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US10069343B2	Charging control device, charging control method and wireless power receiving device equipped with same A charging control device includes a capacitor, a comparison unit and a switching unit. The capacitor is charged with a voltage converted from power received from a wireless power sending device. The comparison unit compares the voltage of the capacitor with a reference voltage, and generates an output signal according to the result of the comparison. The switching unit is connected to the front end of the capacitor and is switched by the output signal from the comparison unit so as to control whether to supply the converted voltage to a load terminal.
US10069339B2	Wireless power feeding method and wireless power feeding device A wireless power feeding method includes causing each of a plurality of power transmitters to acquire power amounts for power received by one or more of a power receptors which are targets for power transmission, determining a first power amount which is the smallest out of acquired power amounts, and adjusting a power transmission direction to be a direction in which the power received by the power receptor which has received the first power amount is maximum. Each of the plurality of power transmitters are caused to transmit power in the adjusted power transmission direction and leaked power amounts for leaked power, which is received by the power receptors that are the targets for power transmission of other power transmitters, are acquired as leaked power amounts to the power transmitters for which the targets for power transmission are the power receptors which receive the leaked power.
US10069338B2	Power receiver control circuit for wireless power receiver apparatus A control circuit is provided for a power receiver apparatus. A target voltage range setting unit sets an upper limit voltage VH and a lower limit voltage VL that define a target voltage range REF to be set for a rectified voltage VRECT that develops across a smoothing capacitor. An electric power control unit compares the rectified voltage VRECT with each of the upper limit voltage VH and the lower limit voltage VL, and generates a power control signal DPC based on the comparison result. A modulator modulates the power control signal DPC, and transmits the modulated signal to a wireless power transmitter apparatus via a reception coil. Upon detection of an oscillation state in the rectified voltage VRECT, the target voltage range setting unit expands the target voltage range REF.
US10069337B2	Portable terminal charging device and automobile equipped with same A portable terminal charging device includes a large diameter detection coil arranged between a charging coil and a portable terminal, and a further detection coil arranged inward of the large diameter detection coil and having a smaller diameter than the large diameter detection coil. The large diameter detection coil and the further detection coil detect a state of a foreign metal object by finding out a decrease in the magnetic flux of an inward section of the charging coil and conversely finding out an increase in the magnetic flux of an outward section thereof, if the foreign metal object is present between a portable terminal installation unit of a support plate and the portable terminal.
US10069332B2	Electrical power status indicator An electrical power status-indicating device for integration with a Smart Grid network. The device comprises an electrical receptacle installed within a wall of a consumer premises, a communication module for retrieving and interpreting power status data from a centralized control module, and at least one indicator activated by the communication module, with activation based at least in part on the status data. In some embodiments, the device may comprise a power pass-through device for receiving at least one in-premise electronic device, and/or a light switch in communication with a lighting unit.
US10069331B2	Load shed module A load shed module configured to be connected in series between a power supply and a load is disclosed. A separate load shed module is connected in series between each load and the power supply. The load shed module determines the frequency of the voltage supplied from the power supply. Based on the frequency, the load shed module determines if utility power is connected or if a generator is connected. If the generator is connected and the frequency of the voltage goes outside of a desired operating range for a preset time, the load shed module disconnects the load from the power supply. Each load shed module includes a priority setting and reconnects its corresponding load after a predetermined time corresponding to the priority setting.
US10069321B2	Electronic device and method for disabling a power-on function and providing a notification for same A delayed power-on function for an electronic device is disclosed. A charging unit charges a rechargeable battery with a pre-charge current when a voltage of the rechargeable battery is less than a voltage threshold value and with a current larger than the pre-charge current when the voltage of the rechargeable battery is greater than the voltage threshold value. A controller can disable power-on when the voltage of the rechargeable battery is less than the voltage threshold value. A user may also be notified when power-on is disabled.
US10069319B2	Systems and methods for simultaneously charging a battery with multiple power sources Systems and methods for power management are disclosed herein. In one disclosed embodiment, a battery charging system includes a battery charger for simultaneously charging a battery (and/or providing power to a system load) with multiple power sources, using a closed-loop charging servo target based on measurements taken by one or more gauges. In some embodiments, the multiple power sources may be utilized simultaneously according to a charging profile that specifies, e.g., one or more battery charging parameters, as well as according to determined priority levels for one or more of the multiple power sources coupled to the battery. In some embodiments, the priority level of a given power source is not fixed; rather, the priority level for the given power source may change based upon the characteristics of the given power source. In some embodiments, the priority levels for the multiple power sources are implemented using cascaded voltage target values.
US10069316B2	USB charging device including slots with three conductive components A USB charging device is disclosed, comprising a charging base and multiple USB chargers, in which the surface of the charging base is installed with several positioning slots and the bottom of the positioning slot has DC power output holes. In addition, the bottom of the USB charger is configured with a fixation bump fitting into the shape of the fixation slot, and conductive pillars extend from the fixation bump, while the other end of the USB charger includes a USB port for electrically connecting to a USB charging line. Herein the conductive pillars of the USB charger can be inserted into any one of the positioning DC output holes on the surface of the charging base such that DC power can be transferred to the USB port and thus further transferred to the electronic device via the USB charging line for power recharging.
US10069313B2	Modulated pulse charging and discharging of a reconfigurable battery pack Disclosed is pulse charging and pulse discharging of a reconfigurable battery pack that uses frequency modulation to vary the pulse periods of the charging pulses and the discharging pulses. Battery measurements can be made to determine the duty cycles of the charging pulses and the discharging pulses. Additionally, the battery pack can be reconfigured to match with varying charging devices and varying loads.
US10069310B2	Wireless power transmission apparatus and supply power control method of wireless power transmission apparatus A wireless power transmission apparatus which is charged in a short charging time and prevents the shortening of the life of a secondary battery is provided. A wireless power transmission apparatus includes a current-voltage detector configured to measure an input impedance Zin of the wireless power transmission apparatus including the power-supplied device and a control device configured to determine whether a constant current charging period (CC) is finished by utilizing a change in the input impedance Zin measured by the current-voltage detector and terminate the charging of the lithium ion secondary battery when it is determined that the constant current charging period (CC) is finished.
US10069306B2	System and method for managing the power output of a photovoltaic cell A solar cell management system for increasing the efficiency and power output of a solar cell and methods for making and using the same. The management system provides an electric field across an individual solar cell, an array of solar cells configured as a panel, or a group of solar panels. The imposed electric field exerts a force on both the electrons and holes created by light incident on the solar cell and accelerates the electron-hole pairs towards the electrodes of the solar cell. Compared to conventional solar cells, these accelerated electron-hole pairs travel a shorter distance from creation (by incident optical radiation) and spend less time within the solar cell material, therefore the electron-hole pairs have a lower likelihood of recombining within the cells' semiconductor's material. This reduction in the electron-hole recombination rate results in an overall increase in the solar cells' efficiency and greater power output.
US10069303B2	Power generation system and method with energy management A power generation system is provided. The system includes a bus, at least two converters, an energy-type energy storage unit (ES), a power-type energy storage unit (PS) and a controller. The ES and the PS are coupled in parallel to the bus through corresponding converters of the at least two converters. The controller is configured to control the ES and the PS through the corresponding converters in at least two conditions during a charging mode and a discharging mode: when a power for the ES and PS is below a power threshold, control the power to flow between the ES and the bus; and when the power is above the power threshold, control a part of the power to flow between the ES and the bus and another part of the power to flow between the PS and the bus. And a method for generating power is also provided.
US10069302B2	Power flow control system and power flow control method A power flow control system is provided that is capable of improving the reliability of controlling power flow fluctuation and creating wide applicability for systems that control power flow fluctuation. A power-varying device (101) varies the distribution line power amount, which is a value of the power flow that flows in a distribution line (112) to which is connected a plurality of power sources (111) that each generate power. A measurement device (102) measures an index value relating to the total generated power amount, which is the sum total of the amount of power generated by each of the power sources. A calculation device (103) estimates the total generated power amount from the index value, and according to the estimation result, regulates the amount of change in the distribution line power amount that is changed by the power-varying device.
US10069300B2	Methods and apparatus for dispatching electrical energy from distributed energy resources Demand of a facility load for electrical energy is monitored and compared to a demand cap for a demand period. A demand cap may be set for peak periods, another demand cap may be set for part-peak periods, and yet another demand cap may be set for off-peak periods. Dispatch of electrical energy from the energy storage system is based on the demand of the facility load relative to the demand cap.
US10069296B2	PCU PPFC surge limiter The present disclosure is directed to a surge limiting circuit electrically coupleable between a power source and a downstream component. The surge limiting circuit may include a transistor configured to operate in each of a first mode that allows an electric current to flow through the transistor, a second mode that cuts off an electric current from flowing through the transistor, and a third mode that only partially allows an electric current to flow through the transistor while partially cutting off the electric current. The surge limiting circuit may further include a control circuit coupled to the transistor and configured to control operation of the transistor in response to an electrical voltage at the transistor's output. The control circuit may further be configured to repeatedly cycle between controlling operation of the transistor in the first mode and the second mode such that the transistor operates in the third mode.
US10069293B2	Isolator circuit An isolator circuit (25) for a unit of a safety system (10) includes a power control line (14) connectable to a first loop of a safety system and a power connection (16) connectable to a second loop of the safety system. A switch (26) is connected to the power control line (14), and the switch has a closed configuration and an open configuration. A controller (28) controls the configuration of the switch (26). If a voltage across the circuit (10) from the power connection (16) to the power control line (14) falls below a predetermined level, the controller (28) opens the switch (26), thereby causing a disconnection to occur in the first loop.
US10069289B2	In-floor electrical fitting having cover with recessed outer flange According to the present disclosure, a cover assembly for an in-floor fitting includes an upper ring, a lower ring connectable to a housing configured to accommodate electrical receptacles, and a flange member clamped between the upper ring and the lower ring. The flange member extends radially outward from the upper ring and lower ring and is configured to support the in-floor fitting on a surface.
US10069288B1	Safety plate for electrical boxes An apparatus and method for providing a safety plate for electrical boxes are disclosed. An example embodiment includes: a safety plate for electrical boxes including: a safety plate shielding portion configured to protect a rear surface of an electrical box adjacent to which the safety plate is installed; and a safety plate stud bracket configured to attach to a structural element of a building. An example embodiment further includes: a wire support attachable to the safety plate, the wire support including: a wire support top portion including wire support knockouts, which provide an opening through which electrical wiring can be inserted and supported; and a wire support arm portion including a channel providing a wire support safety plate attachment guide configured to engage with or slide over tangs of the safety plate.
US10069284B1	Irrigation control box with offset hinge assembly An irrigation control box can include a housing base having a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a top sidewall, a bottom sidewall, and a back wall. The box can include at least one hinge post. An offset hinge assembly can include a hinge assembly frame defining a hinge assembly interior, a first attachment structure positioned at least partially within the hinge assembly interior and configured to releasably attach to the at least one hinge post, and a rotational attachment point. A facepack can include at least one hinge point configured to mate with the rotational attachment point. In some cases, the facepack is configured to rotate about rotational attachment point of the offset hinge assembly with respect to the housing base when the housing base and facepack are each attached to the offset hinge assembly.
US10069282B1	Laser devices using a semipolar plane An optical device includes a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate comprising a surface region configured in a (20-2-1) orientation, a (30-3-1) orientation, or a (30-31) orientation, within +/−10 degrees toward c-plane and/or a-plane from the orientation. Optical devices having quantum well regions overly the surface region are also disclosed.
US10069280B2	Semiconductor optical element, semiconductor laser element, and method for manufacturing semiconductor optical element and semiconductor laser element, and method for manufacturing semiconductor laser module and semiconductor element A semiconductor optical element includes a semiconductor layer portion that includes an optical waveguide layer. The semiconductor layer portion contains a first impurity having a function of suppressing atomic vacancy diffusion and a second impurity having a function of promoting atomic vacancy diffusion, between a topmost surface of the semiconductor layer portion and the optical waveguide layer. The semiconductor layer portion includes two or more regions that extend in a deposition direction with different contents of at least one of the impurities. At least one of the two or more regions contains both the first impurity and the second impurity. The two or more regions have different degrees of disordering in the optical waveguide layer achieved through atomic vacancy diffusion and different band gap energies of the optical waveguide layer.
US10069277B2	Variable wavelength laser device Provided is a variable wavelength laser device that achieves phase control of high precision while restraining thermal interference and stably outputs emission light of desired wavelength.The variable wavelength laser device of the present invention includes: an optical amplification means including a low-reflective surface that reflects light of wavelengths other than a predetermined wavelength and emits light of the predetermined wavelength; a wavelength control means for controlling wavelength of light being transmitted through the optical waveguide; a phase control means for controlling phase of light being transmitted through the optical waveguide using heat emitted by a heating means; a reflection means for totally reflecting the inputted light; and a heat dissipation means for restraining transfer of heat emitted by the heating means to regions other than a region in which the phase control means is disposed.
US10069276B2	Method to tune emission wavelength of wavelength tunable laser apparatus and laser apparatus A method to tune an emission wavelength of a wavelength tunable laser apparatus is disclosed. The laser apparatus implements, in addition to a wavelength tunable laser diode (t-LD) integrating with a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA), a wavelength monitor including an etalon filter. The current emission wavelength is determined by a ratio of the magnitude of a filtered beam passing the etalon filter to a raw beam not passing the etalon filter. The method first sets the SOA in an absorbing mode to sense stray component disturbing the wavelength monitor, then correct the ratio of the beams by subtracting the contribution from the stray component.
US10069271B2	Scalable high power fiber laser A modular and scalable high-power fiber laser system is configurable to generate 1 kW or more of laser output, and includes one or more separable pump modules separately disposed from each other, each pump module including a plurality of fiber-coupled component pump sources optically combined by one or more fiber-based pump module pump combiners, each pump module providing one or more pump module fiber outputs, and a gain module separately disposed from the one or more separable pump modules and including one or more gain module pump fiber inputs optically coupled to corresponding ones of the pump module fiber outputs, and including a gain fiber optically coupled to the one or more gain module pump fiber inputs, the gain fiber configured to generate a gain module fiber output power scalable in relation to the number and power of said pump module fiber outputs coupled to the gain fiber.
US10069270B2	Planar waveguides with enhanced support and/or cooling features for high-power laser systems This disclosure provides planar waveguides with enhanced support and/or cooling. One or more endcaps could be disposed between coating/cladding layers at one or more ends of a core region, where the core region is doped with at least one active ion species and each endcap is not doped with any active ion species that creates substantial absorption at pump and signal wavelengths. A core region could include at least one crystal or crystalline material, and at least one cladding layer could include at least one glass. Different types of coolers could be disposed on or adjacent to different coating/cladding layers. Side claddings could be disposed on opposite sides of a planar waveguide, where the opposite sides represent longer sides of the waveguide. Endcaps and one or more coolers could be sealed to a housing, and coolant can flow through a substantially linear passageway along a length of the waveguide. One side of a planar waveguide could be uncooled.
US10069269B2	Connector with structure for firmly retaining the inner housing A connector includes an inner housing configured to accommodate and hold terminals that are crimped onto respective ends signal wires, a shielding shell formed in a tubular shape that is attachable to the inner housing, and an outer housing having an inner housing holding portion configured to hold the inner housing inside the inner housing holding portion. The shielding shell is configured to be detachably attached to the inner housing. The inner housing has a looseness suppressing structure between the inner housing and an inner surface of the inner housing holding portion. The looseness suppressing structure is configured to allow the inner housing to be held inside the inner housing holding portion without looseness when the shielding shell is attached to the inner housing and also when the shielding shell is not attached to the inner housing.
US10069268B2	Assembly apparatus An assembly apparatus (10) is provided. The assembly apparatus (10) includes a first feeding mechanism (12) arranged in use to feed a series of first components (14), a holding mechanism (16) arranged in use to hold consecutive ones of the first components (14) in place, a cutter (18) arranged in use to separate individual ones of the first components (14) while being held in place by the holding mechanism (16), an inserter (20) arranged in use to push a separated first component (14) into a corresponding opening in a second component (22), and a drive mechanism (24) coupled to each of the first feeding mechanism (12), the holding mechanism (16), the cutter (18) and the inserter (20). The drive mechanism (24) is arranged in use to synchronize movement of the first feeding mechanism (12), the holding mechanism (16), the cutter (18) and the inserter (20).
US10069265B2	Interface conversion adapter and electrical connection device with the interface conversion adapter An interface conversion adapter, configured to be inserted into a plug-in interface of an electronic apparatus to convert a plug-in electrical connection manner of the plug-in interface into a surface contact electrical connection manner, where the interface conversion adapter includes a contact end and a plug-connected end electrically connected to the contact end; the plug-connected end is electrically inserted into the plug-in interface of the electronic apparatus; the contact end is exposed out of the plug-in interface; and several conductive contacts are provided on a surface, exposed out of the plug-in interface, of the contact end. A plug-in connector interface of the electronic apparatus can be converted into surface contact conductive contacts by using the interface conversion adapter. The present invention further relates to an electrical connection device with the interface conversion adapter.
US10069263B2	Rotatable universal socket A rotatable universal socket is provided, including a socket body on which a penetration hole is disposed, a socket unit disposed on the socket body and internally disposed with a plurality of conductive sheets. A plurality of plug holes is disposed on the socket unit, each plug hole is a universal plug hole, each of plug holes corresponds to each of conductive sheets, and the plurality of conductive sheets is electrically connected to a pin plug which extends from a rear side of the socket unit. The rotary disc is rotationally disposed between the socket body and the socket unit, a plurality of socket holes is disposed on the rotary disc, each socket hole has a specification different from the others, and the plurality of socket holes selectively correspond to the penetration hole and the plurality of plug holes, so that plugs with various different specifications can be plugged.
US10069261B2	Busbar terminal, busbar terminal connection structure, and busbar terminal connection method A busbar terminal includes a fastening portion, a crimping portion, and a torsion portion. The fastening portion is electrically connected to a terminal base. The crimping portion is electrically connected to a conducting wire. The torsion portion electrically connects the fastening portion and the crimping portion. The torsion portion includes a twisted part between the fastening portion and the crimping portion.
US10069260B2	Supply rail Supply rail (1) for supplying current phases (L1, L2, L3) of a low-voltage network to a busbar system or for tapping current phases (L1, L2, L3) from the busbar system, comprising an elongate main body (2) that can be mounted transversely on a plurality of busbars arranged in parallel and includes contact bars (5-1, 5-2, 5-3) that contact the busbars when the supply rail (1) is mounted in order to supply or to tap the current phases (L1, L2, L3) carried on the busbars, wherein each contact bar (5-1, 5-2, 5-3) is directly connected to an associated terminal bus (11-1, 11-2, 11-3), each of which comprises a terminal at an end face of the elongate main body (2) for electrically connecting to the low-voltage network.
US10069257B1	Inline compression RF connector A coaxial connector includes a body element that has an inner bore configured for receiving a cable having inner and outer conductors. A center conductor element is configured for engaging an inner conductor of the cable. A tubular ground slide extends over the center conductor element and has a front end and rear end with the rear end of the slide engaging the body element for being axially movable on the f the body element. A spring is configured to engage an outer surface of the body element and abut the rear end of the ground slide for biasing the ground slide with respect to the body element. A conductive sleeve has a rear end configured for press fitting onto the body. The sleeve is further configured for capturing the spring and ground slide with the body element and has a plurality of spring fingers at a front end thereof that contact the front end of the movable ground slide for providing electrical connection with the body element.
US10069252B1	Plug structure of light emitting AC electric power cord A plug structure of light emitting AC electric power cord is disclosed, wherein a plug body is internally combined with a circuit board which comprises at least a circuit device and at least two conductive board, and the circuit device includes at least two light emitting diodes (LEDs) respectively corresponding to a light guiding line within the electric power cord; accordingly, when the conductive board transfers AC power to the two LEDs, the circuit device can controls such two LEDs to glow at different moments in order to create an image persistence difference of one parallax thereby allowing human eyes to generate the image persistence effect in vision such that the light guiding line may present a visual perception of light flowing.
US10069250B2	Receptacle connector The present invention provides a receptacle connector including: a grounding portion configured to ground a connection object; and a ground connection terminal that is configured to be switchably held in a first state in which the ground connection terminal is electrically separated from the grounding portion, or in a second state in which the ground connection terminal is electrically brought into conduction with the grounding portion. The ground connection terminal is switched between the first state and the second state in operative association with interlining of the plug connector and the fitting portion. In the first state, the grounding terminal and the grounding portion are electrically separated. In the second state, the grounding terminal and the grounding portion are electrically brought into conduction with each other through the ground connection terminal.
US10069247B1	Connector capable of reducing signal interference between two rows of terminals by grounding pin of grounding plate A connector capable of reducing signal interference between two rows of terminals by grounding pin of a grounding plate includes an insulating base, first terminals, second terminals, and the grounding plate; wherein the first and second terminals are embedded in the insulating base and are adjacent to its top and bottom respectively; and the grounding plate is embedded in the insulating base and lies between the first and second terminals. The connector is characterized in that the soldering portions of the second terminals as well as the first terminals are arranged horizontally and soldered to a circuit board; that the circuit board forms a separation area between the two rows of terminals; and that the grounding plate includes at least one grounding pin soldered to, and adjacent to the center of, the separation area to produce a shielding effect, and thereby prevent signal interference, between the two rows of terminals.
US10069246B1	Connector assembly A connector assembly includes a first connector having a convex portion at a side surface in a direction perpendicular to a direction of connection and a second connector having a concave portion at a side surface in the direction perpendicular to the direction of connection, the convex portion of the first connector being fitted into the concave portion of the second connector to join the first connector and the second connector together, only one of the first connector and the second connector including a floating mechanism that allows floating operations in directions perpendicular to the direction of connection.
US10069245B2	Modular plug connector The disclosure relates to a modular plug connector which has a plug comprising a plurality of plug modules and has a mating plug comprising a plurality of mating plug modules, in which each plug module forms a plug module pair with a mating plug module, wherein the plug and the mating plug can assume an interconnected state and wherein at least one of the plug module pairs has at least one locking device, which can assume a locking state in the interconnected state of the plug and the mating plug, in which locking state the locking device prevents the plug module and the mating plug module of said plug module pair from separating from each other.
US10069237B2	Hermetically sealing connector In the case of a connector comprising two plug parts that can be plugged into one another with front housing parts adapted to one another (100, 200) as well as electrical contact elements (120, 220) adapted to one another, wherein the two front housing parts (100, 200) in the plugged together state overlap on regions facing one another (225), provision is made in particular that the two front housing parts (100, 200) outwardly seal the plug connection resulting from plugging the two plug parts together by means of a sealing lip (125) arranged on the one front housing part (100) as well as by means of an annular groove (230) arranged on the respective other front housing part (200), which is surrounded inwardly by annular rotary sealing surfaces (235, 235′) and surrounded outwardly by an annular rotary collar (225).
US10069236B2	Waterproof structure of pad, waterproof pad, and method for forming waterproof structure The present invention discloses a waterproof structure of a pad, a waterproof pad, and a method for forming the waterproof structure. The waterproof structure includes a first dielectric layer, having an annular hollowed-out recess along the periphery of the first dielectric layer and a metal annular zone formed in the annular hollowed-out recess, and a second dielectric layer, formed above the first dielectric layer and located under the pad and having multiple first through-holes along the periphery of the second dielectric layer and multiple metal posts formed in the multiple first through-holes, where the multiple first through-holes form a hollow annular through-hole chain and the metal annular zone maintains an electrical connection with the multiple metal posts.
US10069235B2	Modular device control unit An apparatus includes a backplate including at least one backplate contact, a cover, and a lock. The at least one backplate contact facilitates an electrical connection to a power source. The cover shields the at least one backplate contact when the cover is placed in a closed position. The cover is further translatable to an open position to conditionally expose the at least one backplate contact. The lock applies a force to the cover and positions the cover in the closed position unless a counter-force greater than the force is received by the lock.
US10069233B2	Female terminal having an outwardly bulging lance locking portion on a folded U-shaped plate A female terminal (20) has a rectangular tubular box (30) with an outwardly bulging lance locking portion (53). The female terminal (20) is inserted into a cavity (11) of a connector housing (10) and retained by the lance locking portion (53) being locked by a locking lance (13) in the cavity (11). A first wall (37) of the rectangular tubular box (30) has a closely folded structure obtained by folding the metal plate (70) into a U shape. The lance locking portion (53) is formed on the metal plate (70) in an outermost layer of the closely folded structure, and a first deformation restricting portion (55) to be engaged with a second wall (35) adjacent to the first wall (37) is provided on an end part of the metal plate (70) in the outermost layer on a side opposite to a U-shaped folded portion (51).
US10069232B2	Female terminal and female terminal production method A female terminal includes a tube-shaped main body and an elastic contact plate supported inside the main body, possessing elasticity and extending from one opening toward another opening into which a male terminal is inserted. The elastic contact plate includes; a first section that faces the inner surface of the main body and is separated from the inner surface; a first contactor that is positioned on the other opening side of the first section and contacts the inner surface; a second section that extends in an arch shape toward the other opening from the first contactor; and a second contactor that is positioned on the other opening side of the second section and contacts the inner surface. The main body supports the elastic contact plate so the first contactor and the second contactor are able to slide on the inner surface. The first section is thinner than the second section.
US10069226B2	Power distribution module A power distribution module for use on mobile equipment is described in the present disclosure and can include a housing having a power input port and a plurality of output ports integrally formed with the housing and open to an outer surface of the housing. Each of the input port and the output ports are configured to receive and secure a connector that is pushed and locked into place, thereby sealing the connection. The power distribution module can be used to split a single power line into multiple lines connected to electrical devices mounted on a piece of mobile equipment.
US10069210B2	Orthogonal-mode junction coupler and associated polarization and frequency separator An orthogonal-mode junction coupler and an associated polarization and frequency separator, the junction coupler comprises three opening slots, referred to as coupling slots, which are made in the casing of the coupler and pass through a plane referred to as transverse with respect to the junction coupler. Two of the three coupling slots are aligned along a first axis referred to as transverse with respect to the junction coupler, the section of the two coupling slots being of the same dimensions and of the same orientation. The two coupling slots are configured to be coupled to one of the two orthogonal linear polarizations. The third coupling slot is situated on a second axis referred to as transverse with respect to the junction coupler, the second transverse axis being substantially orthogonal with respect to the first transverse axis.
US10069203B2	Aperture coupled patch antenna An aperture coupled patch antenna element comprises a ground plate having an aperture passing through the ground plate from a first side to a second opposite side. The aperture comprises a slot having an elongate cross-section, the cross-section having substantially parallel sides extending along the length of the cross-section. The antenna element also comprises a first transmission line comprising a first elongate conductor disposed on the first side of the ground plate in a substantially parallel relationship with the first side of the ground plate, and a patch radiator disposed on the second side of the ground plate in a substantially parallel relationship with the second side of the ground plate, the first transmission line being arranged to cross the slot, and the patch radiator being arranged to overlie the slot. The thickness of the ground plate at the slot is greater than the width of the slot.
US10069198B2	Compact multi-level antenna The invention relates to a compact multi-level antenna including: a ground plane; a radiating element including n≥2 portions extending in n≥2 parallel planes in a planar pattern, the planes defining a volume above the ground plane, the radiating element including a first end connected to the ground plane and a second end ending with an open circuit.
US10069197B2	ATC antenna device, ATC signal transmission device and vehicle An ATC antenna device provided on a body of a lead car to receive signals from outside. In the ATC antenna device, a pair of ATC antenna coils is disposed symmetrically with respect to a center line of the body as viewed in a traveling direction of the body, and the paired ATC antenna coils are connected in series and are of opposite phase. An ATC antenna support device is attached to the body to support the paired ATC antenna coils, and is disposed asymmetrically with respect to the center line.
US10069194B2	Electronic device and antenna of the same An electric device includes a metal shell having a back metal shell part and a first side metal shell part, and a first antenna which includes: a first radiating surface formed by the back metal shell part and the first side metal shell part and having a variant T-shaped group of slots and a first L-shaped slot, a part of the variant T-shaped group of slots being formed in the back metal shell part, and the other part thereof being formed in the first side metal shell part, the first L-shaped slot being formed in the first side metal shell part; a first dielectric sheet disposed on a front surface of the back metal shell part; and a first L-shaped feeder disposed on a front surface of the first dielectric sheet.
US10069193B2	Antenna and mobile terminal An antenna and a mobile terminal with the antenna including a first radiator and a first capacitor structure. A first end of the first radiator is electrically connected to a signal feed end of a printed circuit board by means of the first capacitor structure, and a second end of the first radiator is electrically connected to a ground end of the printed circuit board. The first radiator, the first capacitor structure, the signal feed end, and the ground end form a first antenna, configured to generate a first resonance frequency. An electrical length of the first radiator is less than or equal to one eighth of a wavelength corresponding to the first resonance frequency.
US10069189B2	Cabinet server and data center based on cabinet server A cabinet server and a data center where the cabinet server includes multiple function node layers vertically arranged to form a server core and multiple intra-cabinet antennas vertically arranged and disposed at one side of the server core, an intra-cabinet antenna is wirelessly connected to adjacent intra-cabinet antennas. A transmission path is formed of the vertically arranged intra-cabinet antennas when a radio signal is transmitted within the cabinet server. Since the intra-cabinet antennas are disposed at the side of the server core, electromagnetic radiation generated by the radio signal in a transmission process has a relatively small effect on the function nodes, thereby reducing the effect of the electromagnetic radiation on various electronic devices in the function nodes, improving service lives of the electronic devices, and improving transmission quality of the radio signal.
US10069186B2	Method and device for obtaining antenna engineering parameter and system A method and device and a system are disclosed. The method may include: obtaining, by a measurement device, a first image that is obtained by photographing an antenna at a first position (101); mapping M characteristic points included in the first image into a first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system, to obtain M three-dimensional space points that are in the first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system and that have a mapping relationship with the M characteristic points (102), where a first mapping photographing direction is parallel to a direction of an axis in the first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system, and the first mapping photographing direction is obtained by mapping a photographing direction of photographing the first image into the first three-dimensional spatial coordinate system; and obtaining a downtilt of the antenna according to a first angle and/or obtaining an azimuth of the antenna according to a second angle (103).
US10069184B2	Compact and lightweight TEM-line network for RF components of antenna systems A TEM-line network architecture for RF components used in antenna system, includes an electrically conductive main body forming an outer conductor defining a signal channel, and an electrically conductive center conductor electrically grounded to the main body at predetermined locations. The center conductor is electromagnetically isolated from the outer conductor at RF frequencies while being connected and supported within the signal channel only at at least one of the predetermined locations. The outer conductor is preferably formed of three layers with the center conductor being integral with one of the layers.
US10069182B2	Soluble catalyst for lithium-air battery A soluble catalyst for a lithium-air battery is provided. The soluble catalyst including a redox mediator (RM) has an ionization energy of about 5.5 to 7.5 eV under vacuum or an oxidation potential of 3.0 to 4.0 V and is well dissolved in an electrolyte without reacting with the electrolyte. In addition, the soluble catalyst has a HOMO level in an original state (RM), which is less than a formation energy of lithium peroxide (Li2O2) but maximally close to the formation energy, and has a HOMO level in an oxidized state (RM+), which is greater than a HOMO level of the electrolyte.
US10069180B2	Thermoelectric battery cooling system and method An exemplary electrified vehicle assembly includes a first coolant loop extending from a battery pack to a radiator, and a second coolant loop extending from the battery pack to a thermoelectric device. At least one valve is configured to permit flow through the first coolant loop to cool the battery pack under a first operating condition, and configured to permit flow within the second coolant loop to cool the battery under a second operating condition.
US10069179B2	Battery case and vehicle A battery case within which a battery is housed includes a first layer that is made of metal, a second layer that is made of heat insulating material, and a third layer that is made of phase-change heat storage material. The second layer is closer to the battery than the first layer is. The third layer is closer to the battery than the second layer is.
US10069176B2	Lithium ion battery heater systems and methods A battery heater system for a battery used in cold weather operations and methods for using the battery heater system are described. Embodiments of the battery heater system may incorporate a heater switch with an indicator, a timer circuit, a controller, a voltage meter, a temperature transducer, and a heating element. In some methods of using the device, the battery powers the heating element for a fixed cycle time based on the time to discharge the battery at a cold-soaked temperature. In other methods of using the device, the battery powers the heating element for a varying cycle time as necessary to discharge the battery to a discharge cut-off voltage value. In other methods of using the device, the heating element is operated using a duty cycle that is varied based on the battery temperature.
US10069175B2	Grooved cover for battery array A battery array according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a circuit connector assembly and a cover that partially covers the circuit connector assembly. The cover includes a groove. A sense-line wire is received within the groove.
US10069173B2	Rechargeable nickel ion battery based on nano carbonmaterials This invention discloses a rechargeable nickel ion battery based on the nano-carbon materials. The said nickel ion battery is composed of a nano-carbon material cathode, a nickel anode, an separator, and an electrolyte containing nickel ions. The said nano-carbon materials are fullerene, carbon nanotube, graphene, carbon fiber, carbon foam or the composite of over two different carbon materials, etc. During discharging anodic nickel will be electrochemically dissolved as Ni2+ ions, which diffuses to the cathodic electrode/electrolyte interface through the electrolyte, and nickel ions are subsequently stored on surface of nano-carbon materials. During charging, above-mentioned process will be reverse. This battery is characterized with high capacity, fast charge and long cycle life due to the high surface area of nano-carbon materials.
US10069169B2	Electrode assembly manufacturing method including separator cutting process Provided is an electrode assembly manufacturing method including a process of cutting a separator included in an electrode assembly to have a margin protruding from an electrode plate. The method includes a first process of manufacturing one type of basic unit sheets having a structure in which electrode materials and separator materials, which are the same in number, are alternately stacked, or two or more types of basic unit sheets having a structure in which electrode materials and separator materials, which are the same in number, are alternately stacked, and a second-A process of cutting a portion of a margin area of the separator materials, which are not covered with the electrode materials, such that the separator materials of the basic unit sheets protrude over a specific distance from edges of the electrode materials.
US10069165B2	Electrolyte composition for a lithium-ion battery An electrolyte composition for a lithium-ion battery, a lithium-ion battery, and also the use of a fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate component and lithium nitrate for improving the cycle stability and/or for increasing the performance of a lithium-ion battery.
US10069164B2	Electrolytic solution and battery Provided is an electrolytic solution including a nonaqueous solvent and an alkali metal salt. The alkali metal salt is dissolved in the nonaqueous solvent. The nonaqueous solvent contains a perfluoropolyether. The molecular ends of the perfluoropolyether are each an unsubstituted alkyl ether or an unsubstituted carboxylate. The perfluoropolyether has a repeating unit composed of a perfluoroalkyl chain and an oxygen atom. Also provided is a battery including the electrolytic solution, a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material that can occlude and release an alkali metal cation, and a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material that can occlude and release the alkali metal cation.
US10069159B2	Fuel cell system In order to make a power generation quantity of a cell for fuel cell increase in a short time when a drop in moistness of the cell causes the power generation quantity of the cell to decrease, a cathode of the cell includes a conductive material, catalyst, and ionomer which covers the conductive material and catalyst. If an output voltage value of the cell is lower than a predetermined threshold voltage value and an electrical resistance value of the cell is higher than a predetermined threshold resistance value, control for increasing an oxidizing gas amount which increases an amount of oxidizing gas sent to the cell is performed.
US10069158B2	Fuel cell system and method of controlling the same A fuel cell system and a method of controlling the fuel cell system are provided. The fuel cell system includes at least one bypass valve that is disposed between a passage in an inlet of a fuel cell stack and a bypass passage that is branched from the passage within the inlet and that is connected to a discharge port of the fuel cell stack. In addition, a controller bypasses air supplied from an air blower to the discharge port by adjusting an opening degree of the bypass valve.
US10069157B2	Fuel cell system having valve module between fuel cell stack and humidifier A fuel cell system includes an air supply unit for supplying air containing oxygen to a fuel cell stack. A humidifier humidifies the supplied air. An air supply line is connected between a cathode inlet of the fuel cell stack and the humidifier to supply the humidified air to the fuel cell stack. A cathode-side exhaust line is connected between a cathode outlet of the fuel cell stack and the humidifier to supply a cathode exhaust gas discharged from a cathode of the fuel cell stack to the humidifier for humidification in the humidifier. A unified valve module includes a bypass line connected between the air supply line and the cathode-side exhaust line and an outward discharge port discharging the cathode exhaust gas to outside, and controls a gas flow between the humidifier and the fuel cell stack and between the bypass line and the outward discharge port.
US10069148B2	Fuel cell with selectively conducting anode Use of a selectively conducting anode component in solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells can reduce the degradation associated with repeated startup and shutdown, but can also adversely affect a cell's tolerance to voltage reversal along with its performance. It was shown that these adverse affects can be mitigated against in certain ways. However, improved results can be obtained by employing a selectively conducting component which comprises a mixed layer of a selectively conducting material and carbon. The mixed layer contacts the side of the anode opposite the solid polymer electrolyte.
US10069147B2	Method of making a carbon monofluoride impregnated current collector including a 3D framework One example includes a battery case sealed to retain electrolyte, an electrode disposed in the battery case, the electrode comprising a current collector formed of a framework defining open areas disposed along three axes (“framework”), the framework electrically conductive, with active material disposed in the open areas; a conductor electrically coupled to the electrode and sealingly extending through the battery case to a terminal disposed on an exterior of the battery case, a further electrode disposed in the battery case, a separator disposed between the electrode and the further electrode and a further terminal disposed on the exterior of the battery case and in electrical communication with the further electrode, with the terminal and the further terminal electrically isolated from one another.
US10069145B1	Electrode having an interphase structure An electrode for use in a device such as a secondary battery may include a first layer having first active particles adhered together by a binder, a second layer having second active particles adhered together by a binder, and an interphase layer interposed between the first and second layers. In some examples, the interphase layer may include an interpenetration of the first and second particles, such that substantially discrete fingers of the first layer interlock with substantially discrete fingers of the second layer.
US10069141B2	Hybrid sulfur particles and cathode active materials containing the hybrid particles A hybrid particle having a core of a hybrid composite comprising at least two elements selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium and tellurium and a coating of at least one self-assembling polymeric layer encapsulating the core is provided. A method for preparing the hybrid particle includes mixing an aqueous solution of a polymer with an aqueous solution of a soluble precursor of at least two elements selected from the group consisting of sulfur, selenium and tellurium to form a mixture and adding an acid to the mixture to obtain the hybrid particle. A cathode having an active material of the hybrid particles and a battery containing the cathode are also provided.
US10069137B2	Process of preparing a chemically pre-formed (CPF) iron negative electrode with oxidizing compounds Provided is a process for preparing an electrode comprising an iron active material. The process comprises first fabricating an electrode comprising an iron active material, and then treating the surface of the electrode with an oxidant solution to thereby create an oxidized surface. The resulting iron electrode is thereby preconditioned prior to any charge-discharge cycle to have the assessable surface of the iron active material in the same oxidation state as in discharged iron negative electrodes active material.
US10069135B2	Polymers for use as protective layers and other components in electrochemical cells Electrode structures and electrochemical cells are provided. The electrode structures and/or electrochemical cells described herein may include one or more protective layers comprising a polymer layer and/or a gel polymer electrolyte layer. The polymer layer may be formed from the copolymerization of an olefinic monomer comprising at least one electron withdrawing group and an olefinic comonomer comprising at least one electron donating group. Methods for forming polymer layers are also provided.
US10069133B2	Process of preparing a chemically pre-formed (CPF) iron negative electrode with oxidizing gases Provided is a process for preparing an electrode comprising an iron active material. The process comprises first fabricating an electrode comprising an iron active material, a polyvinyl alcohol binder and sulfur, and then treating the electrode with a gaseous oxidant to thereby create an oxidized surface. The resulting iron electrode is treated prior to any charge-discharge cycle to have the assessable surface of the iron active material in the same oxidation state as in discharged iron negative electrodes active material.
US10069132B2	Method of coating substrate for lithium secondary battery with inorganic particles and lithium secondary battery comprising substrate coated by the method The present invention provides a method of coating a substrate for a lithium secondary battery with inorganic particles, comprising charging the inorganic particles to form charged inorganic particles; transferring the charged inorganic particles on the substrate for a lithium secondary battery to form a coating layer; and fixing the coating layer with heat and pressure. Such a coating method according to one embodiment of the present invention uses electrostatic force without the addition of a solvent, and therefore, non use of a solvent can result in cost-reducing effects since there is no burden on the handling and storing of the solvent, and since a drying procedure after slurry coating is not needed, it allows for the preparation of a lithium secondary battery in a highly effective and rapid manner.
US10069131B2	Electrode for energy storage devices and method of making same The present invention is directed to an electrode for energy storage devices and a method for making the electrode for energy storage devices is disclosed, where a flexible binder in the electrode formulation is activated by certain additives and is uniformly deposited on to the active and conductive particles by high speed mixing. The particles deposited with activated binder particles are then pressed together to form free standing electrode film. High performance and cost effective products, such as free standing electrode films, laminated electrodes, ultracapacitors, lithium ion capacitors, batteries, fuel cells and hybrid cells which are the combination of the above devices, and the energy storage system or the system blocks, such as modules, can be manufactured using this process.
US10069128B2	Battery pack A battery pack has a plurality of series-connected batteries each having an electrode body, a battery case, a positive extending member, a positive external terminal mechanically joined and electrically connected to a positive external extending part of the positive extending member, by caulking deformation thereof, a negative extending member, and a negative external terminal mechanically joined and electrically connected to a negative external extending part of the negative extending member, by caulking deformation thereof. Among the positive and negative external extending parts, the positive and negative external terminals, the metal making up the positive external extending part has the lowest tensile strength. The battery pack includes bus bars; positive fastening members for fastening the positive external terminals to the bus bars; and negative fastening members for fastening the negative external terminals to the bus bars. The negative external terminal is thinner than the positive external terminal.
US10069127B2	Porous separation film for secondary battery including cellulose fiber and silica, and method for manufacturing same The present invention relates to a composite separation film comprising cellulose fiber and silica, a method for manufacturing the separation film, and a secondary battery including the separation film, wherein the separation film has excellent thermal stability, dimensional stability, wettability and electrochemical stability and has a simplified manufacturing process such that the unit cost of production can be reduced.
US10069123B2	Battery pack securing method An exemplary securing method includes securing a battery pack relative to a portion of an electrified vehicle by engaging a retention feature inside a perimeter of a battery pack enclosure, and by fastening the battery pack enclosure to the portion with at least one fastener outside the perimeter. The perimeter is established by a plurality of sidewalls and endwalls of the battery pack enclosure.
US10069119B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery is disclosed. In one aspect, a secondary battery includes a battery cell including an electrode, a cap cover placed over the battery cell and having an opening that exposes the electrode and a connection member placed over the cap cover and electrically connected to the electrode. The secondary battery also includes a protrusion extending upwardly from the cap cover and contacting the connection member, wherein a gap is formed between the cap cover and the connection member.
US10069116B2	Cathode for thin film microbattery A battery comprising an anode comprising anode material in contact with a metal anode current collector. The battery further comprises a cathode comprising cathode material in contact with a cathode current collector comprising a transparent conducting oxide (TCO). The battery further comprises an electrolyte with a pH in a range of 3 to 7.
US10069113B2	Organic light emitting display device and fabricating method using the same An organic light emitting display device and a fabrication method comprising a touch electrode layer including touch electrodes and touch lines on an upper substrate which are directly formed on the upper substrate to secure a large distance between the touch electrodes and cathode as well as minimize a distance between the upper and lower substrates, thereby widening the viewing angle of an image while reducing a parasitic capacitance.
US10069109B2	Organic light emitting device and method of fabricating the same An organic light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same includes a first substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the first substrate; a planarization layer on the TFT; an organic light emitting diode (OLED) on the planarization layer; a passivation layer on the OLED; a second substrate on the passivation; and a hydrogen capturing material between the first and the second substrates to prevent oxidation of materials forming the TFT.
US10069106B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus with a flexible film and method of manufacturing the same An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a lower substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the lower substrate, and a flexible film below the lower substrate, wherein the flexible film includes a base and a second barrier layer provided on the base to prevent infiltration of moisture and oxygen.
US10069104B2	Laser welding transparent glass sheets using low melting glass or thin absorbing films A method of sealing a workpiece comprising forming an inorganic film over a surface of a first substrate, arranging a workpiece to be protected between the first substrate and a second substrate wherein the inorganic film is in contact with the second substrate; and sealing the workpiece between the first and second substrates as a function of the composition of impurities in the first or second substrates and as a function of the composition of the inorganic film by locally heating the inorganic film with a predetermined laser radiation wavelength. The inorganic film, the first substrate, or the second substrate can be transmissive at approximately 420 nm to approximately 750 nm.
US10069092B2	Display apparatus and electronic apparatus Disclosed herein is a display apparatus, including: a foldable substrate; a pixel array section including a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate and each including an electro-optical device; the foldable substrate being folded at a substrate end portion at least on one side thereof around the pixel array section; a peripheral circuit section disposed on the substrate end portion and adapted to drive the pixels of the pixel array section; and a pad section provided on the substrate end portion on which the peripheral circuit section is provided and adapted to electrically connect the peripheral circuit section to the outside of the substrate.
US10069090B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A novel compound having the formula Os(L)n is disclosed, wherein Os is osmium(IV) metal, L is a ligand coordinating to the Os atom, and n is an integer from 1 to 6, wherein each L can be same or different, wherein at least one L is a multidentate ligand, and wherein the compound is neutral.
US10069085B2	Heterocyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A heterocyclic compound is represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, R1 to R4, R11, ring A1, L1, Ar1, c11, a1, and b1 are as defined in the specification.
US10069081B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices Devices containing novel carbazole-containing compounds are provided. The novel compounds also contain electron donor groups, aryl linkers, and at least one nitrogen heterocycle. These novel organic compounds can exhibit delayed fluorescence in the devices.
US10069079B2	Organic electroluminescent device with thermally activated delayed fluorescence material The present invention relates to organic electroluminescent devices which comprise mixtures of at least one electron-conducting material and an emitting material which has a small singlet-triplet separation.
US10069078B2	Semiconducting material comprising aza-substituted phosphine oxide matrix and metal salt The present invention relates to a semiconducting material including at least one salt or complex of a metal cation and an aza-substituted phosphine oxide compound with improved electrical properties, and to a compound suitable for this organic semiconducting material and an electronic device utilizing the improved electrical properties of the semiconducting material.
US10069077B2	Compound for organic light-emitting device and organic light-emitting device including the same A compound for an organic light-emitting device, the compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and satisfying Mathematical Formula 1: ES1<2ET1
US10069076B2	Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device A light-emitting element having a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element exhibiting high emission efficiency in a high luminance region is provided. A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a phosphorescent compound. The first organic compound is represented by a general formula (G0). The molecular weight of the first organic compound is greater than or equal to 500 and less than or equal to 2000. The second organic compound is a compound having an electron-transport property. In the general formula (G0), Ar1 and Ar2 each independently represent a fluorenyl group, a spirofluorenyl group, or a biphenyl group, and Ar3 represents a substituent including a carbazole skeleton.
US10069073B2	Organic compounds and organic light emitting device comprising the same Provided are organic compounds capable of improving the efficiency of light emission and lowering the driving voltage of an organic light emitting device, and an organic light emitting device including the same. The organic compounds include an organic compound of chemical formula 1:
US10069070B2	Method and apparatus for purifying organic material by using ionic liquid A method of purifying an organic material using an ionic liquid according to the present invention includes a sublimation step (S510) of sublimating the organic material containing an impurity, a capturing step (S520) of bringing a sublimated gas of the organic material into contact with the flowing ionic liquid to capture the sublimated gas, and a recrystallization step (S530) of preferentially oversaturating the organic material, which is to be purified, of the sublimated gas, which is captured in the ionic liquid to be dissolved, to thus generate the recrystallized organic material. In the present invention, it is not necessary to perform a process of carrying the sublimated gas, which is generated during the sublimation step, to implement reverse sublimation. Accordingly, there is a merit in that the contamination of a purified sample by an inert carrier gas, which is used in a conventional sublimation purification method, is fundamentally avoided.
US10069068B2	Diffused resistive memory cell with buried active zone An apparatus for non-volatile memory, and more specifically a ReRAM device with a buried resistive memory cell. The memory cell includes a first contact disposed on a substrate, an active layer, a second contact, a first diffused zone disposed within the active layer, a second diffused zone disposed within the active layer, and an active switching zone disposed within the active layer in between the first diffused zone and the second diffused zone. In one embodiment, the active zone may be doped by diffusion or ion implantation and/or may be fabricated utilizing a self-aligned process. In another embodiment, the memory cell may combine a deep implant and shallow diffusion well to create the active zone. The vertically and laterally isolated buried resistive memory cell concentrates the electric field away from the edges of the device and eliminates the effects of interface impurities and contaminants.
US10069065B2	Low noise graphene hall sensors, systems and methods of making and using same Graphene Hall sensors, magnetic sensor systems and methods for sensing a magnetic field using an adjustable gate voltage to adapt the Hall sensor magnetic field sensitivity according to a control input for environmental or process compensation and/or real-time adaptation for balancing power consumption and minimum detectable field performance. The graphene Hall sensor gate voltage can be modulated and the sensor output signal can be demodulated to combat flicker or other low frequency noise. Also, graphene Hall sensors can be provided with capacitive coupled contacts for reliable low impedance AC coupling to instrumentation amplifiers or other circuits using integral capacitance.
US10069064B1	Memory structure having a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) self-aligned to a T-shaped bottom electrode, and method of manufacturing the same A process flow for forming a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) cell that is self-aligned to an underlying bottom electrode (BE) is disclosed. The BE is comprised of a lower BE layer having a first width (w1), and an upper (second) BE layer with a second width (w2) where w2>w1. Preferably, the BE has a T shape. A stack of MTJ layers including an uppermost hard mask is deposited on the BE and has width w2 because of a self-aligned deposition process. A dummy MTJ stack is also formed around the first BE layer. An ion beam etch where ions are at an incident angle <90° with respect to the substrate is used to remove extraneous material on the sidewall. Thereafter, an encapsulation layer is deposited to insulate the MTJ cell, and to fill a gap between the first BE layer and dummy MTJ stack.
US10069061B2	Fabrication and harvest of piezoelectric plates A method is provided for fabricating piezoelectric plates. A sacrificial layer is formed overlying a growth substrate. A template layer, with openings exposing sacrificial layer surfaces, is formed over the sacrificial layer. An adhesion layer/first electrode stack is selectively deposited in the openings overlying the sacrificial layer surfaces, and a piezoelectric material formed in the openings overlying the stack. Then, a second electrode is formed overlying the piezoelectric material. Using the second electrode as a hardmask, the piezoelectric material is etched to form polygon-shaped structures, such as disks, attached to the sacrificial layer surfaces. After removing the template layer and annealing, the polygon-shaped structures are separated from the sacrificial layer. With the proper choice of growth substrate material, the annealing can be performed at a relatively high temperature.
US10069060B2	Piezoelectric ceramic electronic component and method for manufacturing the same A piezoelectric ceramic base body that has a polyhedral shape having shape anisotropy, such as a rectangular parallelepiped shape, and which has opposed faces on which external electrodes are formed. The opposed faces have first sides and second sides. Between the first side and the second side of one of the opposed faces, a width dimension of the surface in a direction orthogonal to the first side and the second side is larger than a length dimension of each of the first and the second sides. The crystal axis is {100} oriented in a direction parallel to the first and the second sides, and a degree of orientation by a Lotgering method is 0.4 or more.
US10069059B2	Method and apparatus for shake awake smart battery pack A method and apparatus for waking a battery pack from a dormant mode via shaking. The battery pack has a piezo electric device coupled to a semiconductor control circuit providing a power path between a positive terminal of a battery cell and a boot input of an ASIC charge/discharge controller powered by the battery cell. Shaking of the piezo electric device energizes the semiconductor control circuit, which engages the power path to power the initial booting of the ASIC charge/discharge controller.
US10069057B2	Thermoelectric material, and thermoelectric module and thermoelectric apparatus comprising the same Disclosed is a thermoelectric material including a Sn-chalcogen-based compound, wherein the Sn is doped with a first dopant element comprising a transition metal element or a p-type metalloid element. Further, disclosed are thermoelectric module and thermoelectric apparatus, comprising the thermoelectric material.
US10069053B2	Light emitting device having wire including stack structure A light emitting device of the invention includes a substrate; a light emitting element mounted on the upper surface of the substrate; a wire that is electrically connected to the light emitting element; and a plate-shaped light-transmissive member that covers the light emitting element. The wire has a stack structure in which a first bonding ball, a bonding wire, and a second bonding ball are stacked in that order, the stack structure is disposed on the upper surface of the light emitting element, and the plate-shaped light-transmissive member is disposed above the stack structure.
US10069052B2	Light emitting element with light transmissive substrate having recess in cross-sectional plane A light-emitting element includes a light transmissive substrate, a semiconductor layered body, and first and second light reflecting members. The semiconductor layered body is formed on a first main surface of the light transmissive substrate. The first light reflecting member covers a first lateral surface, a second lateral surface, a fourth lateral surface, and a second main surface of the light transmissive substrate. The second light reflecting member covers a surface of the semiconductor layered body that is opposite from a surface on which the light transmissive substrate is disposed. A cross-sectional plane of the light transmissive substrate parallel to the first main surface has a concave figure that includes a recess, and the third lateral surface includes one or more surfaces defining the recess.
US10069051B2	Semiconductor package device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor package device includes an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first carrier, a first electronic component, a second carrier, a second electronic component, an encapsulant, and a lens. The first electronic component is disposed on the first carrier. The second carrier defines an aperture and is disposed on the first carrier. The aperture is positioned over the first electronic component and exposes the first electronic component. The second electronic component is disposed on the second carrier. The encapsulant covers the second electronic component. The lens defines a cavity and is disposed on the aperture of the first carrier.
US10069050B2	Light emitting device, light emitting device package including the device, and lighting apparatus including the package A light emitting device package is disclosed. The light emitting device package includes a lens, a refraction portion disposed under the lens, and a light emitting device disposed under the refraction portion, wherein the lens includes a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, an upper recess formed in the top surface, and a lower recess formed in the bottom surface, the refraction portion is disposed at a first bottom surface of the bottom surface, the first bottom surface defining the lower recess, and the upper recess, the lower recess, the refraction portion, and the light emitting device are aligned along an optical axis.
US10069048B2	Wafer-level light emitting diode package and method of fabricating the same Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide a wafer-level light emitting diode (LED) package and a method of fabricating the same. The LED package includes a semiconductor stack including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer; a plurality of contact holes arranged in the second conductive type semiconductor layer and the active layer, the contact holes exposing the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a first bump arranged on a first side of the semiconductor stack, the first bump being electrically connected to the first conductive type semiconductor layer via the plurality of contact holes; a second bump arranged on the first side of the semiconductor stack, the second bump being electrically connected to the second conductive type semiconductor layer; and a protective insulation layer covering a sidewall of the semiconductor stack.
US10069047B1	LED device A LED device includes LED chips mounted on a substrate, a first fluorescent layer, a second fluorescent layer and a package housing. The LED chips emit a blue light. The first fluorescent layer has a first side facing to the LED chips for converting the blue light to a red light. The second fluorescent layer has a first side attached to a second side of the first fluorescent layer for converting the blue light to a red light emitted from a second side of the second fluorescent layer. The package housing holds the substrate and the first fluorescent layer.
US10069043B2	LED light emitting device for display device, and display device Some embodiments of the disclosure provide an LED light emitting device for a display device, and a display device, relate to the field of display technologies. The LED light emitting device includes a quantum dot film, a reflective filter layer, and at least one LED lamp, wherein the quantum dot film is arranged between the at least one LED lamp and the reflective filter layer; the at least one LED lamp is configured to emit light to excite a quantum dot material encapsulated in the quantum dot film to generate white backlight; and the reflective filter layer is configured to reflect light in a preset band and to transmit light outside the preset band, wherein the light in the preset band is light in a part of a band of the light emitted by the at least one LED lamp.
US10069040B2	Light emitting diode and method of fabricating the same Exemplary embodiments provide a light emitting diode that includes: at least one lower electrode providing a passage for electric current; a light emitting structure placed over the at least one lower electrode to be electrically connected to the lower electrode, the light emitting structure is disposed to form at least one via-hole; a reflective electrode layer placed between the at least one lower electrode and the light emitting structure; and an electrode pattern formed around the light emitting structure and electrically connecting the lower electrode to the light emitting structure through the via-hole.
US10069038B2	Substrate having concave-convex pattern, light-emitting diode including the substrate, and method for fabricating the diode Provided are a substrate having concave-convex patterns, a light-emitting diode (LED) including the substrate, and a method of fabricating the LED. The LED includes a substrate, and concave-convex patterns disposed in an upper surface of the substrate and having convexes and concaves defined by the convexes. Unit light-emitting device having a first conductive semiconduct or layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate in sequence is present.
US10069036B2	Resonant optical cavity light emitting device Resonant optical cavity light emitting devices and method of producing such devices are disclosed. The device includes a substrate, a first spacer region, a light emitting region, a second spacer region, and a reflector. The light emitting region is configured to emit a target emission deep ultraviolet wavelength, and is positioned at a separation distance from the reflector. The reflector has a metal composition comprising elemental aluminum. Using a three-dimensional electromagnetic spatial and temporal simulator, it is determined if an emission output at an exit plane relative to the substrate meets a predetermined criterion. The light emitting region is placed at a final separation distance from the reflector, where the final separation distance results in the predetermined criterion being met.
US10069034B2	Optoelectronic device with modulation doping An improved heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is provided. The heterostructure includes an active region, an electron blocking layer, and a p-type contact layer. The p-type contact layer and electron blocking layer can be doped with a p-type dopant. The dopant concentration for the electron blocking layer can be at most ten percent the dopant concentration of the p-type contact layer. A method of designing such a heterostructure is also described.
US10069027B1	Cytometer sperm sex sensing apparatus with an avalanche photodiode A cytometer includes an avalanche photodiode, a switching power supply, a filter, and voltage adjustment circuitry. The switching power supply includes a feedback loop. The filter is electrically connected between the switching power supply and the avalanche photodiode. The voltage adjustment circuitry adjusts a voltage on the feedback loop based at least in part on a voltage measured between the filter and the avalanche photodiode.
US10069026B2	Reduced band gap absorber for solar cells Methods and apparatuses for a dual heterojunction multijunction solar cell are disclosed. A method in accordance with the present invention comprises growing a base material for a solar cell, growing at least one dual heterojunction on the base material, and growing an emitter on the at least one dual heterojunction. An apparatus in accordance with the present invention comprises a substrate, and a first subcell, coupled to the substrate, wherein the first subcell comprises a base region, coupled to the substrate, an emitter region, and at least one dual heterojunction, coupled between the base region and the emitter region, wherein the at least one dual heterojunction has a lower bandgap than the emitter region.
US10069024B2	Photoconductive antenna A PCA is provided including: a semiconductor substrate; a metallic antenna, formed on one surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a first pattern structure, formed on the same surface of the semiconductor substrate as the surface on which the metallic antenna is formed, to obstruct surface waves and/or back-scattered waves.
US10069012B2	Pixel array substrate A pixel array substrate including a substrate having at least one via, at least one conductor disposed in the at least one via, pixel units, scan lines electrically connected to the pixel units, at least one shift register and at least one bus line is provided. The pixel units, the scan lines and the at least one shift register are disposed on a first surface of the substrate. The at least one shift register is used to transmit a first gate signal to the corresponding scan lines. The at least one bus line is disposed on a second surface of the substrate. The at least one bus line is electrically connected to the at least one shift register by the at least one conductor.
US10069008B1	Vertical transistor pass gate device A semiconductor device including a fin structure present on a supporting substrate to provide a vertically orientated channel region. A first source/drain region having a first epitaxial material with a diamond shaped geometry is present at first end of the fin structure that is present on the supporting substrate. A second source/drain region having a second epitaxial material with said diamond shaped geometry that is present at the second end of the fin structure. A same geometry for the first and second epitaxial material of the first and second source/drain regions provides a symmetrical device.
US10069003B2	MOSFET When a channel formation region is formed of GaN in a MOSFET, there are cases where the actual threshold voltage (Vth) is lower than the setting value thereof and the actual carrier mobility (μ) during the ON state is lower than the setting value thereof. The reason for threshold voltage (Vth) and the carrier mobility (μ) being lower than the setting values is unknown. A MOSFET including a gallium nitride substrate, an epitaxial layer made of gallium nitride provided on top of the gallium nitride substrate, a gate insulating film provided in direct contact with the epitaxial layer, and a gate electrode provided in contact with the gate insulating film. The gallium nitride substrate has a dislocation density less than or equal to 1E+6 cm−2, and the epitaxial layer has a region with a p-type impurity concentration less than or equal to 5E+17 cm−3.
US10069001B2	Power component protected against overheating A triac has a vertical structure formed from a silicon substrate having an upper surface side. A main metallization on the upper surface side has a first portion resting on a first region of a first conductivity type formed in a layer of a second conductivity type. A second portion of the main metallization rests on a portion of the layer. A gate metallization on the upper surface side rests on a second region of the first conductivity type formed in the layer in the vicinity of the first region. A porous silicon bar formed in the layer at the upper surface side has a first end in contact with the gate metallization and a second end in contact with the main metallization.
US10068999B2	Vertical power component A high-voltage vertical power component including a silicon substrate of a first conductivity type, and a first semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type extending into the silicon substrate from an upper surface of the silicon substrate, wherein the component periphery includes: a porous silicon ring extending into the silicon substrate from the upper surface to a depth deeper than the first layer; and a doped ring of the second conductivity type, extending from a lower surface of the silicon surface to the porous silicon ring.
US10068997B1	SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistor with crystalline raised base on germanium etch stop layer A thin Ge layer is formed between an SiGe intrinsic base and single-crystal Si extrinsic base structures to greatly simplify the fabrication of raised-base SiGe heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs). The fabrication process includes sequentially depositing the SiGe intrinsic base, the Ge, and Si extrinsic base layers as single-crystal structures over a patterned silicon wafer while the wafer is maintained inside a reaction chamber. The Ge layer subsequently functions as an etch stop, and protects the crystallinity of the underlying SiGe intrinsic base material during subsequent dry etching of the Si extrinsic base layer, which is performed to generate an emitter window. A wet etch then removes residual Ge from the emitter window to expose a contact portion of the SiGe layer surface without damage. A polysilicon emitter structure is formed in the emitter window, and then salicide is formed over the base stacks to encapsulate the SiGe and Ge structures.
US10068993B2	Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same Methods of forming an integrated circuit device are provided. The methods may include forming a gate structure on a substrate, forming a first etch mask on a sidewall of the gate structure, anisotropically etching the substrate using the gate structure and the first etch mask as an etch mask to form a preliminary recess in the substrate, forming a sacrificial layer in the preliminary recess, forming a second etch mask on the first etch mask, etching the sacrificial layer and the substrate beneath the sacrificial layer using the gate structure and the first and second etch masks as an etch mask to form a source/drain recess in the substrate, and forming a source/drain in the source/drain recess. A sidewall of the source/drain recess may be recessed toward the gate structure relative to an outer surface of the second etch mask.
US10068987B1	Vertical field effect transistor (VFET) having a self-aligned gate/gate extension structure and method Disclosed are embodiments of a semiconductor structure that includes a vertical field effect transistor (VFET). The VFET has a fin-shaped body that includes a semiconductor fin and an isolation fin. The semiconductor fin extends vertically between lower and upper source/drain regions. The isolation fin is adjacent to and in end-to-end alignment with the semiconductor fin. The VFET gate has a main section that wraps around an outer end and opposing sidewalls of the semiconductor fin and an extension section that extends from the main section along at least the opposing sidewalls of a lower portion the isolation fin and, optionally, around an outer end of that lower portion. A gate contact lands on the isolation fin and extends along the opposing sidewalls and, optionally, the outer end of the isolation fin down to the extension section. Also disclosed are method embodiments for forming these structures.
US10068986B1	Enhanced-mode high electron mobility transistor and method for forming the same Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an enhanced-mode high electron mobility transistor. The enhanced-mode high electron mobility transistor includes a substrate, a first III-V semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, a second III-V semiconductor layer disposed on the first III-V semiconductor layer, a third III-V semiconductor layer disposed on the second III-V semiconductor layer, an amorphous region extending from the third III-V semiconductor layer into the second III-V semiconductor layer and the first III-V semiconductor layer to serve as an isolation region, and a gate electrode disposed in the amorphous region. The second III-V semiconductor layer and the third III-V semiconductor layer include different materials to form a heterojunction.
US10068985B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor substrate, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, semiconductor substrate, and semiconductor device A method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate including: a substrate; an initial layer provided on the substrate; a high-resistance layer provided on the initial layer which is composed of a nitride-based semiconductor and contains carbon; and a channel layer provided on the high-resistance layer which is composed of a nitride-based semiconductor, and at a step of forming the high-resistance layer, a gradient is given to a preset temperature at which the semiconductor substrate is heated, and the high-resistance layer is formed such that the preset temperature at the start of formation of the high-resistance layer is different from the preset temperature at the end of formation of the high-resistance layer. It is possible to provide the method for manufacturing a semiconductor substrate, which can reduce a concentration gradient of carbon concentration in the high-resistance layer and also provide a desired value for the carbon concentration.
US10068984B2	Method of manufacturing high-k dielectric using HfO/Ti/Hfo layers A semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same are described. A first hafnium oxide (HfO2) layer is formed on a substrate. A titanium (Ti) layer is formed over the first hafnium oxide layer. A second hafnium oxide layer is formed over the titanium layer. The composite device structure is thermally annealed to produce a high-k dielectric structure having a hafnium titanium oxide (HfxTi1-xO2) layer interposed between the first hafnium oxide layer and the second hafnium oxide layer.
US10068979B2	Planar field effect transistor A fin-shaped field effect transistor includes a substrate and a gate. The substrate includes an active area, where the active area includes a fin structure having at least an extension part protruding from the fin structure. The gate is disposed over the fin structure and directly on the extension part. The present invention also provides a planar field effect transistor including a substrate and a gate. The substrate includes an active area, where the active area includes a frame area and a penetrating area penetrating through the frame area. The gate is disposed over the active area, where the gate is directly disposed on the penetrating area, and the frame area at least at a side of the gate constitutes a source/drain surrounding an isolation island.
US10068976B2	Enhancement mode field-effect transistor with a gate dielectric layer recessed on a composite barrier layer for high static performance An enhancement mode field-effect transistor (E-FET) for high static performance is provided. A composite barrier layer comprises a lower barrier layer and an upper barrier layer. The upper barrier layer is arranged over the lower barrier layer and has a different polarization than the lower barrier layer. Further, the composite barrier layer comprises a gate opening. A channel layer is arranged under the composite barrier layer, such that a heterojunction is defined at an interface between the channel layer and the composite barrier layer. A gate dielectric layer is arranged over the composite barrier layer and within the gate opening. A gate electrode is arranged over the gate dielectric layer. A method for manufacturing the E-FET is also provided.
US10068975B2	Semiconductor device having field plate structures, source regions and gate electrode structures between the field plate structures A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface, first and second field plate structures extending in a first direction parallel to the first surface, a plurality of gate electrode structures disposed over the first surface and extending in a second direction parallel to the first surface, the second direction being different than the first direction, and a plurality of source regions and drain regions of a first conductivity type arranged in an alternating manner at the first surface so that a drain region is disposed on one side of a gate electrode structure and a source region is disposed on the other side of the gate electrode structure. The gate electrode structures are disposed between the first and the second field plate structures. The source regions and the drain regions extend in parallel with one another along the second direction.
US10068973B2	Doped aluminum nitride crystals and methods of making them Fabrication of doped AlN crystals and/or AlGaN epitaxial layers with high conductivity and mobility is accomplished by, for example, forming mixed crystals including a plurality of impurity species and electrically activating at least a portion of the crystal.
US10068972B2	Semiconductor device with opposite conductivity-type impurity regions between source and trench gate for reducing leakage A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor substrate and a trench gate. The semiconductor substrate is provided with a drift region of a first conductive type, wherein the drift region is in contact with the trench gate; a body region of a second conductive type, wherein the body region is disposed above the drift region and is in contact with the trench gate; a source region of the first conductive type, wherein the source region is disposed above the body region, exposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is in contact with the trench gate; and a front surface region of the second conductive type, wherein the front surface region is disposed above the source region, exposed on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and is in contact with the trench gate.
US10068971B2	Junctionless field-effect transistor having ultra-thin low-crystalline-silicon channel and fabrication method thereof A junctionless field-effect transistor is provided and has an ultra-thin low-crystalline silicon channel. A fabrication method thereof also is provided for enabling greatly improved economics by significantly reducing the process costs while having electrical characteristics similar to those of the one formed on an SOI substrate by source/channel/drain regions formed in a junctionless ultra-thin low-crystalline silicon layer that has lower crystallinity than that of single-crystal silicon and that has a thickness of 20 nm or less on a bulk silicon substrate instead of an expensive SOI substrate.
US10068967B2	Self-forming spacers using oxidation A method of forming a self-forming spacer using oxidation. The self-forming spacer may include forming a fin field effect transistor on a substrate, the fin field effect transistor includes a gate on a fin, the gate is perpendicular to the fin; forming a gate spacer on the gate and a fin spacer on the fin, the gate spacer and the fin spacer are formed in a single step by oxidizing an exposed surface of the gate and an exposed surface of the fin; and removing the fin spacer from the fin.
US10068965B1	Lateral high-voltage device The present invention relates to a lateral high-voltage device. The device includes a dielectric trench region. A doping-overlapping structure with different doping types alternating mode is provided at least below, on a left side of, or on a right side of the dielectric trench region. The device also includes a dielectric layer, a body field plate, a polysilicon gate, a gate oxide layer, a first N-type heavy doping region, a second N-type heavy doping region, a P-type heavy doping region, a P-well region, the first N-type doping pillar, the second N-type doping pillar, the third N-type doping pillar, the first P-type doping pillar, and the second P-type doping pillar. The invention adopts a dielectric trench region in the drift region to keep the breakdown voltage BV of the device while reducing the surface area of the device, and effectively reducing the device's specific On-Resistance RON,sp.
US10068964B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer made of a wide bandgap semiconductor and including a gate trench; a gate insulating film formed on the gate trench; and a gate electrode embedded in the gate trench to be opposed to the semiconductor layer through the gate insulating film. The semiconductor layer includes a first conductivity type source region; a second conductivity type body region; a first conductivity type drift region; a second conductivity type first breakdown voltage holding region; a source trench passing through the first conductivity type source region and the second conductivity type body region from the front surface and reaching a drain region; and a second conductivity type second breakdown voltage region selectively formed on an edge portion of the source trench where the sidewall and the bottom wall thereof intersect with each other in a parallel region of the source trench.
US10068961B2	Integrated circuit comprising at least an integrated antenna An integrated circuit on a substrate includes a peripheral portion that surrounds an active area and is positioned close to a scribe line providing separation with other integrated circuits realized on a same wafer. The integrated circuit includes at least one conductive structure that extends in the peripheral portion on different planes of metallizations starting from the substrate and forms an integrated antenna. Another conductive structure extends in the peripheral portion on different planes of metallizations and forms a seal ring.
US10068960B2	Flexible display device with divided power lines and manufacturing method for the same There is provided a flexible display having a plurality of innovations configured to allow bending of a portion or portions to reduce apparent border size and/or utilize the side surface of an assembled flexible display.
US10068959B2	Manufacturing method of display device and display device A manufacturing method of a display device including a pixel region including a plurality of pixels each including a light emitting element and a terminal region provided outside the pixel region and including connection terminals; the method comprising: forming a recessed portion in a part of a top surface of each of the connection terminals; forming a first inorganic insulating layer, an organic insulating layer, and a second inorganic insulating layer sequentially in the pixel region and continuously in the terminal region; and etching the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer in an area where the first inorganic insulating layer and the second inorganic insulating layer are stacked directly, the area being on the top surface except the recessed portion.
US10068951B2	Display apparatus and method of fabricating the same A display apparatus including a substrate, a display portion disposed on an active area defined at the substrate, a buffer layer disposed on the active area and a pad area defined at the substrate, a touch sensing portion disposed on the buffer layer, and a pad portion disposed between the pad area and the buffer layer. The touch sensing portion includes a first pad pattern, a middle layer disposed on the first pad pattern, and a second pad pattern disposed on the middle layer. The first pad pattern is connected to the pad portion through a first contact hole defined on the pad portion in the buffer layer. The second pad pattern is connected to the first pad pattern through a second contact hole defined on the first contact hole in the middle layer.
US10068950B2	Pixel circuit, driving method thereof, and display apparatus A pixel circuit, a driving method thereof and a display apparatus, the pixel circuit comprises a data voltage writing module (100), two driving modules and two light emitting modules; wherein the data voltage writing module (100) is connected with a data voltage line (Vdata), a writing control line (R) and the two driving modules, and is configured to write a first data voltage on the data voltage line (Vdata) to a first driving module (210) at first and then write a second data voltage to a second driving module (220) according to inputs from the writing control line (R); the first driving module (210) is connected with a first light emitting module (310), the second driving module (220) is connected with a second light emitting module (320); and both of the two driving modules are connected with an operating voltage line (Vdd) and a driving control line (S), and are configured to drive the corresponding light emitting module to emit light under the control of the driving control line (S). By utilizing one circuit to realize the driving of two pixels, two adjacent pixels shares several signal lines, the number of the signal lines for the pixel circuit in the display apparatus can be decreased, the cost of the integrated circuit is reduced, a pixel pitch is decreased, and a pixel density is increased.
US10068948B2	Organic light emitting display device An organic light emitting display device is provided. The organic light emitting display device includes at least one light emitting part between an anode and a cathode and having at least one light emitting part between an anode and a cathode and having at least one organic layer and a light emitting layer. The at least one organic layer includes a compound having a core with one or more nitrogen atoms and at least one other core with relatively high electronegativity.
US10068942B2	Photodiode array having a charge-absorbing doped region The invention concerns a photodiode array, and the method for producing same, comprising—a cathode comprising at least one substrate layer (4) made from a material from the indium phosphide family and one active layer (5) made from a material from the gallium indium arsenide family, and characterized in that the array further comprises at least two sorts of doped regions of the same type at least partially formed in the active layer (5):—first doped regions (3) forming, with the cathode, photodiodes for forming images,—at least one second doped region (8) absorbing excess charge carriers so as to discharge them.
US10068941B2	Image pickup device and method for manufacturing the same An insulating liner layer has an extra-pixel removal region located outside a pixel region in a region of a vertical angle of at least one of four corners of the pixel region and having the insulating liner layer removed therefrom.
US10068939B2	Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method thereof, and camera with arranged pixel combinations alternatively A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate; and a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the pixel unit includes first pixel groups having two or more pixels and second pixel groups being different from the first pixel groups, wherein a portion of the pixels in the first pixel groups and a portion of the pixels in the second pixel groups share a floating diffusion element.
US10068938B2	Solid image-pickup device with flexible circuit substrate A solid image-pickup device has a semiconductor substrate, which includes an image-pickup area having a plurality of light sensors arranged thereon. A transparent plate having the same shape and the same size as those of the semiconductor substrate when viewed as a plan view is bonded to the surface of the semiconductor substrate. Also, a through hole extends from the second side of the semiconductor device towards the first side. An electrically conductive material is located in the through hole. Additionally, the electrically conductive material is physically connected to at least a portion of a lower surface of a laminar layer portion comprising at least one conductive layer located at the first side of the semiconductor substrate and is electrically connected to the laminar layer portion.
US10068932B2	Display device A display device for improving an aperture ratio of the pixel is provided. In the display device, a transparent oxide layer, an insulating film, and a conductive layer are sequentially stacked on a pixel region on a substrate, the conductive layer has a gate electrode of a thin film transistor connected to a gate signal line, and a region of the transparent oxide layer other than at least a channel region portion directly below the gate electrode is converted into an electrically conductive region, and a source signal line, a source region portion of the thin film transistor connected to the source signal line, a pixel electrode, and a drain region portion of the thin film transistor connected to the pixel electrode are formed from the conductive region.
US10068931B2	Hollowed electronic display Presented here are manufacturing techniques to create an irregularly shaped electronic display, including a hollow within which a sensor, such as a camera, can be placed. The manufacturing techniques enable the creation of the hollow anytime during the manufacturing process. The resulting electronic display occupies the full side of the mobile device, with the sensors placed within and surrounded by the display.
US10068930B2	Display device A display device comprising a first electrode that comprises a first region, a second region, and a third region located between the first region and the second region; a first insulating film disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode that is disposed on the first insulating film and comprises a fourth region overlapping the third region; a second insulating film disposed on the second electrode; a contact hole formed through the second insulating film, the first contact hole exposing the first, second and fourth regions; and a third electrode that is disposed on the second insulating film to cover the first contact hole, and is connected to at least one of the first region and the second region exposed by the first contact hole and the fourth region exposed by the first contact hole.
US10068929B2	Display device A display device can include a substrate including a display area, on which an input image is displayed, and a pad part including a convex portion and a concave portion that are alternately positioned outside the display area and have a height difference between them, and a circuit element attached to the pad part and including a bump inserted into the concave portion of the pad part. The pad part can further include a lower pad electrode electrically connected to a signal line extended from the display area, a first insulating layer disposed on the lower pad electrode in the convex portion, and an upper pad electrode disposed on the first insulating layer, connected to the lower pad electrode through a first contact hole penetrating the first insulating layer and extending into at least a portion of the concave portion.
US10068922B2	FinFET devices with multiple channel lengths A continuous fin having a first segment and a second segment in a semiconductor layer, the first segment is arranged at an angle relative to the second segment, and a first gate and a second gate substantially parallel to each other, the first gate substantially covering sides and a top of a portion of the first segment of the continuous fin, the second gate substantially covering sides and a top of a portion of the second segment of the continuous fin.
US10068920B2	Silicon germanium fins on insulator formed by lateral recrystallization Relaxed silicon germanium fins are formed on a bulk silicon substrate through the lateral recrystallization of molten silicon germanium having high germanium content. Following formation of the silicon germanium fins, the silicon is selectively recessed. The resulting trenches are filled with electrically insulating material and then recessed down to the bottoms of the fins.
US10068916B2	Semiconductor memory device with a three-dimensional stacked memory cell structure A semiconductor memory device comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of memory units provided on the semiconductor substrate and each including a plurality of memory cells that are stacked; and a plurality of bit lines formed above each of a plurality of the memory units aligned in a column direction, an alignment pitch in a row direction of the plurality of bit lines being less than an alignment pitch in the row direction of the memory units, and an end of each of the memory units aligned in the column direction being connected to one of the plurality of bit lines formed above the plurality of the memory units aligned in the column direction.
US10068913B2	Three dimensional semiconductor devices A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate including a cell array region and a peripheral circuit region, an electrode structure including electrodes vertically stacked on the cell array region, a MOS capacitor on the peripheral circuit region, an interlayer dielectric layer covering the electrode structure and the MOS capacitor, first and second power lines spaced apart from each other in a first direction and extending in a second direction on the interlayer dielectric layer, first lower plugs connected to the first power line and a first terminal of the MOS capacitor, and second lower plugs connected to the second power line to a second terminal of the MOS capacitor. The second power line is on one of the first lower plugs that is adjacent to some of the second lower plugs in one of the first and second directions.
US10068905B2	Apparatus for FinFETs A device comprises a first inverter comprising a first p-type transistor (PU) and a first n-type transistor (PD), a second inverter cross-coupled to the first inverter comprising a second PU and a second PD, a first pass-gate transistor coupled between the first inverter and a first bit line and a second pass-gate transistor coupled between the second inverter and a second bit line, wherein at least one transistor has a two-stage fin structure, and wherein a width of a bottom portion of the two-stage fin structure is greater than a width of an upper portion of the two-stage fin structure.
US10068900B1	Semiconductor device with dummy pattern in high-voltage region and method of forming the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a high-voltage (HV) region; HV gate structures formed in the HV region of the substrate; a HV dummy pattern disposed in the HV region, and the HV dummy pattern comprising at least a semiconductor portion and a dummy HM stack disposed on the semiconductor portion, wherein a height (hS) of the semiconductor portion of the HV dummy pattern is smaller than a height (hHV-g) of a HV gate electrode of one of the HV gate structures.
US10068897B2	Shallow trench isolation area having buried capacitor A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate including a source/drain region, an active transistor region, and a substrate contact region coupled to a body region. A shallow trench isolation (STI) area is formed in a major surface of the semiconductor substrate in between the active transistor region and the substrate contact region. The method further includes at least partially burying at least one capacitor in the STI area.
US10068896B1	Electrostatic discharge protection device and manufacturing method thereof An ESD protection device includes a semiconductor substrate, a well, a gate structure, a first source/drain region, a second source/drain region, a first doped region, and a second doped region. The well is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The gate structure is disposed on the well. The first source/drain region and the second source/drain region are disposed in the well and disposed at two opposite sides of the gate structure respectively. The first doped region is disposed in the first source/drain region. The second doped region is disposed in the second source/drain region. A conductivity type of the first doped region is complementary to that of the first source/drain region. A conductivity type of the second doped region is complementary to that of the second source/drain region. A conductivity type of the well is complementary to that of the first source/drain region and the second source/drain region.
US10068895B2	Transistors patterned with electrostatic discharge protection and methods of fabrication High-voltage semiconductor devices with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection and methods of fabrication are provided. The semiconductor devices include a plurality of transistors on a substrate patterned with one or more common gates extending across a portion of the substrate, and a plurality of first S/D contacts and a plurality of second S/D contacts associated with the common gate(s). The second S/D contacts are disposed over a plurality of carrier-doped regions within the substrate. One or more floating nodes are disposed above the substrate and, at least in part, between second S/D contacts to facilitate defining the plurality of carrier-doped regions within the substrate. For instance, the carrier-doped regions may be defined from a mask with a common carrier-region opening, with the floating node(s) intersecting the common carrier-region opening and facilitating defining, along with the common opening, the plurality of separate carrier-doped regions.
US10068894B2	Low leakage bidirectional clamps and methods of forming the same Low leakage bidirectional clamps and methods of forming the same are provided. In certain configurations, a bidirectional clamp includes a first p-well region, a second p-well region, and an n-well region positioned between the first and second p-wells regions. The bidirectional clamp further includes two or more oxide regions over the n-well region, and one or more n-type active (N+) dummy blocking current regions are positioned between the oxide regions. The one or more N+ dummy leakage current blocking regions interrupt an electrical path from the first p-type well region to the second p-type well region along interfaces between the n-well region and the oxide regions. Thus, even when charge accumulates at the interfaces due to extended high voltage, e.g., >60V, and/or high temperature operation (e.g., >125° C.), the N+ dummy leakage current blocking regions inhibit charge trapping-induced leakage current.
US10068892B2	Semiconductor device in a level shifter with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit and semiconductor chip The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor chip having a level shifter with electro-static discharge (ESD) protection circuit and device applied to multiple power supply lines with high and low power input to protect the level shifter from the static ESD stress. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a feature to protect a semiconductor device in a level shifter from the ESD stress by using ESD stress blocking region adjacent to a gate electrode of the semiconductor device. The ESD stress blocking region increases a gate resistance of the semiconductor device, which results in reducing the ESD stress applied to the semiconductor device.
US10068889B2	System in package An electronic system without using solder balls between electrical components, and without using interposer between chips and package substrate, without using a discrete system board for the chip package to mount. A chip is wrapped by molding material, a first redistribution circuitry is built on a bottom side of the molding material; a second redistribution circuitry is built on a bottom side of the first redistribution circuitry. A third redistribution circuitry is built on a bottom side of the second redistribution circuitry. Plated metal vias are configured between each two of the electrical components.
US10068887B2	Semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same Embodiments of the present disclosure include semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same. An embodiment is a semiconductor package including a first package including one or more dies, and a redistribution layer coupled to the one or more dies at a first side of the first package with a first set of bonding joints. The redistribution layer including more than one metal layer disposed in more than one passivation layer, the first set of bonding joints being directly coupled to at least one of the one or more metal layers, and a first set of connectors coupled to a second side of the redistribution layer, the second side being opposite the first side.
US10068886B2	Implementing inverted master-slave 3D semiconductor stack A method and apparatus are provided for implementing an enhanced three dimensional (3D) semiconductor stack. A chip carrier has an aperture of a first length and first width. A first chip has at least one of a second length greater than the first length or a second width greater than the first width; a second chip attached to the first chip, the second chip having at least one of a third length less than the first length or a third width less than the first width; the first chip attached to the chip carrier by connections in an overlap region defined by at least one of the first and second lengths or the first and second widths; the second chip extending into the aperture; and a heat spreader attached to the chip carrier and in thermal contact with the first chip for dissipating heat from both the first chip and second chip.
US10068873B2	Method and apparatus for connecting packages onto printed circuit boards Methods and apparatus are disclosed for attaching the integrated circuit (IC) packages to printed circuit boards (PCBs) to form smooth solder joints. A polymer flux may be provided in the process to mount an IC package to a PCB. The polymer flux may be provided on connectors of the IC package, or provided on PCB contact pad and/or pre-solder of the PCB. When the IC package is mounted onto the PCB, the polymer flux may cover a part of the connector, and may extend to cover a surface of the molding compound on the IC package. The polymer flux may completely cover the connector as well. The polymer flux delivers a fluxing component that facilitates smooth solder joint formation as well as a polymer component that offers added device protection by encapsulating individual connectors. The polymer component may be an epoxy.
US10068869B2	Mounting structure and BGA ball A mounting structure includes a BGA including a BGA electrode, a circuit board including a circuit board electrode, and a solder joining portion which is arranged on the circuit board electrode and is connected to the BGA electrode. The solder joining portion is formed of Cu having a content ratio in a range from 0.6 mass % to 1.2 mass %, inclusive, Ag having a content ratio in a range from 3.0 mass % to 4.0 mass %, inclusive, Bi having a content ratio in a range from 0 mass % to 1.0 mass %, inclusive, In, and Sn. A range of the content ratio of In is different according to the content ratio of Cu.
US10068868B2	Multi-strike process for bonding packages and the packages thereof A method includes performing a first strike process to strike a metal bump of a first package component against a metal pad of a second package component. A first one of the metal bump and the metal pad includes copper. A second one of the metal bump and the metal pad includes aluminum. The method further includes performing a second strike process to strike the metal bump against the metal pad. An annealing is performed to bond the metal bump on the metal pad.
US10068867B2	Post-passivation interconnect structure and methods thereof A method includes providing a die including a substrate and a bonding pad over the substrate, forming a connective layer over the die, and forming the landing pad over the connective layer. The forming the connective layer includes depositing a dielectric layer of a dielectric material over the die and patterning the dielectric layer. The patterning the dielectric layer includes forming a supporting pad area and forming a conductive channel area. A portion of the conductive channel area passes at least partially through the supporting pad area. At least one dielectric region interpose the portion of the conductive channel area and the supporting pad area. The forming the connective further includes filling the supporting pad area and the conductive channel area with a conductive material. The supporting pad area of the conductive material forms a supporting pad. The conductive channel area of the conductive material forms a conductive channel.
US10068860B2	Laser detector using latch and semiconductor device including the same A laser detector includes a latch and a semiconductor device including the same. The laser detector includes a latch configured to output an output signal and an inverted output signal and an initial value setting circuit configured to set an initial value of at least one of the output signal and the inverted output signal. The latch includes a first transistor controlled to be initially turned on by the initial value and a second transistor controlled to be initially turned off by the initial value. The second transistor has an active region having a lateral area that is greater than that of the first transistor.
US10068859B1	Crack trapping in semiconductor device structures A structure for arresting the propagation of cracks during the dicing of a semiconductor wafer into individual chips includes a monolithic metallic plate that traverses multiple dielectric layers peripheral to an active region of a chip. One or more metallic plates may be formed using lithography and electroplating techniques between the active device region and a peripheral kerf region, where each metallic plate includes a concave feature that faces the kerf region of the wafer.
US10068857B2	Semiconductor package assembly The invention provides a semiconductor package assembly. The semiconductor package assembly includes a substrate, a semiconductor die, a base and a first inductor structure. The substrate has a die-attach surface and a solder-ball-attach surface opposite to the die-attach surface. The semiconductor die is mounted on the die-attach surface of the substrate. The semiconductor die includes a radio-frequency (RF) circuit and a first RF die pad electrically connected to the RF circuit. The base is mounted on the solder-ball-attach surface of the substrate. The first inductor structure is positioned on the substrate, the semiconductor die or the base. The first inductor structure includes a first terminal electrically connected to the first die pad and a second terminal electrically connected to a ground terminal.
US10068856B2	Integrated circuit apparatus An integrated circuit apparatus includes a substrate, an IC chip disposed above the substrate, and an electromagnetic shielding layer disposed on a surface of the substrate. The IC chip includes an electromagnetic coupling device. The electromagnetic shielding layer and the electromagnetic coupling device partially overlap in a vertical projection direction of the surface of the substrate.
US10068855B2	Semiconductor package, method of manufacturing the same, and electronic device module A semiconductor package includes a frame including a through-hole, an electronic component disposed in the through-hole, a redistribution portion disposed below the frame and the electronic component, a metal layer disposed on an inner surface of the frame, and a conductive layer disposed between the metal layer and the electronic component, and covering the frame and the electronic component.
US10068852B2	Integrated circuit package with embedded bridge Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) package having first and second dies with first and second input/output (I/O) interconnect structures, respectively. The IC package may include a bridge having first and second electrical routing features coupled to a portion of the first and second I/O interconnect structures, respectively. In embodiments, the first and second electrical routing features may be disposed on one side of the bridge; and third electrical routing features may be disposed on an opposite side. The first and second electrical routing features may be configured to route electrical signals between the first die and the second die and the third electrical routing features may be configured to route electrical signals between the one side and the opposite side. The first die, the second die, and the bridge may be embedded in electrically insulating material. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10068847B2	Package substrate and method of fabricating the same A package substrate and a method of fabricating the package substrate are provided. The package substrate includes a substrate having a first surface including a plurality of conductive pads and a second surface; an insulating protective layer formed on the first surface of the substrate; an interposer embedded in and exposed from the insulating protective layer; and at least a passive component provided on the first surface of the substrate. The insulating protective layer includes at least an opening for exposing at least one of the conductive pads, and the at least the passive component is directly provided on the conductive pad exposed from the opening.
US10068839B2	Circuitized substrate with electronic components mounted on transversal portion thereof A circuitized substrate for mounting at least one electronic component having a plurality of terminals. The circuitized substrate includes a first portion of electrical insulating material embedding a first electric circuit for coupling a first subset of the terminals. The first electric circuit including one or more patterned conductive layers of electrically conductive material extending parallel to a plane of the circuitized substrate. The circuitized substrate further includes a second portion of electrically conductive material. One or more insulating elements of electrical insulating material cross the second portion transversally to the plane to insulate a plurality of conductive elements thereof for coupling a second subset of the terminals. One or more auxiliary components of the electronic component are mounted on the second portion. Each auxiliary component having a first terminal and a second terminal coupled with a first one and a second one, respectively, of a pair of the conductive elements.
US10068838B2	Glass fiber reinforced package substrate A glass fiber layer is embedded in a thin film package substrate to reinforce the strength of the thin film package substrate. The thin film package substrate has a bottom redistribution circuitry and a top redistribution circuitry. The glass fiber layer is configured between the bottom redistribution layer and the top redistribution layer. A topmost metal pads of the bottom redistribution layer and a bottommost metal vias of the top redistribution layer are embedded in the glass fiber layer.
US10068836B2	Metal gate transistor, integrated circuits, systems, and fabrication methods thereof An integrated circuit includes a substrate, a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer over the substrate, and a gate strip having a first width formed in the first ILD layer. A conductive strip having a second width is provided on the gate strip, with the second width being greater than the first width. The conductive strip is positioned so that the gate strip is covered and a portion of the conductive strip extends over a top surface of the first ILD adjacent the gate strip. A second ILD layer is provided over the conductive strip and the first ILD layer with a contact plug extending through the second ILD layer to provide electrical contact to the conductive strip.
US10068827B2	Integrated circuit heat dissipation using nanostructures An approach for heat dissipation in integrated circuit devices is provided. A method includes forming an isolation layer on an electrically conductive feature of an integrated circuit device. The method also includes forming an electrically conductive layer on the isolation layer. The method additionally includes forming a plurality of nanowire structures on a surface of the electrically conductive layer.
US10068803B2	Planarization process A planarization process is disclosed. The method includes forming a trench in an area of a material layer which has a relatively high loading condition for sputtering. The method further includes sputtering the material layer to make the material layer flat.
US10068800B2	Manufacturing method for solid-state imaging device and solid-state imaging device A method for manufacturing a solid-state imaging device comprises a first step of preparing an imaging element having a second principal surface having an electrode arranged thereon, and a photoelectric converter part configured to photoelectrically convert the incident energy line so as to generate a signal charge; a second step of preparing a support substrate, provided with a through hole extending in a thickness direction thereof, having a third principal surface; a third step of aligning the imaging element and the support substrate with each other so that the electrode is exposed out of the through hole while the second and third principal surfaces oppose each other and joining the imaging element and the support substrate to each other; and a fourth step of arranging a conductive ball-shaped member in the through hole and electrically connecting the ball-shaped member to the electrode after the third step.
US10068799B2	Self-aligned contact A semiconductor device includes a gate structure having a gate conductor and a sidewall spacer. A partial dielectric cap is formed on the gate conductor and extends less than a width of the gate conductor. A self-aligned contact is formed adjacent to the sidewall spacer of the gate structure and is electrically isolated from the gate conductor by the partial dielectric cap and the sidewall spacer.
US10068797B2	Semiconductor process for forming plug A semiconductor process for forming a plug includes the following steps. A dielectric layer having a recess is formed on a substrate. A titanium layer is formed to conformally cover the recess. A first titanium nitride layer is formed to conformally cover the titanium layer, thereby the first titanium nitride layer having first sidewall parts. The first sidewall parts of the first titanium nitride layer are pulled back, thereby second sidewall parts being formed. A second titanium nitride layer is formed to cover the recess. Moreover, a semiconductor structure formed by said semiconductor process is also provided.
US10068791B2	Wafer susceptor for forming a semiconductor device and method therefor In one embodiment, a wafer susceptor is formed to have portion of the susceptor that is positioned between a wafer pocket and an outside edge of the susceptor to have a non-uniform and/or a non-planar surface. In another embodiment, the non-uniform and/or non-planar surface includes one of a recess into the surface or a protrusion extending away from the surface.
US10068781B2	Systems and methods for drying high aspect ratio structures without collapse using sacrificial bracing material that is removed using hydrogen-rich plasma Systems and methods for drying a substrate including a plurality of high aspect ratio (HAR) structures are performed after at least one of wet etching and/or wet cleaning the substrate using at least one of wet etching solution and/or wet cleaning solution, respectively, and without drying the substrate. Fluid between the plurality of HAR structures is displaced using a solvent including a bracing material. After the solvent evaporates, the bracing material precipitates out of solution and at least partially fills the plurality of HAR structures. The substrate is exposed to plasma generated using a plasma gas chemistry that is hydrogen rich to remove the bracing material thereby drying the substrate including the HAR structures without damaging the plurality of HAR structures.
US10068778B2	Plasma processing method and plasma processing apparatus This plasma processing method includes a film formation step, a plasma processing step and a removal step. In the film formation step, a silicon oxide film is formed on the surface of a member within a chamber by means of plasma of an oxygen-containing gas and a silicon-containing gas at a flow rate ratio of the oxygen-containing gas to the silicon-containing gas of 0.2-1.4. In the plasma processing step, after the formation of the silicon oxide film on the surface of the member, an object to be processed that has been carried into the chamber is subjected to plasma processing with use of plasma of a processing gas. In the removal step, after carrying the plasma-processed object out of the chamber, the silicon oxide film is removed from the surface of the member by means of plasma of a fluorine-containing gas.
US10068774B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof A method of manufacturing a source structure for a p-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) field effect transistor (FET) is provided. In the method, a first epitaxial layer comprising Si1−xGex is formed on a source region of an FET, a second epitaxial layer comprising Si1−yGey is formed on the first epitaxial layer, a third epitaxial layer comprising Si1−zGez is formed on the second epitaxial layer. Z is smaller than y.
US10068773B2	Contact formation for split gate flash memory An integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of flash memory cells forming a memory array, wherein each of the plurality of flash memory cells includes a select gate and a memory gate. A select gate electrode includes a first portion including polysilicon, wherein the first portion forms select gates of a column of the memory array, and a second portion electrically connected to the first portion, wherein the second portion includes a metal. A memory gate electrode has a portion forming memory gates of the column of the memory array.
US10068771B2	System and method for mitigating oxide growth in a gate dielectric Oxide growth of a gate dielectric layer that occurs between processes used in the fabrication of a gate dielectric structure can be reduced. The reduction in oxide growth can be achieved by maintaining the gate dielectric layer in an ambient effective to mitigate oxide growth of the gate dielectric layer between at least two sequential process steps used in the fabrication the gate dielectric structure. Maintaining the gate dielectric layer in an ambient effective to mitigate oxide growth also improves the uniformity of nitrogen implanted in the gate dielectric.
US10068770B2	Method and structure for semiconductor device having gate spacer protection layer A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a precursor. The precursor includes a substrate; a gate stack over the substrate; a first dielectric layer over the gate stack; a gate spacer on sidewalls of the gate stack and on sidewalls of the first dielectric layer; and source and drain (S/D) contacts on opposing sides of the gate stack. The method further includes recessing the gate spacer to at least partially expose the sidewalls of the first dielectric layer but not to expose the sidewalls of the gate stack. The method further includes forming a spacer protection layer over the gate spacer, the first dielectric layer, and the S/D contacts.
US10068767B2	Method of fabricating semiconductor device A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first mask pattern on a first film to extend in a first direction, forming a first spacer on either side wall of the first mask pattern, forming a second film to cover the first spacer and the first film, and forming a second mask pattern on the second film. The second mask pattern extends in a second direction different from the first direction. The method further includes forming a second spacer on either side wall of the second mask pattern, etching the first film using the first spacer and the second spacer as etch masks to form a contact pattern, and removing the first and second spacers to expose the contact pattern.
US10068765B2	Multi-step system and method for curing a dielectric film A multi-step system and method for curing a dielectric film in which the system includes a drying system configured to reduce the amount of contaminants, such as moisture, in the dielectric film. The system further includes a curing system coupled to the drying system, and configured to treat the dielectric film with ultraviolet (UV) radiation and infrared (IR) radiation in order to cure the dielectric film.
US10068762B2	Manufacture method of gate insulating film for silicon carbide semiconductor device Providing a manufacture method of a gate insulating film formed on an SiC substrate having thereon an SiON film, achieving both of the maintenance of an SiON film structure and the formation of a high-quality insulating film. A manufacture method of a gate insulating film for an SiC semiconductor device comprises preparing a transfer plate comprising a transfer substrate and an insulating film formed thereon; preparing a surface-processed substrate comprising an SiC substrate and an epitaxial silicon oxynitride film as an atomic monolayer formed thereon; and transferring the insulating film from the transfer plate onto the silicon oxynitride film of the surface-processed substrate to produce the surface-processed substrate having a transferred insulating film.
US10068746B2	Scanning electron microscope The present invention relates to a scanning electron microscope realized to observe a test sample by detecting back-scattered electrons scattered and emitted from a surface of the test sample in the air without a vacuum chamber which is allowed to observe the test sample in a vacuum state the scanning electron microscope can be useful in minimizing dispersion of electrons of the electron beam passing through the shielding film caused due to electron scattering by focusing the electron beam passing through the shielding film on a top surface of the first back-scattered electron detector disposed between the electron gun and the shielding film to pass an electron beam and configured to detect back-scattered electrons scattered from the test sample since the first back-scattered electron detector is provided with the first planar coil having a magnetic field formed thereon.
US10068739B2	End-hall ion source with enhanced radiation cooling In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, an end-Hall ion source has an electron emitting cathode, an anode, a reflector, an internal pole piece, an external pole piece, a magnetically permeable path, and a magnetic-field generating means located in the permeable path between the two pole pieces. The anode and reflector are enclosed without contact by a thermally conductive cup that has internal passages through which a cooling fluid can flow. The closed end of the cup is located between the reflector and the internal pole piece and the opposite end of the cup is in direct contact with the external pole piece, and wherein the cup is made of a material having a low microhardness, such as copper or aluminum.
US10068738B2	Traveling wave tube and high-frequency circuit system Provided are a traveling wave tube and a high-frequency circuit system such that the product life span of the traveling wave tube operating in multiple modes can be extended while variations in gain and amplification efficiency that accompany switching of the operation modes can be suppressed. The traveling wave tube comprises: an electron gun equipped with a cathode that releases electrons, and a heater that provides the cathode with heat energy for releasing the electrons; a helix causing an RF signal to interact with an electron beam formed from the electrons released by the electron gun; a collector for catching the electron beam emitted by the helix; an anode whereby the electrons released from the electron gun are guided into the helix; and a magnetic field application device for generating a magnetic field in order to change the diameter of the electron beam, said magnetic field application device being supplied with electric power for generating the magnetic field from the outside.
US10068736B2	Fuse holder A fuse holder (10) for a high-voltage system for accommodating an electric fuse link (13), comprising a bottom part (11) and a cover (12), which, when assembled, form a housing that serves to accommodate a fuse link (13). The fuse link (13) has two opposite terminal lugs (131), which can be fixed in the cover by means of fastening screws (14), so that, together with the cover (12), the fuse link (13) forms a unit, which is fastened on the bottom part (11) by means of the fastening screws (14).
US10068735B2	Electrical switching apparatus, and operating mechanism and lever assembly therefor A lever assembly is for an operating mechanism of an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a number of pairs of separable contacts structured to move from a CLOSED position to a TRIPPED OPEN position in response to a trip condition. The operating mechanism has an enclosure member and a number of biasing elements coupled to the enclosure member. The biasing elements are structured to move the separable contacts from the CLOSED position to the TRIPPED OPEN position. The lever assembly includes a lever member structured to engage the enclosure member, and a component located on the lever member. The component is structured to extend through each of the biasing elements in order to lengthen each of the biasing elements when the separable contacts are in the CLOSED position.
US10068729B2	Switch device A switch device includes an operation unit, a switch unit detachably attached to the operation unit, and an engagement portion provided at the operation unit. The switch unit includes an opening-closing contact mechanism opened in association with an operation of the operation unit, and a drive portion driving the opening-closing contact mechanism to an open condition at a standby position and to a closed condition at a usage position. When the operation unit is attached to the switch unit, the engagement portion engages the drive portion to drive the drive portion from the standby position to the usage position. When the operation unit is inserted to the switch unit, the operation unit and the switch unit are engaged at the usage position.
US10068726B2	Keyswitch A keyswitch uses a combination of springs connected in serial for providing a return force to a keycap of the keyswitch. When the keycap moves toward a base of the keyswitch beyond a transition position, one of the springs stops continuously deforming. It leads to an increment of the elastic coefficient of the combination of springs and an increment of the elastic stored energy by the combination of springs. Therefore, during a pressing on the keycap, the keycap can provide a light force feedback and then a heavy force feedback to a user. Further, the keyswitch can use a switch with a lateral motion, which can reduce influence of a resilient force produced by the switch on the up and down movement of the keycap. The keyswitch also can use an elastic piece disposed beside the keycap, which can provide a tactile feedback to the user.
US10068723B2	Switch and method for manufacturing same A switch that more reliably prevents solvent permeation from the outside, and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The switch includes a first molded resin molded integrally with a plurality of fixed contacts by insert molding, a movable member disposed above the first molded resin to bring the plurality of fixed contacts into and out of contact with each other, and a second molded resin molded so as to close a through hole of the first molded resin formed by a pin supporting the plurality of fixed contacts at a time of the insert molding.
US10068717B2	Binder for electric double-layer capacitor electrode, electric double-layer capacitor electrode comprising same binder, electric double-layer capacitor using same electrode, and electric apparatus A binder for an electric double-layer capacitor electrode according to the present invention includes a copolymer of vinyl alcohol and an alkali metal-neutralized product of ethylene-unsaturated carboxylic acid.
US10068711B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor package structure for increasing electrical performances and method of manufacturing the same, and capacitor unit thereof The present disclosure provides a solid electrolytic capacitor package structure for increasing electrical performances and a method of manufacturing the same, and a capacitor unit thereof. The capacitor unit includes at least one first capacitor, the at least one first capacitor includes a conductive polymer composite material layer. The conductive polymer composite material layer includes a conductive polymer material and a first nanometer material mixed with the conductive polymer material, and the first nanometer material includes a plurality of first fully embedded nanometer structures completely enclosed by the conductive polymer material and a plurality of first partially exposed nanometer structures partially exposed from the conductive polymer material.
US10068709B2	Electronic component and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing an electronic component includes preparing a rectangular or substantially rectangular parallelepiped multilayer body made of dielectric ceramic containing Ti and Ba. The multilayer body includes inner electrodes embedded therein, a pair of opposite end surfaces, and four side surfaces connecting the end surfaces to each other. The method further includes forming an oleophobic coating film containing BaF on the surface of the multilayer body, and immersing the end surfaces of the multilayer body having the coating film formed thereon into a conductive paste having a viscosity of about 15 Pa·s or less.
US10068705B2	Method for manufacturing ceramic electronic component The variation between different product lots is reduced for plating growth dimensions of plated films to serve as external electrodes. The correlation is grasped in advance among the surface resistance value of a ceramic body, the applying charge amount for electrolytic plating, an actual plating growth dimension obtained when the ceramic body with the surface resistance value is subjected to plating with the foregoing applying charge amount. The surface resistance value is measured for the ceramic body on which plated films to serve as external electrodes are to be formed by applying electrolytic plating, and the applying charge amount required for plating is determined by applying the surface resistance value and a designed value for an intended plating growth dimension to the correlation mentioned above. Thereafter, in order to form the plated films, the ceramic body is subjected to electrolytic plating, with the applying charge amount determined.
US10068704B2	Shielded antenna to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio frequency (RF) interference in a wireless power transfer system An apparatus for wireless power transfer includes a transmit antenna configured to generate a wireless field to power or charge a load, a wireless charging area configured to receive a device to be wirelessly charged via the wireless field, the transmit antenna located outside of a periphery of the wireless charging area, and at least one shielding element overlapping the transmit antenna on a side of the transmit antenna from which the device is configured to be positioned within the wireless charging area, the at least one shielding element configured to diminish at least a portion of the wireless field such that the wireless field in the wireless charging area is stronger than the wireless field where the at least one shielding element overlaps the transmit antenna.
US10068703B1	Integrated miniature PIFA with artificial magnetic conductor metamaterials Integrated antenna structures described herein may include planar inverted-F antennas (PIFAs) integrated with artificial magnetic conductor (AMC) metamaterials. The integrated metamaterial operatively coupled with the PIFA may function as an artificial magnetic reflector, sending all the energy radiated upwards, and thereby changing the original omnidirectional radiation pattern of the PIFA to a directional radiation pattern. The integrated antenna structures that include PIFAs and metamaterials may maintain a smaller form factor as compared to similar directional antennas, while exhibiting a suitable performance in terms of radiation efficiency, radiation pattern and impedance bandwidth.
US10068702B2	Systems and methods for power transfer based on resonance coupling of inductors An integrated circuit (IC) includes a first resonator circuit that includes: a first switching device that connects and disconnects a supply voltage to and from a first node; a first inductor that is connected between the first node and a first ground potential; and a second inductor that is connected between the first node and the first ground potential. The IC also includes a second resonator circuit that includes: a third inductor that is inductively coupled to the first inductor across an isolation barrier and that is connected between a second node and a second ground potential; a fourth inductor that is inductively coupled to the second inductor across the isolation barrier and that is connected between the second node and the second ground potential; and a second switching device that connects and disconnects the second node to and from a load. The second ground potential is different than the first ground potential.
US10068700B2	Converter device and coil arrangement for a voltage regulator A converter device comprising a converter and a coil arrangement that contains a number of coils. The coil arrangement has a plurality of interconnected coils. Toroidal cores of a soft magnetic nanocrystalline material are associated with each of said coils. A coupling toroidal core (11) is provided with a core opening (12) through which at least two windings (8, 9) of different coils can be guided and mounted. At least the winding of one coil is guided and mounted through a core opening of an individual toroidal core (13, 14). An open/closed-loop control device is provided with a current controller that acts on the coils such that direct current components are compensated by currents flowing through the windings of the coils.
US10068697B2	Coil component and board having the same There are provided a coil component and a board having the same. The coil component includes: a magnetic body including first and second coil parts disposed to be symmetrical to each other on one surface of a substrate on the basis of a central portion of the magnetic body and third and fourth coil parts disposed to be symmetrical to each other on the other surface of the substrate on the basis of the central portion of the magnetic body; and first to fourth external electrodes disposed on outer surfaces of the magnetic body and connected to the first to fourth coil parts.
US10068690B2	R-T-B based permanent magnet An R-T-B based permanent with the residual magnetic flux density Br2 satisfies the relationship of Br2/Br≥0.90, wherein the residual magnetic flux density Br2 is obtained after applying the external magnetic field of Hex and then applying an external magnetic field of 0.95 HcJ. Such a R-T-B based permanent magnet preferably contains main phase grains with a composition of (R11−xR2x)2T14B (R1 is rare earth element(s) composed of one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Pr, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb and Lu, R2 is element(s) containing at least one selected from the group consisting of Y, La and Ce, T is one or more transition metal elements including Fe or a combination of Fe and Co as essential elements, and 0.2≤x≤0.7) and thus can be suitably used as a magnet with a variable magnetic force for a variable magnetic flux motor.
US10068687B2	Method for producing superconductive conductor and superconductive conductor A superconductive wire conductor is produced by: embedding a plurality of deposition substrates formed to have a predetermined size in parallel with each other to a connection base material to connect and integrate therewith; depositing an intermediate layer, a superconductive layer and a protective layer on a deposition surface side of the deposition substrate; and winding a single or multiple integrated superconductive conductors around a desired core material, separating each single superconductive wire from the integrated superconductive conductor and winding each superconductive wire around the core material or winding the integrated or separated wire alternately, whereby a superconductive conductor having a good superconductive characteristic without a problem regarding a shape thereof such as local protrusions.
US10068678B2	X-ray imaging system with a motorless real-time controllable collimator that can produce arbitrarily shaped X-ray beams An X-ray imaging system including an X-ray source, a motorless real-time controllable 3D X-ray collimator, a digital X-ray detector, and a system controller coupled to the X-ray radiation source, the motorless real-time controllable 3D X-ray collimator, and the digital X-ray detector for controlling the motorless real-time 3D X-ray collimator to reduce X-ray radiation dose and improve image quality. The motorless real-time controllable 3D X-ray collimator includes a top panel, a bottom panel, at least one sidewall joining the top panel to the bottom panel, an open area between the top panel, bottom panel, and at least one 2D pixel array coupled to at least one of the top panel and the bottom panel, the at least one 2D pixel array having a plurality of pixels of thin film electric coils and switching thin film field-effect transistors, wherein the open area is at least partially filled with a mixture of ferromagnetic material and high X-ray attenuation material.
US10068677B2	X-ray imaging system and method with a real-time controllable 3D X-ray attenuator An X-ray imaging system including an X-ray source, an X-ray collimator, a real-time controllable 3D X-ray attenuator, a digital X-ray detector, and a system controller coupled to the X-ray radiation source, the collimator, the real-time controllable 3D X-ray attenuator, and the digital X-ray detector for controlling the real-time controllable 3D X-ray attenuator to reduce X-ray radiation dose and improve image quality. The real-time controllable 3D X-ray attenuator includes a top panel, a bottom panel, at least one sidewall joining the top panel to the bottom panel, an open area between the top panel, bottom panel, and at least one 2D pixel array coupled to at least one of the top panel and the bottom panel, the at least one 2D pixel array having a plurality of pixels of thin film electric coils and switching thin film field-effect transistors, wherein the open area is at least partially filled with a mixture of ferromagnetic material and medium X-ray attenuation material.
US10068675B1	Advanced protective coatings for gr-based nuclear propulsion fuel elements A protective coating for a graphite (Gr) containing fuel element used in a nuclear thermal propulsion system includes a first layer that is configured to resist hot hydrogen attacks. The first layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is higher than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the Gr containing substrate. The coating also includes a plurality of second layers located between the first layer and the substrate. The second layers are configured to mitigate the differences in coefficients of thermal expansion between the first layer and the substrate to minimize debonding and exposure of the substrate to hydrogen attack. Preferably, the protective coating can comprise an outermost first layer including zirconium carbide (ZrC), a second layer including niobium (Nb), a third layer including molybdenum (Mo), and a fourth layer including molybdenum carbide (Mo2C) located adjacent to the substrate.
US10068671B2	Methods and systems for producing an implant A computer implemented method for determining the 3-dimensional shape of an implant to be implanted into a subject includes obtaining a computer readable image including a defective portion and a non-defective portion of tissue in the subject, superimposing on the image a shape to span the defective portion, and determining the 3-dimensional shape of the implant based on the shape that spans the defective portion.
US10068668B2	Method and apparatus for processing medical data Method and apparatus for processing medical data. The method for processing indication conditions includes obtaining a plurality of predetermined indication conditions which relate to a plurality of parameters and forming a plurality of conditional segments based on respective values of the plurality of parameters, which respectively correspond to a plurality of combinations of value ranges of the plurality of parameters. The method for processing patient data includes obtaining distribution information of the patient data in the plurality of conditional segments formed above and determining a matching relationship of patient data with at least one indication condition. The apparatuses correspond to the methods. Based on this, a matching relation of patient data with the plurality of indication conditions is determined directly based on distribution of patient data in respective conditional segments, which reduces/avoids chances of inefficiency caused by multiple data acquisitions, conversions, and analysis and improves processing efficiency of patient data.
US10068667B2	Decision support system using intelligent agents A computing architecture, system and method are disclosed for use in a medical device for providing decision support to a caregiver. The computing architecture includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, and an instance of a primary rules-based service configured to provide instruction events, the instance providing a primary processing thread of instruction events for coaching treatment of a patient. A software manager module includes an artificial intelligence architecture. The artificial intelligence architecture is configured to provide an instance of a conditional rules-based service for providing instruction events. The instance provided by the artificial intelligence architecture provides a processing thread of instruction events for coaching treatment of a patient that is independent of the primary processing thread and is configured to trigger an action on the occurrence of a pre-defined set of input conditions.
US10068662B2	Semiconductor device including a roll call circuit for outputting addresses of defective memory cells A semiconductor device that includes a plurality of memory cells assigned with addresses that are different from each other, a redundant memory cell replacing a defective memory cell among the memory cells, a fuse circuit storing an address of the defective memory cell, an access control circuit accessing the redundant memory cell when the address of the defective memory cell stored in the fuse circuit is supplied, and a roll call circuit outputting the address of the defective memory cell to outside the semiconductor device in a serial manner.
US10068661B2	Post package repair (PPR) data in non-volatile memory Example implementations relate to post package repair (PPR) data in non-volatile memory. In example implementations, PPR data may be stored in non-volatile memory on a memory module. PPR data may indicate how many PPRs have been performed on the memory module.
US10068659B2	Semiconductor memory device and programming method of NAND flash memory The invention provides a semiconductor memory device capable of maintaining data reliability and shortening programming time. A flash memory of the invention includes a memory array 100, a page buffer/sensor circuit 160, an input/output buffer 110 connected to an external input/output terminal, and an ECC circuit 120 for checking and correcting data errors. In a programming operation, the input/output buffer 110 loads programming data into the page buffer/sensor circuit 160 and the ECC circuit 120 in parallel. The ECC circuit 120 writes parity bits generated from ECC calculation into a spare domain of the page buffer/sensor circuit 160. After the ECC procedure, the data held by the page buffer/sensor circuit 160 are programmed to a selected page.
US10068655B2	Inferring threshold voltage distributions associated with memory cells via interpolation Apparatuses and methods for inferring threshold voltage distributions associated with memory cells via interpolation are described herein. A number of embodiments include determining soft data for a group of memory cells each programmed to one of a number of data states, wherein the soft data comprises a number of different soft data values, determining a quantity of memory cells associated with each of the different soft data values, and inferring at least a portion of a threshold voltage distribution associated with the group of memory cells via an interpolation process using the determined quantities of memory cells associated with each of the different soft data values.
US10068654B2	NAND flash memory Serial NAND flash memory may be provided with the characteristics of continuous read of the memory across page boundaries and from logically contiguous memory locations without wait intervals, while also being clock-compatible with the high performance serial flash NOR (“HPSF-NOR”) memory read commands so that the serial NAND flash memory may be used with controllers designed for HPSF-NOR memory. Serial NAND flash memory having these compatibilities is referred to herein as high-performance serial flash NAND (“SPSF-NAND”) memory. Since devices and systems which use HPSF-NOR memories and controllers often have extreme space limitations, HPSF-NAND may also be provided with the same physical attributes of low pin count and small package size of HPSF-NOR memory for further compatibility. HPSF-NAND memory is particularly suitable for code shadow applications, even while enjoying the low “cost per bit” and low per bit power consumption of a NAND memory array at higher densities.
US10068651B1	Channel pre-charge to suppress disturb of select gate transistors during erase in memory A memory device and associated techniques avoid a disturb of a select gate transistor during an erase operation. A pre-charge operation occurs in which a channel voltage is increased to a positive level. This reduces a channel gradient which can lead to a disturb of the select gate transistors. One approach involves applying a voltage at an intermediate level to the source and/or drain ends of the memory strings, before increasing the voltage from the intermediate level to a peak erase level. Another approach involves driving the word line voltages at a negative level and then at a higher level to down couple and then up couple the channel voltages. The techniques may be adjusted depending on whether the word lines are at a positive floating voltage at a start of the erase operation, and based on a level of the floating voltage.
US10068648B1	Distributed mode registers in memory devices A semiconductor device may include a plurality of memory banks, a plurality of mode registers that may control an operational mode associated with each of the plurality of memory banks, and a set of global wiring lines coupled to each of the plurality of mode registers. The set of global wiring lines may include a first global wiring line to transmit data to each of the plurality of mode registers, a second global wiring line to transmit an address signal to each of the plurality of mode registers, a third global wiring line to transmit a read command signal to each of the plurality of mode registers, and a fourth global wiring line to transmit a write command signal to each of the plurality of mode registers.
US10068646B2	Semiconductor device including TCAM cell arrays capable of skipping TCAM-cell search in response to control signal The consumption current of a TCAM device is reduced. A semiconductor device includes multiple sub-arrays each including a TCAM cell array. Each sub-array searches the corresponding part of the input search data. Each sub-array outputs the search result indicative of a match for every entry without searching, when the corresponding first control signal is activated.
US10068644B2	System and method for adjusting EEPROM write cycle duration according to supply voltage variation A method of controlling a cycle for writing at least one data item to at least one memory slot of the electrically programmable and erasable read-only memory type disposed in an electronic circuit supplied by a supply voltage includes a controlled increase of the duration of the write cycle in the presence of a decrease in the supply voltage.
US10068642B1	Memory device and control method thereof A memory device includes a control circuit configured to (i) start a first application of a first voltage between a first conductive layer and a third conductive layer, (ii) start a second application of the first voltage between a second conductive layer and the third conductive layer after a lapse of a first delay time since the start of the first application of the first voltage, and (iii) start an application of a second voltage, which is smaller than the first voltage, between the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer after a lapse of a second delay time since the start of the second application of the first voltage between the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer.
US10068641B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device includes an SRAM memory cell composed of a drive transistor, a transfer transistor and a load transistor, an I/O circuit that is connected to bit lines connected to the memory cell, and an operating mode control circuit that switches an operating mode of the I/O circuit between a resume standby mode and a normal operation mode, wherein the I/O circuit includes a write driver that writes data to bit lines, a sense amplifier that reads data from the bit lines, a first switch inserted between the bit lines and the write driver, a second switch inserted between the bit lines and the sense amplifier, a precharge circuit that precharges the bit lines, and a control circuit that controls the first and second switches and the precharge circuit according to a signal from the operating mode control circuit.
US10068635B2	Memory device including delay circuit having gate insulation films with thicknesses different from each other Provided is a memory device including a delay circuit having gate insulation films with thicknesses different from each other. The memory device includes a delay circuit configured to input an input signal and output an output signal, and circuit blocks configured to control an operation of reading or writing memory cell data in response to the input signal or the output signal. One of transistors constituting a circuit block has a gate insulation film having such a thickness that an effect of negative biased temperature instability (NBTI) or positive biased temperature instability (PBTI) on the transistors is minimized. The delay circuit may be affected little by a shift in a threshold voltage that may be caused by NTBI or PBTI, and thus, achieve target delay time.
US10068634B2	Simultaneous write and read calibration of an interface within a circuit To calibrate an electronic circuit, a calibration controller tests the electronic circuit with an initial separate read check allowing for a read delay and with an initial separate write check allowing for a write delay. The calibration controller, responsive to passing the initial read check and the initial write check, for each condition of a range of conditions, iteratively performs a write test with the write delay concurrent with a read test with the read delay on the electronic circuit over the range of conditions while simultaneously adjusting the write delay and adjusting the read delay for each iteration until one or more of a read edge and a write edge are detected.
US10068633B2	Semiconductor devices and integrated circuits including the same An integrated circuit may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may be configured to output a chip section signal and command/address signals. The second semiconductor device may be configured to enter a power-down operation based on the chip section signal and the command/address signals. The second semiconductor device may be configured to interrupt input of a first group of the command/address signals during the power-down operation. The second semiconductor device may be configured to selectively perform an on-die termination (ODT) operation according to a level combination of a second group of the command/address signals.
US10068632B2	Semiconductor device and semiconductor system A semiconductor system includes a semiconductor device suitable for not performing an internal refresh operation when entering a self-refresh mode in response to a self-refresh command, and cutting off input of an auto-refresh command when exiting the self-refresh mode.
US10068629B2	Ferroelectric memory cell sensing Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A memory device may maintain a digit line voltage at a ground reference for a duration associated with biasing a ferroelectric capacitor of a memory cell. For example, a digit line that is in electronic communication with a ferroelectric capacitor may be virtually grounded while a voltage is applied to a plate of the ferroelectric capacitor, and the ferroelectric capacitor may be isolated from the virtual ground after a threshold associated with applying the voltage to the plate is reached. A switching component (e.g., a transistor) that is in electronic communication with the digit line and virtual ground may be activated to virtually ground the digit line and deactivated to isolate the digit line from virtual ground.
US10068628B2	Apparatus for low power write and read operations for resistive memory Apparatuses for improving resistive memory energy efficiency are provided. An apparatus performs data-driven write to make use of asymmetric write switch energy between write0 and write1 operations. The apparatus comprises: a resistive memory cell coupled to a bit line and a select line; a first pass-gate coupled to the bit line; a second pass-gate coupled to the select line; and a multiplexer operable by input data, the multiplexer to provide a control signal to the first and second pass-gates or to write drivers according to logic level of the input data. An apparatus comprises circuit for performing read before write operation which avoids unnecessary writes with an initial low power read operation. An apparatus comprises circuit to perform self-controlled write operation which stops the write operation as soon as bit-cell flips. An apparatus comprises circuit for performing self-controlled read operation which stops read operation as soon as data is detected.
US10068622B2	Base unit and disk drive apparatus A base member includes a recessed portion arranged to extend in radial directions and recessed upward from a lower surface of the base member, the radial directions being directions perpendicular to a vertical direction; and a hole portion arranged to pass through the recessed portion in the vertical direction. The recessed portion includes a recessed portion loop-shaped surface being a loop-shaped surface perpendicular to the vertical direction. A connector is arranged on a lower side of the recessed portion to cover the hole portion. An adhesive is arranged between the connector and the recessed portion. A minimum value of a gap distance between an outer end of the connector and an inner end of the recessed portion in a radial direction in which the outer end of the connector and the inner end of the recessed portion are opposed to each other with the adhesive therebetween is greater than a minimum value of a gap distance between an upper surface of the connector and the recessed portion loop-shaped surface in the vertical direction, in which the upper surface of the connector and the recessed portion loop-shaped surface are opposed to each other with the adhesive therebetween.
US10068618B2	Electronic apparatus and hard disk drive holder Disclosed herein is an electronic apparatus including a main body, a compartment provided in the main body, a part that is accommodated in the compartment and that can be drawn out of the compartment, two attachment sections that are provided on the part and that are located away from each other, and a knob member attached to the two attachment sections. The knob member is a flexible member that is longer than a distance between the two attachment sections, includes a curved portion that is curved in such a manner as to swell in a direction away from the part, and is elastically deformable such that the swelling of the curved portion decreases.
US10068616B2	Thumbnail generation for video According to one implementation, a video processing system for performing thumbnail generation includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a thumbnail generator software code. The hardware processor executes the thumbnail generator software code to receive a video file, and identify a plurality of shots in the video file, each of the plurality of shots including a plurality of frames of the video file. For each of the plurality of shots, the hardware processor further executes the thumbnail generator software code to filter the plurality of frames to obtain a plurality of key frame candidates, determine a ranking of the plurality of key frame candidates based in part on a blur detection analysis and an image distribution analysis of each of the plurality of key frame candidates, and generate a thumbnail based on the ranking.
US10068613B2	Intelligent selection of scene transitions Techniques related to intelligent selection of scene transitions are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a sequence of video segments may be received as input. The video segments may include a first segment that is adjacent to a second segment. Properties of the first segment and the second segment may be detected. The properties may be used to determine one or more categories for one or more transitions for connecting the first segment to the second segment. The one or more categories may be used to determine one or more placements for the one or more transitions. A digital video that includes the one or more transitions may be generated as output.
US10068607B2	Disk drive motor including inner bottom plate grooves for receiving conducting wires of stator coils A base portion of a motor includes an inner bottom plate portion, a recessed portion and groove portions recessed upward from a lower surface of the inner bottom plate portion, and at least one through hole passing through the inner bottom plate portion in an axial direction. The groove portions extend from the recessed portion toward land portions of a circuit board on a lower surface of the base portion. Conducting wires are drawn out from coils above the base portion to a draw-out surface through the at least one through hole, and are passed through communicating openings and the groove portions to be soldered to the land portions. Each of the at least one through hole is covered with the sealant. Drawing the conducting wires out of the recessed portion through the groove portions prevents the sealant in the recessed portion from overflowing toward the land portions.
US10068605B2	Optical information recording medium having first and second pit row of identical reflectance In a case where (i) a reflectance calculated from a reflected light amount obtained from a longest pit (P1max) or a longest space (S1max) in a first pit row is defined as a first reflectance and (ii) a reflectance calculated from a reflected light amount obtained from a longest pit (P2max) or a longest space (S2max) in the second pit row is defined as a second reflectance, the first pit row is formed such that the first reflectance becomes substantially identical with the second reflectance.
US10068599B2	Tape damage detection In one general embodiment, a method includes calculating a differential position value based on readback signals from at least two servo readers of a magnetic head reading servo tracks of a magnetic recording tape. The differential position value is compared to a previously-calculated differential position value. An action is performed in response to determining that the difference between the differential position value and the previously-calculated differential position value is in a predefined range. In another general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic head having at least two servo readers, and a controller in communication with the servo readers. The controller is configured to detect a sudden change in a width of a magnetic recording tape based on a differential position value derived from relatively more current servo readback data and a second differential position value derived from relatively older servo readback data.
US10068595B2	Disk drive suspension tri-stage actuator having pseudo feature integrally constructed on trace gimbal A dual stage actuated suspension has a first piezoelectric microactuator on the trace gimbal assembly (TGA), and a pseudo feature located laterally opposite the microactuator. The pseudo feature is formed integrally with the TGA from at least one of the base metal layer, the insulative layer, and the conductive layer that make up the TGA. The pseudo feature helps to balance the suspension. The suspension can optionally have a second microactuator located proximal of the first microactuator in order to perform coarser positioning than the first microactuator, such that the suspension is a tri-stage actuated suspension.
US10068594B2	Magnetic devices with overcoats A magnetic device including a magnetic writer; and an overcoat positioned over at least the magnetic writer, the overcoat including oxides of yttrium, oxides of scandium, oxides of lanthanoids, oxides of actionoids, oxides of zinc, or combinations thereof.
US10068592B1	Devices including a NFT having at least one amorphous alloy layer Disclosed are devices that include a near field transducer (NFT), the NFT having a peg and a disc and the peg including peg material and at least one associated amorphous blocker layer, wherein the amorphous blocker layer includes an amorphous metal alloy and the amorphous blocker layer is within the peg material, on one or more surfaces of the peg material, or both.
US10068590B2	Method of making magnetically shielded write transducers A method according to one embodiment includes forming a lower shield of a shield structure; forming a portion of a magnetic yoke for each of at least two write transducers above the lower shield of the shield structure; and forming an upper shield of the shield structure above the portions of the yokes of each of two of the at least two write transducers, the shields being formed of a magnetically permeable material, wherein the upper and lower shields are magnetically connected.
US10068585B2	Echo canceller device An echo canceller device is provided with a first filter unit that generates a first output signal y1(k) by filtering a first input signal x1(k) with a filter coefficient h(k), an adaptation unit that modifies the filter coefficient h(k) on the basis of an adaptation algorithm so that a first error signal e1(k) becomes small, a first delaying unit that delays a first objective signal d1(k) by a certain time period τ and outputs the signal as a second objective signal d2(k), a second delaying unit that delays the first input signal x1(k) by the certain time period τ and outputs the signal as a second input signal x2(k), and a second filter unit that generates a second output signal y2(k) by filtering the second input signal x2(k) by the filter coefficient h(k) modified by the adaptation unit.
US10068583B2	Systems and methods of interpreting speech data Method and systems are provided for interpreting speech data. A method and system for recognizing speech involving a filter module to generate a set of processed audio data based on raw audio data; a translation module to provide a set of translation results for the raw audio data; and a decision module to select the text data that represents the raw audio data. A method for minimizing noise in audio signals received by a microphone array is also described. A method and system of automatic entry of data into one or more data fields involving receiving a processed audio data; and operating a processing module to: search in a trigger dictionary for a field identifier that corresponds to the trigger identifier; identify a data field associated with a data field identifier corresponding to the field identifier; and providing content data associated with the trigger identifier to the identified data field.
US10068581B2	Method and arrangement for providing a backwards compatible payload format In a method of providing a backward and forward compatible speech codec payload format, performing the steps of providing a RTP package. Subsequently, including payload according to a first codec into the provided RTP package, and appending payload according to a second codec into the provided RTP package. In addition, locating at least one unused bit in the included first codec payload, and designating the located at least one unused bit as a codec compatibility bit. Finally, utilizing the designated at least one codec compatibility bit to provide an indication of the presence of the appended second codec payload.
US10068578B2	Recovering high frequency band signal of a lost frame in media bitstream according to gain gradient A method for recovering lost frame in a media bitstream is provided. When a frame loss event occurs, a decoder obtains a synthesized high frequency band signal of a current lost frame, and recovery information related to the current lost frame. The decoder determines a global gain gradient of the current lost frame, and further determines a global gain of the current lost frame according to the global gain gradient and a global gain of each frame in previous M frames of the current lost frame. A high frequency band signal of the current lost frame is obtained by adjusting the synthesized high frequency band signal of the current lost frame according to the global gain and a subframe gain of the current lost frame. The process enables natural and smooth transitions of the high frequency band signal between the frames, and attenuates noises in the high frequency band signal.
US10068575B2	Information notification supporting device, information notification supporting method, and computer program product According to an embodiment, an information notification supporting device includes an analyzer configured to analyze an input voice so as to identify voice information indicating information related to speech; a storage unit configured to store therein a history of the voice information; an output controller configured to determine, using the history of the voice information, whether a user is able to listen to a message of which the user should be notified; and an output unit configured to output the message when it is determined that the user is in a state in which the user is able to listen to the message.
US10068570B2	Method of voice recognition and electronic apparatus A method of voice recognition and an electronic apparatus are described with the method of voice recognition being applied in an electronic apparatus. The method includes taking i=1 and detecting corresponding i-th voice sub-information at a moment Ti when the electronic apparatus detects that a user starts to talk at a moment T0, wherein the i-th voice sub-information voice information from the moment T0 to the moment Ti, the i-th voice sub-information is partial voice information of voice information with integral semantic corresponding to a moment Tj after the moment T0 to the moment Ti, and i is an integer greater than or equal to 1; and analyzing the i-th voice sub-information to obtain M results of analysis, M being an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US10068569B2	Generating acoustic models of alternative pronunciations for utterances spoken by a language learner in a non-native language A non-transitory processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to be executed by a processor includes code to cause the processor to receive acoustic data representing an utterance spoken by a language learner in a non-native language in response to prompting the language learner to recite a word in the non-native language and receive a pronunciation lexicon of the word in the non-native language. The pronunciation lexicon includes at least one alternative pronunciation of the word based on a pronunciation lexicon of a native language of the language learner. The code causes the processor to generate an acoustic model of the at least one alternative pronunciation in the non-native language and identify a mispronunciation of the word in the utterance based on a comparison of the acoustic data with the acoustic model. The code causes the processor to send feedback related to the mispronunciation of the word to the language learner.
US10068562B1	Dual-chamber whistle The dual-chamber whistle is a sound producing device that creates a first air flow, a second air flow and a third air flow within the dual-chamber whistle. The basic sound of the dual-chamber whistle is generated by a first turbulence created the interaction of the first air flow and the second air flow. The third air flow also interacts with both the first air flow and the second air flow to create a second turbulence. This second turbulence creates an additional sound called the oversound. While actual patterns of turbulences created in both the first turbulence and the second turbulence are essentially random, the human psychological response to the oversound is to interpret the oversound as an actual call for help. The dual-chamber whistle comprises an intake, an exhaust, and a router which creates a complex air flow.
US10068561B2	Electronic signal processor An electronic signal processor for processing signals includes a complex first filter, one or more gain stages and a second filter. The first filter is characterized by a frequency response curve that includes multiple corner frequencies, with some corner frequencies being user selectable. The first filter also has at least two user-preset gain levels which may be alternately selected by a switch. Lower frequency signals are processed by the first filter with at least 12 db/octave slope, and preferably with 18 db/octave slope to minimize intermodulation distortion products by subsequent amplification in the gain stages. A second filter provides further filtering and amplitude control. The signal processor is particularly suited for processing audio frequency signals.
US10068559B2	Magnetic pickup A magnetic pickup is configured for a stringed instrument with at least one string, a neck part, and a body, which has a soundboard. A north and south pole of the magnetic pickup define a magnetic axis. The magnetic axis of the magnetic pickup is oriented substantially parallel to the soundboard or, in the region of the magnetic pickup, an auxiliary magnet having a magnetic axis is arranged, the magnetic axis of the auxiliary magnet is oriented substantially parallel to the soundboard or at a right angle to the magnetic axis of the magnetic pickup.
US10068551B1	Localized high brightness mode An electronic device includes a first digital-to-analog converter (DAC) configured to provide brightness control for a first subset of pixels of a display and a second DAC configured to provide brightness control for a second subset of pixels of the display. A display controller selectively operates the second DAC to provide the brightness control for the second subset of pixels while simultaneously operating the first DAC to provide the brightness control for the first subset of pixels of the display.
US10068550B1	Controlling a brightness setting of an optical output device based on brightness setting of a companion device A point-of-sale system includes a computing device, such as a mobile phone or tablet, and a payment object reader communicatively coupled to the computing device that is used to acquire data from a payment object reader. The payment object reader includes an optical output device. The brightness of the optical output device is controlled by the payment object reader depending on the brightness of the computing device coupled to the payment object reader. The brightness level of the optical output device of the payment object reader, which can be a near field communication (NFC) signal strength indicator having four light-emitting-diodes (LEDs), is coordinated to the brightness level of the computing device.
US10068543B2	Unit shift register circuit, shift register circuit, method for controlling unit shift register circuit, and display device A unit shift register circuit constitutes each stage of a shift register circuit. The unit shift register circuit includes an output transistor (T1) configured to input a prescribed clock signal (CK) to a drain terminal, and output an output signal (OUT) from a source terminal. The unit shift register circuit includes a setting transistor (T2) in which a source terminal is connected to a gate electrode of the output transistor (T1), is configured to input an input signal (S) to the drain terminal, and is configured to input to a gate electrode an input signal (VS) in a case of charging a gate electrode (node (VC)) of the output transistor (T1). The input signal (VS) having a voltage higher than that of the input signal (S).
US10068542B2	Gate driver on array circuit and liquid crystal display using the same A GOA circuit includes GOA circuit units. A holding module is substituted for a capacitor in each GOA circuit unit. A second transistor in the holding module is turned on when a scanning signal does not produce a pulse so that voltage imposed in a first control node is held by a first transistor and a third transistor. Because the transistors form a passage between the first control node and a first constant voltage, the voltage imposed on the first control node does not vary due to electricity leakage. Because a second capacitor is coupled with the first control node, the pulse of the scanning signal output by the GOA circuit unit reaches to an ideal high voltage level. The GOA circuit unit can resolve the problem of easy leakage of electricity. When the scanning signals are output by the GOA circuit unit, the stability is highly ensured.
US10068540B2	Curved liquid crystal display which prevents edge stain A liquid crystal display (LCD) includes: a curved liquid crystal panel; and a driving device for displaying an image by operating the curved liquid crystal panel, wherein a luminance curve for a gray level for generating a gray-level voltage to be applied by the driving device to a first color pixel disposed in an edge portion of the curved liquid crystal panel is disposed below a luminance curve for a gray level for generating a gray-level voltage to be applied to the first color pixel disposed in a remaining portion of the curved liquid crystal panel.
US10068535B2	Display apparatus and driving method thereof A display apparatus comprises a display panel comprising a plurality of dimming areas, a light source unit configured to supply light to the display panel, a timing controller configured to receive a control signal and input data and to generate a gate control signal, a data control signal, and a light source control signal, a display panel driving unit configured to drive the display panel based on the gate and data control signals, and a light source driving unit configured to drive the light source unit based on the light source control signal, wherein based on the input data, the timing controller is configured to determine a first color of at least any one dimming area among the dimming areas and a second color in a complementary color relationship to the first color and to supply information on the first and second colors to the light source driving unit.
US10068532B2	Display device including signal processor that superimposes visible light communication signals on backlight control signals generated based on an image signal A display device includes: a display panel including a display screen; a backlight having a light emission surface that illuminates the display screen of the display panel from behind; a second processor that superimposes the visible light communication signals on backlight control signals generated based on the image signal; and a second controller that divides the light emission surface of the backlight into regions and establishes a period during which control of light emission in each of the regions and control for turning off the backlight in each of the regions a different time are performed based on the backlight control signals outputted by the second processor. When superimposing the visible light communication signals on the backlight control signals, the second processor does not superimpose a visible light communication signal in a period indicating an OFF state of the backlight in the backlight control signals.
US10068531B2	Pixel circuit and organic light emitting display device including the same A pixel circuit includes an organic light emitting diode including an anode and a cathode connected to a low power voltage, a first transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode connected to a high power voltage, and a second electrode connected to the anode, a storage capacitor connected between the high power voltage and the gate electrode of the first transistor, a second transistor including a first electrode which receives a data signal corresponding to an emission sustaining voltage or an emission finishing voltage, a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode which receives an erase scan signal, and a third transistor including a first electrode connected to an emission starting voltage, a second electrode connected to the gate electrode of the first transistor, and a gate electrode which receives a write scan signal.
US10068530B2	Organic light-emitting diode display and method of driving the same Provided are an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and method of driving the same. An OLED display includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels, each pixel including an OLED, an emission timing of each pixel being controlled in response to an EM signal, a shift register configured to generate an anti-phase EM signal based on gate shift clocks, and an inverter configured to: invert a phase of the anti-phase EM signal based on emission shift clocks, and generate the EM signal, wherein a driving frequency of the shift register and a driving frequency of the inverter are lower in a low-speed driving mode than in a normal driving mode, and wherein in the low-speed driving mode, an amplitude of the emission shift clocks is less than an amplitude of the gate shift clocks.
US10068528B2	Apparatus and method for sensing display panel An apparatus and a method for sensing a display panel are provided. The apparatus includes a gate driving circuit and a sensing circuit. The gate driving circuit may scan the scan-lines during a plurality of scan-line periods within a frame period. The sensing circuit is coupled to a plurality of pixel circuits. A corresponding scan-line period of the scan-line periods is divided into a test data period and a display data period. In the test data period, the sensing circuit controls a corresponding pixel circuit to receive the test data, and the sensing circuit senses the electrical characteristic of the corresponding pixel circuit. In the display data period, the sensing circuit controls the corresponding pixel circuit to receive the display data from a corresponding data line, and the sensing circuit does not sense the corresponding pixel circuit.
US10068525B2	Display device A display device includes a reflective layer on a first electrode, the reflective layer including silver or a silver alloy, an inorganic layer on the reflective layer, the inorganic layer having a work function that is lower than that of the reflective layer, an emission layer on the inorganic layer, an organic layer on the emission layer, and a second electrode on the organic layer.
US10068517B2	Display apparatus A display apparatus includes a timing controller and a display panel, in which the timing controller generates first output image data based on first input image data corresponding to a first frame set, the display panel includes a plurality of pixels and displays a first output image based on the first output image data during the first frame set, and the first frame set includes a first frame and a second frame, where the duration of the second frame is different from the duration of the first frame.
US10068516B2	Display device having temperature compensation and method of driving the same A display device includes a timing controller, a data driver, and a display panel. The timing controller includes a first compensator receiving a first image data, selecting a temperature compensation value in accordance with the external temperature, and converting the first image data to a second image data on the basis of the selected temperature compensation value and a second compensator selecting a kickback voltage compensation value predetermined in accordance with the areas of the display panel and converting the second image data to the output image data on the basis of the kickback voltage compensation value selected in accordance with the areas.
US10068512B2	Modulator for a MUX LCD A modulator can include a common signal modulator that outputs a predetermined number of common signals to a multiplexer interface liquid crystal display (MUX LCD) based on an output state of a set of general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins of a controller, wherein each common signal has at least four bias levels. The modulator can also include a segment signal modulator that outputs a predetermined number of segment signals to the MUX LCD based on an output state of another set of GPIO pins of the controller, wherein each segment signal has at least three bias levels.
US10068506B2	System, device for creating an aerial image The invention relates to a flying device (701) arranged to fly in a space and to present an image in that space, a system comprising multiple flying devices (701) for presenting an image in a space and a method for presenting an image in a space using a flying device (701), wherein the flying device (701) is arranged to fly in the space under control of a control signal, the flying device (701) comprising one or more light units (731) arranged to emit multiple light beams (711, 712, 713) a communication unit arranged to receive the control signal and a processing unit arranged to control, based on the received control signal a position of the flying device and a light output of each of the multiple beams (711, 712, 713).
US10068503B2	Backlit tension fabric popup display The invention discloses a backlit tension fabric popup display, including an exhibit grid frame, backlit grooved straight rods and a plurality of roller-shutter-style LED light bars. A plurality of roller-shutter-style LED light bars are suspended on the light bar hooks between the upper and lower X-shaped pull rods. Four sides on one plane or eight sides on two planes of the exhibit grid frame are all connected to the backlit grooved straight rods by the corner grooved plastic parts at both ends. A display is formed by inserting the silicone strips at the edges of the display into the corresponding grooves of the backlit grooved straight rods. The backlit tension fabric popup display and the LED light bars are perfectly combined, without the black rim, folds or a light leak. In addition, single or double planes are chosen as needed.
US10068500B2	Color display system Color display systems are disclosed, wherein the color display system includes a main display unit and a secondary display unit. The main display unit can include a plurality of rotatable color selection pods where one side of the color selection pod displays a color(s) and the other side of the color selection pod includes receptacles that can hold color chips. The color selection pods are arranged in columns, and each column can represent a particular color family or color category. The secondary display unit can include a first sub-display and a second sub-display, with each sub-display displaying colors of particular categories or themes. The color display system can also include a central work center which can include a work table and rotating color display.
US10068498B2	Organ model for endoscope An organ model for endoscope includes: a basic shape part formed by imitating a shape of a tubular organ; and a tissue holding part that holds a tissue piece and is detachably provided with respect to the basic shape part. The tissue holding part includes: a main body that is formed in a tubular shape and has a window part communicating with an internal space, on an outer peripheral surface; and a fixing member that fixes the tissue piece on the main body such that at least a portion of the tissue piece overlaps the window part. The main body is rotatable in a circumferential direction of the main body with respect to the basic shape part, in a state where the main body is attached to the basic shape part.
US10068494B2	Artificial intelligence based health coaching based on ketone levels of participants A system is disclosed that uses profiles of users, including monitored ketone levels of the users, to assess effectiveness levels of health programs (such as weight loss programs) assigned to the users, and to select health program modifications for the users. The system may use a machine learning (artificial intelligence) algorithm to adaptively learn how to classify users and to select messaging and behavioral modifications for the users. For example, in some embodiments the system classifies the users and provides associated health program recommendations using a computer model trained with expert-classified user data records. As another example, a set of rules may be used to generate the health program recommendations and related messaging, and the set of rules may automatically be modified over time based on feedback data reflective of health program effectiveness levels produced by such rules. In some embodiments the system includes a mobile application that runs on mobile devices of users and communicates wirelessly with breath analysis devices of the users. The mobile application may also communicate with a server-based system that generates the health program recommendations.
US10068492B2	Controlled resources based on good behavior Computing system resources are controlled based on the behavioral attributes associated with users of the computing system. These behavioral attributes are monitored in real time and through a historical log, and behavioral attributes that fall outside pre-determined preferred behavioral parameters are detected. Access by the computing system user to computing system resources contained in a preferred and habitually accessed computing system resource set associated with the computing system user are adjusted in response to the detection of the behavioral attribute outside the pre-determined preferred behavioral parameters.
US10068486B1	Transportation network utilizing multiple autonomous vehicles to transport items between network locations A transportation network is provided that utilizes autonomous vehicles (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles) for identifying, acquiring, and transporting items between network locations without requiring human interaction. A travel path for an item through the transportation network may include multiple path segments and corresponding intermediate network locations, with a different autonomous vehicle utilized to transport the item along each path segment. Different possible next network locations for a travel path may selected based on transportation factors such as travel time, cost, safety, etc. (e.g., as may be related to distance, network congestion, inclement weather, etc.). Local processing (e.g., by a control system of an autonomous vehicle) may perform the selection of a next network location for a travel path (e.g., allowing multiple autonomous vehicles to simultaneously engage and depart with items or otherwise travel without having to contact and wait for instructions from centralized system components, etc.).
US10068485B2	Platooning autonomous vehicle navigation sensory exchange A vehicle system includes a communication interface programmed to communicate with a plurality of platooning vehicles, including a rear vehicle, and receive sensor signals transmitted from the rear vehicle. The vehicle system further includes a processor programmed to command the rear vehicle to turn around and programmed to output control signals to the plurality of platooning vehicles. The control signals control at least one of the plurality platooning vehicles to travel in a reverse direction according to the sensor signals received from the rear vehicle.
US10068482B2	Driving assistant device and driving assistant method A driving assistant device includes: a detection unit configured to detect at least one of an edge of a road, a lane of the road, and an object positioned within a certain range on the road; a calculation unit configured to calculate distance from the edge, distance from the lane, distance from the object, and speed of the object, and to calculate time to collision (TTC) with each of the edge, the lane, and the object based on the calculated distances and speed; a management unit configured to set a risk level of at least each one of the edge, the lane, and the object, and to adjust the risk level based on the TTC; and a control unit configured to control at least one of an indicator, a steering system, a brake, a headrest, and a belt according to the risk level.
US10068481B2	Vehicle-mounted peripheral object notification system, object notification system, and notification control apparatus A vehicle-mounted peripheral object notification system includes a peripheral object detection device detecting an object existing in a periphery of a vehicle, a notification device notifying a driver of an existence of the object detected by the peripheral object detection device, a visual line detector successively detecting a visual line of the driver of the vehicle, and a notification controller setting, as a notification range, a range obtained by excluding a recognition direction range, which is determined based on the visual line detected by the visual line detector, from a reference notification range, which is determined based on an object detection range of the peripheral object detection device. The notification controller controls the notification device to notify the object when the object detected by the peripheral object detection device exists in the notification range.
US10068479B2	Communication device for vehicle-to-X communication The invention relates to a communication device for vehicle-to-X communication for a vehicle, comprising: at least four antennas for transmitting and receiving wireless information and at least one electronic control unit (ECU) for transmitting and receiving information via the antennas and for processing the information received or to be transmitted via the antennas, wherein the at least four antennas are arranged on the vehicle in such a way that the directional characteristics of antennas among the at least four antennas which are arranged directly opposite each other on the vehicle exhibit a spatial overlap.
US10068475B2	System for providing data for vehicles A system for providing data for vehicles includes a region server for providing information data for vehicles in a region. A first and second of the vehicles predict path data, which indicate at least one route that the first and second vehicles will drive with a probability. The first and second vehicles are registered in the region server if the route of the first and second vehicles indicated by the predicted path data lies in the region. The region server produces the information data in dependence on received sensor data of the first vehicle. The produced information data are sent by the region server to the second vehicle if the predicted path data of the second vehicle overlap with the predicted path data of the first vehicle and the second vehicle is registered in the region server.
US10068474B2	Method and vehicle traffic control system A vehicle and method of operating a vehicle in a vehicle traffic control system includes receiving a grid projection from a grid generator, generating a navigation output, transmitting the navigation output to the vehicle traffic control system, receiving the vehicle traffic control plan from the vehicle traffic control system, and operating the vehicle.
US10068469B2	Precision traffic indication Precision traffic flow indication may involve receiving device data over a period of time representing a plurality traffic flow readings associated with a road involving a plurality of subsections. Calculating traffic flows and determining road subsections having similar traffic flows may also be involved. Also, indicating a different traffic flow level for a first subsection and a second subsection of road may be involved.
US10068468B2	Control system for an outdoor communication system Provided is a control system for an outdoor communication system mounted to a fixture of the outdoor communication system that includes at least one sensor configured to sense and perform wireless communication, and a cover formed at least partially transparent and configured to house the at least one sensor and transmit signals through the cover for wireless communication with the outdoor communication system.
US10068467B1	System and method for field monitoring of stationary assets A wireless sensor network including a number of wireless modules for monitoring sensors associated with stationary assets. Additionally, the wireless module includes a wireless transceiver, a processor, a location acquisition unit, which are configured to acquire a location item for identifying a location of the wireless module, and a memory.
US10068466B2	Wireless control device A wall-mountable wireless control device may include an antenna (e.g., a slot antenna or a hybrid slot-patch antenna) for transmitting and/or receiving radio-frequency signals, and may have a conductive material on a large amount (e.g., greater than or equal to approximately 85%) of a front surface of the control device. The wireless control device may operate consistently when installed with different types of faceplate assemblies (e.g., faceplate assemblies having metal and/or plastic components) and when installed with different types of electrical wallboxes (e.g., metal and plastic wallboxes). A faceplate comprising a conductive element may be installed on the wireless control device, such that the conductive element operates as a radiating element of the antenna. The wireless control device may comprise a conductive member (e.g., a conductive label or a conductive strap) extending around a rear enclosure of the wireless control device between opposite sides of a conductive yoke.
US10068464B2	Method for adding a security code to multiple receivers during power-up A method for configuring a first remotely-controlled device from a plurality of remotely-controlled devices to execute a function in response to a signal from a remote-controller by executing a set of steps at the first remotely-controlled device, wherein said set of steps comprises power cycling said first remotely-controlled device, said power cycling initiating a pairing period, during said pairing period, receiving, from said remote-controller, a first signal, wherein said first signal includes a first security code, and storing said first security code, said method further comprising, after said pairing period, receiving a second signal, said second signal carrying a second security code, comparing said second security code with said first security code, and, in response to said comparison, selecting an action selected from the group consisting of ignoring said second signal and carrying out said function in response to said second signal.
US10068463B2	Methods for the determination and control of a piece of equipment to be controlled; device, use and system implementing these methods A method for determining a piece of equipment to be controlled by a transportable control object disposed in a space having at least one positioning unit capable of determining the relative position of the control object relative to the positioning unit, the method including: a step of determining the position and the orientation of the control object in the space from the position of the at least one positioning unit, a step of determining a direction and a sense pointed at by the control object from the position and orientation of the control object determined in this way, and a step of determining a piece of equipment to be controlled in the space from the direction and sense determined in this way.
US10068462B2	Systems and methods for manual tamper reset in a monitoring system Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and method for resetting one or more status indicators in a monitoring system.
US10068458B2	Method of providing activity notification and device thereof A method of providing an activity notification is provided. The method includes registering, by the device, information about the activity notification according to a request for registering the activity notification, and transmitting, by the device, the registered information about the activity notification to a management device, wherein the management device performs a process of providing the activity notification.
US10068454B1	Sensor data gathering, threshold exceedance determination, and alert generation mobile device communication system Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a sensor data gathering, threshold exceedance determination, and alert generation mobile device communication system. One of the methods includes obtaining information associated with sensing instruments monitoring physical characteristics of an environment. Values associated with physical characteristics are determined to have exceeded respective thresholds using the obtained information. Alert information describing the values is generated in response to the determination.
US10068451B1	Noise level tracking and notification system A first value is received and is associated with a noise level of an environment that a user is in. It is determined whether the first value exceeds a first threshold. A second computing device is notified when the first value exceeds the first threshold. The notifying indicates that the user must leave the environment.
US10068450B2	Arrangement, system and method for reducing the effect of interference at radio frequencies in an electronic price label system An arrangement, system and method for reducing the effect of interference at radio frequencies in an electronic price label system. The arrangement includes an electronic price label system, which includes a base station equipped with at least a radio transmitter and a radio receiver as well as a set of electronic price labels that receive and reflect back radio signals from the base station. The electronic price label system is connected to an electronic article surveillance system which includes a detector device which is able to detect electronic article surveillance tags, and which electronic article surveillance system further includes an activation device for changing a state of the detector device between an activated-state and a deactivated state. The electronic price label system is configured to start transmitting transmissions from base stations and/or electronic labels only when the detector device of the electronic article surveillance system is in the deactivated state.
US10068448B2	System and method for detecting thefts inside shops Method for detecting thefts inside shops using at least one thermocamera comprising at least one data processing unit receiving at least one thermal image, comprising providing a controlled area of at least part of an image defined by a perimeter comprising at least one exit length and at least one payment interface length; electronically checking the exceeding value of predetermined minimum temperature of at least one pixel of said image; electronically associating said pixel with an object to be checked; plotting the path of said object by associating at the point in which said object exits from said exit length and/or calculating the crossing time of the object as time passed from said associating step to the moment in which said object exits from said exit length; and sending or activating an alarm signal as the path or the crossing time of said object meets a predetermined criterion.
US10068446B2	Detection and classification of abnormal sounds An audio surveillance system includes a plurality of nodes and each node includes a microphone, a speaker, and a control unit. The microphone is configured to detect sound and the speaker is configured to provide sound. The control unit is configured to receive a plurality of inputs from the plurality of nodes and the plurality of inputs are based on a detected sound; determine a location of the source of the detected sound based on the plurality of inputs; classify the detected sound according to predefined alert conditions and based on the location of the source of the detected sound; provide an alert to a monitoring device regarding the detected sound based on the classification of the detected sound; and control at least one node from the plurality of nodes to provide an audio response to the detected sound.
US10068440B2	Systems and methods for tracking assets using associated portable electronic device in the form of beacons The last known location of a beacon associated with an asset can be determined based on the beacon's last communication with a data network. A beacon can be set up to communicate its location to or through a server to a second client used for locating and tracking the beacon after the beacon obtains a wireless data network connection and registers its most recent location with the server. Beacon location can be based on data network router IP address or GPS information. Location can be stored in memory until a subsequent location and/or wireless connection is obtained. A beacon can also include short range wireless communications to facilitate short range radio frequency communications with a second client that are determined to be in close proximity to the beacon. Short-range communications can be facilitated utilizing Bluetooth communications.
US10068433B2	Wagering game having morphing symbol feature A gaming system for conducting a wagering game includes at least one input device, at least one display device, and at least one processor. The gaming system further includes at least one memory device that stores a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to operate with the at least one display device and the at least one input device to display a wagering game having an array of symbols indicating a randomly selected outcome, the array of symbols including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, and, in response to the array of symbols including a special symbol, change the special symbol into a modified symbol, the modified symbol corresponding with a second symbol of the array of symbols to form a modified array, the second symbol being selected based on a predetermined condition.
US10068432B2	Gaming machine with symbol propagation An embodiment may involve selecting a set of symbols associated with an outcome event of a reel-based game. The reel-based game may be executed on behalf of a client machine, and selecting the set of symbols may involve spinning a plurality of reels to determine the outcome event. The embodiment may further involve determining that the set of symbols includes a predetermined symbol on a designated reel and does not include any winning combination. The embodiment may also involve, possibly in response to determining that the set of symbols includes the predetermined symbol on the designated reel and does not include any winning combination, replacing one or more symbols in the set of symbols with predetermined symbols such that the symbol set after replacement includes a winning combination.
US10068431B1	Facilitating event implementation in an online game A system and method for facilitating implementation of events in an online game are disclosed. Award information may be received from user. The received award information may define a type of in-game award to be distributed to players of the online game. The award information may include information indicate a corresponding award handler for determine and/or distributing the instances of the award to the players. Event information may be received from user. The received event information may specify details for implementing an event in the online game. The received event information may include event award information indicating one or more instances of an award of an award type defined by the received award information. The event information may be used to automatically implement the event in the online game, and the instances of the award may be distributed to the participating players in accordance with the event award information.
US10068428B1	Prize-linked savings accounts A method implemented on a first electronic computing device includes determining available lotteries for a user of the first electronic computing device. The user is authenticated on the first electronic computing device. An area of residence is confirmed for the user. First lotteries that are available in the area of residence of the user are identified. Second lotteries for which the user can qualify are identified. The second lotteries are a subset of the first lotteries. When one or more of the second lotteries are identified, identification information for the second lotteries is sent to a second electronic computing device for display to the user on the second electronic computing device.
US10068421B2	Using a first device to verify whether a second device is communicating with a server A server may provide activities and/or services through a first device. To verify whether the first device is communicating with the server, a value may be determined and sent to the first device, via the server. The value may be sent in response to receiving a request/command from a second device, and may be determined using another value received from the second device.
US10068417B2	Mobile secondary betting user interface A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include detecting a request to pair a mobile device with a secondary content controller that is communicatively coupled to a wagering game machine. In some examples the secondary content controller is independent of a primary content controller for the wagering game machine. The operations can further include determining, by the secondary content controller, that primary wagering game content of the wagering game machine is in a state that would permit secondary wagering on the primary wagering game content. Further, the operations can include pairing the mobile device with the secondary content controller after determining that the primary wagering game content is in the state that would permit the secondary wagering.
US10068415B2	Gaming system and method providing a multiplayer secondary game having an outcome determined based on play of a primary game of at least one, but not all, of the multiplayer secondary game players Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gaming system and method providing a multiplayer secondary game having an outcome determined based on play of a primary game of at least one, but not all, of the secondary game players. In various embodiments, play of a primary game of a designated one of a plurality of players of a secondary game controls play of the secondary game independent of any play of any primary games of the other players of the secondary game. Put differently, play of the secondary game depends on play of the primary game of the designated player and does not depend on any play of any primary games of the other. Thus, while multiple players participate in the secondary game and may concurrently play individual primary games, play of the primary game of one, but not all, of those players controls play of the secondary game.
US10068408B2	Vending machine adjustable depth retainer A vending machine is provided with an internal product holding assembly where product to be vended is held or stacked within each of a plurality of product holding compartments formed by a plurality of spaced apart stacking walls. Compartment depth is variable, so as to dispense varying length products, by a movable rear wall movably mounted to one side of a stacking wall so as to be incrementally adjustable within the compartment between a plurality of selected fore and aft positions. The stacking walls have a hollow interior housing an adjusting mechanism for incrementally moving the depth controlling rear wall, with the adjusting mechanism being operable from the front of the product holding assembly and retainable at a selected position.
US10068405B2	Coin recognition system and method A coin handling system performs a one or two-part coin handling and recognition process. In the first part of the two-part process, the system images bulk coins, determines the coin types or other attributes, and returns at least some of the coins to the bulk coin receptacle; in the second part, the system re-images the coins and uses the coin types or attributes determined in the first part to efficiently and economically perform machine recognition of attributes of the coins. The output is used to handle the coins and to determine a price to pay for the coins. The images are bright field images suitable for use by people.
US10068398B1	Release monitoring through check-in and tethering system A check-in and tethering system for monitoring persons such as released in court-ordered supervised programs and a method for operating such a system is disclosed. The system includes a tethered mobile device that provides a check-in procedure that requires a response from a user of the tethered mobile device in the form of at least one of a device identifier from a monitored tethered device attached to the user, a biometric response, or a performed action by the user. The tethered mobile device determines whether the response is valid and transmits a notification to a monitoring center in response to the determination.
US10068395B2	Access control system An access control method can include sending an identification code to an access node using a mobile telephone. If the identification code is recognized as valid, an access code is sent from the access node to the mobile telephone and presented on the display of the mobile telephone. The access code is detected using a camera, and if the access code is recognized as valid, the access is granted.
US10068391B2	On board monitoring device An onboard device comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter. The onboard device also comprises a transceiver and a global positioning system (GPS) receiver. In some embodiments, the memory of the onboard device stores a program that, when executed causes the processor to monitor voltage levels of a main battery of a vehicle for presence of a start sequence of a vehicle, detect movement of the vehicle, and send a message to an operations center indicating movement of the vehicle without occurrence of the start sequence.
US10068386B2	Methods and systems for electronic payment for parking in gated garages The methods describe the use of Handset Apps in garages currently using paper tickets or ID tokens in ways that minimize disruption to the existing infrastructure. The techniques include automatic recognition of garage/gate ID, automatic identification of paper ticket ID without optical scanning, and direct payment in manually operated garages, including those using valet parking.
US10068384B2	Interaction analysis systems and methods Interaction-based ecosystems are presented. Interaction analysis engine analyze media content to derive a set of media features. The engine can then identify one or more interaction objects (e.g., transactions, searches, game play, etc.) based on the set of media features. Relevant interaction objects can then be instantiated as persistent available or active points of interaction readily accessed by a consumer. The consumer need only capture a digital representation of the content via a user device, a smart phone for example. A second set of media features can be derived from the digital representation and the second set of media features can then be used to find the instantiated interactions.
US10068381B2	Collaborative augmented reality Augmented reality presentations are provided at respective electronic devices. A first electronic device receives information relating to modification made to an augmented reality presentation at a second electronic device, and the first electronic device modifies the first augmented reality presentation in response to the information.
US10068377B2	Three dimensional graphical overlays for a three dimensional heads-up display unit of a vehicle The disclosure includes a system and method for wireless data sharing between a mobile client device and a three-dimensional heads-up display unit. A system may include a three-dimensional heads-up display unit (“3D HUD”) installed in a vehicle. The system may include a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: establish a peer-to-peer video stream between a mobile client device and the vehicle; generate live video data for providing a video stream for causing a screen of the mobile client device to display visual content of the 3D HUD that includes substantially live images depicting what the driver of the vehicle sees when looking at the 3D HUD; and stream the live video data to the mobile client device to cause the screen of the mobile client device to display the video stream that depicts what the driver of the vehicle sees when looking at the 3D HUD.
US10068371B2	Extraction of body dimensions from planar garment photographs of fitting garments Techniques for extraction of body parameters, dimensions and shape of a customer are presented herein. A model descriptive of a garment, a corresponding calibration factor and reference garment shapes can be assessed. A garment shape corresponding to the three-dimensional model can be selected from the reference garment shapes based on a comparison of the three-dimensional model with the reference garment shapes. A reference feature from the plurality of reference features may be associated with the model feature. A measurement of the reference feature may be calculated based on the association and the calibration factor. The computed measurement can be stored in a body profile associated with a user. An avatar can be generated for the user based on the body profile and be used to show or indicate fit of a garment, as well as make fit and size recommendations.
US10068370B2	Render-time linking of shaders In one example, a graphics rendering subsystem may selectively link a set of graphic effect modules, such as shaders, to increase processing efficiency. The graphics rendering subsystem may execute a comparison of a performance attribute of a first pre-compiled graphic effect module with a linking criteria. The graphics rendering subsystem may link the first pre-compiled graphic effect module and a second pre-compiled graphic effect module at render-time in response to the performance attribute satisfying the linking criteria.
US10068368B2	Method, visualization device, and computer program product for visualizing a three-dimensional object The inner volume of an inhomogeneous three-dimensional object is visualized by a plurality of simulated visual rays. For a respective visual ray entering the object volume, i) a scatter position is determined along the visual ray, ii) a scatter direction is selected in dependence on a random process, and iii) the visual ray is scattered at the scatter position in the selected scatter direction. Steps i) to iii) are repeated until the visual ray is absorbed in the object volume or exits the object volume, wherein the exiting visual ray is incident on an illumination source and, in dependence on a brightness and/or color value of the illumination source, an illumination contribution of the visual ray to a respective visualization pixel is ascertained.
US10068365B2	Spiral visualization generator Examples herein involve generating a spiral visualization of items of a dataset. Dimensions of item indicators corresponding to items of a dataset are analyzed. Starting coordinates for a spiral path for a spiral visualization of the items are determined based on the dimensions of the item indicators and a display area of a display device. A spiral path may be calculated based on the starting coordinates and the dimensions of the item indicators. The spiral visualization may be generated by rendering the item indicators on the spiral path to present a first item indicator of the item indicators from a corresponding first item of the list at the starting coordinates and a last item indicator of the item indicators of a corresponding last item on the list on the spiral path toward the center of the spiral.
US10068364B2	Method and apparatus for making personalized dynamic emoticon The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for making a personalized dynamic emoticon. The method includes: acquiring a video; receiving a picture selection instruction input from a user interface (UI) for making dynamic emoticons; determining, from the acquired video according to the picture selection instruction, multiple frames of images for making a dynamic emoticon; and synthesizing the multiple frames of images for making the dynamic emoticon, to form a picture having a dynamic effect.
US10068363B2	Image point of interest analyser with animation generator An apparatus comprising a point of interest analyser configured to define at least one region within an image as an interest region, determine a position associated with the at least one region; an audio track generator configured to determine at least one audio signal based on the position; and an animated presentation generator configured to generate an animated image comprising the at least one region and the at least one audio signal.
US10068362B2	Data processing apparatus and method of detecting position information for displaying virtual space A data processing apparatus includes a motion control unit that controls a movement of a character in a virtual space; a display unit that displays the character and a background, the background including an object; a detection unit that detects contact position information at which the object of the displayed background and a virtual body provided in the virtual space contact; and a specifying unit that specifies characteristic position information regarding a shape of the object of the background in accordance with the detected contact position information.
US10068360B2	Display device, display control method and display system for detecting a first indicator and a second indicator A display device includes: an acquisition unit which acquires a first image from an image supply device; a detection unit which specifies a position of the indicator and whether the indicator is a first indicator or a second indicator; a generation unit which generates a second image based on the specified position and generates a third image by superimposing the second image on the first image; a display unit which displays the third image; a designation unit which designates either the generation unit or the image supply device as a supply destination of information indicating a position of the second indicator; and a control unit which supplies the information indicating the position of the indicator to the generation unit if the detected indicator is the first indicator, and supplies the information indicating the position of the indicator to the supply destination if the detected indicator is the second indicator.
US10068357B2	Graphical evaluation of a cognitive analysis using a 3D swivel bar chart A 3D swivel bar chart has primary bars with associated secondary bars shown in a condensed form, such as along the z-axis hidden behind a corresponding primary bar. When a primary bar is selected, associated secondary bars swivel out from the z-axis to the front plane. When deselected, the secondary bars swivel back to the z-axis. The user can see additional information is tied to a bar without cluttering the presentation. For an application involving evaluation of a cognitive system, the primary bars can represent confidence levels for candidate answers to a natural language question. The chart includes a legend which displays a particular result when the corresponding primary bar is selected. When a label in the legend is selected, the visualization is augmented with explanatory information pertaining to the particular result, such as evidence extracted from corpora used by the cognitive system to arrive at the result.
US10068355B2	Methods and systems for generating graphical content through physical system modelling Graphic arts software has evolved to provide users with a variety of mark making tools to simulate different brushes, papers, and applied media such as ink, chalk, watercolor, spray paint and oils. However, in many instances the marks rendered appear unnatural and artificial despite the software's goal being to simulate as realistically. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide either users or the software application with a mechanism to remove or reduce artifacts indicative of artificial generation, e.g. rapid transitions. Further, in many instances the graphic images generated and/or manipulated refer to imagined environments or have elements that are physical in nature. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide users with a range of mark making tools that represent marks made by mark making tools comprising multiple elements following physical laws.
US10068354B2	Obtaining and displaying agricultural data An image of an agricultural item is captured on a mobile device. Agricultural data is received that corresponds geographically to the agricultural item. Visual indicia are displayed that are indicative of the received agricultural data.
US10068348B2	Method and apparatus for indentifying structural elements of a projected structural pattern in camera images A method for identifying in camera images individual structural elements of a structural pattern projected by a projector onto a scene. First and second cameras are used to pick up the structural pattern. The cameras are positioned at a distance from one another, and the projector is positioned outside a straight line connecting the two cameras and at a distance from the cameras. With respect to a particular structural element to be identified in the camera image of the first camera, the structural element in the camera image of the second camera which can be associated one-to-one with the particular structural element is determined by way of calibration data. The calibration data for the individual structural elements comprises combinations of parameters which correlate the respective structural element with the location and orientation of both the first camera and the projector, and of the second camera and the projector.
US10068347B2	Method and apparatus for estimating depth, and method and apparatus for training distance estimator A method and apparatus for estimating a depth, and a method and apparatus for training an distance estimator are provided, wherein the method for estimating a depth may include obtaining an image, and estimating a depth of a second image object based on a correlation between a first image object and the second image object in the image and a depth of the first image object.
US10068346B2	Color distance determination A method for evaluating color differences of pixels is provided. The method comprises obtaining color information of a first pixel in a color opponent space obtaining color information of a second pixel in the color opponent space, defining a half-line in the color opponent space based on the color information of the first pixel, and determining distance between color information of the second pixel and half-line in the color opponent space.
US10068342B2	Macropixel processing system, method and article Digital image processing circuitry converts images in a color filter array (CFA) color space to images in a luminance-chrominance (YUV) 4:2:0 color space, and the images in the YUV 4:2:0 color space are processed by the digital image processing circuitry in the YUV 4:2:0 color space, for example, to apply noise filtering, etc. The converting includes simultaneously receiving pixel data defining a macro-pixel in the CFA color space. The processing in the YUV color space is applied on a macro-pixel level to the macro-pixel of the image in the YUV color space.
US10068336B1	Generic frontal and side doorway detection with line tracking and vanishing point based verification Described is a system for frontal and side doorway detection. Salient line segments are extracted from an image frame captured of an indoor environment. Existence of a vanishing point in the image frame is determined. If a vanishing point is detected with a confidence score that meets or exceeds a predetermined confidence score, then the system performs side doorway detection via a side doorway detection module. If a vanishing point is detected with a confidence score below the predetermined confidence score, then the system performs frontal doorway detection via a frontal doorway detection module. A description of detected doorways is output and used by a mobile robot (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) to autonomously navigate the indoor environment.
US10068326B2	System and method for enhancing visual inspection of an object A method for inspecting an object to assist in determining whether the object has a surface defect. The method includes moving the object in a first direction and illuminating the object under ambient lighting conditions. The method also includes capturing at least one image of the object under the ambient lighting conditions while the object moves in the first direction. In addition, the object is illuminated under object lighting conditions and at least one image of the object under the object lighting conditions is captured while the object moves in the first direction to provide at least one object image. Further, the method includes selecting at least one object image having at least one indication of a possible defect to provide images having defect candidates and comparing the defect candidates with previously defined characteristics associated with the defect to facilitate determination of whether a defect exists.
US10068324B2	3D profiling system of semiconductor chip and method for operating the same A 3D profiling system of a semiconductor chip is provided and includes a storage unit that receives scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of a plurality of semiconductor devices having respective data with respect to a plurality of different components and gray levels of each SEM image. An extraction unit that performs principal component analysis (PCA) on the gray level of the SEM image and separates principal components from among the plurality of different components is also part of the system. Additionally, a calculation unit receives provision of actually measured values of the plurality of semiconductor devices, and applies a multiple linear regression to the principal components based on the measured values to complete a 3D profile of the semiconductor chip.
US10068322B2	Inspection system One or more techniques and/or systems are described for inspecting an object, such as a tire. The system comprises a radiation imaging system configured to examine the object via radiation to generate a radiation image depicting an interior aspect of the object and a machine vision system configured to measure visible light and/or infrared wavelengths to generate a vision image depicting an exterior aspect of the object. The radiation image and the vision image may be correlated to facilitate an inspection of the object which includes an inspection of the exterior aspect as well as the interior aspect.
US10068319B2	Method for noise reduction in an image sequence A method for processing a frame in a sequence of successively acquired frames in dynamic digital radiography includes the multi-scale representation of frames being subjected to temporal filtering by adding at least one correction image to a corresponding detail image(s) in the multi-scale representations of a frame of interest, the correction image being computed by combining clipped difference images obtained as the difference between the multi-scale representation of the frame of interest and the multi-scale representations of a selection of other frames in said sequence.
US10068318B2	Enhancing the detectability of objects in medical images A system and method is provided for enhancing the detectability of objects in medical images. The method includes providing medical imaging data acquired using a medical imaging system, integrating dynamic noise with the imaging data to generate a modified set of images that achieves improved detection accuracy, and displaying the modified images.
US10068316B1	Tilts as a measure of user engagement for multiview digital media representations Various embodiments of the present invention relate generally to systems and methods for analyzing and manipulating images and video. According to particular embodiments, the spatial relationship between multiple images and video is analyzed together with location information data, for purposes of creating a representation referred to herein as a multi-view interactive digital media representation for presentation on a device. Once a multi-view interactive digital media representation is generated, a user can provide navigational inputs, such via tilting of the device, which alter the presentation state of the multi-view interactive digital media representation. The navigational inputs can be analyzed to determine metrics which indicate a user's interest in the multi-view interactive digital media representation.
US10068314B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium An image processing apparatus includes: an input unit adapted to input an image; a first acquisition unit adapted to acquire a low-frequency component image from the image input by the input unit; a first transformation unit adapted to transform the low-frequency component image acquired by the first acquisition unit; a second transformation unit adapted to transform the image input by the input unit; a second acquisition unit adapted to acquire a transformed high-frequency component image from the transformed image obtained by the second transformation unit; and a display control unit adapted to display, on a display unit, a combined image obtained by combining the transformed low-frequency component image obtained by the first transformation unit and the transformed high-frequency component image acquired by the second acquisition unit.
US10068313B2	Remote management system supporting N-screen function The present disclosure relates to a remote management system supporting an N-screen function. A remote management system according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a graphic editing unit configured to create a first file including a plurality of layers corresponding to resolutions of plurality of devices, and a remote server configured to verify resolution of a remote terminal and an application standard thereof when receiving a monitoring screen provision request from the remote terminal, and to create a second file corresponding to the resolution of the remote terminal and the application standard thereof, thereby providing the second file to the remote terminal. In accordance with the present disclosure, a graphic file capable of displaying the same monitoring screen on a plurality of devices having a variety of resolutions may be created using a single graphic editing tool, thereby dramatically improving convenience of a system management.
US10068312B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium An image processing apparatus which is capable of providing images with enhanced resolution and enhanced sharpness is provided. The image processing apparatus includes an inputter configured to receive an input of image data, an up-scaler configured to up-scale the inputted image data, a region sense unit configured to sense an edge region and a line region within the up-scaled image data by extracting brightness information of the up-scaled image data, an image corrector configured to correct the up-scaled image data in different correction methods for each of the edge region and the line region, and an outputter configured to output the corrected image data.
US10068311B2	Varying effective resolution by screen location by changing active color sample count within multiple render targets A graphics processing unit (GPU) is configured to receive metadata specifying an active sample configuration for a particular region of a display device among a plurality of regions of the display device and receive pixel data for one or more pixels in the particular region. The pixel data specifies the same number of color samples for each pixel. For each pixel in the particular region, the GPU invokes a pixel shader only for color samples specified to be active samples by the configuration.
US10068310B2	Bowtie view representing a 360-degree image Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a bowtie view of an environment. A bowtie view of an environment is a representation of a 360-degree image of the environment that is compressed at its center such that at least one side of the bowtie view is concave. For example, two opposing sides of the bowtie view may be concave. In accordance with this example, the two opposing sides may be top and bottom sides of the bowtie view. The 360-degree image is unwrapped to provide a flattened image. The flattened image is projected on an inner surface of a virtual object in a three-dimensional virtual environment. A portion of the flattened image is captured from the inner surface of the virtual object using a virtual camera to provide the bowtie view.
US10068309B2	Interface apparatus and method of operating an interface apparatus An interface apparatus and method of operating the same are provided. The interface apparatus receives an uncompressed image data read request using a first addressing scheme at a first bus interface and transmits a compressed image data read request using a second addressing scheme from a second bus interface. Address translation circuitry translates between the first addressing scheme and the second addressing scheme. Decoding circuitry decodes a set of compressed image data received via the second bus interface to generate the set of uncompressed image data which is then transmitted via the first bus interface. The use of a second addressing scheme and image data compression is thus transparent to the source of the uncompressed image data read request, and the interface apparatus can therefore be used to connect devices which use different addressing schemes and image data formats, without either needing to be modified.
US10068306B2	Facilitating dynamic pipelining of workload executions on graphics processing units on computing devices A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic pipelining of workload executions at graphics processing units on computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes generating a command buffer having a plurality of kernels relating to a plurality of workloads to be executed at a graphics processing unit (GPU), and pipelining the workloads to be processed at the GPU, where pipelining includes scheduling each kernel to be executed on the GPU based on at least one of availability of resource threads and status of one or more dependency events relating to each kernel in relation to other kernels of the plurality of kernels.
US10068303B2	Computational systems for biomedical data Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that accepting an input identifying a treatment target in search of an agent, the input associated with at least one query parameter; determining, based on the input, at least one subset of study data for which at least one adverse event profile associated with administration of at least one agent is acceptable within a defined limit relative to a population for which the at least one adverse event profile is unacceptable with respect to the defined limit; and presenting the agent, based on the at least one subset and the at least one query parameter.
US10068302B2	Integrating video into patient workflows Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing embedded video communication within a clinician workflow. Chart requests provide clinician workflows associated with patients. Video requests initiate video communications between clinicians and interested parties. Embedded video communication windows are fully integrated with the clinician workflows and facilitate video communication via mobile devices between care teams, specialties, patients, and other interested parties. Clinicians may perform actions within the workflows while the video communications are in progress and available for viewing by the clinicians.
US10068298B2	Weather pattern based electrical demand forecasting for a building Embodiments include methods and systems for forecasting electrical demand of a building. Aspects include receiving a weather forecast for an upcoming day and receiving a historical data file comprising historical weather data and historical electrical load data for the building for a plurality of previous days. Aspects also include comparing the historical weather data for each of the plurality of previous days to the forecast and calculating a baseline electrical consumption of the building for the upcoming day based on the comparison.
US10068296B1	Creating a scene for property claims adjustment Methods and apparatus provide for an automated system for analyzing damage to insured property. A server may receive images of a scene (e.g., a room, house, apartment, etc.) from a user at a mobile device. The server may analyze the images to create a holistic view of the scene. The server and/or mobile device may be able to generate dimensions of the scene and compare those dimensions to the dimensions of a damaged property at the scene to determine the extent of damage to the property. The server may also be able to detect gaps between images as it creates the holistic view of the scene.
US10068295B1	Merchant portal system with explanation of benefits A method for facilitating the delivery of electronic funds and conveying an explanation of benefits (EOB) to a service provider is described herein. A claim for payment by a service provider (such as a physician's office) is adjudicated by a third party administrator which authorizations payment in an amount and also provides an EOB explaining the payment authorization. A virtual payment card is generated and transmitted to the provider or the merchant acquirer for the provider. When the service provider logs into its merchant portal to view and reconcile payment card deposits, the EOB is viewable with its associated payment deposit record.
US10068294B1	Method and system for allocating funds over a plurality of time deposit instruments in depository institutions A method, system and program product, the method in one embodiment comprising: A method, comprising: accessing databases comprising: client information for each of a plurality of respective clients, comprising a balance of funds of the client; a distribution percent value, Xi, for tranches; information for each of multiple government backed-insured aggregated time deposit instruments holding a tranche of client funds, comprising: a rate; an identification of the depository institution; a term; and determining a given client available distribution amount, Di; determining an amount of a client tranche to be deposited in each of Ni depository institutions based at least in part on the percentage, Xi, in order that the client tranches are approximately equal and are insured; determining Ni depository institutions to distribute the client tranches; allocating substantially equally respective client tranches to the Ni depository institutions; generating data for instructions to transfer the respective client tranches; updating, the databases.
US10068292B2	Flexible price-volume indicator Example methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage media are described and disclosed. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, market data related to a tradeable object. The example method includes displaying, by the computing device, a flexible price-volume indicator, the flexible price-volume indicators aligned with a specific value level in a value axis. The example method includes updating, by the computing device, a display property associated with the flexible price-volume indicator, the display property reflecting a quantity value determined based on the received market data. The example method includes displaying, by the computing device, the flexible price-volume indicator in a differentiated state based on a change in the market data.
US10068291B2	Electronic market message management using priority determination Methods, devices, and systems for managing electronic messages of an electronic trading system in which orders are extracted from the electronic messages involve executing actions associated with respect to the orders and matching orders to counter orders. Matching orders may be based on a priority determined using a market quality index of the order and an associated market participant.
US10068285B2	Multi-dimensional surface-based bid matching Embodiments relate to multi-dimensional surface-based bid matching. An aspect includes receiving a bid from a first user, the bid comprising a plurality of ranges, wherein each range of the plurality of ranges corresponds to a respective dimension of a plurality of dimensions. Another aspect includes determining a first bid surface in the plurality of dimensions based on the plurality of ranges of the bid of the first user. Another aspect includes modifying the first bid surface based on a match to the bid of the first user, the match comprising a point on a second bid surface corresponding to a bid from a second user. Another aspect includes wherein, if the first user comprises a work requester, the second user comprises a work producer, and if the first user comprises a work producer, the second user comprises a work requester.
US10068284B1	Graphical user interface having scrollable, visual representation of historical product searches and direct shopping cart links A method that includes providing a graphical user interface (“GUI”) adapted to display a chat session; displaying a visual representation of a product for a plurality of products in a first dialog box; after displaying the first dialog box, receiving an input parameter from a user that relates to a first subset of the plurality of products; displaying, in response to the receipt of the input parameter, a second dialog box that comprises visual representations of the products in the first subset at a location that is between the first dialog box and an interface boundary of the GUI; receiving a first scrolling command; and simultaneously moving the first and second dialog boxes towards the interface boundary in response to the receipt of the first scrolling command and/or adding a product directly to a virtual shopping cart of the user using an add-to-cart indicator associated with each visual representation.
US10068282B2	System and method for preventing multiple online purchases A method for preventing redundant purchases of limited items includes steps for providing a commerce client to a user, receiving (a) financial information of the user and (b) a device identifier from a device the user is using to run the commerce client, the device identifier being based on one or more of user-configurable and non-user-configurable parameters of the user device, determining whether a previous transaction has been made with the device associated with the received device identifier, and disallowing the device from executing further transactions for a predetermined period of time. The method may be executed by an apparatus such as a computer server or stored as a series of instructions on a computer readable medium.
US10068277B2	Modes, control and applications of recommendations auto-consumption A method includes acts for filtering auto consumption recommendations and auto consumption actions. The method includes receiving from a recommendation system, a recommendation of an asset for consumption. The asset for consumption is evaluated in the context of one or more filter rules regarding auto consumption. The filter rules are configured to filter recommended assets from being consumed when certain criteria are met or to permit recommended assets to be consumed when certain criteria are met. As a result, the method includes identifying one or more constraints on how recommended asset should be consumed. The method further includes filtering consumption of the recommended asset based on the one or more constraints.
US10068275B2	Obtaining remote shopping advice Various methods and systems for obtaining remote shopping advice are described herein. In one example, a method includes taking two or more media representations of items to be discussed. A parameter is selected within a social shopping app for obtaining feedback on the items to be discussed. The two or more media representations are assembled into a query within the social shopping app based, at least in part, on the parameter. The query is sent to a reviewer from within the social shopping app. Feedback on the items to be discussed is received from the reviewer within the social shopping app.
US10068271B1	Shopping with a personal device The disclosure presents a network, system, method and computer readable medium for using a personal device when shopping at a store using the server associated with this store. As described in the disclosure, the communication between the personal device and the store server is indirect via an intermediary system.
US10068270B1	Automatic vetting of web applications to be listed in a marketplace for web applications A computer-implemented method includes providing an online marketplace to developers of web applications that may be downloaded from the marketplace to a client computing device for execution by a browser executing on the client device and receiving a request from a party to the marketplace to list a proposed web application for sale in the marketplace. One or more processors of a computer system automatically determine the permissions requested by the proposed web application and automatically determine if the permissions match one or more predetermined permissions. If the permissions match one or more predetermined permissions, then the proposed application is flagged for a manual vetting process before listing the proposed application in the marketplace, and if they do not match, then the proposed application is listed in the marketplace without manual review of the application.
US10068269B2	Method for controlling electronic storefronts in a multimedia content distribution network A method and system for limiting spending in a multimedia content distribution network involves receiving spending limits from an Internet-protocol television portal, a web portal, or a mobile portal. The spending limits may be provided by a network user and may be usable to limit access to multimedia programs. The spending limits may be applied using a unified storefront application, which provides access to multimedia content via an Internet-protocol television portal, a web portal, and a mobile portal.
US10068266B2	Methods and systems to maintain, check, report, and audit contract and historical pricing in electronic procurement Disclosed embodiments provide an electronic procurement system and process that enables a buyer or purchasing organization to maintain explicitly or implicitly, a contract price between the buyer/purchasing organization and the supplier whose catalog is integrated with an electronic marketplace. In one embodiment, a process is executed that compares the listed/purchase price of catalog items against the contract price or against a ‘normal’ purchase price. A user (e.g. the buyer) may configure and receive specific alerts regarding items that are purchased in deviation of contracted price and items that have been added to the catalog since the last contract. Disclosed embodiments may also maintain, automatically, the historical price and purchase information of supplier catalog items that are enabled through the electronic marketplace.
US10068265B2	Creating revenue sources using allocation source Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for creating new and/or reoccurring revenue sources using an allocation source.
US10068263B2	Adaptive power management of a cluster of host computers using predicted data A power management system and method for performing power management operations in a distributed computer system uses predicted resource demands for a specified time in the future to change a power management option of a power management analysis algorithm prior to the specified time so that the power management analysis algorithm can be executed in anticipation of the predicted resource demands at the specified time.
US10068262B1	Application for transaction information delivery A server receives over a network from a mobile computing device recipient reaction information. The recipient reaction information includes encoded information obtained by the mobile computing device. The encoded information is obtained by the mobile computing device from a machine-readable representation of the encoded information affixed to a physical package. The server associates the recipient reaction information to a record for a transaction. The physical package contains at least a first product shipped as part of the transaction. The associating is performed using the encoded information. The server transmits to the mobile computing device transaction information. The transaction information is usable to perform a user interaction function related to the transaction via the mobile device.
US10068257B1	Personalized group recommendations A method and system for establishing a group of users and providing item recommendations tailored for the group are described. Users can join a recommendation huddle for the purpose of viewing collective item recommendations tailored for the users participating in the recommendation huddle. The item recommendations can be based on the recommendation profiles of participating users, the nature of the item recommendations to be provided (e.g., movies, restaurants, activities, songs, or the like), and other context information. Recommendations, including information about the recommended items, are provided to users participating in the recommendation huddle. In some embodiments, participating users can vote or otherwise provide feedback on the provided recommendations. One or more final selections can be made based on the recommendations and feedback.
US10068256B2	User directed information collections Systems and methods for creating and/or displaying a user information collection are described herein. The user information collections include relevant information for a user of one or more devices. More specifically, the relevant information in the user information collections can include user directed advertisements. User information collections improve a user's ability to accomplish tasks, save money, and/or get desired products and/or services as opposed to just viewing content. Additionally, the user information collections reduce or prevent unwanted data from being added to the user information collections improving the usability of the data in the user information collections and improving user interactions with the device.
US10068253B2	Multimedia communication system and method Systems and methods are disclosed for creating, editing, sharing and distributing high-quality, media-rich web-based communications. The communications are created in a layered fashion that integrates user-selected text, colors, background patterns, images, sound, music, video, or other media. The systems and methods are used to generate, edit, broadcast, and track electronic presentations, brochures, advertisements (such as banner advertisements on highly trafficked media websites), announcements, and interactive web pages, without the need for the user to understand complex programming languages.
US10068249B1	Inventory forecasting for bidded ad exchange Disclosed are various embodiments for determining an expected number of times that content may be served in conjunction with a user interface. A forecasting model for determining an expected bid requests inventory is generated, wherein a bid request indicates an opportunity to submit a bid to present content in conjunction with a user interface. A bid success rate is determined. An expected impressions inventory is determined based on the expected bid requests inventory and the bid success rate.
US10068247B2	Pacing control for online ad campaigns Described herein are techniques and systems for online ad campaign pacing. The techniques described herein use budget allocation along with the estimations of bids and response rates. With use of budget allocation, the techniques can use budget pacing to enhance impressions and maximize desired responses, such as desired click-through rates. These techniques focus on enhancing pacing and performance of ad campaigns, such as enhancing performance across distinct and/or unified online ad marketplaces. These techniques are especially useful in the context of a demand-side platform (DSP). In some examples, the techniques assume that impression supply is much larger than advertiser demand for impressions of their ads, so such techniques focus on selecting high performing inventory of ad space. Yet, with such a focus, a smooth or consistent delivery of ads over time is used.
US10068246B2	Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions Methods and apparatus to collect distributed user information for media impressions is disclosed. An example method includes receiving an encrypted identifier and media impression information collected from a mobile device, sending the encrypted identifier to a database proprietor associated with collection of mobile device presence information at a merchant location, receiving user information associated with the encrypted identifier from the first database proprietor, and associating at least one of the merchant location or the user information with the media impression information.
US10068244B2	Systems and methods for suggesting financial account cards stored on a wireless device A wireless device is enabled to process a transaction. In one implementation, the wireless device receives card data for a plurality of financial account cards and stores the card data in memory associated with the wireless device. The wireless device determines merchant information for the transaction and determines rewards benefit information for at least some of the plurality of financial account cards. The wireless device provides a suggestion of at least one of the plurality of financial account cards to use in the transaction based on the determined rewards benefit information.
US10068238B2	Incentive-based system and method for third-party web application development and publication A system and method is described by which a business entity provides an incentive to a third party to develop and publish a Web application that facilitates access to a Web service hosted by the business entity. In accordance with the system and method, a user attempts to use the third-party Web application via a Web browser executing on a client device, but fails because the user is unauthorized to use the service. Responsive to attempting to use the third-party Web application, tracking information is downloaded to the client device via the Web browser. The user then accesses a Web application hosted by the business entity to subscribe to the Web service. The Web application hosted by the business entity detects the tracking information stored on the client device and initiates a process for issuing payment to the third party responsive to detecting the tracking information.
US10068230B2	Electronic authentication systems Methods and devices are provided for use in facilitating transactions between transaction devices and points of interactions. In connection therewith, one transaction device generally includes an input and an output for communicating with a point of interaction with regard to a transaction by a consumer at the point of interaction involving the transaction device. The transaction device also includes a processor in communication with the input and the output. The processor is configured to interact with the point of interaction in connection with the transaction, store transaction data relating to the transaction in a data store during the course of the transaction, and, in response to an interruption in the transaction with the point of interaction, retrieve transaction data stored in the data store in order to resume the transaction with the point of interaction when communication with the point of interaction is restored.
US10068227B1	Methods and apparatus for authenticating identity of web access from a network element A network configuration having various network elements and user equipments configured to authenticate web access requests is disclosed. Upon receipt of web addresses from various subscribers, the web addresses such as online advertisements are stored in a memory. The network traffic in the communication network is monitored in accordance with the web addresses stored in the memory. After detecting a website assess request such as a click of an online advertisement, an authentication record which authenticates the origin of the network equipment issuing the request. The authentication record is forwarded to a subscription partner via a predefined messaging mechanism.
US10068224B2	Near field authentication through communication of enclosed content sound waves A method for near field authentication of sources using an audio transceiver computing device includes scanning a plurality of predetermined frequencies for a free frequency, selecting the free frequency from the plurality of predetermined frequencies, generating a periodic enclosed content message, generating a modulated carrier wave representing the periodic enclosed content message, and transmitting the modulated carrier wave at the free frequency. A method for near field authentication of sources using a microphone input of a receiving computing device includes scanning a plurality of predetermined frequencies to detect a signal using the microphone input, verifying, responsive to detecting the signal, that the signal includes at least one enclosed content message, and extracting a content from the enclosed content message.
US10068223B1	Device-embedded transaction chip A payment terminal can have an application processing unit coupled to a transaction processing unit. The transaction processing unit can receive payment information from a payment device via a payment interface coupled to the transaction processing unit. The transaction processing unit can encrypt the payment information in accordance with a standard payment protocol and provide the encrypted payment information and other protocol dependent information to the application processing unit. The application processing unit can execute a point-of-sale application that can have the transaction processing unit acquire the payment information and have the application processing unit transmit the encrypted payment information and other protocol-dependent information from the transaction processing unit to a payment server.
US10068221B1	Using a mobile computing device camera to trigger state-based actions Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory media are disclosed to perform state-based changes on a mobile computing device. A mobile computing device may display one or more images that are indicative of a state of the mobile computing device, such as a barcode. A mobile computing device may measure characteristics of electromagnetic (EM) radiation, such as laser light from a laser scanner, received through its camera. By comparing changes in the intensity of the EM radiation over a time interval and/or a wavelength of the EM radiation to one or more threshold intensities and/or wavelength ranges, one or more trigger conditions may be identified. The one or more trigger conditions may cause the mobile computing device to execute one or more actions, which may be dependent on the present state of the mobile computing device. The actions may include various functions used in conjunction with a retailer-based mobile phone application.
US10068220B2	Systems and methods for brokered authentication express seller links Systems and methods for providing a transaction authorization from a funds facilitation system for a transaction requested by a user to a merchant system such that the user is not required to input any user authentication information in excess of authentication information required by the merchant system are provided. A system and method can include receiving a transaction request from the merchant system containing a merchant ID, a merchant user ID, and a transaction amount. The system identifies a funds facilitation system user ID based on the merchant ID and the merchant user ID and determines satisfaction of a funds facilitation system user authentication requirement based on the merchant system having a trusted status with the funds facilitation system. A transaction authorization message or transaction denial message is provided to the merchant system based on account information associated with the user and the transaction amount.
US10068219B2	Information processing method and recording system A recording device transmits attribute information. A management device receives the attribute information transmitted by the recording device, and sends environmental settings information stored relationally to the attribute information to the recording device. The recording device receives the environmental settings information sent by the management device, configures environmental settings based on the environmental settings information, and sends a configuration completion report indicating configuration was completed to the management device when configuration is completed. The management device receives the configuration completion report sent by the recording device, and stores the environmental settings information sent to the recording device relationally to the identification information of the recording device.
US10068207B2	Systems and methods to generate repair orders using a taxonomy and an ontology Methods and apparatus are provided that are related to generating repair orders, including vehicular repair orders. A computing device can receive repair-related information associated with a repair order. The repair-related information can include information about a first repair attribute of one or more repair attributes. The computing device can determine a first ontology related to the first repair attribute. The first ontology can be further related to a first template. The computing device can determine modified repair-related information by at least utilizing the first template to modify at least a first portion of the repair-related information that includes the information about the first repair attribute. The computing device can generate an output related to the repair order that includes the modified repair-related information.
US10068205B2	Social event scheduler An online event scheduler system for allowing users to find events of interest in which the users can participate and to allow users to set up impromptu meeting with nearby users.
US10068204B2	Modeling and visualizing a dynamic interpersonal relationship from social media Embodiments relate to relationship modeling and visualization from social media. One aspect includes determining a relationship type of a network-based relationship, between an individual and a network contact of the individual, from at least one social media data source. The relationship type is determined using a relationship model based on relationship types that include operational, personal, and business. Another aspect includes performing timeline based relationship strength segmentation using Group Lasso. The timeline based relationship strength segmentation specifies a past and current strength of the relationship. A further aspect includes predicting a future strength of the relationship using Extended Kalman Filter, and providing, through a visual interface, interactive visual analytics to view and monitor relationship states including the past, current, and future strengths over time.
US10068202B2	Instantiating complex event scenarios using dynamic rule creation Systems, methods and articles of manufacture are disclosed for creating, reconfiguring, and reusing business scenarios. In one embodiment, a complex event processing (CEP) tool expert generates a business scenario template using a CEP tool. Once the business scenario template is generated, a business user may generate multiple business scenario instances from the business scenario templates, without using the CEP tool and without involvement from the CEP tool expert.
US10068198B2	Factory inventory system utilizing the natural frequency of a pallet rack A controller-implemented method for managing inventory of pallets on a pallet rack is provided. The controller-implemented method may include engaging a plurality of exciters to generate a rack frequency in the pallet rack, receiving the rack frequency at a plurality of corresponding harvesters, detecting variations between the rack frequency generated by the exciters and the rack frequency received by the harvesters, and detecting one or more load characteristics of pallets on the pallet rack based on the variations.
US10068195B2	Methods and systems for managing product distribution and data hub for connecting and integrating related systems Method, apparatus and systems for managing product distribution and a data hub for connecting and integrating related systems are described herein. Data hubs are integrated with external sensors and automated systems to remove stress points for operating such systems. A distribution system which may interface with the data hubs allows for efficient distribution of products produces and monitored by environments that suffer such stress points.
US10068194B2	System and methods for the selection, monitoring and compensation of mentors for at-risk people A method for providing incentive to mentors of at-risk mentees is described. The method includes the steps of determining an at-risk mentee's prospects in the absence of mentoring, and then tracking behavior and progress in a period of time, determining the mentee's achievement of important milestones, avoidance of costs to society, and/or income and income tax payments during the same period of time, and calculating a financial incentive to the mentee's mentor, wherein the amount of the financial incentive is calculated based on the mentee's behavior, achievement of important milestones, avoidance of costs to society, and/or income tax payments during the period of time.
US10068187B1	Generation and use of trained file classifiers for malware detection A method includes accessing information identifying multiple files and identifying classification data for the multiple files, where the classification data indicates, for a particular file of the multiple files, whether the particular file includes malware. The method also includes generating n-gram vectors for the multiple files by, for each file, generating an n-gram vector indicating occurrences of character pairs in printable characters representing the file. The method further includes generating and storing a file classifier using the n-gram vectors and the classification data as supervised training data.
US10068186B2	Model vector generation for machine learning algorithms Techniques are described for forming a machine learning model vector, or just model vector, that represents a weighted combination of machine learning models, each associated with a corresponding feature set and parameterized by corresponding model parameters. A model vector generator generates such a model vector for executing automated machine learning with respect to historical data, including generating the model vector through an iterative selection of values for a feature vector, a weighted model vector, and a parameter vector that comprise the model vector. Accordingly, the various benefits of known and future machine learning algorithms are provided in a fast, effective, and efficient manner, which is highly adaptable to many different types of use cases.
US10068182B2	Quantum computer and quantum computing method According to an embodiment, a quantum computer includes physical systems Xi, a physical system Yj and a light source unit. The physical systems Xi and the physical system Yj are provided in a cavity. Each physical system Xi includes states \|0>i, \|1>i, \|2>i and \|e>i, the states \|0>i and \|1>i being used for a qubit, a \|2>i-\|e>i transition being resonant with a cavity mode of the cavity. The physical system Yj includes states \|2>′j and \|e>′j, a \|2>′j-\|e>′j transition being resonant with the cavity mode. The light source unit applies laser beams to the cavity to manipulate states of two of physical systems Xi, the laser beams including a laser beam for collecting population in the state \|2>′j in the \|2>′j-\|e>′j transition.
US10068179B2	Positioning text in digital designs based on an underlying image The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for determining the optimal placement, color, and size of an overlay in a digital design. For example, in response to determining that a change to an underlying image of a digital design has caused a loss of readability and/or aesthetic value in the digital design due to the placement of the overlay over the now changed underlying image, one or more embodiments described herein utilize a scoring system to identify optimal placement, color, and size for the overlay in relation to the underlying image in the digital design.
US10068175B2	Question resolution processing in deep question answering systems System, method, and computer program product for performing an operation, the operation comprising receiving, by a deep question answering system, a question not specifying an element of input data, identifying a set of possible values for the element of input data, generating, by the deep question answering system, a respective set of candidate answers for the question: (i) without the element of input data, and (ii) with each possible value in the set of possible values for the element of input data, and returning at least one candidate answer from at least one set of candidate answers as responsive to the question.
US10068167B2	Transparent radio frequency identification transponder A radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder that includes an RFID chip, a loop that is electrically connected to the RFID chip, and a substantially transparent antenna coupled to the loop. In various embodiments, the RFID transponder can be affixed over a light source (e.g., vehicle headlights) while preserving the luminance from the light source. Alternately or in addition, the RFID transponder can be affixed to a surface (e.g., product packaging, license plates) without obscuring any marks, designs, motifs, and/or text on the surface.
US10068166B2	Bio-electronic tag-based feature extraction and verification method, device, tag and storage medium A bio-electronic tag-based feature extraction and verification method, a device therefor and a tag. The fingerprint electronic tag includes: a resilient film substrate; an antenna formed by a conductive layer attached to the film substrate, the antenna comprising a fingerprint region which forms a microstrip antenna with a printed fingerprint pattern when the fingerprint electronic tag is attached to a finger; and a protective film covering the antenna and bonded to the film substrate.
US10068164B2	Print control device, method for print control and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program for print control A print control device is provided with a management unit that receives and manages an instruction to execute processing, a processing unit that performs processing based on the instruction that is received, and a storage unit that stores an attribute information indicating an attribution of the instruction stored by the management unit and state information indicating a processing state of the processing unit in a nonvolatile storing unit using resources of the processing unit when processing based on the instruction is not executed.
US10068162B2	Image forming apparatus having rack and pinion device for sorter An image forming apparatus comprises a printing module, a transporting mechanism and a sorting module. The printing module prints data on media in order. The transporting mechanism transports the media past the printing module. The sorting module is disposed downstream of the transporting mechanism, and comprises an output mechanism, a rack and a driving pinion. The output mechanism transports the media out in a first direction. The rack is connected to the output mechanism. The driving pinion meshing with the rack drives the rack and the output mechanism to reciprocate in a second direction, different from the first direction, to sort the media into stacks. Thus, the sorting function can be achieved without providing a larger space and moving a discharge tray, and this is advantageous to the miniaturization of the image forming apparatus.
US10068159B2	Data processing apparatus, image recording system, data processing method, and recording medium A black figure specification part of a data processing apparatus specifies a black figure from among a plurality of figures in original image data that represents each figure in a vector format. When the overprint attribute of the black figure is ON, a data processing part adds a new black figure whose overprint attribute is OFF and that indicates a figure central portion of the black figure excluding an outer edge portion of a predetermined width from the edge, to the original image data. When the black figure overlaps with another figure that includes a color other than black, the density of the other color in the area where the figure central portion and the other figure overlap each other is zero in raster data for image recording. This increases the darkness of color of the black figure and reduces the appearance of white streaks around the black figure.
US10068157B2	Automatic detection of noteworthy locations By providing 3D representations of noteworthy locations for comparison with images, the 3D location of the imaging device, as well as the orientation of the device may be determined. The 3D location and orientation of the imaging device then allows for enhanced navigation in a collection of images, as well as enhanced visualization and editing capabilities. The 3D representations of noteworthy locations may be provided in a database that may be stored local or remote to the imaging device or a programmable device processing images obtained from the imaging device.
US10068152B2	Image capture apparatus, method of controlling image capture apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium An image capture apparatus, comprising, an image capture unit, an attitude detection unit configured to detect an attitude of the image capture apparatus, and a display control unit configured to perform control so as to display an image that was captured by the image capture unit in, among a first area along a first edge in a display unit visible through an eyepiece unit of an eyepiece finder, and a second area differing from the first area and along a second edge opposing the first edge in the display unit, the first area regardless of the attitude detected by the attitude detection unit, and so as to display an information group related to shooting in the display unit with an arrangement that differs according to the attitude detected by the attitude detection unit.
US10068147B2	System and method for insertion of photograph taker into a photograph An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a first image comprising an image of a first object and a second image comprising an image of a second object. The processing circuitry is also configured to identify a depth of the second object in the second image. The processing circuitry is further configured to insert the image of the first object into the second image at a depth position based on the depth of the second object. The processing circuitry is configured to generate to display the image of the first object and the image of the second object in the second image.
US10068139B1	Counting inventory items using image analysis Described is a system for counting stacked items using image analysis. In one implementation, an image of an inventory location with stacked items is obtained and processed to determine the number of items stacked at the inventory location. In some instances, the item closest to the camera that obtains the image may be the only item viewable in the image. Using image analysis, such as depth mapping or Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithms, the distance of the item from the camera and the shelf of the inventory location can be determined. Using this information, and known dimension information for the item, a count of the number of items stacked at an inventory location may be determined.
US10068138B2	Devices, systems, and methods for generating a temporal-adaptive representation for video-event classification Devices, systems, and methods for computer recognition of action in video obtain frame-level feature sets of visual features that were extracted from respective frames of a video, wherein the respective frame-level feature set of a frame includes the respective visual features that were extracted from the frame; generate first-level feature sets, wherein each first-level feature set is generated by pooling the visual features from two or more frame-level feature sets, and wherein each first-level feature set includes pooled features; and generate second-level feature sets, wherein each second-level feature set is generated by pooling the pooled features in two or more first-level feature sets, wherein each second-level feature set includes pooled features.
US10068134B2	Identification of objects in a scene using gaze tracking techniques Techniques and systems for identifying objects using gaze tracking techniques are described. A computing system may determine or infer that an individual is requesting to identify an object that is unknown to the individual based at least partly on images of the individual, images of a scene including the object, or both. In some cases, images of the individual may be used to determine a gaze path of the individual and the unknown object may be within the gaze path of the individual. Additionally, a computing system may send a request to identify the object to at least one individual. One or more of the responses received from the at least one individual may be provided in order to identify the object.
US10068130B2	Methods and devices for querying and obtaining user identification The present disclosure discloses a method for querying user identification which comprises steps of; receiving an uploaded target image; identifying the target image to obtain identification information of the target image; obtaining original image matching the identification information; obtaining and returning user identification corresponding to the original image. Besides, also disclosed is a device for querying user identification, as well as a method and device for obtaining user identification. The method and device for querying user identification can improve convenience of operation.
US10068129B2	Recognizing unknown person instances in an image gallery Methods and systems for recognizing people in images with increased accuracy are disclosed. In particular, the methods and systems divide images into a plurality of clusters based on common characteristics of the images. The methods and systems also determine an image cluster to which an image with an unknown person instance most corresponds. One or more embodiments determine a probability that the unknown person instance is each known person instance in the image cluster using a trained cluster classifier of the image cluster. Optionally, the methods and systems determine context weights for each combination of an unknown person instance and each known person instance using a conditional random field algorithm based on a plurality of context cues associated with the unknown person instance and the known person instances. The methods and systems calculate a contextual probability based on the cluster-based probabilities and context weights to identify the unknown person instance.
US10068125B2	Method for validating the authenticity of an element of the human body The invention relates to a device and to a method for validating whether an object is an element (5) of the human body, comprising at least the following steps: illuminating with at least one first light source (1) and with at least one second light source (2) an object that it is desired to validate is or is not a human body element; acquiring an image with an image sensor (3), the pixels of said image being associated with at least two characteristic values of a first color component and of a second color component, respectively; implementing validating processing dependant on comparisons between the values of the second component of the pixels in a zone of interest of the image and values of the first component of said pixels; validating or not the authenticity of the object (5) depending on the result of the validating processing.
US10068123B2	Fingerprint sensor and electronic device having the same Provided is a fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor according to an embodiment of the inventive concept includes a plurality of transmission lines, a plurality of receive lines, and a sensor array including sensor units connected to the plurality of transmission lines. Each of the sensor units includes a switch transistor having a gate terminal and one terminal, which are commonly connected to a corresponding transmission line of the plurality of transmission lines and a sensor transistor connected between the other end of the switch transistor and a corresponding receive line of the plurality of receive lines. The sensor transistor performs a current suppression on in response to a voltage of a virtual gate that is touched by a fingerprint.
US10068121B2	Baseline compensation for capacitive sensing A capacitance sensing circuit may include a charge to digital converter, coupled to a signal receiver channel, to receive a signal from a capacitive sense array. The capacitance sensing circuit may also include a baseline compensation signal generator, coupled to the signal receiver channel, to provide a baseline compensation signal in an opposite phase of the signal to the signal receiver channel.
US10068119B2	Biometric information process device, biometric information process method, computer-readable non-transitory medium and distance detection device A biometric information process device includes: an image device configured to capture an image of an object; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to execute a process, the process comprising: detecting a touch point of the object with respect to a touch panel; extracting a biometric feature from the image of the object that is acquired by the image device; and correcting biometric information acquired from the image of the object based on a movement amount of the object on the touch panel and a movement amount of the biometric feature in the image of the object when the touch point detected in the detecting moves.
US10068117B1	Custom functional patterns for optical barcodes Systems and methods for custom functional patterns for optical barcodes are provided. In example embodiments, image data of an image is received from a user device. A candidate shape feature of the image is extracted from the image data. A determination is made that the shape feature satisfies a shape feature rule. In response to the candidate shape feature satisfying the shape feature rule, a custom graphic in the image is identified by comparing the candidate shape feature with a reference shape feature of the custom graphic. In response to identifying the custom graphic, data encoded in a portion of the image is decoded.
US10068116B2	Methods and apparatus to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking. An example method includes receiving messages collected by a badge in an environment, the messages including signal strength and a timestamp. The example method also includes assigning a location in the environment to the badge based on a first subset of the messages. The example method also includes identifying an asset in a second subset of the messages. The example method also includes updating a current location associated with the asset based on a relative proximity of the asset to the badge, wherein the current location corresponds to a first time and the updated location corresponds to a second time, and wherein a change in location between the current location and the updated location indicates movement of the asset in the environment.
US10068115B2	Method and apparatus for tracking via a radio frequency identification device Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device, including a radio frequency interface configured to receive, from a radio frequency identification device, a first wireless signal of a first carrier frequency that indicates a personal identifier. A transceiver can be configured to generate a transmission signal of second carrier frequency that indicates the personal identifier and location information associated with the device and to transmit electromagnetic waves in response to the transmission signal at a first physical interface of a transmission medium that propagate without requiring an electrical return path. The electromagnetic waves are guided by the transmission medium and are received by a receiving device at a second physical interface of the transmission medium, and the transmission signal can be extracted from the electromagnetic waves by the receiving device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10068114B1	System and method for implementing a host card emulation (HCE) command stack in a mobile phone A method for implementing a host card emulation (HCE) service in a remote near field communication (NFC) device is provided. In the method, a first command application protocol data unit (APDU) is received at the remote NFC device from an NFC reader. A first response to the first command APDU is computed. A second command APDU from the NFC reader is predicted that is likely to follow receipt of the first command APDU from the NFC reader. A second response to the predicted second command APDU is computed. A third command APDU is received from the NFC reader. It is determined if the prediction of the second command APDU matches the third command APDU. If the second and third command APDUs match, then the computed second response is send directly to the NFC reader without having to traverse a NFC stack.
US10068112B2	Card reader A card reader may include a card passage; a shutter member to close the card passage; a magnetic head on a rear side of the shutter member reads or records data in a magnetic strip of a card; an electrostatic capacitance sensor on the rear side or the shutter member; a first guide member which structures at least a part of a face on a first direction side of the card passage when one side in a thickness direction of the card passing the card passage is referred to as a first direction; and a second guide member which structures at least a part of a face on a second direction side of the card passage. The first guide member may include insulating material and the second guide member may include conductive material. The electrostatic capacitance sensor may be attached to the first guide member.
US10068109B2	Secure subsystem An apparatus for performing secure operations with a dedicated secure processor is described in one embodiment. The apparatus includes security firmware defining secure operations, a processor configured to execute the security firmware and perform a set of operations limited to the secure operations, and a plurality of secure hardware registers, accessible by the processor and configured to receive instructions to perform the secure operations. An apparatus for performing secure operations with a plurality of security assist hardware circuits is described in another embodiment. The apparatus comprises one or more secure hardware registers configured to receive a command to perform secure operations and one or more security assist hardware circuits configured to perform discrete secure operations using one or more secret data objects.
US10068107B2	Method and system to maintain the integrity of a certified document while persisting state in a dynamic form A system, to persist state in a dynamic electronic form, may include a communications module to receive a request to certify a template associated with an electronic form, an attribute detector to determine that the template is associated with a restore state attribute and a certification module. The certification module may be configured to selectively grant the request to certify the template based on the restore state attribute.
US10068106B2	Tokenization column replacement A tokenization system includes a vector table and one or more token tables. The tokenization system accesses sensitive data and a vector from a vector table column, and modifies the sensitive data based on the accessed vector. The tokenization system then queries the one or more token tables using a portion of the modified data to identify a token mapped to the portion of the modified data. The portion of the modified data is replaced with the token to create tokenized data. The vector table can be updated by replacing a vector table column with an updated vector table column. The tokenization system can modify subsequent data using the updated vector column prior to tokenization.
US10068103B2	Systems and methods for securing data in motion The systems and methods of the present invention provide a solution that makes data provably secure and accessible—addressing data security at the bit level—thereby eliminating the need for multiple perimeter hardware and software technologies. Data security is incorporated or weaved directly into the data at the bit level. The systems and methods of the present invention enable enterprise communities of interest to leverage a common enterprise infrastructure. Because security is already woven into the data, this common infrastructure can be used without compromising data security and access control. In some applications, data is authenticated, encrypted, and parsed or split into multiple shares prior to being sent to multiple locations, e.g., a private or public cloud. The data is hidden while in transit to the storage location, and is inaccessible to users who do not have the correct credentials for access.
US10068100B2	Painting content classifications onto document portions A facility for interacting with an electronic document is described. The facility causes to be displayed a visual representation of the document, and receives input representing a painting interaction with a portion of the displayed visual representation of the document that corresponds to a portion of the document. In response to receiving the first input, the facility imposes on the corresponding portion of the document a distinguished content classification level.
US10068084B2	Method and system of location-aware certificate based authentication In one aspect, a method of mutual certificate authentication between a first device and a second device based on location is described. This embodiment of a method comprises receiving a request from a first device, wherein the request comprises a location of the first device; registering a first public key for the first device in response to the request, wherein the registration associates the first device with the first public key; determining at least one second device that can be accessed by the first device based upon a location of the second device relative to the location of the first device; registering a second public key for the second device, wherein the registration associates the second device with the second public key; sending the second public key to the first device; sending the first public key to the second device; and mutually authenticating the first device to the second device when the first device and the second device are connected.
US10068081B2	Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing system includes a terminal apparatus including an instruction information creation unit and a first transmission unit, and an information processing apparatus including an execution unit, a reception unit, and a controller. The instruction information creation unit accepts one or more settings relating to processing and creates instruction information denoting the one or more settings. The first transmission unit transmits the instruction information to the information processing apparatus. The execution unit performs the processing related to the one or more settings denoted by the instruction information. The reception unit receives the instruction information and certificate information. The certificate information is information that certifies content of a first prohibition check process in which whether the execution unit supports the one or more settings is determined. The controller performs control so that the processing is performed depending on validity of the certificate information.
US10068076B1	Behavioral authentication system using a behavior server for authentication of multiple users based on their behavior A method and a corresponding device for authenticating a user for access to protected information, the method comprising generating a behavioral user profile associated with a first user known to be a legitimate user of the protected information, obtaining from a second user, using a behavioral input device associated with a second computing device, a behavioral user sample, storing the behavioral user sample, associated with the second user, in a temporary user profile, comparing the behavioral user sample of the second user to the behavioral user profile, and if the behavioral user sample does not match the behavioral user profile contacting the legitimate first user and receiving from the legitimate first user information regarding the legitimacy of the second user and based on the information received from the first user, providing a response to the second user and updating the user profile.
US10068074B2	Generation, management, and tracking of digital credentials Techniques described herein relate to generating and managing digital credentials using a digital credential platform in communication with various digital credential template owners and digital credential issuers. In some embodiments, a digital credential platform server may receive and coordinate requests and responses between the digital credential template owners and a set of digital credential issuers, to determine which digital credential issuers are authorized to issue digital credential based on which digital credential templates. The digital credential platform server may provide the authorized issuers with access to particular digital credential templates and the functionality to issue digital credentials to users based on any of the particular digital credential templates. Additional techniques described herein relate to tracking, analyzing, and reporting data metrics for issued digital credentials.
US10068073B2	Verification device and control method for verifiction device, as well as computer program Disclosed is a verification device and the like that suppress an erroneous determination upon determining a difference between input patterns based on a similarity to a reference pattern recorded under a specific condition. A verification device 100 includes a similarity calculation unit 6 calculating similarities S 7 between a set of input information x 110 and y 111 indicating features related to input patterns that are objects of verification and a plurality of types of reference information 112 indicating features related to a reference pattern to be a reference of the verification by using the set of input information x 110 and y 111 and the plurality of types of reference information 112. The calculated similarities S7 are presented to an external device or a user.
US10068069B1	Denoting precise locations and arguments in binary program code Engineers at a software maker can insert software markers, making a compiler provide object code markers that appear to invoke activities from the protection library, but actually have the effect of providing information to a protection process. The engineers can build a protected object file, from which a software protection tool can provide an executable file. The software protection tool can include any tool that can use a pointer to a program statement, including creating DLL's. Alternatively, the system can identify object code markers by their referencing known functions from CALL instructions. The software protection tool can reference and remove the CALL instructions at distinct build and protecting stages to differing degrees of interference with the program to be protected—to test the program without any protection; to test some aspects of protection; to replace the CALL instructions to refer to strong protection functions that effectively make the program tamper proof; to provide information to debug protection.
US10068067B2	File origin determination A file validation method and system is provided. The method includes retrieving from an authoritative source system, an artifact file. Identification information identifying a requesting user of the artifact file is recorded and associated metadata and a modified artifact file comprising the metadata combined with the artifact file are generated. An encryption key including a first portion and a second portion is generated and the first portion is stored within a central key store database. An encrypted package comprising the modified artifact file and the second portion of the key is generated.
US10068064B2	Software protection using an installation product having an entitlement file Techniques for establishing entitlement to a computer program product are provided, and include providing a client identity in a registration process to produce an entitlement file, obtaining an encoded version of a computer program product, and transforming the computer program product into an installation product in a computer storage medium, wherein the installation product comprises the entitlement file to establish entitled use of the computer program product. Also, techniques for facilitating security compliance of a computer program product include providing an encoded version of a computer program product, and providing an installation product builder for the computer program product, wherein the installation product builder creates an installation product in a computer storage medium using a client identity and the encoded version of the computer program product during a registration process, and wherein the created installation product comprises an entitlement file to facilitate security compliance of the computer program product.
US10068062B2	Apparatus for calculating nutrient requirement amount, an apparatus for suggesting a nutritional supplement, a blending apparatus of a nutritional supplement and a blending system of a nutritional supplement It is provided with a medical inquiry processing unit for acquiring the response to a medical inquiry presenting medical inquiry items to a person to be examined, a nutrient requirement amount calculating unit for calculating the nutrient requirement amount of the person to be examined from the response to the medical inquiry, a nutritional supplement suggesting unit for suggesting the blend of a nutritional supplement based on the nutrient requirement amount of the person to be examined and a nutritional supplement blending unit for blending nutrients to prepare the nutritional supplement based on the blend of the nutritional supplement.
US10068060B2	Method for modeling behavior and psychotic disorders A method and system for modeling behavior and a psychotic disorder-related state of a patient, the method comprising: receiving a log of use dataset associated with communication behavior of the patient during a time period; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing mobility-behavior of the patient during the time period; generating a predictive model based upon a passive dataset derived from the log of use dataset and the supplementary dataset; transforming at least one of the passive dataset and an output of the predictive model into an analysis of a psychotic episode-risk state of the individual associated with at least a portion of the time period; and upon detection that parameters of the psychotic episode-risk state satisfy at least one threshold condition, automatically initiating provision of a therapeutic intervention for the individual by way of at least one of the computing system and the mobile communication device.
US10068059B2	Method and system for providing automated conversations Embodiments of a method and system for facilitating improvement of a user condition through tailored communication with a user can include receiving a log of use dataset associated with a digital communication behavior at a mobile device, the log of use dataset further associated with a time period; receiving a mobility supplementary dataset corresponding to a mobility-related sensor of the mobile device, the mobility supplementary dataset associated with the time period; determining a tailored communication plan for the user based on at least one of the log of use dataset and the mobility supplementary dataset; transmitting, based on the tailored communication plan, a communication to the user at the mobile device; and promoting a therapeutic intervention to the user in association with transmitting the communication.
US10068058B2	Method and apparatus for improved clinical system performance A method, apparatus and computer program product provide mechanisms for implementing a clinical client monitoring and configuration system. The method includes receiving system data from a plurality of client clinical devices, each of the plurality of client clinical devices implementing a reporting framework for transmission of the system data, determining, based on the system data, at least one clinical client application configuration change for a clinical application executing on at least one of the plurality of client clinical devices or another client clinical device other than the plurality of client clinical devices, and transmitting instructions to the clinical application for implementation of the at least one clinical client application configuration change.
US10068057B2	Systems and methods for integrating, unifying and displaying patient data across healthcare continua Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a vitals screen for a particular patient, processing patient-specific data and trend data to provide one or more trend graphs, and displaying the vitals screen on the mobile device, the vitals screen including a first display region and a second display region, the first display region displaying one or more trend graphs, and the second display region displaying one or more vitals data sets, each vitals data set corresponding to a trend graph displayed in the first display region.
US10068047B1	Systems and methods for designing an integrated circuit A method of designing an integrated circuit using a computer implemented circuit design application is disclosed. The method may involve receiving a user-provided value specifying a number of output components to be connected to an input component in the integrated circuit, connecting the input component to each output component of the number of output components in the integrated circuit using computer-implemented fan-out circuit blocks. In addition, generating a circuit design such that one of the fan-out circuit blocks is replaced in the circuit design with connecting components according to a set of parameters.
US10068044B1	System and method for efficient device testing and validation of fast transients The time to test integrated circuits is increasing as a function of the complexity of integrated circuits and processes used to fabricate the integrated circuits. Embodiments of this disclosure include systems and methods for reducing the time to integrated circuits by reducing the number of devices individually modeled. Embodiments can reduce the number of modeled devices by combining two or more devices into a single combined device that models all discrete devices, but in a reduced form.
US10068037B2	Simulation method and simulation apparatus for continuum motion analysis using a particle method A processing unit determines, based on positions of a plurality of particles representing a continuum and positions of a plurality of boundary elements representing a boundary between a first region and a second region, whether each of the plurality of particles is located in the second region. Then, the processing unit calculates, for a particle located in the second region, a force toward the first region, based on a distance between the boundary represented by the plurality of boundary elements and the particle. Then, the processing unit analyzes motion of the plurality of particles while applying the force to the particle located in the second region.
US10068035B2	Control system design assist device, control system design assist program, control system design assist method, operation change amount calculation device and control device A control system design assist device which assists design of a control system that controls a control object such that the control object outputs a control amount according to a target value. The design assist device generates a response prediction formula predicting a variation value of the control amount at each control timing included in the sequence of control timings by using an amount of change of the operation amount at each operation timing included in the sequence of operation timings; generates evaluation formulas; and converts a logical product formula into a first first-order predicate logical formula. The design assist device generates a control logical formula indicating a relationship between the current value of the target deviation and the change amount of the operation amount.
US10068032B2	Selective indexing to improve complex querying of online professional network data The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a query containing two or more hops in a graph of online professional network data and one or more predicates containing one or more attributes of the online professional network data. The graph includes nodes representing members and companies, and a set of edges representing relationships between pairs of nodes. The query also includes two or more input nodes, including a first input member and/or an input company, that are used to form a path containing the two or more hops, along with an output that matches the one or more predicates and includes one or more output members. Next, the system executes the query to obtain a subset of the online professional network data matching the query. Finally, the system provides the subset of the online professional network data in response to the query.
US10068031B2	Tabular data manipulation system and method A system and method that implements a tabular graph editor are disclosed. The system supports employing tables to browse and edit comparisons by multiple attributes of nodes in a graph.
US10068027B2	Systems and methods for selecting content based on linked devices The present disclosure is directed to associating computing devices with each other based on computer network activity for selection of content items as part of an online content item placement campaign. A first linking factor is identified based on a connection between a first device and the computer network via a first IP address during a first time period, and based on a connection between a second device and the computer network via the first IP address during the first time period. A number of devices that connect with the computer network via the first IP address is determined. A positive match probability is generated. A second and third linking factors are monitored. A negative match probability is determined based on the second and third linking factors. The first device is linked with the second device based on the positive and negative match probabilities.
US10068026B1	System for retrieving and serving the regulatory history of a property including mobile wireless communications device based searching and retrieval and related methods A mobile wireless device controller may, based upon an input device, communicate with first remote computers to store the land use based regulatory history data, and search for a real property to determine which of the first remote computers has land use based regulatory history data available for the real property. The controller may also retrieve land use based regulatory history data from a second remote computer different than the first remote computers, when the land use based regulatory history data available for the given real property does not exceed a threshold amount or when one of the first remote computers is not from a predetermined one thereof. The land use based regulatory history data for the real property may be provided to a user interface when the threshold amount is exceeded or when the first remote computers includes the predetermined one.
US10068025B2	High precision internet local search High-precision local search is performed on the Internet. A map image-rendering software provider embeds spatial keys into maps, which are then provided to producers of Internet content such as map providers. For example, a homeowner may post a message on a web bulletin board advertising his house for sale, and including a map showing the location of the house. When a search engine's web crawler encounters a page having a spatial key embedded in an image, the spatial key is indexed with the other content on the page. Because the spatial key identifies a small geographic area, indexing the content with the spatial key allows search queries to be limited by area and still provide useful results. Thus, a user of a search engine searching for “house for sale” in a specific area will be directed to web pages that meet the geographic and content search terms.
US10068024B2	Method and apparatus for correlating and viewing disparate data Methods and apparatuses of the present invention generally relate to generating actionable data based on multimodal data from unsynchronized data sources. In an exemplary embodiment, the method comprises receiving multimodal data from one or more unsynchronized data sources, extracting concepts from the multimodal data, the concepts comprising at least one of objects, actions, scenes and emotions, indexing the concepts for searchability; and generating actionable data based on the concepts.
US10068018B2	System and method for determining whether a product image includes a logo pattern The present invention provides a method and device for detecting the presence of logo patterns in product images. The method comprises the steps of retrieving one or more logo patterns from a logo pattern library, each of the one or more logo patterns identifying a respective product brand; retrieving a product image; calculating for each of the one or more logo patterns, a matching degree, the matching degree representing a degree to which each logo pattern is present in the product image; selecting as a selected logo pattern, the logo pattern having the greatest calculated matching degree; and determining that the product image includes the selected logo pattern if the matching degree of the selected logo pattern is greater than a first threshold.
US10068015B2	Monitoring a monitoring-target process A method and system for monitoring a monitoring-target process. A monitoring-condition registry is searched for a monitoring condition record that controls implementation of the monitoring-target process. The searching includes using a process label as a search key. The process label uniquely identifies the monitoring-target process. It is determined from the searching that the monitoring condition record is stored in the monitoring-condition registry and in response, the monitoring condition record is deleted from the monitoring-condition registry. After the monitoring condition record is deleted from the monitoring-condition registry, a determination is made of the monitoring conditions controlling implementation of the monitoring-target process, after which the monitoring condition record is generated. The generated monitoring condition record includes the determined monitoring conditions. The generated monitoring condition record is stored in the monitoring-condition registry.
US10068009B2	Method, computer program and computer for detecting communities in social media The present invention provides at least a method includes: extracting a plurality of partial communities from a plurality of users, based on the relationships of companion messages; computing a first degree of similarity for showing the similarity of the companion partial communities, based on the relationship of a user belonging to one partial community with a user belonging to the other partial community, from among the plurality of communities; computing a second degree of similarity for showing the similarity of companion partial communities, based on words within the messages sent by users belonging to both partial communities and under the condition that the first similarity be higher than a predetermined first threshold value; and creating an integrated community by integrating the companion partial communities under the condition that the second similarity be higher than a predetermined second threshold value.
US10068004B2	System and method for determining the occurrence of organized athletic events A method of identifying the occurrence of one or more organized athletic events including a plurality of participants is disclosed. The method includes receiving athletic activity data for the participants from a plurality of athletic activity monitoring devices carried by the participants. The received athletic activity data defines workouts performed by the participants. The method further includes defining a plurality of parameters for the athletic activity data, wherein the parameters define common athletic activity data for the participants of each of the organized athletic events. In addition, the method includes clustering the athletic activity data into one or more clusters of workouts based on the defined parameters for the athletic activity data. Furthermore, the method includes identifying the one or more organized athletic events based on the one or more clusters of workouts.
US10068002B1	Systems and methods for adaptive data replication Systems and methods are provided for adaptive data replication. A first data object is stored. One or more first network characteristics of a communication network are detected. A first replication mode is triggered (e.g., a single-master replication mode) based on the one or more first network characteristics of the communication network. The single-master replication may be configured to facilitate real-time synchronizations (e.g., for critical updates). One or more second network characteristics of the communication network are detected. A second replication mode (e.g., a multi-master replication mode) is triggered based on the one or more second network characteristics. The second replication may be configured to facilitate a delayed synchronization (e.g., for non-critical updates) of the first data object and the second data object using the second update file.
US10068001B2	Synchronous input/output replication of data in a persistent storage control unit Aspects include synchronous input/output (I/O) replication of data. A synchronous I/O request is received from an operating system (OS) by firmware on a server. A plurality of synchronous I/O mailbox commands is transmitted by the firmware to a plurality of persistent storage control unit (SCU) nodes. The content of each of the plurality of synchronous I/O commands is based on the synchronous I/O request. A unit of work in the OS corresponding to the synchronous I/O request remains active at least until the synchronous I/O request is completed. It is determined, by the firmware, that determining that each of the plurality of persistent SCU nodes have completed their respective synchronous I/O commands. Based on the determining, the firmware indicates to the OS that the synchronous I/O request is completed.
US10067999B2	High-performance database replication systems and methods Database replication is performed by tracking sequence numbers associated with binary change logs. At a producer cluster, a binary change log is generated based on a write transaction made to a database partition in the producer cluster. Included with the binary change log is a sequence number corresponding to the write transaction. The binary change log is transmitted from the producer cluster to a consumer cluster, where a determination is made whether to apply the binary change log based on the included sequence number. The binary change log is then applied to a database partition in the consumer cluster. The sequence number is stored at the consumer cluster by combining the sequence number with a numerical range having a first number and a second number, where the second number has a value corresponding to the most recent binary change log applied to the database partition in the consumer cluster.
US10067996B2	Selection of content for sharing between multiple databases Selection of content for sharing is described. An indication of desired content to be shared between a first database and a second database is sent from the first database to the second database. The first database receives desired content corresponding to the indication and a relevancy determination corresponding to a threshold fraction of users that tag the desired content to a particular category. A first version of the desired content is identified in the first database. A second version of the desired content is received by the first database from the second database upon an identification, at the second database, of the second version of the desired content.
US10067994B2	Real time event capture and transformation of transient data for an information network Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for monitoring, identifying and correlating changes to transient event data as a plurality of technology events are processed by a plurality of applications. The proctor module of the system is automatically triggered by addition of event data to transient memory locations associated with the plurality of applications. The proctor module is configured to capture the transient multiple-attribute event data, in real-time, before the data is dequeued. The technology event processing module is configured to format, log and index the captured data from the proctor module. The system then maps an event/record of formatted data associated with a first transient memory location with a second event to another event of formatted data from a second transient memory location, and subsequently analyzes the multi-attribute data to identify changes.
US10067993B2	Post-migration validation of ETL jobs and exception management Handling extract-transform-load (ETL) job mismatches as “exceptions.” Exception handling may include the following steps: (i) determining a mismatch while running an extract-transform-load job with the mismatch being a mismatch of at least one of the following types: design time information mismatch, and/or operational metadata mismatch; and (ii) responsive to determining the mismatch, handling the mismatch as an exception.
US10067992B2	Flexible interactive data visualization enabled by dynamic attributes A method and system are provided for interactive data visualization. The method includes analyzing a data source used with an initial query to identify a set of default categories available for user selection. The method further includes dynamically determining pre-set values for categorical portions and numerical portions of vocabularies for user selection using data analytics on the data source. The method also includes providing the user with a capability to specify other values for the portions. The method additionally includes dynamically generating multiple sub-queries to the data source for the values for the portions, wherein at least one of the multiple sub-queries is dynamically generated for at least one of the other values specified by the user. The method further includes combining result sets for the multiple sub-queries. The method also includes generating a data visualization of the combined result sets and displaying the data visualization.
US10067991B2	Multifunction device with integrated search and application selection In some embodiments, a multifunction device with a touch screen display and a plurality of applications concurrently displays a first plurality of application launch icons in a first area of the touch screen display, detects a first input by a user, and in response to detecting the first input by the user, displays a search input area on the touch screen display. In some embodiments, the device receives search input from the user, performs a search using the search input, and displays a plurality of search results from the search. In some embodiments, the device detects user selection of a first search result in the plurality of search results, and displays information corresponding to the first search result in the corresponding first application. In some embodiments, in response input from the user, the device returns to the search results and repeats this process for one or more applications.
US10067989B2	Technologies for mining temporal patterns in big data Concepts and technologies are described herein providing technologies for mining patterns in temporal data streams. Data is broken into data sub-portions. Dependencies in computation between one or more of the data sub-portions are broken using symbolic data types. Symbolic summaries of computations of sub-portions are performed in parallel and are reduced to generate an output.
US10067987B1	Storage, retrieval, and ranking of data objects representing insights A system maintains data objects representing insights. The system captures an insight object as a segmented media object. The system maintains user circles based on various topics of interest to users. The system assigns expertise scores to users within a circle. A user may have different expertise scores for different topics. The systems assigns significance scores for the insight objects based on user interactions performed with the insight object, the interactions weighted by expertise scores of users performing the interactions for topics associated with the insight. The system determines a schedule for repeated delivery of the insight to one or more users. The system adjusts the delivery of the insight to a user based on scheduled events or user activity of the user and delivers the insight in accordance with the schedule.
US10067985B2	Computing system with crowd-source mechanism and method of operation thereof A method of operation of a computing system includes: receiving a request for representing the request from a user; generating a request profile based on the request for processing the request; determining a matching expert with a control unit for the request based on the request profile and based on member profiles for representing members; and communicating the request for the matching expert.
US10067982B2	Performance monitoring of wait times Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, a system, and a computer program product for determining wait times of tuples within a streaming environment. The method includes monitoring one or more tuples being processed within an operator graph where the operator graph includes a first processing element and a queue of the first processing element. The method includes recording a wait time of the one or more tuples within the queue of the first processing element. The method includes recording a processing time time of the one or more tuples within the first processing element. The method includes displaying the wait time and the processing time of the one or more tuples. The method includes optimizing a configuration of the operator graph, in response to recording the processing time of the one or more tuples.
US10067977B2	Webpage content search An information locating method and system. The method includes presenting by a computer processor, a Webpage to a user. The computer processor receives a search command for performing a search function associated with the Webpage. In response, the computer processor: analyzes source code of the Webpage; downloads and analyzes files associated with the Webpage; and analyzes viewable information of the Webpage. The computer processor locates specified information associated with the Webpage.
US10067972B2	Semantic database driven form validation Embodiments of the present invention provide a means for validating electronic forms using one or more semantic databases. The invention includes processing an electronic form into individual elements and generating entities for the individual elements. The closest matching ontology is found for each entity and the pairings are grouped into a general formal ontology tree. The entities in the general formal ontology tree are traversed using generated rules. This analysis yields validation results that are combined with the original form to create an annotated form.
US10067971B2	Tracking model element changes using change logs Examples of techniques for processing model changes are described herein. A method includes generating, via a processor, a change log in a model. The method also includes detecting, via the processor, a change to a model element of a model package in the model. The method further includes storing, via the processor, the detected change as a change item in a topic of the change log.
US10067968B2	Pre-caching of relational database management system based on data retrieval patterns A processor tracks a frequency of access requests of a first index corresponding to a first data page of a plurality of data pages stored in a database. The processor determines the first index corresponding to the first data page having a frequency of access requests that exceeds a configurable target, and the processor retains, with preference, the first data page that corresponds to the first index, within the cache memory.
US10067967B1	Hash table storing reduced search key Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel hash table storage that stores smaller portions of the search keys (called reduced search keys), which, in turn allows the storage to have a smaller size and/or to store more search keys. The stored portions of search keys (i.e., the reduced search keys) can be smaller than the search keys because the hash table storage uses the non-stored portions of the search keys to ensure that one storage location cannot be used for two search keys that have the same stored portions but different non-stored portions. For instance, in some embodiments, the storage stores W minus B bits of a search key, where W is the size of the search key and B is the number of search-key bits that the storage uses to ensure that the same storage location is not identified for two search keys that have the same W-B stored bits but different B bits.
US10067963B2	Method for pre-processing and processing query operation on multiple data chunk on vector enabled architecture A method for pre-processing and processing query operation on multiple data chunk on vector enabled architecture. The method includes receiving a user query having at least one a data item, accessing data chunk blocks having an enhanced data structure representation. The enhanced data structure representation includes data recursive presentation of data chunk boundaries and bloom filter bitmask of data chunks. The method further includes searching simultaneously at multiple data chunk blocks utilizing the recursive presentation of data chunk boundaries using a HardWare Accelerator (HWA), identifying data item address by comparing a calculated Bloom filter bitmask of the requested data item to a calculated bitmask of the respective data chunks simultaneously by using multiple HWAs, and executing query on respective data chunks.
US10067959B1	Techniques for adapting data storage systems for peaky usage models Techniques described and suggested herein include implementations of caches and scalers to handle data storage requests, and storage event status requests associated with data storage requests, in a scalable fashion. For example, a data storage system, such as a data storage system implemented by a computing resource service provider in connection with providing an archival storage service or other data storage service, may be implemented to maintain a consistent response time and backend capability for incoming data storage requests, which may be a component of ensuring a consistent customer experience for customers of an associated service, with little or no regard to peaky or high data storage request rates observed by the implementing data storage system.
US10067958B2	Supporting transient snapshot with coordinated/uncoordinated commit protocol Methods and a system are provided. A method includes maintaining an in-page log for records in each of a plurality of data pages of a multi-version database. The method further includes adding record update information to the in-page log when a corresponding one of the records is deleted or updated. The method also includes consulting the in-page log for a recently updated one of the records or a recently deleted one of the records to determine a record status thereof. The method additionally includes spilling, by a processor-based overflow manager, to overflow pages when the in-page log is full. The data pages include any of row-oriented data pages and column-oriented data pages.
US10067946B2	Next-level multi-level deduplication A method, a system, and a computer program product for performing next level multi-level deduplication. A first zone stamp for a first data zone is generated and compared to a second zone stamp representing a second data zone, where the zones are first level data zones. The first and second data zones are deduplicated when the first zone stamp matches the second zone stamp. A second-level first zone stamp is selected when there is no match between first and second zone stamps. The second-level first zone stamp, representing a second-level first data zone in the first data zone, is compared to the second zone stamp and/or a second-level second zone stamp representing a second-level second data zone. The second-level first zone and one of the second data zone and the second-level second zone are deduplicated when the second-level first zone stamp matches one of the second zone stamp and the second-level second zone stamp.
US10067944B2	Cache aware searching of buckets in remote storage Embodiments are disclosed for performing cache aware searching. In response to a search query, a first bucket and a second bucket in remote storage for processing the search query. A determination is made that a first file in the first bucket is present in a cache when the search query is received. In response to the search query, a search is performed using the first file based on the determination that the first file is present in the cache when the search query is received, and the search is performed using a second file from the second bucket once the second file is stored in the cache.
US10067938B2	Multilingual word prediction Systems and processes for multilingual word prediction are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving context information associated with a current word; determining, for each of a plurality of languages, a set of monolingual probabilities based on the context information; determining a set of language weights based on the context information; determining a set of multilingual probabilities based on the respective sets of monolingual probabilities and the set of language weights; and providing a plurality of candidate words based on the set of multilingual probabilities.
US10067935B2	Prediction and optimized prevention of bullying and other counterproductive interactions in live and virtual meeting contexts Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented counterproductive interaction identification system. The system includes an electronic tool configured to hold data of a user, and an analyzer circuit configured to derive a cognitive trait of the user based at least in part on the data of the user. The system further includes a decision engine configured to determine, based at least in part on the derived cognitive trait of the user, that the user is a target or a source of an actual or an impending counterproductive interaction.
US10067932B2	Isolating segments of bidirectional text Embodiments of the present invention include a method, system, and computer program product for isolating a segment of bidirectional text. A segment of bidirectional text may be identified. A Unicode left-to-right character (LRM) may be inserted on at least a first side of the segment of bidirectional text. A Unicode right-to-left character (RLM) may be inserted on at least a second side of the segment of bidirectional text. The segment of bidirectional text may be processed through a Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UBA) implementation. A directionality mismatch between the LRM and the RLM may cause a conflict. In response to the conflict, the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm may select a base text direction for the segment of bidirectional text.
US10067929B2	Hierarchical page templates for content presentation in a digital magazine A digital magazine server creates a section of a digital magazine including content items based on a page template describing the relative positioning and sizing of content items. A page template may include display regions specifying the size of content items as a percentage of a display area. Additionally, a display region in a page template may specify use of a sub-template for presenting content items. The sub-template includes display regions specifying the relative positioning of content items presented in the display region specifying use of the sub-template. To generate the section of the digital magazine, various page templates are scored and a page template is selected based on the scoring. One or more diversity policies may be enforced when selecting the page template to improve user interaction with the digital magazine.
US10067926B2	Image processing system and methods for identifying table captions for an electronic fillable form An image processing system for identifying table captions may include a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising one or more instructions configured to cause the processor to perform image processing of a scanned document to identify boxes of an electronic fillable form that corresponds to the scanned document. The system creates and stores a data structure that includes a box list. The system searches the box list to identify an empty box, uses an adjacency list determine whether the empty box has adjacent boxes, and in response to determining that the empty box has one or more adjacent boxes, creates a table box list that includes the empty box and one or more other boxes from the table to which the empty box belongs. The system uses the adjacency list to identify a row caption and a column caption associated with the empty box.
US10067921B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing program There is provided an information processing apparatus including an extractor and a display unit. To make an actually selected target coincide with a target the user wants to select from a display document, the extractor extracts a document element included in a selected range in a document based on the attribute of the document element. The display unit selectably performs list display of extraction results of the extractor. This allows the user to select a desired document element from the list display, thereby making an actually selected target coincide with a target the user wants to select from the display document.
US10067918B2	Encoding text units Disclosed are various embodiments of systems that may identify a series of characters within a text block, wherein the series of characters are a subset of the text block. A system may bind the series of characters to generate a text unit and an encoded text block. The encoded text block may include a first signal indicating that an entirety of the series of characters in the text unit is to be selected in response to a subset of the series of characters being selected. The system may select, in response to the first signal and at least a portion of the subset of the series of characters being selected, the entirety of the series of characters in the text unit. The system may generate a modified encoded text block in response to an instruction to treat the series of characters as being unbound. The modified encoded text block may include a second signal indicating that a portion of the series of characters is to be selected in response to the portion of the series of characters being selected.
US10067913B2	Cross-lingual automatic query annotation Cross-lingual automatic query annotation technique is described, for example, to classify online search queries in Arabic as being of commercial intent, without the need to use human judged Arabic queries. In examples, a query classifier available for a source language (such as English) is used to produce a query classifier for a target language (such as Arabic, German, French). In various examples, a target language query log and target language documents may be used to enable target language and target culture dependent queries to be classified. In various examples a click graph with edges weighted by click frequency is used to infer class membership of unlabeled target language queries from target language documents. In examples the target language documents may be classified using a supervised or semi-supervised classifier. In various examples the automatically labeled target language queries are used to train a target language query classifier for information retrieval and/or advertising.
US10067912B2	System to facilitate management of high-throughput architectures Systems and methods include determination of a first data analysis period, determination of a first plurality of sets of parameter values, each of the first plurality of sets of parameter values being associated with a respective time period within the first data analysis period and describing a statistical distribution of data points associated with the respective time period, determination of a statistical distribution associated with the first data analysis period based on the first plurality of sets of parameter values, determination of a system condition based on the statistical distribution associated with the first data analysis period, and initiation of an action based on the determined system condition.
US10067911B2	High performance inplace transpose operations Systems, apparatuses, and methods for performing in-place matrix transpose operations are disclosed. Operations for transposing tiles of a matrix are scheduled in an order determined by moving diagonally through tiles of the matrix. When a diagonal line hits a boundary, then a tile on a new diagonal line of the matrix is selected and operations are scheduled for transposing this tile. Only tiles within a triangular region of the matrix are scheduled for being transposed. This allows memory access operations to be performed in parallel, expediting the matrix transpose operation compared to linear tile indexing.
US10067910B2	System and method for GPU maximum register count optimization applied to general matrix-matrix multiplication A method and system performing a general matrix-matrix multiplication (GEMM) operation using a kernel compiled with optimal maximum register count (MRC). During operation, the system may generate the kernel compiled with optimal MRC. This may involve determining a fastest compiled kernel among a set of compiled kernels by comparing the speeds of the compiled kernels. Each kernel may be compiled with a different MRC value between zero and a predetermined maximum number of registers per thread. The fastest compiled kernel is determined to be the kernel with optimal MRC. The system may receive data representing at least two matrices. The system may select the kernel compiled with optimal MRC, and perform the GEMM operation on the two matrices using the selected kernel. Some embodiments may also perform general matrix-vector multiplication (GEMV), sparse matrix-vector multiplication (SpMV), or k-means clustering operations using kernels compiled with optimal MRC.
US10067903B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: various types of memories; an interface configured to transmit memory characteristic information of the memories to a host, receive information needed to control operations of the memories from the host, and perform interfacing between the host and the memories; and a controller configured to control operations of the memories in response to information received from the host, and control an operation of the interface.
US10067900B2	Virtualized I/O device sharing within a distributed processing node system A system that includes a switched fabric hierarchy (e.g., a PCIe hierarchy) may realize efficient utilization of a shared I/O device (e.g., a network or storage switch) across multiple physically separate processing nodes (endpoints). For example, each processing node (endpoint) in a distributed processing system may be allocated a portion of the address map of a shared I/O device and may host a device driver for one of multiple virtual functions implemented on the shared device. Following enumeration and initialization of the hierarchy by the root complex, the endpoints may access the virtual functions directly (without intervention by the root complex). Data and interrupt traffic between endpoints and virtual functions may take place over peer-to-peer connections. Interrupt reception logic in each endpoint may receive and handle interrupts generated by the virtual functions. The root complex may host a device driver for a physical function on the shared device.
US10067892B2	Microcontroller or microprocessor with dual mode interrupt A microcontroller has a CPU with at least one interrupt input coupled with an interrupt controller, a plurality of peripherals, and a mode register comprising at least one bit controlling an operating mode of the microcontroller. The microcontroller is configured to operate in a first operating mode wherein upon assertion of an interrupt by a peripheral of the microcontroller, the interrupt controller forwards an interrupt signal to the CPU and the peripheral sets an associated interrupt flag, wherein the interrupt causes the CPU to branch to a predefined interrupt address associated with the interrupt input. In a second operating mode, upon assertion of an interrupt by a peripheral of the microcontroller, the interrupt controller forwards an interrupt signal to the CPU and the CPU receives additional interrupt information from the peripheral that generated the interrupt, wherein the additional interrupt information is used to generate a vector address.
US10067891B2	System and method for USB redirection for conferencing in an enterprise In certain information handling system environments, users may collaborate or communicate via remote conferencing software. In some instances an attendee may request that a selected universal serial bus (USB) device associated with another attendee be redirected such that the content of the selected USB device may be available to one or more attendees or that content may be communicated to the selected USB device. The server may receive requests associated with a selected USB device and redirect those requests to the selected USB device. The selected USB device may only be redirected to a selection of the one or more attendees based on one or more parameters associated with the one or more attendees.
US10067888B1	I/O optimization with track splitting Providing I/O operations to a storage device includes selecting a portion of original I/O operations based on a first set of criteria, determining whether to subdivide each of the portion of original I/O operations that are selected according to a second set of criteria different than the first set of criteria, and converting each of the original I/O operations selected for subdivision into a plurality of subdivided I/O operations for different portions of data for a corresponding one of the original I/O operations, where at least two of the different portions are from a single track of data on the storage device. The first set of criteria may include whether the I/O operations are for multiple tracks of data and whether the storage device supports subdividing a single track. The second set of criteria may include determining a measured amount of performance improvement for previous subdivision operations.
US10067886B2	System for securing contents of removable memory This disclosure includes a method for securing a memory of an electronic system that includes initializing the memory, creating a security key, transmitting the security key to memory, storing the security key in the memory, transmitting the current security key and a a new security key to the memory by the memory controller. If the current security key transmitted is the same as the security key stored in memory, then access to the memory is enabled and the current security key in the memory is replaced with the new security key. If the current security key transmitted is not the same as the security key stored in the memory, then access to the memory is disabled.
US10067879B2	Apparatus and method to support a storage mode over a cache-line memory interface to a non-volatile memory dual in line memory module Provided are an apparatus and method for using block windows configured in a memory module to provide block level access to memory chips in the memory module. A plurality of block windows are configured that map to addresses corresponding to the addressable locations in the memory chips. A read/write request is received indicating a requested read or write operation with respect to a target block window comprising one of the block windows. The requested read or write operation is performed with respect to the addresses that map to the target block window.
US10067878B2	Processor with logical mentor A computing device includes a memory structure storing one or more Variables; and a logical mentor. The logical mentor is assigned to at least one of the one or more Variables and performs addressing operations with respect to the Variables to which it is assigned. In an embodiment, a method of computing includes storing one or more Variables in the memory of a computing device, assigning a logical mentor to the Variables; and performing, by the logical mentor, addressing operations with respect to the Variables.
US10067877B1	Method, apparatus and computer program product for use in managing multi-cache data storage systems Described herein are techniques for multi-cache data storage systems. The techniques comprise providing a volatile memory device to store data. The techniques also comprise providing a non-volatile storage device to store data. The techniques further comprise configuring a data storage system to form a multi-cache data storage system comprising a primary cache formed by the volatile memory device and the non-volatile storage device.
US10067875B2	Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires A method of operating a processor including performing successive read cycles from an instruction cache array and a line buffer array including providing sequential memory addresses, detecting a read hit in the line buffer array, and performing a zero clock retire while performing successive read cycles. The zero clock retire includes switching the instruction cache array from a read cycle to a write cycle for one cycle, selecting a line buffer and providing a cache line stored in the selected line buffer to be stored into the instruction cache array at an address stored in the selected line buffer, and bypassing a sequential memory address being provided to the instruction cache array during the zero clock retire. If the bypassed address missed the line buffer array, the bypassed address may be replayed with a slight time penalty, which is outweighed by the time savings of zero clock retires.
US10067873B2	Data storage device and operating method thereof A method for operating a data storage device includes: dividing a cache into a plurality of cache areas; grouping a plurality of logical addresses into a plurality of logical address groups; allocating indexes to the respective logical address groups; and matching a read-requested first logical address set, a first cache area where data corresponding to the first logical address set are cached and an empty size of the first cache area, to an index corresponding to a logical address group to which the first logical address set belongs.
US10067872B2	Memory speculation for multiple memories A plurality of memory modules, which may be used to form a heterogeneous memory system, are connected to a plurality of prefetchers. Each prefetcher is independently configured to prefetch information from a corresponding one of the plurality of memory modules in response to feedback from the corresponding one of the plurality of memory modules.
US10067870B2	Apparatus and method for low-overhead synchronous page table updates An apparatus and method are described for low overhead synchronous page table updates. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a set of one or more cores to execute instructions and process data; a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) comprising a plurality of entries to cache virtual-to-physical address translations usable by the set of one or more cores when executing the instructions; locking circuitry to allow a thread to lock a first page table entry (PTE) in the TLB to ensure that only one thread can modify the first PTE at a time, wherein the TLB is to modify the first PTE upon the thread acquiring the lock; a PTE invalidation circuit to execute a PTE invalidate instruction on a first core to invalidate the first PTE in other TLBs of other cores, the PTE invalidation circuit, responsive to execution of the PTE invalidate instruction, to responsively determine a number of other TLBs of other cores which need to be notified of the PTE invalidation, transmit PTE invalidate messages to the other TLBs, and wait for responses; and the locking circuitry to release the lock on the first PTE responsive to receiving responses from all of the other TLBs.
US10067869B2	System for distributed data processing with automatic caching at various system levels Embodiments enable distributed data processing with automatic caching at multiple system levels by accessing a master queue of data processing work comprising a plurality of data processing jobs stored in a long term memory cache; selecting at least one of the plurality of data processing jobs from the master queue of data processing work; pushing the selected data processing jobs to an interface layer including (i) accessing the selected data processing jobs from the long term memory cache; and (ii) saving the selected data processing jobs in an interface layer cache of data processing work; and pushing at least a portion of the selected data processing jobs to a memory cache of a first user system for minimizing latency in user data processing of the pushed data processing jobs.
US10067866B2	Method and apparatus for mapping logical addresses between memories of a solid-state disk based on write frequency rankings A solid-state disk including first and second memories and a wear leveling module. The second memory has a lower write cycle lifetime than the first memory. The wear leveling module: receives logical addresses (LAs) from a host; determines write frequencies respectively for the LAs, where the write frequencies indicate how frequently data is written to the LAs; determines write frequency rankings (WFRs) based on respectively the write frequencies, where each of the WFRs is based on a weighted time-decay average of write counts or an average of elapsed times of write cycles for the corresponding one of the LAs; and for each LA mapped to the first memory, if a corresponding one of the WFRs is greater than a lowest one of the WFRs of (i) the first memory, or (ii) the first and second memories, remaps the LA with the lowest WFR to a different physical address.
US10067863B1	Feature targeting of test automation lab machines In some embodiments, the disclosed subject matter involves a system and method relating to automation test runs of a software build, where the test runs effect impersonating an automation audience and selecting optional features to test with the automation audience. The automation audience is associated with a software build having static features, and the test runs include optional features, where each optional feature may have more than one associated treatment. Each feature/treatment combination may be tested in a test scenario associated with the feature/treatment combination. New features that are exposed in other audiences may be enabled for the automation audience to assist in verification and test of the new features. Dynamic selection of the optional features is effected using an application program interface (API) in the source code for the features, where the API accesses feature configuration information during runtime. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10067862B2	Tracking asynchronous entry points for an application Asynchronous operations associated with a request such as synchronous threads, runnable elements, callable elements, and other invokable objects are tracked to determine the metrics about the request and operations. The present technology tracks the start and end of each asynchronous operation and maintains a counter which tracks the currently executing asynchronous operations. By monitoring the request, the start and end of each asynchronous operation associated with the request, and the number of asynchronous operations currently executing, the present technology may identify the end of a request by identifying when the last asynchronous operation associated with the request ends. In some instances, the present technology identifies the end of a request when a counter which tracks the number of asynchronous operations executing reaches a value of zero after the first asynchronous operation has already begun.
US10067861B2	Efficient software testing A method includes receiving, via a processor, a model, a test case, and one or more suspect elements. The method includes calculating, via the processor, a relevance score for each model element of the model based on the one or more suspect elements. The method includes setting, via the processor, a threshold reduction score. The method includes generating, via the processor, a reduced model by reducing the model based on the relevance scores and the threshold reduction score. The method includes evaluating, via the processor, the reduced model based on the test case. The method includes detecting, via the processor, the reduced model reproduces an expected behavior. The method includes outputting, via the processor, a result model in response to detecting the reduced model reproduces the expected behavior. The method includes modifying, via the processor, an application associated with the model based on the reduced model.
US10067860B2	Defining test bed requirements Systems and techniques are described for defining test bed requirements. A described technique includes receiving data specifying a first test to be performed for a software application. The data identifies test bed requirements for the first test. Data identifying characteristics of each of available test beds are obtained. Each available test bed includes one or more computing resources on which software tests are performed. The characteristics of each available test bed specify characteristics of the one or more computing resources included in the available test bed. A determination is made that the characteristics of a particular test bed of the available test beds satisfy the test bed requirements for the first test. In response to determining that the characteristics of the particular test bed satisfy the test bed requirements, the first test is performed using the particular test bed.
US10067857B2	Intelligent device selection for mobile application testing A computer-implemented facility is provided for intelligent mobile device selection for mobile application testing. The computer-implemented facility determines features of a new mobile application to be tested, and compares the features of the new mobile application with features of multiple known mobile applications to identify one or more known mobile applications with similar features. Based at least in part on automated analysis of user reviews of the one or the more known mobile applications operating in one or more types of mobile devices, the facility provides one or more risk scores for operation of the new mobile application in the one or more types of mobile devices. Further, based on the risk scores, a recommended set of mobile devices in which to test the new mobile application may be generated for use in testing the new mobile application.
US10067853B2	Generating a directed graph representing application program execution flow from an execution trace An execution trace of an application program comprises a sequence of ordered programming instructions generated during execution of the application program indicating an execution flow of the application program. The sequence of ordered programming instructions is partitioned into a plurality of linked code segments comprising first and second code segments. The first code segment comprises a terminating programming instruction that terminates the first code segment and links the first code segment to an initial programming instruction of the second code segment. A directed graph representing the execution flow of the application program between the plurality of linked code segments is generated. The directed graph comprises a plurality of linked nodes representing the plurality of linked code segments. The directed graph is output to a graphical user interface (GUI) for display.
US10067851B2	Pre-fetching disassembly code for remote software debugging A method, computer program product and/or system for pre-fetching disassembly code. A breakpoint is set within an application under test (AUT). Setting of the breakpoint triggers pre-fetching of disassembly code associated with the breakpoint. The pre-fetched disassembly code is retained in a store local to a debug analysis system. When runtime processing of the AUT reaches the breakpoint, the debug analysis system retrieves the disassembly code from the local store.
US10067848B2	Methods and systems for benchmarking web browser performance The disclosure is directed to a benchmarking system for measuring performance of a client-side application, e.g., a web browser, in processing an application, e.g., rendering a web page of a social networking application. The benchmarking process is executed in multiple modes, e.g., a record mode and a replay mode. In the record mode, the benchmarking system warms up a proxy server by storing request-response pairs between a client device and an app server in a cache of the proxy server. In the replay mode, the benchmarking system replays the requests to obtain the responses from the cache of the proxy server and records various metrics that indicate a performance of the client-side application in processing the responses, e.g., rendering the web page.
US10067842B2	Cable replacement in a symmetric multiprocessing system Data communication between nodes of a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) computing system can be maintained during the replacement of a faulty cable used to interconnect the nodes. A data bus error caused by the faulty cable is detected, resulting in the activation of an alternative data path between the nodes, and the disabling of a data path through the faulty cable. A system notification indicating the faulty cable is issued, and in response to the nodes being interconnected with a replacement cable, the replacement cable is tested for reliability. After the replacement cable is determined to be reliable, a data path through the replacement cable is activated.
US10067841B2	Facilitating n-way high availability storage services A passive state storage controller monitors a plurality of active state storage controllers to determine when a failure of at least one of the active state storage controllers occurs. Based on a determination of a failure, the passive state storage controller remaps storage devices to the passive state storage controller from the failed storage controller. The passive state storage controller may also remap network interfaces. The passive state storage controller retrieves a transaction log of the failed storage controller from a transaction log database, and replays transactions in the retrieved transaction log. The passive state storage controller switches to operating in an active state.
US10067840B1	Life expectancy data migration Described are techniques for performing data storage system management. First information may be collected on a first physical storage device. The first information may include one or more metrics related to failure of the first physical storage device. In accordance with the first information, it is determined whether the first physical storage device is considered at risk of failure. Responsive to determining that the first physical storage device is considered at risk of failure, data automatically migrated from the first physical storage device to a second physical storage device.

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