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US10225053B2	Method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit-specific information The present invention is related to a method and system for transferring wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU)-specific information to support enhanced uplink (EU) operation in a wireless communication system. A radio network controller (RNC) obtains WTRU-specific information, and transfers the WTRU-specific information to the Node-Bs. Each Node-B is configured to schedule uplink transmissions from a WTRU and utilizes the WTRU-specific information in operation of EU transmissions.
US10225051B1	Measurement system and data transmission interface A measurement system of a data transmission interface includes a signal generator and a signal receiver. The signal generator transmits an input data to the data transmission interface. The signal receiver receives an output data from the data transmission interface. The signal receiver measures a jitter tolerance capability of the data transmission interface according to error feedback data of the output data. The data transmission interface includes a receiving circuit, a synchronous circuit, and a transmitting circuit. The receiving circuit receives the input data and generates an error signal when a data error occurs. The synchronous circuit receives the error signal to generate an error indication signal. The transmitting circuit transmits the output data to the signal receiver and receives the error indication signal when the data error occurs, in order to generate the error feedback data in the output data according to the error indication signal.
US10225048B2	Adaptive HARQ timing relaxation The present disclosure is directed to a method and apparatus for controlling a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, retransmission round-trip time for transmission in a wireless network. The method comprises to estimate (S41) one or more latency related transmission parameters and to select (S43) one or more of a plurality of predefined HARQ relaxation techniques based on the estimated one or more latency related transmission parameters. Transmission is scheduled (S44) using the selected one or more HARQ relaxation technique.
US10225047B2	Method and apparatus for multicast block acknowledgement A method for wireless communications is disclosed that includes generating and interpreting multicast block acknowledgement frames. Group identifiers and apparatus identifiers are used for indicating the presence of aggregated acknowledgement information and for extracting acknowledgement information for individual stations.
US10225046B2	Adaptive cyclic redundancy check for uplink control information encoding An adaptive cyclic redundancy check process for uplink control information signaling is provided to allow a number of cyclic redundancy check bits to be adjusted based on the likelihood of data being corrupted during transmission. In an embodiment, a base station device can send a cyclic redundancy check length map to a mobile device that indicates to the mobile device to use a specific number of cyclic redundancy bits to use per a specified payload size of uplink control information. Optionally, the mobile device can determine a number of cyclic redundancy bits to include in the uplink control information, and use two stage uplink control information signaling to indicate to the base station how many cyclic redundancy check bits there are in the succeeding stage.
US10225043B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program [Object] To provide a new and improved information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program, capable of improving technology related to FEC for achieving a low delay transfer.[Solution] Provided is an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit which acquires a transfer bit rate; and a selection unit which selects an encoding system of forward error correction based on a comparison result between the transfer bit rate acquired by the acquisition unit and a threshold.
US10225042B2	Radio transmission device and method A radio transmitting device and method enables reduction of an increase of CGI memories for the control channel and an improvement of the throughput of the data channel. When multiplex transmission through the control channel and the data channel is carried out and when adaptive modulation is applied to both channels, an MCS selecting section is provided with one CQI table for the data channel and CQI tables for the control channel, and a table selecting MCS determining section selects one of the tables depending on the transmission bandwidth of the terminal and determines the MCS of the control channel while looking up the selected CQI table.
US10225041B2	Methods and apparatus for higher modulation support in LTE Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for determining support for one or more modulation orders to use for the transmission of control channel(s) and data channel(s). In one aspect, a user equipment (UE) determines, based on at least three modulation and coding scheme (MCS) tables, a first modulation scheme to use for communications with a wireless device for a first subset of subframes, and a second modulation scheme to use for communications with the wireless device for a second subset of subframes. Each of the three MCS tables is associated with a different maximum modulation order. The UE monitors for a data channel transmitted in the first subset of subframes using the first modulation scheme. The UE monitors for a data channel transmitted in the second subset of subframes using the second modulation scheme.
US10225040B2	Apparatus for transmitting/receiving broadcasting signal using combination mode of layered division multiplexing and channel bonding, and method thereof An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signal according to the present invention includes an enhanced layer stream partitioner configured to generate first and second enhanced layer partitioned signals by partitioning an enhanced layer stream; first and second combiners configured to generate a first multiplexed signal corresponding to the first enhanced layer partitioned signal and a second multiplexed signal corresponding to the second enhanced layer partitioned signal; first and second power normalizers configured to reduce powers of the first multiplexed signal and the second multiplexed signal; first and second time interleavers configured to generate a first time-interleaved signal corresponding to the first enhanced layer partitioned signal and a second time-interleaved signal corresponding to the second enhanced layer partitioned signal; and first and second OFDM transmitters configured to transmit signals corresponding to the first time-interleaved signal and the second time-interleaved signal using an OFDM communication scheme.
US10225039B2	Physical layer encryption using out-phased array linearized signaling Systems and techniques for physical layer encryption (PLE) using beamforming. The techniques are based on the principles of Linear Amplification with Nonlinear Components (LINC) to produce a transmit signal with limited dynamic range. A masking signal is structured based upon a source data signal to produce a transmit signal with limited dynamic range, while providing a high degree of secrecy.
US10225036B2	Communication systems and methods of communicating utilizing cooperation facilitators Systems and methods for improved data transmission utilizing a communication facilitator are described in accordance with embodiments of the invention. One embodiment includes a plurality of nodes, that each comprise: a transmitter; a receiver; and an encoder that encodes message data for transmission using a plurality of codewords; a cooperation facilitator node comprising: a transmitter; and a receiver; wherein the nodes are configured to transmit data parameters to the cooperation facilitator; wherein the cooperation facilitator is configured to generate cooperation parameters based upon the data parameters received from the nodes; wherein the cooperation facilitator is configured to transmit cooperation parameters to the nodes; and wherein the encoder in each of the nodes selects a codeword from the plurality of codewords based at least in part upon the cooperation parameters received from the communication facilitator and transmit the selected codeword via the multiple access channel.
US10225028B2	Adaptation of dual connectivity procedures The embodiments disclosed herein relates to a wireless communication device, network nodes and methods therein for handling multiple connectivity. A method in a network node comprises determining the extent to which a wireless communication device requires different signals received from different non-co-located radio network points to be synchronized in order to operate with multiple connectivity. The method further comprises deciding whether to configure the WCD to operate with multiple connectivity, based on said determination.
US10225026B2	System for piston rod monitoring A sensor system for determining a condition associated with a piston rod of a reciprocating system includes an interrogator system having a first antenna. The sensor system further includes a second antenna separated from the first antenna by an air gap distance. The second antenna is configured to be coupled to the piston rod of the reciprocating system. The second antenna is a patch antenna and is configured to communicate with the first antenna through a range of translational movement relative to the first antenna. The sensor system further includes a radio frequency sensor coupled to the second antenna. The radio frequency sensor is configured to be coupled to the piston rod of the reciprocating system, measure a characteristic associated with the piston rod of the reciprocating system, and transmit data associated with the characteristic to the first antenna of the interrogator system through the second antenna.
US10225024B2	Antenna An antenna unit for monitoring the RF transmission line and RF signal path to an antenna unit used in a distributed antenna system. The antenna has a resistor connected to ground, and a DC injector including a capacitor having a first side connected to an RF transmission line and a second side connected to the antenna, with a first inductor coupled between the resistor and the monitoring module.
US10225019B2	Digital signal transmitting apparatus for adjusting multi-channel superconducting quantum interference device A digital adjusting signal for adjusting a multi-channel SQUID system is transmitted only to a control circuit module including a SQUID channel selected in an embodiment of the present invention and not transmitted to other modules. Accordingly, the digital adjusting signal is prevented from flowing into all SQUID adjusting channels to minimize noise generated by the digital adjusting circuit of the SQUID channel and to stably control the SQUID sensor without malfunction.
US10225018B2	WDM comb source based optical link with improved optical amplification A transmitter (TX) for a WDM optical link includes a light source (CS) generating a plurality of discrete lines (EL) with different frequencies (f), a plurality of modulators (FSM, RRM, MZM), each modulator (FSM, RRM, MZM) being configured to modulate one of the discrete lines (EL) according to a data stream (c1-c4), at least one optical amplifier (SOA) configured to simultaneously amplify multiple lines (EL), wherein only a subset of the generated lines (EL) is routed to the optical amplifier (SOA) resp. to each one of the optical amplifiers (SOA). A receiver (RX) for an optical link adapted to work together with the transmitter (TX) is also described. An optical link including the transmitter (TX) and/or the receiver (RX), and a method to operate said link are also described.
US10225012B2	Device and method for data communication using visible light In one embodiment, an electronic device includes a storage storing a first table regarding a relationship between data and colors, a controller configured to determine a second table as a substitute in a preset condition for the first table and determine a first color, and a second color corresponding to a target data respectively based on the first table and the second table, and a display for displaying at least one from among the first color and the second color.
US10225007B2	Measuring apparatus and method of frequency response characteristic imbalance of optical receiver A measuring method and apparatus of frequency response characteristic imbalance of an optical receiver, in which by transmitting at least one single-frequency signal in an I branch or a Q branch of an optical transmitter, an amplitude ratio and phase imbalance of the I branch and the Q branch of the optical receiver are directly calculated according to at least one pair of received signals extracted from the I branch and the Q branch of the optical receiver of which frequencies are split due to a frequency difference between lasers of the optical transmitter and the optical receiver, with no need of many times of changes of central wavelengths of lasers of the optical transmitter and the optical receiver for performing measurement for many times, and measurement of frequency response characteristic imbalance of the optical receiver may be achieved through one time of measurement, which is simple in process and accurate in measurement result.
US10225006B1	Method for transmitting an FSOC supervisor channel Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method of transmitting state information using free-space optical communication. The method includes using one or more processors of a first communication device to collect state information of the first communication device. A supervisor signal that carries the state information is transmitted from the first communication device along with a beacon beam in a first solid angle. The supervisor signal is a frequency different from the one or more frequencies of the beacon beam. When a communication link is established between the first communication device and a second communication device, a plurality of data packets is transmitted from the first communication device to the second communication device in a second solid angle smaller than the first solid angle. A subset of the plurality of data packets that do not carry client data carries the state information of the first communication device.
US10225004B2	Method and system for connectionless integrated optical receiver and transmitter test Methods and systems for a connectionless integrated optical receiver and transmitter test are disclosed and may include an optoelectronic transceiver comprising a transmit (Tx) path and a receive (Rx) path, with each path comprising optical switches. The transceiver may be operable to: generate a first modulated optical signal utilizing a modulator in the Tx path, couple the first modulated optical signal to a first optical switch in the Rx path via a second optical switch in the Tx path when the optoelectronic transceiver is configured in a self-test mode, receive a second modulated optical signal via a grating coupler in the Rx path when the optoelectronics transceiver is configured in an operational mode, and communicate the second modulated optical signal to a photodetector in the Rx path via the first optical switch. The first modulated optical signal may be communicated to a grating coupler in the Tx path via the second optical switch.
US10225003B2	System and method for performing in-service optical network certification A system and method for performing an in-service optical time domain reflectometry test, an in-service insertion loss test, and an in-service optical frequency domain reflectometry test using a same wavelength as the network communications for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint optical fiber networks while maintaining continuity of network communications are disclosed.
US10225002B2	Satellite system with rolling wave handovers A constellation of non-geosynchronous satellites are in a common orbit. Each time one of the satellites is at a trigger location, a new rolling wave of handovers is started that includes performing handovers of a group of dependent spot beams between adjacent satellites in sequence for pairs of adjacent satellites in a single direction around the orbit.
US10225001B2	Orbital network layering Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying communication networks in clusters of satellite devices. In one example, satellite devices are configured to orbit in an orbital layer defined by an orbital configuration. A communication network is formed among the satellite devices and configured to exchange communications in at least two oppositely circulating directions with respect to an orbital direction of the satellites in the orbital layer.
US10224998B2	Receive decorrelator for a wireless communications system This invention relates to decorrelation of signals in order to improve coding gains of wireless communications. To this end a branch signal processor includes a summer to determine a sum of a first branch signal and a second branch signal to produce a sum signal. A conjugate swapper to determine a conjugate swap of the first branch signal and a conjugate swap of the second branch signal to produce two swapped signals, wherein the conjugate swapper takes an imaginary part of the first branch signal to become a real part and a real part of the first branch signal to become an imaginary part of a new complex signal which new complex signal becomes a first swapped signal, and wherein the conjugate swapper takes an imaginary part of the second branch signal to become a real part and a real part of the second branch signal to become an imaginary part of a second complex signal which second complex signal becomes a second swapped signal. A differencer determines a difference of the first swapped branch signal and the second swapped branch signal to produce a difference signal and a diversity combiner configured to combine the sum signal, the first branch signal, the second branch signal and the difference signal.
US10224996B2	Method for reporting channel state information user equipment, and base station Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for reporting channel state information, including receiving a sounding signal set sent by the base station and determining a reference signal resource configuration index according to the sounding signal set, where the reference signal resource configuration index is used to indicate a reference signal resource configuration in reference signal resource configuration set information. The method also includes receiving a reference signal set sent by the base station, where the reference signal set corresponds to the reference signal resource configuration and determining channel state information according to the reference signal set. Additionally, the method includes sending the reference signal resource configuration index and the channel state information to the base station.
US10224995B1	Network-controlled beamforming using centrally-monitored locationing for beamforming Wi-Fi transmissions to wireless stations from access points independent of beamforming capability of stations A control layer centrally controls in inherently distributed locationing protocols, such as IEEE 802.11ac or IEEE 802.11ad. As a result, network resources control when and how beamforming resources are allotted to stations on a Wi-Fi portion of the network. To do so, the station location information is organically determined for the plurality of stations from the plurality of access points using RSSI measurements at different access points. Beamforming locationing is thus centrally controlled by transmitting the beamforming location information for the specific station from the central locationing sever to a specific access point servicing the specific station from the plurality of access points. The access point can then transmit network packets with beamforming signals to the specific station based on the beamforming location information. Beamforming location is also provided to 2-way beamforming stations.
US10224994B2	System and method of connected mode discontinuous operation in beamformed system A communication method and a system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. A terminal and a base station and communication method of the same are provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information of discontinuous reception (DRX), performing beam measurement before a start of an on duration of the DRX, transmitting, to the BS, beam feedback information according to the beam measurement result, and performing a certain operation after transmitting the beam feedback information.
US10224992B2	Apparatus and method for forming beam in wireless communication system The present invention proposes an apparatus and a method capable of forming MN number of beams by a base station, which supports signal transmission/reception of the macro service area in heterogeneous networks in which a macro service area is formed with the MN number of beams through a two-dimensional arrangement simultaneously considering the horizontal dimension and the vertical dimension and at least one small service is formed in the macro service area. To this end, at least one interference prediction beam formed to transmit signals interfering in transmission signals in at least one small service area from among the signals to be transmitted by the MN number of beams is selected, and each of the MN number of beams is formed in consideration of the inter-cell interference in at least one small service area due to the signals to be transmitted by at least one selected interference prediction beam.
US10224982B1	Wireless power transmitters for transmitting wireless power and tracking whether wireless power receivers are within authorized locations The present disclosure describes a wireless tracking system for tracking the location of living beings or objects. This wireless tracking system may operate by using the wireless power transmission methodology which may include one transmitter and at least one or more receivers, being the transmitter the source of energy and the receiver the device that is desired to charge or power. Receivers and transmitters may include components to communicate between each other. Communication components may utilize wireless protocols which may have a unique identifier. The unique identifier may allow mapping, store and uploading information of devices a database located in public or private cloud-based service. A user may be able to access to information stored in database using user credentials, being able to access from any suitable device and place. Other elements may be adapted to wireless tracking system for obtaining more complete information about living beings or objects.
US10224980B2	Method and apparatus for sensing a condition in a transmission medium of electromagnetic waves Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that facilitates transmitting electromagnetic waves along a surface of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path that facilitates delivery of electric energy to devices, and sensing a condition that is adverse to the electromagnetic waves propagating along the surface of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10224978B1	Clock and data recovery circuit Circuits and methods for performing a clock and data recovery are disclosed. In one example, a clock and data recovery circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a third order digital filter, e.g. a finite state machine (FSM) that includes three accumulators connected in series. Among the three accumulators, a first accumulator receives an input phase code representing a phase timing difference between a data signal and a clock signal at each FSM cycle and accumulates input phase codes for different FSM cycles to generate a first order phase code at each FSM cycle; a second accumulator accumulates the input phase codes and first order phase codes for different FSM cycles to generate a second order phase code at each FSM cycle; and a third accumulator accumulates the input phase codes and second order phase codes for different FSM cycles to generate a third order phase code at each FSM cycle.
US10224977B2	Multi-band device with reduced band loading In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a first radio frequency (RF) signal path and a second RF signal path. The first RF signal path can provide a first RF signal when active and the second RF signal path can provide a second RF signal when active. The second RF signal path can include a matching network with a load impedance configured to prevent a resonance in the second RF signal path due to coupling with the first RF signal path when the first RF signal path is active.
US10224975B2	Portable electronic system with improved wireless communication The application relates to a portable electronic system comprising a first electronic device and an auxiliary device. The first electronic device comprises a first antenna defining a first spatial direction, and a first wireless unit operationally coupled to the first antenna. The auxiliary device comprises a second antenna defining a second spatial direction, the second antenna comprising a multitude of antenna elements, each defining a specific spatial direction, a second wireless unit operationally coupled to the second antenna, a direction detector configured to provide a direction-signal indicating an estimate of a current value of said second spatial direction relative to a reference direction, and a control unit configured to selectively control the connection of said multitude of antenna elements of the second antenna to said second wireless unit based on said direction-signal from the direction detector. Thereby a wireless link between a hearing assistance device and an auxiliary device can be optimized.
US10224972B2	Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for tracking updates and loading data Methods, systems, and media for monitoring updates on a data carrier module include processes of initializing the mobile device to communicate on a telecommunications network, updating data files on the data carrier module, and reinitializing the mobile device to communicate on the telecommunications network. Initializing the mobile device includes storing a list of version numbers for monitored data files and the monitored data files from the data carrier module in a cache. Updating includes updating the version number of a monitored data file when the content of the monitored data file is updated on the data carrier module. Reinitializing the mobile device includes determining whether the version numbers of any monitored data files have changed, copying updated monitored data files from the data carrier module to the cache in response to determining that the version numbers of such data files changed, and loading the monitored data files from the cache.
US10224968B2	Digital up-converter and method therefor A digital up-converter (DUC) includes a cascaded combinator-differentiator (CCD) filter, a low-pass filter, an up-sampler, and a down-sampler. The combinator includes a number of series-connected combinator stages and the differentiator includes a number of series-connected differentiator stages. The CCD filter functions similarly to an interpolator filter, filtering and up-sampling the baseband signal out of the baseband. In one embodiment, the up-sampling factor is twice the number of channels (2N). The disclosed DUC does not require complex mixers or oscillators. Also, the low-pass filter of the DUC does not require a narrow transition band, so the number of coefficients for the low-pass filter is relatively low.
US10224966B2	Parity bit channel assignment for polar coding Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described that support channel selection for parity bits in polar coding techniques. In some cases, an encoder or decoder of a wireless device may assign information bits, frozen bits, and parity check bits to polar channels of an encoder or decoder based on reliability metrics. The information bits may initially be assigned and based on a channel index of the first information bit, the parity check bits may be assigned to channels having higher channel indices than the first information bit. After assignment, the bits may be encoded or decoded.
US10224964B2	Bit interleaver for low-density parity check codeword having length of 16200 and code rate of 3/15 and 16-symbol mapping, and bit interleaving method using same A bit interleaver, a bit-interleaved coded modulation (BICM) device and a bit interleaving method are disclosed herein. The bit interleaver includes a first memory, a processor, and a second memory. The first memory stores a low-density parity check (LDPC) codeword having a length of 16200 and a code rate of 3/15. The processor generates an interleaved codeword by interleaving the LDPC codeword on a bit group basis. The size of the bit group corresponds to a parallel factor of the LDPC codeword. The second memory provides the interleaved codeword to a modulator for 16-symbol mapping.
US10224961B2	Coding method and decoding method An encoding method generates an encoded sequence by performing encoding of a given coding rate according to a predetermined parity check matrix. The predetermined parity check matrix is a first parity check matrix or a second parity check matrix. The first parity check matrix corresponds to a low-density parity check (LDPC) convolutional code using a plurality of parity check polynomials. The second parity check matrix is generated by performing at least one of row permutation and column permutation with respect to the first parity check matrix. An eth parity check polynomial that satisfies zero, of the LDPC convolutional code, is expressible by using a predetermined mathematical formula.
US10224959B2	Techniques for data compression verification Techniques and apparatus for verification of compressed data are described. In one embodiment, for example an apparatus to provide verification of compressed data may include at least one memory and logic, at least a portion of comprised in hardware coupled to the at least one memory, the logic to access compressed data, access compression information associated with the compressed data, decompress at least a portion of the compressed data to generate decompressed data, and verify the compressed data via a comparison of the decompressed data with the compression information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10224957B1	Hash-based data matching enhanced with backward matching for data compression Example data compressors disclosed herein include a hash unit to identify a hash table entry matching a hash index determined for a current position of a data stream undergoing data compression, the hash table entry identifying one or more prior positions of the data stream. Disclosed example data compressors also include a match engine to perform data matching based on the current position of the data stream and the one or more prior positions of the data stream to determine a primary match result and a backward match result for the current position of the data stream. Disclosed example data compressors further include a results evaluator to determine an output match result for the current position of the data stream based on the primary match result for the current position of the data stream and a backward match result determined for a subsequent position of the data stream.
US10224955B2	Data compression and decompression method of demura table, and mura compensation method Disclosed is a data compression method of DeMura Table, a data decompression method of DeMura Table, and a Mura compensation method. The data compression method includes: acquiring image information of a display panel and obtaining an original DeMura Table; performing region extraction based on the original DeMura Table; performing edge detection based on the Mura region obtained from extraction; distributing each sub-pixel element included in the display panel as per results from the region extraction and the edge detection to determine a numerical value of each sampling point in the DeMura Table. The method may save storage costs of DeMura Table.
US10224951B2	Configurable input range for continuous-time sigma delta modulators A continuous-time sigma delta modulator circuit includes a scaling circuit that scales an input analog signal by a selectable range of different scaling factors in order to change a range of signal levels of the input analog signal to a desired range of signal levels in a scaled analog signal prior to conversion of the scaled analog signal to a digital signal. The scaling factor is selected based on the range of signal levels of the input analog signal in order to provide signal levels of the scaled signal within a desired range. The scaling circuit maintains current flow of the input analog signal at a substantially constant level regardless of the different scaling factors that are used to scale the input analog signal.
US10224950B2	Digital to analogue conversion Devices and methods for digital to analog conversion (DAC) are provided, in which the analog outputs of an even number of digital to analog converters are combined. The individual converters operate on the same data but there is a relative time delay between the input digital signal received by one or more of the converters and the input digital signal received by other of the converters, wherein the delay is a fraction of the data sample period. Moreover, the data signal fed to half of the converters has an inverse relationship with the data signal fed to the other half of the converters and their analog outputs are subtracted. Dither and filtering techniques may also be employed.
US10224949B1	Shared cycle LSB generation for an array of successive approximation analog-to-digital converters An example apparatus for converting a plurality of analog signals to a plurality of digital signals includes: a plurality of successive approximation (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) each including a first input configured to receive a respective one of the plurality of analog signals, a second input configured to receive a reference signal, and an output configured to provide a respective one of the plurality of digital signals; and a shared cycle LSB generator coupled to the plurality of SAR ADCs and configured to provide the reference signal shared by the plurality of SAR ADCs.
US10224947B2	Digital-to-analog conversion circuit Embodiments of the present invention provide a digital-to-analog conversion circuit, where the digital-to-analog conversion circuit includes a signal amplitude detector and a digital-to-analog converter. When the signal amplitude detector detects a low signal amplitude, a first current module in the digital-to-analog converter operates normally and a second current module in the digital-to-analog converter stops operating. In addition, when stopping operating, the second current module is in a state of a third bias voltage and a fourth bias voltage that are generated by a second bias circuit. When the amplitude detector detects a high signal amplitude subsequently, the second current module resumes normal operation. After operating normally, the second current module switches back to a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage that are generated by a first bias circuit. This reduces a nonlinearity problem caused before a second current module resumes normal operation.
US10224946B2	Digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with enhanced dynamic element matching (DEM) and calibration Systems and methods are provided for managing dynamic element matching (DEM) in digital-to-analog converters (DACs). One or more parameters associated with the DAC and/or a signal being converted via the DAC; and based on the one or more parameters, conditions affecting dynamic element matching in the DAC may be assessed. Based on the assessing of the conditions, one or more adjustments may be determined and dynamically applied to the dynamic element matching in the DAC.
US10224939B2	Circuit device, physical quantity measurement device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle A circuit device includes a DLL circuit and an adjustment circuit. The DLL circuit has a plurality of delay elements, and a first clock signal generated using a first resonator and having a first clock frequency is input to the DLL circuit. Delayed clock signals from the delay elements of the DLL circuit, and a second clock signal generated using a second resonator and having a second clock frequency lower than the first clock frequency are input to the adjustment circuit, and the adjustment circuit adjusts delay amounts of the delay elements of the DLL circuit using a frequency difference between the first clock frequency and the second clock frequency.
US10224933B2	Dynamic decode circuit with active glitch control A dynamic decode circuit for decoding a plurality of input signals comprises a decoder that decodes the plurality of input signals to produce a result at a first node, the result is propagated to a second node while an evaluation clock is active by a pair of serially connected transistors consisting of a transistor receiving an evaluation clock at its gate and a transistor receiving the first node at its gate, the interconnection of the pair of serially connected transistors is precharged when the evaluation clock is inactive to provide a delay between the end of the active evaluation clock and the beginning of the precharge.
US10224932B2	High speed level translator A high speed VPP level translator circuit using thin-oxide field effect transistors (FETs) and methods of use are disclosed. The level translator includes a resistor divider and a one-shot circuit in parallel with the resistor divider. The one-shot circuit conducts to assist a transition from a first state to a second state, and is non-conducting during the transition from the second state to the first state.
US10224928B1	On-die impedance calibration Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for on-die impedance calibration. A calibration circuit determines a digital compensation value for an input/output driver. A calibration adjustment circuit provides a digital compensation value to a calibration circuit to produce an analog output corresponding to the digital compensation value. A feedback circuit provides an analog output as feedback to a calibration circuit to produce an analog compensation value.
US10224927B2	Input device, terminal device, and computer-readable recording medium An input device, includes: a sensor that outputs an output value dependent on a pressing force; a determination unit that determines that a contacted place is pressed, based on the output value output from the sensor, in a case where a first output value is detected and subsequently a third output value that is less than the first output value and greater than a second output value that is less than the first output value is detected through the second output value; and an output unit that outputs a result determined by the determination unit.
US10224912B2	Half bridge circuit, method of operating a half bridge circuit and a half bridge circuit package A half bridge circuit includes an input connection configured to supply an electric input, an output connection configured to supply an electric output to a load to be connected to the output connection, a switch and a diode arranged between the input connection and the output connection and a voltage limiting inductance arranged in series between the switch and the diode. The voltage limiting inductance is configured to limit, upon switching the switch, a maximum voltage across the switch to below a breakdown voltage of the switch. A corresponding method of operating the half bridge circuit and package are also described.
US10224909B1	Error elimination amplifier and motor control circuit using the same Disclosed are an error elimination amplifier and a motor control circuit using the same. The error elimination amplifier includes an amplification circuit, a switching circuit, a comparison circuit, an output comparator and a calibration circuit. The comparison circuit includes a first comparator and a second comparator. The switching circuit and the first input end of the output comparator are electrically connected to a signal output end of the amplification circuit. A second input end of the output comparator is coupled to a reference voltage. The calibration circuit is electrically connected to the amplification circuit. An offset of the amplifier is eliminated through the amplification circuit, the switching circuit and the calibration circuit.
US10224899B2	High-frequency filter, front-end circuit, and communication device A high-frequency filter includes a variable frequency filter, a fixed frequency filter, and switches. The variable frequency filter varies a passband in association with frequencies used in multiple communication band. The fixed frequency filter fixes a passband in association with a frequency used in a specific communication band different from the multiple communication bands. The switches are used to switch connection configuration to the variable frequency filter or the fixed frequency filter.
US10224895B2	Transmission line transformers A transmission line transformer having a time delay network having a signal terminal and a pair of output terminals connected to the signal terminal through a corresponding one of a pair of time delay elements, the delay line elements having different time delays. A pair of transmission lines, each one having a pair of electrically coupled elements. A first one of the elements in one of the transmission lines has a first end connected to one of the pair of output terminals. A second one of the elements in such one of the transmission lines has a second end connected to a second end of one of the pair of elements in the other one of the transmission lines. The first one of the pair of elements in the other one of the pair of transmission lines is coupled to a second one of the pair of output terminals.
US10224894B2	Metadata for ducking control An audio encoding device and an audio decoding device are described herein. The audio encoding device may examine a set of audio channels/channel groups representing a piece of sound program content and produce a set of ducking values to associate with one of the channels/channel groups. During playback of the piece of sound program content, the ducking values may be applied to all other channels/channel groups. Application of these ducking values may cause (1) the reduction in dynamic range of ducked channels/channel groups and/or (2) movement of channels/channel groups in the sound field. This ducking may improve intelligibility of audio in the non-ducked channel/channel group. For instance, a narration channel/channel group may be more clearly heard by listeners through the use of selective ducking of other channels/channel groups during playback.
US10224892B2	Power amplification module Provided is a power amplification module that includes: a first transistor, a first signal being inputted to a base thereof; a second transistor, the first signal being inputted to a base thereof and a collector thereof being connected to a collector of the first transistor; a first resistor, a first bias current being supplied to one end thereof and another end thereof being connected to the base of the first transistor; a second resistor, one end thereof being connected to the one end of the first resistor and another end thereof being connected to the base of the second transistor; and a third resistor, a second bias current being supplied to one end thereof and another end thereof being connected to the base of the second transistor.
US10224890B1	Application controlled variable audio ear plugs Systems, methods, and computer hardware storage media are provided for variably reducing, but not eliminating, the ambient volume that reaches the eardrum in a particular setting. One or more noise signatures of sound from an ambient environment are received at a mobile device. A profile associated with a suppression or amplification control of the one or more noise signatures of sound from the ambient environment are created and stored at the mobile device. The suppression or amplification control is communicated from the mobile device to a set of variable audio ear plugs. The suppression control causes the variable audio ear plugs to variably reduce, but not eliminate, the sound from the ambient environment and the amplification control does not amplify sound from any source other than the ambient environment.
US10224889B2	Audio output circuit and audio device The present disclosure discloses an audio output circuit including an audio power amplifier, a mute control circuit and a microcontroller, the audio power amplifier includes a power input terminal, a mute control terminal and an audio signal output terminal, the power input terminal is used to connect a power supply to obtain a power supply voltage, the mute control terminal is connected with the microcontroller through the mute control circuit and is grounded by a pull-down resistor, the audio signal output terminal is used to output an audio signal, the mute control circuit is also connected to the power supply for disconnecting the mute control terminal from the microcontroller when the power supply voltage is less than a preset voltage. The present disclosure also provides an audio device. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to effectively prevent the POP sound of the speaker of the audio device.
US10224888B1	Parameter control device and control method A parameter control device that controls an increase/decrease in parameter value based on pulses generated in response from an operator, includes a current value storage unit storing a current value of a parameter value in response to the operator, a measurement time setting unit setting a measurement time in which the number of generated pulses is measured from a current value of the parameter value and a maximum value or a minimum value that the parameter value can take, a threshold setting unit respectively setting thresholds of the number of generated pulses to the maximum value side or the minimum value side, a counting unit counting the number of generated pulses of the operator within the measurement time, a comparison unit comparing the counted number of generated pulses and the thresholds, and an output determination unit determining a parameter value to be output from the operator based on the comparison.
US10224884B2	Circuit for and method of implementing a multifunction output generator A circuit for implementing a multifunction output generator is described. The circuit comprises an amplifier circuit having a first input and a second input; a voltage generator coupled at a first node to a first input of the amplifier circuit; a controllable current source configured to provide a variable current to the first node; and a switching circuit enabling the operation of the amplifier circuit in a first mode for sensing a temperature and a second mode for providing a reference voltage. A method of implementing a multifunction output generator is described.
US10224882B2	Harmonically tuned load modulated amplifier An embodiment provides an amplifier system with multiple amplification paths connected to a combiner for combination of signals amplified in the amplification paths, each amplification path comprising an amplifier and a matching network provided between the amplifier and the combiner, wherein the individual amplifiers can interact through the combiner, causing an active load-pull effect. The matching networks of the paths comprise harmonic terminations configured to one or more of reduce an overlap between the voltage and current waveforms within the amplifier connected to the matching network and improve the linearity of one or more of the amplifiers.
US10224881B2	Systems and methods using digital predistortion to linearize radio transmitter operation A method of linearizing a relationship between a signal to an amplifier and an output signal from the amplifier includes applying an inverse of a transfer function of the amplifier to the signal prior to presenting the signal as the amplifier input. The inverse transfer function is represented by a polynomial defined by a set of coefficients. The transmitter output signal is measured by the idle receiver in a time division duplex system. The output signal is filtered to isolate intermodulation products of a selected order and the peak power of the isolated intermodulation products is then estimated. An adaptive algorithm is applied in response to the estimate of the peak power to update the set of coefficients of the polynomial representing the inverse of the transfer function of the amplifier.
US10224879B1	Peak detector and operational amplifier circuit therein A peak detector utilizes two choppers to cancel offset voltage of a transconductance amplifier, so the influence of the offset voltage is preventable and the peak detection accuracy of the peak detector can be improved significantly.
US10224878B2	Power amplification device A power amplification device, including a first amplification branch, a second amplification branch, a harmonic injection circuit, and a first output matching circuit. A first amplifier in the first amplification branch supports a first frequency. A second amplifier in the second amplification branch supports the first frequency and a second frequency, and the second amplifier is turned off for a signal of the first frequency that has a power value lower than an enabling threshold. The harmonic injection circuit injects a signal of the second frequency that is input from a second input terminal (I2) to a signal of the first frequency that is input from a first input terminal (I1) to obtain a signal of the first frequency that has undergone harmonic injection.
US10224877B2	Closed-loop digital compensation scheme Resistor mismatch may be digitally compensated based on a known resistor mismatch, power supply information, and/or other operating parameters of the amplifier. The digital compensation may be applied to the digital input signal before conversion for processing and amplification in the analog domain. An amplifier with digital compensation for resistor mismatch may be used in a class-D amplifier with a closed loop and feedforward feedback. A class-D or other amplifier with digital compensation may be integrated with electronic devices such as mobile phones.
US10224875B2	Micromechanical frequency divider A micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) frequency divider apparatus having one or more MEMS resonators on a substrate is presented. A first oscillator frequency, as an approximate multiple of the parametric oscillation frequency, is capacitively coupled from a very closely-spaced electrode (e.g., 40 nm) to a resonant structure of the first oscillator, thus inducing mechanical oscillation. This mechanical oscillation can be coupled through additional MEMS resonators on the substrate. The mechanical resonance is then converted, in at least one of the MEMS resonators, by capacitive coupling back to an electrical signal which is a division of the first oscillation frequency. Output may be generated as a single ended output, or in response to a differential signal between two output electrodes.
US10224872B2	Phase noise reduction in voltage controlled oscillators A voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a method of designing a voltage controlled oscillator, and a design structure comprising a semiconductor substrate including a voltage controlled oscillator are disclosed. In one embodiment, the VCO comprises an LC tank circuit for generating an oscillator output at an oscillator frequency, and an oscillator core including cross-coupled semiconductor devices to provide feedback to the tank circuit. The VCO further comprises a supply node, a tail node, and a noise by-pass circuit connected to the supply and tail nodes, in parallel with the tank circuit and the oscillator core. The by-pass circuit forms a low-impedance path at a frequency approximately twice the oscillator frequency to at least partially immunize the oscillator core from external noise and to reduce noise contribution from the cross-coupled semiconductor devices.
US10224870B2	Bracket mounting assembly for securing junction boxes to solar panel arrays In various representative aspects, an assembly for connecting and electrically bonding electronic equipment to solar panel frames is provided. The present invention relates generally to an assembly for supporting junction box structures used in a solar panel frame array. More specifically, the apparatus comprises an adjustable bracket assembly that can mount most sizes and shapes of junction boxes that are then secured virtually to any solar panel frame while being electrically bonded by way of a surface layer penetrating means.
US10224866B2	Leveler for solar module array A leveler for a solar module can include a base, a rotatable adjuster, and a follower. The rotatable adjuster can be mounted to the base with a swaging process, or other techniques. The follower can be embedded within a coupler configured to be connectable to solar modules. Turning the rotatable height adjuster changes the relative spacing between the solar module and the base.
US10224857B2	Motor controller Provided is a motor controller that controls a motor system including: a power converter, a smoothing capacitor, a three-phase AC motor, and a current sensor. The motor controller is provided with an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit specifies a target phase that is a phase of a second phase voltage command signal having a largest difference from a first phase voltage command signal having a signal level that is neither a maximum nor a minimum signal level, based on three phase voltage command signals generated from the detection value of the current sensor, and corrects the detection value of the current sensor, which detects the phase current of the target phase, such that a terminal voltage of the smoothing capacitor matches the desired voltage value.
US10224856B2	Electrical drive system and energy storage apparatus therefor A drive system may have at least one electric motor which can be fed via power electronics which can be connected via a DC circuit to a voltage source and an energy storage apparatus for buffering energy fed back from the electric motor. An energy storage apparatus for such a drive system may include at least one electrical storage block, a bidirectional DC/DC converter for connecting the named DC voltage circuit to the internal voltage circuit of the storage block and a control unit for controlling the DC/DC converter. The control unit may include output and feed control means for controlling the DC/DC converter. The DC/DC converter, the storage block and the control unit may be combined into an energy storage unit having a common housing in which the named components are received and at whose outer side two connections are provided for connecting to the DC voltage circuit.
US10224854B2	Active damping of synchronous grid oscillations using partial power converter Methods and systems are provided to damp oscillations in a synchronous alternating current (AC) grid. Current may be received from the synchronous AC grid through a phase of an n-phase supply line. The current received from the synchronous AC grid is supplied to a phase of the synchronous motor. A sub-harmonic oscillation may be detected in the current received from the synchronous AC grid. The sub-harmonic oscillation may be damped by: shunting a portion of the current away from the phase of the synchronous motor during a first time period in an upper-half of the sub-harmonic oscillation, and/or supplying compensation current from a partial power converter to the phase of the synchronous motor during a second time period in a lower-half of the sub-harmonic oscillation.
US10224852B2	Control device of induction motor The control device of an induction motor includes a current command maximum value setting portion that sets an excitation current command maximum value and a torque current command maximum value. The current command maximum value setting portion changes, when the induction motor is accelerated/decelerated, the excitation current command maximum value based on which one of first and second excitation current command maximum values is lower, and changes the torque current command maximum value based on the excitation current command maximum value and an allowable maximum current value of a drive portion. The first excitation current command maximum value is based on the allowable maximum current value, and the second excitation current command maximum value is based on a power supply voltage of the drive portion, a current frequency of the drive current and an excitation inductance of the induction motor.
US10224850B2	Operating method of synchronous machine An operating method of a synchronous machine is provided, the operating method including: generating an MTPA (Maximum Torque Per Ampere) curve, based on a current limiting circle depending on a rated current of an inverter or a motor and a torque curve depending on a torque command; generating a voltage limiting ellipse, based on a DC-link voltage; displaying, on an X-Y plane, the current limiting circle, the torque curve, the MTPA curve, and the voltage limiting ellipse; and computing a d-axis current and a q-axis current, based on an intersection point between at least two of the current limiting circle, the torque curve, the MTPA curve, and the voltage limiting ellipse, displayed on the X-Y plane.
US10224846B2	Sheet conveying apparatus and image forming apparatus A sheet conveying apparatus for conveying a sheet includes a conveyance roller, a motor, a phase determiner, and a controller. The phase determiner determines a rotor rotation phase of the motor that drives the conveyance roller to convey the sheet. The controller controls so that a value of a rotor torque current component becomes a target value of the torque current component and controls so that an excitation current component value becomes a target value of the excitation current component, and controls to reduce a deviation between a command phase and the determined rotation phase. The controller controls so that a magnetic flux penetrating through a winding is weaker than a magnetic flux of the rotor, and so that a magnetic flux penetrating through the winding in a second period is stronger than the magnetic flux penetrating through the winding in the first period.
US10224845B2	Method for determining an operational readiness state of an electric motor A method is provided for determining an operational readiness state of an electric motor, a pump motor for pumping an operating fluid, for example, an aqueous urea solution, in a vehicle. The method includes applying an electric drive voltage to the electric motor according to a prescribed drive voltage curve in order to drive a rotor of the electric motor to rotate through a prescribed angle of rotation, detecting a response behavior of the electric motor, and determining the state of the electric motor based on the results determined in step b).
US10224844B2	Motor driving controller A motor driving controller comprising a motor driver applying voltage to each phase of a motor and driving the motor, a rotary position detection circuit detecting a rotary position of a rotor and generating rotary position information, and a control part outputting, to the motor driver, a driving control signal to execute control based on the detected rotary position information, so that an overlap energization operation at a time of energization switching is repeated in a predetermined pattern.
US10224841B2	Motor control system and method for compensating disturbance A motor control system is provided for compensating disturbance. The system includes a controller that supplies an input voltage to a motor based on the difference between a current command value to a motor and an actual current of the motor. A motor modeling part outputs a motor output current based on an input voltage from the controller and a disturbance observation part is formed as a reverse model of the motor modeling part to remove current noise using a current differentiation filtering method. Additionally, a disturbance compensation amount determination part determines a disturbance compensation amount based on the disturbance estimated by the disturbance observation part.
US10224839B2	Power switch for motorized pool vacuum A smart power switch for a swimming pool vacuum having a battery powered motor for driving a propeller within a vacuum head to create thrust and suction; the power switch including a microprocessor combined with two integrated motor-driver integrated circuits for driving the motor at different speeds and for detecting and clearing motor jams. Red, green and blue LED indicators notify the user of the state of the motor and motor driver. The microprocessor detects spikes in motor current to determine a motor jam and operates the motor driver to control the motor, including stopping and reversing the motor, to clear an obstruction in the vacuum head.
US10224834B2	Power inverter and power inverting method A power inverter includes a plurality of bridge arms and a plurality of switching circuits. The bridge arms are electrically coupled to a first and a second dc node and a neutral point node, and respectively coupled to a corresponding one of a plurality of ac output nodes to provide an ac output voltage and output current via the ac output node. The switching circuits are respectively coupled between a corresponding one of the ac output nodes and the neutral point node. Each of the switching circuits includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a first diode and a second diode. The first and the second transistors are coupled in series to each other. The first and the second diodes are electrically coupled in inverse-parallel to the first and the second transistors respectively.
US10224828B1	DC-DC power converters and methods of operating DC-DC power converters A DC-DC power converter includes an input, an output, a transformer, a primary field-effect transistor (FET), and a synchronous rectifier. The synchronous rectifier includes a drain that experiences multiple resonant voltage valleys during each dead-time period of the converter. The converter further includes a synchronous rectifier drive circuit configured to turn on and turn off the synchronous rectifier, and a primary control circuit. The primary control circuit is configured to operate the primary FET in a valley skipping mode, and to transmit a drive signal to the synchronous rectifier drive circuit to turn on the synchronous rectifier during a specified one of the multiple resonant voltage valleys to generate a negative current through the synchronous rectifier. Methods of operating a DC-DC power converter are also disclosed.
US10224825B2	Primary side feedback control for a resonant converter with a transformer model A power converter includes a primary-side switching circuit, a resonant circuit, a transformer including primary and secondary windings, a secondary-side rectifying circuit, voltage and current sensing circuits, and a processing circuit. The primary-side switching circuit controls switches to be on or off based on a pulse signal to convert an input voltage to a square wave signal. The resonant circuit is coupled to the primary-side switching circuit and receives the square wave signal to provide a primary-side current. The primary winding is coupled to the resonant circuit. The secondary-side rectifying circuit is coupled to the secondary winding and rectifies the secondary ac signal output by the secondary winding and outputs an output voltage. The voltage and current sensing circuits detect the voltage and current of the primary winding and output voltage and current sensing signals. The processing circuit outputs the pulse signal according to the voltage and current sensing signals.
US10224820B2	Method and apparatus for digital control of a switching regulator A circuit for regulating an output level of a power converter includes an adjustment circuit to be coupled to a receive a feedback signal representative of an output level of the power converter. The adjustment circuit is coupled to generate a comparison result signal. A control circuit is coupled to receive the comparison result signal and an oscillating signal. A switch including a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal is coupled to the control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to generate a control signal to control switching of the switch. The switch is operable to couple or decouple the first terminal and the second terminal in response to the control signal received at the control terminal. The control signal is responsive to the oscillating signal and to a change in the comparison result signal.
US10224818B2	Power conversion apparatus and control method for power conversion apparatus Provided are a control unit having a first control state in which a first switching element and a second switching element of one series circuit are turned on and a second control state to which the first control state shifts and in which a first switching element of another series circuit and the second switching element of the one series circuit are turned on, and executing control so as to apply predetermined voltage to the other side of a transformer during a predetermined time period during the first control state before shifting to the second control state.
US10224815B2	Voltage converter having a step-up and step-down adjustment circuit A voltage converter performs a step-up operation and step-down operation in parallel. The step-up operation raises an input voltage to a voltage that is N (N≥1) times the input voltage. The step-down operation lowers the input voltage to a voltage that is M (0≤M≤1) times the input voltage. The voltage converter outputs the voltage transformed through the step-up operation and the step-down operation from output terminals. A current detection circuit detects an output current. A step-up adjustment circuit decreases N if the output current is higher than a reference current, and increases N if the output current is lower than the reference current. A step-down adjustment circuit decreases M if the output current is higher than a reference current, and increases M if the output current is lower than the reference current. The reference current is higher than the reference current.
US10224812B1	Sensing network mismatch compensation for switching voltage regulator with input voltage and current sensing A voltage regulator includes a power stage configured to produce an output voltage from an input voltage at an input voltage terminal, a shunt resistor connected in series between the input voltage terminal and the power stage, a first level shifting resistor connected in series between a first terminal of the shunt resistor and a first sense pin of the controller, and a second level shifting resistor connected in series between a second terminal of the shunt resistor and a second sense pin of the controller. The input current of the regulator is sensed as a function of the voltage across the shunt resistor, as shifted down by the level shifting resistors and measured across the sense pins. The input voltage of the regulator is sensed as a function of the current flowing through either one of the level shifting resistors, as measured at one of the sense pins.
US10224810B2	High speed, efficient SiC power module A power converter module includes a baseplate, a substrate on the baseplate, one or more silicon carbide switching components on the substrate, and a housing over the baseplate, the substrate, and the one or more silicon carbide switching components. The housing has a footprint less than 25 cm2. Including a baseplate in a power converter module with a footprint less than 25 cm2 runs counter to accepted design principles for silicon and silicon carbide-based power converter modules, but may improve performance of the power converter module and/or decrease the cost of the power converter module.
US10224809B1	Totem pole PFC converter and system A totem pole power factor correction (PFC) converter is disclosed. The totem pole PFC converter includes a first transistor having a first current terminal coupled to a first node, a first control terminal, and a second current terminal. Also included is a second transistor having a third current terminal coupled to the second current terminal at a second node, a second control terminal, and a fourth current terminal coupled to a third node. A first rectifier is coupled to the first node and a first current sense resistor is coupled between the first rectifier and a fourth node. A second rectifier is coupled to the third node and a second current sense resistor coupled between the second rectifier and the fourth node. A current sense voltage for an analog controller is generated by current alternately flowing through the first current sense resistor and the second current sense resistor.
US10224805B1	Switched-mode ripple optimization Methods and apparatus relate to a minimizing ripple in a polyphase power supply by modulating a voltage pre-regulator output setpoint to minimize ripple performance. In an illustrative example, the modulation may include incrementally adjusting the pre-regulator output setpoint supplied, for example, to a multiphase controller. Some examples may reverse the increment direction in response to determining that the prior incremental adjustment yielded increased ripple. Each phase of the polyphase power supply may include a buck-derived switch-mode power supply connected, for example, to a common output node. Various embodiments may advantageously maximize reduce bulk capacitance requirements for active loads by dynamically seeking a duty cycle of the polyphase power supply with substantially minimal ripple.
US10224803B1	Switched capacitor converter with compensation inductor Circuits and methods are provided for soft switching within a switched-capacitor DC/DC converter, so as to reduce switching losses and improve efficiency. This is accomplished, in preferred converters, by coupling a compensation inductor between one half-bridge of an output rectifier and another half-bridge of the output rectifier. The compensation inductor functions to transfer charge from or to the capacitance of switches within the converter while the switches are off, such that the voltage across each switch is reduced to zero before that switch is turned on. This provides zero-voltage switching (ZVS) and its associated high efficiency. The efficiency associated with the ZVS makes ideal zero-current switching (ZCS) less important, such that high-precision capacitors and inductors forming the resonant tanks required by near-ideal ZCS are not required. The resultant circuits are physically smaller and less expensive than other converters that require near-ideal ZCS, but achieve similar or better efficiency.
US10224800B2	Load current detection techniques for discontinuous conduction mode Techniques for indicating a load level of a DC-DC switching converter are provided. IN an example, a method for real-time load current detection for a switching converter using a discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) of operation can include generating a minimum DCM current threshold based on an reference current source and a duty cycle of the switching converter, receiving a representation of inductor charge current from power switch of the switching converter at a comparator, comparing the representation to the DCM current threshold, and controlling the power switch using a discontinuous conduction mode of the switching converter when a peak of the representation exceeds the minimum DCM current threshold.
US10224797B2	Linear motor A linear motor includes a field core, a stator that includes a plurality of permanent magnets disposed on the field core, and an armature core that includes an armature winding wire, the armature core being disposed via a magnetic void with the permanent magnets. Assuming that a length of the armature core in a traveling direction of the linear motor is Lc, a pitch of the permanent magnets is τp, and N is a natural number, the length Lc of the armature core is specified by (N×τp−0.2×τp)≤Lc≤(N×τp+0.2×τp).
US10224795B2	Motor assembly A motor assembly with an electric motor has a stator assembly and a motor housing, and an electronics housing. The electronics housing has a housing shell, formed as a motor carrier, for fastening the motor housing. The motor housing has a first, pot-shaped housing half. The first housing half is fastened by screw fastening action to the motor carrier such that the first housing half presses the electric motor against the motor carrier by way of a housing deformation.
US10224794B2	Resistance module for increasing runup torque for a rotor of an electric machine comprising a rotor winding A resistance module for increasing a runup torque for a rotor of an electric machine with a rotor winding includes first and second connection points, a plurality of electrically-conductive layers electrically connected to the first and second connection points. Each of the layers surrounds an axis of the resistance module at least partially in a circumferential direction and has a layer start point and a layer end point. At least one of the layers is configured in an undulating shape in the circumferential direction, with undulations projecting radially outwards. A first insulating layer is disposed between neighboring ones of the layers. The layer end point of one of the layers is electrically connected at a tie point to the layer start point of a neighboring one of the layers. At least one fastening element is disposed between two neighboring undulations in the circumferential direction and radially outside of the layers.
US10224788B2	Motor, rotation period detection method thereof, motor rotation period detection sensor assembly, and power generator A motor which is capable of realizing further space saving and cost reduction. A cylindrical outer rotor 11 is rotatable around a central axis CL thereof. A plurality of magnets 13 are arranged at equal intervals on an inner circumferential surface of the outer rotor 11. Three Hall elements 15 to 17 are arranged to oppose the respective magnets 13 and detect switching of magnetic poles caused by movement of the respective magnets 13 passing through each vicinity of the Hall elements 15 to 17 when the outer rotor 11 rotates. The Hall element 17 is comprised of a linear Hall element that outputs a linear signal representing a linear change of a magnetic flux density caused by movement of the respective magnets 13. One of the respective magnets 13 is arranged offset along the central axis CL as compared to the other magnets 13.
US10224786B2	Cooling of axial flux motors—centrifugal The present invention provides an axial flux motor (10) having: a rotor (20) having a radially extending portion (20r) and an axially extending portion (20c) having a first side (20a) and a second side (20b); a stator (22) having an inner aperture (30), a front wall (34) having a first side (34s) and a second side (34i) and being axially spaced from the first side (20a) of the rotor (20) by a gap (38), a bearing member (32) within the inner aperture (30) of the stator (22) and supporting the axially extending portion (20c) of the rotor (20); a casing (40) having an axially and circumferentially extending outer portion (48) surrounding said rotor (20) and having an inner surface (43); a cover plate (42) having an inner face (42i) confronting and being spaced from said second side (20b) of said rotor (20); a containment chamber (26) including said second side (34i), and said inner face (42i) of said cover plate (42) and having a top portion (45); a sump (50) within the containment chamber (26); and one or more first flow diverters (60) on the inner surface (43) of casing (40) to direct liquid towards said first and/or second inner side faces (34i, 42i).
US10224782B2	Motor with lead wires coupled to coil ends A motor includes a shaft, a rotor disposed at the shaft, a stator disposed on an outer side of the rotor, a busbar disposed on the stator, a housing accommodating the rotor, the stator, and the busbar, and having an opening formed on one side thereof, and a bracket disposed on a side of the opening of the housing. The busbar includes a busbar body, a reinforcing rib disposed to protrude from an upper surface of the busbar body, and a weight groove formed in a lower surface of the busbar body.
US10224775B2	Linear motor having coils through which a three-phase alternating current passes A linear motor that displaces a tubular body and a rod relative to each other in an axial direction includes teeth arranged in the axial direction so as to project from an inner peripheral surface of the tubular body, slots formed between adjacent teeth, coils disposed in the slots, and permanent magnets provided in the rod and arranged in the axial direction. The coils are constituted by one or more first phase coils, one or more second phase coils, and one or more third phase coils. The first, second, and third phase coils are provided in the axial direction such that the first phase coil and the second phase coil are disposed at respective ends the tubular body. A total number of coil windings of the third phase coils is set to be smaller than a total number of coil windings of the first phase coils and a total number of coil windings of the second phase coils.
US10224773B2	Rotor segment and rotor of an electric machine A rotor segment of a rotor of a rotating electrical machine includes at least one stack of segment laminations. The stack is configured as a cylinder having a basal surface in perpendicular relationship to a rotor axis of the rotor and a lateral surface in perpendicular relationship to the basal surface. The segment laminations are identical in shape and stacked in a direction that is parallel to the rotor axis. The basal surface has a basal surface contour which includes a first contour section on a side of the rotor axis, a second contour section opposite to the first contour section, and two third contour sections. Each third contour section connects an end of the first contour section to an end of the second contour section, with the first contour section having at least one essentially dome-shaped support section.
US10224772B2	Rotor of an electric motor and method for producing the rotor A rotor of an electric motor includes a laminated armature core, a shaft, magnets arranged on the circumference of the laminated armature core, and a plastic overmold. The laminated armature core has at least one associated channel on the circumference of the laminated armature core for each magnet. The channels extend parallel to the shaft, and the laminated armature core has radially oriented webs on the circumference. The webs (8) extend parallel to the shaft and a magnet (9) is arranged between each pair of webs (8), and the plastic overmold (4) encloses the laminated armature core (1) and the magnets (3) to such an extent that only the radial outer face of the magnets (3) is free of plastic (4).
US10224771B2	Rotor, synchronous machine and hybrid drive Circulating currents are suppressed and thermal losses are reduced in a three-phase permanent-magnet-excited synchronous machine in a delta circuit. The machine has a stator in which, during operation, a voltage is induced by way of a magnetic field generated by magnetic poles of a rotor. A field strength of the magnetic field has, along a circumferential coordinate of the rotor, a profile formed from superimposition of a sinusoidal basic function and of sinusoidal harmonics of the basic function. Groove recesses and/or cavities are located in and/or under a circumferential face of the rotor that face the stator and follow an axial extent of the pole pitch of the rotor in their longitudinal extent and extend transversely with respect to the longitudinal extent along the circumferential coordinate in the region of the maximum values of at least the third harmonic and outside the maximum values of the basic function.
US10224770B2	Rotor assembly and motor including the same The present invention relates to a rotor assembly including a yoke member having a cylindrical shape with a hole through which a rotating shaft passes, a plurality of magnet groups attached to an outer circumferential surface of the yoke member, and a first molding unit formed along an inner circumferential surface of the yoke member and having an arrangement hole of the rotating shaft at a center part thereof.
US10224766B2	Stator with core including divided cores, and electric motor Provided is a stator that can easily attach a coil to a tooth and that can reduce concentration of stress generated in the core during operation. The stator includes a plurality of divided cores aligned in a circumferential direction. Each divided core includes a tooth, and a divided back yoke extending from an end on a radially outside of the tooth to a first circumferential side. A radial width of the divided back yoke is smaller than or equal to a circumferential width of the tooth. A connecting surface is arranged at an end on a second circumferential side of the divided yoke, the connecting surface being a plane or a convex surface extending from a side surface on the second circumferential side of the tooth to an outer circumferential surface of the divided back yoke.
US10224760B2	System and method for remote powering at least one sensor or actuator from a RF power source A system for remote powering at least one sensor or actuator from a RF power source including a flexible waveguide having a flexible dielectric layer and at least one flexible conductive layer connected to the flexible dielectric layer. The at least one sensor or actuator is arranged to be coupled to the flexible waveguide and the RF power source is arranged to be wirelessly coupled to the flexible waveguide and to generate RF power. The flexible waveguide guides the propagation of the RF power from the RF power source to the sensor or actuator in order to wirelessly power the sensor or actuator.
US10224749B2	Method and apparatus for wireless power transmission for efficent power distribution A wireless power transmission apparatus includes a communicator configured to receive information associated with a reference power of a wireless power reception apparatus and information associated with a power measured at an input terminal of a direct current-to-direct current (DC/DC) converter of the wireless power reception apparatus, a controller configured to control an output power based on the information associated with the reference power and the information associated with the power measured, and a source resonator configured to transmit the output power to the wireless power reception apparatus by resonating with a target resonator.
US10224748B2	Power transmitting device, power receiving device, and wireless power transmitting system According to one embodiment, there is provided a power transmitting device including: a power supply, a resonator, an adjuster and a controller. The power supply supplies AC power. The resonator includes a magnetic core and a coil wound around the magnetic core, the resonator wirelessly transmitting the AC power supplied from the power supply to a different resonator arranged to be opposed to the resonator. The adjuster relatively moves the coil and the magnetic core along a longitudinal direction of the coil. The controller controls the adjuster based on a value of current flowing in the resonator to adjust relative positions of the magnetic core and the coil.
US10224746B2	Inductive wireless charging system A charger, especially a chargeable mobile device for an inductive wireless charging system, is provided which includes at least one coil having a core part formed of a soft magnetic material, wherein the coil is embedded in a polymer bonded soft magnetic material.
US10224738B2	Energy harvesting system with indirect power transmission and power distribution method A power distribution method is applied to control an energy harvesting system that includes an ambient energy source, an energy storage, a power converting circuit and a control unit. With the power distribution method, the excess power generated by the ambient energy source is transmitted to charge the energy storage through an indirect power flowing path, or the load side is powered by the energy storage through another indirect power flowing path. Therefore, the number of inductor switches of the power converting circuit can be reduced to mitigate switching loss and ensure higher power conversion efficiency.
US10224737B2	Charging device and method, power adapter and terminal The present disclosure discloses a charging device, a charging method, a power adapter and a terminal. The charging device includes a charging receiving terminal, a voltage adjusting circuit and a central control module. The charging receiving terminal is configured to receive an alternating current. The voltage adjusting circuit includes a first rectifier, a switch unit, a transformer and a second rectifier. The first rectifier is configured to rectify the alternating current and output a first voltage. The switch unit is configured to modulate the first voltage to output a modulated first voltage. The transformer is configured to output a second voltage according to the modulated first voltage. The second rectifier is configured to rectify the second voltage to output a third voltage. The voltage adjusting circuit applies the third voltage to a battery directly.
US10224732B2	Information handling system external adapter and battery source A portable information handling system battery module has a self-contained housing having a battery charger, integrated rechargeable batteries and plural ports to transfer power, such as USB Type C ports having bi-directional power transfer capability. A cable couples first battery module port to a portable information handling system port to provide power to the portable information handling system and accept power from the portable information handling system. Plural additional battery modules daisy chain to the first battery module to accept power from and provide power to the portable information handling system. Power transfer is coordinated with communications through the ports, such as by a USB power transfer protocol supported at the information handling system and each battery module.
US10224730B2	Capacitor discharge circuit A capacitor discharge circuit according to one or more embodiments includes a capacitor connected in parallel to an alternating-current power source; a rectification element; a first discharge circuit that includes a first diode and a second diode, and causes the capacitor to discharge; a first series circuit including a first capacitor and a second capacitor connected in series between one end of the alternating-current power source and a ground terminal of the rectification element; a second discharge circuit that causes the second capacitor to discharge such that an absolute value of voltage across opposite ends of the second capacitor does not reach a predetermined voltage; and a predetermined period generator that actuates the first discharge circuit after an elapse of a predetermined period of time from stoppage of a discharge operation of the second discharge circuit.
US10224724B2	Charge/discharge management device A charge/discharge management device relating to the present invention is provided in equipment including a storage battery system. The storage battery system includes a plurality of PCS groups. Each of the PCS groups includes a storage battery, a BMU, and a PCS. The charge/discharge management device includes an operation time SOC calculation unit, a stop time SOC estimation unit, and an initial SOC resetting unit. The operation time SOC calculation unit calculates an operation time SOC for which an SOC based on an integrated value of a current value supplied from the BMU is added to an initial SOC of the storage battery, for each of the plurality of PCS groups. The stop time SOC estimation unit stops charge/discharge of the some group in the case that a stop condition is established, and thereafter, estimates a stop time SOC of the storage battery based on a voltage value supplied from the BMU for the some group. The initial SOC resetting unit resets the initial SOC that the operation time SOC calculation unit has with the stop time SOC, and resets the integrated value that the operation time SOC calculation unit has.
US10224721B2	Switch control circuit and electronic device using the same A switch control circuit to switch off communication channels between a baseboard management controller (BMC) and a backplane chip when not needed includes a logic component and a switch circuit. The switch circuit is configured for coupling between the BMC and the backplane chip in a device. The logic component obtains a logic control signal from the BMC, and outputs a switch signal to the switch circuit to turn on or turn off the switch circuit according to the logic control signal. An electronic device including the switch control circuit is also provided.
US10224718B2	Transient impedance transformer based on AC voltage regulating electronic switch A superposition principle of waveform based on conceptions of waveform continuity and flexible regulation of voltage proposes three concepts, respectively being flexible AC transformation, flexible power transmission and transformation and flexible voltage regulation; proposes three new technologies, respectively being a transient impedance technology, a flexible stepless voltage regulation technology and a flexible stepped voltage regulation technology; proposes three new products, being an AC voltage regulating electronic switch, a transient impedance transformer and a high-speed voltage regulating transformer; proposes six high-voltage power grid connection methods, being a power grid connection method type of a transient impedance transformer, a power grid connection method of a transient impedance step up auto transformer and the like; and proposes a new reactive compensation connection method for a reactive compensation device.
US10224716B2	Apparatus for generating AC superimposed DC signal Embodiments herein provide an ACsDC converter for generating an ACsDC signal in which AC or DC source can be used to generate the ACsDC signal. The structure of the ACsDC converter consists of three stages, viz., input, isolation, and output. At the input stage, a DC voltage is converted to two AC voltages using power electronic converters. The isolation stage consists of transformers for isolating load and source terminals. The secondary voltages of the isolation transformers are used for obtaining the AC and DC components of the ACsDC signal. At the output stage, the AC component of the output voltage is obtained by using an AC-DC converter and a DC-AC converter. The magnitude, phase, and frequency of the AC component can be controlled. The magnitude of the DC component is controlled using a modulation technique. The AC and the DC component can be combined to obtain the ACsDC signal.
US10224715B2	Intelligent power routing device A power routing device includes processing circuitry configured to receive inputs from device monitors configured to determine load status information from a plurality of loads, power-source monitors configured to determine source status information from a plurality of power sources, and command modules configured to provide context information regarding the loads or the power sources. Some of the loads have different operational characteristics than others. Some of the power sources have different operational characteristics than others. The power routing device is operably coupled to power-source distribution hardware selectively operably coupling selected ones of the power sources to selected ones of the loads. The power routing device is configured to direct the power-source distribution hardware to define routing between the selected ones of the power sources and the selected ones of the loads based on the source status information, the load status information and the context information.
US10224707B2	Electronic component fuse and fused electronic component module In an embodiment, an electronic component fuse 10 includes: (1) an insulator sleeve 11 having a hollow part 11a that opens to the exterior at both ends; (2) a conductor element 12 having a fusible part 12a whose cross-section is smaller than the cross-section of the hollow part 11a, a first engagement part 12b provided at one end of the fusible part 12a, and a second engagement part 12c provided at the other end of the fusible part 12a, where the fusible part 12a is positioned in the hollow part 11a, the first engagement part 12b and the second engagement part 12c are disposed on the respective ends of the insulator sleeve 11; (3) a first terminal 13 having a first connection part 13a connected to the first engagement part 12b; and (4) a second terminal 14 having a second connection part 14a connected to the second engagement part 12c.
US10224705B2	Heat-recoverable component, electrical wire bundle, and insulated electrical wire-covering method A heat-recoverable component includes a tube-shaped or cap-shaped base material layer having heat shrinkability, and an adhesive layer formed on an inner circumferential surface of the base material layer. The adhesive layer includes a low-viscosity adhesive portion and a high-viscosity adhesive portion disposed between the low-viscosity adhesive portion and an opening of the base material layer. The low-viscosity adhesive portion has a shear viscosity of 10 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 1 s−1 at a heat shrinkage temperature of the base material layer. The high-viscosity adhesive portion has a shear viscosity of 100 Pa·s or more at a shear rate of 1 s−1 at the heat shrinkage temperature of the base material layer. At the heat shrinkage temperature, a ratio of the shear viscosity of the high-viscosity adhesive portion to the shear viscosity of the low-viscosity adhesive portion is 15,000 or less.
US10224701B2	Modular structural and electrical building system Disclosed herein is a modular structural and electrical building system. The system includes first and second structural support members. In use, the second end of the first structural support member is adjacent the first end of the second structural support member. The system further includes at least one conductor bar secured to each of the structural members. In addition, the system utilizes conductor bar connectors for maintaining electrical connectivity from one conductor bar to the next on the same structural support member and a power drop connector for connecting electrical power carried by the conductor bar to various pieces of equipment. In addition, a jump cable provides a bridge for electrical power from the conductor bar on the first structural member to the conductor bar secured to an adjacent structural member.
US10224700B2	Sealing cover boot and cover and interconnection junctions protected thereby A hollow cover boot formed of an elastomeric material includes, in merging succession, a cable collar, a main section, a transition section, and an interconnection section, wherein the main section has a diameter greater than the cable collar and the interconnection section, and the transition section tapers between the main section and the cable collar.
US10224699B2	Bullet-resistant electrical installation An electrical installation, in particular a transformer, phase shifter or inductor, which includes a fluid-filled tank having side walls, wherein, for protection against bombardment and/or fragmentation effects, the side walls are formed in a bullet-resistant manner and are made of a material having a traction strength of greater than 1000 MPa, or wherein a bullet-resistant reinforcement made of such a material is provided, the outer side of which envelope the side walls.
US10224696B2	Optical module An optical module includes: a first thermoelectric cooler (TEC) disposed at least partially inside a laser, a second TEC is disposed on a housing of the laser, and a micro control unit (MCU). The first TEC is configured to perform heating or cooling according to an enabling signal input by aMCU. The second TEC is configured to perform heating or cooling according to an enabling signal input by the MCU. The MCU is configured to determine whether to input an enabling signal or a disabling signal to the first TEC and the second TEC according to a size of operating current input by a drive circuit of a laser chip to the laser chip.
US10224694B2	Method and apparatus for coherence enhancement of sweep velocity locked lasers via all-electronic upconversion The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus to improve the dynamic coherent length of a sweep velocity-locked laser pulse generator (SV-LLPG) in an all-electronic fashion. A digital SV-LLPG is disclosed with two operation modes, i.e., unidirectional and bidirectional sweep modes; self-adaptive and time-dependent loop parameters (gain and location of poles/zeros); and, self-adaptive initial input curve. High frequency locking architectures, both single-side band (SSB) modulation method and direct phase measurement method, are provided to suppress the linewidth, or improve the coherent length, of the swept laser. A combination of high and low frequency locking, or a combination of multiple architectures disclosed in this invention, is utilized to achieve a higher level of linewidth reduction. The enhanced laser coherence extends the measurement range by at least one order of magnitude for applications including frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and optical fiber distributed sensing applications.
US10224693B2	Semiconductor laser mounting with intact diffusion barrier layer A first contact surface of a semiconductor laser chip can be formed to a target surface roughness selected to have a maximum peak to valley height that is substantially smaller than a barrier layer thickness. A barrier layer that includes a non-metallic, electrically-conducting compound and that has the barrier layer thickness can be applied to the first contact surface, and the semiconductor laser chip can be soldered to a carrier mounting along the first contact surface using a solder composition by heating the soldering composition to less than a threshold temperature at which dissolution of the barrier layer into the soldering composition occurs. Related systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and the like are also described.
US10224691B2	Laser systems utilizing fiber bundles for power delivery and beam switching In various embodiments, the beam parameter product and/or beam shape of a laser beam is adjusted by coupling the laser beam into an optical fiber of a fiber bundle and directing the laser beam onto one or more in-coupling locations on the input end of the optical fiber. The beam emitted at the output end of the optical fiber may be utilized to process a workpiece.
US10224690B1	Laser apparatus and laser generation method A laser apparatus is provided, which includes an optical reflection and gain unit, an optical modulation unit and a polarizing selection unit. The optical reflection and gain unit includes a gain medium and at least two dichroic surfaces, and is configured to generate a laser beam. The optical modulation unit and the optical reflection and gain unit form a cavity, and the optical modulation unit is configured to adjust phase boundary conditions of the cavity. The optical modulation unit includes portions that respectively correspond to optical phase boundaries in the cavity, so as to allow an optical field in the cavity to pass through the optical modulation unit at least twice. The polarizing selection unit is disposed between the optical reflection and gain unit and the optical modulation unit, and is configured to adjust the polarizing direction of the optical field incident to the optical modulation unit.
US10224689B2	Q-switched CO2-laser material machining system comprising acousto-optic modulators A Q-switched CO2 laser material processing system with acousto-optic modulators (AOM) is employed, on the one hand, inside the resonator for Q-switching the CO2 laser and, on the other hand, externally for efficient suppression of the radiation feedback between a laser and workpiece. The frequency shift of the radiation diffracted at the AOM is taken into account which exactly corresponds to the excitation frequency of the acoustic wave in the AOM crystal under the aspect of the amplification of the radiation in the active medium. Since this frequency shift significantly reduces the amplification of the radiation, it has to be avoided in the Q-switching process, which is achieved, by means of a tandem of two AOMs with identical excitation frequencies but with the acoustic waves propagating in opposite directions in the crystal. The frequency shift advantageously suppresses radiation feedback between the laser and workpiece.
US10224683B2	Composite cable and composite harness [Problem] Provided are a composite cable and a composite harness that allow the improvement of cable termination workability while maintaining the flex resistance.[Solution] A composite cable 1 is provided with a pair of first electric wires 2, a twisted pair wire 4 formed by twisting a pair of second electric wires 3 having a smaller outer diameter than the first electric wires 2 and a tape member 6 spirally wound around an assembled article 5 that is formed by twisting the pair of first electric wires 2 and the twisted pair wire 4 together, wherein a twist direction of the twisted pair wire 4 is different from a twist direction of the assembled article 5, and the twist direction of the assembled article 5 is different from a winding direction of the tape member 6.
US10224681B2	Multipole plug A multipole plug 1 is configured in such a manner that a first terminal strip (first terminal strip 15) is provided with first flow holes (second flow holes 15D) in a first curved plate portion 15B, a second terminal strip (second terminal strip 17) is provided with a second flow holes (third flow holes 17D) in a second curved plate portion 17B, and the first curved plate portion 15B and the second curved plate portion 17B are positioned by the positioning ring 20 provided with an outer projecting portions 20B to be fitted to notched portions 18F of a first sleeve portion (second sleeve 18) and an inner projecting portions 20C to be fitted into a gap between the first curved plate portion 15B and the second curved plate portion 17B being fitted thereto.
US10224677B2	Connector device A connector device included in an electronic device is provided. The connector device includes a connector main body including at least one hole and a slot, at least one housing coupled to the connector main body to shield the at least one hole and the slot, a shielding member included in a rear face of the at least one housing, at least one coupling portion included in each of opposite side faces of the at least one housing so as to couple the at least one housing, and at least one fixing portion included in one end of the at least one coupling portion and fixed to a board included in the electronic device. Various other embodiments are possible.
US10224674B1	High frequency connector A high frequency connector is disclosed. The high frequency connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of insulating pieces, and a plurality of terminals. Each of the terminals is respectively assembled to the insulating pieces. The plurality of insulating pieces are assembled to the insulating housing. Each of the insulating pieces has a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of recesses are formed on each of the first surface and the second surface. The recesses are arranged in parallel on each of the first surface and the second surface. A plurality of impedance adjustment holes are arranged on each of the first surface and the second surface in an interlaced manner. The impedance adjustment holes are disposed between the recesses. Each of the terminals is received in the impedance adjustment hole or the recess, so as to improve characteristic impedances and crosstalk interferences of the terminals.
US10224673B2	Holder to constrain elastic members of a receptacle Examples disclosed herein provide a system including a holder to secure a removable module. In one example, the removable module includes a plug comprising holes. The system further includes a receptacle mounted on a printed circuit board (PCB). As an example, the receptacle includes elastic members to make contact with the holes in the plug when the receptacle is to accommodate the plug of the removable module. As an example, the holder is slidable over the receptacle to constrain the elastic members of the receptacle to maintain contact with the holes in the plug of the removable module.
US10224672B2	Lever-type connector A lever (22) is formed with first driving portions (27) to move sliders (35) from a connection end position to an unlocking position in the process of rotating the lever (22) from a connection position to a switch position. Second driving portions (28) push the sliders (35) parallel to one another from the unlocking position to a connection start position in the process of rotating the lever (22) from the switch position to an initial position and move away from the sliders (35) as the lever (22) rotates from the initial position to the switch position with the sliders (35) located at the connection start position. Locking portions (33) restrict rotation of the lever (22) toward the connection position by being locked to the sliders (35) with the sliders (35) located at the connection start position and the lever (22) located at the switch position.
US10224668B2	Assembly for terminating an EMF shielded cable harness at an electrical component port An assembly for terminating a sheathed cable harness at an electrical component port, the assembly incorporating a nipple having a hollow bore fitted for receiving the cable harness; a coupling nut mounting the nipple upon the electrical component, the coupling nut being connected to the nipple's proximal end, and being adapted for aligning the hollow bore with the electrical component's port; and a Hunter spring annularly clamping the cable harness's sheath to the nipple, the Hunter spring having an outer end and a plurality of radially outwardly extending teeth, the radially outwardly extending teeth being positioned at the spring's outer end.
US10224663B2	Receptacle connector A receptacle connector includes a peripheral shell with a counter connector accommodating portion formed therein and opening in a fitting direction, the peripheral shell is composed of a metal portion and a resin portion, the peripheral shell has an inner peripheral surface of tetragonal tube shape with rounded corners, the inner peripheral surface being formed by one first metal flat portion, two metal curved portions and two second metal flat portions of the metal portion and one first resin flat portion, two resin curved portions and two second resin flat portions of the resin portion, and an end surface of the one first metal flat portion situated on an opening side of the counter connector accommodating portion is exposed.
US10224658B2	Electrical contact device An electrical contact device comprises a contact body and a mating contact receiver. The mating contact receiver is mountable on the contact body in at least two positions and receives a mating contact device along two different axes.
US10224654B1	Connection device with floatable self-adjusting contacts and connecting method thereof A connection device with floatable self-adjusting contacts includes a first main body, a plurality of first and second contact point groups, a second main body, and a plurality of conducting boards (pin boards). The first and second contact groups are respectively disposed on the first and second bodies. The floating board is disposed on the second main body in a floating manner. The conducting board has an insulated main body and a plurality of conducting pins which are disposed on the insulated main body in a floating manner. The conducting pin has a first conducting portion contacting the first contact point, and a second conduct portion contacting the second contact point. The first and second conduct portions respectively have an arc-shaped periphery and an elastic arm. The conducting pins can respectively self-adjust to achieve an optimal downward contacting pressure.
US10224653B2	Card edge connector having key equipped with metallic protective cap secured to housing An electrical card edge connector for receiving an electronic card with a bottom notch therein, includes an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals and an alignment key. The housing includes two opposite side walls, a bottom wall and a central slot among the side walls and the bottom wall. The terminals are disposed in the corresponding side walls and extend into the central slot for mating with the electronic card. The alignment key includes a body received within the central slot, a pair of extension sections covering the two side walls, and a pair of securing sections attached to the bottom wall wherein the body is adapted to be received within the bottom notch of the electronic card.
US10224642B2	Modular antenna system A modular antenna system and a method for signal processing using the modular antenna system are provided to overcome the missing scalability of conventional antenna arrays and improve the overall antenna array performance as well as facilitate individually replacing defective or not reliably operating radio-units or radio-subunits in modular antenna array systems and provide a calibration procedure which can be adapted to a scalable antenna array. The modular antenna system includes a base station, and at least one radio-unit comprising at least two radio-subunits. Each radio-subunit includes a radio-module and an antenna-module. The radio-module includes a digital signal-processing unit, at least a transceiver, a front-end and a power amplifier. The radio-subunits provide an identical architecture and are modularly connected together via a connector interface and each radio-subunit has an own IQ-input and an own IQ-output.
US10224640B2	Radome for an antenna with a concave-reflector A radome for a concave-reflector antenna is fastened directly onto the reflector's edge. The inner surface of the radome comprises at least one absorbent part partially covering its surface area and disposed along its peripheral edge. The surface area of the radome covered by the absorbent part(s) is less than 15% of the total surface area. The radome may comprise two absorbent parts in diametrically opposite positions. Each absorbent part may have a substantially triangular shape, the base of the absorbent part being rounded along the radome's edge, and a portion of its surface area having been removed laterally from each side of the triangle in a circular arc cut-out.
US10224635B2	Spherical lens array based multi-beam antennae A radio frequency antenna uses an array of spherical lens and mechanically movable radio frequency (RF) elements along the surface of the spherical lens to provide cellular coverage for a narrow geographical area. The antenna includes at least two spherical lenses, where each spherical lens has an associated element assembly. Each element assembly has a track that curves along the contour of the exterior surface of the spherical lens and along which a radio frequency (RF) element can move. The antenna also includes a phase shifter configured to adjust a phase of the signals produced by the RF elements. The antenna includes a control mechanism configured to enable a user to move the RF elements along their respective tracks, and automatically configure the phase shifter to modify a phase of the output signals from the elements based on the relative positions between the RF elements.
US10224634B2	Methods and apparatus for adjusting an operational characteristic of an antenna Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for receiving a first electromagnetic wave supplied by a dielectric antenna in a first position, where the first electromagnetic wave propagates along an outer surface of a feedline of the dielectric antenna, receiving a second electromagnetic wave supplied by the dielectric antenna in a second position, where the second electromagnetic wave propagates along the outer surface of the feedline of the dielectric antenna, measuring a ratio of a first signal strength of the first electromagnetic wave and a second signal strength of the second electromagnetic wave, detecting that the ratio is below a threshold, and adjusting an operational characteristic of a system to increase the ratio. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10224632B2	Antenna device and electronic apparatus An insulating substrate including a principal surface and coil antennas disposed on the substrate and each including a coil conductor. The coil conductor includes a winding axis in a direction parallel or substantially parallel to the principal surface of the substrate. An auxiliary loop conductor that is connected to the coil conductors of the coil antennas and generates a magnetic flux that is in phase with those of the coil antennas as seen from the direction of the winding axis of the coil conductor is provided in and on the substrate.
US10224628B2	Photonic beamforming system for a phased array antenna receiver It is an object of the present invention a photonic system to perform beamforming of a radio signal received by a phased array antenna with N antenna elements. It provides true-time delay beamforming enabled by tunable optical delay lines (6) with a periodic frequency response. The present invention provides four key advantages: photonic RF phase shifting; highly-sensitive coherent detection with intrinsic photonic frequency downconversion; phase noise cancellation, since a frequency-shifted optical local oscillator can be derived from a same laser source (1) used to feed electro-optic modulators (5); and the possibility of only requiring a single delay line, shared amongst all tunable optical delay lines. Such set of advantages makes the proposed system extremely attractive for high-end wireless receivers, required for demanding applications such as satellite communication systems and broadband wireless signal transmission.
US10224625B2	Tunable matching network for antenna systems A communication system is provided, including an antenna, a matching network coupled to the antenna, a controller configured to control the matching network, and a look-up table coupled to the controller. The look-up table includes characterization data according to frequency bands and conditions. The controller is configured to refer to the look-up table to determine optimum impedance for a frequency band selected under a condition detected during a time interval, and adjust the matching network to provide the optimum impedance.
US10224623B1	Wall mounted antenna housing for a spa A system and apparatus for providing improved wi-fi controls to a spa that includes a specialized antenna housing for attachment through the wall of an existing spa, away from the body of water, other electronics as well as other interfering solid obstacles. The housing attaches to the electronics inside of the spa through a connector and a cable. The antenna is housed inside of the specialized housing and is equipped with electronic controls that can provide indicator LEDs visible from the outside of the spa wall. The specialized housing terminates in a flat surface for the LEDs to emanate from or for a wi-fi logo to be placed. The specialized housing is situated flush with the spa wall and is held in place with a nut or grommet.
US10224622B2	Antennas including dual radiating elements for wireless electronic devices A wireless electronic device includes first and second conductive layers arranged in a face-to-face relationship. The first and second conductive layers are separated from one another by a first dielectric layer. The wireless electronic device includes a first radiating element and a second radiating element. The first conductive layer includes a slot. The second conductive layer includes a stripline. The second radiating element at least partially overlaps the slot. The wireless electronic device is configured to resonate at a resonant frequency corresponding to the first radiating element and/or the second radiating element when excited by a signal transmitted and/or received though the stripline.
US10224619B2	Antenna device of radar system The resent invention relates to an antenna device of a radar system, comprising: a substrate; multiple radiators arranged on the upper surface of the substrate; and multiple resonators arranged on the lower surface of the substrate and placed beneath the radiator, the resonators having the shape of rings having at least one slit formed thereon. According to the present invention, the radiators and the resonators operate together, thereby improving the performance of the antenna device.
US10224618B2	MIMO antenna system for a vehicle A MIMO antenna system for a vehicle comprising first and second monopole antennas, which comprises first, second and third conductors. First and second conductors are electrically connected in parallel, and the third conductor is coupled to the first and second conductors. The first conductor has a height (H1) and thickness (t1) such that the H1/t1 ratio is within 5 to 45 to provide a resonant frequency at a first LTE frequency band. The second conductor has a height of 30%-60% H1 to provide a resonant frequency at a second LTE frequency band. The third conductor provides resonant frequencies at third and fourth LTE frequency bands, and having an electrical length such that the coupling level of the third conductor with respect to first and second conductors in the third and fourth LTE frequency bands is greater than 10 dB.
US10224615B2	Wireless communication device and antenna unit thereof A wireless communication device includes a housing and a plurality of antenna units. The antenna units surround a surface of the housing and stand on a system ground. Each of the antenna units includes a first radiation part, a second radiation part and a conductive component. The first radiation part has a signal feed point for receiving a feeding signal. The second radiation part surrounds the first radiation part and has a first side, a second side, a first ground point and a second ground point, wherein the first side is parallel to the system ground while the second side is perpendicular to the system ground. The first side is perpendicular to the second side and shorter than the second side. The conductive component is disposed between the first side and the system ground and connected to the first side and the system ground.
US10224614B2	Head-hand capacitance compensation with digital variable capacitor The present disclosure generally relates to a device having a capacitance sensor that detects a change in capacitance that occurs in the antenna whenever the antenna is in close proximity to a user's hand and/or head. Following detection of the capacitance change, the capacitance of the antenna may be changed by using a variable capacitor that is coupled to the sensor through a controller.
US10224612B1	Mobile device A mobile device includes a ground element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a third radiation element, a matching circuit, and a first metal frame. The first radiation element and the second radiation element are both coupled to a grounding point on the ground element. The second radiation element and the first radiation element extend in opposite directions. The third radiation element is coupled through the matching circuit to the first radiation element. The first metal frame is coupled to a connection point on the third radiation element. An antenna structure is formed by the first radiation element, the second radiation element, the matching circuit, the third radiation element, and the first metal frame. A signal source is coupled to a feeding point on the first radiation element, so as to excite the antenna structure.
US10224608B2	Antenna device and electronic device including the same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first face, a second face, and a side face that at least partially encloses a space between the first face and the second face, a conductive member configured to form at least a portion of the side face, a ground member, at least one communication circuit, and a conductive pattern positioned within the housing, the conductive pattern electrically connected to the communication circuit and the ground member, a first electric path positioned within the housing, and configured to electrically interconnect another end of the conductive member and the communication circuit, a second electric path configured to electrically interconnect the first electric path or the conductive member and the ground member, and a third electric path configured to electrically interconnect the first electric path or the conductive member and the ground member, and including a switching circuit.
US10224603B2	Antenna using coupling and electronic device including the same An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a segment part used to insulate a portion of the housing and an antenna disposed at a position corresponding to the segment part.
US10224602B2	Electronic device with housing slots for antennas An electronic device housing may have a rear housing wall that forms a metal ground plane. A slot may be formed in the metal ground plane. The slot may have one or more open ends along an edge of the ground plane. A near-field communications loop antenna may overlap the slot. The near-field communications loop antenna may have one or more turns. A current path through the metal ground plane may form one of the turns in the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot may form portions of non-near-field-communications antennas in addition to the near-field communications loop antenna. The slot in the non-near-field-communications antennas may be fed using an indirect antenna feed structure. Components such as a capacitor and inductor may help allow non-near-field communications antenna and the near-field communications antenna to be formed from common portions of the metal ground plane.
US10224601B2	Antenna device and communications device A small antenna device having good communications performance and a wide communications area even when a metal plate is present in the antenna communications direction, even when the antenna is arranged, for example, inside a box-shaped metal case, and even when a through hole is used that has a smaller area than the antenna. This device comprises: the antenna (8); a rear surface cover (3) overlapping with the antenna (8) and being a conductor that faces the winding of the antenna (8); two first insulating areas (10a) provided in the rear surface cover (3) and extending in a direction that intersects the winding axis of the antenna (8); and a second insulating area (10b) that connects between the first insulating areas (10a). At least part of the area sandwiched by the first insulating areas (10a) faces the antenna (8).
US10224600B2	Antenna apparatus of mobile terminal A mobile terminal and manufacture of same are provided. The mobile terminal includes: an antenna; a first case at which the antenna is disposed; a second case coupled to the first case; a main PCB disposed at one side of the second case; and a sub-PCB disposed at an opposite side of the second case, the sub-PCB being connected to the main PCB through a cable, wherein the sub-PCB is electrically coupled with the antenna when the first case and the second case are coupled together.
US10224599B2	WIFI antenna device The present disclosure discloses a WIFI antenna device, the WIFI antenna device includes a carrier, a grounding portion, a first radiation portion, a second radiation portion and a third radiation portion which all are provided on the carrier. The first radiation portion, the second radiation portion and the third radiation portion are coupled to the grounding portion. The coupling portion couples an electrical signal to the first radiation portion, the second radiation portion and the third radiation portion. The first radiation portion, the second radiation portion and the third radiation portion convert the electrical signal into the radiation signal. The first radiation portion determines a low frequency resonance point of a radiation signal emitted by the WIFI antenna device. The second radiation portion determines a first high frequency resonance point of the radiation signal. The third radiation portion determines a second high frequency resonance point of the radiation signal.
US10224598B2	High-frequency rotor antenna In an example, a mobile computing device such as a tablet, laptop, or convertible is operable to couple to a docking station via high-frequency wireless such as WiGig at 60 GHz. Because high-frequency signals are highly directional, the mobile computing device is provided with a high-frequency antenna operable as a rotor. In one embodiment, the antenna is freely hinged to a gravitational pivot, and pivots toward the docking station responsive to gravitational torque. In another embodiment, an actuator drives the antenna to a correct angle responsive to a rotational sensor. In this case, an angle sweep may be performed around a midpoint to identify a best angle for high-frequency communication.
US10224592B2	Stand for planar antenna An antenna stand for holding a flexible or non-flexible planar antenna includes a base and support frame. The support frame includes two spaced apart legs and a horizontal cross member interposed therebetween. At least two lower antenna supports are provided on the support frame on which the bottom edge of the planar antenna may rest. An optional extendable antenna holding arm includes an upper antenna clip that engages the top edge of the planar antenna. The extendable antenna holding arm support is adjustably mounted to the support frame so that the distance between the lower antenna supports and the upper antenna clip can be varied to accommodate planar antennas of varying dimensions. The support frame may be arcuately shaped transversely to impart a slight lateral bend to a flexible planar antenna mounted on the stand. This helps to maintain the flexible planar antenna in an upright position on the stand.
US10224591B2	Flat radio frequency transmission line A radio frequency (RF) transmission line includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer conductively isolated from the first conductive layer, a center conductor disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, dielectric material disposed between the first conducive layer and the second conductive layer and at least partially surrounding the center conductor, and an RF choke element that conducts a direct current signal between the center conductor and the second conductive layer.
US10224585B2	Battery heat radiation system, battery heat radiation unit Each of the plurality of battery heat radiation units includes, a battery module, at least one heat pipe thermally connected at a first end of the heat pipe to one surface of the battery module and protruding from the battery module at a second end of the heat pipe, at least one metal heat exchanger plate thermally connected to one surface of the battery module, and at least one heat radiation portion provided at the second end of the heat pipe, the air blowing portion blows air to the heat radiation portion, and one heat radiation portion in the plurality of battery heat radiation units is misaligned with other heat radiation portions in the plurality of battery heat radiation units as viewed from the air blowing portion side.
US10224584B2	Battery pack heat exchanger An exemplary battery pack heat exchanger includes a wall of an enclosure, and a heat exchanger lid held against the wall to provide a chamber that receives a fluid to exchange thermal energy with a battery array that is outside of the chamber. An exemplary method of managing battery pack thermal energy includes moving a fluid through a chamber within an enclosure wall of a battery pack to adjust thermal energy levels of the battery pack.
US10224581B2	Battery Management Battery management may be provided. First, a battery string in a battery bank may be charged for a charge time. After charging the battery string, the battery string may be isolated from charging for a rest time. Once the charging and resting from charging is complete, a test open circuit voltage for each battery in the first battery string may be measured. In addition, a defective indicator that a battery is defective may be recorded in a database. Next, a battery may be loaded with a preset load for a load time. After loading the battery, a test load voltage for each of the batteries loaded with the preset load may be measured. A second defective indicator that a battery is defective may be recorded in the database when the test load voltage for the second battery is greater than a load voltage differential.
US10224579B2	Evaluating capacity fade in dual insertion batteries using potential and temperature measurements Methods and systems are described of managing a battery system. The battery system including at least one battery cell and one or more sensors configured to measure a temperature of the at least one battery cell. The method includes receiving a measurement of the temperature of the at least one battery cell, estimating an open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell, estimating a capacity fade of the at least one battery cell based on the open circuit potential of the at least one battery cell and a ratio of a change in the open circuit potential relative to a change in the temperature of the at least one battery cell, and regulating at least one of charging or discharging of the at least one battery cell based on the estimation of the capacity fade.
US10224577B2	Battery charge transfer mechanisms The present invention provides a secondary cell having a negative electrode compartment and a positive electrode compartment, which are separated by an alkali ion conductive electrolyte membrane. An alkali metal negative electrode disposed in the negative electrode compartment oxidizes to release alkali ions as the cell discharges and reduces the alkali ions to alkali metal during recharge. The positive electrode compartment includes a positive electrode contacting a positive electrode solution that includes an alkali metal compound and a metal halide. The alkali metal compound can be selected from an alkali halide and an alkali pseudo-halide. During discharge, the metal ion reduces to form metal plating on the positive electrode. As the cell charges, the metal plating oxidizes to strip the metal plating to form metal halide or pseudo halide or corresponding metal complex.
US10224573B2	Wound electrode assembly for an electrochemical cell, and methods and devices for manufacture of same An electrochemical cell includes a cell housing and an electrode assembly disposed in the cell housing. The electrode assembly includes an electrode pair that is arranged to form a winding having a polygonal spiral wound shape in which a radius of the corner portions of each turn of the winding is constant, regardless of the number of turns. In addition, a length of the linear portions of one turn of the winding is different than a length of the linear portions of another turn of the winding. Since each turn of the winding includes the corner portions having a desired radius, the volumetric efficiency of the electrode assembly including the winding within a cell housing is improved relative to some cells that use conventional windings. An apparatus and method of forming a polygonal spiral wound winding are disclosed.
US10224563B2	Frame body, cell frame, cell stack, and redox flow battery A frame body that is a part of a flat cell frame for a cell stack of a redox flow battery, and that supports, on an outer peripheral side of a bipolar plate of the cell frame, the bipolar plate, the frame body including a frame-facing surface that is to face, when a plurality of the cell frames are stacked, a frame body of another cell frame that is adjacent to the cell frame in a stacking direction, wherein the frame-facing surface has a surface roughness Ra of 0.03 μm or more and 3.2 μm or less.
US10224559B2	Fuel cell system and secondary battery diagnosis method A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell, auxiliary devices, an auxiliary device controller, a secondary battery, a current sensor, a voltage sensor, and a diagnosis controller. In an output stop state where the fuel cell does not output electric power, the auxiliary device controller performs a residual water scavenging process of scavenging water remaining in the fuel cell to outside of the fuel cell system by driving the auxiliary devices using electric power supplied from the secondary battery and supplying the gas to the fuel cell. The diagnosis controller diagnoses the secondary battery using a current integrated value that is obtained by integrating amounts of current supplied from the secondary battery in a predetermined voltage range of a discharge voltage of the secondary battery that changes in response to discharge when electric power is supplied to the auxiliary devices by performing the residual water scavenging process.
US10224558B2	Fuel cell system and operation control method of the same The present invention enables the determination of an operating point of a fuel cell so as to prioritize the fulfillment of an amount of required power generation while avoiding various limitations, such as a current limit, in a fuel cell system that warms up the fuel cell by a low efficiency operation.A controller 70 multiplies a voltage command value Vcom obtained in step S3 by a current command value Icom obtained in step S1, then, this is divided by a final voltage command value Vfcom obtained in step S4, thereby obtaining a final current command value Ifcom to determine an operating point (Ifcom, Vfcom) during a warm-up operation (step S5), and then the process ends.
US10224551B2	Sheet for thin layer transfer, electrode catalyst layer-carrying sheet for thin layer transfer, method for producing sheet for thin layer transfer, and method for producing membrane electrode assembly The present invention provides a sheet for thin layer transfer (10) including: a substrate (1) including a thin metal film or a thin heat-resistant resin film; and a fluorine resin layer (2) provided on at least one side of the substrate (1). The sheet for thin layer transfer thus provided can have reduced surface irregularities and be less prone to deteriorate even when subjected to repeated thermal transfer by thermocompression bonding.
US10224550B2	Advanced graphite additive for enhanced cycle-life of lead-acid batteries An Advanced Graphite, with a lower degree of ordered carbon domains and a surface area greater than ten times that of typical battery grade graphites, is used in negative active material (NAM) of valve-regulated lead-acid (VRLA) type Spiral wound 6V/25 Ah lead-acid batteries. A significant and unexpected cycle life was achieved for the Advanced Graphite mix, where the battery was able to cycle beyond 145,000 cycles above the failure voltage of 9V, in a non-stop, power-assist, cycle-life test. Batteries with Advanced Graphite also showed increased charge acceptance power and discharge power compared to control groups.
US10224539B2	Surface modified cathode with improved lithium intercalation behavior Surface modification of LiNi0.4Mn0.4Co0.2O2 (442) compound with certain inert (MxOy) metal oxides viz., Al2O3, Bi2O3, In2O3, Cr2O3, ZrO2, ZnO, MgO has been attempted with a view to improve the structural and cycling stability, especially upon high voltage and high rate cycling conditions. In addition to HF scavenging effect, the protective metal oxide inter-connect layer restricts the number of oxide ion vacancies eliminated during the initial cycling of cathode, resulting in the reduced irreversible capacity loss of the first cycle. Among the surface modified cathodes, Bi2O3 coated LiNi0.4Mn0.4Co0.2O2 cathode exhibits appreciable specific capacity values of 196 (Qdc1) and 175 (Qdc100) mAh g−1 with 89% capacity retention, thus evidencing the superiority of Bi2O3 modifier in improving the electrochemical behavior of pristine LiNi0.4Mn0.4Co0.2O2 cathode. Further, suitability of Bi2O3 coated LiNi0.4Mn0.4Co0.2O2 cathode for high voltage (5.0 V) and high rate (3 C) lithium intercalation and de-intercalation applications has been demonstrated up to 100 cycles.
US10224535B2	Rectangular secondary battery A rectangular secondary battery (1) includes a current interrupting portion (60) disposed in a current path between a collector plate (21) connected to a rolled electrode group (40) and an external terminal (61) disposed outside a battery container (2) and configured to interrupt the current path when an internal pressure of the battery container (2) is increased. The current interrupting portion (60) has a diaphragm (68) electrically connected to the external terminal (61) and deformed when the internal pressure of the battery container (2) is increased, a connection plate (24) connected to the diaphragm and disconnected from the diaphragm by the deformation of the diaphragm, and a connecting portion (23) connecting the connection plate and collector plate. A rigidity of the connecting portion (23) is lower than that of the collector plate (21).
US10224532B2	Detection module In a detection module to be mounted on a unit cell group formed by electrically connecting adjacent electrode terminals of a plurality of unit cells including positive and negative electrode terminals by busbars, a plurality of fuse units each configured such that a busbar connection terminal for detecting a state of the unit cell by being connected to the busbar, a wire connection terminal to be connected to an end part of a wire and a fuse for connecting the busbar connection terminal and the wire connection terminal are integrally assembled and accommodated in a housing made of synthetic resin are held in a holding member made of synthetic resin.
US10224529B2	Stacked-electrode battery cell Disclosed are a stacked-electrode battery cell that has offset electrode-to-terminal bonds, and a method for manufacturing such a cell. The stacked-electrode battery cell can comprise an external connection terminal that includes a flat tab, and a plurality of flat electrodes stacked along a first coordinate axis and collectively forming at least a portion of an anode or a cathode of the battery cell. A first electrode of the plurality of flat electrodes is bonded to a first bond region of the tab and a second electrode of the plurality of flat electrodes is bonded to a second bond region of the tab, where the first bond region and the second bond region are non-overlapping along at least one coordinate axis perpendicular to the first coordinate axis.
US10224522B2	Sealing assembly, lithium ion battery comprises the same, and method for preparing sealing assembly A sealing assembly for a battery, a method of preparing the sealing assembly and a lithium ion battery are provided. The sealing assembly for a battery comprises: a ceramic ring (3) having a receiving hole (31), a metal ring (4) fitted over the ceramic ring (3) for sealing an open end of the battery, and a column (2) formed in the receiving hole (31) which comprises a metal-metal composite (21), wherein the metal-metal composite (21) comprises: a metal porous body, and a metal material filled in pores of the metal porous body.
US10224519B2	Secondary battery and method of manufacturing the same A secondary battery according to an embodiment includes a container having a pouring hole through which an electrolyte is poured, and housing the electrolyte, poured through the pouring hole, together with an electrode body; and a sealing lid which is fixed to the container and is closing the pouring hole. The sealing lid has a welding mark existing in a ring shape with a depth through the sealing lid to a lid body of the container, and an inner circumferential side molten mark existing in a ring shape overlapping with the welding mark, on the inner circumferential side of the welding mark in the sealing lid, with a depth corresponding to the thickness of the sealing lid.
US10224517B2	Secondary battery and electronic device A secondary battery suitable for a portable information terminal or a wearable device is provided. An electronic device having a novel structure that can have various exterior forms and a secondary battery that fits the forms of the electronic device are provided. The problem that strong external force unintentionally bends a secondary battery or an electronic device with a built-in secondary battery beyond the limits, resulting in a too small radius of curvature can be solved. The secondary battery has a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are included with a separator interposed therebetween. Between this structure and an exterior body, a thermoplastic substance which becomes flexible in the range around a surface temperature of human skin, higher than or equal to 30° C. and lower than or equal to 37° C., is provided.
US10224510B2	Light-emitting element To provide a novel light-emitting element or a novel light-emitting device with high emission efficiency and low power consumption, a light-emitting element having a plurality of light-emitting layers between a pair of electrodes includes a lower electrode, a first light-emitting layer over the lower electrode, a charge-generation layer over the first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer over the charge-generation layer, and an upper electrode over the second light-emitting layer. An emission spectrum of the first light-emitting layer peaks at a longer wavelength than an emission spectrum of the second light-emitting layer. A distance of between a bottom surface of the upper electrode and a bottom surface of the first light-emitting layer is less than or equal to 130 nm.
US10224508B2	Organic light-emitting display panel, method for manufacturing organic light-emitting display panel and organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display panel, a method for manufacturing the same and an organic light-emitting display device are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a flexible substrate comprising a display region, an aperture region surrounded by the display region, and a first non-display region located between the display region and the aperture region, a thin film transistor layer arranged on the flexible substrate, a light-emitting device layer arranged on the thin film transistor layer and including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode, an encapsulation layer arranged on the light-emitting device layer and sequentially including a first inorganic encapsulation layer and a first organic encapsulation layer, and borders of the second electrode and the first inorganic encapsulation layer in the first non-display region are aligned, and an inorganic layer covering the borders of the second electrode and the first inorganic encapsulation layer.
US10224506B2	Display device with block members having different heights A display device and a method of manufacturing the display device are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a substrate including a display region and a peripheral region. A first block member is in the peripheral region and surrounding display structures, the first block member having a first height. A second block member is spaced apart from the first block member in a first direction extending from the display region to the peripheral region, the second block member surrounding the first block member, the second block member having a second height that is greater than the first height. A first encapsulation layer is over the display structures, the first block member, and the second block member. A second encapsulation layer is over the first encapsulation layer, the second encapsulation layer overlapping at least a portion of the first block member in the depth dimension of the display device.
US10224503B2	Display device A display device and a method of manufacturing a display device are provided. A display device includes a substrate; a display area on the substrate and configured to display an image; a pad portion on at least one edge of the substrate, the pad portion including at least one sink portion; an anisotropic conductive film on the pad portion and filling the at least one sink portion, the anisotropic conductive film spaced apart from an end of the substrate; and a flexible printed circuit board on the anisotropic conductive film and electrically connected to the pad portion.
US10224497B2	Flexible substrate and flexible display Disclosed is a flexible substrate, comprising a first organic layer, a first inorganic layer, a second organic layer and a second inorganic layer. The first inorganic layer is located on the first organic layer. The first inorganic layer comprises first strips which are spaced. The first strip comprises a first middle part and two first side parts. The second organic layer covers the first inorganic layer. The second inorganic layer is located on one side of the second organic layer remote from the first organic layer. The second inorganic layer comprises second strips which are spaced. The second strip comprises a second middle part and two second side parts. An extension direction of the second strips is the same as an extension direction of the first strips, the second organic layer is partially interposed between two first strips and between two second strips which are adjacent.
US10224492B2	Materials for electronic devices The present application relates to spirobifluorene derivatives of a formula (I), to the use thereof in electronic devices, especially in organic electroluminescent devices (OLEDs), where they may be used in hole-transporting function, and to processes for preparing said derivatives. The compounds have one or more properties selected from very good hole-conducting properties, very good electron-blocking properties, high glass transition temperature, high oxidation stability, good solubility and high thermal stability.
US10224489B2	Compound and organic electronic device using the same A novel compound is disclosed, which comprises: a 7-membered ring segment, which is formed by a cis-stilbene segment and a bridge atom with four bonds; and a fluorene segment connecting to the bridge atom with a double bond. In addition, an organic electronic device is also disclosed, and an organic layer therein comprises the novel compound of the present invention.
US10224488B2	Delayed fluorescence compound for organic EL device and using the same The present invention discloses a delayed fluorescence compound and the organic EL device employing the delayed fluorescence compound as light emitting host of emitting lay and/or an electron transporting layer, and/or a hole blocking layer, and/or a delayed fluorescence material of emitting layer for organic EL device in the present invention display good performance.
US10224484B2	Diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers for use in organic field effect transistors The present invention relates to polymers comprising a repeating unit of the formula I, or III and their use as organic semiconductor in organic devices, especially an organic field effect transistor (OFET), or a device containing a diode and/or an organic field effect transistor. The polymers according to the invention have excellent solubility in organic solvents and excellent film-forming properties. In addition, high efficiency of energy conversion, excellent field-effect mobility, good on/off current ratios and/or excellent stability can be observed, when the polymers according to the invention are used in organic field effect transistors.
US10224483B2	Crosslinkable quantum dot and preparing method thereof, array substrate and preparing method thereof A crosslinkable quantum dot (QD) and a preparing method thereof, an array substrate made by using the crosslinkable quantum dot (QD) and a preparing method thereof are provided. The surface of the crosslinkable quantum dot has a pair of groups R1 and R2 capable of reacting to form a cross-linked network, or a group R3 capable of being cross-linked by a crosslinking agent to form a cross-linked network.
US10224482B2	Masks, method to inspect and adjust mask positon, and method to pattern pixels of organic light-emitting display device utilizing the masks A method for pixel patterning and pixel position inspection of an organic light-emitting display device includes: forming, on a substrate using a first mask, a thin film layer of a first color corresponding to a first pixel pattern and a first pixel positioning pattern for inspecting a position of a first pixel; shifting, by a determined pitch, the first mask from a position associated with forming the thin film layer of the first color; aligning the shifted first mask with respect to the substrate; and forming, on the substrate using the shifted first mask, a thin film layer of a second color corresponding to the first pixel pattern and another first pixel positioning pattern for inspecting a position of a second pixel.
US10224478B2	Magnetic field sensor with integrated field concentrators A one-dimensional magnetic field sensor comprises a support, a single elongated magnetic field concentrator or two magnetic field concentrators, which are separated by a first gap, and at least one magnetic sensor element. The magnetic field concentrator, or both thereof, consists of at least two parts which are separated from each other by second gaps. A two-dimensional magnetic field sensor comprises a support, a single magnetic field concentrator which consists of at least three parts which are separated from each other by gaps, and at least two magnetic sensor elements.
US10224476B2	Low-temperature co-firing of multilayer textured piezoelectric ceramics with inner electrodes Textured PMN-PZT fabricated by templated grain growth (TGG) method has a piezoelectric coefficient (d) of 3 to 5 times that of its random counterpart. By combining this TGG method with low-temperature co-firing ceramics (LTCC) techniques, co-fired multilayer textured piezoelectric ceramic materials with inner electrodes were produced at a temperature as low as 925° C., which silver could be used. Trilayer PMN-PZT ceramics prepared by this method show a strain increase of 2.5 times, a driving voltage decrease of 3 times, and an equivalent piezoelectric coefficient (d*) improvement of 10 to 15 times that of conventional random ceramic counterparts. Further, a co-fired magnetostrictive/piezoelectric/magnetostrictive laminate structure with silver inner electrode was also synthesized. The integration of textured piezoelectric microstructure with the cost-effective low-temperature co-fired layered structure achieves strong magnetoelectric coupling. These new materials have promising applications including as actuators, ultrasonic transducers, and use in energy harvesters.
US10224475B2	Method for fabricating superconducting devices using a focused ion beam Nano-scale junctions, wires, and junction arrays are created by using a focused high-energy ion beam to direct-write insulating or poorly conducting barriers into thin films of materials that are sensitive to disorder, including superconductors, ferromagnetic materials and semiconductors.
US10224471B2	Light emitting device package having improved electrical reliability and lighting apparatus including the package Embodiments provide a light emitting device package including a substrate, a light emitting structure disposed under the substrate and including a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductive semiconductor layer, first and second electrodes connected to the first and second conductive semiconductor layers, a first pad connected to the first electrodes in first-first through-holes penetrating the second conductive semiconductor layer and the active layer, and a first insulation layer disposed between the first pad and the second conductive semiconductor layer and between the first pad and the active layer to cover the first electrodes in a first-second through-hole, and a second pad connected to the second electrode through a second through-hole penetrating the first insulation layer and electrically spaced apart from the first pad. The second pad does not overlap the first insulation layer in the first-second through-hole in a thickness direction of the light emitting structure.
US10224470B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a semiconductor chip including a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer, the semiconductor chip being adapted to emit light between the p-type semiconductor layer and the n-type semiconductor layer; a p-side pad electrode disposed on an upper surface side of the semiconductor chip and over the p-type semiconductor layer; an n-side pad electrode disposed on an upper surface side of the semiconductor chip and over the n-type semiconductor layer; a resin layer disposed to cover the upper surface of the semiconductor chip; a p-side connection electrode and an n-side connection electrode disposed at an outer surface of the resin layer and positioned on the upper surface side of the semiconductor chip; and a metal wire disposed in the resin. The metal wire is adapted to make connection at least one of between the p-side pad electrode and the p-side connection electrode, and between the n-side pad electrode and the n-side connection electrode.
US10224469B2	Light emitting device and method for manufacturing light emitting device A light emitting device (10) includes light emitting elements (12), conductor wirings (14), and alignment marks (18) formed on a substrate (11). The alignment marks (18) and the conductor wirings (14) are formed by printing.
US10224468B2	Method of manufacturing light emitting device A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: arranging first and second light emitting elements, each having a pair of electrodes disposed on a surface opposite to a main light emitting surface, on a base body adjacent to each other with the electrodes facing upward; forming a light shielding member at least covering the electrodes of each of the first and second light emitting elements and a portion between the first and second light emitting elements; forming recesses by removing portions of the light shielding member so that at least a portion of each of the electrodes of the first and second light emitting elements are exposed from the light shielding member; and forming electrically conductive members in the recesses so that each of the electrically conductive members is in contact with a corresponding one of the electrodes of the first and second light emitting elements.
US10224467B2	Methods for producing a plurality of conversion elements, conversion element and optoelectronic component A method for producing a plurality of conversion elements (10) is specified, comprising providing a carrier substrate (1), introducing a converter material (3) into a matrix material (2), applying the matrix material (2) with the converter material (3) to individual regions (8) of the carrier substrate (1) in a non-continuous pattern, applying a barrier substrate (5) to the matrix material (2) and to the carrier substrate (1), and singulating the carrier substrate (1) with the matrix material (2) and the barrier substrate (5) into a plurality of conversion elements (10) along singulation lines (V), wherein the conversion elements (10) in each case comprise at least one of the regions (8) of the matrix material (2).
US10224465B2	Method of manufacturing light emitting device A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: providing particles of a fluorescent material; providing a substrate having a light emitting element mounted thereon; providing a first resin solution and a second resin solution that are two components of a two-component type curable resin; mixing the particles of the fluorescent material in the first resin solution to obtain a first suspension; mixing the second resin solution with the first suspension to obtain a second suspension, and applying the second suspension on the light emitting element and curing the second suspension to obtain a sealing member.
US10224463B2	Film forming method, method of manufacturing semiconductor light-emitting device, semiconductor light-emitting device, and illuminating device An object of the present invention is to provide a film formation technique having high productivity by realizing a foundation layer having excellent crystallinity with a small film thickness of about 2 μm. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a film forming method which includes the step of forming a buffer layer by sputtering on a sapphire substrate held by a substrate holder. The buffer layer includes an epitaxial film having a wurtzite structure prepared by adding at least one substance selected from the group consisting of C, Si, Ge, Mg, Zn, Mn, and Cr to AlxGa1−xN (where 0≤x≤1).
US10224460B2	Micro assembled LED displays and lighting elements The disclosed technology provides micro-assembled micro-LED displays and lighting elements using arrays of micro-LEDs that are too small (e.g., micro-LEDs with a width or diameter of 10 μm to 50 μm), numerous, or fragile to assemble by conventional means. The disclosed technology provides for micro-LED displays and lighting elements assembled using micro-transfer printing technology. The micro-LEDs can be prepared on a native substrate and printed to a display substrate (e.g., plastic, metal, glass, or other materials), thereby obviating the manufacture of the micro-LEDs on the display substrate. In certain embodiments, the display substrate is transparent and/or flexible.
US10224459B2	All-inorganic perovskite-based films, devices, and methods Provided herein are all-inorganic perovskite-based films, devices including all-inorganic perovskite-based films, and methods of forming all-inorganic perovskite-based films. The methods may include casting a precursor formulation that includes an all-inorganic perovskite, a liquid, and a polymer. The amount of polymer in the precursor formulation may be less than the amount of all-inorganic perovskite in the precursor formulation.
US10224457B2	Light emitting device with trench beneath a top contact Embodiments of the invention are directed to structures in a vertical light emitting device that prevent light from being generated beneath absorbing structures, and/or direct light away from absorbing structures. Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor structure including a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. A bottom contact is disposed on a bottom surface of the semiconductor structure. The bottom contact is electrically connected to one of the n-type region and the p-type region. A top contact is disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor structure. The top contact is electrically connected to the other of the n-type region and the p-type region. The top contact includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side. A first trench is formed in the semiconductor structure beneath the first side of the top contact. A second trench is formed in the seminconductor structure beneath the second side of the top contact.
US10224456B2	Deep ultraviolet light emitting diode A method of fabricating a light emitting diode, which includes an n-type contact layer and a light generating structure adjacent to the n-type contact layer, is provided. The light generating structure includes a set of quantum wells. The contact layer and light generating structure can be configured so that a difference between an energy of the n-type contact layer and an electron ground state energy of a quantum well is greater than an energy of a polar optical phonon in a material of the light generating structure. Additionally, the light generating structure can be configured so that its width is comparable to a mean free path for emission of a polar optical phonon by an electron injected into the light generating structure.
US10224455B2	Light emitting device and method of forming the same A light-emitting device includes a transparent substrate, a transparent adhesive layer on the transparent substrate, a first transparent conductive layer on the transparent adhesive layer, a multi-layer epitaxial structure and a first electrode on the transparent conductive layer, and a second electrode on the multi-layer epitaxial structure. The multi-layer epitaxial structure includes a light-emitting layer. The transparent substrate has a first surface facing the transparent adhesive layer and a second surface opposite to the first surface, wherein the area of the second surface is larger than that of the light-emitting layer, and the area ratio thereof is not less than 1.6.
US10224446B2	Backsheet for photovoltaic panels with double contacting face conductive elements of the non-through type and assembly method Backsheet for photovoltaic panels with conductive interface elements intended to simplify the electrical connection of the terminal points of the circuit to the back junction box. The conductive elements are of the non-through type through the backsheet, with double contacting face, and are integrated on the front side towards the cells within recessed seats and in correspondence of through-holes in such a way as to enable an electrical connection by contact from the back side through the holes, in a guided way, by means of respective conductive elements protruding and fastened to the junction box. In particular, such a simplified contacting solution can be realized with extreme precision, without manual operations and at extremely low costs, with an automated assembly method.
US10224442B2	Metallization of solar cells with differentiated P-type and N-type region architectures Methods of fabricating solar cell emitter regions with differentiated P-type and N-type regions architectures, and resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a back contact solar cell can include a substrate having a light-receiving surface and a back surface. A first polycrystalline silicon emitter region of a first conductivity type is disposed on a first thin dielectric layer disposed on the back surface of the substrate. A second polycrystalline silicon emitter region of a second, different, conductivity type is disposed on a second thin dielectric layer disposed on the back surface of the substrate. A third thin dielectric layer is disposed over an exposed outer portion of the first polycrystalline silicon emitter region and is disposed laterally directly between the first and second polycrystalline silicon emitter regions. A first conductive contact structure is disposed on the first polycrystalline silicon emitter region. A second conductive contact structure is disposed on the second polycrystalline silicon emitter region. Metallization methods, include etching techniques for forming a first and second conductive contact structure are also described.
US10224441B2	Solar cell and method of manufacturing the same A solar cell includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductive type and includes a first side and a second side, the second side having a textured structure formed on the entire second side; a first doped region of the first conductive type and a second doped region of a second conductive type on the first side; a first passivation layer on the first doped region and the second doped region and exposing a portion of a back surface of each of the first and second doped regions, the first passivation layer being formed of silicon nitride (SiNx), silicon dioxide (SiOx), or a combination thereof; a second passivation layer on the second side; an anti-reflection layer on the second passivation layer; and a first electrode electrically connected to the first doped region and a second electrode electrically connected to the second doped region.
US10224440B2	Metal dendrite-free solar cell A method for forming a solar cell including steps of (1) providing a semiconductor wafer having an upper surface; (2) applying an electrical contact material to the upper surface, the electrical contact material forming an electrically conductive grid that includes grid lines extending from a bus bar; (3) forming an isolation channel in the semiconductor wafer to define a solar cell portion and a wing portion, wherein the wing portion is electrically isolated from the solar cell portion, and wherein the wing portion is substantially free of the electrical contact material; (4) submerging the semiconductor wafer in a solvent, wherein formation of metal dendrites on the grid lines of the electrically conductive grid is inhibited; and (5) separating the solar cell portion from the wing portion.
US10224437B2	Light detection device A semiconductor substrate includes a first region in which a plurality of pixels are disposed and a second region located inside the first region to be surrounded by the first region when viewed from a direction in which a principal surface and a principal surface oppose each other. A through-hole penetrating through the semiconductor substrate is formed in the second region of the semiconductor substrate. An electrode disposed on a side of the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of pixels and an electrode disposed on a side of a principal surface of a mount substrate are connected to each other via a bonding wire inserted through the through-hole.
US10224436B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a silicon carbide semiconductor layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a termination region disposed in the silicon carbide semiconductor layer. The termination region has a guard ring region and an FLR region which is disposed to surround the guard ring region while being separated from the guard ring region, the FLR region including a plurality of rings. The termination region includes a sector section, and in the sector section, an inner circumference and an outer circumference of at least one of the plurality of rings and an inner circumference and an outer circumference of the guard ring region have a same first center of curvature, the first center of curvature being positioned inside the inner circumference of the guard ring region, and a radius of curvature of the inner circumference of the guard ring region is 50 μm or less.
US10224435B2	Transistor, manufacturing method thereof, and display device including the same An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a transistor including: a drain electrode; a first insulating member on the drain electrode and having a tilted side wall; a source electrode on the first insulating member; an active member covering the tilted side wall of the first insulating member, a side wall of the source electrode, and a side wall of the drain electrode; a second insulating member covering the source electrode and the active member; and a gate electrode on the second insulating member and overlapping the active member, wherein the active member defines a first channel region adjacent to the drain electrode and a second channel region adjacent to the source electrode, and wherein a width of the first channel region may be greater than that of the second channel region.
US10224434B2	Multi-channel thin film transistor and pixel including the same A multi-channel thin film transistor (“TFT”) includes: a gate electrode; a semiconductor including a first channel area, which operates within a first driving range and has a first threshold voltage, and a second channel area which operates within a second driving range smaller than the first driving range and has a second threshold voltage, where an absolute value of the second threshold voltage is greater than an absolute value of the first threshold voltage; a first electrode connected to an end of the semiconductor; and a second electrode connected to another end of the semiconductor.
US10224433B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device In a semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer on side surfaces of which sidewall insulating layers are provided are stacked in this order, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are provided in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and the sidewall insulating layers. In a process for manufacturing the semiconductor device, a conductive layer and an interlayer insulating layer are stacked to cover the oxide semiconductor layer, the sidewall insulating layers, and the gate electrode layer. Then, parts of the interlayer insulating layer and the conductive layer over the gate electrode layer are removed by a chemical mechanical polishing method, so that a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are formed. Before formation of the gate insulating layer, cleaning treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor layer.
US10224431B2	Wrapped source/drain contacts with enhanced area Methods of forming semiconductor devices include forming a first dielectric layer over a semiconductor fin. A second dielectric layer is formed around the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor fin is recessed below a height of the first and second dielectric layers. Source and drain extensions are grown from the recessed semiconductor fin. The first dielectric layer is recessed to expose an underside of and sidewalls of the source/drain extensions. Conductive contacts are formed around exposed portions of the source/drain extensions.
US10224430B1	Thin film transistors with epitaxial source/drain and drain field relief A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor layer on an insulating layer, epitaxially growing a first layer on the semiconductor layer, wherein the first layer has a first doping concentration, epitaxially growing a second layer on the semiconductor layer, wherein the second layer has a second doping concentration higher than the first doping concentration, forming a gate dielectric over an active region of the semiconductor layer, forming a gate electrode on the gate dielectric, and forming a plurality of source/drain contacts to the second layer, wherein the first and second layers comprise crystalline hydrogenated silicon (c-Si:H).
US10224429B2	Precise junction placement in vertical semiconductor devices using etch stop layers A semiconductor device is provided that includes a first of a source region and a drain region comprised of a first semiconductor material, wherein an etch stop layer of a second semiconductor material present within the first of the source region and the drain region. A channel semiconductor material is present atop the first of the source region and the drain region. A second of the source and the drain region is present atop the channel semiconductor material. The semiconductor device may be a vertically orientated fin field effect transistor or a vertically orientated tunnel field effect transistor.
US10224422B2	Method to fabricate quantum dot field-effect transistors without bias-stress effect Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method to form quantum dot field-effect transistors (QD FETs) having little to no bias-stress effect. Bias-stress effect can be reduced or eliminated through, as an example, the use of a gas or liquid to remove ligands and/or reduce charge trapping on the QD FETs, followed by deposition of an inorganic or organic matrix around the QDs in the FET.
US10224419B2	Threshold voltage modulation through channel length adjustment A method of forming an arrangement of long and short fins on a substrate, including forming a plurality of finFET devices having long fins on the substrate, where the long fins have a fin length in the range of about 180 nm to about 350 nm, and forming a plurality of finFET devices having short fins on the substrate, where the short fins have a fin length in the range of about 60 nm to about 140 nm, wherein at least one of the plurality of finFET devices having a long fin is adjacent to at least one of the plurality of finFET devices having a short fin.
US10224418B2	Integrated circuit fabrication with boron etch-stop layer Aspects of the present disclosure include fabricating integrated circuit (IC) structures using a boron etch-stop layer, and IC structures with a boron-rich region therein. Methods of forming an IC structure according to the present disclosure can include: growing a conductive epitaxial layer on an upper surface of a semiconductor element; forming a boron etch-stop layer directly on an upper surface of the conductive epitaxial layer; forming an insulator on the boron etch-stop layer; forming an opening within the insulator to expose an upper surface of the boron etch-stop layer; annealing the boron etch-stop layer to drive boron into the conductive epitaxial layer, such that the boron etch-stop layer becomes a boron-rich region; and forming a contact to the boron-rich region within the opening, such that the contact is electrically connected to the semiconductor element through at least the conductive epitaxial layer.
US10224413B1	Radio-frequency carbon-nanotube field effect transistor devices with local backgates and methods for making same A radio-frequency (RF) carbon-nanotube (CNT) field effect transistor (FET) device. The device includes a source contact, a drain contact, semi-conducting CNTs positioned between the source and drain contacts, high-κ gate dielectric, and a local backgate positioned below the semi-conducting CNTs, in which the local backgate is capable of RF performance and is capable of being used in a backgate burnout process used to enhance the semiconducting to metallic tube ratio of the device.
US10224410B2	Through-substrate via power gating and delivery bipolar transistor Embodiments herein describe a through-substrate via formed in a semiconductor substrate that includes a transistor. In one embodiment, the through-substrate via includes a BJT which includes different doped semiconductor layers that form a collector, a base, and an emitter. The through-substrate via can also include metal contacts to the collector, base, and emitter which enable the through-substrate via to be coupled to a metal routing layer or a solder bump.
US10224407B2	High voltage field effect transistor with laterally extended gate dielectric and method of making thereof A trench having a uniform depth is provided in an upper portion of a semiconductor substrate. A continuous dielectric material layer is formed, which includes a gate dielectric that fills an entire volume of the trench. A gate electrode is formed over the gate dielectric such that the gate electrode overlies a center portion of the gate dielectric and does not overlie a first peripheral portion and a second peripheral portion of the gate dielectric that are located on opposing sides of the center portion of the gate dielectric. After formation of a dielectric gate spacer, a source extension region and a drain extension region are formed within the semiconductor substrate by doping respective portions of the semiconductor substrate.
US10224394B2	Superjunction semiconductor device having a superstructure According to an embodiment of a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate includes a superjunction structure in a device region of a semiconductor layer and an alignment mark in a kerf region of the semiconductor layer. The superjunction structure includes first regions and second regions of opposite conductivity types, the first and the second regions alternating along at least one horizontal direction. The alignment mark includes a vertical step formed by an alignment structure projecting or recessed from a main surface of the semiconductor layer. The alignment structure is of a material of the first regions of the superjunction structure.
US10224393B2	Method of producing semiconductor chips that efficiently dissipate heat A method of producing a plurality of semiconductor chips includes a) providing a carrier substrate having a first major face and a second major face opposite the first major face; b) forming a diode structure between the first major face and the second major face, the diode structure electrically insulating the first major face from the second major face at least with regard to one polarity of an electrical voltage; c) arranging a semiconductor layer sequence on the first major face of the carrier substrate; and d) singulating the carrier substrate with the semiconductor layer sequence into a plurality of semiconductor chips.
US10224390B2	High breakdown voltage passive element and high breakdown voltage passive element manufacturing method Warping of a semiconductor wafer occurring due to a difference in the thermal expansion rates of an insulating film and the semiconductor wafer is restricted. Therefore, processing failures and conveying failures in the manufacturing process, as well as cracking of the semiconductor wafer, are restricted. Provided is a high breakdown voltage passive element including a substrate, a lower metal layer and upper metal layer stacked on the substrate, and an insulating unit formed between the lower metal layer and upper metal layer, wherein the insulating unit has a first insulating film whose thermal expansion rate is lower than the thermal expansion rate of the substrate, and a second insulating film, formed on the first insulating film, whose thermal expansion rate is higher than the thermal expansion rate of the substrate.
US10224386B2	Display with power supply mesh An organic light-emitting diode display may have an array of pixels. The pixels may each have an organic light-emitting diode with a respective anode and may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. A mesh-shaped path may be used to distribute a power supply voltage to the thin-film circuitry. The mesh-shaped path may have intersecting horizontally extending lines and vertically extending lines. The horizontally extending lines may be zigzag metal lines that do not overlap the anodes. The vertically extending lines may be straight vertical metal lines that overlap the anodes. The pixels may include pixels of different colors. Angularly dependent shifts in display color may be minimized by ensuring that the anodes of the differently colored pixels overlap the vertically extending lines by similar amounts.
US10224378B2	Organic light emitting device (OLED) pixel arrangement structure An organic light emitting diode pixel arrangement structure includes multiple first sub-pixels, multiple second sub-pixels, and multiple third sub-pixels. Two adjacent first sub-pixels are arranged in a first sub-pixel group, two adjacent second sub-pixels are arranged in a second sub-pixel group, two adjacent third sub-pixels are arranged in a third sub-pixel group. The multiple sub-pixels form multiple arrays, and each array includes at least one first sub-pixel, at least one second sub-pixel and at least one third sub-pixel, each of the first, second and third sub-pixel groups corresponds to a square opening of a mask plate in an evaporation process, there is an inclination angle between a side of the square opening and an arrangement direction of a linear evaporation source, and the inclination angle is an acute angle or an obtuse angle.
US10224377B2	Organic light-emitting display device An organic light-emitting display device with improved light efficiency includes a plurality of pixel electrodes each corresponding one of at least a first, second, or third pixel; a pixel-defining layer covering an edge and exposing a central portion of the pixel electrodes; an intermediate layer over the pixel electrode and including an emission layer; an opposite electrode over the intermediate layer; and a lens layer over the opposite electrode and including a plurality of condensing lenses each having a circular lower surface. An area of the portion of the pixel electrode exposed by the pixel-defining layer is A, and an area of the lower surface of the condensing lens is B. For the first pixel, a ratio B/A ranges from about 1.34 to about 2.63. For the second pixel, B/A ranges from about 1.43 to about 3.00, For the third pixel, B/A ranges from about 1.30 to about 2.43.
US10224372B2	Three-dimensional memory device with vertical bit lines and replacement word lines and method of making thereof A method of forming a device includes forming an in-process alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers over a substrate, forming sacrificial pillar structures through the in-process alternating stack, where the sacrificial pillar structures are arranged in rows, forming inter-pillar cavities between each neighboring pair of sacrificial pillar structures, forming dielectric bridge structures by depositing a dielectric fill material in the inter-pillar cavities, selectively removing the sacrificial pillar structures to form pillar cavities, replacing remaining portions of the sacrificial material layers with electrically conductive layers through the pillar cavities, and forming pillar structures in the pillar cavities, where each of the pillar structures includes a respective vertical electrode.
US10224369B2	Threshold switching device, method for fabricating the same and electronic device including the same A threshold switching device may include: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a first insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers, and provided adjacent to the first electrode layer; and a second insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers, and provided adjacent to the second electrode layer, wherein the first and second insulating layers contain a plurality of neutral defects, a concentration of the plurality of neutral defects being at a maximum along a first interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and wherein the threshold switching device has an ON or OFF state according to whether electrons are ejected from the plurality of neutral defects.
US10224366B2	Vehicle lamp using semiconductor light emitting device forming triangular arrays The present invention relates to a vehicle lamp, and more particularly, a vehicle lamp using a semiconductor light emitting device. The vehicle lamp according to the present invention includes a light source unit, and the light source unit includes a wiring board, and a plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices electrically connected to the wiring board and arranged along a plurality of rows, wherein the plurality of semiconductor light emitting devices include first semiconductor light emitting devices arranged at preset intervals along a first row of the plurality of rows, and second semiconductor light emitting devices arranged at the preset intervals along a second row neighboring to the first row, and wherein each of the second semiconductor light emitting devices is disposed between neighboring first semiconductor light emitting devices of the first semiconductor light emitting devices so as to form triangular arrays with the first semiconductor light emitting devices.
US10224364B2	CMOS image sensor having enhanced near infrared quantum efficiency and modulation transfer function An image sensor comprises a semiconductor material having an illuminated surface and a non-illuminated surface; a photodiode formed in the semiconductor material extending from the illuminated surface to receive an incident light through the illuminated surface, wherein the received incident light generates charges in the photodiode; a transfer gate electrically coupled to the photodiode to transfer the generated charges from the photodiode in response to a transfer signal; a floating diffusion electrically coupled to the transfer gate to receive the transferred charges from the photodiode; and a near infrared (NIR) quantum efficiency (QE) and modulation transfer function(MTF) enhancement structure. The NIR QE and MTF enhancement structure comprises: a NIR QE enhancement sub-structure comprising at least one NIR QE enhancement elements within a photosensitive region of the photodiode, wherein the NIR QE enhancement sub-structure is configured to modify the incident light at the illuminated surface of the semiconductor material by at least one of diffraction, deflection and reflection, to redistribute the incident light within the photodiode to improve optical sensitivity, including NIR light sensitivity, of the image sensor; and a MTF enhancement sub-structure disposed on the non-illuminated surface of the semiconductor material, facing toward the NIR QE enhancement sub-structure, wherein the MTF enhancement structure has a geometry corresponding to the NIR QE enhancement sub-structure, to ensure the incident light is still within the photodiode after redistribution.
US10224363B2	Terahertz CMOS sensor An imaging sensor for accepting terahertz signals, including a die made of a dielectric material, one or more antennas for receiving terahertz signals, positioned on top of the die or in an upper layer of the die, each antenna having a CMOS detector electrically coupled to the antenna and positioned in the die below the antenna, a metal shield layer in the die below the antennas and above the CMOS detectors, shielding the CMOS detector from interference signals, a shielding layer under the die comprising a back metal coating and/or a layer of silver epoxy glue for attaching the bottom of the die to a lead frame.
US10224361B2	Photodiode array A light receiving region includes a plurality of light detecting sections 10. The light detecting sections 10 has a second contact electrode 4A. The second contact electrode 4A is arranged at a position overlapping a first contact electrode 3A, so as to contact the first contact electrode. Further, a resistive layer 4B is continued to the second contact electrode 4A.
US10224359B2	Pixel isolation elements, devices and associated methods Light trapping pixels, devices incorporating such pixels, and various associated methods are provided. In one aspect, for example, a light trapping pixel device can include a light sensitive pixel having a light incident surface, a backside surface opposite the light incident surface, and a peripheral sidewall disposed into at least a portion of the pixel and extending at least substantially around the pixel periphery. The pixel can also include a backside light trapping material substantially covering the backside surface and a peripheral light trapping material substantially covering the peripheral sidewall. The light contacting the backside light trapping material or the peripheral light trapping material is thus reflected back toward the pixel.
US10224355B2	Comparator for low-banding noise and CMOS image sensor including the same A comparator may include: a comparison block suitable for comparing a ramp signal and a pixel signal and outputting a comparison signal; and a gain acquisition and noise reduction block suitable for amplifying the comparison signal outputted from the comparison block to acquire a gain and reduce an occurrence of noise.
US10224354B2	Distance image sensor In any three of three range sensors consecutively aligned in a one-dimensional direction, first signal charge-accumulating regions are adjacent to each other in the one-dimensional direction in the range sensor positioned in a center of the three range sensors and the range sensor positioned closer to one side of the one-dimensional direction than the range sensor positioned in the center of the three range sensors, and the first signal charge-accumulating region and the second signal charge-accumulating region are adjacent to each other in the one-dimensional direction in the range sensor positioned in the center of the three range sensors and the range sensor positioned closer to an another side of the one-dimensional direction than the range sensor positioned in the center of the three range sensors.
US10224353B2	Manufacturing method for an array substrate Disclosed are an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a sensor and a detection device. The array substrate includes: a base substrate; a thin-film transistor (TFT) being disposed on the base substrate and including a source electrode and an active layer; a passivation layer disposed on the TFT; a first metal layer disposed on the passivation layer; an insulating layer disposed on the first metal layer; a through hole structure running through the insulating layer, the first metal layer and the passivation layer; and a detection unit being disposed on the insulating layer and including a second metal layer, wherein the second metal layer makes direct contact with the source electrode via the through hole structure.
US10224352B2	Integral optical sensor package The present invention relates to an integral optical sensor package. More particularly, the present invention relates to an integral optical sensor package in which a light sensor for receiving a visible light band and a remote control sensor for receiving a light signal of an IR band are integrated such that the two sensors may receive the light of the unique light bands thereof without mutual interference. Further, a light-emitting means for indicating the operation of the remote control sensor can be integrated with the light sensor and the remote control sensor, thus reducing the number of processes and costs for manufacturing an apparatus.
US10224337B2	Memory having a continuous channel The present disclosure includes memory having a continuous channel, and methods of processing the same. A number of embodiments include forming a vertical stack having memory cells connected in series between a source select gate and a drain select gate, wherein forming the vertical stack includes forming a continuous channel for the source select gate, the memory cells, and the drain select gate, and removing a portion of the continuous channel for the drain select gate such that the continuous channel is thinner for the drain select gate than for the memory cells and the source select gate.
US10224333B2	Compounds for preventing and/or treating lysosomal storage disorders and/or degenerative disorders of the central nervous system Described are novel salts of the compound (3R,4R,5S)-5-(difluoromethyl) piperidine-3,4-diol, as well as methods of using the same for preventing and/or treating lysosomal storage disorders and/or degenerative disorders of the central nervous system. In particular, the present invention provides methods for preventing and/or treating Gaucher's disease and/or Parkinson's disease.
US10224332B2	Memory device having vertical structure A semiconductor device includes a substrate with an active region, a plurality of conductive line structures on the substrate, an insulating layer separating the plurality of conductive line structures from the substrate, a contact plug between every two adjacent conductive line structures, an insulating spacer structure between each conductive line structure and a corresponding contact plug, a landing pad connected to each contact plug, and a landing pad insulation pattern having an asymmetrical shape based on a vertical axis of the landing pad that extends along a normal to the substrate. The landing pad insulation pattern includes a first portion overlapping the conductive line structures and a second portion overlapping the contact plug, the first and second portions being on opposite sides of the vertical axis.
US10224328B2	Circuit arrangement having a first semiconductor switch and a second semiconductor switch A circuit has first and second semiconductor switches, each of which has a load path and control terminal connected in series. Each switch includes a first semiconductor device having a load path and a control terminal coupled to the control terminal of its switch, and a second semiconductor device having a load path between first and second load terminals, and a control terminal. Each second semiconductor device has its load path connected in series to the load path of the corresponding first semiconductor device. The semiconductor devices are coupled such that the second semiconductor devices are controlled by a load path voltage of the first semiconductor devices. The switches are integrated in a common semiconductor body. The first switch is implemented in a first area of the semiconductor body, and the second switch is implemented in a second area. In a horizontal plane, the first area surrounds the second area.
US10224327B2	Semiconductor device with different fin pitches A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first fin and a second fin on a substrate, the first fin arranged in parallel with the second fin, the first fin arranged a first distance from the second fin, the first fin and the second fin extending from a first source/drain region through a channel region and into a second source/drain region on the substrate. The method further includes forming a third fin on the substrate, the third fin arranged in parallel with the first fin and between the first fin and the second fin, the third fin arranged a second distance from the first fin, the second distance is less than the first distance, the third fin having two distal ends arranged in the first source/drain region. A gate stack is formed over the first fin and the second fin.
US10224326B2	Fin cut during replacement gate formation A method is presented for forming a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a plurality of vertical fins over a semiconductor layer formed over a substrate, depositing an oxide over the plurality of fins, and applying a cutting mask over a portion of the plurality of fins. The method further includes removing the oxide from the exposed portion of the plurality of fins, depositing a replacement gate stack, and etching portions of the replacement gate stack to remove exposed fins, the exposed fins forming recesses within the semiconductor layer. The method further includes depositing a spacer over the exposed fins and the recesses formed by the removed fins. A portion of the plurality of fins are cut during etching of the replacement gate stack and a portion of the oxide is removed before deposition of the replacement gate stack.
US10224325B2	Apparatus and associated method A semiconductor arrangement comprising; a normally-on transistor having first and second main terminals and a control terminal, a normally-off transistor having first and second main terminals and a control terminal, the transistors connected in a cascode arrangement by a connection between one of the main terminals of the normally-on transistor and one of the main terminals of the normally-off transistor, a current-source arrangement connected to a node on the connection and configured to provide for control of the voltage at said node between the normally-on and normally-off transistors by providing for a predetermined current flow, wherein the semiconductor arrangement comprises a first semiconductor die of III-V semiconductor type having the normally-on transistor formed therein and a second semiconductor die having the normally-off transistor formed therein, the current-source arrangement formed in the first and/or second semiconductor dies.
US10224324B2	Method for manufacturing semiconductor device having gate structure with reduced threshold voltage A semiconductor device is provided, including: a substrate having a first area and a second area; several first gate structures formed at the first area, and at least one of the first gate structures including a first hardmask on a first gate, and the first gate structure having a first gate length; several second gate structures formed at the second area, and at least one of the second gate structures including a second hardmask on a second gate, and the second gate structure having a second gate length. The first gate length is smaller than the second gate length, and the first hardmask contains at least a portion of nitrogen (N2)-based silicon nitride (SiN) which is free of OH concentration.
US10224323B2	Isolation structure for semiconductor device having self-biasing buried layer and method therefor A semiconductor device includes a floating buried doped region, a first doped region disposed between the floating buried doped region and a first major surface, and a semiconductor region disposed between the floating buried doped region and a second major surface. A trench isolation structure extends from the first major surface and terminates within the semiconductor region and the floating buried doped region abuts the trench isolation structure. A second doped region is disposed in the first doped region has an opposite conductivity type to the first doped region. A first isolation device is disposed in the first doped region and is configured to divert current injected into the semiconductor device from other regions thereby delaying the triggering of an internal SCR structure. In one embodiment, a second isolation structure is disposed within the first doped region and is configured to disrupt a leakage path along a sidewall surface of the trench isolation structure.
US10224322B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a diode provided with: a drift layer being a first conductivity type; a cathode region being provided in a back face side of the drift layer and being the first conductivity type; a second conductivity type region provided in a surface layer part of the drift layer; multiple trenches dividing the second conductivity type region into pieces by being provided deeper than the second conductivity type region, and configuring an anode region; a gate insulation film provided in a surface of the trench; a gate electrode provided in a surface of the gate insulation film; an upper electrode electrically connected with the anode region; and a lower electrode electrically connected with the cathode region. A width between the trenches is narrowest in the drift layer is defined as a mesa width. The mesa width is set to be equal to or greater than 0.3 μm.
US10224320B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a semiconductor substrate having a first plane and a second plane, a plurality of first semiconductor areas provided on the first plane, a plurality of second semiconductor areas provided between the plurality of first semiconductor areas, a plurality of insulator regions provided between the first semiconductor areas and the second semiconductor areas, first-conductivity-type drain regions provided in the first semiconductor areas, first-conductivity-type source regions provided in the second semiconductor areas, gate electrodes, first-conductivity-type first impurity regions that are provided between the first-conductivity-type drain regions and the second plane and have a lower first-conductivity-type impurity concentration than the first-conductivity-type drain regions, and a plurality of second-conductivity-type second impurity regions provided between the first-conductivity-type source regions and the second plane. The width of at least one of the plurality of first semiconductor areas is greater than the width of the other first semiconductor areas.
US10224309B2	Integrated circuit die having backside passive components and methods associated therewith Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) die. In embodiments, the IC die may include a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of active components disposed on a first side of the semiconductor substrate, and a plurality of passive components disposed on a second side of the semiconductor substrate. In embodiments the second side may be disposed opposite the first side. The passive components may, in some embodiments, include capacitors and/or resistors while the active components may, in some embodiments, include transistors. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10224301B2	Semiconductor package device and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor package device includes a carrier, a first electronic component, and a conductive element on the carrier. The first electronic component is over the carrier. The conductive element is on the carrier and electrically connects the first electronic component to the carrier. The conductive element includes at least one conductive particle and a solder material covering the conductive particle, and the conductive particle includes a metal core, a barrier layer covering the metal core, and a metal layer covering the barrier layer.
US10224299B2	Sintered solder for fine pitch first-level interconnect (FLI) applications Foundation layers and methods of forming a foundation layer are described. Die pads are formed over a die. A dielectric layer is formed over die pads and the die. The dielectric layer is then recessed to expose top portions of the die pads. A first plurality of sintered conductive vias are formed over the die pads. The first sintered conductive vias are coupled to at least one of the die pads. In addition, a photoresist layer may be formed over the dielectric layer and the top portions of the die pads. Via openings are formed in the photoresist layer. A second plurality of sintered conductive vias may then be formed over the first sintered conductive vias to form a plurality of sintered conductive lines. Each of the first and second sintered conductive vias are formed with a liquid phase sintering (LPS) solder paste.
US10224298B2	Semiconductor package device having glass transition temperature greater than binding layer temperature In one or more embodiments, a micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) package structure comprises a MEMS die, a conductive pillar adjacent to the MEMS die, a package body and a binding layer on the package body. The package body encapsulates the MEMS die and the conductive pillar, and exposes a top surface of the conductive pillar. A glass transition temperature (Tg) of the package body is greater than a temperature for forming the binding layer (Tc).
US10224295B2	Device and method for generating identification key Provided are a device and method for generating an identification key using process variation during a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) process. A BJT may be produced by designing such that the effective base width of the BJT is at least a first threshold value but not more than a second threshold value, or, such that the total of the width of a second depletion region formed by connection with a collector region and the width of a first depletion region formed by connection with an emitter region, within a base region, differs from the width of the base region by a value that is at least the first threshold value but not more than the second threshold value. Whether or not there is a short circuit between the emitter region and the collector region is stochastically generated, and if ordinary turn-on voltage is not applied, whether or not there is a short circuit is identified.
US10224294B2	Semiconductor device Airtightness of a hollow portion is maintained, and yield and durability are improved. A semiconductor device 1 includes a device substrate 2, a semiconductor circuit 3, a sealing frame 7, a cap substrate 8, via portions 10, electrodes 11, 12 and 13, and a bump portion 14 or the like. A hollow portion 9 in which the semiconductor circuit 3 is housed in an airtight state is provided between the device substrate 2 and the cap substrate 8. The bump portion 14 connects all the via portions 10 and the cap substrate 8. Thus, the via portions 10 can be reinforced using the bump portion 14A.
US10224289B2	Display device having an alignment mark A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area. An alignment mark is positioned in the non-display area. A protective layer is positioned around the alignment mark in the non-display area and separated from the alignment mark in a direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. A supporting member is positioned between the alignment mark and the protective layer.
US10224287B2	Semiconductor device and wafer level package including such semiconductor device An RDL structure on a passivation layer includes a first landing pad disposed directly above a first on-chip metal pad; a first via in a passivation layer to electrically connect the first landing pad with the first on-chip metal pad; a second landing pad disposed directly above the second on-chip metal pad; a second via in the passivation layer to electrically connect the second landing pad with the second on-chip metal pad; and at least five traces being disposed on the passivation layer and passing through a space between the first landing pad and the second landing pad.
US10224285B2	Nitride structure having gold-free contact and methods for forming such structures A semiconductor structure having a Group III-N semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate. A multi-layer, electrical contact structure in contact with the Group III-N semiconductor layer includes a gold-free contact layer in contact with the Group III-N semiconductor layer; and a gold-free electrically conductive etch stop layer electrically connected to the gold-free contact layer. An electrically conductive via passes through the substrate to the etch stop layer. The structure includes a plurality of electrode structures, each one providing a corresponding one of a source electrode structure, drain electrode structure and a gate electrode structure. The source electrode structure, drain electrode structure and gate electrode structure include: an electrical contact structure and an electrode contact. The electrode contacts have the same gold-free structure and have co-planar upper surfaces.
US10224278B2	Semiconductor device with anti-fuse component including electrode over corner of insulating member A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising an upper layer portion, a first insulating member located in the upper layer portion of the semiconductor substrate and having one or more corner portions, an electrode located on the semiconductor substrate, wherein the electrode overlies at least one of the corner portions of the first insulating member, and an insulating film located between the semiconductor substrate and the electrode.
US10224275B2	Copper interconnect structures Semiconductor devices include a patterned dielectric layer overlaying a semiconductor substrate; a metal layer comprising copper disposed in the patterned dielectric layer; and a barrier layer formed at an interface between the dielectric layer and the metal layer, wherein the barrier layer is AlOxNy. The patterned dielectric may define a trench and via interconnect structure or first and second trenches for a capacitor structure. Also disclosed are processes for forming the semiconductor device, which includes subjecting the dielectric surfaces to a nitridization process to form a nitrogen enriched surface. Aluminum metal is then conformally deposited onto the nitrogen enriched surfaces to form AlOxNy at the aluminum metal/dielectric interface. The patterned substrate is then metalized with copper and annealed. Upon annealing, a copper aluminum alloy is formed at the copper metal/aluminum interface.
US10224273B2	Multi terminal capacitor within input output path of semiconductor package interconnect A semiconductor package, e.g., wafer, chip, interposer, etc., includes a multi terminal capacitor within an input output (IO) path. The multi terminal capacitor is electrically attached directly upon a first IO contact of the semiconductor package. There is no inductance between the multi terminal capacitor and a interconnect that electrically connects the first IO contact with a second IO contact of a second semiconductor package and no inductance between the multi terminal capacitor and the first IO contact. The multi terminal capacitor may serve as a power source to cycle the turning on and off of the various circuits within a semiconductor chip associated with the semiconductor package. Because the distance between the multi terminal capacitor and semiconductor chip is reduced, inductance within the system is resultantly reduced. The multi terminal capacitor may be a decoupling capacitor that decouples one part of semiconductor chip from another part of semiconductor chip.
US10224270B1	Fine pitch copper pillar package and method An electronic component package includes a substrate having an upper surface. Traces on the upper surface of the substrate extend in a longitudinal direction. The traces have a first latitudinal width in a latitudinal direction, the latitudinal direction being perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Rectangular copper pillars are attached to bond pads of an electronic component, the copper pillars having a longitudinal length and a latitudinal second width. The latitudinal second width of the copper pillars is equal to and aligned with the first latitudinal width of the traces. Further, the longitudinal length of the copper pillars is parallel with the longitudinal direction of the trace and equal to the length of the bond pads. The copper pillars are mounted to the traces with solder joints.
US10224259B2	Resin composition for sealing semiconductor and semiconductor device The resin composition for sealing semiconductor according to the present invention is characterized by containing a maleimide-based compound represented by the following general formula (1), at least one of the benzoxazine-based compounds represented by the following general formula (2-1) and the following general formula (2-2), a curing catalyst, and an inorganic filler.In the general formulae (1), (2-1) and (2-2), each of X2, X3 and X4 independently represents an alkylene group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, a group represented by the following general formula (3), a group represented by the formula “—SO2—” or “—CO—”, an oxygen atom or a single bond.
US10224256B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor package A manufacturing method of a semiconductor package includes etching a first surface and a side surface of a base substrate, the base substrate including the first, a second and the side surfaces positioned between the first and the second surfaces, the base substrate containing a metal, attaching a metal different from the metal contained in the base substrate to the first and the side surfaces, disposing a semiconductor device on the second surface, the semiconductor device having an external terminal, forming a resin insulating layer sealing the semiconductor device, forming a first conductive layer on the resin insulating layer, forming an opening, exposing the external terminal, in the first conductive layer and the resin insulating layer; and forming a metal layer on the first and the side surfaces, on the first conductive layer and in the opening.
US10224255B2	Shielded and packaged electronic devices, electronic assemblies, and methods Shielded and packaged electronic devices, electronic assemblies, and methods are disclosed herein. The shielded and packaged electronic devices include a packaged electronic device with a package surface and a plurality of electrically conductive package pads arranged on the package surface, a shielding dielectric layer extending in contact with the package surface and having a shielding layer surface and a plurality of openings that extends between the shielding layer surface and the plurality of electrically conductive package pads, and a plurality of electrical conductors that extends from the plurality of electrically conductive package pads and projects from the shielding layer surface. The electronic assemblies include a printed circuit board with a board surface and a plurality of electrically conductive board pads arranged on the board surface, the shielded and packaged electronic device, and an underfill dielectric layer. The methods include methods of manufacturing the electronic assemblies.
US10224254B2	Package process method including disposing a die within a recess of a one-piece material A package structure may include a one-piece metal carrier, a die, a mold layer and a redistribution layer. The one-piece metal carrier may include a bottom portion and a first supporting structure, and the one-piece metal carrier may have a recess defined by the bottom portion and the first supporting structure. The die may be disposed in the recess of the one-piece metal carrier, and the die may have a plurality of conductive bumps. The mold layer may be formed to encapsulate the die. The mold layer may expose a portion of each of the plurality of conductive bumps and a portion of the first supporting structure. The redistribution layer may be disposed on the mold layer and electrically connected to the plurality of conductive bumps.
US10224250B2	High aspect ratio channel semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more specifically to a semiconductor device having a high aspect ratio channel layer. In one aspect, semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having formed thereon a dielectric isolation layer having an opening formed therethrough. The semiconductor device additionally includes a filling isolation structure having a portion formed in the opening and a portion protruding above the dielectric isolation layer, wherein the filling isolation structure comprises a dielectric filling layer. The semiconductor device additionally includes a dielectric layer formed on the dielectric isolation layer, wherein the dielectric layer and the dielectric filling layer have top surfaces that are substantially co-planar to form a common top surface. The semiconductor device further includes a first vertical channel layer laterally interposed between and in contact with the dielectric layer and the dielectric filling layer at a first side of the dielectric filling layer, wherein the first vertical channel layer extends above the common top surface.
US10224245B2	Method of making a finFET, and finFET formed by the method A method includes forming first and second fins of a finFET extending above a semiconductor substrate, with a shallow trench isolation (STI) region in between, and a distance between a top surface of the STI region and top surfaces of the first and second fins. First and second fin extensions are provided on top and side surfaces of the first and second fins above the top surface of the STI region. Material is removed from the STI region, to increase the distance between the top surface of the STI region and top surfaces of the first and second fins. A conformal stressor dielectric material is deposited over the fins and STI region. The conformal dielectric stressor material is reflowed, to flow into a space between the first and second fins above a top surface of the STI region, to apply stress to a channel of the finFET.
US10224244B2	Electronic devices and systems, and methods for making and using the same Some structures and methods to reduce power consumption in devices can be implemented largely by reusing existing bulk CMOS process flows and manufacturing technology, allowing the semiconductor industry as well as the broader electronics industry to avoid a costly and risky switch to alternative technologies. Some of the structures and methods relate to a Deeply Depleted Channel (DDC) design, allowing CMOS based devices to have a reduced σVT compared to conventional bulk CMOS and can allow the threshold voltage VT of FETs having dopants in the channel region to be set much more precisely. The DDC design also can have a strong body effect compared to conventional bulk CMOS transistors, which can allow for significant dynamic control of power consumption in DDC transistors. Additional structures, configurations, and methods presented herein can be used alone or in conjunction with the DDC to yield additional and different benefits.
US10224241B2	Copper interconnect structure with manganese oxide barrier layer Low capacitance and high reliability interconnect structures and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a copper based interconnect structure in an opening of a dielectric material. The method further includes forming a capping layer on the copper based interconnect structure. The method further includes oxidizing the capping layer and any residual material formed on a surface of the dielectric material. The method further includes forming a barrier layer on the capping layer by outdiffusing a material from the copper based interconnect structure to a surface of the capping layer. The method further includes removing the residual material, while the barrier layer on the surface of the capping layer protects the capping layer.
US10224240B1	Distortion reduction of memory openings in a multi-tier memory device through thermal cycle control A first tier structure is provided by forming first memory openings through a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first spacer layers, and by forming sacrificial memory opening fill structures in the first memory openings. A second tier structure is formed over the first tier structure by forming a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second spacer layers. Second memory openings are formed through the second tier structure in areas of the sacrificial memory opening fill structures. Distortion of the first tier structure and misalignment between the first and second memory openings is reduced or prevented by conducting thermal cycles at a lower temperature for the second tier structure than for the first tier structure.
US10224237B2	Semiconductor devices and methods for forming a semiconductor device A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating material layer above a semiconductor substrate and modifying at least a portion of a surface of the insulating material layer after forming the insulating material layer. Further, the method includes forming an electrical conductive structure on at least the portion of the surface of the insulating material layer after modifying at least the portion of the surface of the insulating material layer.
US10224236B2	Forming air gap A method of forming an air gap for a semiconductor device and the device formed are disclosed. The method may include forming an air gap mask layer over a dielectric interconnect layer, the dielectric interconnect layer including a dielectric layer having a conductive interconnect therein and a cap layer over the dielectric layer; patterning the air gap mask layer using extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light and etching to form an air gap mask including an opening in the cap layer exposing a portion of the dielectric layer of the dielectric interconnect layer adjacent to the conductive interconnect; removing the air gap mask; etching an air gap space adjacent to the conductive interconnect within the dielectric layer of the dielectric interconnect layer using the opening in the cap layer; and forming an air gap in the dielectric interconnect layer by depositing an air gap capping layer to seal the air gap space.
US10224234B2	Semiconductor device, manufacturing method thereof, solid-state imaging device, and electronic apparatus A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes bonding a first semiconductor wafer including a first substrate and a first insulating layer formed to contact one surface of the first substrate, and a second semiconductor wafer including a second substrate and a second insulating layer, forming a third insulating layer, performing etching so that the second insulating layer remains on a second wiring layer, forming a first connection hole, forming an insulating film on the first connection hole, performing etching of the second insulating layer and the insulating film, forming a second connection hole, and forming a first via formed in inner portions of the connection holes and connected to the second wiring layer, wherein a diameter of the first connection hole formed on the other surface of the first substrate is greater than a diameter of the first connection hole formed on the third insulating layer.
US10224228B2	Electrostatic chucks and substrate processing apparatus including the same A substrate processing apparatus includes an electrostatic chuck which is made up of a base, a dielectric plate on the base, a chuck electrode in the dielectric plate, and a first heater section in the dielectric plate between the chuck electrode and the base. The first heater section includes first heaters that are separated from each other in a first direction, and respective first upper plate electrodes disposed between the first heaters and the base. The first upper plate electrodes are separated from each other in the first direction and respectively connected to the first heaters.
US10224227B2	Method of processing substrate Described herein is a technique capable of improving the uniformity of device characteristics. According to the technique described herein, there is provided a method of processing a substrate, including: (a) loading a substrate having a patterned hard mask into a process chamber; (b) supplying a metal-containing gas at a first pressure into the process chamber; and (c) supplying an inert gas into the process chamber and storing the metal-containing gas at a second pressure lower than the first pressure after performing (b).
US10224225B2	Centering substrates on a chuck An apparatus and an associated method. The apparatus includes a chuck, an array of three or more ultrasonic sensors, a ceramic ring surrounding the chuck, and a controller connected to the ultrasonic sensors. The chuck is configured to removeably hold a substrate for processing. Each ultrasonic sensor may send a respective ultrasonic sound wave to a respective preselected peripheral region of the substrate and receive a respective return ultrasonic sound wave from the preselected peripheral region. The controller may compare a measured position of the substrate on the chuck to a specified placement of the substrate on the chuck based on a measured elapsed time between sending the ultrasonic sound wave and receiving the return ultrasonic sound wave for each ultrasonic sensor. The method compares a measured position of the substrate on the chuck to a specified position on the chuck.
US10224224B2	High pressure wafer processing systems and related methods A high-pressure processing system for processing a substrate includes a first chamber, a pedestal positioned within the first chamber to support the substrate, a second chamber adjacent the first chamber, a vacuum processing system configured to lower a pressure within the second chamber to near vacuum, a valve assembly between the first chamber and the second chamber to isolate the pressure within the first chamber from the pressure within the second chamber, and a gas delivery system configured to introduce a processing gas into the first chamber and to increase the pressure within the first chamber to at least 10 atmospheres while the processing gas is in the first chamber and while the first chamber is isolated from the second chamber.
US10224223B2	Low temperature thin wafer backside vacuum process with backgrinding tape Vacuum processing, such as a backside metallization (BSM) deposition, is performed on a taped wafer after a gas escape path is formed between a base film of the tape and the wafer frontside surface following backgrind. Venting provided by the gas escape path reduces formation of bubbles under the tape. The gas escape path may be provided, for example, by a selective pre-curing of tape adhesive, to breach an edge seal and place the wafer frontside surface internal to the edge seal in fluid communication with an environment external to the edge seal. With the thinned wafer supported by the pre-cured tape, BSM is then deposited while the wafer and tape are cooled, for example, via a cooled electrostatic chuck.
US10224222B2	Assembly of liner and flange for vertical furnace as well as a vertical process furnace An assembly of a liner and a support flange for a vertical furnace for processing wafers, wherein the support flange is configured for supporting the liner, at least two support members that are connected to the cylindrical wall, each having a downwardly directed supporting surface, wherein each downwardly directed supporting surface is positioned radially outwardly from the inner cylindrical surface, wherein the support flange and/or the liner are configured such that, when the liner is placed on the support flange, the downwardly directed supporting surfaces are in contact with an upper surface of the support flange and support the liner, and wherein at least the part of the lower end surface of the liner that bounds the inner cylindrical surface is spaced apart from the upper surface of the support flange.
US10224218B2	Method for fabricating semiconductor package having a multi-layer encapsulated conductive substrate and structure In one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a multi-layer encapsulated conductive substrate having a fine pitch. The multi-layer encapsulated conductive substrate includes a conductive leads spaced apart from each other, a first encapsulant disposed between the leads, a first conductive layer electrically connected to the plurality of leads, conductive pillars disposed on the first conductive layer, a second encapsulant encapsulating the first conductive layer and the conductive pillars, and a second conductive layer electrically connected to the conductive pillars and exposed in the second encapsulant. A semiconductor die is electrically connected to the second patterned conductive layer. A third encapsulant covers at least the semiconductor die.
US10224217B1	Wafer level fan out package and method of fabricating wafer level fan out package A wafer level fan out package includes a semiconductor die having a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface. A stiffener is disposed on the third surface of the semiconductor die. A conductive via passes through the stiffener. First and second electrically conductive patterns electrically connected to the conductive via are disposed on the first and second surfaces of the semiconductor die and stiffener. Solder balls are electrically connected to the first or second electrically conductive patterns.
US10224212B2	Isotropic etching of film with atomic layer control A method for isotropically etching film on a substrate with atomic layer control includes a) providing a substrate including a material selected from a group consisting of silicon (Si), germanium (Ge) and silicon germanium (SiGe). The method includes b) depositing a sacrificial layer on the material in a processing chamber by: cooling a lower portion of the substrate; one of creating or supplying an oxidant-containing plasma in the processing chamber; and increasing a surface temperature of the substrate for a predetermined period using rapid thermal heating while creating or supplying the oxidant-containing plasma in the processing chamber. The method includes c) purging the processing chamber. The method includes d) etching the sacrificial layer and the material by supplying an etch gas mixture and striking plasma in the processing chamber.
US10224211B2	Etching method There is provided an etching method for etching an antireflection film including silicon according to a pattern of a resist film by using plasma processing with respect to a processing object, the processing object including an etching object film, the antireflection film including silicon laminated on the etching object film, and the resist film laminated on the antireflection film including silicon. The method includes generating plasma of a processing gas containing a fluorocarbon gas in a processing chamber, the processing object being disposed in the processing chamber, and generating plasma of a processing gas containing an inactive gas in the processing chamber, the processing object being disposed in the processing chamber. A set of the first generating and the second generating are repeatedly performed.
US10224205B2	Method for preparing graphene, thin-film transistor, array substrate, and display panel This present invention discloses a method for preparing graphene, a thin-film transistor, an array substrate, and a display panel. Above all, an amorphous carbon thin film and a catalyst metal thin film are formed on a base substrate in this order. Then, the catalyst metal thin film and the amorphous carbon thin film are allowed to form a eutectic at a high temperature caused by an excimer laser in a manner of excimer laser irradiation. When the irradiation is finished, the surface temperature of the catalyst metal thin film is drastically decreased, allowing most of carbon atoms of the amorphous carbon thin film to be locked in the catalyst metal thin film and only a small amount of carbon atoms to be precipitated on the lower surface of the catalyst metal thin film, so that a graphene thin film is formed. Since the above described the method employs excimer laser irradiation to grow a graphene thin film, and the excimer laser has minor effect on other film layers located under the graphene thin film, graphene can be formed on the base substrate without a transfer process. Therefore, damage and contamination of graphene thin film caused by the transfer process are prevented and properties of graphene thin film are ensured.
US10224201B2	C-plane GaN substrate Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate which, although formed from a GaN crystal grown so that surface pits are generated, is free from any inversion domain, and moreover, has a low spiral dislocation density in a gallium polar surface. Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate wherein: the substrate comprises a plurality of facet growth areas each having a closed ring outline-shape on a gallium polar surface; the spiral dislocation density is less than 1×106 cm−2 anywhere on the gallium polar surface; and the substrate is free from any inversion domain. The C-plane GaN substrate may comprise a high dislocation density part having a dislocation density of more than 1×107 cm−2 and a low dislocation density part having a dislocation density of less than 1×106 cm−2 on the gallium polar surface.
US10224199B2	PVDF-TrFE co-polymer having improved ferroelectric properties, methods of making a PVDF-TrFE co-polymer having improved ferroelectric properties and methods of changing the end group of a PVDF-TrFE co-polymer A method of exchanging or transforming end groups in and/or improving the ferroelectric properties of a PVDF-TrFE co-polymer is disclosed. A bulky or chemically dissimilar end group, such as an iodine, sulfate, aldehyde or carboxylic acid end group, may be transformed to a hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine atom. A method of making a PVDF-TrFE co-polymer is disclosed, including polymerizing a mixture of VDF and TrFE using an initiator, and transforming a bulky or chemically dissimilar end group to a hydrogen, fluorine or chlorine atom. A PVDF-TrFE co-polymer or other fluorinated alkene polymer is also disclosed. The co-polymer may be used as a ferroelectric, electromechanical, piezoelectric or dielectric material in an electronic device.
US10224196B2	Ion trap with spatially extended ion trapping region A mass or mass to charge ratio selective ion trap is disclosed which directs ions into a small ejection region. A RF voltage acts to confine ions in a first (y) direction within the ion trap. A DC or RF voltage acts to confine ions in a second (x) direction. A quadratic DC potential well acts to confine ions in a third (z) direction within the ion trap. The profile of the quadratic DC potential well progressively varies along the second (x) direction.
US10224193B2	Method of tandem mass spectrometry A method of tandem mass spectrometry is disclosed. A quasi-continuous stream of ions from an ion source (20) and having a relatively broad range of mass to charge ratio ions is segmented temporally into a plurality of segments. Each segment is subjected to an independently selected degree of fragmentation, so that, for example, some segments of the broad mass range are fragmented while others are not. The resultant ion population, containing both precursor and fragment ions, is analyzed in a single acquisition cycle using a high resolution mass analyzer (150). The technique allows the analysis of the initial ion population to be optimized for analytical limitations.
US10224189B2	Apparatus and a method for deposition of material to form a coating Apparatus and a method for creation and maintenance of a closed field system in which magnetrons and/or magnet assemblies are provided in a form to create a magnetic field around an area in which a substrate to be coated is located. The method also relates to the steps of cleaning the substrates and applying an adhesive layer prior to the material which is to form the coating.
US10224185B2	Substrate processing apparatus A substrate processing apparatus including a process chamber configured to receive a plurality of substrates oriented in a horizontal manner and vertically arranged with respect to the process chamber, a process gas supply unit configured to supply at least one process gas to the process chamber through a process gas supply nozzle, the process gas supply nozzle along an inner wall of the process chamber in a direction in which the substrates are sacked, an exhaust unit configured to exhaust the process gas from the process chamber, and a blocking gas supply unit configured to supply a blocking gas through a blocking gas injector provided in a circumferential direction of the process chamber such that a flow of the process gas in the process chamber is controlled may be provided.
US10224184B2	System and method for control of high efficiency generator source impedance Systems and methods for adjusting the source impedance of a generator are disclosed. An exemplary method includes generating a first signal and applying the first signal to a first input of a combiner, generating a second signal and applying the second signal to a second input of said combiner, and combining the first and second signals with the combiner at an output of the combiner to produce power that is delivered to the plasma load. A controllable variable impedance is provided to an isolation port of the combiner, and the controllable variable impedance is adjusted to vary the source impedance of the generator.
US10224182B2	Mechanical suppression of parasitic plasma in substrate processing chamber A system for reducing parasitic plasma in a semiconductor process comprises a first surface and a plurality of dielectric layers that are arranged between an electrode and the first surface. The first surface and the electrode have substantially different electrical potentials. The plurality of dielectric layers defines a first gap between the electrode and one of the plurality of dielectric layers, a second gap between adjacent ones of the plurality of dielectric layers, and a third gap between a last one of the plurality of dielectric layers and the first surface. A number of the plurality of dielectric layers and sizes of the first gap, the second gap and the third gap are selected to prevent parasitic plasma between the first surface and the electrode during the semiconductor process.
US10224180B2	Chamber with flow-through source Described processing chambers may include a chamber housing at least partially defining an interior region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a showerhead positioned within the chamber housing, and the showerhead may at least partially divide the interior region into a remote region and a processing region in which a substrate can be contained. The chamber may also include an inductively coupled plasma source positioned between the showerhead and the processing region. The inductively coupled plasma source may include a conductive material within a dielectric material.
US10224178B2	Methods, systems and computer program products configured to adjust a critical dimension of reticle patterns used to fabricate semiconductor devices A method of adjusting a critical dimension of a reticle patterns in a reticle used to fabricate semiconductor devices can include determining respective values for a critical dimension of a plurality of reticle patterns in an image of the reticle and providing an atmospheric plasma to a first reticle pattern included in the plurality of reticle patterns, the first reticle pattern having a first value for the critical dimension that is different than a target value for the critical dimension. The atmospheric plasma may not be provided to second reticle patterns included in the plurality of reticle patterns, the second reticle patterns having a second value for the critical dimension that is about equal to the target value.
US10224174B1	Transmission charged particle microscope with imaging beam rotation A method, includes, with an illumination system, directing a first charged particle beam along a particle-optical axis to a specimen position, with an imaging system, receiving a second charged particle beam from the specimen position and directing the second charged particle beam to a detector, recording a first output of the detector, varying an excitation of an optical element of the imaging system with a controller so as to rotate the second charged particle beam at the detector through a yaw angle about the particle-optical axis, and recording a second output of the detector at the yaw angle.
US10224170B2	X-ray generating apparatus and X-ray fluoroscopyimaging system equipped with the same The present invention provides an X-ray generating apparatus and an X-ray fluoroscopy imaging system comprising the same. The X-ray generating apparatus comprises: an electron accelerator, an electron emission unit, and a target; and a shielding and collimating device, including a shielding structure and multiple collimators arranged in the shielding structure, wherein the collimators are thin gaps extending from the target to an exterior surface of the shielding structure and having an axis transverse an electron beam shooting the target, and at least two collimators forming different angles with the electron beam are arranged on the same side of a plane contains the electron beam shooting the target, and the planes where the collimators locate form angles from 30 degrees to 150 degrees with the electron beam shooting the target, to draw out planar beams having different draw-out angles, each having uniform intensity distribution in its respective plane.
US10224158B2	Keyswitch device and keyboard A keyswitch device includes a circuit board, a fixing bracket, a micro switch, a keycap, and a connecting assembly. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The fixing bracket includes a main body and a first hook. The main body abuts against the first surface. The first hook is connected to the main body and fixed to the circuit board. The micro switch passes through the main body, and is disposed on the circuit board and configured to generate a pressing signal to the circuit board while being pressed. The keycap is supported on the micro switch and configured to press the micro switch toward the circuit board. The connecting assembly is connected between the fixing bracket and the keycap and configured to guide the keycap to move upward and downward relative to the circuit board.
US10224156B2	De-bouncing keypad and preparation method thereof The present invention discloses a de-bouncing keypad and a preparation method thereof, wherein the keypad is composed of a rubber substrate and a metal contact having three layers of layered structures. A layer of tin alloy or lead alloy is plated on a surface of the metal contact by electroplating or chemical plating. The metal contact plated with the tin alloy or lead alloy has excellent contact bouncing resistance and arc-ablation resistance, and the metal contact is further composited with the rubber to shape and prepare the rubber de-bouncing keypad.
US10224155B1	Circuit breakers with integrated safety, control, monitoring, and protection features Methods, systems, and apparatus for circuit breakers with integrated safety, control, monitoring, and protection features. In one aspect, a circuit breaker includes, an input and an output, a switch coupled between the input and the output, a sensor configured to measure the current flowing from the input to the output, and a control system coupled to the sensor and the switch, wherein the control system is configured to perform operations including comparing a rate of change of the current measured by the sensor to a threshold rate of change of current, determining that the rate of change of the current measured by the sensor exceeds the threshold rate of change of current for at least a predetermined period of time, and as a consequence of determining that the rate of change of current exceeds the threshold rate of change, opening the switch, thereby disconnecting the input from the output.
US10224154B2	Magnetic proximity switch This invention relates to a new magnetic proximity switch, comprising a shell, wherein a moving magnet that can move up and down is disposed on the upper part in the shell; a first terminal strip and a second terminal strip are fixedly disposed left and right in parallel at the bottom in the shell; a static contact is disposed on the second terminal strip; an elastic piece is disposed on the first terminal strip; a moving contact is disposed at the outer end of the elastic piece; an assistant rod is disposed at the middle part in the shell, an assistant portion is disposed at the inner end of the assistant rod, a limiting mechanism is disposed between the assistant rod and the shell, an elastic tongue piece is disposed on the elastic piece, and the outer end of the elastic tongue piece is disposed against the assistant portion.
US10224151B2	Solid electrolytic capacitor for use in extreme conditions A capacitor assembly that is capable of performing under extreme conditions, such as at high temperatures and/or high voltages, is provided. The ability to perform at high temperature is achieved in part by enclosing and hermetically sealing the capacitor element within a housing in the presence of a gaseous atmosphere that contains an inert gas, thereby limiting the amount of oxygen and moisture supplied to the solid electrolyte of the capacitor element. Furthermore, the present inventors have also discovered that the ability to perform at high voltages can be achieved through a unique and controlled combination of features relating to the formation of the anode, dielectric, and solid electrolyte. For example, the solid electrolyte is formed from a combination of a conductive polymer and a hydroxy-functional nonionic polymer.
US10224147B2	Multilayer ceramic capacitor In an embodiment, a capacitor body 11 of the multilayer ceramic capacitor 10 has protective parts 11a made of ceramics, capacitance-forming parts 11b comprising multiple internal electrode layers 11b1 stacked together with ceramic layers 11b2 placed in between, and a non-capacitance-forming part 11c made of ceramics, in the order of “protective part 11a—capacitance-forming part 11b—non-capacitance-forming part 11c—capacitance-forming part 11b—protective part 11a” from one side to the other side along the laminating direction, and T2 representing the thickness of each protective part 11a in the laminating direction, T3 representing the thickness of each capacitance-forming part 11b in the laminating direction, and T4 representing the thickness of the non-capacitance-forming part 11c in the laminating direction, satisfy the relationship of “T2
US10224146B2	Inductive coupling system and communication system According to one embodiment, an inductive coupling system includes a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor includes a first wiring pattern provided on a first board and shaped as an open loop.The second inductor includes a second wiring pattern provided on a second board and shaped as an open loop. The second inductor is inductively coupled to the first inductor. A width of the second wiring pattern is narrower than a width of the first wiring pattern.
US10224145B2	Earth surface potential and harmonic mitigating transformers A transformer assembly comprises at least one transformer having a core. A primary winding is positioned on a first portion, a secondary winding is positioned on a second portion of the core. A neutral winding may be positioned on a third portion of the core. The secondary winding may receive an induced flux produced by an earth surface potential (ESP) via a system ground and/or receive an induced zero sequence flux produced by a non-linear load. The neutral winding may be configured to provide a mitigating flux to the secondary winding. The transformer may also be used as a filter for either GIC or triplen harmonic mitigation. In this case, the primary windings receive the zero sequence current (GIC or triplen harmonics) and the flux may be cancelled in neutral winding such that the zero sequence currents circulate between the zero sequence source and the filter transformer.
US10224141B2	Coupled inductor A coupled inductor comprises an annular core 1 and coils 2a, 2b wound around the core. The annular core 1 includes a sendust core having a maximum differential permeability that is equal to or greater than 30.
US10224135B2	Device, system and method for obtaining a magnetic measurement with permanent magnets A magnetic field device, with a first magnet, a first ferromagnetic element positioned adjacent to the first magnet, a second magnet, a second ferromagnetic element positioned adjacent to the second magnet and relative to the first ferromagnetic element to create a gap between the first ferromagnetic element and the second ferromagnetic element, and a third magnet positioned between the first ferromagnetic element and the second ferromagnetic element and within the gap.
US10224133B2	Coil component A coil component includes a magnetic portion that includes metal particles and a resin material, a coil conductor embedded in the magnetic portion, and outer electrodes electrically connected to the coil conductor. The average particle diameter of the metal particles in the magnetic portion is 1 μm or more and 5 μm or less, and the CV value of the metal particles is 50% or more and 90% or less.
US10224132B2	Chip resistor and method for manufacturing same A chip resistor including an insulating film covering a resistor making contact with a pair of electrodes formed on an upper surface of an insulating substrate and a method for manufacturing same are provided. Both electrodes include a main electrode layer that contains silver as a main metal component an 10 weight % or more of palladium as another metal component, and an auxiliary electrode layer lower in specific resistance than the main electrode layer, a laminate part where the auxiliary electrode layer and the main electrode layer are laminated in order on a single surface of the insulating substrate; and an exposed part of the auxiliary electrode layer where a part of the auxiliary electrode layer is not covered with the main electrode layer on a far side from the resistor, and part that extend from a near side to the far side with respect to the resistor.
US10224129B2	Manufacturing a conductor part A method for manufacturing a conductor part for a connector unit is provided. The conductor part includes a conductive core, an insulating sleeve, and at least a first conductive layer arranged between the conductive core and the insulating sleeve. The method includes equipping at least one section of a radially inner surface of the insulating sleeve with the first conductive layer, and equipping at least one section of a radially outer surface of the insulating sleeve with at least a second conductive layer. The second conductive layer is a metal layer or a conductive plastic layer. The method also includes inserting the conducting core in the insulating sleeve before or after equipping a surface of the insulating sleeve with a conductive layer.
US10224128B2	Flexible flat cable, vehicle including the same, and method of manufacturing the flexible flat cable A flexible flat cable and a method of manufacturing the flexible flat cable, may include an insulating film forming an external appearance of the flexible flat cable; a conductor disposed inside the insulating film; and an adhesion layer configured to bond the insulating film to the conductor, wherein the adhesion layer contains metal particles, and when a crack occurs in the conductor, the metal particles connect the conductor in which the crack occurs.
US10224127B2	Polyacetal resin composition and molded article of the same The resin composition according to the present invention contains a polyacetal resin having a specific molecular weight distribution, a specific carbon black, and an alkaline metal wherein the contents of the carbon black and the alkaline metal are in specific ranges. The molded article according to the present invention contains the resin composition.
US10224122B2	Reactor instrumentation system and reactor An object of the invention is to provide a reactor instrumentation system that can be easily repaired or replaced. The invention includes: an instrumentation tube provided in a reactor core; a gas flow pipe provided in the instrumentation tube; a suction mechanism for supplying gas containing oxygen to the gas flow pipe; and a nuclide analysis device for measuring a nuclide in the gas in the gas flow pipe. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a reactor instrumentation system that can be easily repaired or replaced.
US10224121B2	Sealing mechanism for a nuclear reactor vessel cable penetration tube A sealing mechanism for a reactor vessel (RV) cable penetration tube improves the functional and structural integrity of a cable inserted in an RV through a penetration tube due to use of a precise thimble. The sealing mechanism includes a penetration tube configured to penetrate an RV from an outside to an inside thereof and having a penetration hole for communication with the inside of the RV, a cable configured to be inserted in the RV through the penetration hole of the penetration tube, and a thimble placed between the cable and the penetration tube, wherein a dimple groove portion is provided on the thimble in a direction from an outer surface of the penetration hole toward the cable.
US10224120B2	Nuclear reactor scram control system A nuclear reactor scram control system for a nuclear reactor includes a solenoid pilot valve (SSPV). The SSPV includes a solenoid indicator light electrically coupled to an SSPV solenoid of the SSPV. The solenoid indicator light may be selectively activated based on an energization state of the SSPV solenoid, thereby providing an immediate and visually observable indication of the SSPV energization state. The immediate and visually observable indication of the SSPV energization state may enable quicker and more reliable verification of SSPV solenoid energization state. As a result, operator radiation exposure associated with verification may be reduced, and a risk of inadvertent nuclear reactor scram based on a de-energized SSPV solenoid may be reduced, thus streamlined nuclear reactor operations.
US10224115B2	Self-repair logic for stacked memory architecture Self-repair logic for stacked memory architecture. An embodiment of a memory device includes a memory stack having one or more memory die elements, including a first memory die element, and a system element coupled with the memory stack. The first memory die element includes multiple through silicon vias (TSVs), the TSVs including data TSVs and one or more spare TSVs, and self-repair logic to repair operation of a defective TSV of the plurality of data TSVs, the repair of operation of the defective TSV including utilization of the one or more spare TSVs.
US10224114B2	Semiconductor device using a parallel bit operation and method of operating the same A memory device may include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, and an internal operation circuit configured to perform a test operation in a test mode using a parallel bit operation of simultaneously comparing a plurality of bits and also perform an internal operation including a comparison operation with respect to external data in a normal mode other than the test mode using the parallel bit operation.
US10224113B2	Sampling device A sampling device samples a differential measuring voltage. The sampling device comprises a first holding device, a second holding device and a multiplexing circuit, which is configured to provide a differential sample of a sampled differential signal, derived from the differential measuring voltage by sampling with a first clock signal of a first clock rate, to the first holding device, at the occurrence of each HIGH-value of a second clock signal of a second clock rate being half of the first clock rate and provide a differential sample of the sample differential signal to the second holding device, at each LOW-value of the second clock signal. The sampling device comprises a reset device configured to reset the second holding device at or after each HIGH-value of the second clock signal and reset the first holding device at or after each LOW-value of the second clock signal.
US10224111B2	Error characterization and mitigation for 16 nm MLC NAND flash memory under total ionizing dose effect A data device includes a memory having a plurality of memory cells configured to store data values in accordance with a predetermined rank modulation scheme that is optional and a memory controller that receives a current error count from an error decoder of the data device for one or more data operations of the flash memory device and selects an operating mode for data scrubbing in accordance with the received error count and a program cycles count.
US10224110B2	Memory card A memory card is provided to include a substrate having two pairs of edges facing each other, a plurality of first row terminals that are arranged adjacent to an edge at an insertion side of the substrate and include a first voltage power terminal for applying a first voltage and a first ground terminal, a plurality of second row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of first row terminals and include a second voltage power terminal for applying a second voltage and first data terminals, and a plurality of third row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of second row terminals and include second data terminals.
US10224106B2	Method of controlling programming of a three dimensional stacked nonvolatile semiconductor memory A three dimensional stacked nonvolatile semiconductor memory according to an example of the present invention includes a memory cell array comprised of first and second blocks. The first block has a first cell unit which includes a memory cell to be programmed and a second cell unit which does not include a memory cell to be programmed, and programming is executed by applying a program potential or a transfer potential to word lines in the first block after the initial potential of channels of the memory cells in the first and second cell units is set to a plus potential. In the programming, the program potential and the transfer potential are not applied to word lines in the second block.
US10224105B2	3D flash memory device having different dummy word lines and data storage devices including same A three-dimensional (3D) flash memory includes a first dummy word line disposed between a ground select line and a lowermost main word line, and a second dummy word line of different word line configuration disposed between a string select line and an upper most main word line.
US10224104B2	Three dimensional NAND memory device with common bit line for multiple NAND strings in each memory block Two vertical NAND strings can share a common bit line by providing two pairs of drain select transistors. Channels of each vertical NAND string containing an adjoining pair of drain select transistors are incorporated into a respective vertical semiconductor channel, which is adjoined to a respective drain region which is connected to the common bit line. The drain select transistors have mismatched threshold voltages at each level such that each vertical NAND string includes a level at which a respective drain select transistor has a higher threshold voltage than a counterpart drain select transistor for the other vertical NAND string at the same level. By turning on three drain select transistors out of four, only one vertical NAND string can be activated while the common bit line is biased at a suitable bias voltage. A programming operation or a read operation can be performed only on the activated NAND string.
US10224103B2	Memory devices with a transistor that selectively connects a data line to another data line In an example, a memory device has a first string of memory cells selectively connected to a first data line, a second string of memory cells selectively connected to a second data line, and a transistor that selectively connects the first data line to the second data line, thereby permitting connecting the first and second data lines in series before programming or sensing memory cells of the first and second strings of memory cells.
US10224095B2	Semiconductor device having multiport memory A semiconductor device enabling expansion of a noise margin. For example, in a memory area in which each memory cell MC is coupled to a word line WLA for a first port and a word line WLB for a second port, and a plurality of memory cells MC are disposed in a matrix shape, each word line is disposed in the order of WLA0, WLB0, WLB1, WLA1, WLA2. Further, a pitch d2 between WLA-WLA and between WLB-WLB is made smaller than a pitch d1 between WLA-WLB. As such, the word lines of an identical port are disposed at the pitch d2 on one of both sides of a certain word line and the word lines of different ports are disposed at the pitch d1 on the other.
US10224093B2	Sense amplifier having offset cancellation A sense amplifier includes a sense amplifying unit, first and second isolation units, and first and second offset cancellation unit. The sense amplifying unit includes a first P-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, a second PMOS transistor, a first N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS) transistor, and a second NMOS transistor. In a layout of the sense amplifier, the first and second PMOS transistors are disposed in a central region of the sense amplifier, the first and second NMOS transistors are disposed at opposite sides of the sense amplifier from each other, the first isolation unit and the first offset cancellation unit are disposed between the first PMOS transistor and the first NMOS transistor, and the second isolation unit and the second offset cancellation unit are disposed between the second PMOS transistor and the second NMOS transistor. In other layouts, the locations of the PMOS transistors and NMOS transistors may be reversed.
US10224091B1	Systems and methods for refreshing a memory bank while accessing another memory bank using a shared address path A system includes multiple memory banks that store data. The system also includes an address path coupled to the memory banks that provides a row address to the memory banks. The system further includes a command address input circuit coupled to the address path that refreshes a first set of memory banks via the address path and, when the command address input circuit refreshes the first set of memory banks, activates a row of a second set of memory banks to store the data or read the data from the row of the second set of memory banks via the address path.
US10224090B2	Directed per bank refresh command A memory device includes a per bank refresh counter applicable to multiple banks in a group. The memory device increments a row address counter only when the per bank refresh counter is reset. The memory device receives a per bank refresh command from an associated memory controller, and performs a per bank refresh in response to receiving the per bank refresh command. The memory device refreshes a row identified by a row address counter for a bank identified by the per bank refresh command. The memory device increments the per bank refresh counter in response to receiving the per bank refresh command, and increments the row address counter when the per bank refresh counter is reset, either by rolling over or by a reset condition.
US10224087B1	Sensing voltage based on a supply voltage applied to magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) bit cells in an MRAM for tracking write operations to the MRAM bit cells Sensing voltage based on a supplied to magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) bit cells in an MRAM for tracking write operations. Sensing voltage based on supply voltage applied to an MRAM bit cell in a write operation can be used to detect completion of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) switching in an MRAM bit cell to terminate the write operation to reduce power and write times. In exemplary aspects provided herein, reference and write operation voltages sensed from the MRAM bit cell in response to the write operation are compared to each other to detect completion of MTJ switching of voltage based on the supply voltage applied to the MRAM bit cell regardless of whether the write operation is logic ‘0’ or logic ‘1’ write operation. This provides a higher sensing margin, because the change in MTJ resistance after MTJ switching completion is larger at the supply voltage rail.
US10224086B2	Memory device with temperature-dependent reading of a reference cell A memory device includes at least one reference cell and multiple memory cells. A method of operating the memory device may include detecting a temperature of the memory device and controlling a level of a first read signal applied to the at least one reference cell in accordance with a result of the detecting of the temperature. The method may also include comparing a first sensing value sensed by applying the first read signal to the at least one reference cell with a second sensing value sensed by applying a second read signal to a selected memory cell among the multiple memory cells.
US10224085B2	Magnetic memory cell with asymmetrical geometry programmable by application of current in the absence of a magnetic field A memory slot including a pad formed of a stack of regions made of thin layers, including a first region made of a nonmagnetic conducting material; a second region made of a magnetic material exhibiting a magnetization in a direction perpendicular to the principal plane of the pad; a third region made of a nonmagnetic conducting material of different characteristics to those of the first region; the pad resting on a conducting track adapted to cause the flow of a programming current of chosen sense, in which the pad has an asymmetric shape with respect to any plane perpendicular to the plane of the layers and parallel to the central axis of the track, and with respect to its barycenter.
US10224080B2	Semiconductor memory device with late write feature A stack memory includes a base chip, a memory chip stacked over the base chip, and a via 42 provided between the base chip and the memory chip. The base chip has an external interface circuit and a late write control circuit. The external interface circuit externally receives/transmits write data and read data. The late write control circuit has at least a register storing write data externally supplied through the external interface circuit. The memory chip has a memory cell array and a late write control circuit having at least a register storing write data supplied from the register through the via.
US10224078B2	Semiconductor device and refresh rate control method of semiconductor device based on measured temperature A semiconductor device in which a plurality of chips each including a memory circuit are stacked, the semiconductor device includes measurement circuitry each of which is disposed in each of a plurality of memory areas of the plurality of chips and each of which measures a temperature, calculation circuitry that calculates a temperature of each of the memory areas based on the temperature measured by the measurement circuitry and a temperature obtained from a thermal resistance model of the semiconductor device, and control circuitry that sets a refresh interval of each of the memory areas based on the temperature of each of the memory areas, which has been calculated by the calculation circuitry, and performs a refresh operation of the memory circuit of each of the memory areas at the set refresh interval.
US10224069B1	Phonograph record turntable stabilizing assemblies and methods Phonograph record turntable stabilizing assemblies are provided that can include: a vessel having outer sidewalls; an opening within the vessel configured to receive the center spindle of the turntable; and a plurality of flowable solid particles to be received within the vessel. Phonograph record turntable stabilizing kits are provided. These kits can include: a vessel; an opening within the vessel configured to receive the center spindle of the turntable; and a plurality of flowable solid particles. Phonograph turntable assemblies are provided that can include: a phonograph turntable having a record thereon; a vessel upon the record; an opening within the vessel configured to receive the center spindle of the turntable; and a plurality of flowable solid particles within the vessel. Methods for stabilizing a record upon a turntable are provided. The methods can include: placing a vessel upon a record on a turntable; and at least partially filling the vessel with flowable solid particles.
US10224064B2	Recessed hardmask used to form HAMR NFT heat sink A method involves depositing a near-field transducer on a substrate of a slider. The near-field transducer comprises a plate-like enlarged portion and a peg portion. A first hard stop extending from the near field transducer and an air bearing surface is formed. A heat sink is formed on the enlarged portion and the first hard stop. A dielectric material is deposited over the near-field transducer and the heat sink. A second hard stop is deposited on the dielectric material away from the air bearing surface. The second hard stop comprises a recess corresponding in size and location to the heat sink. The method involves milling at an oblique angle to the substrate between the first hard stop and second hard stop to cut through the heat sink at the angle. The recess of the second hard stop increases a milling rate over the heat sink compared to a second milling rate of the dielectric away from the heat sink.
US10224063B1	Method and system for writing and reading closely-spaced data tracks A method for writing data onto a medium on which data are stored in tracks includes encoding the data into at least one codeword, and writing a respective portion of each of the at least one codeword onto respective different tracks on the medium. The writing may include writing a respective portion of each of the at least one codeword onto respective different adjacent tracks on the medium. Another method for reading data includes positioning a plurality of read heads to read codewords that have been written across multiple tracks of a medium. Each read head in the plurality of read heads reads a different portion of the first group of the multiple tracks, and where each different portion of the multiple tracks overlaps at least one other different portion of the multiple tracks. Signals are detected from the plurality of read beads, and the detected signals are decoded.
US10224060B2	Interactive home-appliance system, server device, interactive home appliance, method for allowing home-appliance system to interact, and nonvolatile computer-readable data recording medium encoded with program for allowing computer to implement the method A home-appliance system is provided that may alleviate user's stress or fatigue. The interactive home-appliance system includes an utterance unit, a voice input unit for accepting input of a reply to voice, a storage unit for storing an assessment criterion for assessing stress or fatigue based on conversation with an utterer and data for outputting voice alleviating stress or fatigue, a determination unit for determining the utterer's stress or fatigue based on the assessment criterion and the reply, and a drive mechanism for performing an operation for assisting in the utterer's life. The utterance unit is configured to output an utterance based on the determination result and the data.
US10224057B1	Presentation of communications A method to present communications is provided. The method may include obtaining, at a device, a request from a user to play back a stored message that includes audio. In response to obtaining the request, the method may include directing the audio of the message to a transcription system from the device. In these and other embodiments, the transcription system may be configured to generate text that is a transcription of the audio in real-time. The method may further include obtaining, at the device, the text from the transcription system and presenting, by the device, the text generated by the transcription system in real-time. In response to obtaining the text from the transcription system, the method may also include presenting, by the device, the audio such that the text as presented is substantially aligned with the audio.
US10224050B2	Method and system to play background music along with voice on a CDMA network A method and system for compressing an audio signal. The method includes receiving a segment of an audio signal and selectively disabling noise suppression for the received segment. The segment is filtered in a noise-suppression module if noise suppression is not disabled. The method also includes calculating an autocorrelation coefficient and an LSP coefficient, predicting a short-term coefficient and long-term coefficients according to the LSP coefficient and calculating one or more bandwidth-expanded correlation coefficients. Further, the method includes determining the type of packet in which to encode the segment. An encoding rate is selected from among a full rate encode, a half-rate encode, and an eight-rate encode if noise suppression is not disabled. An encoding rate is selected from among a full rate encode and a half-rate encode if noise suppression is disabled. Furthermore, the segment is formed into a packet of the determined type and selected rate.
US10224048B2	Audio coding device and audio coding method An audio coding device includes a filter configured to extract a low-band signal having a first frequency component from an input signal, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to extract envelope information relating to an envelope of a high-band signal having a second frequency component which is higher than the first frequency component in the input signal, detect tone information that is information on a tone signal included in a high-band signal spectrum from the input signal, correct the envelope information based on a difference between frequency of the tone signal and frequency of a peak of the envelope, and code the low-band signal, the tone information, and the envelope information that is corrected.
US10224044B2	Method for determining for the compression and decompression of an HOA data frame representation When decompressing an HOA data frame representation, a gain control (15, 151) is applied for each channel signal before it is perceptually encoded (16). The gain values are transferred in a differential manner as side information. However, for starting decoding of such streamed compressed HOA data frame representation absolute gain values are required, which should be coded with a minimum number of bits. For determining such lowest integer number (βe) of bits the HOA data frame representation (C(k)) is rendered in spatial domain to virtual loudspeaker signals lying on a unit sphere, followed by normalization of the HOA data frame representation (C(k). Then the lowest integer number of bits is set to βe=┌ log2(┌ log2(√{square root over (KMAX)}·O)┐+1)┐.
US10224042B2	Encoding of multiple audio signals A device includes a receiver configured to receive an encoded bitstream from a second device. The encoded bitstream includes a temporal mismatch value determined based on a reference channel captured at the second device and a target channel captured at the second device. The device also includes a decoder configured to decode the encoded bitstream to generate a first frequency-domain output signal and a second frequency-domain output signal. The decoder is configured to perform inverse transform operations on the frequency-domain output signals to generate a first and second time-domain signals. Based on the temporal mismatch value, the decoder is configured to map the time-domain signals to a decoded target channel and a decoded reference channel. The decoder is also configured to perform a causal time-domain shift operation on the decoded target channel based on the temporal mismatch value to generate an adjusted decoded target channel.
US10224038B2	Off-device fact-checking of statements made in a call In a method for verifying statements made during a call, while the call is in progress, data of a portion of the call is received from a telecommunication device used in the call, at a system over a data network. The portion is related to a statement made during the call. A textual content of the data is subjected to NLP to locate a part of the statement that is asserted as true. The part is extracted from the data. Information is obtained from a data source to determine whether the part of the statement is validated by the information. When the part is invalidated, the part is indicated as false in a result. The result is transmitted to the telecommunication device, while the call is in progress at the telecommunication device, the result. The transmitting causes a change to occur in the call at the telecommunication device.
US10224035B1	Voice search assistant Systems and methods for assisting voice searches are provided. An example method commences with receiving a voice query from a user and transmitting the voice query to a plurality of natural language processing systems. The method may continue with receiving a plurality of search parameter sets generated by the plurality of natural language processing systems based on the voice query. The method may further include transmitting at least one of the plurality of search parameter sets to a plurality of information search systems. The method may continue with receiving a plurality of responses from the plurality of information search systems. The plurality of responses may be generated by the plurality of information search systems based on the at least one of the plurality of search parameter sets. The method may conclude with providing at least one response of the plurality of responses to the user.
US10224032B2	Determining an impact of a proposed dialog act using model-based textual analysis A computer program product for determining an impact of a proposed dialog act in a conversation according to one embodiment includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The computer readable storage medium is not a transitory signal per se. The program instructions are executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method comprising receiving textual data associated with a real-time conversation between a first participant and a second participant, receiving an objective of the first participant for the real-time conversation between the first participant and the second participant, receiving a proposed dialog act to be entered at a current point in the real-time conversation from the first participant, determining an impact of the proposed dialog act on the objective of the first participant, and performing one or more actions based on the impact of the proposed dialog act.
US10224029B2	Method for using voiceprint identification to operate voice recognition and electronic device thereof A method for using voiceprint identification to operate voice recognition and electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes the following steps: receiving a specific voice fragment; cutting the received specific voice fragment into a plurality of specific sub-voice clips; performing a voiceprint identification flow to the specific sub-voice clips, respectively; determining whether each of the specific sub-voice clips is an appropriate sub-voice clip according to a result of the voiceprint identification flow; and capturing the appropriate sub-voice clips and operating a voice recognition thereto.
US10224028B2	Break state detection for reduced capability devices Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for placing secondary content into a break of unknown duration in a stream of primary content. In one aspect, the described techniques may include streaming a segment of primary content, for example, by a reduce capability client device, such as a mobile device or tablet. The device may receive information indicative of a break in the streaming of the primary content. The device may play secondary content based on receiving the information indicative of the break. The device may determine when a next segment of the primary content is available, and begin streaming the next segment of the primary content upon detecting that the second segment of the primary content is available.
US10224023B2	Speech recognition system and method thereof, vocabulary establishing method and computer program product A speech recognition system and method thereof, a vocabulary establishing method and a computer program product are provided. The speech recognition method includes: storing a speech recognition model including speech-units and basic components of acoustic models, wherein each of the speech-units includes at least one state and each state corresponds to one of the basic components of acoustic models; receiving first and second speech signals; obtaining a speech-unit sequence of a native/non-native vocabulary from a speech-analysis and unit-expansion module; recognizing the first speech signal according to the speech recognition model and the speech-unit sequence of the native/non-native vocabulary and further outputting a recognition result; and selecting an optimal component from the basic components of acoustic models according to the speech recognition model, the second speech signal, and the word corresponding to the second speech signal, and further updating the speech-units according to the best basic component of acoustic model.
US10224010B2	Woody material for wind instrument, wind instrument, and production method of woody material for wind instrument An object of the present invention is to provide a woody material for a wind instrument superior in resistance to a moisture change. The woody material for a wind instrument comprises: a plurality of veneers being laminated; and at least one buffer layer comprising a fibrous sheet constituted from a nonwoven fabric or a woven fabric, and an adhesive with which the fibrous sheet is impregnated, the buffer layer being interposed between adjacent two of the plurality of veneers.
US10224006B2	Display device for vehicle A display device for a vehicle includes: a first display unit that displays a real image of first information in a first display portion; and a second display unit that displays a virtual image of second information in a second display portion by projecting an optical image to the second display portion, the second display portion being disposed above the first display portion and transmitting an external image. The display device includes: a light emission unit located adjacent to a side of the first display portion to form a light emission area; and a control unit that changes the light emission area in a guiding direction from the first display portion toward the second display portion during a linking period for linking a particular virtual image display of the second information with a real image display of the first information.
US10223999B2	Techniques for statically tuning retro-directive wireless power transmission systems Techniques for static tuning retro-directive wireless power transmission systems are described herein. The techniques described herein include systems, methods and software for establishing a static tuning mode for a retro-directive wireless power transmission system. The static tuning mode can generate an extended stable power sphere that facilitates accurate RF and other measurements. Additionally, techniques are provided for characterizing the wireless power delivery paths.
US10223996B2	Display apparatus and power supply device A power supply device of an electronic apparatus includes: a power input portion configured to receive alternating current (AC) power; a rectifier-smoother configured to rectify and smooth the received AC power and output the AC power; a power converter configured to convert a level of a voltage output from the rectifier-smoother to supply operating power to the electronic apparatus; a board on which the power input portion, the rectifier-smoother, and the power converter are provided; and a waterproof coating layer formed in an area on the board corresponding to a position of the power converter to prevent infiltration of moisture from an outside.
US10223989B2	Driving method of liquid crystal display panel Provided is a driving method of a liquid crystal display panel, comprising: inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from a first direction in a first duration, and inputting a pixel voltage of a first polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors; inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from the first direction in a second duration, and inputting a pixel voltage of a second polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors; inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from a second direction in a third duration, and inputting the pixel voltage of the first polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors; inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from the second direction in a fourth duration, and inputting the pixel voltage of the second polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors.
US10223987B2	Regional DC balancing for a variable refresh rate display panel A method, computer program product, and system perform DC balancing for a variable refresh rate display panel based on regions. A first portion of a first image is displayed on a first region of a screen of a display device using a spatial inversion pattern and a first polarity of a temporal polarity pattern for the first region of the screen of the display device. A second polarity of a second temporal polarity pattern for a second region of the screen of the display device is determined and a second portion of the first image is displayed on the second region of the screen of the display device using the spatial inversion pattern and the second polarity of the second temporal polarity pattern.
US10223982B2	Display apparatus and method of driving the same In a display apparatus provided with an electrophoresis layer, such a display apparatus as to improve the response performance of a touch detection is provided. A driving unit included in a display apparatus alternately repeats a display driving process for supplying a first driving signal to a driving electrode disposed in a selected partial display region and a detection driving process for supplying a second driving signal to a driving electrode disposed in another selected partial display region while successively cyclically changing the partial display region and successively cyclically changing another partial detection region. Moreover, in the detection driving process, a touch detection unit included in the display apparatus detects an input position at another selected partial detection region based on an electrostatic capacitance of the driving electrode disposed at another selected detection region.
US10223976B2	Circuit and method for driving AMOLED pixel to reduce residual images Disclosed are a circuit and a method for driving an AMOLED pixel. The circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a grayscale storage capacitor. The circuit further comprises a third transistor. A source of the third transistor is connected to a drain of the first transistor; a drain thereof is connected to ground; and a gate thereof is configured to receive a shutdown control signal. The third transistor is turned on under control of the shutdown control signal and a predetermined shutdown sequence of voltages of respective portions of the circuit.
US10223974B2	Display device A display device includes a flexible substrate, a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a first wiring and a second extending in the first direction and a first insulating film, wherein the first insulating film is included between the first wiring and the second wiring, the first wiring and the second wiring include a part having elasticity, the first insulating film includes elasticity, and an interval between the first wiring and the second wiring changes as the flexible substrate stretches and contracts.
US10223972B1	OLED pixel driving circuit and OLED display device The invention provides an OLED pixel driving circuit and OLED display device. The OLED pixel driving circuit uses 4T1C structure and switch (K). The first pin (K1) of switch (K) is connected to the drain of the third TFT (T3), the second pin (K2) connected to the DAC (DAC), and the third pin (K3) connected to the ADC (ADC). By the switch signal (Switch) controlling the switch (K), the first pin (K1) and the second pin (K3) are connected to enter the display mode, and by the switch signal (Switch) controlling the switch (K), the first pin (K1) and the third pin (K3) are connected to enter the sense mode, so that the ADC (ADC) senses the threshold voltage of the fourth TFT (T4), converted by ADC (ADC) for data compensation in the display mode. The invention can compensate, improve display uniform, improve pixel aperture ratio and reduce manufacturing cost.
US10223968B2	Organic light-emitting OLED data compensation circuits and methods and the OLED display devices thereof An OLED data compensation circuit and method, and an OLED display device are disclosed. The OLED data compensation circuit includes: a sensing circuit for detecting a drifting amount of a threshold voltage of thin film transistors (TFTs); a timing controller connected with the sensing circuit for receiving the drifting amount, and outputting voltage control signals and source driving signals, which controlling a voltage of data signals outputted by a source driver; a reference voltage output circuit connected with the timing controller, is configured for outputting a first reference voltage in accordance with the voltage control signals, the voltage of the data signals and the first reference voltage are configured for compensating the drifting amount of the threshold voltage of the driving TFTs to compensate data of the OLED. In this way, the OLED data compensation is not limited only by the source driver, the OLED data compensation may be enhanced.
US10223963B2	Light-emitting unit and display device The present disclosure provides a light-emitting unit and a display device. The light-emitting includes a micro-LED element and a bonding pad. The micro-LED element includes an element pin, the bonding pad includes a bonding pin, in each welding pair of the element pin and the bonding pin, a length of the element pin is greater than a width of the bonding pin, and a non-zero angle is formed between the extending direction of the element pin and the extending direction of the bonding pin. When the element pin is deviated from the bonding pin in a certain range, the element pin can still be aligned accurately with the bonding pin. Thus, a requirement on the alignment precision between the micro-LED element and the bonding pad is lowered in a certain extent, thereby improving the yield.
US10223962B2	Display with fused LEDs A display having fused light-emitting diodes (LEDs) includes a display substrate and an array of pixel components disposed on the display substrate. Each pixel component comprises a light-emitting diode and an electrical fuse electrically connected in series with the light-emitting diode. The micro-transfer printable pixel components include an LED having first and second LED electrical contacts for providing power to the LED to cause the LED to emit light, a fuse having first and second fuse electrical contacts, the first fuse electrical contact electrically connected in series with the first LED electrical contact, a first electrode connected to the second fuse electrical contact, and a second electrode connected to the second LED electrical contact.
US10223961B2	Method for displaying images on a matrix screen A method for displaying images on an active matrix screen, i representing a pointer of a current row and each pixel comprising a memory and a display component comprises controlling the brightness of the pixels by a binary word comprising a number of bits written successively into the memory and by controlling the display component as a function of a state of the bit written into the memory, the bits of each binary word being ranked by their weight from j=1 to j=P. The writes are sequenced: from a current row i, writing on the rows i+2j, from j=1 to j=P, the bit of weight j of each binary word associated with different pixels of rows i+2j; repeating, 2P−1 times, the writes mentioned above by shifting the pointer i of the current row by one unit on each repetition; i being determined modulo 2P−1 to lie between 1 and 2P−1.
US10223959B2	Information handling system integrated overlapped foldable display A portable information handling system having rotationally coupled housing portions disposes first and second OLED display films in an overlapped configuration having the display films slide relative to each other as the housing portions rotate. Presentation of visual images at one or both of the OLED display films in the overlapped portion is adjusted to blend with the images presented at non-overlapping portions of the OLED display films.
US10223956B2	Electronic apparatus, distance measurement sensor and control method for electronic apparatus and distance measurement sensor An electronic apparatus is provided, which includes a display, a sensor including first and second light emitters which respectively emit first and second light, and a first light receiver which receives light reflected against an object positioned in front of the display, and a processor electrically connected with the display and the sensor and controlling the display based on a distance from the object calculated according to a time period that one of the first and second light is reflected against the object and returned, in which the processor drives the first light emitter and second light emitter such that the first light emitter and second light emitter emit at least a portion of the first and second light to different illumination regions.
US10223955B2	Driving circuit and liquid crystal display apparatus A driving circuit and a liquid crystal display apparatus are provided. The driving circuit includes a printed circuit board, which includes a timing controller for providing a detection signal to a flexible connector, wherein the detection signal is used for testing connection reliability of the flexible connector, and a power chip tier detecting whether the detection signal returned from the flexible connector is received to obtain a detection result, and controlling power output based upon the detection result.
US10223953B2	Liquid crystal display device with data voltage correction A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode and a common electrode, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, and a liquid crystal layer that is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal layer includes a liquid crystal molecule having a positive dielectric anisotropy. In a first pixel and a second pixel, which are adjacent to each other, when a first data voltage applied to the first pixel in an input video signal is higher than a second data voltage applied to the second pixel in the input video signal, a first correction data voltage in which the first data voltage is corrected lower is applied to the first pixel.
US10223952B2	Curved edge display with controlled distortion An electronic display comprises a display matrix and an image-correcting layer. The display matrix includes a flat face portion, a curved corner portion, a light-releasing surface, and a series of pixels extending across the flat face portion and around the curved corner portion. Coupled to the light-releasing surface of the display matrix, the image-correcting layer is configured to transmit light released from the flat face portion of the display matrix and to reorient light released from the curved corner portion of the display matrix such that the transmitted light and the reoriented light exit the image-correcting layer substantially in parallel, forming an apparent plane image of the series of pixels.
US10223951B2	Scanning direction control circuit, driving method thereof, light-on testing device and display device A scanning direction control circuit includes a selection control circuit configured to output a first control signal to a start signal reception control circuit and output a second control signal to a direction control circuit; the start signal reception control circuit configured to, under the control of the first control signal, enable a scanning pulse signal input end to be electrically coupled to a forward scanning start signal input end during forward scanning, and enable the scanning pulse signal input end to be electrically coupled to a backward scanning start signal input end during backward scanning; and the direction control circuit configured to, under the control of the second control signal, output a forward scanning control signal to a scanning direction control end during forward scanning, and output a backward scanning control signal to the scanning direction control end during backward scanning.
US10223945B2	Lighting display system The invention relates to a lighting display system (1), comprising: a mounting structure (3), which comprises a mounting plate (7) having a front side (13); at least one first plug contact (15) arranged on the front side (13) of the mounting plate (7); and an electrical power supply connection (17), which is electrically connected to the at least one first plug contact (15); at least one luminous body (5), which comprises a front side (19) and a back side (21); a second plug contact (23), which is arranged on the back side (21) of the at least one luminous body (5) and which can be plugged together with and electrically connected to the first plug contact (15); and a plurality of light sources (27), which are electrically connected to the second plug contact (23); wherein the at least one luminous body (5) can be secured to the mounting structure (7) by means of least one securing assembly (29), wherein a first element (31) of the at least one securing assembly (29) is firmly connected to the back side (21) of the at least one luminous body (5), a second element (33) of the at least one securing assembly (29) is firmly connected to the front side (13) of the mounting plate (7), and a third element (35) of the at least one securing assembly (29) is configured to connect the first and the second element of the at least one securing assembly (29) to each other in a positive-locking manner.
US10223941B2	Nameplates and locking assemblies thereof A nameplate includes a nameplate holder, a nameplate insert, and a locking member. The nameplate holder defines a longitudinal channel. The nameplate insert defines a notch and is configured for movable receipt within the longitudinal channel of the nameplate holder. The locking member is movable within the nameplate holder between a first condition and a second condition. In the first condition, a portion of the locking member extends within the notch of the nameplate insert to resist longitudinal movement of the nameplate insert relative to the nameplate holder. In the second condition, the portion of the locking member is disposed outside of the notch of the nameplate insert.
US10223940B2	Bucket list display device A bucket list display device. Multiple goal mounts and achievement mounts are mounted onto a mounting board. Each achievement mount is mounted next to a corresponding goal mount. Goal placards are removably attached to the goal mounts and achievement placards are removably attached to the achievement mounts. Each goal placard refers to a desired goal to be achieved. Each achievement placard provides a statement that indicates if the goal has been accomplished or if it has not yet been accomplished. In one preferred embodiment the goal placards refer to golf courses that the user hopes to one day play.
US10223939B2	Self-erectable display and automatic locking mechanism for a self-erectable display A display apparatus includes a shroud having first and second sheet portions disposed in opposition to one another, the first and second sheet portions being connected to one another at a first side by a first joint and at a second side by a second joint. A support member is disposed between the first and second sheet portions and between the first and second joints, the support member being affixed to the first and second sheet portions and movably disposed relative to the first and second joints, the support member being positionable between a closed position and an open position, the open position outwardly biasing the support member against the first and second sheet portions to cause the shroud to assume a curvilinear cross-sectional shape along a length of the shroud. Notches are formed in the first and second joints at a first position along the length of the shroud. One or more elastic members couple the support member the first and/or second joints and bias the support member into the open position and toward engagement with the notches.
US10223936B2	Hysterectomy model A surgical simulator for surgical training is provided. The simulator includes a frame defining an enclosure and a simulated tissue model located inside an enclosure. The simulated tissue model is adapted for practicing hysterectomies and includes at least a simulated uterus and a simulated vagina. The simulated tissue model is suspending inside the enclosure with two planar sheets of silicone such that the tissue model is located between the two sheets each of which form a fold and are in turn connected to the frame. The frame may be shaped like a cylinder and located inside a cavity of a larger laparoscopic trainer having a penetrable simulated abdominal wall. The tissue model is interchangeable and accessible laterally through an aperture provided in a support leg of the trainer.
US10223934B2	Systems and methods for expressive language, developmental disorder, and emotion assessment, and contextual feedback In some embodiments, a method that includes capturing sound in a natural language environment using at least one sound capture device that is located in the natural language environment. The method also can include analyzing a sound signal from the sound captured by the at least one sound capture device to determine at least one characteristic of the sound signal. The method additionally can include reporting metrics that quantify the at least one characteristic of the sound signal. The metrics of the at least one characteristic can include a quantity of words spoken by one or more first persons in the natural language environment. Other embodiments are provided.
US10223928B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a first storage portion, a second storage portion, a board-written data obtaining portion, a storage processing portion, and a first data processing portion. The first storage portion stores one or more pieces of board-written data which each includes lesson information that was input to a board surface. The second storage portion stores one or more pieces of exercise data. The board-written data obtaining portion obtains a piece of board-written data. The storage processing portion stores, in the first storage portion, the piece of board-written data obtained by the board-written data obtaining portion. The first data processing portion associates the piece of board-written data stored in the first storage portion by the storage processing portion, with a piece of exercise data whose learning theme is common to a learning theme of lesson information included in the piece of board-written data.
US10223927B2	Contemporaneous capture and tagging of media evidence for education evaluation An educational evidence and evaluation system for generating media files and context parameters and linking the media files and context parameters to education profiles during evaluation of a subject is disclosed. An example educational evidence and evaluation system comprises a capture engine that captures two media files, a context engine that tags the media files with context parameters, and a linking engine that links the media files and their tagged context parameters to an education profiles of a subject, wherein the evaluation engine links a first media file and its first context parameter to the education profile of a first subject before the capture engine captures a second media file.
US10223925B2	Emergency landing using inertial sensors An emergency landing procedure that includes a sequence of control settings is continuously generated. An aircraft is landed, including by using the sequence of control settings and a set of one or more inertial sensors to control an actuator.
US10223923B2	Drone, method for controlling flight, and recording medium storing program A drone includes a time measuring unit that obtains a present time, a flight possible area changing unit that determines a flight possible area thereof in accordance with a difference between an end of a time period for which the flight thereof is permitted and the present time, and a flight control unit that controls the drone such that the drone flies within the flight possible area.
US10223920B2	Display device for vehicle A display device for a vehicle includes a surrounding environment recognition unit and a display unit. The display unit displays an own-vehicle icon and line icons on right and left sides of the own-vehicle icon. The line icons correspond to the lane markers of an own-vehicle-traveling lane, and are displayed, with a clearance between them narrowing as is farther away from the own-vehicle icon. The own-vehicle icon is on fixed display. The line icons are on movable display in a lateral direction of a display area, in an opposite direction to a direction of movement of the own vehicle in a direction of a lane width of the own-vehicle-traveling lane.
US10223914B2	System for supporting emergency vehicle using drone Disclosed are an emergency vehicle supporting device and system using a drone that resolve forward traffic congestion on a road on which an emergency vehicle is driving via the drone and supports securing of a driving path for the emergency vehicle. According to the present invention, an emergency vehicle supporting device mounted on the emergency vehicle generates drone control information and transmits the generated drone control information to the drone. Further, the drone flies according to the drone control information and a location change of the emergency vehicle and broadcasts an avoidance warning to surrounding vehicles around the flying drone, so that the surrounding vehicles may help the emergency vehicle secure a driving path and thus the emergency vehicle may arrive at a destination within a desired time.
US10223913B2	Traffic signal snow shield An LED traffic signal is enhanced with a combination of a cylindrical opaque visor and a transparent cone that is placed over the lens. The visor is offset from the lens to provide a gap, an escape route for fast moving air that rushes down the cone and out the gap as described in the Bernoulli formula. Various embodiments include a wing shaped visor, a standard visor being cylindrical, and a custom visor being cylindrical.
US10223912B1	Virtual barrier system A virtual-barrier system that defines a keep-out-zone for vehicles to avoid includes a transmitter, a location-detector, and a controller. The transmitter is configured to broadcast information regarding a keep-out-zone. The location-detector is configured to indicate a location of the transmitter. The controller is in communication with the transmitter and the location-detector. The controller is configured to determine boundaries of the keep-out-zone in accordance with the location, and operate the transmitter to broadcast coordinates of the boundaries of the keep-out-zone.
US10223911B2	Video data and GIS mapping for traffic monitoring, event detection and change prediction A distributed system for traffic monitoring and event detection includes a plurality of video units within viewing distance of a thoroughfare to be monitored. Each video unit processes a video stream while monitoring events at the thoroughfare, identifies and analyzes events, encodes traffic meta data characterizing the analysis, and transmits the meta data to a central controller. The central controller stores a geographic map representing the thoroughfare, correlates the meta data received from the video units, and forms a composite representation of the geographic map and the correlated meta data. The central controller replays previously stored composite representations of the geographic map and the correlated meta data, which were monitored under mutually different event conditions. The central controller is also configured to allow changes to previously stored composite representations of the geographic map and to the correlated meta data for the purpose of understanding the impact of change.
US10223909B2	Estimating time travel distributions on signalized arterials Systems and methods are provided for estimating time travel distributions on signalized arterials. The systems and methods may be implemented as or through a network service. Traffic data regarding a plurality of travel times on a signalized arterial may be received. A present distribution of the travel times on the signalized arterial may be determined. A prior distribution based on one or more travel time observations may also be determined. The present distribution may be calibrated based on the prior distribution.
US10223908B2	Method of pairing a remote control Systems, methods, and apparatuses for device pairing are described. A first device may transmit one or more codes to a second device via a first protocol. The second device may prioritize the one or more codes. After receiving the one or more codes, the devices may initiate automated pairing. After concluding the automated pairing, the devices may communicate via a second protocol.
US10223901B2	System and method for alarm signaling during alarm system destruction A system and method provide for the immediate transmission of a potential alarm to a remote alarm signal escrow site and from the escrow site to a host station in the event where a control panel or an alarm signaling device is tampered with or destroyed by a disablement tactic, e.g., a “crash and smash intrusion.” A system and method may also send an alarm signal during such an attack by using predictive analysis of real-time events.
US10223897B2	Data driven emergency notification application and system An emergency notification method including receiving an alert signal triggered by a user from a first remote device during an emergency situation, receiving user identification data of the user from the first remote device, sending a response request signal to a plurality of first responders with a second remote device, receiving location information from the user and the plurality of first responders from the first and second remote device, respectively, prioritizing a response by the plurality of first responders based on an analysis of location of the first responders and a severity of the emergency situation using a platform, and sending the alert signal to user-defined first responders of the plurality of first responders from the platform to respond to the emergency situation wherein the platform is programmed to automatically analyze a relative location of the first responders to the user, identify the emergency situation, identify equipment in possession of the first responders, and then to automatically send the alert signal to the user-defined first responders based on the user identification data of the user from the first remote.
US10223895B2	Systems for monitoring hand sanitization The present systems and methods relate to a hand sanitizer system that includes a proximity detector, a dispensing system and an alarm feature, and is operative to provide an indication corresponding to a person in proximity of the system failing to dispense antiseptic or other solution from the dispenser within a predetermined period of time after moving within a predetermined range of the detector.
US10223892B2	Civil-defense system A computer is programmed to receive a command to broadcast an alert; determine a plurality of routes, each for one of a plurality of ground vehicles; and instruct each ground vehicle to follow its respective route while playing a message from external speakers. The computer may be integrated into, for example, a civil-defense system.
US10223890B2	Detecting a movement and/or a position of an object to be monitored A movement and/or a position of an object (1) to be monitored is detected. At least one marker (2) radiating light is arranged in an area of the object (1) such that a camera (4) can capture images of the marker (2), when the object (1) is in a first position. An image processing unit (6) is enabled to detect the marker (2) in the images and to detect a movement and/or a second position of the object (1) in response to determining that at least a part of the marker (2) cannot be detected in one or more of the images. The object (1) may be a person laying in a bed and the marker (2) may be arranged adjacent to the bed's lying area (3) so that the system can detect when the person leaves the bed and notify nursery staff or an emergency central.
US10223888B2	Personnel authentication and tracking system Disclosed are techniques to authenticate tags passing through detection regions against an access control list, receive data that identifies a number of people passing through or within the detection regions, compare the number people identified by the received data with the number of tags identified by the system, and cause an alarm to be asserted when a discrepancy is detected in the number people identified with the number of tags in a detection region with personnel within the detection region.
US10223879B2	Selective control of an electric field to deliver a touchless haptic effect A haptic system includes a structure having a conductive layer and a reactive layer. The conductive layer is coupled to a power source and the reactive layer is coupled to a switch having a first state and a second state. The power source enables the conductive layer to generate a charge. The first state of the switch operates the reactive layer to block the establishment of a tissue-stimulating electric field. The second state of the switch operates the reactive layer to enable the establishment of a tissue-stimulating electric field to generate a touchless haptic effect.
US10223878B2	Automatic illuminating user interface device A user interface (UI) device for a premises management system may include at least one proximity sensor, a first interface component configured to illuminate in a first illumination style based on a first rule set when an individual is detected within a first range by the at least one proximity sensor, and a second interface component to receive input from the individual and configured to illuminate in a second illumination style based on a second rule set different from the first rule set when the individual is detected within a second range closer to the UI device than the first range.
US10223875B1	Methods and devices for automatic transaction machines for recognizing surroundings A method for enhancing automated transaction machine (ATM) security surveillance. The method consists of receiving a set of data from a financial device and generating a template for the financial device. The method generates an analysis by analyzing a portion of the received set of data. The method then determines a likelihood factor that the analyzed first portion is associated with a security threat, wherein if the likelihood factor is above a threshold then the method generates a second analysis by analyzing a second portion of the received first set of data and revises the likelihood factor based on the second analysis. The method generates a notice if the first likelihood factor exceeds a second threshold and then updates the template with the analysis and the likelihood factor and receives a second set of data from the monitoring device. The method updates the template with the second set of data.
US10223872B2	Enhanced replacement deck for draw poker A method of playing a five-card draw video poker wagering game on a gaming device comprising at least a processor, input device and video monitor screen is disclosed. A special function provides the player with an opportunity to enhance the replacement deck with additional cards. The special function provides the player with a touchscreen display of individual symbols that are displayed as two sets: the thirteen ranks and the four suits. Each individual symbol has its own touchscreen button. The player or processor selects one symbol. Any or all of the cards in the replacement deck that match the selected rank or suit are then replicated and added to the replacement deck. Cards are randomly selected from the enhanced replacement deck, and populate the initial hand to complete the final hand. Any wins are paid according to a predetermined paytable.
US10223870B2	Gaming system having prize modifiers and a method of modifying gaming prizes A method of gaming comprising: displaying a plurality of games for player selection, each of the games having a corresponding set of prize modifiers for applying to a prize awarded during the respective game when a trigger condition is met during the selected game; receiving a selection indicative of a selected game selected from the games; selecting from the set of prize modifiers corresponding to the selected game a subset of the prize modifiers comprising one, some or all of the prize modifiers; conducting play of the selected game; determining an outcome of play of the selected game; and selecting one of the prize modifiers from the subset of prize modifiers and modifying any prize awarded according to the outcome of the selected game according to the selected prize modifier.
US10223868B2	Drawing with participant interaction A promotional game is conducted over participants' cell phones. During a play period, a participant advances on a virtual game board using cell phone commands. During the play period, participants' gaming wagering is used to generate drawing tickets. Each player may text COUNT to receive a text message containing his or her current board position and total tickets accumulated. Alternatively, or in addition, he or she may go to the casino, text the word STATUS and have the same information depicted with accompanying animation on a video display. At the end of the play period each player may text PEEK to receive a message indicating whether or not he or she has won any prizes. To learn the number of prizes and their worth, the player may go to the casino, text the word REVEAL and have the prize details depicted with accompanying animation on the video display.
US10223867B2	Token dispenser system, installation apparatus, and method A token dispensing system is adapted suitable for installing a token dispenser in a game device. A mounting bracket for the token dispenser provides a simple and inexpensive way to install the token dispenser as part of the token dispensing system inside the housing of a game device. The dispensing system includes an electronic control circuit that controls an alarm device to provide a low level warning signal when the level of tokens in the token dispenser is low and an empty warning signal when the token dispenser is empty. The electronic control circuit controls dispensing tokens from the token dispenser such that a user receives the correct number of tokens even if the dispenser runs out of tokens in the middle of dispensing a selected number of tokens during a transaction.
US10223866B2	Electronic transaction systems and methods for gaming or amusement credit purchases Systems, and methods are provided for the electronic purchase of gaming or amusement credits using a transaction device at a patron's location to apply funds from a financial account to the purchase of credits for use with an amusement or gaming device, system, or point of other wagering activity. Such credits are provided at the patron's location in the form of a printed ticket or other physical indicia of equivalent value, credits appearing in the credit meter and on the display of a gaming device, credit issued to a player card confirmed at the patron's location, credit issued to a debit card confirmed at the patron's location, and/or cash or other monetary-equivalents. In addition, physical confirmation of the completed electronic transaction from the patron's financial account may be concurrently provided to the patron in the form of a receipt.
US10223865B2	Synchronous betting in wagering game systems A method for presenting wagering games on a wagering game machine is described herein. The method can include detecting, by an add-on gaming system of the wagering game machine, a message indicating occurrence of a first wagering game on the wager game machine. The method can further include initiating, by the add-on gaming system, a second wagering game in parallel with the first wagering game on a display device native to the wagering game machine, where the presenting is in response to the detecting the message.
US10223862B2	Remote gaming system The present invention relates to a gaming system (100) comprising a local gaming device (101) and a first remote gaming device (108). If player of the respective devices (101/108) fulfills a predetermined gaming behavior criterion then gaming information is shared between common gaming interface portions of the respective devices (101/108). The invention provides an improved interaction between local (103) and remote players (107), resulting in a more realistic gaming experience for the local players as well as for the remote players. The invention also relates to a corresponding method, server, computer program product and remote gaming device.
US10223856B2	Self-authenticating credit card system A self-authenticating credit card method includes: inputting a unique identification to an input device on a credit card; comparing the input unique identification with a stored unique identification stored within the credit card; and providing an output from the credit card when the received unique identification matches the unique identification stored within the credit card.
US10223855B2	Paper sheet handling apparatus In a paper sheet handling apparatus, communication part or parts (29) are arranged in a bottom part of an upper assembly (12) and communication part or parts (42) are arranged in an upper part of a lower assembly (14) for exchanging banknotes between the upper assembly (12) and the lower assembly (14). The number of the communication part or parts (29) of the upper assembly (12) and the number of the communication part or parts (42) of the lower assembly (14) are same. The position or positions of the communication part or parts (29) of the upper assembly (12) and the position or positions of the communication part or parts (42) of the lower assembly (14) match when the upper assembly (12) or the lower assembly (14) is reversed.
US10223852B2	Systems and methods for selective vehicle access A vehicle includes: motor(s), door lock(s), processor(s) configured to: attempt a direct link with a mobile device based on receiving a key fob command; attempt an indirect link with the mobile device based on failing to establish the direct link; accept and implement the command upon establishing the direct or indirect link; reject the command upon failing to establish the direct and indirect link.
US10223850B2	High-Q and over-coupled near-field RFID reader antenna for improved tag read range An RFID system in which at least one of the RFID tag antenna and the RFID reader antenna has an impedance matching network associated therewith in order to better match the impedances of the two antennas. This impedance matching places the antennas into an over-coupled regime once they are within a reasonable distance of each other (e.g., 2 to 50 mm). It also increases the Q-factor of the improved antenna, which can greatly increase the range at which the RFID reader can read the RFID tag. This improved RFID system may be used in any of a variety of application, including operating a door lock mechanism.
US10223845B1	System and method for separating ambient gravitational acceleration from a moving three-axis accelerometer data A method based on separating ambient gravitational acceleration from a moving three-axis accelerometer data for determining a driving pattern is presented. A server may receive telematics data originating from a client computing device and combine the telematics data. The server may estimate a gravitational constant to the combined telematics data and generate a function for pitch and a roll angle from the combined telematics data. The server may further determine a driving pattern using at least the pitch and the roll angle.
US10223843B1	Automatic crash detection Systems and methods are disclosed for determining whether or not a crash involving a vehicle has occurred. The acceleration of the vehicle may be measured using, for example, an accelerometer of a mobile device, which may be located inside the vehicle. The system may determine the magnitude of each accelerometer measurement and whether the magnitude exceeds one or more acceleration magnitude thresholds. The system may also determine the number of accelerometer events within a time window and whether the number exceeds one or more count thresholds. The system may determine whether a crash involving the vehicle has occurred based on the magnitudes of acceleration, number of acceleration events, and various thresholds. In some examples, the system may confirm that a crash has occurred based on, for example, the location of the mobile device.
US10223842B1	System for controlling remotely connected vehicle Disclosed is a system for controlling a vehicle using a remote artificial intelligence (AI) server. A vehicle communicates with an artificial intelligence server for noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) issue diagnosis. The vehicle controls its fuel combustion condition for improving NVH based on an NVH diagnosis result using the AI.
US10223830B2	Computer-implemented method for designing a manufacturable garment A computer-implemented method for designing a manufacturable garment provides a three-dimensional shape representing a garment segmented into a set of three-dimensional panels (3DP). Next the method computes for each three-dimensional panel, a corresponding flattened pattern (FP). The method defines a mesh (MF, M3D) on each of said three-dimensional panels and flattened patterns; and simulates a draping of the segmented three-dimensional shape over a three-dimensional manikin (MK) by progressively imposing a constraint that each mesh element (ME3) of said three-dimensional panels adopts dimensions (EEL) of a corresponding mesh element (MEF) of the corresponding flattened pattern while it conforms to the manikin shape. A computer program product, a non-volatile computer-readable data-storage medium and a Computer Aided Design system may carry out such a method. Also application of such a method to the manufacturing of a real garment.
US10223825B2	System and method for modeling a biopsy specimen The present disclosure provides, in certain embodiments, a system and method for generating a 3D model of a biopsy specimen. The 3D model may greatly enhance the capability to identify insufficient margins surrounding neoplastic tissue obtained through an excisional biopsy, and improve communication from a pathologist back to a surgeon and/or patient. The model provides a 3D representation of the neoplastic tissue within the specimen, thereby allowing the surgeon (or other medical personnel) to rotate and orient the model at any desired angle to identify insufficient margins and relate the location of the insufficient margins to the removal site to more accurately identify the location at which additional tissue needs to be excised. By identifying the exact location at which additional tissue needs to be excised, the surgeon is able to minimize the amount of additional tissue removed from the patient in order to achieve sufficient margins.
US10223820B2	Image processing of four-dimensional angiography data set A method is provided for image processing an angiography data set of a capture region of interest of a patient's vascular system. The method includes establishing a static time parameter set from the angiography data set, wherein the static time parameter set includes time parameters and characterizes the time profile of the contrast agent concentration for picture elements of the capture region described in the image data subsets; establishing a series of mask data sets by picture element-by-picture element application of a window function having a window width of greater than zero; selecting a subinterval in the parameter space covered by the time parameters for each instant of the series to the static time parameter set; and establishing a series of static display data sets by applying the mask data sets to a static vessel data set, which shows a vascular system perfused by the contrast agent in the capture region and which underlies or is derived from the angiography data set.
US10223816B2	Method and apparatus for generating map geometry based on a received image and probe data A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating map geometry based on a received image and probe data. A method is provided including receiving a first image and probe data associated with the first image, categorizing pixels of the first image based on the probe data, and generating a map geometry based on the pixel categorization of the first image.
US10223814B2	Information processing apparatus, image reconstruction method, and computer-readable medium Back projection voxels smaller in size than forward projection voxels are created. Back projection is performed by the use of computed pixel values and measured pixel values at intersection points between straight lines connecting an X-ray source with the centroids of the back projection voxels and an X-ray detection panel.
US10223812B2	Image validation Systems and methods are described for providing an image validation module. The image validation mobile enables capture, enhancement, validation, and upload of a digital image to a networked computing service, applying criteria that correspond to image validation criteria used by the networked computing service. The image validation mobile may be executed on a mobile computing device, and may authenticate itself to the networked computing service to indicate that digital images have already been validated. The image validation module may provide feedback before, during, or after image capture to enable the capture of valid images, and may provide feedback before, during, or after image enhancement to allow issues that prevent a digital image from passing validation to be addressed.
US10223811B2	Image encoding method, image decoding method, image encoding device and image decoding device In an image encoding device, a predicted pixel generator generates a predicted value for pixel data based on at least one of pixels adjacent to a pixel to be compressed. A quantization processor quantizes a difference value between the pixel data and the generated predicted value to a quantized value having a smaller number of bits than that of the pixel data to compress the pixel data to the quantized value. In a quantization width determiner, an edge determiner determines whether or not there are both a flat portion and an edge portion, based on a characteristic of the difference value in the group, and an edge pixel determiner determines whether each of pixels included in the group is a pixel in an edge portion or a pixel in a flat portion, based on the difference value, whereby a quantization width used in the quantization processor is determined.
US10223810B2	Region-adaptive hierarchical transform and entropy coding for point cloud compression, and corresponding decompression Innovations in compression and decompression of point cloud data are described. For example, an encoder is configured to encode point cloud data, thereby producing encoded data. In particular, the encoder applies a region-adaptive hierarchical transform (“RAHT”) to attributes of occupied points, thereby producing transform coefficients. The encoder can also quantize the transform coefficients and perform adaptive entropy coding of the quantized transform coefficients. For corresponding decoding, a decoder is configured to decode the encoded data to reconstruct point cloud data. In particular, the decoder applies an inverse RAHT to transform coefficients for attributes of occupied points. The decoder can also perform adaptive entropy decoding and inverse quantization of the quantized transform coefficients. The adaptive entropy coding/decoding can use estimates of the distribution of values for the quantized transform coefficients. In this case, the encoder calculates the estimates and signals them to the decoder.
US10223801B2	Code domain power control for structured light Systems and methods for controlling structured light laser systems are disclosed. One aspect is a structured light system. The system includes a memory device configured to store a depth map. The system further includes an image projecting device including a laser system configured to project codewords. The system further includes a receiver device including a sensor, the receiver device configured to sense the projected codewords reflected from an object. The system further includes a processing circuit configured to retrieve a portion of the depth map and calculate expected codewords from the depth map. The system further includes a feedback system configured to control the output power of the laser system based on the sensed codewords and the expected codewords.
US10223793B1	Laser distance measuring method and system A method for distance measurement is proposed in which two or more laser light emitters emitting converging collimated laser beams, an image sensor, and an image processor are positioned on a baseplate. The output of the laser light emitters from light points on surfaces substantially opposite the baseplate. The image sensor captures images of the projected light points. The area of the polygon or the length of the line resulting from connecting the light points is extracted by the image processor and compared to values in a preconfigured table relating polygon areas or line lengths to distances from the baseplate to surfaces.
US10223791B2	System for diagnosing disease using spatial area normalization analysis Disclosed herein is a method comprising a method comprising imaging a network section through which flow occurs; where the flow is selected from a group consisting of fluid, electrons, protons, neutrons and holes; partitioning the image into sub-regions based on metabolic need and function; where each region comprises one or more sources and one or more sinks; where the flow emanates from the source and exits into the sinks; generating a Voronoi diagram from the Delaunay triangulation by subdividing the sub-regions into Voronoi cells, where each Voronoi cell contains exactly one sink or one source; and where the intersections of Voronoi cells are Voronoi cell vertices; calculating a flow rate in each Voronoi cell; and according a color to Voronoi cells based on their flow rates; where Voronoi cells having similar rates are accorded similar colors.
US10223786B2	System and method for diagnosing defects in random flow systems Disclosed herein is a method comprising imaging a network section through which flow occurs; where the flow is selected from a group consisting of fluid, electrons, protons, neutrons and holes; partitioning the image into sub-regions based on metabolic need and function; where each region comprises one or more sources and one or more sinks; where the flow emanates from the source and exits into the sinks; performing a Delaunay triangulation tessellation on one or more sub-regions by connecting one or more sources and one or more sinks; where the Delaunay triangulations maximize the minimum angle of all the angles of the triangles in the triangulation; generating a Voronoi diagram from the Delaunay triangulation by subdividing the sub-regions into Voronoi cells, where each Voronoi cell contains exactly one sink or one source; and where the intersections of Voronoi cells are Voronoi cell vertices; locating a sink endpoint centroid; connecting a source to a nearest Voronoi cell vertex; connecting at least one sink to at least one of the remaining Voronoi cell vortices to complete the network; and performing a smoothing function on the network to form a smoothed network.
US10223784B2	Pattern evaluation device and visual inspection device comprising pattern evaluation device A pattern evaluation device of the present invention includes a model estimation unit that estimates a model caused by a manufacturing method on the basis of an inspection image, a deformation amount estimation unit that estimates a deformation amount of the inspection image by using the estimated model, a reference data deformation unit that deforms reference data by using the estimated deformation amount, and an evaluation unit that performs an evaluation process by comparing the reference data which is deformed by the reference data deformation unit with the inspection image.
US10223781B2	Soft back-up pin state checking device A soft back-up pin state checking device including a soft back-up pin formed of a bottom-side holder portion, and a top-side soft pin portion which is held by the holder portion in an exchangeable manner. A ring-shaped background portion which is possible to be distinguished from the soft pin portion and be recognized using image processing is provided on a top end surface of a cylindrical fitting portion which is outside of an outer circumference of the soft pin portion in the holder portion of the soft back-up pin.
US10223780B2	Image steganalysis based on deep learning The present invention provides a method for detecting image steganography based on deep learning, which comprises: filtering images having steganographic class label or true class label in a training set with a high-pass filter to obtain a training set including steganographic class residual images and true class residual images; training a deep network model on said training set to obtain a trained deep model for steganalysis; filtering the image to be detected with said high-pass filter to obtain a residual image to be detected; detecting said residual image to be detected on said deep model so as to determine whether said residual image to be detected is a steganographic image. The method for detecting image steganography in the present invention can create an automatic blind steganalysis model through feature learning and can identify steganographic images accurately.
US10223779B2	Superimposed image creation apparatus and superimposed image creation method A fluorescent image acquisition system includes a light emitting device which emits excitation light during ON period and stop the emission of the excitation light during OFF period, an imaging device which outputs ON image data and OFF image data, an input device which sets a coefficient, an image processing unit which creates fluorescent image data and background image data, and an identification unit which identifies fluorescent pixels and non-fluorescent pixels. In order to create a superimposed image, the image processing unit calculates values obtained by summing pixel values of fluorescent pixels of the fluorescent image data and pixel values of fluorescent pixels of the background image data at a ratio of 1:1, as pixel values of the fluorescent pixels and calculates values obtained by multiplying at least pixel values of the non-fluorescent pixels of the background image by the coefficient, as pixel values of the non-fluorescent pixels.
US10223778B2	Image contrast enhancement method and apparatus thereof An image contrast enhancement method and an apparatus thereof are disclosed, which calculate the degree of influencing the clarity according to the influence feature (e.g., heavy fog, dust, smoke, or etc.) in the image, and then adjust the brightness of the pixels corresponding to features of influencing the clarity according to the degree, thereby enhancing image contrast and removing phenomenon of influencing the clarity in the image.
US10223776B2	Systems and methods for selective enhancement of a region of interest in an image The present disclosure provides systems and methods for receiving ultrasound image data corresponding to an ultrasound image with a master dynamic range and displaying a globally tone-mapped version of the ultrasound image on an electronic display. A region of interest (ROI) within the ultrasound image may be regionally tone mapped to provide an enhanced, optimized, and/or otherwise improved image of the ROI. The regional tone mapping may allow for features within the ROI to be more easily distinguishable that are not or at least not easily distinguishable in the global tone mapping of the same region.
US10223771B2	Image resolution modification A method performed under control of a storage manager may include identifying a subject of an image; determining a resolution value for the image based, at least in part, on the identified subject; and modifying a resolution of the image in accordance with the determined resolution value.
US10223770B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit configured to set a virtual light source for a captured image; a brightness correction unit configured to correct brightness of a partial region of an object using the virtual light source set by the setting unit; an attribute detection unit configured to detect an attribute of the partial region; a glossy component generation unit configured to generate a glossy component that is to be applied to the partial region, according to the attribute of the partial region detected by the attribute detection unit; and a glossy appearance correction unit configured to correct a glossy appearance of the partial region using the glossy component generated by the glossy component generation unit.
US10223769B2	Display device and extended display identification data replacement method thereof A display device includes a first storage unit and a display chip. The first storage unit stores first extended display identification data comprising a plurality of first preset parameters. The display chip includes a control unit. The control unit provides at least one second preset parameter to replace a part of the first preset parameters in the first extended display identification data in response to a control signal and thereby generate second extended display identification data. The display chip issues a notification signal to notify the display signal providing device to read the second extended display identification data in response to a generation of the second extended display identification data. The display signal providing device provides a first display signal compatible with the second extended display identification data to the display device after reading the second extended display identification data. An extended display identification data replacement method is also provided.
US10223766B2	Image processing including geometric distortion adjustment A method including receiving input data representing an input frame of a video. Transformation data representing at least one transformation for applying to an image to adjust a geometric distortion of the image is received. A first and second plurality of input tiles, each including a respective portion of the input frame, is processed with at least part of the transformation data, thereby generating first and second sub-window data representing a first and second sub-window of an output frame of the video, respectively.
US10223763B2	Apparatus and method for performing fourier transform A method for performing a Fourier transform includes generating intermediate data by performing a 1D FFT on input image data on a row-by-row basis, designating different banks of a memory as respective start positions, dividing and storing the intermediate data at the start positions, reading out the intermediate data at the start positions, and generating final data by performing a 1D FFT on the intermediate data on a column-by-column basis.
US10223762B2	Pipelined approach to fused kernels for optimization of machine learning workloads on graphical processing units A method for optimization of machine learning (ML) workloads on a graphics processor unit (GPU). The method includes identifying a computation having a generic pattern commonly observed in ML processes. Hierarchical aggregation spanning a memory hierarchy of the GPU for processing is performed for the identified computation including maintaining partial output vector results in shared memory of the GPU. Hierarchical aggregation for vectors is performed including performing intra-block aggregation for multiple thread blocks of a partial output vector results on GPU global memory.
US10223760B2	Risk data visualization system A computer-implemented method for interactive visualization of a risk assessment for an entity on a graphical user interface of a computer system includes receiving, by the computer system, unstructured risk data associated with an entity, parsing, by the computer system, the unstructured risk data to produce risk information elements during a time period, combining, by the computer system, the risk information elements that comprise a single event, categorizing, by the computer system, each event in a category, generating, by a computer processor, a risk assessment for the entity from the categorized events for each time period, and displaying, on the graphical user interface, the risk assessments for each time period on a risk timeline that includes a timeline and a numerical risk scale.
US10223759B2	Method for implementing a controlled medical vocabulary A method of implementing a controlled vocabulary may include the steps of generating the controlled vocabulary by forming a list of medical terms and associated descriptions; creating a list of codes internal to the controlled vocabulary; and storing the codes, the medical terms, and the descriptions in a format suitable for use in the patient longitudinal electronic medical record environment. In addition, a sound wave may be captured as an electronic file, translated into text, and stored as a patient medical record event. The patient medical record event may be parsed for context and may be tagged with one or more source vocabularies, and a code internal to the source vocabulary may be provided. Event context and source vocabulary findings may then be used as discrete elements to add to the longitudinal patient electronic medical record environment.
US10223757B2	User-specific event popularity map Information can be provided in a convenient manner to help a user decide what events to attend. The information can include information regarding a popularity of the events. The popularity of the events can be based upon the number of people expected to attend, the number of the user's friends expected to attend, and/or the number of people fitting user-defined criteria who are expected to attend. The events for a user-specified time period can be shown on a map along with information representing the popularity of the events. Thus, the user can choose to attend those events in the user's area which are more popular. The map can be displayed on a user device, such as a cellular telephone. In this manner, the user can more readily attend those particular events which the user is more likely to enjoy.
US10223755B2	Augmented reality retail system Methods, computer-readable media and apparatuses for providing additional information are disclosed. For example, a method receives from a device of a customer, an identification code identifying a product, obtains social media information regarding the customer from a social network, and provides the additional information to the device of the customer, wherein the additional information relates to the product, and wherein the additional information is based upon the social media information.
US10223752B1	Assessing risk using vehicle environment information A method includes receiving vehicle sensor data from a second vehicle via one or more wireless signals. The vehicle sensor data is collected by a sensor that is located on or in the second vehicle and configured to sense an environment external to the second vehicle. The vehicle sensor data is received at an electronic processing system, and stored in a memory. A set of one or more characteristics of the environment external to the first vehicle is determined by processing the stored vehicle sensor data, and a risk indicator is determined based on the set of one or more characteristics, a risk indicator. An insurance rating for an insurance policy associated with the first vehicle is determined based on the risk indicator.
US10223750B1	Optimized inventory analysis for insurance purposes Systems and methods may provide for generating, maintaining, and using an inventory for insurance purposes. An optimized inventory analysis server may use a demographic classification for a given user along with data related to items owned by other users to determine one or more items for recommendation to the given user. Details associated with existing insurance coverage levels may also be used to recommend new insurance products to the user. In addition, the optimized inventory analysis server may determine a depreciated value of each item within an inventory. These values may be used to assess loss and settle an insurance claim for damage to one or more of the items in the inventory. Finally, the optimized inventory analysis server may recommend incentives on products/services sold by third party entities and may further recommend incentives on insurance products for insuring items purchased by a given user.
US10223748B2	Systems and user interfaces for holistic, data-driven investigation of bad actor behavior based on clustering and scoring of related data Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a data analysis system that may automatically generate memory-efficient clustered data structures, automatically analyze those clustered data structures, automatically tag and group those clustered data structures, and provide results of the automated analysis and grouping in an optimized way to an analyst. The automated analysis of the clustered data structures (also referred to herein as data clusters) may include an automated application of various criteria, rules, indicators, or scenarios so as to generate scores, reports, alerts, or conclusions that the analyst may quickly and efficiently use to evaluate the groups of data clusters. In particular, the groups of data clusters may be dynamically re-grouped and/or filtered in an interactive user interface so as to enable an analyst to quickly navigate among information associated with various groups of data clusters and efficiently evaluate those data clusters in the context of, for example, a risky trading investigation.
US10223746B2	Systems and methods for inferring the performance of rejected credit applicants Certain implementations of the disclosed technology may include systems, methods, and apparatus for inferring the performance of rejected credit applicants using non-tradeline data. According to an example implementation, a method is provided for evaluating factors that may indicate financial distress and/or future credit performance associated with an applicant. In an example implementation, the method may include receiving applicant information associated with an applicant of a credit application. Responsive to a query, the method may include receiving by at least one processor, non-tradeline data related to the applicant. The method includes scoring, using a predictive scoring model, and based at least in part on the non-tradeline data, a prediction of the applicant's future credit performance. The method includes generating, based on the scoring, an estimated credit performance of the applicant over a predetermined period; and outputting an indication of the estimated credit performance.
US10223744B2	Location and event capture circuitry to facilitate remote vehicle location predictive modeling when global positioning is unavailable Disclosed are a device and/or a method of location and event capture circuitry to facilitate remote vehicle location predictive modeling when global positioning is unavailable. In one embodiment, a predictive circuit of a vehicle includes event detection circuitry to initiate a timer circuit of the vehicle when a wheel of the vehicle is in a stationary state beyond threshold amount of time during an event; an event categorization circuitry to monitor a telemetry data of the vehicle to assign a category to the event; a data communication circuitry to communicate the event, the category, and/or a set of other events and categories to a predictive recommendation server on a periodic basis; and a repossession detection circuitry to determine that the vehicle is pending repossession based on the event, the category, the set of other events and categories, and/or a message communicated from the predictive recommendation server to the predictive circuit.
US10223740B1	Virtual reality visualization system with object recommendation engine Aspects of the disclosure relate to virtual reality systems (and/or augmented reality systems) that facilitate visualization of replacement and/or additional items for rebuilding a damaged room. The system may provide a virtual representation of a subject real world room. A user may select items, such as appliances and furniture, for placement in the virtual room and the system may update the virtual room to include a representation of the items. In some embodiments, the system may utilize information about the user to provide recommendations regarding items that may be placed in a virtual room. For example, the system may utilize one or more service records to identify items covered under a service associated with the user. In some embodiments, the system may apply a monetary settlement to the cost of the real world items to facilitate the replacement of damaged items.
US10223739B2	System and method for providing virtual items to users of a virtual world A shop interface is presented to users in conjunction with presentation of views of an online game, wherein the shop interface is configured to facilitate presentations to users of offers to sell virtual items usable within the game in exchange for consideration. In response to detecting that the online game is systematically unavailable to users, an alternative virtual shop interface is presented to users that is accessed over the Internet separately from the online game, and offers to sell the virtual times usable within the game are presented to users in exchange for less consideration than the offers to sell the virtual items through the shop interface presented in conjunction with the online game.
US10223738B1	Augmented reality property system for displaying moment file of user created content tagged to location including augmented estate owner content An augmented reality property system assessable via enrolled handy having the ability to filterably record and read augmented reality moment files tagged to real object or locations selectably via augmented reality moment file icons viewable by enrolled handy when positioned near tagged real object or locations. Augmented reality moment files also include augmented estate owner content for display when an augmented reality moment file icon is selected within the confines of an augmented estate.
US10223735B2	Method for ordering and distributing a product ordered online A system for ordering a product online includes a communicating object configured to order a set of products referenced in a database by means of an order signal (CMD), and a database for listing a set of products corresponding to the order signal (CMD). A server is in communication with said database and is configured to publish a list of said set of ordered products. A computer likely to validate said list such that the communicating object may be a mobile device provided with a processor, a random access memory (RAM) and a hibernation software program such that the processor is stopped and the content of the random access memory (RAM) is not kept when said communicating object has not been used for a predefined period, or depending on the status of the communicating object.
US10223734B2	Method, manufacture, and apparatus for facilitating a sales transaction via an interactive display platform Methods and apparatus are disclosed for facilitating, via an interactive display platform, a sales transaction conducted in real time between a consultant associated with a consultant device and a customer associated with a customer device. Independent user interaction control capabilities are assigned to the consultant device and the customer device for controlling the sharing of information, the identification of selections pertaining to the shared information and the population of a virtual shopping cart based on the selections, and/or for interacting with the shared information, selections and populated virtual shopping cart. The disclosed methods, systems, and apparatus can facilitate a sales transaction involving any type of product and/or service, including the sale of a report containing product data.
US10223733B2	Providing consolidated order management Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing consolidated order management are presented. In some embodiments, a computer system may receive, from a first organization user computing device, first order information associated with a first order created on the first organization user computing device. Subsequently, the computer system may validate the first order information. Based on validating the first order information, the computer system may load a first set of one or more routing rules from a consolidated order management database. Thereafter, the computer system may route the first order information associated with the first order created on the first organization user computing device and received from the first organization user computing device based on the first set of one or more routing rules loaded from the consolidated order management database.
US10223731B1	Generating add-on item deals in an electronic marketplace This disclosure presents techniques for selecting an add-on item to present to consumers at a check-out user interface of an electronic marketplace. The selection techniques involve presenting a consumer with a selection of add-on items that are unrelated to items added by the consumer to her shopping cart. The check-out user interface can present the consumer with a one-time offer to add the add-on item to her shopping cart. In some examples, the add-on items can represent over-stocked items or items that a supplier is attempting to liquidate. Further, the selection techniques can minimize the additional labor cost of retrieving the add-on item from a fulfillment center, by selecting add-on items that are located within a close physical proximity to items that the consumer has already added to her shopping cart.
US10223728B2	Systems and methods of providing recommendations by generating transition probability data with directed consumption Systems and methods of directed item consumption recommendations are disclosed which include generating, with a server, empirical transition matrix data that includes row data for a first item and column data for a second item, and an entry in the empirical transition matrix data for a number of users that acquire the second item after the first item, generating, with the server, metadata transition matrix data by partitioning items for each item metadata type, setting a uniform transition probability for all items in the partition, and summing the uniform transition probabilities across all metadata types, generating, with the server, transition probability matrix data by multiplying the metadata transition matrix data with a weight parameter, adding the result to the empirical transition matrix data, and normalizing each row, and providing item recommendations to a user computing device communicatively coupled to the server according to the generated transition probability matrix data.
US10223724B1	System for customizing keepsake clothing A system for customizing clothing that memorializes an event, an association or a fantasy team by electronically collecting messages and signatures to be arranged and printed on clothing. In one embodiment, a user desiring to memorialize an event creates a list of invitees to whom the system sends an electronic invitation to create a signature and a message to be printed on a shirt. In another embodiment, a user desiring a celebrity signature submits a bid for said signature. In another embodiment, a user presents a fantasy team roster and signatures of the team players are placed on an article of clothing. An invitee or celebrity electronically submits the signature and message to the system through a pointing device. The system provides a plurality of tools and templates to lay out the submissions in an individualized graphic design for printing on keepsake clothing.
US10223716B2	Systems and methods for monitoring and valuating transactions for document processes A method of charging a customer for using a software program product that processes one or more documents that includes receiving, by a tracking server from at least one client application, information relating to a processing of a document using the software program product; determining if the information indicates a successful processing of the document; and upon positive determination, charging the customer with an amount for the successful processing of the document using the software program product.
US10223713B2	Methods and apparatus for user-based targeted content delivery Methods and apparatus for selecting and delivering advertising or promotional content based on, e.g., the attributes of a desired demographic. In one embodiment, the invention enhances advertising or promotional penetration into a particular demographic of a network subscriber pool by correlating the advertising/promotion (and even the contextual program content) with specific users or groups of users within the pool. This approach decouples the advertising or promotion from any given program or lineup, and gives the network operator flexibility in deciding where, when, and how often to insert advertisements or promotions in order to achieve the desired result. Dynamic network architectures such as broadcast switched architectures can also be leveraged to further enhance flexibility and targeting precision. In effect, the network advertising or promotion model is made results-driven (versus program-centric). Subscriber privacy is also optionally maintained, thus ensuring that stored data is not traceable to a specific user.
US10223706B1	System for measuring a plurality of tagged assets on a plurality of physical assets A system for monitoring at least one of tagged asset on at least one physical asset using a processor and data storage connected to a network, with at least one connected client device. The system displays at least one tagged asset from at least one independent survey set up on a layered coordinate system view with icons. The at least one independent survey set up can have at least one data capture device, such as a laser scanner, a camera, or both, a processor with data storage, and a receiver/transmitter enabling a user to link icons to a 360 degree panoramic view, which enables a user to view a visual representation of at least one tagged asset and connect to a library of tagged assets.
US10223705B2	Apparatus, system and method for a brand affinity engine using positive and negative mentions and indexing An apparatus, system and method of implementing a computerized brand affinity engine. The apparatus, system and method include at least a plurality of computerized access points having accessible thereto a plurality of sites mentioning at least one sponsor, a categorized, hierarchical database of keywords, wherein at least the keywords falling in at least one category of the hierarchy correspond to a sponsor category of the at least one sponsor, and a tracker, wherein the tracker tracks positive ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites and negative ones of the mentions of the at least one sponsor on ones of the plurality of sites, in accordance with positive and negative keywords of the categorized, hierarchical database in the sponsor category, and wherein the tracker issues an rating with regard to the at least one sponsor in accordance with the positive ones and the negative ones of the mentions. An assessment of optimal sponsors for particular markets and/or in particular geographies that additionally increases sponsorship opportunities in particular markets and/or in particular geographies is thereby provided.
US10223703B2	Systems and methods for determining competitive market values of an ad impression The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for determining competitive market values for an ad impression on an advertiser exchange. An engine executing on a device may receive a candidate set of inputs associated with ad impressions. The engine may determine competitive market values for an ad impression on an advertiser exchange. The engine may determine candidate clearing prices based on the candidate set of inputs and history of clearing prices on the advertiser exchange. The engine may generate, based on the candidate clearing prices, a competitive market value prediction for the ad impression on the advertiser exchange. The competitive market value prediction may comprise a distribution function of predicted clearing prices on the advertiser exchange. The engine may generate, based on the competitive market value prediction, a fair market value bid for the ad impression in the context of a specific ad campaign.
US10223699B2	System and method of rule creation based on frequency of question A method is provided for prioritizing rule creation for computer-assisted customer care. When a question from a user of a device is received by a customer care analytics engine for which no rule is automatically fired, the question and a related device profile of the device are added to an unfired questions list. The analytics engine parses the question to match terms in other questions in the list. The question is also added to an appropriate category in the list based on the device profile. A prioritization algorithm is used to rank the question among other questions within the list or the category, ranking the question more highly according to the frequency of those terms in the category or the list. According to its rank-wise order, the question is directed for creation of a rule to permit automatic handling of questions having the same or similar terms in the future.
US10223691B2	Universal electronic payment apparatuses, methods and systems The UNIVERSAL ELECTRONIC PAYMENT APPARATUS, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“UEP”) transform touchscreen inputs into a virtual wallet mobile application interface via UEP components into purchase transaction triggers and receipt notices. In one implementation the UEP provides, via a user device, a product information search request; and obtains, in response to the product information search request, information on a first product for sale by a first merchant and a second product for sale by a second merchant. The UEP generates a single purchase transaction request, using the information on the first product for sale by the first merchant and the second product for sale by the second merchant. The UEP provides, via the user device, the single purchase transaction request for payment processing. Also, the UEP obtains an electronic purchase receipt for the first product for sale by the first merchant and the second product for sale by the second merchant.
US10223690B2	Alternative account identifier Payment instrument data is received in connection with a transaction, the data including an alternative primary account number (PAN) and an account identifier. A permanent PAN of an account is identified that is based on the account identifier. An alternative PAN associated with the permanent PAN is derived to determine whether the received alternative PAN matches the derived alternative PAN associated with the permanent PAN.
US10223689B2	System and method for over the air provisioned wearable contactless payments Systems and methods may comprise RFID data acquisition technology which may be embedded in a fob or tag for use in completing financial transactions. This fob may a self-contained device which includes a transponder and which may be contained on any portable form factor. For instance, the tag may be housed in a wearable transaction instrument, such as an activity tracker. The tag is configured to be used in concert with an RFID reader device.
US10223688B2	Competing mobile payment offers A method for competing mobile payment offers includes presenting a payment request based on a purchase request to an electronic device. A transaction description based on the payment request is forwarded to one or more payment providers. One or more payment offers are received from the one or more payment providers on the electronic device. A payment method is selected for the purchase request based on the received one or more payment offers. The purchase request is completed using the selected payment method.
US10223687B2	Link of mobile devices to facilitate mobile commerce transactions In linking mobile devices to facilitate a mobile commerce transaction, a primary mobile device creates an invitation to link to a mobile commerce account of the primary mobile device with a mobile commerce payment system and sends the invitation to a secondary mobile device. The secondary mobile device receives the invitation from the primary mobile device and sends an agreement to link to the mobile commerce account to the primary mobile device. The primary mobile device receives the agreement from the secondary mobile device and sends credentials for linking to the mobile commerce account to the secondary mobile device. The secondary mobile device receives the credentials from the primary mobile device and acquires information for enabling the link to the mobile commerce account using the credentials. The secondary mobile device links to the mobile commerce account using the information.
US10223685B2	Systems, methods, and media for pay-per-access micropayment-based web browsing and server applications Disclosed are systems, media, and methods for providing pay-per-access micropayment-based web browsing and server applications. In one aspect, disclosed herein are computer-implemented systems comprising a digital processing device comprising at least one processor, an operating system configured to perform executable instructions, a memory, and a computer program including instructions executable by the digital processing device to create a pay-per-access micropayment-based server application.
US10223684B2	System for processing, activating and redeeming value added prepaid cards A computer implemented method for adding value to a stored value card in excess of the purchase price for the stored value card is provided. In one embodiment a stored value card transaction processor receives an activation or redemption request for a stored value card from a point of sale terminal. The activation or redemption request comprises at least one of a card identification, a point of sale terminal identification, a merchant identification, and an activation time which is compared to data stored in a stored value card datastore to determine if the stored value card to be activated is eligible for a value added award. The processor then determines the value added award and modifies the request to include the value added award. The processor then transmits the modified request to the card issuer authorization system and receives a response which is forwarded to the point of sale terminal.
US10223683B1	Versatile transaction scanner for use in a food and beverage venue A versatile transaction scanner for use in a food and beverage venue, comprising an optical reader and a wireless transceiver, which is adapted to read transaction information encoded within a transaction code, and transmit the transaction information to a point of sale system for processing. The transaction scanner can be used by a user who is a venue staff member to scan transaction codes representing new customer orders which are then received by the point of sale system and prepared by the venue. The transaction information may further contain payment information, allowing the transaction to be processed and completed with a single scan. The transaction scanner may further comprise a vibration mechanism which alerts the user when the customer's order is ready to be served. The transaction scanner may also have an integrated bottle opening mechanism, allowing a bartender to simultaneously take beverage orders and open bottle caps.
US10223682B2	User device enabling access to payment information in response to mechanical input detection In certain embodiments, an electronic device can include a secure element that detects a mechanical input. The mechanical input can correspond to an instruction to transmit securely stored payment information to another device and/or to release such information to an application on the device (e.g., for use in an in-app commerce transaction). This feature can inhibit or prevent unauthorized transmission of payment information. When the mechanical input is detected, payment information can be transmitted to a point of sale (POS) terminal (e.g., via near-field communication) or released to an app on the device. Further, a user can either use default payment information or interact with the device (before or after providing the mechanical input) to select appropriate payment information for a transaction. For example, the user can select between credit cards, debit cards and/or stored-value cards (e.g., transit card).
US10223678B2	Touch based asset transaction In one example embodiment, an end device includes a touch screen configured to: display a plurality of icons that are respectively associated with a plurality of asset transaction entities, and receive a touch input with respect to at least two icons among the plurality of icons; a processor configured to translate the touch input into an asset transaction request that initiates execution of an asset transaction between at least two asset transaction entities among the plurality of asset transaction entities; and a transmitter configured to transmit the asset transaction request to a service provider.
US10223676B2	Release of funds based on criteria A method and system to transfer payment to a seller of a network-based commerce transaction are described herein. The method includes performing a risk evaluation based on retrieved seller-specific data, and releasing funds from a holding account to the seller based on the risk evaluation.
US10223665B2	Systems and methods for providing change of address services over a network This disclosure describes systems and methods for collecting and processing change of address data and providing change of address services to a customer using a computer network. The address data can include a physical address, an electronic address, or both. The systems and methods may also provide additional services to the customer to assist in changing addresses.
US10223661B2	Utilizing social performance patterns to manage and evaluate performance of user A method, system and computer program product for improving management and performance of an employee. An indication of a goal sponsored by an owner, such as a manager, is received. After receiving an indication of a user subscribing to the goal sponsored by the owner, communications (e.g., posts) on the social network involving the subscribed user that include a tag designating the goal may be monitored. Upon detecting a completion of the goal by the subscribed user in the monitored communications, a pattern of steps (e.g., “prepare,” “review” and “finish”) to accomplish the goal is determined based on the monitored communications. The pattern may then be used to recommend actions to other users subscribed to the goal concerning accomplishing the goal based on the pattern. Furthermore, the owner may receive indications as to the progress of the user in accomplishing the goal based on the pattern.
US10223658B2	Continuous integration software development platform and system, and implementation method therefor Described are various embodiments of a continuous integration software development platform and system, and implementation method therefor. In one embodiment, the process comprises creating at least one regular changeset bundle from said submitted software changesets; executing a predefined automated pre-commit quality verification on said at least one regular changeset bundle; promoting at least some successfully verified software changesets in said at least one regular changeset bundle as confirmed low-risk changesets; creating a primary bundle from said confirmed low-risk changesets; executing said pre-commit quality verification on said primary bundle against a current software development version label; and committing at least some successfully verified low-risk changesets in said primary bundle to invoke a new software development version label to be set as said current software development version label in subsequent primary bundle verifications.
US10223656B2	Method and system for minimizing time-variant energy demand and consumption of built environment A computer-implemented method and system is provided. The system manipulates load curves corresponding to time-variant energy demand and consumption of a built environment. The system analyzes a first, second, third, fourth and a fifth set of data. The first set of data is associated with energy consuming devices. The second set of data is associated with an occupancy behavior of users. The third set of data is associated with energy storage and supply means. The fourth set of data is associated with environmental sensors. The fifth set of data is associated with energy pricing models. The system executes control routines for controlling peak loading conditions associated with the built environment. The system manipulates an optimized operating state of the energy consuming devices. The system integrates the energy storage and supply means for optimal reduction of the peak level of energy demand concentrated over the limited period of time.
US10223653B1	Onboarding dashboard and methods and system thereof Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an onboarding dashboard and methods and system thereof for transitioning candidates into welcomed and engaged workers. In an online services exchange medium, clients find and hire freelancer candidates “on demand” to get projects done quickly and cost effectively. A client is able to use the onboarding dashboard to configure onboarding tasks for each individual or group of candidates the client hires. The candidates, once engaged with the client, are able use the onboarding dashboard to view the onboarding tasks established for them by the client. The onboarding dashboard provides complete visibility of the onboarding progress to both the client and the candidates, enforcement of step dependencies and management of documents.
US10223652B2	Systems and methods for an attribute generator tool workflow The disclosed embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for computerized decisioning, and more particularly, to systems and methods for standardized coding and deployment of attributes for financial decisioning systems coded once and deployed to multiple decisioning systems and environments. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, an attribute management system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. Upon executing the instructions, the processors may receive a financial service request, and identify a decisioning system for processing the request. The processors may determine that an attribute is required for processing the request using the decisioning system. Then, the processors may initiate an attribute calculation service for determining an attribute value for the attribute. The processors may receive the attribute value from the attribute calculation service, and process the financial service request using the received attribute value.
US10223650B2	Enforcing context model based policies with forward chaining A method for enforcing a number of context model based policies with forward chaining comprising applying a policy set including a plurality of policies to an instantiated context model which includes a set of referenced instance documents in XML format, determining whether the instantiated context model should be updated, if the instantiated context model should be updated, executing an updating operation, re-generating a new instantiated context model according to the updated instance documents and the instantiated context model, and applying the policy set to the new instantiated context model, and wherein the policies include a condition part and an action part.
US10223647B1	Dynamic modification of interruptibility settings for network-accessible resources Methods and apparatus for dynamic modification of interruptibility settings of network-accessible resources are disclosed. A system includes a resource manager and a plurality of resource instances, each of which has an interruptibility setting. In response to an instance acquisition request, the resource manager allocates an instance with a first interruptibility setting, allowing the resource manager to revoke the client's access to the instance without a notification. In response to an approval of an interruptibility upgrade request, the resource manager modifies the interruptibility setting to a second setting that allows the client to retain access to the instance for at least a specified time. Respective billing amounts for the client's use of the instance are determined for each of the interruptibility settings used.
US10223645B2	Trading goods based on image processing for interest, emotion and affinity detection A system for trading goods over a computer network based on image processing includes an image processor that analyzes a picture received from a user to build a description of entities in the picture and correlations among the entities, a description interpreter that analyzes the description to determine an underlying message in the picture and detect information regarding the user's interests, emotions and affinities to goods and services, wherein the information is stored with the user's profile, the user's list of items to trade, and the user's past transaction history, and a trade matching component that uses the user's profile and produces a ranked list of other users with items to trade, or intermediary trade steps, when another user initiates a new trading transaction.
US10223642B1	System for matching individuals and facilitating interactions between users in a safety conscious environment A method for matching individuals according to emotions evoked by music, includes the use of a plurality of personality matching questions to generate a response profile that is matched with a plurality of subsequent response profiles. A plurality of emotion-evoking audio files is provided for each of the plurality of personality matching questions, wherein a user account is prompted to select one of the plurality of emotion-evoking audio files as a response for each of the plurality of emotion-evoking audio files. The response for each of the plurality of personality matching questions is aggregated into the response profile along with a favorite song. A match probability rating is then calculated for the each of the plurality of subsequent response profiles in relation to the response profile of the user account. A plurality of subsequent user accounts is then displayed to the user account to engage in a virtual date.
US10223641B2	Mood detection with intelligence agents Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for increasing the quality of interactions between two or more entities. These entities are either individuals (e.g., human beings using a computer device) or artificial intelligence (AI) agents. The interactions between all of the entities within a computing environment are mapped and analyzed. Based on the mapped interactions, a relationship model is generated in order to run multiple applications within a computing environment.
US10223634B2	Multiplicative recurrent neural network for fast and robust intracortical brain machine interface decoders A brain machine interface (BMI) to control a device is provided. The BMI has a neural decoder, which is a neural to kinematic mapping function with neural signals as input to the neural decoder and kinematics to control the device as output of the neural decoder. The neural decoder is based on a continuous-time multiplicative recurrent neural network, which has been trained as a neural to kinematic mapping function. An advantage of the invention is the robustness of the decoder to perturbations in the neural data; its performance degrades less—or not at all in some circumstances—in comparison to the current state decoders. These perturbations make the current use of BMI in a clinical setting extremely challenging. This invention helps to ameliorate this problem. The robustness of the neural decoder does not come at the cost of some performance, in fact an improvement in performance is observed.
US10223626B2	High ambient light electronic screen communication method The present invention embraces a method to obtain barcoded information off a computer screen under high ambient lighting conditions, including a direct sunlight environment. The method includes a user prompting a computer to present an active window on all or a portion of its screen. The computer generates a communication sequence, comprising information commonly included on a barcode, and displays the communication sequence on the computer screen. After activating the scanner into an alternative or screen mode, the user places the scanner on the active window of the computer screen and the scanner asynchronously receives the communication sequence. The scanner decodes the received communication sequence and obtains encoded information of the computer. The encoded information may include a unique identifier of the computer, such as a MAC address. With the MAC address, the scanner may wirelessly communicate with the computer to exchange other information.
US10223625B2	Two-dimensional code generation device and two-dimensional code generation program product A two-dimensional code generation device includes a determination unit, an image acquisition unit, and a code generation unit. The determination unit determines whether point information is included in coding information, which is information for generating a two-dimensional code. The image acquisition unit selecting, from an image database in which multiple images are registered, an image that visually indicates the point information as a base image and acquires the selected image as the base image when the determination unit determines that the point information is included in the coding information. The code generation unit generates the two-dimensional code based on the coding information, and includes the base image in the two-dimensional code in a superimposed manner when the base image is acquired by the image acquisition unit.
US10223621B1	Artificially intelligent systems, devices, and methods for learning and/or using visual surrounding for autonomous object operation Aspects of the disclosure generally relate to computing devices and/or systems, and may be generally directed to devices, systems, methods, and/or applications for learning operation of an application or an object of an application in various visual surroundings, storing this knowledge in a knowledgebase (i.e. neural network, graph, sequences, etc.), and enabling autonomous operation of the application or the object of the application.
US10223617B1	Image processing with recurrent attention Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing images using recurrent attention. One of the methods includes determining a location in the first image; extracting a glimpse from the first image using the location; generating a glimpse representation of the extracted glimpse; processing the glimpse representation using a recurrent neural network to update a current internal state of the recurrent neural network to generate a new internal state; processing the new internal state to select a location in a next image in the image sequence after the first image; and processing the new internal state to select an action from a predetermined set of possible actions.
US10223616B1	System and method identification and classification of internet advertising A system of the present invention allows to determine the likelihood that a certain block of a web page is an advertising, such as a banner or a native advertising. The system uses combined and holistic approach to the analysis of units for the purpose of finding the advertising features (links, images and HTML code). The system does not impose any restrictions on possible ways of using it—it only provides tools for determining the probabilities of the unit belonging to the advertising or non-advertising class.
US10223614B1	Learning method, learning device for detecting lane through classification of lane candidate pixels and testing method, testing device using the same A learning method for detecting at least one lane based on a convolutional neural network (CNN) is provided. The learning method includes steps of: (a) a learning device obtaining encoded feature maps, and information on lane candidate pixels in a input image; (b) the learning device, classifying a first parts of the lane candidate pixels, whose probability scores are not smaller than a predetermined threshold, as strong line pixels, and classifying the second parts of the lane candidate pixels, whose probability scores are less than the threshold but not less than another predetermined threshold, as weak lines pixels; and (c) the learning device, if distances between the weak line pixels and the strong line pixels are less than a predetermined distance, classifying the weak line pixels as pixels of additional strong lines, and determining that the pixels of the strong line and the additional correspond to pixels of the lane.
US10223613B2	Machine intelligent predictive communication and control system A machine intelligent communication and control system is able to dynamically predict and adapt information presented to various users. The system provides a personalized experience with its ability to identify users, become contextually aware of the user's location and environment, identify objects and actions, and present customized information tailored for the user and the current environment. The system is further able to control connected items within the environment based upon various user preference considerations.
US10223612B2	Frame aggregation network for scalable video face recognition In a video frame processing system, a feature extractor generates, based on a plurality of data sets corresponding to a plurality of frames of a video, a plurality of feature sets, respective ones of the feature sets including features extracted from respective ones of the data sets. A first stage of the feature aggregator generates a kernel for a second stage of the feature aggregator. The kernel is adapted to content of the feature sets so as to emphasize desirable ones of the feature sets and deemphasize undesirable ones of the feature sets. In the second stage of the feature aggregator the kernel generated by the first stage is applied to the plurality of feature sets to generate a plurality of significances corresponding to the plurality of feature sets. The feature sets are weighted based on corresponding significances and weighted feature sets are aggregated to generate an aggregated feature set.
US10223610B1	System and method for detection and classification of findings in images A system for detection and classification of findings in an image, comprising at least one hardware processor configured to: receive the image; process the image by a plurality of convolutional and pooling layers of a neural network to produce a plurality of feature maps; process one of the feature maps by some of the layers and another plurality of layers to produce a plurality of region proposals; produce a plurality of region of interest (ROI) pools by using a plurality of pooling layers to downsample the plurality of region proposals with each one of the plurality of feature maps; process the plurality of ROI pools by at least one concatenation layer to produce a combined ROI pool; process the combined ROI pool by a classification network comprising some other of the convolutional and pooling layers to produce one or more classifications; and output the one or more classifications.
US10223596B1	Identifying vehicles in a parking bay Systems and associated methods are disclosed to reduce wait time experienced by customers during order fulfillment and pick-up. The system utilizes cameras and automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) to quickly identify vehicles associated with customer accounts and pending pick-up orders upon arrival. Proximity detectors provide an additional layer of vehicle detection. A concierge tool provides manual inputs from a user relating to vehicle or customer status. The system provides for synthesis and fusion of these diverse input types to accurately detect and identify arriving and departing customers.
US10223594B2	Method of detecting whether surveillance camera is normal or abnormal with one of a plurality of abnormal properties A method of detecting whether a surveillance camera is abnormal or abnormal includes: obtaining a plurality of video frames from a video captured by the surveillance camera; sequentially comparing each of the plurality of video frames with a reference video frame; determining that the surveillance camera is abnormal when a sequence of video frame detection results indicates that not all of the plurality of video frames are normal video frames; issuing a maintenance notification of the surveillance camera when it is determined that the surveillance camera is abnormal with the particular one of the plurality of abnormal properties, thereby facilitating a maintenance procedure to be performed on the surveillance camera to remove the particular one of the plurality of abnormal properties.
US10223593B1	Systems and methods for sharing content Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a video being posted through a social networking system; one or more portions of the video to be compressed are determined; and the one or more portions of the video are compressed, wherein, upon being compressed, at least one frame corresponding to at least one of the portions is deleted.
US10223591B1	Multi-video annotation Multiple video files that are captured by calibrated imaging devices may be annotated based on a single annotation of an image frame of one of the video files. An operator may enter an annotation to an image frame via a user interface, and the annotation may be replicated from the image frame to other image frames that were captured at the same time and are included in other video files. Annotations may be updated by the operator and/or tracked in subsequent image frames. Predicted locations of the annotations in subsequent image frames within each of the video files may be determined, e.g., by a tracker, and a confidence level associated with any of the annotations may be calculated. Where the confidence level falls below a predetermined threshold, the operator may be prompted to delete or update the annotation, or the annotation may be deleted.
US10223590B2	Methods and systems of performing adaptive morphology operations in video analytics Techniques and systems are provided for processing video data. For example, techniques and systems are provided for performing content-adaptive morphology operations. A first erosion function can be performed on a foreground mask of a video frame, including setting one or more foreground pixels of the frame to one or more background pixels. A temporary foreground mask can be generated based on the first erosion function being performed on the foreground mask. One or more connected components can be generated for the frame by performing connected component analysis to connect one or more neighboring foreground pixels. A complexity of the frame (or of the foreground mask of the frame) can be determined by comparing a number of the one or more connected components to a threshold number. A second erosion function can be performed on the temporary foreground mask when the number of the one or more connected components is higher than the threshold number. The one or more connected components can be output for blob processing when the number of the one or more connected components is lower than the threshold number.
US10223583B2	Object detection apparatus In an object detection apparatus 1, a window definer 11 defines a window relative to the location of a pixel in an input image 20. A classification value calculator 13 calculates a classification value indicative of the likelihood that a detection target is present in the window image contained in the window based on the feature data of the detection target. A classification image generator 14 arranges the classification value calculated from the window image according to the pixel location to generate a classification image. An integrator 15 integrates the classification image and a past classification image 42 generated from a past input image input prior to the input image 20 to generate an integrated image 45. A determiner 16 determines whether the detection target is present in the input image 20 based on the integrated image 45.
US10223580B2	Methods and systems for action recognition using poselet keyframes Methods and systems for video action recognition using poselet keyframes are disclosed. An action recognition model may be implemented to spatially and temporally model discriminative action components as a set of discriminative keyframes. One method of action recognition may include the operations of selecting a plurality of poselets that are components of an action, encoding each of a plurality of video frames as a summary of the detection confidence of each of the plurality of poselets for the video frame, and encoding correlations between poselets in the encoded video frames.
US10223578B2	System and method for utilizing facial recognition technology for identifying an unknown individual from a digital image A method and system for of identifying an unknown individual from a digital image is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the present invention allows an individual to photograph a facial image an unknown individual, transfer that facial image to a server for processing into a feature vector, and then search social networking Web sites to obtain information on the unknown individual. The Web sites comprise myspace.com, facebook.com, linkedin.com, www.hi5.com, www.bebo.com, www.friendster.com, www.igoogle.com, netlog.com, and orkut.com. A method of networking is also disclosed. A method for determining unwanted individuals on a social networking website is also disclosed.
US10223575B2	Measurement apparatus for measuring shape of object, system and method for producing article A measurement apparatus includes an optical combining unit configured to optically combine light from a first light source and light from a second light source, a forming unit configured to form pattern light using light from the first light source, a projection optical system configured to project the optically combined light onto an object, an imaging unit configured to image the object on which the pattern light is projected to capture a first image and to image the object illuminated with light from the second light source via the projection optical system to capture a second image, and a processing unit configured to correct the first image using the second image and to obtain information on a shape of the object based on the corrected first image.

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