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US09999192B1 Soybean cultivar 50281686
A soybean cultivar designated 50281686 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 50281686, to the plants of soybean cultivar 50281686, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 50281686, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 50281686. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 50281686. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 50281686, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 50281686 with another soybean cultivar.
US09999186B2 Soybean variety 01059533
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01059533. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01059533. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01059533 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01059533 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09999185B1 Inbred corn line 2EEXX1039
An inbred corn line, designated 2EEXX1039, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line 2EEXX1039, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line 2EEXX1039 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line 2EEXX1039 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line 2EEXX1039, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line 2EEXX1039 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US09999183B2 Soybean cultivar S140174
A soybean cultivar designated S140174 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S140174, to the plants of soybean cultivar S140174, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S140174, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S140174. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S140174. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S140174, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S140174 with another soybean cultivar.
US09999179B2 Enclosure temperature control system
An enclosure temperature control system utilizes a renewable power source and a thermal sink to reduce the overall power requirements from a power grid. A renewable power source, such as a solar panel may provide power that drives the components required to maintain the greenhouse temperature within upper and lower limits, including a HVAC system and/or a heat transfer system coupled with a thermal sink. The thermal sink includes a phase change material that releases heat when it solidifies and this heat can be used to heat the greenhouse. Likewise, the phase change material absorbs heat during the day to reduce the temperature within the greenhouse. A heat transfer system may be coupled with the phase change material and a solid conductor component within the tank of a phase change material may increase thermal transfer rate.
US09999175B2 Systems, methods and apparatus for multi-row agricultural implement control and monitoring
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring and controlling an agricultural implement, including seed planting implements. Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for detecting seeds being conveyed by seed conveyor. Systems, methods and apparatus are provided for monitoring and controlling deposition of secondary crop inputs such as fertilizer and insecticide.
US09999171B2 Agricultural tillage implement fold sequence control
An agricultural tillage implement with a hydraulic system coupled to actuators of foldable wing sections and to actuators of wheel assemblies associated with each wing section. The hydraulic system having a wing sensor detecting an inner wing section being folded and at least one valve coupled to the wing sensor. The valve being activated by the wing sensor enabling a hydraulic fluid flow to the actuators associated with the wheel assemblies of the wing sections causing the wheel assemblies associated with the wing sections to thereby retract.
US10004168B2 Feeder exchanging device
A feeder exchanging device capable of exchanging feeder provided with fixed blade and movable blade for cutting top film that is peeled from bottom tape as components are supplied to a component mounter. The feeder exchanging device comprises robot hand that includes pair of arms on which claws capable of clamping feeder are formed, and sliders that move robot hand in the X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis directions, with an actuator (rod actuator) for driving movable blade provided on robot hand.
US10004161B2 Electronic module with laterally-conducting heat distributor layer
An electronic module is provided in which a chip is disposed over a substrate and electrically connected to the substrate by a plurality of electrical connect structures disposed between the chip and the substrate. A heat distributor, fabricated of a thermally conductive material, is disposed between the chip and the substrate and sized to extend beyond an edge of the chip to facilitate conduction of heat laterally out from between the chip and substrate. The heat distributor includes openings sized and positioned to allow the electrical connect structures to pass through the heat distributor without electrically contacting the heat distributor. The heat distributor is electrically isolated from the electrical connect structures, the chip and the substrate. In one implementation, the heat distributor physically contacts a thermally conductive enclosure of the electronic module to facilitate conduction of heat from between the chip and substrate to the enclosure.
US10004159B2 Water-cooling radiator unit and device thereof
A water-cooling radiator unit and a device thereof. The water-cooling radiator unit includes a main body, a working fluid, a first plate body, a second plate body and a pump. The main body is composed of a first sheet body, a second sheet body and a third sheet body stacked on and assembled with each other to form a flow way set, a conversion sink, a first sink and a second sink. The conversion sink and a partitioning section together divide the main body into a first portion and a second portion. A first flow guide passage and a second flow guide passage are formed on outer side of the conversion sink. The wall faces of the first flow guide passage and the conversion sink of the second portion and the second flow guide passage are respectively formed with multiple first, second and third orifices.
US10004156B2 Heat radiation fin structure
A heat radiation fin structure includes a main body, composed of a plurality of stacked laminations, and each the lamination has at least one heat dissipation section and at least one heat absorption section. The heat dissipation section is composed of a plurality of extended portions, which are outwardly extended from the heat absorption section. Two adjacent laminations are crossly stacked or arranged, such that a plurality of passages are formed in the extended portions, and the heat dissipation section is connected to the heat absorption section. With these arrangements, the heat radiation fin structure can generate a vortex flow when a cooling air flow is blown through the heat radiation fins and further to achieve greatly improved heat dissipation efficiency.
US10004147B2 Method for the diffusion soldering of an electronic component to a substrate
A diffusion soldering method for joining an electronic component to a substrate is provided. The joining surfaces are designed such that cavities are formed in a joining gap between the component and substrate. The formation of such cavities can be provided, e.g., by depressions in a mounting surface of the component and/or in a contact surface of the substrate, the depressions being cup-shaped and/or defining channels that surround columnar structural elements, the end faces of which define the mounting surface and/or contact surface. The cavities are designed such that solder material can leak into the cavities when the component during a heating process to achieve a desired width of the joining gap. This allows for the formation of a narrow-width joining having a diffusion zone that bridges the joining gap upon soldering. In this manner, a diffusion solder connection can be produced even using standard solder.
US10004146B1 Method for manufacturing light emitting device
A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes: joining a light transmissive substrate and light emitting elements with top surfaces of the light emitting elements facing a bottom surface of the light transmissive substrate; separating the light transmissive substrate into a plurality of light transmissive pieces such that one or more of the light emitting elements remains in a state joined to one of the light transmissive pieces after separation; mounting the light emitting element joined to the light transmissive piece on a mounting unit, with a bottom surface of the light emitting element facing a top surface of the mounting unit; removing a portion of the light transmissive piece such that a top surface of the light transmissive piece becomes a predetermined shape; and providing a light reflective member around the top surface of the light transmissive piece that remains after the portion of the light transmissive piece is removed.
US10004144B2 Connector module
A connector module includes a substrate including stacked magnetic layers, a first principal surface, and a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface, a surface mount connector mounted on mounting electrodes on the first principal surface of the substrate, external mounting electrodes disposed on the second principal surface of the substrate, and inductors inside the substrate and each connected at a first end thereof to a corresponding one of the mounting electrodes and connected at a second end thereof to a corresponding one of the external mounting electrodes.
US10004143B2 Printed wiring board and method for manufacturing printed wiring board
A printed wiring board includes a first circuit substrate having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side, and a second circuit substrate having a third surface and a fourth surface on the opposite side such that the first circuit substrate is laminated on the third surface and that the first surface and the third surface are opposing each other. The second circuit substrate has a mounting area on the third surface and includes pads positioned to mount an electronic component in the mounting area and a connection wire structure connected to the pads, and the first circuit substrate includes through-hole conductors extending from the first surface to the second surface and connected to the pads through the connection wire structure and has an opening portion formed through the first circuit substrate such that the opening portion is exposing the pads formed in the mounting area.
US10004142B1 Circuit board assembly having a secondary circuit board abutting a primary circuit board, with at least one sensor disposed on the secondary circuit board
A circuit board assembly includes a primary circuit board extending in a first plane and configured to control electrical distribution and a secondary circuit board extending in a second plane, different from the first plane, with the primary and secondary circuit boards spaced from and substantially parallel with one another, and with the secondary circuit board abutting the primary circuit board such that the primary and secondary circuit boards are electrically coupled to one another. The circuit board assembly further includes at least one sensor disposed on the secondary circuit board and electrically coupled to the secondary circuit board such that the at least one sensor is electrically coupled to the primary circuit board through the secondary circuit board, with the secondary circuit board positioning the at least one sensor in proximity with the at least one magnet for detecting the position of the at least one magnet.
US10004141B2 Kitchen appliance operable by electric motor, data memory element, and combination of a kitchen appliance operable by electric motor and a data memory element
A kitchen appliance operable by electric motor includes a housing, which has an outer surface, and a data transmission interface designed to interact with a data memory element. The data transmission interface is formed in an outer surface of the housing by metal contact elements, which are arranged adjacent to each other and which each have a contact surface and form part of the outer surface. Further, a data memory element for transmitting data to a kitchen appliance operable by electric motor includes a plurality of contact elements that are separate from each other and optionally a contact surface. Further, a combination of a kitchen appliance operable by electric motor and a data memory element, which can be detachably connected to the kitchen appliance, can transmit data of the data memory element to the kitchen appliance while the data memory element is connected to the kitchen appliance. Further, a combination of a kitchen appliance operable by electric motor and a data memory element, which can be handled as an individual part, can bring the data memory element into contact with the kitchen appliance for data exchange.
US10004139B2 Flexible printed circuit board of light guide module and cut-out structure thereof
A flexible printed circuit board of a light guide module and a cut-out structure thereof. The flexible printed circuit board is made by cutting an FPC material and is formed after folding and unfolding. The flexible printed circuit board includes two light emitting plates and an extension strip. The two light emitting plates each has a connection portion. The extension strip is integrally connected between the two connection portions. Two ends of the two light emitting plates and the extension strip have two fold lines respectively, so that the extension strip is disposed between the two light emitting plates along an extension direction to separate the two light emitting plates away from each other.
US10004138B2 Touch panel and manufacturing method thereof
Disclosed are an optical member, a display device including the optical member and a method of fabricating the optical member. The display device includes a light source; a wavelength conversion member into which light generated from the light source is incident; and a display panel into which light is incident from the wavelength conversion member. The wavelength conversion member includes a receiving part having a pipe shape; a matrix in the receiving part; and a plurality of wavelength conversion particles disposed in the matrix to convert a wavelength of the light generated from the light source.
US10004136B2 Satellite-based ballistic missile defense system
A satellite-based missile defense system includes a neutron beam transmission tube, a beam generator disposed within the neutron beam transmission tube and operable to emit neutron beamlets from a neutron source. A first collimating plate is disposed within the neutron beam transmission tube and downstream from the beam generator. A second collimating plate is disposed within the neutron beam transmission tube and downstream from the first collimating plate. Neutron beams can be used to create gamma radiation and which can in-turn disable electronic equipment, such as that found in enemy aircraft, missile guidance systems, communication systems and/or the like.
US10004134B2 Reflector lamp
In various embodiments, a reflector lamp having a longitudinal axis is provided. The reflector lamp may include: a reflector which has a contour and a neck, with a pin base resting at the end of said neck, a light source arranged in the reflector, wherein the light source is fastened in the reflector with the aid of a mounting clip, which simultaneously adjusts the light source, wherein the mounting clip comprises three sections, namely a first section which holds the light source, a second section which serves for the adjustment in the neck and a third section which is used for the base connection.
US10004131B2 Methods and systems for controlling an electrical load
An electronic dimming ballast or light emitting diode (LED) driver for driving a gas discharge lamp or LED lamp may be operable to control the lamp to avoid flickering and flashing of the lamp during low temperature or low mercury conditions. Such a ballast or driver may include a control circuit that is operable to adjust the intensity of the lamp. Adjusting the intensity of the lamp may include decreasing the intensity of the lamp. The control circuit may be operable to stop adjustment of the intensity of the lamp if a magnitude of the lamp voltage across the lamp is greater than an upper threshold, and subsequently begin to adjust the intensity of the lamp when the lamp voltage across the lamp is less than a lower threshold. Subsequently beginning to adjust the intensity of the lamp may include subsequently decreasing the intensity of the lamp.
US10004129B2 Extending coverage in an outdoor lighting system by using a mobile device and short-range wireless communications
A method and system to extend the coverage of Outdoor Lighting Networks (OLNs) through the use of authorized mobile devices travelling around to establish a virtual connectivity link (i. e., storing data and, when in reach, using short-range wireless communication protocols) between isolated light points (or groups of light points) and connected light points so that lighting commands and data can be exchanged between the two sets of lighting points is disclosed.
US10004128B2 Grid connected coordinated lighting adapter
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for systems and methods that employ a control component and/or power source integrated in an LED based light source to control and/or power the LED light source wirelessly. In embodiments, the LED based light source may take the form of a standard light bulb that plugs into a standard lighting socket or fixture.
US10004124B1 Electroluminescent display device
Disclosed is a display device having a display panel including pixels, a pixel circuit of each of the pixels comprising a capacitor connected between a first and second node, a driving transistor connected to the second node, a third node, and a first supply voltage, a first transistor supplying the first supply voltage or a reference voltage to the first node, a second transistor supplying the reference voltage to the second node, a third transistor supplying a data voltage to the first node, a fourth transistor forming a current path between the second and third nodes, a fifth transistor supplying the reference voltage or a reset voltage to the fourth node, a sixth transistor supplying the reference voltage to the first node, a seventh transistor forming a current path between the third and fourth nodes, and a diode connected to the fourth node and a second supply voltage.
US10004123B1 Failure detection and alerting circuit for a differential mode surge protection device in an LED driver
An apparatus and a method monitor the status of a thermal protection device within a surge protection device (SPD). A monitoring circuit connected to a monitor output signal of the SPD is responsive to the presence of a time-varying voltage on the monitor output signal. The time-varying voltage is present during a selected half of each AC cycle when the thermal protection device is intact such that the SPD is no longer providing surge protection. The time-varying voltage is not present when the thermal protection device is no longer intact. When the time-varying voltage is not present for a selected duration, the monitoring circuit illuminates a light-emitting diode (LED) to indicate that the thermal protection device has failed.
US10004118B1 LED control circuit and method therefor
In an embodiment, an LED control circuit may include a first circuit configured to form a reference signal having a waveform of a rectified ac signal. The LED control circuit may also include a first regulator circuit configured to regulate a first LED current from a first LED during a first portion of the reference signal to have a waveshape that follow the reference signal waveform but not receive the first current during a second portion of the reference signal. The LED control circuit may also include a second regulator circuit configured to regulate a second current from the first LED and from a second LED during the second portion of the reference signal to have a waveshape that follows the reference signal waveform.
US10004117B2 Amplifier for a constant-current LED driver circuit and constant-current LED driver IC device
Embodiments of an amplifier for a constant-current light-emitting diode (LED) driver circuit and a constant-current LED driver integrated circuit (IC) device having the amplifier are described. In one embodiment, an amplifier includes a folded cascode input stage including chopping switch circuits configured to perform frequency chopping to reduce an input offset of the amplifier and a rail-to-rail output stage connected to the folded cascode input stage. The rail-to-rail output stage includes slew rate enhancement circuits.
US10004116B2 Lighting device, headlight device with the same, and vehicle
A lighting device includes a power converter and a controller. The power converter includes a transformer having primary, secondary and tertiary windings, and a switching device electrically connected in series with the primary winding. The controller is configured to measure a signal simulating a primary current flowing through the primary winding based on a voltage occurring across the tertiary winding and detect timing for turning the switching device off based on the signal simulating the primary current.
US10004115B2 Electronic oven with reflective energy steering
An electronic oven with a set of variable reflectance elements for controlling a distribution of heat in the electronic oven and associated methods are disclosed herein. The electronic oven includes a chamber, an energy source coupled to an injection port in the chamber, and a set of variable reflectance elements located in the chamber. In some of the disclosed approaches the variable reflectance elements are nonradiative. A control system of the electronic oven can be configured to alter the states of the variable reflectance elements to thereby alter and control the distribution of energy within the chamber.
US10004113B2 Heating wire arrangement for ceramic heater
Provided is a heating wire arrangement for a ceramic heater, which is an arrangement of a heating wire on a ceramic substrate in a ceramic heater and emits heat. The heating wire arrangement for the ceramic heater includes a heating wire that is a metal wire member extending in a longitudinal direction and is two-dimensionally arranged on a virtual two-dimensional (2D) plane that is substantially parallel to a top surface of the ceramic substrate.Thus, a uniform heat density may be maintained and a rapid temperature ramp-up may be enabled, unlike a conventional heating wire of a three-dimensional (3D) type.
US10004109B2 Method and apparatus for recovering data unit in wireless communication system
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for recovering data units in a wireless communication system. The method of recovering data units in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: determining a channel state of at least one secondary channel band for a predetermined time after an STA has failed to transmit a first PPDU; and transmitting, at the STA, a second PPDU through a recovery channel band determined on the basis of the channel state, wherein the first PPDU is data transmitted through a primary channel and at least one secondary channel, and the recovery channel band may include, from among the primary channel band and at least one secondary channel, a secondary channel that is in an idle state.
US10004107B2 Discontinuous reception alignment in dual connectivity networks
A 3GPP LTE protocol enhancement realizes the full benefit of discontinuous reception (DRX) in Long Term Evolution networks by coordinating and aligning DRX operations for conserving power and timing overhead. A dual connectivity enabled User Equipment (UE) comprising a processor and transceiver is configured to align DRX configuration between counterpart Evolved Node Bs (eNB)s, wherein counterpart eNBs are a Master eNB (MeNB) and a Secondary eNB (SeNB) simultaneously connected to the UE, communicate system frame timing and system frame number (SFN) information between the counterpart eNBs, align DRX start offset (drxStartOffset) values for the counterpart eNBs according to the communicated system frame timing and SFN information to compensate for offsets in system frame timing, and allow the start of a DRX ON duration at specific frame or sub-frame times determined by the drxStartOffset values, after the expiration of a DRX inactivity timer.
US10004103B2 Communications system
A communication system is disclosed comprising an X2 gateway, a number of base stations, and a mobile device. The base stations are able to establish X2 connections directly with each other or via the X2 gateway. Various procedures are disclosed to determine how X2 connections should be established based on compatibility of the respective base stations with the X2 gateway.
US10004102B2 Automatic configuration of a wireless distribution system extended network
Methods, systems, and computer readable media may be operable to facilitate the automatic configuration of a network device within a wireless distribution system (WDS) extended network. Upon the boot of a network device such as a network extender, the network device may search for an access point through the transmission and reception of wireless communications. Once an access point is found, the network device may attempt to connect to the access point and may self-configure as either a station or a station operating as an access point. The network device may make the determination whether to operate as an access point based upon one or more network and/or device parameters associated with the identified access point, and may switch between station and station-access point modes based upon the link connecting the network device to the access point.
US10004101B2 Mobile communication system, user terminal, and processor
A UE 100-1 and a UE 200-2 perform D2D communication that is direct device to device communication. The UE 100-1 transmits a D2D termination preliminary notification indicating that termination of the D2D communication is wished to the UE 100-2 during the D2D communication. The UE 100-1 terminates the D2D communication after transmitting the D2D termination preliminary notification.
US10004099B2 Efficient discontinuous reception in a mobile network
A method of extended DRX paging includes a base station that transmits extended DRX configuration information and a User Equipment (UE) receives the extended DRX configuration from the base station. The UE determines a first number of frames that are included in a hyper-frame based at least in part on the extended DRX configuration information and selects a hyper-frame number. The hyper-frame number is based at least in part on the extended DRX configuration information. The UE maintains a hyper-frame count and the hyper-frame count is incremented after each hyper-frame. The UE then goes into sleep mode and the UE determines a wake up time before a standard DRX cycle that occurs during the selected hyper-frame. The UE may also determine a first wake up time and a second wake up time based on the selected hyper-frame number and synchronization error between a first cell and a second cell.
US10004098B2 Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving data using a plurality of carriers in mobile communication system
A bearer reconfiguration method performed by a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting a multi-bearer is provided. The bearer reconfiguration method includes, if the UE performs a bearer reconfiguration from a single bearer to the multi-bearer, reordering Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) Protocol Data Units (PDUs) received through the multi-bearer, using a timer after a completion of the bearer reconfiguration, and processing the reordered PDCP PDUs into at least one PDCP Service Data Unit (SDU). The method may also include, if the UE performs bearer reconfiguration from the multi-bearer to the single bearer, reordering PDCP PDUs received through the multi-bearer, using a timer until a predetermined condition is satisfied, and processing the reordered PDCP PDUs into at least one PDCP SDU.
US10004089B2 Method and apparatus for controlling random access opportunity in mobile communication system
A base station infers a random access failure rate depending on a random access collision of terminals performing random access and controls a random access opportunity of a terminal that fails the random access by using the random access failure rate of each terminal. Also, information for the controlled random access opportunity is transmitted to the terminal that fails the random access.
US10004080B2 Channel quality measurements for downlink resource allocation
A method for reporting channel quality from a user equipment (UE) to a base station is described. The UE derives a channel quality for each of a plurality of downlink resources. The UE transmits channel quality reports in a pattern of time intervals by rotating through the plurality of downlink resources in different time intervals of the pattern, wherein a channel quality report is not transmitted by the UE in each time interval of a frame.
US10004078B2 Network node, wireless device and methods therein for controlling a radio communication using carrier aggregation
A network node (600), a wireless device (602) and methods for controlling a radio communication using carrier aggregation. The wireless device (602) sends (6:1) UE capabilities to the network node (600), indicating a maximum capability limit per component carrier and a total maximum capability limit across all component carriers to be used in the radio communication. The network node (600) further selects (6:2) a number of component carriers to be used by the wireless device, and configures (6:3) radio features on the selected component carriers based on the received UE capabilities. The network node (600) then signals (6:4) the selected number of component carriers and the configured radio features to the wireless device (602) for use in the radio communication (6:5). Thereby, the network node (600) can utilize the full capabilities of the wireless device (602) when configuring the radio features while still respecting both the maximum capability limit per carrier and the total maximum capability limit.
US10004072B2 Wireless device for improving operating efficiency
A wireless device and an associated wireless device are proposed. The wireless device includes a first receiving circuit, a second receiving circuit and a detector. The first receiving circuit is arranged to receive signals in a first band. The second receiving circuit is arranged to selectively receive signals in the first band or signal reception in a second band according to a first control signal, wherein the second band is different from the first band. The detector is arranged to detect existence of a transmission signal in the second band to set the first control signal.
US10004063B2 PDSCH transmission method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention provide a PDSCH transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: detecting a downlink control channel for scheduling a PDSCH; determining a resource allocation scheme of the PDSCH according to a DCI format of the downlink control channel for scheduling the PDSCH and an attribute of a carrier for carrying the PDSCH; and decoding the PDSCH according to the resource allocation scheme of the PDSCH and a transmission scheme of the PDSCH. The embodiments of the present invention provide an effective solution to PDSCH transmission.
US10004060B2 Scheduling systems and methods for wireless networks
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a base station in a wireless network. The method includes receiving from a user device a request to reconfigure already-active uplink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS). The already-active uplink SPS grants the user device a resource block allocation (RBA) and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for periodic uplink transmissions. The already-active uplink SPS includes a time-interval parameter, the time-interval parameter specifying a time interval between the periodic uplink transmissions. The request includes information related to a proposed adjustment of the time-interval parameter. The method further includes reconfiguring the already-active uplink SPS. The reconfiguring includes modifying the time-interval parameter based, at least in part, on the information.
US10004058B2 Reducing the effects of interference experienced by a communication device
Disclosed are methods for allowing a wireless communication device (or “user equipment” or “UE”) to receive signaling information when there is a power imbalance between a primary cell (“Pcell”) and a New Carrier Type (“NCT”) secondary cell (“Scell”). In one aspect, the UE reduces its downlink bandwidth to cover only a carrier of the Pcell, receives control signaling information, if present, and then increases its bandwidth to cover carriers of both the Pcell and Scell.
US10004056B2 Requesting a location of a user
A user sends a location request to a user of a group that requests the user's current location. For example, one family member may send a location request to another family member that is part of their family group for their current location. The user receiving the request may accept the location request or reject the location request. When the location request is reject, the requesting user is not provided with the current location information of the user. When the location request is accepted, the requesting user is provided with the current location information of the user. In addition to providing the location information to the requesting user, the location may also be shared with other members of the group. For example, a message may be sent to each of the family members that are part of the group that informs them that a member has updated their location.
US10004051B2 Apparatus and method for controlling traffic of electronic device
An apparatus and a method for controlling traffic of a second electronic device, which interworks with a first electronic device, in the first electronic device is provided. The method includes detecting occurrence of an event which needs to be notified to the second electronic device, determining a time to notify the occurrence of the event based on a driving time of the second electronic device, and transmitting an event occurrence notification signal to the second electronic device at the determined notification time.
US10004043B2 Method for controlling electric power in wireless communication system supporting change in purpose of wireless resource and apparatus therefor
The present invention proposes a method for controlling electric power of a user equipment in a wireless communication system supporting change in use of a radio resource, and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, the method comprises a step of receiving, from a base station, a transmission power control (TPC) command for a first radio resource set and a second radio resource set, wherein the first radio resource set is configured to dynamic changes of a use of radio resources in the first radio resource set, the second radio resource set is configured to prevent dynamic changes of a use of wireless resources in the second radio resource set, and different open-loop control parameters are applied to the first radio resource set and the second radio resource set and the same closed-loop control parameters are applied to the first radio resource set and the second radio resource set.
US10004041B2 Communication apparatus performing communication operation based on a detected temperature, control method thereof and storage medium
A communication apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate data with an external apparatus; a detection unit configured to detect a temperature of the communication apparatus; and a control unit configured to cause the detection unit to detect a temperature of the communication apparatus, perform, in a case where the detected temperature is lower than a predetermined temperature, a first communication operation performed without suspending the data transfer, and perform, in a case where the detected temperature is higher than or equal to the predetermined temperature, a second communication operation performed while suspending the data transfer, wherein the control unit sets, based on a communication state of the communication unit, a suspension time of the data transfer when performing the second communication operation.
US10004036B2 Managing power consumption in tree-based TDMA multi-hop wireless networks
Method for managing power consumption in tree-based, Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA), multi-hop wireless networks. The method includes at each node set the steps of: relinquishing its initial role in the network if a condition related to the power consumption of the node is not met; and adopting a new role in the network according to a TDMA protocol of said network; wherein the node stops emitting beacons to a child node thereof and/or stops acknowledging beacons from a parent node, and wherein each node has a lower power consumption in this new role than it had in its initial role.
US10004035B2 Method of managing data transmission for wireless system
A method of managing data transmission for a receiving terminal of a first wireless system wherein the first wireless system coexists with at least one second wireless system includes receiving a transmission schedule of each of the at least one second wireless system; determining a usable time period for the first wireless system according to the transmission schedule of each of the at least one second wireless system; and sending a clear to send (CTS) to self signal or a power saving signal to indicate an interruption of the usable time period according to a length of the usable time period.
US10004027B2 Access control method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an access control method and apparatus. The method includes: generating, by a network device, an access control message that includes an access control parameter, where the access control message is used to instruct user equipment to determine, according to the access control parameter after receiving the access control message, whether to initiate access, and the access control parameter includes an access control parameter based on a traffic class or an access control parameter based on an access class; and sending, by the network device, the access control message to the UE. The technical solutions of the present disclosure may reduce a signaling burden on a network and may enable the network device to provide more precise and flexible control of the UE.
US10004022B2 Handover signaling using an MBSFN channel in a cellular communication system
A method of handover signaling in a cellular communication system is disclosed. Prior to a user equipment (UE) undergoing a cell-to-cell transition, a target node transmits handover-related signaling in one or more Multicast Broadcast Single Frequency Network (M8SFN) subframes in order to reduce handover delay. The cellular communication system includes a source node configured to transfer a handover (HO) request to the target node. The (HO) request corresponds to a (UE) presently being served by the source node. The target node is configured to transmit (HO) information to the (UE) over at least one MBSFN subframe in response to the (HO) request.
US10004021B2 System and method for providing services to a user equipment in an inter-national location
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for one of restricting at least one service and providing one of the at least one service and a differential service to a subscriber, the method comprising steps of: receiving a connection request from a user equipment [102]; determining a location status of the subscriber, wherein the location status comprises one of an intra-national location and an inter-national location; generating one of a positive response in an event a source IP address is identified in a pre-stored list of source IP address and a negative response is in an event the source IP address is not identified in the pre-stored list of source IP address; and one of restricting the at least one service and providing one of the at least one service and the differential service to the subscriber.
US10004019B2 RAN for multimedia delivery
A method is disclosed for delivering a packet data flow across a radio access network (RAN), comprising: receiving, at an upstream gateway node, an Internet Protocol (IP) data flow; sending, from the upstream gateway node, the IP data flow to a RAN; receiving, at the upstream gateway node, a congestion control message from the RAN based on a request for retransmission of the IP data flow at the RAN to a user equipment (UE); and performing, at the upstream gateway node, IP flow control of the IP data flow based on the congestion control message.
US10004016B2 MME reselection method and MME
An MME reselection method and an MME are provided, so that UE can use a correct MME in time to execute an access request procedure. The method includes: receiving an access request message sent by user equipment UE, where the access request message carries identity information of the UE (801); determining, according to the identity information of the UE, a type of an MME that the UE needs to access (802); reselecting a second MME according to the type of the MME that the UE needs to access (803); and forwarding the access request message to the second MME, so that the second MME executes an access request procedure of the UE (804). The embodiments of the present invention is applicable to the field of communications technologies.
US10004015B2 Communications system
A target communications device receiving from a source communications device a notification that a user communications device is to be handed over from that source communications device, provides the source communications device with multiple component carrier information for use by the user communications device. The multiple component carrier information includes information indicating to the user communications device which of the multiple component carriers is to be used for initial access. The multiple component carrier information may be component carrier indexes. Communication devices may exchange component carrier indexes during a setup or updating procedure such as an X2 setup or updating procedure.
US10004014B2 Wireless communication device as context forwarding entity
The invention relates to network nodes, a wireless communication device, WCD, and methods therein for handover. The method in the WCD comprises obtaining, from a source network node, information comprising at least part of a WCD Context related to the WCD. The method further comprises connecting to a target network node, and forwarding the obtained information to the target network node, enabling the target network node to derive the WCD Context based on the information.
US10004012B2 Special handling of low priority cells
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided low priority cells. In one aspect there is provided a method, which may include performing, by a user equipment, monitoring of at least a second carrier during times not associated with measurement gaps, when the second carrier is designated as a low priority carrier.
US10004011B2 Mobility state enhancements
In a cellular communications network, a measurement report is requested to enable handover conditions to be established. In one approach, a measurement report is based on satisfaction of an event. Signalling for this measurement report includes one or more parameters on the basis of which the event is defined, including a trigger time defining a time period over which the event should be satisfied for the report to be triggered. In one approach, speed dependent scaling is applied to a parameter other than the trigger time, in the defined event. In another approach, a handover scenario, concerning the nature of the cell in which the user equipment is operational, and optionally that of a neighboring cell, governs the definition of a trigger event.
US10004010B2 User equipment selection for detecting physical cell identifier confusion
Measurement reports are received from a plurality of user equipment (UE) in communication with a first base station on a network. The measurement reports include data characterizing physical cell identifiers (PCIDs) of neighboring base stations and signal strengths associated with the neighboring base stations. Relative positions of the plurality of UEs are determined based on the received measurement reports. The plurality of UEs are associated into one or more groups comprising UEs having similar relative positions. A UE is selected from each of the one or more groups for transmission of a request to resolve at least some of the neighboring base station cell global identities (CGIs). At least one of the receiving, determining, associating, and selecting are performed by at least one data processor forming part of at least one computing system. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US10004009B2 Device and method of handling a handover
A communication device for handling a handover comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise receiving a handover command via a radio resource control (RRC) connection on a first cell from a first base station (BS); synchronizing to a downlink (DL) of a second cell indicated in the handover command; transmitting a handover complete message to the second cell in response to the handover command without performing a random access (RA) procedure to the second cell, if the handover command indicates no need to perform the RA procedure to the second cell; and determining that the handover is successful, when detecting a Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) on a DL channel from the second cell in a first time period.
US10004006B2 Secondary base station bearer change
A secondary base station method, secondary base station, master base station method, master base station and computer program products are disclosed. The secondary base station method comprises: upon it being determined that the secondary base station is to perform a protocol layer re-establishment, permitting continued transmission of data packets to user equipment over the secondary base station bearer. In this way, service interruption can be minimized since pending data packets may continue to be transmitted while the re-establishment takes, which minimizes service interruption and reduces the number of data packets which will need to be retransmitted.
US10004005B2 Fast reselection from a current cell to a higher-priority cell in wireless communication
A method and mechanism for operating user equipment to enable efficient reselection from a first cell conforming to a first wireless standard to a second cell conforming to a second wireless standard. The second standard may require a higher transmission rate for packet-switched data than the first standard. While camping on the first cell, the user equipment makes measurements of received power from the second cell. A reselection timer is started when a measurement is detected that is sufficiently strong. In response to an access state transition to a non-active protocol state (such as UMTS-PCH), the UE saves the timer value. When data becomes available for transmission, an additional measurement is made on the second cell, and reselection to the second cell may be performed immediately if the additional measurement and the saved timer value pass one or more reselection criteria.
US10004002B2 Method for D2D radiocommunication
The present disclosure relates to a method of a first radio device in non-network assisted device-to-device (D2D) communication with a second radio device using a first frequency resource and a first communication protocol. The method comprises determining that the first radio device is within coverage of a cellular network. The method also comprises connecting to the cellular network. The method also comprises sending a message to the second radio device, informing said second radio device that the first radio device is within coverage of the cellular network. The method also comprises receiving a message from the cellular network comprising information about a second frequency resource and a second communication protocol. The method also comprises initiating a handover of the D2D communication from the first frequency resource and communication protocol to the second frequency resource and communication protocol.
US10003998B2 Systems and methods for reduced overhead in wireless communication systems
Systems and methods are disclosed which implement one or more overhead reduction technique, if channel conditions favorable to implementation of overhead reduction are present. The one or more overhead reduction technique may have one or more restriction corresponding to the channel for which the overhead reduction technique is implemented. The one or more overhead reduction technique implemented may include time-domain bundling, frequency-domain bundling, and pattern adaptation. Pattern adaptation may include pattern code-domain reduction, pattern timing-domain reduction, and pattern frequency-domain reduction.
US10003987B2 Method for transmitting data to a wireless device in a communications network which applies a combined cell deployment
The embodiments herein relates to a method in a communications network. A first probing pilot signal is transmitted from a first network node to a wireless device. The first probing pilot signal is unique for the first network node. A second signal is transmitted from the first network node to the wireless device. The second signal is unique for the first network node. The first probing pilot signal together the second signal enables identification of that the first network node is suitable to transmit data to the wireless device. A first and second set of channel state parameters is transmitted from the wireless device to the central network node which identifies that the first network node is suitable to transmit data to the wireless device since it is substantially close to the first network node.
US10003983B2 Integrated circuit for spreading response signal
A radio communication apparatus receives control information on one or more control channel elements (CCEs) with consecutive CCE number(s). The radio communication apparatus first-spreads a response signal with a sequence defined by a cyclic shift value that is determined among a plurality of cyclic shift values from an index of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), which is associated with a first CCE number of the one or more CCEs, and second-spreads the first-spread response signal with an orthogonal sequence that is determined among a plurality of orthogonal sequences from the index. One of cyclic shift values used for an orthogonal sequence is determined from an index of the PUCCH, which is associated with an odd CCE number, and another one of the cyclic shift values used for the same orthogonal sequence is determined from an index of the PUCCH, which is associated with an even CCE number.
US10003982B2 Method and apparatus for telemetry system data rate optimization
A method for transmitting data, the method including receiving data from one or more data units, determining a total data rate based on data obtained from the one or more data units, determining an optimum data rate for packet transmission based on minimizing overhead data included in the packet transmission where, when the total data rate exceeds a predetermined threshold, a first portion of data is automatically removed from the data obtained from the one or more data units for placement in a data storage buffer and a second portion of the data obtained from the one or more data units remains in the packet transmission such that the total data rate is decreased and transmitting the second portion of the data obtained from the one or more data units at the optimum data rate.
US10003979B2 Method for generating signal for reducing interference in user-centralized virtual cell in cloud wireless connection network environment, and apparatus therefor
A method for generating a signal for reducing interference in a user-centralized virtual cell, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: transmitting a reference signal to a terminal within a user-centralized virtual cell; receiving, from the terminal, a first channel measurement report message including channel information measured by the terminal on the basis of the reference signal; exchanging, with the first channel measurement report message, a second channel measurement report message that another base station within the user-centralized cell receives from another terminal other than the terminal, thereby sharing a channel measurement report message with the another base station; and generating a signal for reducing the interference on the basis of the first channel measurement report and the second channel measurement report message.
US10003978B2 Mobile communication system, radio base station, radio mobile station and mobile communication method
A mobile communication system that includes a first communication system, which features a user terminal that is present in a moving object, a first radio base station that forms a cell in the moving object, and a first core network that is connected with an external network, and a second communication system, which features a radio mobile station that is provided in the moving object, a second radio base station that forms a cell on the path of the movement of the moving object, and a second core network that is connected with the second radio base station. The first radio base station and the radio mobile station are connected via a user-plane interface and a control-plane interface between the radio base stations and the core networks.
US10003976B2 Resource selection method and apparatus
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a resource selection method and an apparatus, which are applied to the communications field, and can resolve a collision problem occurring, and improve transmit quality of a discovery signal of a terminal. The method comprises: obtaining, by the terminal, a transmit probability of a discovery signal, where the transmit probability is a probability that the terminal starts to transmit the discovery signal on a predetermined discovery frame by using a discovery resource pool; generating, by the terminal, an indication signal corresponding to the transmit probability; and if the indication signal is a transmit indication signal, starting to transmit, by the terminal, the discovery signal on the predetermined discovery frame by using the discovery resource pool. The present disclosure is applicable to frequency-time resource selection by a terminal for transmitting a discovery signal.
US10003973B2 Aircraft wireless network for fixed aircraft components
A method and apparatus for managing security in a wireless network for fixed aircraft components, having a wireless access point located in the aircraft and defining the boundaries of the wireless network, a wireless remote node fixedly located within the aircraft and communicating with the wireless network, and a fixed security node.
US10003972B2 Systems, methods, and devices for application aware access control for communication on a mobile network
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive, from a network, a first access control message and a second access control message. The first access control message corresponds to a first access control service, and the second access control message corresponds to a second access control service. The first and second access control messages include access control information for controlling access to the network for at least one application on the UE. The UE is also configured to determine a combined access level for the at least one application based on the first and second access control messages and to limit access to wireless communications for the at least one application based on the combined access level.
US10003971B2 Compartmentalized multi-factor authentication for mobile devices
Techniques for obtaining compartmentalized authenticated access to a feature on an electronic mobile device comprising a camera are presented. The techniques may include obtaining data representing a printable authentication pattern, wherein the printable authentication pattern encodes access information, storing in electronic persistent memory the access information in association with data representing the feature, receiving, at the mobile telephone, a user request to access the feature, capturing, using a camera of the mobile device, an image of an input pattern printed on to a substrate, decoding the input pattern to obtain captured information, determining, by retrieving the access information, that the captured information matches the access information, and providing access to the feature on the mobile device as a consequence of at least the determining.
US10003968B2 Apparatus and system effectively using a plurality of authentication servers
A communication apparatus including: a plurality of physical ports to be coupled to different terminals via a network; a plurality of authentication processing units configured to execute an authentication process; and a controller configured to determine which one of the physical ports on which a packet was received from a terminal, to specify a preset authentication process corresponding to the determined physical port on which a packet was received, and to distribute the specified authentication process of the packet from the terminal to an authentication processing unit for executing.
US10003961B2 Wireless communication system and wireless terminal device
A wireless communication system includes a terminal capability information reception unit to receive and extract terminal capability information, the terminal capability information indicating at least one of an uplink frequency bandwidth as a capability of a wireless terminal device and a downlink frequency bandwidth as a capability of the wireless terminal device; a terminal category setting unit to identify a terminal category to which the wireless terminal device belongs, based on the terminal capability information; and a link setting unit to set a link between a base station and the wireless terminal device and to transmit a control signal depending on the link setting between the base station and the wireless terminal device, based on the terminal category set by the terminal category setting unit.
US10003960B2 Systems and methods for restricting a mobile communication device
A system and method for restricting cell phone use while operating a vehicle. The operation and functionality of a subject mobile communication device (MCD) is restricted during operation of a subject vehicle. A control/monitor communication device (controller) installs a functionality restriction application (FRA) on the subject MCD and registers the MCD to a server. The registration process associates a specific vehicle and specific functionality restrictions with the subject MCD. The vehicle may be associated with the subject MCD via an on-board module (OBM) integrated with an on-board diagnostic device of the vehicle. When the vehicle is operational, the OBM transmits a signal to the server. The server accesses the registration information and transmits a signal to the associated MCD. The signal activates the FRA as well as communication functionality so that if the subject MCD is within a threshold distance of the OBM it is restricted as specified.
US10003957B2 Method and apparatus for supporting location privacy protection in wireless access system supporting small cell environment
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for allocating and updating an identifier in order to protect the location privacy of a user equipment (UE), and apparatuses for supporting the same. As an embodiment of the present invention, a method for protecting the location privacy of a UE in a wireless access system may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a mobility management entity (MME), an access acceptance message including a globally unique temporary identifier (GUTI) assigned so as not to expose an IMSI of the UE and update period information indicating an update period of the GUTI; determining whether to update the GUTI on the basis of the update period information; transmitting a GUTI update request message to the MME when the update period indicated by the update period information is reached; and receiving a GUTI update message including a new updated GUTI, in response to the GUTI update request message.
US10003954B2 Method and apparatus for distributive mobility management
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for managing the mobility of a terminal in a mobile agent according to a method for distributive mobility management, and the method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step for detecting a change in location information of a terminal according to the movement of the terminal and storing the changed location information in a first storage unit; a step for storing, in a second storage unit, an index of the first storage unit in which the changed location information is stored; and a step for transmitting, to another mobile agent, an index value stored in the second storage unit at a point in time at which a predetermined condition is satisfied, and initializing the second storage unit.
US10003952B2 Device to-device (D2D) discovery
A method of operating a first wireless communication device to perform D2D discovery includes obtaining multiple discovery message detection results, and determining a D2D discovery status of a second wireless communication device based on the multiple discovery message detection results. Using multiple discovery message detection results to determine the D2D discovery status of the second wireless communication device significantly increases the reliability of D2D discovery, thereby increasing the likelihood that a device available for D2D communication will be detected, while reducing the likelihood of false detections.
US10003950B2 ID kits for personal automation, and charging units therefor
An ID kits for personal automation comprise: a wireless communication module for performing wireless communication with an external wireless communication device; a microcomputer for performing an operation according to a program configured according to a signal of the wireless communication device via the wireless communication and outputting the result of the performance to the wireless communication module; and a first battery for supplying power to the microcomputer, wherein each ID kit is given a unique number, which is then registered with only one wireless communication device, and thus can wirelessly communicate only with the registered wireless communication device.
US10003942B2 Automatic friend connection within a social network
A computer-implemented method for recommending a friend for a network utilizing a host site. The method includes obtaining, using a processor system, a first audio recording from a first user device associated with a first member having a first member profile affiliated with the host site and a second audio recording from a second user device associated with a second member having a second member profile affiliated with the host site. Determining if the first and second user are in proximity by comparing the first and second audio recordings; and based on a determination that the first and second users are in proximity, initiating steps for associating the first member profile with the second member profile via the host site.
US10003941B2 Electronic device and its wireless network connection method
A wireless network connection method for an electronic device is provided, in which a first signal is transmitted to additional electronic device and is utilized to identify the electronic device. When the additional electronic device identifies the electronic device through the first signal, it establishes wireless communication between the electronic device and the additional electronic device. A second signal is transmitted to the additional electronic device. The second signal is an audio signal to instruct the additional electronic device to maintain the wireless communication.
US10003940B1 Call forwarding and routing back to phone after contact list update
A call is received by a device without, or with limited, information about the calling party. The call is then forwarded to another device where more calling party information is determined (such as by using the automated number information (ANI) protocol) or a database of information associated with phone numbers). These additional data are sent to the device of the called party and are used to populate a contact list on the device with these additional data. Then the call is forwarded to the called party again, and the device of the called party now reports the data stored in the contact list in response to receiving the call.
US10003938B2 Easy location sharing
Systems and methods for sharing location information during a message conversation are provided. An electronic device detects a location-sharing request from a first participant of a message conversation to share first participant location information with a second participant. The device then enables the second participant to obtain the first participant location information during a predetermined location-sharing time period. In response to detecting interaction by one of the first participant and the second participant with the message conversation during the predetermined location-sharing time period, the device extends the predetermined location-sharing time period.
US10003937B2 Text messaging to and from cable services system devices
Routing of short message service (SMS) communications from a networked communication device to a networked cable television (CATV) services system device (e.g., set-top box STB) is provided. SMS messages may be sent to a user's wireline phone, mobile phone, or other communication device as identified by a unique identification number (UIN). Upon identifying if the intended destination device is operative to receive SMS messages or if a provision has been made to route an incoming SMS message, the SMS message may be routed to a networked cable services system device (e.g., a set-top box or CATV-enabled telephone) associated with an account of the intended destination device. The cable services system device may receive an SMS message and may be operative to render the message on a display. In addition, the device may also be operative to send SMS messages.
US10003933B2 Method and apparatus for synchronizing mobile station media flows during a collaborative session
A method and apparatus are described for synchronizing mobile station (i.e., wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)) media flows during a collaboration session. Inter-WTRU transfer request messages, flow addition request messages and session update request messages may be exchanged between a plurality of WTRUs and a session continuity control application server (SCC-AS). Each of the messages may include a session description protocol (SDP) attribute line containing time synchronization information (e.g., a presentation time offset (PTO) information element (IE), a media flow group identity (ID) and a synchronization tolerance IE). The SCC-AS may update the time synchronization information and include the updated information in messages it sends to the WTRUs, which may re-synchronize their respective media flows based on the updated time synchronization information.
US10003931B2 Method for retrieval of unrecalled information from digital advertisement
Proposed is a method for retrieval of unrecalled AD which was missed by the viewer from fixing it in a specific APP by pushing an activation button on the mobile electronic device at the time of visual demonstration seen by the viewer. The method consists of the opening an owner's account on the Internet server linked with the APP; composing a listing of the sequential groups of the visual digital signals; activating the system within a certain time “t” after completion of a selected portion of the series of digital signals which includes the AD being sought, reproducing the listing of the sequential groups of visual digital signals on the mobile electronic communication device, selecting a group that corresponds to the unrecalled AD; and reproducing the selected group on the mobile electronic communication device for viewing the unrecalled AD.
US10003929B2 Location based assisting apparatuses, methods and computer readable mediums
An apparatus includes at least one processor and a transceiver. The at least one processor is configured to execute computer readable instructions to: acquire first location information representing locations of a plurality of user terminals, second location information representing a location of at least one vehicle, and third location information representing a location of a destination of the plurality of user terminals; and determine a route from the location of the at least one vehicle to the location of the destination based on the first location information, the second location information and the third location information, wherein the route includes the location of each of the plurality of user terminals. The transceiver is configured to transmit the route to the plurality of user terminals.
US10003921B2 Method and apparatus for searching for proximity service so as to provide proximity service
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for supporting a proximity service (ProSe) of a first network entity in a wireless communication system. More particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: a first network entity receiving a request for location information related to a first terminal; transmitting a paging message to the first terminal when the first terminal is in an idle state; receiving a first response message corresponding to the paging message; and transmitting a second response message corresponding to a service request on the basis of the first response message.
US10003920B2 Notifications based on device presence
An architecture is provided that can facilitate and/or transmit notifications based upon device presence techniques in connection with a wireless communications network. For example, when certain mobile devices register with a particular network entity (e.g., a femtocell) that services a particular target location (e.g., place of residence), then such registration can be leveraged to indicate presence at the target location. Accordingly, notifications can be delivered to custodian devices that indicate the presence information if certain predetermined conditions or criteria are satisfied.
US10003916B2 Method and system for determining a means of communication between mobile electronic devices
A mobile application for most appropriate means of communications enables the user to locate a contact and determine the most appropriate way to reach the contact. The user may populate the user's contact list with information such as the names of contacts, their cellphone numbers, and their e-mail addresses. When preparing to communicate with someone on the contact list, the user causes a query to be sent to the contact's electronic device, which in turn sends a GPS query to acquire location information and sends it to the user. The user's application uses the location information to determine the nature of the contact's location and displays an icon corresponding to the type of location, such as a school, a library, a vehicle, or a restaurant. The user may select a communication method which is appropriate for the type of location or pursue some other course of action.
US10003915B2 Frame time synchronization in a wireless local area network
A position location system based on a wireless local area network such as an IEEE 802.11 network is described. The system determines position of mobile tags attached to assets or people. IEEE 802.11 enabled zone tags are installed to assist in positioning. The system aligns frame timing of zone tags to that of an associated basic service set (BSS). The system computes the frame timing offsets between adjacent BSSs, and utilizes the frame timing offsets in scheduling range measurements between zone tags and mobile tags. A set of zone tags which are in close proximity of a first zone tag and able to receive signals from the first zone tag is identified. Frame timing of all zone tags in a network are aligned.
US10003914B2 Communication device and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A communication device may include an NFC interface, a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium and instruct the communication device to store, in a case where a state of the communication device is a first state, first data in the NFC interface and to store, in a case where the state of the communication device is a second state, the second data in the NFC interface. The NFC interface may establish a first communication link between the communication device and a first external device and transmit the first data to the first external device via the first communication link. The NFC interface may establish a second communication link between the communication device and a second external device and transmit the second data to the second external device via the second communication link by using the NFC system.
US10003907B2 Processing spatially diffuse or large audio objects
Diffuse or spatially large audio objects may be identified for special processing. A decorrelation process may be performed on audio signals corresponding to the large audio objects to produce decorrelated large audio object audio signals. These decorrelated large audio object audio signals may be associated with object locations, which may be stationary or time-varying locations. For example, the decorrelated large audio object audio signals may be rendered to virtual or actual speaker locations. The output of such a rendering process may be input to a scene simplification process. The decorrelation, associating and/or scene simplification processes may be performed prior to a process of encoding the audio data.
US10003906B2 Determining and using room-optimized transfer functions
A device for determining room-optimized transfer functions for a listening room serving for room-optimized post-processing of audio signals in spatial production, is configured to analyze room acoustics of the listening room and to determine, based on the analysis of the room acoustics, the room-optimized transfer functions for the listening room where the spatial reproduction by means of a binaural close-range sound transducer is to take place. The spatial reproduction of the audio signals by means of the binaural close-range sound transducer may then be emulated using known head-related transfer functions und using the room-optimized transfer functions, wherein a room to be synthesized may be emulated based on the head-related transfer functions, and wherein the listening room may be emulated based on the room-optimized transfer functions.
US10003904B2 Method and device for processing binaural audio signal generating additional stimulation
Disclosed is a binaural audio signal processing device. The binaural audio signal processing device includes a binaural renderer and an extra exciter. The binaural renderer receives an audio signal, and outputs a binaural-rendered audio signal by performing binaural rendering on the received audio signal. The extra exciter generates a stimulation to a body of a user, wherein the stimulation corresponds to the binaural-rendered audio signal.
US10003903B2 Methods for determining relative locations of wireless loudspeakers
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for determining relative locations of wireless loudspeakers and performing channel mapping thereof. An audio processing component utilizes sounds produced by wireless loudspeakers during setup/installation procedures, which are received by a microphone at locations in an acoustic space, to determine an amount of time between when the audio signal is initially transmitted and when the microphone signal is received. The audio processing component also utilizes wireless timing signals provided by a wireless transceiver, at locations in the acoustic space, to wireless loudspeakers and then back to the wireless transceiver to determine an amount of time between transmission and reception by the wireless transceiver. The timing delays are used to determine the locations of the wireless loudspeakers in the acoustic space. Based on the determined locations, the audio processing component generates indications of correct or incorrect wireless loudspeaker placements, and performs audio channel mapping.
US10003896B2 Method of exchanging data packages of different sizes between first and second portable communication devices
A method of exchanging data packages between first and second portable communication devices over a bi-directional wireless communication channel, where at least one of the first and second portable communication devices comprises a hearing instrument, includes: generating, by the first portable communication device, a plurality of data packages that includes a first data package, wherein a first subset of the plurality of data packages belongs to a first packet category comprising audio data, and a second subset of the plurality of data packages belongs to a second packet category without audio data; and transmitting the plurality of data packages from the first portable communication device to the second portable communication device; wherein a size of the data packages in the second subset belonging to the second packet category is smaller than a size of the data packages in the first subset belonging to the first packet category.
US10003875B2 Phantom power supply device
A phantom power supply device supplies a power supply current to a condenser microphone from a positive terminal of the first DC power supply through a hot and cold supply resistors in the hot and the cold signal line, and includes a remote control switch. A negative terminal, being connected in series to a negative terminal of the first DC power supply in a voltage-adding manner, of the second DC power supply is connected to the switch, and an added voltage of the first and second DC supply is fed to the current drive element on the condenser microphone by an ON operation of the remote control switch. This configuration enables the LEDs connected in series mounted on the condenser microphone to be lit up with enough light emitting luminance even when a low voltage, such as 12 V, is selected as a phantom power supply voltage.
US10003867B2 Disjoint path computation systems and methods in optical networks
Systems and methods for computing disjoint paths in a network considering continuity constraints include, responsive to a request for disjoint paths in the network which are subject to the continuity constraints, initializing a plurality of variables associated with a graph defining the network where edges constitute nodes and vertices constitute links; determining a first path through the graph; determining an auxiliary directed graph based on the first path; and determining a second path through the auxiliary directed graph, wherein the second path is determined by considering entry into cut edges, exit from cut edges, and a destination in the auxiliary directed graph and the plurality of variables are adjusted based on the entry, the exit, and the destination to address the continuity constraints. This approach concept applies to not just continuity constraints but to any constraints, which are non-additive in nature; the objective function is still additive for Shortest Path First (SPF).
US10003862B2 Wireless sensor reader
A wireless sensor reader is provided to interface with a wireless sensor. The wireless sensor reader transmits a narrowband, fixed frequency excitation pulse to cause the wireless sensor to generate a ring signal. The ring signal corresponds to the value of the physical parameter being sensed. The wireless sensor reader receives and amplifies the ring signal and sends the signal to a phase-locked loop. A voltage-controlled oscillator in the phase-locked loop locks onto the ring signal frequency and generates a count signal at a frequency related to the ring signal frequency. The voltage-controlled oscillator is placed into a hold mode where the control voltage is maintained constant to allow the count signal frequency to be determined. The low power, simple circuitry required to generate the excitation pulse allows the reader to be a small, battery operated unit. Alternative methods of frequency determination are also disclosed.
US10003860B2 Method and apparatus related to variable duration media segments
A method and apparatus for an adaptive bit rate system. The method may include streaming media content at a server, determining a discontinuity in the streaming media content based on boundaries corresponding to changes in the streaming media content, and dividing the streaming media content into a plurality of variable duration segments, wherein a duration of one of the plurality of variable duration segments is to be adjusted based on the determined discontinuity to cause the one of the plurality of variable duration segments to end at the determined discontinuity in the streaming media content. The method may further include transmitting the plurality of variable duration segments of the streaming media content from the server.
US10003859B2 Distribution device and distribution method
A distribution device includes a distribution unit that distributes a content including a control program to a user terminal. The control program causes the user terminal to execute an acquisition procedure for acquiring an area of the content, the area being displayed by a browser program, as a viewable area, a determination procedure for determining whether or not a display area where a video is displayed, the display area being included in the content, is located in the viewable area, and a playback procedure for starting playback of the video if the display area is located in the viewable area and the situation of the user terminal is a predetermined situation.
US10003858B2 Provisioning commercial-free media content
Provisioning commercial-free or break-free media content. Example types of media or media content may include advertising media, broadcast media, social media, news media, and etc. In a satellite broadcast television implementation, subscribers may be provided the ability to search for and optionally access commercial-free programming.
US10003854B2 Method and system for content recording and indexing
The present invention relates to a method for a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a method for a device of initiating actions on said device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a control point of initiating actions on a device in a communication network comprising at least two control point both adapted to control said device. Further, the present invention relates to a device in a communication network comprising at least two control points both adapted to control said device based on action requests received from a control point along with control point identification.
US10003853B2 System and methods for verifying and displaying a video segment via an online platform
A first set of questions to elicit a response from a first user may be obtained. In response to a selection of at least one question from the first set of questions, a first video segment may be obtained. A first capture date when the first video segment was captured may be obtained. The first capture date may be verified that it is within a threshold time period. If the first capture date is verified, the first video segment may be associated with a first profile associated with the first user. At least a portion of the first profile including the first video segment may be displayed via the online platform. A first selection may be received from a second client computing platform associated with a second user viewing the first profile. The first selection may indicate a binary interest for the first user based upon the first profile.
US10003852B2 Methods and apparatus for enabling synchronized content presentations using dynamically updated playlists
Methods and apparatus for allowing parties, e.g., individuals, at different locations to participate in an on-demand content delivery session are described. Dynamically updateable playlists are used to control content delivery to the session participants in a synchronized manner. Content may be delivered to different session participants from different servers with a different playlist corresponding to each session participant being used to control content delivery to the session participant's host platform, e.g., set top box. Either party may update the playlist with, optionally, each of the content delivery servers being controlled by a different or local copy of the jointly updateable play list. Thus, an inviting party and one or more joining parties are able to participate together in an on-demand session. While the participants may be served by the same or different content delivery servers, the parties are able to share images, audio, and/or video in a synchronized manner.
US10003850B2 Virtual channel table for a broadcast protocol and method of broadcasting and receiving broadcast signals using the same
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
US10003849B1 Personalized video on demand channels
Video on Demand (VOD) content is enjoyed by consumers, but its selection and delivery is often tedious for consumers and uses large amounts of bandwidth for service providers. By providing VOD channels that consumers may freely navigate, service providers not only improve the user experience for consumers, but may reduce the bandwidth needed to request and send navigation commands. VOD channels provide VOD content to consumers according to criteria and preferences set by the consumer, and allow navigation within a VOD channel, between separate VOD channels, and between menus and linear channels. Channel guides and viewing features are tailored for VOD channels to further improve the user experience.
US10003844B2 Automated retrieval of social media tags
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the retrieval of a social media tag associated with a content stream. A social media tag associated with a content stream received by a customer premise equipment (CPE) device may be detected and identified, and the social media tag may be presented to a user. The social media tag may be presented to a user along with the underlying multimedia content associated with the content stream, and/or may be delivered to a user device or account. A user interface including the identified social media tag may be presented to a user, and the user may be given the option to receive messages associated with the identified social media tag. Messages associated with the identified social media tag may be updated and presented to the user along with the underlying multimedia content.
US10003842B2 Auto video preview within a digital magazine
A computer implemented method enables presenting interesting and informative preview video of a video content item in a digital magazine. The method comprises steps of receiving a video content item from a content provider, e.g., a 2-minute video advertisement for a car from an advertiser, and analyzing the video content item. The video content item is segmented into multiple segments based on the analysis, e.g., scene changes detected with the video frames of the video content item. One or more segments are selected, e.g., based on their associated visual quality, and are combined to generate a preview video, e.g., a 10-second long video highlighting new features of the car. One or more transition segments can be added between segments to enhance user experience with the preview video. The preview video is provided to a client device for display and auto playback.
US10003840B2 System and method for providing watch-now functionality in a media content environment
Described herein are techniques for streaming digital media content, such as music, video, or television content. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for watch-now functionality. A media play logic at a media device controls playback of media content and advertisements as received from a media server, and can be configured for regular media play, or extended media play. Periodically, for example when input is received from a user to skip to a next media option for playback, the user can be prompted to watch an advertisement, in return for extended media play. Upon receiving an election by the user to watch the advertisement in return for extended media play, the media application plays the advertisement, and configures the media play logic for an extended period of advertisement-free media play.
US10003836B2 Systems and methods for improving accuracy in media asset recommendation models based on users' levels of enjoyment with respect to media assets
Methods and systems for determining an error value based on the user's expected level of enjoyment with respect to a specific media asset based on the user's level of enjoyment of other media assets, as determined using a model. User preference information is received from two data spaces that are managed by different content providers. User preference information from the two data spaces is normalized and an indication of similarity between two media assets is determined. The user's level of enjoyment with respect to a media asset is compared to an expected user's level of enjoyment with respect to the media asset received from a model and an error value is determined based on the comparison.
US10003834B1 Enhanced trick mode to enable presentation of information related to content being streamed
Described herein is an example apparatus for displaying information associated with content while streaming the content to a display device. The apparatus includes a memory having a database stored therein. The database stores metadata relating to the content. The metadata includes a trick mode index, trick mode images and a database of information associated with segments of the content. The apparatus also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the memory. In operation, in some embodiments, the processor streams the content for display on the display device. The processor implements a trick mode operation upon receiving an appropriate user request. During implementation of the trick mode operation, the processor receives command input requesting information associated with the content. Then, responsive to such command input, the processor retrieves information from the database of information associated with a segment of the content being featured on the display device when the command input was received, and displays the retrieved information on the display device.
US10003832B2 Selecting and providing of supplemental content for video transport stream
A method and system to facilitate localized replacement of one or more commercials or other instances of base content in a video feed with replacement-media delivered in a separate broadcast TV transport stream. A local TV station that broadcasts to an area covering a video program distributor (VPD) includes supplemental content, such as replacement commercials, within its broadcast in a manner that standard broadcast-TV receivers would disregard but that a equipment at the VPD will receive and process. The equipment at the VPD thus receives the local broadcast from the TV station and extracts from the broadcast the included supplemental content. And equipment at the VPD inserts the extracted supplemental content in place of one or more instances of base content in a transport stream that the VPD receives separately from a video-program source, so as to establish a modified transport stream for delivery to end-user TV receivers.
US10003831B2 Scheme for determining the locations and timing of advertisements and other insertions in media
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores one or more computer programs adapted to cause a processor based system to execute steps that include analyzing an image, identifying one or more faces in the image using a face recognition technique, designating at least one of the identified faces collectively as a first area of interest, and determining whether an insertion area exists in the image where additional content can be inserted without obstructing the first area of interest. Another computer program is adapted to cause a processor based system to execute steps that include determining whether the insertion area can be divided into two or more regions based on color. Methods and processor based apparatuses that perform one or more of these steps are also disclosed.
US10003830B1 Controller to manage streaming video of playback devices
Methods and apparatuses to manage network resources across a group of playback devices that share the same resources to control video quality across the group of playback devices are provided. A controller collects information about a plurality of playback devices wherein the playback devices share a network resource. The controller also collects information regarding the network resource. The controller allocates the network resource to deliver one or more requested video segments to one or more playback devices based on the information collected from the plurality of playback devices and the information collected regarding the network resource. By providing a controller that is aware of the available network resources and the specifications of the playback devices, the network resource can be managed in a way that improves the quality of experience for end users across all the playback devices while maximizing the efficiency of the network resources.
US10003828B2 Inheritance in sample array multitree division
A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision.
US10003826B2 Method of reducing noise of video signal
Disclosed is a method for reducing noise. The method comprises decoding a bitstream encoded with a first codec, acquiring Quantization Parameter (QP) values determined in a process of encoding the bitstream with the first codec, detecting a frame with noise by using the QP values and inputting the frame with noise to a predefined noise filter.
US10003825B2 Image processing apparatus and method
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of enhancing encoding efficiency while suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of encoding processing. The image processing apparatus includes an encoding mode setter that sets, in units of coding units having a hierarchical structure, whether a non-compression mode is to be selected as an encoding mode for encoding image data, the non-compression mode being an encoding mode in which the image data is output as encoded data, and an encoder that encodes the image data in units of the coding units in accordance with a mode set by the encoding mode setter. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US10003822B2 Error-resilient coder of image sequences and video
A method, computer system, and a computer program product is disclosed for encoding a sequence of frames as one or more compressed bitstreams, the method includes a processor obtaining a sequence of frames in an order and performing a wavelet transform on each frame of the sequence of frames independently in the order. The processor constructs a significant points list and an insignificant sets list, creating one or more spatial trees comprised of branch nodes of the list of insignificant sets for each frame of the sequence of frames. The processor initializes the significant points list and the list of insignificant sets for each frame and identifies a most significant bit in each frame and for each frame, selects at least one coding unit and creates a progressive significance map for coding. The processor writes a global header and a local header for the compressed bitstreams for each coding unit.
US10003821B2 Image encoding apparatus and method of controlling same
To suppress image degradation of a tile boundary while suppressing an increase of an amount of encoded data due to tile division. When performing a wavelet transform on a tile of interest, a wavelet transform unit performs a wavelet transform by referring to pixel data of the tile of interest and a neighboring tile that neighbors the tile of interest to obtain transformation coefficient data of a set resolution level. From transformation coefficient data obtained from the neighboring tile, the wavelet transform unit supplies a subsequent quantizing unit with transformation coefficient data of each resolution level that is closest to a boundary between the tile of interest and the neighboring tile, as well as all transformation coefficient data obtained from the tile of interest.
US10003812B2 Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU) and a graphics processing unit (GPU). The GPU obtains multiple blocks having a predetermined number of pixels. For each of the blocks, the GPU generates an intermediate block for which a spatial redundancy is removed. The GPU further outputs a portion of data of the intermediate block and specifying information corresponding thereto. The CPU reads the specifying information, and executes compression processing based on the specifying information. The CPU further reads the portion of the data corresponding to the specifying information.
US10003810B2 Method and apparatus of scalable video coding
A method and apparatus for coding video data using Inter prediction mode or Merge mode in a video coding system are disclosed, where the video data is configured into a Base Layer (BL) and an Enhancement Layer (EL), and the EL has higher spatial resolution or better video quality than the BL. In one embodiment, at least one information piece of motion information associated with one or more BL blocks in the BL is identified. A motion vector prediction (MVP) candidate list or a Merge candidate list for the selected block in the EL is then determined, where said at least one information piece associated with said one or more BL blocks in the BL is included in the MVP candidate list or the Merge candidate list. The input data associated with the selected block is coded or decoded using the MVP candidate list or the Merge candidate list.
US10003806B2 Optimized plenoptic image encoding
At least one embodiment of a method of encoding a plenoptic image includes: decomposing the plenoptic image into sub-aperture images, encoding at least a part of a first sub-aperture image using a set of encoding parameters, and encoding at least a part of a second sub-aperture image using a restricted number of parameters among the set of encoding parameters. Embodiments make it possible to reduce the encoding complexity and run-time while keeping good encoding performances.
US10003805B2 Video encoding and decoding method accompanied with filtering, and device thereof
A video decoding method includes determining, from among a first sample and a second sample with different color components, at least one second sample that is used to correct a value of the first sample; determining a filter parameter set based on a band including the value of the first sample, wherein the band is from among a plurality of bands determined by dividing a total range of sample values into signaled intervals or predetermined intervals; and filtering a value of the at least one second sample by using the determined filter parameter set and correcting the value of the first sample by using a value obtained by the filtering, wherein the first sample is any one of a luma sample and a chroma sample, and the second sample is any one of the luma sample and the chroma sample that is not the first sample.
US10003804B2 Video coding device using quantizing an orthogonal transform coefficient
The quantization unit calculates the number of bits of location information determined based on the location of a coefficient level to be significant first in order of transmission and included in the image block, calculates the number of value information bits of a coefficient level to be significant, and sets a coefficient level to be significant in which the number of location information bits and the number of value information bits meet a predetermined condition to 0.
US10003801B2 Image capturing apparatus that encodes and method of controlling the same
An image capturing apparatus has an encoding unit that encodes by generating a plane of each of color components that configure image data, and independently for each of the planes of the color components, performing frequency conversion processing, quantization processing, and entropy encoding, and a control unit that controls the encoding unit. The control unit decide whether or not to correct a quantization coefficient that is used in quantization processing for a plane of each color component obtained by the image sensor based on an ISO sensitivity or exposure information for a time of capturing; and in a case when it decides that a quantization coefficient will be corrected, determines, based on a distribution of a histogram of a plane of each color component, a quantization coefficient used in quantization processing for the respective color component.
US10003800B2 Image coding method, image decoding method, image coding apparatus, and image decoding apparatus
An image coding method, comprising: subtracting a prediction signal from the input image signal for each coding unit, thereby generating respective prediction error signals; performing orthogonal transform and quantization on a corresponding one of the prediction error signals for each transform unit, eventually generating quantization coefficients; and coding pieces of management information indicating a structure of the transform units and the quantization coefficients into a tree structure. Each of the transform units corresponds to a corresponding one of leaf nodes in the tree structure. In the coding, for each leaf node, management information and a quantization coefficient are coded, eventually generating a coded signal in which the coded management information and the coded quantization coefficient are arranged in succession for each leaf node.
US10003799B2 Quality driven video re-encoding
A method including obtaining a first plurality of decode-independent segments corresponding to an original video bit-stream, re-encoding each one of the first plurality of decode-independent segments according to a quality criterion, giving rise to a second plurality of decode-independent segments; and generating an output video bitstream including a third plurality of decode-independent segments, wherein each segment in the third plurality of decode-independent segments is selected from either the first plurality of decode-independent segments or from the second plurality of decode-independent segments using a selection criterion that is related at least to a segment's bit-rate.
US10003798B2 Method and apparatus for reduction of deblocking filter
A method and apparatus for deblocking reconstructed video in a video coding system. The method receives reconstructed pixel data, wherein the reconstructed pixel data is configured into LCUs (largest coding units) and each LCU is divided into blocks. The method then identifies horizontal block edges of the blocks in the LCUs, applies first vertical filtering to the reconstructed pixel data corresponding to one or more first lines above a first horizontal block edge in the first edge group, and applies second vertical filtering to the reconstructed pixel data corresponding to one or more second lines above a second horizontal block edge in the second edge group, wherein a first number of said one or more first lines is smaller than a second number of said one or more second lines.
US10003789B2 Practical two-frame 3D+2D TV
Our inventive method enables stereoscopic 3D displays to be watched by 3D and 2D viewers simultaneously. Ghosted images observed on traditional 3D displays can be eliminated for viewers without stereoscopic glasses while 3D perception is preserved for viewers with glasses. A preferred method for displaying an image on a 3D+2D television comprises displaying a composite image (“L+wN”), comprising a left (“L”) image and a weighted image (“wN”), for a first period of time; and displaying a right (“R”) image for a second period of time. The display of “wN” partially cancels out the perception of “R” to mitigate ghosting for viewers not wearing 3D eyeglasses. In the illustrative embodiment, “wN” is a weighted negative version of “R”.
US10003782B2 Image processing device, method, computer-readable medium and 3D image display
A device according to embodiments may comprise an acquisition unit, an arrangement unit, a calculating unit, and a processing unit. The acquisition unit may acquire candidate vectors from among corresponding vectors which have been calculated for each candidate block around the target block. The arrangement unit may arrange particles around each candidate block indicated by each of the acquired candidate vectors while using the target block as an origination, and arrange particle vectors while using the target block as an origination. The calculating unit may calculate a correlation between a pixel value of the target block and a pixel value of each block defined by each of the particles, and give a weight depending on the calculated correlation to each of the particle vectors. The processing unit may obtain the corresponding vector for the target block based on the weight calculated for each of the particle vectors.
US10003778B2 Systems and methods for augmenting a viewing environment of users
Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that enhances the viewing experiences of users by modifying, as perceived by a user, an area outside of the television or computer screen. In particular, the media guidance application may enhance the viewing experiences of users by incorporating colors corresponding to the display screen in the area surrounding the display screen in order to prevent the area outside of the display screen from distracting a user.
US10003777B2 Projection screen for specularly reflecting light
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining a segmentation boundary based on an image representing an object. Examples include capturing, from an infrared (IR) camera disposed above and pointed at a projection screen, an IR image representing an object disposed between the IR camera and the projection screen, based on an intensity of IR light reflected by the object and the projection screen including a surface to specularly reflect IR light. Examples include determining a segmentation boundary based at least in part on at least one boundary between a first set of IR light intensity values and a second set of IR light intensity values, wherein the segmentation boundary represents at least one outer edge of the object based on the IR image.
US10003769B2 Video telephony system, image display apparatus, driving method of image display apparatus, method for generating realistic image, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
A video telephony system includes a first image display apparatus and a second image display apparatus which makes a video call with the first image display apparatus. The first image display apparatus transmits a first image including a photographed image of a first user to the second image display apparatus, and receives a second image in which a background of a photographed image of a second user is substituted with a virtual background image, from the second image display apparatus. The second image display apparatus changes the virtual background image of the second image according to a change in a location of the first user and transmits the second image.
US10003768B2 Apparatus and methods for frame interpolation based on spatial considerations
Apparatus and methods for the generation of interpolated frames of video data. In one embodiment, a computerized apparatus is disclosed that includes a video data interface configured to receive frames of video data; a processing apparatus in data communication with the video data interface; and a storage apparatus in data communication with the processing apparatus. The computerized apparatus is further configured to: receive frames of captured video data; retrieve capture parameters associated with the frames of captured video data; generate optical flow parameters from the frames of captured video data; ascribe differing weights based on the capture parameters and/or the optical flow parameters; generate frames of interpolated video data for the frames of captured video data based at least in part on the ascribed weights; and compile a resultant video stream using the frames of interpolated video data and the frames of captured video data.
US10003764B2 Display of video subtitles
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for presenting subtitles. A video is played on a display of a device. A display mode for the video is detected. A subtitle is presented in one of a plurality of presentation formats based on the detected display mode.
US10003763B2 Display device, user terminal apparatus and control method thereof
A control method of a display device includes receiving identification (ID) information of an electronic devices connected to the display device; determining whether a remote controller includes a control setting for the electronic device based on the received ID information, wherein the remote controller controls a plurality of electronic devices associated with the display device; obtaining a control key of the remote controller corresponding to the ID information when it is determined that the remote controller does not include the control setting for the electronic device; and transmitting the obtained control key to the remote controller.
US10003762B2 Shared image devices
A device comprising a first shared image device that captures at least one image representation. The first shared image device receives a request to share the at least one image representation to an at least one other shared image device. The first shared image device and the at least one other shared image device are each capable of capturing image representations. The first shared image device transmits the at least one image representation.
US10003760B2 Image sensor
An image sensor comprising a plurality of imaging pixels and a plurality of focus detecting pixels in which opening positions of light receiving parts are shifted from those of the imaging pixels, wherein first focus detecting pixels in which the opening positions are shifted in a first direction are arranged in a first pixel pitch at positions corresponding to first color filters for the imaging pixels, and second focus detecting pixels in which openings are shifted in a second direction different from the first direction are arranged in a second pixel pitch at positions corresponding to second color filters for the imaging pixels different from the first color filters.
US10003758B2 Defective pixel value correction for digital raw image frames
In one example, at least a portion of a digital raw image frame captured by a digital image sensor is accessed. The accessed at least a portion of the digital raw image frame is de-noised without substantially modifying defective pixel values when present. In response to determining that at least one image frame pixel in the de-noised at least a portion of the digital raw image frame has a defective pixel value: the locations of each of the at least one image frame pixel having a defective pixel value are detected, and each defective pixel value in each detected location is corrected in the de-noised at least a portion of the digital raw image frame or the originally accessed at least a portion of the digital raw image frame.
US10003756B2 Combination video and optical sight
A sight system is provided that includes an optical mode providing an optical image of a field of view and a video display mode providing video of the field of view acquired by an image sensor. The sight system can include optical components configured to present the field of view to the image sensor and to present substantially the field of view to a user through an eyepiece coupled to the sight system. The sight system can include a display configured to display to the user, through the eyepiece, video of the field of view acquired by the image sensor. The sight system can include a user interface feature configured to change from the optical mode to the video display mode when actuated by the user. Thus, the sight system can be configured to provide bore-sighted optical and video data to the user.
US10003754B2 Full field visual-mid-infrared imaging system
An apparatus and method for generating images of specimens is disclosed. The apparatus includes an imaging system, controller, and user interface. The imaging system generates a plurality of component images of a specimen, each component image corresponding to a different viewing condition. Each image is represented by an intensity as a function of location on the specimen. The controller stores the component images and generates a compound image from a plurality of the component images. The compound image includes a weighted sum of first and second ones of the component images, the controller displaying the compound image on a display controlled by the controller. The user interface is adapted to control a weighting factor used in generating the weighted sum in response to user input. The controller redisplays the compound image after the weighting factor is changed in response to user input.
US10003753B2 Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof
An image capturing apparatus comprises a light emitting unit which provides, by light emission, a notification of an operation status of a self-timer when performing self-timer shooting; a mode setting unit which sets one of a plurality of operation modes; and a control unit which controls the light emitting unit to provide the notification of the operation status of the self-timer in self-timer shooting if the mode setting unit has set a first operation mode, and controls the light emitting unit not to provide the notification of the operation status of the self-timer in self timer shooting if the mode setting unit has set a second operation mode.
US10003748B2 Method and device for processing high-frequency movements in an optronic system
A method for processing high-frequency movements in an optronic system including an image sensor functioning with a first acquisition frequency, each image obtained by the image sensor representing a scene, the method includes a step of obtaining signal values representing a movement of the scene from a high-frequency movement sensor functioning with a second acquisition frequency higher than the first acquisition frequency, a step of determining values representing a movement of an image in the course of acquisition by the image sensor from values of the signals representing the movement of the scene, and a step of transmitting the values representing the movement of the image in the course of acquisition by the image sensor to a movement compensation device so that the movement compensation device can compensate for the movement of the image in the course of acquisition by the image sensor.
US10003745B2 Imaging apparatus, imaging method and program, and reproduction apparatus
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging method and a program, and a reproduction apparatus according to which an image sensor is divided into a plurality of areas and exposure control may be performed for each area according to the amount of camera shake. An imaging apparatus which is an aspect of the present disclosure includes an image sensor unit for generating pixel data of a pixel constituting a frame by photoelectric conversion, a calculation unit for calculating an amount of camera shake in each of areas obtained by dividing the frame, and a control unit for controlling exposure time of the image sensor for each of the areas according to the amount of camera shake calculated for each of the areas. The present disclosure is applicable to an electronic device such as a camera including an area ADC type image sensor, for example.
US10003743B2 Method, apparatus and computer program product for image refocusing for light-field images
In an example embodiment, a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method includes facilitating receipt of a plurality of light-field images of a scene captured in a burst capture by a light-field camera. The method includes determining shifts between images of the plurality of light-field images, where the shifts between the images of the plurality of light-field images are associated with shake of the light-field camera while capturing the plurality of light-field images. The method includes generating a plurality of depth maps for the plurality of light-field images, and generating a set of view images of the scene based on the plurality of light-field images and the plurality of depth maps. The method includes generating a refocus image by combining the set of view images based at least on the shifts between the images of the plurality of light-field images.
US10003741B2 System for processing data from an omnidirectional camera with multiple processors and/or multiple sensors connected to each processor
A system comprising a camera and a computing device. The camera may comprise (a) a plurality of capture devices configured to capture images of an environment surrounding the camera to provide a spherical field of view and (b) a first interface. The computing device may comprise (a) a processor and (b) a second interface. The camera may be configured to encode a plurality of video streams based on the captured images. The first interface may be configured to transfer the plurality of video streams to the second interface. The processor may perform a stitching operation on the plurality of video streams to generate a single video signal. The stitching operation may be performed on the plurality of video streams in real time as the plurality of video streams are transferred. The single video signal may be configured to represent an omnidirectional view based on the environment surrounding the camera.
US10003740B2 Increasing spatial resolution of panoramic video captured by a camera array
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for increasing spatial resolution of panoramic video captured by a camera array. In one example, a method may include identifying a captured image from each camera in a camera array associated with a capture of a panoramic video. The captured images are stitched together to generate at least one combined image and image mode homographies are calculated between the plurality of cameras in the camera array based on the stitching results. A plurality of captured video frames from each camera in the camera array are identified and video mode homographies of the plurality of cameras are determined based on the calculated image mode homographies. The determined video mode homographies are applied to stitch the plurality of captured video frames.
US10003739B2 Imaging apparatus and imaging method
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit and a transmission unit. The imaging unit is configured to capture two images that are different from each other by a predetermined amount of an optical distance (focus) between an objective lens and an imaging device having a first resolution. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the captured images.
US10003738B2 Methods and apparatus for detecting and/or indicating a blocked sensor or camera module
Methods and apparatus for detecting and/or indicating a blocked sensor and/or blocked camera module are described. The sensor maybe a distance sensor used to support focus operations. Depending on the embodiment, the camera system may include one or more sensors and one or more camera modules. As sensor output is received and/or images are captured by one or more camera modules, the sensor output, e.g., distance sensor output, and/or captured images, e.g., optical image sensor output, are checked to determine if one or more of the sensors and/or camera modules are obstructed. When an obstruction of a sensor or camera module is detected, to make a user aware of the obstruction condition a visual and/or physical indication of an obstructed sensor or camera module is provided to the user of the camera device. The indication may include haptic feedback in the form of vibrations and/or a visual obstruction indication.
US10003736B2 Image pickup device
An image pickup device includes an optical system, an image pickup unit that captures a subject image through the optical system and generates a captured image, and a controller that calculates an evaluation value from a region corresponding to an AF frame in the captured image and drives the optical system according to the calculated evaluation value to perform an automatic focus operation. The controller includes a normal illumination mode set when brightness of the captured image is a predetermined value or more, and a first low-illumination mode and a second low-illumination mode set when the brightness of the captured image is less than the predetermined value. In the first low-illumination mode, a first automatic focus (AF) frame that is larger than an AF frame set in the normal illumination mode is set. In the second low-illumination mode, a second AF frame that is smaller than the first AF frame is set.
US10003735B2 Calculation device and image pickup device using calculation device and calculation method
Highly accurate focus adjustment device can be provided, for example, that includes a focus detection area setting unit that sets a focus detection area to a position of a face detected in an image pickup field angle, and sets a luminance addition number and a correlation addition number in the focus detection area according to a size of the face, and performs focus detection for the face, thereby to suppress a decrease in accuracy.
US10003734B2 Image capturing apparatus and control method of image sensor
An image capturing apparatus comprising: an image sensor that has a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions corresponding to each of a plurality of microlenses arranged in two-dimensions, and outputs an image signal corresponding to a quantity of incident light; a detection unit configured to detect a moving direction of a subject; a determination unit configured to, in a case where the subject is moving in a main scanning direction, determine to perform divided readout in every predetermined number of rows, and to perform added readout in the rows except for the every predetermined number of rows; and a control unit configured to control the image sensor by switching between the divided readout and the added readout in units of rows based on the determination result.
US10003732B2 Depth of field processing
An image processing device for simulating depth of field in a captured image, the image processing device comprising: a camera sensor configured to capture an image; an orientation sensor configured to determine an orientation of the device from which the direction of capture of the image by the camera sensor is derivable; and a processor configured to apply blur to a first area of the captured image in dependence on the orientation of the device.
US10003730B2 Method and device for sharing a camera feature
Methods and electronic devices for sharing a camera feature are described. In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a method. The method is performed by a first electronic device which has a camera. The method includes: establishing wireless communications between the first electronic device and a second electronic device using a short range communication module of the first electronic device; and entering a camera-feature-sharing mode in which a camera-related feature of the second electronic device is accessible to the first electronic device using the short range communication module and in which a camera-related feature of the first electronic device is accessible to the second electronic device using the short range communication module.
US10003728B2 Transmitting settings in a digital imaging system
An approach is provided to control digital imaging system. In the approach, isolated camera settings pertaining to a first camera body are configured. The first camera body is included in a camera group that includes two or more camera bodies. Each of the cameras in the camera group is controlled by a human operator. Shared camera settings that pertain to each of the cameras in the camera group are also configured. When an adjustment is received at the camera body from the human operator, the approach checks whether the adjustment is a shared group setting. If the adjustment is a shared setting, the system wirelessly transmits the adjustment over the wireless transmitter/receiver to the other camera bodies included in the camera group.
US10003726B2 Illumination module for near eye-to-eye display system
An illumination module can comprise a circuit board, a semiconductor-based light source mounted to the circuit board, an encasing mounted to the circuit board, and one or more optical surfaces at least partially contained within the encasing. The semiconductor-based light source can emit light in a first illumination pattern. The one or more optical surfaces can be collectively configured to receive the light from the edge-emitting semiconductor-based light source. The one or more optical surfaces can further be collectively configured to condition and redirect the light, and to output the conditioned and redirected light from the illumination module in a second illumination pattern different from the first illumination pattern.
US10003721B2 Image processing method and image processing device for gray output signal
An image processing method comprising: converting an RGB input signal to a CMYK signal; converting the RGB input signal to a common color signal including lightness; generating a first Gray signal including a Gray value substituted for CMY values forming gray in the CMYK signal; generating a second Gray signal including a Gray value corresponding to a K value greater than a threshold in the CMYK signal; generating a Gray output signal in a CMYKGray output signal indicating color material amounts of cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), black (K), and gray (Gray) for printing by multiplying the generated first Gray signal and the generated second Gray signal respectively by coefficients corresponding to the lightness in the common color signal and then synthesizing the first Gray signal and the second Gray signal.
US10003720B2 Image processing apparatus and method, and program and recording medium
Based on a histogram of saturation of an input video, a saturation conversion function is determined, and, referring to the determined saturation conversion function, the saturation of each pixel of the input video is converted. Alternatively, a saturation conversion coefficient determination function is generated from the histogram, a saturation conversion coefficient is determined from the saturation conversion coefficient determination function and the saturation, and color differences are multiplied by the determined saturation conversion coefficient. Regardless of what saturation distribution the input video has, the saturation can be properly enhanced, and at the same time a high gradation expression can be obtained.
US10003716B2 Generation of a digest video
Embodiments include systems and methods for an electronic device including circuitry configured to acquire data of a first group of one or more images photographed by a first photographing method with corresponding first attribute information and first photographing time, and acquire data of a second group of one or more images photographed by a second photographing method with corresponding second attribute information and second photographing time; assign a priority to the first group and the second group based on the first photographing method and the second photographing method, respectively; and select one or more images from the first group and the second group based upon the assigned priorities, wherein a time to continuously display the selected one or more images occurs within a pre-determined time range for a set display mode.
US10003707B2 Image processing apparatus and recording medium
An image processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a preview image of a document on a preview screen during login of a first user, a communication controller that receives a job from an external device, a determination unit that determines whether the job received from the external device is a specific type of job, and a display controller that controls display on the preview screen. When the specific type of job is received during display of the preview screen, the display controller assumes a predetermined degree or more of possibility that a second user different from the first user may approach the apparatus, and performs at least one of first display control where the preview image is automatically hidden on the preview screen and second display control where a non-display button for hiding the preview image according to a user operation is displayed on the preview screen.
US10003706B2 Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium to shift power states
An image forming apparatus including a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device interface further includes a detection unit, a first selection unit, and a control unit. The detection unit detects a factor for shifting the image forming apparatus to a power saving state. The first selection unit allows a user to select whether to maintain or stop power supply to the USB device interface in the power saving state. The control unit controls the power supply to the USB device interface according to the selection by the user using the first selection unit when the detection unit detects the factor.
US10003700B2 Abnormality management system of image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus is communicable with a management apparatus and includes an abnormality detecting portion, a registered information obtaining portion, a registered-restoration processing portion, a specification receiving portion, a specified-restoration processing portion, and a registration requesting portion. The registered-restoration processing portion executes a registered restoration process in accordance with registered restoration procedure information obtained from the management apparatus. The specification receiving portion receives a specification input when the registered restoration procedure information was not obtained, or when an apparatus abnormality was not solved. The specified-restoration processing portion executes a specified restoration process in accordance with the specification input. The registration requesting portion requests the management apparatus to register information of the apparatus abnormality solved by the specified restoration process and of a specified restoration procedure.
US10003698B2 Method and system for financing of inmate mobile devices
A method for financing a mobile device for an inmate involves receiving a plurality of mobile device rules comprising limitations on usage of the mobile device by the inmate within a controlled facility, receiving the mobile device, and installing, on the mobile device, a mobile application, wherein the mobile application conforms the mobile device to the plurality of mobile device rules. The method also involves receiving a payment for the mobile device, and executing, by the mobile device, the mobile application.
US10003693B2 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.
US10003689B2 Communicating availability of a mobile device
Embodiments described herein provide approaches for communicating availability of a mobile device. Specifically, at least one approach includes: determining a current status of a mobile device operated by a receiving user, the current status including an operating state and an operating time zone; and providing the current status of the mobile device to a sender via the sender's mobile device by performing either of the following: annotating a contact list with visual data indicating the operating state and the operating time zone of the mobile device, and generating a graphic indicating the operating state and the operating time zone of the mobile device when the sender initiates communication with the mobile device. Based on the current status, a warning can be communicated to the sender indicating that is inadvisable to continue with the communication, as the receiving user is unlikely to be available and/or willing to respond.
US10003684B2 Method and system for synchronous operations of text message data
A method and a system for synchronous operations of text message data, which may include, on one hand, that a feature phone receives an operation request regarding text message data from a user on the user interface, and the feature phone sends the operation request via Bluetooth to a smartphone. The smartphone can receive the operation request sent by the feature phone. The smartphone can carry out a corresponding operation, and obtain a first operation result. The smartphone can send the first operation result to the feature phone, and the feature phone can receive the first operation result. The feature phone can carry out an operation corresponding to the first operation result and can obtain a second operation result. Optionally, when local text message data of the smartphone changes, the smartphone can send a text message data modification notice to the feature phone, and the feature phone can receive the text message data modification notice. The feature phone can modify the text message data according to the text message data modification notice, and display the modified result on the user interface. In such a manner, at least one embodiment can operate text message data of the smartphone with an equivalently large screen via the feature phone with an equivalently small screen.
US10003682B2 Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same
A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same that may perform wireless communication with an external terminal are disclosed. The mobile terminal comprises a wireless communication unit configured to perform wireless communication with an external terminal; a touch screen outputting screen information; and a controller extracting event information included in the screen information on the basis of a user request and transmitting the extracted event information to the external terminal such that a notification screen corresponding to the event information is output from the external terminal prior to a predetermined time from a closing time of an event corresponding to the event information.
US10003677B2 Network application verification at a network processor
A network application is verified at a network processor by selecting network application functions based on a field of an ingress packet. The network application is composed of a set of network application functions, with each function carrying out a corresponding packet processing operation, such as packet parsing, statistical gathering, and the like. Each network application function can be invoked by the network processor with a corresponding command. Based on a field of an ingress packet, the network processor can select a sequence of functions to process the packet, wherein the sequence corresponds to functions of the network application or a portion thereof.
US10003673B2 Computer data distribution architecture
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for computer data distribution architecture.
US10003671B2 Capturing and replaying application sessions using resource files
A capture and replay system identifies images displayed during an application session. A parser may generate Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code from an application resource file or from the JSON post made by the application. A replay engine may use the HTML code to recreate at least some of the screens displayed during the application session. The capture and replay system may dynamically identify images that are not reproduced from the resources database and request an agent/(s) to asynchronously upload the image files associated with the images. The replay engine may use the uploaded image files to replay the application session. The capture and replay system may capture application sessions more efficiently by reproducing images from the resource file instead of capturing the images during the original application session and by dynamically requesting image files for the images were are not previously reproduced from the resource file. Once an image file is uploaded to server, it does not need to be requested again from any other agent.
US10003668B2 Data transfer for a telecommunication device
The present disclosure relates to a telecommunication method for operating a telecommunication device being coupled to a digital telecommunication network. The telecommunication device has a processor, a display device and a memory with an application. The telecommunication device is connectable via the network to a backend server with access to a database comprising a plurality of datasets. The method has: sending an initializing data request to the backend server requesting a first number of the datasets from the database; in response to receiving an initializing data packet with the requested first number of the datasets; and calculating a second number of the datasets to be requested by a second data request.
US10003666B2 Key resource prefetching using front-end optimization (FEO) configuration
Front-end optimization (FEO) configuration information is leveraged to identify “key” resources required to load other pages on a site, and to automatically cause key resources to be prefetched to a server, and to the browser. In this approach, an FEO analyzer uses knowledge of configured optimization templates to determine the key resources required to load pages for each template. The key resources for pages belonging to other optimization templates are then selectively prefetched by other pages. In a preferred approach, the FEO analyzer provides an edge server cache process a list of key resources and instructions to prefetch the key resources, as well as instructions to rewrite the HTML of the page to include instructions for the browser to prefetech the key resources. On the client, key resources are prefetched if missing from a cache on the browser. Key resources preferably are stored in the browser's HTML5 local storage cache.
US10003664B2 Methods and systems for processing a sample of a media stream
Methods and systems for processing a sample of a media stream are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a sample of a media stream rendered by a media rendering source, and for matching media recordings from which the sample was obtained, the method also includes receiving a signature file including a temporally mapped collection of features describing content of the matching media recordings. Each received signature file may be stored in memory. In addition, a signature stream may be received that includes features extracted from the media stream, and a number of matching features between the signature stream of the media stream and the signature file for at least one matching media recording can be determined. In one example, when substantially matching features between the signature stream of the media stream and the signature file for a matching media recording stop occurring, a discontinuity can be identified.
US10003663B2 Inmate network priming
A method for network priming for an inmate of a controlled facility includes receiving authentication credentials for the inmate to access a third party social network, importing social network contacts from the third party social network, filtering the social network contacts for prohibited contacts, presenting the inmate with the social network contacts, receiving, from the inmate, a selection of social network contacts to obtain selected social network contacts, and populating a secure social network list of the inmate with the selected social network contacts.
US10003661B2 System and method for service discovery in a large network
Service discovery is accomplished across a network with reduced traffic. Network devices often receive multicast discovery requests for various protocols and/or services, which increase network traffic and degrade network performance. Here, though, a server maintains a membership list for a particular protocol. The server populates the membership list with subnet devices that confirm the particular protocol. Whenever the server receives a discovery request associated with the protocol, the server need not clog its subnet with multicast requests. Instead, the server need only retrieve the membership list that is associated with the protocol. The membership list contains the subnet addresses assigned to the subnet devices that confirm the particular protocol.
US10003654B2 Universal internet of things (IoT) smart translator
A system provides communication among user devices and Internet of things (IoT) devices includes a user device able to execute at least one application that is able to communicate using at least a first IoT protocol; an IoT device able to communicate using at least a second IoT protocol; and a universal translator able to communicate using at least the first IoT protocol and the second IoT protocol. An automated method of providing communications between a user device and an IoT device includes: determining a protocol of the IoT device; determining a protocol of the user device; and inserting a virtual device if the protocols are different. An automated method of translating communications for IoT systems includes: receiving a device protocol and identifier; receiving an application protocol and identifier; adding the application identifier to an application list; and adding the device identifier to a device list.
US10003652B2 Managing selective access of a user equipment to internet-based services based on transport type
In an embodiment, a subordinate mobile communication device (SMCD) receives a content access profile from a dispatcher. The content access profile includes (i) proxy server selection criteria to facilitate the SMCD to select between a plurality of proxy servers based on a current transport mechanism type (e.g., WiFi, 3G, Satellite, etc.), each of the plurality of proxy servers being configured by the dispatcher to provide different degrees of support for Internet-based services to the SMCD, and/or (ii) a set of Internet-based service access rules to facilitate the SMCD to independently determine whether to grant or deny access by the SMCD to Internet-based services based on the current transport mechanism type of a connection between the SMCD and an access network. The SMCD determines its current transport mechanism type and uses the content access profile to selectively engage with a given Internet-based service.
US10003651B2 Maritime communication system and method
The present invention relates to a maritime communication system and method and provides a maritime communication system and method, the maritime communication system comprising: a plurality of user terminals by which a SNS can be used on the sea, and in which an application for providing content is installed; at least one maritime communication server for providing the SNS and the content for the user terminal on the sea; a land communication server for communicating with the maritime communication server and controlling communication between a user of the maritime communication server and a user located on land or a user of another maritime communication server; a content server for providing the content of the application via the land communication server; and a management server for producing and distributing the application installed in the user terminals or controlling operations of all the servers.
US10003649B2 Systems and methods to improve read/write performance in object storage applications
Various embodiments of the invention optimize and improve object storage performance in large-scale distributed networks. In certain embodiments, this is accomplished by taking advantage of the algorithm that determines a map that contains information about storage locations of object replica. This information directly translates to flow-information in real-time and is used by an SDN controller to generate dynamic flow information for traffic within the network. The SDN controller may apply QoS policies and assign QoS priorities to preferred traffic.
US10003648B2 Mechanism for universal parallel information access
Inventive aspects include one or more local servers each including a local universal access logic section, one or more remote servers each including a remote universal access logic section, and a coherency node to provide coherent access to first data that is stored on the one or more local servers to the one or more remote servers, and to provide coherent access to second data that is stored on the one or more remote servers to the one or more local servers. Embodiments of the inventive concept herein can use hardware and/or software mechanism to unify direct and remote attached devices via command, data, status, and completion memory queues. Applications and operating systems can be presented with a uniform access interface for sharing data and resources across multiple disparately situated servers and nodes.
US10003647B2 Flexible remote data mirroring
Methods, systems, and configured storage media are provided for flexible data mirroring. In particular, the invention provides many-to-one data mirroring, including mirroring from local servers running the same or different operating systems and/or file systems at two or more geographically dispersed locations. The invention also provides one-to-many data mirroring, mirroring with or without a dedicated private telecommunications link, and mirroring with or without a dedicated server or another server at the destination(s) to assist the remote mirroring unit(s). In addition, the invention provides flexibility by permitting the use of various combinations of one or more external storage units and/or RAID units to hold mirrored data. Spoofing, SCSI and other bus emulations, and further tools and techniques are used in various embodiments of the invention.
US10003643B2 Communications method in a communications system
The invention relates to a communications method that comprises the step of sending a query message from a central entity to at least one node. For every queried node, the central entity determines a node-specific time window based on a node-specific response time. The central entity filters out a response message, sent from the queried node, from the signals received during this time window. Based on the node-specific time window, the central entity assigns the response message to the queried node. The invention also relates to a computing unit that is configured to operate as a central entity, to a communications system, as well as to a computer program and a computer-readable storage program with said computer program.
US10003642B2 Operating a cluster of peer-to-peer devices
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for operating a peer-to-peer communication environment. The environment includes one or more clusters of peer devices, wherein devices in a single cluster are organized into a logical hierarchy under an anchor master (at the root of the hierarchy) and any number of synchronization masters; other devices are non-master devices. Synchronization parameters established by the anchor master and disseminated throughout the hierarchy enable the clusters' devices to rendezvous, discover peers and services, and communicate among themselves. The anchor master may adjust the synchronization parameters to avoid conflict with another hierarchy. Each device issues beacons (e.g., heartbeats, discovery beacons) that identify the number of devices synchronized with the reporting device, which allows the anchor master to calculate the total number of cluster members. Devices may also report details of a neighboring cluster (e.g., its synchronization parameters) via a beacon or some other communication.
US10003641B2 Method and system of session-aware load balancing
Methods implemented in a network device are disclosed for maintaining session integrity through load balancing. The method assigns a same virtual Internet protocol VIPA to the network device and a set of servers. The network device is assigned a set of next hop IP addresses, where each next hop IP address corresponds to a route to a server, and the VIPA of the network device is advertised to outside of the load balancing system. When a packet is a first packet from a source of a communication session and destined to the VIPA, the network device selects a next hop IP address to forward to a server according to its load balancing policy. The selection is saved so that subsequent packets of the same communication session from the same source will be forwarded to the same server.
US10003631B1 Modifying user experiences
Disclosed are various embodiments for an experience service. An experience service determines if a client device requesting a network page is to receive a modified user experience. Transformation code corresponding to the user experience is communicated to the client device. The client device executes the transformation code to modify a rendering of the requested network page.
US10003625B2 Portable group communication device and method of use
A portable communication device comprises a user interface, one or more digital processors in electronic communication with the user interface, and at least one memory in electronic communication with the one or more digital processors, the one or more digital processors and the at least one memory collectively configured to implement simultaneous radio frequency voice communication between a user of the device and multiple other ones of the devices. The voice communication comprises: transmitting audio data corresponding to speech of the user to each of the other ones of the devices, receiving audio data from each of the other ones of the devices, and transmitting the received audio data to the user so as to direct to the user combined and simultaneous speech of users of each of the other ones of the devices.
US10003624B2 Realtime communications and network browsing client
A graphical user interface is displayed. The graphical user interface includes at least one communication control for managing communications with other network nodes and at least one browser control for navigating to different network resource addresses. Human perceptible realtime output is generated from realtime communication data relating to a realtime communication session with at least one other client network node. In the process of generating of at least some of the human perceptible realtime output, operation of the client network node is managed based on at least one performance target. In the graphical user interface, a graphical representation of a network resource identified in connection with the browser control is displayed.
US10003619B2 Session initiation handling
A method of handling SIP session initiation requests in an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network. The method is performed at an application server, AS, within the network. The AS receives a session initiation request containing a destination address, where that destination address is currently associated with a plurality of registered User Equipments, UEs. The AS then determines whether or not a UE associated with the destination address, is already involved in a session. If so, the AS causes the session initiation request to be forwarded only to that UE. If not, the AS causes the session initiation request to be forwarded to all UEs registered in respect of the address.
US10003616B2 Destination domain extraction for secure protocols
Techniques for destination domain extraction for secure protocols are disclosed. In some embodiments, destination domain extraction for secure protocols includes monitoring network communications between a client and a remote server; determining if the client sends a request to create a secure connection with the remote server (e.g., in which the network communications are initiating a setup for a secure protocol-based connection); and extracting a destination domain from the request to create the secure connection with the remote server. In some embodiments, the secure protocol is a secure sockets layer (SSL) protocol or transport layer security (TLS) protocol, and the destination domain is extracted from the server name indication (SNI) of a client hello message sent from the client to the remote server. In some embodiments, destination domain extraction for secure protocols further includes applying a policy (e.g., a security policy) based on the destination domain to filter traffic using a security device.
US10003615B2 User-based network onboarding
A request related to an access to a network by a first user device may be received. The user device may be included in a plurality of user devices associated with a first first-level security profile assigned to the user. An application extension to an application executing on the first user device may be accessed in response to the request related to the access. A network connectivity file may be provided to the application extension. The network connectivity file may include network configuration information for the first user device. The network configuration information may be associated with a first second-level security profile assigned to the first user device. Instructions to configure the first user device to access the network based at least in part on the network configuration information in the network connectivity file may be provided.
US10003613B2 Security inspection of massive virtual hosts for immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code
A method and system are provided for performing a security inspection of a set of virtual images in a cloud infrastructure. The method includes merging the virtual images into a tree structure having a root and a plurality of leaves such that child leaves and a parent leaf to the child leaves have common ones of the virtual images. The method further includes identifying a security violation in a given one of the virtual images at a given one of the plurality of leaves. The method also includes applying a bisection method against a path in the tree from the root to the given one of the plurality of leaves to find a particular one of the virtual images that is a root cause of the security violation. The method additionally includes performing a corrective action for any of the plurality of images having the security violation.
US10003612B1 Protection for computing systems from revoked system updates
A computing system may be protected from revoked system updates. A computing system receives an object and scans it for revocation updates to a security structure of the computing system. The security structure is a monotonically nondecreasing collection of segments containing data on whether a system update is revoked and a system update's status as revoked signifies the revoked system update can no longer be used by the computing system. Based upon scanning the object, the computing system identifies and validates a revocation update. The computing system resolves the revocation update by applying the revocation update to the security structure, by adding or changing one or more segments of the security structure identified by the revocation update, in response to determining that the revocation update is valid, or by denying application of the revocation update to the security structure in response to determining that the revocation update is invalid.
US10003611B2 Systems and methods for protecting an online service against a network-based attack
Techniques for protecting an online service against network-based attacks are described. In some cases, protection is performed by way of a scalable protection service including a dynamically scalable set of virtual machines hosted by a cloud service that is distinct from a data center that hosts the online service. The protection service is coupled to the online service via a private link. When an attack is detected by the online service, network traffic bound for the online service is redirected from the public network to the protection service. The protection service then processes the network traffic, such as by dropping network traffic associated with the attack and forwarding legitimate network traffic to the online service via the private link.
US10003610B2 System for tracking data security threats and method for same
An incident response system and method for tracking data security incidents in enterprise networks is disclosed. An Incident Manager application (IM) stores incident objects and incident artifacts (IAs) created in response to the incidents, where the incident objects include the information for the incident and the IAs are associated with data resources (e.g. IP addresses and malware hashes) identified within the incident objects. In response to creation of the IAs, the IM issues queries against one or more external threat intelligence sources (TISs) to obtain information associated with the IAs and augments the IAs with the obtained information. In examples, the IM can identify known threats by comparing the contents of IAs against TIS(s) of known threats, and can identify potential trends by correlating the created incident objects and augmented IAs for an incident with incident objects and IAs stored for other incidents.
US10003609B2 Inferential analysis using feedback for extracting and combining cyber risk information including proxy connection analyses
Various embodiments of the present technology include methods of assessing risk of a cyber security failure in one or more computer networks for an entity. Various embodiments include establishing a plurality of proxy connections with entity resources, evaluating performance of the proxy connections, and scoring the proxy connections based on performance. Various embodiments may further include automatically determining, based on the proxy score, a change or setting regarding the proxy connections. Various embodiments may also include automatically recommending, based on the assessed risk, computer network changes for the one or more computer networks to reduce the assessed risk. Some embodiments may include providing recommended computer network and/or policy changes to reduce the assessed risk, determining the entity has enacted some recommended network changes, and in response, automatically reassessing the risk of a cyber security failure based on the enacted recommended computer network changes.
US10003608B2 Automated insider threat prevention
Techniques for automated insider threat prevention are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for automated insider threat prevention includes monitoring network communications at a network device; detecting an anomalous activity based on the monitored network communications associated with a user based on a behavior profile for the user; and performing an action in response to the detected anomalous activity based on a policy.
US10003594B1 Bank speech authentication
Authentication mechanisms are disclosed. For example, an enterprise associated number or a social security number (SSN) can be provided to enter a first level. Then, any one of a ZIP code number, a device identifier, a date of birth, and a portion of the SSN can be provided to access applications in the first level. Lastly, a PIN can be provided to enter a second level of the enterprise. Additionally, these authentication mechanisms can be added and/or changed. In the former case, if a user used a SSN to enter the mentioned first level, then a date of birth can be used to update an authentication mechanism. Alternatively, if a user used an enterprise number to gain such access, then part of the SSN can be used for the update. If the user wants to change the authentication mechanism, the date of birth can be used for the update.
US10003591B2 Secure permissioning of access to user accounts, including secure deauthorization of access to user accounts
A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g., de-authorize the third-party), thus providing increased security to the user's account.
US10003589B2 Authentication and/or identification method in a communication network
The invention relates to a method for authenticating and/or identifying a device, a service, a person and/or money in a communication network, consisting of a first communication device and an additional communication device, for example a central database, between which an authentication query is carried out. Initially, a first key is provided in the communication device, which comprises at least one character sequence consisting of individual or several locally modifiable characters which can be dynamically modified in accordance with a measurable variable or an algorithm which is dependent on the measurable variable, rules and/or instructions in the communication device, between two authentication time points. A second key is also provided in the central database or an additional communication subscriber which comprises a character sequence consisting of centrally modifiable characters and optionally non-modifiable characters. In a further step, a transmission and a comparison of the key stored in the central database and the communication device is carried out.
US10003585B2 Systems, devices, and methods for preventing unauthorized access to storage devices
Embodiments include a storage device, comprising: a communication interface; data storage media; key storage media; and control logic configured to: receive a first key associated with a second key through the communication interface; store the first key in the key storage media; and restrict access through the communication interface to data stored in the data storage media using at least one of the first key and the second key.
US10003584B1 Durable key management
Data is durably backed up for a limited amount of time. The data may be encrypted under a key and the key may be encrypted under a backup key. The backup key has a limited lifetime at the end of which the backup key is destroyed. After the backup key is destroyed, recoverability of the data depends on whether the key was deleted. In some examples, the data is a set of cryptographic keys.
US10003578B2 Anonymous sharing of microblog publication
Anonymity and confidentiality of information published from a microblogging platform, are preserved using randomly chosen relays (not related to the publisher account) in order to hide content in the cloud of published messages. The information can be relayed in clear text or in encrypted format. Additional linked relays may be used to overcome character number limitations imposed by the microblogging platform, with the longer full text of the original message reconstructed at the conclusion of the process. Depending upon the desired degree of confidentiality, complexity of the relay combination can be adjusted, and the path secretly shared among sender and authorized recipient. Only authorized recipient(s) can obtain (through another platform) the path combination to reach the message. A trusted third party stores the path relays and authorizations to access the path. The confidential information that is to be shared, may remain on the microblogging platform spread randomly over anonymous accounts.
US10003577B2 Secure transmission of local private encoding data
A method of secure transfer of local private encoding data between a first communication device and a second communication device, the first communication device and the second communication device being operable to communicate with each other via a communication connection there between, a respectively adapted first communication device, a respectively adapted second communication device, a system comprising such first and second communication devices and also a computer program product for carrying out the above method.
US10003575B2 Network management system
There is provided a network management system using wireless network management devices each having a plurality of security policies. With the network management system, the wireless network management devices can be concurrently used in networks with a plurality of security levels, and security can be ensured without installing firewalls externally, so that labor for setting and operating a network for redundancy can be saved. The network management system includes: a first network NW1 to which plant management devices 11 and 12 are connected; a second network NW2 to which field devices 51 to 5n are connected; and wireless network management devices 61 and 62 each having a firewall function and connected to the first network NW1 and the second network NW2.
US10003573B2 Behavior-based filters for signaling system number 7 networks
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to behavior-based filters for signaling system number 7 (“SS7”) networks. According to one embodiment disclosed herein, a behavior-based SS7 filter executed by a processor can receive SS7 traffic. The behavior-based SS7 filter can determine a behavioral characteristic from the SS7 traffic and can compare a behavior of the SS7 traffic, based upon the behavior characteristic, to a behavior profile. The behavior-based SS7 filter also can determine whether the behavior of the SS7 traffic fits within a tolerance threshold of the behavior profile. If the SS7 traffic fits within the tolerance threshold, the behavior-based SS7 filter can instruct a signal transfer point (“STP”) to which the SS7 traffic is directed to allow routing of the SS7 traffic. If, however, the SS7 traffic does not fit within the tolerance threshold, the behavior-based SS7 filter can instruct the STP to deny routing of the SS7 traffic.
US10003569B2 Network resource sharing for routing and forwarding information
A system, computer-readable media, and methods for network resource sharing of routing and forwarding information are disclosed. The method may include receiving a first address for a device connected to a network and receiving one or more second addresses for the device. The method may also include identifying a first switch through which the device connects to the network and identifying a second switch for storing the first address and the one or more second addresses. Further, the method may include storing the first address in the first switch and storing the first address and the one or more second addresses in the second switch.
US10003565B2 Use of DNS information as trigger for dynamic IPV4 address allocation
A first request, to access a web site associated with a domain name, is obtained at a gateway router interposed between a local area network and an internet service provider's infrastructure, from a host on the local area network. The gateway router has Domain Name Service (DNS) resolver capability. The first request is received while the gateway router has upstream connectivity to the internet service provider's infrastructure via IPv6 but not via IPv4. Further steps include sending, from the gateway router, the first request; obtaining, at the gateway router, an indication that an IPv4 address will imminently be required for the gateway router; and, responsive to obtaining the indication, sending, from the gateway router, into the internet service provider's infrastructure, a second request, for an IPv4 address for the gateway router.
US10003560B1 Method and system for correlating social media conversations
A conversation correlation system is configured to associate social signals with conversations and group the conversations into topic clusters. The topic clusters for different days are linked together to form conversation streams. The conversation streams may identify conversation topics within ecosystems and identify changes in conversation topics over time. Topic labels may be generated for the topic clusters that better describe conversation topics. In one example, the topic labels may be generated using a mutual information topic distribution model.
US10003559B2 Aggregating redundant messages in a group chat
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system, and computer program product for aggregating redundant messages in a group chat. A computer may receive a plurality of messages in a group chat from one or more chat devices. The computer may extract a fact from each of the plurality of messages using natural language processing. The computer may identify redundant messages within the plurality of messages. The computer may aggregate the redundant messages into a combined message. The computer may provide the combined message to the group chat. A number of redundant messages aggregated in the combined message may be provided. The redundant messages may be provided.
US10003558B2 Electronic mail attachment hold and dispatch for security monitoring
Systems, apparatus, and computer program products provide for electronic mail (email) attachment hold and dispatch for security monitoring of email attachments. Specifically, embodiments of the invention provide for removing email attachments from emails containing such, holding the removed attachments in storage prior to delivering the email to the recipient and communicating the email to the intended recipient absent the attachment, but rather with a link or other means by which the email recipient can retrieve the attachment from the storage. Such a procedure not only allows for the attachment to be analyzed for threats prior to transferring the attachment to the email recipient, but also provides for a means by which information pertaining to the retrieval of the attachment is logged (e.g., who retrieved the attachment, from which computing device was the attachment retrieved, at what date and time was the attachment retrieved and the like).
US10003555B1 Power management of routing tables using vertical scaling
Power management of a routing table, which comprises a plurality of hash tables, is provided by supporting various power domain configurations. Each power domain configuration can be associated with a different number of power domains than other power domain configurations. Each power domain can add vertical capacity to the entire routing table by adding a fixed number of buckets to each of the hash tables. Efficient power management can be achieved by switching between a lower power domain configuration and a higher power domain configuration during runtime based on the dynamic load conditions.
US10003553B2 Optimization of multi-stage hierarchical networks for practical routing applications
Significantly optimized multi-stage networks, useful in wide target applications, with VLSI layouts using only horizontal and vertical links to route large scale sub-integrated circuit blocks having inlet and outlet links, and laid out in an integrated circuit device in a two-dimensional grid arrangement of blocks are presented. The optimized multi-stage networks in each block employ several rings of stages of switches with inlet and outlet links of sub-integrated circuit blocks connecting to rings from either left-hand side only, or from right-hand side only, or from both left-hand side and right-hand side; and employ shuffle exchange links where outlet links of cross links from switches in a stage of a ring in one sub-integrated circuit block are connected to either inlet links of switches in the another stage of a ring in the same or another sub-integrated circuit block.
US10003547B2 Monitoring computer process resource usage
Techniques are disclosed relating to improving resource usage on a computer system. In one embodiment, a computer system identifies a plurality of processes running on the computer system and determines an importance value and a resource consumption value. In such an embodiment, the importance value is indicative of an importance of an identified process, and the resource consumption value is indicative of a resource consumption of the identified process. The computer system evaluates the importance value and the resource consumption value relative to a usage policy, and takes a corrective action with respect to the identified process based on the evaluating to reconcile resource consumption with process importance value.
US10003546B1 Bandwidth override
Allowing a subscriber to modify a data transfer rate or available bandwidth associated with an Internet subscription tier for a selected or predetermined time period is provided. Upon receiving an indication of a selection to decrease an allowed amount of bandwidth or to boost or increase a data transfer rate to a next available service tier, a request may be sent to a gateway device associated with the subscriber to override firmware on the gateway device to restrict access to an amount of bandwidth or to allow access to additional bandwidth respectively.
US10003545B2 Mobile phone application for diabetes care with medical feature activation
A method for activating a physician-prescribable feature of an application program executed on a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by the application program, an activation code to activate a feature of the application program and one or more parameters associated with a prescription. The method includes transmitting, by the application program, the activation code to a server and receiving an authorization code from the server, where the authorization code indicates a validity of the activation code. The method includes activating, by the application program, the feature using the activation code, the activation being performed in response to the activation code being valid; configuring, by the application program, the activated feature using at least one of the one or more parameters associated with the prescription; and generating, using the activated feature, data based on the one or more parameters associated with the prescription.
US10003543B2 Communication device, communication system, and communication method
According to one embodiment, a communication device includes: a communicator, a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The communicator establishes a communication connection with a destination communication device over a communication network and to communicate a packet relating to first information using the communication connection. The first circuitry determines a transmission interval of a packet relating to second information that is different from the first information, based on characteristic information on the communication network. The second circuitry performs control to transmit the packet relating to the second information to the destination communication device using the communication connection in accordance with the transmission interval determined by the first circuitry during at least a time period when the communication connection is established and communication of the packet relating to the first information is not performed.
US10003537B2 Egress port overload protection for network packet forwarding systems
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide egress port overload protection for network packet forwarding systems. Input packets are received at one or more ingress ports and load balanced among a plurality of egress ports for the packet forwarding system. Load balanced packets associated with each egress port are then sampled to generate sampled load balanced packets that are output from the egress port. For certain embodiments, a sampling percentage is used for the packet sampling, and the sampling percentage for each egress port is set based upon a comparison of a current traffic rate for the egress port to a threshold rate for the egress port. The threshold rates for the egress ports are allowed to be configured through a user interface. Further, session and non-session traffic can be identified, and session aware load balancing and/or per-port packet sampling can be applied.
US10003528B2 Scalable framework for managing switch link failovers in a switch fabric network
The disclosed system handles a switch link failure in a switch fabric network. When a node in the switch fabric network detects a failure of a switch link coupled to the node, the system remaps traffic that is directed to a logical port number, which is currently mapped to a primary physical port number associated with the failed switch link, to a secondary physical port number associated with the alternative switch link. This remapping involves performing a lookup in a local mapping table at the node, wherein the local mapping table stores associations between logical port numbers and physical port numbers, wherein for each logical port number, the mapping table includes a primary physical port number and one or more secondary physical port numbers, which are associated with alternative switch links. The system notifies a subnet manager for the switch fabric network about the link failure and the remapping.
US10003526B1 Methods and apparatus for efficient use of link aggregation groups
An apparatus includes a first edge device configured to receive a data unit destined to a peripheral processing device that is operatively coupled to a network interconnect via a LAG associated with a second edge device and a third edge device. The first edge device is configured to select an edge device set that includes the third edge device and excludes the second edge device, from a group of edge device sets. Each edge device set from the group of edge device sets is directly coupled to the peripheral processing device. The first edge device is configured to send an instance of the data unit to each edge device from the edge device set such that the third edge device sends an instance of the data unit to the peripheral processing device based on a selection method that omits ports on the second edge device as potential selections.
US10003522B2 Routing with flow over shared risk link groups
A network topology is analyzed to identify shared risk link groups, the edge diversities of paths, and maximally diverse edges for paths. During operation of the network for conveying data packets between two end points, data flows are routed in the network by prioritizing the use of resources that do not belong to a shared risk group and are maximally diverse with other edges already being used. Various load balancing techniques can be used to minimize the risk of serious disruption in the event an underlying resource of a shared risk link group goes down.
US10003520B2 System and method for efficient name-based content routing using link-state information in information-centric networks
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for updating link-status information associated with a prefix in an information-centric network (ICN). During operation, a first node in the ICN receives a link-state advertisement (LSA) message from a neighbor node with the LSA message specifying a prefix and an anchor node advertising the specified prefix. The system determines, based on topology information stored on the first node, whether a shortest-path condition is met, and forwards the received LSA message to other neighbors of the first node in response to the shortest-path condition being met.
US10003519B2 Data delivery method based on software defined networking and software defined networking controller using the method
A data delivery method in a software defined network provides an optimized network delivery service. The method calculates an optimized tree transmission path from among several possible paths between a source client and a destination client. In addition, a unicast transmission is used to optimize a multicast transmission service.
US10003516B2 Method and apparatus for processing messages
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for processing messages. The terminal message processing method According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the method for processing terminal messages used by the apparatus for processing terminal messages can include the steps of: receiving a message from an application of the terminal; determining whether the message is from a pre-registered registration application; when the message is from the registration application, determining whether the message is a control message; and when the message is not from the registration application, transmitting the message to a device for processing server messages. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a message processing apparatus and method for reducing the transmission and reception of a control message for an application are provided, and battery consumption is reduced.
US10003515B1 Network visibility monitoring
Provided are systems and methods for network visibility monitoring. In some implementation, provided is an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a large-flow detection logic operable to determine whether a packet is associated with a large packet flow or a small packet flow, a large-flow caching logic operable to store information about packet flows, a sampling logic operable to sample packets, and a unique-flow estimation logic. The integrated circuit may be operable to receive packets from a network during a pre-determined interval, The integrated circuit may further determine an estimate of the number of unique flows represented by the packets, identify large packet flows by identifying packets associated with the large packet flows, store information about the large packet flows, determine packets associated with small packet flows, and sample the packets determined to be associated with the small packet flows to create packet samples.
US10003514B2 Method and system for determining a deployment of applications
There is provided a method of determining a deployment of applications in a computer system comprising a plurality of computing hardware. The method comprise obtaining, for each of a plurality of applications, a set of application characteristics, assigning each of the plurality of applications, using the obtained characteristics, to one of a plurality of predetermined application models, and determining a virtual server deployment plan and an application deployment plan, the determination based in part on characteristics of the computer system, characteristics of the applications, and application model compatibility data.
US10003513B2 Method, base station, and user equipment for determining channel loss
The present application discloses a method, a base station, and a user equipment for determining channel loss, where the method includes: receiving first information that is from a first user equipment (UE) and corresponds to a rank of a channel loss extent of the first UE; and determining the rank of the channel loss extent of the first UE according to the first information. In the present application, a base station can learn a rank of a channel loss extent of a first UE, so as to perform data transmission according to the rank, thereby improving the quality of communications between the base station and the first UE.
US10003511B2 Mitigating reflection-based network attacks
In one embodiment, a network device routes traffic along a network path and receives a performance threshold crossing alert regarding performance of the network path. The network device detects that the performance threshold crossing alert is part of a potential network attack by analyzing, by the device, the performance threshold crossing alert. The network device also provides a notification of the detected network attack.
US10003510B1 Generating an adjacency graph from a series of linear linked data structures
Implementations of the present disclosure provide for generating adjacency graph from a series of linear linked data structures. A method of one implementation includes receiving an input of a series of linear linked data structures (links). Each of the plurality of links includes an element among a plurality of elements. The method includes in response to determining that a first instance of a node among a plurality of nodes corresponding to an element among the plurality of elements does not exist in the tree graph, generating the first instance of the node in the tree graph. The method also includes creating an edge directly from a second node to the generated first instance of the node. The second node corresponds to a second element among the plurality of elements that is directly linked to the element. The method further generating an adjacency graph based on traversing of the tree graph.
US10003509B2 Packet tracing
To evaluate a network's performance in processing communications related to a target transaction, a set of “reference” communications corresponding to the target transaction are compared to a larger set of communications in the network in a “production” environment, to identify the occurrence of the target transaction in the production environment. Preferably, the reference communications are recorded in a laboratory environment that models the production environment, or recorded from the production environment during a period of minimal other activities. A variety of filters are used to eliminate communications in the production environment that are apparently unrelated to the target transaction, including filters based on the time-order of communications among the nodes, the size of the packets being communicated, and the content of the communications. If necessary, after eliminating the apparently unrelated communications from consideration, the remaining production communications are compared to the reference communications to identify the most likely production communications corresponding to the reference communications.
US10003508B1 Event-based system, method, and computer program for intervening in a network service
An event-based system, method, and computer program product are provided for intervening in connection with a network service. A plurality of measurements are identified that correspond to at least one aspect of a network service. Such measurements are processed and it is determined whether a criterion has been met, based on the processing. One or more events are identified based on the determination whether the criterion has been met. Further, the one or more events are aggregated, and at least one record is produced, based on the aggregation. To this end, an intervention is carried out in connection with the network service, based on the at least one record.
US10003506B2 Automatic discovery and enforcement of service level agreement settings
A method of automatically detecting the service level agreement settings in an Ethernet virtual circuit (EVC) carrying user packets comprises generating synthetic packets different from the user packets, on a data path in the EVC at a level sufficiently high to saturate the EVC. This accelerates the detection of actual effective values for the Committed Information Rate (CIR) and the Excess Information Rate (EIR) by triggering traffic shaping devices in the data path to enforce the CIR and EIR settings configured for those devices. A plurality of traffic samples are collected from the data path during a sampling period that is long enough to allow the collection of at least two valid traffic samples, where a valid traffic sample is the amount of user packets measured between two consecutive losses of synthetic packets. The CIR and EIR values enforced by the traffic shaping devices are determined from the collected samples.
US10003504B2 Management device
A management device includes a first server, a first control module, a management module connected to the first control module through the first server; and a first executing module connected to the first control module. When the first server is operating normally, the first server outputs a first signal to the first control module, the first control module controls the first executing module to operate corresponding to the first signal. When the first server is operating abnormally, the management module outputs a second signal, the first control module controls the first executing module to operate corresponding to the second signal.
US10003502B1 Integrated wireless sensor network (WSN) and massively parallel processing database management system (MPP DBMS)
An architecture, methods and apparatus are provided for managing sensor data. Sensor networks comprised of a plurality of sensors are managed by obtaining measurement data and context data from the plurality of sensors; storing the obtained measurement data and context data using a Massively Parallel Processing Database Management System (MPP DBMS); and managing the sensor network from outside of the sensor network using the MPP DBMS. Context-aware adaptation of sensors is based on context regarding a state of the sensor network and context regarding a state of one or more applications. The sensor nodes are optionally clustered based on semantic similarities among sensor readings from different sensor nodes and a distance among the sensor nodes. A subset of the sensor nodes is optionally selected to be active based on a residual energy of the sensor nodes and a relevance of the sensor nodes to an application. Data prediction models are generated and employed for data sensing and analytics.
US10003501B1 Self-identifying cable assignment
A plurality of network cables are physically connected to a plurality of network ports on an appliance, wherein the appliance comprises a plurality of nodes each associated with a corresponding chassis slot position in which the node is located within a chassis of the appliance and each node having at least one management network port and one host network port. A network address is identified for each of the plurality of network ports. A first subset of network addresses is identified as being associated with a management network port and a second subset of network addresses is identified as being associated with a host network port based at least in part on a respective response received from each network address to a management request using a management interface protocol. For each management network port, a corresponding chassis slot position is associated with that management network port based at least in part on a response to a slot request using the management interface protocol. For each host network port, a corresponding chassis slot position is associated with that host network port based at least in part on a response to an identification request using the management interface protocol.
US10003486B2 Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) wireless systems and methods
Apparatuses and methods for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) communication are discussed. An example Evolved NodeB (eNB) includes a memory, a processor, and a transmitter circuit. The processor evaluates an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) metric and a NOMA metric, generates a protocol instruction that indicates an OMA transmission or a NOMA transmission based on the metrics, and determines a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for a first UE and a second MCS for a second UE. The transmitter circuit receives the protocol instruction and transmits a first data signal and a first downlink control information (DCI) message associated with the first UE, and a second data signal and a second DCI message associated with the second UE. When the protocol instruction indicates NOMA transmission, the data signals are power multiplexed, the DCI messages indicate the data signals are transmitted via NOMA, and the first DCI message indicates the second MCS.
US10003484B2 High-speed signaling systems with adaptable pre-emphasis and equalization
A signaling system includes a pre-emphasizing transmitter and an equalizing receiver coupled to one another via a high-speed signal path. The receiver measures the quality of data conveyed from the transmitter. A controller uses this information and other information to adaptively establish appropriate transmit pre-emphasis and receive equalization settings, e.g. to select the lowest power setting for which the signaling system provides some minimum communication bandwidth without exceeding a desired bit-error rate.
US10003477B1 Methods and systems for channel estimation enhancement for multi-stream packets
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for performing channel estimation for multi-stream packets. The method may include receiving a data packet comprising a plurality of training fields, wherein the plurality of training fields comprises a training field, wherein the training field comprises a plurality of tones, and wherein the plurality of tones comprises a first tone and a second tone. The method may include modifying the first tone based on a predetermined signal associated with the first tone. The method may include storing the first tone in a data structure associated with the first tone. The method may include modifying the data structure based on the second tone.
US10003475B2 Communication management system, communication management method, and management apparatus
A communication management system includes a GW and a server. The GW relays communication with a destination site via a first NW when an FQDN included in a communication request exists in a list. The server supplies the list to the GW. The server includes an aggregation unit that obtains a record including a communication FQDN, a detection GW, and accompanying information, aggregates the amount of access for each of the FQDNs based on the obtained record, and generates an attribute rank table on attribute of interest and a communication rank table for all the GWs. The server includes an extraction unit that extracts FQDNs highly ranked in the percentage of the number of accesses from the communication rank table and the attribute rank table based on a predetermined extraction ratio, as the list for the GWs corresponding to the attribute of interest, and distributes the list to the GW.
US10003472B2 Information processing apparatus, method for controlling the same, and computer-readable medium
An information processing apparatus that communicates with a communication apparatus includes a connecting unit that connects to a first access point in the communication apparatus, a connection-information acquisition unit that acquires connection information for connecting to a second access point in the communication apparatus via the first access point, a storage unit that stores the acquired connection information in a memory, and a receiving unit that receives an instruction to transmit data. Upon receipt of an instruction to transmit data when the connecting unit is not connected to the second access point, the connecting unit connects to the second access point using the stored connection information stored in the storage unit, and when the connecting unit is connected to the second access point, the first access point is disabled.
US10003471B2 Remote control method for multi-terminal device, and related apparatus and system
Disclosed are a remote control method for multi-terminal device, and a related apparatus and system. The method comprises: receiving, by a user terminal, a first switching instruction sent by a main remote controller via a forwarding device; responding to the first switching instruction, and displaying an identifier of a first slave remote controller pre-added to a remote controller list; and sending key value information about the first slave remote controller stored in a database to the main remote controller via the forwarding device, so that the main remote controller refreshes the key value information about the key layout of the main remote controller according to the key value information about the first slave remote controller, and performs a remote control operation on a terminal device corresponding to the first slave remote controller.
US10003465B2 System and method of encrypting authentication information
Embodiments herein provide, for example, a method that includes generating a shared symmetric key to exchange authentication information among a communications group; distributing the generated shared symmetric key to each communicating party in the communications group; exchanging authentication information among members of the communications group, where each communicating party: encrypts the authentication information using the generated shared symmetric key and sends the encrypted authentication information to other members of the communications group, and receives encrypted authentication information from another communicating party in the communications groups and decrypts the received encrypted authentication information using the generated shared symmetric key.
US10003461B2 Power management and security for wireless modules in “machine-to-machine” communications
Methods and systems are provided for power management and security for wireless modules in “Machine-to-Machine” communications. A wireless module operating in a wireless network and with access to the Internet can efficiently and securely communicate with a server. The wireless network can be a public land mobile network (PLMN) that supports wireless wide area network technology including 3rd generation (3G) and 4th generation (4G) networks, and future generations as well. The wireless module can (i) utilize sleep and active states to monitor a monitored unit with a sensor and (ii) communicate with wireless network by utilizing a radio. The wireless module can include power control steps to reduce the energy consumed after sending sensor data by minimizing a tail period of a radio resource control (RRC) connected state. Messages between the wireless module and server can be transmitted according to the UDP or UDP Lite protocol with channel coding in the datagram body for efficiency while providing robustness to bit errors. The wireless module and server can utilize public key infrastructure (PKI) such as public keys to encrypt messages. The wireless module and server can use private keys to generate digital signatures for datagrams sent and decrypt messages received. The communication system between the wireless module and the server can conserve battery life in the wireless module while providing a system that is secure, scalable, and robust.
US10003460B2 Secret quotient transfer device, secret bit decomposition device, secret modulus conversion device, secret quotient transfer method, secret bit decomposition method, secret modulus conversion method, and programs therefor
A secret quotient transfer device that can reduce the communication cost. On the assumption that u denotes a natural number and represents a boundary value, m denotes an integer that satisfies a relation m≤2u, i denotes an integer from 0 to m−1, a plain text a is an integer that is equal to or greater than 0 and smaller than an arbitrary modulo p, the integers a and 0 are congruent modulo 2u, and the plain text a is expressed as a sum of m sub-shares x0, . . . , xm-1, the secret quotient transfer device computes a quotient q of the division of a total sum aZ of the sub-shares by p according to q=Σ(i
US10003459B2 Information processing device, wireless communication system, information processing method, and program
Security is simply and safely secured when communication is performed by an information processing device including: a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with another terminal; an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire first identification information that is acquired through the communication unit and encrypted for specifying the other terminal, and that is decrypted with a first decryption key managed in a network service; and a key acquisition unit configured to acquire a first encryption key associated with the first identification information in the network service when second identification information for specifying an own terminal is associated with the first identification information in the network service. The communication unit transmits information encrypted with the acquired first encryption key to the other terminal.
US10003457B2 Random cipher pad cryptography
Methods for a server include defining a starting element and an element step size. A pad mapping is applied to a data Random Cipher Pad (RCP) to obtain a Key RCP using each element of the Data RCP once in a predetermined non-sequential order. The starting element and the element step size are combined with the Data RCP. The Data RCP is encrypted using the Key RCP to produce a subsequent Data RCP. The subsequent Data RCP is transmitted to another computer. Methods for clients include applying a pad mapping to a Data RCP to obtain a Key RCP using each element of the Data RCP once in a predetermined non-sequential order to develop the Key RCP. The Key RCP is encrypted using the Data RCP to produce a subsequent Key RCP. A data structure is encrypted using the Data RCP to produce an encrypted data structure.
US10003454B2 Sampler with low input kickback
Methods and systems are described for receiving a signal to be sampled and responsively generating, at a pair of common nodes, a differential current representative of the received signal, receiving a plurality of sampling interval signals, each sampling interval signal received at a corresponding sampling phase of a plurality of sampling phases, for each sampling phase, pre-charging a corresponding pair of output nodes using a pre-charging FET pair receiving the sampling interval signal, forming a differential output voltage by discharging the corresponding pair of output nodes via a discharging FET pair connected to the pair of common nodes, the FET pair receiving the sampling interval signal and selectively enabling the differential current to discharge the corresponding pair of output nodes, and latching the differential output voltage.
US10003450B2 Method and device for transmitting and receiving data by using multiple carriers in mobile communication system
To solve the above-mentioned problem, the method for transmitting and receiving a signal by user equipment (UE) through one or more cells, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first message indicating whether one or more cells usable by the UE are enabled; determining which cells to enable or disable on the basis of the first message; and enabling or disabling the selected cells. According to the embodiment of the present specification, by aggregating carriers amongst different base stations, a possibility for the UE to transmit and receive high-speed data through carrier aggregation can increase.
US10003448B2 Method for reporting channel status information in wireless communication system supporting change in use of wireless resources, and device therefor
The present invention relates to a method and a device for reporting channel status information of a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting a change in use of wireless resources. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a change-in-use message for a dynamic change of wireless resource use; measuring channel status information in a channel status information (CSI) reference resource section corresponding to the change-in-use message; and reporting the channel status information to a base station, wherein the CSI reference resource section has a first CSI measurement resource set and a second CSI measurement resource set, the first CSI measurement resource set has a plurality of first wireless resources configured to allow the use of wireless resources to be fixed, and the second CSI measurement resource set has a plurality of second wireless resources configured to allow the use of wireless resources to be reset.
US10003445B2 Method and apparatus for scheduling a controlchannel in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing communication system
A scheduler capable of operating in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing communication system schedules a control channel for a user equipment by determining a channel quality metric associated with the user equipment, calculating a target control channel element quality metric, determining a control channel element utilization rate, wherein the control channel element utilization rate a past rate of utilization of control channel elements, and selecting a control channel element aggregation level for the control channel based on the channel quality metric, the target control channel element quality metric, and the control channel element utilization rate. The scheduler then allocates control channel elements to the control channel based on the selected control channel element aggregation level. The scheduler further may steal power from one or more unused control channel elements and assign the stolen power to control channel elements assigned to the control channel.
US10003441B2 Sub-carrier or tone plan and design within OFDM/OFDMA wireless communications
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes a processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A WDEV selects a resource unit (RU) from an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) sub-carrier plan for use in supporting communications with another WDEV. The WDEV transmits a signal to the other WDEV that includes information that specifies the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan and then supports communications with the other WDEV using the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan. The OFDMA sub-carrier plan includes multiple OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plans of different sized RUs and null sub-carriers.
US10003440B2 Receiver circuit
A receiver circuit comprising: an input terminal configured to receive an input-signal; an interfering-signal-strength-calculator configured to determine an interfering-signal-strength-indicator based on the input signal; a compensation-block configured to apply a co-channel-interference compensation operation to the input-signal in order to generate a compensated-input-signal; a compensation-weighting-component configured to apply a compensation-weighting-factor to the compensated-input-signal in order to generate a weighted-compensated-input-signal, wherein the compensation-weighting-factor is based on the interfering-signal-strength-indicator; a delay-block configured to apply a delay to the input-signal in order to generate a delayed-input-signal; a delayed-weighting-component configured to apply a delayed-weighting-factor to the delayed-input-signal in order to generate a weighted-delayed-input-signal, wherein the delayed-weighting-factor is based on the interfering-signal-strength-indicator; and a signal-combiner configured to combine the weighted-delayed-input-signal and the weighted-compensated-input-signal in order to provide a combined-input-signal for demodulation.
US10003438B2 Relay operation for latency sensitive reliable data exchange
Systems and methods are disclosed for using wireless relays to create path diversity in rebroadcasting data in wireless networks with latency sensitive applications. A first wireless communication device receives a data signal, the data signal being transmitted on a first frequency resource from a second wireless communication device to a third wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device receives an ACK/NACK signal being transmitted from the third wireless communication device to the second wireless communication device. The first wireless communication device determines if the ACK/NACK signal is a NACK signal, and if so transmits the data signal at a second frequency resource during a third time period to the third wireless communication device.
US10003435B2 Method, system and device for error detection in OFDM wireless communication networks without full forward error correction decoding
A system, method and device for error detection/estimation in OFDM communications systems is proposed. The disclosed mechanism allows an efficient error prediction in a received packet, without having to perform full FEC decoding of the packet that could impair the overall latency of the system due to the time spent in a complete FEC decoding of the packet. In order to do that, it generates a decision variable with the aim to check whether a received packet has errors or not, after performing only partial FEC decoding of the packet, without either resorting to the use of error-detection codes.
US10003433B2 Statistical model based control signal outer-loop adjustment
Systems and methods for control signal outer-loop adjustment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a network node in a cellular communications network is provided. The method includes transmitting a control signal and a data signal to a wireless device. The method also includes detecting an ambiguous state of reception of the control signal by the wireless device based on a feedback of reception of the data signal. The method also includes, in response to detecting the ambiguous state of reception, updating a link adaptation (LA) parameter used to choose a coding scheme and power level for transmission of information in the control signal. By updating the LA parameter in response to detecting the ambiguous state of reception, the network node may provide improved performance.
US10003430B2 Transceiving system, transmitter, receiver, and control method of transceiving system
A transceiving system includes: a transmitter; and a receiver coupled to the transmitter via optical transmission lines, the transmitter includes: a first processor configured to generate division data obtained by dividing data; a modulator configured to modulate wavelengths of transport lights, which transport the division data, based on setting information including a correspondence relationship between identification information identifying each of the optical transmission lines and wavelength information indicating a wavelength, and output lights, each of which is superimposed with the respective division data, to the optical transmission lines; and a second processor configured to transmit changed setting information, which is obtained by changing the setting information, to the receiver, and the receiver includes: a de-multiplexer configured to separate lights from the optical transmission lines into de-multiplexed lights of a wavelengths, based on the changed setting information; and a third processor configured to convert the de-multiplexed lights into division data.
US10003426B2 Wavelength conflict detection using coded pilot tone
Systems and methods for performing wavelength conflict detection are provided. These are to detect situations in optical networks where two instances of the same wavelength channel have been added. Wavelength conflict detection is performed for each of a plurality of possible wavelength channels that could be present in an optical signal, each wavelength channel that is present modulated by a pilot tone signal with a respective pilot tone frequency, the pilot tone signal carrying M-ary pilot tone data, M=2n, n≥1, with a respective one of M different sequences being used to represent each of M possible data values over a data value period. Conflict detection for each wavelength channel involves performing correlation peak detection using each of the M different sequences to determine correlation peaks for each of the M different sequences, and, based on the determined correlation peaks, determining whether multiple instances of the wavelength channel are present in the optical signal.
US10003425B2 Branching configuration including separate branching unit and predetermined wavelength filter unit and system and method including the same
In general, a branching configuration used in a wavelength division multiplexed (WDM) optical communication system includes a branching unit (BU) and a separate predetermined wavelength filter (PWF) unit. The PWF unit may include wavelength selective elements (e.g., filters) for providing a desired wavelength allocation and may also include optical connections (e.g. optical couplers) for coupling the allocated wavelengths between trunk and branch paths in the WDM system. The PWF unit is physically separate from an associated BU but coupled adjacent the BU.
US10003421B2 Radio analysis apparatus and method
A radio analysis apparatus includes: a processor that calculates a modulation index of a radio signal generated by performing frequency shift keying on a baseband signal, based on phase shift amounts of the radio signal; and a memory that holds information in which bit patterns of the baseband signal are associated with correction values for correcting the phase shift amounts that have dropped by band limitation on the baseband signal. The processor restores the bit patterns of the baseband signal based on the phase shift amounts of the radio signal, corrects the phase shift amounts of the radio signal by using the correction values corresponding to the restored bit patterns, and calculates the modulation index based on the corrected phase shift amounts.
US10003419B1 Method and system of preventing interference caused by images
A system and method prevent interference caused by images resulting from mixing an incoming periodically modulated RF signal with multiple LO signals generated by a LO in a receiver system. The method includes determining tone frequencies of multiple tones and determining tone spacing between adjacent tones in the periodically modulated RF signal using a known period of modulation of the periodically modulated RF signal; identifying a sampling rate of an ADC of the receiver system; determining a DFT record size of samples provided by the ADC based on at least the tone spacing and the ADC sampling rate; and determining LO frequencies of the multiple LO signals based on at least the DFT record size and the ADC sampling rate, such that images created by respectively mixing the determined LO frequencies with portions of the periodically modulated RF signal avoid interfering with direct mixing components of the plurality of tones.
US10003417B2 Controllable multi-user MIMO testbed
Systems and methods for design and testing of RF components are described. One or more RF isolation chambers are used to house MU-MIMO capable devices under test, including wireless access points and client devices. Spatial and angular positioning of the antennas within a chamber and controlled power of the signals into each antenna via RF combiners and RF attenuators to achieve a controllable apparent/virtual angular spread among the respective client device signals is described.
US10003410B2 Optical receiver, optical termination device, and optical communication system
An optical receiver includes an APD that converts an input optical signal into a current signal, a TIA that converts the current signal output from the APD into a voltage signal, an LIA that shapes a waveform of the voltage signal output from the TIA, an AOC having a time constant switching function, the AOC automatically compensating for an offset voltage between differential outputs from the TIA, and a convergence-state detection circuit that outputs, after detecting convergence completion of the automatic compensation in the AOC, to the AOC, a time constant switching control signal for switching a time constant from a high-speed time constant to a low-speed time constant.
US10003409B2 Imaging cancellation in high-speed intensity modulation and direct detection system with dual single sideband modulation
Provided are methods and systems for receiving and processing optical signals are provided. A dual single side band (SSB) modulation scheme is utilized to take advantage of given wavelengths' bandwidth. Modulation schemes are employed that modulate each SSB with their In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) components. The methods and systems discussed perform MIMO de-multiplexing algorithms to remove any imaging components of the left and right SSBs provided by the modulators. Various algorithms can be employed, including but not limited to inserting time interleaved training sequences into the channels of the right and left SSB signals or by employing a constant-modulus-algorithm (CMA) de-multiplexing.
US10003407B2 Two-level coset coding scheme for gigabit Ethernet over plastic optical fiber
An efficient coding and modulation system for transmission of digital data over plastic optical fibers with low latency. In particular, the digital signal is coded by means of a two-level coset coding. The first level applies to the digital data a binary shortened BCH coding and performs coset partitioning by means of constellation mapping and lattice transformations. The second level is uncoded but undergoes mapping and lattice transformation. After an addition of the two levels, a second-stage lattice transformation is performed so as to obtain a zero-mean constellation. The symbols output from such three-level coset coder are then further modulated.
US10003403B1 OBI detection and avoidance in broadband devices
Systems and methods can operate to detect and avoid optical beat interference (OBI) in broadband devices by use of restrictive channel assignment. An OBI-mitigating mapper algorithm can leash OBI candidates in a circular queue to avoid scheduling service flows likely to result in OBI generation. In some implementations, the algorithm can automatically leash all pre-DOCSIS 3.0 service flows. In alternative implementations, the algorithm can allow the CMTS to normally load balance pre-DOCSIS 3.0 devices while manually adding and/or removing pre-DOCSIS 3.0 service flows from the OBI candidate queue based upon lost transmissions or a designated age-out timer.
US10003402B2 Ground terminal design for high rate direct to earth optical communications
Challenges of direct-to-Earth (DTE) laser communications (lasercom) between spacecraft in low-Earth orbit (LEO) or medium-Earth orbit (MEO) and ground terminals can include short duration transmission windows, long time gaps between the transmission windows, deleterious effects of atmospheric turbulence, and the inability to operate in cloudy weather. Direct-link optical communications systems described herein can have data rates that are high enough to empty high-capacity on-board buffer(s) (e.g., having a capacity of at least about 1 Tb to hundreds of Tb) of a spacecraft in a single pass lasting only tens of seconds to a few minutes (e.g., 1-15 minutes), and overprovisioning the buffer capacity accounts for variations in the latency between links. One or more distributed networks of compact optical ground terminals, connected via terrestrial data networks, receive and demodulate WDM optical data transmissions from a plurality of orbiting spacecraft (e.g., satellites).
US10003401B2 System and method for communication with a mobile device via a positioning system including RF communication devices and modulated beacon light sources
A light source emits a modulated light, and a radio-frequency transceiver disposed therewith emits a radio-frequency signal. A mobile device may receive either or both signals and determine its position based thereon. The light and radio-frequency sources may be disposed in node in a network of said sources, and the nodes may communicate via the radio-frequency transceivers.
US10003399B2 Coherent power combining via wavefront multiplexing on deep space spacecraft
A communication system and method for a deep space spacecraft receiver to perform post-processing to dynamically combine received signal power coherently for pre-processed signal streams radiated non-coherently from a distributed, multiple element, Ka-band transmitting array via multiple concurrent propagation paths. Mutually orthogonal data and pilot signals travel though the multiple propagation paths. A pre-processor utilizing wavefront multiplexing restructures signal streams on the ground into multi-channel wavefrom structures along with injections of pilot signals for diagnostic and probing purposes. These restructured, or “wavefront multiplexed” (WFM) signals are transmitted through propagation channels to a receiver on the spacecraft, wherein adaptive equalization and wavefront de-multiplexing coherently separates the mixtures of received WFM signals. Transmitting power can be dynamically allocated for the multiple concurrent data streams, radiated to different spacecraft within the same field of view according to continuously changing demand by changing the relative input power ratios of the WFM signal mixtures.
US10003393B2 Method and apparatus for antenna selection
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system including an RF switch connected with an antenna system that includes a first antenna and a second antenna. The system can include, where the RF switch has a first position in which the first antenna operates as the primary antenna and the second antenna operates as the diversity antenna, and wherein the RF switch has a second position in which the second antenna operates as the primary antenna and the first antenna operates as the diversity antenna. The system can include a controller coupled with the matching network and with the RF switch, where the controller receives first measurements associated with the antenna system, and where the controller adjusts the RF switch to select between the first and second positions according to the first measurements.
US10003392B2 Method for generating channel state information for three-dimensional MIMO in wireless communication system, and device therefor
Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal generates channel state information for multi-antenna-based beamforming in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a first pilot signal and a second pilot signal from a base station; selecting a first rank on the basis of the first pilot signal and selecting a second rank on the basis of the second pilot signal; setting a rank search range for a three-dimensional channel on the basis of the first rank and the second rank; and selecting a rank for the three-dimensional channel within the rank search range and a precoder corresponding to the rank for the three-dimensional channel.
US10003391B2 Apparatus and method for controlling transmission in a communication system
The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point.
US10003386B2 Method and apparatus for providing optimal transmission and reception beams in beamforming system
A method of providing an optimal transmission or reception (Tx/Rx) beam in a beamforming system. The method includes receiving a reference signal and selecting an optimal Tx/Rx beam that guarantees an optimal channel environment based on the received reference signal determining a possibility of occurrence of a Tx/Rx beam mismatch between the selected optimal Tx/Rx beam and a Tx/Rx beam used for transmitting information on the selected optimal Tx/Rx beam; and when there is the possibility of the occurrence of the Tx/Rx beam mismatch, performing at least one of widening a beam width of the Tx/Rx beam, increasing a number of Tx/Rx beams, reducing a period of a beam selection operation for selecting the optimal Tx/Rx beam, and reducing a transmission period of the reference signal. Other embodiments including a beamforming system are also disclosed.
US10003384B2 Docking station for a wireless energy and data connection
The embodiments relate to a docking station for a mobile electronic device. The energy supply and the data exchange between the docking station and the mobile electronic device is carried out in a wireless manner. The wireless energy supply and the wireless data connection are configured to each other. The initialization process for connecting the mobile electronic device to the docking station may be carried out in a fully automatic manner.
US10003381B2 Low power modes for data transmission from a distribution point
Methods and devices are discussed where a common bit loading table is constructed from minimum gain from a plurality of bit loading tables for different combinations of lines being in a transmit or quiet mode.
US10003375B2 Radio frequency circuitry for carrier aggregation
RF circuitry includes a filter, a termination impedance, and band switching circuitry. The filter is coupled between a first input/output node and a common node and configured to pass RF signals within a transmit portion of a first operating band from the first input/output node to the common node while attenuating signals outside of the transmit portion of the first operating band. The termination impedance is coupled between a termination impedance node and ground. The band switching circuitry is configured to couple the termination impedance node to the first input/output node such that the termination impedance is coupled between the first input/output node and ground in a first mode of operation. In a second mode of operation, the band switching circuitry is configured to provide RF transmit signals within the transmit portion of the first operating band to the first input/output node.
US10003373B1 Method and apparatus for providing a selected one of coexisting transceiver modules access to switch modules
A network device including first, second and third transceiver modules, which transmit or receive first, second and third data signals. A control module generates a mask signal based on a parameter of the first, second or third transceiver modules. The mask signal includes a direction bit and a first channel that identifies a first frequency. The direction bit indicates a range of frequencies. Transmission on the first frequency and some of the range of frequencies causes desensitization of the second data signal. A hopping module, based on a clock signal, selects a second channel for the third data signal. An output module, based on the mask signal and the second channel, generates an overlap signal indicating whether potential desensitization of the first or third data signal exists. An arbitration module, based on the overlap signal, provides the first or third transceiver module access to a first or second switch module.
US10003372B2 Combination mobile phone case and electronic cigarette
A mobile phone case comprising a protective case element designed for coupling to a mobile phone with a first rechargeable battery, a wireless charging system embedded in the case element, a terminal conductively coupled with the wireless charging system, the terminal configured for conductively coupling with a power port in the mobile phone, an electronic cigarette element removably coupled to the case element, wherein when the terminal is conductively coupled with the power port in the mobile phone, and the case element is placed in proximity to a charging station, the wireless charging system charges the first rechargeable battery of the mobile phone and the second rechargeable battery of the electronic cigarette element.
US10003371B1 Electronic device case comprising sliding camera lens covers
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to a case for use with a personal electronic device comprising front and rear camera lenses. Particularly, the disclosed case comprises front and rear covers that selectively move to cover and uncover the camera lenses on demand. In addition, the covers prevent dust, dirt, and the like from contacting and damaging the device cameras. Optionally, the disclosed case includes an integral storage compartment for housing credit cards, ID cards, and the like. In some embodiments, the stored items can be used with a slot integral to the case to function as a support stand.
US10003369B2 Portable, wearable radio
A portable, wearable radio includes a modular harness having the flexibility to be reconfigured into a plurality of different profiles, the modular harness having an interior and a plurality of radio components removably disposed within the interior of the modular harness. The plurality of radio components includes a first radio component, a second radio component electrically coupled to the first radio component via a first flexible electrical connector, and a third radio component electrically coupled to the first radio component via at least one of a group selected from the first flexible electrical connector and a second flexible electrical connector.
US10003367B2 Information signalling for network assisted interference mitigation
Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a wireless network include provision of interfering signal characteristics information to a user equipment to facilitate suppression of an interfering signal present in a downlink signal being received at the user equipment.
US10003352B2 High-precision analog-to-digital converter and DNL-based performance improvement method
The present invention provides a high-precision analog-to-digital converter, includes a redundant weight capacitor array, a comparator, a code reestablishment circuit, a weight storage circuit and a control logic circuit. The redundant weight capacitor array collects input voltages and generates output voltages in a sampling stage. The comparator compares the output voltages of the redundant weight capacitor array. The code reestablishment circuit calculates an output code of the successive approximation type analog-to-digital converter according to the comparator output result and a capacitor weight in the weight storage circuit. The weight storage circuit stores the capacitor weight. The control logic circuit controls the sampling and conversion stages of the redundant weight capacitor array. The present invention also provides a DNL-based performance improvement method adapted to the analog-to-digital converter.
US10003351B2 Semiconductor device including analog-to-digital conversion circuit
An object of the present invention is to shorten time required for detecting disconnection in an input terminal of an A/D conversion circuit. A semiconductor device includes a first input channel that couples a first input terminal and an A/D conversion unit to each other, a second input channel that couples a second input terminal and the A/D conversion unit to each other, and a control circuit unit that separates the second input channel from the second input terminal and the A/D conversion unit to charge or discharge the second input channel when a signal input into the first input terminal is sampled by the A/D conversion unit.
US10003345B2 Clock and data recovery circuit using digital frequency detection
A clock and data recovery circuit is disclosed herein. The clock and data recovery circuit includes a phase detection unit, a charge pump, a loop filter, a voltage control oscillator, and a frequency detection unit. The voltage control oscillator has oscillation frequency that is variable in response to a frequency adjustment signal, and outputs an oscillation signal. The frequency detection unit includes a reference clock divider, a counter, and an oscillation frequency control unit. The reference clock divider generates a count-enable signal based on a reference clock signal. The counter generates an oscillation count signal by counting the pulses of the oscillation signal of the voltage control oscillator or the pulses of divided signals resulting from dividing the oscillation signal while the count-enable signal is being enabled. The oscillation frequency control unit compares a target count value with the value of the oscillation count signal, and outputs the frequency adjustment signal.
US10003342B2 Compressor circuit and compressor circuit layout
A compressor circuit includes a plurality of inputs, a sum output, and a plurality of XOR circuits. Each XOR circuit of the plurality of XOR circuits includes first, second and third inputs, and a first output. The XOR circuit is configured to generate a logic value A⊕B⊕C at the first output, where A, B and C are logic values at the corresponding first, second and third inputs, and “⊕” is the XOR logic operation. The plurality of XOR circuits includes first and second XOR circuits. The first, second and third inputs of the first XOR circuit are coupled to corresponding inputs among the plurality of inputs of the compressor circuit. The first output of the first XOR circuit is coupled to the first input of the second XOR circuit. The first output of the second XOR circuit is coupled to the sum output.
US10003337B1 Resonant virtual supply booster for synchronous logic circuits and other circuits with use of on-chip integrated magnetic inductor
Circuits and methods are provided. The circuits and methods are for providing a supply voltage to a dynamic internal power supply node of a group of other circuits. A circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor, of different channel types, coupled in parallel to a static power supply that supplies a constant power supply voltage. The circuit further includes a magnetic inductor having a first terminal connected to a common node between the first transistor and the second transistor and a second terminal connected to the dynamic internal power supply node, to supply the dynamic internal power supply node with a boosted voltage having a magnitude greater than a magnitude of the constant power supply voltage by resonating with at least one capacitance coupled to the dynamic internal power supply node.
US10003326B1 Ring oscillator
A pre-driver includes a first inverter, a second inverter, a third inverter, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a third amplifier, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a third capacitor. The first inverter has an input terminal coupled to an output node, and an output terminal coupled to a first node. The second inverter has an input terminal coupled to the first node, and an output terminal coupled to a second node. The third inverter has an input terminal coupled to the second node, and an output terminal coupled to the output node. The output node is further coupled through the first amplifier and the first capacitor to the first node. The first node is further coupled through the second amplifier and the second capacitor to the second node. The second node is further coupled through the third amplifier and the third capacitor to the output node.
US10003321B2 Encoder having phase adjuster for offsetting phases of multi-phase input signal
A resistor string outputs sixteen signals with a phase difference of 22.5° by dividing voltage between two adjacent phases of a four-phase input signal with a phase difference of 2π/M (where M is an integer equal to or greater than 2), and by generating four signals with a delayed phase for each phase of the four-phase input signal. A switch portion selects four signals with a phase difference of 90° from the sixteen signals. Amplifiers output each of the four signals, which are attenuated by dividing the voltage with the resistor string, as a four-phase output signal by amplifying each of the four signals such that an amplitude of the four signals matches the amplitude of the four-phase input signal.
US10003315B2 Voltage sampler driver with enhanced high-frequency gain
Methods and systems are described for receiving, at an input differential branch pair, a set of input signals, and responsively generating a first differential current, receiving, at an input of an offset voltage branch pair, an offset voltage control signal, and responsively generating a second differential current, supplementing a high-frequency component of the second differential current by injecting a high-pass filtered version of the set of input signals into the input of the offset voltage branch pair using a high-pass filter, and generating an output differential current based on the first and second differential currents using an amplifier stage connected to the input differential branch pair and the offset voltage branch pair.
US10003314B2 Active device which has a high breakdown voltage, is memory-less, traps even harmonic signals and circuits used therewith
An active device and circuits utilized therewith are disclosed. In an aspect, the active device comprises an n-type transistor having a drain, gate and bulk and a p-type transistor having a drain, gate and bulk. The n-type transistor and the p-type transistor include a common source. The device includes a first capacitor coupled between the gate of the n-type transistor and the gate of the p-type transistor, a second capacitor coupled between the drain of the n-type transistor and the drain of p-type transistor and a third capacitor coupled between the bulk of the n-type transistor and the bulk of p-type transistor. The active device has a high breakdown voltage, is memory less and traps even harmonic signals.
US10003312B2 Amplifier with feedback circuit
An apparatus includes a resistor having an input coupled to an output of an amplifier. The apparatus also includes a feedback circuit coupled to an output of the resistor and to an input of the amplifier. The feedback circuit includes a first component of a voltage divider.
US10003309B2 Adaptive self-bias
A method and system for adaptive self-biasing of a power amplifier are disclosed. A current (Ids) at an output of the power amplifier is measured, the current being a sum of a quiescent current (Idq) and a current arising from an RF signal applied to an input of the power amplifier. An output signal power (Pout) of the power amplifier is measured. A target value of Ids corresponding to the measured value of Pout is either calculated or obtained from a look-up table. The measured current Ids is compared to the target value of Ids to determine an error value. An input biasing voltage (Vgs) of the power amplifier is adjusted based on the error value to achieve a measured value of Ids that is equal to the target value of Ids corresponding to the measured value of Pout.
US10003302B2 Modified tunneling field effect transistors and fabrication methods
Tunneling field effect transistors and fabrication methods thereof are provided, which include: an integrated circuit device which includes a circuit input configured to receive an input voltage and a circuit output configured to deliver an output current. The integrated circuit also includes a circuit element having at least one tunneling field effect transistor (TFET). The circuit element connects the circuit input to the circuit output and is characterized by a V-shaped current-voltage diagram. The V-shaped current-voltage diagram describes the relationship between the input voltage of the circuit input and the output current of the circuit output.
US10003301B2 Drive circuit for an oscillator
The present invention concerns a drive circuit for driving an oscillator. The drive circuit comprises a first inductor comprising a first terminal and a second terminal; an electrical energy source connected to the first terminal; and a switching circuit connected to the second terminal and to the oscillator. The switching circuit is configured to operate at least in an off state, where it is configured not to feed electrical energy to the oscillator, and in an on state, where it is configured to feed electrical energy to the oscillator. The first inductor is arranged to store energy in its magnetic field when the switching circuit is in the off state, and, when the switching circuit is in the on state, the switching circuit is arranged to use at least some of the energy stored in the magnetic field to deliver a surge of current from the electrical energy source to the oscillator.
US10003292B2 System and method for optimizing flux regulation in electric motors
A system and method for dynamically optimizing flux levels in electric motors based on estimated torque. Motor parameters and motor equations are used to estimate operating characteristics and to set current and voltage limits which define an optimal flux operating range for a given speed and torque of the motor. A slope of a linear flux gain is determined within the defined operating range at different speeds of the motor. The determined slopes for the different speeds are saved in a memory element. A control element determines and achieves an optimal flux level for the motor by accessing the table to identify a specific slope which corresponds to an actual speed of the motor, multiplying the slope by the estimated torque and adding an offset value to determine a phase current component value associated with the optimal flux level, and applying the determined phase current component value to the motor.
US10003291B2 Hybrid surface magnet machine
A hybrid electrical machine containing surface mounted magnets which includes a magnetically permeable cylindrically shaped stator assembly having at least one stator winding formed about a plurality of stator teeth, a rotor assembly concentrically disposed within the stator assembly, including a magnetically permeable rotor backiron, a rotational drive mechanism coupled to the rotor backiron, and a plurality of protruding rotor poles, each including a magnetically permeable pole support assembly, a winding provided around the pole support assembly, and a radially magnetized permanent magnet assembly disposed about the pole support assembly.
US10003290B2 Method of monitoring power provision of a generator set
The present invention provides a method of remotely monitoring the power provision of a generator set at a location comprising determining an expected electrical energy usage at a first location, providing a generator set configured to provide electrical energy to power or devices at the location, the generator set arranged to provide an amount of electrical energy to meet the determined expected electrical energy usage, and the generator having a telemetry module to monitor and transmit electrical energy supply data to a second location, the telemetry module monitoring the supply data over a predetermined period and transmitting the supply data to the processor, analyzing the supply data to determine a power supply profile at the first location, and comparing the power supply profile with the expected power usage and/or the power supply specifications of the generator set.
US10003289B2 Method for controlling motor
A method for controlling a motor is provided. The motor control method includes deriving a motor rotational speed estimate using a speed estimator model and deriving a motor hall sensor frequency estimate based on the derived rotational speed estimate. Additionally, a filter for noise detection is set based on the derived hall sensor frequency estimate and the derived rotational speed estimate. A motor hall sensor frequency derived from the hall sensor is then applied to a predetermined filter to detect a hall sensor noise frequency.
US10003288B2 Motor control circuit and fan including the same
A control circuit for a motor, includes: a plurality of m number of analog ports to each of which a detection signal indicating an electrical state of the motor is input, m being an integer of 2 or more; an A/D converter including a multiplexer to receive detection signals of the m number of analog ports and being configured to convert a detection signal selected by the multiplexer into digital data; a processor to generate a drive command of the motor based on the digital data; a pulse width modulator to perform pulse width modulation to generate a PWM signal based on the drive command; and an interface circuit to be triggered by at least one internal signal generated in the control circuit to control an operation of the A/D converter according to a control command from the processor and deliver the digital data to the processor.
US10003283B2 Method for changing an operating state of an electric machine and device for changing the operating state of an electric machine
The present invention provides a device and a method for changing the operating state of an electric machine to the free-wheeling mode, in which significant excessive increases in voltage can be avoided. In the freewheeling mode, the individual phase connections of an electric machine are disconnected electrically from one another in order to change the electric machine into a safe operating state. According to the invention, only some of the phase currents of the electric machine are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluated phase currents, suitable times for the disconnection of all the phase connections are determined, that is to say even for the phases in which no evaluation of the phase currents takes place.
US10003277B2 Power conversion device
A power converter including a compressor as a load includes a compensation current output (80) allowing compensation current (Ic), which compensates for leakage current (Ia), to flow. A controller (50) receives a detection signal from a rotational speed sensor (55) which senses the rotational speed of the compressor (CM). When the rotational speed has increased to a set rotational speed at which the leakage current (Ia) is lower than or equal to its limiting value (Lmax) (e.g., the limiting value specified under the Electrical Appliances and Materials Safety Act or by the IEC) in a state where the compensation current output (80) is off, the compensation current output (80) is switched from an on state to an off state. This may reduce the leakage current from the compressor with low power loss.
US10003276B2 Power converter comprising an architecture having nonaligned arms
The invention mainly provides a power converter (3) including a positive converter bridge (P+) and a negative converter bridge (P−), the converter bridges being of the diode bridge type and being connected in parallel, each converter bridge including a first series of arms of components connected to the phases of the first secondary of the transformer (2) and a second series of arms of components connected to the phases of the second secondary of the transformer (2), said power converter being characterized in that at least one series of arms of components includes arms (B1, B2, B3) disposed relative to one another in such a manner as not to be aligned in the same plane.
US10003275B2 LLC resonant converter with integrated magnetics
Disclosed examples include integrated magnetic circuits for LLC resonant converters, including an inductor cell and multiple transformer cells with cores arranged in a stack structure. The individual transformer cells include primary and secondary windings extending around the transformer core structure, and a secondary transistor connected in series with the secondary winding. One or more windings are shaped near core stack gaps to reduce core and winding losses. The inductor cell includes an inductor winding extending around the inductor core structure to provide the inductor, and the capacitor. The inductor cell is arranged in the stack structure with the transformer cells to magnetically couple the transformer primary windings, the inductor winding and the transformer secondary windings in a single magnetic circuit to cancel cell to cell flux.
US10003268B2 Systems and methods for output current regulation in power conversion systems
Systems and methods are provided for regulating power conversion systems. A system controller includes: a first controller terminal configured to receive a first signal related to an input signal for a primary winding of a power conversation system; and a second controller terminal configured to output a drive signal to a switch to affect a current flowing through the primary winding, the drive signal being associated with a switching period including an on-time period and an off-time period. The switch is closed (e.g., being turned on) in response to the drive signal during the on-time period. The switch is opened (e.g., being turned off) in response to the drive signal during the off-time period. A duty cycle is equal to a duration of the on-time period divided by a duration of the switching period. The system controller is configured to keep a multiplication product of the duty cycle and the duration of the on-time period approximately constant.
US10003267B1 Isolated DC-DC converter with an H-bridge circuit
Isolated DC-DC converters and methods for operating the same are described herein. DC-DC converters include a driver that drives a primary winding of a transformer to transmit power to a secondary winding of the transformer across an isolation barrier. In some embodiments, a pair of symmetrical serial capacitors are provided between the driver and the primary winding of a resonant DC-DC converter with an on-chip transformer to slow down variations of a common mode voltage on the primary winding during operation. This in turn can suppress radiation emissions related to time variation rates of the common mode voltage and, and can also improve electromagnetic interference (EMI) performance of the DC-DC converter.
US10003265B2 Switching power supply device
A power control IC has a switching control circuit of a fixed on-period type which generates an output voltage from an input voltage by driving a coil by turning on and off an output transistor according to a result of comparison between a feedback voltage and a reference voltage, and a quieting circuit which forcibly turns on the output transistor by ignoring the result of comparison when, after an on-timing of the output transistor, a predetermined threshold time elapses without the next on-timing coming.
US10003263B2 Over voltage protection control method and circuit for four-switch buck-boost converter
In one embodiment, a method of over voltage protection control can include: (i) determining whether an output voltage of a buck-boost converter is in an over voltage condition, where the buck-boost converter includes a first switch coupled to an input terminal and an inductor, a second switch coupled to ground and a common node of the first switch and the inductor, a third switch coupled to ground and a common node of a fourth switch and the inductor, where the fourth switch is coupled to an output terminal of the buck-boost converter; and (ii) simultaneously controlling the first, second, third, and fourth switches in the buck-boost converter by turning on the second and third switches, and turning off the first and fourth switches, in response to the over voltage condition.
US10003261B2 High efficiency switching charger with reduced input voltage ripple
A voltage or current regulated power converter for charging batteries, is described. The power converter comprises an inductor (L), a capacitor cell (C1, C2), switches (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8) and a controller. The controller controls the switches such that a commutation cycle of the power converter comprises a first phase, during which the capacitor cell and the inductor are arranged in series and during which a voltage across the serial arrangement of the capacitor cell and the inductor corresponds to Vin−Vout; a second phase, during which the capacitor cell and the inductor are arranged in series and during which the voltage across the serial arrangement of the capacitor cell and the inductor corresponds to −Vout; and a third phase, during which the capacitor cell is floating and during which the voltage across the inductor corresponds to Vin−Vout or to −Vout.
US10003259B2 Voltage converter and control method thereof
Voltage converter and control method thereof. In some embodiments, a voltage converter can include a voltage conversion circuit configured to convert an input voltage to an output voltage based on a drive signal, and a feedback circuit configured to generate an error signal based on the output voltage and a reference voltage. The voltage converter can further include a feedforward circuit configured to generate a feedforward signal based on the input voltage. The voltage converter can further include a drive control circuit configured to generate the drive signal based on the feedforward signal and the error signal.
US10003255B1 VID-controlled voltage regulator with audible noise correction
A method for correcting audible noise from a voltage regulator due to a change of a VID indicated by a series of VID commands. A VID difference between a current value and a target value of the VID is compared with a VID threshold when a VID command for changing the VID from the current value to the target value is received. The VID is held at the current value if the VID difference is larger than the VID threshold. And the VID command is executed if a holding duration for holding the VID at the current value expires and no new VID command for changing the VID is received before the expiration of the holding duration.
US10003254B2 Digital AC/DC power converter
A digital AC/DC power converter comprises an active PFC module, a single switch module having a single switch, a power output module having a transformer, a digital control module having a microcontroller, and a rectifying and filtering module having a full-bridge rectifier, an EMI filter, and a capacitor that is less than 1 μF. The single switch is electrically connected to the active PFC module, and a primary winding of the transformer is electrically connected to the active PFC module. The microcontroller provides a PWM signal to control the switching state of the single switch, so that the active PFC module transforms AC frequency from less than 300 Hz into over 30,000 Hz and outputs a rectified AC voltage waveform. The EMI filter blocks high electromagnetic frequencies and the capacitor smooths a variation in the rectified voltage waveform and output the smoothed rectified voltage waveform to the active PFC module.
US10003251B2 Power converting device containing high frequency inverter and low frequency inverter connecting in parallel and the method thereof
A power converting method for high frequency inverter and low frequency inverter connecting in parallel, which is for converting a direct current power into an alternating current power, includes the following steps. A low frequency inverting module which electrically connected to the direct current power is provided. A high frequency inverting module which is electrically connected to the low frequency inverting module in parallel is provided. A high frequency switching duty ratio of the high frequency inverting module is adjusted to output a second current according to a first current produced by the low frequency inverting module. The second current is for compensating ripples of the first current.
US10003250B2 Modular converter circuit having sub-modules, which are operated in linear operation
A converter circuit includes a direct-voltage connection and a phase module which includes connections electrically connected to the direct-voltage connection, and a series connection of an upper converter valve and a lower converter valve. The upper and lower converter valves have each at least two sub-modules arranged electrically in series and including at least one capacitor, at least one power semiconductor, and a control assembly configured to control the power semiconductor. At least one of the sub-modules is configured for linear operation, with a control assembly configured to enable the linear operation of the sub-module. At least one alternating-voltage-side connection is provided and defined by an electrical link between the upper converter valve and the lower converter valve.
US10003249B2 Insulated gate semiconductor device including switchable insulated gate semiconductor element
An insulated gate semiconductor device includes an insulated gate semiconductor element, an output current detection unit, a voltage detection unit, and a heat generation amount suppression unit. The insulated gate semiconductor element on-operates by receiving a first gate voltage at a control terminal, and switches and outputs an input voltage to a load. The output current detection unit detects an output current to the load. The voltage detection unit detects an on-voltage of the insulated gate semiconductor element. The heat generation amount suppression unit sets a gate voltage to be applied to the control terminal of the insulated gate semiconductor element higher than the first gate voltage in response to the output current exceeding a rated current value and the on-voltage being lower than a first threshold voltage.
US10003248B1 Control algorithm for power electronics based on time durations
In some examples, a method includes measuring, by a secondary controller, an output voltage and determining, by the secondary controller, a duration for a ringing time based on the output voltage. In some examples, the method further includes delivering, by the secondary controller, a non-enabling control signal to a secondary switch during the ringing time and measuring, by a primary controller, a duration of the ringing time. In some examples, the method also includes determining, by the primary controller, a duration for a charging time based on the duration of the ringing time and delivering, by the primary controller, an enabling control signal to a primary switch during the charging time.
US10003246B2 Linear-motor stator with integral line reactor
A linear-motor stator assembly comprising a stator and an integral line reactor in one housing. The reactor has inductor coils which are connected in series with the stator windings to compensate for unequal inductances in the stator phases and balance the polyphase currents into the stator.
US10003245B2 Linear vibrating motor
A linear vibrating motor is provided in the present disclosure. The linear vibrating motor includes a shell, a vibrating unit, a coil module and an elastic module. The shell provides a receiving cavity, the vibrating unit is received in the receiving cavity and includes a magnet module; the coil module surrounds the magnet module for driving the vibrating unit to vibrate; the elastic module includes a pair of elastic members for suspending the vibrating unit. Each of the elastic members comprises an elastic part for providing an elastic force to the vibrating unit in a vibrating direction thereof, and an elastic deforming capability of the elastic part in the vibration direction is greater than that in other directions.
US10003244B2 Squirrel-cage rotor and method for manufacturing squirrel-cage rotor
A squirrel-cage rotor including a rotor which has a plurality of rotor slots on an outer circumferential portion thereof and in which secondary conductors accommodated in the rotor slots rotate freely inside a stator as a result of interaction with a rotating magnetic field formed by the stator. The plurality of rotor slots has the same shape and size, and an arrangement spacing thereof with respect to the rotation direction of the rotor is made uneven within a slot uneven arrangement period (360/(a))° obtained by equally dividing one rotation period of the rotor by a divisor (a) of a number p of poles in the stator.
US10003239B1 Doubly-fed induction generator system for a gas turbine
The present application provides a doubly-fed induction generator system for a multi-shaft gas turbine engine. The doubly-fed induction generator system may include a first doubly-fed induction generator in communication with a first shaft of the multi-shaft gas turbine engine, a first rotor of the first doubly-fed induction generator in communication with a converter via a first rotor bus, and a first breaker on the first rotor bus. The first doubly-fed induction generator acts as a generator or a motor depending in part upon the position of the first breaker.
US10003236B2 Direct drive rotor with metal coupler
A rotor for an outer rotor-type motor is provided. The rotor includes a metallic coupler and a polymeric frame molded over at least part of the metallic coupler.
US10003234B2 Electrical machine comprising a fastening flange
An electrical machine (12) comprising a fastening flange (10), wherein the fastening flange (10) has a rim (46), so that the fastening flange (10) is arranged on a housing part (14) of the electrical machine (12) in such a way that the fastening flange (10) surrounds the housing part (14) at least in sections in the circumferential direction (16) of the housing part (14) at least by way of the rim (46), wherein the fastening flange (10) has at least one radially directed raised portion (18) which is integrally formed from the fastening flange (10) and bears against the housing part (14), wherein at least one recess (47) is formed within the rim (46), wherein the recess (47) influences the rigidity of the fastening flange (10).
US10003230B2 Axial-gap motor-generator
An axial-gap motor-generator includes a case, a rotor, a stator, a cooling plate, an air inlet, an outlet, an airflow generating groove, and a radial groove. The rotor is rotatable around a rotating shaft. The stator is fixed to the case. The stator has a first distal end and a second distal end. The first distal end faces the rotating shaft. The cooling plate is in contact with the second distal end. The stator is disposed between the rotating shaft and the cooling plate. The first distance between the air inlet and the rotating shaft is smaller than a second distance between the air outlet and the rotating shaft. The airflow generating groove is provided between the case and the rotor. The radial groove is provided between the case and the cooling plate via which the airflow generation groove is connected to the air outlet.
US10003226B2 Motor
A motor includes a cylindrical stator having a hollow, and a rotor rotatably arranged inside the stator. The rotor includes a cylindrical rotor body, a permanent magnet group provided to the rotor body to generate a magnetic field, and a flux barrier group to interrupt magnetic flux. The rotor body, the permanent magnet group and the flux barrier group are asymmetrically formed with respect to a center of poles of the rotor.
US10003225B2 Motor
A motor 10 comprises a stator 11 including a plurality of armature pole coils 14 for generation of magnetic flux when energized; a rotor 21 mounted for rotation within the stator owing to the magnetic flux. The rotor is formed for integral rotation in the state of magnetically coupling a plurality of rotor teeth 22, each having an outer peripheral surface 22a linked by magnetic flux, and a plurality of auxiliary salient structures 32, each situated between the adjacent two rotor teeth and having an outer peripheral surface 32a linked by magnetic flux. The rotor teeth and auxiliary salient structures include induction coils 27, 37, each for generation of induced current when linked by space harmonics contained in the magnetic flux, and electromagnetic coils 28, 38, each for generation of electromagnetic force when energized by the induced current generated by the induction coil.
US10003224B2 Motor assembly for washing machine
A motor assembly for a washing machine including: a stator core having teeth formed along the outer peripheral surface; upper and lower insulators coupled to the upper and lower portions of the stator core to surround the top and underside of the stator core; a first fastening rib protruding from the inner peripheral surface of the lower insulator; a second fastening rib protruding from the inner peripheral surface of the upper insulator to be coupled on the underside thereof to the top of the first fastening rib; and a round-shaped third fastening rib having the underside coupled to the top of the second fastening rib and the top protruding from the top of the upper insulator to be coupled to the underside of a housing in which various parts such as a brake drum and the like are mounted.
US10003223B2 Tapered bearing housing at coupled end of close-coupled motor
An electric motor is provided. The rotor includes a rotor shaft, with a bearing rotatably supporting the rotor shaft. A bearing housing is interposed between the bearing and the motor frame assembly. The bearing housing is releasably connected to the motor frame assembly so as to be selectively secured in supporting relationship with the bearing and thereby the rotor. The motor frame assembly includes a circumferentially extending support face. The bearing housing presents a circumferentially extending engagement face which engages the support face when the bearing housing is in the supporting relationship. At least one of the faces is axially tapered to facilitate axial movement of the bearing into the supporting relationship.
US10003222B2 Dual-accumulator electrical generation apparatus
An apparatus for converting mechanical energy into electrical energy includes a rotor having a first end portion and a second end portion, a first stator including a plurality of magnet poles, and a second stator including a plurality of magnet poles. The rotor is located about a shaft along a rotational axis. The rotor includes a plurality of north and south poles alternating along a circumference of the rotor. The plurality of magnet poles of the first stator are rotated 180 electrical degrees with respect to the plurality of magnet poles of the second stator.
US10003221B2 Detector, power transmitter, power receiver, power feed system, and detection method
There are provided a detector and the like that are capable of conveniently detecting conductor or a circuit including a coil. The detector includes a detecting section that determines a Q value or a degree of variation thereof in a circuit including a coil capable of electromagnetic coupling with an external object and that performs detection concerning a state of the electromagnetic coupling with the external object based on a determined result.
US10003219B1 Electronic device including non-contact charging module
This communication apparatus makes it possible to have a non-contact charging module and a sheet antenna coexist, even in the case where there the non-contact charging module and the sheet antenna in the communication apparatus. The apparatus is provided with: a housing; a secondary-side non-contact charging module, which is housed in the housing, receives power by means of electromagnetic induction, and has a first coil having a conducting wire wound thereon, and a first magnetic sheet facing the first coil; and an NFC antenna, which is housed in the housing, and has a second coil having a conducting wire wound thereon, and a second magnetic sheet facing the second coil. The secondary-side non-contact charging module and the NFC antenna are not laminated to each other.
US10003216B2 Non-contact electric power feeding system, terminal device, non-contact electric power feeding device, and non-contact electric power feeding method
Provided is a non-contact electric power feeding system including an electric power feeding device, and an electric power receiving device configured to receive electric power fed from the electric power feeding device. The electric power feeding device includes a primary-side coil, a driver, a primary-side control unit, and a primary-side communication unit. The electric power receiving device includes a secondary-side coil, a rectifier unit, a regulator, a secondary-side communication unit, and a secondary-side control unit.
US10003209B2 Charge period adjusting apparatus, charge system, and charge period adjusting program
[PROBLEM] To provide a technology of effectively using supplied electric power through adjustment of a charge schedule period of an EV.[SOLVING MEANS] A charge period adjusting apparatus according to embodiments includes an acquiring section and a control section. The acquiring section is configured to acquire a power supply schedule amount of an electric system including a charger connected during charge of an electric vehicle. The control section is configured to set a charge period such that the electric vehicle is charged by the charger in a time frame in which the power supply schedule amount acquired by the acquiring section exceeds a threshold value.
US10003208B2 Apparatus for power management
One example discloses, an apparatus for power management, having: a power input node configured to receive charge from a primary power source at a first power level; a power-converter, having an enabled state and a disabled state, and coupled to receive the charge from the power input node; an energy buffer, coupled to receive and store the charge from the power-converter, and configured to release the charge at a second power level; a power output node, coupled to receive the charge from the energy buffer, and configured to supply the charge at the second power level to a load; wherein the second power level is greater than the first power level; and wherein the power-converter switches between the enabled state and the disabled state based on whether the charge is supplied to the load.
US10003196B2 Energy signatures to represent complex current vectors
A distributed control node enables monitoring of complex energy signatures for local loads. The control node can identify energy signatures unique to local loads. The energy signature includes a complex current vector for the load in operation identifying the primary current with a real power component and a reactive power component, and identifying one or more harmonics each with a real power component, a reactive power component, and an angular displacement relative to the primary current. Based on the energy signature, the control node can control a noise contribution of the load due to the harmonics as seen at a point of common coupling to reduce noise introduced onto the grid network from the load.
US10003193B2 Power supply system
A power supply includes a load, an electric power line connected to the load, first and second DC power supplies which supply electric power to the load, an electric power converter connected between the electric power line and the first and the second DC power supplies, and a controller controlling the electric power converter. The first DC power supply serves for a voltage control, while the second DC power supply serves for an electric power control. The controller sets a difference between an electric power requested by the load and target output electric power of the first DC power supply as target output electric power of the second DC power supply, and compensates the target output electric power of the first DC power supply in accordance with a difference between the actual and the target output electric powers of the second DC power supply.
US10003190B2 Inrush control with multiple switches
A novel system is offered for supplying power from an input node to a load coupled to an output node. The system may have multiple switches coupled between the input node and the output node. One or more limiting circuits may be configured for controlling the switches so as to limit outputs of the switches. For example, the limiting circuits may limit current through the respective switches. One or more timers may set a delay period for indicating a fault condition after the limiting is initiated.
US10003189B2 Parallel-connected semiconductor devices with current sharing technology and control method thereof
A semiconductor device for limiting inrush current in hot-swap applications includes a power transistor and a current sensing circuit. The power transistor has a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal, wherein the first terminal is configured to receive an input voltage from a power supply, the second terminal is configured to provide an output voltage to a load, the control terminal is configured to receive a control voltage. Under regulation of the control voltage, the output voltage increases gradually towards the input voltage during a startup period and becomes substantially equal to the input voltage in a steady state. The current sensing circuit senses the current flowing through the power transistor and generates a current sensing signal. In order to achieve current balance, the control voltage is adjusted based on the relationship between the current sensing signal and current sensing signals of other semiconductor devices connected in parallel with the semiconductor device.
US10003188B2 Method for operating an active converter connected to an electric machine, and means for implementing same
In an active converter that is connected to an electric machine, in which arresting circuits for activating a voltage arrest beginning at a first point in time are provided, and which is also configured for activating a load shedding reaction only when activation conditions are fulfilled beginning at a second point in time, the activation conditions include determining that the voltage arrest is still activated at the second point in time, that a voltage potential has not yet fallen below the first threshold value, and/or that a value that indicates a current flowing through at least one phase connection is above a third threshold value.
US10003187B2 Method and system to prevent voltage sagging in a redundant power supply configuration
Aspects of the subject technology relate to a system and method for preventing voltage sagging using an Oring-FET in a redundant power supply configuration. Each redundant power supply includes an Oring-FET and a voltage comparator. The voltage comparator receives and compares an input voltage and an output voltage of the Oring-FET during power up. In the event input voltage is less than the output voltage, the Oring-FET is deemed to be operating properly and provides output to a communicatively coupled system bus in response to the input voltage reaching a predetermined voltage threshold level. In the event the input voltage is approximately equal to the output voltage, the voltage comparator assists in preventing inrush current from flowing from the communicatively coupled system bus and prevents voltage sagging on the communicatively coupled system bus when another redundant power supply configuration is providing power to the communicatively coupled system bus.
US10003184B2 Backflow preventing device, power conversion device, and refrigeration air-conditioning apparatus
A backflow preventing device includes a backflow preventing element connected between a power source and a load, for preventing a backflow of a current from the load side to the power source side, a commutation device configured to perform a commutation operation of causing a current to flow through an other path connected in parallel to the backflow preventing element, and a controller configured to change a pulse width of a commutation drive signal for controlling the commutation device to perform the commutation operation based on a current flowing through the backflow preventing element, and transmitting the commutation drive signal having the changed pulse width to the commutation device. The controller transmits the pulse to the commutation device only for a necessary time period so that the commutation device performs the commutation operation, to thereby reduce electric power relating to the commutation operation not contributing to the power conversion.
US10003180B1 Cable pathway divider and method for installing same
A cable pathway divider, for installation on a cable runway, includes a pair of post halves and a ring-shaped locking member. Each post half includes a base portion and an extension portion, and the base portions of the post halves are arrangeable at opposite sides of a cross member of a cable runway. The post halves are securable to one another from opposite sides of the cross member, via clamping arrangement of the ring-shaped locking member relative to the post halves, such that the extension portions extend into a space above the cable runway to divide the cable runway into at least two cable paths.
US10003174B1 Sinusoidal optical emission method, and corresponding circuit
An optical emitting circuit includes an array of M optical sources distributed in N groups, where N is lower than M. A controller is configured to generate N periodic square wave control signals that are successively mutually phase shifted by pi/N and that all have the same period, and to cyclically activate/deactivate all the optical sources of the N groups using the control signals. The optical emitting circuit is configured so that each group is activated when a corresponding control signal is in its first state and deactivated when the corresponding control signal is in its second state. The number of optical sources in each group and the order of the groups in the sequence of activations/deactivations are chosen so as to generate an optical signal having an amplitude that sinusoidally varies in steps.
US10003172B1 Circuit layout of laser source driving circuit
A circuit layout of laser source driving circuit includes a laser element, a first layout layer, a second layout layer, a first trace and a second trace. The first layout layer includes a first transistor. The second layout layer includes a second transistor, a capacitor, a first resistor and a second resistor. The first trace includes a first conductive line connecting the first resistor and the capacitor and a second conductive line connecting the capacitor and the laser element. The second trace includes a third conductive line connecting the second resistor and the second transistor, a fourth conductive line connecting the second transistor and the first transistor and a fifth conductive line connecting the first transistor and the laser element. A total length of the first trace and the second trace ranges from 13 mm to 19 mm.
US10003167B2 Width-tunable single-frequency fiber laser light source for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system
A width-tunable single-frequency fiber laser light source for coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing system including a chirped fiber grating with high reflectivity, a high gain optical fiber, a chirped fiber grating with low reflectivity, a single-mode semiconductor pump laser, an optical wavelength division multiplexer, an optical coupler, an optical circulator, and a tunable optical filter module is provided. The chirped fiber grating with low reflectivity and the chirped fiber grating with high reflectivity together serve as a front cavity mirror and a back cavity mirror of a resonant cavity to realize laser oscillation. After a laser with broad spectrum output from the optical wavelength division multiplexer is split by the optical coupler, a part of the laser passes through the optical circulator to enter the tunable optical filter module. A wavelength corresponding to any nominal center frequency stipulated by the ITU-T is selected by the tunable optical filter module, with a 3 dB spectral width of less than 0.1 nm, and is then injected back into the resonant cavity via the optical circulator and the optical coupler, and the resonant cavity is subjected to a self-injection locking.
US10003160B2 Interface module and related method
An interface module coupled between a host device and a wireless device is disclosed. The interface module includes a connector, having a first part covered in a first case with a first depth and a second part covered in a second case with a second depth; and a control circuit coupled to the first part of the connector, for controlling data transmission between the host device and the wireless device; wherein the second case is made of a conductive material and which can be further covered by an absorptive material.
US10003158B2 LAN connector with unlocking preventing mechanism
A connector including a first channel, a latching member and a second channel. A portion of the latching member is slidably attached to the first channel. The second channel is configured to align with the first channel or to misalign with the first channel. When the second channel is aligned with the first channel, the latch member is allowed to latch with and unlatch from a mating connector. When the second channel is misaligned with the first channel, the latching member is prevented from latching with and unlatching from a mating connector.
US10003156B1 Quick-connect mating post
A mating post and method to retain a first electrical connector to a second electrical connector. The mating post includes a head, a neck portion and a locking portion. The neck portion is configured to be received in a mounting opening of the first connector. The locking portion extends from the neck portion in a direction away from the head. At least one slot is provided in the locking portion. The at least one slot projects from proximate a free end of the locking portion toward the neck portion. A projection receiving recess extends from the at least one slot to cooperate with a projection of the second connector to secure the first connector to the second connector.
US10003155B2 Electrical plug connector pair
An electrical plug connector pair includes a first plug connector part and a second plug connector part which can be interconnected by a plug connection such that an electrical contact provided in the first plug connector part can be galvanically contacted to an electrical contact provided in the second connector part. The first plug connector part includes a locking element having a locking hook that, in a locking state, can be brought into engagement with a hook receiving portion provided in the second plug connector part such that the locking hook that is brought into engagement with the hook receiving portion in the locking state prevents separation of the two plug connector parts, the locking element being mounted in the first plug connector part so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis such that the locking hook can be released.
US10003154B2 Dust cap having a housing with a cantilever beam secured to a shell of a receptacle by a coupling member
A dust cap to be mounted to a receptacle of a bayonet locking connector when a plug is not connected to the receptacle includes a housing that has an insertion part, at a front end thereof, to be inserted into a shell of the receptacle, with rotation thereof being restricted, a lid part at a back end thereof, and a cantilever beam between the insertion part and the lid part, the cantilever beam extending in a direction intersecting with the insertion direction in which the insertion part is inserted; and a coupling that has a cylindrical inner circumferential surface, and a protrusion for bayonet locking on the inner circumferential surface at a front end of the coupling, the coupling being mounted so as to be capable of rotating around the housing, and a back end of the coupling being closed by the lid part.
US10003151B1 Conductor module
A conductor module includes a busbar, an accommodation case, and a fixing member. The accommodation case has two or more fixing holes that pass through a fixing body first surface and a fixing body second surface. The fixing member includes a main body and fixing legs. The fixing legs are associated with the respective fixing holes, and have a part of the busbar interposed therebetween. The fixing legs are capable of plastic deformation by external force, are inserted in the respective fixing holes from a side of the fixing body first surface to protrude from a side of the fixing body second surface, and, under a fixed condition in which the busbar is fixed to the accommodation case by the fixing member, have leading ends disposed on an outside in a radial direction with respect to the fixing holes as viewed in an axial direction of the fixing holes.
US10003150B1 Electrical connector and electronic device
An electrical connector includes: an insulating body and multiple terminals retained in the insulating body. Each terminal has a base portion. An elastic arm bends upward and extends from the base portion. The elastic arm bends to form a contact portion. A first urging portion includes a first elastic portion bending from the contact portion and obliquely extending downward and away from the base portion, and a second elastic portion obliquely extending downward from the first elastic portion. A slot runs through the contact portion, the first elastic portion and the second elastic portion. A bending arm bends and extends from a lower end of the base portion. The bending arm bends to form a conductive portion. The conductive portion bends upward and extends to form a second urging portion. The first urging portion urges against the second urging portion.
US10003149B2 Fluid pressure activated electrical contact devices and methods
A contactor device includes: a first body substrate; a second body substrate; a flexible membrane connected to the first body substrate and second body substrate, wherein the second substrate body is movable relative to the first substrate body by flexure of the flexible membrane; an electrical contact member carried by the second substrate body; a microfluidic-channeled substrate coupled to the first body substrate, the microfluidic-channeled substrate having a chamber and a microfluidic channel in fluid communication with the chamber; and a 3-dimensional flexible membrane enclosing the chamber, wherein the 3-dimensional flexible membrane flexes toward the second body substrate when a fluid pressure is applied to the chamber through the microfluidic channel whereby a force or a movement is transferred to the second body substrate by the 3-dimensional flexible membrane.
US10003147B2 Pressure contact type connector and manufacturing method of the same
A pressure contact type connector includes: an upper flat plate portion; a lower flat plate portion which is disposed below the upper flat plate portion; a first spring portion which connects the upper and lower flat plate portions; and a second spring portion which extends upward from the lower flat plate portion and applies a resilient force to the upper flat plate portion, in which the first and second spring portions are wound about the upper flat plate portion when viewed from above in a plan view, and extend so that the spring portions do not interfere with each other when being compressed and extended in the vertical direction, the first spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension, and the second spring portion is formed to be bent so that a width dimension is larger than a thickness dimension.
US10003145B1 Electrical connector having a circuit board interposer with press-fit mounting contacts
A press-fit circuit board connector including a housing and mating and mounting contact assemblies received in the housing. The mating contact assembly having mating contacts having mating pins defining a pin mating interface. The mounting contact assembly having an interposer circuit board and mounting contacts electrically connected to the interposer circuit board. The mounting contacts have press-fit mounting pins at mounting ends of the mounting contacts. The interposer circuit board is received in the cavity with the press-fit mounting pins of the mounting contacts arranged at the mounting end for press-fit termination to the host circuit board.
US10003132B2 Shared-aperture antenna and base station
The present application relates to the field of antenna technologies, and discloses a shared-aperture antenna and a base station, to resolve a problem of sharing an aperture between antenna arrays working in different frequency bands. The shared-aperture antenna includes a dielectric substrate, a microstrip antenna array, and an electrically small antenna array, where the microstrip antenna array includes rows of microstrip patch antenna units uniformly distributed in arrays, and the microstrip patch antenna units fit a surface of the dielectric substrate; the electrically small antenna array includes electrically small antenna units that are parallel to each other; and the electrically small antenna units are inserted at intervals between the microstrip patch antenna units, and fit the surface of the dielectric substrate.
US10003130B2 Communication device with reconfigurable low-profile antenna element
A communication device including a ground element and an antenna element is provided. The antenna element is disposed adjacent to an edge of the ground element, and a loop structure is formed by the antenna element and the edge of the ground element. The antenna element includes a first and a second metal portions, and a first and second switches. When the first switch is turned on and the second switch is turned off, the first metal portion, the second metal portion, a shorting metal portion and the first switch form a loop antenna with the ground element. When the second switch is turned on and the first switch is turned off, an inverted-F antenna is formed by the second metal portion.
US10003129B2 Hierarchically elaborated phased-array antenna modules and method of calibration
An apparatus consisting of hierarchically elaborated antenna modules is calibrated by steps. Although the AWV can be calculated mathematically based on the required phase shift values of each antenna element for a beam direction to compensate for signal delay. However, in practice, due to hardware implementation imperfection, coupling in signal path for each antenna element within hardware, inaccuracies of implementations, physical misalignment, the mathematically generated AWV does not necessarily provide alignment between transmit beam and receive beam. This subset is sufficient is all practical operation. The subset of AWVs are typically called codebook and the receiver beam points to different direction by using a AWV within the codebook.
US10003127B2 Antenna system and isolator structure thereof
An antenna system includes a skeleton, several first antenna components, several second antenna components, and several isolators. The first antenna components and the second antenna components are alternately arranged along edges of the skeleton and are spaced apart from each other. An operation band of the first antenna components is different from an operation band of the second antenna components. The isolators are arranged on the skeleton in a criss-cross and interlaced manner and surrounded by the first antenna components and the second antenna components. The isolators are configured to avoid signal interference between the first antenna components and the second antenna components.
US10003126B2 Stretchable organic metals, composition, and use
Disclosed are stretchable electrically conductive structure comprising a stretchable insulating substrate comprising nucleophile derivatized nanoparticles located at the surface of the stretchable insulating substrate, wherein the stretchable insulating substrate is a fiber or fabric; and a conducting polymer: template polymer coating disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the stretchable insulating substrate through which a chemical bond forms between at least one anion of the template polymer and nucleophile derivatized nanoparticles located at the surface of the stretchable insulating substrate.
US10003124B2 Data communications case having an internal antenna array
A data communications apparatus including a case having a base and a lid connectable to the base, the lid movable with respect to the base between an open position and a closed position. The case has an inner surface. A power supply is secured inside the case. A router device is secured inside the case, the router device selectively receiving power from the power supply. A plurality of mounting brackets can be adhered to the inner surface of the case. An antenna array is in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including at least two cellular antennas and at least two wireless networking antennas, each antenna of the antenna array secured inside the case to a corresponding mounting bracket.
US10003123B2 Full-duplex antenna and mobile terminal
A full-duplex antenna includes a receive antenna, which is an omnidirectional antenna. A first transmit antenna is disposed on one side of the receive antenna and is a directional antenna. A reverse direction of a main lobe of a radiation pattern of the first transmit antenna points to the receive antenna. A second transmit antenna is disposed on the other side of the receive antenna. A distance between the second transmit antenna and the receive antenna is equal to a distance between the first transmit antenna and the receive antenna. The second transmit antenna is a directional antenna, and a reverse direction of a main lobe of a radiation pattern of the second transmit antenna points to the receive antenna.
US10003120B2 Smartphone antenna in flexible PCB
A thin, flexible antenna module is provided for use in a smartphone. When the antenna module is assembled in the smartphone, the antenna module provides an MST antenna and an NFC antenna. For this, the antenna module includes a flexible PCB containing two coil antennas and further includes a magnetic sheet engaged with flexible PCB. The flexible PCB and the magnetic sheet are attached to each other to form a single body.
US10003118B2 Spatial coupler and antenna for splitting and combining electromagnetic signals
A spatium amplifier includes a plurality of amplifiers connected between a pair of spatial couplers, each having a core member and a shell member forming an antenna. The core member includes a cylindrical core portion and a plurality of tapering core fins extending radially outwardly from the cylindrical core portion. The shell member includes a cylindrical shell portion and a plurality of tapering shell fins extending radially inwardly from the cylindrical shell portion to form a plurality of fin pairs. Each fin pair forms a tapering channel having a first channel height at a first end of the antenna and a second channel height larger than the first channel height at a second end of the antenna. Each of the plurality of amplifiers is electromagnetically coupled to a respective fin pair at the first end of each of the antennas.
US10003117B2 Two-port triplate-line/waveguide converter having two probes with tips extending in different directions
A two-port triplate-line/waveguide converter in one embodiment of this invention is provided with a rectangular waveguide and two probes that connect to central conductors of separate trip late lines via slits, said slits being formed separately on two opposing inside walls of the rectangular waveguide and lying on an imaginary straight line that is perpendicular to said inside walls. The two probes, the tips of which are bent inside the rectangular waveguide, constitute monopole antennas with the aforementioned inside walls functioning as the ground planes thereof.
US10003112B1 Battery backplane assembly with integrated bus bar connections and thermal management features
A battery pack for use with a supply of heat transfer fluid includes a plurality of battery modules arranged in one or more rows, and an elongated backplane positioned between the rows or adjacent to one row. The backplane has external longitudinal surfaces, and includes multiple bus bar assemblies equal in number to the number of battery modules and connected to the external longitudinal surfaces. The elongated backplane defines internal conduits configured to receive heat transfer fluid from the supply and extending along a length of the backplane adjacent to the bus bar assemblies. End plates of the battery modules include negative and positive voltage terminals mating with corresponding electrical connectors of a respective one of the bus bar assemblies. An electrical connection between each bus bar assembly and corresponding voltage terminals is established via a push-to-connect operation, with a finger-proof barrier covering the positive terminal.
US10003111B2 Thermal interface composite material and method
A composite thermal interface material and methods are shown. Devices such as lithium ion batteries incorporating composite thermal interface materials show significant improvement in cooling performance. In one example, composite thermal interface materials shown provide cooling through both a phase change mechanism, and a heat conducting mechanism which directs heat away from the device to be cooled, such as electrochemical cells in a battery, to an external housing and/or a coupled heat exchange device such as radiating fins.
US10003109B2 Secondary battery
A secondary battery includes an electrode assembly, and a case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly. At least a portion of the case includes a first insulation layer, a second insulation layer, and a capacitor between the first insulation layer and the second insulation layer, and the first insulation layer is nearer to the electrode assembly than the second insulation layer.
US10003107B2 Power source device
A power source device has: battery cells respectively having electrode terminals; a rigid circuit board including a detection circuit for detecting states in the battery cells; a FPC electrically connecting the electrode terminals and the detection circuit; and, connecting members provided at a tip of the PFC, electrically connecting the battery cells and the FPC. The FPC has fixing portions fixed to the rigid circuit board. The fixing portions include: a signal line connecting portion having conductive foils of which one side ends are fixed to the rigid circuit board, which electrically connect the electrode terminals and the detection circuit; and a reinforcing portion having a fixing metal foil of which one side end is fixed to the rigid circuit board, which is insulated from the electrode terminals. The signal line connecting portion has a connecting area overlapping the rigid circuit board.
US10003100B2 Nonaqueous electrolyte with fluorine containing ether compound for lithium secondary battery
A lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode active material includes an active material capable of intercalating or deintercalating lithium ions at a potential of 4.5 V or more, and the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a particular fluorine-containing ether compound.
US10003094B2 Fuel cell system and method of controlling fuel cell system
A fuel cell system includes a first temperature sensor to detect a valve temperature of a sealing valve. A second temperature sensor is provided in a refrigerant circulation circuit to detect a fuel cell temperature of a fuel cell through a refrigerant. The circuitry is configured to calculate a sealing valve estimated temperature by subtracting a correction value from the fuel cell temperature detected by the second temperature sensor after the fuel cell stops generating electric power and after the sealing valve is closed. The circuitry is configured to determine whether at least one of the valve temperature and the sealing valve estimated temperature is lower than a predicted freezing temperature. The circuitry is configured to open the sealing valve when it is determined that the at least one of the valve temperature and the sealing valve estimated temperature is lower than the predicted freezing temperature.
US10003091B2 Phosphoric acid fuel cell component having a polymer impregnated region
According to an example embodiment, a method of making a phosphoric acid fuel cell component includes situating at least one polymer film layer against a permeable component layer. The polymer film layer comprises a polymer that is chemically resistant to phosphoric acid. The polymer film layer is melted. The permeable component layer is impregnated with the melted polymer to thereby establish a region on the component layer that is impermeable to phosphoric acid. The impregnated region also provides a seal against reactant leakage from the component.
US10003090B2 Fuel cell component having a flap extending from a polymer impregnated region
According to an example embodiment, a method of making a fuel cell component includes permeating at least a portion of a component layer with a polymer. The portion of the component layer is adjacent an edge of the component layer. Some of the polymer is allowed to extend beyond the edge to thereby establish a flap beyond the edge of the component layer. A fuel cell component includes a component layer having a portion adjacent an edge of the layer that is impregnated with a polymer material and a flap of the polymer material extending beyond the edge.
US10003089B2 Multilayer coating for corrosion resistant metal bipolar plate for a PEMFC
The present disclosure includes a fuel cell bipolar plate including a coating and methods for forming the coating. The bipolar plate may include a steel substrate and a coating contacting the steel substrate. The coating may include a plurality of alternating oxide-forming layers and elution resistant layers. The oxide-forming layers may include pure titanium, doped titanium, or a titanium alloy (e.g. doped/alloyed with niobium, zirconium, vanadium, silver, tantalum, yttrium, scandium, or nitrogen) and the elution resistant layers may include a noble metal or tantalum (e.g., gold, iridium, ruthenium, or tantalum). There may be 2-20 layers each of the oxide-forming layers and the elution resistant layers. The coating may prevent elution of iron ions from the steel substrate, for example, by forming oxide plugs in defects or pinholes in the oxide forming and/or elution resistant layers. The coating may also reduce the total usage of precious metals, such as gold.
US10003084B2 Metal nanoparticle-graphene composites and methods for their preparation and use
Methods of forming metal nanoparticle-graphene composites are provided. The methods can include mixing a metal precursor with graphite oxide in the presence of a liquid medium to form a metal precursor-graphite oxide mixture, and exfoliating the graphite oxide and reducing the metal precursor in the metal precursor-graphite oxide mixture to deposit metal nanoparticles on a first major surface of a graphene sheet formed by exfoliation of the graphite oxide.
US10003083B2 Composition for fuel cell electrode
In some examples, a fuel cell including an anode; electrolyte; and cathode separated from the anode by the electrolyte, wherein the cathode includes a Pr-nickelate based material with (Pr1-xAx)n+1(Ni1-yBy)nO3n+1+δ as a general formula, where n is 1 as an integer, A is an A-site dopant including of a metal of a group formed by one or more lanthanides, and B is a B-site dopant including of a metal of a group formed by one or more transition metals, wherein the A and B-site dopants are provided such that there is an increase in phase-stability and reduction in degradation of the Pr-nickelate based material, and A is at least one metal cation of lanthanides, La, Nd, Sm, or Gd, B is at least one metal cation of transition metals, Cu, Co, Mn, Zn, or Cr, where: 0
US10003082B2 Electrode catalyst material, fuel cell electrode, method for producing electrode catalyst material, and fuel cell
Provided is an electrode catalyst material that has an increased reduction rate of a nickel catalyst and thus an improved catalytic function in a fuel cell. The electrode catalyst material for fuel cells contains nickel oxide and cobalt oxide. The electrode catalyst material contains a cobalt metal component in an amount of 2 to 15 mass % with respect to the total mass of a nickel metal component and the cobalt metal component.
US10003080B2 Process for forming a metal supported solid oxide fuel cell
A process for forming a metal supported solid oxide fuel cell is provided. The process can include the steps of: a) applying a green anode layer including nickel oxide and a rare earth-doped ceria to a metal substrate; b) prefiring the anode layer under non-reducing conditions to form a composite; c) firing the composite in a reducing atmosphere to form a sintered cermet; d) providing an electrolyte; and e) providing a cathode; wherein the reducing atmosphere comprises an oxygen source, a metal supported solid oxide fuel cell formed during this process, fuel cell stacks and the use of these fuel cells.
US10003079B2 Gas diffusion electrode medium for fuel cell
A gas diffusion electrode medium is for a fuel cell, has a low in-plane gas permeability and favorable water drainage characteristics in addition to high conductivity, and is able to exhibit high cell performance across a wide temperature range from low temperatures to high temperatures. The gas diffusion electrode medium is characterized by a microporous region being disposed at least at one surface of an electrode substrate, and the microporous region containing flake graphite having an aspect ratio of 50-5000.
US10003078B2 Metal-sulfur battery cathode containing humic acid-derived conductive foam impregnated with sulfur or sulfide
Provided is a sulfur cathode for a metal-sulfur battery, containing a humic acid-derived foam, composed of multiple pores and pore walls, and sulfur or polysulfide impregnated into the pores or deposited on pore walls, wherein the pore walls contain single-layer or few-layer humic acid-derived hexagonal carbon atomic planes or sheets. The few-layer hexagonal carbon atomic planes or sheets have 2-10 layers of stacked hexagonal carbon atomic planes having an inter-plane spacing d002 from 0.3354 nm to 0.60 nm. The hexagonal carbon atomic planes contain 0.01% to 25% by weight of non-carbon elements. The humic acid is selected from oxidized humic acid, reduced humic acid, fluorinated humic acid, chlorinated humic acid, brominated humic acid, iodized humic acid, hydrogenated humic acid, nitrogenated humic acid, doped humic acid, chemically functionalized humic acid, or a combination thereof.
US10003073B2 Electrode and nonaqueous electrolyte battery
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an electrode mixture layer and a current collector. The electrode mixture layer contains active material particles. The electrode mixture layer includes a first surface being in contact with the current collector and a second surface separated from the first surface by a thickness of the electrode mixture layer. The electrode mixture layer includes a first portion having the first surface and a second portion having the second surface. In the first portion, a first oxide layer is formed on the active material particle. In the second portion, a second oxide layer is formed on the active material particles. The thickness of the first oxide layer is more than the thickness of the second oxide layer.
US10003072B2 Positive electrode active material for secondary battery, method for producing same and secondary battery
A secondary battery having an improved life characteristics is provided by the use of a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, comprising (a) a surface layer comprising a lithium metal composite oxide having a spinel crystal structure represented by space group Fd-3m, and (b) an internal portion comprising a lithium metal composite oxide having a spinel crystal structure represented by space group P4332.
US10003071B2 Electrode structure, method of fabricating the same, and lithium battery
An electrode structure is provided. The electrode structure includes a substrate, a buffer layer, and a nano-material layer. The buffer layer is disposed on the substrate. The nano-material layer is disposed on the buffer layer, wherein the structure of the nano-material layer is nanowall.
US10003067B2 Electric storage device and method for producing electric storage device
At least a connector of a current collecting member that is welded to an electrode plate of an electrode assembly is constituted by a rolled material, and the current collecting member and the electrode assembly are bonded to each other by vibration welding.
US10003066B2 Connecting pole for a rechargeable battery, rechargeable battery housing and machine for producing a connecting pole
The invention relates to a connecting pole (1) for a rechargeable battery (12) having the following features: a) the connecting pole (1) has a connecting section (2), in which a pole terminal can be fastened on the connecting pole (1), b) the connecting pole (1) has a fastening section (3), in which the connecting pole (1) can be fastened in a housing part (5) of the rechargeable battery (12), c) the fastening section (3) has a labyrinth section (4), d) the outer wall (6) of the connecting pole (1) has, in the labyrinth section (4), one or more peripheral projections (7, 8, 10), e) at least two adjacently arranged peripheral projections (70, 71, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83) are flanged in pairs in the mutually facing direction, wherein a recess (11) is formed on each of the peripheral projections (70, 71, 72, 73, 80, 81, 82, 83) with respect to the outer wall (6) of the connecting pole (1) by the flanged region. The invention also relates to a rechargeable battery housing or a part thereof with at least one such connecting pole and to a machine for producing such a connecting pole.
US10003063B2 Battery assembly for implantable medical device
A battery assembly comprises a battery housing that defines an opening and includes one of a first engagement member and a second engagement member. A feedthrough member is disposed with the opening and extends from the battery housing. A connector includes at least one electrical terminal electrically communicating with the feedthrough member and includes one of a first engagement member and a second engagement member. The engagement members are disposable in a mating configuration to assemble the battery housing and the connector. Implantable medical devices, systems and methods are disclosed.
US10003062B2 Modular battery cover
A device may include an electronic component stack cover having an open end sized to receive a modular electronic component stack including a plurality of like modular electronic components, an at least partially closed end, and sides extending from the at least partially closed end toward the open end. The at least partially closed end and the at least one side may form a chamber. At least one electrically conductive probe may extend from the at least partially closed end into the chamber. The chamber may conform to an outer shape of at least a portion of the modular electronic component stack, and the electrically conductive probe may be configured to electrically interface with a first connector on the electronic component stack when the stack is within the chamber.
US10003061B2 Energy storage device and method of manufacturing energy storage device
An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly; a case for storing the electrode assembly therein, the case having an electrolyte solution sealing portion where an electrolyte solution pouring hole formed in the case is sealed; and at least one partition member arranged in a gap formed between the case and the electrode assembly stored in the case. The partition member partitions the gap in the winding axis direction of the electrode assembly by surrounding the electrode assembly in the winding direction of the electrode. The electrolyte solution pouring hole is arranged at a position closer to one end of the electrode assembly than the partition member close to one end of the case is in the winding axis direction.
US10003056B2 Battery containing acid resistant nonwoven fiber mat with biosoluble microfibers
Acid-resistant and biosoluble glass compositions and products made therefrom. The glass compositions exhibit acid resistance, durability in white water as may be used in a wet laid fabrication process, and good biosolubility. In another aspect, a glass fiber mat is made from such a glass composition, and may be used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries, for example as a pasting material or battery separator.
US10003055B2 Battery module
A battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells and a case for housing the plurality of battery cells. The case has a plurality of through-holes which are provided to a wall part forming an outer face of the battery module and via which gas ejected from at least one of the plurality of battery cells is discharged in a dispersed manner.
US10003044B2 Cover window for a display device, and a display device including the same
A cover window for a display device includes a base film and a coating layer disposed on the base film. The base film includes a plurality of layers. Each of the plurality of layers includes a folding part and a nonfolding part. Each of the plurality of layers has a different coefficient of thermal expansion.
US10003037B2 Optoelectronic devices comprising solution-processable metal oxide buffer layers
The present disclosure relates to the field of electronic devices, such as organic electronics, wherein said device comprises a substrate and a multitude of layers, wherein at least one of said layers is a buffer layer, wherein said buffer layer comprises metal oxide nanoparticles comprising physisorbed metal salts as described in the specification. The disclosure further provides for intermediate goods and materials suitable for manufacturing such electronic devices, to specific manufacturing methods and to specific uses.
US10003036B2 Hybrid heterojunction photovoltaic device
A photovoltaic device includes an inorganic substrate having a surface; an organic monolayer disposed onto the surface of the inorganic substrate, the inorganic monolayer having the following formula: ˜X—Y, wherein X is an oxygen or a sulfur; Y is an alkyl chain, an alkenyl chain, or an alkynyl chain; and X covalently bonds to the surface of the inorganic substrate by a covalent bond; a doped organic material layer disposed onto the organic monolayer; and a conductive electrode disposed onto a portion of the doped organic material.
US10003035B2 Organometallic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: M(L1)n1(L2)n2  Formula 1 wherein in Formula 1, M, L1, L2, n1, and n2 are the same as described in the specification.
US10003027B2 Ladder tetrazine polymers
A ladder tetrazine polymer is disclosed.
US10003025B2 EDOT functionalized conjugated polymer and photodetector containing the same
The present invention is generally directed to the field of organic semiconductor material. It provides a donor-acceptor conjugated polymer containing 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene ring as a side chain and a photodetector device containing the same.
US10003024B2 Materials for organic electroluminescent devices
The present invention relates to an organic composition which comprises a conjugated polymer as hole-transport compound and a doping compound. The present invention furthermore relates to the use of the composition according to the invention in organic electroluminescent devices, in particular in the so-called buffer layer of such devices. The present invention also relates to a formulation which comprises the composition according to the invention and a solvent and to an organic electroluminescent device which comprises the composition according to the invention.
US10003023B2 Display device and electronic device
To provide a highly flexible display device excellent in mass-productivity. A display device includes a flexible substrate, an adhesive layer over the substrate, a resin layer over the adhesive layer, an inorganic insulating layer over the resin layer, a transistor over the inorganic insulating layer, and a display element electrically connected to the transistor. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor in a channel formation region. The resin layer includes sulfur.
US10003019B2 Semiconductor device, related manufacturing method, and related electronic device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include the following steps: preparing a substrate; preparing a first insulating layer on the substrate; preparing an electrode in the first insulating layer; preparing a second insulating layer on the first insulating layer; removing (e.g., using a dry etching process or a wet etching process) a portion of the second insulating layer to form a hole that at least partially exposes the electrode; providing a phase change material layer that may cover the electrode; and removing (e.g., using a sputtering process such as an argon sputtering process), a portion of the phase change material layer positioned inside the hole to form a phase change member that may expose a first portion of (a top side of) the electrode and may directly contact a second portion of (the top side of) the electrode.
US10003018B1 Vertical multi-batch magnetic annealing systems for reduced footprint manufacturing environments
Embodiments are described for annealing systems and related methods to process microelectronic workpieces using vertical multi-batch perpendicular magnetic annealing systems that allow for a side-by-side configuration of multiple annealing systems to satisfy reduced footprint requirements.
US10003014B2 Method of forming an on-pitch self-aligned hard mask for contact to a tunnel junction using ion beam etching
A method of forming a memory device that in one embodiment may include forming a magnetic tunnel junction on a first electrode using an electrically conductive mask and subtractive etch method. Following formation of the magnetic tunnel junction, at least one dielectric layer is deposited to encapsulate the magnetic tunnel junction. Ion beam etching/Ion beam milling may then remove the portion of the at least one dielectric layer that is present on the electrically conductive mask, wherein a remaining portion of the at least one dielectric layer is present over the first electrode. A second electrode may then be formed in contact with the electrically conductive mask.
US10003009B2 Composite piezoelectric ceramic and piezoelectric device
A composite piezoelectric ceramic includes a compact of crystal particles including at least one of potassium niobate (KNbO3) and sodium niobate (NaNbO3) and optionally further including lithium niobate (LiNbO3), and a layer containing barium titanate (BaTiO3) that is disposed on the surface of the compact while forming a heterojunction with the compact. A piezoelectric device includes the composite piezoelectric ceramic.
US10003007B2 Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric element application device, and method for manufacturing piezoelectric element
A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer which is provided on the first electrode and which is formed of crystals of a composite oxide with a perovskite structure which is preferentially oriented in a plane, and a second electrode which is provided on the piezoelectric layer and which is formed of platinum which is preferentially oriented in a plane, in which, in the piezoelectric layer, plane intervals L1 of the crystals on the first electrode side are larger than plane intervals L2 of the crystals on the second electrode side.
US10003004B2 Methods for forming thermoelectric elements
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a thermoelectric device, comprising providing a semiconductor substrate and providing a first layer of an etching material adjacent to the semiconductor substrate. The etching material facilitates the etching of the semiconductor substrate upon exposure to an oxidizing agent and a chemical etchant. Next, a second layer of a semiconductor oxide is provided adjacent to the first layer, and the second layer is patterned to form a pattern of holes or wires. The second layer and first layer are then sequentially etched to expose portions of the semiconductor substrate. Exposed portions of the semiconductor substrate are then contacted with an oxidizing agent and a chemical etchant to transfer the pattern to the semiconductor substrate.
US10003003B2 Thermoelectric conversion module
A thermoelectric conversion module has a plurality of cold side substrates, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of thermoelectric conversion elements, a plurality of second electrodes, X-axis connectors, and Y-axis connectors. The second electrodes are disposed on the cold side substrates six at a time. Between adjacent cold side substrates, two of X-axis connectors as inter-substrate connectors or Y-axis connectors are disposed. One of the plurality of inter-substrate connectors is connected from one of the first electrodes positioned on one of the cold side substrates to one of the second electrodes positioned on another one of the cold side substrates. The other inter-substrate connector is connected from the other one of the first electrodes on the another one of the cold side substrates to the second electrode on the one cold side substrate.
US10002998B2 Tin selenide single crystals for thermoelectric applications
Thermoelectric materials and thermoelectric cells and devices incorporating the thermoelectric materials are provided. Also provided are methods of using the cells and devices to generate electricity and to power external electronic devices. The thermoelectric materials comprise SnSe single crystals, including hole doped SnSe single crystals.
US10002997B2 Lead frame for light emitting device, and lead frame member for light emitting device
A lead frame for a light emitting device includes a plurality of unit regions and a plurality of suspension pins. Each of the unit regions each includes first to third leads. The suspension pins defines substantially rectangular frames each surrounding a corresponding one of the unit regions. The suspension pins link adjacent ones of the unit regions. In each of the unit regions, the first lead is disposed near a first corner of the substantially rectangular frame and linked to the substantially rectangular frame only via a first extension, the second lead is disposed near a second corner of the substantially rectangular frame and linked to the substantially rectangular frame only via a second extension, and the third lead includes at least two third extensions respectively linked to opposing sides of the substantially rectangular frame.
US10002994B2 Solid state lighting devices having improved color uniformity and associated methods
Solid state lighting (SSL) devices and methods of manufacturing SSL devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, an SSL device comprises a support having a surface and a solid state emitter (SSE) at the surface of the support. The SSE can emit a first light propagating along a plurality of first vectors. The SSL device can further include a converter material over at least a portion of the SSE. The converter material can emit a second light propagating along a plurality of second vectors. Additionally, the SSL device can include a lens over the SSE and the converter material. The lens can include a plurality of diffusion features that change the direction of the first light and the second light such that the first and second lights blend together as they exit the lens. The SSL device can emit a substantially uniform color of light.
US10002993B2 Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes at least one semiconductor light emitting element, and a wavelength conversion layer which is formed on a surface of the semiconductor light emitting element and which includes a resin layer containing a wavelength conversion member for converting a wavelength of light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element. The wavelength conversion layer covers an upper surface or the upper surface and a side surface of the semiconductor light emitting element. A content of an inorganic material including the wavelength conversion member, or a content of an inorganic material including the wavelength conversion member and an inorganic filler, in the resin layer is 30% by mass or more and 99% by mass or less.
US10002991B2 Light-emitting element
A light-emitting element, comprises a light-emitting stack comprising an active layer; a window layer on the light-emitting stack, wherein the window layer has a surface opposite to the light-emitting stack; and an insulative layer on the surface, wherein the surface comprises a cavity and the insulative layer substantially conformally covering the cavity, and wherein the insulative layer has a first refractive index equal to or smaller than 1.4.
US10002985B2 Method for manufacturing solar cell module
A solar cell module and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The solar cell module includes solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate, and first electrodes and second electrodes extending in a first direction on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, conductive lines extended in a second direction crossing the first direction on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and connected to the first electrodes or the second electrodes through a conductive adhesive, and an insulating adhesive portion extending in the first direction on at least a portion of the surface of the semiconductor substrate, on which the conductive lines are disposed, and fixing the conductive lines to the semiconductor substrate and the first and second electrodes. The insulating adhesive portion is attached up to an upper part and a side of at least a portion of each conductive line.
US10002983B1 Nanocomposite barrier films for photovoltaic applications
Polymer-clay nanocomposites thin film coatings have improved water vapor and oxygen permeability, in addition to improved corrosion resistance, while retaining high transparency, high electrical resistivity, and excellent fire-retardant properties for use as encapsulants for photovoltaic module assemblies and barrier coatings in other photovoltaic applications.
US10002974B2 Zener diode
A Zener diode includes a semiconductor substrate, an anode electrode and a cathode electrode. The semiconductor substrate includes a p-type anode region, an n-type current path region and a drift region. The p-type anode region is connected to the anode electrode. The n-type current path region is in contact with the anode region. The drift region is in contact with the anode region and the current path region. The drift region is of an n type. The drift region has a lower n-type impurity concentration than the current path region. The drift region is connected to the cathode electrode directly or via another n-type region.
US10002972B2 OLED display device comprising dual gate transistor
To provide a display device in which variation in luminance among pixels is suppressed. The display device includes a transistor including first and second gates, first to third switches, first and second capacitors, a light-emitting element, and first and second wirings. The first gate is electrically connected to the first wiring through the first switch, a terminal of the transistor is electrically connected to the first gate through the third switch, and the second gate is electrically connected to the second wiring through the second switch. An anode of the light-emitting element is electrically connected to the terminal of the transistor. The first capacitor holds the capacitance between the first gate and the terminal of the transistor. The second capacitor holds the capacitance between the second gate and the terminal of the transistor.
US10002971B2 Semiconductor device and display device including the semiconductor device
A change in electrical characteristics can be suppressed and reliability can be improved in a semiconductor device including a transistor having an oxide semiconductor. A semiconductor device includes a transistor, and the transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film over a first insulating film, a gate insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film, a gate electrode over the gate insulating film, a conductive film in contact with a side surface of the gate electrode in a channel length direction, and a second insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first region overlapping with the gate electrode, a second region overlapping with the conductive film, and a third region in contact with the second insulating film. The third region includes a region having higher impurity element concentration than the second region.
US10002968B2 Semiconductor device and display device including the same
A first transistor and a second transistor are stacked. The first transistor and the second transistor have a gate electrode in common. At least one of semiconductor films used in the first transistor and the second transistor is an oxide semiconductor film. With the use of the oxide semiconductor film as the semiconductor film in the transistor, high field-effect mobility and high-speed operation can be achieved. Since the first transistor and the second transistor are stacked and have the gate electrode in common, the area of a region where the transistors are disposed can be reduced.
US10002965B2 Fin field effect transistor complementary metal oxide semiconductor with dual strained channels with solid phase doping
A method of forming semiconductor devices that includes forming an oxide that is doped with a punch through dopant on a surface of a first semiconductor material having a first lattice dimension, and diffusing punch through dopant from the oxide into the semiconductor material to provide a punch through stop region. The oxide may then be removed. A second semiconductor material may be formed having a second lattice dimension on the first semiconductor material having the first lattice dimension. A difference between the first lattice dimension and the second lattice dimension forms a strain in the second semiconductor material. A gate structure and source and drain regions are formed on the second semiconductor material.
US10002961B2 Semiconductor device suppressing current leakage in a bootstrap diode
In a semiconductor device including a bootstrap diode and a high voltage electric field transistor on a p-type semiconductor substrate, a cavity is formed in an n−-type buried layer of the semiconductor substrate to use the buried layer beneath the cavity as a drain drift region of the high voltage n-channel MOSFET, whereby a leakage current by holes that flows to the semiconductor substrate side in forward biasing of the bootstrap diode can be suppressed, and charging current for a bootstrap capacitor C1 can be increased, as well as increase in chip area can be suppressed.
US10002960B2 LDMOS transistor and fabrication method thereof
Lateral double-diffused MOSFET transistor and fabrication method thereof are provided. A shallow trench isolation structure is formed in a semiconductor substrate. A drift region is formed in the semiconductor substrate and surrounding the shallow trench isolation structure. A body region is formed in the semiconductor substrate and distanced from the drift region. A gate structure is formed on a portion of each of the body region, the drift region, and the shallow trench isolation structure. A drain region is formed in the drift region on one side of the gate structure. A source region is formed in the body region on an other side of the gate structure. A first shallow doped region is formed in the drain region and the drift region to surround the shallow trench isolation structure.
US10002954B2 Fin-based semiconductor devices and methods
Embodiments of semiconductor devices, integrated circuit devices and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device may include a first fin and a second fin disposed on a substrate. The first fin may have a portion including a first material disposed between a second material and the substrate, the second material disposed between a third material and the first material, and the third material disposed between a fourth material and the second material. The first and third materials may be formed from a first type of extrinsic semiconductor, and the second and fourth materials may be formed from a second, different type of extrinsic semiconductor. The second fin may be laterally separated from the first fin and materially contiguous with at least one of the first, second, third or fourth materials. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US10002953B2 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A performance of a semiconductor device is improved. A semiconductor device includes two element portions and an interposition portion interposed between the two element portions. The interposition portion includes a p-type body region formed in a part of a semiconductor layer, the part being located between two trenches, and two p-type floating regions formed in two respective parts of the semiconductor layer, the two respective portions being located on both sides of the p-type body region via the two respective trenches. A lower end of the p-type floating region is arranged on a lower side with reference to a lower end of the p-type body region.
US10002952B2 Silicon carbide semiconductor device and method of manufacturing silicon carbide semiconductor device
A silicon carbide (SiC) semiconductor device, including a SiC substrate, a first SiC layer formed on the substrate, first and second impurity layers selectively formed in the first SiC layer, a second SiC layer formed on the first SiC layer, a third impurity layer selectively formed in the second SiC layer and on the second impurity layer, a third SiC layer formed on the second SiC layer, a fourth impurity layer selectively formed in the third SiC layer, a trench that penetrates the fourth impurity layer and the second and third SiC layers, a bottom thereof reaching the first impurity layer, and a gate electrode formed in the trench via a gate insulating film. The first SiC layer has first and second regions adjacent respectively to the first and second impurity layers on a side facing the substrate, an impurity concentration at the first region being lower than that at the second region.
US10002950B1 Bipolar transistor and method for producing the same
A bipolar transistor has a subcollector layer and a stack of collector, base, and emitter layers on the subcollector layer. On the subcollector layer are collector electrodes. On the base layer are base electrodes. The collector layer includes multiple doped layers with graded impurity concentrations, higher on the subcollector layer side and lower on the base layer side. Of these doped layers, the one having the highest impurity concentration is in contact with the subcollector layer and has a sheet resistance less than or equal to about nine times that of the subcollector layer.
US10002949B2 Semiconductor device
An object is, in a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, to reduce contact resistance between the oxide semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers electrically connected to the oxide semiconductor layer. The source and drain electrode layers have a stacked-layer structure of two or more layers in which a layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer is formed using a metal whose work function is lower than the work function of the oxide semiconductor layer or an alloy containing such a metal. Layers other than the layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer of the source and drain electrode layers are formed using an element selected from Al, Cr, Cu, Ta, Ti, Mo, or W, an alloy containing any of these elements as a component, an alloy containing any of these elements in combination, or the like.
US10002944B2 Semiconductor structure
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes providing a semiconductor substrate having a metal gate structure formed on the semiconductor substrate; forming a first dielectric layer covering a side surface of the metal gate structure on the semiconductor substrate; forming a cap layer on the metal gate structure; etching a top portion of the first dielectric layer using the cap layer as an etching mask; forming a protective sidewall spacer on a side surface of the cap layer and a side surface of a portion of the first dielectric layer under the cap layer; forming a second dielectric layer to cover the cap layer, the protective sidewall spacer and a top surface of the etched first dielectric layer; forming at least a first through-hole in the second dielectric layer; and forming a first conductive via in the first through-hole.
US10002939B1 Nanosheet transistors having thin and thick gate dielectric material
Provided is a method for forming a semiconductor structure. In embodiments, the method includes forming multiple channel nanosheets in multiple first stacks over a substrate. The channel nanosheets in the first stack define first stack cavities such that each pair of adjacent stacked channel nanosheets in the first stack is separated by one of the first stack cavities. The method further includes forming multiple channel nanosheets in a second stack over a substrate. The channel nanosheets in the second stack defining second stack cavities such that each pair of adjacent stacked channel nanosheets in the first second is separated by one of the second stack cavities. The method further includes filling the first stack cavities with a first gate dielectric material and filling the second stack cavities with a work function metal and a second gate dielectric material. The first gate dielectric material differs from the second gate dielectric material.
US10002935B2 Semiconductor devices and structures and methods of formation
A semiconductor device structure is disclosed. The semiconductor device structure includes a mesa extending above a substrate. The mesa has a channel region between a first side and second side of the mesa. A first gate is on a first side of the mesa, the first gate comprising a first gate insulator and a first gate conductor comprising graphene overlying the first gate insulator. The gate conductor may comprise graphene in one or more monolayers. Also disclosed are a method for fabricating the semiconductor device structure; an array of vertical transistor devices, including semiconductor devices having the structure disclosed; and a method for fabricating the array of vertical transistor devices.
US10002934B2 Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first planar semiconductor (e.g., silicon) layer, first and second pillar-shaped semiconductor (e.g., silicon) layers, a first gate insulating film, a first gate electrode, a second gate insulating film, a second gate electrode, a first gate line connected to the first and second gate electrodes, a first n-type diffusion layer, a second n-type diffusion layer, a first p-type diffusion layer, and a second p-type diffusion layer. A center line extending along the first gate line is offset by a first predetermined amount from a line connecting a center of the first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer and a center of the second pillar-shaped semiconductor layer.
US10002931B2 Silicon carbide semiconductor device
A silicon carbide semiconductor device capable of effectively increasing a threshold voltage and a method for manufacturing the silicon carbide semiconductor device. The silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a gate insulating film formed on part of surfaces of the well regions and the source region; and a gate electrode formed on a surface of the gate insulating film so as to be opposite to an end portion of the source region and the well regions. Furthermore, the gate insulating film has, in an interface region between the well regions and the gate insulating film, defects that each form a first trap having an energy level deeper than a conduction band end of silicon carbide and that include a bond between silicon and hydrogen.
US10002929B2 Reduction of defect induced leakage in III-V semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a p-doped layer formed on the substrate having a dislocation density exceeding 108 cm−2. An n-type layer is formed on or in the p-doped layer. The n-type layer includes a II-VI material configured to tolerate the dislocation density to form an electronic device with reduced leakage current over a device with a III-V n-type layer.
US10002927B2 Transparent electrodes and electronic devices including the same
A transparent electrode includes a substrate; a first layer disposed on the substrate, the first layer including a graphene mesh structure, the graphene mesh structure including graphene and a plurality of holes; and a second layer disposed on the first layer, wherein the second layer includes a plurality of conductive nanowires.
US10002925B2 Strained semiconductor device
A semiconductor device comprises a first semiconductor fin having a first width, the first semiconductor fin is arranged on a first portion of the strain relaxation buffer layer, where the first portion of the strain relaxation buffer layer has a second width and a second semiconductor fin having a width substantially similar to the first width, the second semiconductor fin is arranged on a second portion of the strain relaxation buffer layer, where the second portion of the strain relaxation buffer layer has a third width. A gate stack is arranged over a channel region of the first fin and a channel region of the second fin.
US10002921B2 Nanowire semiconductor device including lateral-etch barrier region
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor-on-insulator water having a buried layer. The buried layer includes therein opposing etch barrier regions and a gate region between the etch barrier regions. The semiconductor device further includes at least one nanowire having a channel portion interposed between opposing source/drain portions. The channel portion is suspended in the gate region. A gate electrode is formed in the gate region, and completely surrounds all surfaces of the suspended nanowire. The buried layer comprises a first electrical insulating material, and the etch barrier regions comprising a second electrical insulating material different from the first electrical insulating material.
US10002920B1 System and method for edge termination of super-junction (SJ) devices
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to super-junction (SJ) power devices and, more specifically, to edge termination techniques for SJ power devices. A semiconductor super-junction (SJ) device includes one or more epitaxial (epi) layers having a termination region disposed adjacent to an active region. The termination region includes a plurality of vertical pillars of a first and a second conductivity-type, wherein, moving outward from the active region, a respective width of each successive vertical pillar is the same or smaller. The termination region also includes a plurality of compensated regions having a low doping concentration disposed directly between a first side of each vertical pillar of the first conductivity-type and a first side of each vertical pillar of the second conductivity-type, wherein, moving outward from the active region, a respective width of each successive compensated region is the same or greater.
US10002913B2 Method of manufacturing organic light-emitting display apparatus
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus including forming a first electrode on a substrate, forming a pixel defining layer on the substrate, forming a second electrode on the pixel defining layer and a portion of the first electrode, forming a sacrificial layer on the second electrode, patterning the sacrificial layer so as to expose a portion of the second electrode wherein the portion of the second electrode is disposed on the pixel defining layer, forming a conductive layer on the sacrificial layer and the portion of the second electrode, and removing the sacrificial layer such that a portion of the conductive layer on the portion of the second electrode remains.
US10002908B2 Logic elements comprising carbon nanotube field effect transistor (CNTFET) devices and methods of making same
Inverter circuits and NAND circuits comprising nanotube based FETs and methods of making the same are described. Such circuits can be fabricating using field effect transistors comprising a source, a drain, a channel region, and a gate, wherein the first channel region includes a fabric of semiconducting nanotubes of a given conductivity type. Such FETs can be arranged to provide inverter circuits in either two-dimension or three-dimensional (stacked) layouts. Design equations based upon consideration of the electrical characteristics of the nanotubes are described which permit optimization of circuit design layout based upon constants that are indicative of the current carrying capacity of the nanotube fabrics of different FETs.
US10002901B1 Stacked image sensor with embedded FPGA and pixel cell with selectable shutter modes and in-pixel CDs
An imaging system with a pixel cell has a photodiode, a transfer transistor, a reset transistor, an amplifier transistor in a source follower configuration, and a readout circuit block. The photodiode, transfer transistor, reset transistor and source follower amplifier are part of an array disposed within a first substrate of a first semiconductor chip for accumulating an image charge in response to light incident upon the photodiode. The readout circuit block may be partially disposed within a second substrate of a second semiconductor chip and partially disposed within the first substrate wherein the readout circuit block comprises optionally selectable rolling shutter and global shutter readout modes through the use of computer programmable digital register settings. The global shutter readout mode provides in-pixel correlated double sampling. The second semiconductor chip includes circuit elements to extract an image from the array and a Field Programmable Gate Array to provide reconfigurability to control and signal processing functions.
US10002900B2 Three-dimensional wafer scale integration of heterogeneous wafers with unequal die sizes
A method is provided for three-dimensional wafer scale integration of heterogeneous wafers with unequal die sizes that include a first wafer and a second wafer. The method includes selecting a periodicity for the second wafer to be manufactured that matches the periodicity of the first wafer. The method further includes manufacturing the second wafer in accordance with the selected periodicity. The method also includes placing, by a laser-based patterning device, a pattern in spaces between dies of the second wafer. The method additionally includes stacking the first wafer onto the second wafer, using a copper-to-copper bonding process to bond the first wafer to the second wafer.
US10002895B2 Apparatus and methods for buried channel transfer gate
An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode, a floating diffusion, and a transfer gate. A buried channel may be formed under the transfer gate. The buried channel may extend from the floating diffusion to overlap a portion of the transfer gate without extending completely beneath the transfer gate or reaching the photodiode. The buried channel may provide a path for antiblooming current from the photodiode to reach the floating diffusion, while allowing for the transfer gate off voltage to remain high enough to prevent transfer gate dark current from flowing into the photodiode.
US10002887B2 Array substrate, method for producing the same, and display apparatus
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for producing the same and a display apparatus. The array substrate has a display region and a driving circuit region adjacent to the display region, wherein the display region and the driving circuit region share a same base substrate; the driving circuit region includes a timer control register and/or a system on chip; wherein the timer control register is configured to achieve the timing control of the array substrate, the system on chip being configured to achieve the driving control of the array substrate.
US10002879B2 Semiconductor structure having gate replacement and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a plurality of first stacked structures and two second stacked structures disposed on the substrate. Each of the first stacked structures includes alternately stacked metal layers and oxide layers. Each of the second stacked structures includes alternately stacked silicon nitride layers and oxide layers. The first stacked structures are disposed between the two second stacked structures.
US10002875B2 Semiconductor devices with charge fixing layers
A semiconductor device may include gate electrodes and interlayer insulating layers alternately stacked on a substrate, a channel layer penetrating the gate electrodes and the interlayer insulating layers, a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrodes and the channel layer, a filling insulation that fills at least a portion of an interior of the channel layer, a charge fixing layer between the channel layer and the filling insulation and including a high-k material and/or a metal, and a conductive pad connected to the channel layer and on the filling insulation. The conductive pad may be physically separated from the charge fixing layer.
US10002873B2 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes stacking a molding layer and a preliminary support layer on a substrate, forming a support layer having a plurality of openings by removing at least a portion of the preliminary support layer, forming a sacrificial layer by filling the plurality of openings with a different material from a material of the molding layer and from a material of the preliminary support layer, forming a plurality of vertical holes through the support layer and through the molding layer, forming a lower electrode within the plurality of vertical holes, and removing the sacrificial layer and the molding layer.
US10002871B2 High-K gate dielectric and metal gate conductor stack for fin-type field effect transistors formed on type III-V semiconductor material and silicon germanium semiconductor material
An electrical device that includes at least one n-type field effect transistor including a channel region in a type III-V semiconductor device, and at least one p-type field effect transistor including a channel region in a germanium containing semiconductor material. Each of the n-type and p-type semiconductor devices may include gate structures composed of material layers including work function adjusting materials selections, such as metal and doped dielectric layers. The field effect transistors may be composed of fin type field effect transistors. The field effect transistors may be formed using gate first processing or gate last processing.
US10002870B2 Process enhancement using double sided epitaxial on substrate
Disclosed examples include semiconductor devices and fabrication methods to fabricate semiconductor wafers and integrated circuits, including forming a first epitaxial semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type on a first side of a semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type, forming a nitride or oxide protection layer on a top side of the first epitaxial semiconductor layer, forming a second epitaxial semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type on the second side of the semiconductor substrate, and removing the protection layer from the first epitaxial semiconductor layer. The wafer can be used to fabricate an integrated circuit by forming a plurality of transistors at least partially on the first epitaxial semiconductor layer.
US10002867B2 Fin-type field effect transistor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A fin-type field effect transistor comprising a substrate, at least one gate stack and epitaxy material portions is described. The substrate has fins and insulators located between the fins, and the fins include channel portions and flank portions beside the channel portions. The at least one gate stack is disposed over the insulators and over the channel portions of the fins. The epitaxy material portions are disposed over the flank portions of the fins and at two opposite sides of the at least one gate stack. The epitaxy material portions disposed on the flank portions of the fins are separate from one another.
US10002866B2 Method for forming capacitor, semiconductor device, module, and electronic device
A miniaturized transistor is provided. A transistor with low parasitic capacitance is provided. A transistor having high frequency characteristics is provided. A transistor having a large amount of on-state current is provided. A semiconductor device including the transistor is provided. A semiconductor device with high integration is provided. A novel capacitor is provided. The capacitor includes a first conductor, a second conductor, and an insulator. The first conductor includes a region overlapping with the second conductor with the insulator provided therebetween. The first conductor includes tungsten and silicon. The insulator includes a silicon oxide film that is formed by oxidizing the first conductor.
US10002864B1 Intra-metal capacitor and method of forming the same
An intra-metal capacitor is provided. The intra-metal capacitor is formed in a dielectric layer and comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the first electrode penetrate through the whole thickness of the dielectric layer, and the second electrode does not penetrate through the whole thickness of the dielectric layer.
US10002856B1 Micro-LED array transfer
Methods of transferring micro-array LEDs of various colors onto a surface of a display substrate are provided. The transferring includes releasing micro-LEDs of a specific color from a structure that includes a releasable material onto a display substrate. The releasable material may be a laser ablatable material or a material that is readily dissolved in a specific etchant.
US10002853B2 Stacked semiconductor package having a support and method for fabricating the same
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, and a first semiconductor chip stack disposed on the substrate. The first semiconductor chip stack includes a plurality of first semiconductor chips. The first semiconductor chips are stacked in a staircase configuration along a first direction. A first support is disposed on the substrate. The first support is spaced apart from the first semiconductor chip stack. A second semiconductor chip stack is disposed on the first semiconductor chip stack and the first support. The second semiconductor chip stack includes a plurality of second semiconductor chips. The second semiconductor chips are stacked in a second staircase configuration along a second direction opposite the first direction. A height of the first semiconductor chip stack is substantially equal to a height of the first support.
US10002850B2 Semiconductor chip flexibly applied to various routing structures and semiconductor chip module using the same
A semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a rear surface which faces away from the front surface. The semiconductor chip may include a fixed metal layer formed over the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and having first metal lines formed in the fixed metal layer. The semiconductor chip may include a configurable metal layer formed over the fixed metal layer to have one surface which faces the fixed metal layer and the other surface which faces away from the one surface, and having second metal lines formed in the configurable metal layer such that at least one end of the second metal lines disposed on the one surface are respectively connected with the first metal lines and other ends of the second metal lines facing away from the at least one end are disposed at predetermined positions on the other surface.
US10002848B1 Test method for a redistribution layer
A conductive layer is formed on the first zone of a carrier. The redistribution layer is formed on the conductive layer on the first zone and the second zone of the carrier. Then an open-test and a short-test are performed to the redistribution layer. Since the conductive layer and the parts of the redistribution layer formed on the conductive layer constitute a closed loop, a load is presented if the redistribution layer is formed correctly. In addition, no load is presented if the redistribution layer is formed correctly since the parts of the redistribution layer formed on the second zone of the carrier constitute an open loop. Therefore, whether the redistribution layer is flawed or not is determined before the dies are boned on the redistribution layer. Thus, no waste of the good die is occurred because of the flawed redistribution layer.
US10002846B2 Method for remapping a packaged extracted die with 3D printed bond connections
A method is provided. The method includes removing an extracted die including an original ball bond from a previous packaged integrated circuit, bonding the extracted die to an interposer to create a remapped extracted die, 3D printing one or more first bond connections between one or more original bond pads of the extracted die and one or more first bond pads of the interposer, securing the remapped extracted die to a package base, and 3D printing one or more second bond connections between one or more second bond pads of the interposer and one or more package leads or downbonds of the package base. The one or more first and second bond connections conform to the shapes and surfaces of the extracted die, the interposer, and the package base.
US10002844B1 Bonded structures
A bonded structure can include a first element having a first conductive interface feature and a second element having a second conductive interface feature. An integrated device can be coupled to or formed with the first element or the second element. The first conductive interface feature can be directly bonded to the second conductive interface feature to define an interface structure. The interface structure can be disposed about the integrated device in an at least partially annular profile to connect the first and second elements.
US10002841B2 Semiconductor device
Electrode pads disposed on a first surface of a semiconductor element include a first pad located close to a corner and a second pad located apart from the corner compared with the first pad. A first wire connected to the first pad has a smaller Young's modulus than a second wire connected to the second pad. A thickness of an intermetallic compound layer formed by the first wire and the first pad is larger than a thickness of an intermetallic compound layer formed by the second wire and the second pad.
US10002833B2 Power and ground routing of integrated circuit devices with improved IR drop and chip performance
An integrated circuit chip includes a semiconductor substrate having thereon a plurality of inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layers and a plurality of first conductive layers embedded in respective said plurality of IMD layers, wherein said first conductive layers comprise copper; a first insulating layer overlying said plurality of IMD layers and said plurality of first conductive layers; at least a first wiring line in a second conductive layer overlying said first insulating layer, for distributing power signal or ground signal, wherein said second conductive layer comprise aluminum; and at least a second wiring line in a third conductive layer overlying said second conductive layer, for distributing power signal or ground signal.
US10002831B2 Selective and non-selective barrier layer wet removal
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a dielectric layer on a substrate, forming a plurality of openings in the dielectric layer, conformally depositing a barrier layer on the dielectric layer and on sides and a bottom of each one of the plurality of openings, depositing a contact layer on the barrier layer in each one of the plurality of openings, removing a portion of each contact layer from each one of the plurality of openings, and removing a portion of the barrier layer from each one of the plurality of openings, wherein at least the removal of the portion of the barrier layer is performed using an etchant including: (a) a compound selected from group consisting of -azole, -triazole, and combinations thereof; (b) a compound containing one or more peroxy groups; (c) one or more alkaline metal hydroxides; and (d) water.
US10002826B2 Semiconductor device structure with conductive pillar and conductive line and method for forming the same
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first conductive line embedded in the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device structure includes a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and the first conductive line. The semiconductor device structure includes a second conductive line over the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is between the first conductive line and the second conductive line. The semiconductor device structure includes conductive pillars passing through the second dielectric layer to electrically connect the first conductive line to the second conductive line. The conductive pillars are spaced apart from each other.
US10002824B2 Magnetic alignment for flip chip microelectronic devices
Incorporating at least one magnetic alignment structure on a microelectronic device and incorporating at least one alignment coil within a microelectronic substrate, wherein the alignment coil may be powered to form a magnetic field to attract the magnetic alignment structure, thereby aligning the microelectronic device to the microelectronic substrate. After alignment, the microelectronic device may be electrically attached to the substrate. Embodiments may include additionally incorporating an alignment detection coil within the microelectronic substrate, wherein the alignment detection coil may be powered to form a magnetic field to detect variations in the magnetic field generated by the alignment coil in order verify the alignment of the microelectronic device to the microelectronic substrate.
US10002820B2 Through silicon via layout pattern
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate with a first side and a second side, wherein a plurality of active circuits are formed adjacent to the first side of the substrate and a plurality of through silicon vias arranged in a polygon shape and extending from the first side of to the second side, wherein the polygon shape has more than six sides, and wherein each through silicon via is placed at a corresponding apex of the polygon shape.
US10002819B2 Heat sink with integrated threaded lid
A method affixes a heat sink to a module lid. A module lid is mounted to a substrate by use of a lid adhesive. The module lid has a threaded exterior portion. The module lid is thermally interfaced to a die by use of a thermal interface material. The heat sink is then screwed onto a module lid, where the heat sink includes a threaded heat sink base pocket that mates with the threaded exterior portion of the module lid, and wherein the heat sink is screwed down onto the module lid until 1) a solid mechanical and thermal contact is established between the heat sink and the module lid, and 2) an airflow from an air moving device flows unobstructed across vanes on the heat sink.
US10002817B2 Semiconductor device
A power module includes: a ceramic substrate that includes a principal surface and a back surface, and is provided with a plurality of metal wirings on the principal surface; a semiconductor chip mounted on any metal wiring of the plurality of metal wirings; and a resin part disposed around each of the plurality of metal wirings. Further, side faces of the metal wirings each have: a first region in which a plating film is formed; a second region that is positioned above the first region and that is a non-plating region; and a third region that is positioned between the first region and the second region and in which metal particles are formed. The resin part is bonded to the metal particles, the plating film, and the principal surface of the ceramic substrate.
US10002816B2 Electronic device
A semiconductor integrated circuit, a radiation detection unit and a cooling unit are provided. Here, a radiation detection unit is provided near the semiconductor integrated circuit and detects a radiation quantity. The cooling unit cools the semiconductor integrated circuit according to the detected radiation quantity. In an environment where a radiation quantity is more, the generation of a malfunction can be restrained by cooling the semiconductor integrated circuit.
US10002813B2 Adhesive composition and adhesive sheet, and hardened article and semiconductor device using same
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an adhesive composition having high heat conductivity and excellent adhesion, in which the dispersibility of a heat-conductive filler is controlled, and in which thermal stress during cooling/heating cycle testing can be alleviated. An adhesive composition containing a soluble polyimide (A), an epoxy resin (B), and a heat-conductive filler (C), the adhesive composition characterized by containing three types of diamine residues having a specific structure, and in that the content of the epoxy resin (B) is 30-100 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the soluble polyimide (A).
US10002812B2 Power semiconductor module having a pressure application body and arrangement therewith
A power semiconductor module having a pressure application body, a circuit carrier, which is embodied with a first conductor track, a power semiconductor element arranged thereon and an internal connecting device, and also having a housing which is embodied with a guide device arranged therein, with a connecting element. The connecting element is embodied as a bolt with first and second end sections and an intermediate section therebetween, wherein the first end section rests on the circuit carrier and is electrically conductively connected thereto; the second end section projects out of the housing through a cutout; and wherein the connecting element is arranged in the assigned guide device. The pressure application body has a first rigid partial body and a second elastic partial body, wherein the second partial body protrudes out of the first partial body in the direction of the housing.
US10002811B2 Electronic component package and method of manufacturing the same
An electronic component package includes a wiring part including an insulating layer, a conductive pattern formed on the insulating layer, and a conductive via connected to the conductive pattern through the insulating layer, an electronic component disposed on the wiring part, a frame disposed on the wiring part and having a through hole accommodating the electronic component, an adhesive layer bonding the wiring part and the frame to each other, and an encapsulant filling at least a portion of the through hole.
US10002802B2 Method for reducing core-to-core mismatches in SOC applications
Methods for reducing core-to-core mismatch are provided. The method includes measuring gate lengths of a representative pattern of each core in a first lot of SOC products by a measurement apparatus. Each of the SOC products in the first lot includes more than two cores identical to each other. The method also includes determining a tuning amount according to the differences between the gate lengths of each core, and adjusting at least one mask for critical dimensions of gate length of each core in a second lot of SOC products respectively according to the tuning amounts.
US10002797B1 Chip integration including vertical field-effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors
Device structures and fabrication methods for a BiCMOS integrated circuit. A first fin and a second fin are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A gate electrode of a vertical field effect transistor is formed in association with the first fin. An emitter of a bipolar junction transistor is formed with an epitaxial growth process on the second fin, and a first source/drain region of the vertical field-effect transistor is concurrently formed with the epitaxial growth process on the first fin. The gate electrode and the first fin are arranged in a vertical direction between the source/drain region and the semiconductor substrate. The second fin is arranged in the vertical direction between the emitter and the semiconductor substrate.
US10002796B1 Dual epitaxial growth process for semiconductor device
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming first and second fin structures on a substrate and a patterned polysilicon structure on first portions of the first and second fin structures. The method further includes depositing an insulating layer on second portions of the first and second fin structures and on the patterned polysilicon structure, which may be followed by selectively removing the insulating layer from the second portions and patterning a first hard mask layer on the second portion of the second fin structure. The method also includes growing a first epitaxial region on the second portion of the first fin structure, removing the patterned first hard mask layer from the second portion of the second fin structure, patterning a second hard mask layer on the first epitaxial region, and growing a second epitaxial region on the second portion of the second fin structure.
US10002794B2 Multiple gate length vertical field-effect-transistors
Various embodiments disclose a method for fabricating a semiconductor structure. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a masking layer over at least a first portion of a source contact layer formed on a substrate. At least a second portion of the source contact layer is recessed below the first portion of the source contact layer. The mask layer is removed and a first spacer layer, a replacement gate on the first spacer layer, a second spacer layer on the replacement gate, and an insulating layer on the second spacer layer are formed. First and second trenches are then formed. A first channel layer is epitaxially grown within the first trench. A second channel layer is epitaxially grown within the second trench. A length of the second channel layer is greater than a length of the first channel layer.
US10002785B2 Air-gap assisted etch self-aligned dual Damascene
A semiconductor process for providing a metal layer uses the following steps: A barrier dielectric layer is deposited on a semiconductor layer comprising an exposed metal line. A via layer is formed on top of the barrier dielectric layer comprising at least one via. A non-conformal film is deposited on top of the via layer thereby forming a void in the at least one via, and at least one trench is etched into the non-conformal film thereby opening the void, and creating a dual-damascene layer.
US10002779B2 Thermal array system
A thermal array system is provided. The system includes a first thermal element and a second thermal element connected between a first node and a second node. The first thermal element being activated and the second thermal element being deactivated by a first polarity of the first node relative to the second node. Further, the first thermal element being deactivated and the second thermal element being activated by a second polarity of the first node relative to the second node.
US10002775B2 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
In a manufacturing process of a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, oxygen doping treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film, and then heat treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor film and an aluminum oxide film provided over the oxide semiconductor film. Consequently, an oxide semiconductor film which includes a region containing more oxygen than a stoichiometric composition is formed. The transistor formed using the oxide semiconductor film can have high reliability because the amount of change in the threshold voltage of the transistor by a bias-temperature stress test (BT test) is reduced.
US10002772B2 Vapor phase etching of hafnia and zirconia
A method is described for vapor phase etching of oxide material including at least one of hafnia (HfO2) and zirconia (ZrO2), in the absence of plasma exposure of the oxide material. The method involves contacting the oxide material with an etching medium including at least one of phosphorus chloride and tungsten chloride under conditions producing a removable fluid reaction product, and removing the removable fluid reaction product. The etching process may be controllably carried out by use of pressure swings, temperature swings, and/or modulation of partial pressure of Hf or Zr chloride in the reaction, e.g., to achieve precision etch removal in the manufacture of semiconductor devices such as 3D NAND, sub-20 nm DRAMs, and finFETs.
US10002771B1 Methods for chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) processing with ozone
A polymer layer on a substrate may be treated with ozone gas or with deionized water and ozone gas to increase a removal rate of the polymer layer in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process. The ozone gas may be diffused directly into the polymer layer or through a thin layer of deionized water on the surface of the polymer layer and into the polymer layer. The deionized water may also be heated during the process to further enhance the diffusion of the ozone gas into the polymer layer.
US10002765B2 FinFET structure with different fin heights and method for forming the same
A method for forming FinFETs comprises forming a plurality of first fins and a plurality of second fins over a substrate and embedded in isolation regions, depositing a first photoresist layer over the substrate, removing the first photoresist layer over an n-type region, applying a first ion implantation process to the first isolation regions, wherein dopants with a first polarity type are implanted in the first isolation regions, depositing a second photoresist layer over the substrate, removing the second photoresist layer over a p-type region, applying a second ion implantation process to the second isolation regions, wherein dopants with a second polarity type are implanted in the second isolation regions, applying an annealing process to the isolation regions and recessing the first isolation regions and the second isolation regions through an etching process.
US10002763B2 Fabrication of substrates with a useful layer of monocrystalline semiconductor material
The invention relates to methods for fabricating a semiconductor substrate. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a support that includes a barrier layer thereon for preventing loss by diffusion of elements derived from dissociation of the support at epitaxial growth temperatures; providing a seed layer on the barrier layer, wherein the seed layer facilitates epitaxial growth of a single crystal III-nitride semiconductor layer thereon; epitaxially growing a nitride working layer on the thin seed layer; and removing the support to form the semiconductor substrate.
US10002760B2 Method for manufacturing SiC wafer fit for integration with power device manufacturing technology
A method for producing silicon carbide substrates fit for epitaxial growth in a standard epitaxial chamber normally used for silicon wafers processing. Strict limitations are placed on any substrate that is to be processed in a chamber normally used for silicon substrates, so as to avoid contamination of the silicon wafers. To take full advantage of standard silicon processing equipment, the SiC substrates are of diameter of at least 150 mm. For proper growth of the SiC boule, the growth crucible is made to have interior volume that is six to twelve times the final growth volume of the boule. Also, the interior volume of the crucible is made to have height to width ratio of 0.8 to 4.0. Strict limits are placed on contamination, particles, and defects in each substrate.
US10002759B2 Method of forming structures with V shaped bottom on silicon substrate
The present disclosure generally relate to methods of processing a substrate in an epitaxy chamber. The method includes applying a passivating agent containing antimony to portions of a silicon substrate exposed through trenches formed in a dielectric layer on the silicon substrate, while applying the passivating agent containing antimony, exposing the silicon substrate to a group IV-containing precursor to form an epitaxial layer having a V-shaped structure having an exposed (111) plane at a bottom of the trenches, and forming a semiconductor layer on the epitaxial layer.
US10002758B2 Compositions and methods of rinsable primers used to aid in the removal of temporary functional coatings
Compositions and methods that use rinsable primers for the removal of temporary functional coatings from substrates, for example, electronic devices, are provided. Methods are provided which discuss the use of rinsable primers to aid the removal of temporary functional coatings that include photoresist, dielectrics, adhesives, and other related materials used in temporary manufacturing applications. These compositions and methods are particularly suitable for removing temporary adhesives used in the manufacture of semiconductors and flat panel displays.
US10002756B2 Fin-FET device and fabrication method thereof
A method for fabricating a Fin-FET device includes forming a plurality of discrete fin structures on a substrate with a bottom portion of the sidewall surfaces covered in an isolation layer, and forming a dielectric layer on the isolation layer and the fin structures with an opening formed across the fin structures and exposing a portion of the isolation layer and the fin structures. The method further includes forming a first oxidation layer on the exposed surfaces of the fin structures, and then forming a second oxidation layer between the first oxidation layer and the surfaces of the fin structures through a first annealing process. The method then includes forming a gate dielectric layer on the first oxidation layer, forming a sacrificial adsorption layer on the gate dielectric layer, performing a second annealing process, and then forming a gate electrode layer to fill the opening formed in the dielectric layer.
US10002754B2 Substrate processing method and recording medium
Electric charging of a substrate caused by a friction between a fluid and a surface of the substrate being rotated can be suppressed. At least a part of a surface insulating layer (thermal oxide film) on a peripheral portion of a substrate W is removed, and an underlayer (silicon wafer) having higher conductivity than a material of the surface insulating layer is exposed. Then, a process is performed on the substrate while holding and rotating the substrate by a substrate holding device. Here, at least a portion of the substrate holding device which comes into contact with the underlayer is made of a conductive material. In performing the process on the substrate, an electric charge generated in the surface insulating layer of the substrate is removed via the underlayer and the substrate holding device.
US10002753B2 Chamfering apparatus and method for manufacturing notchless wafer
A chamfering apparatus including chamfering part for removing notch, cleaning part for cleaning and drying wafer, and chamfered-shape measuring part for measuring chamfered shape, each of chamfering and cleaning part, and chamfered-shape measuring part including rotatable stage for holding wafer and control unit for controlling rotational positions of rotatable stage and wafer, rotatable stage having reference position serving as reference of rotational positions at beginning of rotation, wherein wafer is held wherein rotational position of wafer at beginning of rotation relative to reference position is at same rotational position on all rotatable stages, and control unit to control rotational position of wafer to be at predetermined position at beginning and end of rotation. As a result, the chamfering apparatus and method for manufacturing notchless wafer allowing appropriate feedback control even in notchless wafer, suppress variation in chamfered shape dimension, and achieve desired cross-sectional shape precision of wafer chamfered portion.
US10002751B2 Ion beam irradiation apparatus
An ion beam irradiation apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an ion source, a mass separator, and an energy filter. The mass separator sorts dopant ions having a specific mass number and valence from an ion beam extracted from the ion source, and outputs the dopant ions. The energy filter is formed to define a beam passing region for allowing the ion beam to pass therethrough, and configured to have a given filter potential in response to application of a voltage thereto to separate passable ions capable of passing through the beam passing region and non-passable ions incapable of passing through the beam passing region, from each other by a difference in ion energy. The given filter potential is set such that the dopant ions are included in the passable ions, and a portion of unwanted ions which cannot be separated from the dopant ions by the mass separator are included in the non-passable ions.
US10002747B2 Methods and apparatus for supplying process gas in a plasma processing system
Methods and apparatus for supplying gas in a plasma processing system that employs the single line drop approach wherein a regulator is shared among multiple mass flow controllers. In one or more embodiments, an accumulator is provided and coupled in gaseous communication with a shared manifold to reduce pressure spikes and dips. A filter, which may be replaceable or non-replaceable separate from the accumulator, is integrated with the accumulator in one or more embodiments.
US10002746B1 Multi regime plasma wafer processing to increase directionality of ions
Systems and methods for providing a multi regime plasma wafer processing are described. The systems and methods have three states. During a first one of the states, an etching operation is performed. In a second one of the states, a power level of a kilohertz radio frequency signal is greater than zero to increase directionality of ions that are incident on a bottom surface of a stack layer. In a third one of the states, there is a reduction in a loss of mask on top of the stack layer and deposition may be performed.
US10002745B2 Plasma treatment process for in-situ chamber cleaning efficiency enhancement in plasma processing chamber
Embodiments of the disclosure include methods for in-situ chamber cleaning efficiency enhancement process for a plasma processing chamber utilized for a semiconductor substrate fabrication process. In one embodiment, a method for performing a plasma treatment process after cleaning a plasma process includes performing a cleaning process in a plasma processing chamber in absent of a substrate disposed thereon, subsequently supplying a plasma treatment gas mixture including at least a hydrogen containing gas and/or an oxygen containing gas into the plasma processing chamber, applying a RF source power to the processing chamber to form a plasma from the plasma treatment gas mixture, and plasma treating an interior surface of the processing chamber.
US10002744B2 System and method for controlling plasma density
This disclosure relates to a plasma processing system for controlling plasma density near the edge or perimeter of a substrate that is being processed. The plasma processing system may include a plasma chamber that can receive and process the substrate using plasma for etching the substrate, doping the substrate, or depositing a film on the substrate. This disclosure relates to a plasma processing system that may include a power electrode that may be opposite a bias electrode and a focus ring electrode that surrounds the substrate. In one embodiment, the power electrode may be coupled to a direct current (DC) source. Power applied to the bias electrode may be used to draw ions to the substrate. The plasma density may be made more uniform by applying a focus ring voltage to the focus ring that is disposed around the substrate and/or the bias electrode.
US10002732B2 Side break air switch with anti-rolling blade lock
A high voltage, high current, switching device includes a jaw assembly electrically connected to a first electrical conductor, a housing assembly electrically connected to a second electrical conductor and a blade assembly fixedly attached to the housing assembly at a first end thereof. The blade assembly has an electrically conductive blade contact fixedly attached to a second end distal from the first end. Further, the housing assembly and the blade assembly pivot about a first axis to drive the blade contact into the jaw assembly to close the switch and the blade assembly is operable to rotate about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis only when the distal end of the blade assembly is seated in the jaw assembly. Thus, the blade does not pivot about its longitudinal axis prematurely, for example, before it is properly seated in the electrical terminal.
US10002731B2 Rocker input mechanism
A rocker input mechanism includes an actuator that is operable to pivot against the interior surface of a housing through which an actuation surface of the actuator projects. Pivots or up-stops on the edges of the actuator are biased against the interior surface by dome switches contacting a switching surface of the actuator that is opposite the actuation surface. Thus, the actuator is able to pivot with respect to the interior surface to activate the dome switches when force is exerted on the actuation surface without bending or flexing like typical rocker buttons. As a result, the rocker input mechanism may have a feel to a user similar to non-rocking input mechanisms like single mode buttons.
US10002729B2 Electronic device with slidable control button
The slidable control button device provides inputs to an electronic communication device such as a smartphone. When the slidable control button is moved to positions within a grooved path, it acquires additional functionalities. These include (a) gaming console hand devices for both left and right hand thumbs of gamers, (b) pressing on the left or right edge of the button will control functions of software of apps, (c) motion detection (d) sending and receiving data related to measuring motion, speed or acceleration, temperature, and communicating with the software applications installed in the smartphone.
US10002728B2 Light-emitting keyboard
A light-emitting keyboard is provided, including a keyboard module and a light-emitting module. The keyboard module has a light-penetrable portion and a keyboard base, and the light-penetrable portion is arranged on the keyboard base. The light-emitting module is attached to the keyboard base and includes a substrate, a boost circuit and a plasma tube, the boost circuit is disposed on the substrate, the plasma tube has a light-emitting main body and two electrodes, the light-emitting main body at least partly corresponds to the light-penetrable portion, and the two electrodes are connected to the light-emitting main body and respectively electrically connected to the two power output portions.
US10002726B2 Membrane switch and method of manufacturing the same
A membrane switch and a method of manufacturing the same, includes upper and lower membranes printed with upper and lower conductive dots and an isolation layer between them, holes being opened in the isolation layer corresponding to the dots, the isolation layer is bonded with the upper and lower membranes respectively via the glue coated on the upper surface and the lower surface thereof; and the glue may employ hot melt glue. This method of manufacturing the membrane switch includes a coating the upper surface and/or lower surface of the isolation layer exclusive of the positions of the holes with glue; bonding and adhering the sides of the upper membrane and the lower membrane printed with the conductive dots and respectively to the upper surface and the lower surface of the isolation layer via glue, making the positions of the conductive dots and the holes corresponding to each other.
US10002725B2 Keyswitch
A keyswitch includes a board, a cap, and a support device. The board has first and second bending members and a main body extending along X and Y axes perpendicular to each other. An included angle between a first abutting surface of the first bending member and the X-axis and an included angle between a second abutting surface of the second bending member and the X-axis are greater than 0°. The support device includes first and second support members having first and second hook structures respectively. When the cap is pressed, the first and second hook structures slide on the first and second abutting surfaces respectively to deform the first and second hook structures. When the cap is released, the deformed first and second hook structures drive the first and second support members to slide relatively for making the cap return to a non-pressed position.
US10002720B2 Preparation of metal oxide-graphene composite films
Methods of making metal oxide-graphene composites are disclosed. The methods can include, for example, providing a composition including graphene oxide and at least one substrate, the composition being dispersed in a liquid medium. The methods can also include, for example, providing a composition including graphene oxide and at least one substrate, heating the composition, and cooling the composition. Compositions useful for performing the methods and composites obtained by the process are also disclosed.
US10002717B2 High performance lithium-ion capacitor laminate cells
The present invention provides for high performance lithium-ion capacitor laminate cells that include positive electrodes, negative electrodes and organic solvent electrolyte with lithium salt, and a method for making said high performance lithium-ion capacitor laminate cells. These high performance lithium-ion capacitor laminate cells of the present invention, include a negative electrode which is pre-doped with sufficient lithium ions by employing lithium sources including lithium powder known as SLMP or thin lithium films on the surface of negative electrodes, and this pre-doping with placing lithium sources on negative electrode surface results in LIC laminate cells with considerably higher performance in specific energy, specific power and cycle life.
US10002716B1 Electron transport structure and perovskite solar cell having the same
Differing from conventional technology utilizing double-layer electron transport layer (ETL) to improving power conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cell, the present invention discloses a novel electron transport structure comprising an interfacial diploe moment enhancing layer, an electron transport layer and an interfacial layer. After applying this electron transport structure in a perovskite solar cell, it is found that an interfacial dipole moment formed between the electron transport layer of the electron transport structure and an active layer of the perovskite solar cell is amplified, so as to give rise to an enhanced driving force for the separation of photogenerated carriers and accelerating charge extraction. Moreover, a variety of experimental data have proved that, compared with the perovskite solar cell having double-layer ETL, the perovskite solar cell using this novel electron transport structure exhibits understanding performances including short-circuit current, open-circuit voltage, filling factor, and power conversion efficiency.
US10002711B2 Low temperature multilayer dielectric film for passivation and capacitor
The present disclosure generally relates to capacitors having a multilayer dielectric material between two electrodes. The multilayer dielectric material can have a small thickness with little to no breakdown strength reduction. By utilizing a multilayer dielectric structure in a capacitor, not only can the breakdown strength remain at an acceptable level, but the collective thickness of the capacitor may be reduced to accommodate the higher density pixels for display devices or any device that utilizes a capacitor.
US10002708B2 Coil unit and wireless power transmission device
A coil unit includes a non-magnetic conductive plate which is disposed in an arrangement direction of first and second coils have reverse winding direction to each other, and a magnetic body. The magnetic body includes a first portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of one side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction of the first and second coils, and a second portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the other side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction of the first and second coils. When viewing from the arrangement direction of the first and second coils, the first and second portions are positioned on a side of the conductive plate where is opposite to a side which faces the first and second coils.