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| US10263270B2 |
Redox flow battery system and method for operating redox flow battery system
A redox flow battery system includes a plurality of branch circuits electrically connecting a plurality of battery cell parts in parallel; a switching unit configured to switch conduction states of a closed loop in which the branch circuits are connected together; a circulation mechanism; a detection unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not a voltage difference between the open circuit voltages of the battery cell parts is more than a predetermined value; and a control unit configured to control a switching operation of the switching unit such that, when the determination unit determines the voltage difference to be more than the predetermined value, the closed loop is brought into a non-conducting state and, when the determination unit determines the voltage difference to be equal to or less than the predetermined value, the closed loop is brought into a conducting state. |
| US10263264B2 |
Method for high-temperature electrolysis or co-electrolysis, method for producing electricity by means of an SOFC fuel cell, and associated interconnectors, reactors and operating methods
A heat exchanger can be integrated into an interconnector that can be used in both a SOFC fuel cell and an EHT electrolyser, which allows a heat-transfer fluid different from that in the reactive and drainage gas circuits to be circulated from the inlet of the reactor, thereby allowing the best possible management of the exothermic operating modes of the SOFC cell and the exothermic or endothermic operating modes of the EHT electrolyser and the SOFC cell, especially in the absence of current for the latter. |
| US10263261B2 |
Electrically conductive ink
Provided is electrically conductive ink that shows favorable flowability and that can also suppress deformation, such as flattening, upon application of surface pressure.The electrically conductive ink is applied onto a substrate 21 of a separator 11 that constitutes a cell 13 of a fuel cell stack by way of screen printing so as to form ribs 22 on the substrate 21, wherein the electrically conductive ink has viscoelasticity, as measured by a rotary rheometer, that exhibits a loss tangent of 1 with a strain of 10 to 100%. |
| US10263257B2 |
Electrode assemblies
Provided herein is electrode assembly for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, comprising at least one anode, at least one cathode and at least one separator interposed between the at least one anode and at least one cathode, wherein the at least one anode comprises an anode current collector and an anode electrode layer, and the at least one cathode comprises a cathode current collector and a cathode electrode layer, wherein each of the cathode and anode electrode layers independently has a void volume of less than 35%, and wherein each of the at least one cathode and anode independently has a peeling strength of 0.15 N/cm or more. |
| US10263255B2 |
Lithium secondary battery
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode electrode, an anode electrode, and a separation film installed between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode, wherein the cathode electrode includes a cathode active material containing lithium-metal oxide of which at least one of metals has a concentration gradient region between a core part and a surface part thereof, and the separation film includes a base film and a ceramic coating layer formed on at least one surface of the base film, such that it is possible to achieve a significantly improved effect in both of the lifespan property and penetration durability. |
| US10263245B2 |
Complex for anode active material, anode including the complex, lithium secondary battery including the anode, and method of preparing the complex
A complex for anode active material, the complex including: a conductive framework having a spherical skein shape; and metal particles dispersed in the conductive framework. Also an anode including the complex, a lithium secondary battery including the anode, and a method of preparing the complex. |
| US10263241B2 |
Electroless process for depositing refractory metals
The invention provides an inexpensive, scalable process for coating materials with a film of a refractory metal. As an example, the immersion process can comprise the deposition of a sacrificial zinc coating which is galvanically displaced by the ether-mediated reduction of oxophilic WCl6 to form a complex WOxCly film, and subsequently annealed to crystalline, metallic tungsten. The efficacy of this process was demonstrated on a carbon foam electrode, showing a 50% decrease in electrode resistance and significant gains in electrochemical performance. This process enables voltage efficiency gains for electrodes in batteries, redox flow batteries, and industrial processes where high conductivity and chemical stability are paramount. |
| US10263239B2 |
Method for manufacturing electrode sheet
A method for manufacturing an electrode sheet includes the steps of forming a granulated material by mixing an electrode active material, a cellulose derivative, a binder, and an aqueous solvent, and placing the granulated material in the form of a sheet on electrode current collector foil. The cellulose derivative is at least one selected from the group consisting of hydroxyethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, hydroxyethyl methylcellulose, and hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, and has 3.0 or more moles of substitution, which is an average number of hydroxy groups substituted per glucose unit. |
| US10263238B2 |
Battery protection circuit module package, battery pack and electronic device including same
Provided are a battery protection circuit module package capable of achieving high integration and size reduction, and a battery pack and an electronic device including the same. The battery protection circuit module package includes a lead frame including a plurality of leads space apart from each other, and capable of being coupled and electrically connected to electrode tabs of a battery cell, battery protection circuit devices mounted on the lead frame and including a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) structure, and an encapsulant for encapsulating the battery protection circuit devices to expose a part of the lead frame. |
| US10263231B2 |
Battery cover assembly
A vent cap gang includes a plurality of vent caps to be received in respective vent ports formed in a battery cover. Each of the vent caps includes a cylindrical body having first pin located at an axial center thereof and a second pin offset from the axial center. A plurality of elongate members is operably coupled to each of the vent caps by the first and second pins. An actuator is operably coupled to the elongate members and at least one of the vent caps to cause simultaneous rotational movement of the vent caps. |
| US10263226B2 |
Battery cell having asymmetric and indented structure
A battery cell configured to have a structure in which an electrode assembly, including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed therebetween, is mounted in a battery case, the electrode assembly including two or more unit cells having different planar sizes, the unit cells being stacked in the height direction on the basis of a plane, at least one first unit cell selected from among the unit cells has an asymmetric structure formed on at least one side of the outer edge thereof on the basis of a middle axis crossing a main body of the first unit cell when viewed from above, and at least one second unit cell selected from among the unit cells has an indented portion indented from at least one side of the second unit cell toward the middle of the second unit cell. |
| US10263224B2 |
Power storage device and electronic device
To improve the flexibility of a power storage device, or provide a high-capacity power storage device. The power storage device includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an exterior body, and an electrolyte. The outer periphery of each of the positive electrode active material layer and the negative electrode active material layer is a closed curve. The exterior body includes a film and a thermocompression-bonded region. The inner periphery of the thermocompression-bonded region is a closed curve. The electrolyte, the positive electrode active material layer, and the negative electrode active material layer are in a region surrounded by the thermocompression-bonded region. |
| US10263223B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery with an exterior body having a novel sealing structure, and a structure of a sealing portion that relaxes a stress of deformation are provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte solution, and an exterior body enclosing at least part of the positive electrode, at least part of the negative electrode, and the electrolyte solution. The exterior body includes a first region having a shape with a curve, a shape with a wavy line, a shape with an arc, or a shape with a plurality of inflection points, and a second region having the same shape as the first region. The first region is in contact with the second region. Alternatively, the first region has a shape without a straight line. The secondary battery may be flexible, and the exterior body in a region having flexibility may include the first region. |
| US10263222B2 |
Tubular lithium battery
The invention discloses a tubular lithium battery. The tubular lithium battery comprises at least a tubular body and a hollow channel. The body has at least one power supply unit, at least one packaging unit and at least two terminals. The power supply unit is packed via the packaging unit and is electrically connected to the terminals. The power supply unit and the packaging unit are wound as a whole. The hollow channel, which is positioned inside the body, is formed by winding the power supply unit and the packaging unit. The orientations and the positions of the terminals may be various due to locating in different positions of the power supply unit as well as winding the power supply unit and the packaging unit toward different directions, so that the electronic device exerting the tubular lithium battery disclosed in the present invention can be designed in various ways. |
| US10263220B2 |
Manufacturing method for QLED display
The manufacturing method for QLED display of the present invention uses the white QD layer to replace the organic light-emitting layer of the WOLED structure in the WOLED process, and adds the UV photoinitiator to the white QD layer. The QDs between the sub-pixels are irreversibly quenched by UV irradiation with mask to form fine QD pattern so as to eliminate the mutual influence between adjacent sub-pixels and effectively reduce the distance between two sub-pixels, increase the aperture ratio, and improve the color gamut and contrast of the display to enhance the color expression capability of the display. The manufacturing method is simple, and saves cost and process. Compared with the conventional TFT-LCD display, the QLED display of the present invention is not required to fabricate a liquid crystal cell separately, thinner and lighter, and has a longer lifetime and higher luminous efficiency than a conventional WOLED display. |
| US10263219B2 |
Radiation-emitting component with organic layer stack
A radiation-emitting component is disclosed. Embodiments of the invention relate to a radiation-emitting component with an organic layer stack which is arranged on a substrate. An outcoupling structure is arranged on a substrate face facing the organic layer stack, an additional optical layer is arranged between the substrate and the outcoupling structure, and the additional optical structure has a refractive index which is lower than the refractive index of the substrate, or the additional optical layer forms a mirror which has a selective angle and which only allows light that can be coupled out of the substrate at a substrate boundary surface facing away from the organic layer sequence to pass, the light being generated in the organic layer stack during operation. |
| US10263218B2 |
Electro-optical device with a luminance adjustment layer
An organic EL device as an the electro-optical device includes a reflective layer; an opposite electrode as a semitransparent reflective layer; and a first luminescence pixel and a second luminescence pixel as first pixels, and a third luminescence pixel as a second pixel respectively having an optical path length adjustment layer and a functional layer provided between the reflective layer and the opposite electrode; in which the optical path length adjustment layer of the first luminescence pixel includes a fourth insulation layer as a luminance adjustment layer and the optical path length adjustment layer of the third luminescence pixel does not include a third insulation layer. |
| US10263216B2 |
Rollable display apparatus
A rollable display apparatus includes a rolling drum; and a flexible display panel comprising an end bonded to the rolling drum, the flexible display panel being windable around an outer circumferential surface of the rolling drum, the flexible display panel including a flexible substrate including a first surface on which a display device is arranged; and a first protection film over the first surface of the flexible substrate, the first protection film including a first layer including an elastic polymer, and a second layer on the first layer and having a smaller surface frictional force than the first layer, and the second layer includes a plurality of first grooves each indented in a depth direction of the second layer from a surface of the second layer. |
| US10263212B2 |
OLED device with auxiliary electrode connected to cathode
Provided is an organic light emitting display device in which a plurality of pixel areas each including an emitting area and a non-emitting area is defined in a display area. The organic light emitting display device includes: an auxiliary electrode in a part of a non-emitting area of at least one pixel area; an auxiliary electrode contact portion formed as a part of the auxiliary electrode; a first electrode in the emitting areas of the plurality of pixel areas; an organic layer on the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode; and a second electrode on the organic layer. The auxiliary electrode contact portion electrically connects the auxiliary electrode and the second electrode. A distance from a center of the auxiliary electrode contact portion to a terminal end of the first electrode in the emitting area may be 3 μm or more. |
| US10263211B2 |
Organic light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device that may include a substrate having an active area and a pad area, a passivation layer provided on the active area of the substrate, an anode electrode provided on the passivation layer, a bank layer for defining a pixel region on the anode electrode, an organic emitting layer provided on the bank layer and connected with the anode electrode, a cathode electrode provided on the organic emitting layer, and an auxiliary electrode electrically connected with the cathode electrode and provided under the passivation layer, wherein a contact hole for exposing the auxiliary electrode is provided in the passivation layer, the auxiliary electrode includes a lower auxiliary electrode and an upper auxiliary electrode, and the cathode electrode is in contact with an upper surface of the lower auxiliary electrode via the contact hole. |
| US10263210B2 |
Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode disposed on a substrate; a pixel-defining film disposed on the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode and having openings through which the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are exposed; a first intermediate layer and a second intermediate layer respectively disposed on the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, the first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer respectively comprising a first emission layer and a second emission layer; a first counter electrode and a second counter electrode respectively disposed on the first intermediate layer and the second intermediate layer; a first layer and a second layer respectively disposed on the first counter electrode and the second counter electrode and comprising fluorine; and a connection layer disposed on the first layer and the second layer and electrically connected to the first counter electrode and the second counter electrode. |
| US10263206B2 |
Organic semiconductor crystalline film, method for preparing the same, organic transistor, and organic phototransistor
An organic semiconductor crystalline film and weak oriented epitaxy growth preparation method thereof. The organic semiconductor crystalline film is a n-type semiconductor or a p-type semiconductor, and organic semiconductor crystal molecules in the organic semiconductor crystalline film are oriented in a stand-up manner on the ordered substrate, and have an oriented relationship with the ordered substrate. The organic semiconductor crystalline film prepared by the present invention is useful for organic transistor and organic phototransistor devices. The method of the present invention can control the high carrier mobility direction of organic semiconductor crystals to have ordered orientation in the film, enhance contacts between crystals, improve mechanical strength and micro-machining property of the film, and give a high carrier mobility. The carrier mobility of weak oriented epitaxially grown film of the present invention is 0.32 cm2/Vs, which is 5 times as large as that of a vapor phase deposited film, and is similar to that of single crystal. The present invention is adapted to glass substrates and plastic substrates. |
| US10263205B2 |
Organic solar cell and manufacturing method thereof
A solar cell includes an active layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, and a transport layer between the active layer and one of the first or second electrodes. A plurality of nanoparticles are included in at least one of the active layer or the transport layer. The nanoparticles may have the same or different shapes or sizes and may be spaced differently based on location. The nanoparticles may be made of metal or a different material and the active layer may be made from an organic photovoltaic material. |
| US10263203B2 |
Display device
A display device for preventing a curling phenomenon of an edge of a substrate and solving a problem caused by separation of the substrate is disclosed. The display device includes a flexible substrate including a first substrate region overlapping a display unit and a second substrate region except the first substrate region, and a thin film transistor and an organic light emitting diode disposed on the display unit of the first substrate region. The first substrate region is formed of transparent polyimide, and the second substrate region is formed of colored polyimide. |
| US10263200B2 |
Display module including a display area and an outer picture-frame area
A display module includes an insulating substrate and a plurality of pixels each located on the insulating substrate and including a light-emitting element layer. The insulating substrate includes a display area where the plurality of pixels are disposed, a picture-frame area outside the display area, an outer area that is in contact with an opposite side of the picture-frame area from the display area, and a plurality of terminals located on the outer area and arranged in a direction. The outer area includes a narrowed portion whose length in the direction is shorter than a length of the display area in the direction. |
| US10263199B2 |
Display device including a bending region and non-bending regions
A display device, including a substrate having a first region and second regions; transistors on the substrate in the first region and the second regions; first electrodes each connected to the transistors; an organic emission layer on the first electrodes; and second electrodes on the organic emission layer, molecular weights of organic materials of the organic emission layer in the first region and the organic emission layer in the second regions being different from each other. |
| US10263196B2 |
Organic molecules for use in optoelectronic devices
The invention relates to an organic molecule having precisely two units of formula I linked to one another via a single bond or a bridge Y where Y=a divalent group; X=at each occurrence identically or differently CN and CF3; D=chemical unit having a structure of the formula I-1: where #=attachment point of the unit of formula I-1 to the structure of formula I; A and B=independently of one another are selected from the group consisting of CRR1, CR, NR, N, there being a single or double bond between A and B and a single or double bond between B and Z; Z=a direct bond or a divalent organic bridge which is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C9-alkylene, C2-C8-alkenylene, C2-C8-alkynylene or arylene group or a combination thereof, —CRR1, —C═CRR1, —C═NR, —NR—, —O—, —SiRR1—, —S—, —S(O)—, —S(O)2—, O-interrupted substituted or unsubstituted C1-C9-alkylene, C2-C8-alkenylene, C2-C8-alkynylene or arylene group, phenyl units or substituted phenyl units. |
| US10263195B2 |
Organic compound, light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device
A novel substance with which an increase in life and emission efficiency of a light-emitting element can be achieved is provided. A carbazole compound having a structure represented by General Formula (G1) is provided. Note that a substituent which makes the HOMO level and the LUMO level of a compound in which a bond of the substituent is substituted with hydrogen deep and shallow, respectively is used as each of substituents in General Formula (G1) (R1, R2, Ar3, and α3). Further, a substituent which makes the band gap (Bg) and the T1 level of a compound in which a bond of the substituent is substituted with hydrogen wide and high is used as each of the substituents in General Formula (G1) (R1, R2, Ar3, and α3). |
| US10263194B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, and lighting device
Provided is a novel light-emitting element, a light-emitting element with a long lifetime, or a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency. The light-emitting element includes an EL layer between a pair of electrodes. The EL layer includes at least a light-emitting layer containing a fluorescent substance and a host material, a first electron-transport layer containing a first electron-transport material, and a second electron-transport layer containing a second electron-transport material, which are in contact with each other and in this order. The LUMO level of each of the host material and the second electron-transport material is higher than the LUMO level of the first electron-transport material. |
| US10263192B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device using aryl amine derivative containing heterocycle
An organic electroluminescent device including: an anode, a cathode, an emitting layer formed of an organic compound and interposed between the cathode and the anode, and two or more layers provided in a hole-injecting/hole-transporting region between the anode and the emitting layer; of the layers which are provided in the hole-injecting/hole-transporting region, a layer which is in contact with the emitting layer containing a compound represented by the formula (1); and of the layers which are provided in the hole-injecting/hole-transporting region, a layer which is interposed between the anode and the layer which is in contact with the emitting layer containing an amine derivative represented by the formula (2). |
| US10263189B2 |
Organic electroluminescent device and manufacturing method thereof, and display apparatus
The invention provides an organic electroluminescent device and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus. The method for manufacturing the organic electroluminescent device of the invention includes using the following to form at least one function layer: preparing a solution of a material of the function layer, and forming a liquid material layer for the function layer using the solution of the material of the function layer; performing a vacuum drying on the liquid material layer for the function layer to form function layer. In the invention, a relatively dense film is formed by performing a vacuum drying on the function layer, and the residual organic solvent is effectively removed to avoid the formation of defects, so that the film becomes smooth and dense, which increases the carrier mobility in the film and is advantageous to the transport and recombination of electrons and holes. |
| US10263188B2 |
RF-transistors with self-aligned point contacts
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes depositing a dielectric layer on a substrate and a nanomaterial on the dielectric layer. The method also includes depositing a thin metal layer on the nanomaterial and removing a portion of the thin metal layer from a gate area. The method also includes depositing a gate dielectric layer. The method also includes selectively removing the gate dielectric layer from a source contact region and a drain contact region. The method also includes patterning a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. |
| US10263183B2 |
Methods of forming an array of cross point memory cells
A method of forming an array of cross point memory cells comprises forming spaced conductive lower electrode pillars for individual of the memory cells being formed along and elevationally over spaced lower first lines. Walls cross elevationally over the first lines and between the electrode pillars that are along the first lines. The electrode pillars and walls form spaced openings between the first lines. The openings are lined with programmable material of the memory cells being formed to less-than-fill the openings with the programmable material. Conductive upper electrode material is formed over the programmable material within remaining volume of the openings and spaced upper second lines are formed which cross the first lines elevationally over the conductive upper electrode material that is within the openings. A select device is between the lower electrode pillar and the underlying first line or is between the conductive upper electrode material and the overlying second line for the individual memory cells. Aspects of the invention include an array of cross point memory cells independent of method of manufacture. |
| US10263179B2 |
Method of forming tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) elements and TMR sensor element
A method includes performing an ion beam etching process on a tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) stack to remove material portions of a first magnetic layer and a tunnel barrier layer of the TMR stack. The ion beam etching process stops at a top surface of a second magnetic layer of the TMR stack. A protective layer is deposited over the TMR stack. Another etch process is performed to remove the protective layer such that a portion of the second magnetic layer is exposed from the protective layer and a spacer is formed from a remaining portion of the protective layer. The spacer surrounds sidewalls of the first magnetic layer and the tunnel barrier layer. The portion of the second magnetic layer exposed from the protective layer is removed so that a TMR sensor element remains, where the TMR sensor element includes a bottom magnet, a top magnet, and a tunnel junction. |
| US10263178B2 |
Magnetic memory device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a nonmagnetic layer between the first and second magnetic layers. The second magnetic layer includes a first main surface on the nonmagnetic layer side and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and includes a first region on the first main surface side and a second region on the second main surface side, and an intermediate region between the first and second regions and containing a predetermined nonmagnetic element. A concentration of the predetermined nonmagnetic element in the intermediate region is higher than that in the first and second regions. The second magnetic layer contains a magnetic element from the first to second main surfaces. |
| US10263174B2 |
Composite material used as a strain gauge
In one general aspect, an apparatus comprises a material including a non-layered mixture of an elastomeric polymer with a plurality of voids; and a plurality of conductive fillers disposed in the elastomeric polymer. The apparatus may produce an electrical response to deformation and, thus, function as a strain gauge. The conductive fillers may include conductive nanoparticles and/or conductive stabilizers. In another general aspect, a method of measuring compression strain includes detecting, along a first axis, an electrical response generated in response to an impact to a uniform composite material that includes conductive fillers and voids disposed throughout an elastomeric polymer, and determining a deformation of the impact based on the electrical response. The impact may be along a second axis different from the first axis. |
| US10263170B1 |
Bumped resonator structure
A technique relates a structure. An inductive element is on a first surface. A capacitive element is on the first surface and a second surface. An interconnect structure is between the first surface and the second surface. |
| US10263167B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing at least one semiconductor device includes: providing a substrate having a flat lower surface, and an upper surface that allows mounting of at least one semiconductor element or an upper surface having at least one semiconductor mounted thereon; providing a work table having a support plate with a flat support surface for placing the substrate, and having a plurality of support pins arranged at a support surface side and configured to move along an up-and-down direction; abutting the lower surface of the substrate upon tip portions of the plurality of support pins to press down so that the lower surface of the substrate abuts upon the support surface of the support plate; and fixing the substrate on the support plate and performing one or more operations on the substrate. |
| US10263165B2 |
Optoelectronic component with optical elements for beam shaping and beam deflection
In an embodiment the optical component includes an optoelectronic semiconductor chip including a radiation emission face, a deflection element configured to deflect electromagnetic radiation emitted by the optoelectronic semiconductor chip in a main emission direction which forms an angle deviating from 90° with the radiation emission face, wherein the deflection element is configured as a prism structure and an optical lens having an optical axis, wherein the optical axis forms an angle deviating from 90° with the radiation emission face. |
| US10263157B2 |
Light-emitting diode with transparent conductive electrodes for improvement in light extraction efficiency
A light-emitting diode device may include a conductive substrate, a metal reflection layer provided on the conductive substrate, a transparent insulating layer provided on the metal reflection layer, an n ohmic contact plug provided in a lower portion of each of through holes formed in the transparent insulating layer, an n-type gallium arsenide (GaAs) plug provided in an upper portion of the through hole, an n cladding layer provided on the transparent insulating layer, an active layer provided on the n cladding layer, a p cladding layer provided on the active layer, a p-type GaP window layer provided on the p cladding layer, a p ohmic contact pattern provided on the p-type GaP window layer, a transparent conductive metal oxide pattern provided on the p ohmic contact layer, and a p electrode pad provided on the transparent conductive metal oxide. |
| US10263155B2 |
Method for producing an optoelectronic component
A method for producing an optoelectronic component is disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes a metallization with first mask structures is deposited directionally, and then a first passivation material is deposited non-directionally onto the metallization. Further, cutouts are introduced into the semiconductor body, such that the cutouts extend right into an n-type semiconductor region, and a second passivation material is applied on side faces of the cutouts. Furthermore, an n-type contact material is applied, structured and passivated. Moreover, contact structures are arranged on the semiconductor body and electrically connected to the n-type contact material and the metallization, wherein the contact structures and the semiconductor body are covered with a potting. |
| US10263150B2 |
Semiconductor light emitting device capable of increasing luminous efficiency under a low applied current
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a substrate having a first major surface and a second major surface, a semiconductor layer that includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductive type formed on the first major surface of the substrate, a light emitting layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductive type formed on the light emitting layer, and a mesa structure formed in the semiconductor layer by selectively notching the first semiconductor layer, the light emitting layer and the second semiconductor layer so as to expose the first semiconductor layer, and a ratio of a luminescent area of the light emitting Layer with respect to an area of the first major surface of the substrate being set to equal to or smaller than 0.25. |
| US10263149B2 |
Nanostructured LED array with collimating reflectors
The present invention relates to nanostructured light emitting diodes, LEDs. The nanostructure LED device according to the invention comprises an array of a plurality of individual nanostructured LEDs. Each of the nanostructured LEDs has an active region wherein light is produced. The nanostructured device further comprise a plurality of reflectors, each associated to one individual nanostructured LED (or a group of nanostructured LEDs. The individual reflectors has a concave surface facing the active region of the respective individual nanostructured LED or active regions of group of nanostructured LEDs. |
| US10263148B1 |
Light emitting diode structure
A light emitting diode structure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an epitaxial structure. The epitaxial structure is divided into a base area and a structural supporting area. The base area includes a bottom portion and a top portion. The bottom portion is wider than the top portion. The top portion protrudes from a surface of the bottom portion along a single direction. The structural supporting area protrudes from the surface of the bottom portion beside the top portion along the same single direction. A top of the structural supporting area is aligned with a top of the top portion. The first electrode is arranged on the top of the top portion. The second electrode is at least arranged on the top of the structural supporting area. The second electrode arranged on the structural supporting area is aligned with the first electrode. |
| US10263145B2 |
Ultraviolet light emitting device
A light emitting device, according to one embodiment, may comprise: a substrate; a first conductive semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate; an active layer disposed on the first conductive semiconductor layer and generating an ultraviolet light; a second conductive semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer; and a hole injection layer disposed between the active layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer and comprising a first layer comprising AlxGa1-xN (0 |
| US10263144B2 |
System and method for light-emitting devices on lattice-matched metal substrates
Light-emitting devices and methods, wherein, in some embodiments, the devices each include a first mirror having a first face, wherein the first mirror includes a metal and, in some embodiments, is a grown-epitaxial metal mirror (GEMM); and an epitaxial structure, wherein the epitaxial structure is lattice matched with and in contact with at least a first portion of the first face of the first mirror, wherein the epitaxial structure includes an active region configured to emit light at a wavelength λ, and wherein the active region is located a first non-zero distance away from the first face of the first mirror such that there is plasmonic coupling between the active region and the first mirror. |
| US10263136B1 |
Direct band gap group IV semiconductors and methods of preparing the same
A semiconductor film includes a two-dimensional (2D) material layer having a hexagonal in-plane lattice structure, and a substantially planar Group IV semiconductor layer having a direct band gap on the 2D material layer. A method of fabricating a semiconductor material includes growing a Group IV semiconductor material on a two-dimensional material having a hexagonal in-plane lattice structure. This growth process results in the Group IV semiconductor material having a direct band gap. The semiconductor films may be used in any optoelectronic device, including flexible devices. |
| US10263135B2 |
Method for producing a solar cell involving doping by ion implantation and depositing an outdiffusion barrier
The invention relates to a method for producing a solar cell (1) from crystalline semiconductor material, wherein a first doping region (5) is formed by means of ion implantation (S2) of a first dopant in a first surface (3a) of a semiconductor substrate (3), and a second doping region (7) is formed by means of ion implantation (S3) or thermal indiffusion of a second dopant in the second surface (3b) of the semiconductor substrate. After the doping of the second surface, a cap (9b) acting as an outdiffusion barrier for the second dopant is applied and an annealing step (S4) is subsequently carried out. |
| US10263133B2 |
Photovoltaic plant
Described herein is a photovoltaic plant (1; 1′; 1″; 1′″) including a plurality of photovoltaic modules (PV) arranged in arrays (2) spaced with respect to each other, and wherein the photovoltaic modules (PV) of each array (2) have a first assigned inclination (α-1) with respect to a reference direction. Each array (2) of photovoltaic modules (PV) is associated to an array (4; 4′; 4′″) of mobile reflection devices (RF) set adjacent thereto, and at least one array (4; 4′; 4′″) of mobile reflection devices (RF) is located in a space between successive arrays (2) of photovoltaic modules. The mobile reflection devices (RF) of each array have a second assigned inclination (a2) with respect to a reference direction. The arrays (2) of photovoltaic modules (PV) and the arrays (4; 4′; 4′″) of mobile reflection devices (RF) associated to one another includes respective front surfaces (12, 14; 14′″) set facing one another, and the mobile reflection devices (RF) of each array are orientable by variation of said second inclination (a2) in order to intercept the incident solar radiation (ISR) and reflect the latter (RSR) towards the photovoltaic modules (PV) of the associated array (2). |
| US10263131B2 |
Parallel interconnection of neighboring solar cells with dual common back planes
A solar assembly or module comprising a plurality of solar cells and a support, the support comprising a conductive layer or back plane on each planar side. Each one of the plurality of solar cells is placed on the first conductive portion with the first contact electrically connected to the first conductive portion so that the solar cells are connected in parallel through the first conductive portion. A second contact of each solar cell can be connected to the second conductive portion so that the first and second conductive portions form terminals of opposite conductivity type. The modules can be interconnected to form a string or an electrical series connection of discrete modules by overlapping and bonding the first terminal of a first module with the second terminal of a second module. |
| US10263129B2 |
Multijunction photovoltaic device having SiGe(Sn) and (In)GaAsNBi cells
A multijunction tandem photovoltaic device is disclosed having a bottom subcell of silicon germanium or silicon germanium tin material and above that a subcell of gallium nitride arsenide bismide, or indium gallium nitride arsenide bismide, material. The materials are lattice matched to gallium arsenide, which preferably forms the substrate. Preferably, further lattice matched subcells of gallium arsenide, indium gallium phosphide and aluminum gallium arsenide or aluminum indium gallium phosphide are provided. |
| US10263128B2 |
Photodetector converting ultraviolet light into visible light
A photodetector includes a structure that converts ultraviolet light into visible light; and a photodetection element that detects the visible light converted by the structure, wherein the structure is provided on the photodetection element and protrudes in a predetermined shape on a side opposite to the photodetection element. |
| US10263127B2 |
Solar cell and method for manufacturing the same
A method for manufacturing a solar cell includes forming a conductive type region on one surface of a semiconductor substrate, and forming an electrode on the conductive type region, wherein the forming of the electrode includes forming a metal layer on an entire area of the conductive type region, forming a printed electrode layer having a pattern on the electrode layer, and forming an electrode layer between the conductive type region and the printed electrode layer, wherein the forming of the electrode layer includes patterning the metal layer by using the printed electrode layer as a mask. |
| US10263126B2 |
Cavitation apparatus and method of using same
Provided in one embodiment is a method of making, comprising: exposing a raw material having a first viscosity to a first pressure and a first temperature such that the raw material after the exposure has a second viscosity, wherein the raw material comprises particles comprising at least one electrically conductive material, and wherein the second viscosity is sufficiently low for the raw material to be adapted for a hydrodynamic cavitation process; and subjecting the raw material having the second viscosity to the hydrodynamic cavitation process to make a product material having a third viscosity. Apparatus employed to apply the method and the exemplary compositions made in accordance with the method are also provided. |
| US10263122B1 |
Methods, apparatus, and manufacturing system for self-aligned patterning of contacts in a vertical field effect transistor
A method, apparatus, and manufacturing system are disclosed herein for a vertical field effect transistor including a gate contact patterned in a self-aligned process. In one embodiment, we disclose a semiconductor device, including a semiconductor substrate and a first vertical field effect transistor (vFET) including a bottom source/drain (S/D) region disposed on the semiconductor substrate; a fin disposed above the bottom S/D region; a top source/drain (S/D) region disposed above the fin and having a top surface; and a gate having a top surface higher than the top surface of the top S/D region. A gate contact may be formed over the gate. |
| US10263121B2 |
Thin film transistor and method of manufacturing thin film transistor
Provided are a thin film transistor having properties properly adjusted by adjusting crystallinity of a polycrystalline silicon, and a method of manufacturing the same. The silicon layer functioning as a channel layer of a TFT comprises an amorphous part, a first polycrystalline part and a second polycrystalline part. The first and second polycrystalline parts are formed by irradiating the silicon layer with laser beams (energy beams) through the mask comprising the shielding part for shielding the energy beams, the first transmission part for transmitting the energy beams and the second transmission part for transmitting the energy beams at a transmittance lower than that of the first transmission part. By the presence of the second polycrystalline part, properties of the TFT such as an electron mobility are properly adjusted. Further, properties of the TFT can be adjusted easily by adjusting the configuration of the mask. |
| US10263114B2 |
Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing the same, or display device including the same
A gate electrode, a first insulating film thereover, an oxide semiconductor film thereover, a source electrode and a drain electrode thereover, and a second insulating film thereover are included. The source and the drain electrodes each include a first conductive film, a second conductive film over and in contact with the first conductive film, and a third conductive film over and in contact with the second conductive film. The second conductive film includes copper. The first and the third conductive films each include an oxide conductive film. An end portion of the first conductive film includes a region located outward from an end portion of the second conductive film. The third conductive film covers a top surface and a side surface of the second conductive film and includes a region in contact with the first conductive film. |
| US10263111B2 |
FinFET and method for manufacturing the same
A FinFET and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The method includes: patterning a semiconductor substrate to form a ridge; performing ion implantation such that a doped punch-through-stopper layer is formed in the ridge and a semiconductor fin is formed by a portion of the semiconductor substrate disposed above the doped punch-through-stopper layer; forming a gate stack intersecting the semiconductor fin, the gate stack comprising a gate conductor and a gate dielectric isolating the gate conductor from the semiconductor fin; forming a gate spacer surrounding the gate conductor; and forming source and drain regions in portions of the semiconductor fin at opposite sides of the gate stack. |
| US10263108B2 |
Metal-insensitive epitaxy formation
The present disclosure provides a method forming a field effect transistor (FET) in accordance with some embodiments. The method includes performing an etching process to a semiconductor substrate, thereby forming recesses in source and drain (S/D) regions of the semiconductor substrate; forming a passivation material layer of a first semiconductor in the recesses; and epitaxially growing a second semiconductor material, thereby forming S/D features in the recesses, wherein the S/D features are separated from the semiconductor substrate by the passivation material layer. |
| US10263107B2 |
Strain gated transistors and method
A strain gated transistor and associated methods are shown. In one example, a transistor channel region includes a metal dichalcogen layer that is stressed to improve electrical properties of the transistor. |
| US10263106B2 |
Power mesh-on-die trace bumping
A power mesh-on-die apparatus includes a solder trace that enhances current flow for a power source trace between adjacent power bumps. The solder trace is also applied between power drain bumps on a power drain trace. |
| US10263098B2 |
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. |
| US10263096B1 |
FinFET device and method of forming the same
A FinFET device includes a substrate, first and second fins, first and second gates and first and second epitaxial layers. The substrate has a first region and a second region. The first and second fins are on the substrate respectively in the first and second regions. In an embodiment, the number of the first fins is different from the number of the second fins. The first and second gates are on the substrate and respectively across the first and second fins. The first epitaxial layers are disposed in first recesses of the first fins adjacent to the first gate. The second epitaxial layers are disposed in second recesses of the second fins adjacent to the second gate. In an embodiment, the maximum width of the first epitaxial layers is L1, the maximum width of the second epitaxial layers is L2, and (L2−L1)/L1 is equal to or less than about 1%. |
| US10263095B2 |
Method of forming semiconductor fin structure
A method of forming a semiconductor fin structure is provided. A substrate is provided, which has at least two sub regions and a dummy region disposed between the two sub regions. A recess is disposed in each sub region. A semiconductor layer is formed to fill the recesses. A patterned mask layer is formed on the semiconductor layer in the sub regions and on the substrate in the dummy region. The substrate and the semiconductor layer are removed by using the patterned mask layer as a mask, thereby forming a plurality of fin structures in the sub regions and a plurality of dummy fin structures in the dummy region. |
| US10263094B2 |
Nitride semiconductor device and process of forming the same
A process of forming a HEMT that makes the contact resistance of a non-rectifying electrode consistent with other device performance is disclosed. The process includes steps of growing a GaN channel layer with a thickness smaller than 600 nm on a SiC substrate at a growth temperature lower than 1050° C. and growing an AlN spacer layer with a flow rate of NH3 at most 10% smaller than a summed flow rate of NH3 and H2. The grown GaN channel layer includes a substantial density of threading dislocations and the grown AlN layer includes a substantial density of pits. |
| US10263093B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof
An optoelectronic semiconductor includes a carrier, a semiconductor main body having a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a radiation emitting layer for generating electromagnetic radiation, the semiconductor main body having at least one recess extending through the radiation emitting layer; a first electrode and a second electrode; a first electrical connection layer electrically connected between the first semiconductor layer and the first electrode; a second electrical connection layer electrically connected between the second semiconductor layer and the second electrode and extending through the recess from the carrier to the second semiconductor layer; and a zener diode structure disposed between the first electrical connection layer and the second electrical connection layer so that the first electrical connection layer and the second electrical connection layer are electrically dependent, wherein at least a portion of the zener diode structure is located in a current path between the first electrode and the second electrode. |
| US10263090B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device is provided including an opening in a gate electrode layer to form two spaced apart gate electrode layers. An oxidation or nitridation treatment is performed in a region between the two spaced apart gate electrode layers. A first insulating layer is formed in the opening between the two spaced apart gate electrode layers. |
| US10263089B2 |
Transistor including active layer having through holes and manufacturing method thereof
A transistor including a substrate, a gate layer, a first insulating layer, an active layer, a source and a drain is provided. The gate layer is disposed on the first insulating layer, and has a plurality of first through holes. The first insulating layer covers the gate layer and a part of the substrate exposed by the first through holes, and forms a plurality of recesses respectively corresponding to the first through holes. The active layer is disposed on the first insulating layer, and has a plurality of second through holes. The second through holes communicate with the recesses, respectively. The source is disposed on a part of the active layer. The drain is disposed on another part of the active layer. A manufacturing method of the transistor is also provided. |
| US10263084B2 |
Semiconductor device having buried gate structure and method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor device may include a device isolation region configured to define an active region in a substrate, an active gate structure disposed in the active region, and a field gate structure disposed in the device isolation region. The field gate structure may include a gate conductive layer. The active gate structure may include an upper active gate structure including a gate conductive layer and a lower active gate structure formed under the upper active gate structure and vertically spaced apart from the upper active gate structure. The lower active gate structure may include a gate conductive layer. A top surface of the gate conductive layer of the field gate structure is located at a lower level than a bottom surface of the gate conductive layer of the upper active gate structure. |
| US10263076B2 |
Semiconductor device having a gate electrode embedded in a trench
To obtain a semiconductor device in which a reduction in channel formation density in a trench extending direction is suppressed, provided is a semiconductor device including a first region and a second region alternately arranged in the trench extending direction. The first region includes a first front surface semiconductor electrode layer of a first conductivity type having a portion along an outer side surface of the trench from the front surface of the semiconductor device to the first height to which a gate electrode is embedded into the trench. The second region includes a base contact region having a depth from the front surface of the semiconductor device to the second height higher than the first height and a second front surface semiconductor electrode layer of the first conductivity type from the first height to the second height. |
| US10263075B2 |
Nanosheet CMOS transistors
Methods of forming integrated chips include forming a respective stack of sheets in two regions, each stack having first layers and second layers. The second layers are etched away in the first region. The second region is annealed to change the composition of the first layers in the second region by interaction with the second layers in the second region. A gate stack is formed in the first and second region. |
| US10263073B2 |
III-V semiconductor layers, III-V semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing thereof
A gate-all-around field effect transistor (GAA FET) includes an InAs nano-wire as a channel layer, a gate dielectric layer wrapping the InAs nano-wire, and a gate electrode metal layer formed on the gate dielectric layer. The InAs nano-wire has first to fourth major surfaces three convex-rounded corner surfaces and one concave-rounded corner surface. |
| US10263069B2 |
III-nitride based semiconductor device with low vulnerability to dispersion and backgating effects
The present disclosure is related to a III-Nitride semiconductor device comprising a base substrate, a buffer layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer so that a 2-dimensional charge carrier gas is formed or can be formed near the interface between the channel layer and the barrier layer, and at least one set of a first and second electrode in electrical contact with the 2-dimensional charge carrier gas, wherein the device further comprises a mobile charge layer (MCL) within the buffer layer or near the interface between the buffer layer and the channel layer, when the device is in the on-state. The device further comprises an electrically conductive path between one of the electrodes and the mobile charge layer. The present disclosure is also related to a method for producing a device according to the present disclosure. |
| US10263066B2 |
Memory and logic device and method for manufacturing the same
The present invention is directed to a semiconductor integrated circuit device that basically has a non-memory array area, a memory array area, and memory capacitors formed across lower embedded metal interconnection layers including a low-dielectric constant interlayer insulating film in the memory array area. In addition, a memory-periphery metal seal ring is provided in the lower embedded metal interconnection layers having at least the low-dielectric constant interlayer insulating film so as to surround the memory array area. |
| US10263064B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the semiconductor device includes an inductor structure, and the inductor structure is on a substrate and includes a first metal layer, a magnetic stack, a polymer layer and a second metal layer. The first metal layer is over the substrate. The magnetic stack is over the first metal layer and has a substantially zigzag shaped sidewall. The polymer layer is over the first metal layer and encapsulates the magnetic stack. The second metal layer is over the polymer layer. |
| US10263063B2 |
Display device
One embodiment of the present invention provides a highly reliable display device. In particular, a display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. Further, a bendable display device to which a signal or a power supply potential can be supplied stably is provided. The display device includes, over a flexible substrate, a display portion, a plurality of connection terminals to which a signal from an outside can be input, and a plurality of wirings. One of the plurality of wirings electrically connects one of the plurality of connection terminals to the display portion. The one of the plurality of wirings includes a first portion including a plurality of separate lines and a second portion in which the plurality of lines converge. |
| US10263061B2 |
Display unit and electronic apparatus
There are provided a display unit and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing color mixture in adjacent color pixels, and improving color reproducibility and chromaticity viewing angle. The display unit includes: a drive substrate having a plurality of pixels with a partition therebetween; and a first light shielding film provided on the partition. |
| US10263055B2 |
Pixel definition structure, organic light-emitting device, encapsulation method thereof, and display apparatus
A pixel definition structure, an organic light-emitting device and the encapsulation method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided, in the field of display technology. The pixel definition structure includes a plurality of barriers, wherein the plurality of barriers includes a first barrier and a second barrier. The height of the first barrier is smaller than that of the second barrier, and a barrier at a first edge area of the pixel definition structure is the first barrier. The present disclosure can solve the problem of the poor encapsulation effect and improve the encapsulation effect. The present disclosure is applied to an organic light-emitting device. |
| US10263050B2 |
Hybrid display
A hybrid pixel arrangement for a full-color display is provided, which includes an inorganic LED in at least one sub-pixel, and an organic emissive stack in at least one other sub-pixel. In an embodiment, a first sub-pixel is configured to emit a first color, and includes an inorganic LED, a second sub-pixel is configured to emit a second color, and includes a first organic emissive stack configured to emit an initial color different from the first color. A third sub-pixel is configured to emit a third color different from the initial color. |
| US10263049B2 |
Color filter substrate and method of manufacturing the same, organic light emitting display panel and display device
The present disclosure provides a color filter substrate, comprising a base substrate, and a color filter matrix, a black matrix and spacers formed in order on the base substrate, the color filter matrix being consisted of a plurality of red, green and blue photoresists. The red, green and blue photoresists are respectively and separately formed within corresponding pixel regions, and are overlapped with one another to form three-layer stacked structures within gap regions between adjacent pixel regions, and, the black matrix and the spacers are sequentially formed on the stacked structures within the pixel regions. The present disclosure further provides a method of manufacturing a color filter substrate, an organic light emitting display panel and a display device. With the solutions of the present disclosure, the red, green and blue photoresists are arranged to overlap with one another to form the stacked structures within the gap regions between adjacent pixel regions, so that the height of the color filter substrate can be increased, the manufacturing height of the spacers is decreased and the process implementation difficulty is reduced, thereby improving the production yield of the color filter. Moreover, the barrier layer can also greatly reduce residues of the material of the black matrix, further improving the production yield of the color filter substrate. |
| US10263048B2 |
Pixel arrangement structure
The present invention provides a pixel arrangement structure, comprising a plurality of pixel units, and each pixel unit comprising a first sub pixel, a second sub pixel, a third sub pixel and a fourth sub pixel, and the fourth sub pixel being a triangle, and the first sub pixel, the second sub pixel and the third sub pixel being respectively arranged around the fourth sub pixel, and respectively sharing three sides with the fourth sub pixel. The pixel arrangement structure of the present invention adds the white sub pixel to promote the transmission rate of the panel, and to reduce the energy consumption of the display, and meanwhile to be beneficial for implementation of the sub pixel rendering algorithm to promote the virtual resolution. |
| US10263044B2 |
Tandem organic light-emitting diode, array substrate and display device
A tandem organic light-emitting diode, an array substrate and a display device are provided. The tandem organic light-emitting diode includes an anode, a hole transport layer, a first light-emitting layer, a first charge generation layer, a second charge generation layer, a third charge generation layer, a fourth charge generation layer, a second light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a cathode which are sequentially laminated, wherein the first charge generation layer is an N-type bulk heterojunction, the second charge generation layer and the third charge generation layer are both PN junction type bulk heterojunctions, a proportion of the P-type organic material in the second charge generation layer is greater than that of the N-type organic material, a proportion of the P-type organic material in the third charge generation layer is less than that of the N-type organic material, and the fourth charge generation layer is a P-type bulk heterojunction. |
| US10263041B2 |
Quantum dot optical devices with enhanced gain and sensitivity and methods of making same
Various embodiment include optical and optoelectronic devices and methods of making same. Under one aspect, an optical device includes an integrated circuit having an array of conductive regions, and an optically sensitive material over at least a portion of the integrated circuit and in electrical communication with at least one conductive region of the array of conductive regions. Under another aspect, a film includes a network of fused nanocrystals, the nanocrystals having a core and an outer surface, wherein the core of at least a portion of the fused nanocrystals is in direct physical contact and electrical communication with the core of at least one adjacent fused nanocrystal, and wherein the film has substantially no defect states in the regions where the cores of the nanocrystals are fused. Additional devices and methods are described. |
| US10263036B2 |
Strain assisted spin torque switching spin transfer torque memory
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) having a free magnetic layer; a piezoelectric layer; and a conducting strain transfer layer coupled to the free magnetic layer and the piezoelectric layer. Described is a method, which comprises: exciting a piezoelectric layer with a voltage driven capacitive stimulus; and writing to a MTJ coupled to the piezoelectric layer via a strain assist layer. Described is also an apparatus which comprises: a transistor; a conductive strain transfer layer coupled to the transistor; and a MTJ device having a free magnetic layer coupled to the conductive strain transfer layer. |
| US10263034B2 |
Member for solid-state image pickup device and method for manufacturing solid-state image pickup device
A member for a solid-state image pickup device having a bonding plane with no gaps and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of providing a first substrate provided with a photoelectric converter on its primary face and a first wiring structure, providing a second substrate provided with a part of a peripheral circuit on its primary face and a second wiring structure, and performing bonding so that the first substrate, the first wiring structure, the second wiring structure, and the second substrate are disposed in this order. In addition, at least one of an upper face of the first wiring structure and an upper face of the second wiring structure has a concave portion, and a conductive material forms a bottom face of the concave portion. |
| US10263031B2 |
Feedback capacitor and method for readout of hybrid bonded image sensors
A hybrid-bonded image sensor has a photodiode die with multiple macrocells; each macrocell has at least one photodiode and a coupling region. The coupling regions couple to a coupling region of a macrocell unit of a supporting circuitry die where they feed an input of an amplifier and a feedback capacitor. The feedback capacitor also couples to output of the amplifier, and the amplifier inverts between the input and the output. The method includes resetting a photodiode of the photodiode die; coupling signal from photodiode through the bond point to the supporting circuitry die to a feedback capacitor and to an input of the amplifier, the feedback capacitor also coupled to an inverting output of the amplifier; and amplifying the signal with the amplifier, where a capacitance of the feedback capacitor determines a gain of the amplifier. |
| US10263028B2 |
Solid-state image pickup apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are a solid-state image pickup apparatus which includes: a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of photoelectric converters; a first and a second insulating layers formed on the semiconductor substrate; an optical waveguide formed above each of the plurality of photoelectric converters and in an opening portion of the first and the second insulating layers, and has a refractive index higher than a refractive index of the first insulating layer; and a light reflecting layer formed at a boundary between the optical waveguide and the second insulating layer, and has a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the optical waveguide, where the following expression is satisfied: α<90°, where a represents an angle formed by a boundary surface between the light reflecting layer and the second insulating layer with respect to a boundary surface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. |
| US10263025B2 |
Solid-state imaging sensor
The present technology relates to a solid state imaging sensor that is possible to suppress the reflection of incident light with a wide wavelength band. A reflectance adjusting layer is provided on the substrate in an incident direction of the incident light with respect to the substrate such as Si and configured to adjust reflection of the incident light on the substrate. The reflectance adjusting layer includes a first layer formed on the substrate and a second layer formed on the first layer. The first layer includes a concavo-convex structure provided on the substrate and a material which is filled into a concave portion of the concavo-convex structure and has a refractive index lower than that of the substrate, and the second layer includes a material having a refractive index lower than that of the first layer. It is possible to reduce the reflection on the substrate such as Si by using the principle of the interference of the thin film. Such a technology can be applied to solid state imaging sensors. |
| US10263018B2 |
Signal line structure, array substrate, and display device
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a signal line structure, an array substrate, and a display device, where the signal line structure includes a plurality of signal lines arranged adjacent to each other at the same layer; and at least one redundant wire at a different layer from the signal lines, wherein each redundant wire corresponds to two adjacent signal lines, and a positive projection of the each redundant wire onto the layer where the signal lines are located covers a part or all of a gap between the two adjacent signal lines corresponding to the each redundant wire. |
| US10263015B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a first insulating layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer on the second electrode, a first opening in the first insulating layer, the second electrode and the second insulating layer, the first opening reaching the first electrode, a first oxide semiconductor layer in the first opening, the first oxide semiconductor layer being connected with the first electrode and the second electrode, a first gate electrode facing the first oxide semiconductor layer, and a first gate insulating layer between the first oxide semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode. |
| US10263012B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device comprising MISFETs in SOI and bulk substrate regions
The semiconductor integrated circuit device has a hybrid substrate structure which includes both of an SOI structure and a bulk structure on the side of the device plane of a semiconductor substrate. In the device, the height of a gate electrode of an SOI type MISFET is higher than that of a gate electrode of a bulk type MISFET with respect to the device plane. |
| US10263008B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method of manufacturing the same
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises a plurality of control gate electrodes, a semiconductor layer, and a first insulating layer. The plurality of control gate electrodes are stacked above a substrate. The semiconductor layer has as its longitudinal direction a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and faces the plurality of control gate electrodes. The first insulating layer is positioned between the semiconductor layer and the control gate electrode. In addition, part of the first insulating layer is a charge accumulation layer. Moreover, part of the first insulating layer is an oxide layer positioned upwardly of the charge accumulation layer. |
| US10263005B2 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
A control gate electrode and a memory gate electrode of a memory cell of a non-volatile memory are formed in a memory cell region of a semiconductor substrate, and a dummy gate electrode is formed in a peripheral circuit region. Then, n+-type semiconductor regions for a source or a drain of the memory cell are formed in the memory cell region and n+-type semiconductor regions for a source or a drain of MISFET are formed in the peripheral circuit region. Then, a metal silicide layer is formed over the n+-type semiconductor regions but the metal silicide layer is not formed over the control gate electrode, the memory gate electrode, and the gate electrode. Subsequently, the gate electrode is removed and replaced with the gate electrode for MISFET. Then, after removing the gate electrode and replacing it with a gate electrode for MISFET, a metal silicide layer is formed over the memory gate electrode and the control gate electrode. |
| US10263003B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a semiconductor device which has a non-volatile memory including: a semiconductor substrate; a tunnel insulating film formed on a surface of the semiconductor device; a floating gate formed on the tunnel insulating film; a memory cell transistor drain region and a memory cell transistor source region formed from the surface to an inside of the semiconductor substrate in a vicinity of both ends of the floating gate; a first interface formed between the semiconductor substrate and the tunnel insulating film; and a second interface formed between the floating gate and the tunnel insulating film. The first interface and the second interface form an uneven structure having a curvature that changes at an identical period with respect to a place in sectional view. |
| US10263002B2 |
Anti-fuse memory and semiconductor storage device
In an anti-fuse memory includes a rectifier element of a semiconductor junction structure in which a voltage applied from a memory gate electrode to a word line is applied as a reverse bias in accordance with voltage values of the memory gate electrode and the word line, and does not use a conventional control circuit. Hence, the rectifier element blocks application of a voltage from the memory gate electrode to the word line. Therefore a conventional switch transistor that selectively applies a voltage to a memory capacitor and a conventional switch control circuit allowing the switch transistor to turn on or off are not necessary. Miniaturization of the anti-fuse memory and a semiconductor memory device are achieved correspondingly. |
| US10262999B2 |
High-k gate dielectric and metal gate conductor stack for fin-type field effect transistors formed on type III-V semiconductor material and silicon germanium semiconductor material
An electrical device that includes at least one n-type field effect transistor including a channel region in a type III-V semiconductor device, and at least one p-type field effect transistor including a channel region in a germanium containing semiconductor material. Each of the n-type and p-type semiconductor devices may include gate structures composed of material layers including work function adjusting materials selections, such as metal and doped dielectric layers. The field effect transistors may be composed of fin type field effect transistors. The field effect transistors may be formed using gate first processing or gate last processing. |
| US10262998B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first active area extending in a first direction and a second active area extending in a second direction and connected to the first active area; first and second gate structures respectively crossing the first and second active areas; a first region in an area where the first and second active areas are connected to each other, the first region being on a first side of each of the first and second gate structures; a second region in the first active area on the other side of the first gate structure; and a third region formed in the second active area on the other side of the second gate structure. |
| US10262993B2 |
Semiconductor devices and a method for forming a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor structure including a first transistor body region of a first conductivity type located within a semiconductor substrate. At least part of the first transistor body region is located between a first source/drain region of the first transistor structure and a second source/drain region of the first transistor structure. The semiconductor device includes a second transistor structure including a second transistor body region of a second conductivity type located within the semiconductor substrate. At least part of the second transistor body region is located between a first source/drain region of the second transistor structure and a second source/drain region of the second transistor structure. At least part of the second source/drain region of the second transistor structure is located between a doping region comprising the second source/drain region of the first transistor structure and the second transistor body region. |
| US10262992B2 |
Three dimensional LVDMOS transistor structures
A semiconductor device having a first stack and a second stack of device components. The first stack has a transistor switching element having a channel, a source in contact with the channel, a drain in contact with the channel, and a gate structure at least partially disposed in a space defined between and separating the source and the drain. The first stack has a source connection to the source, and a drain connection to the drain. The second stack of device components is disposed underneath the first stack and has a semiconductor substrate of a doping type the same as the drain, and a pair of electrical contacts spaced apart on the semiconductor substrate and contacting a conduction path in the semiconductor substrate extending between the pair of electrical contacts. The drain connection is connected to one of the pair of electrical contacts. |
| US10262990B2 |
Electrostatic discharge protection device for differential signal devices
A robust electrostatic (ESD) protection device is provided. In one example, the ESD protection device is configured to accommodate three nodes. When used with a differential signal device, the first and second nodes may be coupled with the differential signal device's BP and BM signal lines, respectively, and the third node may be coupled to a voltage source. This allows for a single ESD protection device to be used to protect the signal lines of the differential signal device, thus providing significant substrate area savings as compared to the conventional means of using three dual-node ESD protection devices to accomplish substantially the same protection mechanism. Moreover, the ESD protection device may be structurally designed to handle high voltage ESD events, as required by the FlexRay standard. |
| US10262989B2 |
ESD protection for 2.5D/3D integrated circuit systems
An integrated circuit structure includes first and second integrated circuit devices disposed on a interposer. Each integrated circuit device has electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuitry therein connected to an internal ESD bus. The first and second integrated circuit devices communicate with one another through the interposer. The interposer includes an ESD bus electrically connected to the ESD busses of the first and second integrated circuit devices for providing cross-device ESD protection for the integrated circuit devices. |
| US10262984B1 |
Optical integrated circuit systems, devices, and methods of fabrication
An optical integrated circuit device includes an electrically insulating substrate, an optical connection disposed at a boundary of the optical integrated circuit, and a first electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure in direct contact with and electrically coupled to the first waveguide. The optical connection includes a first waveguide. The first waveguide is disposed on the electrically insulating substrate and configured to transmit an optical signal. The first ESD protection structure is both electrically non-insulating and substantially optically transparent to the optical signal. An ESD diode including an anode and a cathode is electrically coupled to the first ESD protection structure. A ground connection is electrically coupled to the anode of the ESD diode. |
| US10262983B2 |
Integrated photo detector, method of making the same
An integrated photo detector with enhanced electrostatic discharge damage (ESD) protection. The integrated photo detector includes a first photodiode formed in the SOI substrate and associated with a first p-electrode and a first n-electrode. Additionally, the integrated photo detector includes a second photodiode formed in the SOI substrate associated with a second p-electrode and a second n-electrode forming a capacitance no larger than a few femto Faradays. Moreover, the integrated photo detector includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed respectively on the SOI substrate. The first/second electrode is respectively connected to the first p/n-electrode via a first/second metallic layer patterned with a reduced width from the first/second electrode to the first p/n-electrode and connected to the second p/n-electrode via a first/second metallic wire to make a parallel coupling between the first photodiode and the second photodiode with an ESD threshold of about 100V. |
| US10262979B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes: a first light emitting element configured to emit light of a first peak wavelength; a second light emitting element configured to emit light of a second peak wavelength that is different from the first peak wavelength; a first light reflecting member disposed in contact with at least one lateral surface of the first light emitting element, the first light reflecting member having an upper surface from which an upper surface of the first light emitting element is exposed; a wavelength conversion member covering the upper surface of the first light emitting element; and a second light reflecting member disposed on the upper surface of the first light reflecting member, the second light reflecting member being located between the second light emitting element and the wavelength conversion member in a plan view. |
| US10262977B2 |
Colour inorganic LED display for display devices with a high number of pixel
An image generator for use in a display device, the image generator comprising: a plurality of ILED array chips each comprising a plurality of ILED emitters and arranged in an array such that each of a plurality of pixels of the image generator comprises an ILED emitter from each of a plurality of adjacent ILED array chips. The total area of ILED emitter material may be less than 50% of the area of each pixel. The image generator may comprise secondary optics in optical communication with an output of the plurality of ILED emitters of an ILED array chip and configured to direct light from the ILED emitters towards an emission region of the associated pixel. |
| US10262976B1 |
Package including a plurality of stacked semiconductor devices, an interposer and interface connections
A system can include a first semiconductor device, a second semiconductor device, and a first semiconductor memory device. A first semiconductor device can include a first capacitor having first and second capacitor nodes that each include at least one essentially vertically formed conductive portion in a substrate, separated from one another by at least one capacitor dielectric. A first capacitor node can be electrically connected to the first terminal of the first capacitor. At least one conductive data path can be coupled between the first semiconductor memory device and the second semiconductor device. The at least one essentially vertically formed conductive portion can comprise polysilicon. |
| US10262975B1 |
Package including a plurality of stacked semiconductor devices, an interposer and interface connections
A system can include a first semiconductor device including a first capacitor with a first terminal coupled to receive a power supply potential; and a second semiconductor device including a first voltage generator coupled to the first terminal of the first capacitor, the first voltage generator provides a first voltage generator output potential at an output terminal. The first capacitor can include a first capacitor node and a second capacitor node, the first capacitor node and the second capacitor node each include at least one substantially vertically formed conductive portion in a substrate of the first semiconductor device that are separated from one another by at least one capacitor dielectric, the first capacitor node is electrically connected to the first terminal of the first capacitor. |
| US10262973B1 |
Modular chip with redundant interfaces
Aspects of the disclosure provide a chip package that includes a first die and a second die. The first die has a processing circuit and a first interface circuit. The second die is disposed in a proximity to the first die and coupled to the first die. The second die includes internal functional circuits, two or more second interface circuits with an identical configuration, and a switch circuit. A specific second interface circuit is electrically connected to the first interface circuit via wires. The switch circuit is configured to select the specific second interface circuit from the two or more second interface circuits, and couple the specific second interface circuit to the internal functional circuits on the second die. |
| US10262971B2 |
Stacked image sensor package and stacked image sensor module including the same
Provided are a stacked image sensor package and a packaging method thereof. A stacked image sensor package includes: a stacked image sensor in which a pixel array die and a logic die are stacked; a redistribution layer formed on one surface of the stacked image sensor, rerouting an input/output of the stacked image sensor, and including a first pad and a second pad; a memory die connected with the first pad of the redistribution layer and positioned on the stacked image sensor; and external connectors connected with the second pad, connecting the memory die and the stacked image sensor with an external device, and having the memory die positioned therebetween. |
| US10262970B2 |
Selective area heating for 3D chip stack
A method of forming a 3D package. The method may include joining an interposer to a laminate chip carrier with the solid state diffusion of a first plurality of solder bumps by applying a first selective non-uniform heat and first uniform pressure; joining a top chip to the interposer with the solid state diffusion of a second plurality of solder bumps by applying a second selective non-uniform heat and second uniform pressure; heating the 3D package, the first and second pluralities of solder bumps to a temperature greater than the reflow temperature of the first and second pluralities of solder bumps, where the second plurality of solder bumps achieves the reflow temperature before the first plurality of solder bumps, where the first and second selective non-uniform heats being less that the reflow temperature of the first and second pluralities of solder bumps, respectively. |
| US10262969B2 |
Bonding device
[Problem]To provide a bonding device capable of adequately controlling a leading end of a capillary when a ball formed at a leading end of a wire is pressed and bonded to an electrode of a semiconductor chip with scrub vibration.[Solution]The bonding device is provided with a vibration driving portion (7), the vibration driving portion (7) including a plurality of piezoelectric elements (10) that are expanded and contracted along an axial direction of a bonding arm (3) respectively with one end thereof fixed to a leading end of the bonding arm (3), a plurality of capillary holding portions (15) that are in contact respectively with a circumferential face of a capillary (20) at a base end side thereof as being fixed correspondingly to the other end of the piezoelectric elements (10), and a pressing-holding portion (21) that sandwiches the capillary (20) as pressing the capillary (20) to the capillary holding portions (15) with at least one end side fixed to the bonding arm (3) and the other end side being in contact with the circumferential face of the capillary (20) at the base end side thereof on a side opposite to the capillary holding portions (15). Here, functional operation of amplitude, phase, frequency, or waveform is performed on drive voltage waveform to the respective piezoelectric elements. |
| US10262968B2 |
Wire bonding apparatus and wire bonding method
In order to easily and accurately measure an offset for wire bonding and improve precision of wire bonding, a wiring bonding apparatus includes a first imaging unit, a bonding tool, a moving mechanism, a reference member, a second imaging unit arranged on the opposite side to the bonding tool and the first imaging unit with respect to a reference surface, and a control unit. The first imaging unit detects a position of an optical axis of the first image capture unit with respect to a position of the reference member, the second imaging unit detects the position of the reference member when moving the bonding tool above the reference member according to pre-stored offset values, and detects a position of a ball-shaped tip section of a wire, and the control unit measures a change in offset between the bonding tool and the first imaging unit based on each detection result. |
| US10262967B2 |
Semiconductor packages
A semiconductor package can include a mold substrate having opposite first and second surfaces where a semiconductor chip can be embedded inside the mold substrate. The semiconductor chip can include chip pads where a redistribution layer can be on the first surface of the mold substrate, and the redistribution layer can include redistribution lines therein electrically connected to the chip pads and can include a capacitor redistribution line. A capacitor can include a first electrode including a plurality of conductive pillars connected to the capacitor redistribution line. A dielectric layer can be on the first electrode and a second electrode can be on the dielectric layer. |
| US10262962B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a terminal, a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip located on the first semiconductor chip, a first pad located on the first semiconductor chip and electrically disconnected from a semiconductor circuit of the first semiconductor chip, a second pad located on the second semiconductor chip and electrically connected to a semiconductor circuit of the second semiconductor chip, a first wire electrically connecting the first terminal to the first pad, and a second wire electrically connecting the first pad to the second pad. |
| US10262959B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming thereof
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a contact layer over a first major surface of a substrate. The substrate includes device regions separated by kerf regions. The contact layer is disposed in the kerf region and the device regions. A structured solder layer is formed over the device regions. The contact layer is exposed at the kerf region after forming the structured solder layer. The contact layer and the substrate in the kerf regions are diced. |
| US10262958B2 |
Package with solder regions aligned to recesses
A method includes forming a passivation layer over a portion of a metal pad, forming a polymer layer over the passivation layer, and exposing the polymer layer using a photolithography mask. The photolithography mask has an opaque portion, a transparent portion, and a partial transparent portion. The exposed polymer layer is developed to form an opening, wherein the metal pad is exposed through the opening. A Post-Passivation Interconnect (PPI) is formed over the polymer layer, wherein the PPI includes a portion extending into the opening to connect to the metal pad. |
| US10262956B2 |
Timing based camouflage circuit
In one embodiment, a chip comprising a circuit, the circuit comprising a plurality of components, wherein the circuit is adapted to perform a function that is dependent on timing behavior of the circuit, and wherein a geometry of a layout of the circuit is substantially the same as another geometry of another layout of another circuit adapted to perform another function that is dependent on different timing behavior. |
| US10262955B2 |
Activating reactions in integrated circuits through electrical discharge
Embodiments of the present invention provide integrated circuits and methods for activating reactions in integrated circuits. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is provided having reactive material capable of being activated by electrical discharge, without requiring a battery or similar external power source, to produce an exothermic reaction that erases and/or destroys one or more semiconductor devices on the integrated circuit. |
| US10262949B2 |
Fan-out semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure relates to a fan-out semiconductor package and a method of manufacturing the same. The fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first connection member having a through-hole; a semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole; an encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first connection member and the semiconductor chip; and a second connection member disposed on the first connection member and the semiconductor chip. The first connection member includes a first insulating layer, a first redistribution layer and a second redistribution layer disposed on one surface and the other surface of the first insulating layer opposing the one surface thereof, respectively, a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and covering the first redistribution layer, and a third redistribution layer disposed on the second insulating layer. A fan-out semiconductor package may include one or more connection units instead of the first connection member. |
| US10262944B2 |
Semiconductor device having interconnect layer that includes dielectric segments interleaved with metal components
An interconnect layer is disposed over a substrate. The interconnect layer includes a plurality of dielectric segments interleaved with a plurality of metal components. A plurality of vias is disposed below, and electrically coupled to, a first group of the metal components. A plurality of dielectric components is disposed underneath a second group of the metal components. The dielectric components interleave with the vias. A conductive liner is disposed below a bottom surface and on sidewalk of the vias. A dielectric barrier layer is disposed below a bottom surface and on sidewalls of the dielectric segments. The dielectric barrier layer and the dielectric segments have different material compositions. |
| US10262942B2 |
Method of forming cobalt contact module and cobalt contact module formed thereby
The disclosure relates to a method of forming a Co contact module, the method including depositing a liner layer on a trench block, partially plating the lined trenches with Co as a first metal such that the resulting Co layer has a top surface below an opening top surface of a shallowest trench, depositing a second metal on the Co layer and exposed surfaces of the liner layer, planarizing the second metal layer, and etching the second metal layer and portions of the liner layer. The disclosure also relates to a Co contact module formed by the noted method. |
| US10262941B2 |
Devices and methods for forming cross coupled contacts
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabricating the semiconductor devices with cross coupled contacts using patterning for cross couple pick-up are disclosed. One method includes, for instance: obtaining an intermediate semiconductor device; performing a first lithography to pattern a first shape; performing a second lithography to pattern a second shape overlapping a portion of the first shape; processing the first shape and the second shape to form an isolation region at the overlap; and forming four regions separated by the isolation region. An intermediate semiconductor device is also disclosed. |
| US10262940B2 |
Electric connector
An electric connector includes a metal interconnect, a first vertical element and a second vertical element. The metal interconnect includes a plurality of horizontal elements. The first vertical element physically connects to a top surface of each of the horizontal elements. The second vertical element physically connects to a bottom surface of each of the horizontal elements, and the second vertical element misaligns the first vertical element. The present invention also provides an electric connector including a first vertical element and a second vertical element. The first vertical element physically connects to a top surface of a horizontal element. The second vertical element physically connects to a bottom surface of the horizontal element, and the second vertical element misaligns the first vertical element, wherein the first vertical element or the horizontal element is burned out before the second vertical element is burned out while a voltage is applied. |
| US10262931B2 |
Lateral vias for connections to buried microconductors and methods thereof
The present invention relates to a lateral via to provide an electrical connection to a buried conductor. In one instance, the buried conductor is a through via that extends along a first dimension, and the lateral via extends along a second dimension that is generally orthogonal to the first dimension. In another instance, the second dimension is oblique to the first dimension. Components having such lateral vias, as well as methods for creating such lateral vias are described herein. |
| US10262930B2 |
Interposer and method for manufacturing interposer
An interposer includes an insulating layer, conductor circuits formed in grooves formed on a first surface of the insulating layer respectively, and metal posts formed in openings extending from the grooves to a second surface of the insulating layer on the opposite side with respect to the first surface such that the metal posts are connected to the conductor circuits respectively. The insulating layer has an opening portion which accommodates an electronic component and is extending from the first surface to the second surface of the insulating layer, and each of the metal posts has an upper surface and a bottom surface on the opposite side of the upper surface such that the upper surface is connected to a respective one of the conductor circuits and that the bottom surface is exposed from the second surface of the insulating layer. |
| US10262928B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device 1 includes a first drain terminal 4, connected to a drain electrode of a first semiconductor chip, a first gate terminal 5, connected to a gate electrode of the first semiconductor chip, a second drain terminal 6, connected to a drain electrode of a second semiconductor chip, a second gate terminal 7, connected to a gate electrode of the second semiconductor chip, a common source terminal 8, connected to a source electrode of the first semiconductor chip and a source electrode of the second semiconductor chip, and a sealing resin 9, sealing the respective semiconductor chips and the respective terminals. The respective terminals have exposed surfaces (lower surfaces) 43, 53, 63, 73, and 83 substantially flush with an outer surface (lower surface) 9b of the sealing resin 9 and exposed from the outer surface 9b. |
| US10262927B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof
Reliability of a semiconductor device is improved. For this, embodied is a basic idea that a semiconductor chip (CHP1) mounted on an Ag layer (AGL) is fixed by using a temporarily fixing material (TA) having tackiness without forming the temporarily fixing material (TA) on a surface of the Ag layer (AGL) having a porous structure as much as possible, is realized. More specifically, the temporarily fixing material (TA) is supplied so as to have a portion made in contact with a chip mounting part (TAB), and the semiconductor chip (CHP1) is also mounted on the Ag layer (AGL) so that one portion of a rear surface of the semiconductor chip (CHP1) is made in contact with the temporarily fixing material (TA). |
| US10262926B2 |
Reversible semiconductor die
A semiconductor die has internal circuitry formed on two more internal layers, and die bonding pads arranged on a top surface of the die. The bonding pads are connected to the internal circuitry for providing input and output signals to the internal circuitry. One or more connecting lines electrically connect one or more pairs of the die bonding pads, thereby defining a bonding pad layout. The die bonding pads are arranged and connected with the connecting lines such that the bonding pad layout is reversible, which allows the die to be used in different package types (e.g., TSSOP or DFN) yet maintain a standardized pin arrangement without the necessity for long or crossed bond wires. |
| US10262920B1 |
Stacked silicon package having a thermal capacitance element
Chip packages and electronic devices are provided that include a thermal capacitance element that improves the operation of IC dies at elevated temperatures. In one example, a chip package is provided that includes an integrated circuit (IC) die, a lid thermally connected to the IC die, and a thermal capacitance element thermally connected to the lid. The thermal capacitance element includes a container and a capacitance material sealingly disposed in the container. The capacitance material has a phase transition temperature that is between 80 and 100 percent of a maximum designed operating temperature in degrees Celsius of the IC die. |
| US10262908B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of: determining a first design dimension of a gate electrode of a selection MISFET, a second design dimension of a sidewall insulating film, and initial setting conditions for ion implantation for a high-concentration semiconductor region; forming the gate electrode; measuring a first processed dimension of the gate electrode; implanting ions to form a low-concentration semiconductor region at each end of the gate electrode; forming the sidewall insulating film over a sidewall of the gate electrode; measuring a second processed dimension of the sidewall insulating film; and implanting ions to form a high-concentration semiconductor region. In the former implantation step, execution conditions to the initial setting conditions are reset according to a deviation of the first processed dimension from the first design dimension and a deviation of the second processed dimension from the second design dimension, and the step is executed. |
| US10262907B1 |
Dye and pry process for removing quad flat no-lead packages and bottom termination components
Embodiments of the invention include a dye and pry process for removing quad flat no-lead (QFN) packages and bottom termination components (BTC) from card assemblies. Aspects of the invention include immersing a semiconductor package assembly in a solution comprising dye and placing the immersed semiconductor package assembly under vacuum pressure. Vacuum conditions ensure that the dye solution is pulled into any cracks in the solder formed between the semiconductor package assembly and the QFN package or BTC. The package assembly is dried and a hole is drilled to expose a bottom surface of the QFN package or BTC. The QFN package or BTC is then removed by applying a force to the exposed bottom surface. The semiconductor package assembly can then be inspected for the dye to locate cracks. |
| US10262904B2 |
Vertical transistor top epitaxy source/drain and contact structure
An nFET vertical transistor is provided in which a p-doped top source/drain structure is formed in contact with an n-doped semiconductor region that is present on a topmost surface of a vertical nFET channel. The p-doped top source/drain structure is formed utilizing a low temperature (550° C. or less) epitaxial growth process. |
| US10262902B2 |
Multiplexer and integrated circuit using the same
The multiplexer includes a plurality of transmission gates each formed by four-terminal double insulated gate N-type and P-type field effect transistors connected in parallel. One of gates of the N-type gate field effect transistor is connected to a first threshold voltage control node, and a first resistor is connected between the first threshold voltage control node and a first threshold voltage control voltage source. One of gates of the P-type gate field effect transistor is connected to a second threshold voltage control node, and a second resistor is connected between the second threshold voltage control node and a second threshold voltage control voltage source. |
| US10262899B2 |
Method of processing wafer
A wafer has a plurality of projected dicing lines on a face side thereof, a plurality of devices formed in respective areas demarcated on the face side of the wafer by the projected dicing lines, a plurality of grooves defined in the projected dicing lines, and a molding resin laid on the devices and embedded in the grooves. An outer circumferential portion of the molding resin is removed, exposing the molding resin embedded in the grooves. The molding resin embedded in the grooves exposed on an outer circumferential portion of the wafer is detected, and a laser beam is focused at a transversely central point on the molding resin embedded in the grooves. The laser beam is applied to the molding resin along the grooves, thereby forming dividing grooves in the wafer to allow the wafer to be divided into individual devices. |
| US10262898B2 |
Method for forming an electrical contact between a semiconductor film and a bulk handle wafer, and resulting structure
A silicon on insulator substrate includes a semiconductor bulk handle wafer, an insulating layer on said semiconductor bulk handle wafer and a semiconductor film on said insulating layer. An opening extends completely through the semiconductor film and insulating layer to expose a surface of the semiconductor bulk handle wafer. Epitaxial material fills the opening and extends on said semiconductor film, with the epitaxial material and semiconductor film forming a thick semiconductor film. A trench isolation surrounds a region of the thick semiconductor film to define an electrical contact made to the semiconductor bulk handle wafer through the opening. |
| US10262897B2 |
Bond pad protection for harsh media applications
A method for making and a semiconductor device comprises a silicon die including a metal contact region and, at least one passivation layer covering the semiconductor die and patterned such as to form an opening to the metal contact region of the semiconductor die. A continuous part of a contact layer comprises a refractory metal, and overlaps and completely covers the opening in the at least one passivation layer to contact the metal contact region in the opening and adhere to the at least one passivation layer along the entire edge of the continuous part. The contact layer comprises at least an adhesion layer and at least a diffusion barrier layer. A noble metal layer is arranged over the contact layer and completely covers the continuous part to adhere to the at least one passivation layer around the edge of the continuous part. |
| US10262896B2 |
Formation of a transition metal nitride
A use of an amine-containing silane for forming a transition metal nitride is provided. In this use, the amine of the amine-containing silane is the source of at least some, preferably most and most preferably all of the nitrogen present in the transition metal nitride. |
| US10262894B2 |
FinFET device and method for forming the same
Provided is a FinFET device including a substrate having at least one fin of the FinFET device, a gate stack, a spacer, a strained layer, a composite etching stop layer, a dielectric layer and a connector. The gate stack is across the at least one fin of the FinFET device. The spacer is on a sidewall of the gate stack. The strained layer is in the substrate aside the gate stack. The composite etching stop layer is on the spacer and on the strained layer. Besides, the composite etching stop layer is thicker on the spacer but thinner on the strained layer. The dielectric layer is on the composite etching stop layer. The connector is over and electrically connected to the strained layer. A first upper portion of a first sidewall of the connector is in contact with the composite etching stop layer, and a second upper portion of a second sidewall of the connector is separate from the composite etching stop layer by the dielectric layer therebetween. |
| US10262888B2 |
Apparatus and methods for wafer rotation in carousel susceptor
Apparatus and method for processing a plurality of substrates in a batch processing chamber are described. The apparatus comprises a susceptor assembly, a lift assembly and a rotation assembly. The susceptor assembly has a top surface and a bottom surface with a plurality of recesses in the top surface. Each of the recesses has a lift pocket in the recess bottom. The lift assembly including a lift plate having a top surface to contact the substrate. The lift plate is connected to a lift shaft that extends through the susceptor assembly and connects to a lift friction pad. The rotation assembly has a rotation friction pad that contacts the lift friction pad. The rotation friction pad is connected to a rotation shaft and can be vertically aligned with the lift friction pad. |
| US10262885B2 |
Multifunction wafer and film frame handling system
A multifunction wafer and film frame handling system includes a wafer table assembly having a wafer table providing an ultra-planar wafer table surface configured for carrying a wafer or a film frame, and at least one of: a flattening apparatus configured for automatically applying a downward force to portions of a warped or non-planar wafer in a direction normal to the wafer table surface; a displacement limitation apparatus configured for automatically constraining or preventing uncontrolled lateral motion of a wafer relative to the wafer table surface after cessation of an applied negative pressure and application of a positive pressure to the underside of the wafer via the wafer table; and a rotational misalignment compensation apparatus configured for automatically compensating for a rotational misalignment of a wafer mounted on a film frame. |
| US10262881B2 |
Environmentally controlled coating systems
Embodiments of an enclosed coating system according to the present teachings can be useful for patterned area coating of substrates in the manufacture of a variety of apparatuses and devices in a wide range of technology areas, for example, but not limited by, OLED displays, OLED lighting, organic photovoltaics, Perovskite solar cells, and organic semiconductor circuits. Enclosed and environmentally controlled coating systems of the present teachings can provide several advantages, such as: 1) Elimination of a range of vacuum processing operations such coating-based fabrication can be performed at atmospheric pressure. 2) Controlled patterned coating eliminates material waste, as well as eliminating additional processing typically required to achieve patterning of an organic layer. 3) Various formulations used for patterned coating with various embodiments of an enclosed coating apparatus of the present teachings can have a wide range of physical properties, such as viscosity and surface tension. Various embodiments of an enclosed coating system can be integrated with various components that provide a gas circulation and filtration system, a particle control system, a gas purification system, and a thermal regulation system and the like to form various embodiments of an enclosed coating system that can sustain an inert gas environment that is substantially low-particle for various coating processes of the present teachings that require such an environment. |
| US10262876B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
A substrate holding unit which holds the substrate, a nozzle which includes a first cylindrical member within which a first flow path along which the first fluid is passed is formed and in which a tip end edge of the first cylindrical member defines, between the tip end edge and a main surface of the substrate, an annular first discharge port that discharges the fluid flowing through the first flow path along the main surface of the substrate radially and a first fluid supply unit which is a fluid supply unit supplying the first fluid to the first flow path of the nozzle and which applies, to the nozzle, a force in a direction apart from the main surface of the substrate, by the discharge of the first fluid from the first discharge port. |
| US10262874B2 |
Semiconductor module radiator plate fabrication method, radiator plate, and semiconductor module using the same
A semiconductor module radiator plate fabrication method includes soldering a plurality of insulating substrates of different shapes to a flat radiator plate, and forming a convex curve on an insulating substrate side of the radiator plate; obtaining a first concave curve by reversing the convex curve; setting a second concave curve on an insulating substrate side of a radiator plate after soldering, a bottom of the second concave curve being positioned under clearance between the plurality of insulating substrates; adding the first curve and the second curve to calculate a third concave curve on the insulating substrate side; and forming the third curve on a flat plate to form a radiator plate before soldering. |
| US10262873B2 |
Pre-heat processes for millisecond anneal system
Preheat processes for a millisecond anneal system are provided. In one example implementation, a heat treatment process can include receiving a substrate on a wafer support in a processing chamber of a millisecond anneal system; heating the substrate to an intermediate temperature; and heating the substrate using a millisecond heating flash. Prior to heating the substrate to the intermediate temperature, the process can include heating the substrate to a pre-bake temperature for a soak period. |
| US10262872B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium
There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: forming a first amorphous silicon film on a substrate in a process chamber; and etching a portion of the first amorphous silicon film using a hydrogen chloride gas under a temperature at which an amorphous state of the first amorphous silicon film is maintained, in the process chamber. |
| US10262871B1 |
Formation of field-tunable silicon carbide defect qubits with optically transparent electrodes and silicon oxide surface passivation
A method includes depositing a layer of silicon oxide onto a layer of silicon carbide; ion implanting the layer of silicon carbide, annealing the ion implanted layer of silicon carbide to produce defects within the layer of silicon carbide, performing photolithography using a mask layer on regions of the layer of silicon carbide to define regions for electrode deposition, removing the layer of silicon oxide from the layer of silicon carbide in the one or more regions for electrode deposition, forming one or more electrodes by depositing indium tin oxide (ITO) in each of the regions for electrode deposition, performing a first lift-off operation to remove the mask layer surrounding the electrodes, depositing a passivation and gate silicon oxide layer on top of the layer of silicon carbide and the electrodes, and performing a second lift-off operation to fabricate an optically transparent ITO gate between the electrodes. |
| US10262870B2 |
Fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure and method for forming the same
A FinFET device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure includes a fin structure formed over a substrate and a gate structure traversing over the fin structure. The gate structure includes a gate electrode layer which includes an upper portion above the fin structure and a lower portion below the fin structure. The upper portion has a top surface with a first width, the lower portion has a bottom surface with a second width, and the first width is greater than the second width. |
| US10262869B2 |
Planarization method
A planarization method includes providing a substrate having a semiconductor structure formed thereon. A dielectric layer is formed on the substrate, and a mask layer is formed on the dielectric layer. A first chemical mechanical polishing process is performed to remove a portion of the mask layer thereby forming an opening directly over the semiconductor structure and exposing the dielectric layer. A first etching process is performed to anisotropically remove a portion of the dielectric layer from the opening. The mask layer is then removed and a second chemical mechanical polishing process is then performed. |
| US10262866B2 |
Indium phosphide smoothing and chemical mechanical planarization processes
A chemical mechanical planarization for indium phosphide material is provided in which at least one opening is formed within a dielectric layer located on a substrate. An indium phosphide material is epitaxially grown within the at least one opening of the dielectric layer which extends above a topmost surface of the dielectric layer. The indium phosphide material is planarized using at least one slurry composition to form coplanar surfaces of the indium phosphide material and the dielectric layer, where a slurry composition of the at least one slurry composition polishes the indium phosphide material selective to the topmost surface of the dielectric layer, and includes an abrasive, at least one pH modulator and an oxidizer, the at least one pH modulator including an acidic pH modulator, but lacks a basic pH modulator, and where the oxidizer suppresses generation of phosphine gas. |
| US10262865B2 |
Methods for manufacturing semiconductor devices
An example method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a nitride, carbide, or metal film on a substrate in a chamber using PE-ALD, Pulse-PE-CVD or PE-CVD, purging an interior of the chamber, forming an oxide film on the substrate in the chamber using PE-ALD, Pulse-PE-CVD or PE-CVD, and supplying a reducing gas into the chamber to create a reduction atmosphere and purging the interior of the chamber. The forming of the nitride film, carbide, or metal, purging, forming an oxide film, and supplying the reducing gas may be repeated a plurality of times. |
| US10262858B2 |
Surface functionalization and passivation with a control layer
Embodiments described herein relate to semiconductor and metal substrate surface preparation and controlled growth methods. An example application is formation of an atomic layer deposition (ALD) control layer as a diffusion barrier or gate dielectric layer and subsequent ALD processing. Embodiments described herein are believed to be advantageously utilized concerning gate oxide deposition, diffusion barrier deposition, surface functionalization, surface passivation, and oxide nucleation, among other processes. More specifically, embodiments described herein provide for silicon nitride ALD processes which functionalize, passivate, and nucleate a SiNx monolayer at temperatures below about 300° C. |
| US10262857B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device, substrate processing apparatus, and recording medium
There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising forming a film on a substrate in a process chamber by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes alternately performing supplying a halogen-based first process gas to the substrate in the process chamber, and supplying a non-halogen-based second process gas to the substrate in the process chamber. Further, an internal pressure of the process chamber in the act of supplying the first process gas is set to be higher than an internal pressure of the process chamber in the act of supplying the second process gas. |
| US10262850B2 |
Inorganic and organic mass spectrometry systems and methods of using them
Certain configurations of systems and methods that can detect inorganic ions and organic ions in a sample are described. In some configurations, the system may comprise one, two, three or more mass spectrometer cores. In some instances, the mass spectrometer cores can utilize common components such as gas controllers, processors, power supplies and vacuum pumps. In certain configurations, the systems can be designed to detect both inorganic and organic analytes comprising a mass from about three atomic mass units, four atomic mass units or five atomic mass units up to a mass of about two thousand atomic mass units. |
| US10262845B2 |
System and method for enhanced ion pump lifespan
Within an ion pump, accelerated ions leave the center portion of an anode tube due to the anode tube symmetry and the generally symmetrical electric fields present. The apparent symmetry within the anode tube may be altered by making the anode tube longitudinally segmented and applying independent voltages to each segment. The voltages on two adjacent segments may be time varying at different rates to achieve a rasterizing process. In various embodiments, one or more wire internal to the anode structure and having a time-varying electric potential may alter the trajectory of the ions leaving the anode tube, as may the shape of the anode near the ends of the anode tube. |
| US10262843B2 |
Cooling water jet pack for high power rotary cathodes
A sputtering target assembly, including a cylindrical backing tube, a magnet assembly disposed within the backing tube, and a conduit disposed within the backing tube and adapted for transporting coolant. The conduit includes at least one first opening positioned for providing the coolant in a substantially circumferential direction from the conduit toward an inner surface of the backing tube into a gap volume between a front side of the magnet assembly and the inner surface of the backing tube. |
| US10262839B2 |
Aluminum apparatus with aluminum oxide layer and method for forming the same
In a method, an aluminum body is chemically treated with at least one of an alkaline solution and an acid solution. Anode-oxidization is performed on the chemically treated aluminum body to form an aluminum oxide layer. The aluminum oxide layer is treated with hot water at a temperature more than 75° C. or steam. The aluminum oxide layer after being treated with hot water or steam includes plural columnar grains, and an average width of the columnar grains is in a range from 10 nm to 100 nm. |
| US10262830B2 |
Scanning electron microscope and electron trajectory adjustment method therefor
To provide a scanning electron microscope having an electron spectroscopy system to attain high spatial resolution and a high secondary electron detection rate under the condition that energy of primary electrons is low, the scanning electron microscope includes: an objective lens 105; primary electron acceleration means 104 that accelerates primary electrons 102; primary electron deceleration means 109 that decelerates the primary electrons and irradiates them to a sample 106; a secondary electron deflector 103 that deflects secondary electrons 110 from the sample to the outside of an optical axis of the primary electrons; a spectroscope 111 that disperses secondary electrons; and a controller that controls application voltage to the objective lens, the primary electron acceleration means and the primary electron deceleration means so as to converge the secondary electrons to an entrance of the spectroscope. |
| US10262826B2 |
Snap fit circuit breaker and load center system
A circuit breaker and panel system includes a panel including a base pan having a plurality of base pan electrical connections. A circuit breaker including a housing having a plurality of circuit breaker electrical connections arranged to contact the base pan electrical connections when the circuit breaker is coupled to the base pan. The circuit breaker is rotatably coupleable with the base pan via a pivot joint for engaging the plurality of base pan electrical connections with the plurality of circuit breaker electrical connections per a predetermined electrical connection coupling sequence. One of the housing and the base pan includes a protrusion and the other of the housing and the base pan includes a corresponding recess which, when engaged with each other, retain the housing to the base pan to prevent reverse rotational movement of the breaker with respect to the base pan. |
| US10262824B2 |
Operation coil drive device of electromagnetic contactor
Operation coil drive device of electromagnetic contactor includes current detector and drive controller. The detector, when switching control is performed on operation coils of the contactor, detects coil current flowing through the coils. The controller controls an on/off time ratio of a semiconductor switching element wherein the on/off time ratio during close circuit control becomes larger than the on/off time ratio during holding control. Power supply voltage is switchingly applied to the coils at the on/off time ratio. The controller includes a determination locus setter and a close circuit state determiner. The setter sets a determination locus that continuously increases along a change locus of detected coil current during close circuit control. The determiner determines a contact point close circuit state by contact of a movable contact to a fixed contact based on deviation between the determination locus by the setter and the detected coil current detected. |
| US10262822B2 |
Load drive apparatus
A load drive apparatus includes: a first drive element that drives a first load; a second drive element that drives a second load; a control circuit that controls the first drive element and the second drive element; a power supply circuit that supplies electric power; and a failsafe circuit that includes an abnormality detection portion detecting whether an abnormality occurs in at least one of the control circuit and the power supply circuit, the failsafe circuit controlling the first drive element and the second drive element to drive the first load and the second load when the abnormality detection portion has detected that an abnormality occurs in at least one of the control circuit and the power supply circuit and also when the load drive apparatus receives at least one of a command directing a drive of the first load and a command directing a drive of the second load. |
| US10262821B2 |
Environmentally protected switch for activating an electronic device when submersed in a conducting fluid
An environmentally protected switch and water activated device using the switch is disclosed. The switch comprises an elongate housing having an open end and divided into a pair of chambers and into which a probe is inserted. When water infiltrates the housing an electrical circuit is completed between the two probes. There is also disclosed a lens/selector assembly comprising a selector ring encircling a lens and a wave spring which biases the selector ring into one of a number of predetermined positions around the lens. Illustratively, a magnet is placed within the selector ring a position of which can be detected by electronics within the lens. |
| US10262816B2 |
Key input apparatus sensing touch and pressure and electronic apparatus having the same
According to one embodiment, there is provided an input apparatus comprising a key that is displaceable along a direction; a first detecting circuit that comprises an electrostatic capacitance sensor that detects a variation of an electrostatic capacitance caused by a contact or a proximity of a pressing body with the key; and a second detecting circuit that comprises a first electrode, the second detecting circuit detecting an electric connection of the first electrode to a second electrode that is displaced along the direction as the key is displaced, wherein the input apparatus switches a detecting status thereof exclusively between a first detecting status and a second detecting status to each other in accordance with a displacement variation of the key. |
| US10262813B2 |
Circuit breaker containing a gas escape hood with sealable opening
A medium-, high-, or very high-voltage circuit breaker (10), comprising at least one arc-control chamber (12) and an outer casing (14) in which the arc-control chamber (12) is arranged. In the invention, the circuit breaker includes sealing ring (52) for sealing an opening (50) in a discharge cap (40) of the arc-control chamber (12), the ring (52) being movable between a sealing position and a retracted position in which they allow the gas to pass, the circuit breaker being configured in such a manner that in the closed position, the sealing ring (52) are in their retracted position, and in such a manner that passage from the retracted position to the sealing position takes place during an operation of opening the circuit breaker. |
| US10262812B2 |
Lockout device and method for its use
A lockout device for preventing an electrical switch from being turned either ON or OFF while the lockout device is attached to the switch. The present lockout device can be capable of quick and easy attachment to the switch and can be secured to the switch with a padlock or similar locking device. The present lockout device can also have a peg for attaching a lockout tag, which prevents the tag from being removed while the lockout device is connected to a switch. |
| US10262811B2 |
Control system for an electrical switching apparatus and related electrical switching apparatus
A control system for an electrical switching apparatus adapted to be installed in a medium voltage or high voltage electrical circuit. The control system includes at least a first module with first control means which are adapted to execute a first control logic, and a second module with second control means which are adapted to execute a second control logic; and at least one communication bus. The first control means and the second control means are adapted to be operatively connected to the at least one communication bus, and to share values of variables associated to the first control logic and to the second control logic through the at least one communication bus. |
| US10262805B2 |
Variable capacitance element
A variable capacitance element includes variable capacitance layers made of a dielectric material, paired electrodes located on both main surfaces of the variable capacitance layers opposite to each other across the variable capacitance layers, insulating elements; and at least one pair of lead-out elements. The variable capacitance layers and the insulating elements are alternately laminated to provide a laminated body. The variable capacitance layers and the paired electrodes define capacitor structures, and the lead-out elements are electrically connected at one end thereof to an electrode defining the capacitor structures, penetrate the insulating elements, and are electrically connected at the other end to external electrodes or other electrical elements. |
| US10262802B2 |
Capacitor and method for manufacturing same
A capacitor includes a capacitor element having internal electrodes and dielectric layers, the internal electrodes and the dielectric layers being alternately laminated; a first electrode layer formed on an edge surface of the capacitor element and connected to an internal electrode of the internal electrodes; and a second electrode layer formed into a mesh shape or a dot shape on the first electrode layer. |
| US10262801B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes an electronic component body including a laminate and an external electrode, and a pair of metal terminals that are joined by a joining material. The pair of metal terminals includes a terminal joint portion, an extended portion and a mounting portion. The external electrode is provided only on both end surfaces of the laminate, and includes first and second external electrodes. The first external electrode and the second external electrode each include a saddle portion with a thickness larger than the thickness of a center portion of each end surface in the periphery of the first end surface and the second end surface of the laminate, respectively. |
| US10262800B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
In an embodiment, one length-direction end of each first internal electrode layer 111a of the capacitor body 110 is connected, via the conductive part 114a of the first relay layer 114 connected over a connection width equivalent to the width of each first internal electrode layer 111a, to the first external electrode 120 provided on one height-direction face of the capacitor body 110; also, the other length-direction end of each second internal electrode layer 111b is connected, via the conductive part 115a of the second relay layer 115 connected over a connection width equivalent to the width of each second internal electrode layer 111b, to the second external electrode 130 provided on one height-direction face of the capacitor body 110. |
| US10262798B2 |
Multilayer electronic component
In an embodiment of a multilayer electronic component, one main electrode part 12a of the first external electrode 12 present on one height-direction face of the capacitor body 11 of the multilayer capacitor is partially opposed to the other main electrode part 13a of the second external electrode 13 present on the other height-direction face, while one main electrode part 13a of the second external electrode 13 present on one height-direction face of the capacitor body 11 is partially opposed to the other main electrode part 12a of the first external electrode 12 present on the other height-direction face of the capacitor body 11, and margin areas MR1 to MR4 of roughly belt shape exist between each of the opposing areas OR and each of the edges on both height-direction faces of the capacitor body 11. |
| US10262794B2 |
Winding method
A method includes bending back a wire fed to a first end side of a magnetic pole in a winding position by guiding the wire from a first end side to a second end side of a multi-pole armature, so that a first extending portion, a second extending portion, and an arc portion are formed. The first extending portion and the second extending portion are continuous via the arc portion. The first extending portion and the second extending portion are parallel to each other. The first extending portion and second extending portion are simultaneously inserted into slots on both sides of one or more of the magnetic poles in the winding position by moving the wire in a radial direction of the multi-pole armature. The slots are parallel to each other. The bending back the wire step and the simultaneous insertion step are performed repeatedly. |
| US10262791B2 |
Arrangement of single phase transformers
A configuration for replacing a multi-phase transformer includes a plurality of single phase transformers each having a housing which is filled with an insulating fluid and in which a core with a high-voltage winding and a low-voltage winding is disposed. The configuration can be set up flexibly and also connected easily and conveniently to a supply network or consumer network by providing each housing with at least one cable connection and connecting each cable connection through a cable line to an outdoor connection which is air insulated, constructed for outdoor use and set up separately from the housing. |
| US10262789B2 |
Transformer and switched-mode power supply apparatus
A transformer is capable of suppressing the output voltage difference, and a switched-mode power supply apparatus uses the transformer. A transformer has a core; a primary winding provided in the core; a gap provided in the core at a location where the primary winding is provided; and at least two secondary windings, provided in the core and spaced apart from both sides of the primary winding as well as the gap at an equal distance in a winding axis direction of the primary winding. A switched-mode power supply apparatus has the transformer; a switching element connected to the primary winding of the transformer; and a control circuit configured to control the switching element. |
| US10262788B2 |
Method to enable standard alternating current (AC)/direct current (DC) power adapters to operate in high magnetic fields
A power supply (10) and corresponding method (200) supply power in high external magnetic fields. A power converter system (12) converts input power to output power using one or more electromagnetic components (18). One or more ferrous bands (16) encircle the electromagnetic components (18) and shield the electromagnetic components (18) from the high external magnetic fields. |
| US10262787B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes a conducting wire and a terminal electrode. The terminal electrode includes a first terminal piece and a second terminal piece that face and overlap each other with the conducting wire interposed therebetween. The first terminal piece and the second terminal piece are coupled to one another with a coupling portion and are integrated in a welded ball at a position different from a position of the coupling portion. An end portion of the conducting wire is in the welded ball. |
| US10262784B2 |
Ceramic insulated transformer
A transformer includes a ceramic housing, a primary winding disposed within the housing, a secondary winding disposed outside the winding, and a core extending through a first aperture in the housing. The housing includes a first portion and a second portion. Each of the first and second portions include a planar structure having a first housing aperture, and a plurality of sidewalls extending perpendicular to the planar structure along a plurality of edges of the planar structure. The first and second portions interface with one another when the ceramic housing is assembled such that the sidewalls of the first and second portions overlap with one another. |
| US10262782B1 |
Integrated inductor structure
An 8-shaped integrated inductor includes a first terminal; a second terminal; a third terminal; a bridging structure that includes a first metal segment and a second metal segment, the first metal segment and the second metal segment being disposed in different layers of a semiconductor structure and partially overlapping; a first sensing unit employing the first terminal and the third terminal as its two terminals and including the first metal segment; and a second sensing unit employing the second terminal and the third terminal as its two terminals and including the second metal segment and a third metal segment. The third metal segment is disposed at a metal layer different from the second metal segment and conductively connecting other metal segments of the second sensing unit without crossing the metal segments of the first sensing unit. |
| US10262781B2 |
Superconducting wire and method for manufacturing the same
Included are: a first superconducting wire rod having a first front surface, and a first back surface, and also having a first superconducting layer, and first reinforcing layers; a second superconducting wire rod having a second front surface, and a second back surface, and also having a second superconducting layer, and second reinforcing layers; and a connection member joining the first superconducting wire rod to the second superconducting wire rod. The first superconducting wire rod has a first edge portion, and the second superconducting wire rod has a second edge portion. The first front surface located at the first edge portion is joined by the connection member to the second front surface located at other than the second edge portion, and the second front surface located at the second edge portion is joined by the connection member to the first front surface located at other than the first edge portion. |
| US10262778B2 |
Multilayer component and process for producing a multilayer component
A multilayer component and a mathod for producing a multilayer component are disclosed. In an embodiment the multilayer component includes a ceramic main element being a varistor ceramic and at least one metal structure, wherein the metal structure is cosintered, and wherein the main element is doped with a material of the metal structure in such a way that a diffusion of the material from the metal structure into the main element during a sintering operation is reduced. |
| US10262774B2 |
Insulated electric cable
An insulated electric cable 10 has a core member 1 formed by stranding a plurality of core wires 4, each of the core wires 4 including a conductor 5 and an insulating layer 6 covering the conductor 5, an inner sheath 7 covering the core member 1, an outer sheath 8 covering the inner sheath 7, and a paper tape 2 disposed between the core member 1 and the inner sheath 7 in a state that it is wrapped around the core member 1, in which the outer sheath 8 is formed by a flame-retardant polyurethane resin, and a cross-sectional area of each of conductors 5 is within 0.18-3.0 mm2. |
| US10262773B2 |
Corrosion protection of buried metallic conductors
A method for protecting a conductive metal from corrosion, including coating the conductive metal with a water impermeable carbonaceous conductive material to protect the conductive metal from corrosion. |
| US10262768B2 |
Power cable for cable deployed electric submersible pumping system
A technique facilitates construction and operation of a power cable which may be used to deploy an electric submersible pumping system downhole into a wellbore. The power cable is constructed to provide structural support of the electric submersible pumping system while also providing electric power to the electric submersible pumping system when located downhole in the wellbore. The power cable has at least one conductor and a plurality of layers selected and arranged to ensure long-term support and delivery of electrical power in the relatively harsh downhole environment. |
| US10262765B2 |
Method and facility for incinerating, melting and vitrifying organic and metal waste
The method according to the invention enables a facility having a rather reduced dimension, for incinerating to be used, melting and vitrifying mixed waste (30) introduced into a reactor (10), by means of a basket (18) in turn passing through an air lock (12). Plasma torches (14) burn all waste (30) contained in the basket (18). The waste is then lowered in a melting bath of a furnace (20) with an inductor (24) including a crucible-forming container (23). A combustion gas treatment train completes the facility.The furnace (20) can be dismantled, after a series of treatments of several baskets (18) of waste (30) for disassembling the crucible-forming container (23) from the furnace (20).Application in treating different radiologically contaminated and/or toxic mixed waste. |
| US10262764B2 |
Advanced non-toxic Red Mud based Nano gel type functional radiation shielding materials and the process thereof
The conventional radiation shielding materials are made using lead, barite and hematite ore which are either toxic, costly and are non-replinshable possessing limited functionality. In view of above, we develop a novel process for making advanced non-toxic Red Mud based functional radiation shielding materials utilizing appropriate novel matrixes like Advanced geopolymer, geopolymeric-polymeric matrix, putty, cement and phosphatic based matrix and are also compatible with conventional matrixes. The appropriate physico-chemical consolidation and or densification of red mud using advanced or conventional matrix helps in obtaining functional radiation shielding material by simultaneous and synergistic chemical reactions among various mineralogical and chemical compounds of red mud with complementary various chemical compounds present in citrus fruit peel waste especially citric acid to form nano gel material to obtain the fine “tailored shielding powder”. The developed material has broad application spectrum from diagnostic radiation installations like diagnostic X-ray to CT scanner room. |
| US10262763B2 |
Systems, devices, and/or methods for managing radiation shielding
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system comprising a substantially transparent radiation shield, which comprises transparent ammonium metatungstate. The transparent ammonium metatungstate can have a density of greater than 1.5 gram/(cubic centimeter). The substantially transparent radiation shield can be installed on tanks and/or pressure vessels, used as a transparent radiation shield in medical shielding/devices, used as windows in glove boxes, and any application where effective radiation shielding is needed with transparency. The substantially transparent radiation shield can be used in one or more articles worn by a human. |
| US10262762B2 |
Apparatus for generating first vascular data having a tree structure based on anatomical data and generating second vascular data without relying on the anatomical data
In a vascular data generation apparatus, a processor generates first vascular data based on anatomical statistics data about vessels of an organ. This first vascular data has a tree structure representing a vascular network in the organ. The processor further generates second vascular data representing a plurality of vessels that connect a plurality of nodes in a geometric model of the organ with the vascular network represented by the first vascular data. |
| US10262760B2 |
System and method of interactive navigation of subject's treatment
System and method for monitoring a subject's condition. The system comprises a data input utility for receiving medical data indicative of a first condition of a subject; a communication utility for obtaining reference data comprising at least two predefined multi-dimensional functions and a multi-parameter space within said functions corresponding to a normal condition of a subject; a processing utility for processing said medical data of a subject by identifying a plurality of individual medical parameters describing said at least two predefined multi-dimensional functions, analyzing the identified plurality of individual parameters and determining a relation between the parameters and said multi-parameter space, for determining a treatment plan for navigating the subject from said first condition to a second subject condition in which values of said plurality of medical parameters define a parametric space matching the multi-parameter space of the normal condition; and an output utility for outputting said treatment plan. |
| US10262759B2 |
Personal health operating system
A method for facilitating a personal health operating system (PHOS) is provided in one example embodiment and includes extracting data into a mobile device that includes a portable health virtual machine executing the PHOS using a processor couples to a memory element, generating an N-gram dataset comprising data indicative and predictive of fitness of an individual, generating, in the PHOS, an N-gram from the N-gram dataset from the data according to a data structure indicative and predictive of fitness of an individual, the fitness including a numerical index representing a composite effect of various health conditions of the individual including interdependencies of the health conditions, generating an N-gram based on the N-gram dataset and calculating the individual's fitness using the N-gram. |
| US10262749B2 |
Shift register unit and driving method, shift register, gate driving circuit and display device
A shift register unit comprises a pull-up module, a clock signal input terminal, a storage module, a signal output terminal, a control voltage signal input terminal and a current leakage suppression module. An output terminal of the current leakage suppression module is connected to a control terminal of the pull-up module A first input terminal of the current leakage suppression module is connected to the control voltage signal input terminal A second input terminal of the current leakage suppression module is connected to the other end of the storage module. A driving method uses a shift register unit, a shift register, a gate driving circuit, and a display device. |
| US10262747B2 |
Method to reduce program disturbs in non-volatile memory cells
A non-volatile memory that includes a shared source line configuration and methods of operating the same to reduce disturbs is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes coupling a first positive high voltage to a first global wordline in a first row of an array of memory cells, and coupling a second negative high voltage (VNEG) to a first bitline in a first column of the array to apply a bias to a non-volatile memory transistor in a selected memory cell to program the selected memory cell. A margin voltage having a magnitude less than VNEG is coupled to a second global wordline in a second row of the array, and an inhibit voltage coupled to a second bitline in a second column of the array. |
| US10262745B2 |
Apparatuses and methods using dummy cells programmed to different states
Apparatuses and methods for reducing capacitive loading are described. One apparatus includes a first memory string including first and second dummy memory cells, a second memory string including third and fourth dummy memory cells, and a control unit configured to provide first and second control signals to activate the first and second dummy memory cells of the first memory string and to further deactivate at least one of the third and fourth dummy memory cell of the second memory string. |
| US10262744B2 |
Layer-based memory controller optimizations for three dimensional memory constructs
Disclosed are techniques for selecting one or more reference voltages for performing one or more operations on a memory cell based on a determined layer of a three-dimensional memory construct to which the memory cell belongs. The one or more operations can include read or write operations. The memory cell can be a flash memory cell. |
| US10262742B2 |
Memory protection circuit and liquid crystal display including same
Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including: a liquid crystal display panel; a memory for storing driving information and image data modulation information, and supplying the stored driving information and image data modulation information to a timing controller; a memory protection circuit for enhancing a write protection function of the memory, the memory protection circuit including a pull-up resistor for pulling up a write protection terminal of the memory to a power voltage, and a pad connected to the write protecting terminal and applying a low voltage to the write protection terminal; and a timing controller for reading the data stored in the memory to output various control signals for driving the liquid crystal display panel. |
| US10262740B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes memory cell transistors, a word line connected to the plurality of memory cell transistors, bit lines that are respectively connected to the memory cell transistors, and a control circuit. The control circuit carries out a write operation on the memory cell transistors connected to the word line by performing, in sequence, a first loop of operations, including a first program operation followed by at least one verification operation, that are carried out until all memory cell transistors targeted by the first program operation have passed the at least one verification operation, a second loop of operations, including a second program operation and no verification operation, that are carried out for a fixed number of loops and a third loop of operations, including a third program operation and no verification operation, that are carried out for a fixed number of loops. |
| US10262734B2 |
Memory cells, memory cell programming methods, memory cell reading methods, memory cell operating methods, and memory devices
Embodiments disclosed include memory cell operating methods, memory cell programming methods, memory cell reading methods, memory cells, and memory devices. In one embodiment, a memory cell includes a wordline, a first bitline, a second bitline, and a memory element. The memory element is electrically connected to the wordline and selectively electrically connected to the first bitline and the second bitline. The memory element stores information via a resistive state of the memory element. The memory cell is configured to convey the resistive state of the memory element via either a first current flowing from the first bitline through the memory element to the wordline or a second current flowing from the wordline through the memory element to the second bitline. |
| US10262731B2 |
Device and method for forming resistive random access memory cell
A device includes a first word line, a resistive random access memory (RRAM) cell, a second word line, and a charge pump circuit. The RRAM cell is coupled to the first word line and is not formed. The charge pump circuit is coupled to the second word line and is configured to provide a negative voltage. Methods of forming the device are also disclosed. |
| US10262730B1 |
Multi-state and confined phase change memory with vertical cross-point structure
A non-volatile memory uses phase change memory (PCM) cells in a three dimensional vertical cross-point structure, in which multiple layers of word lines run in a horizontal direction and bit lines run in a vertical direction. The memory cells are located in a recessed region of the word lines and are separated from the bit line by an ovonic threshold switch. A surfactant lining of the word line recess in which the phase change memory material is placed improves stability of the resistance state of the memory cells, allowing for improved multi-state operation. |
| US10262724B2 |
Memory cell of static random access memory based on DICE structure
A memory cell of a static random access memory based on DICE structure, which includes a redundant information latch circuit and a redundant bit selection circuit. The redundant information latch circuit is formed by four MOS transistors and includes four data storage nodes, the redundant bit selection circuit is formed by four MOS transistors M0, M1, M2 and M3, with their drains connected to the four data storage nodes X0, X1, X2 and X3. Sources of M0 and M2 are connected to each other and are connected to a bit line BL, sources of M1 and M3 are connected to each other and are connected to a bit line BLB; and gates of the four MOS transistors are connected to each other and are connected to a word line WL. |
| US10262717B2 |
DRAM adjacent row disturb mitigation
The invention pertains to mitigation of row hammer attacks in DRAM integrated circuits. Apparatus and methods are disclosed for an embedded target row refresh (TRR) solution with modest overhead. In operation it is nearly transparent to the user. Except for enablement via the mode register and an increase in the average refresh rate on the order of half of one percent, no further user action is required. The stream of row addresses accompanying ACTIVE commands is monitored and filtered to only track addresses that occur at a dangerous rate and reject addresses that occur at less than a dangerous rate. |
| US10262712B2 |
Memory device with a control circuit to control data reads
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a memory area; and a control circuit, in response to a first command, configured to read out data from the memory area without outputting the data to a data line, subsequently, in response to a second command, configured to output the data to the data line, if the first command is not received after receiving an active command, in response to the second command, configured to output the data read out from the memory area to the data line. |
| US10262703B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell, a second memory cell, a first word line electrically coupled to the first memory cell, a second word line electrically coupled to the second memory cell, and a control circuit configured to supply voltages to the first word line and the second word line. In a read, the control circuit applies a first voltage to the first word line and a second voltage to the second word line, applies, after applying the first voltage to the first word line and the second voltage to the second word line, a third voltage lower than the first voltage and the second voltage to the second word line, and applies, after applying the third voltage to the second word line, the third voltage to the first word line. |
| US10262702B2 |
System for implementation of a hash table
The system contains at least one basic block formed by a first multiplexer having an output is connected to a flag register memory, implemented as a LUT table. An output of a circuit for write permit to the memory is connected to the input of the write signal to the memory, which is further equipped with the clock signal input and the data input. The data output from the memory of each basic block is connected to a masking block relevant for the given basic block. The outputs of these masking blocks are connected to the inputs of the second multiplexer, while its output is the output of the system of flags. The input of the control signal for writing to the memory of each basic block is connected to the output of the demultiplexer and to the second input of the masking block for the given basic block. |
| US10262701B2 |
Data transfer between subarrays in memory
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for data transfer between subarrays in memory. An example may include a first subarray of memory cells and a second subarray of memory cells, wherein a first portion of memory cells of the first subarray and a first portion of memory cells of the second subarray are coupled to a first sensing circuitry stripe. A third subarray of memory cells can include a first portion of memory cells coupled to a second sensing circuitry stripe. A second portion of memory cells of the second subarray and a second portion of memory cells of the third subarray can be coupled to a third sensing circuitry stripe. A particular row of the second array can include memory cells from the first portion of memory cells in the second array coupled to memory cells from the second portion of memory cells in the second array. |
| US10262699B2 |
Memory device for performing internal process and operating method thereof
A memory device includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cell groups with a corresponding plurality of independent channels, and the device and an operating method thereof perform an internal data processing operation for the memory cell groups. The memory device includes an internal command generator configured to generate one or more internal commands in order to perform an internal data processing operation in response to a reception of a command, and an internal common bus for a common internal processing channel which is disposed to be shared by the plurality of memory cell groups and configured to form a transmission path of data between the plurality of memory cell groups when the internal data processing operation is performed. |
| US10262698B2 |
Intermittent operation of compartmented pneumatics for sealed data storage system
A data storage system includes multiple hermetically-sealed enclosures containing a lighter-than air gas, multiple data storage devices housed in each enclosure and containing the lighter-than-air gas, a tray pneumatic control system each corresponding to and pneumatically coupled to a corresponding hermetically-sealed enclosure, and a rack pneumatic control system pneumatically coupled to each tray pneumatic control system. The tray pneumatic control system may include a tray valve operable in a first way to provide a vacuum in a space between first and second sealing members of the enclosure, and operable in a second way to provide the lighter-than-air gas to the enclosure. The rack pneumatic control system may include a vacuum source operable to provide a vacuum to each tray valve and a lighter-than-air gas source operable to provide the lighter-than-air gas to each tray valve. |
| US10262687B1 |
Disc grabbing device for grabbing a plurality of discs and sequentially unloading the plurality of discs
A disc grabbing device including a support body, a drive shaft, multiple first planetary gears, a center gear, multiple second planetary gears and a driver is provided. The support body includes a plate and a center column. When the disc grabbing device grabs the discs, the center column is located in the center holes of the discs. The drive shaft is rotatably disposed on the plate. The first planetary gears are respectively engaged with the drive shaft and connected to multiple first levers for driving the first levers to rotate. The second planetary gears are respectively engaged with the center gear and connected to multiple second levers for driving the second levers to rotate. The driver concurrently drives the drive shaft and the center gear to rotate the first planetary gears and the second planetary gears synchronically and make the first levers and the second levers rotate synchronically. |
| US10262686B2 |
System and method for write protecting portions of magnetic tape storage media
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium includes a tape having a plurality of partitions configured for storing data, and a plurality of read-only partition identifiers, each read-only partition identifier associated with one of the plurality of partitions and readable by a tape drive having a processor and memory for writing and reading tape data. Each read-only partition identifier selectively designates a corresponding one of the partitions as read-only to prevent data from being written to the designated read-only partition by the tape drive. |
| US10262684B2 |
Tape head formed with high accuracy tape bearing surface length definition process
In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate, a thin film layer on the substrate having transducers therein, and a portion of a slot extending along the substrate, the portion of the slot defining a skiving edge. A length of a tape bearing surface between the thin film layer and the skiving edge is in a range of about 7 to about 30 microns. In another general embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate, a thin film layer on the substrate having transducers therein, and a slot extending along the substrate, the slot defining a skiving edge. A length of a tape bearing surface between the thin film layer and the skiving edge is in a range of about 7 to about 30 microns. |
| US10262683B2 |
Self-aligned hybrid Au—Rh near field transducer for enhanced reliability
A near field transducer (NFT) is formed between a waveguide and main pole layer at an air bearing surface (ABS). The NFT includes a resonator body layer made of Au, for example, with a front side at a first plane that is recessed a first distance from the ABS and a back side that is at a second plane formed parallel to the ABS and first plane. The NFT also has a peg layer with a rectangular peg portion between the ABS and first plane, and a larger back portion between the first and second planes that overlays directly above the resonator body layer. The peg layer is preferably made of Rh to improve mechanical stability of the NFT without significantly degrading overall optical efficiency of the NFT. A blocker may be formed between the ABS and waveguide to prevent light not coupled to the NFT from reaching the ABS. |
| US10262679B2 |
Method and system for a headset with profanity filter
A gaming headset receives a plurality of audio channels comprising game audio channels and a chat audio channel during play of a particular game. The gaming headset monitors the received audio channels for predefined words that are associated with particular sounds in a data structure, and in response to detecting predefined words, filters out at least a portion of the detected predefined words from the received plurality of audio channels. The monitoring compares sounds on the received audio channels with the particular sounds in the data structure and also performs signal analysis on the audio channels during game play to detect the occurrence of the predefined words. The filtering mutes one or more of the plurality of audio channels so that the detected occurrence of the one of the predefined words is not output via speakers of the gaming headset. |
| US10262670B2 |
Method for decoding a higher order ambisonics (HOA) representation of a sound or soundfield
When compressing 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 normalisation 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)┐. |
| US10262668B2 |
Decoding audio bitstreams with enhanced spectral band replication metadata in at least one fill element
Embodiments relate to an audio processing unit that includes a buffer, bitstream payload deformatter, and a decoding subsystem. The buffer stores at least one block of an encoded audio bitstream. The block includes a fill element that begins with an identifier followed by fill data. The fill data includes at least one flag identifying whether enhanced spectral band replication (eSBR) processing is to be performed on audio content of the block. A corresponding method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is also provided. |
| US10262664B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding digital data sets with reduced amount of data to be stored for error approximation
When combining digital data sets in the time domain into a combined digital data set a subset of samples of each digital data set is adjusted to enable unraveling the data when decoding. To enable correction during decoding of an error introduced by the adjustment, an error approximation is stored for each adjusted sample. A set of error approximations is created which is indexed allowing substantial reduction in size of the error approximations to be stored for the adjusted samples. Instead of creating a set of error approximations for each combined digital data set one set of error approximations is created based on the errors introduced when creating multiple combined digital data sets. |
| US10262663B2 |
Method and apparatus for low bit rate compression of a higher order ambisonics HOA signal representation of a sound field
The invention is suited for improving a low bit rate compressed and decompressed Higher Order Ambisonics HOA signal representation of a sound field, wherein the decompression provides a spatially sparse decoded HOA representation and a set of indices of coefficient sequences of this representation. From reconstructed signals of the original HOA representation a number of modified phase spectra signals are created using de-correlation filters, which modified phase spectra signals are uncorrelated with the signals of said original representation. The modified phase spectra signals are mixed with each other using predetermined mixing parameters, in order to provide a replicated ambient HOA component. Finally the spatially sparse decoded HOA representation is enhanced with the replicated time domain HOA representation. |
| US10262662B2 |
Audio decoder and method for providing a decoded audio information using an error concealment based on a time domain excitation signal
An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes an error concealment configured to provide an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame following an audio frame encoded in a frequency domain representation using a time domain excitation signal. |
| US10262657B1 |
Processing spoken commands to control distributed audio outputs
A system that is capable of controlling multiple entertainment systems and/or speakers using voice commands. The system receives voice commands and may determine audio sources and speakers indicated by the voice commands. The system may generate audio data from the audio sources and may send the audio data to the speakers using multiple interfaces. For example, the system may send the audio data directly to the speakers using a network address, may send the audio data to the speakers via a voice-enabled device or may send the audio data to the speakers via a speaker controller. The system may generate output zones including multiple speakers and may associate input devices with speakers within the output zones. For example, the system may receive a voice command from an input device in an output zone and may reduce output audio generated by speakers in the output zone. |
| US10262649B1 |
Noise cancellation device and noise cancellation method
A noise cancellation device includes a voice receiving module, a distance measuring module, a noise cancellation module and a speaker module. The voice receiving module is configured to receive a noise. The distance measuring module is configured to send a distance measuring signal to an object, and calculate distance information of the object according to a reflected distance measuring signal reflected by the object. The noise cancellation module is connected to the voice receiving module and the distance measuring module, and is configured to generate a reverse phase signal of the noise according to the noise. The speaker module is connected to the noise cancellation module, and is configured to generate an anti-noise according the reverse phase signal, and sound the anti-noise according to the distance information. |
| US10262637B1 |
Electronic keyboard alignment tool and method of use
A musical instrument keyboard alignment tool comprises a central member having defined therein a slot dimensioned to receive a key stop member of an electronic musical instrument keyboard, at least one handle extending from the central member, and an elongate foot extending from the central member. A distance between the bottom of the slot to the bottom surface of the foot corresponds to a calibration distance from the bottom of a key stop to a reference portion of the key bed of a keyboard. The described tool and methods of use significantly reduces the time required to perform a complete key stop alignment of an electronic musical instrument keyboard. |
| US10262636B2 |
Techniques for magnetically mounting a percussion instrument to a cymbal and related systems and methods
According to some aspects, a cymbal system is provided comprising a cymbal, and a percussion instrument magnetically coupled to the cymbal, said magnetic coupling between the percussion instrument and the cymbal provided at least in part by at least one first magnetic component disposed on a lower side of the cymbal, and at least one second magnetic component disposed on an upper side of the cymbal and attached to the percussion instrument, the at least one first magnetic component and at least one second magnetic component being coupled to the cymbal, at least in part, by a magnetic force of attraction between the at least one first magnetic component and the at least one second magnetic component that acts through the cymbal. |
| US10262633B2 |
String instrument having unitary neck support and fingerboard brace
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a string instrument, such as a guitar, having a neck support-fingerboard brace unit. The neck support-fingerboard brace unit is formed as a unitary unit or formed by fixedly attaching a neck support to a fingerboard brace before attaching the fingerboard brace to a guitar top. The solid connection between the neck support and the fingerboard brace allows the fingerboard brace, which rests on a guitar side, to provide support to the guitar neck, thus, reducing deformation in the guitar neck and the fret board. |
| US10262632B2 |
Providing output surfaces for display in data processing systems
A data processing system 1 comprises a display controller operable to provide to a display a compressed version of an output surface to be displayed that has been compressed using a lossy compression scheme, and one or more processing stages operable to provide a surface or surfaces that are to be used when forming an output surface to be displayed. At least one of the one or more processing stages is operable to output one or more regions of the surface or surfaces that it provides to be used when forming an output surface to be displayed in a compressed form using a lossy compression scheme. |
| US10262631B1 |
Large scale highly detailed model review using augmented reality
In an example embodiment, a technique is provided for model review using augmented reality. An augmented reality device obtains tiles from a remote computing device for an overview resolution, and augments the model at the overview resolution and an overview view size into a physical environment at a data location. The augmented reality device displays the model augmented into the physical environment to a user disposed at a view location. In response to input requesting a change to the new resolution, the augmented reality device obtains additional tiles from the remote computing device for the new resolution, augments the model at the new resolution and a new view size into the physical environment, and displays the model augmented into the physical environment to the user disposed at the view location. In response to input that requests navigation of the model, the augmented reality device changes at least one of the data location or the view location. The display of the model may be synchronized with a second user of a second augmented reality device disposed at a second view location. |
| US10262630B2 |
Information processing apparatus and control method
Provided is an information processing apparatus, including: a line-of-sight detection unit configured to detect lines of sight of a plurality of users with respect to presentation information; and an area determination unit configured to determine, on the basis of the detected lines of sight of the plurality of users, a shared area that is visually recognized by the plurality of users to share information and a confidential area that is not visually recognized by another user to keep information of each user confidential. |
| US10262626B2 |
Electronic interactive system and setting method thereof
An electronic interactive system and a setting method thereof. The electronic interactive system includes a wireless transmission unit respectively connected with an electronic terminal device and an electronic whiteboard, where the wireless transmission unit is configured to transmit data signals from the electronic terminal device to the electronic whiteboard in a wireless form and transmit touch signals from the electronic whiteboard to the electronic terminal device in the wireless form. |
| US10262624B2 |
Separating a compressed stream into multiple streams
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a display device that includes a controller that is communicatively coupled between a display source and source drivers. The controller and source drivers include respective decompression engines that can decompress the compressed data received from the display source. Instead of sending all of the compressed data to the source drivers, the controller evaluates the uncompressed data and identifies what portion of the compressed data corresponds to each of the source drivers. Moreover, the controller may determine a decompression engine state that corresponds to each portion of the compressed data. The saved engine state is transmitted to the source drivers which then initialize their decompression engines using the engine states. |
| US10262617B2 |
Gate driving circuit and driving method thereof, display substrate, and display device
The present invention is related to a gate driving circuit for a display device. The gate driving circuit may comprise x stages of driving shift register units connected in series. Each of the driving shift register units may comprise an input terminal, an output terminal, and a reset terminal. The input terminal may comprise a first input port and a second input port. A row of pixel units driven by the driving shift register unit of the m-th stage may have the same polarity distribution as a row of pixel units driven by the driving shift register unit of the (m−N)-th stage. N is an integer greater than 1. m is an integer and N+1 |
| US10262616B2 |
Display device and drive method therefor
A still row discrimination unit 15 discriminates whether data of one row included in a video signal D1 is a still row. A scanning line drive circuit 13 applies a non-selection voltage to scanning lines GL1 to GLm corresponding to the still row. A data line drive circuit 14 does not apply data voltages to data lines SL1 to SLn when discriminated as the still row. A similar structure may be applied to a display device in which pixel circuits are divided into a plurality of blocks in a row direction and the pixel circuits in a same block among the pixel circuits in each row are connected to each scanning line. With this, it is possible to provide a display device which can reduce power consumption even when a part of a display image changes. |
| US10262614B2 |
Scan driving circuit, driving circuit and display device
The present disclosure provides a scan driving circuit for driving an Nth-stage scanning line including: a pull-up control module for receiving a cascade signal of an upper stage and generating a scan level signal of the Nth-stage scanning line based on the cascade signal of the upper stage; a pull-up module for pulling down the scanning signal of the Nth-stage scanning line when the first clock signal is low according to the scan level signal and the first clock signal; the pull-up control module includes a first control unit and a second control unit, the control terminal of the second control unit inputs a second clock signal for controlling the scan level signal to become smaller when the second clock signal is at a high level. The present disclosure can prevent the waveform of the gate from appearing spikes, and thus the waveform of the gate is output normally. |
| US10262613B2 |
Gate driver on array circuit and LCD panel
The present disclosure provides a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit. A low level signal source is used to output a low level signal, a first high level signal source is used to output a first high level signal, and the second high level signal source is used to output the second high level signal. A cascade signal latch module is used to latch a cascade signal of a current grade. A gate driving signal generating module generates a preparation gate driving signal of the current grade. A gate driving signal outputting module is used to output a gate driving signal of the current grade. |
| US10262612B2 |
Scan compensation method and scan compensation circuit of gate driver
The present disclosure provides a scan compensation method and a scan compensation circuit of a gate driver. The scan compensation method comprises: when the gate driver switching from first scanning mode to second scanning mode or from second scanning mode to first scanning mode, performing a first operation to a clock signal and a first compensation signal of the gate driver, and performing a second operation to the obtained signals and a second compensation signal, wherein the first scanning mode is a sequential scan mode, the second scanning mode is non-sequential scan mode. |
| US10262609B2 |
Scanning driving circuit with pull-down maintain module and liquid crystal display apparatus with the scanning driving circuit
The disclosure discloses a scanning driving circuit and a liquid crystal display apparatus, the scanning driving circuit including a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit, each of the first driving circuit and the second driving circuit including a number of driving units in cascade connections, and each of the driving units including: a forward and reverse scanning module to output a forward scanning signal, a reverse scanning signal and an optional signal; a pull-down maintain module connected to the forward and reverse scanning module and to receive the optional signal from the forward and reverse scanning module and output a pull down signal according to the optional signal; a control module connected to the forward and reverse scanning module and the pull-down maintain module; a reset module connected to the pull-down maintain module and the control module to reset the electrical potential of the scanning line. |
| US10262606B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a pair of substrates including a display area in which pixels are arranged, pixel electrodes and memories provided in the pixels, signal lines supplied with digital signals, switching elements connecting the memories and the signal lines, scanning lines supplied with scanning signals, a first driver unit, and a second driver unit. The first driver unit is provided in a peripheral area around the display area, and supplies the digital signal to the signal line. The second driver unit is provided in the peripheral area, and supplies the scanning signal to the scanning line. In the display device, at least a part of the first driver unit is provided between the display area and the second driver unit. |
| US10262604B2 |
Control device, display device, and control method for display device
A host control section (30) is a control device for a display device (1). The host control section (30) includes an image determining section (35) for calculating a density of pixels, which have intermediate grayscale levels (i.e., grayscale levels of a first range), among a plurality of pixels in an image; and a driving changing section (36) for changing a refresh rate of the display device (1) in accordance with the density which has been calculated. |
| US10262602B2 |
Array substrate having shift register unit and display device
An array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate (01) comprises a gate electrode driving circuit (10), the gate electrode driving circuit (10) includes at least two stages of shift register units (SR1-SRn), and each stage of the shift register units (SR1-SRn) is connected with a row of gate lines (Gate1-Gaten). The shift register units (SR1-SRn) include driving modules (D1-Dn) and logical modules (L1-Ln); the driving modules (D1-Dn) include a portion located in a display region (100) of the array substrate. The array substrate can solve a problem that a larger size of a driving TFT in a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit is not conducive to a narrow frame design trend of a display panel. |
| US10262593B2 |
Light emitting drive circuit and organic light emitting display
The present disclosure provides a light emitting drive circuit and an organic light emitting display. The circuit includes: the reset memory module for resetting the driving module and for generating and storing a threshold offset voltage corresponding to the driving module; the driving module is used for generating a light emission drive voltage in a light emission phase in accordance with a power supply positive voltage, a stored threshold compensation voltage, and a light emission control signal; the light emitting module is configured to emit light, and the light emission driving voltage is a difference between the power supply positive voltage and the data voltage. The driving voltage (or drive current) of the light emission is independent of the threshold voltage for driving the thin film transistor. This eliminates the problem that the threshold voltage drift of the driving thin film transistor causes the screen display to be poor. |
| US10262591B2 |
Circuit for driving amole pixel
A circuit for driving an AMOLED pixel is disclosed. The circuit includes: a first transistor, a second transistor, and a grayscale storage capacitor, wherein a connecting path is arranged between an input end of a data line and an input end of a scanning line, by which an afterimage is eliminated when an AMOLED display device is turned off in a predetermined turned-off sequence of external control signals and voltages on each portion of the circuit. |
| US10262590B2 |
Active matrix substrate and display panel
An array substrate includes pixels PX, source wires, a first column circuit portion connected to the source wires, first column connection wires connected to the first column circuit portion, a second column circuit portion, panel-side input terminal portions, second column connection wires, and diagonally arrayed circuit portions. The second column circuit portion includes unit circuits connected to the first column connection wires. Some of the panel-side input terminal portions are displaced in the row direction with respect to the corresponding unit circuits. The second column connection wires include second diagonally extending portions extending from the unit circuits to the panel-side input terminal portions. The diagonally arrayed circuit portions include the unit circuits disposed such that the closer to the middle of the second circuit portion with respect to the row direction, the closer to the first column circuit portion with respect to the column direction. |
| US10262588B2 |
Pixel, display device including the same, and driving method thereof
Provided are a pixel, a display device including the same, and a driving method thereof. A pixel includes: an organic light-emitting diode including an anode and a cathode, a first transistor configured to provide a driving current flowing through the organic light emission diode, a second transistor configured to provide data to a gate of the first transistor in response to a scan signal, a capacitor configured to maintain a difference between a voltage level of the data and a threshold voltage of the first transistor, and a third transistor configured to: sense a change of the threshold voltage of the first transistor in response to a sensing signal, and transfer a reference voltage to a node coupled to the anode when the sensing signal is enabled, wherein a level of the reference voltage is lower than a threshold voltage of the organic light-emitting diode. |
| US10262587B2 |
Method and system for driving an active matrix display circuit
A method and system for driving an active matrix display is provided. The system includes a drive circuit for a pixel having a light emitting device. The drive circuit includes a drive transistor for driving the light emitting device. The system includes a mechanism for adjusting the gate voltage of the drive transistor. |
| US10262584B2 |
Pixel circuit, method for driving the same, array substrate and display device
The pixel circuit comprises a driving sub-circuit, a controlling sub-circuit and a light-emitting sub-circuit. The light-emitting sub-circuit includes a first organic light-emitting element and a second organic light-emitting element. The first and second organic light-emitting elements are coupled to the driving sub-circuit respectively. The controlling sub-circuit is coupled to the driving sub-circuit so as to control the driving sub-circuit to drive the first and second organic light-emitting elements, so that at an identical display stage, one of the first and second organic light-emitting elements emits light in a forward bias state and the other does not emit light in a backward bias state, and at an adjacent display stage, the bias states are switched. |
| US10262583B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode display
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a data line disposed on a substrate and extended in a first direction, a power line disposed on the substrate and extended in the first direction, a scan signal line disposed on the substrate across the data line, an active layer formed over the substrate, wherein the active layer includes first to fourth regions, wherein the first and fourth regions are connected to each other through a connecting region, a first transistor including the active layer formed between the first region and the second region, a second transistor including the active layer formed between the third region and the fourth region, and wherein the active layer is extended from the first region, the organic light emitting diode is electrically coupled to the first transistor, and a storage capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode formed over the first electrode, wherein the second electrode overlaps with at least of an area of the first electrode. The second electrode is extended to the connecting region and disposed between the active layer and a line extended in the first direction in the connecting area. |
| US10262579B2 |
Drive system and drive method of liquid crystal display
There provides a drive system for a liquid crystal display, which includes: a timing controller for generating a scanning start signal; a level shifter for boosting the generated scanning start signal and generating at least one clock signal according to the boosted scanning start signal; and a gate driver for scanning and driving gate lines according to the boosted scanning start signal and the generated clock signal. There also provides a drive method of a liquid crystal display. With the drive system and drive method of a liquid crystal display provided in the present invention, it can reduce the pins required by the timing controller and the level shifter, thus the packages of the timing controller and the level shifter get smaller, thereby reducing the package cost. |
| US10262578B2 |
Power supply circuit, circuit device, display device, and electronic apparatus
A power supply circuit includes: a regulator configured to receive a first power supply voltage and a third power supply voltage higher than the first power supply voltage and output a regulated voltage between the first power supply voltage and the third power supply voltage based on the third power supply voltage; and an output control circuit configured to select the first power supply voltage or the regulated voltage to output as a second power supply voltage. The output control circuit outputs the first power supply voltage as the second power supply voltage when the third power supply voltage is lower than a threshold voltage, whereas the output control circuit outputs the regulated voltage as the second power supply voltage when the third power supply voltage is higher than or equal to the threshold voltage. |
| US10262577B2 |
Scanning driver circuit and display device with the same
A scanning driver circuit includes N stage-connected GOA units. An Nth-stage GOA unit includes a pull-up part, a pull-up control part, a pull-down holding part, and a key pull-down part. The pull-up part is connected to an output terminal of an Nth stage gate signal. The pull-up control part is connected to the output terminal of the Nth stage gate signal. The pull-down holding part receives a first direct current voltage and a second direct current voltage. The key pull-down part connected to the Nth stage gate signal receives the first direct current voltage. The pull-down holding part is formed by a first pull-down holding circuit and a second pull-down holding circuit. The first pull-down holding circuit and the second pull-down holding circuit operate alternatively so that the output terminal of the Nth stage gate signal and the node can hold at a negative voltage level. |
| US10262576B2 |
Display device, control circuit and associated control method
A display device, a control circuit and associated control method are provided. The display device includes the control circuit and a display panel. The control circuit receives a plurality of source frames with a source frame rate. The control circuit generates a plurality of data signals and a plurality of gate signals based on the plurality of source frames. The display panel is electrically connected to the control circuit. The display panel displays the plurality of output frames according to the plurality of data signals and the plurality of gate signal. The plurality of output frames are displayed with one of a first refresh frame rate and a second refresh frame rate. The source frame rate is equivalent to the first refresh frame rate, and the source frame rate is greater than the second refresh frame rate. |
| US10262572B2 |
Gate-on-array driving unit, gate-on-array driving method, gate-on-array driving circuit, and display device
GOA driving unit includes an input end, a starting module, a control module, an output module and a gate driving signal output end. The starting module is configured to, within a starting time period, input a triggering signal from the input end into the control module under the control of a first clock signal. The control module is configured to, within an output time period, output a second clock signal to the output module. The output module is configured to output a first level to the gate driving signal output end within the starting time period, output the second clock signal to the gate driving signal output end within the output time period, and output the first level to the gate driving signal output end within a maintenance time period. The first clock signal is of a phase reverse to the second clock signal. |
| US10262570B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for driving the same
A semiconductor device includes a transistor including a first gate (front gate) and a second gate (back gate) overlapping with each other with a semiconductor film therebetween, and a display element. The transistor and the display element are electrically connected to each other. The first gate is supplied with one of 2N−k potentials. The second gate is supplied with one of 2k potentials. One of 2N−k potentials and one of 2k potentials are obtained in such a manner that N-bit digital data is divided into (N−k)-bit digital data and k-bit digital data and they are subjected to D/A conversion. At this time, the total number of gray level power supply lines used for D/A conversion is equal to the sum of 2N−k and 2k. This is smaller than 2N, which the total number of the gray level power supply lines usually needed for D/A conversion of N-bit digital data. |
| US10262568B2 |
Color temperature adjusting system of transparent display and color temperature adjusting method of transparent display
Provided are a color temperature adjusting system of a transparent display and a color temperature adjusting method of a transparent display. The display mode or the fusion mode is selected via the mode selecting module (1) of the system. The display color temperature adjusting module (2) is configured to give different color temperature adjusting results according to a mode selected by the user and the color temperature of the environment, in which the transparent display (4) is located. As the user selects the display mode, the display color temperature adjusting module (2) uses a preset fixed color temperature as the color temperature adjusting results; as the user selects the fusion mode, the display color temperature adjusting module (2) uses a color temperature consistent with the color temperature of the environment obtained by the environmental color temperature detecting module (3) as the color temperature adjusting result. |
| US10262564B2 |
Test circuit of gate driver on array and test method of gate driver on array
The present invention provides a test circuit of gate driver on array (GOA) and a test method of GOA. The test circuit of GOA comprises a first wiring arranged outside the area where the plurality of display panels is located; a second wiring located between two of the adjacent regions; a switch unit arranged between the first wiring and the second wiring, wherein the area is divided into a plurality of areas where the display panel is located. |
| US10262560B2 |
Tooth whitening strip article products with whitening power index
Tooth-whitening strip articles, packages, arrays and methods including one or more tooth-whitening strip articles having a power configuration corresponding to a consumer desirable level of treatment, the tooth-whitening strip articles being enclosed in a package; a brand indicator disposed on the package; a line-up indicator disposed on the package, the line-up indicator including at least one line-up indicia selected from visual indicia, narrative indicia or combinations thereof; and optionally, a power specific indicator disposed on the package; wherein the line-up indicator associates the tooth-whitening strip article configuration with a corresponding whitening power, the association enabling a consumer to identify the appropriate tooth-whitening strip article configuration for a user. |
| US10262559B2 |
Foldable multi-panel display
A foldable display comprising: a sleeve, two inserts spaced apart in an interior of the sleeve, and an elastic member comprising a first end coupled to one insert and a second end coupled to the other insert such that the elastic member extends between the two inserts. Each insert is coupled to an interior surface of the sleeve. When the display is in a collapsed position, the sleeve is in a flattened state and each insert is in a folded position that increases a distance between the two inserts. When the display is in a deployed position, each insert is in an unfolded position that decreases the distance between the two inserts. One or more sections of an outer perimeter of each insert contact one or more adjacent sections of the interior surface of the sleeve and bias the sleeve outward such that the sleeve forms a three-dimensional figure. |
| US10262556B2 |
Apparatus and methods for visual demonstration of dental erosion on simulated dental materials
Comparative effectiveness of various oral care products such as dentifrices on preventing dental erosion may be demonstrated using simulated enamel. A substrate is prepared. A mineral layer to simulate dental enamel is nucleated by solution growth on the substrate surface. Alternatively, the mineral layer may be nucleated on a template comprising a self-assembled monolayer formed on a gold layer deposited on the substrate surface. The mineral layer may comprise a homogeneous layer of hydroxyapatite or a thin veneer of hydroxyapatite on a layer of amorphous calcium phosphate. The simulated enamel is then optionally treated with an oral care product and subjected to an acid challenge. The amount of mineral layer remaining after the acid challenge illustrates the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of the oral care product at preventing dental erosion. |
| US10262554B2 |
Method of learning English using teaching English word order map and system for learning English using the same
A method of learning English using teaching English word order has the features of dividing a sentence input by a learner into a main subject, a main event including an action and an object, and an auxiliary condition including an auxiliary condition and a criterion thereof; and classifying and displaying a part representing the main subject as a Step 1 sentence segment, a part representing the action as a Step 2 sentence segment, a part representing the object as a Step 3 sentence segment, a part representing the auxiliary condition as a Step 4 sentence segment and a part representing the criterion of the auxiliary condition as a Step 5 sentence segment. The words forming the Step 1 to the Step 5 sentence segments comply with a part of speech criterion assigned for each sentence segment. |
| US10262547B2 |
Generating scores and feedback for writing assessment and instruction using electronic process logs
Systems and methods are provided for scoring a constructed response generated by a user and providing information on the user's writing behavior. A constructed response and associated electronic process log are received. The constructed response is processed to generate first feature values representative of aspects of the constructed response. The electronic process log is processed to generate second feature values related to the user's actions in generating the constructed response. A score for the constructed response is generated using the processing system by applying a computer scoring model to the first and second feature values. A rule of a rule engine that is satisfied is identified, the rule being satisfied when one or more feature values of the second feature values meet a condition associated with the rule. Information on the user's actions in generating the constructed response is provided based on the satisfied rule. |
| US10262546B2 |
Aircraft navigation using exponential map
Systems and methods for determining navigation information for an aircraft are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include accessing a satellite-based positioning signal received at a receiver on an aircraft. The satellite-based positioning signal can be indicative of a distance between a satellite and the receiver. The method can include identifying from the satellite-based positioning signal a first vector associated with a distance between the satellite and the receiver and identifying a second vector from the satellite-based positioning signal associated with a distance between a reference point and the satellite. The method can include generating a kinematic model for determining a geometric position of the aircraft based at least in part on a robotic arm using the first vector and the second vector and determining navigation information for the aircraft based at least in part on the kinematic model. |
| US10262544B2 |
System and method for adaptive rendering message requests on a vertical display
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises: obtaining data; generating complete travel plan; determining at least one of: one or more current travel conditions and one or more future travel conditions; automatically generating at least one proposed message based upon the at least one of one or more current travel conditions and one or more future travel conditions; rendering one icon, for each of the at least one proposed message, on a grid having a first axis specifying altitude and a second axis specifying one of distance and time; and wherein each of the at least one proposed message is configured to be at least one of selectable, reviewable, printable, editable, and sendable. |
| US10262530B2 |
Determining customized safe speeds for vehicles
Customize safe speeds for vehicles are determined from information that is collected from multiple trips and multiple drivers across many road segments. The information collected includes the speed traveled along the road segment, possibly along with additional information, such as (for example) driver, time of day, day of week, weather and road conditions, angle of the sun or other factors. Given information from a new trip, the driver's speed can be compared on each road segment with relevant data from previous trips (from e.g., similar roads, weather conditions, drivers). The comparison yields a score representing the safety of the driver's speed. |
| US10262527B2 |
Commissioning of remotely managed intelligent lighting devices
An apparatus, method and computer program for performing an at least partially automated commissioning of a lighting device at installation. The apparatus comprises: a wireless interface for communicating over a pre-existing public wireless network, pre-existing at said installation; a positioning module for determining a location of the lighting device; and a local control module. As part of said commissioning, the local control module determines the location of the lighting device using the positioning module, and transmits commissioning information to a register of a lighting management system by transmitting the commissioning information over the pre-existing public wireless network via the wireless interface. The commissioning information comprises an identifier of the apparatus along with the location of the lighting device as determined using the positioning system. |
| US10262526B2 |
Processing alarm signals
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for processing alarm signals are presented. In some embodiments, a mobile device may be registered with a security system that is installed at a premises. Subsequently, an alarm trigger associated with the security system may be received. Based on receiving the alarm trigger, the location of the mobile device may be determined. A response to the alarm trigger then may be determined based on the location of the mobile device. |
| US10262522B1 |
Solar powered emergency alert device
A solar powered emergency alert device, including a casing body, a button disposed on the casing body to be depressed by a user, and a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed within the casing body to generate and transmit a signal to a third party device in response to the depression of the button. |
| US10262521B2 |
Security monitoring system and methods
The present disclosure relates to a system and methods for monitoring an electronic device with an alarm state and responding to an alarm state on the device based upon a location of a respondent and more specifically, the present invention includes monitoring a security or intrusion detection system and communicating via an IP network to a controller with a user defined profile of responses. |
| US10262519B2 |
Lighting apparatus
A lighting apparatus with an image-projecting function that is convenient for a user can be provided. The lighting apparatus includes: an illuminating unit that emits illumination light; and a projection-type image display unit that projects an image. The projection-type image display unit is configured so that a setting menu screen settable about an image displayed by the projection-type image display unit can be displayed. |
| US10262518B2 |
Method of disseminating monitoring information relating to contamination and corrosion within an infrastructure
A method of disseminating information includes detecting, by a first monitoring device, a condition of an aspect of an infrastructure; transmitting data relating to the condition and a first time stamp; detecting, by a second monitoring device, the condition; transmitting data relating to the condition and a second time stamp; determining whether a difference in data indicates a problem of contamination; subsequent to an indication of the problem of contamination, determining an amount of the contamination, an approximate location of the contamination, a direction of contamination movement, and a speed of the contamination movement, based on the first time stamp and the second time stamp; determining whether a difference in data indicates corrosion within the infrastructure; and subsequent to the indication of corrosion, determining whether the data relating to the condition indicates an amount of corrosion determined to be the problem, and a level of severity of the corrosion. |
| US10262516B2 |
Integrated hanger bearing monitor
An integrated hanger bearing monitor is provided for reducing installation time and added weight that includes a sensor and an interconnect on a mounting bracket that is sized and configured to be attached to a hanger bearing mounting bracket via connectors that mount the hanger bearing mounting bracket to the helicopter. |
| US10262513B1 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes several light emitting diode unit groups, a battery, a microprocessor, and a smoke detector is disclosed. When the light emitting diode unit groups receive power supplied from an external power supply, the external power supply charges the battery through the part of the plurality of light emitting diode unit groups, and the external power supply drives at least one of the plurality of light emitting diode unit groups. When the light emitting diode unit groups do not receive the power supplied from the external power supply, the battery discharges to drive the at least one of the plurality of light emitting diode unit groups. When the smoke detector detects that a smoke concentration in an environment exceeds a preset value, the microprocessor sends a flickering signal so that the at least one of the plurality of light emitting diode unit groups flickers. |
| US10262503B2 |
Skill-based wagering methods, devices and systems
Embodiments of the invention comprise skill-based wagering games, systems and devices. In one embodiment of the invention, the configuration of a skill-based game is dependent upon the skill level of the player or players. In one embodiment, the game is configured so that the odds of winning the game, and thus the payout for a winning outcome, depends upon the player's skill level. In other embodiments, the payouts or awards offered to players are fixed and the difficultly level for achieving a winning outcome is adjusted based upon the skill levels of the players. |
| US10262496B2 |
Credit contribution method for a hybrid game
A method of operating a gaming system having a random number generator, a credit meter, and a first hybrid game containing an entertainment game portion and a gambling game portion. Skill play in the entertainment game is used to provide entrance to an asynchronous hybrid game tournament. The award for the asynchronous hybrid game tournament uses contributions from the real credit wagers in the gambling game of the first hybrid game. |
| US10262495B1 |
Prize-linked savings accounts
A method implemented on a first electronic computing device includes determining available lotteries for a user of the first electronic computing device. The user is authenticated on the first electronic computing device. An area of residence is confirmed for the user. First lotteries that are available in the area of residence of the user are identified. Second lotteries for which the user can qualify are identified. The second lotteries are a subset of the first lotteries. When one or more of the second lotteries are identified, identification information for the second lotteries is sent to a second electronic computing device for display to the user on the second electronic computing device. |
| US10262494B2 |
Gaming system and method
A gaming system including: a wager receiver for receiving a plurality of wagers, each wager identifying a corresponding predicted sequence of outcomes of game outcome events, each of the predicted sequences of outcomes being stored in a wager database; an outcome generator for generating a results sequence of game outcome events, the game outcome events of the results sequence being generated sequentially and displayed on one or more displays; a results comparator for comparing the results sequence with the predicted sequences of outcomes stored in the wager database, and generating a win signal if the results sequence matches one or more of the predicted sequences stored in the wager database; and a win notifier for generating a win message for displaying a win indication on the displays in response to receiving the win signal. |
| US10262493B2 |
Non-gaming functionality control of gaming machines including audio assets manager
A system and method for modifying non-gaming functionality of a plurality of gaming machines is provided. The plurality of gaming machines each includes at least one display device, an audio device, a gaming controller configured to execute machine readable instructions to present one or more games at the gaming machine, and a non-gaming controller configured to execute machine readable instruction to modify one or more non-gaming attributes of the gaming machine. A server is communicatively connected through a network to the plurality of gaming machines. The server is configured to send machine readable instructions through the network to the non-gaming controller to select one or more of the plurality of gaming machines and cause the selected one or more the plurality of gaming machines to modify one or more non-gaming attributes of the gaming machine. |
| US10262492B2 |
Gambling communicator system
Systems and methods for providing a gambling game communicator in an interface of a gambling communicator hybrid game are disclosed. The gambling game communicator conveys information about the occurrences and outcomes of gambling events and any wagers on the results of the gambling events. |
| US10262488B1 |
Compact currency recycling and accounting device and method of use
The present invention relates generally to a compact currency recycling and accounting device and system for use wherein the device can fit under a counter and is capable of receiving, sorting and dispensing both bills and mixed denomination coins. The present invention offers the currency recycling functionality of larger safes in a more compact safe capable of fitting under the counter of a convenience store. The compact currency recycler of the present invention includes a coin recycling unit, a banknote recycling unit, a touchscreen display, a power supply, a CPU and an integrated printer. To overcome the challenges of limited access to only the front of the device in these under counter applications, the device relies upon a sliding, coin-receiving tray and sliding touchscreen display. Additionally, the banknote recycler and the coin recycler are able to slide into and out from the front of the device for ease of access. |
| US10262487B2 |
Coin sensor
A coin sensor comprising a first inductive branch with a first inductor in series with a first resistor; a second inductive branch with a second inductor in series with a second resistor, wherein the first and second inductors are arranged facing each other on both sides of a passage channel of coins to be discriminated; at least one capacitive branch with a condenser and a resistor in series; an excitation circuit with a generator and at least one pair of switches, configured to alternately feed the first inductive branch and the second inductive branch with a pattern signal with spectral energy in two or more frequencies, such that the branch of the inductor excited at any given time is arranged in a bridge configuration with at least one capacitive branch; at least one differential amplifier configured to alternately measure the voltage between the exit nodes of the excited bridge. |
| US10262485B2 |
Portable terminal and function management system
A portable terminal includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: set a function associated with a visitor to be executable, and determine whether or not execution of a function is permitted using information on a location of the portable terminal when an instruction to execute the function is received. |
| US10262478B2 |
Vehicle-data recorder
A vehicle-data recorder records vehicle data into a storage when a recording condition is satisfied. The recording condition includes a condition that a steering-related value representing a state of a steering operation performed by a driver or a vehicle behavior caused by the steering operation is greater than or equal to a threshold value. The vehicle-data recorder includes: an object-information obtainer that obtains object information relating to an object in an area; and a threshold-value changer that changes the threshold value to a smaller value when a relative positional relationship between an own vehicle and the object located in the area and identified based on the obtained object information is a specific relationship in which it is estimated that a steering operation is to be performed in a direction in which the own vehicle avoids the object, than when the relative positional relationship is not the specific relationship. |
| US10262474B2 |
Method for detecting a malfunction of at least one sensor for controlling a restraining device of a vehicle, control apparatus and vehicle
The disclosure relates to a method for detecting a malfunction of at least one sensor for controlling a restraining device of a vehicle. In this context, in a first step a vehicle state signal representing a vehicle state of the vehicle is read in. In a second step a fault detection function for detecting the malfunction using the vehicle state signal is changed in order to detect the malfunction with a sensitivity level which is dependent on the vehicle state. |
| US10262473B2 |
Systems and methods for suspension vibration on-board detection
Systems and methods for determining a status of a vehicle suspension system are disclosed. A vertical acceleration of the vehicle relative to a road surface is determined based on a position of a vehicle body. Based on a predetermined period of time, a peak value that corresponds to the vertical acceleration is calculated. The peak value is compared to a target peak value and, when the peak value meets a preset criteria, a notification of potential suspension degradation is issued. |
| US10262472B2 |
Vehicle resource management system and method
A system for vehicle resource management with a memory, controller, and vehicle. The memory includes instructions. The controller executes the instructions. The vehicle includes a vehicle system, controls device, and can communicate with the controller. The vehicle system generates resource data for a replenishable resource. The controls device commands the vehicle to perform tasks. Moreover, the instructions enable the controller to: receive resource data after a first task; provide a first status for the vehicle when the resource data reflect the resource meets a threshold requirement, or otherwise provide a second status; generate and communicate a first output after the first status is provided, the first output instructing the vehicle to reposition itself to perform a second task; and generate and communicate a second output after the second status is provided, the second output instructing the vehicle to reposition itself to replenish the resource to meet the threshold requirement. |
| US10262471B2 |
Autonomous vehicle degradation level monitoring
An on-trip monitoring system for an on-demand transportation service can monitor live log data from autonomous vehicles (AVs) operating throughout a given region. The system can determine a degradation level for a respective AV based on the live log data, and when the degradation level exceeds a determined threshold, the system can transmit an update command to the respective AV to service or decommission the respective AV. |
| US10262469B2 |
Conditional or temporary feature availability
Controlling availability of features of a vehicle can be based on a set of initial parameters, with each parameter related to a feature of the vehicle and defining availability of the feature. The set of initial parameters can define at least one feature of the vehicle as unavailable but further define the unavailability of the at least one feature of the vehicle as overridable upon detection of an emergency condition by the control system of the vehicle. The control system of the vehicle can apply the set of initial parameters to operations of the vehicle to control. At another time, a set of updated parameters with at least one parameter having a different value than the initial set of parameters can be applied by the control system of the vehicle to control operations of the vehicle based on levels indicated by the set of updated parameters. |
| US10262467B2 |
Sustainable real-time parking availability system
The present invention relates in general to parking availability systems and methods of parking, and more specifically, to a parking system that manages individual parking spaces in real-time. Notably, the present invention gives a parking asset owner flexibility to adjust parking prices for individual parking spaces within a parking facility in real-time depending upon dynamic market conditions such as demand, convenience, and location. The purpose of the invention is to offer parking consumers a choice in parking price tiers to encourage turnover and maximize revenue streams for the parking asset owner. Additional benefits of the present invention to the parking asset owner include improved service to customers, obtaining LEED credits, reducing harmful carbon emissions, mitigating transportation demand, saving time through stream-lined parking operations, and eco-friendly solutions to parking problems not solved by traditional parking models. |
| US10262463B2 |
Method for graphically representing an image from an image sensor superimposed on a synthetic second image of the outside landscape
The general field of the invention is that of the methods for graphically representing a first image from an image sensor of the outside landscape superimposed on a second image representing a synthetic image of the same outside landscape, the two images being displayed on a display screen of an onboard display system for aircraft. The first image comprises three rectangular zones of increasing transparency, each zone having a width equal to that of the first image and a determined height, the sum of the three heights being equal to the height of the first image, the first zone situated at the bottom of the image having a first constant level of transparency, the third zone situated at the top of the image having a second constant level of transparency greater than the first level of transparency, the second zone situated between the first zone and the third zone having a level of transparency that is continuously variable between the first level and the second level. |
| US10262461B2 |
Information processing method and apparatus, and program for executing the information processing method on computer
A method includes defining a virtual space. The virtual space includes a first avatar object associated with a first user and a second avatar object associated with a second user. The method further includes playing back 360-degree content. The method further includes moving the first avatar object in response to a first input by the first user; and moving the second avatar object in response to a second input by the second user. The method further includes storing motion data for moving the second avatar object irrespective to the second input. The method further includes associating the motion data with a spatial position in the 360-degree content and a playback time. The method further includes identifying the motion data corresponding to identified spatial position and identified current playback time. The method further includes moving the second avatar object based on the identified motion data. |
| US10262460B2 |
Three dimensional panorama image generation systems and methods
Three dimensional (3D) operational user interface generation systems and methods are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include calculating a number of locations for a virtual camera, placing the virtual camera at each of the number of locations, generating a 3D image at each of the number of locations, implementing object information for each pixel of the 3D image, and generating a 3D user interface utilizing the 3D image at each of the number of locations. |
| US10262452B2 |
3D lighting
Techniques are disclosed for displaying a graphical element in a manner that simulates three-dimensional (3D) visibility (including parallax and shadowing). More particularly, a number of images, each captured with a known spatial relationship to a target 3D object, may be used to construct a lighting model of the target object. In one embodiment, for example, polynomial texture maps (PTM) using spherical or hemispherical harmonics may be used to do this. Using PTM techniques a relatively small number of basis images may be identified. When the target object is to be displayed, orientation information may be used to generate a combination of the basis images so as to simulate the 3D presentation of the target object. |
| US10262445B2 |
Mobile terminal device, management device, storage medium for displaying captured images
An imaging unit captures an image. A communication unit communicates with a base station device and acquires ease information related to ease of communication with at least one base station device and associated with positional information. A display unit displays an image captured by the imaging unit, and displays the ease information in the image, associating the positional information in the ease information with coordinates in the image. |
| US10262444B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for creating a composite image by using a plurality of input images
Image processing for creating a composite image by using a plurality of input images is performed in the following manner. An ID map is created in which each pixel on a coordinate system of the composite image is assigned an ID value among ID values each of which identifies a corresponding one of the plurality of input images. The composite image is created based on the ID map. The composite image and the ID map are caused to be superimposed and displayed on a display device. User input that is a drag operation performed on the ID map that is superimposed and displayed together with the composite image is obtained. The ID map is changed in accordance with the user input. The composite image is updated in accordance with the change in the ID map. |
| US10262443B2 |
Radiation imaging apparatus and radiation image detection method
A radiation imaging apparatus includes an irradiation element that irradiates a radiation, a radiation detection, an image generation element that generates a radiation image, a memory element that stores a principal component and a location detection element that detects and extracts a specific region from the radiation image by a matching using each contribution rate relative to each template image and each radiation image. |
| US10262441B2 |
Using features at multiple scales for color transfer in augmented reality
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for using color measurement features at multiple scales for a Color Transfer technique. In one embodiment, the functions implemented include: resizing a ground truth image target frame to a plurality of different scales; selecting one or more color measurement features from the ground truth image target frame at each of the plurality of different scales; making a color measurement for each color measurement feature in the ground truth image target frame; and adjusting colors of a virtual object in an augmented frame based at least in part on the color measurements. |
| US10262440B2 |
Publication modification using body coordinates
In various example embodiments, a system and method for modifying publications of a network-based publication system are presented. The system receives a set of body coordinates from a client device and associates the set of body coordinates with a user account. The system identifies a set of clothing images within a set of publications retrieved as a result of a query. The system generates a set of modified clothing images from one or more images of the set of clothing images and causes presentation of the set of modified clothing images at the client device. |
| US10262438B2 |
Methods and devices for producing and processing representations of multimedia scenes
The representation of content, in a scene representation, is enriched with a view to the adaptive use of the latter according to a set of common parameters. A sub-graph of the scene graph, which is susceptible to variable processing, is identified. For this purpose, two new types of scene element can be defined, one of which allows the identification of the sub-graph and the second enables application of the set of common parameters in relation to the sub-graph. An example of the first type is a node of so-called “AdaptivityControl” type which encompasses the entire sub-graph, a list of the nodes describing the set of common parameters and a group of fields for dynamic updating of the content of this node. An example of the second type is a node of so-called “CompressedImageStrategy” type which comprises information relating to the object to be coded and the coding parameters. |
| US10262437B1 |
Decentralized position and navigation method, device, and system leveraging augmented reality, computer vision, machine learning, and distributed ledger technologies
A method for determining an exact location of an imaging device can include detecting a first object and determining its approximate location based on an approximate location of the imaging device, and determining a reliability value of the approximate location; receiving a predefined location of a second object from a memory, and determining whether the predetermined location of the second object matches, within a pre-specified margin of error, the approximate location of the first object, and when there is a mismatch greater than the pre-specified margin of error, storing the first object and its approximate location on a distributed ledger, and when there is a match within the pre-specified margin of error, determining the exact location of the imaging device based on the predefined location stored in the memory. |
| US10262436B2 |
System for multiple decode of captured images
A decoding device includes storage to store image data including grayscale values of pixels in multiple captured images, and a processor including multiple SIMD components and at least one component. For each captured image at least one available SIMD component performs: at least one transform with the grayscale values of at least one portion of the captured image to generate at least one corresponding metadata; and the at least one transform in preparation for an analysis of the at least one metadata by the at least one core component. The at least one core component is to perform: the analysis to identify at least one ROI within the captured image indicated by the at least one metadata to include at least one encoded data marking; and a decoding of the at least one ROI to attempt a decode of the at least one encoded data marking. |
| US10262435B2 |
Surveying instrument
To provide a surveying instrument capable of evaluating tracking performance without using a device other than the surveying instrument. In order to attain the object described above, a surveying instrument includes a tracking section that detects a position of a target from a shot image, a virtual target position calculating section, a virtual tracking section that converts a position of a virtual target as if it was captured by the tracking section, a tracking arithmetic section that handles an output of the virtual tracking section the same as an output of the tracking section and determines rotational movements of a horizontal shaft and a vertical shaft, a motor control section, motors that rotate the horizontal shaft and the vertical shaft, and encoders that detect rotation amounts of the horizontal shaft and the vertical shaft. |
| US10262434B2 |
Vehicle localization apparatus and method
A vehicle localization method includes obtaining a stereo image while a vehicle is driven, extracting a matching vector from the stereo image while the vehicle is driven, loading a map vector of a current location based on GPS information in previously constructed map data, matching the extracted matching vector with the map vector, and estimating a positioning coordinate corresponding to the extracted matching vector as a current location of the vehicle when the extracted matching vector and the map vector meet a condition. |
| US10262431B2 |
Three-dimensional measurement device
A three-dimensional measurement device which is capable of superimposing and displaying, on a three-dimensional shape, distributions of deviations from a plurality of geometric elements is provided. There are included a deviation calculation unit for determining first deviations from the first geometric element with respect to the first point cloud, and determining second deviations from the second geometric element with respect to the second point cloud. The three-dimensional shape display unit superimposes and displays, on the three-dimensional shape, a distribution of the first deviations from the first geometric element and a distribution of the second deviations from the second geometric element. |
| US10262430B2 |
Annotation line determining unit, annotation line removing unit, medical display, and method therefor
To detect annotation lines in medical image data. Horizontal annotation pixel determination means obtains the color component value difference between each pixel of a predetermined number of connected adjacent pixels in a first direction of the target pixel and an adjacent pixel thereof. If the total number of pixels having color component value differences, of the predetermined number of pixels is equal to or smaller than a first threshold, the horizontal annotation pixel determination means determines that the target pixel is an annotation pixel. If annotation pixels are successive in the horizontal direction in a predetermined number, horizontal annotation line determination means determines that the annotation pixels form an annotation line. The same applies to the vertical direction. The determined annotation lines are provided to border detection means. |
| US10262429B2 |
Marker image processing system
The marker has thereon one three-dimensional indicator 3. Based on the location and height of the three-dimensional indicator 3 relative to the plane indicator 2 as well as the estimated position of the camera relative to the marker, the center positions of the upper face and the lower face of the three-dimensional indicator 3 on the image of the camera are estimated. The estimated center position of the upper face of the three-dimensional indicator 3 is compared with that detected from the image. When the error between them has a value equal to or higher than a predetermined value, based on the posture estimated, a rotational transformation is carried out. |
| US10262428B2 |
System and method for adaptive range 3D scanning
A scanner system is configured for acquiring three dimensional image information of an object. The scanner includes a projector, a camera, a graphics processing device, and a processor. The projector projects one of several pre-defined patterns upon the object. The camera captures an image from the object, which is received by the processor. The processor approximates mutual information from the object and the pattern using the graphics processing device, and selects a second pattern for projecting on the object. |
| US10262427B2 |
Determination method, determination system, determination device, and program
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a technique for determining the authenticity of a product without requiring a special device such as an integrated circuit (IC) tag. A means for solving this problem according to the invention is characterized by determining the authenticity of a target product on the basis of the validity of the association between the body of the product and a surface-treated component that is mounted to the body and that has been validated. |
| US10262424B2 |
Method for deformable 3D-2D registration using multiple locally rigid registrations
An embodiment in accordance with the present invention provides a method for 3D-2D registration (for example, registration of a 3D CT image to a 2D radiograph) that permits deformable motion between structures defined in the 3D image based on a series of locally rigid transformations. This invention utilizes predefined annotations in 3D images (e.g., the location of anatomical features of interest) to perform multiple locally rigid registrations that yield improved accuracy in aligning structures that have undergone deformation between the acquisition of the 3D and 2D images (e.g., a preoperative CT compared to an intraoperative radiograph). The 3D image is divided into subregions that are masked according to the annotations, and the registration is computed simultaneously for each divided region by incorporating a volumetric masking method within the 3D-2D registration process. |
| US10262422B2 |
Content aware visual image pattern matching
Exemplary embodiments of the invention as described herein generally provide for detecting the displacement of feature(s) within a visual image in cases where pattern matching fails due to the existence of aperture(s) caused for example by external condition(s) encountered in recording such an image over time. Technique(s) are disclosed for detecting the difference between displacement of a geometric feature of an object appearing within an image (e.g., an edge or smooth surface) that has an aperture and another feature (e.g., a corner) that does not since it is not symmetrically invariant. |
| US10262421B2 |
Image processing system for detecting stationary state of moving object from image, image processing method, and recording medium
An image processing system includes: a determining unit configured to determine whether or not a region is a stationary region in an image frame at the time of processing, based on a first image generated from each image frame captured in a first time period from the time of the processing and a second image generated from each image frame captured in a second time period from the time of the processing, the second time period being longer than the first time period; and a generation unit for configured to generate reliability information about determination as to whether or not each region in an image frame being processed is the stationary region. |
| US10262420B1 |
Tracking image regions
Systems and methods are disclosed for tracking regions within a media item. A method includes identifying a region in a first frame of a media item using a first user specified position; calculating, based on the first user specified position and on tracking data, an estimated position of the region within a second frame of the media item and an estimated position of the region within a third frame of the media item; adjusting the estimated position of the region within the second frame to a second user specified position; blending, by a processing device, the estimated position within the third frame based on the second user specified position of the second frame to generate a blended position within the third frame; and storing, in a data store, the blended position within the third frame. |
| US10262419B2 |
Analysis device and analysis system
An analysis device includes a controller. The analysis device receives moving images sent from a plurality of imaging devices, analyzes the received moving images, and sends an analysis result of a moving image to, among a plurality of display devices, a display device which has made a request to display so that the display device displays the analysis result. The controller controls a processing order of reception processes and analysis processes on moving images sent from the imaging devices according to degrees of priority preset for the respective imaging devices. |
| US10262413B2 |
Work layer imaging and analysis for implement monitoring, control and operator feedback
A soil imaging system having a work layer sensor disposed on an agricultural implement to generate an electromagnetic field through a soil area of interest as the agricultural implement traverses a field. A monitor in communication with the work layer sensor is adapted to generate a work layer image of the soil layer of interest based on the generated electromagnetic field. The work layer sensor may also generate a reference image by generating an electromagnetic field through undisturbed soil. The monitor may compare at least one characteristic of the reference image with at least one characteristic of the work layer image to generate a characterized image of the work layer of interest. The monitor may display operator feedback and may effect operational control of the agricultural implement based on the characterized image. |
| US10262412B2 |
Welded state monitoring system and welded state monitoring method
A welded state monitoring system according to an aspect of the present invention is a welded state monitoring system used for plasma shielded electric resistance welding in which electric resistance welding is performed while irradiating a weld zone of a steel sheet with plasma, and is provided with a plasma irradiation device which irradiates the weld zone with plasma, a first image capturing device which captures an image of the weld zone from above and has an image sensor capable of detecting light having a wavelength of 850 nm or more, a first wavelength region limiting device which limits light incident on the first image capturing device to a wavelength region of 850 nm or more, and an image processing device which subjects the image captured by the first image capturing device to image processing and analyzes the welded state of the weld zone thereby being able to analyze the welded state without being affected by the plasma. |
| US10262403B2 |
Apparatus and method for image navigation and registration of geostationary remote sensing satellites
Provided is an apparatus for geometrically correcting an image from a geostationary remote sensing satellite, the apparatus being configured to perform the image navigation and registration on image data from a geostationary remote sensing satellite. The apparatus includes the landmark determination part configured to acquire landmark information associated with a first image and the navigation filter configured to calculate a state vector for correcting at least one of the attitude error, the orbit error, and the payload misalignment error with respect to the first image based on the landmark information. |
| US10262398B2 |
Method for correcting an image of at least one object presented at a distance in front of an imaging device and illuminated by a lighting system and an image pickup system for implementing said method
An image correction method includes: estimating a 3D model of an object as when an imaging device takes an image of the object; calculating the light intensity of each point of a simulated image as it would be taken by the imaging device, using the estimated 3D model of the object, a model of illumination of the object illuminated by a lighting system that illuminates the object, a model of reflection on a surface of the object, and a model of the imaging device, to obtain a simulated image of the object; and correcting the taken image by modifying the light intensity of each point on the taken image or on at least one area of interest of the taken image, according to the light intensity of the corresponding point in the simulated image or the respective light intensities of points adjacent to the corresponding point in the simulated image. |
| US10262386B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for rendering regions of an image
A method of rendering an image is disclosed. A plurality of non-overlapping regions of the image is received, each region being associated with a fill compositing stack comprising a plurality of levels to be composited to determine color data of said region, each level being defined by a compositing operation and a color operand. Equivalent ones of the compositing stacks are identified, the equivalent compositing stacks being defined by equivalent sets of graphical commands applied to different color operands. Regions associated with the equivalent compositing stacks are selected. Pixels corresponding to the selected regions are combined into a data structure. The pixels are concurrently rendered using the data structure to render the image. |
| US10262385B2 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring magnetic resonance data and entering the data into k-space
In a method and apparatus to acquire magnetic resonance data from a subject and to enter the acquired data into k-space, data entered in an upper-half portion of k-space are acquired under a forward phase encoding gradient of the scanner so as to obtain a first portion of k-space data, and data in a lower-half portion of k-space are acquired under a reverse phase encoding gradient of the scanner so as to obtain a second portion of k-space data. The first portion of k-space data and the second portion of k-space data are combined to form complete k-space data, wherein the first portion of k-space data and the second portion of k-space data each constitute at least half of the complete k-space data. |
| US10262383B1 |
Systems and methods for determining operational status of third-party service providers
Systems and methods are provided for determining the operational status of third-party switch/service providers. The service provider computer receives healthcare transactions and determines if each transaction is to be processed by a third-party switch provider system, either under a contract between the pharmacy and the third-party switch provider or under an exclusivity arrangement between the transaction payer and the third-party switch provider. Healthcare transactions are sent to the third-party switch provider for processing. If the transmission is not successful, the service provider computer will determine if the third-party switch provider system is operating. If determined to not be operating, the service provider computer will process on its own the healthcare transactions that are typically processed by the third-party switch provider system due to contractual agreement with the pharmacy that sent the transaction for as long as the third-party switch provider system is determined to be not operating. |
| US10262382B2 |
Systems and methods for and displaying patient data
Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a task screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data to determine one or more patient icons, each patient icon representing a time-sensitive, patient-associated task, and displaying the task screen on the mobile device, the task screen displaying one or more patient icon groups, each patient icon group including a patient icon of the one or more patient icons. |
| US10262380B2 |
Measuring member value in social networks
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a count of actions associated with a member of a social network, wherein the count comprises a set of action types and a number of actions associated with the member for each of the action types. Next, the system uses the count to calculate a set of scores for measuring the value of the social network to the member, wherein the set of scores is associated with researching and contacting people, building a network, keeping up with connections, staying informed and building knowledge, establishing and managing a reputation, and getting hired. The system then outputs the scores for use in characterizing and improving the value of the social network for the member. |
| US10262374B2 |
System and method for processing payment bundles
A system and process for prospectively creating patient episodes of care and triggering associated payment bundles during the claim adjudication process facilitates real-time claim pricing in accordance with payment bundle rules to facilitate episodic payment in place of pay-for-service payment. Additionally, various processes are described for modeling patient episodes and payment bundles and unbundling episodic payments. |
| US10262368B2 |
Apparatus, data base system and computer program product for trading financial instruments
An apparatus (100) for proprietary trading financial instruments (F1, F2) in a financial trading system (20) of at least a first trading agent (A1) providing at least first financial instrument (F1) and a second trading agent (A2) providing at least a second financial instrument (F2) and a crowd of trading customers (TC), which apparatus (100) further comprises a monitoring unit (130) configured to automatically monitor opportunities to perform proprietary trading in said trading system (20) based on a plurality of systematic strategies running over the plurality of trading agents and financial instruments and based on behavioral patterns emerged by interaction of individual long- or medium term trading, and further comprising an automated trading unit (180) configured to automatically control multi-agent trading of the plurality of trading agents (A1, A2) and the plurality of financial instruments (F1, F2), wherein the trading unit (180) is configured to automatically provide a time frame (TF) within which the crowd of clients (23) are offered to trade collectively thereby founding the trade in collectively automatically based on the behavioral patterns. An advantage is that the various embodiments of the present disclosure will contribute to change this rigid structure in the favor of those customers/investors with less knowledge about the financial markets. |
| US10262366B2 |
Trading system products and processes
A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US10262364B2 |
Card registry systems and methods
A card registry system is configured to automatically identify financial card information in one or more credit files associated with a consumer and populate a card registry account of the consumer with the identified financial card information. Once the financial card information has been obtained from the credit file(s), the card registry system may transmit cancellation and/or reissuance requests to the respective card issuers in the instance that one or more cards are compromised, so that the financial cards may be easily and efficiently cancelled and/or reissued at the request of the consumer. |
| US10262360B2 |
Deposit visualization
A multiple banknote and/or check deposit transaction at a Self-Service Terminal (SST) permits visual customer feedback during the transaction for depicting categories and denominations associated with the transaction. Moreover, an interface rendered with the visual customer feedback permits the customer to review, edit, accept, or abort the transaction. |
| US10262351B2 |
Mobile device payment system and method
A mobile device payment system and method, the method for a mobile device user to purchase goods/services from merchants with financing by a mobile device manufacturer including: providing a mobile device; establishing a user account; establishing merchant accounts; transforming the merchant accounts into a universal merchant account data set; providing the universal merchant account data set to the mobile device user; storing the universal merchant account data set; requesting the mobile device manufacturer to load consumer credit; loading the credit amount; identifying goods/services for purchase; determining a total price for the identified goods/services and a merchant identifier associated with the selected merchant; actuating a purchase button; retrieving merchant bank deposit instructions; retrieving purchase credit; and routing the retrieved credit to the selected merchant in accordance with the retrieved merchant credit deposit instructions. |
| US10262350B2 |
Perpetual communication session: portability/reusability across applications networks and devices
A system with mechanisms that allow for creating, storing and resuming a session without being bound by time. In a system that allows for communication between parties when one of the parties has an account with the system whereas one or more others who are trying to reach this party do not, creating a session and allowing for the same users to come back to resume the session is enabled. Resuming the session by any of the associated parties to the session is supported, this session can be operated through various applications such as voice, video and chat, and be accessed in various networks such as the internet or the telephone network, as well as across devices such as web browsers, smart device apps, and mobile phones with SMs capability. The system supports porting and reusability of the session across networks, applications and devices. |
| US10262348B2 |
Catalog quality management model
In one example, a content catalog system may process a bulk set of errors to prioritize those errors that may benefit from manual review by a human error administrator. A catalog quality management sub-system of the content catalog system may receive an error output describing a catalog error for a product aspect of a product in a content catalog from an error detection module. The catalog quality management sub-system may categorize the catalog error by a degree of human interaction with an error fix determined from an error metric in the error output. The catalog quality management sub-system may apply an error fix to the catalog error based on the degree of human interaction. |
| US10262347B1 |
Managing channels in an internet-based content platform
An internet-based content platform that includes subscribable channels is provided. The internet-based content platform provides channels to end users. The internet-based content platform allows a channel curator to create a paid channel and may include a plurality of media items including at least one paid media item and at least one free media item, in the paid channel. The internet-based content platform may also allow a channel curator to define a subscription fee and a duration for a subscription to the paid channel. |
| US10262345B2 |
Parking meter communications for remote payment with updated display
A parking meter receives data indicative of a remote payment being completed and displays an amount of time purchased by the remote payment for a parking session. The parking meter determines an amount of time remaining in the parking session and powers down at least a portion of a meter communication subsystem subsequent to receiving the data indicative of the remote payment being completed. The parking meter wakes up the powered down portion of the communication subsystem upon determining that the amount of time remaining is below a threshold time, and can receive an indication of additional time being paid for remotely, and can update the displayed time remaining to reflect the additional time. |
| US10262341B2 |
Resource downloading method and device
The present invention discloses a resource downloading method and device. The above method includes: performing a dynamic detection on a DOM tree of a web page where resources to be downloaded are located, acquiring a plurality of URL resources; filtering out a part of URL resources corresponding to advertisement data from the plurality of URL resources; and prompting a user to download remaining URL resources after the advertisement data are filtered out. With the technical solution provided by the present invention, a user can acquire media files which the user is interested in from web pages that provide online playing only at will, thereby greatly improving user experience. |
| US10262337B2 |
Advertising platform transaction management
A computer-implemented method includes generating, using a transaction management computing subsystem of an advertising platform, a set of primary bid requests responsive to receipt of an advertising call. Each primary bid request includes information sufficient to characterize an impression consumer and information sufficient to characterize each of one or more impressions identified in the advertising call. The method also includes sending the set of primary bid requests from the transaction management computing subsystem to a first set of decisioning computing subsystems of the advertising platform. Each decisioning computing subsystem of the first set being operable to generate a bid response based on the information included in a primary bid request. The method further includes selecting, using the transaction management computing subsystem, a first bid response from among the bid responses generated by the first set of decisioning computing subsystems; and taking, by the transaction management computing subsystem, an action on the first bid response. |
| US10262335B2 |
Systems and methods for real time upgrades
A system can offer an enhanced event experience for users of the system by tracking the locations of the users during a purchased-access event such as a ticketed event and offering real time location-based upgrades to the users. The locations of users can be used to determine a demonstrated interest by the user for a particular location or product in the event venue and to offer upgrades tailored to that demonstrated interest. For example, a concert attendee with a ticket for a particular seat may be detected a location relatively far from the user's seat such as a location near a seat of a friend of the user. The system can detect the user's location, identify available seats near the user's location, and offer the user an upgrade to the identified available seats. Location-based upgrades can also be provided in airplanes, hotels, cruise ships, or other venues or events. |
| US10262334B2 |
Electronic brand authentication method using scannable codes
A “scannable logo” image contains encoded identity data for the logo brand owner, encoded visual identification characteristics for the logo brand, an encoded GPS data corresponding to manufacturing location for a manufactured item or assembled item, plus additional embodiment dependent data. The image is scanned with the image scanning function of a mobile communication device and the encoded logo brand owner identity data, the encoded visually identifying characteristics for the logo brand, and the encoded GPS location information are decoded with a decoding function. The GPS location information is captured for the mobile communication device with the GPS function of the mobile communication device, and compared to the decoded GPS location information. If the decoded information is a geo-proximal match, an authentication application is launched in the computer function of the mobile communication device. |
| US10262327B1 |
Integrating screen sharing sessions with customer relationship management
Customer Relationship Management software is integrated with a screen sharing capabilities to enable information about screen sharing sessions to be populated into records associated with the customer relationship management software. Sessions may be started from within the CRM software or may be started independently and information associated with the session may be captured and used to update the CRM records. Once the session has ended, information about who was invited to the session, who attended the session, and how long the session lasted is populated into the CRM record. Sessions may be scheduled in advance or implemented directly in real time. Managers may receive notice of the sessions by electing to follow sessions created by particular sales representatives, particular records, or other data objects. Dashboards may be used to summarize sessions to provide indications of how sessions are being used by sales professionals in connection with interaction with customers. |
| US10262326B1 |
Anti-skimming card reader computing device
A computing device that includes a card reader component including a card reader, a plurality of micro cameras positioned proximate to the card reader, a battery detector circuit, and processing circuitry in communication with the card reader component, the plurality of micro cameras, and the battery detector circuit is described. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze one or more images captured by the plurality of micro cameras, determine that one or more of the images captured by the plurality of micro cameras is obscured, in response to the determination that the one or more of the images of the plurality of micro cameras is obscured, initiate the battery detector circuit, and in response to the battery detector circuit detecting a presence of an external battery near the card reader, determine that a skimming device is affixed over the card reader component. |
| US10262323B2 |
System and method of managing data injection into an executing data processing system
A system and method of modifying an execution of a processing system during runtime are provided. The method uses a computing device having at least one processor and at least one memory device and includes receiving an indication of data or instructions being available for modifying the execution of the processing system during runtime, determining at least one data element associated with the indication of data or instructions, generating metadata based on at least one of the indication and the determined at least one data element, and periodically executing a job, the job reads the metadata and modifies a workflow of the processing system based on the metadata. |
| US10262321B1 |
Digital coin, digital wallet, and model of transaction
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, methods, systems, and computer program instructions related to building and managing secure digital wallets, a general ledger, and a transaction structure to securely and anonymously transfer digital coins from one wallet in a computing device to another wallet in the same device or another computing device in which both computing devices are connected via Internet or any other network medium and protocols. |
| US10262319B1 |
Automatically activating a transaction card by detecting a change associated with a package that carries the transaction card
A first device may be implemented within a package that is for transporting a second device requiring activation. The first device may determine whether the package has been opened based on whether a trigger condition has been satisfied. The trigger condition may be satisfied when a value identifying an amount of an electrical property of a conductive structure sealing the package satisfies a first threshold value or when a value identifying an amount of a measurable property associated with the package satisfies a second threshold value. The first device may provide, to a server, a request to activate the second device based on determining that the package has been opened. The request may cause the server to initiate an activation procedure and to activate the second device if the activation procedure succeeds. |
| US10262318B1 |
Eligibility verification for real-time offers
A mobile device corresponding to the present invention submits a credit application at a point of sale terminal, and a user of the mobile device receives credit that pays the merchant for a purchase made by the user at the merchant. |
| US10262317B2 |
Technique to authenticate in a mobile application using near-field communication
A method for operating a mobile communication appliance enabled for Near Field Communication (NFC) has steps for (a) positioning the communication appliance and an article associated with a person, the article enabled for NFC and storing a unique identifier, within a near-field threshold; (b) acquiring by the communication appliance through NFC the unique digital identifier from the article; and (c) using the identifier to select and initiate a particular functionality of the communication appliance. |
| US10262308B2 |
Cardless challenge systems and methods
Systems, methods, and apparatus for handling and/or authorizing payment requests by a consumer for a transaction are provided. Challenge questions may be presented from the non-merchant to the consumer after receiving the payment information, thereby allowing a judicious determination of when to ask such challenge questions and allowing complex and probative questions. The time limit for such challenge questions may advantageously be unconstrained, while still preserving security. Also, a risk analysis may be started prior to the consumer submitting payment information, thus allowing an efficient and complex risk analysis. Information about an access device used by the consumer may be obtained at the non-merchant from the access device with code sent to the access device from the merchant, and the device information may be used in the risk analysis. |
| US10262307B2 |
Automated system for adapting market data for transaction cost analysis
A system includes a server that implements a governing logic component and a production component. The server receives or retrieves a transaction data set that identifies price data for an item. The production component obtains time-dependent metric data that includes market reference price data for one or more responsive items possessing attributes that are responsive to attributes defined for a respective item in the transaction data set. The production component discovers relationships in the attribute data, which enables the governing logic component to define transaction-specific instructions for adapting the market reference price data for the respective item. An adjustment value transforms the market reference price data and produces transaction-specific market price data values for the respective item. One or more evaluation measures are generated and exposed to at least one computing device in communication with the server. |
| US10262306B2 |
System and method for intraday netting payment finality with supplemental funding
A system and method are disclosed for continuous intraday final settlement of payment orders among a plurality of participants, each participant having facilities configured to electronically send and receive the payment orders in the form of payment messages. Primary positions, corresponding to balances in a prefunded balance account, are stored. Supplemental positions, corresponding to balances in the prefunded balance account, are stored. Payment messages are received from sending participants. A selected payment message is released, such that the sending participant's supplemental position is decreased by the payment amount and the receiving participant's supplemental position is increased by the payment amount, if it is determined that: (i) the sending participant's supplemental position, after subtraction of the payment amount, is greater than or equal to the predetermined minimum for the sending participant's supplemental position, and (ii) the receiving participant's supplemental position, after addition of the payment amount, is less than or equal to the predetermined maximum for the receiving participant's supplemental position. |
| US10262304B2 |
Scanning recognition decisions
Images of scanned documents are processed to identify an amount for each document. At least one document has two possible amounts with each amount having a different confidence level associated therewith. A provided total amount is balanced to a determined total amount by resolving a permutation of the available amounts from the images that matches the provided total amount. |
| US10262302B2 |
Recipe selection system with bidirectional calendar interface
Recommending a recipe and monitoring the preparation of the recipe according to a calendar by a computer that receives calendar data that includes one or more of: a date, scheduled appointment times for the date and appointment durations, any special events on the date, and proximity of the date to a holiday. The computer identifies one or more recipes that can be prepared in an available time slot in the calendar, the one or more recipes includes a list of food from a food ingredient list and monitors data, including length of time to complete a preparation step of the selected recipe. Responsive to the length of time increasing by more than a threshold value, the computer adjusts one or more subsequent preparation steps of the selected recipe to compensate for the increase to the length of time and/or the calendar to provide a longer available time for recipe preparation. |
| US10262300B2 |
Presenting image previews in electronic messages
An instant message is received from an instant message sender and a determination is made that the instant message includes a link to a web page that was selected by the instant message sender. In response to determining that the instant message includes the link to the web page, an image corresponding to the web page is fetched and stored, and a thumbnail image preview of the fetched image is generated. In addition, the thumbnail image preview of the fetched portion of the web page is displayed while at least a portion of the instant message is displayed. |
| US10262298B2 |
Mobile dashboard for employee performance management tools
Techniques are described for a graphical user interface that presents a dashboard on a display of the mobile electronic device. The dashboard includes a footer for presenting commonly used features that are available to a given user. The remaining area in the dashboard is configured to present multiple tiles. Each tile can provide the status of a feature that is available to the user. Depending on the status of a given feature, the tile can change its visual appearance by applying a theme that corresponds to the status. The theme can affect the font, font size, typecast, or general overall appearance of the tile. The dashboard allows a user to monitor the status of features by pushing the status information to the dashboard instead of having the user manually check for the status of each feature. |
| US10262294B1 |
Location estimation using array of capacitive sensors
A user may pick, place, or move an item at an inventory location, such as a shelf. Described are techniques to determine a location of one or more of an object, such as an item or a user, with respect to an array of capacitive sensors. The array may be part of the shelf. As an item is added to, moved or removed from the shelf, when the user's hand is near the shelf, and so forth, capacitance measured by one or more of the sensors in the array may change. Based on these changes, a location relative to the sensor array may be determined. A particular shelf may have different areas, each designated as holding a different type of item. The location information obtained from the capacitive sensors may be used to determine which item on the shelf was interacted with. |
| US10262293B1 |
Item management system using multiple scales
An inventory location such as a shelf may be used to stow different types of items. The shelf may be equipped with a plurality of lanes arranged parallel to one another. Items may rest upon two or more of the lanes. Each lane includes a weight sensor that provides weight data about a load on the lane. Based on the weight data and item data indicative of individual weights of those items stowed on the shelf, interaction data indicative of an activity such as a pick or place of an item may be determined. The interaction data may specify what item was picked or placed, quantity of that item that was picked or placed, and so forth. Data from other sensors, such as a camera, may be used to determine the interaction data. |
| US10262289B2 |
Social drone
The invention discloses a waitressing drone that brings drinks to people at the restaurant, and the orders are identified from the Facebook photo of the user, that the drone displays when making the delivery. The invention facilitates the interaction with humans and drones via the social network. With the invention, the order input time is greatly reduced for the consumer, and the consumer may move about while waiting for the order as the drone finds the consumer. Also importantly, the social nature of the drone allows for the sharing of drones among multiple human users. Further, the interfacing of the social human profile with non-human drone profiles allows for the continuous retraining and reprogramming of drones to meet more specific and individualistic user tasks, thereby liberating people from mundane manual labour. |
| US10262288B2 |
System and method of parallelizing order-by-order planning
A system and method is disclosed for parallelizing order-by-order planning in a supply chain network. The system includes a database configured to store data describing a demand priority sequence, each demand priority sequence comprising at least one demand of an end-item and data describing the supply chain network comprising a plurality of network components, each network component configured to supply one or more items to satisfy demand. The system further includes a server coupled with the database, the server accesses the data describing the demand priority sequence and accesses the data describing the supply chain network. The server further creates mapping tables for each end-item, generates a dependency map for each end-item, generates a list of demand levels, and generates an order plan of end-items for planning in parallel comprising the orders planned for the demands at each demand level. |
| US10262286B2 |
Data comparison and analysis based on data analysis reporting
A method for comparing and analyzing data based on data analysis reports is provided. The method may include receiving a first dataset. The method may also include identifying a first portion of the first dataset and a second portion of the first dataset. Additionally, the method may include comparing and analyzing the first portion of the first dataset with the second portion of the first dataset. The method may also include receiving a second dataset from a location different from the first dataset. The method may further include comparing and analyzing the first portion and second portion of the first dataset with the second dataset. The method may also include receiving a plurality of first analysis results and a plurality of second analysis results based on the comparisons and the analyses. The method may also include presenting the plurality of first analysis results and the plurality of second analysis results. |
| US10262285B2 |
Correlating resource utilization requirements based on utilization of affiliated resources
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for correlating resource utilization requirements based on utilization of affiliated resources. The present invention is configured to retrieve information associated with one or more resources associated with a user; receive a query, wherein the query is associated with a resource distribution goal; determine one or more peers associated with the user; retrieve one or more resource distribution profiles associated with each of the one or more peers associated with the user from one or more network platforms; determine a first resource distribution profile determined to enable the user to achieve the resource distribution goal from the distribution profiles of the one or more peers; and implement the first distribution profile to the one or more resources associated with the user. |
| US10262282B2 |
Automatic sort and propagation associated with electronic documents
Automatic sorting and propagating of information relating to electronic documents is presented. With regard to an electronic document, such as an incoming message, an enhanced information management component (EIMC) can analyze the document to identify a file folder associated with a subject to which the document relates. Based on interaction with or tagging of the document in a first user interface (UI) and predefined user preferences, the EIMC can propagate information relating to the subject and/or document to a second UI. The EIMC can archive the document in the identified file folder automatically or in response to as little as one UI control manipulation. The EIMC can analyze audio or video content to facilitate tagging and archiving of such content using the first UI and propagation of information relating to such content and/or related subject to a second UI. |
| US10262280B2 |
Ensemble based decision making
A method for accelerating the decision making process for reservoir risk management is described. In particular, an ensemble based decisions and filter are used to quickly compare different information scenarios to determine the best strategy for developing a hydrocarbon-containing reservoir. |
| US10262278B2 |
Systems and methods for identification and interaction with electronic devices using an augmented reality device
Systems and methods differentiate and uniquely identify electronic devices to enable their virtual interaction with an augmented reality device. According to certain aspects, an augmented reality device can differentiate between electronic devices in an environment that have a substantially similar appearance. A user can subsequently use the augmented reality device to virtually interact with the uniquely identified electronic devices. An improved user experience and greater user satisfaction with the augmented reality device may result through the use of these systems and methods. |
| US10262277B2 |
Automated adaptive data analysis using dynamic data quality assessment
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for automated dynamic data quality assessment. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification includes the actions of receiving a data quality job including a new data sample; and, if the new data sample is determined to be added to a reservoir of data samples, sending a quality verification request to an oracle; receiving a new data sample quality estimate from the oracle; and adding the new data sample and estimate to the reservoir. A second aspect of the subject matter includes the actions of receiving, from a predictive model, a judgment associated with a new data sample; analyzing the new data sample based in part on the judgment to determine whether to send a new data sample quality verification request to an oracle; and, if a new data sample quality estimate is received from the oracle, determining whether to add the new data sample and the judgment to the reservoir. |
| US10262272B2 |
Active machine learning
Technologies are described herein for active machine learning. An active machine learning method can include initiating active machine learning through an active machine learning system configured to train an auxiliary machine learning model to produce at least one new labeled observation, refining a capacity of a target machine learning model based on the active machine learning, and retraining the auxiliary machine learning model with the at least one new labeled observation subsequent to refining the capacity of the target machine learning model. Additionally, the target machine learning model is a limited-capacity machine learning model according to the description provided herein. |
| US10262267B2 |
Method and device for processing policy
The present invention disclose a method for processing a policy, including: obtaining at least one user policy, where the user policy is used to instruct a service processing unit to perform service processing; reading information of an application knowledge base corresponding to each user policy and performing rule conversion on the read information, so that the description language of the information is consistent with the rule description language of the user policy; combining a condition element and an action element of each user policy with information corresponding to the condition element and the action element, and compiling each result obtained through combination; and sending each compilation result to a service processing unit corresponding to each compilation result. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further disclose a device for processing a policy. The embodiments of the present invention can reduce system overhead. |
| US10262265B2 |
Systems and methods for generating and communicating application recommendations at uninstall time
A method for generating an application recommendation includes receiving a signal from an electronic device indicating that uninstallation of a first application has been initiated by a user on the electronic device, obtaining contextual information of the application, the contextual information including data indicating when the application was installed and frequency of use of the application, obtaining utilization data, the utilization data including data indicating applications that have been installed on the electronic device, determining a plurality of applications that are similar to the first application; generating a first predictive model using the contextual information and the utilization data, the first predictive model being configured to predict a likelihood of uninstallation of an application; and automatically recommending, at the time of uninstallation of the application, one or more of the plurality of applications, the recommending being based at least in part on the first predictive model. |
| US10262263B2 |
Retrieving database score contextual information
A system, method and computer program product for evaluating a user's database (db) design schema and definitions syntax and generating a database score according to applied decision tree logic. The database design syntax is automatically evaluated and decision tree logic is applied to determine a context of the database design object and associated syntax and definitions statements. As a result of the automated evaluation, users may then obtain, via a user interface device, a detailed context information associated with their design to assist them in understanding how their database score was derived. By using this detailed contextual information, users analyze the results and can understand what changes can be made to improve their definitions Database Score. The system and method increases the ability of the user to create better database definitions by learning and improving using the contextual data returned. |
| US10262262B2 |
Semantic method for terminal devices of internet of things
The present invention relates to the technical field of terminal devices of the Internet of Things, more specifically to a semantic method for terminal devices of the Internet of Things capable of analyzing the application characteristics of terminal devices of the Internet of Things, setting down the rules for building ontology base; analyzing and building initial ontology base by using the ontology base building tool; pre-processing information from network and sensors; collecting information uploaded by sensors, updating the initial ontology base, and expanding the ontology base by collecting information searched by network. The method establishes program plan by object-oriented mode, analyzes implementing results by using existing test data or simulated data, and realizes domain updating and expansion of sensor ontology according to specific applications. The whole development and evolution of sensor ontology is increasing gradually in a spiral form. |
| US10262251B2 |
System and method for quality management utilizing barcode indicators
A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of bar coded quality indicators each operative to provide a machine-readable indication of exceedance of at least one threshold by at least one product quality affecting parameter, a barcode indicator reader operative to read the barcoded quality indicators and to provide output indications, the barcoded quality indicators being readable by the barcode indicator reader at all times after first becoming readable, including times prior to, during and immediately following exceedance of the at least one threshold by the at least one product quality affecting parameter, and a product type responsive indication interpreter operative to receive the output indications and to provide human sensible, product quality status outputs. |
| US10262250B1 |
Facial patterns for optical barcodes
Systems and methods for using facial patterns for information access via optical barcodes are provided. In example embodiments, a computer accesses an image. The computer determines, using facial recognition, that the accessed image includes a face. The computer determines, using the face, an orientation of the image. The computer decodes, based on the determined orientation of the image, data encoded within the geometric shape. The computer may then access a resource based on the decoded data. In some aspects, a graphical output may be presented on a display device indicating the accessed resource. |
| US10262249B2 |
Contactless information medium and manufacturing method thereof
Provided is a contactless information medium that achieves reduction in initial failure at the time of manufacture and obtains stable quality. A contactless information medium 1 includes a plurality of substrates 2a to 2d in a stacked state, an electric conductor 4, and an IC chip 5. The electric conductor 4 is integrally provided on each of the substrates 2a to 2d, and has a pre-formed conductive pattern 3. The IC chip 5 is mounted on any one of the substrates 2a to 2d, and is connected to the electric conductor 4. The conductive pattern 3 partially includes spiral patterns 31a to 31d formed in a spiral shape. The spiral patterns 31a to 31d are arranged at different positions among the substrates 2a to 2d. |
| US10262246B1 |
Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium
An image forming apparatus includes: a communication interface that receives printable data including a character code from a host device; a memory that stores a character code attribute table recording the character code, the character code attribute table being configured to record a rendering attribute in association with the character code; and a processor that executes an information processing program to operate as a rendering module, in which the rendering module is configured to render a character identified by the character code in the printable data on a basis of the rendering attribute recorded in association with the character code in the character code attribute table to generate rendering data. |
| US10262245B2 |
Compact ejectable component assemblies in electronic devices
Electronic devices are provided with ejectable component assemblies. Each ejectable component assembly may include a tray that can be loaded with one or more types of removable module, such as a mini-SIM card and a micro-SIM card, and inserted into the device. Each assembly may also include a base coupled to a circuit board for electrically coupling with the removable module, a cage for biasing the module down against the base, and a guide for retaining the module at a functional insertion position within the device. |
| US10262244B2 |
Image evaluation method
The purpose of the present invention is to improve evaluation accuracy of a photographed image when an event occurs. An image evaluation method according to the present invention includes steps, which are carried out by a server, for: storing, in a plurality of storage units, organism images each corresponding to a mode of an organism and outbreak environment information indicating the range of environment information suited for a mode of an organism; receiving a photographed image transmitted from a portable terminal; receiving environment information measured by a sensor terminal from the sensor terminal; retrieving organism images similar to the received photographed image among a plurality of organism images and assigning scores to names each related to the mode of an organism corresponding to the retrieved organism image; extracting names each related to the mode of an organism associated with outbreak environment information including the environment information received from the sensor terminal; assigning a weight to the scores of the extracted names; and transmitting a name, having the highest score among the plurality of scores as an evaluation result name, to the portable terminal that has transmitted the photographed image. |
| US10262235B1 |
Dual stage neural network pipeline systems and methods
A method of identifying and recognizing characters using a dual-stage neural network pipeline, the method including: receiving, by a computing device, image data; providing the image data to a first convolutional layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN); applying, using the CNN, pattern recognition to the image data to identify a region of the image data containing text; providing sub-image data comprising the identified region of the image data to a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN); and recognizing, using the CRNN, the characters within the sub-image data. |
| US10262226B1 |
Systems and methods regarding 2D image and 3D image ensemble prediction models
Systems and methods are described for generating an enhanced prediction from a 2D and 3D image-based ensemble model. In various embodiments, a computing device can be configured to obtain one or more sets of 2D and 3D images and to standardize each of the 2D and 3D images to allow for comparison and interoperability. Corresponding 2D3D image pairs can be determined from the standardized 2D and 3D pairs where the 2D and 3D images correspond based on a common attribute, such as a similar timestamp or time value. The enhanced prediction can use separate underlying 2D and 3D prediction models where the 2D and 3D images of a 2D3D pair are each input to the respective underlying 2D and 3D prediction models to generate respective 2D and 3D predict actions. |
| US10262224B1 |
Optical flow estimation using a neural network and egomotion optimization
A camera is connected to a trained neural network. The camera takes an image of a scene and transmits the image to the neural network. A processor connected to the neural network has a localization filter and a robot model implemented therein. A global positioning system (GPS) receiver and inertial measurement unit (IMU) transmit GPS information and IMU information, respectively, to the processor. The localization filter filters the received GPS and IMU information and inputs the filtered information into the robot model. The robot model outputs current position information corresponding to the current image and previous position information corresponding to the respective one or more previous images. The neural network uses the current image and associated current position information and the one or more previous images and respective associated previous position information to generate an estimated optical flow image, which is transmitted to an object detection system. |
| US10262222B2 |
Method and system for measuring dimensions of a target object
The invention relates to a method for measuring dimensions of a target object. The method comprises acquiring depth data representative of the physical space, the depth data comprising data of the target object, converting the depth data into a point cloud, extracting at least one plane from the point cloud, identifying a ground plane, eliminating the ground plane from the point cloud, extracting at least one point cluster from the remaining point cloud, identifying a point cluster of the target object, estimating dimensions of the target object based on the point cluster of the target object. |
| US10262219B2 |
Apparatus and method to determine drowsiness of a driver
An apparatus and method for determining drowsiness of a driver are provided. The apparatus includes an imaging device that obtains an image of the driver and a controller that determines (e.g., based on the image of the driver) when the driver is in a fatigue state, when the driver is in an eyelid closure state, and when the driver is in a wake-up state. The controller further determines that the driver is in a drowsiness state when after the fatigue state of the driver continues over a predetermined first time interval, the eyelid closure state and the wake-up state of the driver alternately and repetitively occur within a predetermined second time interval. |
| US10262218B2 |
Simultaneous object detection and rigid transform estimation using neural network
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for object detection are provided. The apparatus may determine a regression vector using a neural network based on an input image that contains an object. The object may have a planar surface with a known shape. The apparatus may derive a transform matrix based on the regression vector. The apparatus may identify a precise boundary of the object based on the transform matrix. The precise boundary of the object may include a plurality of vertices of the object. To identify the boundary of the object, the apparatus may apply the transform matrix to a determined shape of the object. |
| US10262217B2 |
Controlling host vehicle based on detected door opening events
Systems and methods are provided for navigating an autonomous vehicle. In one implementation, a system for navigating a host vehicle based on detecting a door opening event may include at least one processing device. The processing device may be programmed to receive at least one image associated with the environment of the host vehicle, analyze the at least one image to identify a side of a parked vehicle, identify a first structural feature of the parked vehicle and a second structural feature of the parked vehicle, identify a door edge of the parked vehicle in a vicinity of the first and second structural features, determine a change of an image characteristic of the door edge of the parked vehicle, and alter a navigational path of the host vehicle based at least in part on the change of the image characteristic of the door edge of the parked vehicle. |
| US10262216B2 |
Hazard detection from a camera in a scene with moving shadows
Computerized methods are performable by a driver assistance system while the host vehicle is moving. The driver assistance system includes a camera connectible to a processor. First and second image frames are captured from the field of view of the camera. Corresponding image points of the road are tracked from the first image frame to the second image frame. Image motion between the corresponding image points of the road is processed to detect a hazard in the road. The corresponding image points are determined to be of a moving shadow cast on the road to avoid a false positive detection of a hazard in the road or the corresponding image points are determined not to be of a moving shadow cast on the road to verify detection of a hazard in the road. |
| US10262215B2 |
Scene understanding device
A scene understanding device obtains map data where one, two or more obstacle detection frames, shaped corresponding to a road structure, for detecting an obstacle are set in advance for a specific spot on a road where a vehicle would otherwise bump into a vehicle or a pedestrian. The scene understanding device determines whether there exists an obstacle in the obstacle detection frames set for the specific spot on a scheduled traveling route of a host vehicle, and calculates the degree of risk at the specific spot based on a result of determining whether there exists an obstacle therein. |
| US10262209B2 |
Method for analyzing video data
The invention provides a method of analyzing video data comprising the steps of recording the video data using one or more video recording devices; analyzing at least one video frame of the video data to extract identification information regarding a specific object of interest that is comprised in a watch list of a plurality of objects of interest, the watch list including at least one entry for each of the plurality of objects of interest; computing a matching value by comparing the extracted identification information with predetermined identification information of the specific object of interest; and storing object data and the matching value as an additional entry in the watch list in association with the specific object of interest. |
| US10262207B2 |
Method for tracking keypoints in a scene
The present invention relates to a method for tracking a position of at least one keypoint in an image of an object moving relative to an optical sensor, wherein light reflected from the object (12) is detected so as to generate an image of the object, and wherein a position of at least one keypoint (Kj) in said image is detected and updated using temporal contrast events (Ev) of the optical sensor. The invention also relates to a corresponding computer program and device. |
| US10262204B2 |
User terminal apparatus and iris recognition method thereof
A user terminal apparatus and an iris recognition method thereof are provided. The user terminal apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to generate an image of a user, a display configured to display the generated image, and a controller configured to detect a user eye from the generated image, control the display to display a guide image in a position of the generated image in which the detected user eye is located, and perform iris recognition in response to a difference between a size of an iris included in the detected user eye and a size of the guide image being within a preset range. |
| US10262200B2 |
Method for examining a value document, and means for carrying out the method
There is described a method for examining a value document while employing a digital image of the value document which comprises pixels, wherein the image is examined for the presence of at least one irregularity relating to a pre-specified property of the value document, when such an irregularity is found an examination region representing the irregularity is fixed in dependence on the size and/or position and/or form of the irregularity in the image, and for checking the irregularity only a part of those pixels of the digital image that correspond to the examination region is employed. |
| US10262199B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium
In order to reduce limitations on an arrangement of a posture visualization system as a whole, a posture recognition unit recognizes, based on image data of a real space captured by an image capture unit from a predetermined viewpoint, a posture of an object in the image data of the real space. A posture visualization viewpoint setting unit sets a viewpoint different from the predetermined viewpoint. A posture visualization unit visualizes a mirror image of the posture of the object viewed from the viewpoint set by the posture visualization viewpoint setting unit based on the posture recognized by the posture recognition unit. A space display unit displays the mirror image of the posture of the object generated by the posture visualization unit and a mirror image of the real space at once. |
| US10262196B2 |
System and method for predicting neurological disorders
A method and system for predicting neurological disorders is provided. The method comprises receiving videos of individuals and detecting Regions of Interest (ROI) in video frames. The method further comprises determining a Motion Vector (MV) for each ROI in a set of successive frames and comparing value of the determined MV with pre-stored values. Furthermore, the method comprises identifying a MV matching a pre-stored value thereby identifying a ROI and a frame corresponding to the identified MV, wherein the pre-stored value indicates onset of an expression. Also, the method comprises determining MVs for the identified ROI in subsequent sets of successive frames and comparing value of the determined MVs with a pre-stored value of MV corresponding to peak and offset of the indicated expression. The method further comprises identifying the frame corresponding to the peak and offset of the indicated expression and generating pictorial representation for predicting neurological disorders. |
| US10262195B2 |
Predictive and responsive video analytics system and methods
Methods and systems to predict user behavior based on analysis of a video communication by one or more processors, which methods include receiving a user video communication, extracting video analysis data optionally including facial analysis data for the user from the video communication, extracting, by the one or more processors, voice analysis data from the user video communication, generating an outcome prediction score based on the video analysis data and voice analysis data that predicts a likelihood that a user will take an action leading to an outcome. |
| US10262192B2 |
Human facial detection and recognition system
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an image-based face detection and recognition system that processes and/or analyzes portions of an image using “image strips” and cascading classifiers to detect faces and/or various facial features, such an eye, nose, mouth, cheekbone, jaw line, etc. |
| US10262188B2 |
Liveness and spoof detection for ultrasonic fingerprint sensors
Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for detecting a spoof finger are disclosed. In one embodiment, an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor comprises an ultrasonic transmitter configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to a finger, an ultrasonic sensor array configured to receive a reflected ultrasonic wave from the finger, and a controller configured to determine a reflected acoustic energy of the finger based on a difference between average amplitudes of the reflected ultrasonic wave from ridges and valleys of the finger; and determine whether the finger is a spoof based at least in part on the reflected acoustic energy of the finger. |
| US10262186B2 |
Method for authenticating fingerprint and authentication apparatus using same
There is provided a method for authenticating a fingerprint. The method includes receiving an inputted fingerprint image; selecting a plurality of comparison target pixels from pixels in the inputted fingerprint image and selecting a plurality of comparison reference pixels from pixels in a pre-stored registered fingerprint image; and determining a similarity of an overlapping area where the inputted fingerprint image overlaps the registered fingerprint image whenever a matching arrangement of each of the comparison target pixels is made with respect to each of the comparison reference pixels. The method further includes, whenever it is determined that the overlapping area is similar, comparing the inputted fingerprint image and the registered fingerprint image within the overlapping area to calculate a correlation score with respect to the overlapping area and authenticating the inputted fingerprint image based on the calculated correlation score. |
| US10262184B2 |
Fingerprint verification method and electronic device for performing the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touchscreen display, a pressure sensor positioned to sense external pressure against the display, a fingerprint sensor positioned to detect a fingerprint on at least a portion of the display, a processor electrically coupled to the display, the pressure sensor, and the fingerprint sensor, and a memory electrically coupled to the processor, in which the memory stores at least one registered fingerprint. The processor is configured to sense pressure of a user's finger against the display using the pressure sensor, upon sensing of the pressure, activate the fingerprint sensor, detect a fingerprint of the finger using the fingerprint sensor, determine whether the detected fingerprint is matched with any of the at least one registered fingerprint, and perform a preselected function without further requiring authentication, when the detected fingerprint is matched with any of the at least one registered fingerprint. |
| US10262174B1 |
Testing controllable cards
Controllable cards can be selected and testing programmatically. For example, a system can include card ports for receiving controllable cards. Switching devices can control communication with the controllable cards. An output port can communicatively couple a selected card to a card reader. A controller device can respond to a command from a test system by causing the switching devices to select a card port to which to communicatively couple to the output port. |
| US10262172B1 |
Inventory tracking using RFID
A storage unit includes a support bar for hanging items and an RFID antenna provided within a predefined distance of the support bar. When the items hanging from the support bar are adorned with RFID tags, and the RFID antenna emits electromagnetic fields in a direction of the support bar. RFID signals identifying the items are transmitted from the RFID tags to the RFID antenna, thereby enabling a placement or a removal of an item to be automatically registered, or an accounting of the available items to be automatically performed. The RFID antenna may be a portion of a transmission line that uses shields and/or dielectric materials to shape the electromagnetic fields toward a predefined direction, and the locations of items bearing RFID tags on the support bar may be determined by varying the phase of the emitted radiofrequency and determining strengths of RFID signals when the electromagnetic fields are emitted at varying phases. |
| US10262171B2 |
Device for identifying an object comprising a label
A device including a case including a first housing demarcating a first accommodating volume designed to receive a PDA phone; a data capture module configured to capture data from the tag of the object; connection means configured to electrically connect the data capture module and the PDA phone; the device being remarkable in that the case includes a second housing demarcating a second accommodating volume, and in that the data capture module is arranged inside the second housing, in the second accommodating volume. |
| US10262167B2 |
Detachable radio frequency identification switch tag
A radio frequency identification (RFID) switch tag is disclosed. This RFID switch tag includes a base component having an ultra-high frequency (UHF) booster, and a detachable component having at least one UHF RFID module and a high frequency (HF) RFID module. In some embodiments, the detachable component is positioned in close proximity to the base component in a first configuration of the RFID switch tag such that the at least one UHF RFID module is sufficiently coupled to the UHF booster in the base component to form an UHF RFID system having a desired performance. The detachable component can also be separated from the base component to obtain a second configuration of the RFID switch tag, and the HF RFID module remains functional within the detached detachable component so that the detachable component can be used as a standalone HF RFID tag. |
| US10262165B2 |
Authentication of a smart pen and computing device
Method and system are provided for authentication for pairing of a smart pen with a computing device. The method, which is carried out at a smart pen, may include: sensing a signature event carried out by a user writing with the smart pen on an input user interface of the computing device; recording a signature resulting from the signature event; authenticating the signature by comparing to a stored previously recorded signature at the smart pen. If the authenticating is successful, the method activates connection of the smart pen with the computing device using a communication channel. A corresponding method is carried out at the computing device at which the signature event is carried out. |
| US10262164B2 |
Cryptographic ASIC including circuitry-encoded transformation function
A transform-enabled integrated circuit for use in cryptographic proof-of-work systems is provided. The transform-enabled integrated circuit includes a transformation block embedded among other circuitry components within the cryptographic datapath of the transform-enabled integrated circuit. The transformation block may be configured at a time subsequent to the manufacture of the integrated circuit to embody as circuitry any one of a plurality of mathematical transformation functions, thus enabling a user to systemically modify the results of cryptographic operations performed by the integrated circuit while retaining the high performance and efficiency characteristics of application specific integrated circuits. Embodiments of the technology disclosed herein provides an hereto unachievable level of flexibility in the deployment of application-specific integrated circuits within proof-of-work verification systems, such as private block chain systems, public block chain systems, digital rights management, secure token and other cryptography-related fields. |
| US10262159B2 |
Privileged user access monitoring in a computing environment
Methods and systems for monitoring privileged user access of a database using a computer having at least one processor are provided. The system monitors database transactions. If a transaction is made by a privileged user, the system records information relating to the transaction in an audit database and/or in an audit file. If a transaction is made by a terminated or otherwise unauthorized privileged user, the system can be adapted to alert management of a possible security breach. |
| US10262152B2 |
Access control apparatus, computer-readable medium, and access control system
An access control apparatus comprises a control unit that, based on predetermined access control information, restricts access to an electronic file by software that is permitted to access or prohibited from accessing the electronic file. An access control system comprises: an access control apparatus that has a control unit that, based on predetermined access control information, restricts access to an electronic file by software that is permitted to access or prohibited from accessing the electronic file; and a management apparatus that is provided outside the access control apparatus, and provides, to the access control apparatus, at least one of the predetermined access control information and a judgment result based on the predetermined access control information. |
| US10262148B2 |
Secure dynamic page content and layouts apparatuses, methods and systems
The SECURE DYNAMIC PAGE CONTENT AND LAYOUTS APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“DPCL”) transform dynamic layout template requests, device, user, and surroundings security profiles, and layout usage monitor packages using DPCL components into customized secure dynamic layouts. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of transforming the content of an electronically generated user facing page for displaying on a user display. |
| US10262141B2 |
Secure processor with resistance to external monitoring attacks
A computing device includes a secure storage hardware to store a secret value and processing hardware comprising at least one of a cache or a memory. During a secure boot process the processing hardware loads untrusted data into at least one of the cache or the memory of the processing hardware, the untrusted data comprising an encrypted data segment and a validator, retrieves the secret value from the secure storage hardware, derives an initial key based at least in part on an identifier associated with the encrypted data segment and the secret value, verifies, using the validator, whether the encrypted data segment has been modified, and decrypts the encrypted data segment using a first decryption key derived from the initial key to produce a decrypted data segment responsive to verifying that the encrypted data segment has not been modified. |
| US10262140B2 |
Methods and apparatus to facilitate blockchain-based boot tracking
A device with support for blockchain-based boot tracking comprises at least one processor, non-volatile storage responsive to the processor, and at least one boot module in the non-volatile storage. The boot module, when executed by the processor, enables the device to generate a measurement of the boot module, generate an internal ledger transaction based on the measurement of the boot module, and send the internal ledger transaction to a remote device. In addition, the boot module enables the device to (a) receive an external ledger transaction from the remote device, wherein the external ledger transaction is based on a measurement for a boot module of the remote device; (b) in response to receiving the external ledger transaction, verify the external ledger transaction; and (c) in response to verifying the external ledger transaction, add the external ledger transaction to a boot audit blockchain. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10262139B2 |
System and method for detection and prevention of data breach and ransomware attacks
The embodiments herein disclose a system and method for detecting a ransomware and preventing data breach. The method identifies whether a process for file access is initiated and executed by a user or by a malware program. The method uses keystrokes, mouse events along with OCR output extracted from recorded background screen image for checking if user has initiated the process. If a new process or file replication request is initiated automatically without any pattern in Key Strokes, Mouse Strokes and background screen, then the process is identified as a ransomware or data breach. |
| US10262134B2 |
Detection of key logging activity
Detection of a key logger includes determining a count of keystrokes that occur during each of a plurality of time windows. Write activity that occurs during each of the plurality of time windows can be measured. The number of key strokes occurring in window is compared with the write activity occurring during the window. In response to determining that the count of keystrokes in a time window is linearly related to the measurement of write activity in the time window for a threshold number of time windows of the plurality of windows, a notification of a potential presence of a key logger is provided. |
| US10262129B1 |
Dynamic password generator with fuzzy matching
A method for aiding a user in recalling and generating a password. Many times it is easier for a user to remember a place, phrase, person, or other piece of information based on a certain context. The present invention allows for generating a password based on contextual information provided by the user. By providing a context type and a pass phrase, a secure password can be generated. The invention also provides a mechanism for “fuzzy matching”, in which a user only needs to provide a password that is close enough to a stored password to gain access to a website or service. The context type and pass phrase can be used to create a list of passwords (the list being limited to a certain number of entries), each matched against a database of passwords to validate entry. |
| US10262127B2 |
Systems and method for securely sharing and executing data and models
A simulation computer device for securely executing a model includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The simulation computer device is configured to store a smart container including a model and a usage policy. The simulation computer device is also configured to receive a plurality of inputs for the model and determine whether to validate the model based on the usage policy. The simulation computer device is further configured to execute the model with the plurality of inputs if the model was validated. Moreover, the simulation computer device is configured to transmit at least one output. |
| US10262126B2 |
Facial recognition authentication system including path parameters
Systems and methods for enrolling and authenticating a user in an authentication system via a user's camera of camera equipped mobile device include capturing and storing enrollment biometric information from at least one first image of the user taken via the camera of the mobile device, capturing authentication biometric information from at least one second image of the user, capturing, during imaging of the at least one second image, path parameters via at least one movement detecting sensor indicating an authentication movement of the mobile device, comparing the authentication biometric information to the stored enrollment biometric information, and comparing the authentication movement of the mobile device to an expected movement of the mobile device to determine whether the authentication movement sufficiently corresponds to the expected movement. |
| US10262125B2 |
Image sensing system
A system may include a sensing device and an application device. The sensing device includes an imaging device, an image processing unit that detects a whole or part of a person from an image captured with the imaging device as a sensing target and extracts information on the detected sensing target, and a wireless communication unit that transmits the sensing result including the information extracted by the image processing unit through wireless communication. The application device includes a communication unit that receives the sensing result from the sensing device and an application processing unit that performs processing using information included in the sensing result received by the communication unit. The information transmitted from the sensing device as the sensing result includes neither a person's image nor information that can directly identify an individual. |
| US10262122B2 |
Analysis apparatus, analysis system, analysis method, and analysis program
An analysis apparatus analyzes access logs including authentication results and authentication information of users, and includes: a calculation unit that calculates a similarity between pieces of authentication information in two consecutive access logs when access logs of the same access source, from the access logs, are chronologically arranged, and presumes that a piece of authentication information of the access logs of the user has been input by a human if the calculated similarity is equal to or greater than a predetermined value; and a risk determination unit that determines that there is a possibility that the access source in the access logs is being an attack source if an authentication result of any of the two access logs is authentication failure and the calculation unit presumes that any piece of authentication information of the two access logs has not been input by a human. |
| US10262119B2 |
Providing an authenticating service of a chip
An authenticating service of a chip having an intrinsic identifier (ID) is provided. The authenticating device includes an identification (ID) engine, a self-test engine, and an intrinsic component. The intrinsic component is associated with a chip and includes an intrinsic feature. The self-test engine retrieves the intrinsic feature and communicates it to the identification engine. The identification engine receives the intrinsic feature, generates a first authentication value using the intrinsic feature, and stores the authentication value in memory. The self-test engine generates a second authentication value using an authentication challenge. The identification engine includes a compare circuitry that compares the first authentication value and the second authentication value and generates an authentication output value based on the results of the compare of the two values. |
| US10262117B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and information processing method
An information processing system includes an information processing apparatus, a server, first and second obtaining units, an addition unit, and a second processing unit. The first obtaining unit obtains second information indicating first information held by the server when the information processing apparatus has not previously included the first information to perform second processing necessary for first processing. When receiving a first request for requesting to perform the first processing, the second obtaining unit obtains token information indicating the presence of the authority to use the second information. When the second obtaining unit has obtained the token information, the addition unit adds the token information to a second request for requesting to perform the second processing. Only when the token information has been added to the second request, the second processing unit performs the second processing by using the second information. |
| US10262111B2 |
Systems for safe and remote outpatient ECG monitoring
A system and method providing outpatient ECG monitoring and safe home based cardiac tele-rehabilitation. The system includes a recordation module for recording ECG signals using at least one lead, a tele-rehabilitation module for home based exercise management for a patient's recovery, the tele-rehabilitation module including a processing module for recognizing erroneous data from the ECG signals and an analysis module for calculating beat-to-beat annotations and determining if an ECG event and/or if a QT interval duration change has occurred. The system can include an exercise module for guiding the patient during an exercise session, a visual display that informs the patient to start and/or to stop the tele-rehabilitation exercise, a visual display and/or audible signal that informs the patient of an incoming or a missed tele-rehabilitation exercise session, and/or a communication module for transmitting/receiving data between the a cardiac tele-rehabilitation module and a physician/monitoring center. |
| US10262102B2 |
Systems and methods for genotyping with graph reference
Genomic references are structured as a reference graph that represents diploid genotypes in organisms. A path through a series of connected nodes and edges represents a genetic sequence. Genetic variation within a diploid organism is represented by multiple paths through the reference graph. The graph may be transformed into a traversal graph in which a path represents a diploid genotype. Genetic analysis using the traversal graph allows an organism's diploid genotype to be elucidated, e.g., by mapping sequence reads to the reference graph and scoring paths in the traversal graph based on the mapping to determine the path through the traversal graph that best fits the sequence reads. |
| US10262100B2 |
Rule based assist feature placement using skeletons
A method for generating sub-resolution assist features (SRAFs) for target features of a photomask includes generating a 2D rules-based assist feature (RBAF) rules table that estimates results obtained from a model-based SRAF method. The 2D RBAF rules table defines seed skeletons using polar coordinates. Empty space surrounding the target features is divided into corresponding owned regions. Seed skeletons are placed in the owned regions using the 2D RBAF rules table. The seed skeletons are widened, and the resulting structure is re-skeletonized. A cleaning process is performed on the re-skeletonized structure, eliminating potentially troublesome features, including stubs, forks, triple-points and quad-points. The cleaned skeleton structure is straightened, and polygonal SRAFs are placed at locations specified by the straightened skeleton structure. |
| US10262099B2 |
Methodology for model-based self-aligned via awareness in optical proximity correction
A method of providing self-aligned via (SAV) awareness in optical proximity correction (OPC) includes identifying non-SAV edges, identifying any lower metal structure that is within a critical distance from the non-SAV edges, and defining replacement non-SAV edges proximate to the lower metal structure using a distance constraint that is evaluated as part of the OPC objective function to redefine the mask solution and relocate at least one non-SAV edge away from the lower metal structure. |
| US10262097B2 |
Method to optimize standard cells manufacturability
A method for optimizing manufacturability of standard cells includes generating random contexts for the standard cells, inserting vias into the standard cells, and performing a lithography verification on the standard cells after the vias have been inserted. The method enables early detection and resolution of potential hot spots on standard cell pin connections and reduction of hot spots that are introduced by the router at the chip level. The early detection and reduction of hot spots shortens the cycle time of a standard-cell based design. |
| US10262096B2 |
Component placement with repacking for programmable logic devices
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide improved placement of components in programmable logic devices (PLDs). In one example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a design identifying operations to be performed by a PLD. The method also includes determining a layout comprising positions of components of the PLD configured to perform the operations. The method also includes performing a timing analysis on the layout. The method also includes selectively adjusting the positions of the components using the timing analysis. Related systems and non-transitory machine-readable mediums are also provided. |
| US10262093B2 |
Computer implemented system and method of identification of useful untested states of an electronic design
A computer implemented system and method of computer implemented method of instrumentation of an electronic design comprising receiving by a computer a computer readable representation of said electronic design having at least in one part of said electronic design, an analog portion. At least one instrumented netlist is generated based at least in part upon said representation of said electronic design. At least one specification of said electronic design is received and at least one set of valid states is generated based on said at least one specification. An analog verification coverage is determined utilizing said at least one instrumented netlist. |
| US10262090B1 |
System and method for assessing the remaining useful life of an insulation system
A system and method for electrical tree simulation based on a modification of a discharge avalanche model with an application of a charge simulation method to determine partial discharge data during the growth of electrical trees in an insulation system and a method of using the model to determine the remaining useful life of an insulation system. |
| US10262086B2 |
Analyzing apparatus, analyzing method, and computer program
An analyzing apparatus generates first displacement distribution data indicating a displacement distribution of a member caused by springback based on finite element model data, material physical property data, and stress distribution data; generates second displacement distribution data indicating an amount of displacement of the member in each of a plurality of, for example, all, natural vibration deformation modes based on the finite element model data and the material physical property data; obtains a degree of coincidence between the first displacement distribution data and each of the second displacement distribution data, and selects one or more natural vibration deformation modes based on the degree of coincidence, to determine a modified shape in which natural vibrations are increased, thereby bringing the member closer to a target shape. |
| US10262085B2 |
Methodology for determining curves of productivity of wells for exploiting underground gas storage and underground natural reservoir of compressible fluids
The invention relates to a characterization method for characterizing the performance of wells in a stockpile or deposit of compressible fluid, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a plurality of operating points (400); defining a family of operating models (IPa, IPb); for each model of a family, enumerating (410) those points of the plurality of points that are reproduced by said model; and for managing said stockpile or deposit, selecting (420) at least one model (M) from the family of models on the basis of at least the result of the enumeration step. |
| US10262075B2 |
Efficient navigation through hierarchical mappings
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method comprises displaying a first portion of a representation a first and a second hierarchical structure, each of the first hierarchical structure and the second hierarchical structure including a plurality of fields, displaying a representation of mappings between fields of the first hierarchical structure and the second hierarchical structure, receiving a predetermined user command associated with a particular field of the second hierarchical structure, in response to receiving the predetermined user command, if the displayed first portion of the representation of the first hierarchical structure includes no field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure, displaying a second portion of the first structure including at least one field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure, and, if the at least one field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure is hidden, expand the second portion of the first hierarchical structure until the at least one field mapped to the particular field of the second hierarchical structure becomes visible. |
| US10262074B2 |
Method and device for offline webpage browsing, and computer storage medium
The disclosure relates to the field of IOS terminals, and provides a method and device for offline webpage browsing and a computer storage medium, wherein the method includes: a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) input by a user is received; when an instruction for adding the URL is received, storing the URL into a preset offline browsing list, downloading a webpage resource file of a webpage corresponding to the URL into a specified storage position, and compressing the downloaded webpage resource file into an executable document; and in an offline state, a URL in the offline browsing list is received and an executable document corresponding to the selected URL is loaded so as to implement offline webpage browsing. The problems existing in the prior art that a webpage resource file is incompletely loaded and the loading efficiency is low may be solved effectively by the disclosure. |
| US10262073B2 |
Generating and distributing interactive documents
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating and distributing interactive documents. An interactive document generation platform receives information that defines a series of interactive pages of an interactive document to be provided for facilitating performance of a procedure, receives multimedia content to be presented with interactive pages of the interactive document, and generates a data package that includes metadata, structural data, and multimedia content for the interactive document. The data package is provided to an interactive document distribution platform configured for adapting the interactive document for presentation by a plurality of different types of computing devices, receiving a request for the interactive document for a computing device of a particular type, and providing to the computing device a version of the interactive document that is adapted for presentation by the particular type of the computing device. |
| US10262071B1 |
Apparatus, system, and method for distributing management data in multi-NMS environments
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) a database that stores management data in connection with a network protocol implemented within a network that includes a plurality of NMSes and (2) a processing unit having access to the database, wherein the processing unit (A) receives, from an NMS within the plurality of NMSes, a request for at least a portion of the management data stored in the database and then, in response to receiving the request from the NMS, (B) retrieves the requested portion of management data from the database, (C) provides the requested portion of management data to the NMS, and (D) provides the requested portion of management data to at least one additional NMS within the plurality of NMSes even though the additional NMS did not initiate the request for the portion of management data. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10262066B2 |
Crowd-sourced native application crawling
A method for performing crowd-sourced native application crawling is disclosed. The method includes determining a list of installed native applications installed on a user device and determining whether a set of crawling conditions are met. The method includes generating a work request in response to the set of crawling conditions being met by the user device and transmitting the work request to a content acquisition server. The work request includes the list of installed native applications. The method includes receiving a crawling task including an application access mechanism corresponding to a state of a native application. The method include launching the native application and setting the state of the native application based on the application access mechanism. The native application issues a content request to a content server. The method further includes receiving the content from the content server and transmitting the content to the content acquisition server. |
| US10262059B2 |
Method, apparatus, and storage medium for text information processing
Method, apparatus, and storage medium for text information processing are provided. The method includes: performing word segmentation on a target text according to a preset fixed word segmentation policy, and comparing a word segmentation result with a preset word segmentation list, to obtain a new word; adding the new word to the preset word segmentation list, to obtain a test word segmentation list; classifying a test text according to the preset word segmentation list, to obtain a first text, and classifying the test text according to the test word segmentation list, to obtain a second text; comparing classification accuracy of the first text with classification accuracy of the second text, and determining a target new word from the new word according to a comparison result; and adding the target new word to the preset word segmentation list, and classifying the target text. |
| US10262052B2 |
On demand synchronization of information
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for synchronizing document updates. An end-user subscribes to document updates of interest to the end-user. The contents associated with these updates are contained within one or more document sources, wherein the one or more document sources are used to construct an outputted document. Tags are utilized to monitor these updates and a fragmentation is performed in order to incorporate the modified content, associated with the updates, into a new outputted document. |
| US10262050B2 |
Distributed database systems and methods with pluggable storage engines
According to one aspect, methods and systems are provided for selectively employing storage engines in a distributed database environment. The methods and systems can include a processor configured to execute a plurality of system components, wherein the system components comprise an operation prediction component configured to determine an expected set of operations to be performed on a portion of the database; a data format selection component configured to select, based on at least one characteristic of the expected set of operations, a data format for the portion of the database; and at least one storage engine for writing the portion of the database in the selected data format. |
| US10262048B1 |
Optimization of memory analytics
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimization of memory analytics are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a data storage system, a request to generate a visualization of a portion of data stored in the data storage system. The method includes providing, for display, the visualization of the portion of the data. The method includes accessing historical data that includes data indicating actions performed on previously displayed visualizations and corresponding portions of the data. The method includes generating an action to perform on the visualization and the portion of the data. The method further includes performing, in background, the generated action on the visualization and the portion of the data and suppressing results of the generated action. The method includes receiving a user specified action to perform on the visualization and the portion of the data. |
| US10262045B2 |
Application representation for application editions
A hardware module for an application search system includes a data processing module that generates a plurality of canonical application structures each identifying a canonical application, a plurality of application editions associated with the canonical application, and respective attributes associated with the at least one application edition. The data processing module generates search indexes including the plurality of canonical application structures and the respective attributes. An application search module receives a search query from a user, selects at least one of the search indexes based on the search query and the respective attributes, identifies an initial set of canonical applications using the selected search index based on the search query, generates search results based on the initial set of canonical applications, and provides the search results to the user. |
| US10262040B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for dynamic registry of books and for modeling real-time market demand for books within academic sectors
A system provides a connection between education administration, particularly as such administration assigns or selects books, and the marketing and use of those books. Such marketing and use of those books and information related to those books can include, without limitation, consumer product information, the publishing industry and specifically book publishing, and market analysis, analysis of data, markets, demand and supply chain and inventory management. |
| US10262038B2 |
Answerer extraction system, answerer extraction method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
An answerer extraction system includes a receiving unit that receives a question from an asker, a recording unit that records a reference history of the asker's referencing past questions or answers, and an extraction unit that extracts an answerer who is to answer the question on the basis of the reference history of the asker. |
| US10262036B2 |
Replacing pronouns with focus-specific objects in search queries
A computing device includes a logic machine and a storage machine holding instructions. The instructions are executable by the logic machine to, receive a machine-understandable representation of voice input, determine a pronoun associated with the voice input, map the pronoun to an object of user focus, generate one or more focus-specific search queries for the object of user focus, execute the one or more focus-specific search queries, and present the results of the one or more focus-specific search queries. |
| US10262033B2 |
Method for query execution planning
The present disclosure provides a computer implemented method and system for processing queries. The first data table comprises a set of data blocks. Each of the set of data blocks may be assigned respective attribute value information. A query involving a query condition on at least a first attribute of the first data table may be received. And a subset of the set of data blocks to be accessed may be selected based on the query condition and using the attribute value information. Furthermore, a guaranteed bound may be determined for a statistical metric on the first attribute based on at least one of the number of data blocks of the subset of data blocks and the attribute value information of the subset of data blocks. The guaranteed bound for the statistical metric may be used when determining a query execution plan for the received query. |
| US10262032B2 |
Cache based efficient access scheduling for super scaled stream processing systems
The technology disclosed relates to discovering a previously unknown attribute of stream processing systems according to which client offsets or client subscription queries for a streaming data store rapidly converge to a dynamic tip of a data stream that includes the most recent messages or events. In particular, it relates to grouping clients into bins to reduce a number of queries to the streaming data store by several orders of magnitude when servicing tens, hundreds, thousands or millions of clients. The bin count is further reduced by coalescing bins that have overlapping offsets. It also relates to establishing separate caches only for the current tips of data streams and serving the bins from the caches instead of the backend data store using group queries. Further, the caches are periodically updated to include the most recent messages or events appended to the dynamic tips of the data streams. |
| US10262027B2 |
Transforming queries in a multi-tenant database system
In a method, system, and computer-readable medium having instructions for executing a query in a database system, a query request is received with a query predicate to filter data returned in response to the query request and the query predicate has a formula, the query request is transformed to a transformed query request by preprocessing the formula in the query predicate, and the query request is optimized using the transformed query request. |
| US10262022B2 |
Estimating database modification
A computer-implemented method includes identifying one or more database modification statements and identifying one or more operational unit indicators. The one or more operation unit indicators are caused to be generated by the one or more database modification statements. An anticipated operational size is determined. The anticipated operational size is an estimated total number of the one or more operational unit indicators. An anticipated operational throughput rate is determined. The anticipated operational throughput rate is a rate at which the operational unit indicators are expected to be generated. An anticipated total execution time of the one or more database modification statements is determined based on the anticipated operational size and the anticipated operational throughput rate. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed. |
| US10262019B1 |
Distributed management optimization for IoT deployments
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform implementing an Internet of Things (IoT) distributed management system accessible to a plurality of user devices over at least one network. The processing platform is configured to determine IoT infrastructure for a given IoT deployment in at least one particular usage context, to control placement of multiple workflow processes for the IoT deployment over a plurality of distributed locations within the IoT infrastructure, and to manage execution of the workflow processes at the distributed locations in accordance with one or more constraints of the particular usage context. The IoT deployment comprises one or more IoT platforms each configured to interact with a different set of IoT devices. The placement of multiple workflow processes over the plurality of distributed locations illustratively provides a designated distribution of data, services, applications and analytics for the IoT deployment in the particular usage context. |
| US10262018B2 |
Application of search policies to searches on event data stored in persistent data structures
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is organized into discrete events with normalized time stamps and the events are indexed by time and keyword. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time indexing mechanism, keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search. |
| US10262013B2 |
Efficient full delete operations
In an approach for processing data in a database management system, a processor performs a delete operation on a first data container, wherein the first data container includes one or more data records and wherein the delete operation logically deletes at least one data record of the one or more data records. A processor associates a time of the performed delete operation with the first data container. A processor performs a write operation on a first data record of the first data container. A processor associates a time of the performed write operation with the first data record of the first data container. Responsive to receiving a database query directed at the first data container, a processor grants access to the first data record of the first data container based on, at least, the time of the performed write operation being chronologically after the time of the performed delete operation. |
| US10262010B2 |
Screen capture data amalgamation
At a device of a sender, a screen capture image is captured from a first portion of data presented on the device by a data source. Historical messaging data is analyzed to compute a set of topics in which the sender has participated. Using a topic from the set of topics as a context, a second portion of the data presented on the device by the data source is searched to extract an additional information from the second portion, the additional information corresponding to the context. the additional information is associated with the screen capture image. The screen capture image and the additional information are caused to be transmitted in a messaging channel. |
| US10262009B2 |
Remote document retrieval and storage system
An electronically stored financial document is either maintained in a first storage system when a parameter associated with the document is greater than a pre-selected parameter or in a second storage system when the parameter associated with the document is less than or equal to the pre-selected parameter. A request for a stored financial document is received and the requested financial document parameter is compared to the pre-selected financial document parameter to determine if the electronically stored financial document's parameter is more than, less than, or equal to the pre-selected parameter. By using an interlinked interface, at least one electronic processor compares and electronically accesses one of the storage systems in response to the comparison of the pre-selected parameter to the electronically stored financial document's parameters. After accessing the appropriate storage system, the requested electronically stored financial document can be reproduced, and/or distributed. |
| US10262000B1 |
Global distributed file append using log-structured file system
Techniques are provided for globally appending data from a group of distributed processes to a shared file using a log-structured file system. Data generated by a plurality of processes in a parallel computing system are appended to a shared file by storing the data to the shared file using a log-structured file system (such as a Parallel Log-Structured File System (PLFS)); and generating an index entry for the data, the index entry comprising a logical offset entry and a timestamp entry indicating a time of the storage, wherein the logical offset entry is resolved at read time. The logical offset entry can be populated with an append placeholder that is resolved when the shared file is read. At read time, a plurality of the index entries associated with the shared file can be sorted using the timestamp entry to deliver the requested shared file to a requesting application. |
| US10261996B2 |
Content localization using fallback translations
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for obtaining a translation of a previous version of a display item to present on a graphical user interface when a translation of a current version of the display item is unavailable. A client device can request a translation of a display item in a graphical user interface invoked by the client device. The client device can send a server a first key corresponding to the current version of the display item, a second key corresponding to a previous version of the display item, and locale information describing the current location and/or language preferences of the client device. If the server cannot obtain a translation corresponding to the first key, the server can obtain a translation of the previous version of the display item in the language associated with the locale based on the second key. |
| US10261994B2 |
Method and system for automatic management of reputation of translators
The present invention provides a method that includes receiving a result word set in a target language representing a translation of a test word set in a source language. When the result word set is not in a set of acceptable translations, the method includes measuring a minimum number of edits to transform the result word set into a transform word set. The transform word set is in the set of acceptable translations. A system is provided that includes a receiver to receive a result word set and a counter to measure a minimum number of edits to transform the result word set into a transform word set. A method is provided that includes automatically determining a translation ability of a human translator based on a test result. The method also includes adjusting the translation ability of the human translator based on historical data of translations performed by the human translator. |
| US10261991B2 |
Method and system for imposing a dynamic sentiment vector to an electronic message
One variation of a system for imposing a dynamic sentiment vector to an electronic message includes: a processor; an electronic computing device communicatively coupled to the processor and associated with a particular user; and a sentiment vector generator comprising: a parsing module; a dynamic sentiment value spectrum associated with the particular user; and a program executable by the processor and configured to: receive a text input comprising message content from the electronic computing device; parse, at the parsing module, the message content comprised in the text input for emotionally charged language; based on the emotionally charged language, generate a sentiment value from the dynamic sentiment value spectrum for the text input and, based on the sentiment value, impose a sentiment vector, corresponding to the assigned sentiment value, to the text input, the imposed sentiment vector rendering a sensory effect on the message content designed to convey a corresponding sentiment. |
| US10261990B2 |
Hybrid approach for short form detection and expansion to long forms
Embodiments provide a system and method for short form and long form detection. Using a language-independent process, the detection system can ingest a corpus of documents, pre-process those documents by tokenizing the documents and performing a part-of-speech analysis, and can filter one or more candidate short forms using one or more filters that select for semantic criteria. Semantic criteria can include the part of speech of a token, whether the token contains more than a pre-determined amount of symbols or digits, whether the token appears too frequently in the corpus of documents, and whether the token has at least one uppercase letter. The detection system can detect short forms independent of case and punctuation, and independent of language-specific metaphone variants. |
| US10261986B2 |
Annotation framework for video
A system and method for transferring annotations associated with a media file. An annotation associated with a media file is indexed to a first instance of that media file. By comparing features of the two instances, a mapping is created between the first instance of the media file and a second instance of the media file. The annotation can be indexed to the second instance using the mapping between the first and second instances. The annotation can be processed (displayed, stored, or modified) based on the index to the second instance. |
| US10261985B2 |
Output rendering in dynamic redefining application
The facilitating of output on an output device that receives output from an application that actually redefines during use. An initial output of information to be presented is caused to be rendered on the output device. Then, upon encountering that the application itself is redefined, the output is altered, and the output device updated. Furthermore, there may be other triggers that change the output on the output device including a change in allocation of output between multiple output devices, a change in users of the output device, a change in position of one or more users with respect to the output device, a change in control of one or more users with respect to the output device, a change in authorization of one or more users with respect to the output device or the information outputted. Accordingly, the output device may be updated appropriately even in a dynamic computing environment. |
| US10261984B2 |
Browser and operating system compatibility
A browser and operating system (OS) compatibility system may include a user interface to select a first combination of a browser and OS for comparison to a second combination of a browser and OS. A download engine may capture source files for browsers for the first and second combinations. A parse engine may create Document Object Model (DOM) trees of objects of first and second website pages respectively for the browsers for the first and second combinations. A metric engine may read the DOM trees for attributes of the objects to capture metrics of the objects. An analysis metric engine may compare a metric of an object of the first website page to a metric of the same object of the second website page to determine a compatibility of the browser and the OS for the first combination to the browser and the OS for the second combination. |
| US10261982B2 |
Asynchronous execution of animation tasks for a GUI
Particular embodiments of a computing device may provide a main thread, a graphics thread to handle tasks related to rendering and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI), and an input thread to handle tasks related to processing input-related events. The GUI may comprise at least one animated component associated with a set of state variables. The main thread may handle tasks to generate a GUI hierarchy and provide copies of the GUI hierarchy to the input thread and the graphics thread. The input thread may handle tasks to initialize and update the state variables and provide information about the state variables to the graphics thread. The graphics thread may then handle tasks to update the GUI by rendering a first frame of the animation based on the state variables. |
| US10261981B2 |
Method and system for implementing context based display of objects in web applications using link relationships
In general, the technology relates to a method for displaying objects on a webpage. The method includes receiving a request to transition to the webpage in a web application from a device and in response to the request: obtaining a set of object identifiers, providing the set of object identifiers to a link relationship manager and receiving, from the link relationship manager, a set of link relationships. The method further includes providing the set of link relationships and a link relationship evaluator to the device, where the link relationship evaluator only permits objects that are associated with a link relationship from the set of link relationships to be displayed on the device. |
| US10261977B2 |
Resistive memory accelerator
A method includes receiving, by a resistive memory array, a first data, the resistive memory array comprising a plurality of cells, wherein the receiving comprises setting a plurality of resistances on the plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of resistances are based on the first data. The method further includes receiving, by the resistive memory array, a second data, wherein the receiving comprises applying at least one of a current and a voltage based on the second data on the plurality of cells. The method still further includes determining, by the resistive memory array, an initial unknown value, the initial value based on the first data and the second data. |
| US10261969B2 |
Sourcing abound candidates apparatuses, methods and systems
The Sourcing Abound Candidates Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“Abound”) transforms data normalization support request and candidate criteria inputs via Abound components into criteria matching candidate indication outputs. An apparatus for sourcing active and passive jobseekers through jobseeker social media data, comprising a memory and a processor that issues instructions to: extract jobseeker data from a plurality of social media sources. That includes instructions to obtain jobseeker data from at least one of: various social media API's or crawl said social media sources and utilize extracted schemas to analyze said jobseeker data. Thereafter Abound may perform a link resolving and schema merging process to eliminate duplicates from the schemas and transform non-categorical schema data to conform with a master schema standard. Then Abound may reconcile variations in categorical schemas to said master schema standard and load jobseeker data into a master schema. After that, Abound may normalize said jobseeker data to develop initial user profiles and enrich said initial user profile with third party data to form enriched user profiles. Abound then may perform a complexity reduction process on said enriched user profiles to reduce comparisons of said enriched user profiles, evaluate and weight said enriched user profiles; and match said enriched user profiles to source available jobseekers. |
| US10261968B2 |
Method and apparatus for navigational searching of a website
Methods may display an interactive searching display window on a webpage. Methods may display a search box located on the interactive searching display window, which may enable a user to type in a query. Methods may display an answer box located on the interactive searching display window, which may display an answer to a user's query. Methods may display a minimize button, a maximize button and a pin button, which may allow the user to pin the interactive searching display window to one side of the webpage. Methods may redirect the user to a second webpage in response to the determination that greater than a threshold probability exists that the answer to the user's question may be found on the second webpage. Methods may display the interactive searching display window about a central location on the second webpage for a time period between 1.5 and 3.5 seconds. |
| US10261967B2 |
Data extraction
A computer implemented method is provided for creating a regular expression for extracting data from a data set. The method comprises the steps of: identifying a first common substring, the first common substring being present in at least two data entry strings of a first data set, by comparing a first and second data entry string of the first data set; and creating a first regular expression for extracting data from a second data set, the first regular expression including a first part for matching the first common substring. |
| US10261966B2 |
Video searching method and video searching system
A video searching method and a video searching system are applied to an auxiliary searching of an original video. The video searching method includes setting a region-of-interest in a screen of the original video, setting a capturing condition that includes an interactive relation between the region-of-interest and a moving object of the original video, capturing a background screen of the original video and object snapshots of the moving object that comply with the capturing condition, selecting at least one of the object snapshots captured from the same moving object as a representative object snapshot, or integrating some of the object snapshots as a single representative object snapshot; and pasting the representative object snapshot at a coordinate corresponding to the background screen according to a corresponding timestamp, to generate a graphical event timeline that displays all the object snapshots. |
| US10261965B2 |
Audio generation method, server, and storage medium
Audio generation method, server and storage medium are provided. The method includes obtaining a comparison audio, and performing a theme extraction on the comparison audio to obtain a comparison note sequence, the comparison note sequence comprising comparison note positions, comparison note pitches, and a comparison note duration; obtaining an original audio matching with the comparison audio via audio retrieval, and obtaining an original note sequence corresponding to the original audio by performing a theme extraction on the original audio, the original note sequence comprising original note positions, original note pitches, and an original note duration; calculating theme distances between fragments of the comparison audio and fragments of the original audio according to the comparison note sequence and the original note sequence; and generating an audio by capturing a fragment that is of the original audio and that satisfies the smallest theme distance. |
| US10261962B2 |
System and method for intelligently determining image capture times for image applications
A method for organizing images from multiple image capture devices includes automatically determining a coarse offset between image capture times recorded in a first image capture device and image capture times recorded in a second image capture device. The coarse offset is determined by a computing a correlation between image counts of images captured by the first image capture device and images captured by the first image capture device. The method also includes adjusting the image capture times of images recorded in the second image capture device by the coarse offset to produce adjusted image capture times for images captured by the second image capture device. |
| US10261960B2 |
Snapshots and forks of storage systems using distributed consistent databases implemented within an object store
A method is described that includes providing a snapshot counter for a storage system implemented with multiple distributed consistent database instances. The method further includes recognizing the taking of a snapshot of the storage system by incrementing the snapshot counter from a first snapshot counter value to a second snapshot counter value. The method further includes, in response to a first change for one of the distributed consistent databases subsequent to the taking of the snapshot, performing the following: saving state information of the distributed consistent database as the state information existed prior to the change and associating the first snapshot counter value to the state information. Associating the second snapshot counter's value with the distributed consistent database having the first change. Another method for the taking of a snapshot of a distributed consistent database is also described. |
| US10261957B2 |
Method and apparatus for navigating information records
A method for navigating in a record list is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method is performed at a terminal device having one or more processors and memory for storing programs to be executed by the one or more processors. The method includes detecting operational information of a user when the user operates the terminal device to navigate in the record list that is displayed in a user interface of the terminal device. The method also includes estimating, based on the operational information of the user, location information of a target record in the record list. The method further includes updating the user interface of the terminal device by introducing, based on the location information of the target record, a record access tool in the user interface of the terminal device. As a result, the user can accelerate access of the target record using the record access tool. |
| US10261956B2 |
Pixel-aware query rewriting
A query rewriter associated with a database management system or visualization client rewrites a database query based on properties, characteristics, etc. of the visualization to be rendered by the visualization client. For example, the query rewriter receives an initial query and one or more visualization parameters (such as width, height and/or type of visualization) for the visualization client. The query rewriter rewrites the initial query based on the visualization parameter(s), so as to produce a data-reducing query, and then outputs the data-reducing query for execution. The query rewriter can selectively rewrite the initial query depending on size of query results of the initial query. In some example implementations, the query rewriting models a process of rasterization of geometric primitives by the visualization client, so as to facilitate error-free visualization. In many cases, the query rewriter significantly reduces the volume of query results while facilitating fast interaction with the visualization. |
| US10261953B2 |
Document review management system
An online review system determines scores for document authors and document reviewers. An author score is based on a number of comments added to a document by reviewers. One way to compute the author score is to use a ratio of a number of comments provided by reviewers of a document to a number of lines of document contents provided by the author. A reviewer score for a reviewer is based on an amount of comments subsequently made by other reviewers, and on the document content itself, such as a ratio of a number of comments provided in subsequent reviews of a document to a number of lines of original document contents. In some embodiments, the online review system monitors trends in scores of individuals or teams. |
| US10261946B2 |
Rebalancing distributed metadata
Embodiments for rebalancing distributed deduplication metadata by a processor. An input similarity unit of data and a corresponding input representative value are received on an ingesting processor. A corresponding deduplication metadata slice and owning processor are calculated for the input similarity unit. The input representative value and input digest values are sent to the owning processor. The owning processor is used to search for the input representative value in a corresponding deduplication metadata slice, and to forward the input representative value and input digest values to an additional processor, if the input representative value is not found by the owning processor and a rebalancing status of the owning processor is in-process. The additional processor is used to send a reply message to the owning processor that facilitates migration of the input representative value and corresponding input digest values to the owning processor, if the input representative value is found. |
| US10261945B1 |
Systems and methods for storing and accessing monitoring data
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a value of at least one data element defined by a master data management (MDM) model, wherein the at least one data element is based, at least in part, on monitoring data collected from a monitored system. The method further includes determining from a central data store whether the at least one data element is centrally stored or is federated. The central data store maintains a common representation of a plurality of data elements in conformance to the MDM model. The MDM model is extended to indicate whether each data element of the plurality of data elements is centrally stored or is federated. The determining is based, at least in part, on the indication. |
| US10261935B1 |
Monitoring excessive use of a peripheral device
Provided are systems and methods for detecting excessive use of a peripheral device by host processes. In various implementations, a peripheral device can include an integrated circuit that includes a traffic counter. The traffic counter can increment based on events received by the peripheral device. The peripheral device can further include an integrated circuit device configured to associate the traffic counter with a process executing on a host device. The integrated circuit device can further initialize a rate counter for the process. When the rate counter reaches a pre-determined time limit, the integrated circuit device can determine that the process is exceeding a usage limit. The integrated circuit device can further read a value from the traffic counter to verify usage of the peripheral device by the process. |
| US10261930B2 |
System, device and method for transmitting signals between different communication interfaces
This invention discloses a system, device and method for transmitting both non-video signals and video signals between different communication interfaces. The system includes a first communication interface, a buffer module, a second communication interface, and an emulator module. The first communication interface is coupled to an electronic device, for transmitting a first differential signal and a first auxiliary signal. The buffer module is coupled to the first communication interface. The second communication interface is coupled to the buffer module, for transmitting a second differential signal. The emulator module is coupled to the second communication interface via a hub. The emulator module receives a second auxiliary signal. Data exchange for the first auxiliary signal and the second auxiliary signal is performed via the second communication interface between the buffer module and the emulator module. |
| US10261929B2 |
Enhanced ground bounce immunity on USB type-C power delivery communication
A system and method for enhancing ground bounce immunity of cables such as USB type-C cables. More specifically, in certain embodiments, ground bounce immunity is enhanced by making use of alternate modes of operation of cables conforming to the USB 3.1 specification to achieve a higher power over a cable that conforms to the USB 3.1 voltage drop specification requirements on the ground signal paths when the cable is operating at normal power levels (i.e., at a power level supported by the USB 3.1 specification). In certain embodiments, ground bounce immunity is enhanced by making use of alternate modes of operation of USB 3.1 type cables and standard use USB3.1 power delivery negotiation protocol to allow a host and end device to negotiate higher power than what would normally conform to the USB 3.1 specification. |
| US10261928B2 |
Wafer-level package having one die with its clock source shared by multiple dies and associated clock generating method
A wafer-level package includes a first die and a second die that are wafer-level packaged. The first die has a first clock source. The second die has a second clock source. The first clock source generates a clock shared by the first die and the second die. The second clock source, however, does not generate a clock used by any of the first die and the second die. |
| US10261927B2 |
DMA controller with trigger sequence generator
A DMA controller includes a built-in timing sequence generator that allows the DMA controller to trigger data movement periodically and/or non-equidistantly, without waking a CPU or other peripherals. |
| US10261922B2 |
Field device commissioning system and field device commissioning method
A field device commissioning system includes a commissioning tool, a communication module and an IO module. The commissioning tool is configured to communicate with a client in a plurality of communications. The commissioning tool is configured to perform a parallel execution of executing a plurality of loop processing logics that includes at least one input loop check or at least one output loop check in parallel for all of a plurality of channels which belongs to each slot in each unit, in accordance with the plurality of request for executions of loop checks from the client in the plurality of communications. The commissioning tool is configured to perform in series a plurality of the sequential executions for a plurality of the slots in each unit, wherein each execution including the plurality of loop processing logics. The commissioning tool may be configured to perform in series a plurality of sets of the plurality of the sequential execution for a plurality of the units. |
| US10261914B2 |
Methods of memory address verification and memory devices employing the same
A memory device and methods for operating the same are provided. The memory device includes an array of memory cells, and a controller configured to receive a data word to be stored at an address in the array and to store, at the address in the array, the data word and a location indicia corresponding to the address. The controller can be further configured to command the array to read the data word from the address, to receive response data from the array, and to verify that a location indicia of the response data corresponds to the address. If the location indicia of the response data does not correspond to the address, the controller can be further configured to indicate an error. |
| US10261908B2 |
Method and apparatus for expanding cache size for cache array
There is provided a method and apparatus of expanding capacity for a cache array. The method includes in response to detecting that a first new cache disk is to be added to a first cache array, initializing the first new cache disk without disabling other cache disks in the first cache array; allocating a storage space for a cache page metadata based on a result of the initializing; storing the cache page metadata into an initialized directory logical unit number, DIR LUN; storing a copy of the cache page metadata from a memory into the DIR LUN to facilitate the first cache disk to be in a ready state; and in response to the first new cache disk being in the ready state, configuring the first new cache disk as being in an initialized state to expand the capacity of the first cache array. |
| US10261907B2 |
Caching data in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage system
Caching data in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) storage system including receiving an operation instruction targeting a location in an attached memory of the RAID storage system, wherein the attached memory temporarily stores data for storage on RAID storage devices, and wherein the operation instruction is one selected from a group consisting of a read instruction and a write instruction; redirecting, based on a content of the operation instruction, the operation instruction from the attached memory to the embedded memory on the RAID storage system; and servicing the operation instruction by accessing a portion of the embedded memory corresponding to the location in the attached memory of the RAID storage system. |
| US10261902B2 |
Parallel processing of a series of data units for writing
A storage system includes a plurality of storage devices, and a server including a memory and an interface. The server is configured to store, in the memory, each of data pieces that are received through the interface from a client as a series of data to be written, in association with a single write command or a series of write commands received through the interface from the client, for each data piece, determine a target storage device and a logical address thereof at which the data piece is to be written, based on an identifier of the data piece received in association with the data piece through the interface from the client, and carry out, in parallel, writing of the data pieces stored in the memory at the determined logical addresses. |
| US10261899B2 |
Method, device and system for data processing using dedicated mapping between logical and physical addresses
A method for data processing including mapping between a logical address and a physical address of a memory, wherein the memory comprises several pages, wherein a group of pages comprises at least one page that comprises at least two portions, and wherein the at least two portions of each page of the group are not part of a single-page logical address space. |
| US10261897B2 |
Tail latency aware foreground garbage collection algorithm
A Solid State Drive (SSD) is disclosed. The SSD may include a host interface logic to receive a write command from a host and flash memory to store data. The SSD may also include an SSD controller, which may include storage for a just-in-time threshold and a tail latency threshold flash translation layer. The flash translation layer may invoke a just-in-time garbage collection strategy when the number of free pages on the SSD is less than the just-in-time threshold, and a tail latency-aware garbage collection strategy when the number of free pages is less than the tail latency threshold. The tail latency-aware garbage collection strategy may pair the write command with a garbage collection command. |
| US10261895B2 |
System and method for transferring execution of a computer program
Disclosed are system and method for controlling execution of a computer program. An example method includes determining, by a processor, a memory sector for storing a portion of execution instructions of the computer program in virtual memory address space, determining, in the virtual memory address space, one or more pages that comprise code instructions and data associated with the memory sector, creating a duplicate of the virtual memory address space, tagging the memory sector and the one or more pages in both the virtual memory address space and the duplicate of the virtual memory address space, receiving a notification to transfer execution of the computer program between different memory sectors while executing instructions stored in either the virtual memory address space or the duplicate of the virtual memory address space and transferring execution of the computer program to a memory location other than the one in which the notification was received. |
| US10261891B2 |
Automated test input generation for integration testing of microservice-based web applications
Techniques for automated generation of inputs for testing microservice-based applications are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method comprises: traversing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a user interface of a microservices-based application by performing actions on user interface elements of the user interface; and generating, by the system, an aggregated log of user interface event sequences and application program interface call sets based on the traversing. The computer-implemented method also comprises: determining, by the system, respective user interface event sequences that invoke application program interface call sets; and generating, by the system, respective test inputs based on the user interface event sequences that invoke the application program interface call sets. |
| US10261889B2 |
Techniques for edit-and-continue and enhanced optimized debugging on optimized code
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that enable a portion of code to be marked in source code to disable compilation optimizations for the marked portion of code, while the rest of the source code is compiled with optimizations. In this manner, edit-and-continue debugging may be performed on the compiled source code in an enhanced manner. Modifications made to the marked source code (as well as the rest of the source code) may be compiled in an incremental manner, such that the portions of the source code affected by the modifications are compiled, while unaffected portions of the source code are not recompiled. |
| US10261887B1 |
Method and system for computerized debugging assertions
A method for assertion debugging may include identifying in signals relating to an execution run of a code a segment of time for which an assertion has failed. The method may also include searching in the signals relating to that execution run, or in signals relating to another execution run of that code, to find one or a plurality of segments of time in which the signals are similar to the signals in the identified segment, for which the assertion was successful. |
| US10261884B2 |
Method for correcting violation of source code and computer readable recording medium having program performing the same
The present disclosure relates to a method for correcting violation of a source code and a computer readable recording medium having a program performing the same, and more particularly to a method for correcting violation of a source code, which automatically corrects the defect of a source code and a computer readable recording medium having a program performing the same. The method for correcting violation of a source code includes: a violation detection step in which a source code is analyzed and one or multiple violations are detected; a correction information generation step in which multiple pieces of the correction information for correcting the detected violation are generated; a correction information merging step in which the multiple pieces of the generated correction information are merged; and a correction step in which the source code is corrected on the basis of the merged correction information. |
| US10261882B2 |
Functional unit promotion to management unit
A system comprises a plurality of functional units powered via a power source. The system further comprises a first functional unit and a second functional unit, wherein the second functional unit is to promote the first functional unit to a management unit based on a management requirement of the system. The management unit is to administrate operations of the system. Once the first functional unit is promoted, the management unit is isolated from the functional units that were not promoted via a virtual network path and a power management unit. |
| US10261878B2 |
Stress testing a processor memory with a link stack
A processor memory is stress tested with a variable link stack depth using link stack test segments with non-naturally aligned data boundaries. Link stack test segments are interspersed into test code of a processor memory tests to change the link stack depth without changing results of the test code. The link stack test segments are the same structure as the segments of the test code and have non-naturally aligned boundaries. The link stack test segments include branch to target, push/pop, push and pop segments. The depth of the link stack is varied independent of the memory test code by changing the number to branches in the branch to target segment and varying the number of the push/pop segments. |
| US10261875B2 |
Runtime optimization of multi-core system designs for increased operating life and maximized performance
Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for managing a first computing device component of a computing device in order to extend an operating life of the computing device component. In an aspect, a processing device may determine a condition estimator of the first computing device component, determine whether the condition estimator of the first computing device component indicates that a condition of the first computing device component is worse than the condition of a second computing device component, and assign workloads to the first and second computing device components to balance deterioration of the condition of the first and second computing device components in response to determining that the condition estimator of the first computing device component indicates that the condition of the first computing device component is worse than the condition of the second computing device component. |
| US10261874B2 |
Enabling a cloud controller to communicate with power systems
An approach is disclosed that receives power related data from one or more power systems. The approach then determines, based on an analysis of the power related data, an anticipated power outage, with the power outage includes a power outage time estimate. The approach further identifies jobs to be migrated from a primary data center to a remote data center. The identification of the jobs to be migrated is based, at least in part, on the power outage time estimate. |
| US10261872B2 |
Multilevel disaster recovery
Account data comprising metadata for primary application instances running at a primary active cloud environment instance (ACEI) is stored. Application data associated with the primary application instances is stored at primary databases (DBs). The account and application data are transferred to secondary DBs at a secondary ACEI. The secondary ACEI may be a backup instance to substitute services provided by the primary ACEI in case of unavailability. For example, the location where the primary ACEI is hosted may be affected by a disaster. To failover a primary data center hosting the primary ACEI, a database takeover to the secondary DBs is performed. The secondary ACEI is configured correspondingly to the primary ACEI based on the transferred account data. Secondary application instances corresponding to the primary application instances are started at the secondary ACEI. Requests directed to the primary application instances are redirected to the secondary application instances. |
| US10261870B2 |
Risk formula for erroneous software components detection
A method for performing software error detection and prediction. The method includes identifying a plurality of software components in a computer software product. For each of the software components of the plurality of software components, the risk-relevant historical data pertaining to the respective software component is measured, then classified into at least a set of risk-increasing data and a set of risk-decreasing data. The set of risk-increasing data and the set of risk-decreasing data are then normalized, and a failure risk value for the respective software component is calculated by subtracting a weighted sum of the normalized values for the risk-decreasing data from a weighted sum of the normalized values for the risk-increasing data. |
| US10261869B2 |
Transaction processing using torn write detection
Performing a transaction in the context of a computing system that has one or more persistent systems coupled to one or more processors over a bus. As an example, the persistent system may serve as at least part of the main memory of the computing system. The transaction might implement multi-versioning in which a record is not updated in place. Rather, each record is represented as a sequence of one or more record versions, each version having a valid interval during which the record version is considered to properly represent the record. The transaction processing uses torn write detection so that recovery processes may use such guards to verify that there are no torn writes. For instance, torn write guards may be used to verify the integrity of record versions as well as the log buffers that refer to the record versions. |
| US10261867B1 |
Intelligent point-in-time selector
A system and method for selecting point-in-time copies of data objects for restore operations. A user operates a mobile device with a touch screen, which is connected to a backup server through a network. The user selects a given data object from a graphical user interface (GUI) to restore from a backup server and selects a point-in-time for restoration. The mobile device searches point-in-time (PIT) indicator data corresponding to PIT backup copies of the given data object. If the mobile device determines there is no PIT indicator for the requested point-in-time, then the mobile device identifies one or more backups that include the given data object, automatically selects one of the one or more backups as a proposed backup for restoration, and automatically adjusts the input of the user on the graphical user interface to identify the selected one of the one or more backups. |
| US10261865B1 |
Fast and optimized restore using delta information
An indication of one or more changes to file system data since a last backup snapshot is received. One or more changes to the file system data between a requested backup version and the last backup snapshot are determined. One or more data blocks corresponding to the one or more changes to the file system data since the last backup snapshot and one or more data blocks corresponding to the one or more changes to file system data between the requested backup version and the last backup snapshot are provided to a primary system. |
| US10261863B2 |
Runtime file system consistency checking during backup operations
The present disclosure relates to maintaining file system consistency on a mounted storage device in a computing system during system runtime. In one embodiment, a method generally includes locking access to a file stored in a file system on the mounted storage volume and metadata associated with the file. A computing system determines one or more properties associated with the file and examines the metadata for inconsistencies between the metadata and the determined properties. Upon determining that the metadata and the determined properties are consistent, the computing system generates a backup copy of the file, commits the backup copy to a backup data repository, and unlocks access to the file. |
| US10261862B2 |
Data replication in a database management system
According to an aspect, a database management system (DBMS) is operated to perform data replication. The DBMS includes a source database and a target database. The source database includes a plurality of first tables respectively comprising one or more first columns, and the target database includes a plurality of second tables respectively comprising one or more second columns. Each of multiple ones of the first columns is mapped to one of the second columns, and each one of the second columns is adapted to store replicated data changes of the first column mapped to the second column. Each of the second columns has an assigned update time, the update time being a moment in time when the second column most recently received incremental data changes from its mapped first column. The DBMS operates to process requested database statements while providing data replication. |
| US10261858B2 |
TCAM soft-error detection method and apparatus
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with techniques to detect soft errors of a TCAM are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a TCAM, and logic and/or circuitry to apply a plurality of fault detection patterns to the TCAM to generate respective hit output arrays for the plurality of fault detection patterns, generate parity signatures for the hit output arrays, and compare the generated parity signatures to expected parity values. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. |
| US10261853B1 |
Dynamic replication error retry and recovery
A system, computer program product, and computer-executable method of managing replication within a data storage system, the system, computer program product, and computer-executable method including receiving an error related to a replication session within the data storage system, analyzing the error, based on the analysis, determining whether to retry the replication session, upon a positive determination, calculating a first time interval for the replication session, and retrying the replication session upon completion of the first time interval. |
| US10261852B2 |
Memory error determination
A technique includes accessing error information generated in response to memory errors of a memory device. The error information generated in response to the memory errors of the memory device may then be determined as indicative of a row hammer error for the memory device. |
| US10261851B2 |
Anomaly detection using circumstance-specific detectors
The technology disclosed relates to learning how to efficiently display anomalies in performance data to an operator. In particular, it relates to assembling performance data for a multiplicity of metrics across a multiplicity of resources on a network and training a classifier that implements at least one circumstance-specific detector used to monitor a time series of performance data or to detect patterns in the time series. The training includes producing a time series of anomaly event candidates including corresponding event information used as input to the detectors, generating feature vectors for the anomaly event candidates, selecting a subset of the candidates as anomalous instance data, and using the feature vectors for the anomalous instance data and implicit and/or explicit feedback from users exposed to a visualization of the monitored time series annotated with visual tags for at least some of the anomalous instances data to train the classifier. |
| US10261847B2 |
System and method for coordinating use of multiple coprocessors
An interface software layer is interposed between at least one application and a plurality of coprocessors. A data and command stream issued by the application(s) to an API of an intended one of the coprocessors is intercepted by the layer, which also acquires and stores the execution state information for the intended coprocessor at a coprocessor synchronization boundary. At least a portion of the intercepted data and command stream data is stored in a replay log associated with the intended coprocessor. The replay log associated with the intended coprocessor is then read out, along with the stored execution state information, and is submitted to and serviced by at least one different one of the coprocessors other than the intended coprocessor. |
| US10261846B1 |
Storing and verifying the integrity of event related data
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for storing and validating the integrity of event related information. To facilitate auditing and traceability, raw signals, normalized signals, detected events, event expirations, and event notifications can be stored in a queryable distributed ledger (e.g., a blockchain). Personal information can be stripped (or otherwise rendered inert, for example, unrecognizable, unreproducible, etc.) prior to storage into the distributed ledger minimizing the possibility of a person being identified. Ledger data can be used to verify actual data as well as for forensics purposes, such as, to audit data, recreate events, etc., in view of an error or inconsistency to investigate, diagnose, remediate, etc. |
| US10261844B2 |
Generic language application programming interface interpreter
Technical solutions are described for facilitating a first computer program product to communicate with a second computer program product. The first computer program product invokes an application programming interface (API) function from an API of the second computer program product, where the first computer program product and the second computer program product use distinct programming languages. The solutions described herein initiate a record corresponding to the API function and invoke an interpreter that calls the API function in the second programming language. Upon receiving, from the interpreter, an indication that the API function has completed execution, result of the execution are obtained from the record and returned to the first computer program product. |
| US10261843B2 |
Speculative execution management in a coherent accelerator architecture
Disclosed aspects relate to speculative execution management in a coherent accelerator architecture. A first access request from a first component may be detected with respect to a set of memory spaces of a single shared memory in the coherent accelerator architecture. A second access request from a second component may be detected with respect to the set of memory spaces of the single shared memory in the coherent accelerator architecture. The first and second access requests may be processed by a speculative execution management engine using a speculative execution technique with respect to the set of memory spaces of the single shared memory in the coherent accelerator architecture. |
| US10261841B2 |
System and method for task scheduling and device management
Systems and methods are provided for task scheduling and device management. Such system may comprise (1) a server comprising a client module, a master module, a first node, a second node, and a third node, and (2) one or more worker devices each coupled to the server and one or more computing devices. The worker devices may be configured to obtain device information of the computing devices, register the computing devices under the first node, and indicate statuses of the computing devices to the server. The client module may be configured to obtain task data associated with a task and register the task under the second node. The master module may be configured to assign under the third node the task to one or more of the registered computing devices based at least on the obtained device information, the obtained task data, and the computing device statuses. |
| US10261840B2 |
Controlling virtual machine density and placement distribution in a converged infrastructure resource pool
Aspects include allocating virtual resources to physical resources in a computer environment and aggregating the virtual resources, as a virtual resource pool, at a per virtual machine level in the computer environment. Other aspects include evaluating the virtual resources in the virtual resource pool against resource pool domain constraints. Other aspects include determining a resource allocation adjustment as a function of the evaluating. The resource allocation adjustment is configured to achieve a maximum specified virtual machine density. Other aspects include adjusting the virtual resources based on the resource allocation adjustment. |
| US10261836B2 |
Dynamic dispatching of workloads spanning heterogeneous services
A system for executing a workload that includes a plurality of transactions for a first time slot determines whether a metered cloud service has a sufficient quota of operations available to execute respective metered transactions. For the first time slot, the system determines whether a non-metered cloud service has a sufficient processing load to execute respective non-metered transactions. The system executes the plurality of transactions during the first time slot when each metered cloud service has the sufficient quota and each non-metered cloud service has the sufficient processing load. Further, the system waits to execute the plurality of transactions of the workload during a time slot subsequent to the first time slot when any of the metered cloud services does not have the sufficient quota or any of the non-metered cloud services does not have a sufficient processing load. |
| US10261835B2 |
Hardware thread scheduling
An apparatus has processing circuitry to execute instructions from multiple threads and hardware registers to store context data for the multiple threads concurrently. At a given time a certain number of software-scheduled threads may be scheduled for execution by software executed by the processing circuitry. Hardware thread scheduling circuitry is provided to select one or more active threads to be executed from among the software-scheduled threads. The hardware thread scheduling circuitry adjusts the number of active threads in dependence on at least one performance metric indicating performance of the threads. |
| US10261831B2 |
Speculative loop iteration partitioning for heterogeneous execution
Embodiments include computing devices, apparatus, and methods implemented by the apparatus for implementing speculative loop iteration partitioning (SLIP) for heterogeneous processing devices. A computing device may receive iteration information for a first partition of iterations of a repetitive process and select a SLIP heuristic based on available SLIP information and iteration information for the first partition. The computing device may determine a split value for the first partition using the SLIP heuristic, and partition the first partition using the split value to produce a plurality of next partitions. |
| US10261828B2 |
Interprocessor memory status communication
A transactional memory environment includes a first processor and a processor set. The processor set includes one or more additional processors. In the transactional memory environment, a computer-implemented method includes sending a transaction query from the first processor to all processors in the processor set, and generating an indication by each additional processor in the processor set. The indication includes whether the additional processor is executing a current transaction. The computer-implemented method further includes sending the indication from each additional processor in the processor set to the first processor and proceeding, by the first processor, based on the indication. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed. |