models trained to receive at least one feature vector that includes feature values representing properties of the satellite communication system and output an indication of potential causes of a condition of the satellite communication system based on the properties of the satellite communication system. A particular cause that is indicated as being a most likely cause of the condition of the satellite communication system is determined based on one or more machine learning model outputs received from each of the one or more machine learning models. |
| US10903553B2 |
Display device with integrated antenna
An antenna is provided for a personal computing device, for example a wearable device such as a smartwatch. The antenna includes one or more radiating elements configured to receive or transmit radio waves. For example, the one or more radiating elements may at least partially be formed by one or more components of a display of a device, where the one or more components of the display include one or more conductive elements. The one or more radiating elements may also at least partially be formed by a dedicated antenna layer positioned in the display of the device. |
| US10903552B2 |
Electronic device including antenna device having loop structure
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first face, a second face that faces a direction opposite to the first face, and a side wall that encloses a portion of a space between the first face and the second face, a first radiation conductor extended along a circumferential direction of the housing as a portion of the side wall, and a plurality of second radiation conductors electrically connected to the first radiation conductor, and arranged inside of the first radiation conductor in a direction where the first radiation conductor extends. The plurality of second radiation conductors may form a plurality of closed loops with the first radiation conductor. The electronic device as above may vary according to the embodiments of the disclosure. |
| US10903551B2 |
Antenna device
An antenna device includes a first ground plane, a second ground plane, a first antenna unit, a second antenna unit, and a metal plate. The second ground plane is connected to the first ground plane. The first antenna unit is disposed on the second ground plane. The second antenna unit is disposed on the second ground plane. The metal plate and is connected to the second ground plane and the location of the metal plate is arranged corresponding to the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit. Each of the first antenna unit and the second antenna unit is configured to cooperate with the first ground plane and the metal plate to generate a radiation pattern perpendicular to the first ground plane. |
| US10903547B2 |
Electronic package
An electronic package includes an antenna structure and an adjustment structure arranged on a carrier structure. The antenna structure includes an antenna body and a feed line that are disposed on different layers and a conductive pillar that interconnects the layers to electrically connect the antenna body and the feed line. The adjustment structure extends from the feed line to improve the bandwidth of the antenna body. |
| US10903531B2 |
Dynamically changing internal state of a battery
Techniques for dynamically changing internal state of a battery are described herein. Generally, different battery configurations are described that enable transitions between different battery power states, such as to accommodate different battery charge and/or discharge scenarios. |
| US10903528B2 |
Multi-element liquid metal battery
An electrochemical cell including: a negative electrode including calcium and an alkali metal; a positive electrode including one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, Zn, Ga, Ge, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Hg, Tl, Pb, Bi, Te, Bi, Pb, Sb, Zn, Sn and Mg; and an electrolyte including a salt of calcium and a salt of the alkali metal. The electrolyte is configured to allow the cations of the calcium and alkali metal to be transferred from the negative electrode to the positive electrode during discharging and to be transferred from the positive electrode to the negative electrode during charging. The electrolyte exists as a liquid phase and one or both of the negative electrode and the positive electrode exists as liquid or partially liquid phases at operating temperatures of the electrochemical cell. |
| US10903527B2 |
Rolled 3D alkali metal batteries and production process
Provided is a rolled alkali metal battery wherein the alkali metal is selected from Li, Na, K, or a combination thereof; the battery comprising an anode having an anode active material, a cathode containing a cathode active material, and a separator-electrolyte layer, comprising a first electrolyte alone or a first electrolyte-porous separator assembly, in ionic contact with the anode and the cathode, wherein the cathode contains a wound cathode roll of at least a discrete layer of the cathode active material and an optional binder, at least a discrete layer of a conductive material, and at least a layer of a second electrolyte, identical or different in composition than the first electrolyte, wherein the wound cathode roll has a cathode roll length, a cathode roll width, and a cathode roll thickness and the cathode roll width is substantially perpendicular to the separator-electrolyte layer. |
| US10903521B2 |
Modified ionic liquids containing triazine
The present disclosure is directed to a triazine-modified ionic liquid compound, the synthesis thereof and an electrochemical cell electrolyte containing the triazine-modified ionic liquid compound. |
| US10903519B2 |
Lithium secondary battery containing non-flammable electrolyte and manufacturing method
A rechargeable lithium cell comprising a cathode, an anode, a non-flammable electrolyte, wherein the electrolyte contains a lithium salt dissolved in a liquid solvent having a lithium salt concentration from 0.01 M to 10 M so that the electrolyte exhibits a vapor pressure less than 0.01 kPa when measured at 20° C., a vapor pressure less than 60% of the vapor pressure of the liquid solvent alone, a flash point at least 20 degrees Celsius higher than a flash point of the liquid solvent alone, a flash point higher than 200° C., or no flash point, wherein the liquid solvent contains a cooking oil selected from palm oil, palm olein, coconut oil, corn oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, rice bran oil, olive oil, sesame oil, safflower oil, avocado oil, flaxseed oil, grapeseed oil, walnut oil, almond oil, lard, or a combination thereof. |
| US10903516B2 |
Method of preparing cathode material for secondary battery
Provided herein is a method for preparing a ternary cathode material for lithium-ion battery by a static mixer, wherein the cathode material comprises a lithium multi-metal composite oxide represented by xLi2MnO3.(1-x) LiNiaMnbCocAl(1a-b-c)O2, where 0≤a<1, 0≤b<1, 0≤c<1, a+b+c≤1, and 0≤x<1. The cathode material disclosed herein exhibits a high initial specific capacity, possesses good safety characteristics and shows excellent capacity retention. |
| US10903513B2 |
Fuel cell device and vehicle with the same mounted thereon
A fuel cell device that can prevent exposure of a cell stack to the outside of a stack case, and a vehicle with the same mounted thereon. The fuel cell device includes a cell stack, end plates disposed at opposite ends of the cell stack in a stacking direction of fuel cells, and a stack case housing the cell stack and end plates. The stack case has a bottom surface portion, end plate facing portions facing the respective end plates, side surface portions extending in the stacking direction, and mount portions disposed near corner portions between the respective side surface portions and end plate facing portions and on outer walls of the respective side surface portions such that the mount portions are positioned in a pair across the bottom surface portion. The bottom surface portion has rib portions disposed thereon that each extends between a pair of the mount portions. |
| US10903507B2 |
Method for producing a flow plate for a fuel cell
The invention relates to a method for producing a flow plate (10, 28) for a fuel cell (12), comprising a plurality of gas guide webs (14) and at least one electrically conductive and porous layer unit (16) arranged on the gas guide webs (14). It is proposed that a geometry and/or a structure of the layer unit (16) is produced during a material application onto the gas guide webs (14). |
| US10903502B2 |
Electrochemical cell
An electrochemical cell includes a fuel electrode, an air electrode containing a perovskite type oxide as a main component, the perovskite type oxide being represented by a general formula ABO3 and containing La and Sr at the A site, and a solid electrolyte layer arranged between the fuel electrode and the air electrode. The air electrode includes a center portion and an outer peripheral portion, the center portion being located at a center of the air electrode in a plane direction perpendicular to a thickness direction of the air electrode, the outer peripheral portion surrounding the center portion in the plane direction. A first ratio of an La concentration to an Sr concentration detected at the outer peripheral portion through Auger electron spectroscopy is at least 1.1 times a second ratio of an La concentration to an Sr concentration detected at the center portion through Auger electron spectroscopy. |
| US10903501B2 |
Lead-acid battery construction
Batteries comprise a carbon fibre electrode construction of the invention and have improved DCA and/or CCA, and/or may maintain DCA with an increasing number of charge-discharge cycles, and thus may be particularly suitable for use in hybrid vehicles. |
| US10903500B2 |
Battery and cell stack
A battery includes a unit cell, which includes an electrode layer and a counter electrode layer facing the electrode layer, an electrode current collector in contact with the electrode layer, a counter electrode current collector in contact with the counter electrode layer, and a seal between the electrode current collector and the counter electrode current collector. The unit cell is disposed between the electrode current collector and the counter electrode current collector. At least one selected from the group consisting of the electrode current collector and the counter electrode current collector has at least one recess facing the seal. |
| US10903499B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell
In the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell disclosed herein, a negative electrode SEI film 29 including a LiBOB skeleton and a fluorosulfonic acid skeleton is formed, and a positive electrode SEI film 19 including a phosphoric acid skeleton is formed. Where the component amount of the LiBOB skeleton is denoted fey IB, the component amount of the fluorosulfonic acid skeleton is demoted by IS, and the component amount of the phosphoric acid skeleton is denoted by IP, a formula of 4≤IB/IS≤10 and a formula of 5 μmol/m2≤IP≤15 μmol/m2 are satisfied. Furthermore, the total amount of lithium phosphate relative to a BET specific surface area of the negative electrode active material, is 0.6 mol/m2 to 1.0 mol/m2, and the component amount IS of the fluorosulfonic acid skeleton is 0.6 μmol/m2 to 1.0 μmol/m2. |
| US10903488B2 |
Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode material, and negative electrode and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same
To provide a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode material that can be produced even without performing a heat treatment at a high temperature such as 2,000° C. or higher and can have the discharge capacity further increased.The non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery negative electrode material according to the invention has a core portion including carbonaceous negative electrode active material particles; and a shell portion including a polyimide and silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and/or tin-based negative electrode active material particles. There is a feature that the value of the ratio of the volume average particle size (D50) of the silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and/or tin-based negative electrode active material particles with respect to the volume average particle size (D50) of the carbonaceous negative electrode active material particles is 0.001 to 0.1, and the content of the silicon-based negative electrode active material particles and/or tin-based negative electrode active material particles with respect to 100% by mass of the content of the carbonaceous negative electrode active material particles is 2% to 20% by mass. |
| US10903487B2 |
Metal-metal battery
An electrochemical cell includes a metal containing anode M′ capturing and releasing cations, a metal containing cathode M″ and an electrolyte including an anion X− and a cation M′+. During the charge process, the electrolyte allows reversible reactions wherein the anion dissociates from the electrolyte and reacts with the metal cathode forming M″Xy. At the same time, cations M′+ from the electrolyte deposit on the anode side. The reverse process happens during the discharge process. |
| US10903483B2 |
High energy materials for a battery and methods for making and use
A composition for forming an electrode. The composition includes a hybrid active material compound doped with a dopant. The hybrid active material comprises the reaction product of a metal fluoride compound and a metal complex. A method of making the composition is included. |
| US10903482B2 |
Lithium containing nanofibers
Lithium-containing nanofibers, as well as processes for making the same, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments described herein, using high throughput (e.g., gas assisted and/or water based) electrospinning processes produce nanofibers of high energy capacity materials with continuous lithium-containing matrices or discrete crystal domains. |
| US10903479B2 |
Apparatus for manufacturing electrode or solid electrolyte for all-solid-state battery
Disclosed is an apparatus for manufacturing an electrode or a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. The apparatus for manufacturing an electrode or a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery includes a first roller member configured to press an electrode or a solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery, and a second roller member located to be spaced apart from the first roller member to press the electrode or the solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. The first roller member and the second roller member are disposed at opposite locations based on the electrode or the solid electrolyte for an all-solid-state battery. |
| US10903475B2 |
Energy storage apparatus
An energy storage apparatus includes: energy storage devices each including an external terminal, the energy storage devices being arranged in a first direction; a bus bar including a plate-like conductive portion; and a neighboring member disposed between the energy storage devices. The conductive portion includes: a fusible portion where a width size, which is a size in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, is defined by a pair of edges, the width size being smaller than a width size of other portions of the conductive portion; and a pair of enlarged width portions contiguously formed with both sides of the fusible portion in the first direction, a width size of the pair of enlarged width portions increasing in a direction away from the fusible portion. The fusible portion is disposed at a position where the fusible portion overlaps with the neighboring member, and a size of the neighboring member in the first direction is equal to or more than a size of the fusible portion in the first direction. |
| US10903474B2 |
Battery fastening system for unmanned aerial vehicle
The invention relates to an unmanned aerial vehicle with an energy accumulator (20), which is connected releasably to a structural component (29) of the aerial vehicle, and with an accumulator plug (32), via which electrical energy is conducted from the energy accumulator (20) to a rotor drive (18) of the aerial vehicle. In an operating position, a locking element (25) locks the energy accumulator (20) in relation to the structural component (29) and, in a maintenance position, releases the energy accumulator (20), wherein a full engagement of the accumulator plug (32) is blocked at the same time. The invention also relates to an energy accumulator for such an aerial vehicle, and to a method for attaching an energy accumulator to such an aerial vehicle. It can easily be checked by means of the invention whether the energy accumulator has been attached correctly. |
| US10903470B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes: a plurality of parallel modules arranged in an arrangement direction; and a bus bar through which different polarities of parallel modules of the plurality of parallel modules that are not adjacent to each other in the arrangement direction are connected in series to each other. In the battery pack, output terminals having different polarities are provided at adjacent positions. Therefore, the battery pack may be easily electrically connected to a set device. In addition, since the electrical paths of the output terminals are shortened, the battery pack may have improved electrical output power and spatial efficiency by a simple structure, and may be durable against vibrations and shocks. |
| US10903467B2 |
Separator for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including same
A separator for a rechargeable lithium battery includes a porous layer; an inorganic layer including inorganic particles and formed on at least one surface of the porous layer; and a resin layer formed on the inorganic layer, wherein the resin of the resin layer penetrates between the inorganic particles on the surface of the inorganic layer, and the inorganic layer is integrated with the resin layer. A rechargeable lithium battery including the same is also provided. |
| US10903465B2 |
Battery block
A battery block is provided with: a plurality of cylindrical batteries of each of which the two ends are formed as positive and negative electrodes; and a lead plate which is connected to the electrodes of the cylindrical batteries. The cylindrical batteries are provided with battery cans having bottom plates provided with bottom surface electrodes and exhaust valves. The exhaust valves which are provided in the bottom plates open as a result of thin-walled lines breaking at a threshold pressure. The exhaust valves are provided inside the loop-shaped thin-walled lines provided in the bottom plates, said thin-walled lines having unconnected portions. The unconnected portions form hinge parts. Furthermore, the bottom surface electrodes provided in the bottom plates connect the lead plate to the hinge parts. The lead plate has cut-out portions provided in positions facing areas including the thin-walled lines. |
| US10903463B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes a casing, a plurality of battery cells, and a first connector, for example. The casing includes a first outer wall and a protrusion that is provided on the first outer wall and protrudes outward from the first outer wall. The battery cells include an electrode terminal and are housed in the casing. The first connector is provided on the protrusion and is electrically connected to the electrode terminal. |
| US10903453B2 |
Light-emitting device and electronic device
A highly reliable light-emitting device is provided. Damage to an element due to externally applied physical power is suppressed. Alternatively, in a process of pressure-bonding of an FPC, damage to a resin and a wiring which are in contact with a flexible substrate due to heat is suppressed. A neutral plane at which stress-strain is not generated when a flexible light-emitting device including an organic EL element is deformed, is positioned in the vicinity of a transistor and the organic EL element. Alternatively, the hardness of the outermost surface of a light-emitting device is high. Alternatively, a substrate having a coefficient of thermal expansion of 10 ppm/K or lower is used as a substrate that overlaps with a terminal portion connected to an FPC. |
| US10903448B2 |
Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a pixel-defining layer disposed on a substrate, wherein the pixel-defining layer defines an emission region and a non-emission region, an organic light-emitting device disposed in the emission region, and a protruding portion disposed on a portion of the pixel-defining layer in the non-emission region. The display apparatus also includes a thin film encapsulating layer disposed on the substrate for sealing the organic light-emitting device and the protruding portion, the thin film encapsulating layer comprising at least one organic film and at least one inorganic film, wherein at least one organic film corresponds to a functional organic film, and a height of a first upper surface of the functional organic film disposed away from the protruding portion is lower than a height of a second upper surface of the functional organic film disposed near a top of the protruding portion. |
| US10903442B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode comprising self-crystallizing material and organic light-emitting display device including the same
Disclosed are an organic light-emitting diode and an organic light-emitting display device including the same. The organic light-emitting diode includes: a first electrode; a second electrode disposed opposite to the first electrode; a light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; a hole transport region disposed between the first electrode and the light-emitting layer; and an electron transport region disposed between the light-emitting layer and the second electrode; the hole transport region including at least two layers, and one of the at least two layers is in contact with the first electrode and is a self-crystallizing material-containing layer. |
| US10903439B2 |
Solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic devices
In one aspect, solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic devices are provided. A solid-state organic intermediate-band photovoltaic device, in some embodiments, comprises an organic electron donor and an organic electron acceptor, wherein the organic electron donor comprises a singlet energy level separated from a triplet energy level by an energy gap. The device also comprises a triplet sensitizer comprising singlet and triplet energy levels falling within the singlet-triplet energy gap of the electron donor. |
| US10903438B2 |
Visibly transparent, ultraviolet-absorbing photovoltaic devices
Materials, methods and system for transparent photovoltaic devices are disclosed, such as those are transparent to visible light but absorb near-infrared light and/or ultraviolet light. The photovoltaic devices make use of transparent electrodes and visibly transparent UV acceptor molecules and structurally related visibly transparent photoactive compounds, which may be useful as photoactive materials, optical materials, and/or buffer materials. |
| US10903437B2 |
Fabrication method for fused multi-layer amorphous selenium sensor
A sensor including a layer of amorphous selenium (a-Se) and at least one charge blocking layer is formed by depositing the charge blocking layer over a substrate prior to depositing the amorphous selenium, enabling the charge blocking layer to be formed at elevated temperatures. Such a process is not limited by the crystallization temperature of a-Se, resulting in the formation of an efficient charge blocking layer, which enables improved signal amplification of the resulting device. The sensor can be fabricated by forming first and second amorphous selenium layers over separate substrates, and then fusing the a-Se layers at a relatively low temperature. |
| US10903436B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a flexible display panel; a support member below the flexible display panel and having a rigid property; a first impact absorption member below the support member and having a modulus of 0.01 Mpa to 500 Mpa; and a housing having at least a portion below the first impact absorption member and configured to accommodate the flexible display panel, the support member, and the first impact absorption member. |
| US10903433B2 |
Organic compound, and photoelectric conversion element and imaging device using the organic compound
An organic compound represented by the following formula [1] has a high absorption coefficient in a long wavelength region and is thermally stable. In formula [1], Ar1 and Ar2 each represent a group independently selected from the group consisting of aryl group and heterocyclic groups, and A represents a cyclic structure. m represents an integer of 0 to 2. Q represents a structure represented by one of the following formulas [1-1] and [1-2], wherein n represents an integer of 0 to 2, and when n is 2, the two R4's may be the same as or different from each other, and the two R5's may be the same as or different from each other. |
| US10903430B2 |
Materials for electronic devices
The present invention relates to compounds, compositions and formulations comprising same and to opto-electronic devices comprising the compounds and compositions according to the invention. |
| US10903428B2 |
Organic electroluminescent element, compound and material for organic electroluminescent element capable of being used therefor, light emitting device, display device, and illumination device, each using the element
An organic electroluminescent element including a substrate, a pair of electrodes including an anode and a cathode, disposed on the substrate, and at least one layer of organic layers including a light emitting layer, disposed between the electrodes, in which at least one of the organic layers contains a compound represented by the following general formula: (R1 to R18 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and at least one of R1 to R8 and R10 to R17 represents -L-NR19R20 (R19 and R20 each independently represent any of an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group. R19 and R20 may be combined to each other to form a ring. L represents a single bond or a divalent linking group). X1 to X18 each independently represent a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, and when X1 to X18 represent nitrogen atoms, R1 to R18 for bonding do not present.) |
| US10903424B2 |
Resistive RAM cell structure for gradual set programming
A method is presented for enabling heat dissipation in resistive random access memory (RRAM) devices. The method includes forming a plurality of conductive lines within an interlayer dielectric (ILD) and forming a RRAM stack over a conductive line of the plurality of conductive lines, the RRAM stack including a bottom electrode, a conductive pillar, thermal conducting layers, and a top electrode. The thermal conducting layers are disposed on opposed ends of the conductive pillar. The thermal conducting layers directly contact the top electrode and the bottom electrode. The thermal conducting layers include aluminum oxide (Al2O3). |
| US10903420B2 |
Lithium-compound based solid state memristor device for neuromorphic computing
A method is presented for obtaining a controllable resistance change in a battery-like device. The method includes depositing a first lithium-compound based layer in direct contact with a bottom electrode, depositing an electrolyte layer in direct contact with the first lithium-compound based layer, depositing a second lithium-compound based layer in direct contact with the electrolyte layer, forming a top electrode in direct contact with the second lithium-compound based layer, and applying electrical pulses between the top and bottom electrodes to trigger lithium ion transport to modify lithium concentrations in the first and second lithium-compound based layers. |
| US10903418B2 |
Low resistance electrode for high aspect ratio confined PCM cell in BEOL
A phase change material (“PCM”) device is described. A non-limiting example of the PCM device includes a bottom electrode including a low resistivity material and a PCM material over the bottom electrode. The PCM device has a top electrode over the PCM material. |
| US10903416B2 |
Alloy thin films exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy
A method for forming a CoFeSiB—Pd alloy thin film exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy includes: simultaneously sputtering a CoFeSiB target and a Pd target inside a vacuum chamber to form a CoFeSiB—Pd alloy thin film on a substrate disposed inside the vacuum chamber; and annealing the substrate, on which the CoFeSiB—Pd alloy thin film is formed, to exhibit perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. |
| US10903415B2 |
Large structure monitoring with a substrate-free flexible sensor system
A method of additively-manufacturing a flexible sensor system having a lattice topology includes a number of electrical interconnects, each having one or more electrically-conductive layers alternately sandwiched between two or more dielectric layers, and two or more sensors defining a sensor array, each sensor located at an intersection of and electrically connected to the interconnects on the lattice topology and electrically-connected to the interconnects. Each of the electrically-conductive layers includes a cured material base and silver, copper, aluminum, gold, platinum, ruthenium, carbon, and/or alloys thereof, and each of the dielectric layers includes a cured material base. The additively-manufactured flexible sensor system is configured to be installed on the surface of an asset for the monitoring of that asset. |
| US10903413B2 |
Semiconductor process optimized for quantum structures
A novel and useful modified semiconductor fabrication technique for realizing reliable semiconductor quantum structures. Quantum structures require a minimization of the parasitic capacitance of the control gate and the quantum well. The modified semiconductor process eliminates the fabrication of the metal, contact, and optionally the raised diffusion layers from the quantum wells, thereby resulting in much lower well and gate capacitances and therefore larger Coulomb blockade voltages. This allows easier implementation of the electronic control circuits in that they can have larger intrinsic noise and relaxed analog resolution. Several processes are disclosed including implementations of semiconductor quantum structures with tunneling through an oxide layer as well as tunneling through a local well depleted region. These techniques can be used in both planar semiconductor processes and 3D, e.g., FinFET, semiconductor processes. A dedicated process masking step is used for realizing the raised diffusions. In addition, the edge of the raised diffusion layer may be placed either in the gate region or the active layer region. |
| US10903412B2 |
Qubit frequency tuning structures and fabrication methods for flip chip quantum computing devices
A quantum computing device includes a first chip having a first substrate and one or more qubits disposed on the first substrate. Each of the one or more qubits has an associated resonance frequency. The quantum computing device further includes a second chip having a second substrate and at least one conductive surface disposed on the second substrate opposite the one or more qubits. The at least one conductive surface has at least one dimension configured to adjust the resonance frequency associated with at least one of the one or more qubits to a determined frequency adjustment value. |
| US10903411B2 |
Semiconductor Josephson junction and a transmon qubit related thereto
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor based Josephson junctions and their applications within the field of quantum computing, in particular a tuneable Josephson junction device has been used to construct a gateable transmon qubit. One embodiment relates to a Josephson junction comprising an elongated hybrid nanostructure comprising superconductor and semiconductor materials and a weak link, wherein the weak link is formed by a semiconductor segment of the elongated hybrid nanostructure wherein the superconductor material has been removed to provide a semiconductor weak link. |
| US10903410B2 |
Thermoelectric module, and heat conversion apparatus comprising the same
The embodiments of the present invention relate to a thermoelectric element and a thermoelectric module used for cooling, and the thermoelectric module can be made thin by having a first substrate and a second substrate with different surface areas to raise the heat-dissipation effectiveness. |
| US10903407B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting element
A semiconductor light emitting element includes a semiconductor layered body including an n-side semiconductor layer and a p-side semiconductor layer disposed above the n-side semiconductor layer, an insulating film defining a plurality of first n-side openings on the n-side semiconductor layer in an inner region and a plurality of second n-side openings on an outer peripheral region of the n-side semiconductor layer, an n-electrode disposed extending over the insulating film and the outer peripheral region of the n-side semiconductor layer and including: a plurality of first n-contact portions, each electrically connected with the n-side semiconductor layer through a respective one of the first n-side openings, and a plurality of second n-contact portions, each electrically connected with the n-side semiconductor layer through a respective one of the second n-side openings, at at least four corners of the outer peripheral region of the n-side semiconductor layer. |
| US10903406B2 |
Housing comprising a semiconductor body and a method for producing a housing with a semiconductor body
A method for producing a component having a semiconductor body includes providing the semiconductor body including a radiation passage surface and a rear side facing away from the radiation passage surface, wherein the semiconductor body comprises on the rear side a connection location for the electrical contacting of the semiconductor body, providing a composite carrier including a carrier layer and a partly cured connecting layer, applying the semiconductor body on the composite carrier, such that the connection location penetrates into the partly cured connecting layer, curing the connecting layer to form a solid composite, applying a molded body material on the composite carrier after curing the connecting layer, wherein the molded body covers side surfaces of the semiconductor body, forming a cutout through the carrier layer and the connecting layer in order to expose the connection location, and filling the cutout with an electrically conductive material. |
| US10903404B2 |
Semiconductor device
An embodiment discloses a semiconductor device comprising: a semiconductor structure comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode disposed on the first conductive semiconductor layer; a 2-1 electrode disposed on the second conductive semiconductor layer; and a 2-2 electrode disposed on the second conductive semiconductor layer and spaced apart from the 2-1 electrode, wherein the thickness of a part of the second conductive semiconductor layer between the 2-1 electrode and the 2-2 electrode is smaller than the thickness of the second conductive semiconductor layer vertically overlapping with the 2-1 electrode and the 2-2 electrode; the 2-2 electrode is opposite to the 2-1 electrode and comprises a first region that is closest to the 2-1 electrode; the 2-1 electrode is opposite to the 2-2 electrode and comprises a second region that is closest to the 2-2 electrode; and the relationship between the width (W1) of the first region and the width (W2) of the second region is W1≥W2. |
| US10903403B2 |
LED array package
Various aspects of a light emitting apparatus includes a substrate. Various aspects of the light emitting apparatus include a light emitting die arranged on the substrate. The light emitting die includes one or more side walls. Various aspects of the light emitting apparatus include a reflective die attach material extending along the one or more side walls of the light emitting die. |
| US10903396B1 |
Layered material based quantum light emitting device
A quantum light emitting device includes a carrier substrate, an insulator, a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device, a first contact, and a second contact. The quantum light device includes a carrier substrate comprising silicon and configured with an electrically insulating top surface. The quantum light device also includes an insulator configured on the carrier substrate. The quantum light device includes a first semiconductor structure comprising a first semiconductor material configured on the insulator. Further, the quantum light device includes a second semiconductor structure comprising a second semiconductor material configured on the insulator, with an overlap region of the second semiconductor structure electrically coupling with the first semiconductor structure, a dimensional characteristic of the overlap region being configured to limit a photon emission from the overlap region to a single photon. |
| US10903391B2 |
Optoelectronic device with modulation doping
An improved heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is provided. The heterostructure includes an active region, an electron blocking layer, and a p-type contact layer. The p-type contact layer and electron blocking layer can be doped with a p-type dopant. The dopant concentration for the electron blocking layer can be at most ten percent the dopant concentration of the p-type contact layer. A method of designing such a heterostructure is also described. |
| US10903390B1 |
Automated assembly and mounting of solar cells on space panels
The present disclosure provides methods of fabricating a multijunction solar cell panel in which one or more of the steps are performed using an automated process. In some embodiments, the automated process uses machine vision. |
| US10903389B2 |
Hydride enhanced growth rates in hydride vapor phase epitaxy
Presented herein are reactors for growing or depositing semiconductor films or devices. The reactors disclosed may be used for the production of III-V materials grown by hydride vapor phase epitaxy (HVPE). |
| US10903388B2 |
Electronic device comprising electronic chips
A main carrier wafer includes a first integrated network of electronic connections between front and back faces. A first electronic chip is mounted to the front face of the main carrier wafer and connected to the network of electronic connections of the main carrier wafer. A secondary carrier wafer includes a platform that extends over the first chip and a base the protrudes backwards with respect to the platform to a back end face facing the main wafer. A second integrated network of electronic connections is provided within the secondary carrier wafer. A second electronic chip is mounted on top of the platform and connected to the second integrated network. The second integrated network is further connected to the main carrier wafer at the back end face. |
| US10903385B2 |
Image sensor and electronic device having the same for outputting a count value as a pixel value by counting pulses present in the output signals from photoelectric converters
An image sensor with a simple configuration that generates an image to which a filter has been applied is disclosed. An image sensor comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel including a photoelectric converter that detects incidence of single photons; and a counter that counts pulses present in an output signal from the photoelectric converter. The image sensor outputs a count value as a pixel value, wherein the count value is obtained by counting the pulses present in the output signals from a plurality of the photoelectric converters in a first period, or by counting the pulses present in the output signal from a single photoelectric converter in the first period and a second period. |
| US10903384B2 |
Multi-color photo-detector
A multi-color light detector includes a first photodiode. The light detector further includes a second photodiode stacked on the first photodiode and defining a via. The light detector further includes a first conductor extending through the via, contacting the first photodiode, and designed to transmit a first signal corresponding to a first light detected by the first photodiode. The light detector further includes a second conductor contacting the second photodiode and designed to transmit a second signal corresponding to a second light detected by the second photodiode. |
| US10903374B2 |
Schottky semiconductor device with junction termination extensions
A semiconductor device includes a first JTE region formed around an active portion, a second JTE region formed around the first JTE region, and a third JTE region formed around the second JTE region. The first, second, and third JTE regions are doped with an impurity of a second conductivity type different from a first conductivity type. A concentration ratio R21 “(concentration of impurity in second JTE region)/(concentration of impurity in first JTE region)” and a concentration ratio R32 “(concentration of impurity in third JTE region)/(concentration of impurity in second JTE region)” are 0.50 or greater and 0.65 or less. A width W1 of the first JTE region, a width W2 of the second JTE region, and a width W3 of the third JTE region are 130 μm or greater and 190 μm or less. |
| US10903373B2 |
Chip diode and method for manufacturing same
The present invention is directed to a chip diode with a Zener voltage Vz of 4.0 V to 5.5 V, including a semiconductor substrate having a resistivity of 3 mΩ·cm to 5 mΩ·cm and a diffusion layer formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate and defining a diode junction region with the semiconductor substrate therebetween, in which the diffusion layer has a depth of 0.01 μm to 0.2 μm from the surface of the semiconductor substrate. |
| US10903372B2 |
Metal-oxide-polysilicon tunable resistor for flexible circuit design and method of fabricating same
Metal-oxide-polysilicon tunable resistors and methods of fabricating metal-oxide-polysilicon tunable resistors are described. In an example, a tunable resistor includes a polysilicon resistor structure disposed above a substrate. A gate oxide layer is disposed on the polysilicon resistor structure. A metal gate layer is disposed on the gate oxide layer. |
| US10903365B2 |
Transistors with uniform source/drain epitaxy
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of semiconductor layers on a semiconductor substrate, and forming a plurality of gate structures spaced apart from each other on the semiconductor layers. The semiconductor layers are patterned into a plurality of patterned stacks spaced apart from each other, wherein the plurality of patterned stacks are under the plurality of gate structures. The method also includes forming a plurality of sacrificial spacers on lateral sides of the plurality of gate structures, and growing a plurality of source/drain regions. The source/drain regions are adjacent the patterned stacks and include a plurality of pillar portions formed on lateral sides of the sacrificial spacers. The sacrificial spacers and the plurality of pillar portions are removed. |
| US10903364B2 |
Semiconductor device with released source and drain
Embodiments are generally directed to a semiconductor device with released source and drain. An embodiment of a method includes etching a buffer layer of a semiconductor device to form a gate trench under a gate channel portion of a channel layer of the device; filling the gate trench with an oxide material to form an oxide isolation layer; etching one or more source/drain contact trenches in an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer for source and drain regions of the device; etching the oxide isolation layer within the one or more source/drain contact trenches to form one or more cavities under a source/drain channel in the source and drain regions, wherein the etching of each contact trench is to expose all sides of the source/drain channel; and depositing contact metal in the one or more contact trenches, including depositing the contact metal in the cavities under the source/drain channel. |
| US10903363B2 |
Ferroelectric semiconductor device
A ferroelectric semiconductor device of the present disclosure includes a substrate, a ferroelectric layer disposed on the substrate, an electric field control layer that is disposed on the ferroelectric layer and has a predetermined internal electric field formed without the application of an external electric power to alter the magnitude of a coercive electric field of the ferroelectric layer, and a gate electrode layer disposed on the electric field control layer. |
| US10903354B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: a cell region provided in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate composed of a crystal plane (100); a field insulating film embedded in the semiconductor substrate; and an annular p-type well region surrounding the cell region. The p-type well region includes a first region extending in a <010> direction, a second region extending in a <001> direction, and a third region connecting the first region and the second region and having an arc shape in plan view. The field insulating film has an opening provided in the p-type well region and extending along the p-type well region in plan view. The opening includes a first opening extending in the <010> direction in the first region and a second opening extending in the <001> direction in the second region, and the first opening and the second opening are divided from each other in the third region. |
| US10903350B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same
A semiconductor device includes a first composite III-V group compound semiconductor layer disposed on a composite substrate, and a second III-V group compound semiconductor layer disposed on the first composite III-V group compound semiconductor layer. The semiconductor device also includes a gate structure disposed on the second III-V group compound semiconductor layer, and a source electrode and a drain electrode disposed on the second III-V group compound semiconductor layer and at opposite sides of the gate structure. The semiconductor device further includes a field plate disposed between the gate structure and the drain electrode, and a conductive structure penetrating through the second III-V group compound semiconductor layer and the first composite III-V group compound semiconductor layer, wherein the field plate is electrically connected to the composite substrate through the conductive structure. |
| US10903344B2 |
Semiconductor device with separation regions
According to an embodiment of a semiconductor device, the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor mesa having source zones arranged along a longitudinal axis of the semiconductor mesa and at least one body zone forming first pn junctions with the source zones and a second pn junction with a drift zone. The semiconductor device further includes stripe-shaped electrode structures on opposite sides of the semiconductor mesa and separation regions between neighboring ones of the source zones. At least one of the electrode structures includes a gate electrode. In the separation regions, at least one of (i) a capacitive coupling between the gate electrode and the semiconductor mesa and (ii) a conductivity of majority charge carriers of the drift zone is lower than outside of the separation regions. |
| US10903343B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes an HBT; emitter wiring which is connected to an emitter electrode of the HBT and covers the HBT; a passivation film having an opening on the HBT in plan view; a UBM layer which is connected to the emitter wiring through the opening and made of a refractory metal with a thickness of 300 nm or more; and a pillar bump which is arranged on the UBM layer and includes a metal post and a solder layer. The UBM layer serves as a stress relaxation layer, thereby relaxing stress on the HBT due to a difference in thermal expansion coefficient between a GaAs-based material of each layer constituting the HBT and the pillar bump. |
| US10903341B2 |
Methods for manufacturing a MOSFET
A method for manufacturing a MOSFET semiconductor device includes providing a wafer including a semiconductor body having a first side, a first semiconductor region adjacent to the first side, a second semiconductor region adjacent to the first side and forming a first pn-junction with the first semiconductor region, and a third semiconductor region adjacent to the first side and forming a second pn-junction with the second semiconductor region, a first dielectric layer arranged on the first side, a gate electrode embedded in the first dielectric layer, and a second dielectric layer arranged on the first dielectric layer. Next to the gate electrode, a trench is formed through the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. At a side wall of the trench, a dielectric spacer is formed. The trench is extended into the semiconductor body to form a contact trench. |
| US10903338B2 |
Vertical FET with shaped spacer to reduce parasitic capacitance
A vertical transistor includes a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region vertically disposed relative to the first source/drain region and coupled to the first source/drain region by a fin. A gate dielectric is formed on the fin, and a gate conductor is formed on the gate dielectric in a region of the fin. A shaped spacer is configured to cover a lower portion and sides of the second source/drain region to reduce parasitic capacitance between the gate conductor and the second source/drain region. |
| US10903333B2 |
Doped gate dielectric materials
A field effect transistor having at least a gate, source, and drain electrodes and a semiconductor channel for controlling transport of charge carriers between the source and drain electrodes, the gate being insulated from the channel by an dielectric, at least a portion of the dielectric disposed between the gate electrode and the semiconductor channel being doped or imbued with the an element which if doped or imbued into a semiconductor material would cause the semiconductor to be p-type. The p-type element used to dope or imbue the gate dielectric is preferably Mg. |
| US10903329B2 |
Contact photolithography-based nanopatterning using photoresist features having re-entrant profiles
Patterning methods for forming patterned device substrates are provided. Also provided are devices made using the methods. The methods utilize photoresist features have re-entrant profiles to form a secondary metal hard mask that can be used to pattern an underlying device substrate. |
| US10903321B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using an alignment layer
First trenches extend from a process surface into a semiconductor layer. An alignment layer with mask pits in a with respect to the process surface vertical projection of the first trenches is formed on the process surface. Sidewalls of the mask pits have a smaller tilt angle with respect to the process surface than sidewalls of the first trenches. The mask pits are filled with an auxiliary material. A gate trench for a gate structure is formed in a mesa section of the semiconductor layer between the first trenches, wherein the auxiliary material is used as an etch mask. |
| US10903320B2 |
Transistor with source field plates and non-overlapping gate runner layers
A transistor device includes a field plate that extends from a source runner layer and/or a source contact layer. The field plate can be coplanar with and/or below a gate runner layer. The gate runner layer is routed away from a region directly above the gate metal layer by a gate bridge, such that the field plate can extend directly above the gate metal layer without being interfered by the gate runner layer. Coplanar with the source runner layer or the source contact layer, the field plate is positioned close to the channel region, which helps reduce its parasitic capacitance. By vertically overlapping the metal gate layer and the field plate, the disclosed HEMT device may achieve significant size efficiency without additional routings. |
| US10903318B2 |
External resistance reduction with embedded bottom source/drain for vertical transport FET
A method is presented for reducing external resistance of a vertical field-effect-transistor (FET). The method includes forming a plurality of fins over a sacrificial layer disposed over a substrate, selectively removing the sacrificial layer to form an etch stop layer in direct contact with the substrate, disposing embedded bottom source/drain regions between a bottom portion of the plurality of fins and the etch stop layer, disposing encapsulation layers over the plurality of fins, recessing at least one of the encapsulation layers to expose top portions of the plurality of fins, forming top spacers adjacent the top portions of the plurality of fins, and forming top source/drain regions over the top portions of the plurality of fins. |
| US10903315B2 |
Formation of dielectric layer as etch-stop for source and drain epitaxy disconnection
A technique relates to a semiconductor device. A bottom sacrificial layer is formed on a substrate. A stack is formed over the bottom sacrificial layer and a dummy gate is formed over the stack. The bottom sacrificial layer is removed from under the stack so as to leave an opening. An isolation layer is formed in the opening, the isolation layer being positioned between the stack and the substrate. |
| US10903314B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer, a plurality of isolation structures, a transistor, a first contact, a plurality of silicide layers, and a protective layer. The semiconductor layer is disposed on a front side of the insulating layer. The plurality of isolation structures are disposed in the semiconductor layer. The transistor is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The first contact is disposed beside the transistor and passes through one of the plurality of isolation structures and the insulating layer therebelow. The plurality of silicide layers are respectively disposed on a bottom surface of the first contact and disposed on a source, a drain, and a gate of the transistor. The protective layer is disposed between the first contact and the insulating layer. |
| US10903306B2 |
Integrated trench capacitor
Embodiments of a deep trench capacitor are disclosed. In one example a plurality of deep trenches is located in a first region of a semiconductor wafer, the first region having a first conductivity type. A corresponding dielectric layer is located on a surface of each of the plurality of deep trenches, and a corresponding doped polysilicon filler is located within each of the dielectric layers. Dielectric-filled trenches are located between each of the dielectric layers and the surface of the semiconductor wafer. |
| US10903300B2 |
Display panel
A display panel including a first pixel row comprising a plurality of first pixels arranged in a first direction; a second pixel row comprising a plurality of second pixels, each of the plurality of second pixels overlaps each of the plurality of first pixels in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a third pixel, the third pixel does not overlap the plurality of first pixels in the second direction, wherein the plurality of second pixels and the third pixel being arranged in the first direction; and a first vertical line comprising a first sub-line, the first sub-line is extended in the second direction and is connected to the third pixel, and a second sub-line, the second sub-line is extended from an end portion of the first sub-line in a direction away from the plurality of first pixels at a first angle relative to the second direction. |
| US10903296B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device that with low power consumption. The display device includes a first thin film transistor having a polycrystalline semiconductor layer in an active area and a second thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer in the active area, wherein at least one opening disposed in a bending area has the same depth as one of a plurality of contact holes disposed in the active area, whereby the opening and the contact holes are formed through the same process, and the process is therefore simplified, and wherein a high-potential supply line and a low-potential supply line are disposed so as to be spaced apart from each other in the horizontal direction, whereas a reference line and the low-potential supply line are disposed so as to overlap each other, thereby preventing signal lines from being shorted. |
| US10903294B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display part including a plurality of pixels arranged on a substrate, a plurality of dams in a first peripheral part adjacent to the display part, the plurality of dams being extended in a longitudinal direction of the first peripheral part and arranged in a direction crossing the longitudinal direction, the plurality of dams including a stack of a first organic insulating layer and a second organic insulating layer, and a blocking part disposed between the plurality of dams and corresponding to a removed portion of the first and second organic insulating layers. |
| US10903292B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus including: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area at an outer side of the display area; a pixel electrode disposed in the display area of the substrate; a pixel-defining layer disposed on the pixel electrode and exposing at least a portion of the pixel electrode; an intermediate layer disposed on the pixel electrode; an opposite electrode disposed on the intermediate layer; a first conductive layer disposed in the peripheral area of the substrate and including at least one opening; a first block structure and a second block structure disposed on the first conductive layer and separated from each other with the at least one opening therebetween; and an encapsulation structure disposed on the opposite electrode in the display area and the peripheral area. |
| US10903290B2 |
Display device and display apparatus containing same
The present disclosure provides a display device. The display device including a substrate, a planarization layer formed on the substrate, a transparent electrode formed on the planarization layer, and a pixel defining layer formed on the transparent electrode. The pixel defining layer is configured to define a display area for each pixel and having an opening corresponding to the display area. The display device further includes a light emitting layer formed on the pixel defining layer, a metal electrode formed on the light emitting layer, and a hydrogen-atom blocking material layer formed on the metal electrode. |
| US10903289B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A display device according to an embodiment includes a substrate having a display area, and a peripheral area outside the display area including a first peripheral area adjacent to the display area, a first bending area extending from the first peripheral area, and a second peripheral area extending from the first bending area, and overlapping the first peripheral area, a display member at the display area, and including a first display area, and a second display area around the first display area, and a plurality of align keys on the substrate, wherein the first peripheral area includes a flat peripheral area corresponding to an area between the first display area and the first bending area, and a second bending area between the second display area and an end of the substrate, and wherein the plurality of align keys include a first align key at the flat peripheral area, and a second align key at the second peripheral area. |
| US10903287B2 |
Foldable, flexible display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A foldable, flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel which displays an image and includes a display side on which the image is displayed and of which portions thereof face each other in a folded state of the flexible display apparatus; a cover window on the display side of the flexible display panel and including: a window film comprising a transparent plastic film having a modulus of elasticity of about 6.3 gigapascals or more; and a coating layer on the window film, and configured to be transparent and to protect the window film from physical damage thereto; and an adhesive layer between the window film and the display side of the flexible display panel, and configured to have elasticity and bond the window film and the flexible display panel to each other. |
| US10903283B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A display device includes a substrate with a display region and a non-display region. First to third pixels are in the display region and have emission regions to emit light from corresponding light emitting elements. Pixel circuit areas in the first to third pixels drive the light emitting elements. A dummy pattern is in a non-emission region, except the emission region. The dummy pattern extends along the extending direction of one pixel among the first to third pixels. A thin film encapsulation layer covers the dummy pattern and the light emitting element. |
| US10903273B2 |
Phase change memory with gradual conductance change
A phase change memory cell is provided that includes a phase change material-containing structure sandwiched between first and second electrodes. The phase change material-containing structure has an electrical conductance that changes gradually and thus may be used in analog or neuromorphic computing. The phase change material-containing structure includes two phase change material pillars that are composed of different phase change materials that exhibit an opposite change of electrical resistance (or inversely electrical conductance) during a SET operation and a RESET operation. |
| US10903270B2 |
Access device and phase change memory combination structure in backend of line (BEOL)
A combined semiconductor device is fabricated by forming a first access structure from a mixed ionic electronic conduction (MIEC) material. A first side of a first memory structure is electrically coupled with a first side of the first access structure to form the combination device. A subtractive etching process is applied to the combination device such that a surface of the combination device that is substantially orthogonal to a plane of a substrate of the semiconductor device is within a defined tapering tolerance. |
| US10903267B2 |
System and method for making micro LED display
By using chip-by-chip, mainly separation technology, micro LED can be made very accurately and efficiently. First, after epitaxial process, the LED epi-wafer is processed into micro LEDs. Second, bonding substrates with driving circuits are provided for the LED epi-wafer. Then, each LED chip is fastened to the substrate chip-by-chip simultaneously or sequentially, and each LED chip may be transferred by using separation technology simultaneously or sequentially. The LED epi-wafer per se can be also provided as LED display substrate. |
| US10903265B2 |
Pixelated-LED chips and chip array devices, and fabrication methods
Pixelated-LED chips and related methods are disclosed. A pixelated-LED chip includes an active layer with independently electrically accessible active layer portions arranged on or over a light-transmissive substrate. The active layer portions are configured to illuminate different light-transmissive substrate portions to form pixels. Various enhancements may beneficially provide increased contrast (i.e., reduced cross-talk between pixels) and/or promote inter-pixel illumination homogeneity, without unduly restricting light utilization efficiency. In some aspects, an underfill material with improved surface coverage is provided between adjacent pixels of a pixelated-LED chip. The underfill material may be arranged to cover all lateral surfaces between the adjacent pixels. In some aspects, discontinuous substrate portions are formed before application of underfill materials. In some aspects, a wetting layer is provided to improve wicking or flow of underfill materials during various fabrication steps. Other technical benefits may additionally or alternatively be achieved. |
| US10903264B2 |
Imaging system and imaging method
An imaging system includes an imaging optical system, an imaging device, an actuator, and control circuitry. The actuator changes a relative position of a plurality of pixel cells and an image of a subject. The pixel cells have variable sensitivity, and include a photoelectric converter and a charge accumulation region. The control circuitry sets the relative position to a first position, and also sets the sensitivity of each pixel cell to a first sensitivity. A first signal charge obtained at the photoelectric converter is accumulated in the charge accumulation region. The relative position is set to a second position different from the first position, and also the sensitivity of each pixel cell is set to a second sensitivity different from the first sensitivity. A second signal charge obtained at the photoelectric converter is accumulated in the charge accumulation region in addition to the first signal charge. |
| US10903260B2 |
Multi-photodiode pixel cell
In one example, an apparatus comprises: a semiconductor substrate including a front side surface, a first photodiode to generate a first charge, a second photodiode to generate a second charge, a barrier layer between the first photodiode and the second photodiode and configured to control flow of the second charge from the second photodiode to the first photodiode, and a drain region to store the first charge and at least a first part of the second charge. The apparatus further comprises a gate on the front side surface over a first channel region between the first photodiode and the drain region to control the flow of the first charge and the at least the first part of the second charge to the drain region, and a second channel region to conduct at least a second part of the second charge away from the barrier layer when the second photodiode saturates. |
| US10903259B2 |
Image sensor
A multispectral image sensor includes a semiconductor layer and a number of pixels formed inside and on top of the semiconductor layer. Each pixel includes an active photosensitive area formed in a portion of the semiconductor layer laterally delimited by peripheral insulating walls. The pixels include a first pixel of a first type and a second pixel of a second type. The portion of semiconductor layer of the first pixel has a first lateral dimension selected to define a lateral cavity resonating at a first wavelength and the portion of semiconductor layer of the second pixel has a second lateral dimension different from the first lateral dimension. The second lateral dimension is selected to define a lateral cavity resonating at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. |
| US10903258B2 |
Image sensors with grounded or otherwise biased channel-stop contacts
A back-illuminated image sensor includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a channel stop situated between the first pixel and the second pixel to isolate the first pixel from the second pixel. The channel stop includes a LOCOS structure and a region of doped silicon beneath the LOCOS structure. The back-illuminated image sensor also includes a first electrically conductive contact that extends through the LOCOS structure and forms an ohmic contact with the region of doped silicon. The first electrically conductive contact may be grounded, negatively biased, or positively biased, depending on the application. |
| US10903253B2 |
Imaging device, imaging system, and moving object
An imaging device is provided in which, at a position where a line passes a pixel in a first row along a second direction intersecting with a first direction, a first signal line and a second signal line are arranged at overlapping positions, in which, at a position where a line passes a pixel in a second row along the second direction, the first and the second signal lines are arranged at non-overlapping positions, and, in which, at a position where a line passes a pixel in a third row along the second direction, the first and the second signal lines are arranged at overlapping positions. |
| US10903252B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device including perovskite compound, method of manufacturing the same, and imaging device including the same
A photoelectric conversion device including a perovskite compound, a method of manufacturing the same and an imaging device including the same. |
| US10903251B2 |
Display device, semiconductor device, and method of manufacturing display device
A display device according to the present disclosure includes: a transistor section (100) that includes a gate insulating film (130), a semiconductor layer (140), and a gate electrode layer (120), the semiconductor layer being laminated on the gate insulating film, the gate electrode film being laminated on an opposite side to the semiconductor layer of the gate insulating film; a first capacitor section (200) that includes a first metal film (210) and a second metal film (220), the first metal film being disposed at a same level as wiring layers (161, 162) that are electrically connected to the semiconductor layer and is disposed over the transistor section, the second metal film being disposed over the first metal film with a first interlayer insulating film (152) in between; and a display element that is configured to be controlled by the transistor section. |
| US10903248B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate and organic light-emitting display apparatus including the same
A thin film transistor array substrate includes a substrate, at least one thin film transistor, a capacitor, an interlayer insulating layer, and a node connection line. The at least one thin film transistor is on the substrate. The capacitor is on the substrate and includes: a bottom electrode on the substrate; a top electrode overlapping the bottom electrode, the top electrode including an opening having a single closed curve shape; and a dielectric layer between the bottom electrode and the top electrode. The interlayer insulating layer covers the capacitor. The node connection line is on the interlayer insulating layer and electrically connects the capacitor to the at least one thin film transistor. An overlapping area of the bottom electrode and the top electrode is divided by the opening into two separate areas. |
| US10903246B2 |
Thin film transistor substrate and display using the same
Provided are a thin film transistor substrate and a display using the same. A display includes: a first area, a second area, a first thin film transistor disposed at the first area, the first thin film transistor including: a polycrystalline semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode on the polycrystalline semiconductor layer, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode, a second thin film transistor disposed at the second area, the second thin film transistor including: a second gate electrode, an oxide semiconductor layer on the second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode, a nitride layer on an area of the display device, other than the second area, the nitride layer covering the first gate electrode, and an oxide layer disposed over the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode. |
| US10903241B2 |
System of forming debonding layer, method of forming debonding layer, system of manufacturing display device using debonding layer and method of manufacturing display device debonding layer
A system of forming a debonding layer includes a debonding layer forming device configured to form a coating layer by coating a graphene oxide layer on a support substrate. The debonding layer forming device is configured to form a debonding layer by heat-treating the coating layer. An optical measuring device is configured to classify the support substrate into a plurality of cell areas. The optical measuring device is configured to measure a thickness of at least one of the coating layer in at least one cell area of the plurality of cell areas. |
| US10903238B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stacked body provided on the substrate, a first insulator dividing the stacked body in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second insulator adjacent to the first insulator and dividing the stacked body in the second direction, a first hole, and a first insulating member. In the stacked body, a plurality of layers are stacked in a first direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate. The first hole penetrates the stacked body and the first insulator in the first direction. The first insulating member penetrates the stacked body and the second insulator in the first direction and is adjacent to the first hole via a first electrode in a third direction crossing the first direction and the second direction, and has an opening diameter larger than that of the first insulator. |
| US10903237B1 |
Three-dimensional memory device including stepped connection plates and methods of forming the same
Memory stack structures and dielectric wall structures are formed through a vertically alternating sequence of continuous insulating layers and continuous sacrificial material layers. Backside trenches are formed to divide the vertically alternating sequence into multiple alternating stacks. First portions of the continuous sacrificial material layers are replaced with electrically conductive layers. A connection region including a pair of dielectric wall structures is provided between a first memory array region and a second memory array region of a first alternating stack. Second portions of the continuous sacrificial material layers remain between the pair of dielectric wall structures as a vertical stack of dielectric plates. An upper subset of the first electrically conductive layers is patterned and is divided into multiple discrete portions. The multiple discrete portions are electrically connected by a respective set of connection metal interconnect structures. A metal via structure may be formed through the dielectric plates. |
| US10903236B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device includes a substrate that includes a cell array region and a connection region, a dummy trench formed on the connection region, an electrode structure on the substrate and that includes vertically stacked electrodes that have a staircase structure on the connection region, a dummy insulating structure disposed in the dummy trench, the dummy insulating structure including an etch stop pattern spaced apart from the substrate and the electrode structure, a cell channel structure disposed on the cell array region and that penetrates the electrode structure and makes contact with the substrate, and a dummy channel structure disposed on the connection region and that penetrates the electrode structure and a portion of the dummy insulating structure and that makes contact with the etch stop pattern. |
| US10903235B2 |
Non-volatile memory device and operation method thereof
Provided is a non-volatile memory device including a control logic, a semiconductor layer, a resistance switching layer, a gate oxide layer, and a gate stack including a plurality of gates and a plurality of insulating layers, wherein the plurality of gates and the plurality of insulating layers are stacked alternately with each other. The resistance switching layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and the gate stack. The gate oxide layer is provided between the resistance switching layer and the gate stack. A cell string including a plurality of memory cells is formed by the gate stack, the resistance switching layer, and the gate oxide layer. |
| US10903232B2 |
Three-dimensional memory devices containing memory stack structures with laterally separated charge storage elements and method of making thereof
Laterally alternating sequences of memory opening fill structures and isolation dielectric pillars are formed between alternating stacks of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers. Each of the memory opening fill structures includes, from inside to outside, a vertical semiconductor channel, a tunneling dielectric layer, and an aluminum oxide liner. Backside recesses are formed by removing the sacrificial material layers selective to the insulating layers. Discrete silicon nitride portions are formed on physically exposed surfaces of the aluminum oxide liners employing a selective silicon nitride deposition process, and are employed as charge storage elements. Electrically conductive layers are formed in remaining volumes of the backside recesses. The silicon nitride portions are formed as a pair of discrete silicon nitride portions at each level of the electrically conductive layers within each memory opening fill structure. |
| US10903229B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device with central connection through region
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device including a gate-stack structure on a base substrate, the gate-stack structure including gate electrodes stacked in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the base substrate and spaced apart from each other; a through region penetrating through the gate-stack structure and surrounded by the gate-stack structure; and first vertical channel structures and second vertical channel structures on both sides of the through region and penetrating through the gate-stack structure, wherein the through region is between the first vertical channel structures and the second vertical channel structures. |
| US10903227B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first insulating layers and a plurality of second layers alternately and vertically stacked on a substrate. Each of the plurality of second layers includes a horizontal electrode horizontally separated by a second insulating layer. A contact plug penetrates the plurality of first insulating layers and the second insulating layer of the plurality of second layers. |
| US10903225B2 |
Storage device and manufacturing method for the same
A storage device according to embodiments includes a substrate, a stacked body, a first region, a second region, and first to nth electrodes. The stacked body is provided on the substrate and having first to nth (n is an integer of 3 or more) conductive layers stacked in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate. The first region includes a part of the stacked body, and has a first step structure including the first to the nth conductive layers. The second region includes a part of the stacked body, and has a second step structure different from the first step structure including at least a part of the first to nth conductive layers. The first to nth electrodes are provided in the first region and connected to the first to nth conductive layers and extend in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. |
| US10903223B2 |
Driver placement in memories having stacked memory arrays
A memory can have a stacked memory array that can have a plurality of levels of memory cells. Each respective level of memory cells can be commonly coupled to a respective access line. A plurality of drivers can be above the stacked memory array. Each respective driver can have a monocrystalline semiconductor with a conductive region coupled to a respective access line. |
| US10903222B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device containing a carbon-doped source contact layer and methods for making the same
A three-dimensional memory device includes source-level material layers located over a substrate and including a lower semiconductor layer, a source contact layer, and an upper semiconductor layer. The lower semiconductor layer includes a first boron-doped semiconductor material, the upper semiconductor layer includes carbon doped second boron-doped semiconductor material, and the source contact layer includes a boron-doped semiconductor material. An alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers is located over the source-level material layers. Memory stack structures vertically extend through the alternating stack, the upper semiconductor layer, and the source contact layer. Each of the memory stack structures includes a respective memory film and a respective vertical semiconductor channel that contacts the source contact layer. Carbon atoms in the upper semiconductor layer and optionally the lower semiconductor layer suppress diffusion of boron atoms into the vertical semiconductor channel. |
| US10903218B2 |
Methods of incorporating leaker-devices into capacitor configurations to reduce cell disturb, and capacitor configurations incorporating leaker-devices
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having first electrodes with top surfaces, and with sidewall surfaces extending downwardly from the top surfaces. The first electrodes are solid pillars. Insulative material is along the sidewall surfaces of the first electrodes. Second electrodes extend along the sidewall surfaces of the first electrodes and are spaced from the sidewall surfaces by the insulative material. Conductive-plate-material extends across the first and second electrodes, and couples the second electrodes to one another. Leaker-devices electrically couple the first electrodes to the conductive-plate-material and are configured to discharge at least a portion of excess charge from the first electrodes to the conductive-plate-material. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies. |
| US10903217B2 |
Anti-fuse memory cell and a method for forming the anti-fuse memory cell
An anti-fuse memory cell may include a substrate including first and second conductivity regions and an isolation region at least partially within the substrate, a program gate over the substrate, a program gate oxide layer over the isolation region and between the program gate and the substrate, a first channel region arranged laterally between the first conductivity region and the isolation region, a second channel region arranged laterally between the second conductivity region and the isolation region, a first select gate arranged over the substrate and over the first channel region and a second select gate arranged over the substrate and over the second channel region. The program gate oxide layer may be configured to break down to allow conduction between the program gate and at least one of the channel regions upon providing a program voltage difference between the program gate and at least one of the channel regions. |
| US10903216B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method of fabricating the same
Disclosed are a semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same. The device may include a first substrate comprising a cell array region, a first interlayer insulating layer covering the first substrate, a second substrate disposed on the first interlayer insulating layer, the second substrate including a core region electrically connected to the cell array region, a first adhesive insulating layer interposed between the first interlayer insulating layer and the second substrate, and contact plugs penetrating the second substrate, the first adhesive insulating layer, and the first interlayer insulating layer and electrically connecting the cell array region with the core region. |
| US10903213B2 |
Integrated circuit devices
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate including a fin active region extending in a first direction, a gate line intersecting the fin active region and extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, a power line electrically connected to source/drain regions at sides of the gate line on the fin active region, a pair of dummy gate lines intersecting the fin active region and extending in the second direction, and a device separation structure electrically connected to the pair of dummy gate lines and including a lower dummy contact plug between the pair of dummy gate lines on the fin active region and electrically connected to the power line, and an upper dummy contact plug on the lower dummy contact plug and on the pair of dummy gate lines to electrically connect the lower dummy contact plug to the pair of dummy gate lines. |
| US10903208B2 |
Distributed decoupling capacitor
An electrical device including a plurality of fin structures. The plurality of fin structures including at least one decoupling fin and at least one semiconductor fin. The electrical device includes at least one semiconductor device including a channel region present in the at least one semiconductor fin, a gate structure present on the channel region of the at least one semiconductor fin, and source and drain regions present on source and drain region portion of the at least one semiconductor fin. The electrical device includes at least one decoupling capacitor including the decoupling fin structure as a first electrode of the decoupling capacitor, a node dielectric layer and a second electrode provided by the metal contact to the source and drain regions of the semiconductor fin structures. The decoupling capacitor is present underlying the power line to the semiconductor fin structures. |
| US10903206B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device
A semiconductor device in which a circuit and a power storage element are efficiently placed is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and an electric double-layer capacitor. The first transistor, the second transistor, and the electric double-layer capacitor are provided over one substrate. A band gap of a semiconductor constituting a channel region of the second transistor is wider than a band gap of a semiconductor constituting a channel region of the first transistor. The electric double-layer capacitor includes a solid electrolyte. |
| US10903204B2 |
Lateral transient voltage suppressor device
A lateral transient voltage suppressor device is provided, comprising a doped substrate, a lateral clamping structure disposed on the doped substrate, a buried doped layer disposed between the doped substrate and the lateral clamping structure for isolation, at least one diode module, and at least one trench arranged in the doped substrate, having a depth not less than that of the buried doped layer, and being disposed between the lateral clamping structure and the at least one diode module for electrical isolation. The doped substrate and the buried doped layer have opposite conductivity types such that the doped substrate is electrically floating. The buried doped layer can be further disposed to separate the diode module from the doped substrate. By employing the proposed invention, the lateral transient voltage suppressor device is advantageous of maintaining both a lower clamping voltage as well as a reduced dynamic resistance. |
| US10903203B2 |
Trench transistor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A trench transistor structure includes a substrate structure, a transistor device, and an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device. A first region and a second region are defined in the substrate structure. The substrate structure has a first trench located in the first region and a second trench located in the second region. The transistor device is located in the first region and includes an electrode located in the first trench. The electrode and the substrate structure are isolated from each other. The ESD protection device is located in the second region and includes a main body layer located in the second trench. The main body layer has a planarized top surface. PN junctions are located in the main body layer. The main body layer and the substrate structure are isolated from each other. |
| US10903201B2 |
Semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate including a high-frequency-block group and a low-power-block group; high-frequency-type logic standard cells located on the high-frequency-block group, and having a high-frequency-type cell height, a high-frequency-type operating frequency, and a high-frequency-type power; low-power-type logic standard cells located on the low-power-block group, and having a low-power-type cell height, a low-power-type operating frequency, and a low-power-type power. The high-frequency-type cell height is higher than the low-power-type cell height. The high-frequency-type operating frequency is greater than the low-power-type operating frequency. The high-frequency-type power is greater than the low-power-type power. The high-frequency-type logic standard cells include high-frequency-type fins, and the low-power-type logic standard cells include low-power-type fins. An effective height of the high-frequency-type fins is greater than an effective height of the low-power-type fins. |
| US10903196B2 |
Semiconductor packages including bridge die
A semiconductor package includes first and second semiconductor dies, first and second redistributed line structures, a first bridge die, and a vertical connector. The first semiconductor die and the first bridge die are disposed on the first redistributed line structure. The first bridge die is disposed to provide a level difference between the first semiconductor die and the first bridge die, the first bridge die having a height that is less than a height of the first semiconductor die. The second redistributed line structure has a protrusion, laterally protruding from a side surface of the first semiconductor die when viewed from a plan view, and a bottom surface of the second redistributed line structure is in contact with a top surface of the first semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is disposed on the second redistributed line structure. The vertical connector is disposed between the bridge die and the protrusion of the second redistributed line structure to support the protrusion. |
| US10903194B2 |
Micro light-emitting diode display with 3D orifice plating and light filtering
A micro light-emitting diode (LED) display assembly includes a backplane, a passivation layer on the backplane, a micro LED on the passivation layer, and a non-transparent metal housing on the passivation layer. The housing includes a base portion on the passivation layer, a sidewall portion upwardly extending from the base portion, a cap portion connected at a top of the sidewall portion, an orifice in the cap portion, and a notch in the cap portion and adjacent to the orifice. The assembly also includes a translucent filter positioned in the notch and covering the orifice, and a pocket defined by an enclosed area in between the sidewall portion, the cap portion, the filter, and the passivation layer. The micro LED is encased within the pocket such that light transmitted from the micro LED directly hits and passes through the filter. |
| US10903189B2 |
Stack packages including stacked semiconductor dies
A stack package includes a second semiconductor die stacked on the first semiconductor die, a third semiconductor die disposed on the lifting supporter. The third semiconductor die vertically and partially overlapping with the second semiconductor die. |
| US10903188B2 |
Selectively cross-linked thermal interface materials
A process of forming a thermal interface material structure includes selectively masking a putty pad that includes ultraviolet (UV) curable cross-linkers to form a masked putty pad. The masked putty pad has a first area that is exposed and a second area that is masked. The process also includes exposing the masked putty pad to UV light to form a selectively cross-linked putty pad. The process includes disposing the selectively cross-linked putty pad between an electrical component and a heat spreader to form an assembly. The process further includes compressing the assembly to form a thermal interface material structure that includes a selectively cross-linked thermal interface material. |
| US10903184B2 |
Filler particle position and density manipulation with applications in thermal interface materials
A thermal interface material and systems and methods for forming a thermal interface material include depositing a layer of a composite material, including at least a first material and a second material, the first material including a carrier fluid and the second material including a filler particle suspended within the first material. A particle manipulator is positioned over the layer of the composite material, the particle manipulator including at least one emitter to apply a particle manipulating field to bias a movement of the filler particles. The second material is redistributed by applying the particle manipulating field to interact with the second material causing the second material to migrate from a surrounding region in the composite material into a high concentration region in the composite material to form a customized thermal interface such that the high concentration region is configured and positioned corresponding to a hotspot. |
| US10903171B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device including a base, a buffer member, a frame, a lid, and a semiconductor element, is disclosed. The ceramic frame is mounted on the copper base with the molybdenum buffer member interposed therebetween. The semiconductor element is sealed in a space within the frame defined by the lid. The frame includes a top portion, a lower stage portion that is disposed below the top portion and is provided with an input electrode and an output electrode, and an upper stage portion. The upper stage portion is formed in an arrangement direction of the input electrode and the output electrode, and is formed below the top portion and above the lower stage portion. The upper stage portion includes an upper stage connection portion formed on the periphery of the lower stage portion in a direction intersecting the arrangement direction of the input electrode and the output electrode. |
| US10903168B2 |
Multi-RDL structure packages and methods of fabricating the same
Various arrangements of multi-RDL structure devices are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a first redistribution layer structure and a second redistribution layer structure mounted on the first redistribution layer structure. A first semiconductor chip is mounted on the second redistribution layer structure and electrically connected to both the second redistribution layer structure and the first redistribution layer structure. |
| US10903162B2 |
Fuse element resistance enhancement by laser anneal and ion implantation
A method for fabricating an electronic fuse includes forming a recess within a film material to define opposed contact segments and a central fuse segment interconnecting the contact segments and altering the material of the central fuse segment of the film material to increase electrical resistance characteristics of the central fuse segment. The central fuse segment may include defects such as voids created by directing a laser at the central fuse segment as a component of a laser annealing process. Alternatively, and or additionally, the central fuse segment may include dopants implementing via an ion implantation process to increase resistance characteristics of the central fuse segment. |
| US10903158B2 |
Semiconductor arrangement having a circuit board with a patterned metallization layer
A semiconductor arrangement includes a circuit board having a metallization layer with first and second conductor tracks, and individual semiconductor chips each having a controllable semiconductor element, first and second load electrodes, and a control electrode. The first conductor track has a base section and further sections extending from the base section. The second conductor track has sections. The further sections of the first conductor track and the sections of the second conductor track extend parallel to one another in a first direction at least over a same lateral dimension of the individual semiconductor chips. The further sections of the first conductor track alternate with the sections of the second conductor track in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The individual semiconductor chips are arranged on the sections of the second conductor track. The first load electrodes are connected to the further sections of the first conductor track. |
| US10903156B2 |
Electronic device with stud bumps
An electronic device is disclosed. In an embodiment an electronic device includes a carrier board having an upper surface and an electronic chip mounted on the upper surface of the carrier board, the electronic chip having a mounting side facing the upper surface of the carrier board, a top side facing away from the upper surface of the carrier board, and sidewalls connecting the mounting side to the top side, wherein the electronic chip has equal to or less than 5 stud bumps per square millimeter of a base area of the mounting side, and wherein a laminated polymer hood at least partly covers the top side of the electronic chip and extends onto the upper surface of the carrier board. |
| US10903150B2 |
Lead frame
A lead frame includes, as an outermost plating layer, a roughened silver plating layer having acicular projections and covering top faces and faces that form concavities or a through hole between the top faces and bottom faces of a lead frame substrate made of a copper-based material. The roughened silver plating layer has a crystal structure in which the crystal direction <101> occupies a largest proportion among the crystal directions <001>, <111>, and <101>. The lead frame can be manufactured with improved productivity owing to reduction in cost and operation time, and achieves remarkably high adhesion to sealing resin while keeping the total thickness of plating layers including the silver plating layer to be thin. |
| US10903147B2 |
Semiconductor device
A first lead and a second lead are adjacent. The first lead has a first sinking portion. The second lead has a second sinking portion. The first sinking portion and the second sinking portion are opposed so that the first sinking portion and the second sinking portion sandwich a space. The first sinking portion and the second sinking portion are configured so that the first sinking portion presses a first electrode, and the second sinking portion presses a second electrode in a containing state. |
| US10903144B1 |
Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor package includes a substrate and a semiconductor chip disposed thereon. The substrate includes first and second connection pads adjacent to a first edge of the semiconductor chip, and third and fourth connection pads adjacent to a second edge opposite to the first edge. The semiconductor chip includes fifth and sixth connection pads in a first region close to the first edge, and seventh and eighth connection pads in a second region close to the second edge. A first and a second comb-type conductive layer are further disposed over the first region, and respectively connected to the first and fifth connection pads, and the second and sixth connection pads via wirings. A third and a fourth comb-type conductive layer are further disposed over the second region, and respectively connected to the fourth and eighth connection pads, and the third and seventh connection pads via wirings. |
| US10903142B2 |
Micro through-silicon via for transistor density scaling
An electronic device comprises an integrated circuit (IC) die. The IC die includes a first bonding pad surface and a first backside surface opposite the first bonding pad surface; a first active device layer arranged between the first bonding pad surface and the first backside surface; and at least one stacked through silicon via (TSV) disposed between the first backside surface and the first bonding pad surface, wherein the at least one stacked TSV includes a first buried silicon via (BSV) portion having a first width and a second BSV portion having a second width smaller than the first width, and wherein the first BSV portion extends to the first backside surface and the second BSV portion extends to the first active device layer. |
| US10903141B2 |
Thermal management of RF devices using embedded microjet arrays
The present invention generally relates to a microjet array for use as a thermal management system for a heat generating device, such as an RF device. The microjet array is formed in a jet plate, which is attached directly to the substrate containing the heat generating device. Additional enhancing features are used to further improve the heat transfer coefficient above that inherently achieved by the array. Some of these enhancements may also have other functions, such as adding mechanical structure, electrical connectivity or pathways for waveguides. This technology enables higher duty cycles, higher power levels, increased component lifetime, and/or improved SWaP for RF devices operating in airborne, naval (surface and undersea), ground, and space environments. This technology serves as a replacement for existing RF device thermal management solutions, such as high-SWaP finned heat sinks and cold plates. |
| US10903138B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate constituted of an insulator, a first conductor film provided on a surface of the substrate; a semiconductor chip including a first electrode and a second electrode, the first electrode being connected to the first conductor film; and an external connection terminal including an inner end portion and an outer end portion. The inner end portion is located between the substrate and the semiconductor chip and is connected to the second electrode. The external connection terminal further includes an intermediate portion located between the inner end portion and the outer end portion and joined to the surface of the substrate. A distance between the intermediate portion of the external connection terminal and the substrate is greater than a distance between the inner end portion of the external connection terminal and the substrate. |
| US10903137B2 |
Electrical interconnections with improved compliance due to stress relaxation and method of making
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electrically conductive pillar having a substrate is disclosed. The electrically conductive pillar can comprise a first portion, second portion and a third portion. The first portion and/or third portion can be formed of an electrically conductive material that can be the same or different. The second portion can be intermediate and abut both the first portion and the third portion. The second portion can comprise a solder element formed of a second electrically conductive material that differs from the electrically conductive material and has a second stiffness less than a stiffness of the electrically conductive material. |
| US10903133B2 |
Method of producing an SMD package with top side cooling
A package encloses a power semiconductor die and has a package body with a top side, footprint side and sidewalls. The die has first and second load terminals and blocks a blocking voltage between the load terminals. The package further includes: a lead frame structure for electrically and mechanically coupling the package to a support, the lead frame structure including an outside terminal extending out of the package footprint side and/or out of one of the package sidewalls and electrically connected with the first load terminal; and a top layer arranged at the package top side and electrically connected with the second load terminal. A heat spreader is mounted onto the top layer with a bottom surface facing the top layer. The area of the top surface of the heat spreader is greater than the area of the bottom surface. |
| US10903131B2 |
Semiconductor packages including bridge die spaced apart from semiconductor die
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die and a bridge die. The bridge die includes through vias, and the through vias are connected to post bumps. The through vias are electrically connected to the semiconductor die by redistribution lines. |
| US10903127B2 |
Film for a package substrate
A display device including a film substrate including first and second surfaces, the first surface being opposite to the second surface; a semiconductor chip disposed on the first surface and including an input terminal and a test terminal, which are arranged in a first direction; a first wire extending from the input terminal on the first surface along a second direction, which intersects the first direction; and a second wire including a first extended portion, which extends along the first surface, a second extended portion, which extends along the second surface, and a first via, which penetrates the film substrate and connects the first extended portion and the second extended portion, wherein the first extended portion extends from the test terminal in the second direction and is connected to the first via, and the second extended portion extends from the first via to an edge of the second surface. |
| US10903126B2 |
Light irradiation type heat treatment method and heat treatment apparatus
A front surface of a semiconductor wafer is momentarily heated by irradiation with a flash of light from flash lamps. An upper radiation thermometer and a high-speed radiation thermometer unit measure a temperature of the front surface of the semiconductor wafer after the irradiation with the flash of light. The temperature data are sequentially accumulated, so that a temperature profile is acquired. An analyzer determines the highest measurement temperature of the semiconductor wafer subjected to the flash irradiation from the temperature profile to calculate a jump distance of the semiconductor wafer from a susceptor, based on the highest measurement temperature. If the calculated jump distance is greater than a predetermined threshold value, there is a high probability that the semiconductor wafer is significantly out of position, so that the transport of the semiconductor wafer to the outside is stopped. |
| US10903125B2 |
Transistor with strained channel and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a top surface, a source region in the substrate, a drain region in the substrate, a recessed trench extending from the top surface into the substrate and between the source region and the drain region, a stress-inducing material layer in the recessed trench, a channel layer on the stress-inducing material layer, and a gate structure on the channel layer. The recessed trench has a hexagonal cross-sectional profile. |
| US10903124B2 |
Transistor structure with n/p boundary buffer
Gate metal is removed from a region containing transistors such as nanosheet transistors or vertical transport field-effect transistors using techniques that control the undercutting of gate metal in an adjoining region. A dielectric spacer layer is deposited on the transistors. A first etch causes the removal of gate metal over the boundary between the regions with limited undercutting of gate metal beneath the dielectric spacer layer. A subsequent etch removes the gate metal from the transistors in one region while the gate metal in the adjoining region is protected by a buffer layer. Gate dielectric material may also be removed over the boundary between regions. |
| US10903120B2 |
Semiconductor wafer dicing crack prevention using chip peripheral trenches
A method includes providing a semiconductor base substrate having a substantially planar growth surface and one or more preferred crystallographic cleavage planes and an epitaxial first type III-V semiconductor layer on the planar growth surface. A first trench that vertically extends from an upper surface of the first type III-V semiconductor layer is formed at least to the planar growth surface. The first trench has a first trench length direction that is antiparallel to the one or more preferred crystallographic cleavage planes. |
| US10903118B2 |
Chamferless via structures
Chamferless via structures and methods of manufacture are provided. The method includes: forming at least one non-self-aligned via within at least dielectric material; plugging the at least one non-self-aligned via with material; forming a protective sacrificial mask over the material which plugs the at least one non-self-aligned via, after a recessing process; forming at least one trench within the dielectric material, with the protective sacrificial mask protecting the material during the trench formation; removing the protective sacrificial mask and the material within the at least one non-self-aligned via to form a wiring via; and filling the wiring via and the at least one trench with conductive material. |
| US10903117B2 |
Fabricating vias with lower resistance
An interconnection for a device in an integrated circuit includes a substrate on which a first metal line is embedded in a first dielectric layer. A via gouge is etched in the first metal line. A second dielectric layer is deposited over the first metal line and the first dielectric layer. A first via recess is etch through the second dielectric layer where the first via recess aligned to the via gouge. A second metal layer is deposited in the first via recess and the via gouge, forming a first via. |
| US10903116B2 |
Void-free metallic interconnect structures with self-formed diffusion barrier layers
Methods are provided for fabricating void-free metallic interconnect structures with self-formed diffusion barrier layers. A seed layer is deposited to line an etched opening in a dielectric layer. A metallic capping layer is selectively deposited on upper portions and upper sidewall surfaces of the seed layer which define an aperture into the etched opening. An electroplating process is performed to plate metallic material on exposed surfaces of the seed layer within the etched opening, which are not covered by the capping layer to form a metallic interconnect. The capping layer prohibits plating of metallic material on the capping layer and closing the aperture before the electroplating process is complete. A thermal anneal process is performed to cause the metallic material of the metallic capping layer to diffuse though the metallic interconnect and create a self-formed diffusion barrier layer between the metallic interconnect and the surfaces of the etched opening. |
| US10903114B2 |
Decoupled via fill
Techniques are disclosed for providing a decoupled via fill. Given a via trench, a first barrier layer is conformally deposited onto the bottom and sidewalls of the trench. A first metal fill is blanket deposited into the trench. The non-selective deposition is subsequently recessed so that only a portion of the trench is filled with the first metal. The previously deposited first barrier layer is removed along with the first metal, thereby re-exposing the upper sidewalls of the trench. A second barrier layer is conformally deposited onto the top of the first metal and the now re-exposed trench sidewalls. A second metal fill is blanket deposited into the remaining trench. Planarization and/or etching can be carried out as needed for subsequent processing. Thus, a methodology for filling high aspect ratio vias using a dual metal process is provided. Note, however, the first and second fill metals may be the same. |
| US10903111B2 |
Semiconductor device with linerless contacts
Semiconductor devices and methods for forming semiconductor devices include opening at least one contact via through a sacrificial material down to contacts. Sides of the at least one contact via are lined by selectively depositing a barrier on the sacrificial material, the barrier extending along sidewalls of the at least one contact via from a top surface of the sacrificial material down to a bottom surface of the sacrificial material proximal to the contacts such that the contacts remain exposed. A conductive material is deposited in the at least one contact via down to the contacts to form stacked contacts having the hard mask on sides thereof. The sacrificial material is removed. |
| US10903110B2 |
Method of forming fine interconnection for a semiconductor device
A method of forming fine interconnection includes: forming spacers on a first and second hard mask layer on a dielectric layer; forming a first via hole through the first hard mask layer, the second hard mask layer, and the dielectric layer; oxidizing a sidewall of the first hard mask layer that surrounding the via hole; forming a second via hole in the second hard mask layer; forming a mask to cover the first hard mask layer in the second via hole; forming a line trench in a portion of the second hard mask layer exposed by the spacers and the mask, and in the first hard mask layer and the dielectric layer that are below the portion of the second hard mask layer; and forming a conductive material in the line trench and the first via hole. |
| US10903109B2 |
Methods of forming high aspect ratio openings and methods of forming high aspect ratio features
Methods of forming high aspect ratio openings. The method comprises removing a portion of a dielectric material at a temperature less than about 0° C. to form at least one opening in the dielectric material. The at least one opening comprises an aspect ratio of greater than about 30:1. A protective material is formed in the at least one opening and on sidewalls of the dielectric material at a temperature less than about 0° C. Methods of forming high aspect ratio features are also disclosed, as are semiconductor devices. |
| US10903108B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the same
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. The methods may implanting dopants into a substrate to form a preliminary impurity region and heating the substrate to convert the preliminary impurity region into an impurity region. Heating the substrate may be performed at an ambient temperature of from about 800° C. to about 950° C. for from about 20 min to about 50 min. The method may also include forming first and second trenches in the impurity region to define an active tin and forming a first isolation layer and a second isolation layer in the first and second trenches, respectively. The first and second isolation layers may expose opposing sides of the active fin. The method may further include forming a gate insulation layer extending on the opposing sides and an upper surface of the active fin and forming a gate electrode traversing the active fin. |
| US10903107B2 |
Semiconductor process transport apparatus comprising an adapter pendant
A semiconductor process transport apparatus including a drive section with at least one motor, an articulated arm coupled to the drive section for driving articulation motion, a machine controller coupled to the drive section to control the at least one motor moving the articulated arm from one location to a different location, and an adapter pendant having a machine controller interface coupling the adapter pendant for input/output with the machine controller, the adapter pendant having another interface, configured for connecting a fungible smart mobile device having predetermined resident user operable device functionality characteristics, wherein the other interface has a connectivity configuration so mating of the fungible smart mobile device with the other interface automatically enables configuration of at least one of the resident user operable device functionality characteristics to define an input/output to the machine controller effecting input commands and output signals for motion control of the articulated arm. |
| US10903106B2 |
Layered body of temporary adhesive
A temporary adhesive is good peelability, heat resistance and cleaning removability after polishing of the rear surface of the wafer. A layered body for processing a rear surface of a wafer opposite to a circuit surface of the wafer, the layered body being a temporary adhesive loaded between a support and circuit surface of the wafer and including an adhesive layer (A) that includes a polyorganosiloxane to be cured by a hydrosilylation reaction and is releasably bonded, and a separation layer (B) includes a polyorganosiloxane and is releasably bonded, in which the polyorganosiloxane forming the separation layer (B) is a polyorganosiloxane containing a siloxane unit of RRSiO2/2 (provided that each R is bonded to a silicon atom as a Si—C bond), and at least one R is an aralkyl group, epoxy group, or phenyl group. Methods for producing and separating these layered bodies and composition for forming the separation layer. |
| US10903105B2 |
Flip chip bonding device and bonding method
A flip-chip bonding device and method are disclosed. The bonding device includes: a supply unit (10) for separating a flip-chip (200) from a carrier (100) and providing the flip-chip (200), the supply unit (10) including flipping device (11); a transfer unit (20) for receiving the flip-chip (200) from the flipping device (11); a position adjustment unit (30) for adjusting the positions of flip-chips (200) on the transfer unit (20); a bonding unit (40) for bonding the flip-chips (200) on the transfer unit (20) onto a substrate (400); a transportation unit (50) for transporting the transfer unit (20); and a control unit (60) for controlling the movement of the preceding units. The transfer unit (20) is capable of receiving multiple flip-chips (200) and allows the flip-chips (200) to be bonded simultaneously. This can result in savings in bonding time and an improvement in throughput. Moreover, during the transportation of the transfer unit (20), the positions of the flip-chips (200) thereon can be adjusted by the position adjustment unit (30), thereby ensuring high positional accuracy of the flip-chips (200) in the subsequent bonding step. As a result, a high-accuracy bonding can be achieved. |
| US10903101B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and method for detecting abnormality of substrate
A substrate processing apparatus having a detecting unit that can detect an abnormality of a substrate such as a crack of the substrate or chipping of the substrate is disclosed. The substrate processing apparatus includes a polishing unit configured to polish a substrate, a cleaning unit configured to clean the polished substrate, a substrate abnormality detection unit configured to detect an abnormality of the substrate, and a substrate transporting mechanism configured to transport the substrate in the order of the polishing unit, the substrate abnormality detection unit, and the cleaning unit. The substrate abnormality detection unit includes an imaging device configured to image the substrate, and an output monitoring unit configured to determine a status of the substrate by comparing a signal obtained from the imaging device with a predetermined threshold. |
| US10903100B2 |
Method of obtaining amount of deviation of a measuring device, and method of calibrating transfer position data in a processing system
A measuring device includes sensor electrodes provided along a periphery of a base substrate such that a sum A of shortest distances from the sensor electrodes to an inner peripheral surface of a focus ring becomes a constant value, the sum A satisfying ∑ i = 1 N a C i = A the number of the sensor electrodes, Ci: measurement values and “a”: constant). A method of obtaining the amount of deviation of the central position of the measuring device in a region surrounded by the focus ring from the center of the region, includes: calculating the measurement values Ci using the measuring device; calculating the constant “a” using the measurement values Ci; calculating distances from the sensor electrodes to the inner peripheral surface of the focus ring using the constant “a” and the measurement values Ci; and calculating the amount of deviation of the central position of the measuring device based on the calculated distances. |
| US10903094B2 |
Electrostatic puck assembly with metal bonded backing plate for high temperature processes
An electrostatic puck assembly includes an upper puck plate, a lower puck plate and a backing plate. The upper puck plate comprises AlN or Al2O3 and has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. The lower puck plate comprises a material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion that approximately matches the first coefficient of thermal expansion and is bonded to the upper puck plate by a first metal bond. The backing plate comprises AlN or Al2O3 and is bonded to the lower puck plate by a second metal bond. |
| US10903091B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus and substrate processing method
According to the present invention, after supplying a rinse liquid containing water to a substrate that is held horizontally, an IPA-containing liquid which contains isopropyl alcohol is supplied to the substrate to which the rinse liquid adhering. Subsequently, an IPA-containing liquid low in moisture concentration is supplied to the substrate. The IPA-containing liquid which has been supplied to the substrate is recovered and supplied to the substrate again. |
| US10903089B1 |
3D semiconductor device and structure
A 3D semiconductor device, the device comprising: a first level, wherein said first level comprises a first layer, said first layer comprising first transistors, and wherein said first level comprises a second layer, said second layer comprising first interconnections; a second level overlaying said first level, wherein said second level comprises a third layer, said third layer comprising second transistors, and wherein said second level comprises a fourth layer, said fourth layer comprising second interconnections; and a plurality of connection paths, wherein said plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of said first transistors to a plurality of said second transistors, wherein said second level is bonded to said first level, wherein said bonded comprises oxide to oxide bond regions, wherein said bonded comprises metal to metal bond regions, wherein said second level comprises at least one memory array, wherein said second level comprises at least one Phase Lock Loop (“PLL) circuit, and wherein said third layer comprises crystalline silicon. |
| US10903088B2 |
Electronic package and method for fabricating the same
An electronic package and a method for fabrication the same are provided. The method includes: disposing an electronic component on a substrate; forming an encapsulant layer on the substrate to encapsulate the electronic component; and forming a shielding layer made of metal on the encapsulant layer. The shielding layer has an extending portion extending to a lateral side of the substrate along a corner of the encapsulant layer, without extending to a lower side of the substrate. Therefore, the present disclosure prevents the shielding layer from coming into contact with conductive pads disposed on the lower side of the substrate and thereby avoids a short circuit from occurrence. |
| US10903068B2 |
Oxide-nitride-oxide stack having multiple oxynitride layers
A semiconductor device including an oxide-nitride-oxide (ONO) structure having a multi-layer charge storing layer and methods of forming the same are provided. Generally, the method involves: (i) forming a first oxide layer of the ONO structure; (ii) forming a multi-layer charge storing layer comprising nitride on a surface of the first oxide layer; and (iii) forming a second oxide layer of the ONO structure on a surface of the multi-layer charge storing layer. Preferably, the charge storing layer comprises at least two silicon oxynitride layers having differing stochiometric compositions of Oxygen, Nitrogen and/or Silicon. More preferably, the ONO structure is part of a silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) structure and the semiconductor device is a SONOS memory transistor. Other embodiments are also disclosed. |
| US10903067B2 |
Cooled reflective adapter plate for a deposition chamber
In one embodiment, an adapter plate for a deposition chamber is provided. The adapter plate comprises a body, a mounting plate centrally located on the body, a first annular portion extending longitudinally from a first surface of the mounting plate and disposed radially inward from an outer surface of the mounting plate, a second annular portion extending longitudinally from an opposing second surface of the mounting plate and disposed radially inward from the outer surface of the mounting plate, and a mirror-finished surface disposed on the interior of the second annular portion, the mirror-finished surface having an average surface roughness of 6 Ra or less. |
| US10903066B2 |
Heater support kit for bevel etch chamber
Embodiments described herein generally relate to apparatuses for processing a substrate. In one or more embodiments, a heater support kit includes a heater assembly contains a heater plate having an upper surface and a lower surface, a chuck ring disposed on at least a portion of the upper surface of the heater plate, a heater arm assembly contains a heater arm and supporting the heater assembly, and a heater support plate disposed between the heater plate and the heater arm and in contact with at least a portion of the lower surface of the heater plate. |
| US10903064B2 |
Methods for detection of ion spatial distribution
A method of performing mass spectrometric analyses, comprises: (a) passing a stream of ions through a quadrupole mass analyzer; (b) intercepting a flux of ions emitted from an exit aperture of the quadrupole mass analyzer at a front face of a stack of multichannel plates and emitting a flux of electrons in response to the intercepted flux of ions at a rear face of the stack of multichannel plates; (c) intercepting the flux of electrons at a front surface of a scintillator comprising a phosphorescent material and emitting a flux of photons in response to the intercepted flux of ions at a rear surface of the scintillator; (d) receiving the flux of photons at a photo-imager; and (e) repositioning at least one of the scintillator and the stack of microchannel plates during the execution of one or more of the steps (a) through (d). |