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US10091914B2	Fan control device A rotation number deciding unit decides a rotation number of a cooling fan based on the result of detection by an intake air temperature sensor. A determining unit determines whether the degree of increase of intake air temperature is equal to or more than a threshold based on the result of detection by the intake air temperature sensor. When the determining unit determines the degree of increase of intake air temperature is equal to or more than the threshold, the controlling unit determines whether there is a possibility of occurrence of condensation based on the result of detection by the intake air temperature sensor and the result of detection by an intake air humidity sensor. When determining there is a possibility of occurrence of condensation, the controlling means causes the cooling fan to rotate at a rotation number lower than the rotation number decided by the rotation number deciding unit.
US10091911B2	Interface card cooling using heat pipes A device may have: a frame section having a cage with a first receiving portion and a second receiving portion, the second receiving portion receiving a module; a first plate having an end, the first plate being received by the first receiving portion; a heat pipe having a first end attached to the end of the first plate and having a second end; a second plate attached to the second end of the heat pipe; and a spring attached to the first plate to bias the first plate against the module, the first plate being capable of receiving heat dissipated by the module, the heat pipe being capable of receiving the heat received by the first plate and transferring the heat to the second plate, the second plate receiving the heat transferred by the heat pipe and dissipating the received heat.
US10091909B2	Method and device for cooling a heat generating component The invention relates to a cooling arrangement comprising a heat spreader (2) comprising a first surface (5), a second surface (8), at least one heat absorption chamber (9) and at least one heat dissipation chamber (10), the at least one heat absorption chamber (9) being in thermal contact with the first surface (5) and the at least one heat dissipation chamber (10) being in thermal contact with the second surface (8) and hydraulically coupled to the at least one heat absorption chamber (9). A cooling fluid (13) can be driven from the heat absorption chamber (9) to the heat dissipation chamber (10) using a plurality of flow patterns for cooling the first surface (5).
US10091908B2	Heat dissipation device and method of dissipating heat A heat dissipation device includes: a plurality of heat receiving members disposed on a plurality of electronic components mounted on a substrate; a plurality of heat pipes fixed to the respective heat receiving members; and a heat sink mounted on the substrate and includes a plurality of openings formed corresponding to the heat pipes, wherein the heat pipes are inserted in the respective openings, and an inner diameter of the openings in a perpendicular direction to a surface of the substrate is larger than a diameter of the heat pipes in the perpendicular direction to the surface of the substrate.
US10091903B2	Power conversion device having bus bar with improved vibration resistance To suppress reduction in resistance against vibrations, while reducing the number of components, a power conversion device including a power semiconductor module that converts a DC current into an AC current, a plate conductor that transfers the DC current or the AC current, a resin sealing material that seals the plate conductor, and an electric component that is used to control the power semiconductor module has the resin sealing material include a supporting member. The supporting member supports the electric component, and the plate conductor is buried in a portion of the resin sealing material that is disposed to face the electric component.
US10091897B2	Electronic devices with clips A portable electronic device may have a clip. The clip may be mounted to a housing using hinge structures. The hinge structures may bias the clip towards a closed position. The clip may be opened to attach the portable electronic device to an object. When in the closed position, the clip may lie flush with the exterior of the device housing. Clip biasing may be provided using a torsion spring, a coil spring, a ribbon spring, a clip with built-in biasing, a tension spring, or a compression spring. A coupling mechanism may be used to attach the clip to the housing. The coupling mechanism may include a ratcheting rotatable mechanism, a fixed attachment structure, a flexible attachment structure, a removable structure, or a structure that includes a spring bias adjustment mechanism. The device may have a button with a touch sensor array.
US10091892B2	Laser direct imaging system and method for solder mask exposure A laser direct imaging system includes a stage, a laser device and an oxygen-reducing device. The stage is subjected to an atmospheric pressure. The laser device is configured to provide a laser beam to scan across the substrate. The oxygen-reducing device operates simultaneously with the laser device for outputting an inert gas only to a specific area where the laser beam is being aimed such that any portion of the substrate, if enters the specific area, will be exposed to the laser beam under a low-oxygen environment.
US10091890B2	Process of producing a component and apparatus that produces a component A process of producing a component includes providing a substrate having an electrically conductive surface in the form of an electrically conductive layer; subdividing the layer with the aid of a scratching process into a first electrically autonomous region and a second electrically autonomous region, wherein an electrically insulating region is formed in the electrically conductive layer to electrically separate the electrically autonomous regions; forming an electrical potential difference between the first electrically autonomous region and the second electrically autonomous region; and applying an electrically charged substance or an electrically charged substance mixture onto the first electrically autonomous region and/or the second electrically autonomous region, wherein the electrically autonomous region and/or an amount of the applied electrically charged substance or of the electrically charged substance mixture are adjusted by the electrical potential difference.
US10091889B2	Process of producing a component and apparatus that produces a component A process of producing a component includes providing a substrate having an electrically conductive surface in the form of an electrically conductive layer; subdividing the layer with the aid of a laser process into a first electrically autonomous region and a second electrically autonomous region, wherein an electrically insulating region is formed in the electrically conductive layer to electrically separate the electrically autonomous regions; forming an electrical potential difference between the first electrically autonomous region and the second electrically autonomous region; and applying an electrically charged substance or an electrically charged substance mixture onto the first electrically autonomous region and/or the second electrically autonomous region, wherein the electrically autonomous region and/or an amount of the applied electrically charged substance or of the electrically charged substance mixture are adjusted by the electrical potential difference.
US10091888B2	Large-scale reconfigurable electronics using low cost nanoparticle ink printing method A method of manufacturing electronics using a nanoparticle ink printing method includes: synthesizing a phase change material (PCM) ink composition using hot injection to develop nanoparticles of the PCM; suspending the nanoparticles with a solvent; and printing a reconfigurable component using the PCM ink composition in additive manufacturing. Electronics includes: a substrate layer; an insulator layer printed on top of the substrate layer; a heater layer printed on top of the insulator layer; a barrier layer printed on top of one or more of the insulator layer and the heater layer; a phase change material (PCM) printed on top of the barrier layer; a connectivity layer printed on top of the PCM; and a passivation layer printed on top of one or more of the PCM and the connectivity layer.
US10091883B2	Dielectric filmless electronic module and method for manufacturing same The invention relates to an electronic module comprising a first metal layer including at least one contact pad or a conductive pad for connection or interconnection, an insulating layer that is electrically connected to the metal layer via a first surface, a second metal layer connected to the insulating layer on the opposite surface thereof, a chip location or an electronic chip electrically connected to the at least one contact pad through openings in the insulating layer, characterized in that the insulating layer is an adhesive.
US10091881B1	Connection structure between optical device and circuit substrate, and optical transmission apparatus using the same An optical device includes a connection pad, which is connected to a conductor pattern on the circuit substrate, at one edge. The connection pad includes one ground pad, and two or more signal pads between which the ground pad is interposed from its both sides. The ground pad includes a concave portion including an opening at the edge. The circuit substrate is provided with a metal columnar member in the conductor pattern to which the ground pad is connected. The conductor pattern and the connection pad are fixed to each other with solder in a state in which the columnar member is fitted into the concave portion. Solder, which gradually rises from the ground pattern to a lateral surface of the columnar member, is formed between the columnar member and the ground pattern that is formed in the flexible printed circuit.
US10091872B2	Touch window and display including the same Disclosed are a touch window and a display including the same. The touch window includes a substrate, and a sensing electrode provided on the substrate to detect a position. The sensing electrode includes first electrode parts extending in a first direction, second electrode parts extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and third electrode parts interposed between the first and second electrode parts while extending in a third direction crossing the first and second directions. The touch window includes a substrate, and an electrode part provided on the substrate to detect a position. The electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, an electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern. A length of the second sub-pattern is at least equal to longer than a length of one of first sub-patterns.
US10091869B1	Electronic device An electronic device includes a housing, a circuit board, and a conductive adhesive element tape. The circuit board has a first board surface facing the housing and a second board surface facing opposite the housing. The circuit board has a ground pad on the second board surface. The conductive adhesive element tape includes a first portion, a second portion, and a connection portion. The first portion is disposed between the first board surface and the housing. The first portion has a first adhesive surface and a first non-adhesive surface opposite to the first adhesive surface. The first adhesive surface adheres to the housing. The second portion has a second adhesive surface and a second non-adhesive surface opposite to the second adhesive surface. The second adhesive surface adheres to the ground pad. The connection portion connects the first portion and the second portion.
US10091852B2	Lighting system and methods for reducing noise at light sensing device A method may comprise: supplying light energy from a light emitting device principally along a first axis; sensing the light energy with a light sensing device oriented along a second axis, wherein the second axis is oriented substantially orthogonally to the first axis; and adjusting the light energy in response to the sensed light energy. In this way, an amount of retro-reflected light incident at the light sensing device may be reduced, measurement error of the light sensing device may be reduced, and control precision and reliability of the lighting system for curing a work piece can be increased.
US10091846B2	LED driving system and associated control method A LED driving system has an energy storage component receiving an input voltage, a power switch coupled between the energy storage component and a reference ground, a first output switch coupled between the energy storage component and a first output terminal, a second output switch coupled between the energy storage component and a second output terminal, and a control circuit, wherein the first output terminal produces a first output voltage to supply power for a first LED array, the second output terminal produces a second output voltage to supply power for a second LED array, the control circuit controls a duty cycle of the first output switch according to voltages at cathode terminals of multiple LED strings in the LED array and controls a duty cycle of the second output switch according to voltages at cathode terminals of multiple LED strings in the second LED array.
US10091844B2	Power supply for LED lamp with TRIAC dimmer A bleeder circuit is provided in a switched mode power supply (SMPS) that provides a compensation current when the loop current drops below the holding current of the TRIAC to alleviate light flickering problem. Further, automatic power factor correction is also provided in embodiments of the invention, which enables the output current to be in phase with the input voltage. The power factor correction not only improves the efficiency of the power supply, it can also reduce the compensation current and the duration in which compensation current flows, thereby reducing the power loss in the bleeder circuit.
US10091843B1	Christmas tree with DC outlets for powering LED light strings An artificial Christmas tree with substantially unfiltered, full wave rectified pulsating DC voltage supplied to a plurality of female outlets disposed on the outside of the trunk of the tree. Alternatively, a power distribution strip, mountable on the tree, provides the full wave rectified pulsating DC power. The female outlets of the pre-wired tree or the power distribution strip receive the male plugs of “naked” LED light strings, which do not have female end connector plugs or power conversion circuitry. The LED light strings have only two wires and are powered by the full wave rectified and substantially unfiltered pulsating DC voltage. Dimming circuitry may be provided to dim the light output of the LED light strings.
US10091833B2	Method and apparatus for controlling uplink transmission on discontinuous reception operation in wireless communication system A method for controlling uplink transmissions on discontinuous reception (DRX) operation, by a wireless device, in a wireless communication system, the method includes configuring a channel quality indicator (CQI) masking which indicates that channel state information is to be reported on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) while an onDurationTimer is running; determining, at a first subframe prior to a second subframe, whether or not the onDurationTimer is to be running at the second subframe according to whether or not a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is received at the first subframe; and controlling the uplink transmissions so as not to report the channel state information on the PUCCH at the second subframe if the onDurationTimer is determined, at the first subframe, to be not running at the second subframe, wherein the channel state information includes at least one of a CQI, a precoding matrix index (PMI).
US10091824B2	Method and arrangement in a communications network A method in a network node for adapting a Secondary cell, SCell, command to a user equipment, UE, is provided. The SCell command is one of a setup and release command. The network node adapts the SCell command by one of advancing and delaying the timing of sending said SCell command with respect to a start of a transmission occasion of disjoint signals on which one of the UE and the network node is performing at least one of a measurement, the disjoint signal is a signal that is not used for performing the measurement in every subframe, a data transmission, the disjoint signal is a signal that is not used for transmitting the data in every subframe, and a data reception, the disjoint signal is a signal that is not used for receiving the data reception in every subframe.
US10091817B2	Backoff mechanism for dynamic clear channel assessment (CCA) A wireless first device may receive a packet from another device from an overlapping basic service set (OBSS). A received power of the packet may be greater than a threshold for transmitting during the time of the packet. If the first device reduces its transmit power, the first device may increase the threshold. If the received power is less than the increased threshold, the first device may count down a backoff count during a transmission time or transmission opportunity of the packet. In some cases, after the transmission time or transmission opportunity, the first device may increase its transmission power. In some cases, the condition for counting down a backoff count may also include initiating or finishing the transmission during the transmission time or the transmission opportunity of the packet, or transmitting at the reduced power.
US10091816B2	Method and apparatus for timing maintenance under coverage enhancement mechanism Disclosed in the present application are a method and an apparatus for timing maintenance under a coverage enhancement mechanism. The method includes steps of determining a position in a time domain for the last repeated transmission over a timing-related physical channel; and determining a start time point for the timing in accordance with the determined position in the time domain. According to the present disclosure, the start time point for the timing is determined in accordance with the position in the time domain for the last repeated transmission over the timing-related physical channel.
US10091811B2	Apparatus, system and method of communicating over a data path Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating over a data path. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) device to generate a message including an indication of a plurality of communication resources and one or more availability type indications corresponding to the plurality of communication resources, an availability type indication corresponding to a communication resource is configured to indicate an availability mode of the NAN device to communicate data over a data path using the communication resource; and to transmit the message.
US10091806B2	Radio station and method of processing user data with radio station A radio station (1) includes a first part (1A) and a second part (1B). The second part (1B) can be arranged so as to be physically separated from the first part (1A) and is connected to the first part (1A) via a transmission line (40) so as to be able to communicate with the first part. Each of the first part (1A) and the second part (1B) includes a digital signal processing unit (11A, 11B) and is capable of alternatively performing digital signal processing for user data. An analog signal processing unit (13) arranged in the second part performs analog signal processing including at least one of frequency conversion and power amplification to provide an air interface to a mobile station.
US10091804B2	Communication processing device According to one embodiment, a communication processing device is provided which is mounted on a wireless communication device that performs communication using a first channel and performs communication by a communication scheme different from that of the first channel using a second channel. The communication processing device includes a control circuitry to determine whether or not transmission data is data that needs to be preferentially transmitted, specify at least one channel from the first channel and the second channel according to a determination result, and perform control so as to transmit the transmission data using the specified channel.
US10091801B2	Method and apparatus for transmission/reception of D2D signal A method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs) are provided. The method of a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method includes: receiving, at a transmission (Tx) UE, resource assignment information transmitted from an evolved NodeB (eNB), the resource assignment information being associated with a D2D discovery signal to be transmitted in a discovery period; determining, at the Tx UE, that a D2D discovery signal associated with a first discovery type and a D2D discovery signal associated with a second discovery type are to be transmitted in a first subframe included in the discovery period; and in the first subframe, transmitting the D2D discovery signal associated with the second discovery type and dropping the D2D discovery signal associated with the first discovery type.
US10091797B2	Differentiated adaptation of selection probabilities for frequency channel selection An access node (100) of a wireless communication network assigns a selection probability to each of a plurality of frequency channels. On the basis of the selection probabilities, the access node (100) randomly selects one of the frequency channels as current operating frequency channel of the access node (100). Further, the access node (100) determines a channel quality of the current operating frequency channel. In response to the channel quality of the current operating frequency channel complying with a configured selection criterion, the access node (100) maintains the current operating frequency channel. In response to the channel quality of the current operating frequency channel not complying with the configured selection criterion, the access node selects, randomly on the basis of the selection probabilities, a further one of the frequency channels for evaluation and compares a channel quality of the frequency channel selected for evaluation to the channel quality of the current operating frequency channel. In response to the channel quality of the frequency channel selected for evaluation being higher than the channel quality of the current operating frequency channel, the access node (100) sets the frequency channel selected for evaluation as new operating frequency channel of the access node (100). In response to the channel quality of the frequency channel selected for evaluation not being higher than the channel quality of the current operating frequency channel, the access node (100) maintains the current operating frequency channel and decrementing the selection probability assigned to the frequency channel selected for evaluation.
US10091794B2	Inference alignment (IA) method for uplink in wireless local area network (WLAN) system, access point (AP) and user terminal for performing the same An interference alignment (AI) method for an uplink in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system, an access point (AP) and a user terminal for performing the same, and the AP that may select an interference space, broadcast information on the selected interference space, select a user terminal to be assigned a data transmission opportunity based on leakage of interference (LIF) information received from at least one user terminal, receive data from the user terminal, and decode the data using a minimum square error (MMSE) based receiving filter.
US10091789B2	Re-contention-based co-existence on a shared communication medium Techniques for managing re-contention on a shared communication medium are disclosed. In order to facilitate re-contending for access to the communication medium, an access point may adjust one or more uplink transmission parameters associated with a triggering condition for invoking a contention timer. In addition or as an alternative, the access point may mute transmission on the communication medium during one or more symbol periods designated for transmission. In addition or as an alternative, the access point may configure a timing advance to create a re-contention gap.
US10091787B2	Remote distributed antenna system A distributed antenna system is provided that frequency shifts the output of one or more microcells to a 60 GHz or higher frequency range for transmission to a set of distributed antennas. The cellular band outputs of these microcell base station devices are used to modulate a 60 GHz (or higher) carrier wave, yielding a group of subcarriers on the 60 GHz carrier wave. This group will then be transmitted in the air via analog microwave RF unit, after which it can be repeated or radiated to the surrounding area. The repeaters amplify the signal and resend it on the air again toward the next repeater. In places where a microcell is required, the 60 GHz signal is shifted in frequency back to its original frequency (e.g., the 1.9 GHz cellular band) and radiated locally to nearby mobile devices.
US10091782B2	Data communication method, station, and system A data communication method and system are provided. In the method, a station sends sequence numbers to at least two APs, where the sequence numbers indicate a sequence in which the APs respond to the station. The station broadcasts a wake-up message to the at least two APs. The station receives acknowledgement messages sequentially returned by the at least two APs according to the sequence numbers of the APs. The station determines according to the sequentially returned acknowledgement messages, whether the corresponding APs need to transmit the downlink data. The station sequentially completes, according to the sequence numbers, downlink data transmission with the APs.
US10091773B2	Method for transceiving signal based on dynamic change of wireless resource in wireless communications system and apparatus therefor The present application discloses a method for enabling a terminal to transceive a signal with a base station in a TDD (Time Division Duplex) communications system. Specifically, the method includes the steps of: receiving reference sub-frame set information through the system information and active sub-frame set information through dynamic signaling; receiving an uplink grant for transmitting an uplink signal in a downlink sub-frame defined in the active sub-frame set information; judging the effectiveness of a particular uplink sub-frame for transmitting the uplink signal commanded by the uplink grant; and transmitting the uplink signal to the base station if the particular uplink sub-frame is effective.
US10091772B2	Method and apparatus for channel state information measurement in a wireless communication system Methods and apparatuses are disclosed to measure channel state information in a wireless communication system. The method includes selecting a subframe to be a reference resource for a channel state information (CSI) report on a Secondary Cell (SCell), in which the subframe is not a downlink (DL) subframe or a special subframe whose downlink portion is longer than a threshold on a Primary Cell (PCell). The method further includes executing a handling.
US10091770B2	Method of transmitting control signals in wireless communication system A method of transmitting control signals in a wireless communication system includes multiplexing a first control signal with a second control signal in a slot, the slot comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in time domain, the plurality of OFDM symbols being divided into a plurality of data OFDM symbols and a plurality of reference signal (RS) OFDM symbols, wherein the first control signal is mapped to the plurality of data OFDM symbols after the first control signal is spread by a base sequence in the frequency domain, the RS is mapped to the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, the second control signal is mapped to at least one of the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, and transmitting the first control signal and the second control signal in the slot.
US10091766B2	Interference cancellation/suppression in TDD wireless communications systems A wireless user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink transmission from a base station in a first subframe of a first subframe configuration, and determine that a neighboring base station is operating according to a second subframe configuration. The UE may modify interference operations for the downlink transmission in the first subframe based on the determination to account for the neighboring base station operating according to the different subframe configuration. Modifying interference operations may include, for example, skipping interference operations, applying different interference operations to a subframe or a portion of a subframe, or a combination thereof. Modifying interference operations may be based on one or more characteristics of the neighboring base station communications.
US10091763B2	Paging in coverage extension mode A method for supporting paging of user terminals by a base station that supports first and second paging modes, the second paging mode providing extended coverage relative to the first paging mode and using more resources than the first paging mode is provided. The method includes determining that the second paging mode is needed for a user terminal, and then initiating paging of the user terminal according to the second paging mode, in response to the determining. In some embodiments, the node is a mobility management node, and initiating paging of the user terminal includes sending, to the base station, a message ordering the base station to page the user terminal according to the second paging mode. In other embodiments, the node is the base station, and initiating paging includes transmitting one or more paging messages using a message format corresponding to the second paging mode.
US10091758B2	Method for reporting measurement result for determining position in wireless communication system, and device therefor A method for reporting a measurement report for determining a position in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, is performed by a terminal and may comprise the steps of: receiving positioning reference signal (PRS)-related information comprising a position identifier of each of a plurality of base stations; performing a measurement on the PRSs transmitted by each of the plurality of base stations; if the position identifiers of each of the plurality of base stations are identical to each other, selecting at least one measurement result among the measurement results for the PRSs; and reporting the selected measurement result to a serving base station.
US10091757B2	Base-station control apparatus and position estimation method A base-station control apparatus includes: a sub-anchor candidate selector that selects sub-anchor candidates from base-station apparatuses different from a first base-station apparatus connected to a wireless terminal; an arrival-direction estimator that estimates arrival direction vectors with respect to the first base-station apparatus and the candidates, based on reception qualities of signals that the first base-station apparatus and the candidates receives from the wireless terminal; a sub-anchor selector that selects a sub-anchor from the candidates, based on angles made by the estimated arrival direction vectors and line segments each having end points at positions of the first base-station apparatus and the corresponding candidate; and a position estimator that estimates a position of the wireless terminal, based on the arrival direction vectors with respect to the first base-station apparatus and the sub-anchor.
US10091747B2	Signal amplifying device, method for controling signal amplifying device and method for identifying signal amplifying device A signal amplifying device and methods for control a signal amplifying device and for identifying a signal amplifying device are provided. The device includes: a baseband module, a user identification module interface, return side RF modules and antennas, access side RF modules and antennas. The return side antenna receives a downlink signal, which is transmitted to a corresponding access side RF module and the baseband module. An uplink signal is received by the access side antenna, which is transmitted to a corresponding return side RF module and the baseband module. The baseband module is adapted to process the uplink/downlink signal, control synchronization of the return side RF module and the access side RF module and control turning on and off of the same, read a user information. Accordingly, a cellular network can control a micro-power repeater effectively, and further more functionality can be added and performance can be improved.
US10091746B2	Synchronization source device for synchronization coverage extension and method and system using the same A synchronization source device includes a receiving circuit, a timing adjusting circuit and a transmitting circuit. The receiving circuit receives a first synchronization signal from an Evolved Node B (eNB). The timing adjusting circuit adjusts, according to a timing indicator, a timing of transmission of a second synchronization signal in response to the first synchronization signal, wherein a timing of the second synchronization signal is corresponding to a timing of the first synchronization signal. The transmitting circuit transmits the timing indicator as well as the second synchronization signal based on the adjusted timing of transmission.
US10091741B2	Power control method and device, and parameter transmission method A power control method and a power control device for terminal device-to-device communications, and a parameter transmission method includes: determining at least one terminal which is outside a base station coverage range and interferes with a base station; acquiring, by the base station, signal strength information about a measurement signal sent by each terminal of the at least one terminal when the measurement signal reaches the base station, and configuring a corresponding power control parameter for each terminal according to the signal strength information; and sending, by the base station, the corresponding power control parameter of each terminal to a synchronization source terminal within the base station coverage range corresponding to each terminal, so as to send the power control parameter to a corresponding terminal by the synchronization source terminal, so that each terminal conducts power control using the corresponding power control parameter.
US10091739B2	Adjusting power of a control channel based on a characteristic of a message in the control channel An entity, such as a base station, in a wireless communications network performs power control of a control channel based on one or more characteristics of a message in the control channel. For example, the control channel can be a paging channel. The one or more characteristics include, as examples, the size and/or the type of message in the control channel.
US10091736B2	Method of controlling uplink signal transmission power and apparatus thereof The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for allocating or controlling transmission power when a User Equipment (UE) transmits uplink signals. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus capable of multiplexing uplink channels or signals from identical base station (e.g., eNB) or between different base stations when the UE transmits various kinds of channels or signals to an uplink in a dual connectivity environment for transmission to or reception from different base stations. The present disclosure provides a method of controlling uplink transmission power by an UE. The method may include determining a maximum uplink transmission power with respect to each cell group of multiple cell groups each including at least one of serving cells, and transmitting uplink channels and uplink signals of each of the multiple cell groups using a maximum uplink transmission power of each one of the multiple cell groups.
US10091735B2	Systems and methods for power control in wireless networks Embodiments are provided for adjusting a transmission power level at a user equipment (UE). An embodiment method by a network includes sending, to the UE, a first indication for a transmission power level. The transmission power level is for a transmission from the UE to a base station. The method further includes sending a second indication for the transmission power to the base station. The UE receives the indication for the transmission power level, and applies the transmission power level on uplink from the UE to the base station. The UE is located between the base station and a radio node and transmits on uplink to the base station and the radio node.
US10091732B2	Enhanced power conservation for mobile devices A mobile phone initially probes while in an open-loop mode with an estimated power level based on the received power level from a base station. If a response is not received, power is incremented, and a subsequent probe is sent. The process is repeated until a response is received or when maximum power is reached. If a response is still not received, the mobile phone tests for changing its location state. When BTS probes are unsuccessful and maximum power is reached, available sensors are sampled and tested for a change of state, e.g., by way of an inclinometer, an accelerometer, a magnetometer, a GPS, standard 802.11, or employing a Bluetooth, and the like. If no state change is detected, a delay block is entered, reducing the probing rate and the power consumption rate. If a state change is detected, the delay block is bypassed and probing resumes immediately.
US10091727B2	User equipment and access node and respective methods A user equipment (UE) for which an analog beamforming scheme is applied and a measuring method performed by the UE are provided. Also an access node (AN) and a method performed by the AN are provided. The measuring method performed by the UE comprising: transmitting, to a serving access node, a measurement request for measuring a neighboring access node that is working at a same frequency as the user equipment; receiving, from the serving access node, information related to a series of measurement time gaps; and after a delay, performing a measurement to the neighboring access node within the series of measurement time gaps.
US10091726B2	Method and apparatus for operating based on power save mode in wireless LAN Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for operating based on a power save mode in a wireless LAN. The method for operating based on the power save mode in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: switching an STA from a sleep mode to an active mode after the STA has been switched to a power save mode based on a listen interval, to receive a first beacon frame transmitted by an AP; monitoring a frame for the STA transmitted by the AP until a timer started when the STA is switched to the active mode expires, when the first beacon frame indicates data buffered for the STA; and switching the STA to the sleep mode after the timer expires, wherein the timer can be reset when the frame is transmitted.
US10091723B2	System enhancements for using extended DRX Methods and apparatus may be used for selecting power saving mechanisms in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). For example, a WTRU may support at least power saving mode (PSM) and/or extended discontinuous reception (eDRX) mode. The WTRU may send a request message including parameters associated with the supported power saving mechanisms, such as an active time for PSM and a preferred DRX value for eDRX mode. The WTRU may receive an accept message including at least one selected parameter indicating the power saving mechanism for the WTRU selected by the network (NW). The WTRU may activate the selected power saving mechanism, and may start a validity timer to define the duration of use of the selected power saving mechanism. In another example, a WTRU configured to use eDRX may receive paging signals for system information (SI) change over a prolonged Broadcast Control Channel (BCCH) modification period.
US10091718B2	System and method for wireless network selection In one embodiment, a method for wireless network selection includes obtaining, by a user equipment (UE) from a visitor access network discovery and selection function (V-ANDSF) server, a visitor policy and creating a wireless local area network (WLAN) priority list in accordance with the visitor policy, a home policy, and a priority indicator. The method also includes selecting a WLAN from the priority list as a selected network.
US10091717B2	Enabling coexistence between wireless networks and radar systems A method includes determining information about a radiation pattern of a radar beam that uses a bandwidth. Based on the information, a determination is made whether a channel using at least a portion of the bandwidth is or is not available for access by mobile devices. A transmission is performed to the mobile devices of one or more specific broadcast frames configured to advertise whether the channel is or is not available for access by the mobile devices. Another method includes receiving one or more specific broadcast frames configured to advertise whether a channel is or is not available for access, wherein the channel uses at least a portion of bandwidth used by a radar beam. The channel is or is not accessed based on the one or more specific broadcast frames. The access can be contention-based or contention-free. Apparatus and program products are also disclosed.
US10091716B2	Method for performing measurement and terminal A method for a user equipment (UE) performing measurements is provided. The UE performs measurements for a first cell and measurements for a second cell. If the first cell corresponds to a primary cell, a first measurement subframe pattern is applied to perform the measurement for the first cell. If the second cell does not correspond to the primary cell and if the second cell is in a deactivated state, a measurement timing configuration for a discovery signal is applied to perform the measurement for the second cell.
US10091714B2	Enabling channel reuse for selective BSS A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a station. The apparatus may be configured to receive, on a channel, a packet from a wireless device. The apparatus may configured to determine a BSSID or a color associated with the received packet. The apparatus may be configured to determine whether to defer transmissions on the channel based on the determined BSSID or the determined color associated with the packet and an indication. The indication may include a list of BSSIDs or color information.
US10091712B2	Communication device, method for controlling communication device, and program A communication device includes a reception unit, first and second determination units, and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives a search request signal transmitted from another communication device. The first determination unit determines whether the communication device executes a specific protocol. The second determination unit determines whether information indicating the specific protocol is added to the received request signal. The transmission unit does not transmit a response to the received search request signal, when the communication device executes the specific protocol and the information is not added, or when the communication device does not execute the specific protocol and the information is added, and transmits the response when the communication device executes the specific protocol and the information is added or when the communication device does not execute the specific protocol and the information is not added, based on the determinations made by the first and second determination units.
US10091708B2	Method and an entity for processing a message Disclosed is a processing method for processing a received message coming from a first device and sent to a second device managed by a multimedia IP core network, the method being for implementation by a processor entity when the received message is a message for discovering the capabilities and the status of the second device. In some embodiments, the processing method comprises obtaining an identifier of the first device from a field in the received discovery message and acting as a function of said identifier to select a response mode for responding to the received discovery message, the mode being selected from a predefined set containing at least two response modes.
US10091706B2	Network access method and mobile communications terminal A network access method includes: determining with a mobile communications terminal if a network identity of a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN) exists in an equivalent public land mobile network (EPLMN) list, obtaining a shared network information stored in an operator's server and searching for the network identity of the VPLMN from the shared network information upon a condition that the network identity of the VPLMN does not exist in the EPLMN list, adding the network identity of the VPLMN to the EPLMN list, and accessing a network based on the EPLMN list.
US10091704B2	Radio communication system and radio base station A radio communication system includes a first radio base station including a terminal communicator which communicates with a radio terminal and a connection timing controller which starts waiting for connection in station-to-station communication when the terminal communicator has established a communication link with the radio terminal, a second radio base station including a connector which, upon detecting the base station waiting for connection in station-to-station communication, establishes connection with the base station in the station-to-station communication and a connection timing controller which, when the connector has detected the base station, starts waiting for connection in station-to-station communication, and a third radio base station including a connector which, upon detecting the base station waiting for connection in station-to-station communication, establishes connection with the second base station in the station-to-station communication. The second base station further includes a relay which relays communication between the first base station and the third base station.
US10091703B2	Relay apparatus A relay apparatus connected to communication lines to perform data relay between the communication lines is provided. The relay apparatus includes a receiver unit that receives rewrite information, which includes information for changing setting of the relay apparatus, from a source apparatus via any of the communication lines, a setting changer unit that changes the setting of the relay apparatus in accordance with the rewrite information, and a change information sending unit that sends the rewrite information to another relay apparatus existing in a local network.
US10091698B2	Inter-radio access technology handover method, corresponding device, and communications system An embodiment of the present invention provides a handover method, and embodiments of the present invention further provide a coordinator, a serving node, a target node, and a corresponding communications system. The method includes acquiring measurement results of a plurality of neighboring cells of a serving cell where a user equipment UE is located; acquiring information reflecting a load condition of at least one neighboring cell among the plurality of neighboring cells; and performing a handover decision according to the measurement results of the plurality of neighboring cells and the information reflecting the load condition of the at least one neighboring cell among the plurality of neighboring cells.
US10091695B2	Method for assigning and managing reference signals in a multi-cell environment, and network device and terminal for applying the method A method of assigning and managing reference signals in a multi-cell environment, and a network device and a terminal for applying the method, are provided. Reference signal patterns may be assigned to multiple femtocells through a long term coordination of a central control unit that is used to control multiple cells.
US10091692B2	Preserving mobile network session data during radio access technology handover An example gateway device determines that a first policy, applicable to a subscriber device when the subscriber device is coupled to a first access network, indicates that packets from the subscriber device are to be sent to a service device, and forwards a first set of packets from the subscriber device to the service device while the subscriber device is coupled to the first access network. After determining that the subscriber device has become coupled to a second access network of the plurality of access networks, the gateway device determines that a second policy, for the subscriber device when the subscriber device is coupled to the second access network, does not indicate that packets should be sent to the service device, but nevertheless forwards a second set of packets from the subscriber device to the service device while the subscriber device is coupled to the second access network.
US10091690B2	Architecture and methods for traffic management by tunneling in hierarchical cellular networks A hierarchical cellular network system having a core and comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein at least one node comprises a relay; and wherein at least one relay includes: a tunneling sub-system; a backhauling link subsystem interfacing between the tunneling subsystem and a node which is closer to the core than the relay; and a base station subsystem, interfacing between the tunneling subsystem and a mobile station or a node which is further from the core than the relay, wherein the tunneling subsystem is operative to perform the following, on data arriving from a base station subsystem belonging to another node from among the plurality of nodes: collecting the data; and encapsulating the results to be sent in an individual session into packets and sending the packets to the Backhauling Link Subsystem.
US10091686B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving status report comprising received status of packet data in a mobile communication system A method for transmitting packet data units Packet Data Units (PDUs) at a PDU transmitter in a communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a first PDU comprising a PDU header and a data portion, receiving Negative Acknowledgement NACK information for the first PDU, segmenting the first PDU to form one or more PDU segments if a size of a second PDU for retransmission is smaller than a size of the first PDU, wherein each of the one or more PDU segment comprises a PDU segment header and a data portion, and transmitting the one or more PDU segment to a PDU receiver.
US10091685B2	Method of adapting a network readiness for downloading video data The invention describes a method of adapting a network readiness (850) for downloading video data comprising the steps of: determining a download quality for downloading video data; determining whether the download quality is above or below a defined quality threshold value (890); adapting a network capacity and/or a video quality depending on the result of the determination of the download quality such that the download quality is above the defined quality threshold value (890). The invention further relates to a corresponding first network system, second network system and a communication system. It's a basic idea of the present invention to provide a method and corresponding devices or systems which enable a control of the network readiness (850) of a communication network with respect to the download of video data in order guaranty a defined download quality.
US10091683B1	Method and system for dynamic bearer configuration based on quantity of served relay base stations A gateway or other entity will detect when the number of relay base stations served by a relay-WCD changes and will responsively modify a configuration of a bearer that extends between the relay-WCD and the gateway. For instance, in response to detecting an increase in the number of relay base stations served by the relay-WCD, the entity could increase a guaranteed minimum bit rate and/or other quality of service level of the bearer. Or in response to detecting a decrease in the number of relay base stations served by the relay-WCD, the entity could decrease a guaranteed minimum bit rate and/or other quality of service level of the bearer.
US10091681B2	Mobile terminals and methods for performing a measurement A mobile terminal is described comprising a detector configured to detect an event which may trigger a change of a measurement gap configuration for the mobile terminal; a determiner configured to determine, upon detecting the event, whether the measurement gap configuration for the mobile terminal after the event is suitable for a measurement to be performed; and a signaling circuit configured to request a measurement gap reconfiguration if the measurement gap configuration is not suitable for the measurement.
US10091677B2	Technique for testing LTE-advanced carrier aggregation receiver characteristics An approach for testing LTE-Advanced CA receiver characteristics for 3DL CA and beyond, wherein the approach facilitates the limiting of test resources, such as test time, while at the same time optimizing test coverage is provided. A one non-measured downlink carrier, from a set of downlink (DL) carriers, is established as a primary component carrier. A first DL carrier and a second DL carrier, from the set of DL carriers, are established as secondary component carriers. Test measurements for the first DL carrier and the second DL carrier are simultaneously performed. The set of DL carriers forms one of a 3DL, 4DL and 5DL CA operating band set comprising at least three downlink carriers.
US10091674B2	Location determination method and location determination system for sensor apparatus placements in building A location determining method 200 for sensor apparatus placements in building includes: a step in which a first measuring device transmits a digitally modulated first test packet through a specific channel at a first location in a building (210); a step in which a second measuring device receives the first test packet and transmits a first echo back signal through the specific channel at a second location in the building (220); a step in which the first measuring device receives the first echo back signal transmitted from the second measuring device and measures a first channel quality of the specific channel based on the first echo back signal (230); a step in which the first measuring device transmits a digitally modulated second test packet through the specific channel (240); a step in which the second measuring device receives the second test packet and transmits a second echo back signal through the specific channel (250); and a step in which the first measuring device receives the second echo back signal transmitted from the second measuring device and measures a second channel quality of the specific channel based on the second echo back signal (260).
US10091670B2	System and measurement method for a dedicated short-range communication on-vehicle coverage system A computerized method characterizes a dedicated short-range communications (DSRC) system that includes at least one DSRC device for use with a vehicle-to-vehicle communication system. The method includes positioning a vehicle under test (VUT) with the DSRC system at a first location and positioning a DSRC instrumentation antenna at a second location spaced apart from the first location. The method includes varying an azimuth angle between the DSRC device and the instrumentation antenna by performing a rotation of the VUT in place at the first location or the instrumentation antenna in a circular path about the first location. The method includes, for multiple azimuth angles, testing receive performance of the DSRC system by transmitting DSRC packets through the instrumentation antenna to the DSRC system, estimating an error rate indicating a level of success of DSRC packets being received by the DSRC system, and recording the error rate for each angle.
US10091664B2	System and methods for unobtrusively and relocateably extending communication coverage and supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) activities Exemplary apparatuses and methods are provided associated with an unobtrusive router/relay system (URRS) configured to communicate with a plurality of radio frequency (RF) systems including a first radio frequency (RF) system (e.g. a cell phone, RF system carried or used by an individual or team, etc.), other URRS systems (which each include a second RF receiver/transmitter), and an RF communication's hub (e.g. cell tower, tethered UAV, control center, etc.). Locations are identified for a specific location or number of locations along a transit path where the RF communication's hub lacks transmit/receive coverage with the first RF system. URRS are positioned in the locations or transit path lacking RF communication hub transmit/receive coverage. The exemplary URRS are configured to route/relay the first RF system's signals to the RF communications' hub directly or through one or more other URRS systems. URRS are designed to blend with their surroundings.
US10091661B2	Method for receiving a discovery signal from a LAA based cell One disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving a discovery signal from a license assisted access (LAA) based cell operating in an unlicensed band. The method may be performed by a user equipment (UE) and comprise: receiving a discovery signal measurement timing configuration (DMTC) including information on a periodicity of the DMTC and information on an occasion duration of a discovery signal. Here, if the UE operate in a bandwidth of 10 Mhz, the occasion duration may include a first subframe and a second subframe. The method may comprise: performing a cell detection for the LAA based cell operating in the unlicensed band, on the first subframe of the occasion duration; and performing measurements for the LAA based cell operating in the unlicensed band, on the second subframe of the occasion duration.
US10091657B2	Method for determining validity of base station and electronic device supporting the same A disclosed electronic device includes a processor, a memory, and a communication circuit that receives system information about at least one cell of a communication network from a base station. The processor is configured to determine whether the base station is a valid component of the communication network based on one or more cell allocation values included in the system information.
US10091656B1	Wireless system utilizing generic wireless devices in a controlled environment A generic wireless device management system and a method for operating the management system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The enterprise management system includes a generic wireless device and a generic provisioning server. The generic wireless device, which is initially in a generic blank state, coordinates with the generic provisioning server to authenticate an inmate and to load an inmate profile. After loading the inmate profile, the generic wireless device provides access to content specific to the inmate. After the inmate signs out of the generic wireless device, the generic wireless device is returned to a generic blank state.
US10091655B2	System and methods for UICC-based secure communication A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, instructions which when executed cause a device processor to perform operations comprising sending a service request to a remote management server; receiving from the management server an authentication management function and an encryption key generator for execution by a secure element and an encryption engine for execution by a secure device processor, sending a request to establish a communication session with a remote device; and communicating with the remote device via a channel established using an application server. The secure element and the secure device processor authenticate each other using a mutual authentication keyset. The secure element, the secure device processor and the device processor each have a security level associated therewith; the security level associated with the secure device processor is intermediate between that of the secure element and that of the device processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10091652B2	Relay device According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a relay device for use in near field communication (NFC) transactions is provided, said relay device comprising a communication unit, wherein said communication unit comprises an NFC controller and a wireless communication controller which are operatively connected to each other through a physical interface, said NFC controller being arranged to establish communication with an NFC-enabled device that is external to the relay device, and said wireless communication controller being arranged to establish communication with a wireless device that is external to the relay device, wherein the communication unit is arranged to relay transaction data between the NFC-enabled device and the wireless device. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method for facilitating near field communication (NFC) transactions is conceived. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding non-transitory, tangible computer program product is provided.
US10091651B2	Remote authentication through reconfigurable boson samplers Techniques for remote authentication using reconfigurable boson samplers are provided. In one aspect, a method for remote authentication includes the steps of: providing an input photon configuration for an optical transmission network; receiving a response including measured output quantum photon coincidence frequencies from the optical transmission network based on the input photon configuration; comparing the measured output quantum photon coincidence frequencies to output quantum photon coincidence probabilities calculated for the optical transmission network; and verifying the response if the measured output quantum photon coincidence frequencies matches the output quantum photon coincidence probabilities calculated for the optical transmission network with less than a predetermined level of error, otherwise un-verifying the response. A verification system including an optical transmission network is also provided.
US10091645B1	Handling mobile device administration in anchorless mobile networks A method in an access node of a Mobile network. The method comprises: maintaining, by the access node, device administration data pertaining to a mobile electronic device, the device administration data including at least one statistic pertaining to traffic to and from the mobile electronic device, and at least one rule for controlling an operation of the mobile electronic device; updating, by the access node, the at least one statistic based on the traffic to and from the mobile electronic device; enforcing, by the access node, the at least one rule based on the at least one statistic; and synchronizing, by the access node, the device administration data pertaining to the mobile electronic device with corresponding second device administration data maintained by a second access node of the Mobile network.
US10091643B2	Method and apparatus for displaying associated information in electronic device Provided is a method for displaying counterpart-associated information in an electronic device. The method for displaying associated information in an electronic device may include: finding, when a function associated with a specific counterpart is executed, information that is stored so as to be mapped with identification information of the counterpart; and displaying at least of the found information and an item for the found information. The found information may include at least one of communication log information for a video or voice call with the counterpart, schedule or memo information related to the counterpart, voice information collected during a call with the counterpart, and social content information related to the counterpart.
US10091641B2	Method and apparatus for supporting local gateway service for dual connectivity in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for indicating support of a local gateway (L-GW) in a wireless communication system is provided. A master evolved NodeB (MeNB) in dual connectivity receives an indication of L-GW support from a secondary eNB (SeNB) in dual connectivity, which is co-located with the L-GW, and transmit the indication of L-GW support of the SeNB to a mobility management entity (MME). The indication of L-GW support may include a local Internet protocol access (LIPA) L-GW transport layer address or a selected IP traffic offload (SIPTO) L-GW transport layer address.
US10091640B2	Method and apparatus for performing registration to NAN proxy server in wireless communication system The present specification relates to a method for a NAN proxy client to perform registration to a NAN proxy server in a wireless communication system. The method for a NAN proxy client to perform registration to a NAN proxy server may comprising: transmitting a subscribe message regarding proxy service search to the NAN proxy server; receiving a publish message from the NAN proxy server; transmitting a proxy registration request message to the NAN proxy server on the basis of proxy service; and receiving a proxy registration response message on the basis of the proxy registration request message.
US10091638B2	Systems and methods for reducing connection latency Systems and methods for reducing connection latency are described herein. More particularly, this specification relates to shortening connection latency between devices operating according to a Bluetooth protocol. Connection latency can be reduced by using the receipt of a wireless packet as a trigger for selectively accelerating a transmission rate of advertising packets. By selectively accelerating the transmission rate advertising packets, a connection interval between two devices can be shortened.
US10091636B2	Probe messaging for direct link connections There lies a challenge to develop a technique of effectively establishing a direct communication link between client devices in a communication network. In some implementations, an associated STA is a client device which is associated with a particular access point (AP). A non-associated STA is a client device which is not associated with the AP. A tunneled probe request may be transmitted by an associated STA through the AP to be broadcast to other associated STAs. In some implementations, an active scan may be combined with a tunneled probe request in order to establish a communication link between an associated STA and a non-associated STA.
US10091631B2	Method of transmitting and receiving signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of receiving a downlink signal by a machine type communication user equipment (MTC UE) in a wireless communication system can comprise obtaining frequency hopping information on a plurality of subbands included in a downlink band and repeatedly receiving the downlink signal via different subbands based on the frequency hopping information. In this case, the downlink band includes ⌊ N RB 6 ⌋ number of subbands each configured as 6 resource block (RB) size and ‘NRB’ corresponds to a size of the downlink band. If a remaining band which does not belong to the ⌊ N RB 6 ⌋ number of subbands and is smaller than 6 RB size exists in the downlink band, at least one of a lowest index RB, a highest index RB and an intervening RB between subband groups in the downlink band may be configured as the remaining band.
US10091628B2	Message based application state and card sharing methods for user devices A method of sharing a state of an application or a card from a first user device to a second user device is provided. The card is representative of the state. The method includes: receiving, at a processor of the first user device, a user share input; in response to the user share input, determining app state information; generating a data object representative of the state or the card based on the app state information; generating share and destination requests; selecting a share method and a destination link based on responses to the share and destination requests; formatting the data object to generate a message; and transmitting the message to the second user device based on the share method and the destination link. The application is executed on the processor. The transmitting of the message shares the state or the card with the second user device.
US10091627B2	Text message handshaking and integration Message handshaking and integration may be provided. A message may be created by a client in a first format. The client may determine whether a server in communication with the client is operable to deliver the message in a second format. If so, the client may provide the message, in the first format, to the server for delivering to at least one recipient in the second format.
US10091625B2	Systems and methods for establishing a personal basic service set (PBSS) over a wireless network to facilitate peer-to-peer group communication Certain embodiments herein relate to establishing a personal basic service set (PBSS) before negotiating formation of a peer-to-peer group. A device may discover candidate devices on a wireless network (e.g., operating in the sixty (60) Gigahertz (GHz) range), and may select a target device among the candidate devices with which to engage for establishing the PBSS and forming the peer-to-peer group. A time limit may be implemented for forming the peer-to-peer group, after which time the device or the target device may disengage and discover other devices with which they may engage to form a peer-to-peer group using a PBSS. Devices may conserve power during communication of peer-to-peer messages by virtue of using a PBSS to facilitate the peer-to-peer group formation, among other benefits.
US10091624B2	Data providing system Each of data receiving devices 20 includes a receiver 22 configured to receive data from a data providing device 10, and a transmitter 21 configured to transmit throughput information indicating a current position and a throughput, to the data providing device 10. The data providing device 10 includes: a receiver 11 configured to receive pieces of the throughput information; a planning unit 12 configured to, on the basis of the received pieces of throughput information, determine preceding data receiving devices 20 existing at positions preceding the current position of a target data receiving device 20 on the same route, and generate a data providing plan for the target data receiving device 20 on the basis of the throughputs of the preceding data receiving devices 20; and a transmitter 13 configured to provide data to the target data receiving device 20 in accordance with the generated data providing plan.
US10091621B2	Method for deployment, deployment destination identification program, and deployment system A method for deployment, the method includes acquiring a history of stay time of a terminal which stayed in a provision domain that each of plurality of information processing devices provides the service from the each of plurality of the information processing devices that provides the service to the terminal, deciding, depending on a movement of a first terminal, the information processing device, which provides the service to the first terminal, among a plurality of information processing devices that the first terminal is located in the provision domain, based on a communication time about the communication with the terminal and a ratio at a shift time, which needs for a shift of the information about the service between the information processing devices, for the stay time of the provision domain that the first terminal is located that is acquired based on the history of the stay time.
US10091617B2	Location based discovery of real-time merchant device activity Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for consumer interfaces including ambient map displays are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate a consumer interface including an ambient map display with a graphical representation of a map. The ambient map display may further include merchant location indicators within the map. The merchant location indicators may indicate the activity level for merchant locations that are determined to be near a consumer device, such as through a variable blink rate or other indicator. The activity level may represent, for example, the number of consumers at a particular venue or the rate of a particular consumer activity, such as transaction activity. The system may be configured to provide real-time merchant data to consumer device based on tracking the consumer device location.
US10091616B2	Angle of arrival (AOA) positioning method and system for positional finding and tracking objects using reduced attenuation RF technology Systems and methods for determining user equipment (UE) locations within a wireless network using reference signals of the wireless network are described. The disclosed systems and methods utilize a plurality of in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) samples generated from signals provided by receive channels associated with two or more antennas of the wireless system. Based on received reference signal parameters the reference signal within the signals from each receive channel among the receive channels is identified. Based on the identified reference signal from each receive channel, an angle of arrival between a baseline of the two or more antennas and incident energy from the UE to the two or more antennas is determined. That angle of arrival is then used to calculate the location of the UE. The angle of arrival may be a horizontal angle of arrival and/or a vertical angle of arrival.
US10091615B1	System and method for notifying users of similar searches Interactions between users on mobile devices can be facilitated by making the users aware when other users have performed similar searches. In one embodiment, when two users executing a mapping application on a mobile device each perform a similar search in a similar geographic area, the server that receives and performs the search request can make each user aware of the other's presence, for example by displaying an icon indicating the other user on the mapping application. The search results may be refined to indicate search results in a geographic area common to the geographic search areas of each user.
US10091607B2	Electronic device pairing One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, at an electronic device, a wireless signal associated with an input device; identifying, using a processor, a data set corresponding to the wireless signal; analyzing the data set to determine an identity characteristic of the input device; and pairing, based on the analyzing, the electronic device with the input device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10091606B2	System and method of enrolling sensors with a control panel using a mobile device Systems and methods of enrolling sensor devices with a control panel device using a mobile device are provided. Some methods can include detecting signals received from sensor devices, identifying a signal strength of each of the signals, displaying a list of each of the sensor devices and the signal strength of respective signals received from respective ones of the sensor devices, receiving user input to select at least one of the sensor devices, and transmitting an identifying signal to a control panel device to enroll the at least one sensor device with the control panel device for configuration thereof.
US10091605B2	Method of handling resource allocation for MTC and related communication device A method of performing machine type communication (MTC) for a communication device in a wireless communication system comprises performing a first MTC with a network of the wireless communication system by using a first subband resource of at least one subband resource; and performing a second MTC with the network by using a second subband resource of the at least one subband resource, after performing the first MTC; wherein a carrier frequency of the communication device is switched from a carrier frequency of the first subband resource to a carrier frequency of the second subband resource before performing the second MTC with the network, when the first subband resource and the second subband resource are not in a same maximum bandwidth supported by the communication device.
US10091602B1	Virtual simulation of spatial audio characteristics Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for demonstrating spatial performance of a demonstration speaker model to consumers in order to evaluate different speakers. The system and method comprise a microphone array for recording the output of the demonstration speaker model. The system and method comprise acoustic input samples for processing to an acoustic output and a processor for determining characteristics of each microphone recording, and processing an acoustic input sample and characteristics of each microphone recording corresponding to a selected demonstration speaker model. The system and method further comprise a reference speaker model for outputting an acoustic signal based on the result of the processing. The processing compensates for the performance characteristic of the reference speaker and the performance characteristic of the selected demonstration speaker so as to mimic the spatial characteristics of the demonstration speaker while avoiding bias from the reference speaker.
US10091601B2	Method for rendering multi-channel audio signals for L1 channels to a different number L2 of loudspeaker channels and apparatus for rendering multi-channel audio signals for L1 channels to a different number L2 of loudspeaker channels Multi-channel audio content is mixed for a particular loudspeaker setup. However, a consumer's audio setup is very likely to use a different placement of speakers. The present invention provides a method of rendering multi-channel audio that assures replay of the spatial signal components with equal loudness of the signal. A method for obtaining an energy preserving mixing matrix (G) for mixing L1 input audio channels to L2 output channels comprises steps of obtaining a first mixing matrix Ĝ, performing a singular value decomposition on the first mixing matrix Ĝ to obtain a singularity matrix S, processing the singularity matrix S to obtain a processed singularity matrix Ŝ, determining a scaling factor a, and calculating an improved mixing matrix G according to G=aUŜVT. The perceived sound, loudness, timbre and spatial impression of multi-channel audio replayed on an arbitrary loudspeaker setup practically equals that of the original speaker setup.
US10091593B2	Hearing device A hearing device has a housing and a switching module arranged on the housing. The switching module includes a movable switching element, operable from the outside, for changing settings of the hearing device. A coil antenna for the inductive transmission of information signals to the hearing device is inserted into a hollow space formed in the switching element.
US10091589B2	Sound capture focus adjustment for hearing prosthesis A hearing prosthesis, the hearing prosthesis including a plurality of sound capture devices and a determinator configured to generate a parameter indicative of an orientation of the plurality of sound capture devices relative to a reference, wherein the hearing prosthesis is configured to adjust a direction of focus of the hearing prosthesis based on at least the parameter.
US10091588B2	Removable middle ear implant sensor A middle ear implant includes a first interface portion configured to interface with a first structure of a middle ear of a patient, a second interface portion configured to interface with a second structure of the middle ear of the patient, a shaft that connects the first and second interface portions, a carrier plate removably mounted in one of the first or second interface portions, and a removable sensor disposed at one end of the shaft, between the shaft and one of the first interface portion or the second interface portion. The removable sensor is configured to provide a DC signal output indicative of static pressure on the sensor based on placement of the sensor between the first and second structures, and provide an AC signal output indicative of a frequency response of the implant. The removable sensor is disposed at a portion of the carrier plate.
US10091582B2	Signal enhancement A piece of audio equipment is provided that includes a first signal path including a first dynamic range expander and a lowpass filter. The piece of audio equipment also includes a second signal path parallel to the first signal path, wherein the second signal path includes a second dynamic range expander and a highpass filter. The piece of audio equipment further includes a summing amplifier configured to receive a first signal from the first signal path, a second signal from the second signal path, and a clear signal from an audio source and output a summed signal.
US10091577B2	Audio device An audio device having an improved bendable structure is disclosed. The audio device includes an amplifier unit configured to amplify an audio signal, at least one speaker unit configured to output the amplified audio signal as a sound signal, and at least one link unit rotatably connecting the at least one speaker unit to the amplifier unit.
US10091576B2	In-ear monitor An in-ear monitor that incorporates high frequency balanced armature driver tuning, both low frequency dynamic driver and balanced armature driver tuning, mid range and high range frequency balanced armature driver tuning. It also utilizes a spout that has a series of stanchions or stanchions and resonator box cavities for the simplified connection and disconnection of sound tubes and resonator boxes.
US10091573B2	Method of controlling an acoustic noise reduction audio system by user taps Described are a headphone and a method for controlling an audio system. The method includes tapping a headphone, ear or head of a user to cause an acoustic pressure change in an ear canal of the user wherein the ear canal is sealed by an acoustic noise reduction (ANR) headphone having an ANR module. A current that is responsive to a pressure change in the ear canal and provided to the ANR module is sensed. A first peak in the sensed current is determined. A dual tap is determined to have occurred if a second peak in the sensed current is determined during a first time window initiated at the determination of the first peak. The use of dual taps for controlling an audio system can prevent unintended changes to an audio system that may otherwise occur as a result of an accidental or unintended tap for an audio system utilizing single tap control.
US10091570B2	Miniature sound generator A miniature sound generator includes a vibration system including a first diaphragm, a voice coil supporting and driving the first diaphragm to vibrate, and a second diaphragm arranged at one side of the voice coil far away from the first diaphragm and elastically supporting the voice coil; a fixing system fixed with the second diaphragm. The fixing system includes a frame supporting the second diaphragm and a magnetic circuit system arranged in the frame. The second diaphragm includes an insulating body and a conductive framework formed in the insulating body for electrically connecting with the voice coil and an external circuit.
US10091567B2	Embedded lighting, microphone, and speaker features for composite panels Embedded lighting, microphone, and speaker features for composite panels are described. An example composite panel includes a plurality of plies assembled in a stack-up, and a trace sheet with electrically conductive traces and a plurality of transducer discs positioned onto the electrically conductive traces at positions such that the electrically conductive traces form an electrical interconnection between selected ones of the electrically conductive traces and associated ones of the transducer discs. The trace sheet is included as an internal ply in the stack-up of the plurality of plies. The composite panel also includes a composite base upon which the stack-up of the plurality of plies is applied, and the plurality of plies are cured upon the composite base to integrate the trace sheet and the plurality of transducer discs into the composite base.
US10091561B1	Watermarks in distributed construction of video on demand (VOD) files Approaches for creating video on demand (VOD) assets with a VOD watermark. For a digital stream yet to be broadcast, a duplicate version of an accompanying audio stream comprised within the digital stream is created. A video on demand (VOD) watermark is inserted into or affixed within the duplicate version of the accompanying audio stream. Thereafter, the digital broadcast stream which comprises the original audio stream and the duplicate version is transmitted to an integrated receiver-decoder. The integrated receiver-decoder creates a broadcast version of the digital broadcast stream which comprises a broadcast watermark and a video on demand (VOD) version of the digital broadcast stream which comprises a VOD watermark. The integrated receiver-decoder may align the broadcast video with the VOD watermarked audio to ensure proper local storage and subsequent VOD distribution.
US10091560B2	Display apparatus for searching and control method thereof A display apparatus for searching and a control method thereof are provided. The method includes displaying an image content, determining whether a search function is performed while the image content is displayed, and in response to the determining that the search function is performed while the image content is displayed, transmitting information of the image content to an external server. The method further includes receiving, from the external server, information of a search record of one or more viewers of the image content, and providing information of one or more search terms that are related to the image content, based on the information of the search record.
US10091554B1	Apparatus, systems and methods for generating an emotional-based content recommendation list Media content recommendation systems and methods are operable to recommend one or more media content events to a user based on identified changes in the user's emotional state during a life event that is experienced by the user.
US10091553B1	Video content distribution system and method A video content distribution method is provided that comprises transmitting, by a video content distribution server, an initial portion of a scalable video file associated with a video to a mobile communication device via a first communication channel, transmitting an additional portion of the scalable video file to the mobile communication device via a second communication channel, and reconstructing, by the mobile communication device, at least some of the scalable video file based on reconstruction data using the initial portion and the additional portion of the scalable video file. The method also comprises playing, by the mobile communication device, at least a portion of the video at an initial resolution and frame rate based on the initial portion of the scalable video file and at least a portion of the video at an improved resolution and frame rate based on the reconstructed at least some of the scalable video file.
US10091552B2	Methods and systems for selecting optimized viewing portions Methods and systems for a media guidance application that can identify and display a portion of a media asset that is of interest to a user. In some embodiments, the media guidance application may extract a portion of the media asset that encompasses a particular main action sequence. The extracted portion may also include an amount of additional content (e.g., content immediately before or after the main action sequence) that the media guidance application determines is necessary for the user to understand the main action sequence. In some embodiments, the media guidance application may extract several media assets, so that a user may graze through the extracted portions in series.
US10091539B1	Customized over-the-air television channel mapping for geographical area using crowdsourcing of over-the-air television channels Embodiments are directed toward providing a customized over-the-air channel mapping to each content receiver in a geographical area based on crowdsourced mappings of available channels from at least a subset of the content receivers in that geographical area. When a new content receiver is installed in the geographical area, the customized over-the-air channel mapping is provided to the new content receiver and used by the new content receiver as its internal list of available over-the-air channels without performing a scan of its own. At least a portion of the content receivers in the geographical area perform a round-robin-type scan to identify new or missing channels in the geographical area. The customized over-the-air channel mapping is then updated when a new channel or missing channel threshold is reached. And the updated customized over-the-air channel mapping is provided to each content receiver in the geographical area.
US10091533B2	Generalized filter for removing video compression artifacts A target sample x(i,j) of a two-dimensional array of reconstructed samples is filtered based on values of samples in a neighboring region of the target sample to produce a two-dimensional array of modified reconstructed samples, according to the equation: y(i,j)=round (x(i, j)+g(Σm,n∈Ra(m, n)f(x(i,j)−b(m,n)x(m,n)))), where y(i,j) is a modified target sample value, R is the neighboring region of the target sample, a(m,n) and b(m,n) are real-valued coefficients, round(x) is a function that maps the value x to an integer value in the range [0,2B-1], B is the number of bits representing each sample of the two-dimensional array of modified reconstructed samples, f(x) and g(x) are functions, wherein (a) f(x) is a non-linear function, or (b) g(x) is a non-linear function and both a width and a height of R is more than one sample.
US10091532B2	Bitstream conformance constraints in scalable video coding An apparatus configured to code video information in a bitstream includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The memory is configured to store video information associated with a first layer including a first picture and a second layer including a second picture, the first picture associated with a current access unit (AU). The processor is configured to determine whether the current AU satisfies a first condition associated with the first layer, and based on a determination that the current AU does not satisfy the first condition associated with the first layer, determine whether a difference between a highest picture order count (POC) and a lowest POC of a plurality of pictures in a decoded picture buffer (DPB) is less than a threshold value. The processor may encode or decode the video information in the bitstream.
US10091526B2	Method and apparatus for motion vector encoding/decoding using spatial division, and method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding using same Disclosed is a method for encoding a motion vector by using spatial division, the method comprises: aggregating predicted motion vector candidates of a current block into a plurality of groups; selecting representative predicted motion vectors for respective groups by selecting one of aggregated predicted motion vector candidates within the respective groups as representative predicted motion vector; selecting single representative predicted motion vector from the representative predicted motion vectors for the respective groups as a predicted motion vector; and encoding a differential vector representing difference between a current motion vector of the current block and a selected predicted motion vector.
US10091525B2	Image encoding method and image decoding method According to one embodiment, an image encoding method includes selecting a motion reference block from an encoded pixel block to which an inter prediction is applied. The method includes selecting one or more available blocks from the motion reference block. The method includes selecting a selection block from the available blocks. The method includes generating a predicted image of the encoding target block using motion information of the selection block. The method includes encoding a prediction error between the predicted image and an original image. The method includes encoding selection information specifying the selection block by referring to a code table decided according to a number of the available blocks.
US10091524B2	Method for coding and an apparatus The invention relates to a method for encoding, a method for decoding, an apparatus, computer program products, an encoder and a decoder for video information. The motion vector for a block in a video image is predicted from a set of motion vector prediction candidates determined based on previously-coded motion vectors. A motion vector prediction candidate is included in the set based on the location of the block associated with the first spatial motion vector prediction candidate and in comparison with motion vector prediction candidates already in the set.
US10091521B2	Image encoding device, captured image recording system, imaging device, method of encoding image, and image encoding program To provide an image encoding device that can record desired hours of encoded data in a recording medium having a predetermined storage capacity, in a VBR encoding system. An image encoding device includes an image encoding unit that encodes a plurality of sequentially input images to generate a plurality of encoded data that configures video data, an average image complexity calculation unit that calculates average image complexity of complexity of the input images in a fluctuation cycle, based on the plurality of encoded data, and a code amount control unit that controls a code amount of the encoded data generated in the image encoding unit based on the average image complexity.
US10091517B2	Video multi-codec encoders Systems and methods for a video multi-codec encoder are provided. Video input data including a plurality of video frames is accepted. At least one codec Y subsystem is applied to frame data that includes at least one video frame of the plurality of video frames, where the frame data includes at least an unencoded portion of the plurality of video frames before one or more of the at least one codec Y subsystem is applied. The at least one codec Y subsystem includes at least partial Yi codec functionality. Yi is a codec selected from video codecs ={Y1, . . . , Yn}. At least one codec Z subsystem is applied to the frame data, where the at least one codec Z subsystem includes at least partial Z codec functionality. Video output data is generated including simple Z-encoded video data of the at least one video frame using the frame data.
US10091513B2	Perceptual three-dimensional (3D) video coding based on depth information A method for encoding a multi-view frame in a video encoder is provided that includes computing a depth quality sensitivity measure for a multi-view coding block in the multi-view frame, computing a depth-based perceptual quantization scale for a 2D coding block of the multi-view coding block, wherein the depth-based perceptual quantization scale is based on the depth quality sensitive measure and a base quantization scale for the 2D frame including the 2D coding block, and encoding the 2D coding block using the depth-based perceptual quantization scale.
US10091512B2	Advanced screen content coding with improved palette table and index map coding methods An apparatus is configured to perform a method for screen content encoding. The method includes deriving a palette table and a color index map based on a coding unit (CU). The method also includes encoding the palette table and encoding the color index map. The method further includes combining the encoded palette table and the encoded color index map for transmission to a receiver, where the palette table and index map are decoded to reconstruct a pixel block.
US10091509B2	Coding and deriving quantization parameters QP control information valid for a block of samples is parsed. A QP to use for the block of samples is derived according to a first QP derivation process independent on the QP control information if residual data of the block of samples is not color transformed and according to a second QP derivation process dependent on the QP control information if the residual data of the block of samples is color transformed. The embodiments thereby decouple QP parameters for blocks of samples that are coded with color transform and those that are coded without color transform. This decoupling achieves better flexibility during encoding and results in better visual quality.
US10091505B2	Image information encoding and decoding method The present invention relates to an image information encoding and decoding method and a device for same. One embodiment of an image information encoding method according to the present invention, as an image information encoding method according to another embodiment of the present invention, includes the steps of: generating a restore block; applying a deblocking filter on the restore block; applying a Sample Adaptive Offset (SAO) on the restore block having the deblocking filter applied thereon; and transmitting information on the SAO application. During the applying of the SAO, the SAO is applied to chroma pixels, and during the transmitting of the information, in addition to information on whether the SAO is applied on the chroma pixels, at least one of area information, division information on the SAO coverage area, SAO type information, and SAO offset information is transmitted.
US10091501B2	Video encoding method and apparatus and video decoding method and apparatus using intra block copy prediction Provided is a video decoding method including: determining a size of a block on which intra block copy prediction is to be performed, based on block size information obtained from a bitstream; comparing the determined size of the block with a size of a current block, and determining, based on a result of the comparing, whether the size of the current block falls within the determined size of the block; and performing intra block copy prediction on the current block when it is determined that the size of the current block falls within the determined size of the block.
US10091497B2	Night vision imagining system acuity verification test fixture Method and apparatus for testing visual acuity of a night vision imaging system using a visual target. A fixture arranges a mirror a first distance from the night vision imaging system and arranges the visual target a second distance from the mirror. A sum of the first distance and the second distance equals a target distance between the night vision imaging system and the visual target. The fixture includes a starlight generator that can illuminate the visual target with simulated starlight and/or moonlight that stimulates the night vision imaging system.
US10091495B2	Apparatus and method for displaying stereoscopic images One aspect of the disclosed invention relates to a stereoscopic display apparatus comprising: a stereo image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first stereo image for a first image and a second stereo image for a second image; a border generation unit configured to generate a border for separating the first image from the second image; and a displaying unit configured to combine the second stereo image and the generated border with the first stereo image and display the combined stereo images.
US10091494B2	Three dimensional depth mapping using dynamic structured light Apparatus for generating a dynamic structured light pattern for optical tracking in three-dimensional space, comprises an array of lasers, such as a VCSEL laser array, to project light in a pattern into a three-dimensional space; and an optical element or elements arranged in cells. The cells are aligned with subsets of the laser array, and each cell individually applies a modulation, in particular an intensity modulation, to light from the laser or lasers of the subset, to provide a distinguishable and separately controllable part of the dynamic structured light pattern. A method of generating a structured light pattern is disclosed, in which light is provided from an array of lasers, and light is individually projected from subsets of the array of lasers to provide differentiated parts of the structured light pattern.
US10091492B2	Imaging apparatuses and a time of flight imaging method The imaging apparatus includes an image sensor circuit comprising a time of flight sensor pixel. The imaging apparatus further includes a first light emitter having a first spatial offset relative to the time of flight sensor pixel. The imaging apparatus further includes a second light emitter having a second spatial offset relative to the time of flight sensor pixel. The imaging apparatus further includes an image processing circuit configured to produce an image of a region of an object based on first sensor pixel image data and second sensor pixel image data generated by the time of flight sensor pixel. The first sensor pixel image data is based on received light emitted by the first light emitter and reflected at the object's region and wherein the second sensor pixel image data is based on received light emitted by the second light emitter and reflected at the object's region.
US10091490B2	Scan recommendations In one implementation, a system for using a scan recommendation includes a receiver engine to receive a plurality of pictures of a three-dimensional (3D) object from a scanner, a model engine to generate a 3D model of the 3D object by aligning the plurality of pictures of the 3D object, an analysis engine to analyze the 3D model for a volume, a shape, and a color of the 3D object, wherein the volume, the shape, and the color analysis is used to generate scan recommendations, and a display engine to display information relating to the scan recommendations based on the volume, the shape, and the color analysis of the 3D model of the 3D object.
US10091487B2	Real image camcorder, glass-free 3D display and processes for capturing and reproducing 3D media using parallel ray filters Parallel rays capture by a real image camcorder and capture emission by a real image television are made by parallel rays filter formed by multiple leveled liquid crystals with windows to filter distinct parallel rays in a field of vision. The image processing with image parameters is electronically carried out or by means of a device that displaces said image and controls a real image projection distance forwards or backwards a real image television. Introduction of a tridimensional image in a real image projection range is carried out by means of image reproduction with a distinct projection angle in a liquid crystal surface during a rays filtration step. Said tridimensional image introduced is controlled by a watcher.
US10091484B2	Method for acquiring comfort degree of motion-sensing binocular stereoscopic video The present invention discloses a method for acquiring a comfort degree of a motion-sensing binocular stereoscopic video. The method includes the following steps: S1. carrying out binocular parallax and movement speed analysis on an input binocular video, and calculating a binocular parallax d, a movement speed vxy in a visual plane direction and a movement speed vz in a depth direction of each pixel point in the video; S2. calculating a corresponding comfort degree value c according to the parameters (d, vxy, vz) of the pixel point; S3. calculating the comfort degree value of the entire frame according to the calculated comfort degree value of each pixel point; S4. calculating the comfort degree value of the entire video according to the comfort degree value of each frame. The comfort degree of the binocular stereoscopic video is calculated according to the steps in the present invention, so that influence of positive and negative depth ranges and object movement on the comfort degree can be well considered to obtain more accurate estimation of the comfort degree.
US10091482B1	Context aware midair projection display Projecting midair projections in a 3D space for multiple users, such that the midair projection is not an obstacle to users within the 3D space. The restricted area in which the midair projection should not be displayed is determined by identifying users which are having face to face interactions and an associated level of interactions of the identified users. Then the focus areas of the identified users and attention level of the identified users on the focus areas are determined and the focus areas of the identified users are aggregated to restrict midair projections from the aggregated focus areas of the identified users and designated area not in the aggregated focus cones as content allowed areas where content can be projected in midair without disturbing other identified users.
US10091480B2	Driving method of imaging element, imaging device with read-out time and accumulation period It is a method of driving a MOS type imaging element in which pixels having sensitivities for different colors are arranged two-dimensionally, in which the imaging element has at least two types of read-out lines having different pixel arrangements to read out a charge signal of the pixels, and the method includes driving such that a read-out time interval of a charge signal of at least one type of read-out line among the read-out lines is longer than a read-out time interval of another type of read-out line and a charge accumulating period of each pixel of the one type of read-out line is longer than a charge accumulating period of each pixel of said another type of read-out line.
US10091477B2	Projection image display apparatus The projection image display apparatus includes a display element that emits image light generated by modulating light from a light source based, a pixel-shifter that shifts a pixel of a projected image by changing an optical path of the image light, a resampling circuit, a motion-interpolation image processing circuit, and a pixel-shift controller. The resampling circuit generates a plurality of sub-frame image signals having a resolution of the display element, by resampling an image signal having a resolution of the projected image. The motion-interpolation image processing circuit provides a motion-interpolation image process to the sub-frame image signals. The pixel-shift controller receives the sub-frame image signals having undergone the motion-interpolation image process. The pixel-shift controller drives the display element and the pixel shifter at a given timing based on the sub-frame image having undergone the motion-interpolation image process, and then displays the projected image, which involves pixel-shift, on a screen.
US10091474B2	Image processing device, image processing method, program and computer-readable storage medium Coordination of two actual objects can be checked even if it is difficult to match the objects each other at the same place. An image processing device acquires a projection image that includes an image of a first object projected on a projection surface, and identifies an area, in the projection image projected by projecting means, blocked by a second object in front of the projection surface. The image processing device has projection control means for controlling the projecting means so that a size of the image of the first object projected on the projection surface is life-size, and the projecting means projects the projection image in which a color of the area identified by the object identifying means is replaced by a predetermined color.
US10091473B1	Driver circuit having light source driver at primary side A driver circuit includes a first voltage converter, a light source driver, a second voltage converter and a control circuit. The first voltage converter converts a first voltage to a second voltage. The light source driver is coupled to the first voltage converter, converts the second voltage to a third voltage and outputs the third voltage to a light source for providing light. The second voltage converter is coupled to the first voltage converter, converts the second voltage to a fourth voltage and outputs the fourth voltage. The control circuit is coupled to the second voltage converter to receive the fourth voltage and outputs a first control signal to control the light source driver for controlling the light source. The first voltage is lower than the second voltage, the second voltage is higher than the third voltage, and the second voltage is higher than the fourth voltage.
US10091471B2	Display panel, display device as well as control method and preparation method thereof A display panel, a display device as well as a control method and preparation method thereof. The display panel comprises: a filter provided with a light transmission part and a non-light transmission part corresponding to each pixel; a micro mirror array assembly comprising a substrate and a micro mirror array arranged on the substrate, the micro mirror array being provided with at least one micro mirror corresponding to each pixel; wherein mirror surfaces of the micro mirrors of the micro mirror array are arranged to substantially face towards the filter so as to enable light rays reflected by the micro mirrors to be emitted to the filter, and rotation of each of the micro mirrors on the substrate is controlled so as to enable the reflected light rays to be controllably reflected to the light transmission part and/or the non-light transmission part of the corresponding pixel.
US10091469B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus can measure a three-dimensional shape of a subject with high accuracy when an image of a projection pattern is captured with a favorable contrast. The image processing apparatus includes a matching calculation unit that performs matching calculation between a projection pattern in an image being captured and an image of a projection pattern generated by a projection pattern generation unit. An image evaluation unit calculates a contrast as an evaluation standard in the captured image. A symbol position calculation unit highly accurately calculates a position of each of a group of points forming the projection pattern, for each area in the captured image determined to be a highly accurate shape measurable area based on the contrast, and thus obtains a peak luminance position. A three-dimensional shape calculation unit calculates the three-dimensional shape of the subject.
US10091468B2	System and method for tracking content in a medicine container A system and a method include a medicine container having a bottle and a cap. The medicine container includes a controller and can include a camera located in the cap. The container can include a scale in the base. The controller controls the camera to take an image of the inside of the container to detect the contents, along with a weight measurement to determine usage of the content. A memory connects with the camera and the scale to store the image and weight data. The container can communicate data with a backend server using a wired or wireless connection upon a trigger event. Multiple containers can be connected to form a network of containers.
US10091464B2	Image/location-based tracking Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to tracking authorized individuals, and identifying the presence of unauthorized individuals. As may be consistent with one more embodiments, respective cameras capture images of regions of a common premises, and a filter circuit detects the presence of individuals in the images, and filters the detected presence as follows. The location of one or more authorized users are tracked relative to the premises via location-based information indicative of each authorized user's location. Each detected individual's location is identified and compared to the tracked location of the at least one authorized user. The detected individual is identified as being an unauthorized individual in response to the comparison indicating that the identified location is not common to the tracked location.
US10091460B2	Asynchronous online viewing party Various embodiments of systems, methods, computer devices, and computer software for providing an asynchronous online viewing party are provided. One embodiment comprises a system for providing an online viewing party. One such system comprises: a server operatively coupled to a database for supporting the online viewing party, the database comprising: content to be asynchronously provided to participants of the online viewing party; and time-based events provided by one or more of the participants, the time-based events associated with the content and linked to corresponding locations in the content; and a user interface configured to interface with the server, the user interface comprising logic configured to display the content and the time-based events.
US10091458B2	Communication system There is provided a method comprising: rendering, on a first area of a display controlled by a user terminal, visual data associated with a user participating in a call; determining that the user's connection to the call has ended; determining whether or not the ending of the connection is deliberate; and retaining the area of the display for the user for a predetermined amount of time in dependence on the determination of whether or not the ending of the connection is deliberate.
US10091453B1	Method and system with multiple camera units installed in protective enclosure A system and method for simultaneously and continuously capturing video from the interior and exterior of a vehicle. The system includes, for example, a first housing including a first connection mechanism, first and second cameras and a memory disposed in the first housing. The system also includes a second housing including a second connection mechanism adapted to be removably connected to the first connection mechanism of the first housing and encasing said first housing within the second housing. A mounting mechanism is adjustably connected to said second housing and configured to maintain at least one of the first camera and the second camera in a predetermined position by adjusting the second housing. Additional embodiments are also described including a method for capturing data.
US10091452B2	Electronic device and method for recording and displaying script In a method for recording and displaying a script executed on an electronic device, the electronic device includes a camera, at least one processor, and a display device, the method including: start recording a video data of a script by the camera when receiving an operation command of recording; recording time information in the script; start recording a new video data of the script by the camera when detecting an interrupt request; stop recording the script when a stop command is detected; and publish the script to a preselected server.
US10091449B2	Imaging device and imaging system capable of performing a global electronic shutter operation The imaging device performs a global electronic shutter operation in which exposure periods of a plurality of pixels coincide with each other. In a first period during which a photoelectric conversion portion of at least one of the pixels accumulates an electric charge, signals based on electric charges held in holding portions of the plurality of pixels are sequentially output to an output line. During a second period after the output of the signals from the plurality of pixels is finished, the holding unit of each of the plurality of pixels holds an electric charge.
US10091448B2	Imaging apparatus and camera An imaging apparatus including a pixel, a current source, and a signal processing circuit. The pixel outputs signal charge, obtained by imaging, as a pixel signal. The current source is connected to a transmission path for the pixel signal and has a variable current. The signal processing circuit performs signal processing on a signal depending on an output signal to the transmission path and performs control so that a current of the current source is changed in accordance with the result of signal processing.
US10091447B2	Methods and apparatus for synchronizing readout of multiple image sensors Methods and apparatus for reading out pixel values from sensors in a synchronized manner are described. Readout of rows of pixel values from different sensors are controlled so that pixel values of different sensors corresponding to the same portion of a scene are read out in a way that the same portions of a scene are captured at the same or nearly the same time by different sensors. In one embodiment a first sensor which captures a large scene area alternates between reading out rows of pixel values from a top portion and a bottom portion of the first sensor while sensors corresponding to smaller areas of the scene read out rows of pixel values in a consecutive manner. Sensors may read out rows of pixel values at the same rate despite corresponding to optical chains with different focal lengths. The image captured by the first sensor facilitates image combining.
US10091446B2	Active-matrix displays with common pixel control An exemplary active-matrix system comprises a system substrate with pixel elements disposed in pixel rows and pixel columns, pixel circuits each controlling two or more of the pixel elements, and row and column lines, at least one of each of which is electrically connected to each pixel circuit. The number of row lines is less than the number of pixel rows, the number of column lines is less than the number of pixel columns, or the number of row lines is less than the number of pixel rows and the number of column lines is less than the number of pixel columns.
US10091445B2	Scanning imaging system with a novel imaging sensor with gaps for electronic circuitry An imaging sensor comprising a 2D array of pixels in an XY coordinate system with gaps for electronic circuitry is presented. Furthermore, a scanning imaging system for imaging an oblique cross section of a sample with such a sensor is provided. Especially when the imaging sensor is in a tilted configuration this sensor is of specific advantages. The sensor allows for maximizing the photoactive part of the pixels in the photosensitive area of the sensor which leads to a maximized the fill factor. Furthermore this leads to a very light sensitive sensor and hence microlenses can be avoided. The gap or gaps of the imaging sensor facilitate also a faster read out because more circuitry can be positioned on the imaging sensor within the gap.
US10091437B2	Method for determination of focal length for a zoom lens A method and apparatus for determining a focal-length setting of a lens mounted to a camera. In a method for determining a focal-length of a lens mounted to a camera, a distorted image of a scene is captured. A distortion-correction function is applied on the distorted image or on a portion of the distorted image. A most representative distortion-correction function is identified and a current focal-length setting for the lens is identified by correlating the identification to a data compilation.
US10091432B2	Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof and storage medium storing control program therefor In the image capturing apparatus, the controller controls an optical element, when a motion of the image capturing apparatus follows a motion of the object, by using first motion information obtained from a first detector to detect the motion of the image capturing apparatus and second motion information obtained from a second detector to detect the motion of the object. The calculator calculates prediction information on the motion of the object during an exposure time, by using the second information detected at multiple times before the exposure time. The controller uses the prediction information to control the optical element during the exposure time.
US10091429B2	Mobile terminal having two cameras and method for storing images taken by two cameras A mobile terminal includes a memory; a touch screen; a first camera having a first capturing angle; a second camera having a second capturing angle that is wider than the first capturing angle; and a controller. The controller is configured to: cause the touch screen to display a first preview image of the first camera, a second preview image of the second camera, or both the first and second preview images overlapping each other; cause the memory to store a first image taken by the first camera in response to a first capture command received while the first preview image is displayed; and cause the memory to store both the first image and a second image taken by the second camera when a wide-angle capturing condition is satisfied while at least one of the first preview image or the second preview image is displayed.
US10091428B2	Device reader and means of generating an image therefor A device reader for receiving data from a separate device comprises a display and a first antenna for receiving data from the separate device. The first antenna has a device reader antenna position relative to the display. A display processor displays an image of at least part of the separate device on the display. The image has an associated image antenna position corresponding to a position in the image of an antenna in the separate device. The image is displayed such that the image antenna position is aligned with the device reader antenna position. The image may be determined from a non-customized image of the separate device by e.g. rotation, scaling and positioning based on a display characteristic of the display, such as specifically a size, resolution or pixel-size. The approach may facilitate a user in aligning a device with a device reader when using short-range communication, such as e.g. NFC communication.
US10091417B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program There is provided an image processing apparatus including an association section configured to, in a case where panorama image data generated by using a plurality of frame image data obtained by an imaging operation while displacing an imaging direction is determined to be a full circumference panorama image, associate the panorama image data with information showing that the panorama image data is the full circumference panorama image.
US10091416B2	Image pickup apparatus, electronic device, panoramic image recording method, and program An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup unit for picking up an image of a subject and generating a plurality of pickup images, an orientation obtaining unit for setting an image pickup position at a time of picking up one pickup image among the plurality of generated pickup images as a reference and obtaining an orientation related to the pickup image, an image combining unit for combining the plurality of generated pickup images and generating a panoramic image, a representative position calculation unit for calculating a representative position in a horizontal direction in the generated panoramic image, an orientation calculation unit for calculating an orientation at the calculated representative position on the basis of characteristic information of the image pickup unit, the calculated representative position, and the obtained orientation, and a recording control unit for recording the calculated orientation while being associated with the generated panoramic image.
US10091415B2	Image processing apparatus, method for controlling image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, method for controlling image pickup apparatus, and recording medium An image processing apparatus, including an acquisition unit configured to acquire RAW data of a captured image, which is captured by an image pickup unit; a processing unit configured to perform a plurality of different image processing steps on the acquired RAW data in a step-wise manner; and a control unit configured to control the processing unit, wherein, when the processing unit performs the plurality of different image processing steps on the RAW data in the step-wise manner in real time during the image capturing by the image pickup unit, the control unit controls the processing unit in accordance with operation statuses regarding the captured image to limit a stepwise execution of the plurality of different image processing steps, controls the processing unit to output the RAW data to which processing up to a limited step has been performed, and generates information indicating the limited step.
US10091413B2	Imaging apparatus and imaging method This invention relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method for supplying an optimum amount of image data to another apparatus. When a PDA 91 has a maximum transfer rate of 1.5 Mbps, a mobile phone 1 determines that a maximum speed of communication with the PDA 91 is low, reduces accordingly the amount of moving image data captured by a CCD of the mobile phone, and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA 91. The PDA 91 displays a low-quality moving image 93 on its display unit. When the PDA 91 has a maximum transfer rate of 480 Mbps, the CPU of the mobile phone leaves unchanged the amount of moving picture data captured by the CCD and supplies the captured moving image data to the PDA 91. The PDA 91 then displays a high-quality moving image 94 on the display unit. This invention applies advantageously to digital cameras.
US10091411B2	Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof for continuously tracking object included in video A mobile terminal including a memory configured to store a plurality of videos; a touchscreen configured to display an image on a screen; and a controller configured to in response to receiving a selection of at least one object included in the image, search the videos for at least one video including an image of the selected at least one object; control the touchscreen to display a list including at least one item indicating the searched video; and in response to receiving a selection of at least one item included in the list, play a video corresponding to the selected at least one item.
US10091410B2	Focus detection apparatus and method, and image capturing apparatus A focus detection apparatus comprises: a determination unit that determines whether a flicker light source is included in focus detection areas; a plurality of sensors for focus detection that correspond to the focus detection areas, and accumulate electric charges corresponding to received light; and a controller that controls accumulation in the sensors. The controller monitors a signal that is based on electric charges accumulated in the sensors, and performs first control for stopping accumulation in a sensor in which the signal has exceeded a predetermined threshold value, and second control for stopping accumulation in a sensor which continues accumulation of electric charges when a maximum accumulation period has reached. The controller sets the maximum accumulation period based on a determination result by the determination unit and the accumulation period of a first sensor in which the first control is performed first.
US10091407B2	Exchangeable lens and camera body An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles.
US10091406B2	Image capturing apparatus The present disclosure relates to an image capturing apparatus, and the image capturing apparatus may include a hollow body formed with opening portions at both ends thereof, a first cover provided with a window, and coupled to the body to cover one end portion of the body, a second cover coupled to the body to cover the other end portion of the body, a frame provided in an inner space of the body and coupled to the body, and an antenna provided between the frame and the body, and the antenna may be formed on an outer circumferential surface of the frame.
US10091403B2	Imaging device, manufacturing device, and manufacturing method The present technology relates to an imaging device, a manufacturing device, and a manufacturing method that enable a reliable manufacturing device to be manufactured without an increase in the number of manufacturing steps. A substrate on which an image sensor is mounted, a frame that fixes an infrared cut filter (IRCF), and a unit including a lens are included. The image sensor is sealed by the substrate, the IRCF, and the frame. A vent connected to a space in which the image sensor is sealed is provided in a part of the frame. The vent is blocked by a member that bonds the unit and the frame together. The vent is provided in the frame, in a predetermined shape, and in a vertical direction with respect to a surface to which the member is applied. The present technology can be applied to the imaging device.
US10091402B1	Image capture apparatus An image capture apparatus includes a cover plate, a sensor, and an optical collimator disposed between the cover plate and the sensor and including a first, a second, and a third light shielding pattern layers that are overlapped with each other. The first, second, and third light shielding pattern layers have first, second, and third light-transmitting openings, respectively. A size of each third light-transmitting opening is larger than or equal to a size of each second light-transmitting opening, and the size of each second light-transmitting opening is larger than a size of each first light-transmitting opening. Alternatively, the size of each third light-transmitting opening is larger than the size of each second light-transmitting opening, and the size of each second light-transmitting opening is larger than or equal to the size of each first light-transmitting opening.
US10091401B2	Image pickup apparatus having plurality of external connection terminals An image pickup apparatus that prevents hooking of a cable, coming-off of a connector, or the like without lowering insertion and extraction performance of a cable even when external connection terminals are arranged on inclined faces formed on a side surface of an apparatus main body in its width direction while reducing a size of the apparatus main body in the width direction. The inclined faces inclines such that ends of the respective inclined faces on a back side of the apparatus main body are inclined in a direction to come close to the optical axis. The inclined faces are arranged at positions so as not to overlap to each other when viewed from the width direction of the apparatus main body, and are arranged such that a part of the inclined faces overlap to each other when viewed from a direction of the optical axis.
US10091400B2	Rotatable-swingable input device and electronic apparatus equipped with the same A rotatable-swingable input device that has high reliability at low cost and that improves operability. Optical sensors, an elastically deformable holder, and switches are disposed on a wiring board. A shading member has a plurality of shading parts that are arranged in a circumferential direction and pass a space between a light projecting section and a light receiving section of the optical sensor when an operation member is rotated. A click spring contacts with a concavo-convex part of the operation member to generate click feeling. The holder has an inner annular part holding the operation member and shading member, and an outer annular part having pressure parts each of which deforms and pushes one of the switches when the operation member is swingingly operated. The optical sensors are arranged between the inner annular part and outer annular part without overlapping with the click spring to interpose one of the switches.
US10091398B2	Image processing apparatus capable of setting characteristic information for converting target image data An image processing apparatus includes a controller configured to perform: setting characteristic information including first characteristic information and second characteristic information; and converting a target image data using the characteristic information. The first and second characteristic information correlate input values with output values in a specific color space. The input values includes a specific input value within a specific range. The specific input value is correlated with a first specific output value by the first characteristic information, and is correlated with a second specific output value by the second characteristic information. The first specific output value indicates that a colorant consumption quantity for the specific input value is changed from an original colorant consumption quantity by a first colorant quantity. The second specific output value indicates that the colorant consumption quantity is changed from the original colorant consumption quantity by a second colorant quantity different from the first colorant quantity.
US10091391B2	System and method for constructing document image from snapshots taken by image sensor panel In one aspect, the present disclosure provides a system and a method for constructing a document image from snapshots of portions of a subject document taken by a two-dimensional image sensor panel. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides a mobile electronic device comprising: an image sensor panel; a non-transitory computer readable memory; and a processor configured to: capture a sequence of frames from the image sensor panel, identify corresponding features in said sequence of frames, combine said sequence of frames into a resultant image such that the corresponding features are spatially collocated in the resultant image, and record the resultant image to the memory.
US10091388B2	Print control system and print control method A print control system 1 has a control server 10 that transmits print data, and a printer 12 that communicates with the control server 10 through an asynchronous duplex communication path, receives print data sent by the control server 10 through the communication path, and prints based on the received data.
US10091385B2	Information processing apparatus and image forming apparatus According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a data amount detection unit and a recording unit. The data amount detection unit detects a data amount of data which is related to image processing and is included in transmission information transmitted when performing image processing. The recording unit adds and records the detected data amount.
US10091379B2	Information processing device and storage medium An information processing device includes a product information acquisition unit that acquires information indicative of a correlation between a product and one or plural product composition elements composing the product, for each product being software; a product composition element acquisition unit that acquires information indicative of one or plural product composition elements installed in a device, from the device; a specification unit that specifies a product installed in the device on the basis of the information indicative of the one or plural product composition elements acquired by the product composition element acquisition unit and the correlation; and a controller that causes a display to display the product specified by the specification unit.
US10091376B2	Information processing device, non-transitory computer readable medium, and information processing method An information processing device includes: a receiver that receives a job that is a unit of processing of predetermined processing, an effective period of the job, and a shutdown command which sets a power supply of the device itself to a shutdown state; and a controller that, when the shutdown command is received by the receiver and no job has been received by the receiver and accumulated, performs control to set the power supply to the shutdown state.
US10091374B2	Image forming apparatus having abnormality determination function In an image forming apparatus, a calculation processing portion includes an input portion and an input-portion abnormality determining portion. The input portion is connected to a temperature detection portion. When an abnormality detection circuit has detected that a temperature detected by the temperature detection portion is an abnormally heated temperature, the input-portion abnormality determining portion determines whether or not a first temperature calculated as a temperature of a fixing member is lower than a predetermined second temperature, and upon determining that the first temperature is lower than the second temperature, determines that the input portion is abnormal.
US10091372B2	Medium feeding device and image reading apparatus A medium feeding device includes a lower portion unit in which a feeding roller is provided, and an upper portion unit in which a separating roller is provided and which is connected to the lower portion unit so as to be openable and closable. The lower portion unit has a cover member which covers a holding portion of the feeding roller while exposing a portion of the feeding roller to the transport path, and the cover member is configured to be removable in a direction including a component directed toward an upstream side in the transport direction by being attachable to and detachable from the lower portion unit.
US10091371B2	Processing apparatus, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium for presenting a customization screen A processing apparatus includes a function-screen processing unit and a customization-screen processing unit. The function-screen processing unit arranges setting-item elements in order, the setting-item elements corresponding to respective setting items to be displayed, the setting items being a portion of a group of setting items corresponding to a function provided to a user, and performs processing for presenting, to the user, a function screen on which a customization element for receiving a request for a customization operation is arranged after the arranged group of setting-item elements. The customization-screen processing unit performs, in a case where the user has performed an operation to request the customization operation on the customization element, processing for presenting, to the user, a customization screen through which, for each setting item in the group of setting items, specification of whether the setting item is to be displayed is received.
US10091369B2	Image processing system, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing system that prevents erroneous job execution without significantly decreasing the usability includes receiving a request relating to a job, accepting a job execution instruction, and executing the job in response to acceptance of the execution instruction. If a plurality of requests relating to jobs is received, information for confirmation of the job is provided. If a single request relating to a job is received, information for confirmation of the job is not provided.
US10091367B2	Information processing device, image forming apparatus and information processing method To provide an information processing device that can perform scroll operations without preparing model-specific tables. An image forming apparatus (1) causes a moving interval calculating part (110) to calculate moving interval values (250) of indication coordinates (320) of an object based on a ratio of an elapsed time (220) to the moving time (200) and a difference between end coordinates (240) and start coordinates (230). A moving interval value after setting wait part (120) adds the moving interval values (250) to the indication coordinates (320) of the object. An object drawing part (130) draws the object on the coordinates to which the moving interval values (250) are added and causes a display part to display the object.
US10091366B2	Systems and methods using policy attribute information for content transfer The present invention provides systems and methods for the virtualization, aggregation, and distributed processing of facsimile communications. The Remote FAX Interconnect known as etherFAX® is a system and method that allows for the reception and delivery of information based on cloud computing infrastructure to or from one or more facsimile systems using Internet/web based communication protocols such as HTTP(S) as the transport between a facsimile capable application or hardware and the remotely accessible etherFAX® services.
US10091359B1	Apparatus, method, and computer program for optimizing communication Communication between callers and call center agents may be optimized. A request message may be transmitted to an application services module to connect with an agent associated with the selection. A contact number of a proxy server may be received from the application service module. The contact number may be utilized to connect with the agent via the proxy server.
US10091355B2	Virtual voice response agent individually configured for a user A call can be received from a user. At least one input can be received from the user. Responsive to receiving the input(s) from the user, a user profile for the user can be identified or created. The user profile can indicate one or more speech traits of the user. A virtual intelligent voice response (VIVR) agent individually configured for the user can be identified or created. The VIVR agent can be configured to include, or identify, one or more VIVR agent features corresponding to the speech trait(s) of the user. The user can be interacted with on the call by generating synthesized speech using parameters specified by the VIVR agent feature(s) included in, or identified by, the VIVR agent individually configured for the user.
US10091352B1	Systems and methods for cluster-based voice verification Systems for caller identification and authentication may include an authentication server. The authentication server may be configured to receive audio data including speech of a plurality of telephone calls, use audio data for at least a subset of the plurality of telephone calls to populate a plurality of word clusters each associated with a specific demographic, and/or use audio data for at least one of the plurality of telephone calls to identify the telephone caller making the telephone call based on determining a most similar word cluster of the plurality of word clusters to the audio data of the caller.
US10091350B2	Authentication and control of incoming communication An incoming communication processing system and method is disclosed for providing communication and data services to residents of a controlled facility. Specifically, the incoming communication processing system allows outside parties to initiate communications to residents of a controlled facility. The incoming communication processing system may work in conjunction with or separately from an outgoing communication processing system. Many restrictions and safeguards may be implemented within the incoming communication system in order to prevent improper use.
US10091346B2	Apparatus and method for storing data of peripheral device in portable terminal An apparatus and method for playing data, played in a device connected with a portable terminal, in another device are provided. An apparatus for storing data of a peripheral device in a portable terminal includes a user interface (UI) managing unit and a data processing unit. The UI managing unit is configured to display, in the event of connection with a peripheral device, a UI for controlling data played in the peripheral device. The data processing unit is configured to copy the played data of the peripheral device through the UI and display a list of the copied data. The data processing unit is further configured to transmit data selected from the displayed list to another device.
US10091344B2	Displaying virtual target window on mobile device based on user intent An approach is provided that executes on a mobile device with a touch-enabled display screen. The approach receives, from a user of the mobile device, a gesture entered on the touch-enabled display screen with the gesture being entered using an input instrument, such as a finger or thumb, operated by the user. In response to receiving the gesture, the approach identifies the application that is currently being displayed, predicts an intent of the user based on past user actions received during previous executions of the application. The predicted intent predicts the element displayed on the screen that is desired by the user. The approach also creates a cloned copy of the current application display and provides a virtual target window by displaying the cloned copy on the touch-enabled display screen in a position that makes the predicted element accessible to the input instrument operated by the user.
US10091343B2	Mobile device and method for determining its context According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, a mobile device is provided, comprising: a motion sensor configured to detect one or more movements of the mobile device; an audio sensor configured to capture one or more audio signals; a processing unit configured to determine a context of the mobile device in dependence on at least one movement detected by the motion sensor and at least one audio signal captured by the audio sensor. According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding method for determining a context of a mobile device is conceived. According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, a corresponding computer program is provided.
US10091340B2	Mobile terminal Provided is a mobile terminal. The present application provides a sensor inside either or both of a receiver opening and a microphone opening, rather than providing an additional opening on the front panel of a device for installing the sensors, such that light is transmitted to the sensor via the receiver opening and/or the microphone opening, and the sensor transmits a signal via the receiver opening and/or the microphone opening; the receiver opening and/or the microphone opening are openings currently available on the front panel of the device, without the need of proving additional openings on the front panel of the device, reducing the number of the openings on the front panel of the device to make a mobile device more integrated, and provide a better user experience due to an uncluttered surface of the front panel of the device.
US10091339B2	Staging a mobile device with a battery of the mobile device A system configures a mobile device. The system includes a battery and a mobile device. The battery includes at least one power storage cell and a memory arrangement, the memory arrangement storing staging profile data, the staging profile data including configuration data. The mobile device is configured to be coupled to the battery, the mobile device being powered by the at least one power storage cell, the mobile device receiving the staging profile data from the memory arrangement, the mobile device being automatically configured for communication with a communication network as a function of the configuration data.
US10091338B2	Electronic device having automatically ejectable input pen An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a input pen including at least one magnet, a housing including a pen guide path for inserting the input pen, at least one electromagnet installed around the pen guide path, wherein the at least one electromagnet is installed to react to the magnetism of the magnet while the input pen is completely inserted into the pen guide path, and at least one processor supplying power having the same polarity as the magnet to the electromagnet according to an automatic ejection event of the input pen to push the magnet out of the electronic device.
US10091337B2	Identification of packet traffic transmitted by various devices operated in multiple overlapped frequency bands in packet-based OFDM systems Techniques for header encoding include encoding a plurality of bits using a forward error correction code, generating an FEC codeword comprising a plurality of encoded bits, and concatenating a first copy of the FEC codeword with a second copy of the FEC codeword, wherein the concatenating comprises cyclically shifting by two bits the second concatenated copy of the FEC codeword relative to the first concatenated copy of the FEC codeword, wherein the encoded bits of the first and second copies of the FEC codewords are modulated on at least one OFDM symbol. techniques for header decoding include receiving a plurality of encoded bits comprising at least two concatenated copies of an FEC codeword, decoding a first copy of the FEC codeword to generate a first plurality of decoded bits, and decoding a second copy of the FEC codeword to generate a second plurality of decoded bits.
US10091327B2	Processing available user data to determine a user profile for use in anticipating changing user interests There are provided systems and methods for processing available user data to determine a user profile for use in anticipating changing user interest. User data for a user may be collected, which may be used to determine a dynamic user profile for the user. The dynamic user profile may be responsive to changes in the user data, as the user performs more actions or indicates interests in certain areas. The dynamic user profile may include user interests and trends of the user, and may be used to perform predictive analysis of the user's potential interests. Additionally, using a plurality of users' interest areas and links based on common users between the interest areas, upcoming interests for the user may be determined through links between interest areas. Thus, if similar users based on interest areas are linked to a certain interest, the user may also be linked to that interest.
US10091325B2	Methods and systems for data services A method substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein. A device substantially as shown and described the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein.
US10091324B2	Content feed for facilitating topic discovery in social networking environments The disclosed techniques provide systems and methods for generating content feeds with topic discovery capabilities. More specifically, various procedures are described for generating content feeds by selecting at least one of two of a first quantity of content items, a second quantity of content items, and a third quantity of content items. The first quantity of content items is selected based on a dynamically generated user interest profile associated with a particular user. The user interest profile can include a subset of first interest categories in which a specific user of a social networking system has indicated an interest. The second quantity of content items is selected based on a interest categories in which other users of the social networking system, having one or more characteristics that are the same or similar to the specific user, have indicated an interest. The third quantity of content items is selected randomly.
US10091322B2	Method and apparatus for improving a user experience or device performance using an enriched user profile A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for communication are provided in which a communications device is operable to provide an improved user experience or to improve the performance and/or operation of the communications device through use of an enriched user profile. In one aspect, the communications device may predict an event occurrence by interpreting an enriched user profile including an attribute and an enhanced informational element. The communications device may modify a functionality of a component of the device based on the predicted event occurrence. In one aspect, component modification may include presenting the contextually relevant informational element on a user interface.
US10091318B2	Content-based notification delivery In one embodiment, a method includes one or more computing devices ranking multiple users of a social-networking system based on one or more criteria associated with a spotlight content item, wherein the spotlight content item is associated with a node in a social graph associated with the social-networking system, and wherein at least one of the criteria is based on social-networking information for each of the user, verifying the ranked users, wherein the verifying comprises confirming or eliminating each of the ranked users based on recent interactions by the ranked users with social-networking information corresponding to the node associated with the spotlight content item, and sending a notification about the spotlight content item to each of the confirmed users in accordance with a batching protocol, wherein the batching protocol is determined based at least in part on rankings for each of the confirmed users.
US10091316B2	Connection-oriented proxy push-pull server A connection-oriented proxy push-pull network server, including: obtaining a history of the live content in response to a request from a client via a connection-oriented communication channel; obtaining a set of updates to the live content in response to the request from the client; and combining the history and the updates into a merged content stream back to the client via the connection-oriented communication channel.
US10091313B2	Method and system for tracking web link usage A method and system for tracking web link usage is provided. An example system includes a request detector, a click history module, a link presentation generator, and a serving module. The request detector may be configured to receive a request for a web page comprising a web link. The click history module may be configured to access click history associated with the user account. The link presentation generator may be configured to modify the web page, utilizing the click history. The serving module may be configured to serve the modified web page in response to the request for the web page.
US10091306B2	System and method for management of ethernet premise devices A system and method for managing customer premise equipment (CPE) devices. A wake signal is issued to the CPE device. Action parameters are communicated to the CPE device in response to receiving acknowledgement of the wake signal from the CPE device. A management session is established with the CPE device utilizing an address for secure communications in response to the CPE device acknowledging the action parameters. Communications are performed through the management session to perform operation, administration, and maintenance of the CPE device. The management session with the CPE device is terminated.
US10091305B2	Disconnect protection for command-line remote terminals Disconnection protection for command-line remote terminal may be provided. A command-line remote terminal session may be created at the first computer for interacting with the second computer. A command entered in the command-line remote terminal session may be intercepted. A disconnect protection may be injected into the command. The disconnect protection may comprise at least redirecting output from the command into a session log file. The output of the command may be tracked to simulate the command as an active process in the command-line remote terminal session at the first computer. Responsive to detecting a disconnect in the remote network connection with the second computer, the remote network connection with the second computer may be automatically recovered by restarting the remote network connection with the second computer based on information stored in the session log file at a point of the disconnect.
US10091303B1	Using in-home location awareness Techniques for suggesting accessory devices controlled by an application executing on a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes measuring one or more sensor values to determine a data point at each of a plurality of first times, associating an accessory device with each of the data points, clustering the data points within a threshold distance of each other to create a plurality of clusters. The method also includes, after clustering the data points, measuring one or more sensor values to determine one or more current data points at a second time, determining that one or more current data points at the second time corresponds to a first cluster of the plurality of clusters, identifying a first accessory device associated with one or more of the data points in the first cluster, and providing a message using the application.
US10091298B2	Enhancing performance of data storage in a dispersed storage network A method includes determining a level of confidence regarding a revision level for a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes, when the level of confidence is equal to or above a confidence threshold, sending write and commit requests, wherein a write and commit request includes an encoded data slice, a current revision value, and a new revision value. The method further includes, when favorable responses have been received, issuing finalize write requests. The method further includes, when the level of confidence is below the confidence threshold, sending write requests, wherein a write request includes the encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices and a new revision value. The method further includes, when favorable write responses have been received, issuing write commit requests. The method further includes, when favorable write commit responses have been received, issuing finalize write requests.
US10091297B1	Data processing and data movement in cloud computing environment A plurality of data sets to be moved from a source site to a target site in a cloud computing platform is received at a plurality of a containerized data ingest components located at the source site. The received plurality of data sets are provided from the plurality of data ingest components to a staging cluster comprising a plurality of containerized broker components located at the source site, wherein the plurality of containerized broker components queue the plurality of data sets. The queued plurality of data sets are provided from the plurality of containerized broker components to a processing cluster comprising a plurality of containerized data processing components, wherein the plurality of containerized data processing components process the plurality of data sets. The plurality of data sets is transmitted from the plurality of containerized data processing components to the target site.
US10091295B1	Converged infrastructure implemented with distributed compute elements Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture comprising processor-readable storage media are provided for implementing converged infrastructure systems with computing elements distributed over server nodes, network nodes, and storage media nodes. For example, a computing system includes application server nodes, network switch nodes, and storage media nodes. The storage media nodes include persistent storage elements to store data. The network switch nodes are configured to enable communication between the application server nodes and the storage media nodes, and to enable communication between the storage media nodes. The application server, network switch, and storage media nodes are configured to implement a converged infrastructure, wherein the converged infrastructure includes compute elements distributed over the application server, network switch, and storage media nodes. The distributed compute elements are configured to collaboratively control and coordinate data processing functions within the converged infrastructure.
US10091290B1	Methods for synchronizing files in a cloud network Disclosed are methods and systems for providing cloud services to personal computing devices that store large personal files such as personal videos and personal photographs in a lossless format. The methods and systems include a cloud server that synchronizes a menu of the file system between local computing devices.
US10091288B2	Ordered execution of tasks Systems and methods for synchronizing a network are described. Multiple nodes, for example, may execute tasks (e.g., updates) in an order based on task identifiers and/or local clock values for each of the nodes. When a node receives a task, it may determine whether to execute the task or to store the task for future execution. Nodes may generate identifiers for the task and send the task and identifier to one or more other nodes, such as via a gossip protocol.
US10091284B2	Communication apparatus A communication apparatus may include a first wireless interface and a second wireless interface configured to establish a first type of wireless connection with an external apparatus, the first type of wireless connection being a connection where the communication apparatus operates as a client and the external apparatus operates as a server. The second wireless interface may be further configured to supply wireless information to the external apparatus using the first type of wireless connection, regardless of whether request information for requesting supply of the wireless information is obtained from the external apparatus. A controller may be configured to establish a particular wireless connection with the external apparatus via the first wireless interface using the wireless information after the wireless information is supplied to the external apparatus.
US10091283B2	Distributed scheduling systems for digital magazine A distributed scheduling system is provided for scheduling tasks of providing content items in a digital magazine and verifying completion of tasks performed in a dynamic and scalable way. The distributed scheduling system includes multiple execution devices for executing tasks for generating and presenting the digital magazine, and multiple task service devices for verifying completion of tasks performed by the execution devices. Each of the execution devices and task service devices generates a heartbeat indicating the operation status of the device for executing a corresponding task. A heartbeat is an electric representation generated by the device to indicate the operation status of the device (e.g., operable/functional or inoperable/down). Each task may be associated with a corresponding one of the task service devices, and each task service device may verify completion of its associated tasks.
US10091281B1	Multi-user application host-system selection system Embodiments of systems and methods disclosed herein relate to selecting an application host system (for example, a server at a data center) to host an instance of a multiplayer video game session that assesses a quality of a connection to the application host system for each of the users who request or are selected to play within the multiplayer video game session.
US10091275B2	Multiple file delivery over unidirectional transport protocol sessions for a service Embodiment systems, methods, and devices enable data streams of a broadcast service to be carried in multiple communication sessions in any transport protocol providing file transport information and the transmission of objects, an example of which is File Delivery Over Unidirectional Transport (“FLUTE”). A session description may include a category attribute indicating the type of data carried in such a protocol session. A schedule fragment may include references to a session description for each such protocol session associated with a service. A common listing of configuration parameters may be generated for all such protocol sessions associated with a service. A different listing of configuration parameters may be generated for each such protocol session associated with a service. A flag setting in a diary file may indicate one or more such protocol session associated with a service over which in-band update fragments may be broadcast.
US10091274B2	Method, device, and system for controlling network device auto-provisioning A method, device, and system for controlling network device auto-provisioning is provided. The method includes: acquiring network topology information that is in a live network and of a network device, where the network topology information includes an interface and an IP address of an uplink device directly connected to the network device. The method also includes detecting whether the network topology information in the live network matches preset network topology information; and if the network topology information in the live network matches the preset network topology information, sending, by a network management device to the network device, information about enabling the File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or Trivial FTP (TFTP), and an identifier of an operating system file and/or an identifier of a configuration file, so that the network device acquires the operating system file and/or the configuration file.
US10091271B2	Systems, methods and computer program products for dynamic user profile enrichment and data integration A system is disclosed for delivering dynamically-rendered web experiences enriched with external user profile data. The system establishes a provider connection with a provider system external to the system. The provider connection connects a page component of a network site and a provider service executing on the provider system. During web content delivery, the system accesses the provider connection and queries the provider service about a user visiting the network site. The system dynamically integrates external user profile data provided by the provider system with system-managed content in a delivered web page that is tailored to the user.
US10091270B2	Method and system for allowing cloud-based applications to automatically integrate network enabled sensors during runtime A method and system to enable interoperability between Internet enabled devices and online applications without traditionally agreeable on device standard formats between the manufacturer and applications ahead time. The application is able to connect, control, and actuate newly added devices at runtime.
US10091268B2	Hierarchal maximum information rate enforcement A communication system may be configured to transmit information from one or more information sources to a plurality of users over limited capacity media while enforcing one or more Quality of Service policies, such as maximum information rate (MIR) policies. Methods are presented herein for enforcing maximum information rate on two or more levels in a hierarchal and extendable manner, for at least the purposes of maximizing utilization of available capacity over said media and of fair distributing said capacity between all users. Also presented herein is a method for estimating load over said media.
US10091267B2	Wireless transmission of real-time media A method for encoding real-time media for wireless transmission from a source device to a sink device over a wireless transmission channel is disclosed. The method comprises encoding media for the wireless transmission based on a minimum of (i) an available bandwidth between the source device and the sink device for the wireless transmission based on a time allocation of the source device for wireless transmission or (ii) a throughput constraint for the wireless transmission based on a hardware limitation associated with one or both of the source device and the sink device; and wirelessly transmit the encoded media from the source device to the sink device.
US10091266B2	Method and system for rendering digital content across multiple client devices A method and a system for rendering digital content across multiple client devices are provided. At least a portion of first digital content is rendered on a first client device. An identifier corresponding to the first digital content, which identifies a descriptor of the first digital content, and a first position in the first digital content are determined on the first client device. The identifier and the first position are transferred from the first client device to a second client device via a network accessible library. The descriptor is downloaded from the network accessible library to the second client device by using the identifier. At least a portion of ancillary digital content associated with the first digital content is rendered on the second client device by using the descriptor and the first position. Thus, rendering of the first content and the ancillary digital content may be synchronized across multiple devices.
US10091265B2	Catching up to the live playhead in live streaming Techniques are described for reducing the delay between the live playhead of live streaming content and the client playhead of a client device consuming the live stream. In one technique, an increased playback speed is used by the media player on the client device so that the delay is gradually reduced. In another technique, the media player jumps forward in the stream, skipping content identified as expendable.
US10091264B2	Technologies for streaming device role reversal Technologies for streaming device role reversal include a source computing device and a destination computing device coupled via a communication channel. The source computing device and destination computing device are each configured to support role reversal. In other words, the source computing device and the destination computing device are each capable of switching between receiving and transmitting digital media content over the established communication channel. The source computing device is configured to initiate the role reversal, pause transmit functionality of the source computing device, and enable receive functionality of the source computing device. The destination computing device is configured to receive a role reversal indication from the source computing device, locally process the content, transmit a content stream to the source computing device, and display the content stream on an output device of the source computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed herein.
US10091263B2	Media stream cue point creation with automated content recognition A media stream cue point creator receives a media stream comprising at least one of an audio portion or a video portion, wherein the media stream lacks at least one indicator of a content segment within the media stream. The media stream cue point creator identifies a first segment of the plurality of segments of the media stream, wherein the segment corresponds to a segment in a segment reference data store, and creates a cue point associated with the first segment, wherein the cue point identifies at least one of a beginning or an end of the first content segment in the media stream.
US10091260B2	Copy and paste for web conference content Techniques are disclosed for providing copy/paste support for web conference content. Methods and systems allow copy/paste operations in web conference sessions with multimedia content based on data extracted from conference content transmitted during the web conference. The web conference can connect clients for live sharing of documents, audio, video, applications such as web applications, and web pages. In one embodiment, a conference application can receive content from a first client participating in the web conference. The conference application can extract data items from the content. The conference application can store the extracted data items. The conference application can also receive, from a second client participating in the web conference, a selection of a portion of the conference content. The conference application can retrieve extracted data items corresponding to the selection, and then provide, via the web conference, to the second client participating in the web conference, the retrieved data items.
US10091256B2	Access change for re-routing a connection There is proposed a method and corresponding apparatuses allowing a change from a packet switched communication domain to a circuit switched communication domain. When a user equipment as a connection terminating point receives a connection initialization message with a media flow, such as audio, which cannot be delivered by the packet switched access, it sends a specific response rejecting the connection via the packet switched access to an application server for service centralization and continuity. In the application server, it is checked whether several conditions are met in order to determine whether the communication connection comprising the media flow is allowed to be changed to the circuit switched domain. If yes, the communication connection is changed from the packet switched communication domain to the circuit switched communication domain.
US10091247B2	Apparatus and method for using certificate data to route data A method of routing data across a network receives a session request from a client node to access at least one node in a local network having a plurality of nodes. The method also receives a client certificate (e.g., a digital certificate at least partially specified by known standards, such as the “X509 Standard”) from the client node. The client certificate has client information specifying at least one node to receive packets from the client node. Next, the method uses the client certificate to execute an authentication process. If the authentication process authenticates the client node, then the method routes data packets from the client node to at least one node in the local network as specified by the client information in the client certificate.
US10091244B2	Method and system for providing security using a loopback interface A method of providing security for data using a loopback interface, the method includes setting a security policy on a host device and a client device, the security policy configuration including a first loopback interface and an IP address for the host device and a second loopback interface and an IP address for the client device; sending an IP packet to the first loopback interface on the host device, wherein the first loopback interface configures the packet to be routed to the second loopback interface; sending the IP packet from the first loopback interface to a security module on the host device for encryption pursuant to a security protocol; filtering the encrypted packet received from first loopback interface and configuring the encrypted packet be sent to the client device; and sending the encrypted packet from the host device to the client device.
US10091243B2	Apparatus and method for securely connecting to a remote server A method for securely connecting to a remote server that provides improved Internet security. In the method, a client receives a request to connect to a remote server associated with a domain name. The client, when resolving the domain name, determines whether the remote server supports at least one predetermined IP layer security protocol. The client performs a key exchange protocol with the remote server to generate at least one shared secret in response to determining that the remote server supports the at least one predetermined IP layer security protocol. The client connects to the remote server using the at least one shared secret in the IP layer security protocol.
US10091236B2	Methods apparatuses, and storage mediums for acquiring legitimate installation packages Methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums are provided for acquiring a legitimate installation package the field of computer technology. The method includes: acquiring characteristic information of a first installation package; sending the characteristic information to an authentication server; receiving a differential package fed back by the authentication server; and combining the differential package with the first installation package to obtain a legitimate installation package. The present disclosure solves the problem in the prior art that a user can only download a legitimate installation package of an application again to re-install the application when the user finds that malicious codes are implanted in an installed installation package of the application.
US10091235B1	Method, system, and apparatus for detecting and preventing targeted attacks The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) detecting a request from a computing device of a member of an organization in connection with a communication session between the computing device and at least one additional computing device, (2) identifying, within the request, a URL that the computing device is attempting to access, (3) computing a unique identifier that represents the URL, (4) comparing the unique identifier against a database that includes unique identifiers that represent URLs embedded in emails received by members of the organization, (5) determining, based at least in part on the comparison, that the URL was included in an email received by the member of the organization, and then in response, (6) elevating a threat level of the communication session between the computing device and the additional computing device. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed.
US10091231B1	Systems and methods for detecting security blind spots The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting security blind spots may include (i) detecting, via an endpoint security program, a threat incident at a set of client machines associated with a security vendor server, (ii) obtaining an indication of how the set of client machines will respond to the detecting of the threat incident, (iii) predicting how a model set of client machines would respond to the threat incident, (iv) determining that a delta exceeds a security threshold, and (v) performing a security action by the security vendor server, in response to determining that the delta exceeds the security threshold, to protect the set of client machines at least in part by electronically notifying the set of client machines of information about the prediction of how the model set of client machines would respond to the threat incident. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10091229B2	Systems and methods of network security and threat management The present disclosure generally provides systems and methods of network security and threat management. An exemplary system includes detection and prevention modules (DPM) designed specifically to collect and transmit suspicious binary network packet data. The collected network packets are sent to a behavioral correlation module to perform automatic behavioral correlation: (1) within each DPM, (2) across all DPMs installed on a network, and (3) across all DPMs installed on all networks. The results of the behavioral correlation are sent to a security dashboard module (SDM), which generally acts as a fully integrated Security Event Management system and collects, correlates, and prioritizes global network alerts, local network alerts, posted vendor alerts, and detected network vulnerabilities with enterprise assets. The SDM could display the results in a user-friendly graphical user interface and has the ability to perform geographic mapping of externally generated threats.
US10091220B2	Platform for protecting small and medium enterprises from cyber security threats A device for protecting a network environment from cyber security threats includes a processing unit and a non-transitory memory having processor-executable instructions stored thereon. The processing unit is configured to execute the processor-executable instructions to: (a) perform one or more auditing stages for examining and analyzing network devices by retrieving information, via a network adapter, from each of the network devices, so as to enable automatically monitoring, scanning and learning the network environment and its security configurations; (b) generate a cyber-security check report that reflects the results of the one or more auditing stages; and (c) give recommendations according to the report in order to increase a security level of the network.
US10091219B2	Methods and apparatus for detecting remote control of a client device A system, method, and apparatus for detecting remote control of a client device are disclosed. An example network security apparatus includes a network switch configured to route first data packets between a client device and a content provider device, determine IP addresses of other devices that transmit second data packets to or receive second data packets from the client device, and throttle the second data packets destined for the client device. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to receive signal packets indicative of activity in relation to a webpage provided by the content provider device to the client device and instruct the network switch to throttle the second data packets after receiving one of the signal packets. The controller is also configured to provide an indication of a malicious device remotely controlling the client device responsive to not receiving another signal packet within a specified time period.
US10091210B2	Policy enforcement of client devices A method may include sending, by a client device, an access request to an authentication server device. The access request may include a request to access an administered resource. The method may include in response to the client device not complying with an administrative policy associated with the administered resource, receiving, from the authentication server device, one or more instructions regarding installation of a client application, receiving, by the client device, a client application in accordance with the instructions, and installing the client application on the client device.
US10091209B2	Access enforcement at a wireless access point A first set of access rules is received from an access configuration service. The first set of access rules specifies addresses of devices authorized for a first user. A second set of access rules is received from the access configuration service. The second set of the access rules specifies addresses of devices authorized for a second user. At a wireless access point, a network packet associated with the first user is received. The first set of access rules is applied to filter the network packet.
US10091208B2	Firewall method and apparatus for industrial systems Selectively enabling communication of dual protocol packets from a source device directed to a service of an object class at target devices is provided. Steps can include providing an access control database including an entry correlating a source device, an object class and a service of the object class; from a source device, receiving a dual protocol packet including a frame and a field according to a first network communication protocol and an encapsulated packet of a second network communication protocol; obtaining from the frame, an identification of the source device; obtaining from the encapsulated packet, an identification and a service of an object class to which the encapsulated packet is directed; comparing the identification of the source device, the identification and service of the object class, and the entry of the access control database; and selectively transmitting the dual protocol packet as a function of the comparison.
US10091207B2	Social network based mobile access In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving one or more access rules of a first user account of a plurality of accounts of a social network and storing the retrieved one or more access rules. The method also includes receiving a request from a first user to install a first application on a computing device, wherein the first user is associated with the first user account of the social network. The method further includes determining whether the first user is permitted to install the first application on the computing device based on the stored one or more access rules of the first user account of the social network.
US10091204B1	Controlling user access to protected resource based on outcome of one-time passcode authentication token and predefined access policy Techniques are provided for controlling user access to a protected resource based on an outcome of a one-time passcode authentication token and one or more predefined access policies. An exemplary method comprises the steps of: providing an authentication passcode generated by a token associated with a user to at least one authentication processing device, wherein the user is attempting to access a protected resource; receiving an authentication outcome from the at least one authentication processing device, the authentication outcome comprising an acceptance outcome of the received authentication passcode and at least one of an acceptance outcome with respect to one or more different signals, such as a silent alarm and an acceptance outcome with respect to a drifting key; and providing access of the user to the protected resource based on the authentication outcome and a predefined access policy. Predefined access policies that are specific to silent alarm alerts and drifting key alerts are also provided.
US10091200B2	Information processing apparatus, policy management apparatus, security policy management method, and storage medium When an expanded application (AP) is installed, an information processing apparatus analyzes port control information relating to a unique port to be used by the expanded AP and edits policy setting items including existing policy setting items based on the port control information. Then, the information processing apparatus receives setting input via the edited policy setting items and generates setting information. The information processing apparatus applies a filtering rule to a firewall (FW) unit according to the setting information, whereby the security is maintained in the case where the expanded AP is installed.
US10091193B2	One time passcode A one-time passcode authentication system includes an application server, an authentication server, and an access device, wherein the access includes an authentication engine configured to receive an authentication request from the authentication server and automatically, or in response to a single user input, initiate an access request to the application server, wherein the access request includes a token extracted from the authentication request, and the application server is configured to receive the access request, query the authentication server to authenticate the token, and enable access to an application if the token is authenticated.
US10091192B2	Merged video streaming, authorization, and metadata requests Implementations disclose merged video streaming, authorization, and metadata request. A method includes receiving, by a streaming server, a first request to view a media item from a client device via a connection between the client device and the streaming server, and sending a second request to an authorization server to verify that the client device is authorized to play the media item. The method further includes: prior to receiving a response from the authorization server, providing an encrypted portion of the media item to the client device via the connection, receiving, from the authorization server, a verification that the client device is authorized to play the media item, and sending, via the connection between the client device and the streaming server, a cryptography key for decrypting the encrypted portion of the media item to the client device.
US10091188B2	Accelerated passphrase verification Systems and methods for providing accelerated passphrase verification are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a full security string, generating a full security string hash code, storing the full security string hash code in a memory, determining at least one substring based on an entropy value associated with one or more leading characters in the full security string, generating at least one substring hash code and at least one corresponding character count value, such that the corresponding character count value equals a number of characters in the at least one substring, and storing the at least one substring hash code and the at least one corresponding character count value in the memory.
US10091186B2	Secure authenticated distance measurement The invention relates to a method for a first communication device to perform authenticated distance measurement between the first communication device and a second communication device, wherein the first and the second communication device share a common secret and the common secret is used for performing the distance measurement between the first and the second communication device. The invention also relates to a method of determining whether data stored on a first communication device are to be accessed by a second communication device. Moreover, the invention relates to a communication device for performing authenticated distance measurement to a second communication device. The invention also relates to an apparatus for playing back multimedia content comprising a communication device.
US10091185B2	Method and system for managing data The system has a user terminal. A client provides access for the user terminal to data entries stored in a database. A database holds information consisting of one or more data entries and data identifications connected to the data entries. The client forms data identification for a certain data entry to be stored in the database from a unique user name and a master password. A pair of the data identification and the data entry is stored. Access for the user terminal is provided to a data entry stored in a database by using the master password, and the unique user name.
US10091182B2	System and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials A computer-implemented system and method for pool-based identity authentication for service access without use of stored credentials is disclosed. The method in an example embodiment includes providing provisioning information for storage in a provisioning repository; receiving a service request from a service consumer, the service request including requestor identifying information; generating an authentication request to send to an authentication authority, the authentication request including requestor identifying information; receiving validation of an authenticated service request from the authentication authority; and providing the requested service to the service consumer.
US10091180B1	Behavioral profiling method and system to authenticate a user Methods and systems for behavioral profiling, and in particular, utilizing crowd-managed data architectures to store and manage that profile, are described. In some embodiments, a method includes observing behavioral characteristics of user interactions during a current session with the user through one of a plurality of channels. Variations between the behavioral characteristics of the user interactions observed during the current session and a behavioral profile previously developed based on prior usage patterns of the user through the plurality of channels are identified, in real-time or near real-time.
US10091174B2	Identifying related user accounts based on authentication data In some embodiments, upon detecting malicious activity associated with a user account, a content management system can identify other user accounts related to the malicious user account. The content management system can identify related user accounts by comparing authentication information collected for the malicious user account with authentication information collected for other user accounts. Authentication information can include IP address information, geographic information, device type, browser type, email addresses, and/or referral information, for example. The content management system can compare the content items associated with the malicious user account to content items associated with other user accounts to determine relatedness or maliciousness. After identifying related malicious user accounts, the content management system can block all related malicious user accounts.
US10091172B1	Data encryption in a network memory architecture for providing data based on local accessibility A network memory system is disclosed. The network memory system comprises a first appliance configured to encrypt first data, and store the encrypted first data in a first memory device. The first appliance also determines whether the first data is available in a second appliance and transmits a store instruction comprising the first data based on the determination that the first data does not exist in the second appliance. The second appliance is configured to receive the store instruction from the first appliance comprising the first data, encrypt the first data, and store the encrypted first data in a second memory device. The second appliance is further configured to receive a retrieve instruction comprising a location indicator indicating where the encrypted first data is stored, process the retrieve instruction to obtain encrypted response data, and decrypt the encrypted response data.
US10091170B2	Method and apparatus for distributing encryption and decryption processes between network devices In one embodiment, a method includes establishing at a security device, a secure session for transmitting data between a client device and an end host, receiving decrypted data at the security device from the client device, inspecting the decrypted data at the security device, encrypting the decrypted data at the security device, and transmitting encrypted data to the end host. Decryption at the client device is offloaded from the security device to distribute decryption and encryption processes between the client device and the security device. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US10091168B2	Wireless access point security Techniques are disclosed to increase security of a wireless access point (WAP). In embodiments, a cellular network provider has an arrangement with an owner of a WAP for cellular network customers to connect to the Internet through that WAP. The WAP may broadcast a SSID for cellular network customers only when a virtual private network (VPN) is established between the WAP and a server of the cellular network provider. If the VPN disconnects, then the WAP stops broadcasting this SSID until the VPN is re-established.
US10091167B2	Network traffic analysis to enhance rule-based network security A method of interpreting a rule and a rule-interpreting apparatus for rule-based security apparatus, and an apparatus implementing the method. The method comprises the following steps: designating a suspicious timeslot; if any packet does not present in the designated timeslot, capturing current incoming packets or capturing other incoming packets in the designated timeslot next time; automatically associating the packets in the designated timeslot to form at least one traffic flow corresponding to a connection or call; analyzing the at least one traffic flow to select at least one suspicious target traffic flow; and outputting the at least one selected suspicious target flow.
US10091165B2	Methods and systems for providing context-based outbound processing application firewalls Outbound processing with application firewalls. An outbound message is generated with an application. The outbound message includes at least a trustworthiness indicator and/or marking information for the one or more portions of the outbound message. The outbound message is received by an application firewall. The outbound message is analyzed based on the trustworthiness indicator and/or marking information, and context information. An action is performed on the outbound message based on the trustworthiness indicator and/or marking information, and the context information.
US10091152B2	Location based event invitation generation A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by at least one remote computing device, location information of one or more other computing devices. Which of the one or more other computing devices is within a pre-defined distance from an event location is identified based upon the location information. At least a portion of automatically-suggested user information associated with at least a portion of the one or more other computing devices within the pre-defined distance from the first computing device is sent to a first computing device. A selection of one or more users associated with the automatically-suggested user information sent to the first computing device is received by the at least one remote computing device from the event location. An invitation to an event at the event location is sent to at least a portion of the selected one or more users associated with the automatically-suggested user information.
US10091150B2	Identifying first contact unsolicited communications Techniques involving identification of electronic messages that are the first contact between the sender identification and addressed recipients. One representative technique includes identifying electronic messages originating from a sender that are first contact electronic messages between the sender and targeted recipients. The sender of the electronic messages may be designated as a source of unsolicited messages if heuristics involving the first contact electronic messages indicate a distribution of unsolicited messages by the sender.
US10091144B1	Method and apparatus for accessing support content A method and system for accessing support content are described herein. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving first and second messages relating to respective first and second devices at a computer system via respective first and second communication links, where the first and second messages comprise respective first and second identification codes. The method further comprises accessing a database to read first information mapped to the first identification code, and selecting, based on the first information, an identity of a first support content item from among identities of a plurality of support content items. The method further comprises generating and sending a third message to a server configured to implement an automated support system comprising the first support content item, where the third message comprises the identity of the first support content item.
US10091143B2	Dynamic rule-based notifications Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for providing dynamic rule-based messages. For example, a user device may identify physical activity information. Based at least in part on the activity information, the device may determine whether a physical activity goal has been reached. The device may determine whether to present a dynamic progress update message based at least in part on a time since a first activity message was presented and whether the physical activity goal has been reached. In some instances, when it is determined to present the dynamic progress update message, the device may access a data structure configured to maintain progress update information associated with respective time intervals. The device may then retrieve the dynamic progress update message that corresponds to a particular time interval from the data structure. The device may also present the message for the particular time interval.
US10091140B2	Context-sensitive generation of conversational responses Examples are generally directed towards context-sensitive generation of conversational responses. Context-message-response n-tuples are extracted from at least one source of conversational data to generate a set of training context-message-response n-tuples. A response generation engine is trained on the set of training context-message-response n-tuples. The trained response generation engine automatically generates a context-sensitive response based on a user generated input message and conversational context data. A digital assistant utilizes the trained response generation engine to generate context-sensitive, natural language responses that are pertinent to user queries.
US10091134B2	Open M2M system and method An open M2M system and a method are provided. A method for managing resources according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: registering resources existing in a first domain at a second domain; and discovering metadata of a desired resource in the second domain. Accordingly, information management and sharing can be optimized, and registration and discovery of resources can be supported to be performed on a global scale.
US10091132B2	Systems and methods for resource contention resolution Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for conflict resolution. A method can include identifying, by processing circuitry, whether a conflict exists between two or more nodes requesting access to a resource, in response to identifying a conflict exists, identifying a priority value for each of the nodes in conflict, the priority value for each of the nodes consistent with a probability distribution of possible priority values for each respective node, comparing the identified priority values to determine which priority value of the identified priority values corresponds to a highest priority value, and allocating access to the resource to the node corresponding to the determined highest priority value.
US10091131B2	Increased network resources in exchange for sharing of device resources An indicator can be received from a client device. The indicator can indicate an agreement by a user of the client device to share device resources of the client device with an entity distinct from the client device and distinct from the user of the client device. Responsive to receiving from the client device the indicator indicating the agreement of the user of the of the client device to share the device resources of the client device with the entity, at least one network resource provided to the client device can be increased.
US10091123B2	System and user interface for coordinating distributed workflow between multiple computing systems Systems and computer-readable media are disclosed for coordinating the distribution of workflow between multiple computing systems. Coordinating the distribution of workflow may include transferring data between multiple distributed computing systems using one or more networks. The workflow may include a series of operations to be executed. Execution of the first operation may be triggered by sending a message or a notification to a first computing system. After receiving a message or notification that execution of the first operation is complete, execution of a second operation may be triggered by sending a message or notification to a second computing device. The first computing device may be different than the second computing device.
US10091122B2	Traffic management One embodiment provides a network device. The network device includes a a processor including at least one processor core; a network interface configured to transmit and receive packets at a line rate; a memory configured to store a scheduler hierarchical data structure; and a scheduler module. The scheduler module is configured to prefetch a next active pipe structure, the next active pipe structure included in the hierarchical data structure, update credits for a current pipe and an associated subport, identify a next active traffic class within the current pipe based, at least in part, on a current pipe data structure, select a next queue associated with the identified next active traffic class, and schedule a next packet from the selected next queue for transmission by the network interface if available traffic shaping token bucket credits and available traffic class credits are greater than or equal to a next packet credits.
US10091119B2	Managing data in a static network prior to initialization One embodiment of the present disclosure sets forth a method for managing data received over a network. The method includes receiving at a first time a data packet from a node of the network, selecting a delay time associated with the node, where the delay time comprises an average delay time associated with previous communications involving the node, and processing data included in the data packet at a second time, where the second time is equal to the sum of the first time and the delay time.
US10091118B2	Maximizing throughput over a TCP link by boosting packet transmission A device can transmit, to a transmission control protocol (TCP) receiver, a quantity of packets based on a congestion window (CWND) value. The device can receive, from the TCP receiver, a quantity of acknowledgement (ACK) packets, that include a corresponding quantity of advertised receive window (RWND) values, based on transmitting the quantity of packets. The device can determine a maximum value for an updated CWND based on the CWND value and the corresponding quantity of RWND values. The device can provide a quantity of additional packets, to the TCP receiver, based on the maximum value for the updated CWND to cause the TCP receiver to selectively increase a size of a receive buffer.
US10091117B2	Code block segmentation and rate matching for multiple transport block transmissions Techniques for code block (CB) segmentation and rate matching in wireless deployments that may use CB-level feedback may provide that a transport block group (TBG) may include one or more CBs from multiple transport blocks (TBs). Such TBGs may support retransmissions of one or more CBs from different TBs within a TBG transmission. In certain examples, a TBG size may be determined, and a retransmission size associated with any CBs to be retransmitted are determined. Based at least in part on the TBG size and retransmission size, it may be determined whether a new TB may be included in the TBG.
US10091114B2	Asynchronous access and synchronous transmission for coexistence of wireless standards Methods and systems of asynchronous access and synchronous transmission include transmitting an initial reservation packet using a first protocol to prevent other devices that use the first protocol from transmitting during a reserved duration. A carrier using a second protocol is activated. Information is transmitted using a second protocol during the reserved duration. During a last subframe of the reserved duration, an additional reservation packet is transmitted using the first protocol to extend the reserved duration. The transmission of the additional reservation packet takes place while the carrier using the second protocol is still active.
US10091113B2	Network functions virtualization leveraging unified traffic management and real-world event planning The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to network functions virtualization (“NFV”) leveraging unified traffic management and real-world event planning. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a virtual network traffic management system (“VNTMS”) can receive, via a traffic congestion monitor, from a virtual network function (“VNF”), a traffic congestion indicator that includes a traffic congestion state indicative of network traffic congestion experienced by the VNF. The VNTMS can analyze the traffic congestion indicator to determine a traffic management action to be taken to alleviate at least a portion of the network traffic congestion experienced by the VNF, and instruct a traffic congestion action responder to provide the traffic management action to the VNF.
US10091107B2	Network path selection using bandwidth prediction In an embodiment, a system routes a new data stream from a source to a destination through a plurality of forwarding devices interconnected with links. The system includes a control device that receives a request to create a path through the plurality of interconnected forwarding devices for a new data stream and determines a type of the new data stream. A data flow database stores historical usage characteristics of data streams having the determined type. A path computation module determines, based on the historical usage characteristics of data streams having the determined type, the requested path through plurality of interconnected forwarding devices from the source to the destination.
US10091106B2	Method for implementing layer 3 virtual private network and device This application provides a method for implementing a Layer 3 virtual private network (L3VPN) and an apparatus. The method includes receiving, by a first PE, an attachment notification packet sent by a first terminal device, a first site attaches to an L3VPN by using the first PE; a second site attaches to the L3VPN by using a second PE, and a first terminal device attaches to a second site before attaching to the first site. The method also includes obtaining, by the first PE, an IP address of a second terminal device, and the second terminal device attaches to the second Site; and sending, by the first PE, a binding update notification packet to the first terminal device, where the binding update notification packet carries a MAC address of the first PE and the IP address of the second terminal device.
US10091104B1	Object reordering for fast Layer 4 switching of multiplexed connections Packet loss that arises due to an in-order serialization requirement for multiplexed stream delivery is ameliorated by a packet reordering scheme. In this approach, when out-of-sequence packets are detected, a switching entity (e.g., a Layer 4 switch) continues to relay the packets as long as the out-of-sequence packets are associated with different streams and are themselves in-sequence in their associated stream. To facilitate this process, the TCP protocol stack is augmented to recognize when a particular packet stream is to be processed in this manner.
US10091103B2	Efficient synchronization of stored information using a parallel ring network topology A routing system may include a primary message group to be used for synchronizing stored information. The primary message group may include multiple primary network devices. The multiple primary network devices may be configured with a first configuration regarding synchronizing the stored information. The primary message group may form a ring network topology. The routing system may include a secondary message group to be used for synchronizing the stored information. The secondary message group may include a single primary network device, of the multiple primary network devices, and multiple secondary network devices. Each secondary network device, of the multiple secondary network devices, may be included in a single secondary message group. The multiple secondary network devices may be configured with a second configuration regarding synchronizing the stored information. The secondary message group may form a different ring network topology.
US10091092B2	Pseudorandom communications routing This invention provides systems and methods to make communication networks more resilient, stealthier and robust. This invention discloses systems and methods wherein either a communications user equipment (UE) with multiple types of wireless links, potentially operating in different frequency bands, or an apparatus which performs communications routing functions, changes the communications routing in pseudo-random manner.
US10091086B2	System and method for providing an application programming interface manager for use with a service bus runtime In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for managing APIs exposed from proxy services executing in a service bus runtime. Each proxy service can be exposed as an API entry in an API catalog, where the API entry can be annotated with metadata, and published to an API portal. The published API entries can be subscribed to by an API consumer for an application. The application can pass an API key when invoking a proxy service corresponding to a subscribed API entry. A proxy interceptor associated with the corresponding proxy service can intercept the service invocation, and delegate the service invocation to an API managing component. The proxy interceptor can provide the API key and a proxy service reference to the API managing component, which can use the API key to collect usage metrics of the API subscription for display at the API portal.
US10091076B2	Systems and methods for configuring a resource for network traffic analysis The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of configuring a resource for network traffic analysis. An agent executed by a computing device receives an indication to record a browsing session. The agent records network activity data of the browsing session. The agent generates a data file with the recording. The agent transmits the data file and a request to generate a report to an analytics server. The analytics server receives the request and extracts the network activity data from the data file. The analytics server applies an event processing protocol to the network activity data. The analytics server generates a report and transmits the report to the client device for display.
US10091051B2	System and method for resilient wireless packet communications Rapid failure detection and recovery in wireless communication networks is needed in order to meet, among other things, carrier class Ethernet transport channel standards. Thus, resilient wireless packet communications is provided using a hardware-assisted rapid transport channel failure detection algorithm and a Gigabit Ethernet data access card with an engine configured accordingly. In networks with various topologies, this is provided in combination with their existing protocols, such as rapid spanning tree and link aggregation protocols, respectively.
US10091046B1	Joint use of probabilistic signal shaping and forward error correction A communication system in which probabilistic signal shaping and FEC coding are jointly used in an efficient manner that enables, e.g., the use of relatively high modulation orders without a penalizing increase of the FEC-code rate. In an example embodiment, the amplitudes of transmitted constellation symbols are generated using a shaping encoder. Some transmitted constellation symbols carry, as sign bits, the parity-bit values generated by an FEC encoder configured to operate on (i) a subset of bits from the binary labels of the shaped amplitudes and (ii) an additional set of unshaped information bits. Some other transmitted constellation symbols carry, as sign bits, the bit values of the additional set of unshaped information bits. In some embodiments the used FEC code can be a low-density parity-check code. Some embodiments can be used in communication systems relying on discrete multi-tone modulation, such as the systems providing DSL access over subscriber lines.
US10091045B2	Coding and modulation apparatus using non-uniform constellation A coding and modulation apparatus and method are presented. The apparatus comprises an encoder that encodes input data into cell words, and a modulator that modulates said cell words into constellation values of a non-uniform constellation. The modulator is configured to use, based on the total number M of constellation points of the constellation and the code rate, a non-uniform constellation from one or several groups of constellations each comprising one or more constellations.
US10091044B2	System and method for frequency synchronization of Doppler-shifted subcarriers A method includes receiving an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal comprising a plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers and determining frequency-shift data corresponding to the plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers. The determining includes calculating frequency-shift data for each Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarrier of the plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers, thereby yielding a plurality of subcarrier-specific frequency-shift values and calculating an average of the plurality of subcarrier-specific frequency-shift values. The method further includes frequency shifting each subcarrier of the plurality of Doppler-shifted OFDM subcarriers by a value based on the determined frequency-shift data multiplied by a frequency index of each subcarrier.
US10091043B2	Boundary detection device and wireless communication device including the same A boundary detection device includes a decorrelation filter and a boundary detector. The decorrelation filter is configured to output an output signal that has a decreased level with respect to an input signal when the input signal has a predetermined signal pattern, and that has a non-decreased level with respect to the input signal when the input signal does not have the predetermined signal pattern. The boundary detector is configured to detect an end of the predetermined signal pattern in the input signal, based on the output signal.
US10091039B2	Precision large phase modulation phase measurement system A phase detection system includes first and second phase mixing circuits in signal communication with a signal phase adjuster module. The first mixing circuit generates a first digital modulated frequency signal based on an input signal and a first reference phase signal. The second mixing circuit generates a second digital modulated frequency signal based on the input signal and a second reference phase signal, which phase shifted with respect to the first reference phase signal. The phase detection system further includes a phase identification (ID) module in signal communication with the first mixing circuit and the second mixing circuit. The phase ID module generates a phase signal based on the first digital modulated frequency signal and the second digital modulated frequency signal. The phase signal indicates a phase of the input signal.
US10091034B2	Reception device, reception method, and transmission reception system Provided are a reception device, a reception method and a transmission reception system capable of reducing the influence of distortion in a received signal and achieving high demodulation performance without performing a computation process having a great amount of calculations. The reception device receives a signal containing a known signal part and a data part, and includes a conversion unit that converts the signal received by a reception unit into a digital signal, a region determination unit that determines a nonuse region which is a periodic region containing distortion in the digital signal, on a basis of a first digital signal in the known signal part contained in the digital signal and a known signal held in advance, and a demodulation unit that performs demodulation on the digital signal by using a second digital signal in a region other than the nonuse region in the digital signal.
US10091033B2	Multilevel driver for high speed chip-to-chip communications Transmission line driver systems are described which are comprised of multiple paralleled driver elements. The paralleled structure allows efficient generation of multiple output signal levels with adjustable output amplitude, optionally including Finite Impulse Response signal shaping and skew pre-compensation.
US10091026B2	Full duplex radio in wireless tunneling system Disclosed wireless tunneling system includes two wireless tunneling apparatuses that communicate with each other through the wireless link. A local wireless tunneling apparatus is coupled to a local processing apparatus through a wired connection and a remote wireless tunneling apparatus is coupled to the remote processing apparatus through another wired connection. The two processing apparatuses bi-directionally communicate with each other through the wireless link using the two wireless tunneling apparatuses as if the two processing apparatuses were connected through a wired connection.
US10091024B2	Radiocommunication infrastructure for a railway signalling system of the CBTC type This infrastructure includes a network MPLS; first and second groups of access points associated with each section of the track; first and second modems, on the train, communicating with access points of the first and second groups. The network includes pairs of local switches, each associated with a section of the track and including first and second local switches for communication with, respectively, the first and second groups of access points of the associated section, and first and second central switches, the switches being in series with one another and implementing a service for defining paths between each central switch and each local switch so the path between the first central switch and the first local switch of a pair and the path between the second central switch and the second local switch of this pair correspond to separate portions of the ring formed by the network.
US10091021B2	Portable acoustical unit A portable acoustic unit is adapted for insertion into an electrical receptacle. The portable acoustic unit has an integrated microphone and a wireless network interface to an automation controller. The portable acoustic unit detects spoken voice commands from users in the vicinity of the electrical receptacle. The portable acoustic unit merely plugs into a conventional electrical outlet to provide an extremely simple means of voice control through a home or business.
US10091011B2	System for differential notification A method, a processing device, and a computer program product are provided. Discussions in threads are analyzed to learn patterns that occur before at least one respective additional party joins the discussions in the threads. A model of conversation states is created based on the analyzing. Thread updates and new threads are periodically analyzed, based on the model, to determine if a corresponding triggering condition occurred with respect to any new respective discussions of the threads or the new threads. The at least one respective additional party is notified to participate in a respective new discussion when the periodically analyzing determines that the corresponding triggering condition occurred with respect to the respective new discussion in a corresponding thread or a corresponding new thread.
US10091010B2	Communication terminal, communication system, communication method, and recording medium A communication terminal receives first terminal identification information for identifying a first communication terminal from a second mobile terminal, after the second mobile terminal has received the first terminal identification information from a first mobile terminal through a first communication session, the first mobile terminal being a mobile terminal that has obtained the first terminal identification information from the first communication terminal, determines the first communication terminal identified with the first terminal identification information as a communication destination, and starts communicating with the first communication terminal through a second communication session.
US10091007B2	Systems and methods for device to device authentication A method for authenticating a user device by an authentication computing device is provided. The method includes generating, using the authentication computing device, a locked data file for use in authenticating a user device enrolled in an authentication service, the locked data file is configured to process a challenge and generate a challenge response. The method further includes transmitting the locked data file from the authentication computing device to a first user device as part of the first device enrolling in the authentication service, receiving, at the authentication computing device, an authentication request, generating, using the authentication computing device, the challenge based on the authentication request, transmitting the challenge from the authentication computing device to the first user device, and receiving, at the authentication computing device, the challenge response from the first user device to authenticate the first user device.
US10091005B2	Push notification service Gateway devices maintain presence information for various mobile devices. Each gateway is associated with a zone and manages presence information only for mobile devices associated with that zone. Courier devices back-propagate presence information for the mobile devices to respective gateways based at least on the respective zone associated with each mobile device. The gateways and couriers are dynamically configured such that messages can be pushed from a provider application to a mobile device via any gateway and any courier.
US10091004B2	Large-scale simultaneous digital signature service system based on hash function and method thereof Disclosed are a system and method of a large-scale simultaneous digital signature service based on a hash function. According to the system and method, the main agent that requires the generation of a digital signature does not itself generate the digital signature, and digital signatures may be simultaneously and stably generated for large-scale data such as multiple electronic documents and digital data, using a hash function and a hash tree, which are known as a simple and secure method, to guarantee the integrity of the data in a digital signature-based structure based on multiple servers.
US10091003B2	Mobile signature embedded in desktop workflow Systems and methods provide for efficiently obtaining biometric signatures for electronically signing digital documents. A digital document having a signature field is provided for display on a general computing device. An instruction to obtain a biometric signature from a mobile computing device is received on the general computing device. A remote signing request is sent to a remote server device. The request can include, among other things, an electronic contact address associated with the mobile computing device. Responsive to receiving the request, a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is generated, referencing a dynamic application for obtaining the biometric signature on the mobile computing device. The remote server device obtains the biometric signature via the dynamic application or an incoming electronic message from the mobile computing device via the electronic contact address. The biometric signature is communicated to the client device for association with the signature field of the digital document.
US10091001B2	Autonomous private key recovery Approaches described herein allow a stateless device to recover at least one private key. In particular, a stateless device can provide service-account credentials to a directory service to establish a first session and acquire a certificate and private key using information associated with the stateless device. The stateless device can store its private key before the first session ends. A stateless device can then provide user-account credentials to the directory service to establish a second session. After the second session begins, a private key can be acquired by the stateless device.
US10090999B2	Group key announcement and distribution for a data link group A device for wireless communication includes key logic configured to obtain a candidate group key corresponding to a data link group. The device also includes a wireless interface configured to transmit an announcement message to one or more devices of the data link group during a paging window designated for the data link group. The announcement message includes a multicast message and indicates availability of the candidate group key, and the announcement message.
US10090992B2	Injection locked clock receiver A clock receiver including: a ring oscillator adapted to generate a clock signal, the ring oscillator having a sequence of N inverters, an input of a first inverter being coupled to a feedback node, an input of a second inverter being connected to an output of the first inverter and to an input line for receiving a reference clock signal, and an output of the second inverter or of a third inverter providing a first phase signal; a further sequence of inverters, an input of a first further inverter being coupled to the feedback node, and an output of another further inverter providing a second phase signal; and a control circuit for adjusting an oscillation frequency of the ring oscillator based on the relative phases of the first and second phase signals.
US10090985B2	Method and user equipment for transmitting uplink signal according to spectrum emission mask A method and user equipment for transmitting an uplink signal according to a spectrum emission mask (SEM) are discussed. The method performed by the user equipment includes if a radio frequency (RF) unit of the user equipment is configured to use inter-band carrier aggregation (CA), transmitting uplink signals on the carriers, wherein if a first SEM of a first carrier is overlapped in some frequency region with a second SEM of a second carrier, one SEM allowing a higher power spectral density (PSD) is selected to be applied.
US10090984B2	Technique to provide channel format and signal processing for efficiently transmitting control information A method is provided for transmitting Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information at a User Equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE is configured to use a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) format 3 for the transmission of the ACK/NACK information. A PUCCH format between a PUCCH format 1a/1b and the PUCCH format 3 is determined for transmission of the ACK/NACK information for downlink transmission in a downlink frame set including M downlink subframes is to be transmitted, where M≥1, in one uplink subframe, according to whether at least one of specific conditions is met. The ACK/NACK information is transmitted using the determined PUCCH format in the one uplink subframe. The ACK/NACK information is transmitted by using the PUCCH format 1a/1b, when at least one of the specific conditions is met. One serving cell is configured for the UE.
US10090981B2	Reference signal transmitting method and device in a multi-antenna system A method is provided for transmitting a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The UE receives a cyclic shift field in an uplink scheduling assignment from a base station, allocates a first cyclic shift value of a first DMRS for a first layer and a second cyclic shift value of a second DMRS for a second layer, based on the cyclic shift field, and transmits the first DMRS and the second DMRS to the base station.
US10090974B2	MIMO based adaptive beamforming over OFDMA architecture A wireless communications system combines Multiple Input/Multiple Output (MIMO), beamforming, and Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) techniques to increase spectral efficiency. A method includes transmitting first data in a first beam of electromagnetic signals focused on a first user equipment and generated by a first antenna array. The first data is associated with the first user equipment. The first data is transmitted using a first OFDMA resource block of a time slot of a radio frame and first beamforming weights. The method includes transmitting second data in a second beam of electromagnetic signals focused on a second user equipment and generated by the first antenna array. The second user equipment is spatially diverse from the first user equipment. The second data is associated with the second user equipment. The second data is transmitted using the first OFDMA resource block of the time slot and second beamforming weights.
US10090971B2	Systems and methods for asynchronous re-modulation with adaptive I/Q adjustment Various embodiments provide for systems and methods for signal conversion of one modulated signal to another modulated signal using demodulation and then re-modulation. According to some embodiments, a signal receiving system may comprise an I/Q demodulator that demodulates a first modulated signal to an in-phase (“I”) signal and a quadrature (“Q”) signal, an I/Q signal adjustor that adaptively adjusts the Q signal to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a transitory signal that is based on a second modulated signal, and an I/Q modulator that modulates the I signal and the adjusted Q signal to the second modulated signal. To increase the SNR, the Q signal may be adjusted based on a calculated error determined for the transitory signal during demodulation by a demodulator downstream from the I/Q modulator.
US10090970B2	Method and test system for testing wireless LAN devices The invention relates to a technique for especially testing an IEEE 802.11 WLAN device, in particular for testing performance compliance of the device. According to a method aspect to be performed by a test system, exchange of an ICMP message pair is initiated between the device under test (DUT) and the test system; and a backoff time selected by the DUT during the message exchange is determined.
US10090968B2	Method, apparatus and system for transmitting information bits A method, an apparatus, and a system for transmitting information bits, where the method for transmitting information bits includes: dividing the information bits to be transmitted into at least two groups; encoding the information bits to be transmitted in each group; modulating the coded bits obtained by the encoding to obtain modulation symbols, in which each modulation symbol is obtained by using the modulation of the coded bits in the same group; and mapping and transmitting the modulation symbols. In this way, the receiving end easily reduces the algorithm complexity, thereby ensuring the performance of the receiving end.
US10090965B2	Electronic circuit and method for transferring data between clock domains According to one embodiment, an electronic circuit is described comprising a first clock domain configured to operate according to a first clock signal, a second clock domain configured to operate according to a second clock signal different from the first clock signal, an encoding circuit, in the first clock domain, configured to encode data to be transmitted from the first clock domain to the second clock domain into codewords and configured to supply the codewords to an interface between the first clock domain and the second clock domain and a reception circuit, in the second clock domain, configured to receive data words from the interface, to decode valid codewords and to discard invalid codewords.
US10090964B2	Apparatus, computer readable medium, and method for an interleaver for higher quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) in a high efficiency wireless local-area network A high-efficiency wireless local-area network (HEW) device including physical layer and medium access control layer circuitry is disclosed. The physical layer and medium access control layer circuitry may be configured to encode data with a binary convolutional code (BCC) to generate encoded data, and interleave the encoded data in accordance with one of a plurality of interleaver configurations for one of a predetermined number of data subcarriers to generate interleaved encoded data. The physical layer and medium access control layer circuitry may be further configured to map the interleaved encoded data with a quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) greater than 256 QAM onto longer-duration orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbols, and transmit the longer-duration OFDM symbols on channel resources in accordance with an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) technique. The channel resources may be resource allocations with each resource allocation including the one of the predetermined number of data subcarriers.
US10090963B2	System, apparatus, and method for single-carrier block transmission with adaptive guard interval The system, apparatus and method of the present invention provides a single carrier block transmission with guard interval as a means of communications over multi-path channels that enables frequency domain equalization, and therefore, has many of the advantages of OFDM, but does not have some of the drawbacks such as high PAPR and the need for high resolution ADCs. While the use of guard intervals in single carrier communications enables low complexity detection of the signal, it reduces bandwidth efficiency. The present invention improves the bandwidth efficiency by adjusting the length of the guard interval adaptively. Also, by allowing both time-domain and frequency domain equalizations, besides improving bandwidth efficiency, the inventions allows for great flexibility in receiver design.
US10090962B2	In-band signaling for reconfiguring software defined optics In an optical communication system, an optical transmitter changes operational physical layer parameters to meet future target throughput for the optical communication system. The optical transmitter communicates the upcoming change to the optical receiver in a message that used current physical layer parameters. The optical transmitter provides sufficient time to the optical receiver to adjust reception functions of the receiver, including polarization based demodulation scheme. In some implementations, the optical transmitter performs the transition to a new physical layer transmission format without waiting for an acknowledgement from the optical receiver.
US10090957B2	Cost effective network interference cancellation for wireless networks Embodiments are described herein to provide improvements to known network interference cancellation techniques. One general approach involves a first network node attempting (801) to decode a received signal which includes signaling from a first wireless device transmission and at least one interfering transmission. If the first network node is unsuccessful in attempting to decode the received signal, it is determined (802) whether it would be cost effective to obtain decoded signaling from a serving network node of a wireless device that corresponds to the at least one interfering transmission. If (803) it is determined to be cost effective, the decoded signaling that corresponds to the at least one interfering transmission is requested.
US10090955B2	Selective directional mitigation of wireless signal interference A boundary of a wireless network is monitored for incoming wireless signals that may interfere with an ability of a first wireless computing device to connect to the wireless network within the boundary of the wireless network. For an incoming wireless signal determined to interfere with the ability of the first wireless computing device to connect to the wireless network within the boundary of the wireless network, a directional opposing outgoing wireless signal is emitted to counteract the incoming wireless signal and to stop the incoming wireless signal from further interfering with the ability of the first wireless computing device to connect to the wireless network within the boundary of the wireless network.
US10090951B2	Method and apparatus for sending notification about broadcast service in a mobile broadcast system A method and apparatus for transmitting a notification about broadcasting services in a broadcasting system are provided. A method of a network entity includes detecting a notification event about a broadcasting service, the notification event including a change of a service guide of the broadcasting service; generating a notification message about the notification event; determining which channel is used for a transmission of the notification message; and transmitting the notification message to a terminal or a group of terminals over the determined channel. The channel used for the transmission of the notification message is determined based on whether the notification message is transmitted over a broadcast channel of a broadcast network or over an interaction channel of an interaction network. The service guide is generated based on service guide related information provided by a service provider of the broadcasting service.
US10090950B2	Apparatus for transmitting and receiving a signal and method of transmitting and receiving a signal The present invention relates to a method of transmitting and receiving signals and a corresponding apparatus. One aspect of the present invention relates to a method of receiving a signal, which includes interleaving in an appropriate manner for a channel bonding system. The interleaving can allow decoding a user requested service at a random tuner window position.
US10090947B2	Receiving device and received signal processing method A receiving device and signal processing method, the method including monitoring quality parameters of N received signals in real time, wherein the N received signals are obtained by N receive antennas from a same transmit antenna, predicting, according to the quality parameters, whether quality of a first combined signal that is obtained after combination processing is performed on the N received signals is superior to quality of a received signal whose quality is optimal in the N received signals, determining the first combined signal as a to-be-processed signal in response to predicting that the quality of the first combined signal is superior to the quality of the received signal, and determining a to-be-processed signal according to M received signals of the N received signals in response to predicting that the quality of the first combined signal is inferior to the quality of the received signal.
US10090940B2	Communication unit and method of antenna array calibration A method for calibrating an antenna array coupled to a plurality of transmitters via a plurality of couplers and a plurality of antenna element feeds is described. The method comprises, at a communication unit: selecting and coupling at least one coupler to a calibration receiver in a feedback path in the communication unit; scaling at least one first signal by at least one first beamform weight; applying the scaled at least one first signal to a first transmitter of the plurality of transmitters and routing the scaled at least one first signal via the selected at least one coupler to the calibration receiver; generating a reference signal by selecting and scaling the at least one first signal by at least one second beamform weight substantially equal to the at least one first beamform weight; comparing the at least one first signal scaled with the at least one first beamform weight with the at least one first signal reference signal scaled by the at least one second beamform weight to determine at least one first parameter result; storing the at least one first parameter result of the comparison associated with the first transmitter; repeating for subsequent transmitters the steps of selecting and coupling a further coupler, scaling, applying at least one further signal to a further transmitter of the plurality of transmitters, generating a further reference signal, comparing and storing at least one further parameter result until the plurality of couplers have been selected; and determining at least one calibration correction coefficient from a plurality of parameter results for applying to at least one second signal input to at least one transmitter of the plurality of transmitters coupled to the antenna array to substantially equalize a transfer function of a plurality of transmit paths to antenna element feeds for the at least one second signal having beamform weights applied thereto.
US10090939B2	Integrated RF circuit with phase-noise test capability An integrated circuit is described herein. According to one or more embodiments, the integrated circuit includes a local oscillator with a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) that generates a local oscillator signal. Further, the integrated circuit includes a frequency divider coupled to the VCO downstream thereof. The frequency divider provides a frequency-divided local oscillator signal by reducing the frequency of the local oscillator signal by a constant factor. A first test pad of the integrated circuit is configured to receive a reference oscillator signal. Further, the integrated circuit includes a first mixer that receives the reference oscillator signal and the frequency-divided local oscillator signal to down-convert the frequency-divided local oscillator signal.
US10090934B2	Optical receiver module that receives wavelength-multiplexed signal An optical receiver module that receives a wavelength-multiplexed optical signal is disclosed. The optical receiver module includes a first lens, an optical de-multiplexer, second lenses, and photodiodes. The first lens forms a beam waist of the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal output therefrom. The optical de-multiplexer de-multiplexes the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal into optical signals depending on wavelengths thereof and is installed so as to make optical paths for respective optical signals different from each other. The second lenses concentrate the optical signals onto the respective photodiodes. In the optical receiver module, the beam waist of the wavelength-multiplexed optical signal is set in a halfway between a longest path and a shortest path from the first lens to the second lenses.
US10090933B2	Polarization insensitive self-homodyne detection receiver The receiver 11 for self-homodyne detection comprises a coherent detection system and a direct detection system. The receiver comprises a polarization splitter 13, a first splitter 15, a 90 degree polarization rotor 17, a hybrid detector 19, a first balanced detector 21, and a processor 23.
US10090931B2	Optical transmitter An optical transmitter including a signal processor, a driver, a current detector, an amplitude detector, and a controller is disclosed. The signal processor outputs a modulation signal that has first amplitude. The driver amplifies the modulation signal for generating a driving signal that has second amplitude. The current detector detects a supply current that the driver consumes for the amplification. The amplitude detector detects the second amplitude of the driving signal. The controller keeps the driver based at least in part on the supply current detected by the current detector for maintaining the supply current of the driver in a first target value. The controller varies the first amplitude of the modulation signal based at least in part on the second amplitude of the driving signal detected by the amplitude detector for maintaining the second amplitude of the driving signal in a second target value.
US10090924B2	Efficient address assignment in coded lighting positioning systems Remote controllers, positioning systems, and methods configured for the efficient assignment of addresses in a coded lighting positioning system are proposed. Particularly, a proposed remote controller comprises a receiver for receiving coded light from a light source in a coded lighting positioning system, where the coded light comprises an initial light source identifier of the light source. The remote controller also comprises a processing unit for assigning a modified light source identifier to the light source based on the received coded light, and a transmitter for transmitting the modified light source identifier to the light source. The modified light source identifier is a locally unique identifier used to provide positional information.
US10090923B2	Information processing apparatus, wavelength defragmentation method, and non-transitory recording medium recording wavelength defragmentation program An information processing apparatus, includes: a memory that stores a wavelength defragmentation program; and a processor that performs, based on the wavelength defragmentation program, operations of: selecting an optical line according to a specific sequence in design information to allocate optical lines for respective optical wavelengths within a network; moving a selected optical line to a move-to optical wavelength; stopping, when movement of the selected optical line to the move-to optical wavelength is difficult, a selection of the optical line according to the specific sequence; and selecting a new optical line from optical lines indicated in a priority list.
US10090921B2	Light modulation device and light modulation method A light modulation device detects a power of the modulated optical signal modulated by each of an I-component optical modulator and a Q-component optical modulator, synchronously-detects a component of a frequency fd from the power of the modulated optical signal, outputs a dither signal of a frequency fd/n (where n is a positive integer equal to or larger than 1) applied to a first bias voltage or a second bias voltage when adjusting the first bias voltage or the second bias voltage, outputs two dither signals having a frequency fd/m (where m is a positive integer equal to or larger than 1, where n
US10090915B2	Optical communication device and optical communication method Light signal transmitter units 21-1 to 21-n of a transmitter device 20 perform optical communication with a receiver device 40 via optical fiber cables 61-1 to 61-n of an optical interface cable 61. A connection detection unit 22 detects whether connection to the receiver device is established via the optical interface cable, and a visible light source control unit 24 causes a visible light source unit 25 to emit visible light that can identify by an attribute a connection relationship with the receiver device connected via the optical interface cable, only when the connection to the receiver device 40 is not detected, and causes visible light superposition units 26-1 to 26-n to superpose the visible light on the cable. The receiver device also superposes on the cable the visible light that can identify by the attribute the connection relationship with the transmitter device connected via the optical interface cable, only when the connection to the transmitter device 20 is not established, in the same way as the transmitter device. The connection between the optical communication devices can be correctly and easily performed by using the optical transmission path.
US10090906B2	PMI reporting for a set of ports There is provided mechanisms for precoding matrix indicator (PMI) reporting for a set of ports. A method is performed by a wireless device. The method comprises receiving reference signals, the reference signals having been transmitted from a set of ports of a network node. The method comprises determining PMI information for the received reference signals. The method comprises transmitting the PMI information in a report to the network node, wherein the report comprises a combination of identifications of ports from the set of ports and identifications of the reference signals such that an identification of each port is paired with a respective identification of at most one of the reference signals.
US10090905B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting pilot in multi-antenna communication system, and method and apparatus for allocating pilot in multi-antenna communication system A method in which a base station transmits pilot signals in a multiple-antenna communication system is provided. The base station includes some of the plurality of pilot signals distinguished by at least one of time domain symbols, subcarriers, and orthogonal codes in a first set to which a first random number is applied. The base station includes the remaining pilot signals, excluding the pilot signals that are included in the first set, in a second set that uses the same resources as used by the first set and to which a second random number different from the first random number is applied. The base station transmits at least one of the pilot signals that belong to the first set and the second set.
US10090903B2	Terminal, method whereby terminal receives channel status information reference signals, base station, and method whereby base station transmits channel status information reference signals The terminal receives channel status information reference signals (CSI-RSs) transmitted from a base station. The terminal includes a configuration information receiving unit for receiving, from the base station, CSI-RS configuration information which includes a number of CSI-RS antenna ports for a horizontal antenna in an antenna array of the base station and information indicating a CSI-RS pattern for the horizontal antenna in a particular subframe, a configuration identification unit for extracting a number of CSI-RS antenna ports for a vertical antenna and a CSI-RS pattern for the vertical antenna, based on the number of CSI-RS antenna ports for the horizontal antenna and the information indicating CSI-RS pattern for the horizontal antenna, when it is determined that a CSI-RS for the vertical antenna is transmitted, and a reference signal reception unit for receiving the CSI-RS for the horizontal antenna and the CSI-RS for the vertical antenna.
US10090902B2	Distributed antenna system with uplink bandwidth for signal analysis One embodiment is directed towards a distributed antenna system (DAS). The DAS includes a host unit a plurality of remote units communicatively coupled to the host unit. The plurality of remote units are configured to implement a common arrangement of resource blocks for uplink transport signals. The host unit is configured to instruct a subset of the plurality of remote units to send a digital sample stream over a monitor path of their respective uplink transport signals. One or more simulcast modules are configured to sum the monitor paths from the respective uplink transport signals to generate a summed digital sample stream, the one or more simulcast modules configured to send the summed digital sample stream to the host unit. The host unit is configured to provide a signal based on the summed digital sample stream to one or more signal analysis modules.
US10090898B2	Wireless communication system and method for forming a plurality of directed beams and precoding to adjust the received power at selected receiving apparatuses A transmitting apparatus according to the present invention includes transmission antennas capable of forming a plurality of beams respectively directed to a plurality of terminals and a precoder unit that performs precoding on signals transmitted from the transmission antennas such that received power in the terminals excluding a desired terminal serving as a transmission destination of a transmission signal and two or more IUI terminals, which are the terminals other than the desired terminal, is equal to or smaller than a threshold.
US10090894B2	Method and apparatus for transceiving data in a MIMO system The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for transceiving data. A method in which a transmitting terminal transmits data to a receiving terminal in a MIMO system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises the following steps: generating a data field containing the data; generating a signal field containing information on the data field; generating a data frame containing the data field and the signal field; and transmitting the data frame to the receiving terminal. According to the present invention, an end of the frame being transmitted is accurately notified to the receiving terminal in a communication system in which the frame is transmitted using MIMO, thereby decoding the frame in a more efficient manner at the receiving terminal.
US10090889B2	Hybrid tag for radio frequency identification system RFID (radio frequency identification) systems are provided in which tag and interrogator devices implement a hybrid framework for signaling including an optical transmitter/receiver system and an RF transmitter/receiver system. For instance, an RFID tag device includes: optical receiver circuitry configured to receive an optical signal having an embedded clock signal from an interrogator device, and convert the optical signal into an electrical signal comprising the embedded clock signal; clock extraction circuitry configured to extract the embedded clock signal from the electrical signal, and output the extracted clock signal as a clock signal for controlling clocking functions of the tag device; voltage regulator circuitry configured to generate a regulated supply voltage from the electrical signal, wherein the regulated supply voltage is utilized as a bias voltage for components of the tag device; and data transmitter circuitry configured to wirelessly transmit tag data to the interrogator device.
US10090887B1	Controlled power transmission in radio frequency (RF) device network A system, in a first radio frequency (RF) device, dynamically selects a plurality of reflector devices along a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) radio path based on a first set of criteria. The plurality of reflector devices comprises at least an active reflector device and a passive reflector device. The first RF device further controls the dynamically selected plurality of reflector devices based on a second set of criteria. A plurality of RF signals transmitted by the controlled plurality of reflector devices is received at a second RF device. A first type of signal associated with the received plurality of RF signals is converted to a second type of signal. Transmission of the second type of signal to one or more electronic devices associated with the second RF device is controlled based on one or more device characteristics of the one or more electronic devices or the second RF device.
US10090884B2	Wireless inductive power transfer A power transmitter for transferring power to a power receiver using a wireless inductive power signal includes a power source provides a power source signal which may have level variations. A power signal generator generates a drive signal from the power source signal by a frequency converter which increases the frequency of the drive signal relative to the power source signal. A limiter restricts the power of the drive signal fed to the inductor to be below a threshold in repeating time intervals. A synchronizer synchronizes the repeating time intervals to the power source signal. In the power receiver, an inductor receives a power signal from the power transmitter, a load coupler decouples the power load from the inductor during the repeating time intervals and a synchronizer synchronizes the repeating time intervals of the receiver to the power signal. Communication units exchange data during the repeating time intervals.
US10090875B2	Protective cover for a wireless device In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a protective cover configured to attach to a wireless device having an exterior surface. The surface includes a first portion and a second portion mutually exclusive from the first portion. The second portion of the surface is associated with at least a portion of an antenna of the wireless device that performs proximity sensing for the wireless device. The protective cover is configured to cover the first portion of the surface when the protective cover is attached to the wireless device. The protective cover is configured to not cover the second portion of the surface when the protective cover is attached to the wireless device. As a result, the proximity sensing and/or the power transmitted by the antenna are not affected by the protective cover when the protective cover is attached to the wireless device and when the wireless device is operational.
US10090874B2	System and method for providing service license aggregation across multiple physical and virtual SIM cards A system, a computer program product and a method associate service licenses with a wireless device. A device identifier (device ID) which identifies the wireless device and a Subscriber Identity Module identifier (SIM ID) identifying a SIM card currently inserted in the wireless device are received. If the SIM ID is not currently associated with the device ID, a listing of service licenses associated with the SIM ID is aggregated with a listing of service licenses associated with the device ID. The wireless device is authorized to use service licenses listed in the aggregate listing of service licenses. A virtual SIM identifier may be associated with the SIM identifier and at least one additional service license. The at least one additional service license associated with the virtual SIM identifier may be stored in a database as a subscriber service profile.
US10090870B1	Signal detection and power measurement with multi-band filter to mitigate narrowband interference Various aspects of this disclosure describe detecting a signal and measuring power with a multi-band filter. Examples include a signal detection and power measurement module in a receiver capable of detecting a training signal and calculating a reliable power measurement in the presence of narrowband interference. A received signal is filtered by a multi-band filter comprising a plurality of sub-band filters. For instance, sub-band filters may be bandpass filters with non-overlapping pass-bands. A training signal is detected by comparing powers of each of the outputs of the sub-band filters to a plurality of thresholds. For example, each sub-band may be assigned a different threshold value. Responsive to detecting a training signal, a power measurement is determined from at least one sub-band filter output. A gain is set based on the determined power measurement, and applied in the receiver.
US10090867B2	System and method for heterodyned communication A system and method for protecting a cable modem's receiver from transmitter overload when using a splitter/combiner device in place of a conventional (diplex) filter. Instead of a diplex filter to separate transmit and receive bands, a terminal device can use an isolation device, such as the splitter/combiner, or a circulator. This provides an ability to use a frequency band for either upstream transmissions or downstream reception, but creates a problem of receiver overload when the isolation device has insufficient isolation or a back-reflection occurs. Use of agile local oscillators allows the direction of the signal in the band to change very rapidly. Likewise a receive frequency can by dynamically reassigned by retuning a LO, which may employ direct digital synthesis.
US10090866B2	Transformation based filter for interpolation or decimation A digital filter for interpolation or decimation and a device incorporating the digital filter is disclosed. The digital filter includes a filter block, a first transformation circuit coupled to the filter block and an input stream coupled to provide input values to a component selected from the filter block and the first transformation circuit. The filter block includes a pair of sub-filters having respective transformed coefficients, the respective transformed coefficients of a first sub-filter of the pair of sub-filters being symmetric and the respective transformed coefficients of a second sub-filter of the pair of sub-filters being anti-symmetric. The first transformation circuit is coupled to perform a first transformation; the filter block and the first transformation circuit together provide suppression of undesired spectral images in final outputs of the digital filter.
US10090860B2	Memory system using integrated parallel interleaved concatenation A memory controller 2 of a memory system 1 according to an embodiment is provided with an encoding device 10 and a memory interface 5. The encoding device 10 is provided with an encoder 15 which generates a plurality of first parities by encoding a plurality of user data by using a common code, an interleaver 111 which sequentially interleaves the plurality of user data, and an XOR accumulator 112 which sequentially executes component-wise modulo-2 operation on the interleaved plurality of user data. The encoder 15 generates second parity by encoding a result finally obtained by executing the component-wise modulo-2 operation on a plurality of user data. The memory interface 5 writes a code word sequence including the plurality of user data, the first parities and the second parity in a non-volatile memory 9.
US10090852B2	Input circuit for a dynamic comparator The present disclosure relates to an input circuit comprising positive and negative branches, each branch comprising a transistor arranged for receiving an input voltage at its gate terminal and a first fixed voltage at its drain terminal via a first switch characterized in that the source terminal of the transistor in each of the positive branch and the negative branch is connectable via a second switch to a first plate of a first capacitor in the positive branch and of a second capacitor in the negative branch, respectively, with a second plate of the first capacitor and of the second capacitor being connected to a second fixed voltage and the input circuit further being arranged for receiving a first reset voltage on the first plate of the first capacitor in the positive branch and a second reset voltage on the first plate of the second capacitor in the negative branch.
US10090849B1	Method for performing ADC phase-frequency response test The present disclosure discloses a method for performing an ADC phase-frequency response test including: measuring a time delay of an analog mixer and low-pass filter (MLPF) in down-converting a specific carrier frequency narrowband frequency modulation (FM) signal; determining an effective sampling frequency required by an ADC for acquiring FM signals; acquiring a high carrier frequency FM signal and a low carrier frequency FM signal before and after down-conversion is performed by the analog MLPF; and demodulating the FM signals that are acquired, correcting an initial phase of a modulation signal of the high carrier frequency FM signal and an initial phase of a modulation signal of the low carrier frequency FM signal, and calculating a phase-frequency response of the ADC at a high carrier frequency. The present disclosure has advantages of a simple test process, a wide frequency range with frequencies and a test simultaneously performed on multiple channels.
US10090846B2	Control apparatus A control apparatus includes, for at least two-phase signals detected from a resolver excited by a carrier signal having a carrier frequency fc, a first phase shifter that shifts a phase of a first phase signal of the resolver with a pole at a frequency f1 lower than the carrier frequency fc, a second phase shifter that shifts a phase of a second phase signal of the resolver with a pole at a frequency f2 higher than the carrier frequency fc, a signal generator that generates a correction signal for canceling out an error component of the carrier signal, and a synthesizer that synthesizes the phase-shifted first phase signal, the phase-shifted second signal, and the correction signal for canceling out the error component, in order to create a phase-modulated signal that is the carrier signal being modulated at a rotation angle of a rotor of the resolver.
US10090845B1	Fraction-N digital PLL capable of canceling quantization noise from sigma-delta modulator A phase locked loop (PLL) circuit disclosed herein includes a phase detector receiving a reference frequency signal and a feedback frequency signal and configured to output a digital signal indicative of a phase difference between the reference frequency signal and the feedback frequency signal. A digital loop filter filters the digital signal. A digital to analog converter converts the filtered digital signal to a control signal. An oscillator generates a PLL clock signal based on the control signal. A sigma-delta modulator modulates a divider signal as a function of a frequency control word. A divider divides the PLL clock signal based on the divider signal, and generates a noisy feedback frequency signal based thereupon. A noise filtering block removes quantization noise from the noisy feedback frequency signal to thereby generate the feedback frequency signal.
US10090844B2	Clock and data recovery module A clock and data recovery module includes a clock and data recovery loop and a spread spectrum clock tracking circuit. The clock and data recovery loop includes a clock and data recovery unit and a first phase interpolator. The first phase interpolator is coupled to the clock and data recovery unit and configured to generate a data clock signal and an edge clock signal according to a phase signal and a reference clock signal. The clock and data recovery unit is configured to generate the phase signal according to a data signal, the data clock signal and the edge clock signal. The spread spectrum clock tracking circuit is configured to generate the reference clock signal according to the data signal, and to transmit the reference clock signal to the first phase interpolator. The spread spectrum clock tracking circuit is decoupled to the clock and data recovery loop.
US10090843B2	Oscillator including first and second containers for housing resonator and semiconductor device An oscillator includes a resonator element; and a semiconductor device including an oscillation circuit which outputs an oscillation signal by oscillating the resonator element, a temperature compensation circuit which compensates for temperature characteristics of a frequency of the oscillation signal, and a first surface in which a terminal that is electrically connected to the resonator element is disposed. The semiconductor device overlaps the resonator element in a planar view. Frequency deviation of the oscillation signal, which is compensated for by the temperature compensation circuit, is greater than or equal to −150 ppb and smaller than or equal to +150 ppb in a temperature range from −5° C. to +85° C.
US10090842B2	Frequency divider regarding variable division ratio A frequency divider may be provided. The frequency divider may be configured to generate a division signal having a variable cycle according to transition timing information and a division ratio signal.
US10090840B1	Integrated circuits with programmable non-volatile resistive switch elements Integrated circuits with programmable resistive switch elements are provided. A programmable resistive switch element may include two non-volatile resistive elements connected in series and a programming transistor. The programmable resistive switch elements may be configured in a crossbar array and may be interposed within the user data path. Driver circuits may also be included for selectively turning on or turning off the switches by applying positive and optionally negative voltages.
US10090838B2	Over voltage tolerant circuit An apparatus includes an integrated circuit, which includes a processor core, a plurality of input/output (I/O) circuits, and a plurality of over voltage tolerant (OVT) circuits. Each I/O circuit is associated with an I/O pad and is associated with an OVT circuit of the plurality of OVT circuits. At least one of the OVT circuits includes a passive circuit, which is adapted to receive a pad voltage from the associated I/O pad; receive a supply voltage of the associated I/O circuit; and based on a relationship of the received pad voltage relative to the received supply voltage, selectively couple a gate of a transistor of the associated I/O circuit to the pad voltage to inhibit a leakage current.
US10090829B2	Semiconductor integrated circuit device A semiconductor integrated circuit device is provided with first and second regions that are operated by mutually different voltages, and a signal wiring that supplies a signal from the first region to the second region. The second region includes a circuit that is connected to between a first wiring to which a voltage is selectively supplied and a third terminal to which a voltage is supplied, and is operated by a differential voltage between the voltage in the first wiring and the voltage supplied to the third terminal, and a discharge circuit for discharging a charge in the first wiring. By using the discharge circuit, the potential difference between the signal wiring and the first wiring is prevented from becoming larger, and thus makes it possible to reduce damages of the circuit included in the second region.
US10090828B2	Duty-cycle correction circuit and method A duty-cycle correction circuit may include a delayed clock generation unit suitable for generating a plurality of delayed clocks by delaying a target clock by different delay values, an up/down signal generation unit suitable for selecting a delayed clock having a delay value corresponding to a first section of the target clock, and generating an up/down signal according to the lengths of a second section of the target clock and the first section of the selected delayed clock, a duty-cycle control code generation unit suitable for generating a duty-cycle control code in response to the up/down signal, a duty-cycle adjusting unit suitable for generating a duty-cycle correction clock by adjusting the duty-cycle of a source clock, and a control unit suitable for enabling the delayed clock generation unit during a duty-cycle correction period, and disabling the delayed clock generation unit during periods except for the duty-cycle correction period.
US10090821B2	Mechanical resonator with a spring-mass system comprising a phase-change material A mechanical resonator includes a spring-mass system, wherein the spring-mass system comprises a phase-change material. The mechanical resonator typically comprises an electrical circuit portion, coupled to the phase-change material to alter a phase configuration within the phase-change material. Methods of operation are also disclosed.
US10090818B1	Adaptive signal compressor for AM radio A receiver includes a compressive factor generator configured to generate a compressive gain signal based on a digital demodulated received signal, a signal quality estimate, an upper modulation level, and a lower modulation level. The receiver includes a gain circuit configured to apply the compressive gain signal to the digital demodulated received signal. The compressive factor generator may include a peak tracking filter configured to generate a peak tracking signal based on the digital demodulated received signal and filter configuration information. The compressive factor generator may include a compression threshold generator configured to generate a modulation index based on the peak tracking signal, the signal quality estimate, the upper modulation level, and the lower modulation level. The compressive factor generator may include a compression curve and a gain compression hold and recovery processor.
US10090809B1	Multi-mode mobile power management circuit A multi-mode mobile power management circuit is provided. The multi-mode mobile power management circuit includes a dual-mode amplifier circuit(s) configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal for transmission in a defined RF band(s), such as a long-term evolution (LTE) band(s) or a fifth-generation new radio (5G-NR) band(s). The multi-mode mobile power management circuit includes a pair of tracker circuitries coupled to the dual-mode amplifier circuit. Each tracker circuitry includes a charge pump circuitry configured to generate a voltage and a current. When the dual-mode amplifier circuit amplifies the RF signal for transmission in the 5G-NR band(s), both charge pump circuitries are controlled to provide two currents to the dual-mode amplifier circuit. As a result, the dual-mode amplifier circuit is able to amplify the RF signal to a higher power corresponding to a sum of the two currents for transmission in the 5G-NR band(s).
US10090808B1	Feed-forward envelope tracking An envelope tracking system for controlling a power amplifier supply voltage includes envelope circuitry and a feed forward digital to analog converter (DAC) circuitry. The envelope circuitry is configured to generate a target envelope signal based on a selected power amplifier supply voltage. The feed forward DAC circuitry includes a voltage source circuitry and a selector circuitry. The voltage source circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of voltages. The selector circuitry is configured to select one of the plurality of voltages based at least on the target envelope signal. The feed forward DAC circuitry is configured to provide the selected voltage to a supply voltage input of a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal.
US10090807B2	Medical amplifier isolation This disclosure provides isolation for a medical amplifier by providing a low impedance path for noise across an isolation barrier. The low impedance path can include a capacitive coupling between a patient ground, which is isolated from control circuitry, and a functional ground of an isolation system that is isolated from earth ground. The low impedance path can draw noise current from an input of an amplifier of patient circuitry.
US10090806B2	Power amplifier circuit The power amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier that amplifies a first signal and outputs a second signal, a second amplifier that amplifies the second signal and outputs a third signal, a power supply terminal that receives supply of a power supply voltage that varies as a function of an amplitude of the first signal, a first power supply line that supplies the power supply voltage from the power supply terminal to the first amplifier, a second power supply line that supplies the power supply voltage from the power supply terminal to the second amplifier, and a first delay circuit provided in the second power supply line.
US10090799B2	Tensioned sheet-metal based solar panels and structures for supporting the same Tensioned sheet-metal based solar panels and structures for supporting the same are disclosed. The sheet metal based solar panels can include a flexible photovoltaic solar module laminated onto a thin, flexible metal sheet. Such solar panels can be mounted on and tensioned within a support frame that is twisted out of plane with respect to a reference planar datum surface. The resulting surface can be a hyperbolic paraboloid, which can be aesthetically pleasing while improving structural stability and maximizing angular exposure to the sun.
US10090797B2	Motor control apparatus A motor control apparatus that controls a motor equipped with a cooling apparatus includes: an acquisition unit to acquire the temperature of the motor; a drive control unit to drive the motor and output a driving state and an operating condition of the motor as an operation information signal; and a cause determination unit to determine, on the basis of the temperature of the motor and the operation information signal, at least one of a plurality of causes of heat generation as a cause of heat generation by the motor.
US10090788B2	Optimal torque ripple reduction through current shaping A motor drive system and method for controlling an electric motor. The motor drive system includes a plurality of phase lines switchably connected to the electric motor, a plurality of controllable switches, and a controller. The controller is communicatively coupled to the plurality of controllable switches and configured to receive a signal indicative of a rotor speed and a rotor position from the rotor sensor. The controller generates a value expressing a back-electromotive force (back-EMF) as a function of the rotor position with respect to a rotating frame of reference. Based on the rotor position, the controller determines a plurality of phase currents that reduce a torque ripple of the electric motor to approximately zero. The controller actuates the controllable switches to supply the electric motor with the plurality of phase currents.
US10090786B2	Control methods and systems for motors and generators operating in a stacked configuration While motors or generators stacked in series may allow for higher operating voltages, such motors or generators may also exhibit instability. To minimize instability, the motors or generators may be controlled to have an approximately equal current. An example motor system may include motor stacks connected in series, each motor stack exhibiting a respective stack voltage and a respective differential power (based on a difference in power between motors in the motor stack). A control system may average the stack voltages to generate an average stack voltage and generate a nominal stack power corresponding to each stack voltage. The control system may receive the differential powers, combine each differential power and nominal stack power for the respective motor stack to generate first and a second motor powers, and control each motor stack using the first and second motor powers.
US10090784B2	Electric hand tool and electromagnetic brake control method thereof An electric hand tool is provided. The electric hand tool receives a shutdown signal issued by a shutdown element under control during an operation process of the electric hand tool, so as to request a driving module to stop providing a driving signal to a plurality of coils provided at the electric motor, and to conduct a brake loop connected to the coils and the driving module. Thus, a short circuit is formed between the coils and the driving module to cause the electric motor to temporarily enter a power generating state to generate a sensing current. The coils receive the sensing current to establish a first magnetic field. The first magnetic field interferes with a second magnetic field produced by a plurality of permanent magnets to form an interfering repulsive force that stops the rotor from rotating, thereby achieving an object of braking promptly.
US10090783B2	Energy conversion device using change of contact area and contact angle of liquid The present invention relates to a method and a device for converting energy using a change of a contact area and a contact angle of liquid and, more specifically, to a method and a device for converting mechanical energy into electric energy by applying a reciprocal phenomenon of electrowetting, wherein liquid and gas are positioned between two facing substrates and energy is converted by using a volume change of a fluid, such that the present invention has the advantages of preventing channel-blocking without requiring all facing electrodes to be patterned, simplifying a device configuration, implementing easy control, and removing the need to apply an external power source.
US10090782B2	Drum-type wide-frequency piezoelectric power generation apparatus A drum-type wide-frequency piezoelectric power generation apparatus may include a protective layer pasted on piezoelectric layer through epoxy resin glue or other conductive adhesives. The piezoelectric layer is pasted on the base layer through epoxy resin or other conductive adhesives. One side of piezoelectric vibrators are fixed on the end cap “a” through the clamp and are away from a first permanent magnet. The end cap “a” provided an octagonal boss “a”. There are bosses “b”, “c”, “d” on the surface of boss “a”. The four piezoelectric vibrators are fixed on four symmetry planes of bosses “a”, “b”, “c”, “d”. The four planes of end cap “a” are fixed on piezoelectric vibrator corresponding to four straight slots respectively, which are used to fix the clamp. The auxiliary magnet is closer to the center of end cap “b” than second permanent magnet. Each of second permanent magnets has a corresponding auxiliary magnet. The first second permanent magnets are mutually exclusive. The auxiliary magnet is mutually exclusive with first permanent magnet.
US10090778B2	Multi-phase power device with two-phase modulation scheme A multi-phase power device for driving an inductive load includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device connected in series in each of three phase arms. Each first semiconductor device includes a first switching device made of a wide-bandgap semiconductor and a freewheeling diode that is made of a narrow-bandgap semiconductor and is connected in anti-parallel to the first switching devices. Each second semiconductor device includes a second switching devices made of a wide-bandgap semiconductor and a freewheeling diode connected in anti-parallel to the second switching device.
US10090775B2	Discharing an input capacitor of a switch mode power supply A method is disclosed of discharging an input capacitor of a switch mode power supply comprising a power switch and the input capacitor, through the power switch and in response to disconnection of the switch mode power supply from a mains supply, the power switch having a control terminal and main terminals; the method comprising a repeated sequence, the sequence comprising: charging the control terminal to partially close the power switch until a comparator indicates that a capacitor discharge current from the capacitor through the main terminals is equal to a reference signal; and thereafter discharging the control terminal, thereby stopping the capacitor discharge current. A corresponding control and power supply is also disclosed.
US10090773B2	System, apparatus and method for improving input power quality in a modular power inverter In one embodiment, a system includes a plurality of slices each having a transformer including a primary winding to couple to an input power source and a plurality of secondary windings each to couple to one of a plurality of power cells of the slice. Each of the power cells of a first slice may have an output that is phase rotated with respect to a correspondingly positioned power cell of a second slice.
US10090767B2	Switching power supply device having a pulse width holder A switching power supply device includes a switching element connected in series with a primary winding of a transformer, to which an input voltage is applied, a switching operation unit configured to obtain an output voltage from a secondary winding of the transformer, and a controller configured to control switching of the switching element. The controller includes an oscillator configured to output a switching control signal of controlling the switching element, a feedback voltage determination circuit, a drive circuit including a comparator and the like, and a pulse width holder configured to hold a pulse width of the switching control signal, when the load is light, at least at a minimum pulse width capable of contributing to supplying the power to a load.
US10090763B1	Multi-level buck converter having a regulated flying capacitor voltage used for high-side drive A multi-level buck converter is provided with multiple control loops to regulate the output voltage across a wide duty cycle range while also regulating the flying capacitor voltage. The regulated flying capacitor voltage is exploited to drive the switch transistors that float with respect to ground.
US10090759B1	Electronic device with a reconfigurable charging mechanism An electronic device includes a reconfigurable charge pump including pump units that can be arranged differently for varying an output voltage generated by the reconfigurable charge pump; a pump regulator coupled to the reconfigurable charge pump, the pump regulator configured to monitor the output voltage and turn the reconfigurable charge pump on or off based on the output voltage; and an arrangement control mechanism coupled to the pump regulator, the arrangement control mechanism configured to control operation of the pump regulator based on the output voltage to generate arrangement control output, wherein the arrangement control output controls electrical connections between the pump units.
US10090757B2	Power factor correction circuit and method A Power Factor Correction (PFC) circuit includes an oscillator circuit. The oscillator circuit receives a valley detect signal indicating a zero current condition, determines a blanking time according to an operational cycle of the PFC circuit, and determines to initiate the operational cycle according to the valley detect signal and the blanking time. Determining the blanking time includes selecting one of a plurality of predetermined blanking times according to a count of operational cycles of the PFC circuit. The PFC circuit may operate in a Boundary Conduction Mode or a Discontinuous Conduction Mode depending on whether a charge-discharge period is greater than the blanking time. The PFC circuit may determine, according to its output voltage, a first duration of a charging period, determine a delay time according to zero current times of previous operational cycles, and extend the first duration of the charging period by the delay time.
US10090753B1	Power conversion device and power conversion system A power conversion device includes: a first power conversion circuit that converts power inputted from outside and outputs the converted power to a second power conversion circuit connected to the first power conversion circuit via a DC link, which outputs the converted power to a load; smoothing capacitors provided in an output part of the first power conversion circuit and an input part of the second power conversion circuit; a first and second common mode current extraction circuits provided in an input part of the first power conversion and second power conversion circuits; and a virtual neutral potential line that connects the first and second common mode current extraction circuits; a DC link filter circuit that includes a Y-shaped capacitor connected between the DC link part and the virtual neutral potential line.
US10090750B1	Isolating switch circuit and control method thereof The present invention provides an isolating switch circuit and a control method. The present invention takes first time information as a characteristic to control and adjust primary and secondary sides The primary side identifies the first time information by detecting the voltage between two ends of a main power switch transistor, and the secondary side compares a sampling output voltage or/and output current with a corresponding reference signal to obtain a first control signal representing the first time information. The present invention does not need to use the optical coupler to carry out isolated transmission of primary and secondary signals, which reduces the cost of the circuit, and the freewheeling time of a parasitic diode of a synchronous rectification transistor is taken as a characteristic to carry out identifying and controlling, such that power consumption is low and the control and adjustment is more precisely.
US10090749B2	Magnetic gears for a contactless and frictionless magnetic gear system A magnetic gear system for use anywhere gears are required. The magnetic gear system incorporating magnetic gears including at least one end plate and at least one axle coupled to the at least one end plate. A plurality of magnet holders are also coupled to the at least one end plate. At least one magnet is contained in each of the plurality of magnet holders. Wherein the at least one magnet comprises two opposite polarities and the plurality of magnet holders are coupled to the at least one end plate with the at least one magnet having at least one polarity adjacent a similar polarity of another of the at least one magnets.
US10090746B2	8-pole, 2-phase bipolar step motors with easy manufacture and optimum torque for size Step motors have a uniformed 8-stator pole design, while maintaining the number of stator teeth very close to the number of rotor teeth for better torque. A two-phase bipolar stepper includes an 8-pole stator with a plurality of stator teeth uniformly arranged on each pole. If D is the nominal inner diameter of the stator expressed in millimeters, a number of stator teeth per pole equal to D÷3 (rounded to the nearest integer) will accommodate the required winding needle space between adjacent stator poles. The step motor also has a rotor mounted for rotation within the stator with a plurality of rotor teeth. The respective numbers of rotor and stator teeth may differ at most by two or have a tooth ratio greater than 95%. The teeth should have minimum tooth width and separation of at least 0.5 mm for adequate contrasting magnetic definition (polarity and/or flux amplitude) in the rotor-stator interaction.
US10090745B2	Vibration motor A vibrating motor is provided in the present disclosure. The vibrating motor includes a shell, a vibrating module, a magnet module, a coil module and an elastic assembly. The shell provides a receiving cavity for receiving the vibrating module. The vibrating module includes a first vibrating member and a second vibrating member, and the magnet module receives in the vibrating module. The coil module is disposed under the magnet module; the elastic assembly includes a pair of a first elastic parts and a second elastic part. The first elastic parts suspend the vibrating module in the shell; and the second elastic part connects the first vibrating member with the second vibrating member. The magnet module is received in at least one of the first vibrating member and the second vibrating member.
US10090743B2	Embedded permanent magnet-type electric motor, compressor, and refrigeration/air-conditioning device In an interior permanent magnet motor, a magnet insertion hole of a rotor core is curved into an arc shape, and a convex portion side of the arc shape is arranged on a center side of a rotor. The magnet insertion hole has a first line, a second line, and a pair of third lines. The first line is located on the radially outer side of the second line. Each of the third lines connects the first line and the second line to each other. The first line includes an arc portion and a pair of concave portions. Each of the concave portions is located at an end of the arc portion of the first line.
US10090742B2	Rotating electric machine A rotating electric machine includes at least one multi-phase coil, at least one armature core having the at least one multi-phase coil wound thereon, and at least one rotor rotatably disposed and having a plurality of magnetic poles facing the at least one armature core. The at least one multi-phase coil has at least one coil end part protruding from the at least one armature core and surrounded by at least one magnetic circuit formed in the rotating electric machine. There are a plurality of gaps formed between the at least one armature core and the at least one rotor.
US10090741B2	Double-stator rotating electric machine A double-stator rotating electric machine includes a rotor, an outer stator having an outer multi-phase coil wound thereon, and an inner stator having an inner multi-phase coil wound thereon. Each corresponding pair of phase windings of the outer and inner multi-phase coils are formed of at least one common electric conductor wire. The electric conductor wire includes a bridging portion that bridges the corresponding pair of phase windings of the outer and inner multi-phase coils across the rotor. The bridging portion extends obliquely with respect to both radial and circumferential directions of the rotor so that radially outer and radially inner ends of the bridging portion, which are respectively connected to the corresponding pair of phase windings of the outer and inner multi-phase coils, are circumferentially offset from each other by an offset angle θ. The offset angle θ is greater than 0° and less than 180° in electrical angle.
US10090739B2	Electric machine having a potential equalization device An electric machine having a stator (3) and a rotor (4) mounted rotatably by means of a rotor shaft (5) and having a potential equalization device containing a resistor element for breaking down shaft voltages occurring at the rotor shaft (5), the resistor element contacting on the one hand a bus bar (24) of a slip ring module (20) and on the other hand the rotor shaft (5) at contact points, the resistor element being an electrical resistor (30; 46) provided with electrical connection elements (31, 32; 47, 48). At least one connection element (32; 47) of the electrical resistor (30; 46) is electrically conductively connected to the potential of the rotor shaft (5) via a pressure contact by a pressure element.
US10090731B2	Electrically driven industrial vibrator with circumjacent eccentric weight and motor An electrically driven eccentric weight industrial vibrator comprises a housing, a stator, a rotor, and at least one eccentric weight. The housing defines an internal chamber. The stator is positioned within the internal chamber of the housing and is fixed in rotation relative to the housing. The rotor encircles the stator and is rotationally connected to the stator and the housing in a manner such that the rotor is able to revolve around the stator within the internal chamber of the housing. The eccentric weight is mounted to the rotor in a manner such that the eccentric weight is able to revolve about the stator together with the rotor.
US10090730B2	Linear actuator A linear actuator including an electric motor having a stator and a rotor, in addition to a screw drive having a spindle and a nut which is guided by the rolling element on the spindle and which is coupled to the rotor. The nut is mounted in a rotationally fixed manner on a housing component by a planetary roller bearing.
US10090728B2	Gearbox, motor with speed reducer, and method for manufacturing gearbox A gearbox includes: a gearbox main body made of resin that constitutes a part of a speed reducer to which a motor is mounted; and a terminal that conducts power supplied from an external source to the motor. The gearbox main body includes a through hole formed to correspond to a mold that is used to maintain a position of the terminal while the terminal is being integrated with the gearbox main body by insert molding. The through hole may function as a vent hole in the gearbox main body.
US10090725B2	Hollow cup winding capable of reducing distribution coefficient The present invention relates to a hollow cup winding capable of reducing distribution coefficient, comprising N phases of windings, where each phase of the windings consists of k (360/k/N)° coil units and the k coil units constitute of backing coil assemblies and forward coil assemblies. Compared with the prior art, the present invention has the advantages of improving motor performance and of being highly universal.
US10090718B2	Contactless charging device, program therefor, and automobile having contactless charging device mounted therein A contactless charging device includes a placement plate on which a portable apparatus is placed, a charging coil, a position detector having a position detection coil, a foreign object detector having a foreign object detection coil, an alarm, and a controller. The position detection coil and the foreign object detection coil are disposed on or under the placement plate. The controller drives the alarm if the foreign object detector detects the presence of a conductive foreign object on the placement plate, and then the position detector detects the portable apparatus on the placement plate.
US10090714B2	Wireless power transfer A method of generating a DC power from incident RF waves, includes, in part, measuring the amount of power being received by a device generating the DC power, and controlling the phases of the RF waves being transmitted by a multitude of RF transmitters in accordance with the measured power. A programmable test load is optionally used at the device to measure the received power. The device optionally includes, an antenna, an RF-to-DC converter to generate the DC power, an impedance matching/transformation circuit, and an RF load/matching circuit.
US10090713B2	Multiple coils for wireless power A wireless power transfer device and method including a first coil of wire having a first winding to receive electrical current and emit a first electromagnetic field, a second coil of wire having a second winding to receive electrical current and emit a second electromagnetic field, the second electromagnetic field weaker than the first electromagnetic field. A combined electromagnetic field of the first electromagnetic field and the second electromagnetic field to transmit power wirelessly through a first external surface of the wireless power transfer device to a receiving device, and decay faster over distance through a second external surface of the wireless power transfer device than through the first external surface.
US10090710B2	Power receiving apparatus with a plurality of resonance coils A power receiving apparatus includes a plurality of resonance coils, a power receiving circuit, and a single wire configured to start at a first terminal of the power receiving circuit and to end at a second terminal of the power receiving circuit, the single wire forming one coil or a plurality of coils connected in series, wherein the one coil or the plurality of coils connected in series and the plurality of resonance coils are placed such that the one coil or the plurality of coils connected in series are couplable to the plurality of resonance coils.
US10090705B2	Plant facilities testing apparatus A control unit of a plant facilities testing apparatus implements a first step of obtaining unupdated screen information and updated screen information, a second step of obtaining an unupdated test-item table file, a third step of comparing the unupdated screen information with the updated screen information and extracting a change item and an addition item while categorizing a difference thereinto, a fourth step of creating a test-item table file for an addition portion based on the addition item, a fifth step of creating a test-item table file for a change portion based on the change item and the unupdated test-item table file, and a sixth step of creating an updated test-item table file by combining the test-item table file for an addition portion with the test-item table file for a change portion.
US10090702B2	Power system reconfiguration with automatic transfer switch Reconfiguring a power system for an electrical load includes establishing a secondary feed to an electrical load that is receiving power from a primary power source. A set of secondary feed lines is coupled between a donor power source and a power input to the electrical load such that the set of secondary feed lines is configured to supply power from the donor power source to the electrical load. An automatic transfer switch is coupled in parallel with the set of secondary feed lines. The electrical load is transferred by the automatic transfer switch from the donor power source to the primary power source for the reconfiguration.
US10090695B2	Optimized current pulse charging apparatus and method employing increasing clamp reference voltages and decreasing current pulses This document discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods to optimize charging of a battery, including providing a first charge profile configured to provide charge current pulses to a battery in a plurality of steps. In the first charge profile, the charge current pulses can be stepped down in the plurality of steps using a comparison of a terminal voltage of the battery to a clamp voltage. When the terminal voltage meets or exceeds the clamp voltage, a high time current of the charge current pulse can be decreased and the clamp voltage can be increased before providing a subsequent charge current pulse.
US10090692B2	Charger for hand-held power tool, power tool system and method of charging a power tool battery A charger for a hand-held power tool includes a power source interface, a charger base and a charging cradle rotatably supported on the charger base. The rotatable charging cradle includes at least two charging output terminals electrically connected to the power source interface. A power tool system includes the charger and the hand-held power tool. A method of charging the power tool system includes contacting charging input terminals of the power tool with the charging output terminals, rotating the charging cradle and the power tool relative to the charging base and supplying charging current to at least one battery cell while the charging cradle and the power tool are allowed to freely swing relative to the charging base.
US10090691B2	Power generation system of renewable-energy-based electric power generator and DC power source combiner provided with reverse current prevention device capable of preventing power loss in power generation system Disclosed is a power generation system provided with a renewable-energy-based electric power generator, capable of efficiently and stably outputting electric power at a predetermined power amount. The power generation system includes at least an electric power generator and a maximum power amount detection control unit that performs control such that a voltage and a current at the maximum power point can be detected at any time to output the result as a detection value. The power supplied from a variable voltage power source is selected when the voltage is short. In contrast, the power supplied from a constant voltage power source is selected when the current is short.
US10090690B2	Secondary battery protection circuit A secondary battery protection circuit includes a first terminal connected to a power supply path between a secondary battery and a MOS transistor, a second terminal connected to the power supply path between a load and the MOS transistor, a third terminal connected to a gate of the MOS transistor, a fourth terminal connected to a back gate of the MOS transistor, a control circuit that outputs a switch control signal based on a detected abnormal state of the secondary battery, and a switch control circuit including a first switch for connecting the fourth terminal with the first terminal and a second switch for connecting the fourth terminal with the second terminal. At least one of the resistance between the fourth terminal and the first terminal and the resistance between the fourth terminal and the second terminal is greater than the on resistance value of the MOS transistor.
US10090687B1	Battery with integrated circuit breaker switch One aspect of this disclosure is directed to a power system controller. This embodiment comprises a controller having a programmable microprocessor and memory associated therewith, and one or more rechargeable batteries each located within a battery case and connected in parallel to the controller. Each of the rechargeable batteries has a circuit breaker located within the battery case. The circuit breaker has a bidirectional current sensor connected to the controller, and the controller is configured to operate the bidirectional current sensor to manage a current flow to and from one or more of the rechargeable batteries.
US10090686B2	Electrical storage system An electrical storage system includes an electrical storage device, a voltage sensor, a current sensor and a controller. The controller calculates a full charge capacity of the electrical storage device on the basis of a state of charge of the electrical storage device at the time when external charging is started, a state of charge of the electrical storage device at the time when the external charging is completed, and an accumulated value of a current value during the period when the external charging is being carried out, and sets a polarization elimination time. When a stopped time during the period when charging or discharging of the electrical storage device is stopped is longer than the polarization elimination time, the controller regards a voltage value of the electrical storage device at the time of at least one of the start of the external charging or the completion of the external charging as an open circuit voltage of the electrical storage device. The controller calculates a state of charge corresponding to the voltage value as a state of charge that is used to calculate the full charge capacity by using a correlation between the open circuit voltage and the state of charge. The controller shortens the polarization elimination time as a rate of change increases. The rate of change indicates a ratio of a variation in the open circuit voltage to a variation in the state of charge.
US10090684B2	General control circuit for active balance A general control circuit for active balance comprises a first sampling wire (11) and a second sampling wire (12) by which voltages of adjacent battery packs (4) are sampled respectively. A first voltage division circuit which is composed of a fourth resistor (R4) and a fifth resistor (R5) connected in series, is connected to the first sampling wire. The voltage division terminal (p) of the first voltage division circuit is connected to one input terminal of a first operational amplifier (U1) and one input terminal of a second operational amplifier (U2) to provide a reference voltage (Vref) for the first operational amplifier and the second operational amplifier. A second voltage division circuit which is composed of a first resistor (R1), a second resistor (R2) and a third resistor (R3) connected in series, is connected to the second sampling wire. The voltage division terminal (m) connected between the first resistor and the second resistor is connected to the other input terminal of the first operational amplifier. The voltage division terminal (n) connected between the second resistor and the third resistor is connected to the other input terminal of the second operational amplifier. The output terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected to an upward energy transfer circuit (2) of a power balance circuit. The output terminal of the second operational amplifier is connected to a downward energy transfer circuit (3) of the power balance circuit. The general control circuit is low in cost, easy to be modularized and convenient to be applied.
US10090672B2	Shared transient voltage suppressor having built-in-test capability for solid state power controllers Embodiments are directed to a lightning protection circuit configured for use in a solid state power controller (SSPC) having at least one feed line and a plurality of load lines. The lightning protection circuit includes a shared transient voltage suppressor and a transient isolator communicatively coupled to the shared transient voltage suppressor. The transient isolator is configured to be communicatively coupled to the at least one feed line and the plurality of load lines. When the transient isolator is communicatively coupled to and shared by the at least one feed line and the plurality of load lines, energy above a threshold on any one of the at least one feed line and the plurality of load lines is dissipated through the shared transient voltage suppressor. A single built-in-test (BIT) circuit is provided to detect dormant failures of the shared transient voltage suppressor.
US10090669B2	Enhanced liquid detection mechanisms for circuit cards Enhanced short circuit damage protection by using circuit card and electronic assembly features to steer liquids, including water, onto detector arrays. In a typical implementation, a circuit card has detection elements in one or more places implemented as artwork on an outer circuit layer. The finished circuit card assembly is conformal coated with masked areas over detection artwork. When the masking is removed, channels are left behind for liquids to flow toward and pool over detection artwork. In other implementations through shaping, additive or subtractive manufacturing processes, cavities are left behind for liquids to collect over detection artwork.
US10090661B2	Sealing boot for electrical interconnection A sealing boot for protecting an electrical interconnection includes: a main body having a cavity configured to house an interconnection of two electrical connectors; and a neck merging with one end of the main body and having a cylindrical inner surface that defines a bore that is continuous with the cavity of the main body, the inner surface having an inner diameter that is less than an inner diameter of the cavity of the main body. The inner surface of the neck includes a helical projection comprising a main artery and two tributaries, the tributaries each intersecting a section of the main artery at one end and merging with an end of the main artery at an opposite end.
US10090657B2	Circuit assembly, connected busbar structure, and electrical junction box Provided is a circuit assembly that includes a circuit board that has an opening, a plurality of busbars that are laid on one surface side of the circuit board, a coil that has a main portion 16 and a plurality of lead terminals, the lead terminals being connected to the plurality of busbars that are exposed through the opening, and a heatsink that is laid, via an adhesive agent, on surfaces of the plurality of busbars that are opposite to the circuit board. Cut-out portions for evacuating the adhesive agent are formed at edges of the plurality of busbars that are opposite to each other in the opening.
US10090656B1	Enclosure with accessible connection An electrical device enclosure has an enclosure box and two mounting plates is disclosed. The mounting plates are electrically conductive and coupled to the enclosure box. Each plate includes at least one device mounting hole positioned and sized to receive a device mounting screw that passes through a yoke of an electrical device. At least one of the mounting plates also has a grounding tab extending away from the plate and configured to receive a ground screw. The grounding tab is conductive and integral to the mounting plate.
US10090647B2	Multi-electrode spark plug A multi-electrode spark plug having a large spark target volume is disclosed. The spark plugs have a plurality of ground electrode rods which extend from the base of the spark plug and are twisted around center electrode to provide a plurality of substantially equidistant spark points relative to the center electrode. The spark points are formed in parallel and around the elongated axis of the spark plug. This configuration enables the spark to be created where the localized concentration of fuel to air is richer, such as that which may exist when the engine is operating with lower revolutions per minute. Test results indicate that automobiles equipped with the multi-electrode spark plugs exhibit improved fuel economy, and substantially reduced emissions and air pollution.
US10090645B2	Integrated laser with DBR-MRR mirror and multiple drop ports that provide balanced power An integrated laser that provides multiple outputs includes a reflective silicon optical amplifier (RSOA) having a reflective end with a reflective coating and an interface end. It also includes an optical waveguide optically coupled to the RSOA. A distributed-Bragg-reflector (DBR) ring resonator is also optically coupled to the optical waveguide, wherein the DBR ring resonator partially reflects a wavelength of the optical signal from the optical waveguide, thereby causing balanced light to flow in clockwise and counter-clockwise directions inside the DBR ring resonator. The integrated laser additionally includes an output waveguide having 2N ends that function as two outputs, wherein the output waveguide is optically coupled to the DBR ring resonator, which causes balanced light to flow in two directions in the output waveguide, thereby causing the 2N outputs to provide balanced power.
US10090642B2	Wavelength stabilized diode laser A hybrid external cavity laser and a method for configuring the laser having a stabilized wavelength is disclosed. The laser comprises a semiconductor gain section and a volume Bragg grating, wherein a laser emission from the semiconductor gain section is based on a combination of a reflectivity of a front facet of the semiconductor gain section and a reflectivity of the volume Bragg grating and the reflectivity of the semiconductor gain section and the volume Bragg grating are insufficient by themselves to support the laser emission. The hybrid cavity laser further comprises an etalon that provides further wavelength stability.
US10090638B1	Methods and apparatus for photonic integration in non-polar and semi-polar oriented wave-guided optical devices A monolithically integrated optical device. The device has a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate member having a surface region configured on either a non-polar or semi-polar orientation. The device also has a first waveguide structure configured in a first direction overlying a first portion of the surface region. The device also has a second waveguide structure integrally configured with the first waveguide structure. The first direction is substantially perpendicular to the second direction.
US10090629B2	Gas mixture control in a gas discharge light source A gas discharge light source includes a gas discharge system that includes one or more gas discharge chambers. Each of the gas discharge chambers in the gas discharge system is filled with a respective gas mixture. For each gas discharge chamber, a pulsed energy is supplied to the respective gas mixture by activating its associated energy source to thereby produce a pulsed amplified light beam from the gas discharge chamber. One or more properties of the gas discharge system are determined. A gas maintenance scheme is selected from among a plurality of possible schemes based on the determined one or more properties of the gas discharge system. The selected gas maintenance scheme is applied to the gas discharge system. A gas maintenance scheme includes one or more parameters related to adding one or more supplemental gas mixtures to the gas discharge chambers of the gas discharge system.
US10090625B2	Method of making an electrical terminal Electrical terminals and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. An example method of making an electrical terminal is disclosed that includes forming a base portion of a housing for the electrical terminal, forming a top portion of the housing, the top portion having an opening defining an entry point for a wire to be terminated, extending a connector pin out through a bottom surface of the base portion of the housing to enable electrical connection with a printed circuit board, and sealingly mating the top portion to the base portion to enclose a first wire clamp within the housing, the first wire clamp to secure the wire in electrical contact with the connector pin when the wire is extending into the housing through the opening, the base portion and the top portion being immovably affixed, wherein the first wire clamp is actuated by a screw.
US10090620B2	Lever-type connector having a lever with two arms with one ends of the arms joined by an operating portion and other ends joined by a coupling A lever 30 includes two arms (31), a coupling (32) coupling base ends (31R) of the arms (31) and an operating portion (33) coupling tips (31F) of the arms (31). The lever (30) is supported rotatably on a housing (10) with rotary shafts (34) formed on the coupling (32) serving as a fulcrum. Two sliders (40) are mounted in the housing (10) while being fit to drive shafts (38) of the lever (30) and slide in conjunction with the rotation of the lever (30). The sliders (40) are formed with cam grooves (43) configured so that cam followers (53) of a mating housing (51) slide in contact with the cam grooves (43) as the sliders (40) are slid.
US10090618B2	Magnetic connector for electronic device An electrical plug and receptacle relying on magnetic force from an electromagnet to maintain contact are disclosed. The plug and receptacle can be used as part of a power adapter for connecting an electronic device, such as a laptop computer, to a power supply. The plug includes electrical contacts, which are preferably biased toward corresponding contacts on the receptacle. The plug and receptacle each have a magnetic element. The magnetic element on one of the plug or receptacle can be a magnet or ferromagnetic material. The magnetic element on the other of the plug or receptacle is an electromagnet. When the plug and receptacle are brought into proximity, the magnetic attraction between the electromagnet magnet and its complement, whether another magnet or a ferromagnetic material, maintains the contacts in an electrically conductive relationship.
US10090617B2	Antenna connector and electronic apparatus An antenna connector has: a tubular case formed with a connector base on one end side in an axial direction and formed with a cylindrical external contact part on another end side in the axial direction; a shaft-shaped center contact part disposed on a center shaft of the external contact part; and tubular insulators disposed between the external contact part and the center contact part. A space is formed between the external contact part and the insulators. The external contact part is formed with a through-hole for draining water that establishes communication between the space and outside of the external contact part.
US10090615B1	Panel mount electrical connector with moisture resistant mating face A dielectric housing with a forward mating portion, a flange and a rear portion. The forward mating portion is receivable in a cutout in a mounting panel. The flange extends from the housing and is dimensioned larger than the cutout. The rear portion has a rear face with terminal-receiving cavities extending inwardly through the rear face. A top surface of the forward mating portion extends from the flange at an obtuse angle, the top surface is essentially perpendicular to a forward mating face of the forward mating portion of the housing. The terminal-receiving cavities extend from the rear face to the forward mating face, with the longitudinal axis of the terminal-receiving receiving cavities extending in a straight line. The forward mating face of the housing is angled relative to the flange and the mounting panel to prevent condensation from occurring on the forward mating face.
US10090609B2	Grounding module having external coaxial cable ground lug A grounding module for telecommunication systems is mountable to an AC wall outlet and includes two cable connectors to which signal carrying cables are attached. The grounding module includes a housing having a main ground contact to provide a ground to an external electronic device connected thereto. An external grounding lug is mounted on one of the cable connectors to provide a separate ground connection to the metallic sleeves of the cable connectors. At least one of a surge protection circuit and ground protection circuit is provided and which is in electrical communication with the main ground contact. The grounding lug and metallic sleeves of the cable connectors are selectively electrically isolatable from the main ground contact.
US10090606B2	Antenna system with dielectric array and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, an antenna system that includes a plurality of dielectric members configured to propagate first guided electromagnetic waves. A dielectric antenna array is configured to receive the first guided electromagnetic waves and to transmit a controllable beam in response thereto. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10090601B2	Waveguide system and methods for inducing a non-fundamental wave mode on a transmission medium Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for generating first electromagnetic waves and directing instances of the first electromagnetic waves to an interface of a transmission medium to induce propagation of second electromagnetic waves substantially having a non-fundamental wave mode. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10090600B2	Waveguide device, and antenna device including the waveguide device A waveguide device according to an embodiment includes an electrically conductive member having an electrically conductive surface, a waveguide member extending so as to face along the electrically conductive surface, and stretches of artificial magnetic conductor on both sides of the waveguide member. The waveguide member includes a first portion extending in one direction, and at least two branches extending in mutually different directions from one end of the first portion, the at least two branches including a second portion and a third portion. The second portion has a recess in a side face that connects to one side face of the first portion, the recess reaching the waveguide face.
US10090599B2	Surface scattering antenna improvements Surface scattering antennas provide adjustable radiation fields by adjustably coupling scattering elements along a wave-propagating structure. In some approaches, the scattering elements are patch elements. In some approaches, the scattering elements are made adjustable by disposing an electrically adjustable material, such as a liquid crystal, in proximity to the scattering elements. Methods and systems provide control and adjustment of surface scattering antennas for various applications.
US10090596B2	Robust antenna configurations for wireless connectivity of smart home devices Various methods related to antennas and embodiments of antennas are presented. The antenna may include an upper arm, wherein the upper arm is substantially parallel to a ground plane and is electrically coupled with at least a ground shorting structure, a support structure, and a feed structure. The antenna may include the ground shorting structure, which may be at a first end of the upper arm. The antenna may include the support structure, which may be at a second end of the length of the upper arm and may support the upper arm. The antenna may also include the feed structure, which is configured to provide a signal for wireless transmission, the feed structure may be attached to a side of the length of the upper arm.
US10090592B2	Communication device A communication device includes: a board having a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a third surface different from both the first surface and the second surface; a first magnetic sheet disposed on a side of the first surface; a first coil disposed on the first magnetic sheet; a second magnetic sheet disposed on a side of the second surface; a second coil disposed on the second magnetic sheet; and a third coil disposed on the third surface. A part of the first magnetic sheet overlaps at least a part of the third coil in plan view.
US10090591B2	Antenna system An antenna system comprises first and second support structures, and a plurality of first, second and third antenna elements. Each of the first and second support structures has four sides. Two adjacent sides are perpendicular to each other so that both the first and second support structures form a closed loop. The first support structure is disposed outside of and surrounds the second support structure. Some first antenna elements are disposed on two symmetric sides of the first support structure, and other first antenna elements are disposed on two symmetric sides of the second support structure. Some second antenna elements are disposed on another two symmetric sides of the first support structure, and the other first antenna elements are disposed on another two symmetric sides of the second support structure. The third antenna elements are disposed on the four sides of the second support structure.
US10090589B2	Batteries as antenna for device Batteries as an antenna for a device are disclosed. In an embodiment, the device comprises: at least two batteries, each battery comprising at least two conductive portions; a radio frequency, RF, isolation component configured between the at least two batteries; a transformer configured to connect a radio frequency signal to the at least two conductive portions of the at least two batteries, wherein the at least two conductive portions are configured as an antenna of the device.
US10090584B2	Miniature wideband antenna for 5G mobile networks The present invention provides a miniature wideband antenna for 5G, which includes a dielectric substrate, a coplanar waveguide feed structure on a front of the dielectric substrate, a main radiator, a second and third radiators and a first radiator on a back of the dielectric substrate. The antenna is small in size with operation band of 3 GHz-30 GHz which covers the various 5G frequency band and covers the current wireless modes of Wi-MAX, W-LAN, UWB and so on. The antenna guarantees future compatibility for various complicated communication modes and has good perspectives for many applications. Based on the antenna, the double-unit and four-unit MIMO antenna adopts orthogonal polarization and metamaterial unit. Thus, high unit separation is achieved without increase on the size of the antenna unit. The present invention has wide applications in small mobile device such as cell phone and laptop.
US10090579B2	Antenna, antenna control method, and mobile terminal Provided is an antenna, a method for controlling an antenna and a mobile terminal. The antenna includes: a base plate, controlling apparatus, and driving apparatus, wherein M*N microcell units are provided in the base plate, each of the microcell units is in communication with neighboring microcell units, and liquid metal is provided in the multiple microcell units. The driving apparatus is connected with a controller and the base plate respectively, wherein the controlling apparatus generates a control signal according to one of the pre-stored control matrixes, and sends the control signal to the driving apparatus. Elements of the control matrix correspond to the microcell units in the base plate in a one-to-one manner, so as to control whether the liquid metal is kept in the corresponding microcell units. The driving apparatus drives, according to the control signal sent by the controlling apparatus, the liquid metal in the microcell units to flow in the microcell units. A metal body formed by the liquid metal serves as an antenna of a terminal application component. The disclosure improves the radiation performance of the antenna.
US10090571B2	Transmission switch containing tunable dielectrics and operating method for the same A transmission switch includes a dielectric substrate; a conductive ground layer disposed over an upper surface of the dielectric substrate, wherein the conductive ground layer comprises a first ground section and a second ground section separated from the first ground section; a tunable dielectric layer disposed over the conductive ground layer, wherein the tunable dielectric layer has a first dielectric constant at a first DC voltage and a second dielectric constant at a second DC voltage; and a conductive signal layer disposed over the tunable dielectric layer, wherein the conductive signal layer comprises a first signal section, a second signal section, and an impedance-matching section connecting the first signal section and the second signal section.
US10090570B2	Waveguide bend assembly having waveguide flanges with cavity portions therein for attaching the waveguide bend to straight waveguides Various embodiments provide for waveguide assemblies which may be utilized in wireless communication systems. Various embodiments may allow for waveguide assemblies to be assembled using tools and methodologies that are simpler than the conventional alternatives. Some embodiments provide for a waveguide assembly that comprises a straight tubular portion configured to be shortened, using simple techniques and tools, in order to fit into a waveguide assembly. For instance, for some embodiments, the waveguide assembly may be configured such that the straight portion can be shortened, at a cross section of the portion, using a basic cutting tool, such a hacksaw. In some embodiments, the straight portion may be further configured such that regardless of whether the straight tubular portion is shortened, the waveguide assembly remains capable of coupling to flanges, which facilitate coupling the straight tubular portion to connectable assemblies, such as other waveguide assemblies, radio equipment, or antennas.
US10090566B2	Solid state battery with offset geometry In one embodiment, a solid state battery includes a first cell stack including a first solid-electrolyte separator positioned between a first cathode and a first anode, a first base layer including a first base portion positioned directly beneath the first anode, and including a first lateral extension extending laterally beyond the first anode, a second cell stack beneath the first base layer and including a second solid-electrolyte separator positioned between a second cathode and a second anode, a second base layer including a second base portion positioned directly beneath the second anode, and including a second lateral extension extending laterally beyond the second anode, wherein the second base portion extends laterally beyond the first lateral extension, and a multiplexor (i) in electrical communication with the first base portion through the first lateral extension, and (ii) in electrical communication with the second base portion through the second lateral extension.
US10090565B2	Polymer functionalized graphene oxide and thermally responsive ion permeable membranes made therefrom Thermally responsive materials, porous membranes comprising the thermally responsive materials, and batteries incorporating the porous membranes as thermally responsive separation membranes are provided. Also provided are methods of making the thermally responsive materials. The thermally responsive materials comprise upper critical solution temperature (UCST) polymers covalently bound to a support substrate.
US10090561B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, a nonaqueous electrolyte containing a lithium salt in a nonaqueous solvent, and a separator disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, an inorganic particle layer is disposed between the positive electrode and the separator, and the nonaqueous solvent contains a chain fluorinated carboxylate ester represented by the formula CH3-XFX—CH2—COO—CH3 (where, x is an integer of 1 to 3) in an amount of 15% by volume or more based on the total amount of the nonaqueous solvent.
US10090560B2	Non-aqueous liquid electrolyte and lithium secondary battery comprising the same The present invention relates to a lithium secondary battery comprising a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte comprising lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) and a fluorinated ether compound as additives, a positive electrode comprising a lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt-based oxide as a positive electrode active material, a negative electrode and a separator. According to a non-aqueous liquid electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery of the present invention, a rigid SEI layer may be formed at a negative electrode during the initial charging of the lithium secondary battery comprising the same, the output properties of the lithium secondary battery may be improved, and the output properties after storing at high temperature and capacity properties may be increased.
US10090558B2	Solid electrolyte A solid electrolyte glass at least including: at least one alkali metal element; a phosphorus (P) element; a sulfur (S) element; and one or more halogen elements selected from I, Cl, Br and F; wherein the solid electrolyte glass has two exothermic peaks that are separated from each other in a temperature range of 150° C. to 350° C. as determined by differential scanning calorimetry (in a dry nitrogen atmosphere at a temperature-elevating speed of 10° C./min from 20 to 600° C.).
US10090550B2	Redox flow battery A redox flow battery. The redox flow battery has a plurality of cells stacked on each other and three or more conductive terminals. The redox flow battery is able to vary a charge voltage and a discharge voltage by switching control.
US10090547B2	Fuel cell supply including information storage device and control system The present invention is directed to a fuel cell system with various features for optimal operations of an electronic device, a battery charger or a fuel refilling device. The fuel cell system includes an information storage device associated with the fuel supply, pump and/or refilling device. The information storage device can be any electronic storage device including, but not limited to, an EEPROM or a PLA. The information storage device can include encrypted information. The information storage device can include software code for confirming the identification of the cartridge before operation of the electronic device and/or refilling device. The information storage device can include instructions for a hot swap operation to shut down properly when the fuel supply is ejected while the electronic device is in operation. The present invention is also directed to system architecture for a fuel cell system that utilizes information storage devices. The system architecture may have flow regulators, which include a regulating valve.
US10090544B2	Fuel cell system and control method for fuel cell system A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack; a fuel gas supply/exhaust unit; an oxidant gas supply/exhaust unit; and a control unit. The control unit determines whether there is a phenomenon in the fuel cell stack resulting from local power generation concentration within a plane of a membrane electrode assembly due to a water distribution. When it is determined that there is the phenomenon, the control unit controls at least one of the fuel gas supply/exhaust unit and the oxidant gas supply/exhaust unit.
US10090536B2	Seal structure for fuel battery In a fuel battery seal structure, a gasket has a base portion fitted in a non-bonded manner to a seal installation groove of a separator, and a seal protrusion brought into close contact with a seal groove of a separator. Presser projections and clearance grooves are formed in both sides in a width direction of the seal groove. The presser projections are brought into contact with the base portion of the gasket, and the clearance grooves are positioned in an opposite side to the seal groove as seen from the presser projections. Sum of widths of the seal groove and the presser projections in both sides thereof is smaller than a width of the seal installation groove, and sum of widths of the seal groove, and the presser projections and the clearance grooves in both sides thereof is larger than the width of the seal installation groove.
US10090535B2	Fuel cell having at least one active surface layer The invention relates to a fuel cell having an anode/cathode stack, which comprises at least one active surface layer, which is designed having a first channel structure having a plurality of first channels for conducting a first fluid in a first direction over the surface layer, which is designed having a second channel structure having a plurality of second channels for conducting a second fluid in a second direction over the surface layer, wherein the second direction extends substantially perpendicularly to the first direction, which is designed having a first feeding structure for feeding the first fluid into the plurality of first channels, and which is designed having a second feeding structure for feeding the second fluid into the plurality of second channels. According to the invention, the first feeding structure and the second feeding structure are both arranged on a first edge of the surface layer and the first feeding structure additionally comprises an edge channel for feeding the first fluid to a second edge of the surface layer that is directed perpendicular to the first edge.
US10090534B2	Electrochemical system for a fuel cell system with an embossed contacting plate An electrochemical system is described having an end plate, a stack cover plate adjacent to the end plate and at least one metallic electrical conductor. The stack cover plate has an electrically conductive contacting plate adjacent to the end plate and an electrically conductive separator plate half facing away from the end plate. The contacting plate and the separator plate half are connected to each other electrically and media-tight. The metallic electrical conductor extends to an outside of the electrochemical system. The metallic electrical conductor and the contacting plate are in one piece or the metallic electrical conductor contacts the contacting plate directly. The contacting plate and the separator plate half are bonded to each other.
US10090533B2	Non-carbon mixed-metal oxide support for electrocatalysts A non-carbon support particle is provided for use in electrocatalyst. The non-carbon support particle consists essentially of titanium dioxide and ruthenium dioxide. The titanium and ruthenium can have a mole ratio ranging from 1:1 to 9:1 in the non-carbon support particle. Also disclosed are methods of preparing the non-carbon support and electrocatalyst taught herein.
US10090531B2	Vertically aligned titanium oxide nanotubes for fuel cell electrodes The present invention relates to a structure including a layer including titanium (di)oxide nanostructures, such as titania nanotubes, in contact with a membrane layer including a proton-conducting polymer. A process for preparing the structures of the invention is presented wherein titanium (di)oxide nanostructures on a first substrate are transferred to an ion-conducting polymer membrane by pressing using a hot press, and then detaching the nanostructures from the first substrate.
US10090529B2	Monolithic porous open-cell structures Process for the fabrication and manufacture of highly porous open-cell structures using templates that are formed by mechanical pressing, injection molding, sintering, or any combination thereof. The processing scheme includes coating, filling or depositing a material on, or inside the porous template. The highly porous structure results after the selective removal of the template and can be used for various applications such as electrochemical energy storage devices including high power and high-energy lithium-ion batteries.
US10090527B2	Binder composition for secondary battery, slurry composition for secondary battery, negative electrode for secondary battery, and secondary battery A binder composition for a secondary battery includes: a water-soluble thickener (A) having a hydroxy group or a carboxy group; a cross-linking agent (B) having a functional group reacting with the hydroxy group or the carboxy group of the water-soluble thickener (A); and a particulate polymer (C). The particulate polymer (C) has a functional group reacting with the cross-linking agent (B) and includes an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer unit and an aromatic vinyl monomer unit. The binder composition contains 0.001 part by mass or more and less than 100 parts by mass of the cross-linking agent (B) and 10 parts by mass or more and less than 500 parts by mass of the particulate polymer (C), each per 100 parts by mass of the water-soluble thickener (A).
US10090511B2	Secondary battery system An object of the present disclosure is to provide a secondary battery system that functions at high voltage. The present disclosure attains the object by providing a secondary battery system comprising: a fluoride ion battery including a cathode active material layer, an anode active material layer, and an electrolyte layer formed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer; and a controlling portion that controls charging and discharging of the fluoride ion battery; wherein the cathode active material layer contains a cathode active material with a crystal phase that has a Perovskite layered structure and is represented by An+1BnO3n+1-αFx (A comprises at least one of an alkali earth metal element and a rare earth element; B comprises at least one of Mn, Co, Ti, Cr, Fe, Cu, Zn, V, Ni, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Pd, W, Re, Bi, and Sb; “n” is 1 or 2; “α” satisfies 0≤α≤3.5; and “x” satisfies 0≤x≤5.5); and the controlling portion controls charging so that a value of F/B in the cathode active material becomes more than 2/n that is in an over-charged state.
US10090509B2	Protection element The present invention provides a protection device which includes: a PTC laminar element which is formed of an insulation resin and has at least one throughhole; electrically conductive metal thin layers which are positioned on each of main surfaces of the laminar element, and a fuse layer which is positioned on a side surface defining at least one of said at least one throughhole and electrically connects the electrically conductive metal thin layers which are positioned on each of main surfaces of the laminar element. The protection device of the present invention allows a larger amount of a current to flow therethrough and can provide a protection from an excessive current.
US10090508B2	Current breaking structure of battery system A current breaking structure of a battery system includes lead wires, which extend from a plurality of battery cells connected in parallel with each other. The lead wires are bonded to one of two faces of an outer busbar that connect a battery module to outside, in which the one of the two faces is faced to an interior of a battery module, such that upon battery cell expansion, the lead wires are entirely broken by the outer busbar. Accordingly, in case where overcharge occurs in a pouch type lithium ion battery, i.e., in a high-voltage battery having battery cells in parallel connection and then serial connection, connecting structure is broken effectively, thus preventing in advance overcharge-related safety accident.
US10090502B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery comprising an electrode assembly comprising a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, and a separator between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, a protection film coupled to one end of the electrode assembly, a can accommodating the electrode assembly, and a cap plate coupled to the can, wherein the separator protrudes more toward the protection film than the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate at the one end of the electrode assembly, and wherein the protection film is thermally bonded to an end portion of the separator.
US10090501B2	High heat resistance composite separator for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including same Disclosed is a high heat resistance composite separator including a porous substrate having a plurality of pores, an inorganic coating layer formed on one surface of the porous substrate, the inorganic coating layer including a plurality of inorganic particles and a binder polymer disposed on a portion or all of surfaces of the inorganic particles to connect and bind the inorganic particles, and a high heat resistance polymer coating layer formed on the other surface of the porous substrate, the high heat resistance polymer coating layer including a high heat resistance polymer and inorganic particles dispersed in the high heat resistance polymer.
US10090499B2	Film production method and film production device A method for film production includes the steps of obtaining information on the position of a defect (D) in a separator (12a) and providing marks (LA, LB) at the respective positions in the vicinity of the defect (D), the marks indicating the position of the defect.
US10090497B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery includes a cylindrical can; an electrode assembly accommodated in the cylindrical can with an electrolyte; a cap assembly sealing the cylindrical can, a top-end height of the cap assembly being equal to or less than a top-end height of the cylindrical can; and an insulation layer on a surface of the cap assembly that is exposed to the outside of the cylindrical can.
US10090490B2	Method of producing curved display panel A method includes a supporting step supporting first planar surfaces of two substrates 20A and 30A having flexibility with supporting boards 50 and 60 each having flexibility and a larger thickness than the two substrates 20A and 30A, a thin film pattern formation step, after the supporting step, forming a thin film pattern on second planar surfaces of the two substrates 20A and 30A, a bonding step, after the thin film pattern formation step, bonding the two substrates 20A and 30A at surfaces each having the thin film pattern thereon with the sealant therebetween to form a bonded substrate 70, a first curving step, after the bonding step, curving the bonded substrate 70 while curing the sealant, a detachment step, after the first curving step, detaching the supporting boards 50 and 60 from the bonded substrate 70, and a second curving step, after the detachment step, further curving the bonded substrate 70.
US10090486B2	Frameless display device with concealed drive circuit board and manufacturing method thereof A frameless display device includes a conductive connection body formed on a substrate. A first via is formed in a protective layer and located above the conductive connection body. A second via hole is formed in the substrate and located under the conductive connection body. A circuit layout layer is connected through the first via with the conductive connection body and a flexible connection circuit connected to a drive circuit board is connected through the second via with the conductive connection body thereby achieving electrical connection between the drive circuit board and the circuit layout layer. The flexible connection circuit and the drive circuit board are both arranged at a back side of the substrate without occupying an effective display zone.
US10090481B2	Fringing field assisted dielectrophoresis assembly of carbon nanotubes A method of arranging at least one carbon nanotube on a semiconductor substrate includes depositing the at least one carbon nanotube on a dielectric layer of the semiconductor device. The method further includes arranging the at least one carbon nanotube on the dielectric layer in response to applying a voltage potential to an electrically conductive electrode of the semiconductor device, and applying a ground potential to an electrically conductive semiconductor layer of the semiconductor device.
US10090477B2	Charge-transporting varnish A thin film that has high flatness and high charge transport properties and enables an organic EL element to achieve excellent luminance characteristics if applied thereto can be obtained by using a charge-transporting varnish which contains a charge-transporting substance, an organosilane compound that is composed of a polymer prepared in advance by subjecting an alkoxysilane compound to hydrolysis-condensation and having a weight average molecular weight of 500-10,000, and an organic solvent, said alkoxysilane compound containing at least one compound selected from among alkoxysilane compounds represented by formulae (1-1) and (1-2). SiR1(OR2)3 (1-1) SiR12(OR2)2 (1-2) (In the formulae, each R1 independently represents an alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms, which is substituted by Z1, or the like; each R2 independently represents an alkyl group having 1-20 carbon atoms, which may be substituted by Z3; and each of Z1 and Z3 represents a halogen atom or the like.).
US10090475B2	Organic electroluminescent device An organic electroluminescent device including an anode; an emission layer; an anode-side hole transport layer between the anode and the emission layer, the anode-side hole transport layer including an anode-side hole transport material, and being doped with an electron accepting material; an intermediate hole transport material layer between the anode-side hole transport layer and the emission layer, the intermediate hole transport material layer including an intermediate hole transport material; and an emission layer-side hole transport layer between the intermediate hole transport material layer and the emission layer and adjacent to the emission layer, the emission layer-side hole transport layer including an emission layer-side hole transport material represented by the following General Formula (1):
US10090474B2	Condensed-cyclic compound and organic light-emitting device including the same A condensed-cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same, the compound being represented by Formula 1
US10090465B2	Semiconductor device having memory cell structure and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor device is provided, including a lower conducting layer formed above a substrate, an upper conducting layer, and a memory cell structure formed on the lower conducting layer (such as formed between the lower and upper conducting layers). The memory cell structure includes a bottom electrode formed on the lower conducting layer and electrically connected to the lower conducting layer, a transitional metal oxide (TMO) layer formed on the bottom electrode, a TMO sidewall oxides formed at sidewalls of the TMO layer, a top electrode formed on the TMO layer, and spacers formed on the bottom electrode. The upper conducting layer is formed on the top electrode and electrically connected to the top electrode.
US10090464B2	Buried low-resistance metal word lines for cross-point variable-resistance material memories Variable-resistance material memories include a buried salicide word line disposed below a diode. Variable-resistance material memories include a metal spacer spaced apart and next to the diode. Processes include the formation of one of the buried salicide word line and the metal spacer. Devices include the variable-resistance material memories and one of the buried salicided word line and the spacer word line.
US10090455B2	Piezoelectric device A piezoelectric device including a substrate, at least two electrodes extending on the substrate, at least one piezoelectric strip extending on the substrate and on the electrodes, and at least one electrically-conductive strip extending at least on one of the electrodes and on the piezoelectric strip and in contact with the substrate on either side of the piezoelectric strip.
US10090453B2	Piezoelectric jetting system and method A system and method for jetting a viscous material includes an electronic controller and a jetting dispenser operatively coupled with the electronic controller. The jetting dispenser includes an outlet orifice and a piezoelectric actuator operatively coupled with a movable shaft. The jetting dispenser is under control of the electronic controller for causing said piezoelectric actuator to move the shaft and jet an amount of the viscous material from the outlet orifice. The electronic controller sends a waveform to the piezoelectric actuator to optimize control of the jetting operation.
US10090449B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device of the invention includes a substrate, an electrode connection layer, and at least one epitaxial structure. The substrate has an upper surface and a plurality of electrode pads disposed on the upper surface. The electrode connection layer is disposed on the upper surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of electrode pads. The electrode connection layer has at least one first electrode, at least one second electrode and at least one connection layer disposed between the substrate and the at least one first electrode and disposed between the substrate and the at least one second electrode. The at least one connection layer has at least one buffer region exposed on the upper surface of the substrate and being an empty gap. The at least one epitaxial structure is disposed on and electrically connected to the electrode connection layer.
US10090447B2	LED light-emitting device The invention relates to the field of illumination, more specifically, to an LED light-emitting device. The LED light-emitting device comprises a heat dissipation layer for transferring the heat which is generated during operating of a circuit layer arranged in the LED light-emitting device to external environment of the LED light-emitting device, the heat dissipation layer being a metal substrate; wherein the circuit layer is arranged below the heat dissipation layer, and the circuit layer has a same shape with the heat dissipation layer.
US10090446B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing the same To provide a light emitting device having high light extraction efficiency, and a method for manufacturing the light emitting device. A method for manufacturing a light emitting device (100) according to the present invention, includes: forming a sealing member (40) for sealing a light emitting element (10) on a base body (30) by dropping, the base body (30) including a conductive member (20) for connecting to the light emitting element (10), and a molding (25) integrally molded with the conductive member (20); the sealing member (10) being formed such that at least a part of a periphery of the sealing member (40) is located on an outward surface (38) of the conductive member (20) or the molding (25), the outward surface facing outward in a top view.
US10090436B2	Semiconductor light emitting device with shaped substrate and method of manufacturing the same Embodiments of the invention include a substrate (10) and a semiconductor structure (12) grown on the substrate. The semiconductor structure includes a light emitting layer (18) disposed between an n-type region (16) and a p-type region (20). The substrate includes a first sidewall (30) and a second sidewall (32). The first sidewall and second sidewall are disposed at different angles relative to a major surface of the semiconductor structure. A reflective layer (34) is disposed over the first sidewall (30).
US10090423B2	Polymer containing 1,2,5-benzoselenadiazole-N-R1-5,6-dicarboxylic acid imide and preparation method and use thereof The present invention discloses a polymer containing 1,2,5-benzoselenadiazole-N—R1-5,6-dicarboxylic acid imide, and a preparation method and use thereof. The conjugated polymer prepared by the present invention has fluorescence, and a relatively wide absorption of sunlight, and thus it can be used for manufacture of an active layer for a polymer light-emitting diode device, a polymer field-effect transistor and a polymer solar cell.
US10090421B2	Foil-based metallization of solar cells Approaches for the foil-based metallization of solar cells and the resulting solar cells are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions is disposed in or above the substrate. A conductive contact structure is disposed above the plurality of alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. The conductive contact structure includes a plurality of metal seed material regions providing a metal seed material region disposed on each of the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions. A metal foil is disposed on the plurality of metal seed material regions, the metal foil having anodized portions isolating metal regions of the metal foil corresponding to the alternating N-type and P-type semiconductor regions.
US10090420B2	Via etch method for back contact multijunction solar cells This disclosure relates to semiconductor devices and methods for fabricating semiconductor devices. Particularly, the disclosure relates to back-contact-only multijunction solar cells and the process flows for making such solar cells, including a wet etch process that removes semiconductor materials non-selectively without major differences in etch rates between heteroepitaxial III-V semiconductor layers.
US10090409B2	Method for fabricating LDMOS with self-aligned body A method for fabricating a LDMOS device, including: forming a semiconductor substrate; forming a dielectric layer atop the semiconductor substrate and an electric conducting layer on the dielectric layer; forming a first photoresist layer on the electric conducting layer; patterning the first photoresist layer through a first mask to form a first opening; etching the electric conducting layer through the first opening; implanting dopants of a first doping type into the semiconductor substrate through the first opening to form a first body region adjacent to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a second body region located beneath the first body region; removing the first photoresist layer; etching the electric conducting layer using a second photoresist layer and a second mask.
US10090408B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device A SJ-MOSFET includes a parallel pn layer in which an n-type drift region and a p-type partition region are alternately arranged repeatedly along a direction parallel to a base main-surface. The n-type drift region and the p-type partition region have total impurity amounts that are roughly the same and widths that are basically constant over an entire depth direction. The n-type drift region is configured to have an n-type impurity concentration profile in which an impurity concentration of a portion on the drain-side is higher than an impurity concentration of a portion on the source-side by ΔCnx. The p-type partition region is configured to have a p-type impurity concentration profile in which an impurity concentration of a portion on the drain-side is higher than an impurity concentration of a portion on the source-side by ΔCph, and an impurity concentration of part of the portion on the source-side is relatively low.
US10090404B2	Semiconductor device including emitter regions and method of manufacturing the semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a first conductive-type semiconductor layer, a second conductive-type base region that is arranged in the front surface portion of the semiconductor layer, a plurality of trenches that extend from a front surface of the semiconductor layer beyond a bottom portion of the base region with an active region being defined therebetween, a plurality of first conductive-type emitter regions that are arranged in the active region, each connecting the trenches adjacent to each other, a gate electrode that is embedded in the trench, an embedding insulating film that is embedded in the trench on the gate electrode and that has an upper surface in the same height position as the front surface of the semiconductor layer or in a height position lower than the front surface and an emitter electrode that covers the active region and the embedding insulating film and that is electrically connected to the base region and the emitter region.
US10090400B2	Gate-all-around fin device A gate-all around fin double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS) devices and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a plurality of fin structures from a substrate. The method further includes forming a well of a first conductivity type and a second conductivity type within the substrate and corresponding fin structures of the plurality of fin structures. The method further includes forming a source contact on an exposed portion of a first fin structure. The method further comprises forming drain contacts on exposed portions of adjacent fin structures to the first fin structure. The method further includes forming a gate structure in a dielectric fill material about the first fin structure and extending over the well of the first conductivity type.
US10090399B2	Semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof The reliability of a semiconductor device having a nonvolatile memory is improved. The memory cell of the nonvolatile memory is of a split gate type, and has first and second n type semiconductor regions in a semiconductor substrate, a control electrode formed over the substrate between the semiconductor regions via a first insulation film, and a memory gate electrode formed over the substrate between the semiconductor regions via a second insulation film having a charge accumulation part. The SSI method is used for write to the memory cell. During the read operation of the memory cell, the first and second semiconductor regions function as source and drain regions, respectively. The first width of the first sidewall spacer formed adjacent to the side surface of the memory gate electrode is larger than the second width of the second sidewall spacer formed adjacent to the side surface of the control gate electrode.
US10090397B2	Semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a gate stack positioned over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes spacers positioned over sidewalls of the gate stack. The semiconductor device structure includes a first protective layer positioned between the gate stack and the spacers and between the spacers and the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a second protective layer positioned between the spacers and the first protective layer. The first protective layer and the second protective layer include different materials.
US10090396B2	Method for fabricating metal gate devices and resulting structures A method for fabricating a semiconductor component includes forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on a substrate, forming a trench in the interlayer dielectric layer, forming a metal gate in the trench, removing a portion of the metal gate protruding from the ILD layer, reacting a reducing gas with the metal gate, and removing a top portion of the metal gate.
US10090395B2	Method for depinning the Fermi level of a semiconductor at an electrical junction and devices incorporating such junctions An electrical device in which an interface layer is disposed in between and in contact with a conductor and a semiconductor.
US10090394B2	Ohmic contact structure for group III nitride semiconductor device having improved surface morphology and well-defined edge features Embodiments of an ohmic contact structure for a Group III nitride semiconductor device and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In general, the ohmic contact structure has a root-mean-squared (RMS) surface roughness of less than 10 nanometers, and more preferably less than or equal to 7.5 nanometers, and more preferably less than or equal to 5 nanometers, and more preferably less than or equal to 2 nanometers, and even more preferably less than or equal to 1.5 nanometers.
US10090391B2	Tunable breakdown voltage RF FET devices A tunable breakdown voltage RF MESFET and/or MOSFET and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a first line and a second line on an underlying gate dielectric material. The second line has a width tuned to a breakdown voltage. The method further includes forming sidewall spacers on sidewalls of the first and second line such that the space between first and second line is pinched-off by the dielectric spacers. The method further includes forming source and drain regions adjacent outer edges of the first line and the second line, and removing at least the second line to form an opening between the sidewall spacers of the second line and to expose the underlying gate dielectric material. The method further includes depositing a layer of material on the underlying gate dielectric material within the opening, and forming contacts to a gate structure and the source and drain regions.
US10090389B2	Semiconductor memory device and fabrication method thereof A semiconductor memory device and a method of fabrication of the same are provided. The semiconductor memory device comprises a two-terminal memory cell sequentially joined together with a first high concentration doping region doped with a first conductive dopant, a second base region doped with a second conductive type dopant, a first base region doped with the first conductive type dopant, and a second high concentration doping region doped with the second conductive type dopant, wherein a write voltage of the memory cell is controlled by adjusting the lengths or doping concentrations of the first and second base regions.
US10090383B2	Column IV transistors for PMOS integration Techniques are disclosed for forming column IV transistor devices having source/drain regions with high concentrations of germanium, and exhibiting reduced parasitic resistance relative to conventional devices. In some example embodiments, the source/drain regions each includes a thin p-type silicon or germanium or SiGe deposition with the remainder of the source/drain material deposition being p-type germanium or a germanium alloy (e.g., germanium:tin or other suitable strain inducer, and having a germanium content of at least 80 atomic % and 20 atomic % or less other components). In some cases, evidence of strain relaxation may be observed in the germanium rich cap layer, including misfit dislocations and/or threading dislocations and/or twins. Numerous transistor configurations can be used, including both planar and non-planar transistor structures (e.g., FinFETs and nanowire transistors), as well as strained and unstrained channel structures.
US10090381B2	Semiconductor device including air-gap A semiconductor device comprises a lower structure on a substrate and including a recess region, first and second barrier layers covering an inner surface of the recess region and a top surface of the lower structure, the inner surface of the recess region including a bottom surface and an inner sidewall connecting the bottom surface to the top surface of the lower structure, and an interlayer dielectric layer provided on the second barrier layer and defining an air gap in the recess region. A first step coverage is obtained by dividing a thickness of the first barrier layer on an inner sidewall of the recess region by a thickness of the first barrier layer on the top surface of the lower structure. A second step coverage is obtained by dividing a thickness of the second barrier layer on the inner sidewall of the recess region by a thickness of the second barrier layer on the top surface of the lower structure. The first step coverage is different from the second step coverage.
US10090380B2	Semiconductor device having localized charge balance structure and method In one embodiment, a semiconductor substrate is provided having a localized superjunction structure extending from a major surface. A doped region is then formed adjacent the localized superjunction structure to create a charge imbalance therein. In one embodiment, the doped region can be an ion implanted region formed within the localized superjunction structure. In another embodiment, the doped region can be an epitaxial layer having a graded dopant profile adjoining the localized superjunction structure. The charge imbalance can improve, among other things, unclamped inductive switching (UIS) performance.
US10090377B2	Semiconductor device including capacitor A semiconductor device comprises a capacitor that includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The dielectric layer comprises a first high-k dielectric layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first silicon oxide layer between the first high-k dielectric layer and the second electrode, and a first aluminum oxide layer between the first high-k dielectric layer and the second electrode.
US10090376B2	Methods of forming semiconductor device structures, and methods of forming capacitor structures A method of forming a semiconductor device structure comprises forming a mold template comprising trenches within a mold material. Structures are formed within the trenches of the mold template. A wet removal process is performed to remove the mold template, a liquid material of the wet removal process remaining at least in spaces between adjacent pairs of the structures following the wet removal process. A polymer material is formed at least in the spaces between the adjacent pairs of the structures. At least one dry removal process is performed to remove the polymer material from at least the spaces between the adjacent pairs of the structures. Additional methods of forming a semiconductor device structure, and methods of forming capacitor structures are also described.
US10090366B2	Organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display device, including a substrate that includes a plurality of first emission portions that realize a first color and a plurality of second emission portions that realize a second color; a pixel-defining film that defines the plurality of first emission portions and the plurality of second emission portions; a plurality of pixel electrodes that are separate from each other and respectively correspond to the plurality of first emission portions; and a first stacked structure that includes an intermediate layer and a counter electrode on the intermediate layer, the intermediate layer including an organic emission layer emitting light of the first color, the first stacked structure further including first emission pattern portions respectively corresponding to the plurality of first emission portions, and first connection pattern portions on the pixel-defining film, the first connection pattern portions connecting the first emission pattern portions.
US10090365B2	Organic device An organic device is disclosed. In an embodiment the organic device includes an organic component designed to emit and/or detect radiation, wherein the organic component has a first layer stack and a radiation passage surface and an organic protection diode having a second layer stack, wherein the organic protection diode is arranged directly after the organic component in a stacking direction (Z), and wherein the organic protection diode is designed to protect the organic component from an electrostatic discharge and/or from a polarity reversal of the organic component.
US10090361B2	Edge-to-edge mobile terminal The present invention discloses a mobile terminal, comprising a bottom frame; a glass cover; a screen module covering the bottom frame; wherein the glass cover covers the screen module and two edges of both sides of the glass cover connect to the bottom frame; both the screen module and the glass cover have an arch opposite to the bottom frame; two edges of both sides of the screen module extend over both sides of the glass cover and are covered by the bottom frame. The beneficial effect of the above technical solution is: by utilizing the arch of the screen module and the glass cover opposite to the bottom frame, the front surface of the screen module and two sides of screen module do not have black edge, so that the display effect is excellent.
US10090354B2	Light sensing unit and light sensing circuit for image sensor with light sensing carriers transferred between different floating nodes A light sensing unit for a light sensing circuit of an image sensor includes a first light sensing element, a first floating node and at least one coupling element. The first light sensing element is used for sensing light to obtain a light sensing result and generating a plurality of carriers accordingly. The first floating node is used for receiving and storing the plurality of carriers generated by the first light sensing element. The at least one coupling element is used for coupling the first floating node to at least one second floating node, and transmitting a part of the plurality of carriers stored in the first floating node to the at least one second floating node to be stored in the at least one second floating node.
US10090352B2	Manufacturing method for semiconductor device and semiconductor device A step of forming a connecting member configured to electrically connect a first conductive line and a second conductive line includes a phase of perforating a laminate from a first semiconductor wafer to form a plurality of connection holes that reach the second conductive line and a phase of filling the plurality of penetrating connection holes with a conductive material to form conductive sections in contact with the second conductive line.
US10090347B1	Image sensor with near-infrared and visible light pixels An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels and an array of color filter elements that covers the array of imaging pixels. The array of imaging pixels may include visible light pixels that are covered by visible light color filter elements and near-infrared light pixels that are covered by near-infrared light color filter elements. The imaging pixels may be arranged in a pattern having a repeating 2×2 unit cell of pixel groups. Each pixel group may include a visible light pixel sub-group and a near-infrared light pixel sub-group. Signals from each pixel group may be processed to determine a representative value for each pixel group that includes both visible light and near-infrared light information.
US10090346B2	Color filter array, imagers and systems having same, and methods of fabrication and use thereof A pixel cell with a photosensitive region formed in association with a substrate, a color filter formed over the photosensitive region, the color filter comprising a first material layer and a second material layer formed in association with the first shaping material layer.
US10090345B2	Interconnect structure for CIS flip-chip bonding and methods for forming the same A device includes a metal pad at a surface of an image sensor chip, wherein the image sensor chip includes an image sensor. A stud bump is disposed over, and electrically connected to, the metal pad. The stud bump includes a bump region, and a tail region connected to the bump region. The tail region includes a metal wire portion substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the metal pad. The tail region is short enough to support itself against gravity.
US10090343B2	Solid-state imaging device and method for manufacturing solid-state imaging device, and electronic device A solid-state imaging device includes a first-conductivity-type semiconductor well region, a plurality of pixels each of which is formed on the semiconductor well region and is composed of a photoelectric conversion portion and a pixel transistor, an element isolation region provided between the pixels and in the pixels, and an element isolation region being free from an insulation film and being provided between desired pixel transistors.
US10090342B1	Stacked image sensor capacitors and related methods Implementations of image sensors may include a first die including an image sensor array and a first plurality of interconnects where the image sensor array includes a plurality of photodiodes and a plurality of transfer gates. The image sensor array may also include a second die including a second plurality of interconnects and a plurality of capacitors, each capacitor selected from the group consisting of deep trench capacitors, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors, polysilicon-insulator-polysilicon (PIP) capacitors, and 3D stacked capacitors. The first die may be coupled to the second die through the first plurality of interconnects and through the second plurality of interconnects. No more than eight photodiodes of the plurality of photodiodes of the first die may be electrically coupled with no more than four capacitors of the plurality of capacitors.
US10090339B2	Radio frequency (RF) switch Disclosed is a radio frequency (RF) switch that includes a substrate and a plurality of elongated drain/source (D/S) diffusion regions laterally disposed in parallel with one another and separated by a plurality of elongated channel regions. A plurality of elongated D/S resistor regions extends between an adjacent pair of plurality of elongated D/S diffusion regions, and a plurality of elongated gate structures resides over corresponding ones of the elongated channel regions. A silicide layer resides over a majority of at least top surfaces of the plurality of the elongated D/S diffusion regions and the plurality of elongated gate structures, wherein less than a majority of each of the plurality of the elongated D/S resistor regions are covered by the silicide layer.
US10090338B2	Method for manufacturing array substrate, array substrate and display device Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an array substrate, the array substrate and a display device which can reduce manufacturing steps of a color filter process and further reduce manufacturing steps of the display device, thereby saving manufacturing cost and time. The method for manufacturing the array substrate includes: forming a thin film transistor on a base substrate; forming a passivation layer having a via hole on a front side of the thin film transistor and forming a photo spacer on a front side of the passivation layer through a halftone mask patterning process. With this method for manufacturing the array substrate, there is no need to prepare the photo spacer on a back side of the color filter substrate. Therefore, it is possible to reduce manufacturing steps of a color filter process, which in turn further reduces manufacturing steps of the display device, thereby saving manufacturing cost and time.
US10090331B2	Double-side display, display module and TFT array substrate thereof The disclosure provides a double-side display, a display module and a TFT array substrate thereof, the TFT substrate includes two graphene display units disposed opposite and a reflective layer disposed between the two graphene display units. Compared with a conventional technique, according to the double-side display, the display module and the TFT array substrate thereof, the graphene display units are disposed on the two sides of the reflective layer respectively to prevent influence between light of the two sides of the reflective layer, brightness of two display units is improved due to reflective light from the reflective layer; the structure of the double-side display is simpler, and the volume is reduced significantly, which are benefit for thinning and lightening the double-side display.
US10090330B2	Structure and method for fully depleted silicon on insulator structure for threshold voltage modification A method for fabricating a fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) device is described. A charge trapping layer in a buried oxide layer is provided on a semiconductor substrate. A backgate well in the semiconductor substrate is provided under the charge trapping layer. A device structure including a gate structure, source and drain regions is disposed over the buried oxide layer. A charge is trapped in the charge trapping layer. The threshold voltage of the device is partially established by the charge trapped in the charge trapping layer. Different aspects of the invention include the structure of the FDSOI device and a method of tuning the charge trapped in the charge trapping layer of the FDSOI device.
US10090325B1	Circuit cells having separated gate electrodes A device includes first circuit cells. Each of the first circuit cells includes isolation transistors, a first type transistor, a second type transistor, and a first gate contact. The isolation transistors are arranged adjacent to another one circuit cell of the plurality of first circuit cells. The first type transistor includes a first gate electrode. The second type transistor includes a second gate electrode, in which the second gate electrode is disposed with respect to the first gate electrode. The first gate contact is coupled between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.
US10090319B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type; a stacked body; a plurality of columnar portions; a plurality of first insulating portions having a wall configuration; and a plurality of second insulating portions having a columnar configuration. The columnar portions extend in a stacking direction of the stacked body. The columnar portions include a semiconductor body and a charge storage film. The first insulating portions extend in the stacking direction and in a first direction crossing the stacking direction. The second insulating portions extend in the stacking direction. A wide of the second insulating portions along a second direction crossing the first direction in a plane is wider than a wide of the first insulating portions along the second direction. The second insulating portions are disposed in a staggered lattice configuration.
US10090315B2	Semiconductor memory device in which an array chip including three-dimensionally disposed memory cells bonded to a control circuit chip According to one embodiment, the array chip includes a three-dimensionally disposed plurality of memory cells and a memory-side interconnection layer connected to the memory cells. The circuit chip includes a substrate, a control circuit provided on the substrate, and a circuit-side interconnection layer provided on the control circuit and connected to the control circuit. The circuit chip is stuck to the array chip with the circuit-side interconnection layer facing to the memory-side interconnection layer. The bonding metal is provided between the memory-side interconnection layer and the circuit-side interconnection layer. The bonding metal is bonded to the memory-side interconnection layer and the circuit-side interconnection layer.
US10090314B2	Vertical memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same A vertical memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of channels on the substrate and extending in a first direction that is vertical to a top surface of the substrate, a plurality of gate lines stacked on top of each other on the substrate, a plurality of wiring over the gate lines and electrically connected to the gate lines, and an identification pattern on the substrate at the same level as a level of at least one of the wirings. The gate lines surround the channels. The gate lines are spaced apart from each other along the first direction.
US10090312B2	Semiconductor memory device According to the embodiments, the semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first conducting layer, a semiconductor layer, a plurality of second conducting layer, and an electric charge accumulating layer. The first conducting layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate via an insulating layer. The semiconductor layer is disposed on the first conducting layer and extends in a first direction above the semiconductor substrate. The plurality of the second conducting layers extends in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and is laminated along the first direction via an insulating layer, and is disposed on the first conducting layer. The electric charge accumulating layer is disposed between the semiconductor layer and the plurality of second conducting layer. The semiconductor substrate includes an n type semiconductor region facing an end portion of the semiconductor layer.
US10090311B1	Cost-free MTP memory structure with reduced terminal voltages Device and methods for forming a single transistor non-volatile (NV) multi-time programmable (MTP) memory cell are disclosed. The disclosed memory cell is derived via the disclosed method that includes providing a substrate and forming at least a transistor well with a second polarity type dopant and first and second capacitor wells with a first polarity type dopant in the substrate. The method also includes forming a transistor having a floating gate over the transistor well, a control gate over the first capacitor well and coupled to the floating gate, an erase gate over the second capacitor well and coupled to the floating gate. The control gate comprises a control capacitor while the erase gate comprises an erase capacitor that is decoupled from the control capacitor.
US10090310B2	Memory devices having select gates with P type bodies, memory strings having separate source lines and methods Memory devices and methods of operating memory devices are shown. Configurations described include a memory cell string having an elongated n type body region and having select gates with p type bodies. Configurations and methods shown can provide a reliable bias to a body region for memory operations such as erasing.
US10090307B2	Decoupling capacitor on strain relaxation buffer layer An electrical device including a substrate structure including a relaxed region of alternating layers of at least a first semiconductor material and a second semiconductor material. A first region of the substrate structure includes a first type conductivity semiconductor device having a first strain over a first portion of the relaxed region. A second region of the substrate structure includes a second type conductivity semiconductor device having a second strain over a second portion of the relaxed region. A third region of the substrate structure including a trench capacitor extending into relaxed region, wherein a width of the trench capacitor defined by the end to end distance of the node dielectric for the trench capacitor alternates between at least two width dimensions as a function of depth measured from the upper surface of the substrate structure.
US10090303B2	Fabrication of vertical field effect transistors with uniform structural profiles Semiconductor devices are fabricated with vertical field effect transistor (FET) devices having uniform structural profiles. Semiconductor fabrication methods for vertical FET devices implement a process flow to fabricate dummy fins within isolation regions to enable the formation of vertical FET devices with uniform structural profiles within device regions. Sacrificial semiconductor fins are formed in the isolation regions concurrently with semiconductor fins in the device regions, to minimize/eliminate micro-loading effects from an etch process used for fin patterning and, thereby, form uniform profile semiconductor fins. The sacrificial semiconductor fins within the isolation regions also serve to minimize/eliminate non-uniform topography and micro-loading effects when planarizing and recessing conductive gate layers and, thereby. form conductive gate structures for vertical FET devices with uniform gate lengths in the device regions. The sacrificial semiconductor fins are subsequently removed and replaced with insulating material to form the dummy fins.
US10090299B2	MOSFET transistors with robust subthreshold operations An integrated circuit with transistor regions formed on a substrate. Each transistor region includes a channel region and a terminal region. The channel region is positioned along a traverse dimension, and it includes a channel edge region along a longitudinal dimension. The terminal region is positioned adjacent to the channel region, and it is doped with a first dopant of a first conductivity type. Each transistor region may include an edge block region, which is positioned along the longitudinal dimension and adjacent to the channel edge region. The edge block region is doped with a second dopant of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. The channel region doped with a dopant and having a first doping concentration. Each transistor region may include an edge recovery region overlapping with the channel edge region and having a second doping concentration higher than the first doping concentration.
US10090298B2	Integrated packaging structure An integrated packaging structure is provided. In the package structure, an integrated component body has a first source region, a second source region, a first setting region, and a second setting region, which are separated from each other. A first MOSFET die and a second MOSFET die are located on the first setting region and the second setting region respectively, and have a top surface, a source electrode pad and a gate electrode pad. The source electrode pad and the gate electrode pad are exposed from the top surface and spaced apart from each other. A first source connection element is connected to the source electrode pad of the first MOSFET die and the first source region. A second source connection element is connected to the source electrode pad of the second MOSFET die and the second source region. A gate connection element is connected to the gate electrode pad and a gate region of the integrated component body.
US10090292B2	Radial nanowire Esaki diode devices and methods A radial nanowire Esaki diode device includes a semiconductor core of a first conductivity type and a semiconductor shell of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type. The device may be a TFET or a solar cell.
US10090290B1	Stacked electrostatic discharge diode structures An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure containing a bottom diode and a top diode vertically stacked on the bottom diode is provided to render sufficient protection from ESD events with reduced diode footprint. The bottom diode is serially connected to the top diode via a conductive strap structure.
US10090289B1	Integrated circuits with standard cell The present invention provides an integrated circuit with a dummy standard cell. The integrated circuit includes: a first metal line and a second metal line stretching along a first direction; a first dummy gate and a second dummy gate stretching along a second direction; Plural fin structures stretching along the first direction; A gate structure disposed on the fin structures and stretching along the second direction; Plural sets of short contact plug and long contact plug disposed between the first dummy gate, the second dummy gate and the gate structures; a doping region overlaps with the long contact plugs; a gate contact plug disposed on the gate structures; plural contact plugs disposed on and electrical contact the long contact plugs; A metal layer includes the first metal line, the second metal line.
US10090285B2	Light emitting module To provide a light emitting module capable of reducing luminance unevenness. A light emitting module 10 includes an element substrate 11 extending in one direction, and a plurality of LEDs 12 mounted in alignment in a longitudinal direction of the element substrate 11, and an end surface 11a in the longitudinal direction of the element substrate 11 has an inclined surface 11c which is inclined with respect to an end surface 11b in a short side direction.
US10090283B1	Methods and systems for improving power delivery and signaling in stacked semiconductor devices Semiconductor die assemblies including stacked semiconductor dies having parallel plate capacitors formed between adjacent pairs of semiconductor dies in the stack, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly includes a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die stacked over the first semiconductor die. The first semiconductor die includes an upper surface having a first capacitor plate formed thereon, and the second semiconductor die includes a lower surface facing the upper surface of the first semiconductor die and having a second capacitor plate formed thereon. A dielectric material is formed at least partially between the first and second capacitor plates. The first capacitor plate, second capacitor plate, and dielectric material together form a capacitor that stores charge locally within the stack, and that can be accessed by the first and/or second semiconductor dies.
US10090280B2	Microelectronic package including microelectronic elements having stub minimization for wirebond assemblies without windows A microelectronic assembly (300) or system (1500) includes at least one microelectronic package (100) having a microelectronic element (130) mounted face up above a first surface (108) of a substrate (102), one or more columns (138, 140) of contacts (132) extending in a first direction (142) along the microelectronic element front face. Columns (104A, 105B, 107A, 107B) of terminals (105 107) exposed at a second surface (110) of the substrate extend in the first direction. First terminals (105) exposed at surface (110) in a central region (112) thereof having width (152) not more than three and one-half times a minimum pitch (150) of the columns of terminals can be configured to carry address information usable to determine an addressable memory location. An axial plane of the microelectronic element can intersect the central region.
US10090278B2	Semiconductor packages A semiconductor package includes a plurality of semiconductor chips on a substrate. The semiconductor chips include a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip, and a third semiconductor chip that are sequentially stacked on the substrate. The semiconductor package further includes a plurality of non-conductive layers between the substrate and the first semiconductor chip and between adjacent semiconductor chips among the semiconductor chips. The semiconductor chips include smaller widths as a distance from the substrate increases. Each of the non-conductive layers includes an extension protruding outward from a side surface of an overlying one of the semiconductor chips.
US10090273B2	Apparatus and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A manufacturing apparatus of a semiconductor device includes a stage, a head unit configured to face the stage, a driving unit configured to move the head unit towards and away from the stage, a heating unit configured to heat the head unit, and a control unit configured to control the driving unit to move the head unit away from the stage when the heating unit heats the head unit.
US10090271B1	Metal pad modification The present invention provides a structure. In an exemplary embodiment, the structure includes a base material, at least one metal pad, where a first surface of the metal pad is in contact with the base material, and a metal pedestal, where the metal pedestal is in contact with the metal pad, where a radial alignment of the metal pad is shifted by an offset distance, with respect to the metal pedestal, such that the metal pad is shifted towards a center axis of the base material, where a first dimension of the metal pad is smaller than a second dimension of the metal pad, where the second dimension is orthogonal to a line running from a center of the metal pad to the center axis of the base material, where the first dimension is parallel to the line.

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