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| US10084968B2 |
Photographic apparatus and exposure luminance adjustment method
A photographic apparatus includes an image sensor, a processing unit, a light emitting unit, and a control unit. The image sensor is configured to capture a continuous image, and generate an exposure signal according to an exposure sequence corresponding to the continuous image. The processing unit is electrically connected to the image sensor and is configured to calculate an exposure value according to the continuous image. The control unit is electrically connected to the image sensor, the processing unit, and the light emitting unit. According to the exposure value, the control unit may select a continuous mode to drive the light emitting unit to emit light continuously, or a pulse mode to cooperate with the exposure signal to drive the light emitting unit to pulse light, in order to fill light while capturing the continuous image. |
| US10084964B1 |
Providing subject information regarding upcoming images on a display
Methods are described for presenting in an user interface information regarding the subject faces that will appear in upcoming images. In general, many of the images available to display will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Based on a subject affinity score between the viewer and the subjects, an image affinity is computed. Based on the image affinity scores, images are selected for presentation on the display. As images are displayed, the system analyzes one or more upcoming images to determine information to display. As each image is displayed, subject information comprising the subject's face is presented in an area of the display adjacent to the current image. |
| US10084962B2 |
Spherical video stabilization based on accelerometer data
A method includes identifying a frame of a spherical video as a key frame, storing a compensation component based on position data of a camera in association with the key frame, and compensating for a movement of the camera in a subsequent frame of the spherical video based on the key frame and the compensation component associated with the key frame. |
| US10084959B1 |
Color adjustment of stitched panoramic video
A video capture device may include multiple cameras that simultaneously capture video data. The video capture device and/or one or more remote computing resources may stitch the video data captured by the multiple cameras to generate stitched video data that corresponds to 360° video. The remote computing resources may apply one or more algorithms to the stitched video data to adjust the color characteristics of the stitched video data, such as lighting, exposure, white balance contrast, and saturation. The remote computing resources may further smooth the transition between the video data captured by the multiple cameras to reduce artifacts such as abrupt changes in color as a result of the individual cameras of the video capture device having different video capture settings. The video capture device and/or the remote computing resources may generate a panoramic video that may include up to a 360° field of view. |
| US10084958B2 |
Multi-camera system using folded optics free from parallax and tilt artifacts
Aspects relate to an array camera exhibiting little or no parallax artifacts in captured images. For example, the planes of the central prism of the array camera can intersect at an apex defining the vertical axis of symmetry of the system. The apex can serve as a point of intersection for the optical axes of the sensors in the array. Each sensor in the array “sees” a portion of the image scene using a corresponding facet of the central prism, and accordingly each individual sensor/facet pair represents only a sub-aperture of the total array camera. The complete array camera has a synthetic aperture generated based on the sum of all individual aperture rays. |
| US10084957B2 |
Imaging apparatus with image composition and blur correction
An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device; a body portion; an attitude detection portion configured to detect an attitude of the body portion; an image stabilization portion configured to correct image blur; an image stabilization control portion configured to calculate an amount of correction for the image stabilization portion; and a control portion including an image processing portion configured to generate one piece of composite image data from a group of continuously picked-up images; wherein the image stabilization control portion sets a reference angle at a time of picking up image data picked up first in the group of continuously picked-up images, and drives the image stabilization portion so that the reference angle corresponds to inclination of each image at a time of picking up image data picked up for a second time and after. |
| US10084956B2 |
Imaging apparatus, and imaging system
According to the present invention, an imaging apparatus includes: a screen generating unit which generates a help screen by displaying allocation parameter corresponding to each of operation units on an operation unit layout drawing indicating positions of the operation units on the basis of a parameter database showing the operation unit allocated to each of the allocation parameters; and a display change judgment unit which judges whether to change the display state of the operation unit layout drawing, wherein the screen generating unit changes the angle of the operation unit layout drawing when there are operation unit layout drawings drawn from different angles and when the display change judgment unit judges to change the display state. |
| US10084955B2 |
Auto focus photographing system and electronic device employing the same
An auto focus photographing system applied in an electronic device that is worn before eyes of a user is provided. The auto focus photographing system includes a first camera module, a second camera module, and a processor. The first camera module captures images of the eyes. The second camera module captures images of objects that the eyes focus on. The processor analyzes a distance between centers of eye pupils of the user and calculates a focusing current value corresponding to the distance, and adjusts a focus distance of the second camera module accordingly. The processor detects a capture command and the second camera module captures an image according to the adjusted focus distance. An electronic device employing the auto focus photographing system is also provided. |
| US10084954B2 |
Image processing to track face region of person
An image processing system includes a face detection unit to detect a face in an image and a partial region detection unit to detect a partial region of the image based on a position of the face detected in the image. A tracking determination unit may also be included in the image processing system to select at least one of the face and the partial region for tracking based on a predetermined condition, and to track the selected one of the face and the partial region. |
| US10084951B2 |
Self-photographing system and method
The present invention provides a self-photographing system and method. The self-photographing system comprises an electronic device having a taking photo or recording video, and a self-photographing device. The electronic device is disposed on the self-photographing device. The self-photographing device comprises a controller, an infrared receiver and a rotating platform. The controller defines a first area from a signal sensing range of the infrared receiver. The controller controls the rotation of the rotating platform, so that the infrared receiver is able to receive the infrared signal in the first area of the signal sensing range, and therefore a lens of the electronic device can take photo or record video for the user in a particular angle. |
| US10084945B1 |
Cable storage drum with moveable CCU docking apparatus
Video inspection systems with moveable and dockable CCUs are disclosed. In one embodiment a video inspection system includes a tubular frame element, a camera control unit (CCU), and a docking apparatus mechanically coupled to the frame element so as to allow the CCU to rotate and/or be detached are attached via a user action. |
| US10084944B2 |
Card edge connector for an imaging sensor
The disclosure extends to devices, systems and methods for connecting one or more sensors to one or more printed circuit boards (PCB) in the distal end or tip of a scope. The disclosure also extends to a connector assembly for an image sensor for protecting the sensor and conveying information from the sensor to the PCB. |
| US10084943B2 |
Image processing apparatus that generates a print preview based on special color materials
An image processing apparatus includes a normal print order setter, a multiple print order and base material setter, and a preview image generator. The normal print order setter is configured to set types of color materials used in printing document data on a base material, and order of overlaying of the color materials during printing. The multiple print order and base material setter is configured to set at least one of a number of repetitions of printing based on the types of color materials and the order of overlaying of the color materials and a type of base material. The preview image generator is configured to generate a preview image simulating a print result of the document data on a basis of information set by the normal print order setter and the multiple print order and base material setter. |
| US10084942B2 |
Image processing apparatus and computer program
An image processing apparatus includes: a controller configured to perform: acquiring original image data representing an original image and corrected image data representing a corrected image, the corrected image data being generated by executing specific correction processing on the original image data; calculating a first index value and a second index value, the first index value relating to a color distribution of the original image by using the original image data, and the second index value relating to a color distribution of the corrected image by using the corrected image data; and determining which processing, among a plurality of processing candidates that are executable by the image processing apparatus, corresponds to the specific correction processing, based on comparison of the calculated first index value and the calculated second index value. |
| US10084940B2 |
Image forming apparatus, and method for image processing thereof
An image forming apparatus and a method for imaging process thereof are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a scanner configured to scan a transcript and generate a scanned image, at least one processor configured to determine a type of the transcript using the scanned image, detect a personal information area within the scanned image based on the determined type of the transcript, and correct the scanned image by blurring the detected personal information area, and an image forming device configured to print the corrected scanned image. |
| US10084938B2 |
Reading apparatus and non-transitory storage medium storing instructions executable by reading apparatus
A reading apparatus includes a reading device for reading an image on a recording medium and generating image data. The reading apparatus is configured to: receive the generated image data; retrieve a first region location indicator indicating a location of a first region to be defined on an image based on the generated image data, a second region location indicator indicating a location of a second region, a first image processing indicator indicating at least one image processing determined for the first region, and a second image processing indicator indicating at least one image processing determined for the second region; determine first partial image data based on the first region location indicator; execute the at least one image processing; determine second partial image data; and execute the at least one image processing. |
| US10084935B1 |
Image forming apparatus and method for controlling an image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a detection section that detects a distance between the image forming apparatus and a portable terminal, and a controller. The controller determines whether the distance meets a predetermined condition, and controls operations relating to an image forming job if the detected distance meets the predetermined condition. |
| US10084934B2 |
Information processing apparatus that generates file names for naming files, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An image file naming rule is set by setting each of a plurality of items that configure a file name. It is determined whether or not any one of the plurality of items includes an item for which information that defines the file name to be unique is set. If it is determined that none of the plurality of items includes the item for which information that defines the file name to be unique is set upon changing information set in a target item of the plurality of items, information that can be set for the target item is restricted. |
| US10084933B2 |
Apparatus and method of scanning and/or printing an image
A scanning apparatus and a method thereof include a scanning unit scanning a document and outputting a scanned result, at least one external storage unit detachably attached to the apparatus, at least one internal storage unit, and a controller detecting an attachment state of the external storage unit and storing the scanned result in one of the external storage unit and the internal storage unit according to the attachment state of the external storage unit. The scanning unit of the scanning apparatus is combined with a user scanning unit and a user printing unit into a combination apparatus, and the scanned result is printed in a printing apparatus spaced-apart from the scanning apparatus by a distance, thereby removing cables between the scanning or printing apparatus and a personal computer. Regardless of an attachment state of the external storage unit, the document is scanned in the real time, and the scanning apparatus is commonly used with a plurality of personal computers which are not connected to the scanning apparatus. |
| US10084930B2 |
Image forming apparatus, and control program and operation method thereof
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a decoloring unit that performs decoloring processing on an image formed on a sheet using decolorable material. An image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. A reuse tray can receive a sheet. A new sheet tray can receive a sheet. A processor performs processing to determine whether to convey a sheet from the reuse tray or the new sheet tray to the image forming unit to form an image thereon. When it is determined that the sheet is conveyed from the reuse tray, the processor controls the decoloring unit to perform the decoloring processing on the sheet, and update a rewards account of the user. |
| US10084928B2 |
Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
There is provided an image forming apparatus. A transfer controller is capable of transferring an original document image read from an original document to a plurality of transfer destinations. A management unit manages the transfer controller in such a manner that after the original document image is transferred to one of the plurality of transfer destinations, the original document image is transferred to another transfer destination. The transfer controller reflects a result of transfer to the one transfer destination when transferring the original document image to the other transfer destination. |
| US10084925B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing charging in wireless communication system and method and apparatus for providing policy service using the same
Methods and apparatuses for processing charging in wireless communication systems and methods and apparatuses for providing providers' policy services through the charging process are provided. The method includes identifying, by an evolved Node B (eNB), a radio access technology (RAT) used by a user equipment (UE), and generating, by the eNB, charging information per use of a communication service by the UE according to the identified radio access technology (RAT). The method includes identifying, by an eNB, a RAT used by a UE, generating, by the eNB, charging-related information including RAT information indicating the identified RAT for a charging process per use of a communication service by the UE, and transmitting, by the eNB, the charging-related information to a network entity involved with the charging process. |
| US10084921B2 |
Handling concurrent speech
Systems and methods are provided for handling concurrent speech in which temporally overlapping first speech data and second speech data is received from respective first and second participants of a session. A speech policy applied to the speech data specifies dropping the second speech when it interrupts the first speech within a first interval of the first speech data. The first interval is temporally bounded by the beginning of the first speech and a first predetermined amount of time after the beginning of the first speech. The speech policy specifies outputting the first speech data and then outputting the second speech data when the second speech data interrupts a second interval of the first speech data. The second interval of the first speech data is temporally bounded by the end of the first speech data and a second predetermined amount of time before the end of the first speech data. |
| US10084919B2 |
System and method for agent driven system training
A method of routing contacts in a contact center includes receiving a registration from an agent of the contact center, wherein the registration identifies at least one attribute of a future contact the agent has an interest in receiving, receiving an incoming contact to the contact center; and identifying a context of the incoming contact comprising a plurality of contact attributes. Thus, it can be determined that the at least one attribute of the future contact matches at least one of the plurality of contact attributes; and whether the agent of the contact center is available to receive the incoming contact. When the agent of the contact center is available the incoming contact is routed to a first agent device associated with the agent of the contact center. |
| US10084909B2 |
System and method for controlling free phone calls through an institutional phone system
A method of controlling free phone calls places from within a secured premises through an institutional phone system generally includes assigning a unique access identifier to an individual caller upon entry into the secured premises; receiving a destination number front the individual caller within the secured premises, the destination number being associated with a telephone located outside the secured premises; determining if the destination number is a per se free number, and, if the destination number is not determined to be a per se free number: receiving the unique access identifier from the individual caller; validating the unique access identifier; and, if the unique access identifier is valid, processing a telephone call to the destination number. |
| US10084908B2 |
Method and apparatus for notifying an end user of a messaging event in a multi-user setting
A method and apparatus for notifying an end user of a messaging event in a multi-user setting is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium in a communication device which includes computer instructions at least for matching a caller identifier associated with a messaging event and entries in a plurality of contact books corresponding to a plurality of users, and identifying a plurality of parties to whom the messaging event is potentially directed based on the matching. Additional embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10084902B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for transferring calls
Telephonic computing devices having touch screen displays with new and improved methods and user interfaces for performing actions related to selected messages in a message in-box and for transferring calls, thereby increasing the effectiveness, efficiency, and user satisfaction with such devices. Such methods, devices, and interfaces may complement or replace existing methods, devices, and interfaces for performing actions related to selected messages in a message in-box and for transferring calls. |
| US10084900B2 |
Providing audio announcement to called parties
The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing audio announcement of communications to a called party in a communication network. The method includes receiving communication from a calling party and performing a lookup of information relating to the calling party in a database via an Internet Protocol connection based on an identifier of at least one of the calling party and the called party. The information comprises one or more audio files. The method then provides the audio announcement to a called party based on the audio files. |
| US10084894B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for managing terminal device in passive optical network
The present invention provides a method for managing a terminal device in a PON network. When a layer 3 network between an OLT and an ONU is disconnected, a layer 2 channel is established between the OLT and the ONU by extending an OAM protocol, and the ONU is managed by using the layer 2 channel. In this way, maintenance personnel do not need to go to a site to perform commissioning, and therefore, maintenance costs can be reduced. |
| US10084892B2 |
Scheme for transmitting and receiving information in wireless communication system
A method for transmitting information in a transmission time interval by a device in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes fragmenting the information into two or more information fragments, if a size of the information is greater than a transportable size of unit transmission resource used for transmission of the information; generating a protocol data unit (PDU) including fragmentation information and one of unfragmented information and a fragmented information fragment; and transmitting the PDU through the unit transmission resource. The fragmentation information includes an identity of a specific unit transmission resource within the at least one transmission time interval and fragmentation control (FC) information indicating at least one of whether the information is fragmented or not and a position of the fragmented information fragment within the two or more information fragments. The identity of the specific unit transmission resource is uniquely assigned within the transmission time interval. |
| US10084887B2 |
Device and method for controlling remote procedure call
Controlling a remote procedure call from a client computer to a server computer, the client computer extracts a periodic remote procedure call from among a plurality of remote procedure calls from the client computer and extracts a non-periodic remote procedure call from among the plurality of remote procedure calls from the client computer. The client computer identifies a first information associated with the extracted periodic remote procedure call that is an item whose value is determined to represent data targeted by the periodic remote procedure call. The client computer identifies a second information associated with the extracted non-periodic remote procedure call that is a targeted data value of the item, and sets a priority level, used to select for execution the periodic procedure call, based on the first information and the second information. |
| US10084883B2 |
Content distribution system and method
There are described methods and systems for distributing content in a network, in particular a multicast network. One method includes delivering content from a source to a destination in a content delivery network. A request for an item of content is received and a first multicast stream is identified or established, the first multicast stream comprising a first copy of the content. At least one second multicast stream is also identified or established, the second stream comprising a second copy of the content. The second copy of the content is time-shifted by a time, M, from corresponding portions of the first copy of the content. The content is then delivered to the destination using both the first and the second multicast streams. |
| US10084881B2 |
Information processing terminal and browser storage management method
It is determined whether a user has logged in to a web browser. If the user has logged in to the web browser, local storage data is encrypted and stored in a user-specific storage. If the user has logged in to the web browser, local storage data is decrypted and acquired from the user-specific storage. If the user has logged in to the web browser, data in the user-specific storage is deleted. If the user has not logged in, data is stored in a shared storage without encryption. |
| US10084878B2 |
Systems and methods for hosted application marketplaces
Systems and methods for hosted application marketplaces in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. In one embodiment, a hosted application marketplace server system includes a processor and a memory storing hosted application marketplace application, wherein the hosted application marketplace application directs the processor to obtain request data describing a request for hosted application data, wherein the request data includes user profile data and computing device capability data, identify a computing device based on the user profile data, determine compatible application data based on the request data, wherein the compatible application data identifies a set of applications that are compatible with the computing device based on the computing device capability data, generate hosted application data based on the compatible application data; and transmit the hosted application data in response to the obtained request data. |
| US10084876B2 |
System and method for conditional analysis of network traffic
Embodiments that are described herein provide improved methods and systems for analyzing network traffic. The disclosed embodiments enable an analytics system to perform complex processing to only new, first occurrences of received content, while refraining from processing duplicate instances of that content. In an embodiment, the analytics results regarding the first occurring content are reported and cached in association with the content. For any duplicate instance of the content, the analytics results are retrieved from the cache without re-processing of the duplicate content. When using the disclosed techniques, the system still processes all first occurring content but not duplicate instances of content that was previously received and processed. In the embodiments described herein, input data comprises communication packets exchanged in a communication network. |
| US10084875B2 |
Method of transferring data, data transfer device and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A method of transferring data executed by a data transfer device, the method includes receiving a plurality of first data and a plurality of second data, accumulating the received plurality of first data and the received plurality of second data respectively, sending, to a first node, the plurality of first data accumulated during a first period, and sending, to a second node, the plurality of second data accumulated during a second period, wherein, the first period is longer than the second period when a first data amount of the plurality of first data to be sent to the first node per unit time is greater than a second data amount of the plurality of second data to be sent to the second node per the unit time. |
| US10084874B2 |
Intelligent download of application programs
Improved techniques for controlling delivery (e.g., download) of application programs from a remote application repository to different client computing devices are disclosed. Application programs are often built to operate on computing devices that have certain hardware capabilities. Hence, application programs available for download from a remote application repository might not be suitable execution on all client computing devices that are able to access the remote application repository. The improved techniques for controlling delivery can operate to permit the applications to be received by only those client computing devices that have the required hardware capabilities to properly operate the application programs. |
| US10084873B2 |
Assignment of data agent proxies for executing virtual-machine secondary copy operations including streaming backup jobs
A comprehensive approach to streaming backups for virtual machines (“VMs”) in a storage management system comprises improvements to the assignment of data agent proxies for VM secondary copy operations. New considerations in performing a VM streaming backup job include without limitation: determining and enforcing a system-wide per-proxy limit of concurrent data streams; generating an ordered priority list of the VMs to be backed up as a basis for choosing which proxies will back up the respective VM, though the illustrative system may not strictly adhere to the priority list based on further considerations; identifying a next available proxy based on data stream utilization at the proxy; and dynamically re-generating the priority list and re-evaluating considerations if some VMs become “stranded” due to a failure to be backed up. Secondary copy operations are distributed to proxies in ways that improve the chances of successfully completing VM streaming backups. |
| US10084867B1 |
Location awareness assistant for switching between a business profile mode and a personal profile mode
A location-based assistant is provided on client device. The client device includes a business-oriented operating system and a personal oriented operating system. The client device is configured to communicate data associated with the business-oriented operating system to a business remote data system, when the client device is operating the business-oriented operating system. The client device is configured to communicate data associated with the personal-oriented operating system to a personal remote data system, when the client device is operating the personal-oriented operating system. |
| US10084866B1 |
Function based dynamic traffic management for network services
Technologies are disclosed for local and distributed function based dynamic traffic management for network services. A service host executes a network service and provides a service framework that includes one or more handlers. When a request is received for the service, one of the handlers assigns a classification to the request. The handler then provides the classification to a dynamic function based traffic controller. The controller determines whether the network service is to process the request based on the classification of the request, metrics associated with the network service, and a local traffic management policy. If the controller determines that the network service is not to process the request, the request is rejected. Otherwise, the request is passed to the network service for processing. Metrics can also be provided from the service host to a distributed performance monitoring system for use in managing network traffic at a fleet level. |
| US10084863B2 |
Electronic switching system for generating correlation identity
An electronic switching system for generating correlation identify (ID) with respect to a client in order to thereby establish, integrate and communicate to a server (lean server or nano server) within a cloud environment (e.g. Inswit™ Cloud). A service location identification module for identifying and generating a service location identity with respect to a remote client. A source ID generating module for generating a correlation ID/source ID based on the service location identify in order to serialize the payload and establish a connection with the server. The electronic switching system proposed herein operates external to the cloud environment by effectively generating the correlation identity with respect to a client device accessing the server in a cloud environment. The system also switches, integrates and executes client communications to an appropriate server in the cloud environment using the correlation ID. |
| US10084859B2 |
Method to designate and implement new routing options for high priority data flows
A method for routing data in a complex Storage Area Network (SAN) by a processor device is provided, and comprises in exchange based routing, reserving certain predefined Inter-Switch Links (ISLs) for use in routing certain predefined input/output (I/O) traffic across the SAN, such that the routing of other input/output (I/O) traffic remains unaffected and unchanged, the predefined input/output (I/O) traffic being subject to a specified path. |
| US10084858B2 |
Managing continuous priority workload availability and general workload availability between sites at unlimited distances for products and services
A system for providing reliable availability of a general workload and continuous availability of a priority workload over long distances may include a first computing site configured to execute a first instance associated with the priority workload, wherein the first instance is designated as an active instance, a second computing site configured to execute a second instance of the priority workload, wherein the second instance is designated as a standby instance, a third computing site configured to restart a third instance associated with the general workload, and a workload availability module configured to synchronize a portion of data associated with the third instance with a corresponding portion of data associated with the second instance. |
| US10084855B2 |
Pixel-based load balancing
Disclosed are methods, systems, and apparatus for load-balancing image-processing jobs based on the number of pixels in the images and/or the nature of the processing that is requested on those pixels. For example, a set of machines may run software to provide various types of image processing services, such as format conversion, recompression, resizing, cropping, among others. These are referred to as image servers. In accordance with the teachings hereof, the load on each image server can be calculated based on the number of pixels in the images that are waiting to be processed in the image server's processing queue, adjusted by the type of processing that is requested on each image. The adjustment typically reflects and adjusts for the relative time needed to perform various types of processing. Load scores can be further adjusted based on the processing capabilities of each image server, in some embodiments. |
| US10084852B1 |
Separated device detection architecture
A method for responding to a content retrieval request at a server may include receiving the content retrieval request from a computing device; detecting, at a device aware controller, at least one device capability of the computing device; setting, at the device aware controller, a rule boundary for the content retrieval request based on the at least one device capability; forwarding the content retrieval request with the rule boundary to a device agnostic controller, wherein the content retrieval request does not include capability information associated with the computing device; receiving from the device agnostic controller at the device aware controller, data corresponding to the content retrieval request with the rule boundary applied; and providing the data with the rule boundary applied to the computing device for presentation on the computing device. |
| US10084851B1 |
Managing use of intermediate destination hardware devices for provided computer networks
Techniques are described for providing a managed computer network, such as for a managed virtual computer network overlaid on another substrate computer network, and including managing communications for computing nodes of the managed computer network by using one or more particular hardware devices connected to the substrate computer network to operate as a logical network node of the managed computer network that acts as an intermediate destination to provide one or more types of functionality for at least some communications that are sent by and/or directed to one or more computing nodes of the managed computer network. For example, a communication manager module associated with a source computing node for the managed computer network may determine to direct a communication from the source computing node over the substrate network to one or more substrate hardware devices that represent a particular intermediate destination network node of the managed computer network. |
| US10084848B2 |
Centralized control of user devices via universal IP services registrar/hub
A method and system for centralized control of user devices is disclosed. The method for centralized control of user devices via universal IP services registrar includes receiving a request to register a user device for a plurality of services, registering the user device for the plurality of services by creating a user settings profile for the user for each of the plurality of services, receiving data from the plurality of registered services, and transmitting received data to the user device in accordance with the user profile. |
| US10084841B2 |
Systems and methods for managing media content playback
Methods and systems for managing the playback of media content via a website accessed by a user computer are described. According to aspects, the methods and systems may access and retrieve various data associated with media content such as website context data, content data of the media content itself, and engagement data related to an interaction by a user with the media content playback. The methods and systems may analyze any combination of the data to identify a relevant media file that may be of interest to the user and provide the media file to the user computer for playback by the user. The analysis models may be continuously updated and used to improve media selection and streamline partnerships with third-party entities. |
| US10084839B2 |
Upload operation using multiple connections
A client system requests to upload an input data stream to a server system. The input data stream is split to a sequence of chunks. The chunks are transferred in parallel by a number of connections from the client system to the server system. At the server system, the transferred chunks are merged into an output stream according to the sequence. The output stream represents the rebuilt input stream. |
| US10084833B2 |
Initiating a collaboration session between devices using an audible message
In one embodiment, a network interface broadcasts an audible message from a first computing device to a plurality of second computing devices over a first channel. The audible message comprises an audible noise broadcasted using a plurality of frequencies and a first unique identifier indicative of the first computing device. The network interface receives an acknowledgment message from each of the plurality of second computing devices over a second channel. A processor identifies each of the plurality of second computing devices based on the second unique identifier in the acknowledgment message and initiates a collaboration session between the first computing device and the plurality of second computing devices by sending a collaboration message from the first computing device to the plurality of second computing devices. The collaboration message automatically causes the plurality of second computing devices to enter the collaboration session. |
| US10084831B2 |
Method and apparatus for improving quality of multimedia streaming service
A method for receiving a media data is provided. The method includes receiving, by a client from a server, a media presentation description (MPD) including segment information; and receiving media data based on the MPD, wherein the media data comprises a segment, wherein the segment includes a fragment, and wherein the fragment includes a subfragment, wherein the segment information indicates a location of the media data, and wherein the segment information comprises segment index information indicating a corresponding byte range related one fragment, and fragment index information for accessing different levels of a plurality of subfragments. |
| US10084826B1 |
Protocol agnostic security by using out-of-band health check
A computer-implemented method provides an improvement in security breach detection and comprises using a broker computing device, calculating a digital fingerprint of a computing device based on security service data of the computing device, and sending the fingerprint out-of-band for storing in a data repository; using an agent computing device, encrypting current security service data of the computing device to generate encrypted current security service data and sending the encrypted current security service data out-of-band to a gateway computing device; using the gateway computing device, receiving the encrypted current security service data out-of-band and conducting a real-time out-of-band health check of the computing device based, at least in part, on the fingerprint that is stored in the data repository; and using the gateway computing device, in response to conducting the real-time out-of-band health check, determining whether to allow access to in-band communication data. |
| US10084819B1 |
System for detecting source code security flaws through analysis of code history
The present invention relates to a system for detecting source code security flaws through analysis of code history. First, the system obtains a previously inferred information flow policy, the previously inferred informational flow policy being based on a previous source code revision. The system then determines changes in source code between a previous source code revision and a current source code revision. Finally, a current inferred information flow policy is generated by modifying the previously inferred information flow policy to reflect the changes in source code. If the changes in the source code do not comply with the previously inferred information flow policy, then the changes are reported to a developer. |
| US10084818B1 |
Flexibly configurable data modification services
Techniques for processing data according to customer-defined rules are disclosed. In particular, methods and systems for implementing a data alteration service using one or resources of a distributed computing system are described. The data alteration service is flexibly configurable by entities using the distributed computing system, and may be used to augment, compress, filter or otherwise modify data crossing a customer boundary. |
| US10084817B2 |
Malware and exploit campaign detection system and method
A malware and exploit campaign detection system and method are provided that cannot be detected by the malware or exploit campaign. The system may provide threat feed data to the vendors that produce in-line network security and end point protection (anti virus) technologies. The system may also be used as a testing platform for 3rd party products. Due to the massive footprint of the system's cloud infrastructure and disparate network connections and geo-location obfuscation techniques, NSS can locate and monitor malware across the globe and provide detailed threat analysis for each specific region, as they often support and host different malware/cybercrime campaigns. |
| US10084814B2 |
Analyzing DNS requests for anomaly detection
A computer-implemented method for detecting anomalies in DNS requests comprises receiving a plurality of DNS requests generated within a predetermined period. The predetermined period includes a plurality of DNS data fragments. The method further includes receiving a first DNS request and selecting a plurality of second DNS requests from the plurality of DNS requests such that each of the second DNS requests is a subset of the first DNS request. The method also includes calculating a count value for each of the DNS data fragments, where each of the count values represents a number of instances the second DNS requests appear within one of the DNS data fragments. In some embodiments, the count values for each of the DNS data fragments can be normalized. The method further includes determining an anomaly trend, for example, based on determining that at least one of the count values exceeds a predetermined threshold value. |
| US10084805B2 |
Computer system to identify anomalies based on computer-generated results
One or more embodiments may include techniques to identify anomalies based on computer-generated results. Moreover, embodiments may include applying scenario rules to data to detect scenario violations and grouping the scenario violations into scenario clusters based on similar behavior performed by entities indicated by similarity metrics. embodiments include determining predictive ability values for each of the scenario clusters, ranking the scenario clusters based on the predictive ability values, and removing scenario clusters having predictive ability values below a threshold. In embodiments combinations of scenario clusters may be generated from the set of scenario clusters and the combinations of scenario clusters may be evaluated for effectiveness. Embodiments include generating scores for entities of the combinations of scenario clusters deemed effective, and provide results indicating whether one or more of the entities committed an anomaly based on the scores for each of the entities. |
| US10084804B2 |
Optimizing security analyses in SaaS environment
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for performing a security analysis on a set of observables by inferring malicious relationships. The method includes receiving a set of observables and structured and unstructured threat data. The method further includes analyzing the observables and the structured and unstructured threat data using cognitive computing, and creating and transferring a subgraph. |
| US10084801B2 |
Time zero classification of messages
Detecting infectious messages comprises performing an individual characteristic analysis of a message to determine whether the message is suspicious, determining whether a similar message has been noted previously in the event that the message is determined to be suspicious, classifying the message according to its individual characteristics and its similarity to the noted message in the event that a similar message has been noted previously. |
| US10084800B2 |
Content request rate limiting in a content delivery system
Systems, methods, and software for operating a content delivery node to monitor requests for content transferred by at least an end user device to detect when the requests comprise an attack on the content delivery node. Responsive to detecting the attack on the content delivery node, the content delivery node establishes a rate limit in the content delivery node on at least the requests for the content associated with the end user device, and transfers an indication of the attack comprising the rate limit for delivery to another content delivery node that directs the other content delivery node to apply the rate limit to further requests for the content before the further requests are received by the other content delivery node. |
| US10084799B2 |
Systems and methods for providing security services during power management mode
Systems and methods for providing security services during a power management mode are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting with a mobile security system a wake event on a mobile device, providing from the mobile security system a wake signal, the providing being in response to the wake event to wake a mobile device from a power management mode, and managing with the mobile security system security services of the mobile device. Managing security services may comprise scanning a hard drive of the mobile devices for viruses and/or other malware. Managing security services may also comprise updating security applications or scanning the mobile device for unauthorized data. |
| US10084798B2 |
Selective verification of signatures by network nodes
A network node may include one or more processors. The one or more processors may receive a message that is associated with one or more signatures and one or more second signatures. The one or more signatures may have been validated by a particular node. The one or more processors may determine that the particular node is a trusted node. The network node may be configured not to validate signatures that have been validated by a trusted node. The one or more processors may determine that the one or more signatures have been validated by the particular node. The one or more processors may sign or provide the message, without validating the one or more signatures, based on determining that the one or more signatures have been validated by the particular node. |
| US10084793B2 |
Electronic device for managing use of data from other electronic device and method for controlling the same
A method for controlling a first electronic device communicating with a second electronic device is provided. The method includes connecting to the second electronic device, receiving a request to use data stored in the second electronic device from a first application, determining whether to permit to use the data, and, if permitted to use the data, controlling the first application to use the data. |
| US10084792B2 |
Control and verification of permissions
A verification method includes configuring a reference system, running on a computer, to have the same set of executables and customizations as an e-business system to be verified. The reference system is configured with one or more roles that have permissions to execute all transactions in a scope of a planned verification. One or more business processes that are implemented in the e-business system and are in the scope of the planned verification are mapped and are executed using the reference system. Logs of permission checks conducted in the business processes are saved in a repository. Reference data is created by merging records from the logs of the permission checks with respect to at least one role in the scope of the verification. Permission settings for the at least one role in the e-business system are compared with corresponding permission values in the reference data for the at least one role. Based on comparing the permission settings, an indication is displayed to a user of whether the permission settings match the corresponding permission values. |
| US10084785B2 |
Connecting and retrieving security tokens based on context
An application may be configured with two or more cloud contexts and one or more identity Systems. Using this information, the application has the ability to identify the remote cloud environment that a particular subsystem needs to interact with. The application communicates with the appropriate identity system to retrieve tokens dynamically for targeting that remote cloud. |
| US10084784B1 |
Restricting access to computing resources
Functionality is disclosed herein for providing a resource monitoring environment that restricts access to computing resource data in a service provider network. The resource monitoring environment processes requests to access computing resource data, and denies requests not signed or authorized by a customer of a service provider network or other entity. Access to the computing resource data includes access to non-obfuscated data and/or access to encrypted computing resource data encrypted by way of a public encryption key held by a customer of the service provider network or other entity instead of a requestor of the computing resource data. |
| US10084780B2 |
Network-based authentication and security services
A user device may request access to a service provided by an application server. The application server may request that an identity server authenticate the user device. The identity server may have a network authentication system assist with the authentication of the user device. Once authenticated by the network authentication system, the application server may be informed and may grant the user device access to the requested service. Additionally, the identity server may help determine whether the user device is a security threat by comparing user information from the network authentication system with user information from the application server. Additionally, the network authentication system may provide the application server with user information to enable the application server to automatically register the user device for a particular service. |
| US10084778B2 |
Communication device identification
A peripheral device and central device in a communication network, such as a Bluetooth Low Energy network, maintain privacy while establishing a connection. During the connection set-up, energy may be saved in the peripheral device by linking the advertising address of the peripheral device to the resolvable private address of the central device, thereby minimizing the search effort of the peripheral device. |
| US10084775B1 |
Time-varying representations of user credentials
Obtaining and/or validating time-varying representations for user credentials at client devices is described. |
| US10084772B2 |
Bypassing certificate pinning
A client application performs certificate pinning as a means of authenticating the identity of a server. A proxy is interposed in the communications path of the client and the hosting server and provides a proxy security certificate to the client. In response to the client extracting a proxy authentication component from the proxy security certificate, operation of the client is paused and a hosting server authentication component is extracted from a hosting server security certificate. The client operation is resumed, providing the extracted hosting server authentication component to the client, in substitution for the proxy authentication component. Based on receiving the extracted hosting server authentication component, the client authenticates the proxy to receive communications directed to the hosting server. |
| US10084768B2 |
Embedded universal integrated circuit card supporting two-factor authentication
A module with an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) can include a profile for the eUICC. The profile can include a first and second shared secret key K for authenticating with a wireless network. The first shared secret key K can be encrypted with a first key, and the second shared secret key K can be encrypted with a second key. The module can (i) receive the first key, (ii) decrypt the first shared secret key K with the first key, and (iii) subsequently authenticate with the wireless network using the plaintext first shared secret key K. The wireless network can authenticate the user of the module using a second factor. The module can then (i) receive the second key, (ii) decrypt the second shared secret key K, and (iii) authenticate with the wireless network using the second shared secret key K. The module can comprise a mobile phone. |
| US10084764B2 |
System for a secure encryption proxy in a content centric network
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates a secure encryption proxy in a content centric network. During operation, the system receives, by an intermediate router from a content-consuming computing device, a first interest that includes a first name, signaling information encrypted based on a signaling key, and an inner interest encrypted based on an encryption key. The inner interest includes a name for a manifest that represents a collection of data. The intermediate router does not possess the encryption key. The system generates one or more interests for the data represented by the manifest. The system transmits to the content-consuming computing device a content object received in response to a generated interest, wherein the intermediate router transmits the responsive content object without receiving a corresponding interest from the content-consuming computing device, thereby facilitating reduced network between the content-consuming computing device and the intermediate router. |
| US10084763B2 |
Methods and systems for establishing secure communication between devices via at least one intermediate device
Methods to establish communication between a first and second device via at least one intermediate device comprise, at the first device, generating an offer data packet comprising a second device address, which includes a first identifier indicating a public key associated with the second device; transmitting the offer data packet to a first intermediate device for transmission to the second device based upon the address of the second device; receiving an answer data packet via the first intermediate device, the answer data packet including network information associated with the second device; establishing a communication channel with the second device based on the network information received; receiving over the communication channel a first handshake data packet including a public key; calculating a second identifier based upon the public key; comparing the first identifier with the second identifier; and warning if a relationship between the first identifier and the second identifier is not an expected relationship. |
| US10084760B2 |
Secure messages for internet of things devices
Example implementations relate to secure messages for IoT devices. For example, a system for secure messages for IoT devices may include an IoT device coupled to a network including a plurality of web services. The IoT device may store a service certificate for each of the plurality of web services, generate a secure message for a web service among the plurality of web services using the stored service certificate for the web service, and send the secure message to the web service without first establishing a connection between the IoT device and the web service. |
| US10084759B2 |
Secure content access authorization
A secure content delivery or access method may include coordination among three devices such as servers—a content management server, a delivery server, and an authorization server. A request for content may originate from an authorization server application, and may involve the application obtaining two digitally signed tokens for the request. The first token may be from the authorization server, and may include a content management server identifier for the requested content. The second token may include two identifiers for the content: the first identifier being the content management server identifier, and the second being a delivery server identifier. The first and second tokens may be signed by the authorization server and content management server, respectively, and may be delivered to the delivery server for validation. Successful validation may result in the delivery server providing a content decryption key for the requested content to a device requesting the content. |
| US10084758B2 |
System, method, and recording medium for communication and message comparison with encrypted light signals
A method, system, and recording medium for communication comparison including encrypting a first communication and a second communication, determining a list of frequencies and intensities based on the first communication and the second communication, projecting light based on the list of frequencies and intensities of the first communication onto an object, reading the frequencies and intensities of the light based on the first communication from the object, and comparing the light read in the reading with the list of frequencies and intensities of the second communication to calculate a semantic overlap between the frequencies and intensities of the first communication and the second communication. |
| US10084756B2 |
Anonymous communications in software-defined networks via route hopping and IP address randomization
A system and method that rely on a centralized and trusted control mechanism for a software-defined network (SDN) to dynamically assign routes between two end points, and to simultaneously change their real IP addresses to fake IP addresses to establish short-lived obfuscated communications paths with a goal of preserving anonymity. The SDN controller determines the short-lived routes from a feasible route-set and new fake IP addresses from a reserved address pool for the source and destination hosts. It provisions only the switches along the route with rules so that a switch can forward packets of the data flow to another switch without needing to know the actual IP addresses of the communicating endpoints, and hence, providing strict anonymity even when the switches are compromised. |
| US10084755B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for remote authentication dial in user service (RADIUS) proxy and diameter agent address resolution
A method for RADIUS proxy or Diameter agent address resolution is disclosed. The method may be implemented in a network node including a plurality of message processors. The method includes receiving an inbound RADIUS or Diameter message. The method further includes determining whether address resolution is required for the inbound message. The method further includes, in response to determining that address resolution is required for the inbound message, performing the address resolution. The method further includes routing an outbound message to a destination based on a result of the address resolution, where at least one of the inbound message and the outbound message comprises a RADIUS message. |
| US10084754B2 |
Virtual private network aggregation
Aggregating traffic over multiple VPN connections is described. A first Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection is established between a client device and a first VPN server via a a first access network of the client device. A second Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection is established between the client device and a second VPN server via a second access network of the client device. Application traffic associated with a connection between an application server and a client application that corresponds to the client device is received. The application traffic associated with the connection between the application server and the client application is distributed between at least the first VPN connection and the second VPN connection. |
| US10084748B2 |
Method and apparatus for requesting or providing resource by terminal of server in wireless communication system
A method for processing a request for MO data using a cache validator (CV) allocated to an MO instance according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: receiving uniform resource identifier (URI) information to identify the MO data of requesting certain MO data of the MO instance from a server; determining whether the URI information includes a first CV; transmitting the requested certain MO data to the server when the URI information does not include the first CV; and transmitting a second CV for the MO instance when the URI information indicates a root node of the MO instance, wherein the MO instance has a tree structure consisting of at least one node; the MO data comprises the name, value and structure of a node included in the MO instance, and the method is performed by a terminal. |
| US10084747B2 |
External address space compression
Systems, apparatus and methods described herein are configured to allow use of network addresses in an internal or private network that are outside of private address ranges as specified by communication protocols (e.g., IPv4). In some embodiments, the systems, apparatus and methods described herein are further configured for use of placeholder addresses to facilitate communication with external computing devices that may have network addresses that overlap the local address space. |
| US10084743B2 |
Methods and systems for adaptive and contextual collaboration in a network
There is provided a system that includes a correlation module configured to receive input data from a device and generate a composite statement based on the input data and at least one of a condition of the system and domain model data. The system includes a decision module configured to generate recommendation data based on the composite statement. Further, the system includes a control module configured to engage an action at the device based on the recommendation data. |
| US10084737B2 |
Scheduling events
Disclosed are examples relating to scheduling events using devices in communication through a network. In some examples, an email message comprising an encoded data element is obtained. The encoded data element includes data that specifies a proposed time for an event. The data that specifies the proposed time for the event is extracted from the encoded data element. Content from the email message is rendered in a user interface. A user interface element is rendered within the user interface. The user interface element represents the proposed time for the event and an availability for the event at the proposed time. |
| US10084736B2 |
Conversation enrichment through component re-order
Technologies are described for chronological re-ordering of transmitted conversation components. A message transmitting a message chain in the conversation through a forward or reply action, or addition of a new participant may be kept at the top and the remainder of messages may be re-ordered in chronological order. In some examples, the displayed properties (metadata) or header information may be normalized, that is displayed in a consistent manner. In other examples, flat header information (textual data) may be analyzed and enriched. Thus, the header information may be presented with interactive features such as presence information, calendar presentation, and comparable ones. |
| US10084734B2 |
Automated spam filter updating by tracking user navigation
An email filter updating system includes a tracking component, and a logic component. The tracking component is provided to track user navigation. This tracking compiles information about websites the user has visited and presumably may “trust” in the event an email associated with one such site or application is later received by the user's email application. The logic component uses information and a set of configurable rule-based criteria to output a characterization that a particular email message has been initiated from a site that the user has visited or should otherwise trust. The characterization is then provided to the email filter to control whether in-bound email is passed to the user's email client inbox. Further, the logic component is operative to generate filter update commands that update the email filter in an automated manner, i.e., without user input. |
| US10084728B2 |
Localized traffic flow management in a wireless network
The disclosure relates to technology for a local control point in a communication system. The local control point may be an enterprise gateway configured as a gateway between radio access nodes and a core network that provides wireless communication for wireless devices that connect to the radio access nodes. The enterprise gateway may be connected to radio access nodes in a venue such as a retail shopping center, workplace, sports arena, public street, etc. The enterprise gateway may perform traffic flow management with respect to the local traffic in the venue. The enterprise gateway can make better decisions for traffic flow at the venue than a centralized point, such as a core network. |
| US10084725B2 |
Extracting features from a NoC for machine learning construction
The present disclosure is directed to extracting features from a NoC for machine learning construction. Example implementations include a method for generating a Network on Chip (NoC), wherein the method can extract at least one feature from a NoC specification to derive at least one of: grid features, traffic features and topological features associated with the NoC. The method can perform a process on the at least one of the grid features, the traffic features and the topological features associated with the NoC to determine at least one of an evaluation of at least one mapping strategy selected from a plurality of mapping strategies of the NoC based on a quality metric, and the selection of the at least one mapping strategy is based on the quality metric. The method can further perform generate the NoC based on the process. |
| US10084716B2 |
Flexible application of congestion control measures
Communication apparatus includes multiple interfaces configured to be connected to a packet data network and a memory, coupled to the interfaces and configured as a buffer to contain the data packets received through the ingress interfaces in multiple queues while awaiting transmission to the network via the egress interfaces. Congestion control logic includes a packet discard machine, which is configured to drop a first fraction of the data packets from at least a first queue in the buffer in response to a status of the queues, and a packet marking machine, which is configured to apply a congestion notification to a second fraction of the data packets from at least a second queue in the buffer in response to the status of the queues. Machine control circuitry is coupled to selectively enable and disable at least the packet discard machine. |
| US10084713B2 |
Protocol type identification method and apparatus
The present invention relates to a protocol type identification method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a data packet transmitted on a connection that is established between a user terminal and a server; if multidimensional user information corresponding to the user terminal exists in a multidimensional user information table, performing, according to information that is identified by the found multidimensional user information and about all connections that are currently established by the user terminal, multidimensional user information based protocol type identification on the connection; and if the multidimensional user information corresponding to the user terminal is not found, performing, according to a packet characteristic of the data packet, data flow based protocol type identification on the connection on which the data packet is transmitted. |
| US10084712B1 |
Real-time traffic analysis over mobile networks
A device can determine a set of flow characteristics associated with an encrypted traffic flow. The set of flow characteristics can include a cumulative length of payload packets included in the encrypted traffic flow, an average payload length of the payload packets, and a throughput associated with the encrypted traffic flow. The device can determine, based on the set of flow characteristics, whether the encrypted traffic flow is likely to be a video traffic flow. The device can cause the encrypted traffic flow to be managed based on whether the encrypted traffic flow is likely to be a video traffic flow. |
| US10084707B2 |
Methods and devices for sharing a service among multiple devices
Methods and devices for sharing services among multiple devices are provided. The methods and devices may involve multiple devices and a service-sharing platform that allows multiple different services available on the multiple devices to be shared among the multiple devices. One device may lack a service and request that service from one or more other devices that have the service. The methods and devices may further involve an iptables-based routing technique to connect or transmit data from one device to one or more other devices. The technique may comprise marking communications of one device based on a marking feature of iptables and creating a rule for the marked communications. The rule may instruct the marked communications to look up a routing table and to be routed to a default route of the routing table. |
| US10084705B2 |
Location identification of prior network message processor
The communication of a network message from a first network node in a particular location to a second network node in a manner that the second network node determines that the network message was processed the network message in the particular location. For instance, the particular location might be a geographic location or a network topographical location. The proof of location is accomplished by using a signed proof of location included by the first network node within the network message. The network message is then received by the second network entity. The second network entity then uses the signed proof of location data structure as input to a process that determines that the network message was processed at least based on the signed proof of location data structure. |
| US10084698B2 |
Selectively enabling first and second communication paths using a repeater
A port of a first integrated circuit is coupled to a first communication path. Configuration information is communicated between a connector coupled to a second device and a second integrated circuit through the port and the first communication path. The port is decoupled from the first communication path. The port is coupled to a second communication path. Data is communicated between the connector and the second integrated circuit through the port and the second communication path. |
| US10084690B2 |
Using a firewall filter to select a member link of a link aggregation group
A device may store, in a data structure, a set of link identifiers, that identifies a set of member links included in a link aggregation group, in association with a set of packet parameters. The device may receive a network packet. The device may determine a particular packet parameter, of the set of packet parameters, associated with the network packet. The device may route the network packet via a particular member link, of the set of member links, identified by the particular link identifier. |
| US10084680B2 |
System and method for subscriber aware network monitoring
A system and method for subscriber aware network monitoring is provided. The method includes: determining subscriber and session data, wherein the subscriber has a non-unique IP (Internet Protocol) address; retrieving identifying data from a packet; and comparing the identifying data with the determined subscriber and session data to determine the subscriber associated with the packet. The system includes: at least one network probe configured to determine subscriber and session data, wherein the subscriber has a non-unique Internet Protocol (IP) address; at least one traffic probe configured to retrieve identifying data from a packet; and a processing module configured to compare the identifying data with the stored subscriber and session data to determine the subscriber associated with the packet. |
| US10084679B2 |
Standalone network probing using available network connections
Various embodiments provide methods, devices, and non-transitory processor-readable storage media enabling network probing with a communication device based on the communication device sending a probe via a first network connection and receiving the probe via a second network connection. By leveraging a capability of a communication device to establish two network connections at the same time, various embodiments may enable a single communication device to act as both a probing client and a probing server. In this manner, various embodiments may enable standalone network probing, i.e., network probing that may not require a remote dedicated probing server to act as a probe generator or a probe sink. |
| US10084673B1 |
Network test system, a shakedown server, and a method of performing site acceptance testing for a communications network site
A network test system, a method of performing site acceptance testing for a communications network site, and a computer program product for testing a communications network site are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the network test system includes: (1) a mobile testing device configured to collect RF data from the communications network site and device location data corresponding to the RF data, and (2) a shakedown server configured to receive the RF data and device location data from the mobile testing device, derive depth data and spread data of each sector based on the RF data and device location data, and automatically determine a MIMO issue at the communications network site based on a comparison of the depth and spread data to pre-defined scenarios. |
| US10084672B2 |
System and method for measuring performance and availability of applications utilizing monitoring of distributed systems processes combined with analysis of the network communication between the processes
A performance monitoring and management system is provided for monitoring both server side and network side performance parameters of overall communication between distributed system components. The system can track availability of system component as well as detect problematic topology connections caused by failed or overload elements. The monitoring system combines information from operating system's internal data structures and APIs with information available in raw communication data streams as available at each end of communication channel. |
| US10084664B1 |
Dynamic configuration of a scroll feature
A client device (e.g., smart phone) submits scroll log data to a server. The scroll log data comprises time stamps of load start events, load end events and lag events. The server then computes a performance value using the scroll log data and, responsive to the performance value, adjusts a first scroll parameter for use by client devices. The server also transmits the adjusted first scroll parameter to the client device for use in a graphical user interface scroll on an application executing on the client device. The server then transmits data to the client device in response to the client device's use of the adjusted first scroll parameter. |
| US10084657B2 |
Normalized software-defined networking interface
A first message that conforms to a first software-defined networking protocol is received from a first source component. A first destination component associated with the first message is identified. A second software-defined networking protocol is determined based, at least in part, on the first destination component. The second software-defined networking protocol is one of a plurality of software-defined networking protocols. A second message that conforms to the second software-defined networking protocol is generated based, at least in part, on the first message. The second message is sent to the first destination component. |
| US10084656B2 |
TRILL network establishing method, node, and system
A Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) network establishing method, node, and system. The TRILL network establishing method includes: receiving, by a first node, a Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) packet, where an optional type-length-value (TLV) field of the LLDP packet includes TRILL capability information of a second node that sends the LLDP packet; and if it is determined, according to the TRILL capability information, that the second node has a TRILL capability, and the first node itself also has the TRILL capability, configuring, by the first node, a port, through which the LLDP packet is received, of the first node, to have a TRILL function enabled. The node in embodiments of the present invention can automatically enable or disable the TRILL function, so as to implement automatic establishment of a TRILL network. |
| US10084650B2 |
Graphical user interface for customizing graphical representations based on registry data
The present invention pertains to a method for providing a customizable user interface capable of auto rendering data models of a data network, for monitoring and management purposes a data network so as to allow for management of boilerplate operations such as logon/logout, fetching and storing data, executing actions and transactions management. The method comprising the steps of: storing: a data model having a plurality of elements and sub-elements representative of the data network, a widget library, default registry data, customization registry data. The method further comprises the steps generating, a request for a portion of the data model representative for a part of the network of interest for display in the customizable user interface, selecting a graphical representations for each element and sub element based on the customization registry data and the default registry data and rendering the part of the data network using the selected graphical representations. |
| US10084649B2 |
Terminal for internet of things and operation method of the same
An example Internet of Things (IoT) terminal includes communication circuitry configured to communicate with an IoT apparatus and a data processor configured to transmit, to the IoT apparatus, a request for establishing a connection to the IoT apparatus, and to recognize a physical signal as a response signal output from the IoT apparatus in response to the request for establishing a connection. |
| US10084646B2 |
Upgrading a descriptor engine for a network interface card
A method for updating a descriptor engine for a network interface card (NIC) may include quiescing a transmit stream to the NIC. The method may further include stopping a descriptor engine from providing new receive descriptors to the NIC. The method may further include creating a copy in a memory of any receive descriptors already available to the NIC prior to the stopping the descriptor engine. The method may further include setting a controller to redirect inbound traffic to the memory. The method may further include restoring a transmit configuration and a transmit state of the descriptor engine subsequent to updating the descriptor engine. |
| US10084645B2 |
Estimating server-change risk by corroborating historic failure rates, predictive analytics, and user projections
A method and associated systems for predicting a degree of risk associated with a planned change to a computer server or other electronic component. A computerized change-management system receives Probability and Impact inputs derived from user-derived input, from which it determines a Baseline risk of change failure. The system processes mined data to determine an historic change-failure rate as a function of a type of change, and computes a predictive incident probability based on a predictive analytics engine's forecast of whether a particular type of server will be problematic. The system then computes a final Change Risk by adjusting the Baseline risk as a function of the historic change-failure rate, the predictive incident-probability, and a Baseline-specific weighting factor. If the resulting Change Risk is judged to be elevated, the system initiates collateral actions and notifications intended to reduce the probability and impact of a change failure. |
| US10084638B2 |
Method and apparatus for automation and alarm architecture
A method and system architecture for automation and alarm systems is provided. The system architecture is hierarchically organized, allowing devices to process system data differently at different levels of the hierarchy. Moreover, different devices at the same level of the hierarchy may employ different or custom configurations, allowing for context-dependent algorithms to be deployed in the system. The configuration of each device in the system is defined by a set of rules, filters, thresholds, and other criteria, which are pushed to a device from other devices in the hierarchy. Accordingly, the configuration of each device is dynamically updated as information is learned about the context in which the device is deployed, and as more advanced algorithms and configurations are developed. |
| US10084636B2 |
Transmission apparatus, reception apparatus, transmission method, and reception method
In a transmission apparatus, a mapper maps frequency components of an analog signal at equally spaced discrete locations within a transmission frequency band, a time-division multiplexer time-division multiplexes the analog signal and a preamble signal to generate a transmission signal, the preamble signal being a digital signal whose frequency components are continuously mapped over the transmission frequency band, and a transmitter transmits the transmission signal, wherein an autocorrelation value of the transmission signal being to be used for timing synchronization at a reception apparatus that receives the transmission signal. |
| US10084634B2 |
User presence information communication system
This invention relates to a communication system comprising a least one user with which presence information is associated, said presence information comprising a plurality of parts, at least one of said parts comprising information identifying an application for which said at least one part is intended; and at least one entity to which presence information associated with said at least one user is provided, said at least one entity having at least one entity application, said at least one entity being arranged to use said information to obtain the at least one part intended for said at least one entity application. |
| US10084630B2 |
Multi-beam crest factor reduction
A system for use with beam signals, the system including: a crest factor reduction (CFR) module having inputs and corresponding outputs, wherein each of the inputs is for receiving a corresponding different beam signal of the beam signals and wherein each output corresponds to a different input of the plurality of inputs and is for outputting a different CFR-adjusted signal of a plurality of CFR-adjusted signals, each CFR-adjusted signal of the plurality of CFR-adjusted signals corresponding to a different beam signal of the plurality of beam signals; and a transmitter connected to the outputs of the CFR module, wherein the CFR module is configured to perform crest factor reduction on the beam signals to generate the plurality of CFR-adjusted signals, and wherein the crest factor reduction performed on the beam signals is based on a weighted sum of the magnitudes of multiple beams signals among the beam signals. |
| US10084623B1 |
Multichannel CDR with sharing of adaptation hints and learning
Apparatus and methods are provide for a multichannel clock and data recovery (CDR) device that shares information between channels. In an example, a multiple channel communication circuit can include a plurality of clock and data recovery (CDR) circuits, each CDR circuit of the plurality of CDR circuits associated with a channel of the multiple channel communication circuit. In certain examples, each CDR circuit can be configured to detect an incoming stream of data from the channel, to determine a setting of one or more parameters for correctly sampling the data from the incoming stream, and to share an indication of the setting of the one or more parameters to an adjacent CDR circuit of the plurality of CDR circuits. |
| US10084622B2 |
Method, device, and computer storage medium for eliminating inter-carrier interference
The embodiment of the disclosure discloses a method and device for eliminating Inter-Carrier Interference (ICI) and a computer storage medium. The method for eliminating the ICI includes that: a user frequency offset value is acquired; an order of a filter is determined according to the user frequency offset value; a filter coefficient is constructed according to the order of the filter; user carrier data is received; and ICI elimination is performed on a target subcarrier according to frequency-domain data on adjacent subcarriers of the target subcarrier and filter coefficients of corresponding positions of the adjacent subcarriers, wherein the target subcarrier is any carrier in the user carrier data. |
| US10084614B2 |
Method of bus virtualization in computing machine intercommunications
To reduce performance losses and costs associated with serializing parallel communications when communicating with other computing devices over a local area network (“LAN”) or a wide area network (“WAN”), bus virtualization is provided to maintain parallelization for inter machine communications over a network. Control lines and data lines associated with a parallel bus communication can be received by a network adapter, and instead of serializing the communications, the network adapter can map each of the control and data lines to respective virtual local area networks (“VLAN”). Multiple VLANs can exist together on a LAN or WAN while logically segmented, allowing the respective VLANs to facilitate communications for the control and data lines over the network. |
| US10084608B2 |
Method and system for configuring instrumentation devices
A method and system for managing an instrumentation device include accessing an image of the instrumentation device. Based on the image, an identity for the instrumentation device is determined. The identity is used to register the instrumentation device by configuring a gateway at a multimedia content distribution network client location to access and communicate with the instrumentation device. The identity of the instrumentation device and the gateway may be stored for future configuration of the gateway. |
| US10084605B2 |
Caching of encrypted content
The invention relates to a transparent proxy as well as methods of caching and providing encrypted data content at the transparent proxy. In a first aspect of the present invention, a method of providing requested encrypted data content at a transparent proxy in a communications network is provided. The method comprises receiving from a client an encrypted identifier indicating the requested encrypted data content at the proxy, identifying the encrypted data content from the received encrypted identifier, determining whether the client is authorized to access the encrypted data content, and if so providing the requested encrypted data content to the client. |
| US10084601B2 |
Method, system and electronic device
A method comprising generating an auxiliary key based on a secret key which is stored in an electronic device, generating a representation of the auxiliary key, displaying the representation of the auxiliary key on a display of the first electronic device, capturing the representation of the auxiliary key with a camera of a second electronic device, and restoring the auxiliary key from the captured representation of the auxiliary key. |
| US10084600B1 |
Decentralized information protection for confidentiality and tamper-proofing on distributed database
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented data security method comprises: at a first computing device, receiving security service data from a first digital data repository; using the first computing device, generating hidden security service data by generating a plurality of shares of the security service data; using the first computing device, encrypting each share of the plurality of shares using a separate public key from among a plurality of public keys corresponding to each of a plurality of second computing devices, to generate a plurality of encrypted shares; electronically storing the plurality of encrypted shares as data in a second digital data repository; using a subset of the plurality of second computing devices, in response to receiving an authentication request from a third computing device to access one or more fourth computing devices, decrypting a subset of the plurality of encrypted shares using a subset of separate private keys corresponding to each of the subset of the plurality of second computing devices to generate a plurality of decrypted shares; forming and storing a readable copy of the hidden security service data using the plurality of decrypted shares; using the readable copy of the hidden security service data, performing authentication services for the third computing device to grant or deny access to the one or more fourth computing devices. |
| US10084598B2 |
Authenticating features of virtual server system
Technical solutions are described for authenticating a hosting system prior to securely deploying a shrouded virtual server. An example method includes receiving, by a hypervisor, a request for a public certificate, from a client device that requested the virtual server, and sending the public certificate of the hosting system that executes the hypervisor. The method also includes receiving, in response to the public certificate being successfully authenticated by the client device using a third-party verification system, a session key based on a public key included in the public certificate. The method also includes decrypting the session key using a private key, where the private key is pre-installed in the hosting system by a manufacturer of the hosting system, and sending an acknowledgement message encrypted using the session key. The method also includes establishing a secure communication between the client device and the hypervisor using the session key. |
| US10084595B2 |
Algorithm-based anonymous customer references
Facilitation of management and utilization of domain-specific anonymous customer references (ACRs) for protection of subscriber privacy across different domains is disclosed herein. In one aspect, on receiving user authorization, an ACR services (ACRS) component can generate an ACR that is to be inserted in a communication or message transmitted from a user equipment to an untrusted entity. The ACR can be generated based on address data associated with the untrusted entity and/or a unique subscriber identifier associated with the user equipment. As an example, the ACR creation component can generate the ACR based on a cryptographic hash, a static encryption key, and/or a dynamic encryption key. If the ACR is forwarded to a trusted entity, the trusted entity can calculate the unique subscriber identifier based on evaluating the ACR and/or exchange the ACR for the unique subscriber identifier via a secure communication with the ACRS component. |
| US10084592B2 |
Skew calculation in channel-bonded passive optical networks (PONs)
An apparatus comprises: a first clock; a receiver configured to: receive a first packet via a first channel corresponding to a first wavelength, and receive a third packet via a third channel corresponding to a third wavelength; and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to: implement channel bonding using the first channel and the third channel, synchronize the first clock based on the first packet, and calculate a channel skew between the first channel and the third channel based on the first clock. |
| US10084589B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting control channel in intra-cell carrier aggregation system
A method for receiving control channel and an apparatus in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting, at a base station, information on a primary cell operating in a frequency division duplexing (FDD) mode and a secondary cell operating in a time division duplexing (TDD) mode, transmitting, at the base station, downlink scheduling information for downlink data, transmitting, at the base station, the downlink data in a first subframe according to the downlink scheduling information, and receiving, at the base station, control information corresponding to the downlink data on the primary cell, from a terminal. The control information is transmitted using a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) format determined based on a type of the first subframe of the secondary cell. |
| US10084588B2 |
Mobile communication device configured with a single crystal piezo resonator structure
A mobile communication system. The system has a housing comprising an interior region and an exterior region and a processing device provided within an interior region of the housing. The system has an rf transmit module coupled to the processing device, and configured on a transmit path. The system has a transmit filter provided within the rf transmit module. In an example, the transmit filter comprises a diplexer filter comprising a single crystal acoustic resonator device. |
| US10084584B2 |
Interference cancellation apparatus and method
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide an interference cancellation apparatus and method, which can avoid being limited by a dynamic range of an ADC/DAC and can cancel a second-type self-interference component effectively. The interference cancellation apparatus includes a main receive antenna, a divider, a first-type interference canceller, a down converter, a filter, a coupler, a digital down-conversion unit, a second-type interference reconstructor, and a local-frequency signal generator. The present invention is used for interference cancellation. |
| US10084581B2 |
Overlay unicast or MBSFN data transmission on top of MBSFN transmission
Methods, systems, and devices are described for increased wireless communications system capacity through hierarchical modulation of multiple transmission layers during certain transmission subframes in a wireless communications system. Various deployment scenarios may be supported that may provide communications modulated on both a base modulation layer as well as on an enhancement modulation layer that is superpositioned on the base modulation layer. Reference signals may be provided for channel estimation for both the base modulation layer and enhancement modulation layer. |
| US10084576B2 |
Method and system for centralized or distributed resource management in a distributed transceiver network
A master application device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central baseband processor, and a network management engine that manages operation of the master application device and end-user application devices. The master application device communicates data streams to the end-user devices utilizing one or more distributed transceivers selected from the plurality of distributed transceivers. The selected distributed transceivers and the end-user devices are concurrently configured by the network management engine based on corresponding link quality and propagation environment. The network management engine allocates resources to the selected distributed transceivers and the end-user devices during the data communication. The network management engine continuously monitors communication environment information to configure beamforming settings and/or antenna arrangement for the selected distributed transceivers. Beam patterns are selected for the selected distributed transceivers so as to minimize power consumption and/or based on the location and orientation information of the end-user application devices. |
| US10084573B2 |
Automatic uplink channel assignment
An apparatus and method for communication is disclosed. Information is transmitted on a downlink channel in a first time interval. Feedback information regarding the transmitted information is received in a second time interval on an uplink channel. For the second time interval, an explicit allocation of the uplink channel is not transmitted. The second time interval on the uplink channel is a pre-determined time period away from the first time interval on the downlink channel. |
| US10084572B2 |
Method and device for retransmission
Embodiments related to retransmission in a communication system are described and depicted. In one embidiment, a retransmission entity repeats a transmission of a data transfer unit by the device after a predetermined number of other transmitted data transfer units has been transmitted. The retransmission entity may also determine whether a measure for a time period since the first transmission of the data transfer unit by the device has exceeded a predetermined threshold and to provide a final transmission of the data transfer unit based on the determining that the measure for the time period has exceeded the predetermined threshold. |
| US10084567B2 |
Early termination in enhanced multimedia broadcast-multicast service reception
Early termination of enhanced multimedia broadcast-multicast service (eMBMS) is discussed. Forward error correction (FEC) redundancy data is added to broadcast data, such that if enough of the data symbols are successfully received, the data object may be reassembled before the entire transmission has been received. The aspects involve an application processor and modem processor, which may either be integrated into the same integrated circuit or separate components. The application processor obtains a total number of source symbols and a redundancy level for a data object to be received from the eMBMS, receives the successfully received data symbols from the modem processor, and then determines whether the number of successfully received data symbols exceeds a threshold for reassembling the transmitted data object. If so, then the application processor and/or the modem processor can shut down until the next broadcast. |
| US10084561B2 |
Methods of handling assistance information for interference mitigation
According to some embodiments, a network node determines configuration information associated with a wireless device. The configuration information is indicative of interference mitigation capabilities of the wireless device. The network determines, based on the configuration information, whether assistance information may improve an ability of the wireless device to mitigate interference. In response to determining that the assistance information may improve the ability of the wireless device to mitigate interference, the network node sends the assistance information. The assistance information includes information used by the wireless device to mitigate interference. |
| US10084560B2 |
Wireless sound transmission system and method
A method for providing sound to at least one user, in which audio signals are captured and transformed into audio data that is transmitted to at least one receiver unit; audio signals are generated from the received audio data and the hearing of the user(s) stimulated thereby; wherein the audio data is transmitted as audio data packets in separate slots of a TDMA frame structure, wherein the transmission unit and the receiver unit(s) are synchronized to form a wireless network, wherein each TDMA frame structure has at least one listening slot during which the synchronized network members do not transmit data and at least one network members listens, and wherein control data is transmitted from an external control device according to a sequence pattern selected according to the duration and periodicity of the listening slot(s) to be received by the at least one synchronized network member during said listening slot(s). |
| US10084559B1 |
System and method for maintaining a time of day in a port of a PHY module
A network device including a port having register and timing modules. The register module includes first ToD, loadpoint, and compensation registers. The timing module includes a second ToD register and ToD module and operates based on a local clock signal. The register module receives a ToD from a control module, which is separate from the network device and selects an initial hardware time. The ToD is a future time and is based on a grandmaster clock signal. The first ToD and loadpoint registers store the ToD and initial hardware time. The compensation register stores a compensation value from the control module and determined based on a difference between local and grandmaster clock signals. The ToD module, when local and initial hardware times match: transfers the ToD between first and second ToD registers; and updates the ToD in the second ToD register based on the local clock signal and compensation value. |
| US10084558B2 |
Cross-domain clock synchronization method, device and system and computer storage medium
A cross-domain clock synchronization method, device and system and a computer storage medium, which are applied to a cross-domain synchronization network. A Path Calculate Element (PCE) exchanges a clock synchronization type with a controller participating in clock synchronization path calculation to match the clock synchronization type supported by the PCE and the controller; the PCE acquires physical topological information of the cross-domain synchronization network; the PCE acquires synchronization information of synchronization nodes of the cross-domain synchronization network and/or hop number information between the synchronization nodes; the PCE calculates a clock synchronization path of the cross-domain synchronization network according to the physical topological information as well as the synchronization information and/or the hop number information; and the PCE sends the clock synchronization path to the controller according to the physical topological information to enable the controller to send a clock synchronization instruction to synchronization nodes on the clock synchronization path. |
| US10084555B1 |
Method for estimating receiver sensitivity of a data packet signal transceiver
A method for estimating receiver sensitivity of a radio frequency (RF) data packet signal transceiver device under test that relies upon beacon request and response data packets for enabling communication links. |
| US10084550B2 |
Methods and systems for communicatively coupling vehicles and ground systems
A vehicle that includes an onboard connector including a conductive portion and an optical communication portion. The vehicle further includes an optical interface coupled in communication with the onboard connector and onboard systems of the vehicle. The optical interface is configured to at least one of receive or transmit optical signals via the optical communication portion. When a ground-system connector is connected to the onboard connector, data included in the optical signals is communicated between the ground system connector and the onboard systems of the vehicle. |
| US10084549B2 |
Single photons communication method and system
A single photons communication method and system is provided. In an example, an information loading module in a transmitting terminal of the single photons communication system may code to-be-sent target information as a corresponding target modulation frequency according to a pre-saved relationship between information and modulation frequency, and perform frequency modulation on a quantum state of communication light generated by a light source by using the target modulation frequency so that the transmitting terminal may send out modulated target communication light. After receiving the target communication light, an information decoding module in a receiving terminal of the single photons communication system may decode the target modulation frequency from a sequence of receiving photons of the target communication light through Fourier transform or other ways, and obtain target information corresponding to the target modulation frequency according to the relationship between information and modulation frequency. |
| US10084548B2 |
Method for transmitting a sequence of data symbols, corresponding device for transmission, signal, method for receiving, device for receiving and computer program
A method is provided for transmitting a sequence of data symbols including at least two data symbols of distinct values, delivering an electromagnetic wave carrying an orbital angular momentum. The method includes, for at least one data symbol to be transmitted: a bijective selection of an order of orbital angular momentum associating, with each distinct value of a data symbol, a distinct order of orbital angular momentum, and delivering a selected order of orbital angular momentum that is representative, by bijection, of the value of the at least one data symbol to be transmitted; and transmitting the electromagnetic wave carrying an orbital angular momentum, the order of orbital angular momentum of which corresponds to the selected order of orbital angular momentum. |
| US10084547B2 |
In-band optical interference mitigation for direct-detection optical communication systems
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for mitigating the effects of interference signals on optical signals received at a direct-detection optical receivers. The optical receivers are capable of attenuating interference noise signals resulting from the interference between a transmitted optical signal transmitted from a transmitter to the optical receiver and one or more additional signals received at the optical receiver. The interference can be due to multi-path interference or due to in-band interference. The receivers include a tunable filter for filtering the received optical signal to remove the interference. A frequency offset module processes the received optical signal to determine a frequency offset indicative of the difference between the carrier frequencies of a modulated optical signal and an interference optical signal. The offset frequency and a bandwidth determined by the frequency offset module can be used to adjust the tunable filter to remove the interference signal from the received signal. |
| US10084539B2 |
Optical test device and systems
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for monitoring optical communications between a managed location and a remote location. In particular, an optical signal is transmitted over an optical fiber and passed-through a test device. A portion of the optical signal is filtered from the original optical signal and passed to a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit may instruct one or more switches in the test device to loop the optical signal back toward the managed location. Subsequently, testing and monitoring may be performed at the managed location. The device may provide a test output or may transmit the information to the managed location. |
| US10084537B2 |
Method and apparatus for synchronization
Achieving phase synchronization in single frequency networks may be useful in various communication systems. For example, the use of synchronous Ethernet, timing over packet, and radio interface based synchronization (RIBS) may be applied in mobile and/or data communication networks. Certain embodiments improve phase accuracy using a hybrid synchronization method beyond standard RIBS and clustering carriers using the same transmission waveforms across carriers. Certain embodiments also select a master transmission point to maximize the signal quality of the composite waveforms in a cluster. |
| US10084536B1 |
Radio system using satellites
A radio communication route enables communication from an originating ground station to a destination ground station via one of multiple randomly orbiting satellites with no attitude control. The ground stations and satellites include directional antennas for receiving radio signals from and transmitting radio signals in multiple directions. The satellites store an address of a destination ground station from which an initial information signal is transmitted and antenna information identifying the satellite antenna on which the initial information signal was received. Plural satellite antennas transmit linking information identifying the satellite to the originating ground station. Data transmissions received at the originating ground station that designate a particular destination are transmitted by the originating ground station using the antenna on which the linking information was received and the satellite retransmits the data transmission using the satellite antenna identified by the stored antenna information. |
| US10084534B2 |
State transfer among virtualization-enabled satellite platforms
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying applications in satellite systems. In one example, a satellite system comprises a communication interface configured to receive software payloads, and a satellite control system configured to operate logistical control elements of the satellite system. The satellite system further comprises a virtualized execution system configured to execute ones of the software payloads deployed on the satellite system as associated virtual nodes that share resources of the satellite system. |
| US10084525B2 |
Method by which MIMO receiver processes reception signal by aligning plurality of layers by RE group unit
A method is provided by which a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) receiver, which includes a plurality of antennas, processes received signals. The MIMO receiver determines a detection order, which is the order of processing received signals received by a plurality of layers through the plurality of antennas, by using channel information of a reference resource element (RE). The MIMO receiver generates common multi filters for processing the received signals in accordance with the detection order, generates an RE group, which includes a plurality of REs and in which the common multi filters generated on the basis of the reference RE will be shared, and generates detection signals from each received signal of the REs by applying the common multi filters to each received signal of the REs excluding the reference RE in the RE group. The RE group comprises REs having the same detection order as that of the reference RE. |
| US10084523B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel state information in a wireless communication system
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving CSI is provided for use in a wireless communication system using a plurality of antennas. The CSI transmission method of a terminal includes receiving a first CSI-RS and a second CSI-RS, transmitting a CSI indicator indicating one of the first and second CSI-RS corresponding to CSI to be transmitted, and transmitting the CSI generated based on the CSI indicator, until transmission of a new CSI indicator. |
| US10084521B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting signal in wireless communication system
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. A method for transmitting a signal from a base station in a wireless communication system supporting multiuser-multiple input and multiple output (MU-MIMO), according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: generating beams of subgroups including a plurality of terminals using analog beamforming; differentiating signals transmitted to each of the terminals using digital beamforming; and transmitting, to the terminals, signals generated based on analog beamforming and digital beamforming, wherein the weight of analog beamforming may be determined based on channel state information obtained through an uplink reference signal. |
| US10084517B1 |
Multi-layered precoding
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for precoding multi-carrier signals are disclosed. One method includes obtaining a transmission channel matrix between a terminal and a plurality of separate users, wherein the transmission channel matrix includes channel estimates for a plurality of subcarriers of the multi-carrier signal. A channel dimension reduction matrix is determined based upon a composite of the channel estimates for the plurality of subcarriers, wherein dimensions of the channel dimension reduction matrix are less than dimensions of the transmission channel matrix. The method further includes determining a precoding matrix for the terminal based on the channel dimension reduction matrix, wherein the precoding matrix is multi-carrier signal independent, determining an effective channel based on a channel estimate of the transmission channel and based on the precoding matrix of the terminal, and determining a precoding matrix for the central processing unit based on the effective channel. |
| US10084500B2 |
Video recording device holster
A video recording device and holster are disclosed to reliably and covertly start and stop capture of video, audio, and metadata, and perform other commands. The holster may include a plurality of holes through which defined commands can be executed using a touch-screen interface or other control devices. In one embodiment, the holster may be confirmed as being associated with the video recording device to authenticate a user. Moreover, the video recording device may enter a mode of operation associated with using the video recording apparatus automatically when inserted into a holster. |
| US10084496B2 |
Interference signal cancellation over a broad frequency range
A signal interference cancellation system includes a signal filter that receives an interference signal and is in communication with a receiver that also receives the interference signal. The signal filter includes (a) a modulation system that modulates the interference signal to generate a modulated signal, (b) a first frequency range within which the modulation system amplifies quadrature components of the modulated signal, (c) a second frequency range within which the modulation system amplifies non-quadrature components of the modulated signal, and (d) a signal adder that combines the amplified quadrature and non-quadrature components of the modulated signal from (b) and (c) to generate an interference cancellation signal. The signal filter communicates the interference cancellation signal to the receiver for cancelling the interference signal. |
| US10084495B2 |
Method for frequency—and time-selective interference suppression for a communication system based on OFDM, and receiver therefor
A method for frequency- and time-selective interference suppression for a communication system based on OFDM, and a receiver therefor. To achieve a much lower bit error rate at the output of the receiver or to permit greater interference or a lower signal-to-noise ratio (in a prior art L-DACS1 receiver, at least 45 nautical miles) for the same transmission power, the invention provides: a filter bank pulse blanking method FBPB in which the sampled received signal is applied to a blanking unit for frequency-selective pulse blanking, which blanking unit consists of an analysis filter bank having M sub-bands; a module for frequency-selective pulse blanking of the sub-band signals; and a synthesis filter bank, which reassembles the signal. The analysis filter bank, which breaks down the received signal into multiple sub-bands on a frequency-selective basis, is used before OFDM windowing, such that the sub-band breakdown applies pulse blanking on a sub-band-selective basis. |
| US10084492B2 |
Method and system for non-persistent real-time encryption key distribution
An data channel system and method provide a composite signal having an overt, persistent signal channel and a non-persistent channel encoded onto a signal in the persistent channel by timing variation of the persistent channel signal. |
| US10084485B2 |
Soft decoder parameter optimization for product codes
In one embodiment, an apparatus for decoding is disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to obtain one or more parameters corresponding to a system, determine a plurality of settings corresponding to an adaptive soft decoding procedure for decoding a product code, wherein the plurality of settings are determined based on the one or more parameters using a trellis, and determine a decoded codeword by performing the adaptive soft decoding procedure on the received codeword, wherein the adaptive soft decoder utilizes the determined plurality of settings. |
| US10084482B2 |
Systems and methods for interleaved coded modulation with convolutional coding-based low-density parity check codes
Various apparatus and methods may use iterative de-mapping/decoding to on received symbol estimates corresponding to interleaved coded modulation (ICM) using low-density parity check convolutional coding (LPDC-CC). The iterative de-mapping/decoding, may take the form of a multi-stage feed-forward arrangement that may include multiple identically designed stages, and the stages may use parallelism to increase speed and efficiency. |
| US10084481B2 |
GLDPC soft decoding with hard decision inputs
A decoder includes circuitry and a soft decoder. The circuitry is configured to receive channel hard decisions for respective bits of a Generalized Low-Density Parity Check (GLDPC) code word that includes multiple component code words, including first and second component code words having one or more shared bits, to schedule decoding of the GLDPC code word, and following the decoding, to output the decoded GLDPC code word. The soft decoder is configured to receive the channel hard decisions corresponding to the first component code word, to further receive soft reliability measures that were assigned to the shared bits in decoding the second component code word, and to decode the first component code word based on the channel hard decisions and the soft reliability measures. |
| US10084480B1 |
Systems and methods for decoding cascade LDPC codes
Systems and methods are provided for decoding a codeword of a low density parity check (LDPC) code. The systems and methods may include receiving a vector corresponding to the codeword encoded with a parity check matrix, and processing a first portion of the received vector with a first portion of the parity check matrix to obtain a decoding estimate of a first portion of the codeword. The systems and methods may further include processing the decoding estimate of the first portion of the codeword with a second portion of the parity check matrix to obtain an intermediate vector, and processing a second portion of the received vector with a third portion of the parity check matrix and the intermediate vector to obtain a decoding estimate of a second portion of the codeword. |
| US10084479B2 |
Low BER hard-decision LDPC decoder
A non-volatile memory controller includes a hard-decision Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) decoder with a capability to dynamically select a voting method to improve the decoding in low bit error rate (BER) situations. The hard-decision LDPC decoder dynamically selects a voting method associated with a strength requirement for bit flipping decisions. In one implementation, the voting method is selected based on the degree of a variable node and previous syndrome values. |
| US10084478B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating an error code for a block comprising a plurality of data bits and a plurality of address bits
An apparatus and method are provided for generating an error code for a block comprising a plurality of data bits and a plurality of address bits. The apparatus has block generation circuitry to generate a block comprising a plurality of data bits and a plurality of address bits, and error code generation circuitry for receiving that block and a mask array comprising a plurality of mask rows, and for then applying an error code generation algorithm to generate an error code for the block. The error code comprises a plurality of check bits, where each check bit is determined using the block and a corresponding mask row of the mask array. Each mask row comprises a plurality of mask bits, each mask bit being associated with a corresponding bit of the block. At least one mask row has its mask bit values constrained so as to ensure that when all of the data bits of the block have the same value, the error code generated by the error code generation circuitry has at least one check bit having a different value to the value of the data bits irrespective of the value of the address bits. In addition to supporting detection and/or correction of errors in the data bits, such an approach also allows memory address decode errors to be detected while in addition allowing detection of stuck at zero or stuck at one errors in a memory's output. |
| US10084474B1 |
Noise shaping circuit and sigma-delta digital-to-analog converter
The present application provides a noise shaping circuit including a first modulation unit, configured to generate a first digital output signal according to a first digital input signal, the first modulation unit comprising a first quantizer; a first subtractor, coupled to an input terminal and an output terminal of the first quantizer, configured to generate a first quantization noise; and a second modulation unit, configured to generated a second digital output signal according to a second digital input signal, wherein the second digital input signal is related to the first quantization noise; wherein the noise shaping circuit generates an overall analog output signal according to the first digital output signal and the second digital output signal. |
| US10084472B1 |
Phase modulation-type redundant two-phase-output resolver and signal output method thereof
The present invention relates to a phase modulation-type redundant two-phase-output resolver, an excitation signal (100) is applied to an excitation winding (50) of an annular stator (21) having a VR-type rotor (20) disposed therein, and a two-phase output signal (101) is outputted from first and second output windings (43, 44) that are provided in the annular stator (21), the excitation winding (50) is made up of first and second excitation windings (40, 41) of mutually different phases, and the excitation signal (100) has two phases, and even in a case where a break occurs in only any one winding from among the first and second excitation windings (40, 41) and the first and second output windings (43, 44), at least a one-phase output signal can be obtained. |
| US10084471B1 |
Analog to digital converter and wireless communication device
According to one embodiment, an analog-to-digital converter includes: a digital-to-analog converter configured to generate an analog voltage based on a sampled analog signal and a digital code; a clock generator configured to generate a first clock signal; a comparator configured to receive the analog voltage from the digital-to-analog converter, and perform digital output based on the first clock signal; and a controller configured to generate the digital code based on the digital output of the comparator. The clock generator varies a delay period, which is from the end of sampling of the analog signal to the start of generating the first clock signal, for each sampling of the analog signal. |
| US10084466B1 |
Top plate sampling circuit including input-dependent dual clock boost circuits
In some examples, a system includes a first transistor comprising a first source terminal coupled to a first input terminal, a first drain terminal coupled to a first top plate sampling capacitor, and a first gate terminal. The system also includes a first input-dependent dual clock boost circuit coupled to the first input terminal via a first boost circuit input and to the first gate terminal via a first boost circuit output. The system further includes a second transistor comprising a second source terminal coupled to a second input terminal, a second drain terminal coupled to a second top plate sampling capacitor, and a second gate terminal. The system also includes a second input-dependent dual clock boost circuit coupled to the second input terminal via a second boost circuit input and to the second gate terminal of the second transistor via a second boost circuit output. |
| US10084465B2 |
Analog-to-digital converters with a plurality of comparators
An analog-to-digital converter ADC may be provided. The ADC may include a current driving circuit. The current driving circuit may include an additive current driving circuit and a subtractive current driving circuit configured for adjusting a voltage level of a node. The ADC may include a comparison circuit including a plurality of comparators. Each of the plurality of comparators may be configured to compare a voltage level of the node with a reference voltage. |
| US10084451B2 |
Level shifter circuit
Techniques are disclosed for a level shifter configured to adjust current flow in response to measured current fluctuations due to common mode noise in the level shifter. For example, the level shifter includes a low-side control circuit configured to adjust a first current flowing into a first low-side terminal of an active high voltage level shifter device in response to a difference between the first low-side current and a second low-side current flowing into a second low-side terminal of an inactive high voltage level shifter device. The level shifter further includes a high-side receiver circuit configured to detect a difference between a first high-side current flowing into a first high-side terminal of the active high voltage level shifter device and a second high-side current flowing into a second high-side terminal of the inactive high voltage level shifter device. |
| US10084450B1 |
Method for multiplexing between power supply signals for voltage limited circuits
In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of functional circuits, a power supply circuit, and a power management circuit. The power supply circuit may generate a shared power signal coupled to each of the functional circuits, and to generate a plurality of adjustable power signals. One adjustable power signal may be coupled to a particular functional circuit of the functional circuits. The power management circuit may a request to the power supply circuit to change a voltage level of the one particular adjustable power signal from a first voltage to a second voltage. The particular functional circuit may couple a respective power node for a sub-circuit of the particular functional circuit to either of the shared power signal or the particular adjustable power signal. The particular functional circuit may also be configured to maintain an operational voltage level on the power node. |
| US10084445B2 |
High voltage zero QRR bootstrap supply
An electrical circuit arranged in a half bridge topology. The electrical circuit includes a high side transistor; a low side transistor; a gate driver and level shifter electrically coupled to a gate of the high side transistor; a gate driver electrically coupled to a gate of the low side transistor; a capacitor electrically coupled in parallel with the gate driver and level shifter; a voltage source electrically coupled to an input of the gate driver and level shifter and an input of the gate driver; and, a bootstrap transistor electrically coupled between the voltage source and the capacitor. A GaN field-effect transistor is synchronously switched with a low side device of the half bridge circuit. |
| US10084444B2 |
Gate-driving apparatus for providing negative voltage to gate of switch
Disclosed herein is a gate-driving apparatus configured for stably providing a voltage having a negative value to a gate of a switch, including a SiC (silicon carbide)-based FET (Field Effect Transistor), which requires a negative voltage having a negative value to implement a stable OFF state. The gate-driving apparatus includes a negative-voltage application circuit including a Zener diode and a capacitor connected in parallel to the Zener diode, wherein the Zener diode may have a cathode connected to a secondary coil of a pulse transformer and an anode connected to the gate of the switch. |
| US10084443B1 |
DC-coupled high-voltage level shifter
Systems, methods, and apparatus for use in biasing and driving high voltage semiconductor devices using only low voltage transistors are described. The apparatus and method are adapted to control multiple high voltage semiconductor devices to enable high voltage power control, such as power amplifiers, power management and conversion (e.g. DC/DC) and other applications wherein a first voltage is large compared to the maximum voltage handling of the low voltage control transistors. A parallel resistive-capacitive coupling allows transmission of edge information and DC level information of control signals from a static voltage domain to a flying voltage domain. A flying comparator operating in the flying voltage domain uses clamps to force an output difference voltage that is zero only during a switching event of the flying voltage domain. A charge pump may be used to amplify inputs to the parallel-resistive coupling for a desired differential signal amplitude to the flying comparator. |
| US10084440B2 |
System comprising a multi-die power module, and method for controlling the switching of a multi-die power module
The present invention concerns a system comprising a multi-die power module composed of dies and a controller receiving input patterns for activating the dies of the multi-die power module. The controller comprises means for generating from the input patterns gate to source signals to apply to the dies and for each die, the gate to source voltage is shifted according to a given voltage value. |
| US10084438B2 |
Clock generator using passive mixer and associated clock generating method
A clock generator has a buffer stage circuit, a passive mixer, and a channel selecting circuit. The buffer stage circuit receives a plurality of first reference clocks having a same first frequency but different phases. The passive mixer receives the first reference clocks from the buffer stage circuit, receives a plurality of second reference clocks having a same second frequency but different phases, and mixes the first reference clocks and the second reference clocks to generate a mixer output, wherein the second frequency is different from the first frequency. The channel selecting circuit extracts a plurality of third reference clocks from the mixer output, wherein the third reference clocks have a same third frequency but different phases, and the third frequency is different from the first frequency and the second frequency. |
| US10084436B2 |
Computing device comprising a josephson junction
According to one embodiment, a computing device includes a first conductive body, a first element, a second element, a first transmission line and a second transmission line. The first conductive body spreads along a first plane. The first element includes a Josephson junction and is separated from the first conductive body in a direction crossing the first plane. The second element includes a Josephson junction. The second element is separated from the first conductive body in the direction crossing the first plane. A direction from the first element toward the second element is along a first direction along the first plane. The first transmission line generates an electromagnetic field applied to the first element. The second transmission line generates an electromagnetic field applied to the second element. |
| US10084423B1 |
System and method for controlling volume
Systems and methods provide a solution to a common nuisance of loud background noise encountered when watching television, allowing the issue to be solved with little or no user interaction. Systems and methods automatically modulate device volume based on background noise level. The systems and methods record a background level of noise, and if that background level of noise increases, the systems and methods automatically increase the content volume which had been set by the user. Exceptions are made for brief sounds or for viewer conversations. |
| US10084422B1 |
Method and apparatus for providing a variable gain amplifier
An integrated circuit and method for providing a variable gain amplifier are disclosed. One embodiment of the a variable gain amplifier comprises at least one load, a cascode circuit coupled to the load, a folded-gilbert stage, coupled to the cascode circuit, the folded-gilbert stage comprising a main differential pair of transistors and an internal pair of transistors, and a digital to analog converter, coupled to the folded-gilbert stage, for steering currents between the main differential pair of transistors and the internal pair of transistors to change a gain of the variable gain amplifier. |
| US10084421B1 |
Plural feedback loops instrumentation folded cascode amplifier
An instrumentation amplifier configured for providing high common mode rejection is described and includes an input differential stage configured to receive a differential input voltage and a folded cascode amplifying stage configured to receive output current mode signals provided from the input differential pair. A plurality of feedback networks is provided to improve the input stage. The amplifier may operate to provide an enhanced common mode rejection ratio of a single gain block in the instrumentation amplifier. In some examples, the circuitry may have a differential folded cascode amplifying stage which permits high precision and low distortion of amplified signals without degrading the common mode rejection ratio. |
| US10084420B2 |
Multistage amplifier
Provided is a multistage amplifier that can achieve both utilizing in a broad bandwidth and suppressing gain reduction. The multistage amplifier includes a plurality of differential amplifiers which are connected in series; and a direct-current component limiter that cuts off a direct-current component of input signals, in which the direct-current component limiter is disposed between the plurality of differential amplifiers, and in which a transistor size of a first differential amplifier which is disposed immediately after the direct-current component limiter is equal to or greater than a transistor size of a second differential amplifier which is disposed two stages before the direct-current component limiter. |
| US10084417B2 |
High and low voltage limited power amplification system
Cascode power amplifier with voltage limiter. A power amplification system can include an input transistor having an input transistor gate configured to receive a radio-frequency (RF) signal, an input transistor source coupled to a ground voltage, and an input transistor drain. The power amplification can further include an output transistor having an output transistor drain configured to output an amplified version of the RF signal, an output transistor gate coupled to a bias voltage, and an output transistor source. The power amplification system can further include a high voltage limiter coupled between the output transistor drain and output transistor gate. The high voltage limiter can be configured to prevent a gate-drain voltage of the output transistor from exceeding a high voltage threshold. |
| US10084410B2 |
Moving magnet motor and transducer with moving magnet motor
A moving magnet motor with a stator comprising first and second spaced coil-wound cores that each have a width, the cores separated by an elongated gap, and an elongated magnet located at least in part in the gap and lying generally along a motor depth axis that is in the gap and is generally uniformly offset from the cores, where the magnet has poles. The motor has a width axis that is perpendicular to the depth axis and is generally uniformly offset from the cores. The magnet has a width along the motor width axis and the cores each have a width along the motor width axis. Along the motor depth axis the ratio of the width of the magnet or a pole of the magnet to the width of a core varies. |
| US10084408B2 |
Vehicle motor drive circuit
Disclosed are a vehicle motor drive circuit and a driving method thereof. In the vehicle motor drive circuit according to the present invention, when the floating voltage is generated on the digital ground line due to a short circuit or a poor contact, the switch control signal is connected to the motor ground power supply to lower the signal level of the switch control signal in response to the voltage difference produced between the digital ground line and the motor ground line. Therefore, it is possible to prevent an erroneous operation of the motor switch or the motor. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent a damage of the motor or the motor switch and a secondary problem caused by unintentional operation of the motor. |
| US10084406B2 |
Speed control of variable-speed multiple-phase motors
Exemplary embodiments or implementations are disclosed of methods, apparatus, and systems for operating motors in variable speed situations. In an exemplary implementation, a method of controlling a variable-speed motor includes defining a control duration as a predetermined number of cycles of a multiple-phase power supply. Each speed in a range of speeds is defined by a corresponding number of the cycles of the control duration. Power is provided to the motor from the power supply at a selected one of the speeds, by enabling input from the power supply for the number of the cycles of the control duration corresponding to the selected speed. |
| US10084404B2 |
Variable torque motor/generator/transmission
A motor/generator/transmission system includes: an axle; a stator ring having a plurality of stator coils disposed around the periphery of the stator ring, wherein each phase of the plurality of stator coils includes a respective set of multiple parallel non-twisted wires separated at the center tap with electronic switches for connecting the parallel non-twisted wires of each phase of the stator coils all in series, all in parallel, or in a combination of series and parallel; a rotor support structure coupled to the axle; a first rotor ring and a second rotor ring each having an axis of rotation coincident with the axis of rotation of the axle, at least one of the first rotor ring or the second rotor ring being slidably coupled to the rotor support structure and configured to translate along the rotor support structure in a first axial direction or in a second axial direction. |
| US10084403B2 |
Power supply system and control method therefor
A power supply system, including an energy module, a controlled object, an active power controller, and an inertia-synchronization controller. The input end of the energy module operates to acquire external energy, a first output end of the energy module is connected to the controlled object, and the energy module operates to transform the acquired external energy into electric energy, or transform electric energy into electric energy having a different frequency therefrom. The input end of the active power controller is connected to a second output end of the energy module, the output end of the active power controller is connected to the controlled object, and the active power controller operates to control output active power of the controlled object. The input end of the inertia-synchronization controller operates to connect with an AC system. The output end of the inertia-synchronization controller is connected to the controlled object. |
| US10084399B2 |
Detecting position measurement errors in an electric motor system
A system for controlling an electric motor is disclosed. The system includes a position sensor configured to measure a physical position of a rotor of the electric motor; and a position estimator. The position estimator is configured to: inject a voltage signal having a predetermined frequency into the electric motor, generate an estimated position of a rotor flux based on a feedback current signal in response to the injected voltage signal, and compensate for an offset between the physical position measured by the position sensor and an actual position of the rotor flux based on the estimated position. |
| US10084398B2 |
Motor control circuit and method
A method for adjusting a drive control signal for a motor includes providing a drive circuit having a first pin and a second pin, wherein the drive circuit generates the drive signal. A period of the drive signal is determined and an advance angle count value is extracted from a storage register in accordance with the period of the drive signal. One of the advance angle count value and a first control signal coupled to the first input pin are used to determine an advance angle adjustment range or an advance angle count range and a second control signal received via the second input pin are used to determine an advance angle adjustment range. The drive control signal is adjusted in response to the advance angle adjustment range. |
| US10084396B2 |
System and method for simplifying interconnection between panel controls and motor power units
An interface circuit having releasable electrical connectors and as little as a single relay providing a standardized connection between panel controls intended for three-wire, two-wire or combination three-wire/two-wire control and a motor drive or motor controller. In this way, greatly simplified manufacturing of control cabinets may be provided with variations in control strategy being implemented simply by the provision of different panel controls having prewired harnesses and connectors. |
| US10084387B2 |
LCC and MMC series-connected HVDC system with DC fault ride-through capability
The present invention discloses an LCC and MMC series-connected HVDC system with DC fault ride-through capacity, comprising rectifier and inverter linked by DC transmission line; Both the positive pole and the negative pole of the rectifier and the inverter consist of line-commutated converter and modular converter in series-connection; the modular converter adopts one MMC or several parallel-connected MMCs. The present invention has the advantage of low cost, low power loss and high reliability of the LCC, as well as flexible control, low harmonics and AC voltage support of the MMC. Further, the present invention is able to deal with DC fault by itself, hence additional DC fault clearing equipment is not needed. As a result, the present invention is suitable for the field of long-distance large-capacity power transmission and has broad development potential. |
| US10084386B2 |
BJT driver with dynamic adjustment of storage time versus input line voltage variations
A controller for a power converter includes a driver circuit that generates a control signal to switch a power switch in response to an output, and a control circuit that controls the switching of the power switch. The control circuit includes a storage time reference circuit generates a storage time reference signal responsive to an input. A first comparator generates a collector off signal in response to a comparison of a switch current sense signal and a collector off reference signal. A storage time regulator circuit generates a base off reference signal in response to the storage time reference signal and the collector off signal. A second comparator generates a base off signal in response to a second comparison of the switch current sense signal and the base off reference signal. The driver circuit is coupled to discontinue and start charging a base terminal of the BJT power switch. |
| US10084380B2 |
Asymmetric power flow controller for a power converter and method of operating the same
A controller for a power converter formed with a plurality of converter stages, and method of operating the same. In one embodiment, the controller includes a power system controller configured to determine an unequal current allocation among the plurality of converter stages based on an operation of the power converter. The controller also includes a converter stage controller configured to control an output current produced by each of the plurality of converter stages in response to the current allocation. |
| US10084377B2 |
Buck converter with high power efficiency
A buck converter that is efficient in power consumption is disclosed. A buck converter in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention includes an error amplifier and a comparator, at least one of which is powered and operated while a PWM signal is a high signal. |
| US10084376B2 |
Circuit with multiple output power converter
A circuit such as a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) has a multiple output power converter including an inductive converter, a first passive rectifier, a first capacitor, and a second passive rectifier. The inductive converter has a voltage input terminal for receiving an input voltage, and a voltage output terminal. The first passive rectifier has an input coupled to the voltage output terminal of the inductive power converter, and an output for providing a first power supply voltage. The first capacitor has a first terminal coupled to the output terminal of the inductive converter, and a second terminal. The second passive rectifier has an input coupled to the second terminal of the first capacitor, and an output terminal for providing a second power supply voltage different from the first power supply voltage. |
| US10084375B2 |
Charge pump suitable for low input voltages
A charge pump circuit suitable for low input voltages is presented. The charge pump circuit has a first clock signal generator, a second clock signal generator, and n voltage doubler circuits. The voltage doubler has an input, an output, a first capacitor connected to the first clock signal generator, a second capacitor connected to the second clock signal generator, a first NMOST having the source connected to the input and the drain connected to the first capacitor, a second NMOST having the connected to the source of the first NMOST and the drain connected to second capacitor, a first PMOST having the drain connected to the first capacitor and the source connected to the output, a second PMOST having the source connected to the source of the first PMOST and the drain connected to the second capacitor. |
| US10084370B2 |
Active startup timing control at fault mode
A power switch transistor for a switching power converter is maintained on during a re-startup period by a zener breakdown voltage following a fault condition for the switching power converter. A source voltage from the power switch transistor is used to charge a VCC capacitor that stores a power supply voltage for a controller for the switching power converter. |
| US10084368B2 |
Motor driving apparatus
A motor driving apparatus includes an AC-DC conversion unit configured to rectify an AC power supplied from an external AC power source, a DC link unit configured to stabilize a voltage rectified by the AC-DC conversion unit, and a DC-AC conversion unit configured to supply the AC power to a motor using the DC voltage from the DC link unit. The DC link unit may include one pair of film capacitors configured to remove a ripple of the rectified voltage, and the DC-AC conversion unit may include a 3-level inverter receiving the DC voltage from the one pair of film capacitors to supply the AC power to the motor. |
| US10084357B2 |
Molded stator, molded electric motor, and air conditioner
The present invention is a molded stator including a stator and a substrate. The molded stator includes: a donut-shaped lead-wire wiring component that wires power-supply lead wires to a winding wire of the stator and that wires sensor lead wires to the position detection circuit; a lead-out component that leads out the power-supply lead wires and the sensor lead wires to outside of the molded stator; a power-supply lead-wire holding component that holds the power-supply lead wires; and a sensor-lead-wire holding component that holds the sensor lead wires. The lead-out component is connected to a latching part that latches the sensor-lead-wire holding component and includes projections as plane parts that are substantially perpendicular to a radial direction of the stator on the radially outer side. |
| US10084355B2 |
Electrical machines
An electrical machine is disclosed comprising a stator cavity. The stator cavity is axially divided by a distribution plate into a winding chamber containing stator windings of the electrical machine and a handling chamber. The handling chamber has one of a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet and the winding chamber has the other of the fluid inlet and fluid outlet. In use fluid is passed from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet via the handling chamber, the winding chamber and an array of fluid passages in the distribution plate providing fluid communication between the handling chamber and winding chamber. The array of fluid passages comprises passages of at least two different cross-sectional areas. |
| US10084352B2 |
Thin axial gap motor
A thin axial gap motor includes: a base, a circuit unit installed on the base; a stator module including at least one flat permeable frame and at least one winding, and the permeable frame having at least one support arm and an induced magnetic part connected to the at least one support arm, and the winding being wound around the support arm; a rotor module including a flat permanent magnet installed at the top of the induced magnetic parts and having an orthographic projection range corresponsive to the area of the induced magnetic part, and the at least one winding being disposed on an outer side of the permanent magnet; and a pivoting element installed between the base and the rotor module and including a bearing housing and a spindle plugged into the bearing housing for rotating the rotor module with respect to the base. |
| US10084341B2 |
Uninterruptible power source
An uninterruptible power source includes an eco-mode for supplying power from an AC power source to a load via a contactor. In the eco-mode, when a degree of voltage drop of the AC power source reaches 5%, a switching controller turns on a thyristor switch and then turns off a contactor. When the degree of voltage drop of the AC power source reaches 10%, a power conversion controller is configured to cause an inverter to invert DC power of a battery into AC power, and control the inversion in the inverter to synchronize the AC voltage output from the inverter to the AC voltage supplied from the AC power source. When the inversion in the inverter is performed after turning off contactor, the switching controller is configured to turn off the thyristor switch. |
| US10084338B2 |
Wireless charging unit and coupler based docking combo for a wireless device
Described herein are techniques related to one or more systems, apparatuses, methods, etc. for implementing a wireless charging and a wireless connectivity combo in a device. |
| US10084337B1 |
Spill proof electrical charger
A relocatable power tap with a charging station for charging one or more electrical devices. The power tap is preferably selectively moveable through an aperture of a work surface, between depressed and upright positions. The power tap may include a top portion with a wireless charging emitter and a cover, and a lower portion for hard-wiring charging of electrical devices. The cover may fit flush and liquid-tight with the work surface when the power tap is in the depressed position. The charging station is located above the work surface in a spill-proof position, when the power tap is in the upright position. |
| US10084332B2 |
Method and apparatus for charging using multiple energy source
A method of performing a charging function by using different types of energy sources and an electronic device thereof are provided. The electronic device includes different types of circuits configured to acquire different types of energy sources, and a processor configured to determine an energy source for charging among the different types of energy sources based on respective current values for the different types of energy sources, and control the determined energy source for charging so as to be used in battery charging of the electronic device or in a system operation of the electronic device. |
| US10084328B2 |
Charging assembly of mobile terminal
The present disclosure relates to a charging assembly of a mobile terminal. Disclosed is a charging assembly of a mobile terminal, comprising: a charger; and a mobile terminal. The charger comprises: an upper case forming a top surface and a side surface; and a lower case, coupled to the lower portion of the upper case, for forming an inner space in which parts are embedded. The mobile terminal is seated in the charger and chargeable by being electrically connected to the charger. In a plurality of areas within the inner space, magnetic elements are arranged, and in the mobile terminal, a metal member is arranged in such a manner that at least a part thereof is arranged in an area which overlaps or is adjacent to the magnetic element so that the metal member is attached to the magnetic element due to attraction with the magnetic element. The top surface comprises: an inclined portion which is bent downward so as to be in contact with the rear edge portion of the mobile terminal; and a flat base portion which extends from the inclined portion and is in contact with the rear central portion of the mobile terminal, wherein the magnetic elements arranged in the plurality of areas are placed diagonally to each other. |
| US10084327B2 |
Storage and charging station system for portable electronic devices
A storage and management assembly for a plurality of portable electronic devices is provided. The assembly includes a tower assembly to define a vertical channel along a first side of the tower assembly. A plurality of shelves are removably coupled to a second side of the tower assembly, wherein the second side is opposite the first side, each of the shelves includes a storage bay defined by a bottom portion provided perpendicular to the first member, opposing raised edge portions provided about a portion of the perimeter of the bottom portion, and raised back tabs provided about a portion of the perimeter of the bottom portion, the plurality of shelves provided in a stacked vertical arrangement along the tower assembly. Alternatively, at least one modular portable carrier assembly for storing and charging a plurality of portable electronic devices may be removably coupled to the tower assembly. |
| US10084325B2 |
Electric energy storage and a battery management system used therein
The present invention provides a battery management system and an electric energy storage equipped with the battery management system, which enable the adjustment of one or more variable connection voltages. In particular the energy storage of the present invention may provide highly dynamic varying output voltages, for instance in the form of an AC voltage. In this way energy storages may, for instance, be directly operated in connection with an electric power grid or may establish electric AC power grids. |
| US10084318B2 |
Method for operating an energy generator with inverter operation depending on a mains voltage and circuit layout
A method for operating a first energy generator in an electric power supply system to which a plurality of electric consumers and at least the first energy generator, which is embodied as a regenerative energy generator, are connected via respectively one grid connection point each assigned thereto, wherein at least the first energy generator has an inverter of predetermined power rating, the AC voltage output is electrically connected to a first grid connection point assigned thereto, and wherein the operating control of the inverter regarding its reactive power feed and/or its reactive power draw into or out of the electric power supply system takes place depending on a continuously measured mains voltage value. The reactive power control in the energy grid is improved in that the mains voltage value is measured at a second grid connection point, which is different from the first grid connection point of the energy generator. |
| US10084310B1 |
Low-inductance direct current power bus
A DC power bus having reduced parasitic inductance and higher tolerable operating temperature is disclosed. In example embodiments, a bus structure overlies a printed circuit board, and an array of capacitors is arranged on a surface of the printed circuit board distal the bus structure. The bus structure comprises an upper metal plate, a lower metal plate, and a dielectric film interposed between the upper and lower metal plates. The capacitors are connected in parallel between conductive planes of the printed circuit board. The upper and lower metal plates of the bus structure are connected to respective conductive planes of the printed circuit board. |
| US10084309B2 |
Spark gap arrangement
A spark gap arrangement includes a triggerable spark gap and a trigger circuit. The spark gap arrangement also includes a first and a second charge storage device, a voltage limiting component, a trigger diode, a triggerable arresting element, and a transformer. The voltage limiting component and the trigger diode are designed to relay an input pulse in a specified voltage range and charge the first charge storage device. Furthermore, the trigger circuit is designed such that the triggerable arresting element is connected via the first charge storage device dependent on the voltage and discharges the second charge storage device via a primary side of the transformer. |
| US10084308B1 |
Overcurrent protection device
An overcurrent protection device includes a polymer positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) component and two pins. The PPTC component includes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) element having two opposite surfaces, and two electrodes respectively connected to the surfaces of the PTC polymeric element. The two pins are respectively connected to the electrodes and extend in an extending direction. Each of the pins has a cross-sectional area that is perpendicular to the extending direction and greater than or equal to 0.8 mm2. The overcurrent protection device has an average trip current and an average work current, where the ratio of the average trip current to the average work current is less than 1.5. |
| US10084299B1 |
Socket cover
A socket cover for covering a seat of a socket includes a body covering on the seat; the body having two recesses and two openings; the openings are positioned corresponding to the two electrical connecting portions so as to expose the two electrical connecting portions; two protecting sheets on the body; the each protecting sheet being movable along a first moving path and between an open position and a close position; a direction of the first moving path being parallel to axes of the two protecting sheets; and wherein when the protecting sheet is positioned in the recess, it is at the open position; and when the protecting sheet moves to the close position, it will cover a respective one of the two electrical connecting portions. The recesses and the protecting sheets are arranged on an outer side of the body or an inner side of the body. |
| US10084297B2 |
Floor box and method of installing
A floor box for housing electrical components includes a bottom and a plurality of walls extending from the bottom to at least partially define an interior and to at least partially define a central opening accessible to a user. A top plate having an inner portion at least partially defining a first wiring compartment facing the central opening and a second wiring compartment facing the central opening is connected to at least one of the plurality of walls. |
| US10084288B2 |
Spark plug
A spark plug including a metallic shell having a ground electrode, an insulator held inside the metallic shell and having an axial hole having a small diameter portion, an intermediate diameter portion connected to a rear end of the small diameter portion via a step portion, and a large diameter portion disposed on the rear side of the intermediate diameter portion, a resistor disposed inside the large diameter portion, a center electrode having a flange portion which bulges in a radial direction inside the intermediate diameter portion and comes into contact with the step portion and a leg portion which extends forward from the flange portion and is disposed inside the small diameter portion, and a seal disposed on the rear side of the step portion and electrically connecting the center electrode and the resistor. The rear end of the seal is located inside the intermediate diameter portion. |
| US10084285B1 |
Orthoganolly polarized VCSELs
An example system may include a first vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) that includes a first integrated polarization locking structure to produce a polarized optical data signal. The system may also comprise a second VCSEL that includes a second integrated polarization locking structure, the second integrated polarization locking structure orthogonal to the first integrated polarization locking structure, to produce an orthogonally polarized optical data signal. Lenses may be disposed on the substrate opposite the first VCSEL, to collimate the polarized optical data signal, and opposite the second VCSEL to collimate the orthogonally polarized optical data signal. A polarization division multiplexer may combine the first collimated polarized optical data signal and the second collimated orthogonally polarized optical data signal. |
| US10084283B1 |
Systems and methods using optical amplifiers
An optical system is described. The optical system has an optical amplifier array. The optical amplifier array has an array of optical amplifiers. Each optical amplifier has an optical amplifier region including a semiconductor active region having a direct electronic band gap with a conduction band edge. The semiconductor active region is embedded within a photonic crystal having an electromagnetic band gap having photon energies overlapping the energy of the conduction band edge of the electronic band gap such that spontaneous emission of photons in the semiconductor active region is suppressed. |
| US10084282B1 |
Fundamental mode operation in broad area quantum cascade lasers
A broad area quantum cascade laser subject to having high order transverse optical modes during operation includes a laser cavity at least partially enclosed by walls, and a perturbation in the laser cavity extending from one or more of the walls. The perturbation may have a shape and a size sufficient to suppress high order transverse optical modes during operation of the broad area quantum cascade laser, whereby a fundamental transverse optical mode is selected over the high order transverse optical modes. As a result, the fundamental transverse mode operation in broad-area quantum cascade lasers can be regained, when it could not otherwise be without such a perturbation. |
| US10084281B1 |
Laser device and method for a vehicle
A laser illumination or dazzler device and method. More specifically, examples of the present invention provide laser illumination or dazzling devices power by one or more violet, blue, or green laser diodes characterized by a wavelength from about 390 nm to about 550 nm. In some examples the laser illumination or dazzling devices include a laser pumped phosphor wherein a laser beam with a first wavelength excites a phosphor member to emit electromagnetic at a second wavelength. In various examples, laser illumination or dazzling devices according to the present invention include polar, non-polar, or semi-polar laser diodes. In a specific example, a single laser illumination or dazzling device includes a plurality of violet, blue, or green laser diodes. There are other examples as well. |
| US10084272B1 |
Modular electrical receptacle
An electrical receptacle assembly including a first and second housing, a circuit and an electrical cable. The first housing has a plurality of electrical power output selections. The second housing has an electrical receptacle connector presented on a face thereof, the circuit is in the second housing being coupled to the connector. The electrical cable is coupled to the circuit and to the electrical power output selections, the circuit selecting one of the plurality of electrical power output selections to be supplied from the first housing to the connector. |
| US10084271B2 |
Plug connector assembly having improved arrangement structure between outer case and printed circuit board
A plug connector assembly includes: a cable; a printed circuit board including a mating end for inserting into a mating connector, a connecting end electrically connected with the cable, and an intermediate portion between the mating end and the connecting end, the mating end defining plural conductive pads extending along a longitudinal direction of the printed circuit board for electrically connecting with the mating connector and arranged in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; and an outer case enclosing the intermediate portion of the printed circuit board and a part of the cable; wherein the intermediate portion defines on each of two side edges thereof a recessing portion filled by the outer case. |
| US10084267B2 |
Connector having power sensing and supply capability
An electric circuit is provided with a single jack for connection to either a first remote powered device via a first plug or a second remote unpowered device via a second plug. A power requirement detection circuit is provided for generating a control signal representing whether the connected plug is the first plug or the second plug. A normally deactivated switch is connected between the power source and the jack and is operable to supply power to the jack when activated. A switch activation circuit is responsive to the control signal for actuating the switch when the first plug is connected. |
| US10084263B1 |
Cable connector
A cable connector comprises a housing, a conductive element fixed on the housing and connected with the cable, an elastic piece adjacent to the conductive element, detective and switch terminals fixed on the housing and connected with a pressing plate. The pressing plate is rotatable between a first position and a second position. When the pressing body is abutted at the first position by the elastic piece, a receiving gap between the elastic piece and the conductive element is closed to prevent the cable from entering, and the pressing body is abutted against the switch terminal to define a first conductive state. When the pressing body is at the second position, the receiving gap is opened to receive the cable, and the pressing body is disengaged with the switch terminal, to define a second conductive state. A connection state can be known by detecting the first and second conductive states. |
| US10084260B2 |
Connector system and method of assembling same
A connector system is described herein. The connector system includes a first connector having a first fastener and a second connector having a second fastener cooperating with the first fastener to fasten the first connector to the second connector. The first connector includes a blocking component that is moveable between a blocking position, in which the blocking component is locked and prevents cooperation of the first fastener with the second fastener, and an non-blocking position in which the blocking component allows the first fastener to cooperate with the second fastener. The second connector includes a marker interacting with the blocking component in order to unlock the blocking component when the first and second connectors are in a position for connection, thereby allowing movement of the blocking component from the blocking position to the non-blocking position. A method of assembling such a connector system is also presented. |
| US10084254B2 |
High power plug connector
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing an insulative housing enclosing two row of conductive terminals. Each of the terminals includes a front contacting section, a front spring section behind the front contacting section, a middle retaining section and a rear tail section along the front-to-back direction. In each row, the terminals include a pair of outer grounding terminals, a pair inner power terminals respectively beside the pair of outer grounding terminals, and a plurality of other terminals between the pair of power terminals in the transverse direction wherein for each of the pair of outer grounding terminals and the pair of inner power terminals, the front contacting section, the middle retaining section and the rear tails section are wider than the front contacting section in the transverse direction. |
| US10084251B2 |
Deflectable latch with recessed bottom section
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a plurality of contacts therein. The housing includes an elongated base extending along a longitudinal direction, and a pair of deflectable latches extending forwardly from two opposite ends of the base. The base includes a first side wall and a second side wall commonly define a receiving slot is therebetween in a vertical direction to receive a memory module therein. Each latch forms an inner face confronting a corresponding side edge of the memory module. The inner face is recessed around a bottom/root section of the latch so as to be spaced from the side edge of the memory module for not potentially damaging the side edge of the memory module during rotational installation of the memory module into the connector. |
| US10084250B2 |
Extensible implantable medical lead
An extensible medical lead comprises at least one proximal contact, at least one distal electrode, and having at least one conductive filer electrically coupled between the proximal contacts and the distal stimulation electrode. The lead further comprises an outer jacket made of a longitudinally compressible material. The conductive filer may also be coiled to provide extensibility. |
| US10084249B2 |
Electrical connector for adjustable refrigerator shelf
A refrigerator appliance may include a cabinet having a temperature-controlled compartment defined therein, a shelf ladder disposed in the temperature-controlled compartment and providing a plurality of shelf mounting positions, an electrical connector corresponding to each of the plurality of shelf mounting positions, wherein each of the electrical connectors comprises an actuator movable from a first position to a second position and an electrical contact configured to automatically move from a disengaged position to an engaged position in response to the actuator moving from the first position to the second position, and an adjustable shelf removably mountable in one of the plurality of shelf mounting positions such that the actuator of the corresponding electrical connector is held in the second position by a weight of the adjustable shelf and the electrical contact of the corresponding electrical connector engages the adjustable shelf. |
| US10084241B1 |
Dual-polarization antenna system
A method of sending and receiving dual-polarization, millimeter-wave signals to and from a mobile device having a top surface, a bottom surface, and an edge surface, includes: radiating energy, in a millimeter-wave frequency band, from a first radiator outwardly from the edge surface with a first polarization; receiving, via the first radiator, energy in the millimeter-wave frequency band with the first polarization; radiating energy, in the millimeter-wave frequency band, from a second radiator outwardly from the edge surface with a second polarization substantially perpendicular to the first polarization, the second radiator being disposed between the first radiator and the top surface or the bottom surface, or a combination thereof; and receiving, via the second radiator, energy in the millimeter-wave frequency band with the second polarization. |
| US10084240B2 |
Wideband wide beamwidth MIMO antenna system
A two antenna assembly for use in MIMO systems is described where wide beamwidth performance is achieved over wide frequency ranges while maintaining high isolation and low envelope correlation between the antenna elements in a low profile, small form factor. This MIMO antenna system is optimal for use in DAS systems for in-building applications where a MIMO antenna system is required and a low profile is desirable for ceiling and wall mount applications. The antenna assembly is designed to maintain low Passive Intermodulation (PIM) characteristics across multiple cellular frequency bands. Each antenna in the pair of elements is configured to cover multiple cellular frequency bands to provide a single port per antenna for use with multiple transceivers. A single conductor radiator design for the antenna elements simplifies manufacturing of the antenna. A tuned parasitic element is positioned between the antenna elements to enhance isolation at specific portions of the frequency range. |
| US10084238B2 |
Synchronized multiple-radio antenna systems and methods
Multi-radio antenna apparatuses and stations for wireless networks including multiple radios coupled to a single transmit/receive antenna, in which the antenna is highly synchronized by an external (e.g., GPS) signal. These multi-radio antenna systems may provide highly resilient links. Synchronization may allow these apparatuses to organically scale the transmission throughput while preventing data loss. The single transmit/receive antenna may have a single dish or a compound (e.g., a single pair of separate transmitting and receiving dishes) and connections for two or more radios. |
| US10084236B2 |
Tunable antenna and terminal
The present disclosure discloses a tunable antenna and a terminal. The tunable antenna includes a circuit board, an antenna body configured to transmit and receive a signal of a first frequency band and including a feed end and a ground pin, where the feed end is disposed on the circuit board, and an electrical tuning network, where a ground point disposed on the circuit board is connected to the ground pin of the antenna body by using the electrical tuning network, and the electrical tuning network includes an inductor and a first tunable capacitor with a tunable capacitance value, where a load value of the inductor is changed by tuning a first capacitance value of the first tunable capacitor, so that a first effective electrical length of the antenna body is changed. |
| US10084233B2 |
Modal antenna array for interference mitigation
A modal antenna array is described where modal antenna elements capable of generating multiple radiation modes are used to form array radiation patterns. Nulls in the array radiation pattern can be formed and positioned by proper modal antenna element mode selection, with these nulls used to provide interference suppression or mitigation. The shift in array radiation pattern maxima generated by modal element mode selection can be used to improve communication system link quality by optimizing array radiation pattern characteristics. Specifically, a ring or circular array configuration is described where a simplified common feed port can be implemented to feed multiple modal antenna elements used to form the array. A switch can be used to connect or disconnect one modal element from the array, with this feature providing additional unique array beam states. The modal array can be commanded via a look-up table or algorithm. |
| US10084231B2 |
Low thermal impedance structure in a phased array
An antenna system including: a metal base plate; an antenna element arranged on and extending away from the front side of the base plate; a circuit board including a ground plane, adjacent to, and in thermal contact with the base plate; a plurality of electrical components on the circuit board including a power amplifier and an I/O connector; a metal support plate separated from, parallel to, and facing the base plate, with the circuit board located between the base and support plates; a plurality of thermally conductive standoffs thermally connecting the base plate to the support plate; and a master board including an I/O connector mating with the I/O connector on the circuit board and electrically connecting the circuit board to the master board, the master board located between the circuit board and the support plate and including signal paths for routing signals to the circuit board. |
| US10084224B2 |
Compensated electromagnetic coupler
An electromagnetic coupler includes a dielectric layer with a first transmission line connecting an input port to an output port. A second transmission line on another surface of the dielectric layer forms a coupled port and an isolation port. The electromagnetic coupler provides a coupled signal at the coupled port, which is representative of an input signal at the input port. The amplitude of the coupled signal is related to the amplitude of the input signal by a coupling factor. A tuning element on the dielectric layer is configured to stabilize the coupling factor over a range of variations in thickness of the dielectric layer. |
| US10084219B2 |
Battery pack having improved safety against leakage of liquid refrigerant
Disclosed herein is a battery pack including at least one battery module including a battery cell stack constituted by two or more stacked battery cells that can be charged and discharged and a pack case for surrounding an outside of the battery module, wherein a liquid refrigerant isolated from an inner space of the pack case removes heat conducted from the battery cells through cooling of the pack case. |
| US10084215B2 |
Battery pack
A first cell string provided in a first battery module has a larger allowable current value than a plurality of cell strings provided in second and third battery modules. The battery module is provided with a current limiting circuit that limits the charge and discharge currents of the second cell string. When the current value detected by a current sensor is zero, the switch is turned off. In this condition, when the terminal voltage value of the third cell string is different from the terminal voltage value of the second cell string, a second switch switches the connection between the second and third battery modules in order to interpose the current limiting circuit between the second and third cell strings. |
| US10084213B2 |
Portable renewable energy power system
Various examples described herein are directed to portable renewable energy power systems comprising a solar module comprising a plurality of photovoltaic cells; a battery module comprising a plurality of battery cells; a user interface comprising at least one input device and at least one display; an alternating current/direct current (AC/DC) converter; a direct current/alternating current (DC/AC) converter; and a control module comprising at least one processor. |
| US10084211B2 |
Flexible printed circuit with bus bars, manufacturing method thereof, and battery system
To be small-sized/light in weight, and to easily cope with the variation of an inter-electrode pitch of battery cells. A flexible printed circuit with bus bars of one embodiment includes a flexible printed wiring board having a flexible insulating base material and a plurality of wiring patterns provided on one main surface of the flexible insulating base material and provided with land parts for bus bar connection at one end, and a plurality of bus bars and fixed to the land parts for the bus bar connection with an adhesive. The plurality of bus bars and are electrically connected to the respectively corresponding land parts for the bus bar connection in block by a plating layer formed on the bus bar and the land part for the bus bar connection. |
| US10084209B2 |
Valve regulated lead-acid battery
A valve regulated lead-acid battery includes a positive electrode current collector which is a punched current collector obtained by punching a rolled sheet of lead alloy and in which the average interlayer distance in a layered current collector structure at a cross-section parallel to the rolling direction and along the thickness direction of the current collector is not less than 25 μm and not more than 180 μm. |
| US10084208B2 |
Lead-acid battery
A lead-acid battery, including: a positive electrode plate; a negative electrode plate; an electrolyte solution; and a container having a cell chamber in which the positive electrode plate, the negative electrode plate and the electrolyte solution are accommodated. A concentration of Ba sulfate contained in a negative electrode material of the negative electrode plate is 1.0 mass % or more, and a Na concentration in the electrolyte solution is 0.04 mol/L or less. |
| US10084207B2 |
Substrate for solid-state battery
Disclosed are solid-state batteries having improved energy density and methods of manufacturing the solid-state batteries having improved energy density. In some embodiments, the solid-state battery may include a substrate of yttria-stabilized zirconia, a cathode current collector formed on the substrate, an anode current collector formed on the substrate, a cathode of lithium cobalt oxide in electrical contact with the cathode current collector, an anode of lithium in electrical contact with the anode current collector, and a solid-state electrolyte of lithium phosphorous oxynitride formed between the cathode and the anode. |
| US10084204B2 |
Electrolyte solution and sulfur-based or selenium-based batteries including the electrolyte solution
An example of an electrolyte solution includes a solvent, a lithium salt, a fluorinated ether, and an additive. The additive is selected from the group consisting of RSxR′, wherein x ranges from 3 to 18, and R—(SnSem)—R, wherein 2 |
| US10084203B2 |
Non-aqueous secondary battery and non-aqueous liquid electrolyte for secondary battery
A non-aqueous secondary battery containing: a positive electrode containing a transition metal oxide as an active material thereof; a negative electrode; and a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte containing an electrolyte, an organic solvent, and less than 0.1 mol/L of an organometallic compound containing a transition element or a rare-earth element as a central metal thereof. |
| US10084201B2 |
Battery, electrolyte layer, battery pack, electronic apparatus, electric vehicle, power storage device, and electric power system
A gel electrolyte layer is provided between a positive electrode and a second electrode. The gel electrolyte layer is a layer containing particles, a resin material, and a polymer compound for retaining the resin material, and having a heat capacity per unit area of 0.0001 J/Kcm2 or more and a heat capacity per unit volume of 3.0 J/Kcm3 or less. |
| US10084199B2 |
Fuel cell stack enclosure
A fuel cell stack enclosure is provided that includes side covers configured to be joined with each of end of a stack module respectively. A lower cover is also configured to be provided under the stack module and formed to partially cover a lower portion and a first side portion of an outer surface of the side cove. An upper cover may be provided over the stack module, and be formed to partially cover an upper portion and a second side portion of the outer surface of the side cover to enclose the stack module along with the lower cover while joining with the side covers. |
| US10084193B2 |
Device for preventing over pressure of cooling system of fuel cell system
A device for preventing over pressure of a cooling system of a fuel cell system is provided. The device detects a change in a temperature of a coolant discharged from a fuel cell stack and prevents over pressure of the cooling system before pressure of the coolant is elevated by the increase in the temperature. In particular, a coolant pump circulates a coolant to a fuel cell stack, a radiator radiates heat absorbed in the coolant, and a temperature sensor detects a temperature of the coolant discharged from the fuel cell stack the device. The system further includes an electronic valve mounted in a pillar neck of the radiator connected with a reservoir for supplementing a coolant to open and close the pillar neck and a fuel cell controller that operates the electronic valve based on a signal of the temperature sensor. |
| US10084190B2 |
Lithium secondary battery and conductive assistant used in same
A lithium secondary battery, including: a hydrofluoric acid-containing electrolytic solution; an electrode; and a conductive assistant, in which the conductive assistant (1) contains a substance that is poorly soluble in the hydrofluoric acid-containing electrolytic solution, the substance including one or more kinds selected from transition metal compounds, and (2) contains a substance that is soluble in the hydrofluoric acid-containing electrolytic solution, the substance having a total metal mass of 0 mass % or more and 0.003 mass % or less with respect to a total mass of the electrode; and a conductive assistant, including: a substance that is poorly soluble in a hydrofluoric acid-containing electrolytic solution; and a substance that consumes hydrofluoric acid, the conductive assistant being substantially free, or including 1 mass % or less with respect to a total mass thereof, of a substance that is soluble in the hydrofluoric acid-containing electrolytic solution. |
| US10084188B2 |
Positive electrode active substance for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell, method for producing same, and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell using positive electrode active substance
A positive electrode active material is provided that has a high capacity, a low irreversible capacity, an excellent initial charge/discharge efficiency, and excellent rate characteristics. This positive electrode active material comprises a hexagonal lithium nickel complex oxide having a layer structure and represented by the general formula LixNi1−y−zCoyMzO2 (0.98≤x≤1.04, 0.25≤y≤0.40, 0≤z≤0.07, and M is at least one element selected from Al, Ti, Mn, Ga, Mg, and Nb), wherein a lithium occupancy rate in a lithium main layer as obtained by Rietveld analysis from the x-ray diffraction pattern is at least 98.7%, and a crystallite diameter as calculated from the peak for the (003) plane in x-ray diffraction is 50 to 300 nm. |
| US10084185B2 |
Cathode for all solid-state lithium sulfur battery
A cathode for an all solid-state lithium sulfur battery includes a porous conductive material, which is manufactured from a precursor containing sulfur, and contains the sulfur in a backbone and a sulfur active material, which is injected into pores of the porous conductive material. |
| US10084182B2 |
Alkali metal-sulfur secondary battery containing a protected sulfur cathode and manufacturing method
Provided is a rechargeable alkali metal-sulfur cell comprising an anode active material layer, an electrolyte, and a cathode active material layer containing multiple particulates of a sulfur-containing material selected from a sulfur-carbon hybrid, sulfur-graphite hybrid, sulfur-graphene hybrid, conducting polymer-sulfur hybrid, metal sulfide, sulfur compound, or a combination thereof and wherein at least one of the particulates is composed of one or a plurality of sulfur-containing material particles being embraced or encapsulated by a thin layer of a high-elasticity polymer having a recoverable tensile strain no less than 10% when measured without an additive or reinforcement, a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10−5 S/cm at room temperature, and a thickness from 0.5 nm to 10 μm. This battery exhibits an excellent combination of high sulfur content, high sulfur utilization efficiency, high energy density, and long cycle life. |
| US10084180B2 |
Active material, nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack, and vehicle
According to one embodiment, an active material including a monoclinic niobium-titanium composite oxide is provided. In the active material, a portion of niobium (Nb) or titanium (Ti) as a constituent element of Nb2TiO7 is substituted by an element. Here, the substitution of Nb or Ti satisfies any one of following formulas (1) to (3): Ti(IV)→0.75M(V)+0.25M(I) (1) Ti(IV)→0.6M(VI)+0.4M(I) (2) Nb(V)→0.8M(VI)+0.2M(I) (3), where M(VI) is at least one of Mo and W, M(V) is at least one of Nb, Ta, and V, and M(I) is at least one of Na, K, Rb, and Cs. |
| US10084176B2 |
Rechargeable battery
A rechargeable battery, including an electrode assembly for performing charging and discharging operations; a case in which the electrode assembly is placed; a cap plate for closing and sealing an opening of the case; an electrode terminal provided outside of the cap plate through a terminal hole of the cap plate, the electrode terminal electrically coupled to the electrode assembly; and an insulating member for electrically insulating the electrode terminal from the cap plate, the electrode terminal including a rivet terminal in the terminal hole and a plate terminal connected to the rivet terminal outside of the cap plate, and the insulating member including a first insulator at an external circumference of the rivet terminal outside of the terminal hole and a second insulator between the cap plate and the plate terminal at an external circumference of the first insulator. |
| US10084174B2 |
Stacked type battery module having easily modifiable connection structure
A battery module including unit cells, each of which has electrode terminals formed at one side thereof, cartridges for fixing the unit cells, respectively, and busbars coupled to the electrode terminals for electrically interconnecting the unit cells. The unit cells are mounted at the respective cartridges such that the electrode terminals are opposite to each other, and the electrode terminals are connected in parallel to each other via the busbars such that the cartridges have unit cell parallel connection structures. The cartridges are stacked such that the unit cell parallel connection structures are arranged in a height direction from a ground, and the unit cell parallel connection structures are connected to each other via a series connection member and/or a parallel connection member for connecting the unit cell parallel connection structures in series and/or in parallel to each other. |
| US10084171B2 |
Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes an electrode body that has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator provided between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. A nonaqueous electrolyte is held at least in the separator. In at least a part of the separator, an amount of change in a thickness of the separator at a time of restraint at 10 MPa is 50% or more. |
| US10084165B2 |
Detachable structure of battery to be attached to case, and electronic device
A detachable structure of a battery to be attached to a case includes a wrapping of the battery and a housing of the case. The wrapping wraps the battery and comprises a slit. The housing houses the battery wrapped in the wrapping. The housing is bonded to the wrapping in a part of area. |
| US10084164B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery includes: an electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly and having an opening at one side thereof; a cap plate closing the opening of the case and having a first recessed groove at one end thereof and a second recessed groove at another end thereof, both the first and second recessed grooves being at an outer surface of the cap plate; a first terminal unit including: a first electrode terminal electrically connected to a first electrode plate and protruding outside of the case; a first terminal plate electrically connected to the first electrode terminal; and an insulation member coupled to the cap plate in the first recessed groove and surrounding peripheral surfaces and a bottom surface of the first terminal plate; and a second terminal unit electrically connected to the second electrode plate and coupled to the cap plate in the second recessed groove. |
| US10084160B2 |
Shape-adapted electrochemical storage device for uniform temperature distribution
An electrochemical storage device is provided including an anode chamber filled with anode material, and a cathode chamber filled with cathode material. The anode chamber is separated from the cathode chamber by ion-conducting solid body electrolyte, and is limited on one side at least partially by the solid body electrolyte, and to the other side at least partially by a wall surrounding at least partially the solid body electrolytes. The electrochemical storage device has a head part where electric energy is guided to and/or taken away from, a base part arranged opposite the head part, and at least one lateral part including at least one wall arranged between the head and base part. At least one first area and second area are formed between the wall and the solid body electrolyte, both areas being different with respect to the respective distance between the wall and solid body electrolyte. |
| US10084156B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, and display device
A light-emitting element with which a reduction in power consumption and an improvement in productivity of a display device can be achieved is provided. A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. The light-emitting element includes an electrode having a reflective property, and a first light-emitting layer, a charge generation layer, a second light-emitting layer, and an electrode having a light-transmitting property stacked in this order over the electrode having a reflective property. The optical path length between the electrode having a reflective property and the first light-emitting layer is one-quarter of the peak wavelength of the emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer. The optical path length between the electrode having a reflective property and the second light-emitting layer is three-quarters of the peak wavelength of the emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer. |
| US10084155B2 |
OLED display
The OLED display of the invention comprises a TFE layer, comprising: inorganic passivation layers, organic buffer layers and a moisture/oxygen quenching layer (MOQL), wherein the inorganic passivation layers and the organic buffer layers form a stacked structure, and the MOQL comprises a first MOQL located between the stack structure and OLED layer, or a second MOQL located between the two inorganic passivation layers, or a combination of two. In TFE layer, the MOQL can effectively prevent, through physisorption or chemical reaction, the damage of the OLED device caused by moisture/oxygen without affecting the luminescence performance of the OLED device so as to enhance the OLED device lifespan, and release the stress of inorganic passivation layers in TFE layer, reduce the number of layers and thickness of the TFE layer, thereby reduce the thickness of the OLED display and improve the flexibility of flexible OLED display. |
| US10084153B2 |
Filler material for organic electroluminescent element and method of sealing organic electroluminiscent element
A filler material for an organic electroluminescent element, formed of a resin composition being liquid at 25° C., and containing a organometallic compound and a hydrocarbon polymer having a number average molecular weight of 300 or more and less than 20,000, and an iodine value less than 40 g/100 g, and having no polar group, wherein a contact angle to silicon nitride is 10 to 40 degrees, and an amount of outgassing other than moisture upon being heated at 85° C. for 1 hour is 500 ppm or less in terms of a toluene equivalent, and a method of sealing an organic electroluminescent element using the same. |
| US10084151B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided including a display region arranged with a plurality of pixels, and a first sealing region arranged in an exterior periphery part of the display region, the display region includes an individual pixel electrode arranged in each of the plurality of pixels, a common pixel electrode arranged in upper layer of the individual pixel electrode and in succession to the plurality of pixels, and a light emitting layer arranged between the individual pixel electrode and the common pixel electrode, and the first sealing region includes a sealing layer arranged on a lower layer than the common pixel electrode and a region stacked with the common pixel electrode extending from the display region, the stacked region being enclosed by the display region. |
| US10084148B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate including a display area having a plurality of pixel regions and a non-display area; a first electrode on the substrate; a first organic emissive layer on the first electrode; a charge generation layer on the first organic emissive layer as a common layer for the plurality of pixel regions; a second organic emissive layer on the charge generation layer; a second electrode on the second organic emissive layer as a common electrode for the plurality of pixel regions; and an anti-contact layer between the charge generation layer and the second electrode as a common layer for the plurality of pixel regions. The anti-contact layer completely surrounds the charge generation layer. |
| US10084147B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate having a light-emitting region and a first transparent region. The first substrate includes a plurality of transistors and at least one light-emitting diode disposed in the light-emitting region. The light-emitting diode includes a first electrode electrically connected to the corresponding transistor and a first semiconductor layer disposed over the first electrode. The light-emitting diode also includes a second semiconductor layer disposed over the first semiconductor layer and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, wherein the distance between the top surface of the first electrode and the top surface of the second semiconductor layer is between 2 μm and 12 μm. |
| US10084144B2 |
Substrate for device having an organic light-emitting diode
A diffusing substrate for a device having an organic light-emitting diode including a sheet of glass coated on one of the surfaces thereof with a layer including a vitreous material, such that the vitreous material has a chemical composition including the following components, which vary within the weight limits defined below: Bi2O360-85% B2O35-12% SiO26-20% MgO + ZnO0-9.5% Al2O30-7% Li2O + Na2O + K2O0-5% CaO0-5% BaO0-20%. |
| US10084143B2 |
Phosphorescent materials
A compound selected from is provided. An organic light emitting device including an anode, cathode, and organic layer disposed between the anode and cathode, including one of the compounds is also provided. |
| US10084139B2 |
Formation of carbon nanotube-containing devices
A method of fabricating a carbon nanotube based device, including forming a trench having a bottom surface and sidewalls on a substrate, selectively depositing a bi-functional compound having two reactive moieties in the trench, wherein a first of the two reactive moieties selectively binds to the bottom surface, converting a second of the two reactive moieties to a diazonium salt; and reacting the diazonium salt with a dispersion of carbon nanotubes to form a carbon nanotube layer bound to the bottom surface of the trench. |
| US10084138B2 |
Methods for forming nanotube fabric layers with increased density
Methods for passivating a nanotube fabric layer within a nanotube switching device to prevent or otherwise limit the encroachment of an adjacent material layer are disclosed. In some embodiments, a sacrificial material is implanted within a porous nanotube fabric layer to fill in the voids within the porous nanotube fabric layer while one or more other material layers are applied adjacent to the nanotube fabric layer. Once the other material layers are in place, the sacrificial material is removed. In other embodiments, a non-sacrificial filler material (selected and deposited in such a way as to not impair the switching function of the nanotube fabric layer) is used to form a barrier layer within a nanotube fabric layer. In other embodiments, individual nanotube elements are combined with and nanoscopic particles to limit the porosity of a nanotube fabric layer. |
| US10084135B2 |
Illumination device and method of fabricating an illumination device
An illumination device includes a substrate, a light emitting structure, a sealant, and a laminating board is provided. The light emitting structure includes a first electrode layer, a light emitting layer and a second electrode layer stacked on the substrate sequentially. The sealant covers the light emitting structure. The laminating board is attached to the substrate. The sealant is located between the laminating board and the substrate. The laminating board includes a carrier body, a metal layer and a plurality of pads. The metal layer is exposed at a first surface of the carrier body, is in contact with the sealant and shields an area of the light emitting layer of the light emitting structure. The pads are exposed at the first surface of the carrier body and electrically connected to the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The metal layer is electrically isolated from the pads. |
| US10084133B2 |
Mask
A mask including patterned structures arranged sequentially along a predetermined direction and a peripheral area surrounding the patterned structures is provided. Each of the patterned structures includes an opening portion and a thinning portion surrounding the opening portion. The opening portion has through holes arranged in a matrix. An outline of the thinning portion has two side edges opposite to each other substantially parallel to the predetermined direction. The thinning portion is defined by an area demarked by the outline of the thinning portion and an outline of the opening portion. A thickness of the thinning portion is thinner than a thickness of the peripheral area. |
| US10084131B2 |
Method for fabricating electronic device with variable resistance material layer
A method for fabricating an electronic device including a semiconductor memory may include: forming a first interlayer dielectric layer over a substrate to have an opening exposing the substrate; forming a bottom electrode in a portion of the opening to have an exposed top surface; forming a variable resistance material layer along sidewalls of the remaining portion of the opening and the exposed top surface of the bottom electrode; forming a top electrode over the variable resistance material layer so as to fill the opening; etching the first interlayer dielectric layer to a predetermined depth to expose a part of the variable resistance material layer surrounding sidewalls of the top electrode; and removing the part of the variable resistance material layer to form a unit cell. |
| US10084127B2 |
Enhanced coercivity in MTJ devices by contact depth control
A magnetic memory device includes a magnetic memory stack including a bottom electrode and having a hard mask formed thereon. An encapsulation layer is formed over sides of the magnetic memory stack and has a thickness adjacent to the sides formed on the bottom electrode. A dielectric material is formed over the encapsulation layer and is removed from over the hard mask and gapped apart from the encapsulation layer on the sides of the magnetic memory stack to form trenches between the dielectric material and the encapsulation layer at the sides of the magnetic memory stack. A top electrode is formed over the hard mask and in the trenches such that the top electrode is spaced apart from the bottom electrode by at least the thickness. |
| US10084126B1 |
Magnetic memory device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes first and second magnetic members, and a conductive member. The first magnetic member includes first, second, and third extending portions. The first extending portion extends along a first direction. The second extending portion extends along a second direction. The third extending portion includes a third connection portion connected with the first and second extending portions. The third extending portion extends along a third direction. The conductive member extends along a fourth direction. The first and second directions are inclined with respect to the fourth direction. The conductive member includes a portion overlapping at least parts of the first and second extending portions in a fifth direction. The fifth direction crosses the first, the second and the fourth directions. The conductive member includes a metal. A direction from the third extending portion toward the second magnetic member crosses the third direction. |
| US10084117B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a wire connected to the light emitting element, and a substrate supporting the light emitting element. The substrate is formed with a first recess and a second recess that are open in a common surface of the substrate. The first recess includes a first bottom surface and a first side surface connected to the first bottom surface, and the light emitting element is disposed on the first bottom surface. The second recess includes a second bottom surface and a second side surface connected to the second bottom surface, and the wire is bonded to the second bottom surface. Both of the first side surface and the second side surface reach the common surface. The first side surface is connected to both of the second bottom surface and the second side surface. The opening area of the first recess is larger than the opening area of the second recess. |
| US10084113B2 |
Nitride semiconductor template and light emitting element
A nitride semiconductor template includes a substrate, an AlN layer that is formed on the substrate and that includes Cl, and a nitride semiconductor layer formed on the AlN layer. In the AlN layer, a concentration of the Cl in a region on a side of the substrate is higher than that in a region on a side of the nitride semiconductor layer. Also, a light-emitting element includes the nitride semiconductor template, and a light-emitting layer formed on the nitride semiconductor template. |
| US10084112B2 |
Light emitting diode and method of fabricating the same
A method of fabricating a light emitting diode (LED) includes: sequentially stacking a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer on a substrate; and separating the substrate into unit chips, and at the same time, forming a concavo-convex structure having the shape of irregular vertical lines in a side surface of the unit chip. |
| US10084101B2 |
Graded-index structure for optical systems
An optical system and photo sensor pixel are provided. The photo sensor pixel includes a substrate including an active region and a peripheral region that is peripheral to the active region, an optical sensor disposed at the active region of the substrate and configured to receive light and output a measurement signal based on the received light, and an encapsulation layer disposed over the active region and the first peripheral region of the substrate. The encapsulation layer includes at least one subwavelength-based graded index structure provided over the peripheral region of the substrate, and the subwavelength-based graded index structure is configured to redirect the light from a region over the peripheral region onto the optical sensor. |
| US10084099B2 |
Aluminum grid as backside conductor on epitaxial silicon thin film solar cells
One embodiment of the present invention provides a solar cell. The solar cell includes a substrate, a first heavily doped crystalline-Si (c-Si) layer situated above the substrate, a lightly doped c-Si layer situated above the first heavily doped crystalline-Si layer, a second heavily doped c-Si layer situated above the lightly doped c-Si layer, a front side electrode grid situated above the second heavily doped c-Si layer, and a backside electrode grid situated on the backside of the substrate. |
| US10084093B1 |
Low resistance conductive contacts
During formation of a trench silicide contact, a sacrificial layer is incorporated into the trench directly over source/drain junctions prior to metallization of the trench. Selective removal of the sacrificial layer widens the trench proximate to the source/drain junctions, increasing the contact area and correspondingly decreasing the contact resistance between the source/drain junctions and a silicide layer. |
| US10084092B2 |
Method for fabricating FinFET structure
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure having a semiconductor substrate and a fin structure on the semiconductor substrate. The fin structure includes a semiconductor layer and a hard mask layer on top of the semiconductor layer. The method also includes forming a spacer layer on sidewalls of the fin structure. Next, using the hard mask layer and the spacer layer as a mask, the semiconductor substrate is etched to form recesses on both sides of the fin structure that extend partially to underneath the bottom of the fin structure. The method further includes forming a filler material to fill at least the recesses, thereby forming the first filler layer. The first filler layer may be oxidized to form a porous oxide layer and the remaining portion of the substrate under the fin structures may be oxidized to form an oxide layer. |
| US10084091B2 |
Strained semiconductor using elastic edge relaxation of a stressor combined with buried insulating layer
An SOI wafer contains a compressively stressed buried insulator structure. In one example, the stressed buried insulator (BOX) may be formed on a host wafer by forming silicon oxide, silicon nitride and silicon oxide layers so that the silicon nitride layer is compressively stressed. Wafer bonding provides the surface silicon layer over the stressed insulator layer. Preferred implementations of the invention form MOS transistors by etching isolation trenches into a preferred SOI substrate having a stressed BOX structure to define transistor active areas on the surface of the SOI substrate. Most preferably the trenches are formed deep enough to penetrate through the stressed BOX structure and some distance into the underlying silicon portion of the substrate. The overlying silicon active regions will have tensile stress induced due to elastic edge relaxation. |
| US10084090B2 |
Method and structure of stacked FinFET
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a fin stack structure of, from bottom to top, a first semiconductor material fin portion, an insulator fin portion and a second semiconductor material fin portion. The first semiconductor material fin portion can be used as a first device region in which a first conductivity-type device (e.g., n-FET or p-FET) can be formed, while the second semiconductor material fin portion can be used as a second device region in which a second conductivity-type device (e.g., n-FET or p-FET), which is opposite the first conductivity-type device, can be formed. |
| US10084085B2 |
Fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure with stop layer and method for forming the same
A FinFET device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The FinFET device structure includes a stop layer formed over a substrate and a fin structure formed over the stop layer. The FinFET device structure includes a gate structure formed over the fin structure and a source/drain (S/D) structure adjacent to the gate structure. A bottom surface of the S/D structure is located at a position that is higher than or level with a bottom surface of the stop layer. |
| US10084081B2 |
Vertical transistor with enhanced drive current
A stacked vertical field effect transistor that has enhanced drive current is provided. The stacked vertical field effect transistor includes a lower functional gate structure located adjacent sidewall surfaces of a lower channel portion of a semiconductor channel material pillar. An upper functional gate structure is located above the lower functional gate structure and adjacent sidewall surfaces of an upper channel portion of the semiconductor channel material pillar. A bottom source/drain region is located beneath the lower functional gate structure, a middle source/drain region is located between the lower functional gate structure and the upper functional gate structure, and a top source/drain region is located above the upper functional gate structure. |
| US10084080B2 |
Vertical tunneling FinFET
A tunneling transistor is implemented in silicon, using a FinFET device architecture. The tunneling FinFET has a non-planar, vertical, structure that extends out from the surface of a doped drain formed in a silicon substrate. The vertical structure includes a lightly doped fin defined by a subtractive etch process, and a heavily-doped source formed on top of the fin by epitaxial growth. The drain and channel have similar polarity, which is opposite that of the source. A gate abuts the channel region, capacitively controlling current flow through the channel from opposite sides. Source, drain, and gate terminals are all electrically accessible via front side contacts formed after completion of the device. Fabrication of the tunneling FinFET is compatible with conventional CMOS manufacturing processes, including replacement metal gate and self-aligned contact processes. Low-power operation allows the tunneling FinFET to provide a high current density compared with conventional planar devices. |
| US10084077B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a buffer layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer, and agate electrode over a substrate, the gate electrode being disposed in a first opening with agate insulating film in between, the first opening running up to the middle of the channel layer through the barrier layer. The concentration of two-dimensional electron gas in a first region on either side of a second opening that will have a channel is controlled to be lower than the concentration of two-dimensional electron gas in a second region between an end of the first region and a source or drain electrode. The concentration of the two-dimensional electron gas in the first region is thus decreased, thereby the conduction band-raising effect of polarization charge is prevented from being reduced. This prevents a decrease in threshold potential, and thus improves normally-off operability. |
| US10084069B2 |
Apparatus and method for FinFETs
A FinFET comprises an isolation region formed in a substrate, a cloak-shaped active region formed over the substrate, wherein the cloak-shaped active region has an upper portion protruding above a top surface of the isolation region. In addition, the FinFET comprises a gate electrode wrapping the channel of the cloak-shaped active region. |
| US10084065B1 |
Reducing resistance of bottom source/drain in vertical channel devices
During a fabrication of a semiconductor device, a recess is created in a substrate material disposed along a direction of a plane of fabrication. A layer of a removable material is formed in the recess. A bottom layer is formed above the layer of removable material. A vertical channel above the bottom layer is formed in a direction substantially orthogonal to the direction of the plane of fabrication. A gate is formed using a metal above the bottom layer and relative to the vertical channel. A tunnel is created under the bottom layer by removing the removable material from under the bottom layer such that the backside of the bottom layer forms a ceiling of the tunnel. The tunnel is filled using a conductive material such that the conductive material makes electrical contact with the backside of the bottom layer. |
| US10084061B2 |
Polysilicon design for replacement gate technology
The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate; and a passive polysilicon device disposed over the semiconductor substrate. The passive polysilicon device further includes a polysilicon feature; and a plurality of electrodes embedded in the polysilicon feature. |
| US10084058B2 |
Quantum well MOSFET channels having lattice mismatch with metal source/drains, and conformal regrowth source/drains
Embodiments described include straining transistor quantum well (QW) channel regions with metal source/drains, and conformal regrowth source/drains to impart a uni-axial strain in a MOS channel region. Removed portions of a channel layer may be filled with a junction material having a lattice spacing different than that of the channel material to causes a uni-axial strain in the channel, in addition to a bi-axial strain caused in the channel layer by a top barrier layer and a bottom buffer layer of the quantum well. |
| US10084050B2 |
Semiconductor device with low-K gate cap and self-aligned contact
A semiconductor device includes at least a gate formed upon a semiconductor substrate, a contact trench self aligned to the gate, and a multilayered gate caps comprising a first gate cap formed upon each gate and a low-k gate cap formed upon the first gate cap. The multilayered gate cap may electrically isolate the gate from a self aligned contact formed by filling the contact trench with electrically conductive material. The multilayered gate cap reduces parasitic capacitance formed between the source-drain region, gate, and multilayered gate cap that may adversely impact device performance and device power consumption. |
| US10084048B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic device including the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. Alternatively, a semiconductor device with a high on-state current is provided. Alternatively, a semiconductor device that is suitable for miniaturization is provided. A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor, an insulating film, a gate insulating film, and a gate electrode. The oxide semiconductor includes a first portion and a second portion over the first portion. The insulating film includes a region in contact with a side surface of the first portion. The gate electrode includes a region that covers the second portion with the gate insulating film provided therebetween. |
| US10084041B2 |
Method and structure for improving FinFET with epitaxy source/drain
Isolation structures are formed to laterally surround a gate material block such that each sidewall of the gate material block abuts a corresponding sidewall of the isolation structures. Sidewalls of the gate material bock define ends of gate structures to be subsequently formed. The isolation structures obstruct lateral growth of a semiconductor material during a selective epitaxial grown process in formation of source/drain regions, thereby preventing merging of the source/drain regions at the ends of gate structures. As a result, a lateral distance between each sidewall of the gate material block and a corresponding outermost sidewall of an array of a plurality of semiconductor fins can be made sufficiently small without causing the electrical shorts of the source/drain regions. |
| US10084040B2 |
Seamless gap fill
A method includes depositing a first dielectric layer in an opening, the first dielectric layer comprising a semiconductor element and a non-semiconductor element. The method further includes depositing a semiconductor layer on the first dielectric layer, the semiconductor layer comprising a first element that is the same as the semiconductor element. The method further includes introducing a second element to the semiconductor layer wherein the second element is the same as the non-semiconductor element. The method further includes applying a thermal annealing process to the semiconductor layer to change the semiconductor layer into a second dielectric layer. |
| US10084035B2 |
Vertical capacitor contact arrangement
An arrangement for making electrical contact to a vertical capacitor having top and bottom metal layers separated by a dielectric, and at least one trench. Recesses are formed in an oxide layer over the capacitor to provide access to the top and bottom metal layers. The recesses include contacting portions preferably positioned such that there is no overlap between them and any of the trenches. Metal in the recesses, preferably copper, forms electrical contacts to the vertical capacitor's metal layers and enables reliable bonding to copper metallization on other layers such as an ROIC layer. ‘Dummy’ capacitors may be tiled on portions of the IC where there are no vertical capacitors, preferably with the top surfaces of their top metal at a height approximately equal to that of the top surface of the vertical capacitor's top metal, thereby enabling the IC to be planarized with a uniform planarization thickness. |
| US10084034B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for ion trapping
Devices, methods, and systems for ion trapping are described herein. One device includes a through-silicon via (TSV) and a trench capacitor formed around the TSV. |
| US10084030B2 |
Backplane substrate and organic light emitting diode display using the same
Disclosed are a backplane substrate which secures sufficient storage capacitance even when using small sub-pixels in a structure having very high resolution, and an organic light emitting diode display using the same. The backplane substrate includes storage capacitors including a first storage electrode, a second storage electrode partially overlapping the first storage electrode, a second storage connection electrode overlapping the first and second storage electrodes and connected to the second storage electrode at a first node, and a first storage connection electrode overlapping the second storage connection electrode and connected to the first storage electrode at a second node at which the first and second storage electrodes do not overlap each other, in a storage capacitor region defined by intersecting a scan line, a first voltage line and a data line at each sub-pixel. |
| US10084029B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate and organic light-emitting display device including the same
A thin film transistor array substrate having a pixel arrangement structure includes a first sub-pixel for displaying a first color and a second sub-pixel for displaying a second color alternately located in a first column, and a third sub-pixel for displaying a third color in a second column adjacent to the first column, and via holes of the first through third sub-pixels in a same row are at different positions. |
| US10084028B2 |
Method for manufacturing display substrate, display substrate and display device
A method for manufacturing a display substrate comprises: forming a pixel definition layer on a lower surface of a base so as to define a pixel area; forming a spacer on a lower surface of the pixel definition layer; arranging a mask plate under the spacer; and moving an evaporation source along a first direction parallel to the lower surface of the base, so as to form an organic light emitting layer in the pixel area. When the evaporation source starts forming the organic light emitting layer in the pixel area, the spacer and the mask plate do not block a first border of the evaporation area. Further, when the evaporation source stops forming the organic light emitting layer in the pixel area, the spacer and the mask plate do not block a second border of the evaporation area. |
| US10084026B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and method of fabricating the same
Disclosed are an organic light emitting display device improving opening ratio and a method of fabricating the same. The organic light emitting display device includes a light emitting device disposed at each sub-pixel of a substrate, a pixel circuit driving the light emitting device, a bank providing a first light emitting region at a remaining region except for a region where the pixel circuit is disposed, and a second light emitting region at the region where the pixel circuit is disposed, and a color filter disposed at the first and second light emitting regions, wherein at least one of electrodes included in the pixel circuit includes a transparent conductive layer at the second light emitting region. |
| US10084025B2 |
Color filter substrate and display device having the same
Discussed is a color filter substrate and a display device having the same. The color filter substrate prevents color filter layers or color patterns from being lost or broken during a production process. The color filter substrate is formed by forming connection patterns in the edges of red (R), blue (B), and green (G) color filter layers and red (R), blue (B), and green G) color patterns. The connection patterns and color patterns are simultaneously formed with the color filter layers. |
| US10084019B2 |
Organic light-emitting array and organic light-emitting display device using the same
Disclosed are an organic light-emitting array and an organic light-emitting display device using the organic light-emitting array. The organic light-emitting array includes a substrate having a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including an emission portion and a non-emission portion adjacent the emission portion; a first electrode provided on at least the emission portion and provided on a portion of the non-emission portion for each sub-pixel; a bank provided in the non-emission portion and having a positively tapered portion configured to overlap a portion of the first electrode and a negatively tapered portion configured so as not to overlap the first electrode; an organic layer provided on the first electrode and the bank; and a second electrode disposed on the organic layer over the plurality of sub-pixels. |
| US10084014B2 |
Array substrate for display apparatus, display apparatus, method for producing array substrate for display apparatus, and method for producing display apparatus
A technique disclosed in the present specification relates to reducing failures at repairing a bright pixel defect to be a dark pixel. An array substrate for a display apparatus, in this technique includes an insulating substrate that is transparent, an insulating film at least partly disposed on an upper surface of the insulating substrate and containing silicon oxide or metal oxide as a main component, a first conductive film, a second conductive film spaced apart from the first conductive film, and an insulator portion that is in direct contact with and extends between the first conductive film and the second conductive film. The insulator portion is formed by converting an oxide semiconductor film into an insulator. The insulator portion includes an upper surface or lower surface in direct contact with the insulating film. |
| US10084005B2 |
Shared pixel and an image sensor including the same
A shared pixel includes a plurality of photo diode regions, a shared floating diffusion region, a plurality of transfer gates and a blooming layer. Each of the photo diode regions generates photo-charges in response to incident light. The photo diode regions are formed in a semiconductor substrate. The shared floating diffusion region is shared by the plurality of photo diode regions. The shared floating diffusion region is separated from the plurality of photo diode regions in the semiconductor substrate. Each of the transfer gates transfers the photo-charges of a corresponding photo diode region to the shared floating diffusion region in response to a transfer control signal. The blooming layer transfers overflow photo-charges to a power supply voltage node. |
| US10084004B2 |
Semiconductor device for optical applications and method of producing such a semiconductor device
A sensor (2) is arranged at a main surface (10) of a semiconductor substrate (1), and a filter (3) is arranged above the sensor. A through-substrate via (4) penetrates the substrate outside the region of the sensor. A semiconductor body is applied above the main surface and then partially removed at least in an area above the sensor. A portion of the semiconductor body remains above the through-substrate via as a frame layer (5). The filter is on a level with the frame layer. |
| US10084003B2 |
Semiconductor device, manufacturing method, and electronic apparatus
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming, on a cover glass, a film having a predetermined specific gravity and configured to shield an alpha ray that arises from the cover glass; and bonding the cover glass on which the film is formed and an image pickup device, by filling a transparent resin between the cover glass and the image pickup device. |
| US10084001B2 |
Vector light sensor and array thereof
A vector light sensor (VLS) includes a substrate and a sensor structure. The substrate includes a major surface. The sensor structure includes a pyramid structure, light-sensitive areas, and electrical contacts. The pyramid structure forms at least a portion of a body of the sensor structure and has predefined angles between the major surface of the substrate and a plurality of sidewalls of the pyramid. The light-sensitive areas are formed on two or more of the plurality of sidewalls of the pyramid structure. The electrical contacts are electrically coupled to the light-sensitive areas. Information about the information about intensity and direction of an incident light beam can be extracted by comparing signals from two or more of the light-sensitive areas. |
| US10084000B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method therefor, display panel, and display apparatus
An array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a display area and a peripheral circuit area. The method includes forming an amorphous silicon thin film on the base substrate, forming a first amorphous silicon layer in the display area and a second amorphous silicon layer in the peripheral circuit area by a patterning process, so that a thickness of the first amorphous silicon layer is less than a thickness of the second amorphous silicon layer; and processing the first amorphous silicon layer and the second amorphous silicon layer simultaneously by an excimer laser annealing to form a first poly-silicon layer in the display area and a second poly-silicon layer in the peripheral circuit area, a grain size of the first poly-silicon layer being less than a grain size of the second poly-silicon layer. |
| US10083998B2 |
Exposure mask and method of manufacturing a substrate using the exposure mask
An exposure mask includes a first transmission portion, a second transmission portion, and a blocking portion. The first transmission portion is configured to, when illuminated with light, transmit the light at a first energy level. The first transmission portion is disposed in association with formation of a first contact hole in an underlying layer. The second transmission portion is configured to, when illuminated with the light, transmit the light at a second energy level. The second transmission portion is disposed in association with formation of a second contact hole in the underlying layer. The blocking portion is configured to block the light, and is disposed in association with a boundary region between a first region and a second region of the underlying layer. The second transmission portion is further configured to enable the second contact hole to be formed deeper into the underlying layer than the first contact hole. |
| US10083995B2 |
Semiconductor display device
It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor display device having an interlayer insulating film which can obtain planarity of a surface while controlling film formation time, can control treatment time of heating treatment with an object of removing moisture, and can prevent moisture in the interlayer insulating film from being discharged to a film or an electrode adjacent to the interlayer insulating film. An inorganic insulating film containing nitrogen, which is less likely to transmit moisture compared with an organic resin, is formed so as to cover a TFT. Next, an organic resin film containing photosensitive acrylic resin is applied to the organic insulting film, and the organic resin film is partially exposed to light to be opened. Thereafter, an inorganic insulting film containing nitrogen, which is less likely to transmit moisture compared with an organic resin, is formed so as to cover the opened organic resin film. Then, in the opening part of the organic resin film, a gate insulating film and the two layer inorganic insulating film containing nitrogen are opened partially by etching to expose an active layer of the TFT. |
| US10083994B2 |
Flexible display panel and display device
The present disclosure relates provide a flexible display panel and a display device. The flexible display panel includes: a flexible substrate; an inorganic layer disposed on the flexible substrate; and signal lines which are arranged in parallel along a first direction and located within the inorganic layer; wherein the signal lines are electrically connected with the display units and extend along a second direction to the wiring area; the inorganic layer includes a signal line spacing area and signal line covering areas; on a plane where the flexible substrate is located, an orthographic projection of the signal line spacing area does not overlap projections of the signal lines, and orthographic projections of the signal line covering areas cover the signal lines; in a direction perpendicular to the flexible substrate, a top end of the signal line spacing area is higher than top ends of the signal line covering areas. |
| US10083991B2 |
Display device, display module, and electronic device
A novel display device or the like in which a transistor connected to a scan line has small gate capacitance is provided. A novel display device or the like in which a scan line has low resistance is provided. A novel display device or the like in which pixels can be arranged with high density is provided. A novel display device or the like that can be manufactured without an increase in cost is provided. In a transistor including a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode, the first gate electrode is formed using a metal material with low resistance and the second gate electrode is formed using a metal oxide material that can reduce oxygen vacancies in an oxide semiconductor layer. The first gate electrode is connected to the scan line, and the second gate electrode is connected to a wiring to which a constant potential is supplied. |
| US10083990B2 |
Thin film transistor substrate and display device using the same
A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate and a display device using the same are disclosed. The TFT substrate includes a base substrate, a first TFT having a polycrystalline semiconductor and disposed on the base substrate, and a second TFT having an oxide semiconductor and disposed on the first TFT. The second TFT overlaps at least a portion of the first TFT in a plan view. |
| US10083989B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is provided to include a flexible substrate, a barrier layer, a heat insulating layer, a device layer, a dielectric material later and a stress absorbing layer. The barrier layer is disposed on the flexible substrate. The heat insulating layer is disposed on the barrier layer, wherein the heat insulating layer has a thermal conductivity of less than 20 W/mK. The device layer is disposed on the heat insulating layer. The dielectric material layer is disposed on the device layer, and the dielectric material layer and the heat insulating layer include at least one trench. The stress absorbing layer is disposed on the dielectric material layer, and the stress absorbing layer fills into the at least one trench. |
| US10083986B2 |
CMOS with middle of line processing of III-V material on mandrel
A method includes forming first structures on a first portion of a silicon substrate and second structures on a second portion of the substrate; forming spacers on the first structures; forming dummy gates on the first and second structures; depositing a first interlayer dielectric on the dummy gates; removing the dummy gates from the second structures; forming metal gates on the second structures; performing an anneal; forming recess areas in the first interlayer dielectric; removing the spacers from the first structures; epitaxially growing sidewalls on the first structures; removing portions of the first structures outside the dummy gates from the first portion; depositing a second interlayer dielectric on the first portion; removing the dummy gates from the first portion; removing portions of the first structures previously under the dummy gates from the first portion; and forming metal gates on the first structures. |
| US10083979B2 |
Semiconductor device, manufacturing method and controlling method of semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, first electrodes, data storage regions, first conductive regions, contacts and second conductive regions. The first electrodes are formed in the semiconductor layer arrayed in a first direction and a second direction and penetrating the insulator films and the semiconductor films in a third direction. The data storage regions are provided between each of the semiconductor films and each of the first electrodes. The first conductive regions are provided at one end of each of the semiconductor films in the first direction. The contacts are connected to one end of one of the first conductive regions in the second direction, and connection parts between each of the contacts and the first conductive regions are formed stepwise along the second direction. The second conductive regions are provided at the other end of the semiconductor layer in the first direction. |
| US10083977B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor devices
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes an electrode structure on a substrate that includes a first region and a second region, the electrode structure including a ground selection electrode, cell electrodes, and a string selection electrode which are sequentially stacked on the substrate wherein the ground selection electrode, the cell electrodes, and the string selection electrode respectively include a ground selection pad, cell pads, and a string selection pad which define a stepped structure in the second region of the substrate, a plurality of dummy pillars penetrating each of the cell pads and a portion of the electrode structure under each of the cell pads, and a cell contact plug electrically connected to each of the cell pads, wherein each of the dummy pillars penetrates a boundary between adjacent cell pads, and wherein the adjacent cell pads share the dummy pillars. |
| US10083975B2 |
Control voltage searching method for non-volatile memory
A control voltage searching method is provided. Firstly, a control pulse with a preset control voltage and a preset pulse width is generated, and a control action on a memory cell. If the pulse count of the control pulse is smaller than a first number, the control voltage plus a first increment is set as an updated value of the control voltage. If the pulse count of the control pulse is not smaller than a first number, a first-stage verifying action is performed to judge whether the memory cell passes a first-stage verification test. If the memory cell passes the first-stage verification test, a second-stage verifying action is performed to judge whether the memory cell passes a second-stage verification test. If the memory cell passes the second-stage verification test, a target value of the control voltage is acquired. |
| US10083974B1 |
Floating memristor
A floating memristor with a nano-battery between a top and bottom floating gates is disclosed. The floating memristor includes a nano-battery, a top floating gate assembly disposed on an anode of the nano-battery, and a bottom floating gate assembly disposed on a cathode of the nano-battery. The floating memristor is an artificial synapse. The top floating gate assembly and the anode of the nano-battery convert electric signal to ionic signal by tunneling effect and field effect to simulate a presynaptic membrane. The electrolyte of the nano-battery is an ionic channel as a synaptic gap. The anode and the bottom floating gate transfer the ionic signal to electric signal by field effect and tunneling effect to simulate a postsynaptic membrane. |
| US10083972B2 |
Hybrid logic and SRAM contacts
The method includes forming a first opening in a dielectric layer exposing a source drain region of an SRAM device and forming a second opening in the dielectric layer exposing a source drain region of a logic device, forming a third opening in the dielectric layer exposing a gate of the SRAM device and forming a fourth opening in the dielectric layer exposing a gate of the logic device, forming a first sidewall spacer in the third opening and forming a second sidewall spacer in the fourth opening, recessing a portion of the first sidewall spacer without recessing the second sidewall spacer, forming a strapped contact in the first and third openings, the strapped contact creates an electrical connection between the source drain region of the SRAM device and the gate of the SRAM device, the electrical connection is directly above a remaining portion of the first sidewall spacer. |
| US10083963B2 |
Logic circuit block layouts with dual-side processing
An integrated circuit device may include a p-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor supported by a backside of an isolation layer. The integrated circuit device may also include an n-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor supported by a front-side of the isolation layer, opposite the backside. The integrated circuit device may further include a shared contact extending through the isolation layer and electrically coupling a first terminal of the PMOS transistor to the first terminal of the NMOS transistor. |
| US10083956B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes, a first semiconductor region between the first and second electrodes, a second semiconductor region between the first semiconductor region and the second electrode, a third semiconductor region between the first semiconductor region and the second electrode, a fourth semiconductor region between the first semiconductor region and the first electrode, a third electrode between the first electrode and the first semiconductor region, a first insulating film between the third electrode and both the first electrode and the first semiconductor region, a fifth semiconductor region between the fourth semiconductor region and the first electrode and in contact with the first electrode, a sixth semiconductor region between the fourth semiconductor region and the first electrode and in contact with the first electrode, and a seventh semiconductor region between the fourth semiconductor region and the first insulating film and in contact with the first semiconductor region. |
| US10083955B2 |
Decoupling capacitor
A device includes a plurality of active areas, a plurality of gates, and a plurality of conductors. The active areas are elongated in a first direction. The gates are elongated in a second direction. The conductors are disposed between the active areas and elongated in the second direction. Each one of the conductors has an overlap with at least one corresponding gate of the gates to form at least one capacitor. |
| US10083953B2 |
Semiconductor device, control IC for switching power supply, and switching power supply unit
Aspects of the invention can include a semiconductor device, control IC for switching power supply and switching power supply unit, which allow input voltage detecting function to be realized without resistor-voltage dividing circuit. An npn-type element consisting of p-type region, collector region and emitter region is included inside of drain region of starting element. On a first interlayer insulating film, aspects of the invention can provide collector electrode wiring of npn-type element, emitter-drain electrode wiring serving as both emitter electrode wiring of npn-type electrode and drain electrode wiring of starting element, source electrode wiring of starting element, and gate electrode wiring of starting element. A first metal wiring can serve both as input terminal of starting element and input terminal of npn-type element is connected to collector electrode wiring. The npn-type element can function as input voltage detecting means for detecting input voltage drop applied to the first wiring. |
| US10083952B2 |
Diode-triggered schottky silicon-controlled rectifier for Fin-FET electrostatic discharge control
Various embodiments include fin-type field effect transistor (FinFET) structures. In some cases, a FinFET structure includes: a substrate; a silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR) over the substrate, the SCR including: a p-well region and an adjacent n-well region over the substrate; and a negatively charged fin over the p-well region; and a Schottky diode electrically coupled with the SCR, the Schottky diode spanning between the p-well region and the n-well region, the Schottky diode for controlling electrostatic discharge (ESD) across the negatively charged fin and the n-well region. |
| US10083948B2 |
Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing same, and semiconductor module
In order to form, in a wide band gap semiconductor device, a high field resistant sealing material having a large end portion film thickness, said high field resistant sealing material corresponding to a reduced termination region having a high field intensity, and to improve accuracy and shorten time of manufacturing steps, this semiconductor device is configured as follows. At least a part of a cross-section of a high field resistant sealing material formed close to a termination region at the periphery of a semiconductor chip has a perpendicular shape at a chip outer peripheral end portion, said shape having, on the chip inner end side, a film thickness that is reduced toward the inner side. In a semiconductor device manufacturing method for providing such semiconductor device, the high field resistant sealing material is formed in a semiconductor wafer state, then, heat treatment is performed, and after dicing is performed, a chip is mounted. |
| US10083943B2 |
Light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes steps of: preparing at least one substrate having a plurality of through holes; providing an electric wire on a rear surface side of the substrate so that a plurality of portions of the electric wire communicates with a front surface side of the substrate at the plurality of through holes of the substrate; and respectively mounting a plurality of light-emitting diodes to the respective portions of the electric wire that communicate with the front surface side of the substrate. |
| US10083942B2 |
Electronic power device with vertical 3D switching cell
An electronic power device including: a first electronic power component in which all the electrodes are arranged at a first main face of the first electronic power component; and an electric contact element in which a first main face is arranged against the first main face of the first electronic power component and which includes plural separate electrically conductive portions to which the electrodes of the first electronic power component are electrically connected. The first electronic power component and the electric contact element together form a stack such that a first lateral face of each of the portions of the electric contact element, substantially perpendicular to the first main face of the electric contact element, is arranged against at least one metallization of a support forming an electric contact of the first electronic power component. |
| US10083938B2 |
Semiconductor module and electronic device
A semiconductor module includes: a container through which a refrigerant flows; a semiconductor device installed within the container and having an internal path through which the refrigerant flows; and a guide member installed within the container to adjust a first flow rate of the refrigerant flowing through the internal path, and a second flow rate of the refrigerant flowing outside the semiconductor device. |
| US10083934B2 |
Multi-chip package with interconnects extending through logic chip
A microelectronic package includes a first microelectronic element comprising logic circuitry which is flip-chip mounted to a substrate, the substrate having terminals for connection with a circuit panel or other external component. A second microelectronic element overlies a rear surface of the first microelectronic element and has contacts electrically coupled with the substrate through electrically conductive interconnects extending through a region of the first microelectronic element. A heat spreader is thermally coupled with the rear surface of the substrate, either directly or through an additional element overlying the rear surface. Additional contacts of the second microelectronic element may be coupled with contacts of the substrate through electrically conductive structure disposed beyond an edge surface of the first microelectronic element. |
| US10083932B2 |
Package on package arrangement and method
A method of forming a package on package, semiconductor package arrangement is described. In one aspect, solder bumps on a lower surface of a first grid array package substrate are fused to corresponding unencapsulated solder bumps on an upper surface of a second grid array package substrate. The fused solder bumps form solder joints that electrically connect the first and second packages. The height of the resulting solder joints is greater than a height of a die that is flip chip mounted to the second substrate such that the first substrate does not contact any portion of the second package and an air gap is formed that separates the second die from the first package. Corresponding PoP packages structures are also described. |
| US10083929B2 |
Fan-out semiconductor package
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first connection member having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first connection member and the semiconductor chip; and a second connection member disposed on the first connection member and the semiconductor chip. The first connection member and the second connection member include, respectively, redistribution layers electrically connected to the connection pads of the semiconductor chip, the second connection member includes a coil pattern layer electrically connected to the connection pads of the semiconductor chip, and at least one of the first connection member and the second connection member includes a dummy pattern layer. |
| US10083924B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor device includes: a pad electrode 9a formed in an uppermost layer of a plurality of wiring layers; a base insulating film 11 having an opening 11a on the pad electrode 9a; a base metal film UM formed on the base insulating film 11; a redistribution line RM formed on the base metal film UM; and a cap metal film CM formed so as to cover an upper surface and a side surface of the redistribution line RM. In addition, in a region outside the redistribution line RM, the base metal film UM made of a material different from that of the redistribution line RM and the cap metal film CM made of a material different from the redistribution line RM are formed between the cap metal film CM formed on the side surface of the redistribution line RM and the base insulating film 11, and the base metal film UM and the cap metal film CM are in direct contact with each other in the region outside the redistribution line RM. |
| US10083920B1 |
Package stiffener for protecting semiconductor die
The subject matter of this specification generally relates to electronic packages. In some implementations, a lidless electronic package includes a substrate having a surface and a die disposed on the surface of the substrate. The die has an outside perimeter, a bottom surface adjacent to the surface of the substrate, and a top surface. The electronic package includes a stiffener disposed on the surface of the substrate. The stiffener includes a first surface that is a first distance from the surface of the substrate and a second surface disposed between the die and the first surface. The first distance is greater than a distance between the surface of the substrate and the top surface of the die. The second surface is a second distance from the surface of the substrate that is less than the distance between the surface of the substrate and the top surface of the die. |
| US10083919B2 |
Packaging for high speed chip to chip communication
Disclosed are chip packaging structures for high speed chip to chip and chip to carrier communications and methods of making such structures. The chip packaging structures do not require an interposer containing through silicon vias and/or provide structures having reduced warping. |
| US10083918B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor device
There is provided a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device. The manufacturing method of the semiconductor device comprises: forming at least part of a cap layer that is mainly composed of a nitride, on a semiconductor layer that is mainly composed of a group III nitride semiconductor; implanting a p-type impurity into the semiconductor layer with at least part of the cap layer formed thereon, by ion implantation; forming a block layer having a larger coefficient of thermal expansion than a coefficient of thermal expansion of the cap layer, as a surface layer on the cap layer; and heating the semiconductor layer with the block layer as the surface layer, to activate the p-type impurity. |
| US10083916B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of forming stress relief layer between die and interconnect structure
A semiconductor device is made by forming a first conductive layer over a sacrificial carrier. A conductive pillar is formed over the first conductive layer. An active surface of a semiconductor die is mounted to the carrier. An encapsulant is deposited over the semiconductor die and around the conductive pillar. The carrier and adhesive layer are removed. A stress relief insulating layer is formed over the active surface of the semiconductor die and a first surface of the encapsulant. The stress relief insulating layer has a first thickness over the semiconductor die and a second thickness less than the first thickness over the encapsulant. A first interconnect structure is formed over the stress relief insulating layer. A second interconnect structure is formed over a second surface of encapsulant opposite the first interconnect structure. The first and second interconnect structures are electrically connected through the conductive pillar. |
| US10083914B2 |
Invisible dummy features and method for forming the same
An overlay mark is formed over a substrate. A plurality of first dummy features is formed outside the overlay mark in a top view. A plurality of second dummy features is formed closer to the overlay mark than the first dummy features in a top view. The first dummy features are sufficiently big to be visible to an optical machine used to scan the overlay mark. The second dummy features are sufficiently small to be invisible to the optical machine. |
| US10083910B2 |
Backside contacts for integrated circuit devices
A chip includes a semiconductor substrate, a well region in the semiconductor substrate, and a transistor formed at a front side of the semiconductor substrate. A source/drain region of the transistor is disposed in the well region. A well pickup region is disposed in the well region, wherein the well pickup region is at a back side of the semiconductor substrate. A through-via penetrates through the semiconductor substrate, wherein the through-via electrically inter-couples the well pickup region and the source/drain region. |
| US10083909B2 |
Embedded vialess bridges
Embedded vialess bridges are provided. In an implementation, discrete pieces containing numerous conduction lines or wires in a 3-dimensional bridge piece are embedded where needed in a main substrate to provide dense arrays of signal, power, and electrical ground wires below the surface of the main substrate. Vertical conductive risers to reach the surface plane of the main substrate are also included in the discrete piece, for connecting to dies on the surface of the substrate and thereby interconnecting the dies to each other through the dense array of wires in the discrete piece. The discrete piece to be embedded may have parallel planes of conductors at regular intervals within itself, and thus may present a working surface homogeneously covered with the ends of vertical conductors available to connect surface components to each other and to ground and power at many places along the embedded piece. |
| US10083903B1 |
Integrated circuit packaging system with molded laser via interposer and method of manufacture thereof
A method of manufacture of an integrated packaging system includes: providing a substrate; mounting an integrated circuit on the substrate; mounting an interposer substrate having an interposer pad on the integrated circuit; covering an encapsulant over the integrated circuit and the interposer substrate; forming a hole through the encapsulant aligned over the interposer pad; and placing a conductive connector on and in direct contact with the interposer pad. |
| US10083902B2 |
Semiconductor package structure and semiconductor process
Disclosed is a semiconductor package structure and manufacturing method. The semiconductor package structure includes a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, a component, a patterned conductive layer and at least two conductive vias. The first dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second dielectric layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The second surface of the first dielectric layer is attached to the first surface of the second dielectric layer. A component within the second dielectric layer has at least two electrical contacts adjacent to the second surface of the first dielectric layer. The patterned conductive layer within the first dielectric layer is adjacent to the first surface of the first dielectric layer. The conductive vias penetrate the first dielectric layer and electrically connect the electrical contacts with the patterned conductive layer. |
| US10083897B2 |
Connection arrangements for integrated lateral diffusion field effect transistors having a backside contact
A semiconductor package includes a leadframe having an electrically conductive paddle, electrically conductive perimeter package leads, a first electrically conductive clip electrically connected to a first set of the package leads, and a second electrically conductive clip electrically connected to a second set of the package leads. The semiconductor package includes a single semiconductor die. The die includes a front-side active layer having an integrated power structure of two or more transistors. The die includes a backside portion having a backside contact electrically coupled to at least one of the two or more transistors and to the paddle. One or more first front-side contacts of the die are electrically coupled to at least one of the transistors and to the first clip, and one or more second front-side contacts of the die are electrically coupled to at least one of the transistors and to the second clip. |
| US10083893B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a through-hole, a copper layer, and a metal portion. The through-hole penetrates a semiconductor substrate between front and rear sides. The copper layer is formed inside the through-hole. The metal portion is made of a metal other than copper, formed closer to a hole core side of the through-hole than the copper layer is, and involves a void therein. |
| US10083889B2 |
Electronic component package including sealing resin layer, metal member, ceramic substrate, and electronic component and method for manufacturing the same
An electronic component package includes: a sealing resin layer; a metal member buried therein and including a die bond portion and a terminal electrode portion located outside the die bond portion; a ceramic substrate buried in the sealing resin layer; and an electronic component disposed on the die bond portion. When viewed in plan, the die bond portion and the ceramic substrate are partially overlapped to be in contact with each other, and the terminal electrode portion and the ceramic substrate are partially overlapped to be in contact with each other. The electronic component is electrically connected to the terminal electrode portion. The metal member includes a first plating layer and a second plating layer, and the average crystal grain diameter of the first plating layer is smaller than the average crystal grain diameter of the second plating layer. |
| US10083884B2 |
Compact high-voltage semiconductor package
There are disclosed herein various implementations of a compact high-voltage semiconductor package. In one exemplary implementation, such a semiconductor package includes a power transistor, as well as a drain contact, a source contact, and a gate contact to provide external connections to the power transistor. The semiconductor package also includes a contour element formed between the drain contact and the source contact in the semiconductor package. The contour element increases a creepage distance between the drain contact and the source contact in the semiconductor package so as to increase a breakdown voltage of the semiconductor package. |
| US10083881B2 |
Array substrate for display device and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides an array substrate for a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. A transparent electrode pattern (ITO) may be formed between a source/drain metal pattern and a passivation layer located above the source/drain metal pattern, which are formed in a passivation hole area of a non-active area of the array substrate. Accordingly, it may be possible to prevent display failure caused by a delamination phenomenon or peel-off of a material of the passivation layer due to the lack of adhesion strength between a metal layer and the passivation layer in the passivation hole area. |
| US10083879B2 |
Semiconductor nanowire device and fabrication method thereof
A method for fabricating a semiconductor nanowire device includes forming a base including a plurality of PMOS regions, forming a plurality of first openings in the base of the PMOS regions, forming a plurality of first epitaxial wires by filling the first openings with a germanium-containing material, and forming a plurality of second openings in the base by etching a portion of the base under each first epitaxial wire. Each first epitaxial wire is connected to both sidewalls of a corresponding second opening and is hung above a bottom surface of the corresponding second opening. The method also includes performing a thermal oxidation treatment process on the plurality of first epitaxial wires to form an oxide layer on each first epitaxial wire, forming a plurality of first nanowires by removing the oxide layer from each first epitaxial wire, and forming a first wrap-gate structure to surround each first nanowire. |
| US10083877B1 |
Vertical field effect transistors including two-tier select gates and method of making the same
A two-dimensional array of vertical field effect transistors is provided, which includes a first-tier structure and a second-tier structure. The first-tier structure includes a laterally alternating sequence of semiconductor rail structures and first dielectric isolation rails that alternates along a first horizontal direction. A first gate dielectric and a first gate electrode that laterally extend along a second horizontal direction are disposed between each neighboring pair of a semiconductor rail structure and a first dielectric isolation rail. The second-tier structure includes a laterally alternating sequence of composite rail structures and second dielectric isolation rails that alternates along the second horizontal direction. Each of the composite rail structures includes a laterally alternating plurality of semiconductor pillar structures and dielectric pillar structures. A second gate dielectric and a second gate electrode are disposed between each neighboring pair of a composite rail structure and a second dielectric isolation rail. |
| US10083872B2 |
Methods for forming Fin field-effect transistors
A method includes forming a patterned etching mask, which includes a plurality of strips, and etching a semiconductor substrate underlying the patterned etching mask to form a first plurality of semiconductor fins and a second plurality of semiconductor fins. The patterned etching mask is used as an etching mask in the etching. The method further includes etching the second plurality of semiconductor fins without etching the first plurality of semiconductor fins. An isolation region is then formed, and the first plurality of semiconductor fins has top portions protruding higher than a top surface of the isolation region. |
| US10083869B2 |
Stacked device and associated layout structure
Stacked devices and circuits formed by stacked devices are described. In accordance with some embodiments, a semiconductor post extends vertically from a substrate. A first source/drain region is in the semiconductor post. A first gate electrode layer laterally surrounds the semiconductor post and is vertically above the first source/drain region. A first gate dielectric layer is interposed between the first gate electrode layer and the semiconductor post. A second source/drain region is in the semiconductor post and is vertically above the first gate electrode layer. The second source/drain region is connected to a power supply node. A second gate electrode layer laterally surrounds the semiconductor post and is vertically above the second source/drain region. A second gate dielectric layer is interposed between the second gate electrode layer and the semiconductor post. A third source/drain region is in the semiconductor post and is vertically above the second gate electrode layer. |
| US10083866B2 |
Sawn leadless package having wettable flank leads
A method of forming a leadless packaged semiconductor device. First partial sawing leads is performed on a bottom side of an in-process leadless semiconductor package having a leadframe including die pad with a semiconductor chip thereon, and leads defining top and bottom surfaces and having an inner end and an outer end having a bottom corner region. Conductive bond wires connect to and extending between bond pads on the chip and respective leads, a mold compound is around the die pad, leads, chip, and conductive bond wires while exposing the bottom surface and outer end. The first sawing completely severs the leads while forming only a partial cut in the mold compound. A de-flash process is applied to the bottom side. The second sawing aligned to the partial cuts reaches the partial cuts to complete singulation of the package, wherein the second sawing does not touch the leads. |
| US10083864B2 |
Self aligned conductive lines with relaxed overlay
A method for forming conductive lines comprises forming a hardmask on an insulator layer, a planarizing layer on the hardmask, and a hardmask on the planarizing layer, removing exposed portions of a layer of sacrificial mandrel material to form first and second sacrificial mandrels on the hardmask, and depositing a layer of spacer material in the gap, and over exposed portions of the first and second sacrificial mandrels and the hardmask. Portions of the layer of spacer material are removed to expose the first and second sacrificial mandrels. A filler material is deposited between the first and second sacrificial mandrels. A portion of the filler material is removed to expose the first and second sacrificial mandrels. Portions of the layer of spacer material are removed to expose portions of the hardmask. A trench is formed in the insulator layer, and the trench is filled with a conductive material. |
| US10083855B2 |
Method of manufacturing high resistivity SOI wafers with charge trapping layers based on terminated Si deposition
A method of preparing a single crystal semiconductor handle wafer in the manufacture of a silicon-on-insulator device is provided. The method comprises forming a multilayer of passivated semiconductors layers on a dielectric layer of a high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle wafer. The method additionally comprises forming a semiconductor oxide layer on the multilayer of passivated semiconductor layers. The multilayer of passivated semiconductor layers comprise materials suitable for use as charge trapping layers between a high resistivity substrate and a buried oxide layer in a semiconductor on insulator structure. |
| US10083853B2 |
Electrostatic chuck design for cooling-gas light-up prevention
An Electrostatic Chuck (ESC) in a chamber of a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus is presented for eliminating cooling-gas light-up. One wafer support includes a baseplate connected to a radiofrequency power source, a dielectric block, gas supply channels for cooling the wafer bottom, and first and second electrodes. The dielectric block is situated above the baseplate and supports the wafer when present. The first electrode is embedded in the top half of the dielectric block, where the top surface of the first electrode is substantially parallel to a top surface of the dielectric block, and the first electrode is connected to a DC power source. Further, the second electrode is embedded in a bottom half of the dielectric block, the second electrode being electrically connected to the first electrode, where the bottom surface of the second electrode is substantially parallel to a top surface of the baseplate. |
| US10083848B2 |
Article storage rack and article storage facility including same
An article storage rack is provided in which it is easy to form a downflow around an article being stored and which has shelf members each of which can properly support the weight of an article. An article storage facility that includes such an article storage rack is also provided. Each shelf member has a support plate portion which is generally plate-shaped and which extends along a horizontal plane, and support frame members which are located below the support plate portion to support the support plate portion from below, and is formed in a shape that tapers toward a distal end portion thereof such that the width of the support plate portion, along a rack lateral direction, is narrower toward the distal end portion. wherein each support frame member includes an elongate member located and arranged to extend along the support plate portion. And a pair of support frame members are provided to each shelf member such that one support frame member is located on each side of the support plate portion with respect to the cut-out portion, along the rack lateral direction. A proximal end side portion has a portion that overlaps with an article storing area formed under it as seen along the rack lateral direction. And both proximal end side portions of the pair of support frame members are located outside the article storing area along the rack lateral direction as seen along the vertical direction. |
| US10083847B2 |
Ceiling transport vehicle
A ceiling transport vehicle includes an obstacle detecting portion fixed to a main body portion at a location that is above an article supported by a vertically movable member located at a transport purpose position. The obstacle detection portion is within an area in which the article exists in plan view such that a direction in which detection light, etc., is emitted is tilted outward of the article. When vertically moving the vertically movable member between the transport purpose position and the transfer purpose position, the controller is configured not to determine presence of an obstacle based on detected information from the obstacle detecting portion while the vertically movable member is located in a subject range, and is configured to determine presence of an obstacle while it is not located in the subject range. |
| US10083845B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus, substrate processing method and storage medium
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus, in which a processing liquid is supplied to a substrate W held horizontally by a substrate holding unit. A processing liquid passing portion includes a passing surface that is provided between the substrate W and a recovery cup provided around the substrate W such that the processing liquid flows on the passing surface. Light for concentration detection is projected from a light projection unit to the passing surface, and a concentration detection unit detects a concentration of the processing liquid based on a result of receiving the reflected light of the light by a light receiving unit. |
| US10083837B2 |
Methods of forming patterns using imprint process
A method for forming patterns is provided. The method includes forming a resist layer on a substrate, imprinting a convex pattern and a concave pattern on the resist layer using a template, forming a silicon diffusion layer containing silicon containing diffusion species in an upper portion of the convex pattern, and selectively removing a recessed portion of the resist layer under the concave pattern using the silicon diffusion layer as an etch mask. |
| US10083836B2 |
Formation of boron-doped titanium metal films with high work function
A method for forming a Boron doped metallic film, such as Titanium Boron Nitride, is disclosed. The method allows for creation of the metallic film with a high work function and low resistivity, while limiting the increase in effective oxide thickness. The method comprises a thin metallic layer deposition step as well as a Boron-based gas pulse step. The Boron-based gas pulse deposits Boron and allows for the removal of excess halogens within the metallic film. The steps may be repeated in order to achieve a desired thickness of the metallic film. |
| US10083834B2 |
Methods of forming self-aligned vias
Processing methods comprising selectively orthogonally growing a first material through a mask to provide an expanded first material are described. The mask can be removed leaving the expanded first material extending orthogonally from the surface of the first material. Further processing can create a self-aligned via. |
| US10083828B2 |
Lamp with heat-shielding element
A lamp has a light emitting element within a sealed transparent vessel. The vessel comprises a cylindrical section with a longitudinal axis L in parallel to a longitudinal axis F of the light emitting element. In order to provide a lamp suited for compact reflectors, a heat shielding element is arranged to shield at least infrared light. The heat shielding element is arranged in parallel to the longitudinal axis F of the light emitting element and has an axial extension of at least 80% of the light emitting element. The heat shielding element is arranged to shield infrared light emitted into directions perpendicular to the longitudinal axis F covering a circumferential extension of 20°-120° measured in cross section. |
| US10083827B2 |
Simplified lamp design
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to simplified, high voltage, tungsten halogen lamps for use as source of heat radiation in a rapid thermal processing (RTP) chamber or other lamp heated thermal processing chambers. Embodiments include a lamp design that includes an external fuse while reducing the number of part and expense of prior art lamps. In addition, embodiments of the lamps described herein provide sufficient rigidity to handle compressive forces of inserting the lamps into a heating assembly base, while maintaining a simplified fuse design. |
| US10083822B2 |
Physical vapour deposition coating device as well as a physical vapour deposition method
The invention relates to a physical vapor deposition coating device (1), comprising a process chamber (2) with an anode (3) and a consumable cathode (4) to be consumed by an electrical discharge for coating a substrate located within the process chamber (2). The coating device (1) further includes a first electrical energy source (5) being connected with its negative pole to said consumable cathode (4), and a second electrical energy source (6) being connected with its positive pole to said anode (3). According to the invention, a third electrical energy source (7) is provided being connected with its negative pole to a source cathode (8) which is different from the consumable cathode (4). In addition, the invention relates to a physical vapor deposition method for coating a substrate. |
| US10083818B2 |
Auto frequency tuned remote plasma source
A remote plasma source is disclosed that includes a core element and a first plasma block including one or more surfaces at least partially enclosing an annular-shaped plasma generating region that is disposed around a first portion of the core element. The remote plasma source further comprises one or more coils disposed around respective second portions of the core element. The remote plasma source further includes an RF power source configured to drive a RF power signal onto the one or more coils that is based on a determined impedance of the plasma generating region. Energy from the RF power signal is coupled with the plasma generating region via the one or more coils and the core element. |
| US10083817B1 |
Linear remote plasma source
Methods and apparatus for improved inductively coupled plasma sources are disclosed. A remote linear plasma source can have a plurality of coil segments operable to power intense localized radiofrequency plasma current channels along inner surfaces of a chamber. A plurality of localized intense plasma current channels within a single chamber provides a relatively large active plasma volume, improves efficiency, and provides for favorable residence time and feed gas distribution in a plasma source. In various embodiments, a remote plasma source operable to generate active species is useful for applications such as chamber cleaning, processing materials, ion, electron, and/or neutral beam sources, gaseous discharge lamps, fluorescent lighting, gaseous lasers, and others. |
| US10083816B2 |
Shielded lid heater assembly
A shielded lid heater lid heater suitable for use with a plasma processing chamber, a plasma processing chamber having a shielded lid heater and a method for plasma processing are provided. The method and apparatus enhances positional control of plasma location within a plasma processing chamber, and may be utilized in etch, deposition, implant, and thermal processing systems, among other applications where the control of plasma location is desirable. In one embodiment, a process for tuning a plasma processing chamber is provided that include determining a position of a plasma within the processing chamber, selecting an inductance and/or position of an inductor coil coupled to a lid heater that shifts the plasma location from the determined position to a target position, and plasma processing a substrate with the inductor coil having the selected inductance and/or position. |
| US10083807B2 |
Metal switch for input device
A key mechanism is disclosed. The key mechanism comprises a keycap, a dome support structure positioned relative to the keycap and defining an opening, an actuation mechanism coupled to the keycap, and a collapsible dome positioned in the opening of the dome support structure. The actuation mechanism is configured to movably support the keycap relative to the dome support structure. The dome comprises an upstop member configured to limit upward travel of the collapsible dome. |
| US10083801B2 |
Continuous process for producing electrodes for supercapacitors having high energy densities
A process for producing a supercapacitor cell, comprising: (a) Continuously feeding a conductive porous layer to a cathode material impregnation zone, wherein the conductive porous layer contains interconnected electron-conducting pathways and at least 70% by volume of pores; (b) Impregnating a wet cathode active material mixture (containing a cathode active material and an optional conductive additive mixed with a liquid electrolyte) into pores of this porous layer to form a cathode electrode; (c) Preparing an anode electrode in a similar manner; and (d) Stacking an anode electrode, a porous separator, and a cathode electrode to form the supercapacitor, wherein the anode electrode and/or the cathode electrode has a thickness no less than 100 μm; and/or wherein the anode or cathode active material constitutes an electrode active material loading no less than 7 mg/cm2 in the anode or the cathode. |
| US10083793B2 |
Metal powder, method for producing the same, conductive paste including metal powder, and multilayer ceramic electronic component
A method for producing a metal powder that includes a first step of uniformly arranging a metal compound on a metal particle, and a second step of converting the metal compound uniformly arranged on the metal particle into a complex metal compound. In the first step, a solution that contains at least one metal element and at least one group 4 element different from the metal element is prepared, the solution being adjusted to have a pH of 5 or less. The prepared solution is mixed with a reductant solution to coprecipitate the metal and the metal compound, thereby producing a slurry that contains a metal powder containing the metal combined with the metal compound. In the second step, a solution or a powder containing at least one second metal element is added to the slurry to convert the metal compound into the complex metal compound. |
| US10083790B1 |
Method and apparatus for attaching magnetic components to printed circuit boards
A bobbin provides secure attachment of a magnetic component to a printed circuit board. The circuit board includes a set of slotted apertures and a set of tubular apertures. The bobbin includes at least two pin rails and a plurality of standoffs proximate each pin rail. L-shaped pins are attached to one of the pin rails. Straight pins are attached to the other pin rail. The component further includes a core, and at least one winding. The L-shaped pins are shaped to pass through and slide within the set of slotted apertures. The L-shaped pins engage the bottom surface of the circuit board when the straight pins are inserted through the set of tubular apertures (i.e., in a secured position). In the secured position, the magnetic component is held in place against the top surface of the circuit board and provides a soldering area for mounting on the bottom surface. |
| US10083782B2 |
Punched part for producing an electrical resistor, current sensor and corresponding production method
The invention relates to a punched part for producing an electrical resistor, in particular a current measuring resistor, comprising a resistor element (9) consisting of a low-resistance resistive material (for example Manganin®) and two electrical connection parts (10, 11) consisting of a conductor material (for example copper), wherein the resistor element (9) is arranged between the two electrical connection parts (10, 11) in the direction of current flow in such a way that the electrical current flows through the resistor element (9). In accordance with the invention, the punched part additionally has a landing area (14) for providing an integrated circuit (16) on the landing area (14) of the punched part. Furthermore, the invention comprises a current sensor comprising such a punched part and a corresponding production method. |
| US10083781B2 |
Surface mount resistors and methods of manufacturing same
Resistors and a method of manufacturing resistors are described herein. A resistor includes a resistive element and a plurality of conductive elements. The plurality of conductive elements are electrically insulated from one another via a dielectric material and thermally coupled to the resistive element via an adhesive material disposed between each of the plurality of conductive elements and a surface of the resistive element. The plurality of conductive elements is coupled to the resistive element via conductive layers and solderable layers. |
| US10083777B2 |
Flat transmission device and method for using same
A flat cable assembly has a belt-like portion. In the belt-like portion, cables capable of transmitting power and/or signals and a pair of tubular portions positioned at the opposite ends in the width direction are arranged in parallel with one another. Each tubular portion has a longitudinal multi joint supporting member inserted therein in a state where link members are arranged in series, and adjacent link members are pivotally connected to one another. The multi-joint supporting members are configured to limit pivoting motion in a first direction that intersects the longitudinal direction in a range to a previously defined bend radius, and to restrict flexing in a second direction that is opposite from the first direction. |
| US10083769B2 |
Treatment method and treatment apparatus of iron-group metal ion-containing liquid, method and apparatus for electrodepositing Co and Fe, and decontamination method and decontamination apparatus of radioactive waste ion exchange resin
In an electrodeposition treatment of an iron-group metal ion-containing liquid, without being influenced by the properties of the iron-group metal ion-containing liquid, iron-group metal ions are efficiently removed from the liquid by precipitation. An anode chamber 2A provided with an anode 2 and a cathode chamber 3A provided with a cathode 3 are separated from each other by a cation exchange membrane 5, an iron-group metal ion-containing liquid is charged into the anode chamber 2A, a cathode liquid is charged into the cathode chamber 3A, and by applying the voltage between the anode 2 and the cathode 3, iron-group metal ions in the liquid in the anode chamber 2A are moved into the liquid in the cathode chamber 3A through the cation exchange membrane 5, so that an iron-group metal is precipitated on the cathode 3. |
| US10083766B2 |
Medication tracking
A system and method is described for printing a label with an RFID tag. The system includes an RFID reader that queries a first RFID tag coupled to a first medicinal container that includes a medication. In response, the system receives a first unique identifier and uses the first unique identifier to determine a status of the medication, associate the first medicinal container with a medical provider and print a second label that includes a second RFID tag for a second medicinal container. |
| US10083761B2 |
Semiconductor device including chips capable of comparing data
A semiconductor memory apparatus includes an input/output pad, a first data input/output circuit, a first data transfer circuit, a second data transfer circuit, and a test data comparison circuit. The input/output pad may be coupled to an external equipment. The first data input/output circuit may be coupled to the input/output pad. The first data transfer circuit may transfer data output from the first data input/output circuit to a first data storage region in response to a test write signal and transfer data output from the first data storage region to the first data input/output circuit in response to a test read signal. The second data transfer circuit may transfer data output from the first data input/output circuit to a second data storage region in response to the test write signal and transfer data output from the second data storage region to a second data input/output circuit in response to the test read signal. The test data comparison circuit may generate a test result signal by comparing data output from the first data storage region, the second data storage region, the first data transfer circuit, and the second data transfer circuit and output the test result signal to the external equipment through the input/output pad. |
| US10083760B2 |
Semiconductor devices and semiconductor systems including the same
A semiconductor system may include a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device. The first semiconductor device may be configured to output command signals and setting signals. The second semiconductor device may be configured to decode the command signals, extract setting codes from the setting signals, and test a memory cell array accessed by address patterns during at least one operation section corresponding to the setting codes to confirm whether the memory cell array includes at least one failed memory cell. |
| US10083758B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and operating method thereof
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells each programmed to have any one program state among a plurality of program states divided based on a threshold voltage thereof, and a peripheral circuit for performing a main program operation on the plurality of memory cells, and performing an additional program operation on at least one memory cell of which a threshold voltage regarding the main program operation is changed while the main program operation is being performed. |
| US10083757B2 |
Single poly nonvolatile memory device
A single-poly NVM cell includes a select transistor and a floating gate transistor serially connected to the select transistor. The select transistor includes a select gate, a select gate oxide layer, a source doping region, a first LDD region merged with the source doping region, a commonly-shared doping region, and a second LDD region merged with the commonly-shared doping region. The floating gate transistor includes a floating gate, a floating gate oxide layer, the commonly-shared doping region, a third LDD region merged with the commonly-shared doping region, and a drain doping region. A drain-side extension modified region is disposed under the spacer and in proximity to the drain doping region. |
| US10083755B2 |
Discharge circuit and semiconductor memory device
A discharge circuit includes first and second transistors of a first polarity, third and fourth transistors of a second polarity, and first and second current sources having first ends electrically connected to first end of the third transistor and first end of the fourth transistor, respectively, and second ends supplied with a first voltage. First end of the first transistor is supplied with a second voltage higher than the first voltage. First end of the second transistor is electrically separated from the first end of the first transistor. Gate and second end of the first transistor, gate of the second transistor, and second end of the third transistor are electrically connected to one another. Second end of the second transistor, gate of the third transistor, and second end and gate of the fourth transistor are electrically connected to one another. |
| US10083754B1 |
Dynamic selection of soft decoding information
Multiple reads of memory cells of a flash memory device are initiated at different read levels to obtain raw data. For each different read level, multiple decoding operations are initiated to decode the raw data, each decoding operation using a different one of a plurality of sets of decoding information associated with the different read level. Decoding success rates are determined for one or more of the plurality of sets based on the one or more of the plurality of sets being used to successfully decode data and, for each different read level, an order of the plurality of sets is determined based on the determined success rates. A selected set of decoding information is selected for use in decoding raw data obtained from a read performed at a respective read level based on the respective read level and the set order of the plurality of sets for the respective read level. |
| US10083753B2 |
Method for managing a fail row of the memory plane of a non volatile memory and corresponding memory device
A non-volatile memory is erasable by page and equipped with a row redundancy mechanism. In the case of the detection of a defective row of the memory plane, the storing of the address of the row in a non-volatile register is carried out and a redundant row having a new address is assigned. In the case of an attempt to write to the defective row, a write to the redundant row is carried out. When writing to the redundant row, the new content of the redundant row is loaded into a volatile memory and, following an operation for writing to any other row of the memory plane, a re-loading of the new content of the redundant row into the volatile memory. |
| US10083751B1 |
Data state synchronization
The present disclosure includes apparatuses, and methods for data state synchronization. An example apparatus includes performing a write operation to store a data pattern in a group of resistance variable memory cells corresponding to a selected managed unit having a first status, updating a status of the selected managed unit from the first status to a second status responsive to performing the write operation, and providing data state synchronization for a subsequent write operation performed on the group by placing all of the variable resistance memory cells of the group in a same state prior to performing the subsequent write operation to store another data pattern in the group of resistance variable memory cells. |
| US10083745B2 |
Apparatuses, devices and methods for sensing a snapback event in a circuit
Example subject matter disclosed herein relates to apparatuses and/or devices, and/or various methods for use therein, in which an application of an electric potential to a circuit may be initiated and subsequently changed in response to a determination that a snapback event has occurred in a circuit. For example, a circuit may comprise a memory cell that may experience a snapback event as a result of an applied electric potential. In certain example implementations, a sense circuit may be provided which is responsive to a snapback event occurring in a memory cell to generate a feed back signal to initiate a change in an electric potential applied to the memory cell. |
| US10083740B2 |
Ring oscillator built from SRAM cells interconnected via standard cell-interface
An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a memory, circuit interconnections and control logic. The memory includes multiple standard-library Static Random Access Memory (SRAM) cells disposed on a substrate of the IC in multiple first layers, so that access to a respective SRAM cell to read and write data is through a cell-interface. The circuit interconnections, fabricated in one or more second layers separate from the first layers, interconnect cell-interfaces of a subgroup of the SRAM cells to form a ring oscillator that includes a cascade of N stages defined by the interconnected SRAM cells. The control logic is coupled to the cell-interfaces via the circuit interconnections, and is configured to apply an input signal to one or more of the cell-interfaces so as to trigger an oscillation of the ring oscillator whose frequency of oscillation is indicative of a speed of the SRAM cells of the memory. |
| US10083737B2 |
Row hammer monitoring based on stored row hammer threshold value
Detection logic of a memory subsystem obtains a threshold for a memory device that indicates a number of accesses within a time window that causes risk of data corruption on a physically adjacent row. The detection logic obtains the threshold from a register that stores configuration information for the memory device, and can be a register on the memory device itself and/or can be an entry of a configuration storage device of a memory module to which the memory device belongs. The detection logic determines whether a number of accesses to a row of the memory device exceeds the threshold. In response to detecting the number of accesses exceeds the threshold, the detection logic can generate a trigger to cause the memory device to perform a refresh targeted to a physically adjacent victim row. |
| US10083735B2 |
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for package on package memory refresh and self-refresh rate management
Methods, systems, and apparatuses relating to package on package memory refresh and self-refresh rate management are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor die, a dynamic memory die mounted to and overlapping the processor die, a first thermal sensor of the processor die disposed adjacent to a first hot spot from a first type of workload and a second thermal sensor of the processor die disposed adjacent to a second hot spot from a second type of workload, and a hardware control circuit of the processor die to cause a refresh of a capacitor of the dynamic memory die when either of an output of the first thermal sensor exceeds a first threshold value and an output of the second thermal sensor exceeds a second threshold value. |
| US10083730B1 |
Thermally-assisted spin transfer torque memory with improved bit error rate performance
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) storage element having a reference layer formed from a reference layer material having a fixed magnetization direction, along with a free layer formed from a free layer material having a switchable magnetization direction. The MTJ is configured to receive a write pulse having a write-pulse and spin-transfer-torque (WP-STT) start time, a WP-STT start segment duration and a write pulse duration. The WP-STT start segment duration is less than the write pulse duration. The fixed magnetization direction is configured to form an angle between the fixed magnetization direction and the switchable magnetization direction. The angle is sufficient to generate spin torque electrons in the reference layer material at the WP-STT start time. The spin torque electrons generated in the reference layer material is sufficient to initiate switching of the switchable magnetization direction at the WP-STT start time. |
| US10083729B2 |
Magnetic memory and memory system
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory includes: a first magnetoresistive effect element having a first resistance state or a second resistance state; and a read circuit. A read circuit is configured to apply the first read voltage to the first magnetoresistive effect element, hold a first charging potential caused by the first read voltage, apply a second read voltage higher than the first read voltage to the first magnetoresistive effect element, hold a second charging potential caused by the second read voltage, and determine whether the first magnetoresistive effect element is in the first resistance state or the second resistance state based on a comparison result between the first charging potential and the second charging potential. |
| US10083726B2 |
Input circuit and semiconductor device including the same
An input circuit may include: an internal bias generation unit suitable for generating first and second bias voltages in response to a first enable signal; a buffer control unit suitable for comparing a reference voltage to the first and second bias voltages, and generating a plurality of buffer control signals based upon the comparison of the reference voltage with the first and second bias voltages; and a buffer unit including a plurality of buffers, wherein a buffer is driven to receive the reference voltage and an external input signal, and generates an internal signal, in response to an activated buffer control signal among the plurality of buffer control signals. |
| US10083722B2 |
Memory device for performing internal process and operating method thereof
A memory device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cell groups with a corresponding plurality of independent channels, and the device and an operating method thereof perform an internal data processing operation for the memory cell groups. The memory device includes an internal command generator configured to generate one or more internal commands in order to perform an internal data processing operation in response to a reception of a command, and an internal common bus for a common internal processing channel which is disposed to be shared by the plurality of memory cell groups and configured to form a transmission path of data between the plurality of memory cell groups when the internal data processing operation is performed. |
| US10083713B1 |
Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head with protective multilayer film for near-field transducer
A heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) head has a protective multilayer confined to a window of the disk-facing surface of the slider that surrounds the near-field transducer (NFT) end and write pole end. The protective multilayer is made up of alternating films of a metal and diamond-like carbon (DLC). All of the metal films are formed of the same metal selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo and W, with the preferred metal being zirconium (Zr). A slider protective overcoat may be formed over the entire disk-facing surface in both the window region and the non-window region, with the protective multilayer formed on the slider overcoat in the window region. The overcoat may be absent in the window region, in which case an adhesion film is on the NFT and write pole ends in the window region, with the protective multilayer being formed on the adhesion film. |
| US10083712B2 |
Method for manufacturing magnetic core module in magnetic head, magnetic core module in magnetic head and magnetic head
A method for manufacturing a magnetic core module in a magnetic head, the magnetic core module and the magnetic head. The method for manufacturing the magnetic core module includes: a process for placing a magnetic core group in a holder mold cavity as an insert; and a process for injection-molding in the holder mold cavity. A method for manufacturing the magnetic core module allows the magnetic core group and the holder to be integrally injection-molded with a method of injection molding which uses the magnetic core group as an insert. The method simplifies the process of manufacturing a magnetic head to improve production efficiency, and saves labor and production costs. Further, the method prevents failures such as positional displacement and scattering of magnetic cores, which tends to occur when assembling thin and small magnetic cores, and ensures an ideal yield for a product. |
| US10083708B2 |
Estimation of mixing factors to generate high-band excitation signal
A method includes generating a high-band residual signal based on a high-band portion of an audio signal. The method also includes generating a harmonically extended signal at least partially based on a low-band portion of the audio signal. The method further includes determining a mixing factor based on the high-band residual signal, the harmonically extended signal, and modulated noise. The modulated noise is at least partially based on the harmonically extended signal and white noise. |
| US10083705B2 |
Discrimination and attenuation of pre echoes in a digital audio signal
A method for discriminating and attenuating pre-echo in a digital audio signal and generated from transform coding. The method includes the following acts in which, for a current frame broken down into sub-blocks, the low-energy sub-blocks precede a sub-block in which a transition or attack is detected, and determine a pre-echo area in which a pre-echo attenuation process is carried out. In the event that an attack is detected from the sub-block of the current frame, the method includes: calculating an energy leading coefficient for at least two sub-blocks of the current frame preceding the sub-block in which an attack is detected; comparing the leading coefficient to a predefined threshold; and inhibiting the pre-echo attenuation process in the pre-echo area in the event that the calculated leading coefficient is lower than the predefined threshold. Also provided are a discrimination and attenuation device implementing the acts of the method described and a decoder including such a device. |
| US10083703B2 |
Frequency domain pitch period based encoding and decoding in accordance with magnitude and amplitude criteria
A frequency-domain sample interval corresponding to a time-domain pitch period L corresponding to a time-domain pitch period code of an audio signal in a given time period is obtained as a converted interval T1, a frequency-domain pitch period T is chosen from among candidates including the converted interval T1 and integer multiples U×T1 of the converted interval T1, and a frequency-domain pitch period code indicating how many times the frequency-domain pitch period T is greater than the converted interval T1 is obtained. The frequency-domain pitch period code is output so that a decoding side can identify the frequency-domain pitch period T. |
| US10083702B2 |
Enhancing perception of frequency-lowered speech
Among other things, a sound processing device system is disclosed to assist a hearing-impaired human listener recognize speech sounds or phonemes. The device system may be configured at least to generate an output audio signal at least by transposing and causing a negative rank ordering of frequency of at least a portion of the input audio signal. Compression also may be performed on the at least the portion of the input audio signal as part of generating the output audio signal. The negative rank ordering may be performed on a high-frequency portion of the input audio signal that becomes a low-frequency portion of the output audio signal by the transposing. The low-frequency portion of the output audio signal may represent an inverted ordering of frequencies or frequency segments present in the high-frequency portion of the input audio signal. |
| US10083699B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing audio data
A method and apparatus for processing audio data are provided. When an encoded audio bitstream sampled at a sampling frequency is received, a resampling ratio for processing the encoded audio bitstream is computed. If the the resampling ratio is within the resampling threshold range, then the encoded audio bitstream is processed in frequency domain and a desired number of audio samples per frame are outputted according to the resampling ratio. The encoded audio bitstream is processed in frequency domain using sample rate converter integrated into a filter bank of an audio decoder. If the resampling ratio is outside the resampling threshold range, then the encoded audio bitstream is processed in time domain and a desired number of audio samples per frame are outputted according to the resampling ratio. |
| US10083697B2 |
Local persisting of data for selectively offline capable voice action in a voice-enabled electronic device
Data associated with a selectively offline capable voice action is locally persisted in a voice-enabled electronic device whenever such an action cannot be competed locally due to the device being offline to enable the action to later be completed after online connectivity has been restored. Synchronization with an online service and/or another electronic device, and/or retrieval of context sensitive data from an online service may be performed after online connectivity has been restored to enable the voice action to thereafter be completed. |
| US10083696B1 |
Methods and systems for determining user liveness
A method for determining user liveness is provided that includes calculating, by a computing device, a spectral property difference between voice biometric data captured from a user and user record voice biometric data. The user and the computing device constitute a user-computing device pair, and the voice biometric data is captured by the computing device during a verification transaction. Moreover, the method includes inputting the spectral property difference into a machine learning algorithm, calculating an output score with the machine learning algorithm, and determining the voice biometric data was captured from a live user when the output score satisfies a threshold score. |
| US10083692B2 |
Method for producing and recognizing barcode information based on voice, and recording medium
The specification discloses a method of generating and recognizing voice based playback information, and a recording medium for storing instructions for performing the method. That is, a voice playback file for outputting voice is converted to playback information, and the voice is outputted by playing back the voice playback file, when the playback information is recognized. Thus, a recording function, which can be utilized in various fields, can be provided without using a separate storage for storing the voice playback file. |
| US10083690B2 |
Better resolution when referencing to concepts
Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant programmed to refer to shared domain concepts using concept nodes are provided. In an example process, user speech input is received. A textual representation of the user speech input is generated. The textual representation is parsed to determine a primary domain representing a user intent for the textual representation. A first substring from the textual representation that corresponds to a first attribute of the primary domain is identified. The identified first substring is parsed to determine a secondary domain representing a user intent for the first substring. A task flow comprising one or more tasks is performed based on the primary domain and the secondary domain. |
| US10083685B2 |
Dynamically adding or removing functionality to speech recognition systems
A system and method of changing features of an existing automatic speech recognition (ASR) system includes: monitoring speech received from a vehicle occupant for one or more keywords identifying a feature to remove from or add to the ASR system; detecting the keywords in the monitored speech; and adding the identified feature to or removing the identified feature from from the ASR system. |
| US10083682B2 |
Content data generating device, content data generating method, sound signal generating device and sound signal generating method
A content data generating device includes a first storage configured to store content data including at least either video information or audio information, a second storage configured to store variation data representing change of a parameter on the content data, a designator configured to designate a portion of the variation data, and a content data generator configured to process the content data according to a value of the parameter of the portion of the variation data designated by the designator to generate processed content data. |
| US10083678B1 |
Enhanced user interfaces for virtual instruments
Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for implementing user interfaces and user interface elements for interacting with a virtual instrument. For example, a user interface for a virtual instrument may be presented on a display of a device. The user interface may have any suitable number of strings having a first spacing. Each string may correspond to an associated audio file. User mode input may be received at the user interface. In response to receiving the user mode input, a user interface element (e.g., a corresponding enhanced selection area) may be presented. The presented user interface element may include a subset of the plurality of strings and may have a second spacing that is greater than the first spacing. By utilizing the user interface element, a user is enabled to make more accurate input than conventional techniques allow. |
| US10083677B2 |
Sound post having a variable length
A sound post, particularly for string instrument, having a variable length is described. The sound post consists of a first tubular component having a first end and a second end and a second tubular component having a first end and a second end, wherein the second tubular component is at least partially arranged in the first tubular component in a movable manner, and wherein a first pivotable end piece is arranged at the first end of the first tubular component. The sound post also comprises a counter-element and a tension fastener element which is rotatably arranged and suitable to be countered against the counter-element by rotation. A pivotable end piece is also arranged at the second end of the second tubular component. A sound post tool set for mounting the sound post in an instrument and a method for mounting the sound post in an instrument are also disclosed. |
| US10083670B2 |
Compensation circuit, drive circuit and operating methods thereof, as well as display device
The present disclosure provides a compensation circuit, a drive circuit, operating methods of the compensation circuit and the drive circuit, and a display device comprising the drive circuit. The compensation circuit comprises a first compensation module and a second compensation module. The first compensation module generates compensation voltage according to the variation of common electrode voltage, and the second compensation module superposes the compensation voltage inputted by the second input terminal on gamma voltage inputted by the first input terminal, and outputs the superposed gamma voltage. The technical solution above transfers a compensation position from the common electrode voltage to the gamma voltage, and effectively compensates for and inhibits the fluctuation of the common electrode voltage by the compensation voltage superposed on the gamma voltage, thereby avoiding over high temperature of display panels, green tint of displayed images and crosstalk noise. |
| US10083669B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel common voltage adjustment circuit and liquid crystal display device
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel common voltage adjustment circuit and a liquid crystal display device. The liquid crystal display panel common voltage adjustment circuit adjusts a first common voltage applied to a liquid crystal display panel, and comprises a collect unit, a control unit, a feedback unit and an operation adjustment unit, and the collect unit collects a common voltage of the liquid crystal display panel to be a second common voltage, and the control unit receives the second common voltage, and sends a control signal according to a difference value of the second common voltage and a standard common voltage, and the feedback unit outputs a corresponding feedback voltage under control of the control signal, and the operation adjustment unit adjusts the first common voltage according to the feedback voltage, and outputs the first common voltage after adjustment. |
| US10083668B2 |
Semiconductor device, display device, and electronic device
A semiconductor device in which variations are controlled is provided. The semiconductor device has a function of converting a digital signal into an analog signal, and includes a digital-analog converter circuit, an amplifier circuit, first to fourth switches, a first output terminal, a second output terminal, and a power source. The amplifier circuit is configured to perform feedback control when the first switch and the fourth switch are on and the second switch and the third switch are off. The amplifier circuit is configured to perform comparison control when the first switch and the fourth switch are off and the second switch and the third switch are on; utilizing this, variations in the digital-analog converter circuit and the amplifier circuit are controlled. |
| US10083667B2 |
Active matrix substrate and display device
An active matrix substrate includes a plurality of signal lines, each of which includes first and second line portions and an inner connection portion (connection portion) that connects the first and second line portions. The first and second line portions of one of two adjacent signal lines are made of first and second conductive layers, respectively, and the first and second line portions of the other of the two adjacent signal lines are made of second and first conductive layers, respectively. The position of the connection portion of each of the signal lines is determined in accordance with the layout position of that signal line in the line region. |
| US10083661B2 |
Electrophoretic display control device, electrophoretic display, electronic apparatus, and control method
An electrophoretic display control device applies a first voltage to a first electrode and applies a second voltage to a second electrode during a display rewriting period in a display unit in which a dispersion liquid containing particles are arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode that is a pixel electrode, and applies a third voltage that is lower than the first voltage to the first electrode and applies a fourth voltage that is lower than the second voltage to the second electrode during a display retention period. |
| US10083656B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel, OLED display device and method for driving the same
Disclosed herein are an OLED display panel further including a switching transistor for controlling application of supply voltage in the initializing interval of a pixel, an OLED display device including the same, and a method for driving the same. The OLED display panel avoids a short-circuit between supply voltage VDD_EL and reference voltage Vref to thereby reduce initialization voltage applied to the gate terminal of the driving transistor T_dr. The OLED display device can achieve various effects such as improved response characteristics of pixels by reducing deviation in the initial voltage used in sampling. |
| US10083652B2 |
Method, apparatus and computer product to compensate for misaligned or overlapped electronic wallpapers
A method of compensating for misalignments along a seam of first and second electronic panels installed for a display device is provided. Each of the first and second electronic panels includes a plurality of pixels formed in an i×j matrix, wherein i and j are integers at least one. The method includes controlling a camera device to be placed over the seam, alternately turning on first pixels in a first column of the first electronic panel, the first column being closest to the seam, capturing, using the camera device, images for the respective first pixels, detecting, using a pattern detector, each of the first pixels based on a corresponding one of the captured images, determining one of at least one horizontal displacement or a vertical displacement along the seam, and compensating for the misalignments along the seam based on the determined at least one horizontal displacement or the vertical displacement. |
| US10083645B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device including a plurality of pixels; a plurality of data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; a data driver applying data voltages to the plurality of data lines; and a first test pad unit connected to at least one of the plurality of data lines in order to check the data voltages, in which the first test pad unit includes a test pad which is electrically double-separated from the at least one of the data lines. |
| US10083641B2 |
Electronic apparatus, method of calibrating display panel apparatus, and calibration system
An electronic apparatus includes a communicator configured to communicate with a display panel apparatus and a processor configured to divide an image acquired by capturing a display panel into a plurality of sub blocks, calculating representative values of the plurality of sub blocks, calculate calibration values of the plurality of sub blocks based on a target value set based on the calculated representative values and the representative values of the plurality of sub blocks, and transmit the calculated calibration values to the display panel apparatus. |
| US10083627B2 |
Virtual reality and real welding training system and method
A virtual welding station includes a virtual sequencer for simulating different welding techniques and non-welding operations. The virtual welding station can be used to train an operator on the production of complete assemblies. |
| US10083626B1 |
Student driver feedback system allowing entry of tagged events by instructors during driving tests
Tagged driving events may be generated during a driving session from sensor data collected via one or more sensors and/or entered by an instructor. The tagged driving events may include a description of each driving event and its associated severity or weight as it relates to a scoring process as well as a time and/or a location of the driving event. A driving session report may be generated using the tagged driving events and may include a driver feedback score that is weighted based on the severity associated with each of the tagged driving events and/or the collected data, a map of the driving session route that indicates a map location of each tagged driving event, and/or a listing of each tagged driving event. The driving session report may be displayed such that a user may select a tagged driving event to view information associated with the tagged driving event. |
| US10083622B1 |
Music notation and charting method
A music charting and notation system that is a hybrid system and method that uses some standard notation elements, while combining and implementing them in non-standard ways, as well as adding other elements that are not found in any current notation systems. This new system of music notation and charting combines enhanced functionality and greater readability for musicians who are not full-time professionals. |
| US10083620B2 |
Smart tutorial that learns and adapts
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for a smart tutorial that adapts are described. The smart tutorial may assist in the operation of a vehicle including generating a situational profile that includes driver identity data, vehicle state data, or extra-vehicular state data. The situational profile is compared to assistance profiles that include aggregate identity data, aggregate vehicular state data, or aggregate extra-vehicular state data. The assistance profiles correspond to assistance instructions. Based on the comparison, similarity values corresponding to the assistance profiles are generated based on the comparison between the situational profile and the assistance profiles. The greatest similarity value corresponds to the assistance profile that is most similar to the situational profile. In response to the usage frequency value exceeding a usage frequency threshold value, the assistance instruction that corresponds to the assistance profile that is most similar to the situational profile may be selected. |
| US10083619B2 |
Online proctoring process for distance-based testing
A system for enabling real time live proctoring of an exam across a distributed network includes a first remote computer. The first remote computer is capable of real time audio visual capture and display of an image of a user of the first remote computer. A second remote computer is capable of real time audio visual capture and display of an image of the user of the second remote computer. A server is in communication with the first remote computer and the second remote computer, and provides an interactive web based scheduling portal accessible from the first remote computer and the second remote computer. A database is associated with the server for storing data regarding the rules for proctoring of an exam including the rate at which an exam may be proctored at a given date and time. The server enables access to a virtual exam room by the first remote computer and the second remote computer in response to a request from the first remote computer through the scheduling portal for a date and time to take an exam administered at the first computer when the requested date and time fulfills the rules stored in the database. |
| US10083615B2 |
Dynamic geo-fence for drone
Technical solutions are described for configuring a dynamic geo-fence includes receiving a plurality of data samples. The method also includes selecting, from the plurality of data samples, a selected data sample as a threshold. The method also includes configuring a geo-fence for a geographic area based on the selected data sample. The method also includes adjusting an operational characteristic of a drone while the drone is in the geographic area, where the operational characteristic is adjusted based on a configuration of the drone and the geo-fence. |
| US10083614B2 |
Drone alerting and reporting system
A system and method to alter pilots of the presence of drone aircraft and to document or report errant drone flight operations, in particular to alert and report drone aircraft which may present a hazard to a piloted aircraft and/or are operating outside governing regulations. In one embodiment, the system comprises a surveillance subsystem configured to identify a drone operating in an airspace adjacent the aircraft; an imaging subsystem configured to acquire at least one image of the drone; a triggering subsystem interconnected with the surveillance subsystem and configured to activate the imaging subsystem; a navigational subsystem configured to provide aircraft state data associated with the at least one image; and a communication subsystem configured to transmit the at least one image and the associated aircraft state data to a receiving station; wherein the at least one image and the associated aircraft state data are transmitted to the receiving station. |
| US10083610B2 |
Systems and methods for tracking public transportation vehicles using an internet-enabled device
A system for tracking a public transportation vehicle includes a reporting device implemented on the public transportation vehicle that transmits a signal including information regarding an identity of the public transportation vehicle and a receiving device implemented on a public transportation station that receives the signal from the reporting device and communicates the information regarding the identity of the public transportation vehicle and a time-stamp regarding an arrival of the public transportation vehicle at the public transportation station. The system further includes an internet-enabled back-end server that receives the communication from the reporting device and stores the identity of the public transportation vehicle and the time-stamp regarding the arrival of the public transportation vehicle at the public transportation station in a database of the back-end server. The back-end server is configured to allow access of its database by an internet-enabled commuter device. |
| US10083607B2 |
Driver safety enhancement using intelligent traffic signals and GPS
A safety system determines a correspondence between a vehicle and an upcoming traffic signal, and predicts a state of the traffic signal when the vehicle is expected to reach the signal's location. Based on proximity to the signal and speed of the vehicle, the system provides a warning if it determines that the vehicle is likely to proceed contrary to the signal (e.g., a driver is likely to run a red light). The warning is issued to the vehicle about to illegally enter the intersection, to other nearby vehicles and pedestrians, and to the traffic signal itself. |
| US10083605B2 |
Method and system for assisting a driver in driving a vehicle and vehicle on which such system is mounted
The invention regards a method and a system for assisting a driver in driving a vehicle, as well as a vehicle with such system being mounted thereon. Information on an environment of a vehicle is obtained by sensing the environment. Furthermore, information on applicable traffic rules is obtained. A request from a driver is determined from sensing at least one of a driver's utterance, gestures, gaze and operation of vehicle control. The traffic scene as sensed is assessed on the basis of the environmental information, the applicable traffic rules and the determined driver request. Information as requested to be output is generated in response to the determined request of the driver. Finally the information in response to the request from the driver is output. |
| US10083601B2 |
Remote control device and apparatus controlling system
A remote control device includes: a detector that detects a time-dependent change of a position of a recognition target object; a motion recognition unit that recognizes a gesture corresponding to the time-dependent change of the position of the recognition target object detected by the detector; a controller that generates a control signal based on the gesture recognized by the motion recognition unit; and a transmitter that transmits the control signal to an apparatus having a drivable portion to command a movement of the drivable portion. |
| US10083600B1 |
Mobile computing device wireless data transmission
A mobile computing device that is configured to wirelessly transmit audio data to an audio sink device. The mobile computing device has a wired audio input connector that is constructed and arranged to accept input audio data from an audio data source that is directly electrically coupled to the wired audio input connector. The mobile computing device includes circuitry that is configured to route the input audio data to the audio sink by wireless transmission. When input audio data is available from the audio input connector, the circuitry is configured to determine whether to route the audio input data to the audio sink device. |
| US10083591B2 |
Telemetry monitoring system and a data recovery method for a telemetry monitoring system
There is disclosed a telemetry monitoring system including a central monitoring unit configured to display data regarding one or more portable devices, each associated with the breathing apparatus of a user. The system further includes removable data storage connected to the central monitoring unit and configured to store system status data of the central monitoring unit as recovery data, the system status data defining an operational status of the central monitoring unit. In the event of a failure of the telemetry monitoring system, the telemetry monitoring system can be recovered by restoring the recovery data to the central monitoring unit or a replacement central monitoring unit from the removable data storage. |
| US10083590B1 |
Encouraging alert responsiveness
The present disclosure is related to methods, systems, and devices for encouraging alert responsiveness. An example device can include instructions executed to receive an alert message via a monitoring server, wherein the alert message indicates an alert instance, communicate the alert message to a plurality of alert responders, determine that a non-responsiveness, corresponding to the alert message, of a particular alert responder exceeds a threshold, receive a subsequent alert message via the monitoring server, wherein the subsequent alert message indicates a subsequent alert instance and communicate the subsequent alert message to the particular alert responder having the threshold-exceeding non-responsiveness, wherein the communication of the subsequent alert message includes a response encouragement. |
| US10083588B1 |
Vehicle safety notification system
A method of notifying a driver of a fault associated with a vehicle system is disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more fault signals from a vehicle system. Each fault signal includes a fault source, a fault time, and a fault description. The method includes determining a fault value associated with the received one or more fault signals. The fault value associated with a period of time or a number of events from an initial received fault signal. The method also includes executing on the computing processor a behavior system. The behavior system receives the fault signal and executes one or more behaviors from a first level of behaviors in response to the fault value being less than a first threshold value, and one or more behaviors from a second level of behaviors in response to the fault value being greater than the first threshold value. |
| US10083585B2 |
Intrusion detection system and method
An intrusion detection system controller, including a restriction designator operable for pre-designating an individual for whom access to a portion of the premises is prohibited and, for each individual, pre-designating an individual-specific restricted portion of the premises to which access is prohibited; a designated individual presence ascertainer operable for ascertaining presence of a designated individual on the premises; an intrusion detector element communicator operable for communicating with detection elements, for receiving indications of detection of intrusions and, responsive thereto, for ascertaining an intruded portion of the premises and providing an output indicating detection of the intrusion in the intruded portion of the premises; and a restricted mode enforcer operable, responsive to ascertaining presence of the pre-designated individual and to receiving output indicating detection of the intrusion in the intruded portion, for ascertaining whether the intruded portion corresponds to the individual-specific restricted portion to which access of pre-designated individual is prohibited. |
| US10083582B2 |
Data collection and processing apparatus with anti-theft function, system using the same, and data collection and processing method thereof
A data collection and processing apparatus with anti-theft function, a system using the apparatus and a data collection and processing method thereof are provided. The method includes the steps of: collecting relevant information regarding at least one targeted object, wherein the relevant information includes status information, operational information, environmental information of the targeted object, and user information of an owner or user of the targeted object; and performing an alarm when detecting that the targeted object is not under a normal status. The data collection and processing apparatus includes a transducer module, a master control module and an alarm and data processing module, which may form a local network connection or a distributed data processing network. In addition to performing anti-theft function, the present invention is capable of collecting various relevant information of the protected object. Therefore, the present invention is particularly useful in public establishments, such as retailers, exhibitions, hotels and banks, for merchants or owners to assess the use of their displayed merchandises or service facilities. |
| US10083573B1 |
System and method for implementing a refund calculator in a game
One aspect of the disclosure relates to implementing a refund calculator in an online game. The refund calculator may provide the ability to prioritize what users may receive items, troops, and/or any other in-game parameters. The refund calculator may provide the ability to determine how many items and/or troops the user may be refunded, the time frame in which the user receives the items, troops and/or other aspects of a refund. |
| US10083572B2 |
Anti-cheating system
An electromechanical gaming machine for applying an anti-cheating system including a real world controller constructed to provide a gambling game; an entertainment software controller constructed to execute an entertainment game; a game world controller constructed to manage the entertainment software controller and communicate gameplay gambling event occurrences based upon a player's skillful execution of the entertainment game that trigger the wager for the gambling game to the gambling game; and the anti-cheating module constructed to: establish a penalty threshold, receive player information for the player where the player information is related to the anti-cheating measure; apply a punitive measure if the penalty threshold is met. |
| US10083570B2 |
System and methods of providing player services with gaming devices
A system for use in providing gaming property services to a player via a gaming device is provided. The system includes a gaming property server, a gaming machine, and gaming tracking device. The gaming property server provides gaming property services to the player. The gaming machine includes a gaming display, a display device that is coupled to the gaming display, and a gaming controller that is coupled to the display device. The gaming controller is configured to randomly generate an outcome of a game and transmit game data indicative of the outcome to the display device. The gaming tracking device also includes a web browser program for displaying gaming property services via a website provided by the gaming property server. The display device configured to display a player interaction screen including the outcome of the game and the gaming property services. |
| US10083565B2 |
Pin encryption techniques
In certain embodiments, an ATM system validates a user having a multi-digit PIN code. During different access events, either at the same ATM machine or at different ATM machines, the ATM machine presents to the user different sequences of one or more representations of the user's PIN code that identify different subsets of digits and/or different orders of digits to be provided by the user for validation. This makes it more difficult for third parties to steal a user's PIN code because no single access event involves all of the digits in the user's PIN code and/or the proper order of the digits in the user's PIN code, and different access events involve different sequences of the PIN code. In a distributed ATM system having a centralized banking subsystem, the correct PIN code is never provided to an ATM machine for any one access event, thereby further improving system security. |
| US10083560B2 |
Multifunctional access control device
An access control device that at least assists in controlling the ingress/egress through an entryway. According to certain embodiments, the access control device is operably coupled to an entryway device so as to at least assist in controlling the ability to displace an entryway device from a closed positon and/or from an open position. The access control device is structured for communication with a plurality of components of a security management system, and thus may be programmed by one or more modes, including, for example a manual program mode, an off-line managed mode, a wireless off-line management mode, a wireless real-time mode, and/or an off-line real-time mode. |
| US10083558B1 |
Security and public safety application for a mobile device with audio/video analytics and access control authentication
An access control system utilizes authorized users' mobile electronic devices for transmitting biometric identifiers in combination with using an access card, for authenticating the user's access privileges for unlocking a secure door. The system may further verify proximity of the user's device to the access control reader, which verifies correspondence of the access card with the transmitted biometric characteristics. The system may further require entry of a PIN into the user's device, for its transmission to the access control system for access confirmation. A scanner scans the area around its geographic location for signals emitted by mobile electronic devices, and identifies a position, a type, and an address of each device, using characteristics of the signals. Audio analytics detect/identify a position of sudden sound fluctuations indicating a gunshot/fight incident, and correlates the incident location to a device location. Video analytics correlate imaged people with detected electronic devices. |
| US10083552B2 |
Comparing vehicle performance
A computing device-implemented method includes receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for distribution ranges for a vehicle that includes a first propulsion system, and, receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for distribution ranges for a vehicle that includes a second propulsion system. The distribution ranges for the vehicle that includes the first propulsion system are equivalent to the distribution ranges for the vehicle that includes the second propulsion system. The method also includes receiving data representative of one or more travel parameters for distribution ranges for a collection of vehicles. The distribution ranges for the collection of vehicles are equivalent to the distribution ranges for the vehicle that includes the second propulsion system. |
| US10083549B2 |
Driver compliance machine for monitoring multiple operators
A base unit installed in a vehicle including a vehicle communication module for communicating with a controller, the controller monitoring at least one operating parameter of the vehicle. The base unit also includes a transceiver and a processor configured to receive the at least one operating parameter of the vehicle from the vehicle communication module. A memory device stores a first threshold of the vehicle operating parameter associated with a first vehicle operator, and stores a second threshold of the vehicle operating parameter associated with a second vehicle operator. The second threshold is greater than the first threshold. The processor is configured to determine that a driving event has occurred when first threshold has been exceeded for the first driver but the second threshold has not been exceeded for the second driver. |
| US10083547B1 |
Traffic situation awareness for an autonomous vehicle
The disclosure includes embodiments for providing traffic situation awareness for a driver of an autonomous vehicle. In some embodiments, the autonomous vehicle is a highly autonomous vehicle (HAV). A method implemented by the HAV includes, according to some embodiments, analyzing external sensor data recorded by one or more external sensors of the HAV to identify a traffic situation. The external sensor data describes one or more measurements of a physical environment external to the HAV. The method includes generating graphical data describing visual feedback that visually depicts information describing the traffic situation. The method includes providing the graphical data to an interface device to cause the interface device to display the visual feedback. The interface device is communicatively coupled to the HAV and operable to receive the graphical data from the processor of the HAV. The visual feedback provides the traffic situation awareness to the driver of the HAV. |
| US10083544B2 |
System for tracking a handheld device in virtual reality
A system for tracking a first electronic device, such as a handheld smartphone, in a virtual reality environment generated by a second electronic device, such as a head mounted display may include detection, by a camera included in one of the first electronic device or the second electronic device, of at least one visual marker included on the other of the first electronic device or the second electronic device. Features detected within the field of view corresponding to known features of the visual markers may be used to locate and track movement of the first electronic device relative to the second electronic device, so that movement of the second electronic device may be translated into an interaction in a virtual experience generated by the second electronic device. |
| US10083542B1 |
Method and system to compare and search polyhedral shape
Polyhedral data is compared with limited information while keeping accuracy. A comparison of two polyhedrons is accomplished as follows. (1) A squared-sum of the difference of primary moment functions and a squared-sum of the difference of secondary moment functions are separately sought at sample points of polyhedron Ma, Mb, normalize them and compute the sum of both, or seek sum functions of the primary moment functions and the secondary moment functions to compute the squared-sum of the difference of the sum functions, the primary moment function all the sample points of polyhedral data that occupy central symmetry directions are blended in the same sign, which is the different sign in the case of the secondary moment function, the functions having variables representing points on a surface of a sphere of which center is the center of gravity of the polyhedron and a value which is an axial moment value, the axis defined as a line through the points and the center, and (2) in the case that the value of the sum is a certain threshold or less, it is determined that the polyhedrons are similar in shape. |
| US10083541B2 |
Object illumination in hybrid rasterization and ray traced 3-D rendering
Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed. |
| US10083538B2 |
Variable resolution virtual reality display system
A virtual reality display system that renders images at different resolutions in different parts of a display. Reduces rendering latency by rendering at a lower resolution in selected regions, for example on the sides of a display where human vision has lower resolution than in the center. Pixels in low resolution regions are combined into grid elements, and rendering may generate grid element values rather than individual pixel values. Rendering may use ray casting, rasterization, or both. Variable resolution rendering may be combined with variable level of detail geometry models to further reduce rendering time. Selected objects may be designed as high resolution objects that are rendered at a high resolution even in low resolution display regions. |
| US10083528B2 |
Method and apparatus for editing parameters for capturing medical images
An apparatus for editing information about a parameter for capturing a medical image includes a storage device configured to store at least one piece of group information including information about a change to the parameter for capturing the medical image and information about an associated parameter to be changed together with the parameter; a display configured to display a parameter change history including the at least one piece of group information; and a controller configured to control the display and the storage device, wherein the at least one piece of group information is arranged based on an order in which a parameter in the at least one piece of group information is changed. |
| US10083520B2 |
Radiographic imaging apparatus and radiographic image generation method
The radiographic image generation method includes acquiring a plurality of radiographic images corresponding to a number of radiation dose portions by emitting radiation to an object by dividing a radiation exposure dose into the radiation dose portions, and by detecting the emitted radiation, and matching the plurality of acquired radiographic images, by shifting all or a portion of data of a plurality of the acquired radiographic images such that the corresponding articles within a plurality of the acquired radiographic images are positioned at a same relative position in each of the acquired radiographic images. |
| US10083519B2 |
Information processing apparatus and information processing method for specifying a composition of a picture
[Object] To easily obtain a picture capable of being effectively analyzed, by specifying a composition of a picture acquired by an imaging apparatus.[Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an angular field estimation section configured to estimate an angular field of a picture acquired by an imaging apparatus, based on positions of at least two points whose position relationship in a real space is already known in the picture; and a composition specification information output section configured to output information specifying a composition of the picture, in a manner that a position relationship between a photographic subject and the imaging apparatus, prescribed in accordance with the angular field, is satisfied. |
| US10083515B2 |
Method and system for segmenting medical imaging data according to a skeletal atlas
A method for segmenting a medical image. The method comprises providing a registration of a medical image depicting a plurality of bones with a skeletal atlas mapping an exemplary skeletal structure having a plurality of exemplary bones, identifying at least one component having at least one anatomical characteristic indicative of a predefined organ in the medical image, each the at least one component depicting at least one of the plurality of bones, and segmenting at least one region of interest (ROI) around the at least one component within the medical image according to at least one respective the exemplary bone pertaining to the predefined organ. |
| US10083514B2 |
Stencil-then-cover path rendering with shared edges
One embodiment of the present invention includes techniques for rasterizing primitives that include edges shared between paths. For each edge, a rasterizer unit selects and applies a sample rule from multiple sample rules. If the edge is shared, then the selected sample rule causes each group of coverage samples associated with a single color sample to be considered as either fully inside or fully outside the edge. Consequently, conflation artifacts caused when the number of coverage samples per pixel exceeds the number of color samples per pixel may be reduced. In prior-art techniques, reducing such conflation artifacts typically involves increasing the number of color samples per pixel to equal the number of coverage samples per pixel. Advantageously, the disclosed techniques enable rendering using algorithms that reduce the ratio of color to coverage samples, thereby decreasing memory consumption and memory bandwidth use, without causing conflation artifacts associated with shared edges. |
| US10083512B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, position and orientation estimation apparatus, and robot system
An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit, variation amount deriving unit, acquisition unit, and threshold value deriving unit. The image acquisition unit acquires a captured image obtained by an imaging unit. The variation amount deriving unit derives a luminance value variation amount of a predetermined area of the acquired captured image based on a luminance value of the predetermined area and first information indicating a relationship between a captured image luminance value and an amount of luminance value variation. The acquisition unit acquires an amount of variation of a luminance gradient value based on the derived amount of variation of the luminance value, wherein the luminance gradient value is a gradient value of the luminance value. The threshold value deriving unit derives a threshold value with which an obtained luminance gradient value is to be compared, based on the acquired amount of variation of the luminance gradient value. |
| US10083511B2 |
Angiographic roadmapping mask
Systems and methods are provided for angiographic roadmapping. In accordance with one aspect, the framework generates one or more two-dimensional (2D) digitally reconstructed radiograph (DRR) images from a four-dimensional (4D) digital subtraction angiography (DSA) image volume. A maximally opacified image is generated from at least one of the one or more 2D DRR images over a window of time. The maximally opacified image may then be integrated with a live fluoroscopic image and displayed for angiographic roadmapping. |
| US10083510B2 |
Unsupervised training for an atlas-based registration
A method includes obtaining a single training image from a set of training images in a data repository. The method further includes generating an initial tissue class atlas based on the obtained single training image. The initial tissue class atlas includes two or more different tissue class images corresponding to two or more different tissue classes. The method further includes registering the remaining training images of the set of training images to the initial tissue class atlas. The method further includes generating a quality metric for each of the registered images. The method further includes evaluating the quality metric of each of the registered image with a predetermined evaluation criterion. The method further includes identifying a sub-set of images from the set of training images that satisfy the evaluation criterion. The method further includes generating a subsequent tissue class atlas based on the identified sub-set of the set of training images. |
| US10083508B2 |
Method and system for analyzing wound status
A system for analyzing wound status is provided. The system includes an image obtaining device and an image analyzing device. The image obtaining device is configured to obtain a plurality of infrared (IR) images which are photographed from a wound of a user's body portion, wherein the plurality of IR images are photographed at different time. The image analyzing device is configured to align the plurality of IR images based on features of non-wound regions from the plurality of IR images, and then analyze wound image regions from the plurality of IR images for finding out variations of the wound. |
| US10083502B2 |
Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) apparatus and method
Disclosed are Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) apparatus and method to combine information on sequential image frames and to provide a superior classification result for the ROI in the image frame. The CAD apparatus may include a Region of Interest (ROI) detector configured to detect an ROI from image frames, a categorizer configured to create groups of image frames having successive ROI sections from among the image frames based on a result of the detection, a classifier configured to classify an ROI detected from each of the image frames belonging to the groups, and a result combiner configured to combine classification results for the image frames belonging to each group from the groups and to calculate a group result for the each group. |
| US10083500B2 |
Restoration filter generation device and method, image processing device and method, imaging device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
A restoration filter generation device which generates a restoration filter for performing a restoration process on luminance system image data, the restoration process being based on a point-image distribution in an optical system, the luminance system image data being image data relevant to luminance and being generated based on image data for each color of multiple colors, the restoration filter generation device including an MTF acquisition device which acquires a modulation transfer function MTF for the optical system; and a restoration filter generation device which generates the restoration filter based on the modulation transfer function MTF, the restoration filter suppressing an MTF value of image data for each color of the multiple colors to 1.0 or less at least in a region of a particular spatial frequency or less, the image data for each color of the multiple colors corresponding to the luminance system image data after the restoration process. |
| US10083494B2 |
Systems, devices and methods for distributed content pre-fetching to a user device
There is disclosed a system for transmitting data to users. The system includes nodes interconnected by at least one data network. The nodes are organized hierarchically to comprise a root node and at least two child nodes. The data transmission characteristics of communication with each of the child nodes are different. The root node is configured to: receive data transmission preferences of a particular user; receive data to be transmitted to the particular user; and transmit a selected subset of the data to at least one of the child nodes. The subset selected based on at least the received data transmission preferences and the data transmission characteristics, to permit the particular user to obtain data from the child nodes according to the data transmission preferences. The at least one of the child nodes being configured to: receive data from the root node; and transmit at least part of the received data to the user. |
| US10083490B2 |
Method and system for implementing a custom workspace for a social relationship management system
Disclosed is a system, method, and computer program product for implementing a marketing automation tool that provides an improved approach for an integrated and/or customized workspace for a social relationship management system. The present invention provides a mechanism to allow the user of a SRM system to configure a workspace for the SRM product, to choose the specific functionality from the SRM suite to be displayed and executed for the user and to post a message while simultaneously viewing the workspace. |
| US10083486B2 |
Limited movement collar on marketable order execution price
An electronic trading system implements collar protection for received marketable orders. A collar price is determined based on best bid and offers prices or the price of a recently executed trade. Orders matched at prices worse than the collar price (from the perspective of the marketable order) are not allowed to execute. When execution of orders is halted, a collar timer runs. When the collar timer exceeds a time threshold, the collar price is modified based on a collar move parameter. The collar move parameter may be modified when the reset collar timer subsequently exceeds the time threshold. |
| US10083484B2 |
Rotating accounts for transfers
A system and method may create a user interface where a first account may be lined up in relation to a second account and a transfer may move value from the first account to the second account. |
| US10083483B2 |
Actionable exception alerts
Systems, method, apparatuses, and software are described for automatically detecting defects in financial transactions, automatically determining resolutions to the defects based on historical defect patterns, an interacting with customers to provide information and/or receive instructions regarding defects and how they should be resolved. |
| US10083478B2 |
System and method for visual verification of order processing
One or more images of items for an order being processed at processing station of an order fulfillment center may be captured and associated with the order. Alternatively, a short video clip may be captured of the order being packaged. An electronic notification that the order has been processed may be sent to a customer associated with the order. The electronic notification may include a reference to one or more of the captured images or video clips. The customer may use a reference included in the notification to view the captured images. The customer may view captured images to verify that the order has been correctly processed. The captured images may include images of the items being packaged for shipment and may show the shipping address on the package allowing the customer to verify that indeed it is his package in the images. |
| US10083477B2 |
Biometric and geophysical sensor-based sorting and displaying of ecommerce product reviews
A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product sorts and displays product reviews of ecommerce products. A system receives product reviews for ecommerce products. The product reviews are displayed on an ecommerce webpage, are generated by product reviewers, and are for different types of products. Reviewer profiles of the product reviewers are received. The reviewer profiles include characteristics of the product reviewers that affect usage of one or more of the different types of products. A user profile for a user is received. The user profile includes characteristics of the user that affect usage of one or more of the different types of products. The user profile is matched to a specific reviewer profile from the reviewer profiles. The product reviews are sorted according to the different types of products and the specific reviewer profile. The sorted product reviews are then displayed on the ecommerce webpage. |
| US10083473B2 |
Adjusting search result user interfaces based upon query language
Various embodiments are included for adjusting a search result user interface when a foreign language search query is detected. A search query associated with a search request is obtained. A language of the search query is identified. Search results are obtained from a site corresponding to the language. Additionally, a translation of the search query is obtained if allowed for a corresponding product category. |
| US10083471B2 |
Computing system predictive build
Features to include within a predictive build of a computing system are selected. The predictive build is an anticipated final build of the computing system prior to receiving a firm customer order for the computing system in accordance with which an actual final build of the computing system is then built. A marginal cost of first building the predictive build and then modifying the predictive build to realize the actual final build, as compared to building the actual final build without first building the predictive build and then modifying predictive build to realize the actual final build, is estimated based on the features selected. Responsive to determining that the marginal cost is less than a predetermined acceptable marginal cost limit, the predictive build is built prior to receiving the firm customer order, and then is modified to realize the actual final build upon receiving the firm customer order. |
| US10083469B1 |
System and method of processing information and data objects regarding experiences including associated database and boolean variable features
Systems and methods for performing automated data processing as a function of database entries that correspond to one or more products, such as experiences and including those performed via video and/or social media electronic communication(s), are disclosed. According to exemplary innovations, computer implemented methods of performing automated data processing herein may involve a platform that provides and processes experiences and products via GUIs, graphical indicia, and access rights as a function of product type identifiers and/or Boolean flags. Additional processing performed via the platform may include, e.g., as also performed as a function of the product type identifiers and the Boolean flags, automatically generating differing GUIs as well as scheduling and managing fulfillment of the experiences, wherein processing regarding the various information being generated for, displayed to, and transacted between the customer and the individual (i.e., the provider) is performed via fully-computer-automated interaction(s). |
| US10083467B2 |
System and method for communicating information to a customer at a point-of-sale via a wireless link within a retail store
A system and method for providing a customer of a retailer with information during checkout may include pairing with a mobile device during checkout of a customer at a POS system. Prior to communicating data to the mobile device, permission may be received from the customer via the mobile device to allow for data to be communicated to the mobile device. The data may be communicated to the mobile device during checkout by the customer. |
| US10083461B2 |
Tool for third-party creation of advertisements for a social networking system
A third-party advertisement creator builds a template for an advertisement using a markup language provided by the social networking system. The template may include a function to call information from a user's profile as well as a function to perform an action in the social networking system and/or external to the social networking system. An advertiser selects a template, add content to the template to create an advertisement, and then requests that the advertisement be published by the social networking system to a viewing user. At runtime, the social networking system parses the markup language in the advertisement to use tags with the viewing user's personal and social information and/or function calls to perform the action (e.g., to make the user a “fan” of a page). This allows personalization of interactive advertisements generated by a third party while protecting the user's personal information maintained by the social networking system. |
| US10083460B2 |
Network of tags
Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating product or service information to a potential purchaser. A product or item describing a service are scanned to obtain both a product or service code and an advertisement promotion code provided by a vendor/retailer or manufacturer of the product or service using a smartphone of a first user. A barcode is generated on the smartphone by combining the product or service code and the advertisement promotion code with information from the smartphone associated with the product or service and with an advertiser code that uniquely identifies the first user. The barcode is communicated to a communication device of a second user that is the potential purchaser of the product or service. When the communication device is presented to a point of sale (POS) terminal, the terminal scans the barcode, decodes the barcode, and compensates the first user according to the advertisement promotion code. |
| US10083453B2 |
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for tracking consumer interactions with products using modular sensor units
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for tracking consumer interactions with products using modular sensor units. In one system, a plurality of weight and motion sensors is configured to track consumer interactions with products. The system further includes a plurality of sensor mounts for holding the sensors in place. Each sensor mount includes signal lines for transmitting power to the sensors and for conducting signals between the sensors and a signal processor. The system further includes a plurality of conductors for interconnecting sensor mounts to a signal processor. The system further includes a plurality of connectors to allow rapid addition and removal of the sensors and their mounts as needed for a particular product planogram. |
| US10083452B1 |
Method and system for identifying potentially fraudulent bill and invoice payments
Financial transaction data representing financial transactions associated with a user is obtained from two or more sources through a personal financial management and bill payment system. The financial transaction data is then analyzed to identify recurring payments to the same payees, and/or for the same products or services, and generate baseline bill payment and/or invoice data for the same payees, and/or for the same products or services. Financial transaction data associated with the user is then monitored and compared with the baseline bill payment and/or invoice data and if a bill and/or invoice payment is identified for a payee, and/or for a service or product, that is outside a defined range of the baseline amount or frequency associated with that payee, and/or for that service or product, the bill and/or invoice payment is identified as a potentially fraudulent financial transaction. |
| US10083447B1 |
Folding contactless card payment authentication
A folding mechanism is used to authenticate purchases when making transactions using a contactless smart card. By folding the contactless card in a precise manner, the electrical resistance of the antenna circuit of the contactless card is changed by bypassing the card's built-in resistors. A user may set a folding orientation as the “password” of the contactless card. This folding orientation determines the electrical resistance of the card necessary to authenticate a purchase. |
| US10083446B2 |
Secure elements broker (SEB) for application communication channel selector optimization
Systems and methods for managing concurrent secure elements on a mobile device to coordinate with an application or “app” running on the mobile device and an appropriate communications protocol for conducting transactions using the mobile device include: informing, by the processor, the reader device of a preferred app and a communication protocol usable by the preferred app; receiving, by the processor, information about which apps and communication protocols are supported by a reader for processing a transaction; locating, by the processor, a secure element supporting an app and a communication protocol supported by the reader; channeling the communication protocol for the specific configuration of the app and the supporting secure element; activating the secure element that supports the app; and processing, with the activated secure element, using the supported app and communication channel, the transaction with the reader. |
| US10083443B1 |
Persistent authentication of a wearable device
A system and method for maintaining authentication of a user of a wearable device. The wearable device can include an electrical circuit, an accelerometer, a capacitive sensor, or other wearable detection module that can determine that the wearable device has been in continuous contact with, or continuous use by, the wearer. A first payment transaction can be initiated between the wearable device and a first payment terminal. A user credential is then received at either the wearable device or a mobile device coupled to the wearable device. The user credential is verified and the first payment transaction is authorized. A second payment transaction is then initiated between the wearable device and a second payment terminal. If the wearable device is determined to have been in continuous use by the user, then the second payment transaction can be completed without requiring re-authentication of the user. |
| US10083442B1 |
Software PIN entry
Several embodiments include a mobile device that uses a media file to render a passcode entry interface. The passcode entry interface can have an assigned location of an input element that corresponds to an inputtable value in the passcode entry interface. The media file can include a visual depiction having the input element at the assigned location. In several embodiments, the media file does not store the association between the assigned location and the inputtable value. The assigned location corresponding to the inputtable value can be separately stored. The mobile device can receive a coordinate of a touch event on the passcode entry interface. To determine a passcode entry based on the touch event, the coordinate can be compared against the separately stored assigned location to determine a corresponding input value to the coordinate. |
| US10083439B2 |
Device, system, and method of differentiating over multiple accounts between legitimate user and cyber-attacker
Devices, systems, and methods of user authentication, as well as automatic differentiation between a legitimate user and a cyber-attacker. A system detects that two different accounts of the same computerized service, were accessed by a single computing device over a short period of time. The system may employ various techniques in order to determine automatically whether a legitimate user accessed the two different account, such as, a husband accessing his own bank account and shortly after that accessing also his wife's bank account, or a payroll company accessing bank accounts of two clients for payroll management purposes. Conversely, the system is able to detect that the same user exhibited the same pattern of interactions when operating the two accounts, a pattern of interactions that does not frequently appear in the general population of legitimate users, thereby indicating that the single user is a cyber-attacker. |
| US10083434B2 |
Wireless payment method and systems
A method for conducting a transaction is disclosed. The method includes using a first portable electronic device, and directly transmitting a request for payment to a second portable electronic device through a wireless link. Then, the second portable electronic device transmits an approval of the request for payment to the first portable electronic device. One of the first and the second portable electronic devices then sends the request for payment to a payment hub service. The payment hub service then facilitates the transfer of funds from a payer institution to a payee institution to complete the transaction. |
| US10083428B1 |
Smart chaining
Identification information is received from a transaction card at a transaction machine. The transaction card is associated with an account holder using the transaction machine and includes a transaction card type. Using the identification information, activity profile information is accessed for the account holder. The account holder's transaction machine usage is monitored and activity profile information related to the account holder's transaction machine usage is stored. A custom sequence of user interfaces to be displayed to the account holder is generated based on the transaction card type. |
| US10083421B2 |
System and method for the augmentation of emotional and social intelligence in technology mediated communication
A system for augmenting social information processing and emotional and social intelligence for use in technology mediated communications sessions is disclosed. The system may gather data associated with users participating in a project conducted via the technology mediated communication. The data may include emotional and social data generated by the plurality of users. The system may query the plurality of users for information associated with a deliverable for the project and the users' participation in the project. The system may receive, in response to the querying, the information associated with the deliverable and the participation in the project. Furthermore, the system may generate, based on the data, the information, and variables, recommendations for the users. The recommendation may indicate how each user should interact with at least one other user so as to enhance an outcome associated with the project. |
| US10083414B1 |
News production system with device control using multiple protocols
An example news production system includes a scheduling system and multiple remotely controllable devices configured to perform actions based on commands. A first remotely controllable device is configured to receive commands formatted according to a first protocol, and a second remotely controllable device is configured to receive commands formatted according to a second protocol. The scheduling system accesses a news program schedule that specifies a sequence of actions to be performed by the news production system. The scheduling system access the schedule, selects entries from the news program schedule, generates commands based on the selected entries for the first and second remotely controllable devices in accordance with the first and second protocols, respectively, and transmits the generated commands to the first and second remotely controllable devices. |
| US10083410B2 |
Method and system for implementing a cloud based email distribution fairness algorithm
Disclosed is an approach for implementing a system, method, and computer program product for a marketing automation tool that implements an advanced fairness scheme for resources. The order that work items are deployed is carefully managed to ensure that customers are treated fairly. This prevents and/or minimizes any customer from being adversely affected by other customers. |
| US10083409B2 |
Wireless customer and labor management optimization in retail settings
Techniques and system configurations for tracking customers and employees in a commercial environment such as a retail store are described herein. Customer devices that are operated by an associated customer may be tracked to determine customer shopping activities in a retail store, and to obtain promotions or affect targeted results based on the customer's activity and a profile associated with the customer. Employee devices that are operated by an associated employee also may be tracked to identify employee activities and manage the interactions that occur with customers in the retail environment. In-store activities and interactions accordingly may be enhanced as a result of advertising, marketing, and analytics derived from the tracked activities. |
| US10083401B2 |
Analyzing quality of applications linked to an online system
An online system extracts features from an application linked to the online system. The application is used by users of the online system and posts content to the online system. A trained model is applied to the extracted features to generate a quality score for the application. The trained model is trained using features extracted from a set of training applications and quality scores manually assigned to the training applications, wherein the manually assigned quality scores indicate whether each training application satisfies a set of criteria and the generated quality score represents a probability of the application satisfying the set of criteria. Based on the quality score, content provided by the application is ranked for presentation to a user of the online system in relation to other content of the online system. The online system presents the content provided by the application to the user according to the ranking. |
| US10083400B2 |
System and method for providing patient-specific dosing as a function of mathematical models updated to account for an observed patient response
A system and method for predicting, proposing and/or evaluating suitable medication dosing regimens for a specific individual as a function of individual-specific characteristics and observed responses of the specific individual. Mathematical models of observed patient responses are used in determining an initial dose. The system and method use the patient's observed response to the initial dose to refine the model for use to forecast expected responses to proposed dosing regimens more accurately for a specific patient. More specifically, the system and method uses Bayesian averaging, Bayesian updating and Bayesian forecasting techniques to develop patient-specific dosing regimens as a function of not only generic mathematical models and patient-specific characteristics accounted for in the models as covariate patient factors, but also observed patient-specific responses that are not accounted for within the models themselves, and that reflect variability that distinguishes the specific patient from the typical patient reflected by the model. |
| US10083399B2 |
Travel-related cognitive profiles
A method, system and computer-usable medium for performing cognitive computing operations comprising receiving streams of data from a plurality of data sources; processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources, the processing the streams of data from the plurality of data sources performing data enriching for incorporation into a cognitive graph; defining a travel-related cognitive persona within the cognitive graph, the travel-related cognitive persona corresponding to an archetype user model, the travel-related cognitive persona comprising a set of nodes in the cognitive graph; associating a user with the travel-related cognitive persona; defining a travel-related cognitive profile within the cognitive graph, the travel-related cognitive profile comprising an instance of the travel-related cognitive persona that references personal data associated with the user; associating the user with the travel-related cognitive profile; and, performing a cognitive computing operation based upon the travel-related cognitive profile associated with the user. |
| US10083397B2 |
Personalized intelligent wake-up system and method based on multimodal deep neural network
A method for personalized intelligent wake-up system based on multimodal deep neural network comprises monitoring a sleeping status of a user; obtaining a current sleeping-stage of the user within a current time frame and a prediction of a next sleeping-stage of the user for a next time frame; correcting the current sleeping-stage of the user through combining the current sleeping-stage and the prediction of the next sleeping-stage; determining a wake up strategy for the current time frame; determining a relationship between each of a plurality of alarm impulses adopted to wake up the user and a corresponding reaction of the user; identifying a change in the current sleeping-stage for the current time frame; determining an alarm impulse to be triggered for waking up the user; and triggering the determined alarm impulse. |
| US10083394B1 |
Neural processing engine and architecture using the same
A neural processing engine may perform processing within a neural processing system and/or artificial neural network. The neural processing engine may be configured to effectively and efficiently perform the type of processing required in implementing a neural processing system and/or an artificial neural network. This configuration may facilitate such processing with neural processing engines having an enhanced computational density and/or processor density with respect to conventional processing units. |
| US10083390B2 |
Electronic shelf label
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electronic price indicator comprises: a base substrate and five mounting units formed on the base substrate. A first antenna for receiving information from a server is mounted on the first mounting unit. A first communication module connected to the first antenna is mounted on the second mounting unit. A second antenna for receiving a management signal from a management terminal is mounted on the third mounting unit. A second communication module connected to the second antenna is selectively mounted on the fourth mounting unit. The fifth mounting unit is selectively and directly connected to any one of the second antenna and the second communication module, and provided with a low frequency (LF) circuit mounted thereon to transmit an interrupt in accordance with the management signal to the first communication module. |
| US10083383B1 |
Transaction card having features for easy removal from wallet
A transaction card includes a first full thickness portion and a second, reduced thickness portion. Each of the first and second portions includes a top surface and an opposing bottom surface spaced from the top surface by a thickness of the card. The first, full thickness portion includes an extent of the card that remains exposed when the card is inserted into a pocket of a card-carrying case, and a feature deviating from a flat region along at least one of the top surface and the opposing bottom surface of the card. The feature is configured for tactile engagement to facilitate removal of the card from the pocket. |
| US10083382B2 |
Image forming apparatus equipped with secure print function, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
An image forming apparatus capable of flexibly controlling whether or not to perform user authentication when a user performs operations related to functions of the apparatus. When a user instructs the apparatus to perform any of operations related to a secure print job which is a print job executed by using a secure print function, when the apparatus is operated in a function-based authentication mode, it is determined whether or not a user-selected function of a plurality of functions including at least a secure printing function for printing data in response to an input of a password requires user authentication. When the secure printing function is specified as the user-selected function and it is determined that the user-selected function does not require user authentication, the user is allowed to use the secure printing function, even if the user is not authenticated. |
| US10083381B2 |
Remote override of power saving mode
A remote override system may comprise a remote device and a local device. The remote device may include a remote device computer having a remote device processor and a remote device communication interface, and an outgoing override signal handler capable of sending an override signal by way of the remote device communication interface. The local device may include a local device computer having a local device processor and a local device communication interface, and an incoming override signal handler capable of receiving the override signal by way of the local device communication interface. The override signal may be capable of causing override of a power saving mode at the local device. |
| US10083380B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, computer program product, and image forming apparatus
A calculating unit calculates, as a reference number N of scans, a sum by adding 1 to a product M of the number m of scans in a main-scanning direction and the number n of scans in a sub-scanning direction. An assigning unit assigns, as a count of scans indicating a scan order, an integer 1 or more and the product M or more to each pixel of a unit image. A changing unit changes the count of scans of some pixels to which a first scan is assigned to an N-th scan. The generating unit generates print data, in which nozzle groups from a nozzle group arranged on a downstream end in the sub-scanning direction to a nozzle group arranged on an upstream end are sequentially assigned to pixels from the pixels to which the first scan is assigned to the pixels to which the N-th scan is assigned. |
| US10083375B1 |
Method and device for performing activation and convolution operation at the same time and learning method and learning device for the same
A method for configuring a CNN with learned parameters that performs activation operation of an activation module and convolution operation of one or more convolutional layer in a convolutional layer at the same time is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) allowing a comparator to compare an input value corresponding to each of pixel values of an input image as a test image with a predetermined reference value and then output a comparison result; (b) allowing a selector to output a specific parameter corresponding to the comparison result among multiple parameters of the convolutional layer; and (c) allowing a multiplier to output a multiplication value calculated by multiplying the specific parameter by the input value and allowing the multiplication value to be determined as a result value acquired by applying the convolutional layer to an output of the activation module. |
| US10083374B2 |
Methods and systems for analyzing images in convolutional neural networks
A method for analyzing images to generate a plurality of output features includes receiving input features of the image and performing Fourier transforms on each input feature. Kernels having coefficients of a plurality of trained features are received and on-the-fly Fourier transforms (OTF-FTs) are performed on the coefficients in the kernels. The output of each Fourier transform and each OTF-FT are multiplied together to generate a plurality of products and each of the products are added to produce one sum for each output feature. Two-dimensional inverse Fourier transforms are performed on each sum. |
| US10083370B2 |
Identification system, identification method, matching device, and program
The invention in this application is an information acquisition/identification system provided with an image-feature storing unit, an extracting unit, an acquiring unit, and an identifying unit. The image-feature storing unit stores image features of texture patterns formed on components or products. The extracting unit extracts an information-label image and a texture-pattern image from a taken image containing at least the following: an information label that displays information regarding a component, a product, or a product comprising said component; and a texture pattern formed on said component or product. The acquiring unit acquires, from the extracted information-label image, the aforementioned information regarding the component or product. The identifying unit identifies the component, product, or component-comprising product by matching image features of the extracted texture-pattern image against the image features stored by the image-feature storing unit. |
| US10083365B2 |
Optical reading of external segmented display
The present invention includes a method for optical character recognition of external segmented displays using a camera connected to a reading device and a data reading application on the reading device. |
| US10083364B2 |
Method and apparatus for removing character background from colored image
Provided is a method for removing character background in a color image that obtains an image for printing evaluation by removing a background design of a character from the color image of a printed object on which the character has been printed. The method includes separating a color input image into a character part and a background part, calculating a discriminant function for separating pixels of the character part and pixels of the background part based on pixel values, and generating a background-removed image by removing the background part from the input image by using the discriminant function. Moreover, an installation adjustment method of a line camera including adjusting, based on a signal acquired by capturing an installation adjustment chart fixed to the inspection drum, an installation position of the line camera that acquires an image of a large-size printed object arranged on an inspection drum, is executed by using an installation adjustment chart wherein a plurality of patterns formed by white background and black vertical lines are arranged by shifting in a vertical direction so that the vertical lines continue horizontally only in a predetermined rectangular region that is elongated in a scan line direction of the line camera. |
| US10083359B2 |
Method and device for incident situation prediction
A method and device for incident situation prediction. Using the method, a list of objects of interest is generated and stored in a call controller, where each object of interest in the list of objects of interest is associated with at least one of a plurality of incident types. The call controller receives an image stream of an incident and classifies the image stream as one of the plurality of incident types. The call controller selects a subset of objects of interest from the list of objects of interest, the subset of objects of interest associated with the one of the plurality of incident types. The call controller determines whether the image stream includes an object from the subset of objects of interest and generates a notification associated with the object. The notification is transmitted to a set of incident scene devices associated with the incident. |
| US10083356B2 |
Virtualization of tangible interface objects
An example system includes a stand configured to position a computing device proximate to a physical activity surface. The system further includes a video capture device, a detector, and an activity application. The video capture device is coupled for communication with the computing device and is adapted to capture a video stream that includes an activity scene of the physical activity surface and one or more interface objects physically interactable with by a user. The detector is executable to detect motion in the activity scene based on the processing and, responsive to detecting the motion, process the video stream to detect one or more interface objects included in the activity scene of the physical activity surface. The activity application is executable to present virtual information on a display of the computing device based on the one or more detected interface objects. |
| US10083353B2 |
Identifying document forms using digital fingerprints
Techniques are disclosed to identify a form document in an image using a digital fingerprint of the form document. To do so, the image is evaluated to detect features of the image and generate a boundary around each feature. For each boundary, dimensions of the boundary may be stored in a color channel of a pixel in a second image. Thus, the color of the pixel represents the size of the boundary. The second image is the digital fingerprint of the form. To identify the form corresponding to the digital fingerprint, the digital fingerprint may be compared to digital fingerprints of known forms. |
| US10083347B2 |
Face identification using artificial neural network
Automated facial recognition is performed by operation of a convolutional neural network including groups of layers in which the first, second, and third groups include a convolution layer, a max-pooling layer, and a parametric rectified linear unit activation function layer. A fourth group of layers includes a convolution layer and a parametric rectified linear unit activation function layer. |
| US10083341B2 |
Cellular activity quantification using labeled probes
Methods and systems for quantifying cellular activity using labeled probes, e.g., quantum dots, are disclosed. In one example approach, a method for quantifying cellular activity in a sample containing intact cells having labeled complexes comprises receiving images of the sample at a plurality of depths and detecting individual intact cells in the images of the sample at the plurality of depths. For each detected cell, discrete labels may be detected and localized in the cell at each depth, a total number of detected and localized labels may be calculated in the cell, and an activity level of the target molecule for the labeled probe in the cell determined. |
| US10083334B2 |
Barcode reconstruction utilizing a sequence alignment matrix
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided reconstructing barcode signals utilizing sequence alignment matrices. A barcode signal is received that is associated with a portion of a barcode symbol and includes a sequence of bar elements and space elements in alternating order. A sequence alignment matrix (SAM) is built such that each row represents an element of an already reconstructed portion of the barcode symbol, each column represents an element of the received barcode signal sequence, and the potential alignments are placed on a plurality of diagonals thereof. A score is assigned to each matrix square that includes an element of the received barcode signal sequence and a diagonal score is calculated for each of the plurality of diagonals by summing the scores for each matrix square respectively comprising each of the plurality of diagonals. |
| US10083331B2 |
Positioning an object with respect to a target location
Systems and methods are provided for positioning an object with respect to a target location, such as for auto-focusing. One implementation includes a positioning device, which includes a reference object having a plurality of dark-shaded bars arranged in parallel with and separated from each other by spaces equal to a width of each of the bars. The positioning device also includes a motor configured to move in a reciprocating manner and a sensor configured to sense at least one of the bars or spaces. The motor is connected to the reference object or the sensor and moves the reference object or sensor with respect to the other. The motor is configured to stop at a target location in two phases of motion. |
| US10083329B2 |
Multi-protocol RFID system
A multi-protocol RFID interrogating system employs a synchronization technique (step-lock) for a backscatter RFID system that allows simultaneous operation of closely spaced interrogators. The multi-protocol RFID interrogating system can communicate with backscatter transponders having different output protocols and with active transponders including: Title 21 compliant RFID backscatter transponders; IT2000 RFID backscatter transponders that provide an extended mode capability beyond Title 21; EGO™ RFID backscatter transponders, SEGO™ RFID backscatter transponders; ATA, ISO, ANSI AAR compliant RFID backscatter transponders; and IAG compliant active technology transponders. The system implements a step-lock operation, whereby adjacent interrogators are synchronized to ensure that all downlinks operate within the same time frame and all uplinks operate within the same time frame, to eliminate downlink on uplink interference. |
| US10083328B1 |
Disposable wearable apparatus to track location
An apparatus, system and method to track location, the apparatus including: a substantially planar disposable housing comprising an electronics compartment; a secondary technology sensor disposed along a periphery of the disposable housing; an electronics module disposed within the electronics compartment, the electronics module comprising: a processor coupled to a memory; an RF transceiver coupled to an RF antenna and to the processor; a secondary technology transceiver coupled to the processor; and a battery coupled to the apparatus, wherein the battery is not field-replaceable. The apparatus may further include a marking to indicate a predetermined period of time that the apparatus is operable. Embodiments further include an unattended smart container to autonomously collect a plurality of the apparatus and to report status to a central monitor system. |
| US10083326B2 |
Method of accessing a physically secured rack and computer network infrastructure
A method of accessing a physically secured rack includes assigning a task identification by a key computer system, which specifies a task for an administrator of an administration user group for access to the rack, transmitting the task identification from the key computer system to the administrator and an access control unit for the rack, prompting an input of the task identification by the access control unit, verifying the input task identification by the access control unit, prompting input of a personal access identification of the administrators by the access control unit, verifying the input personal access identification of the administrator by the access control unit, and releasing a physical access security system for the access to the administrator to the rack if both preceding verification steps are successful. |
| US10083325B2 |
Secure removable storage for aircraft systems
Techniques are disclosed for securing backup operational data (e.g., of an aircraft) maintained by a line-replaceable unit (LRU) in a removable storage media device. The LRU generates a first encryption key. The LRU encrypts the operational data using the first encryption key. The LRU generates a second encryption key based on key data of at least a second LRU. The LRU encrypts the first encryption key using the second encryption key. |
| US10083318B2 |
Pattern matching for data leak prevention
Systems and methods for preprocessing data to facilitate DLP pattern matching are provided. An input string is received by a Data Leak Prevention (DLP) system. The input string is converted by the DLP system into a fixed string pattern. The conversion is performed based on multiple class definitions, including a digit class, a letter class and a symbol class. A determination is then made by the DLP system regarding whether the input string contains potential sensitive data to which a full-match is to be applied by matching the fixed string pattern against one or more stored target strings representative of sensitive data. |