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| US10403923B1 |
Battery having a folded architecture
This disclosure is directed to a battery having a folded architecture that has one or more blocks of cells folded onto one another. |
| US10403921B2 |
Electricity generating electrochemical device of the solid-oxide fuel-cell stack type
The invention relates to an electricity generating electrochemical device of the solid-oxide fuel-cell stack type. The device includes a planar assembly having at least one electrochemical cell comprised between first and second gas diffusing plates made of ceramic of expansion coefficient between 8×10−6 K−1 and 10×10−6 K−1 and drilled with equidistant holes. First and second current conductive metal grids each are connected to a conductive wire allowing current to flow out of the device. The grilles are placed on either side of the at least one electrochemical cell between this cell and each of the first and second gas diffusing plates. A clamping device mechanically holds the planar assembly together. |
| US10403919B2 |
Methods to prepare stable electrolytes for iron redox flow batteries
An iron redox flow battery system, comprising a redox electrode, a plating electrolyte tank, a plating electrode, a redox electrolyte tank with additional acid additives that may be introduced into the electrolytes in response to electrolyte pH. The acid additives may act to suppress undesired chemical reactions that create losses within the battery and may be added in response to sensor indications of these reactions. |
| US10403917B2 |
Fuel cell unit
A fuel cell unit includes: an ammonia pump including a pump cell that reduces an amount of ammonia in fuel gas; and a fuel cell including a power generation cell that is supplied with oxidant gas and the fuel gas. Each of the pump cell and the power generation cell has: a membrane electrode gas diffusion layer assembly; a first separator and a second separator; and a first gas channel and a second gas channel. In each of the pump cell and the power generation cell, the first gas channel and the second gas channel are formed such that an amount of pressure loss in the first gas channel is smaller than an amount of pressure loss in the second gas channel. |
| US10403915B2 |
Electric power supply system, mobile object, and electric power supply method
An electric power supply system includes first and second fuel cell stacks, a plurality of fuel tanks, a determination unit configured to determine the state of the first fuel cell stack during operation stop of the first and second fuel cell stacks, and a purging execution unit configured to execute purging by activating the first and second fuel cell stacks according to a determination result and opening on-off valves of the plurality of fuel tanks to supply fuel to the first and second fuel cell stacks. |
| US10403914B2 |
Integrated fuel cell control system and operating method thereof
An integrated fuel cell control system is provided. The integrated fuel cell control system includes at least one sensor, at least one hydrogen on/off valve, and a fuel control unit (FCU). The FCU is configured to directly operate the at least one sensor and the at least one hydrogen on/off valve in real time and to determine a supply pressure of hydrogen supplied to a fuel cell. Thereby, noise between controllers may be removed and costs may be reduced. |
| US10403912B2 |
Anode discharge valve for fuel cell system
An anode discharge valve for a fuel cell system includes a valve main body which is installed in a hydrogen recirculation line of a fuel cell stack; a drive shaft which is rotatably installed in the valve main body, and coupled to an opening member which selectively opens a hydrogen discharge port by being rotated; and a mechanism which is connected to a hydrogen inlet port of the valve main body so as to form a hydrogen inflow path, and operates to rotate the drive shaft as a pressure of hydrogen inflowing through the hydrogen inflow path increases. |
| US10403909B2 |
Fluid flow plate for a fuel cell
The invention relates to bipolar plates for electrochemical fuel cell assemblies, and in particular to configurations of bipolar plates allowing for multiple fluid flow channels for the passage of anode, cathode and coolant fluids. Embodiments disclosed include a bipolar plate (10) for an electrochemical fuel cell assembly, comprising: a first plurality of fluid flow channels (13) extending across a first face of the bipolar plate between first inlet and outlet ports (18a, 18b) at opposing ends of the bipolar plate; a second plurality of fluid flow channels (22) extending across a second opposing face of the bipolar plate between second inlet and outlet ports (21a, 21b) at opposing ends of the bipolar plate; and a third plurality of fluid flow channels (14) extending between third inlet and outlet ports (19a, 19b) at opposing ends of the bipolar plate, the third plurality of fluid flow channels provided between first and second corrugated plates (11, 12) forming the first and second opposing faces of the bipolar plate, wherein the first, second and third fluid flow channels are coplanar. |
| US10403908B2 |
Stack structure for fuel cell
Provided is a fuel cell stack structure. The fuel cell stack structure includes first and second cell modules and first and second separation plates. In each of the first and second cell modules, one or more fuel cells generating electricity are stacked, and each of the fuel cells includes an electrolyte layer, and a cathode layer and an anode layer formed on both surfaces of the electrolyte layer, respectively, and generates electricity. The first and second separation plates are electrically connected to the first and second cell modules, respectively, and each separation plate has an air hole and a fuel hole at edges to provide an air including oxygen and a fuel gas including hydrogen to the cathode layer and the anode layer, respectively. At least one separation plate has a sealing unit for sealing the air hole and the fuel hole, and has a protruded convex at a different part from the sealing unit to improve an electrical contact with the other separation plate. |
| US10403905B2 |
Structures and preparation methods for catalyst coated membranes for fuel cells
Simplified methods for preparing a catalyst coated membrane (CCM) for solid polymer electrolyte fuel cells. The CCM has two reinforcing, expanded polymer sheets and the methods involve forming the electrolyte membrane from ionomer solution during assembly of the CCM. Thus, the conventional requirement to obtain, handle, and decal transfer solid polymer sheets in CCM preparation can be omitted. Further, CCM structures with improved mechanical strength can be prepared by orienting the expanded polymer sheets such that the stronger tensile strength direction of one is orthogonal to the other. Such improved CCM structures can be fabricated using the simplified methods. |
| US10403899B2 |
Alloy and lithium ion battery
Provided is an alloy comprising eight or more types of constituent elements, wherein the relative difference in terms of distance between nearest neighbors DNN between a constituent element having the largest distance between nearest neighbors DNN when constituting a bulk crystal from a single element and a constituent element having the smallest distance between nearest neighbors DNN when constituting a bulk crystal from a single element is 9% or less, the number of constituent elements having the same crystal structure when constituting a bulk crystal from a single element is not more than 3, and the difference in concentration between the constituent element having the highest concentration and the constituent element having the lowest concentration is 2 at. % or lower. |
| US10403898B2 |
Electrolytic copper foil having high tensile strength, electrode including the same, secondary battery including the same, and method of manufacturing the same
A high strength electrolytic copper foil preventing generation of folds, wrinkles, pleats, and breaks during a roll-to-roll (RTR) process, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electrode and a secondary battery which allow high productivity to be secured by being manufactured with such an electrolytic copper foil. The electrolytic copper foil includes a copper film including 99 weight % or more of copper and a protective layer on the copper film, wherein the electrolytic copper foil has a tensile strength of 45 to 65 kgf/mm2. |
| US10403893B2 |
Positive electrode material for lithium secondary battery
A positive electrode material is used to produce a positive electrode of a lithium secondary battery, the positive electrode material being a composite lithium material that includes a first lithium compound and a second lithium compound. For instance, the first lithium compound is in the form of particles and comprises at least one compound selected from a layered lithium compound and a spinel-type lithium compound. Preferably, the second lithium compound comprises at least one compound selected from a lithium-containing phosphate compound and a lithium-containing silicate compound. An amorphous carbon material layer and/or graphene-structured carbon material layer is present on the entire surface of the first lithium compound and the second lithium compound. The second lithium compound forms a thin-film layer on part or the entirety of the carbon material layer present on the surface of the first lithium compound particles. |
| US10403891B2 |
Positive electrode material and lithium ion battery
A positive electrode material includes an active material represented by Li2Mn(1−2x)NixMoxO3 (where 0 |
| US10403890B2 |
Negative electrode active material for electric device and electric device using the same
A negative electrode active material which has a ternary alloy composition represented by Si—Sn-M (M is one or two or more transition metal elements) and has a microstructure which has a first phase (silicide phase) having a silicide of a transition metal as a main component and a second phase partially containing Sn and having amorphous or low crystalline silicon as a main component, and further has partially a plurality of independent first phases and partially a eutectic structure of the first phase and the second phase is used for an electric device. The negative electrode active material improves cycle durability of an electric device such as a lithium ion secondary battery. |
| US10403887B2 |
Bipolar battery electrode having improved carbon surfaces and method of manufacturing same
An electrode and a method of manufacturing an electrode for a flowing electrolyte battery enable improved robustness and reduced manufacturing costs of bipolar electrodes for flowing electrolyte batteries. The electrode includes a polymer sheet having a first side and a second side; a graphite layer on the first side; and an activated carbon layer on the second side. |
| US10403884B2 |
Electrode structures
A structure for use in an energy storage device, the structure comprising a backbone system extending generally perpendicularly from a reference plane, and a population of microstructured anodically active material layers supported by the lateral surfaces of the backbones, each of the microstructured anodically active material layers having a void volume fraction of at least 0.1 and a thickness of at least 1 micrometer. |
| US10403881B2 |
Method for producing ceramic cathode layers on current collectors
A method for producing a ceramic cathode layer on an electrically conductive substrate includes applying a coating to the electrically conductive substrate, the coating being in a form of a suspension including at least one suspending agent and at least one ceramic material. The method further includes heating the coating in a reducing atmosphere such that the ceramic material is completely or in part reduced to a fusible reaction product, heating the coating in a reducing atmosphere to temperatures above the melting point of the reaction product so as to form a melt, densifying or sintering the coating in a reducing atmosphere at temperatures that are 100° C. greater than a melting temperature of the reaction product, and reoxidizing the densified or sintered coating in an oxidizing atmosphere in a temperature range of between 400° C. and 1,200° C. |
| US10403880B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing battery electrodes
An apparatus for processing battery electrodes includes: a microwave applicator cavity with slots on opposite ends to allow a continuous sheet to move through the cavity in a first direction; a processing chamber constructed of microwave-transparent material, disposed within the applicator cavity and surrounding the continuous sheet, the processing chamber having slots to allow the continuous sheet to pass through it; a microwave power supply to deliver power to the applicator cavity; a source of heated gas providing a controlled gas flow through the processing chamber in a direction opposite the first direction; and, at least one non-contacting temperature measuring device positioned to measure a surface temperature at a selected location on the continuous sheet as it passes through the processing chamber. The apparatus is particularly suited for removing polar solvents from porous electrode coatings. A related method is also disclosed. |
| US10403879B2 |
Electrolytic solution, secondary battery, electronic device, and method of manufacturing electrode
To provide a method of manufacturing a lithium-ion secondary battery having stable charge characteristics and lifetime characteristics. A positive electrode is subjected to an electrochemical reaction in a large amount of electrolytic solution in advance before a secondary battery is completed. In this manner, the positive electrode can have stability. The use of the positive electrode enables manufacture of a highly reliable secondary battery. Similarly, a negative electrode is subjected to an electrochemical reaction in a large amount of electrolytic solution in advance. The use of the negative electrode enables manufacture of a highly reliable secondary battery. |
| US10403875B2 |
Busbar assembly for vehicle traction battery
A vehicle traction battery assembly including a pair of battery cells and a busbar is provided. Each of the battery cells may include a terminal and one or more locating features. The busbar may span between the cells and define a pair of arms each having a member sized to at least partially interlock with the one or more locating features. The busbar may span between the cells such that the busbar covers at least a portion of upper surfaces defined by each of the cells. At least one of the terminal apertures may be spaced in between outer edges of the respective arms such that a first and second surface area provide space sufficient for weld spots. |
| US10403874B2 |
Methods of producing batteries utilizing anode metal depositions directly on nanoporous separators
Provided are methods of preparing a separator/anode assembly for use in an electric current producing cell, wherein an electroactive anode metal layer, such as a lithium metal layer, is deposited directly on a porous separator, such as a nanoporous separator layer. |
| US10403873B2 |
Gravure roll, method of fabricating a separator, and separator
A gravure roll, in which the outside peripheral surface of a metal roll main body has a plurality of oblique line shaped protrusions forming a prescribed angle with the center axis of the roll main body and the coating liquid can be held in a plurality of oblique line shaped recesses formed between each of the plurality of protrusions, is configured such that the roll main body has a diamond-like carbon layer on the entire outer peripheral surface thereof, a head part for each of the plurality of protrusions is cut down, and each of the plurality of protrusions has a trapezoidal cross-sectional shape that becomes gradually narrower in width moving in direction toward the head part. A separator with a uniform weight per unit area can be manufactured wherein the coating liquid is coated onto a base material film using this gravure roll. |
| US10403872B2 |
Cylindrical batteries
A cylindrical battery having a sealing unit which includes at least a valve member, a metal plate disposed farther inside the battery than the valve member and having a joint portion connected to the valve member, and an annular insulating member disposed between an outer peripheral portion of the valve member and an outer peripheral portion of the metal plate. The metal plate has a groove-shaped thin portion disposed around the joint portion, and straight portions that have different angles to the normal to the metal plate are disposed on an inner peripheral side and an outer peripheral side of a cross section of the thin portion perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. |
| US10403870B2 |
Battery module
A battery module is provided and includes an array body in which a plurality of battery cells are arrayed, an elastic member disposed on at least one side in an array direction of the array body, a pair of end plates holding the array body and the elastic member therebetween, a resin middle plate disposed between the array body and the elastic member, and a metal joining member joining the pair of the end plates each other, in which the middle plate is provided with a through hole through which the joining member is inserted, and a metal collar is inserted through the through hole. |
| US10403866B2 |
Energy storage and power supply system with reserve mode and override
An energy storage and power supply device includes an energy storage unit, a sensor, an output, a regulator, and a processing circuit. The energy storage unit is configured to store electrical energy. The sensor is positioned to acquire data indicative of an operating characteristic of the energy storage unit. The output is coupled to the energy storage unit and configured to provide power from the energy storage unit to a load. The regulator is positioned along a power flow path between the energy storage unit and the output. The regulator is configured to facilitate selectively restricting a power flow provided to the output. The processing circuit is configured to monitor the operating characteristic of the energy storage unit based on data from the sensor and provide a signal to the regulator to restrict the power flow provided to the output in response to the operating characteristic satisfying a threshold. |
| US10403864B2 |
Battery
A battery including a power generating element, a first sealant, a first holding member holding the first sealant, and an outer case enclosing the power generating element, wherein the first sealant and the first holding member are enclosed in the outer case together with the power generating element, and the first holding member holds the first sealant by enclosing the first sealant in a state in which the first sealant is not in contact with the power generating element. |
| US10403852B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, a dam in the peripheral area, a first inorganic layer located in both the display area and the peripheral area and covering the dam, an upper surface of the first inorganic layer being nonplanar, and a roughness of the upper surface at a first part of the first inorganic layer outside the dam being greater than a roughness of the upper surface near a center of the display area, an organic layer covering the first inorganic layer in the display area and a portion of the peripheral area, and a second inorganic layer located in both the display area and the peripheral area and covering the dam and the organic layer. |
| US10403848B2 |
Flexible display panel
A flexible display panel is disclosed. The flexible display panel includes a flexible display unit and a curved state setting component. The flexible display unit includes a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface where the first surface is an emitting surface of the flexible display unit. The curved state setting component is fixed on the second surface to adjust the flexible display unit in a curved state. This disclosure allows the flexible display panel to remain in a curved state. |
| US10403841B2 |
Organic electroluminescent element and organic electroluminescent display device
An organic EL element is provided that has a high light emission efficiency and that emits a plurality of light beams having respective wavelength ranges different from one another, the light beams including short wavelength light having a high chromaticity. An organic EL element (1) includes an exciton generating layer (7) and a guest layer (8) that are adjacent to each other. |
| US10403838B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device
A photoelectric conversion device includes: an element substrate having a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer, and a second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer being provided above the first electrode and performing charge separation by energy of irradiated light, and the second electrode being provided above the photoelectric conversion layer; a counter substrate facing the element substrate; and a sealing layer provided between the element substrate and the counter substrate. The element substrate, the counter substrate, and the sealing layer define a sealing region sealing the photoelectric conversion layer. The element substrate further has: an impurity detection layer in contact with the second electrode inside the sealing region and causing chemical reaction with an impurity containing at least one of oxygen and water; and a third electrode in contact with the impurity detection layer and extending to the outside of the sealing region. |
| US10403836B2 |
Sequential processing with vapor treatment of thin films of organic-inorganic perovskite materials
According to some embodiments of the present invention, a method of producing an organic-inorganic perovskite thin film includes depositing a layer of inorganic material on a substrate to form an inorganic film, and performing an organic vapor treatment of the inorganic film to produce an organic-inorganic perovskite thin film. The layer of inorganic material comprises an inorganic anion layer having a metal-ligand framework, and the organic vapor treatment provides organic cations capable of becoming inserted into the metal-ligand framework of the inorganic anion layer to form a perovskite structure. |
| US10403833B2 |
Organic metal complexes
The present invention relates inter alia to novel organic metal complexes comprising, e.g., platinum and specific side groups, their preparation und their use in electronic devices. |
| US10403830B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
An organic light emitting device (OLED) is provided. The OLED has an anode, a cathode, and an emission layer, disposed between the anode and the cathode, including a first emitting compound; wherein the first emitting compound is capable of functioning as a blue phosphorescent emitter in the OLED at room temperature; wherein the first emitting compound has PLQY of less than 90% at room temperature; wherein the OLED has an external quantum efficiency of between 8% and 20% at 1 mA/cm2. |
| US10403829B2 |
Photoelectric conversion element, solar cell using the same, and method for manufacturing photoelectric conversion element
Provided are a photoelectric conversion element including a first electrode having a photosensitive layer including a light absorber on a conductive support and a second electrode, in which the light absorber includes a compound having a perovskite-type crystal structure having an organic cation represented by Formula (IA) below, a cation of a metallic atom, and an anion that is an anionic atom or atomic group, a solar cell, and a method for manufacturing a photoelectric conversion element, including bringing a layer in which a photosensitive layer is to be formed into contact with liquid including the above-described compound. [RA—NH2(H+)]1-n{[(RB)n2-L-NH2](H+)}n Formula (IA) in the formula, RA represents a specific group such as an alkyl group. RB represents NR1R2 or (NR1R2R3)+, and R1 to R3 represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent. L represents a linking group. n2 represents an integer of 1 or more. Here, (RB)n2-L is a group different from RA. n represents a numerical value satisfying 0 |
| US10403823B2 |
Polymer and organic light emitting device
Polymer and Organic Light Emitting Device A polymer comprising a repeat unit of formula (I a), (I b) or (Ic): (Formulae (Ia), (Ib), (Ic)) wherein M is a metal; R is a backbone repeat group; n is 1 or 2; Sp is a spacer group; w is 0 or 1; L1 and L2 are mono- or bidentate co-coordinating groups; ---- represents a second metal to ligand bond in the case where L1 or L2 is a bidentate ligand and at least one of L1 and L2 is substituted with group of formula (II) (Formula (II)) wherein m is 0 or 1; each Ar1, Ar2 and Ar3 is aryl or heteroaryl. The polymer may be used as an emissive material in an organic light-emitting device. |
| US10403822B2 |
Thienothiophene-isoindigo
Polymers containing at least one unit of formula wherein X1, X2 and X3 are independently from each other O, S or NR1, a process for their preparation, intermediates and electronic devices containing these polymers as semiconducting material. |
| US10403821B2 |
Method of making an electrode
A method of making an electrode for an organic electronic device comprises the steps of depositing an ink on a light emitting layer, and drying said ink to form said electrode. The ink comprises conductive metal or carbon particles, a binder and a hydrocarbon solvent selected from 1,1′-bicyclohexyl, cis-decalin trans-decaiin or n-undecane. |
| US10403820B1 |
Method for continuously preparing organic light emitting diode by using thermal transfer film
A method for continuously preparing organic light emitting diode (OLED) by using thermal transfer film is revealed. At least two thermal transfer layers are transferred onto a substrate in turn by thermal transfer printing for overcoming shortcomings of the conventional vacuum evaporation including complicated processes and low material efficiency. Only less than 50% material reaches the substrate after the vacuum evaporation. |
| US10403818B2 |
Method of forming semiconductor devices having threshold switching devices
Forming a semiconductor device that includes a memory cell array may include performing a switching firing operation on one or more memory cells of the memory array to cause a threshold voltage distribution associated with threshold switching devices in the memory cells to be reduced. The switching device firing operation may be performed such that the threshold voltage distribution is reduced while maintaining the one or more threshold switching devices in the amorphous state. Performing the switching device firing operation on a threshold switching device may include heating the threshold switching device, applying a voltage to the threshold switching device, applying a current to the threshold switching device, some combination thereof, or the like. |
| US10403814B2 |
Method of cleaning and method of plasma processing
A method of cleaning a substrate processing apparatus that etches a film including a metal, the method include a first cleaning step of providing a gas containing a hydrogen-containing gas, and removing a carbon-containing deposition by plasma generated from the gas containing the hydrogen-containing gas; a second cleaning step of, after the first cleaning step, providing an inert gas, and removing a metal-containing deposition by plasma generated from the inert gas; and a third cleaning step of, after the second cleaning step, providing a gas containing a fluorine-containing gas and an oxygen-containing gas, and removing a silicon-containing deposition by plasma generated from the gas containing the fluorine-containing gas and the oxygen-containing gas. |
| US10403811B2 |
Magnetic diffusion barriers and filter in PSTTM MTJ construction
A material layer stack for a magnetic tunneling junction, the material layer stack including a fixed magnetic layer; a dielectric layer; a free magnetic layer; and an amorphous electrically-conductive seed layer, wherein the fixed magnetic layer is disposed between the dielectric layer and the seed layer. A non-volatile memory device including a material stack including an amorphous electrically-conductive seed layer; and a fixed magnetic layer juxtaposed and in contact with the seed layer. A method including forming an amorphous seed layer on a first electrode of a memory device; forming a material layer stack on the amorphous seed layer, the material stack including a dielectric layer disposed between a fixed magnetic layer and a free magnetic layer, wherein the fixed magnetic layer. |
| US10403807B2 |
Thermoelectric conversion material and method for manufacturing same
The present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion material having a reduced thermal conductivity and having an improved figure of merit, and a method for producing the material. The thermoelectric conversion material has, as formed on a resin substrate having recesses, a thermoelectric semiconductor layer formed of a thermoelectric semiconductor material, wherein the resin substrate comprises one formed by curing a resin layer of a curable resin composition. The production method for the thermoelectric conversion material comprises a resin substrate formation step of transcribing a protruding structure from an original plate having the protruding structure onto a resin layer of a curable resin composition and curing the layer, and a film formation step of forming a thermoelectric semiconductor layer of a thermoelectric semiconductor material on the resin substrate. |
| US10403796B2 |
Light emitting device and method of fabricating the same
A light emitting device and a method of fabricating the same. The light emitting device includes: a light emitting structure including a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a partially exposed region of an upper surface of the first conductive type semiconductor layer; a transparent electrode disposed on the second conductive type semiconductor layer; a first insulation layer including a first opening and a second opening; a metal layer at least partially covering the first insulation layer; a first electrode electrically connected to the first conductive type semiconductor layer; and a second electrode electrically connected to the transparent electrode. |
| US10403795B2 |
Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor layered structure; an upper electrode disposed on a portion of an upper surface of the semiconductor layered structure; a lower electrode disposed on a lower surface of the semiconductor layered structure in a region spaced from a region directly under the upper electrode, the lower electrode being reflective; and a protective film disposed continuously on a surface of the upper electrode and the upper surface of the semiconductor layered structure. A thickness of a first portion of the protective film, which is disposed at least in a region directly above the lower electrode, is smaller than a thickness of a second portion of the protective film, which is disposed continuously on the surface of the upper electrode and the upper surface of the semiconductor layered structure adjacent to the portion on which the upper electrode is disposed. |
| US10403790B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor light-emitting device
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-emitting member that includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type, and a light-emitting layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a first metal layer electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, and a second metal layer electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer. The light-emitting member has a first surface including a front surface of the first semiconductor layer, a second surface including a front surface of the second semiconductor layer, a side surface including an outer periphery of the first semiconductor layer, and a recess extending inwardly of the second surface to an interior portion of the first semiconductor layer to expose an inner surface on a side of the recess facing the side surface. |
| US10403789B2 |
Light-emitting element and the manufacturing method thereof
This disclosure discloses a light-emitting element having a light-emitting unit, a transparent layer and a wavelength conversion layer formed on the transparent layer. The transparent layer covers the light-emitting unit. The wavelength conversion layer includes a phosphor layer having a phosphor and a stress release layer without the phosphor. |
| US10403787B2 |
Optoelectronic device comprising three-dimensional semiconductor structures in an axial configuration
The invention relates to an optoelectronic device (1) comprising at least one three-dimensional semiconductor structure (2) extending along a longitudinal axis (Δ) substantially orthogonal to a plane of a substrate (3) on which same lies, and comprising: a first doped portion (10), extending from one surface of the substrate (3) along the longitudinal axis (Δ); an active portion (30) comprising a passivation layer (34) and at least one quantum well (32) covered laterally by said passivation layer (34), the quantum well (32) of the active portion (30) having a mean diameter greater than that of said first doped portion (10), said active portion (30) extending from the first doped portion (10) along the longitudinal axis (Δ); and a second doped portion (20), extending from the active portion (30) along the longitudinal axis (Δ). The invention is characterized in that the device comprises a plurality of three-dimensional semiconductor structures (2) extending substantially in parallel with one another, the active portions (30) of which are in mutual contact. |
| US10403784B2 |
Light emitting device controlling a current injection amount into an electrode according to pieces of optical information
A light emitting device, particularly a super luminescent diode, includes an active layer provided between upper and lower electrodes for injecting electric current into the active layer. The active layer functions as an optical waveguide and has first and second edge faces for emitting light. The device further includes first and second light receiving sections for receiving light emitted from the first and second edge faces respectively and generating first and second pieces of optical information respectively and a control section for controlling the current injection amount into the active layer from the upper electrode according to the first and second pieces of optical information. The optical output and the spectral shape of the device can be easily, accurately and reliably controlled in a short period of time. |
| US10403781B1 |
Silicon-based photodetectors with expanded bandwidth
A hot carrier photodetector has been developed that absorbs approximately 80% of broadband infrared radiation by using a planar nanoscale back metal contact to silicon. Based on the principles of the hot carriers generation in ultrathin metal films, silicon-based CMOS image sensors are developed which operate in the IR diapason. The device uses absorption in an ultrathin metallic nanostructure to generate therein a non-equilibrium electron distribution which subsequently is injected into the silicon material via a Schottky contact at the Si body, thus generating a photoresponse to an incident IR radiation. A pixeled array including interconnected hot carriers metallic nanostructured cell(s) and traditional RGB elements is envisioned to enable RGB-IR imaging from a single silicon based wafer. |
| US10403772B2 |
Electrical and optical via connections on a same chip
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to electrical and optical via connections on a same chip and methods of manufacture. The structure includes an optical through substrate via (TSV) comprising an optical material filling the TSV. The structure further includes an electrical TSV which includes a liner of the optical material and a conductive material filling remaining portions of the electrical TSV. |
| US10403769B2 |
Electro-conductive paste comprising Ag nano-particles and spherical Ag micro-particles in the preparation of electrodes
The invention relates to an electro-conductive paste comprising Ag nano-particles and spherical Ag micro-particles in the preparation of electrodes, particularly in electrical devices, particularly in temperature sensitive electrical devices or solar cells, particularly in HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin-layer) solar cells. In particular, the invention relates to a paste, a process for preparing a paste, a precursor, a process for preparing an electrical device and a module comprising electrical devices. The invention relates to a paste comprising the following paste constituents: a. Ag particles, b. a polymer system; wherein the Ag particles have a multi-modal distribution of particle diameter with at least a first maximum in the range from about 1 nm to about less than 1 μm and at least a further maximum in the range from about 1 μm to about less than 1 mm; wherein the difference between the first and the further maximum is at least about 0.3 μm; wherein at least 50 wt. % of the Ag particles with a diameter in the range from 1 μm to 1 mm are spherical. |
| US10403765B2 |
Semiconductor device, display device, display apparatus, and system
A semiconductor device includes a base; a gate electrode to which a gate voltage is applied; a source electrode and a drain electrode through which an electric current is generated according to the gate voltage being applied to the gate electrode; a semiconductor layer made of an oxide semiconductor; and a gate insulating layer inserted between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a channel-forming region and a non-channel-forming region; the channel-forming region is in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode, and the non-channel-forming region is in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode. |
| US10403761B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The manufacturing method comprises: forming a first gate metal pattern on a base substrate; forming a gate insulating layer, a first active layer pattern and a source-drain metal pattern on the base substrate on which the first gate metal pattern is formed; forming a first protective layer pattern and a through hole pattern on the base substrate on which the source-drain metal pattern is formed; and forming a second active layer pattern and a pixel electrode pattern on the base substrate on which the first protective layer pattern is formed. Embodiments of the present disclosure solve problems of poor display performance and high cost of the array substrate and achieve effects of improving the display performance and reducing the cost. |
| US10403756B2 |
Thin-film transistor (TFT) and manufacturing method thereof, array substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a thin-film transistor (TFT) and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The TFT includes an active layer, an amorphous silicon (a-Si) connecting layer and a source-drain electrode layer. The active layer includes a channel region, a source region and a drain region; forming materials of the channel region include polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si); the a-Si connecting layer is disposed on a side of the active layer and includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part which are spaced from each other; the source-drain electrode layer includes a source electrode and a drain electrode which are spaced to each other; the source electrode is electrically connected with the source region through the first connecting part; and the drain electrode is electrically connected with the drain electrode through the second connecting part. |
| US10403755B2 |
Thin film transistor and method for manufacturing the same
Related to is the technical field of display panels, and in particular to a thin film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same. The thin film transistor provided on a substrate includes a drain, a source, a gate, and an active layer. The drain and the source are in a comb-like shape and are connected with the active layer through a first via hole and a second via hole, respectively. Such arrangement enables a width of a channel formed between the drain and the source to be increased and a layout scale of the thin film transistor to be reduced at the same time, whereby space is saved. When used in a GOA circuit or other circuits, the thin film transistor is helpful to achievement of a narrow-bezel design of a display panel. |
| US10403752B2 |
Prevention of subchannel leakage current in a semiconductor device with a fin structure
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a fin structure on a substrate, the fin structure including fin top and bottom portions, a channel including a majority carrier, and an epitaxial (EPI) layer; an insulation layer including insulation layer top and bottom portions adjacent the fin top and bottom portions; wherein (a) the EPI layer comprises one or more of group IV and lll-V materials, (b) the fin bottom portion includes a fin bottom portion concentration of dopants of opposite polarity to the majority carrier, (c) the fin top portion includes a fin top portion concentration of the dopants less than the fin bottom portion concentration, (d) the insulation layer bottom portion includes an insulation layer bottom portion concentration of the dopants, and (e) the insulation layer top portion includes an insulation top layer portion concentration greater than the insulation bottom portion concentration. Other embodiments are described herein. |
| US10403751B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a first source/drain region formed on the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a channel formed on the first source/drain region, and a second source/drain region formed on the channel. The semiconductor device also includes a gate electrode formed on an external surface of the channel, and a metal pad formed on the substrate. The height of an upper surface of the metal pad is the same as the length of an upper surface of the gate electrode. |
| US10403749B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
In a first main surface side of a silicon carbide semiconductor base, a trench is formed. A second base region of a second conductivity type is arranged at a position facing the trench in a depth direction. An end (toward a drain electrode) of the second base region of the second conductivity type, and an end (toward the drain electrode) of a first base region of the second conductivity type reach a position deeper than an end (toward the drain electrode) of a region of a first conductivity type. Thus, the electric field at a gate insulating film at the trench bottom is mitigated, suppressing the breakdown voltage of the active region and enabling breakdown voltage design of the edge termination region to be facilitated. Further, such a semiconductor device may be formed by an easy method of manufacturing. |
| US10403748B2 |
Semiconductor device including silicon carbide
A semiconductor device includes: an n+ type of silicon carbide substrate, an n− type of layer, first trenches, a p type of region, a p+ type of region, an n+ type of region, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The semiconductor device may include a plurality of unit cells, wherein one of the plurality of unit cells may include a contact portion at which the source electrode and the p+ type of region contact each other, an outer portion disposed at upper and lower portions of the contact portion in a plan view, and a connection portion connecting the contact portion to the outer portion, a width between the first trenches horizontally adjacent in the plan view in the contact portion is equal to a width between the first trenches horizontally adjacent in the plan view in the outer portion, and a width between the first trenches horizontally adjacent in the plan view in the connection portion is less than a width between the first trenches horizontally adjacent in the plan view in the contact portion. |
| US10403747B2 |
Gallium nitride/ aluminum gallium nitride semiconductor device and method of making a gallium nitride/ aluminum gallium nitride semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and a method of making the same is disclosed. The device includes a substrate having an AlGaN layer located on a GaN layer for forming a two dimensional electron gas at an interface between the AlGaN layer and the GaN layer. The device also includes a plurality of contacts. At least one of the contacts includes an ohmic contact portion located on a major surface of the substrate. The ohmic contact portion comprises a first electrically conductive material. The at least one of the contacts also includes a trench extending down into the substrate from the major surface. The trench passes through the AlGaN layer and into the GaN layer. The trench is at least partially filled with a second electrically conductive material. The second electrically conductive material is a different electrically conductive material to the first electrically conductive material. |
| US10403746B2 |
Heterostructure and method of its production
The present document discloses an AlxGa1−xN/GaN heterostructure, wherein x is 0.10 |
| US10403745B2 |
Nitride semiconductor device including a horizontal switching device
A nitride semiconductor device includes a horizontal switching device that includes a substrate, a channel forming layer, a source region, a drain region and a gate region. The source region and the drain region are arranged apart from each other in one direction along a plane of the substrate. The gate region is formed of a p-type semiconductor layer and is arranged between the source region and the drain region. The gate region is divided into multiple parts in a perpendicular direction along the plane of the substrate, the perpendicular direction being perpendicular to an arrangement direction in which the source region and the drain region are arranged. Accordingly, on-resistance is decreased while securing high breakdown voltage. |
| US10403742B2 |
Field-effect transistors with fins formed by a damascene-like process
Methods of forming a structure for a fin-type field-effect transistor and structures for a fin-type field-effect transistor. An etch stop layer, a sacrificial layer, and a dielectric layer are arranged in a layer stack formed on a substrate. a plurality of openings are formed that extend through the layer stack to the substrate. A semiconductor material is epitaxially grown inside each of the plurality of openings from the substrate to form a plurality of fins embedded in the layer stack. The sacrificial layer is removed selective to the etch stop layer to reveal a section of each of the plurality of fins. |
| US10403740B2 |
Gate planarity for FinFET using dummy polish stop
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes depositing a dielectric layer over fins formed in a semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer includes a screen layer over tops of the fins. An etch stop feature is formed on the screen layer. The etch stop feature is patterned down to the screen layer in regions across the device. A dummy gate material formed over the fins is planarized down to the etch stop feature, a dielectric fill between gate structures patterned from the dummy gate material is planarized down to the etch stop feature and a gate conductor is planarized to the etch stop feature. |
| US10403735B2 |
Method of forming semiconductor device including P-N diode
Forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first conductive line on a substrate, forming a memory cell including a switching device and a data storage element on the first conductive line, and forming a second conductive line on the memory cell. Forming the switching device includes forming a first semiconductor layer, forming a first doped region by injecting a n-type impurity into the first semiconductor layer, forming a second semiconductor layer thicker than the first semiconductor layer, on the first semiconductor layer having the first doped region, forming a second doped region by injecting a p-type impurity into an upper region of the second semiconductor layer, and forming a P-N diode by performing a heat treatment process to diffuse the n-type impurity and the p-type impurity in the first doped region and the second doped region to form a P-N junction of the P-N diode in the second semiconductor layer. |
| US10403734B2 |
Semiconductor device with reduced gate height budget
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to semiconductor device with reduced gate height budget and methods of manufacture. The method includes: forming a plurality of gate structures on a substrate; recessing material of the plurality of gate structures to below a surface of an insulator material; forming trenches in the insulator material and underlying material adjacent to sidewalls of the plurality of gate structures; and filling the recesses and trenches with a capping material. |
| US10403732B2 |
Semiconductor device including stripe structures
A method is provided for fabricating stripe structures. The method includes providing a substrate; and forming a to-be-etched layer on the substrate. The method also includes forming a hard mask pattern having a first stripe on the to-be-etched layer; and forming a photoresist pattern having a stripe opening on the to-be-etched layer and the hard mask pattern having the first stripe. Further, the method includes forming a polymer layer on a top surface and side surfaces of the photoresist pattern to reduce a width of the stripe opening; forming hard mask patterns having a second stripe by etching the hard mask pattern having the first stripe using the photoresist pattern having the polymer layer as an etching mask; and forming the stripe structures by etching the to-be-etching layer using the hard mask pattern having the second stripe as an etching mask until the substrate is exposed. |
| US10403730B2 |
Memory cell comprising non-self-aligned horizontal and vertical control gates
The present disclosure relates to a memory cell comprising a vertical selection gate extending in a trench made in a substrate, a floating gate extending above the substrate, and a horizontal control gate extending above the floating gate, wherein the floating gate also extends above a portion of the vertical selection gate over a non-zero overlap distance. Application mainly to the production of a split gate memory cell programmable by hot-electron injection. |
| US10403713B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
In a first main surface of a silicon carbide semiconductor base, a trench is formed. On a first main surface side of the silicon carbide semiconductor base, an n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer is deposited. In a surface of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, an n-type high-concentration region is provided. In the surface of the n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer, a first p-type base region and a second p+-type base region are selectively provided. The second p+-type base region is formed at the bottom of the trench. A depth of the n-type high-concentration region is deeper than that of the first p-type base region and the second p+-type base region. Thus, by an easy method, the electric field at a gate insulating film at the bottom of the trench is mitigated, enabling the breakdown voltage of the active region to be maintained and the ON resistance to be lowered. |
| US10403711B2 |
Designing and fabricating semiconductor devices with specific terrestrial cosmic ray (TCR) ratings
In one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a silicon-carbide (SiC) device includes receiving a selection of a specific terrestrial cosmic ray (TCR) rating at a specific applied voltage, determining a breakdown voltage for the SiC device based at least on the specific TCR rating at the specific applied voltage, determining drift layer design parameters based at least on the breakdown voltage. The drift layer design parameters include doping concentration and thickness of the drift layer. The method also includes fabricating the SiC device having a drift layer with the determined drift layer design parameters. The SiC device has the specific TCR rating at the specific applied voltage. |
| US10403708B2 |
Graded bandgap perovskite solar cell
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to solar cells. In one aspect a solar cell includes a first electrode, a hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode, a first perovskite layer disposed on the hole transport layer, a cationic diffusion barrier disposed on the first perovskite layer, a second perovskite layer disposed on the cationic diffusion barrier, an electron transport layer disposed on the second perovskite layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport layer. The first perovskite layer comprises a different perovskite than the second perovskite layer. |
| US10403704B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a scan line extending in a first direction; a first data line and a second data line extending in a second direction crossing the first direction; a fixed voltage line extending in the second direction between the first and second data lines and configured to receive a fixed voltage; an auxiliary line between the fixed voltage line and one of the first and second data lines, wherein the fixed voltage is applied to the auxiliary line; a transistor circuit comprising a second transistor coupled to the scan line and the first data line and a first transistor coupled to the second transistor and the fixed voltage line; and a light emitting device coupled to the transistor circuit, wherein at least a portion of the transistor circuit is between the fixed voltage line and the auxiliary line. |
| US10403700B2 |
Oxide semiconductor transistor
A display device includes a driving transistor and an organic EL element. The driving transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer; a first gate electrode that region overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer; a first insulting layer between the first gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer; a second gate electrode that includes a region overlapping the oxide semiconductor layer and the first gate electrode; a second insulating layer between the second gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor layer; and a first and a second transparent conductive layer that are provided between the oxide semiconductor layer and the first insulating layer and each include a region contacting the oxide semiconductor layer. The organic EL element includes a first electrode; a second electrode; a light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron transfer layer between the light emitting layer and the first electrode. |
| US10403698B2 |
Flexible display device and method of manufacturing the same
A flexible display device includes a substrate, a light emitting layer, a first insulating layer, and a conductive layer. The substrate includes a bent region and a non-bent region. The light emitting layer overlaps the non-bent region. The first insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. The conductive layer is disposed on the first insulating layer. A sidewall of the first insulating layer includes a first tapered surface. The first tapered surface includes at least three curved surface portions continuously arranged with one another. |
| US10403695B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. An organic light-emitting display device includes: first electrodes, a first pixel-defining layer configured to divide the first electrodes, a second pixel-defining layer on the first pixel-defining layer, an organic light-emitting layer on a first electrode among the first electrodes, and a second electrode on the organic light-emitting layer, wherein a width of the second pixel-defining layer is wider than a width of the first pixel-defining layer. |
| US10403694B2 |
OLED substrate comprising corresponding pixel definition layer patterns, manufacturing method thereof, and display device
The present disclosure provides an OLED substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The OLED substrate comprises: a base substrate; a source-drain metal extending portion arranged on the base substrate; a passivation layer having via holes at positions corresponding to cathode contact regions in a peripheral area; an anode metal extending portion being electrically connected with the source-drain metal extending portion through the via holes; a pixel definition layer having first patterns at positions corresponding to a display area, each having a protrusion portion and a groove portion; the pixel definition layer having second patterns at positions corresponding to the cathode contact regions, each having a protrusion portion and a groove portion. The protrusion portion of the first pattern corresponds to the groove portion of the second pattern, and the groove portion of the first pattern corresponds to the protrusion portion of the second pattern. |
| US10403692B2 |
Display device
An electroluminescent device includes a lower structure including an emission area and a peripheral area, a flexible encapsulating multilayer, and a touch panel including a touch electrode. The emission area includes an electroluminescent unit including a lower electrode disposed directly on an insulating film, an intermediate film, and an upper electrode disposed on the intermediate film. The peripheral area includes an inorganic surface portion substantially surrounding the emission area, various terminals, and wires. A lower surface of the flexible encapsulating multilayer and an upper surface of the inorganic surface portion each include only one or more inorganic materials in direct contact with each other. |
| US10403690B2 |
Light emitting device including tandem structure with quantum dots and nanoparticles
A light emitting device comprising: a pair of electrodes; two or more light emitting elements disposed between the electrodes in a stacked arrangement, wherein a light emitting element comprises a layer comprising an emissive material, and a charge generation element disposed between adjacent light emitting elements in the stacked arrangement, the charge generation element comprising a first layer comprising an inorganic n-type semiconductor material, and a second layer comprising a hole injection material. A charge generation is also disclosed. |
| US10403688B2 |
Organic light emitting display
An organic light emitting display including a substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode on the substrate and facing each other, at least two organic light emitting layers between the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least two color filters on the second electrode, the organic light emitting layers emitting a first color light, and the color filters emitting a second color light and a third color light. |
| US10403686B2 |
Color film substrate and display device
The present invention provides a color film substrate and display device. The color film substrate comprises a bottom substrate; a black matrix disposed on the bottom substrate and a plurality of opening areas arranged in matrix at intervals are formed in the black matrix to be sub-pixel areas of the color film substrate; and a first conversion material layer formed within a first sub-pixel area of the sub-pixel areas, wherein the first conversion material layer converts an incident light with a first wavelength into a first emitting light with a second wavelength, and the first wavelength is greater than the second wavelength. The performance and lifetime of a display panel can be improved by this technique solution. |
| US10403685B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate having a plurality of transmissive regions aligned in a first direction and a second direction, a plurality of first wiring lines on the substrate extending in the first direction, a plurality of second wiring lines on the substrate extending in the second direction, and a plurality of light emitting sections disposed on the substrate. Each of the transmissive regions is surrounded by the first and second wiring lines. The light emitting sections include a first light emitting section and a second light emitting section. At least part of the first light emitting section is located in a region that is adjacent to the transmissive regions and overlap one of the first wiring lines. At least part of the second light emitting section is located in a region that is adjacent to the transmissive regions and overlap one of the second wiring lines. |
| US10403680B2 |
Switch device and storage unit
A switch device according to an embodiment of the technology includes a first electrode, a second electrode that is disposed to face the first electrode, and a switch layer that is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode. The switch layer contains a chalcogen element. The switch layer includes a first region and a second region which have different composition ratios of one or more of chalcogen elements or different types of the one or more of chalcogen elements. The first region is provided close to the first electrode. The second region is provided closer to the second electrode than the first region. |
| US10403679B2 |
Integrated circuit device, physical quantity measuring device, electronic apparatus, and vehicle
An integrated circuit device includes a terminal region in which a second signal terminal to which a second signal is input is disposed, an AFE circuit (analog front-end circuit) that performs waveform shaping of the second signal, and a time-to-digital converter that converts a time difference between a transition timing of a first signal and a transition timing of the second signal subjected to waveform shaping, to a digital value. When a direction from a first side of the integrated circuit device toward a second side facing the first side is set as a first direction, the AFE circuit is disposed on the first direction side of the terminal region, and the time-to-digital converter is disposed on at least one side of the first direction side of the AFE circuit and a side of a direction intersecting the first direction. |
| US10403667B2 |
Photoelectric conversion device and manufacturing method of the same having waveguide inclined side face with improved sensitivity by increasing reflection rate of light reaching side face near incident face or entrance face of waveguide
A photoelectric conversion device includes a waveguide member disposed above a photoelectric conversion unit, and an insulating member disposed above a substrate, and surrounding at least part of the waveguide member. The waveguide member has a first side face, a second side face, and a third side face, arranged in that order from the substrate. An angle of inclination of the first side face is smaller than an angle of inclination of the second side face. An angle of inclination of the third side face is smaller than the angle of inclination of the second side face. The angle of inclination of the second side face is smaller than 90 degrees. |
| US10403665B2 |
Two-dimensional solid-state image capture device with polarization member, color filter and light shielding layer for sub-pixel regions and polarization-light data processing method to obtain polarization direction and polarization component intensity
A two-dimensional solid-state image capture device includes pixel areas arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, each pixel area being constituted by multiple sub-pixel regions, each sub-pixel region having a photoelectric conversion element. A polarization member is disposed at a light incident side of at least one of the sub-pixel regions constituting each pixel area. The polarization member has strip-shaped conductive light-shielding material layers and slit areas, provided between the strip-shaped conductive light-shielding material layers. Each sub-pixel region further has a wiring layer for controlling an operation of the photoelectric conversion element, and the polarization member and the wiring layer are made of the same material and are disposed on the same virtual plane. |
| US10403659B2 |
Stacked image sensor capacitors and related methods
Implementations of image sensors may include a first die including an image sensor array and a first plurality of interconnects where the image sensor array includes a plurality of photodiodes and a plurality of transfer gates. The image sensor array may also include a second die including a second plurality of interconnects and a plurality of capacitors, each capacitor selected from the group consisting of deep trench capacitors, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors, polysilicon-insulator-polysilicon (PIP) capacitors, and 3D stacked capacitors. The first die may be coupled to the second die through the first plurality of interconnects and through the second plurality of interconnects. No more than eight photodiodes of the plurality of photodiodes of the first die may be electrically coupled with no more than four capacitors of the plurality of capacitors. |
| US10403658B2 |
Image sensing device and moving apparatus
An image sensing device includes pixels forming rows and columns, sets of control lines respectively assigned to the rows such that one set of control lines is connected to one of the rows, a row drive circuit configured to drive the sets of control lines, and an assist circuit. Each set includes a first control line and a second control line. The row drive circuit includes a first drive circuit connected to a first end of the first control line and a second drive circuit connected to first end of the second control line. The assist circuit includes an assist drive circuit connected to a second end of the first control line so as to drive the first control line in accordance with a control signal supplied to the second control line. |
| US10403656B2 |
Energy harvesting configurable image sensor
An image sensor is provided, the image sensor comprising a plurality of photo-diode pixels arranged in a two-dimensional array, an energy harvesting output bus connected to the plurality of photo-diode pixels, an image sensing output bus connected to the plurality of photo-diode pixels, and a plurality of switching buses connected to the plurality of photo-diode pixels to direct output of a varying percentage of the pixels to either the energy harvesting output bus or the image sensing output bus. |
| US10403655B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
The number of masks and photolithography processes used in a manufacturing process of a semiconductor device are reduced. A first conductive film is formed over a substrate; a first insulating film is formed over the first conductive film; a semiconductor film is formed over the first insulating film; a semiconductor film including a channel region is formed by etching part of the semiconductor film; a second insulating film is formed over the semiconductor film; a mask is formed over the second insulating film; a first portion of the second insulating film that overlaps the semiconductor film and second portions of the first insulating film and the second insulating film that do not overlap the semiconductor film are removed with the use of the mask; the mask is removed; and a second conductive film electrically connected to the semiconductor film is formed over at least part of the second insulating film. |
| US10403654B2 |
Mask for manufacturing TFT in 4M production process and TFT array manufacturing method of 4M production process
The present invention provides a mask for manufacturing a TFT in a 4M production process and a TFT array manufacturing method of a 4M production process. For the mask for manufacturing a TFT in a 4M production process, in a TFT layout structure of the mask, a line pattern is provided adjacent to an outer edge of a TFT pattern to extend along the outer edge of the TFT pattern. The present invention also provides a corresponding TFT array manufacturing method of the 4M production process, which uses the mask of the present invention to serve as a mask for a second mask-based process. The mask for manufacturing a TFT in a 4M production process according to the present invention allows for achievement of an edge-thinned structure through variation of edge exposure of the mask so as to make plasma etching more easily performed on such a structure to thereby reduce residues of amorphous silicon and heavily-doped silicon on an edge of a second metal layer. The TFT array manufacturing method of the 4M production process of the present invention is such that the mask of the present invention is used in combination with a 4M production process to alleviate the problems of residues of amorphous silicon and heavily doped silicon on an edge of a second metal layer. |
| US10403652B2 |
Semiconductor circuit substrate and display device using the same
An organic EL display device has a semiconductor circuit substrate comprising a TFT and an organic passivation layer thereon. An AlO layer is formed over the organic passivation layer, and an electrode layer is formed on the AlO layer. The electrode layer connects with TFT via a through hole formed in the AlO layer and in the organic passivation layer. |
| US10403648B2 |
Array substrates with adjacent sub-pixels having opposite polarities
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes a first driving chip and a second driving chip configured on the top and the bottom of the array substrate respectively. Data lines on the first 6a number of columns connect to the first pins of the first driving chip, and data lines on the second 6a number of columns connect to the second pins of the second driving chip, and remaining data lines connects to the first pins and the second pins in an alternating manner. Such that, three sub-pixels within the same pixel may be driven by the driving chip configured on the same side, and the adjacent first pins and the adjacent second pins may output the signals with different polarities. So as to achieve the dot inversion of the polarities among the sub-pixels. |
| US10403639B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device having on-pitch drain select gate electrodes and method of making the same
An array of memory stack structures extends through an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers over a substrate. An array of drain select level assemblies including cylindrical electrode portions is formed over the alternating stack with the same periodicity as the array of memory stack structures. A drain select level isolation strip including dielectric materials can be formed between a neighboring pair of drain select level assemblies employing the drain select level assemblies as a self-aligning template. Alternatively, cylindrical electrode portions can be formed around an upper portion of each memory stack structure. Strip electrode portions are formed on the cylindrical electrode portions after formation of the drain select level isolation strip. |
| US10403638B2 |
Vertical memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same
A vertical memory device includes a first structure having a lower semiconductor pattern structure filling a recess on a substrate and protruding from an upper surface of the substrate in a first direction substantially perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate, the lower semiconductor pattern structure including a first undoped semiconductor pattern, a doped semiconductor pattern, and a second undoped semiconductor pattern sequentially stacked, and a lower surface of the doped semiconductor pattern being lower than the upper surface of the substrate, and an upper semiconductor pattern extending in the first direction on the lower semiconductor pattern structure, and a plurality of gate electrodes surrounding a sidewall of the first structure, the plurality of gate electrodes being at a plurality of levels, respectively, so as to be spaced apart from each other in the first direction. |
| US10403636B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor memory device according to the embodiment includes a substrate, electrodes, at least one pillar structure, at least one charge storage film, and at least one insulating member. The electrodes are provided on the substrate, are separately stacked each other, and constitute a stacked body. The electrodes have a first width in a first direction along a surface of the substrate and include a portion extending in a second direction crossing the first direction along the surface. The pillar structure is provided in the stacked body and includes a semiconductor layer extending in a stacking direction of the stacked body. The charge storage film is provided between the semiconductor layer and the electrodes. The insulating member has a width in the first direction smaller than the first width, pierces the electrodes, and is provided to extend in the stacking direction. |
| US10403633B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device
The semiconductor device include a lower insulating layer; a gate stack disposed over the lower insulating layer; a plurality of supports extending from the lower insulating layer toward the gate stack; a source layer disposed between the lower insulating layer and the gate stack; and a channel pattern including a connection part disposed between the source layer and the gate stack. |
| US10403632B2 |
3D NAND device with five-folded memory stack structure configuration
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack and arranged in at least five rows that extend along a first horizontal direction, contact via structures arranged in a same number of rows as the memory stack structures and overlying the memory stack structures, each of the contact via structures being electrically connected to a semiconductor channel of a respective memory stack structure, bit lines contacting a respective contact via structure and extending along a second horizontal direction that is different from the first horizontal direction, and a pair of wall-shaped via structures extending through the alternating stack and laterally extending along the first horizontal direction. |
| US10403630B2 |
Semiconductor devices including ferroelectric materials
A method of forming a ferroelectric memory cell. The method comprises forming an electrode material exhibiting a desired dominant crystallographic orientation. A hafnium-based material is formed over the electrode material and the hafnium-based material is crystallized to induce formation of a ferroelectric material having a desired crystallographic orientation. Additional methods are also described, as are semiconductor device structures including the ferroelectric material. |
| US10403628B2 |
Finfet based ZRAM with convex channel region
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods and structures for fabrication of capacitor-less DRAM devices, sometimes referred to as ZRAM devices. A channel is formed in a fin-type field effect transistor (finFET) that is comprised of a finned channel portion and a convex channel portion. The finned channel portion may be comprised of a first semiconductor material and the convex channel portion may be comprised of a second, different semiconductor material. In embodiments, a metal gate is disposed around the elongated surface of the channel region, but is not disposed on the short surface of the channel region. A first spacer is disposed adjacent to the gate and in direct physical contact with the short surface of the channel region, and a second spacer is disposed adjacent to the first spacer. |
| US10403627B2 |
Memory device for a dynamic random access memory
The disclosed technology relates to a memory device for a dynamic random access memory, or DRAM. In one aspect, the memory device includes a substrate supporting a semiconductor device layer in which a plurality of semiconductor devices are formed. The memory device may further include an interconnection portion formed above the substrate and including a number of metallization levels and dielectric layers, the interconnection portion being adapted to interconnect said semiconductor devices. The memory device may further include a plurality of bit cell stacks arranged in the interconnection portion, each bit cell stack including a plurality of bit cells. Further, such bit cells may include elements such as a charge storage element, a write transistor, and a read transistor. |
| US10403622B2 |
Electrostatic discharge protection device and methods
Structures for a frequency divider, methods of fabricating a frequency divider, and method of using a frequency divider. A first interconnect line is configured to selectively conduct a first signal of a first frequency. A second interconnect line is coupled with the first interconnect line. The second interconnect line is configured to selectively conduct a second signal of a second frequency. The first frequency is less the second frequency. |
| US10403621B2 |
Circuit layout, layout method and system for implementing the method
A circuit layout includes a first device having a first set of fingers, wherein the first set of fingers is separated into a first finger group and a second finger group, the first finger group comprising a first number of fingers, and the second finger group comprising a second number of fingers. The circuit layout further includes a second device having a second set of fingers, wherein the second set of fingers includes a third finger group having a third number of fingers. The first finger group, the second finger group and the third finger group extend across a first doped region, and the third finger group is between the first finger group and the second finger group. |
| US10403620B2 |
Semiconductor device
To provide a semiconductor device capable of restricting the substrate bias effect of a high-side transistor while enhancing the heat radiation property of a low-side transistor.A high-side NMOS transistor 101 is formed in a region S1 on the surface of a SOI substrate 30. A trench 41 surrounds the high-side NMOS transistor 101. SiO2 (first insulator) embeds the trench 41. A low-side NMOS transistor 102 is formed in a region S2 on the surface of the SOI substrate 30 around the trench 41. The side face Sf connecting the region S2 forming the low-side NMOS transistor 102 therein and the backside of the SOI substrate 30 is exposed. |
| US10403618B2 |
Edge cut debond using a temporary filler material with no adhesive properties and edge cut debond using an engineered carrier to enable topography
A semiconductor device assembly that includes a first side of a semiconductor device supported on a substrate to permit the processing of a second side of the semiconductor device. A filler material deposited on the semiconductor device supports the semiconductor device on the substrate. The filler material does not adhere to the semiconductor device or the substrate. Alternatively, the filler material may be deposited on the substrate. Instead of a filler material, the substrate may include a topography configured to support the semiconductor device. Adhesive applied between an outer edge of the first side of the semiconductor and the substrate bonds the outer edge of the semiconductor device to the substrate to form a semiconductor device assembly. A second side of the semiconductor device may then be processed and the outer edge of the semiconductor device may be cut off to release the semiconductor device from the assembly. |
| US10403617B2 |
Fingerprint recognition module having light-emitting function and manufacturing method therefor
This application provides a fingerprint recognition module having a light-emitting function and a manufacturing method therefor. The fingerprint recognition module includes a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board, a die, a light-emitting diode component, an adhesive layer, and a cover plate. The manufacturing method includes the following steps: (a) directly connecting and fixing the die and the light-emitting diode component to the FPC board, and electrically connecting the die and the light-emitting diode component to the FPC board; (b) coating the adhesive layer on an upper surface of the die; (c) covering the adhesive layer with a cover plate, to adhere the cover plate to the adhesive layer; and (d) applying low pressure injection modeling encapsulation to an encapsulation space defined between the cover plate and the FPC board, so as to form an encapsulation layer in the encapsulation space to encapsulate the die and the light-emitting diode component. |
| US10403608B2 |
Light-emitting diode (LED) device for realizing multi-colors
A light-emitting diode (LED) device includes a plurality of light-emitting structures spaced apart from each other; a plurality of electrode layers on first surfaces of the plurality of light-emitting structures, respectively; a protection layer on second surfaces of each of the plurality of light-emitting structures, respectively; a separation layer to electrically insulate the plurality of light-emitting structures from each other and electrically insulate the plurality of electrode layers from each other; a plurality of phosphor layers on second surfaces of the plurality of light-emitting structures, respectively, each of the plurality of the phosphor layers each to output a different color of light; and a partitioning layer between the phosphor layers and separating the plurality of phosphor layers from each other, the partitioning layer including a substrate structure, an insulation structure, or a metal structure. |
| US10403607B2 |
Chip-on-board design with color mixing
Some embodiments of the disclosure provide for a lighting system including a substrate. The lighting system includes several blue light emitting diodes (LEDs) supported by the substrate. The lighting system includes at least one red LED supported by the substrate. The lighting system includes a light conversion material covering the blue LEDs and the at least one red LED. |
| US10403602B2 |
Monolithic silicon bridge stack including a hybrid baseband die supporting processors and memory
A semiconductive device stack, includes a baseband processor die with an active surface and a backside surface, and a recess in the backside surface. A recess-seated device is disposed in the recess, and a through-silicon via in the baseband processor die couples the baseband processor die at the active surface to the recess-seated die at the recess. A processor die is disposed on the baseband processor die backside surface, and a memory die is disposed on the processor die. The several dice are coupled by through-silicon via groups. |
| US10403599B2 |
Embedded organic interposers for high bandwidth
Embedded organic interposers for high bandwidth are provided. Example embedded organic interposers provide thick conductors with more dielectric space, and more routing layers of such conductors than conventional interposers, in order to provide high bandwidth transmission capacity over longer spans. The embedded organic interposers provide high bandwidth transmission paths between components such as HBM, HBM2, and HBM3 memory stacks, and other components. To provide the thick conductors and more routing layers for greater transmission capacity, extra space is achieved by embedding the organic interposers in the core of the package. Example embedded organic interposers lower a resistive-capacitive (RC) load of the routing layers to provide improved signal transmission of 1-2 GHz up to 20-60 GHz bandwidth for each 15 mm length, for example. The embedded organic interposers are not limited to use with memory modules. |
| US10403594B2 |
Hybrid bonding materials comprising ball grid arrays and metal inverse opal bonding layers, and power electronics assemblies incorporating the same
A hybrid bonding layer includes a metal inverse opal (MIO) layer with a plurality of hollow spheres and a predefined porosity, and a ball grid array (BGA) disposed within the MIO layer. The MIO layer and the BGA may be disposed between a pair of bonding layers. The MIO layer and the BGA each have a melting point above a TLP sintering temperature and the pair of bonding layers each have a melting point below the TLP sintering temperature such that the hybrid bonding layer can be transient liquid phase bonded between a substrate and a semiconductor device. The pair of bonding layers may include a first pair of bonding layers with a melting point above the TLP sintering temperature and a second pair of bonding layers with a melting point below the TLP sintering temperature. |
| US10403592B2 |
Semiconductor packages and methods of packaging semiconductor devices
Semiconductor packages and methods for forming a semiconductor package are disclosed. The method includes providing a package substrate having first and second major surfaces. The package substrate includes a base substrate having a mold material and a plurality of interconnect structures including via contacts extending through the first to the second major surface of the package substrate. A die having conductive contacts on its first or second surface is provided. The conductive contacts of the die are electrically coupled to the interconnect structures. A cap is formed over the package substrate to encapsulate the die. |
| US10403591B2 |
Chip package assembly with enhanced interconnects and method for fabricating the same
An integrated circuit interconnects are described herein that are suitable for forming integrated circuit chip packages. In one example, an integrated circuit interconnect is provided that includes a first substrate containing first circuitry, a first contact pad, a first pillar, a first pillar protection layer, a second substrate containing second circuitry, and a solder ball disposed on the first pillar and electrically and mechanically coupling the first substrate to the second substrate. The first contact pad is disposed on the first substrate and coupled to the first circuitry. The first pillar electrically disposed over the first contact pad. The first pillar protection layer is hydrophobic to solder and is disposed on a side surface of the first pillar. |
| US10403587B2 |
Radio frequency circuit, wireless communication device, and method of manufacturing radio frequency circuit
A radio frequency circuit includes, a multilayer substrate having a grounded base metal and a plurality of insulating layers and wiring layers formed over the grounded base metal and having a recess surrounded by the plurality of insulating layers and wiring layers over the grounded base metal, an upper substrate having a through-hole penetrating the upper substrate, a first semiconductor chip mounted on the upper surface of the upper substrate and electrically coupled to a metal film formed on the lower surface of the upper substrate, a metal pillar formed on the upper surface of the grounded base metal in the recess, and a solder buried in the through-hole and bonded to the metal film and the upper surface of the metal pillar. The metal film is bonded to a ground wiring layer electrically coupled to the grounded base metal among the plurality of wiring layers. |
| US10403584B2 |
ESD protection device and method for producing the same
An ESD protection device includes an insulating ceramic body including a cavity, first and second discharge electrodes disposed so as to partially face each other with the cavity interposed therebetween, and a supporting electrode disposed so as to be at least partially exposed to the cavity and to be electrically connected to the first and second discharge electrodes. A void isolated from the cavity is provided in at least a portion of a boundary region between at least one of the first and second discharge electrodes, the supporting electrode, and the insulating ceramic body. |
| US10403583B2 |
Fan-out semiconductor package
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a semiconductor chip; a first connection member including a plurality of redistribution layers and one or more layer of vias; an encapsulant; and a second connection member, wherein the encapsulant has first openings exposing at least portions of the first connection member, the first connection member has second openings exposing at least portions of a redistribution layer disposed at an uppermost portion among the plurality of redistribution layers, at least portions of the first openings and the second openings overlap each other, and a content of a metal constituting the plurality of redistribution layers and the one or more layer of vias is higher in a lower portion of the first connection member than in an upper portion of the first connection member. |
| US10403581B2 |
Electronic device packages with attenuated electromagnetic interference signals
Electronic device packages utilizing a stiffener coupled to a substrate with a magnetic lossy bonding layer to attenuate or absorb electromagnetic signals such as radio frequency interference (RFI) along with related systems and method are disclosed. |
| US10403574B2 |
Method to reduce resistance for a copper (Cu) interconnect landing on multilayered metal contacts, and semiconductor structures formed therefrom
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a first insulating layer containing a first metal layer embedded therein and on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The method further includes forming an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer on the first insulating layer, and forming at least one via trench structure including a first metallization trench and a via in the ILD layer. In addition, the method also includes depositing a metal material to form a first metallization layer in the first metallization trench, a via contact in the via, and a second metal layer on top of at least a portion of the first metal layer in the opening of the first insulating layer. The first metal layer and the second metal layer constitute a multilayer metal contact located in the opening of the first insulating layer. |
| US10403572B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor package including the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell region and a circuit region, an upper wiring layer on the substrate, and a redistribution wiring layer on the upper wiring layer. The upper wiring layer includes a secondary uppermost wiring in the circuit region and an uppermost wiring on the secondary uppermost wiring. The uppermost wiring includes an uppermost chip pad electrically connected to the secondary uppermost wiring. At least a portion of the uppermost chip pad in the cell region. The redistribution wiring layer includes a redistribution wiring electrically connected to the uppermost chip pad. At least a portion of the redistribution wiring serving as a landing pad connected to an external connector. |
| US10403571B2 |
Printed circuit board and electronic equipment
A plurality of lands is formed apart from each other on a surface of a package substrate. Another plurality of lands is formed apart from each other on a surface of a printed wiring board. The surface of the package substrate and the surface of the printed wiring board face each other. The plurality of lands and another plurality of lands are bonded to each other with solder having a height of 30% or less of a diameter of a solder bonding portion at the corresponding land. A ratio of a solder bonded area of at least each of lands, among another plurality of the lands, of which distance value to a corresponding one of the lands is larger than an average distance value between the lands and another lands, to a solder bonded area of the corresponding one of the lands is 56% or more and 81% or less. |
| US10403566B2 |
Power module
A power module (10) having a leadframe (20), a power semiconductor (30) arranged on the leadframe (20), a base plate (40) for dispersing heat generated by the power semiconductor (30) and a potting compound (50) surrounding the leadframe (20) and the power semiconductor (30), that physically connects the power semiconductor (30) and/or the leadframe (20) to the base plate (40). |
| US10403562B2 |
Fan-out semiconductor package module
A fan-out semiconductor package module includes: a structure including a wiring member including wiring patterns, one or more first passive components disposed on the wiring member and electrically connected to the wiring pattern, and a first encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of each of the one or more first passive components, and having a first through-hole penetrating through the wiring member and the first encapsulant; a semiconductor chip disposed in the first through-hole of the structure and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface opposing the active surface; a second encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the semiconductor chip and filling at least portions of the first through-hole; and a connection member disposed on the structure and the active surface of the semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pads and the wiring patterns. |
| US10403561B2 |
Power module apparatus, cooling structure, and electric vehicle or hybrid electric vehicle
A power module apparatus (10) comprises: a power module (100A) comprising a package (110) configured to seal a perimeter of a semiconductor device, and a heat radiator (42) bonded to one surface of the package; a cooling device (30) comprising a coolant passage (33) through which coolant water flows, in which the heat radiator is attached to an opening (35) provided on a way of the coolant passage, wherein the heat radiator (42) of the power module (100A) is attached to the opening (35) of the cooling device (30) so that a height (ha) and a height (hb) are substantially identical to each other. The power module in which the heat radiator is attached to the opening formed at the upper surface portion of the cooling device can also be efficiently cooled, and thereby it becomes possible to reduce degradation due to overheating. |
| US10403558B2 |
Power module with multi-layer substrate
A power system has a single-side-cooled power module including a contiguous five-layer substrate of two insulative layers interleaved with three conductive layers. A center one of the conductive layers is partitioned to define discrete spaced apart positive terminal and output terminal portions, and an outer of the conductive layers defines a negative terminal portion such that the positive terminal and negative terminal portions overlap. The power system also has semiconductors respectively in direct contact with the positive terminal and output terminal portions without directly contacting the other layers. |
| US10403555B2 |
Three dimensional integrated circuit having redundant through silicon via base on rotatable cube
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention provides a three dimensional integrated circuit and a method for repairing the three dimensional integrated circuit which dispose a signal through silicon via (STSV) or a redundant through silicon via (RTSV) for each basic unit in which a through silicon via (TSV) and a switch are combined and connect repair paths among the basic units to efficiently repair a defective through silicon via which exists in a dense area by using a small number of redundant resources. |
| US10403554B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: digging first and second trenches at the top surface of a plate-like base-body portion; forming an insulating film in the inside of each of the first and second trenches; laminating a conductive film on the top surface of the base-body portion so as to bury the first and second trenches with the conductive film via the insulating film; testing insulation-characteristics of the insulating film by applying a voltage between the conductive film and the bottom surface of the base-body portion; and after testing the insulation-characteristics, selectively removing the conductive film from the top surface of the base-body portion, so as to define a gate electrode in the first trench and an separated-electrode in the second trench, the separated-electrode being separated from the gate electrode. |
| US10403552B1 |
Replacement gate formation with angled etch and deposition
Methods herein may include forming trenches in a stack of layers atop a substrate, and forming a gate dielectric within the trenches. Methods may further include forming a first work function (WF) metal atop the gate dielectric, and forming a capping layer over the first WF metal using an angled ion implant deposition, the capping layer extending across the trenches. The first WF metal may be removed from just a first trench of the trenches, and a second WF metal is then formed over the stack of layers, wherein the second WF metal is formed atop the gate dielectric within the first trench. An angled ion etch may then be performed to recess the gate dielectric and the second WF metal within the first trench, and to recess the gate dielectric and the first WF metal within a second trench. A gate metal may then be formed within the trenches. |
| US10403551B2 |
Source/drain features with an etch stop layer
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first device region and a second device region, a first fin over the substrate in the first device region, a second fin over the substrate in the second device region, a first epitaxial feature over the first fin in the source/drain region of the first fin, a second epitaxial feature over the second fin in the source/drain region of the second fin, and a dielectric layer on the first and second epitaxial features. The first epitaxial feature is doped with a first dopant of a first conductivity and the second epitaxial feature is doped with a second dopant of a second conductivity different from the first conductivity. The dielectric layer is doped with the first dopant. |
| US10403549B2 |
Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods thereof
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of initial fin structures on a substrate, each including a first region used as a first fin structure, a second region on the first region, and a third region on the second region; forming a first isolation layer on the substrate; removing each third region to form a first opening in the first isolation layer; forming a second isolation layer on sidewall surfaces of each first opening; and removing each second region to form an initial second opening; performing an etching process on the first isolation layer on sidewall surfaces of each initial second opening to form a second opening; forming a second fin structure in each first opening and the second opening; and removing a portion of the first isolation layer and the second isolation layer to expose a portion of sidewall surfaces of each second fin structure. |
| US10403547B2 |
Structure and method of forming self aligned contacts in semiconductor device
A method includes providing a transistor structure, comprising a semiconductor fin and a plurality of gate structures, disposed on the semiconductor fin, forming an insulator layer on the transistor structure, and performing a lithographic process including an overlay shift, comprising defining a set of openings to be formed in the insulator layer. The set of openings define a shift in a first direction with respect to a midpoint between adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. The method includes etching the insulator layer using the plurality of openings, to form a trench region between a pair of adjacent gate structures, wherein a source/drain region between the pair of adjacent gate structures is exposed. The method includes performing an angled deposition of a dielectric coating, wherein the dielectric coating forms a coating on a first side of the trench, and not on a second side of the trench region. |
| US10403544B2 |
Semiconductor die singulation methods
Implementations of a method of singulating a plurality of die may include: providing a semiconductor wafer including a plurality of die located on a first side of the semiconductor wafer where the plurality of die include a desired thickness. The method may include etching a plurality of trenches into the semiconductor wafer only from the first side of the semiconductor wafer where the plurality of trenches is located adjacent to a perimeter of the plurality of die. A depth of the plurality of trenches may be greater than the desired thickness of the plurality of die. The method may also include mounting the first side of the semiconductor wafer to a backgrinding tape. The method may also include thinning a second side of the semiconductor wafer to a predetermined distance to the depth of the plurality of trenches to singulate the plurality of die. |
| US10403542B2 |
Methods of forming self-aligned vias and air gaps
A first metallization layer comprises a set of first conductive lines that extend along a first direction on a first dielectric layer on a substrate. Pillars are formed on recessed first dielectric layers and a second dielectric layer covers the pillars. A dual damascene etch provides a contact hole through the second dielectric layer and an etch removes the pillars to form air gaps. |
| US10403539B2 |
Robot diagnosing method
A robot diagnosing method detects a deviation amount caused by a lost motion and includes: a first step of preparing a robot including a robot arm having at least one joint portion, a work conveyed by the robot, and a prealigner including a processing portion configured to detect a center position of the work; and after the first to fifth steps, a sixth step of detecting the deviation amount caused by the lost motion at the one joint portion based on (i) the center position of the work based on the center position of the work detected in the second step and a command value from a robot control portion in the fourth step and (ii) the center position of the work detected in the fifth step. |
| US10403528B2 |
Substrate-processing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A substrate processing apparatus includes a process chamber and a transfer device configured to transfer a plurality of substrates to a substrate retainer. The transfer device includes a base; a first moving unit capable of linear motion; a first drive unit to drive the first moving unit. The first drive unit includes a first pulley group; a first motor coupled to a first pulley; and a first connecting member coupling the first belt and the first moving unit. A second moving unit is capable of linear motion. A second drive unit is in an enclosure of the first moving unit and drives the second moving unit. The second drive unit includes a second pulley group; a second belt wound on the second pulley group, a second motor coupled to drive a second pulley; and a second connecting member coupling the second belt and the second moving unit. |
| US10403527B2 |
Packing structure for packing substrate storing container
An upper cushioning material is placed on a substrate storing container in a packing box. The substrate storing container is placed on a lower cushioning material. The lower cushioning material is disposed in the packing box in such a manner that the substrate storing container is sandwiched in the vertical direction by an upper cushioning material and the lower cushioning material. Furthermore, the lower cushioning material is not in contact with any of a first side plate, a second side plate, a front plate and a back plate of the packing box, and a lower space is formed between the lower cushioning material and the first side plate, the second side plate, the front plate and the back plate of the packing box. |
| US10403526B2 |
Substrate storage and processing
The system, method and apparatus described relates generally to a device related to substrate storage and processing. In one example embodiment to methods, apparatus, and systems of a substrate storage and processing module improving upon existing devices used in one or more instances for substrate transportation, sorting, and cleaning. The single piece design system may contain and support substrates in a method, reducing strain on its contents by utilizing an innovative support system without the use of standard clamping techniques and, in this or other iterations, such stacking methods may minimize chaffing of surfaces. Thus the device is vastly improved in its ability to preserve pristine conditions of contained substrates. |
| US10403525B2 |
Substrate processing method and substrate processing system
A substrate processing method is provided. The substrate processing method includes placing a substrate storage container storing a substrate on a load port; automatically determining a type of the substrate stored in the placed substrate storage container; and, by referring to a storage unit that stores parameter data set related to a transport condition for each type of substrate, controlling transport of the substrate stored in the substrate storage container based on the parameter data set corresponding to the automatically determined substrate type to process the substrate. |
| US10403524B2 |
Substrate processing device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A substrate processing device capable of stabilizing an etching amount of a metal film provided on a substrate is provided. The substrate processing device includes a first container, a second container and a control unit. The first container stores a first liquid in which an acid solution containing phosphoric acid and water are mixed. The first liquid is capable of etching a metal film provided on a substrate. The second container stores a second liquid containing water. The control unit controls supply of the second liquid from the second container to the first container such that a water concentration of the first liquid increases over time corresponding to change in a concentration of the phosphoric acid in the first liquid. |
| US10403522B2 |
Chamber for degassing substrates
A heater or cooler chamber for a batch of more than one workpiece includes a heat storage block. In the block a multitude of pockets are provided, whereby each of the pockets may be closed or opened by a controllably operated door. A heater or cooler arrangement is applied. The pockets are tailored to surround a workpiece applied therein in a non-contact closely spaced manner. |
| US10403520B2 |
Multi-blade and processing method of workpiece
A multi blade that processes semiconductor packages into a desired shape while dividing a package substrate includes plural cutting blades that divide the package substrate into the individual semiconductor packages and a spacer provided between two cutting blades adjacent to each other, and is configured in such a manner that the cutting blades and the spacer have the same rotation axis center. The outer surface of the spacer is formed into a transfer shape of the semiconductor package and is covered by an abrasive grain layer, and the upper surface of the package substrate is ground by the outer surface of the spacer simultaneously with cutting of the package substrate by the plural cutting blades. |
| US10403517B2 |
Substrate processing apparatus
A supply flow passage branches into a plurality of upstream flow passages. A plurality of discharge ports are respectively disposed at a plurality of positions differing in distance from a rotational axis of a substrate. Hydrogen peroxide water, that is one of components of a chemical liquid (SPM), is supplied to the upstream flow passage from a component liquid flow passage. A mixing ratio changing unit including a plurality of first flow control valves and a plurality of second flow control valves independently changes mixing ratios of sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide water included in the chemical liquid to be discharged from the plurality of discharge ports for each of the upstream flow passages. |
| US10403513B2 |
Manufacturing method of semiconductor device and semiconductor device
In a manufacturing method of a semiconductor device, by arranging a lead in the vicinity of a gate portion serving as a resin injection port of a mold, a void is prevented from remaining within an encapsulation body when two semiconductor chips arranged so as to overlap in the Y direction are encapsulated with resin. Further, a length of an inner lead portion of the lead in the Y direction is greater than a length of an inner lead portion of another lead overlapping a chip mounting portion in the Y direction. |
| US10403512B2 |
Low cost package warpage solution
Embodiments of the invention include device packages and methods of forming such packages. In an embodiment, the method of forming a device package may comprise forming a reinforcement layer over a substrate. One or more openings may be formed through the reinforcement layer. In an embodiment, a device die may be placed into one of the openings. The device die may be bonded to the substrate by reflowing one or more solder bumps positioned between the device die and the substrate. Embodiments of the invention may include a molded reinforcement layer. Alternative embodiments include a reinforcement layer that is adhered to the surface of the substrate with an adhesive layer. |
| US10403509B2 |
Basal plane dislocation elimination in 4H—SiC by pulsed rapid thermal annealing
A method for removing existing basal plane dislocations (BPDs) from silicon carbide epilayers by using a pulsed rapid thermal annealing process where the BPDs in the epilayers were eliminated while preserving the epitaxial surface. This high temperature, high pressure method uses silicon carbide epitaxial layers with a carbon cap to protect the surface. These capped epilayers are subjected to a plurality of rapid heating and cooling cycles. |
| US10403499B2 |
Laser polycrystallization apparatus
A laser polycrystallization apparatus including: a light source for emitting a laser beam; a diffraction grating for receiving the laser beam from the light source, changing a path and a magnitude of the received laser beam, and outputting the changed laser beam; a light split portion for splitting the laser beam received from the diffraction grating; and a light superposition portion for superposing the split laser beams received from the light split portion and irradiating the superposed split laser beams to a substrate. An angle between the laser beam irradiated to an incidence surface of the diffraction grating from the light source and a line substantially perpendicular to an emission surface of the diffraction grating is an acute angle. |
| US10403498B2 |
Group III-V compound semiconductor nanowire, field effect transistor, and switching element
The present invention pertains to a group III-V compound semiconductor nanowire able to be used in a group III-V compound semiconductor MOSFET (FET) operational at a small subthreshold (100 mV/dec or less). A side face of the group III-V compound semiconductor nanowire is a (−110) plane constituted of a very small (111) plane. The group III-V compound semiconductor nanowire has, e.g., a first layer having a (111)A plane as a side face thereof, and a second layer having a (111)B plane as a side face thereof. The first layer and the second layer are stacked alternatingly in the axial direction. |
| US10403492B1 |
Integration of materials removal and surface treatment in semiconductor device fabrication
Processes for surface treatment of a workpiece are provided. In one example implementation, organic radicals (e.g., methyl CH3 radicals) can be generated by exciting and/or dissociating hydrogen and/or inert gas (e.g., Ar, He, etc) molecules in a remote plasma source and a subsequent reaction with organic molecule (alkanes and alkenes). The organic radicals (e.g., methyl CH3 radicals) can be exposed to the silicon and/or silicon germanium surfaces. After exposure to the organic radicals, the silicon and/or silicon germanium surfaces can be stable in air for a time period (e.g., days) with reduced surface oxidation such that the silicon and/or silicon germanium surfaces can be effectively protected from oxidation. As such, native surface oxide removal process before subsequent process steps can be eliminated. |
| US10403491B2 |
Method for treating pattern structure, method for manufacturing electronic device, and treatment liquid for inhibiting collapse of pattern structure
Provided are a method for treating a pattern structure which is capable of inhibiting collapse of a pattern structure, a method for manufacturing an electronic device including such a treatment method, and a treatment liquid for inhibiting collapse of a pattern structure. The method for treating a pattern structure includes applying a treatment liquid containing a fluorine-based polymer having a repeating unit containing a fluorine atom to a pattern structure formed of an inorganic material. |
| US10403488B2 |
Solid phase extraction with capillary electrophoresis
Methods, systems and devices that provide fluid devices with at least one SPE bed adjacent (upstream of) a separation channel which may be in communication with an inlet of a Mass Spectrometer. The fluid device can be configured to operate using independently applied pressures to a BGE reservoir and a sample reservoir for pressure-driven injection that can inject a discrete sample plug into a separation channel that does not require voltage applied to the sample reservoir and can allow for in-channel focusing methods to be used. The methods, systems and devices are particularly suitable for use with a mass spectrometer but optical or other electronic detectors may also be used with the fluidic devices. |
| US10403487B2 |
Quantitative measurements of elemental and molecular species using high mass resolution mass spectrometry
A method for generating a mass spectrum of sample ions using a multi-collector mass spectrometer is disclosed. The mass spectrometer includes a spatially dispersive mass analyser to direct the sample ions into a detector chamber. The method includes generating sample ions of a first ion species A, a second ion species B, and a third ion species C, wherein the ions of species A have a different nominal mass to the ions of species B and C, and further wherein the ions of species B have the same nominal mass as the ions of species C. The sample ions of the species A, B and C are directed to travel through the mass analyser and towards detectors in the detector chamber, the sample ions being deflected during their travel. The ions of species B and C are scanned across a master aperture defined in a master mask of a master detector, while the ions of species A pass through a lead aperture defined in a lead mask of a lead detector. A lead signal is generated representing the ion intensity received at the lead detector from the ions of species A, and generating a master signal representing the ion intensity received at the master detector whilst the ions of species B and C are scanned across the master aperture. During scanning, ions of the species A are detected by the lead detector while ions of the species B but not C, then both species B and species C, and then species C but not B are detected by the master detector. |
| US10403485B2 |
Encoding of precursor ion beam to aid product ion assignment
A method of encoding a parent or precursor ion beam to aid product ion assignment is disclosed. According to an embodiment the energy of parent ions entering a collision cell is progressively increased. Different species of parent ions fragment at different collision energies. Fragment ion intensity profiles are matched with parent ion intensity profiles to correlate fragment ions with corresponding parent ions. |
| US10403478B2 |
Plasma processing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
The present invention increases uniformity of plasma processing in a surface to be processed of an object to be processed or increases uniformity of plasma processing between objects to be processed. There is provided a plasma processing apparatus including: a processing container; a gas supply system; an exhaust system; a plasma generating unit; a gas flow path installed between an outer wall of the processing container and the plasma generating unit, the gas flow path guiding a temperature controlling gas to flow along the outer wall of the processing container; a plurality of gas introduction holes disposed along a circumferential direction of the processing container and configured to introduce the temperature controlling gas into the gas flow path; and a gas exhaustion hole configured to exhaust the temperature controlling gas passed through the gas flow path. |
| US10403477B2 |
Microwave plasma reactor for manufacturing synthetic diamond material
A microwave plasma reactor for manufacturing synthetic diamond material via chemical vapor deposition, the microwave plasma reactor comprising: a microwave generator configured to generate microwaves at a frequency f; a plasma chamber comprising a base, a top plate, and a side wall extending from said base to said top plate defining a resonance cavity for supporting a microwave resonance mode, wherein the resonance cavity has a central rotational axis of symmetry extending from the base to the top plate, and wherein the top plate is mounted across said central rotational axis of symmetry; a microwave coupling configuration for feeding microwaves from the microwave generator into the plasma chamber; a gas flow system for feeding process gases into the plasma chamber and removing them therefrom; and a substrate holder disposed in the plasma chamber and comprising a supporting surface for supporting a substrate on which the synthetic diamond material is to be deposited in use; wherein the resonance cavity is configured to have a height, as measured from the base to the top plate of the plasma chamber, which supports a TM011 resonant mode between the base and the top plate at said frequency f, and wherein the resonance cavity is further configured to have a diameter, as measured at a height less than 50% of the height of the resonance cavity as measured from the base, which satisfies the condition that a ratio of the resonance cavity height/the resonance cavity diameter is in the range 0.3 to 1.0. |
| US10403471B2 |
Systems and methods for charged particle beam modulation
Systems and methods for conducting charged particle beam modulation are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a charged particle beam apparatus generates a plurality of charged particle beams. A modulator may be configured to receive the plurality of charged particle beams and generate a plurality of modulated charged particle beams. A detector may be configured to receive the plurality of modulated charged particle beams. |
| US10403470B2 |
Pulse processing
A system for analyzing an analogue signal comprising randomly spaced events, the event having an event height, comprises: Converting the signal to a series of samples S(t), with t the moment of sampling, thereby forming a sampled, discrete time signal, Detecting the presence of an event, the event detected at t=T, Estimating the event height Using a model (412, FIG. 5) to estimate a noise contribution N(t) for t=(T−Δ1) to t=(T+Δ2), the noise contribution derived from samples S(t) with t≤(T−Δ1) and/or samples S(t) with t≥(T+Δ2), with Δ1 and Δ2 predetermined or preset time periods having a value such that the event has a negligible contribution to samples taken before (T−Δ1) or after (T+Δ2), Estimating the event height E by integrating the series of samples from (T−Δ1) to (T+Δ2) minus the noise contribution for said samples, E=Σt=(T−Δ1)t=(T+Δ2)S(t)−Σt=(T−Δ1)t=(T+Δ2)N(t)=Σt=(T−Δ1)t=(T+Δ2)[S(t)−N(t)]. |
| US10403466B1 |
Low sputtering, cross-field, gas switch and method of operation
A gas switch includes a gas-tight housing containing an ionizable gas, an anode disposed within the gas-tight housing, and a cathode disposed within the gas-tight housing, where the cathode includes a conduction surface. The gas switch also includes a control grid positioned between the anode and the cathode, where the control grid is arranged to receive a bias voltage to establish a conducting plasma between the anode and the cathode. In addition, the gas switch includes a plurality of magnets selectively arranged to generate a magnetic field proximate the conduction surface that reduces the kinetic energy of charged particles striking the conduction surface and raises the conduction current density at the cathode surface to technically useful levels. |
| US10403465B2 |
Electron gun thermal dissipation in a vacuum
Embodiments include a vacuum device, comprising: an enclosure configured to enclose a vacuum, comprising an external base forming at least a portion of the enclosure; an internal base within the enclosure; and at least one thermal dissipative strap assembly, comprising: an internal base thermal conductive base in contact with the internal base, an external base thermal conductive base in contact with the external base, and a flexible thermal dissipative strap coupling the internal base thermal conductive base to the external base thermal conductive base. |
| US10403454B2 |
Circuit breaker system and safety operating handle for a circuit breaker system
A circuit breaker system includes an internal operating handle disposed inside an enclosure and coupled to a shaft extending from a circuit breaker. The internal operating handle includes a dog clutch coupled to the shaft and a rotary handle coupled to the dog clutch. The rotary handle is operative to rotate the shaft when the dog clutch is engaged. A safety operating handle system for turning a shaft to operate a circuit breaker includes a rotary handle and a dog clutch having a first clutch member coupled to the rotary handle and having a second clutch member coupled to the shaft. The dog clutch is operative to transmit a rotation of the rotary handle to the shaft when the first clutch member is in an engagement position. |
| US10403453B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided that uniformalizes (makes uniform) pressing sensitivities of operation switches such as a plurality of immediate output switches. A system includes a PC which is connected to a communication line, and an audio interface device which is connected to the PC and which has an immediate output switch which outputs to the PC a reproduction start command signal of an audio file which is assigned in advance, according to a user operation. A processor of the audio interface device converts an output value of the immediate output switch using a conversion table to a level value among a plurality of levels, and outputs the converted value. The conversion table is a table which converts different output values of the immediate output switch for the same pressing force into the same level value. |
| US10403446B2 |
Dye-sensitized solar cell including polymer/graphene composite gel electrolyte and methods of preparing the same
Disclosed are a dye-sensitized solar cell including a polymer/graphene composite gel electrolyte and methods of preparing the dye-sensitized solar cell. |
| US10403445B2 |
Synthons for developing organic semiconductors
A process for the synthesis of π-conjugated materials including a step of utilizing a synthon having a carbazole or fluorene nucleus. |
| US10403435B2 |
Edder compound and capacitor thereof
A metadielectric composite oligomeric organic material according to Formula shown in FIG. 4 wherein C is a linear chain oligomeric polarizable core with a system of conjugated multiple and single bonds wherein the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core possesses at least two different monomers with differing electron affinity, and the different monomers are positioned within the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core such that an electron affinity gradient is present, and the differing monomers have a low HOMO-LUMO bandgap between them, and there is at least one electron-donor group, D, attached to the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core, there is at least one electron-acceptor group, A, is attached to the linear chain oligomeric polarizable core, p′ and q′ represent the number of electron-donor and electron-acceptor groups present, respectively, and are any integer greater than zero, and at least one resistive insulating group is covalently attached to the molecular structure at any location. |
| US10403434B2 |
Capacitor component
A capacitor component includes a body, and first and second external electrodes formed on external surfaces of the body. The body includes a first connection electrode connected to the first external electrode, a second connection electrode disposed on the first connection electrode to partially cover the first connection electrode and connected to the second external electrode, and a porous capacitor portion disposed to cover the first and second connection electrodes and connected to each of the first and second connection electrodes. |
| US10403433B2 |
Multilayer electronic component
A multilayer electronic component includes a first capacitor including a first multilayer body having a structure in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked, a second capacitor including a second multilayer body disposed adjacent the first multilayer body, the second multilayer body connected to the first multilayer body in parallel, and the second multilayer body having a structure in which a plurality of internal electrodes and a plurality of dielectric layers are alternately stacked, a fixing member fixing the first and second multilayer bodies, a first lead terminal connected to a first end portion of the fixing member, and a second lead terminal connected to a second end portion of the fixing member. |
| US10403432B2 |
Power transfer unit of a system for inductive power transfer, a method of manufacturing a primary power transfer unit and of operating a primary power transfer unit
A power transfer unit of a system for inductive power transfer, wherein the power transfer unit includes a winding structure, and at least one flux guiding means for guiding a magnetic flux of the electromagnetic field, wherein the at least one flux guiding means provides at least one low reluctance section with a first reluctance and at least one high reluctance section with a second reluctance, and the second reluctance is higher than the first reluctance. Also, a method of manufacturing a power transfer unit and a method of operating a power transfer unit. |
| US10403431B2 |
Coil component, coil module, and method for manufacturing coil component
A coil component that includes a coil having a thick coil core and good inductance characteristics and is able to narrow the pitch of a coil electrode is provided. The wiring of a coil electrode in a direction across the direction of a winding axis of the coil electrode includes a plurality of first metal pins and a plurality of second metal pins. By elongating each metal pin, the wiring of the coil electrode is easily elongated in a metal pin direction. Thus, a coil core is easily thickened in the metal pin direction. The wiring of the coil electrode can be formed in the metal pin direction only by arranging the metal pins. Thus, it is possible to provide a coil component that includes a coil having the thick coil core and good inductance characteristics and is able to narrow the pitch of the coil electrode. |
| US10403429B2 |
Multi-pulse electromagnetic device including a linear magnetic core configuration
An electromagnetic device may include an elongated core in which a magnetic flux in generable. The electromagnetic device may also include a first channel formed through the elongated core and a second channel formed through the elongated core. An inner core member is provided between the first channel and the second channel. The electromagnetic device may also include a primary winding wound around the inner core member and a plurality of secondary windings wound around the inner core member. An electric current flowing through the primary winding generates a magnetic field about the primary winding and the magnetic field is absorbed by the elongated core to generate the magnetic flux in the elongated core. The magnetic flux flowing in the elongated core causes an electric current to flow in each of the plurality of secondary windings. |
| US10403424B2 |
Method to form magnetic core for integrated magnetic devices
An integrated magnetic device has a magnetic core which includes layers of the magnetic material located in a trench in a dielectric layer. The magnetic material layers are flat and parallel to a bottom of the trench, and do not extend upward along sides of the trench. The integrated magnetic device is formed by forming layers of the magnetic material over the dielectric layer and extending into the trench. A protective layer is formed over the magnetic material layers. The magnetic material layers are removed from over the dielectric layer, leaving the magnetic material layers and a portion of the protective layer in the trench. The magnetic material layers along sides of the trench are subsequently removed. The magnetic material layers along the bottom of the trench provide the magnetic core. |
| US10403423B2 |
Superconducting magnet system including thermally efficient ride-through system and method of cooling superconducting magnet system
A superconducting magnet system, including a cryostat, and a ride-through system for the superconducting magnet system include: one or more gravity-fed cooling tubes configured to have therein a cryogenic fluid; a first heat exchanger configured to transfer heat from the one or more gravity-fed cooling tubes to a cryocooler; a storage device having an input connected to the first heat exchanger and configured to receive and store a boiled-off gas from the first heat exchanger; and a thermal regenerator having an input connected to the output of the storage device. |
| US10403420B2 |
Chip resistor
A chip resistor including, a substrate having a main surface, a first resistance circuit formed at the main surface of the substrate, a second resistance circuit formed at the main surface of the substrate apart from the first resistance circuit, a common internal electrode formed at the main surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the first resistance circuit and the second resistance circuit, a first internal electrode formed at the main surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the first resistance circuit, a second internal electrode formed at the main surface of the substrate and electrically connected to the second resistance circuit, and a dummy resistance circuit formed in a region between the first resistance circuit and the second resistance circuit at the main surface of the substrate so as to be in an electrically floating state. |
| US10403418B2 |
Multicore cable and method for manufacturing multicore cable
Cost reduction in a multicore cable is realized by reduction in the frequency of damaging a coaxial cable upon removal of a covering layer. A multicore cable 10 includes multiple coaxial cables 11 arranged in parallel, and ground members 15, 16 conductively connected with the coaxial cables 11. Each coaxial cable includes an internal conductor 11a, an internal insulating layer 11b covering an outer peripheral surface of the internal conductor 11a, an external conductor 11c covering an outer peripheral surface of the internal insulating layer 11b, a covering layer 11d covering an outer peripheral surface of the external conductor 11c, a removed portion 11e formed in such a manner that part of the covering layer 11d in a circumferential direction is removed such that the external conductor 11c is exposed, and a conductive member 21 filling the removed portion 11e. The ground member 15 is conductively connected with the conductive member 21 filling the removed portion 11e. |
| US10403414B2 |
Conductive nanowire films
The invention provides a novel conductive film and a multilayered conductive structure, comprising a plurality of metal nanowires arranged in clusters and having an average aspect ratio of least 100,000, optionally decorated by metal nanoparticles. It is also disclosed a process for preparation of a conductive film comprising metal nanowires by surfactant/template assisted method which involves the use of a precursor solution based on surfactant (such as CTAB), metal precursor (such as HAuCl4 and AgNO3) and reducing agent (such as metal borohydride or sodium ascorbate). |
| US10403410B2 |
Source wire assembly for radiographic applications
The present disclosure relates to a source wire assembly for radiographic applications, particularly for guiding a gamma ray source through a tubular path, such as with a radiographic projector. The source wire assembly includes a core of flexible metal cable, such as, but not limited to, aircraft cable, which may include wires and/or strands which are woven, twisted, helix wound or braided. A distal end of the source wire assembly is securely engaged to a Radioactive source capsule assembly while a proximal end of the source wire assembly is securely engaged to a connector housing for connection to driving equipment, such as, but not limited to, a push-pull operation associated with a radiographic projector, which may include source wire locking and safety mechanisms. |
| US10403408B2 |
Passive visual fuel temperature indicator
A fuel bundle temperature sensing device may include an indicating rod made of a first material; an outer housing having an upper opening, the outer housing being made of a second material and surrounding at least a portion of the indicating rod; and a rod holder attached to an inner surface of the outer housing, the rod holder being made of a third material and being configured to support the indicating rod such that a top surface of the rod extends out of the upper opening of the outer housing, the third material having a lower melting point than the first and second materials. |
| US10403407B2 |
Managing dynamic forces on a nuclear reactor system
A nuclear reactor seismic isolation assembly includes an enclosure that defines a volume; a plastically-deformable member mounted, at least in part, within the volume; and a stretching member moveable within the enclosure to plastically-deform the plastically-deformable member in response to a dynamic force exerted on the enclosure. |
| US10403406B2 |
Lower end fixing body for improving flow path resistance of in-core detector
The present invention relates to a lower end fitting for reducing flow resistance due to an in-core instrument in a nuclear fuel assembly, that is, a lower end fitting (100) having a plurality of flow holes for a nuclear fuel assembly, in which the flow holes (121) are formed under an assembly groove in which an instrumentation tube (131) for a nuclear fuel assembly is inserted, and at least two or more flow holes (121) are formed at a predetermined distance from the central axis (C) of the instrumentation tube (131). |
| US10403404B2 |
Physical face cloning
A computer-implemented method is provided for physical face cloning to generate a synthetic skin. Rather than attempt to reproduce the mechanical properties of biological tissue, an output-oriented approach is utilized that models the synthetic skin as an elastic material with isotropic and homogeneous properties (e.g., silicone rubber). The method includes capturing a plurality of expressive poses from a human subject and generating a computational model based on one or more material parameters of a material. In one embodiment, the computational model is a compressible neo-Hookean material model configured to simulate deformation behavior of the synthetic skin. The method further includes optimizing a shape geometry of the synthetic skin based on the computational model and the captured expressive poses. An optimization process is provided that varies the thickness of the synthetic skin based on a minimization of an elastic energy with respect to rest state positions of the synthetic skin. |
| US10403402B2 |
Methods and systems for accessing and manipulating images comprising medically relevant information with 3D gestures
A system permits a medical practitioner to interact with medically relevant information during a medical procedure. The system comprises: a projector for projecting a user interface menu image onto a projection surface; a three-dimensional optical imaging system for capturing three-dimensional location information for objects in a sensing volume which includes the projection surface; and a controller connected to receive the three-dimensional location information from the three-dimensional optical imaging system and configured to interpret one or more gestures made by the practitioner in a space between the three-dimensional optical imaging system and the projection surface based on a location of the gesture relative to the projected user interface menu image. The controller is connectable to a display to cause the display to render images and is configured to cause the display to render an image comprising medically relevant information, the medically relevant information based at least in part on the interpreted gesture. |
| US10403400B2 |
Conflicting nomenclature reconciliation system
A system and method for reconciling conflicting identifiers from a first entity and a second entity is disclosed. The first entity and the second entity may be associated with a contract for goods to be delivered to an address of an organization. The system and method may include receiving, from the first entity via a first user interface or the second entity via a second user interface, respective files including respective identifiers. The system and method may include updating, in a database, an entry associated with the organization based on the received identifiers such that an organization address identifier assigned by the first entity is associated with an account identifier assigned by the second entity. |
| US10403399B2 |
Tasks scheduling based on triggering event and work lists management
A computer-implemented method for scheduling, tracking, and executing performance of a set of tasks includes defining a time series, associating a current time occurrence on the time series, and associating a future time occurrence on the time series. The method includes creating a tasks list including the set of tasks. The method includes defining an interaction zone rule in association with the time series and triggering events to initiate the set of tasks. The method includes scheduling a task from the set of tasks at the future time occurrence relative to the current time occurrence based on occurrence of a triggering event in view of the interaction zone rule. The method includes receiving an output from an event monitor at a control server. The method includes notifying a remote device for performance of the scheduled task at the future time occurrence upon detection of the triggering event. |
| US10403395B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating objective medical second opinion
A system is disclosed to provide a user the ability to obtain an objective medical second opinion generated by the system and approved by a licensed physician on the web through the Internet. The system enables the user to upload all available medical records. The system generates a current user medical status report in a comprehensive form with proper hyperlinks to the appropriate medical records including diagnostic images and results of other diagnostic procedures up loaded to the system in a digital or in a paper form such that the current status report is available to a consultant physician with all the proper hyperlinked attachments for review. The system generates a suggested second opinion consultant report by processing an evidence based diagnosis method incorporated into the system by utilizing all the data relevant to the user that is available to the system. |
| US10403390B1 |
Post-packaging repair of redundant rows
Systems and methods to perform post-packaging repair of previously repaired data groups are disclosed. The devices may have an array of addressable rows or columns of memory cells, which can be activated. Upon identification of defect in a memory cell row or column, a repair in which the memory cell may be deactivated and a secondary row may be activated in its place may be performed. Volatile and non-volatile storage elements may be used to store the defective memory addresses. Logic circuitry in the device may match a requested address with the stored addresses and generate logic signals that trigger activation of a repaired row in place of the defective row or column. Moreover, defective rows or columns that have been previously repaired once may be further repaired. To that end, logic circuitry implementing a trumping mechanism may be used to prevent activation of multiple data rows or columns for addresses that were repaired multiple times. |
| US10403388B2 |
Plate defect mitigation techniques
Methods, systems, techniques, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. Groups of cells may be operated in different ways depending, for example, on a relationship between cell plates of the group of cells. Cells may be selected in pairs in order to accommodate an electric current relationship, such as a short, between cells that make up the pair. Cells may be arranged in cell plate groups, and a pair of cells may include a first cell plate from one cell plate group and a second cell plate from the same cell plate group or from another, adjacent cell plate group. So a pair of cell plates may include cell plates from different cell plate groups. The first and second cell plates may be selected as a pair or a group based at least in part on the electric current relationship between the cell plates. |
| US10403386B2 |
Method for screening bad column in data storage medium
A method for screening bad columns in a data storage medium includes steps of: writing predetermined data into at least one sample block; comparing the written data with the predetermined data to calculate numbers of error bits in the plurality of columns; defining an inspection window covering a portion of the columns; summing the numbers of error bits in the portion of columns in the inspection window to obtain a total number of error bits and determining whether the total number of error bits is greater than a number of correctable bits; if yes, determining a start point and a terminal point of a bad column interval in the inspection window, wherein the numbers of error bits in the columns between the start point and the terminal point are greater than a threshold of error bits; and labeling the columns in the bad column interval as bad columns. |
| US10403384B2 |
Testing a semiconductor device including a voltage detection circuit and temperature detection circuit that can be used to generate read assist and/or write assist in an SRAM circuit portion and method therefor
A method of operating a semiconductor device that has a normal mode of operation and a test mode of operation, can include: generating at least one assist signal in the normal mode of operation wherein, when the at least one assist signal has a first assist logic level, the at least one assist signal alters a read operation or a write operation to a static random access memory (SRAM) cell as compared to operations without the assist signal, and inhibiting the generation of the at least one assist signal in the test mode of operation, the at least one assist signal has a second assist logic level when inhibited from being generated. |
| US10403382B2 |
Gate driving circuit and display apparatus
The invention provides a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus. The gate driving circuit includes 1st to Nth stage shift registers for respectively generating and sequentially outputting 1st to Nth stage scan signals to the display panel, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 4. Each of the shift registers is configured to receive a starting signal, and the starting signal is utilized to trigger the 1st and 2nd stage shift registers to generate the 1st and 2nd stage scan signals respectively, and the starting signal is utilized to reset the 3rd to Nth stage shift registers. |
| US10403381B2 |
Magnetic memory device
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first magnetic member, a first electrode, a first magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer, a first conductive layer and a controller. The first magnetic member includes a first extending portion and a third magnetic portion. The first extending portion includes first and second magnetic portions. The third magnetic portion is connected with the second magnetic portion. The first electrode is electrically connected with the first magnetic portion. The first non-magnetic layer is provided between the first magnetic layer and at least a part of the third magnetic portion. The first conductive layer includes first and second conductive portions, and a third conductive portion being between the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion. The controller is electrically connected with the first electrode, the first magnetic layer, the first conductive portion and the second conductive portion. |
| US10403380B2 |
Semiconductor device having an anti-fuse element and method for suppressing the expansion of the cell current distribution to improve the writing yield thereof
A semiconductor device with an anti-fuse element includes a semiconductor substrate, a well region of a first conductivity type formed in the semiconductor substrate, and a gate electrode formed over the semiconductor substrate through a gate insulating film, and source regions of a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type formed within the well region at the both ends of the gate electrode. When writing in the fuse element, a first writing potential is applied to the gate electrode, a first reference potential is applied to the well region, an intermediate potential is supplied to the source regions, and the intermediate potential is lower than the first writing potential and higher than the first reference potential. |
| US10403377B2 |
Non-volatile storage with adaptive redundancy
A non-volatile storage apparatus includes a set of non-volatile memory cells, one or more control circuits in communication with the set of non-volatile memory cells, the one or more control circuits are configured to encode data with a code rate prior to storage in the set of non-volatile memory cells, the code rate selected from two or more code rates according to one or more predictive indicators received with the data, the one or more predictive indicators relating to expected conditions for storage of the data in the set of non-volatile memory cells. |
| US10403375B2 |
Storage device and data training method thereof
A storage device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices each exchanging data by using a data strobe signal and a data signal, and a storage controller categorizing the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices into a plurality of groups and performing training in units of the plurality of groups. The storage controller performs data training on a first nonvolatile memory device selected in a first group of the plurality of groups and sets a delay of a data signal of a second nonvolatile memory device included in the first group by using a result value of the data training for the first nonvolatile memory device. |
| US10403374B2 |
Reduction of output voltage ripple in booster circuit
A booster circuit includes a charge pump circuit and a clock processing circuit. The clock processing circuit includes a first transistor of a first conductivity type, a second transistor of a second conductivity type, and a third transistor of a third conductivity type. The first and second transistors are connected in series between a high-voltage node and a low-voltage node, and gates of the first and second transistors are connected to each other. The third transistor is connected in parallel with the first transistor between the high-voltage node and an output terminal of the clock processing circuit that is connected to a node between the first transistor and the second transistor and to the charge pump circuit. |
| US10403373B2 |
Memory system
A memory system of an embodiment includes a memory device including a first set of cell transistors and a second set of cell transistors; and a controller configured to transmit to the memory device a first instruction and transmit to the memory device a second instruction after reception of a first request without receiving the first request again. The first instruction instructs parallel reads from the first and second sets of cell transistors, and the second instruction instructs a read from the first set of cell transistors. |
| US10403372B2 |
Memory system with adaptive read-threshold scheme and method of operating such memory system
Adaptive read-threshold schemes for a memory system determine read-threshold with the lowest BER/UECC failure-rates while continuing to serve the host-reads with the required QoS. When it is determined that the QoS or other quality metric is not met for a particular read-threshold, which may be an initial, default, read-threshold, the performance of other read-thresholds are estimated. These estimates may then be used to determine an optimal read-threshold. During the iterative process, selection variables, e.g., how many times, and for which read commands, to use each of the non-default read-thresholds in future read-attempts may be determined on-the-fly. |
| US10403364B2 |
Distributed mode registers in memory devices
A semiconductor device may include a plurality of memory banks, a plurality of mode registers that may control an operational mode associated with each of the plurality of memory banks, and a set of global wiring lines coupled to each of the plurality of mode registers. The set of global wiring lines may include a first global wiring line to transmit data to each of the plurality of mode registers, a second global wiring line to transmit an address signal to each of the plurality of mode registers, a third global wiring line to transmit a read command signal to each of the plurality of mode registers, and a fourth global wiring line to transmit a write command signal to each of the plurality of mode registers. |
| US10403357B2 |
Resistive non-volatile memory and a method for sensing a memory cell in a resistive non-volatile memory
An integrated circuit includes an array of resistive non-volatile memory cells having a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, and a plurality of source lines. The integrated circuit includes a sense amplifier coupled to a first bit line of the plurality of bit lines and a corresponding first source line of the plurality of source lines. When a memory cell coupled to the first bit line is selected for a read operation, the sense amplifier is configured to, during a calibration phase of the read operation, store a first voltage representative of a leakage current on the first source line. The sense amplifier is also configured to, during a sense phase of the read operation, apply the stored first voltage to the first bit line and provide a first sense amplifier output indicative of a logic state of the selected memory cell. |
| US10403356B2 |
Non-volatile memory apparatus including voltage clamping circuit
A memory apparatus may be provided. The memory apparatus may include a global bit line configured to receive a drift current. A voltage clamping circuit configured to limit a voltage level of the global bit line. |
| US10403350B2 |
Control unit having radio interference avoiding function
A control unit includes a non-volatile memory and a CPU. The non-volatile memory stores activation interval information indicating an activation interval of mixed processing of transmission processing and non-transmission processing. The transmission processing executes a signal transmission through a bus and the non-transmission processing executes no signal transmission through the bus. The CPU determines an execution start time of the mixed processing based on the activation interval information stored in the non-volatile memory and executes the mixed processing from a determined execution start time. An interval of execution of the signal transmission processing executed in the mixed processing by changing the activation interval information stored in the non-volatile memory. It is thus possible to protect wireless communication from interference by changing the activation interval of the mixed processing so that a frequency determined in correspondence to the activation interval of the mixed processing does not match a frequency of a communication channel of the wireless communication. |
| US10403348B2 |
Large current-readout ferroelectric single-crystal thin film memory as well as method of preparing the same and method of operating the same
Disclosed is a non-destructive large current-readout ferroelectric single-crystal thin film memory as well as a method of preparing the ferroelectric memory and a method of operating the ferroelectric memory. The large current-readout ferroelectric single-crystal thin film memory comprises a ferroelectric storage layer, which is a ferroelectric single-crystal storage layer. The non-destructive readout ferroelectric memory has a greatly increased read current in an on-state, and moreover, the data retention performance and data endurance performance are improved. |
| US10403345B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device including a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a bit line; a source line; a plurality of resistive memory cells among which a selected memory cell forms a current path between the bit line and the source line; a read current supply unit configured to supply read current to the bit line in a read operation; a sense amplifier configured to generate read data in response to a voltage level of the bit line in the read operation; and a variable switch element configured to flow current from the source line to a ground terminal in the read operation, and be decreased in its resistance value as a voltage level of the source line is high. |
| US10403344B2 |
Semiconductor device for preventing read disturbance
Disclosed is a semiconductor device, including a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a read circuit suitable for generating read data corresponding to a read current flowing in a first direction through a selected memory cell of the plurality of memory cells, a reverse read control circuit suitable for generating a reverse read control signal corresponding to the read data, and a reverse current generation circuit suitable for generating a reverse current flowing in a second direction through the selected memory cell in response to the reverse read control signal. |
| US10403343B2 |
Systems and methods utilizing serial configurations of magnetic memory devices
A memory cell apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises two or more magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), including a first MTJ having a first magnetic characteristic and a first electrical characteristic and a second MTJ having a second magnetic characteristic and a second electrical characteristic. The first magnetic characteristic is distinct from the second magnetic characteristic. The apparatus further comprises a transistor having three terminals, where the first MTJ is coupled to a first terminal of the three terminals and a metallic separator coupling the first MTJ with the second MTJ. The first MTJ and the second MTJ are arranged in series. |
| US10403329B2 |
Memory card
A memory card and an electronic system including the memory card. The memory card includes: a substrate having two pairs of edges, in which the edges of each pair face each other; a plurality of first row terminals that are arranged adjacent to an edge at an insertion side of the substrate and include a first voltage power terminal; a plurality of second row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of first row terminals and include a power terminal of a second voltage. According to the memory card, efficient use of an area may be maximized and an electrically stable power supply may be provided. |
| US10403323B1 |
Magnetic disk device and method of controlling the same
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk, a head, and a controller configured to control the head based on a plurality of upper parameter groups each corresponding to a plurality of upper areas among a plurality of parameter groups each corresponding to a plurality of recording areas into which the disk is divided in a radial direction, the upper areas each corresponding to the recording areas, and a plurality of lower parameter groups each corresponding to a plurality of lower areas into which the upper areas are each divided in the radial direction, the lower parameter groups being different from the upper parameter groups among the parameter groups. |
| US10403322B2 |
Moving a car within a shuttle complex based upon library string data chunk counts
The present description is directed to moving a car within a shuttle connection that connects a first library string and a second library string contained in a shuttle complex. The shuttle complex determines a first library string data chunk count of a first library string, determines a second library string data chunk count of a second library string, and moves the car within the shuttle connection to the first library string if the first library string data chunk count is greater than the second library string data chunk count. A library string data chunk count is generally the sum of respective cartridge data chunk counts of each cartridge located within the library string. The library string data chunk count may be updated after a data chunk write to a cartridge located within the library string, may be updated after a cartridge is moved from the library string, and may be updated after a cartridge is moved to the library string. |
| US10403321B2 |
Method for manufacturing glass substrate and method for manufacturing magnetic disk
A method for manufacturing a glass substrate according to which surface roughnesses of main surfaces of a glass substrate can be reduced more than with currently available methods is provided. After the main surfaces of the glass substrate used in a magnetic disk are mirror-polished (final finishing-polished) using a polishing liquid containing organic-based particles made of, for example, a styrene-based resin, an acrylic resin, or a urethane-based resin as polishing abrasive particles, by cleaning the glass substrate using an organic-based cleaning agent, surface roughnesses of the main surfaces of the substrate can be reduced more than with currently available methods. |
| US10403317B2 |
Magnetic tape device and magnetic reproducing method
The magnetic tape device includes a magnetic tape and a TMR head, in which the magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic support, and a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent on the non-magnetic support, the ferromagnetic powder is ferromagnetic hexagonal ferrite powder, an intensity ratio of a peak intensity Int(110) of a diffraction peak of a (110) plane with respect to a peak intensity Int(114) of a diffraction peak of a (114) plane of a hexagonal ferrite crystal structure obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer by using an In-Plane method is 0.5 to 4.0, and a vertical direction squareness ratio of the magnetic tape is 0.65 to 1.00. |
| US10403316B2 |
Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer with servo pattern and magnetic tape device
The magnetic tape includes a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder and a binding agent, in which a magnetic tape total thickness is equal to or smaller than 5.30 μm, the magnetic layer has a servo pattern, a center line average surface roughness Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 1.8 nm, the ferromagnetic powder is ferromagnetic hexagonal ferrite powder, an intensity ratio of a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (110) plane with respect to a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (114) plane of a hexagonal ferrite crystal structure obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer by using an In-Plane method is 0.5 to 4.0, and a vertical direction squareness ratio of the magnetic tape is 0.65 to 1.00, and a magnetic tape device including this magnetic tape. |
| US10403315B2 |
Near-field transducer for heat assisted magnetic recording comprising of thermally stable material layer
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a HAMR head. The HAMR head includes a main pole, a waveguide and a NFT disposed between the main pole and the waveguide. The NFT includes an antenna, and the antenna includes a first portion and a second portion. The second portion may be made of a material having a higher melting point than the material of the first portion. Having the second portion helps reduce the temperature rise of the NFT and reduce the laser power applied to the NFT. |
| US10403313B1 |
Heat-assisted magnetic recording head having a trench on aperture waveguide output end
An apparatus includes a slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording. The slider comprises an input coupler configured to receive light excited by a light source and a waveguide. The waveguide comprises a waveguide core tapering along a light propagation direction from a first cross-sectional width to a second cross-sectional width. The second cross sectional width is smaller than the first cross sectional width. The waveguide core comprises a trench at an output end. The waveguide comprises at least one cladding layer surrounding the waveguide core. The waveguide is configured to provide a surface plasmon-enhanced near-field radiation pattern proximate the output end in response to the received light. |
| US10403312B2 |
Magnetic tape device and magnetic reproducing method
The magnetic tape device includes a TMR head and a magnetic tape, in which the magnetic tape includes fatty acid ester in a magnetic layer, Ra measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is 2.0 nm or smaller, full widths at half maximum of spacing distribution measured by optical interferometry regarding a surface of the magnetic layer before and after performing a vacuum heating with respect to the magnetic tape are greater than 0 nm and 7.0 nm or smaller, a difference between spacings before and after the vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm and 8.0 nm or smaller, and a ratio of an average area Sdc of a magnetic cluster of the magnetic tape in a DC demagnetization state and an average area Sac of a magnetic cluster thereof in an AC demagnetization state measured with a magnetic force microscope is 0.80 to 1.30. |
| US10403311B1 |
Write pole shield having a low saturation magnetization layer
A recording head that includes a bearing surface and a write pole having a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface. The recording head also includes a side shield for the write pole. The side shield includes a low saturation magnetization cap layer having a front surface that forms a portion of the bearing surface. The side shield also includes a main side shield layer having a saturation magnetization that is higher than a saturation magnetization value of the low saturation magnetization cap layer. |
| US10403305B2 |
Service provision method and apparatus related to electronic harmonic algorithm capable of comparing, distinguishing, and identifying sounds of individuals infected with animal diseases, including avian influenza, by means of frequency peak detect technique
Disclosed herein is a system for identifying and diagnosing sounds of infected wild birds and poultry. The system includes: a multi channel audio analysis device (MCAAD); and a sound collection unit connected to the MCAAD via a wired or wireless connection. The sound collection unit collects sounds of birds via a plurality of microphones, and information about the collected sounds is transmitted to the MCAAD via a relay. |
| US10403304B1 |
Neural networks for identifying the potential of digitized audio to induce frisson in listeners
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for generating predictions of tendencies of a waveform segment to induce frisson. In one example, a method includes producing Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients corresponding to an audio waveform, dividing the waveform into a plurality of segments that have been tagged with a value indicating a likelihood that the segment will produce a frisson response in a listener, and training a neural network with the Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and the segment tag values to generate predictions of a tendency of a waveform segment to induce frisson. In some examples, the method further includes displaying a visualization of the waveform, wherein the visualization indicates how likely portions of the visualized waveform are to induce frisson. |
| US10403302B2 |
Enhancing audio content for voice isolation and biometric identification by adjusting high frequency attack and release times
Systems and methods for isolating audio content and biometric authentication include receiving, with an audio receiver, an audio signal spanning a plurality of frequency bands, identifying a speech signal carried by a voice frequency band selected from the plurality of frequency bands, enhancing the speech signal relative to other audio content within the audio signal, and extracting a voice profile key that uniquely identifies the speech signal, wherein enhancing the first speech signal comprises adjusting attack and release times of the speech signal based on sound events within the speech signal, the attack time being associated with very high frequency sounds that are not phase-shifted. |
| US10403301B2 |
Audio signal processing apparatus for processing an input earpiece audio signal upon the basis of a microphone audio signal
The invention relates to an audio signal processing apparatus for processing an input earpiece audio signal upon the basis of a microphone audio signal, the audio signal processing apparatus comprising a voice activity detector being configured to determine a voice activity indicator signal upon the basis of the input earpiece audio signal, a noise magnitude determiner being configured to determine a microphone noise magnitude indicator signal upon the basis of the microphone audio signal, a gain factor determiner being configured to determine a gain factor signal upon the basis of the voice activity indicator signal and the microphone noise magnitude indicator signal, and a weighter being configured to weight the input earpiece audio signal by the gain factor signal to obtain an output earpiece audio signal. |
| US10403299B2 |
Multi-channel speech signal enhancement for robust voice trigger detection and automatic speech recognition
A digital speech enhancement system that performs a specific chain of digital signal processing operations upon multi-channel sound pick up, to result in a single, enhanced speech signal. The operations are designed to be computationally less complex yet as a whole yield an enhanced speech signal that produces accurate voice trigger detection and low word error rates by an automatic speech recognizer. The constituent operations or components of the system have been chosen so that the overall system is robust to changing acoustic conditions, and can deliver the enhanced speech signal with low enough latency so that the system can be used online (enabling real-time, voice trigger detection and streaming ASR.) Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US10403296B2 |
Resampling an audio signal for low-delay encoding/decoding
A method and device for resampling an audio frequency signal in an audio frequency signal coding or decoding. The method includes the following acts for each signal block to be resampled: determining, by adaptive linear prediction, a number of future signal samples, this number being defined as a function of a chosen resampling delay; constructing a resampling support vector from at least samples of the current block and determined future signal samples; applying a resampling filter to the samples of the resampling support vector. |
| US10403292B2 |
Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding of directions of dominant directional signals within subbands of a HOA signal representation
Encoding of Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) signals commonly results in high data rates. For data rate reduction, a method (100) for encoding direction information for frames of an input HOA signal comprises determining (s101) active candidate directions (I) among predefined global directions having global direction indices, dividing (s102) the input HOA signal into frequency subbands (II), determining (s103) for each frequency subband active subband directions among the active candidate directions, assigning (s104) a relative direction index to each direction per subband, assembling (s105) direction information for the frame, the direction information comprising the active candidate directions (I), for each subband and each active candidate direction a bit indicating whether or not the active candidate direction is an active subband direction for the respective frequency subband, and for each frequency subband the relative direction indices of active subband directions in the second set of subband directions, and transmitting (s106) the assembled direction information. |
| US10403290B2 |
System and method for machine-mediated human-human conversation
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for processing speech. A system configured to practice the method monitors user utterances to generate a conversation context. Then the system receives a current user utterance independent of non-natural language input intended to trigger speech processing. The system compares the current user utterance to the conversation context to generate a context similarity score, and if the context similarity score is above a threshold, incorporates the current user utterance into the conversation context. If the context similarity score is below the threshold, the system discards the current user utterance. The system can compare the current user utterance to the conversation context based on an n-gram distribution, a perplexity score, and a perplexity threshold. Alternately, the system can use a task model to compare the current user utterance to the conversation context. |
| US10403287B2 |
Managing users within a group that share a single teleconferencing device
A method for identifying and managing users within a group during a teleconference. The method includes a computer processor determining that a group of users are sharing a first client device to communicate, via a teleconference with one or more other users. The method further includes identifying a first user, of the group of user that are sharing the first client device, that is speaking during a first portion of the teleconference. The method further includes determining an action corresponding to the first user, where an action affects managing content of the teleconference at a client device. The method further includes initiating the determined action corresponding to the first user. |
| US10403286B1 |
VoiceXML browser and supporting components for mobile devices
A system and method for facilitating user interaction with a voice application. A VoiceXML browser runs locally on a mobile device. Supporting components, such as a Resource Manager, a Call Data Manager, and a MRCP Gateway Client support operation of the VoiceXML browser. The Resource Manager servers either those files stored locally on the mobile device, or files accessible via a network connection using the wireless or mobile broadband capabilities of the mobile device. The Call Data Manager communicates call-specific data back to the application's system of origin or another configured target system. The MRCP Gateway Client provides the VoiceXML browser with access to media resources via a MRCP Gateway Client. |
| US10403283B1 |
Voice interaction at a primary device to access call functionality of a companion device
The present disclosure generally relates to using voice interaction to access call functionality of a companion device. In an example process, a user utterance is received. Based on the user utterance and contextual information, the process causes a server to determine a user intent corresponding to the user utterance. The contextual information is based on a signal received from the companion device. In accordance with the user intent corresponding to an actionable intent of answering the incoming call, a command is received. Based on the command, instructions are provided to the companion device, which cause the companion device to answer the incoming call and provide audio data of the answered incoming call. Audio is outputted according to the audio data of the answered incoming call. |
| US10403280B2 |
Lamp device for inputting or outputting voice signal and method of driving the same
A lamp device for inputting or outputting a voice signal and a method of driving the same. The method of driving a lamp device includes receiving an audio signal; performing voice recognition of a first audio signal among the received audio signals; generating an activation signal based on the voice recognition result; transmitting the activation signal to the external device; receiving a first control signal from the external device; and transmitting a second audio signal among the received audio signals to the external device in response to the first control signal. Alternatively, various exemplary embodiment may be further included. |
| US10403277B2 |
Method and apparatus for information search using voice recognition
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for information search and, specifically, to a method and an apparatus for information search using voice recognition, which, when voice data inputted through a microphone is present in a user-defined database and is repeatedly inputted, searches for information corresponding to the voice data and provides the information to a user. To this end, the method for information search using voice recognition according to the present invention comprises the steps of: when voice data is inputted through a microphone, comparing the inputted voice data with voice data stored in a user-defined voice database; when coincident voice data is present as a result of the comparison, determining whether a repeated voice data input is set; when the repeated voice data input is set as a result of the determination, ascertaining whether voice data coincident with the inputted voice data is present in an internal memory; and when the coincident voice data is present as a result of the ascertainment, outputting an event and requesting information corresponding to the voice data from a search server. |
| US10403274B2 |
Automatic speech recognition with detection of at least one contextual element, and application management and maintenance of aircraft
An automatic speech recognition with detection of at least one contextual element, and application to aircraft flying and maintenance are provided. The automatic speech recognition device comprises a unit for acquiring an audio signal, a device for detecting the state of at least one contextual element, and a language decoder for determining an oral instruction corresponding to the audio signal. The language decoder comprises at least one acoustic model defining an acoustic probability law and at least two syntax models each defining a syntax probability law. The language decoder also comprises an oral instruction construction algorithm implementing the acoustic model and a plurality of active syntax models taken from among the syntax models, a contextualization processor to select, based on the state of the order each contextual element detected by the detection device, at least one syntax model selected from among the plurality of active syntax models, and a processor for determining the oral instruction corresponding to the audio signal. |
| US10403272B1 |
Facilitating participation in a virtual meeting using an intelligent assistant
An intelligent assistant can be used to facilitate an end user's participation in a virtual meeting. The intelligent assistant can receive recognized speech from a speech recognition engine, and then forward the recognized speech to a natural language understanding engine which in turn ascribes a meaning to the recognized speech. The ascribed meaning can include a semantic representation of the recognized speech and thereby a semantic representation of voice commands enshrined within the recognized speech. Using the ascribed meaning, the intelligent assistant then searches for meeting information associated with the virtual meeting and uses that meeting information to join the end user to the virtual meeting. Meeting information can include a conference call number, a participant code, a moderator code or a link to an online meeting. |
| US10403269B2 |
Processing audio waveforms
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing audio waveforms. In some implementations, a time-frequency feature representation is generated based on audio data. The time-frequency feature representation is input to an acoustic model comprising a trained artificial neural network. The trained artificial neural network comprising a frequency convolution layer, a memory layer, and one or more hidden layers. An output that is based on output of the trained artificial neural network is received. A transcription is provided, where the transcription is determined based on the output of the acoustic model. |
| US10403266B2 |
Detecting keywords in audio using a spiking neural network
An example apparatus for detecting keywords in audio includes an audio receiver to receive audio comprising a keyword to be detected. The apparatus also includes a spike transducer to convert the audio into a plurality of spikes. The apparatus further includes a spiking neural network to receive one or more of the spikes and generate a spike corresponding to a detected keyword. |
| US10403262B2 |
Active noise control device, car, and active noise control method
An active noise control device reduces noise inside a cabin of a car. The active noise control device includes: a controller that decreases a signal level of a canceling signal when a signal level of a received reference signal is lower than a threshold; and a threshold controller that changes the threshold based on at least one of a signal level of an error signal and information on the car. |
| US10403260B2 |
Digital electroacoustic transducer apparatus
In the present invention, a digital electroacoustic transducer apparatus with a noise canceling system includes: a signal processing circuit that generates a digital processing signal based on a digital signal from a sound source; a first voice coil that receives the digital processing signal; a microphone that picks up noise and generates a noise signal; a noise canceling circuit that generates a cancel signal based on the noise signal; and a second voice coil that receives the cancel signal, the first voice coil and the second voice coil driving a diaphragm, thereby avoiding a difference between the phase of the cancel signal and the phase opposite to that of noise. |
| US10403259B2 |
Multi-microphone feedforward active noise cancellation
Systems and methods for active noise cancellation are provided. An example method includes receiving at least two reference signals associated with at least two reference positions. Each of the at least two reference signals includes at least one captured acoustic sound representing an unwanted noise. The reference signals are filtered by individual filters to obtain filtered signals. The filtered signals are combined to obtain a feedforward signal. The feedforward signal is played back to reduce the unwanted noise at a pre-determined space location. The individual filters are determined based on linear combinations of at least two transfer functions. Each of the at least two transfer functions is associated with one of the reference positions. In certain embodiments, the at least two reference signals are captured by at least two feedforward microphones. |
| US10403255B2 |
Audio processing method, apparatus and system
An audio processing method, apparatus and system, capable of realizing the experience of singing Karaoke with other people. The method comprises: acquiring an audio file of a song and a lyric file of the song; playing the audio file at display time corresponding to a first lyric part of the lyric file and recording audio data of a user; playing the audio file at display time corresponding to a second lyric part of the lyric file; and performing audio mixing on the audio data of the user and audio data of the audio file at the display time corresponding to the first lyric part. |
| US10403249B2 |
Drum slip
An interchangeable drum slip that may be quickly installed to change the appearance of a drum and to provide protection to the drum shell. The drum slip is a rectangular piece of material that is pre-cut to precisely fit specific models of drums. Openings are cut into the material that correspond with hardware that is attached to the drum shell. A user installs the drum slip by placing the drum slip around the drum shell and securing the ends of the drum slip together. The openings in the drum slip fit over and around any hardware that is attached to the drum shell and any apertures formed in the drum shell. The ends of the drum slip are pulled together and secured with an adhesive. For some drums, the drum slip may be installed without disassembling any parts of the drum. For other drums, one or more drum heads and retaining hoops must be removed to install the drum slip. The drum slip may be transparent, and the drum slip may be made in any color and messages, designs, or information may be printed on or molded into the drum slip. Anyone can quickly and easily change drum slips to change the appearance of a drum. |
| US10403245B1 |
Musical instrument slide and method of manufacture
A musical instrument slide for a stringed instrument and a method of manufacturing the same includes a slide body defining an outer wall, the outer wall configured to affect sound produced by the instrument when applied to one or more strings of the instrument. The slide includes an insert within the slide body defining an inner wall and creating a space between the slide body and the insert and further includes liquid within the space between the slide body and the insert to further affect the sound produced by the instrument when the outer wall is applied to the strings. A removable collar may be included with an aperture or opening that may vary in size to accommodate multiple users. Liquid may be selectively sealed between the slide body and the insert and be changed as required. |
| US10403243B2 |
Support assembly and keyboard apparatus
A support assembly according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a support rotatably disposed with respect to a frame, a repetition lever rotatably connected to the support, an spring element supported by a support portion fixed to the support, the spring element which provides a rotational force to the repetition lever, and a contact portion between the repetition lever and the spring element, wherein a rotating portion of the repetition lever is provided with respect to the support portion on a side opposite to the contact portion between the repetition lever and the spring element. |
| US10403242B2 |
Semi-self-refresh for non-self-research displays
Disclosed herein is a display controller and display controller techniques to self-refresh a non-self-refresh display. The display controller can be configured to determine when display data is static. During periods where display data is static, the display controller can cache display data output in device memory and “refresh” the display data using the cached display data output. A display controller can receive a number of display data elements to be overlaid. The display controller can blend the display data elements into blended display data and can send the blended display data to a display. The display controller can determine whether the display data elements are static. The display controller can cache the blended display data based on determining that the display data elements are static and can send the cached blended display data to the display every refresh while the display data elements are no longer static. |
| US10403241B2 |
Electronic device and method for running function according to transformation of display of electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display positioned on at least a surface of a housing of the electronic device, at least one sensor configured to sense a bend of the display and a mount of the electronic device, and a processor configured to control a running of an application, obtain information relating to a shape of the bend of the display and a form of the mount of the electronic device based on information sensed by the at least one sensor, determine a transformation type of the display based on the information relating to the shape of the bend and the form of the mount, when the electronic device is mounted in the determined transformation type, determine at least one display area in the display according to a first function of the application corresponding to the transformation type, and perform control to display an object relating to the first function on the determined display area. |
| US10403240B2 |
Image display device and image display system
There is provided an image display device including a display control unit having a display combining unit that displays one or a plurality of pathological index cursors based on information relating to a pathological slide image. |
| US10403237B2 |
Processing method and device for multi-screen splicing display
A processing method and device for multi-screen splicing display are disclosed. The method includes: receiving instruction information for multi-screen splicing display, where the instruction information is used to instruct to splice at least two physical display screens for display; sending, according to the instruction information, display data to a video RAM of a virtual display screen formed by splicing the at least two physical display screens, where a size of the video RAM of the virtual display screen corresponds to a size of the virtual display screen; dividing the display data into at least two data blocks that correspond to sizes of the at least two physical display screens, and respectively sending the data blocks obtained by division to video RAMs of corresponding physical display screens. |
| US10403236B2 |
Electronic device with folded display and method for presenting content
A computer implemented method, device and computer program product are provided that includes a display unit having front and back surfaces. The display unit comprises a flexible display layer having primary and secondary viewing regions formed as a monolithic structure. The primary viewing region is mounted on the front surface of the display unit. The secondary viewing region is folded about at least an edge of the display unit. The electronic device comprises a memory to store program instructions and a processor to execute the program instructions to direct the primary and secondary viewing regions to display first and second content, respectively. |
| US10403234B2 |
Field-effect transistor, display element, image display device, and system
A field-effect transistor including: a substrate; a passivation layer; a gate insulating layer, formed between the substrate and passivation layer; a source electrode and a drain electrode, formed to be in contact with the gate insulating layer; a semiconductor layer, formed at least between the source electrode and drain electrode and being in contact with the gate insulating layer, source electrode, and drain electrode; and a gate electrode, in contact with the gate insulating layer and facing the semiconductor layer via the gate insulating layer, wherein the passivation layer is formed of a single layer containing a paraelectric amorphous oxide containing a Group A element, an alkaline earth metal and a Group B element, at least one selected from Ga, Sc, Y, and lanthanoid, and the gate insulating layer contains at least one selected from oxides of Si, nitrides of Si, and oxynitrides of Si. |
| US10403233B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus according to the present invention, includes: a determination unit configured to determine, based on a layout of at least one image included in display image data, a display correspondence, which is a correspondence between a gradation value of the display image data and a display brightness in a case where a display unit displays an image based on the display image data; and an output unit configured to output to the display unit the display image data and information indicating the display correspondence. |
| US10403231B2 |
Display device and control method thereof
This application provides a display device and a control method thereof. The control method includes the following steps: obtaining, by using an image sensor module, a target image; analyzing, by using a pupil computing module, first data of the target image; and controlling, by using a processing module according to the obtained first data of the target image, a light emitting module to adjust luminance of a display panel. |
| US10403228B2 |
Shift register unit, shift register, display panel and display device
A shift register unit includes: a discharging TFT, a source electrode and a drain electrode of which are connected to a first low level signal input end and a pull-up node respectively; and a first discharging control unit connected to a gate electrode of the discharging TFT and configured to output a first control signal to the gate electrode of the discharging TFT between a first and a second time points, so as to enable the discharging TFT to be in an on state and output a first low level signal to the pull-up node, thereby to discharge the pull-up node. The first time point is a time point when the processing of a first frame by the shift register is ended, and the second time point is a time point when the processing of a second frame adjacent to the first frame by the shift register is started. |
| US10403221B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes an amorphous silicon gate driver in which a lower voltage than the gate-off voltage output from the gate driver is applied to an adjacent stage as a low voltage transmission signal. |
| US10403219B2 |
Gate driver on array circuit based on low temperature poly-silicon semiconductor thin film transistor
The present disclosure proposes a GOA circuit having GOA units connected in a serial. Each GOA unit includes a scan-control module, an output module, a pull-down module, and an output adjusting module. By using the output adjusting module formed by a ninth TFT, a tenth TFT, an eleventh TFT, and a twelfth TFT, the voltage level of a fourth node transits between the high voltage level and the low voltage level with the second clock signal in either forward scanning or backward scanning. Compared with the conventional technology where the high and low voltage levels of the output terminal are mainly realized using the second TFT, the GOA circuit realizes that the output ability of the output terminal enhances and the charging capacity of in-plane pixels upgrades in the same period of time to improve the display effect of the liquid crystal panel. |
| US10403217B2 |
Display panel and liquid the driving method thereof
The present invention discloses a display panel and the driving method thereof. It divides the pixel electrodes of the display panel into multiple groups according to the light color allowed passing through. That is, each said pixel electrode allows the light with the same color to pass through; during one frame display, the data driver applies independent Gamma voltage to each said pixel electrode. After the gate driver drives the gate line connected with a group of the pixel electrodes, it drives the gate line connected with next group of the pixel electrodes in sequence, so that it can independently adjust the Gamma voltage applied to the pixels with different colors. |
| US10403213B2 |
Cradle and display device having the same
A cradle according to an embodiment may include a housing to be coupled to display modules having various sizes and a light source driver inside the housing. The light source driver may generate a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage to be provided to a light source of the display module coupled to the housing. When the display module has a first size, the light source driver may supply only the first driving voltage to the display module. When the display module has a second size, larger than the first size, the light source driver outputs both the first and second driving voltages to the display module. |
| US10403210B2 |
Shift register and driving method, driving circuit, array substrate and display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a shift register and a driving method, a driving circuit, an array substrate, and a display device. The shift register includes a pull-up control module, a pull-up module, a pull-down control module, a pull-down module, and an output terminal. The pull-up control module is connected to the pull-up module and configured to control the pull-up module to pull up the electric level of the output terminal. The pull-up module is connected to the output terminal and configured to pull up the electric level of the output terminal. The pull-down control module is connected to the pull-down module and configured to control the pull-down module to pull down the electric level of the output terminal. The pull-down module is connected to the output terminal and configured to pull down the electric level of the output terminal. |
| US10403203B2 |
Organic light emitting display device
The present disclosure relates to an organic light emitting display device which is implemented to reduce or suppress the residual image and the flicker. According to an embodiment, a circuit includes an organic light emitting diode disposed between a first node and a first power source, a driving transistor disposed between the first node and a second power source and driving the organic light emitting device, a first transistor transmitting a data signal to the driving transistor, and a first control transistor disposed between the first node and a second node. The first control transistor applies a reverse current to the driving transistor during a first period and holes accumulated on the active layer of the driving transistor are removed during the first period, whereby a current path efficiency is improved. |
| US10403202B2 |
Driving circuit and driving method thereof, and display device
Provided are a driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The driving circuit includes a signal line, a control line, a driving unit, a power supply unit, a compensation unit, a light emitting control unit, a data writing unit, a storage unit, and an aging alleviation unit, wherein the driving unit is configured to drive a light emitting element; the light emitting control unit is configured to control the light emitting element to emit light; the data writing unit is configured to write the data signal into the storage unit; the compensation unit is configured to perform threshold voltage compensation for the driving unit; and the aging alleviation unit is configured to short-circuit a cathode and an anode of the light emitting element. |
| US10403195B2 |
Shift register, method for driving the same, and display device
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a shift register, a method for driving the same, and a display device, and the shift register includes: a first input module and a second input module, connected respectively with an input signal terminal and a first clock signal terminal; a first control module and a second control module connected with a second clock signal terminal; a third control module connected with a first reference signal terminal; and an output module and a plurality of capacitors, connected respectively with the first reference signal terminal, the second reference signal terminal, and the output signal terminal. |
| US10403189B2 |
Compensating for temperature induced differences in a computing device having dual-displays or a foldable display
In some examples, a computing device includes a first display in a first housing and a second display in a second housing. The computing device may determine an angle between the first display device and the second display device, determine a first temperature map of the first housing based on the angle and first temperature data received from a first set of temperature sensors in the first housing, and determine a second temperature map of the second housing based on the angle and second temperature data received from a second set of temperature sensors in the second housing. The computing device may determine a temperature difference between the first display device and the second display device, determine a remedial action, and perform the remedial action to reduce the temperature, color, and/or color intensity difference between the first display device and the second display device. |
| US10403188B2 |
Shift register unit, gate driving circuit and display device
A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes an input sub-circuit, a first output sub-circuit, a second output sub-circuit, an output resetting sub-circuit, a node resetting sub-circuit and a capacitor sub-circuit. A control end of the output resetting sub-circuit is connected to a second reference voltage signal end, so as to provide a second reference voltage signal from the second reference voltage signal end with a rising edge within a relatively short time period. |
| US10403187B2 |
Gamma voltage debugging method for electroluminescent display device and apparatus thereof
A gamma voltage debugging method for an electroluminescent display device, including: turning on sub-pixels in a test region to a maximum luminance value, and recording a driving current of an electroluminescent element at this time as a maximum reference current; calculating reference current values corresponding to respective gray scales according to the maximum reference current and a preset formula; and driving the sub-pixels in the test region to emit light, and for each driving current equal to a reference current value, recording a driving voltage value corresponding to the gray scale value as a gamma voltage resulted from the debugging. |
| US10403183B2 |
Universal column display system
A display apparatus is provided that includes a plurality of contiguously arranged adjustable mounting brackets. Each of the plurality of adjustable mounting brackets includes at least one adjustable bracket that is proximally and distally extendable and a set of contiguously arranged display frames configured to be interchangeably secured to distal attachment portions of the adjustable mounting brackets. The adjustable bracket of each adjustable mounting bracket is configured to adjust to a size of the set of contiguously arranged display frames such that edges of each display frame are in contact to create a contiguous arrangement of the set of display frames. |
| US10403181B2 |
Color changing display systems
A color changing display system includes a docking member, a light source secured to the docking member, a controller electrically connected to the light source, a body removably connected to the docking member, and a combined printed image comprising two or more images printed in a single layer on the body. The light source is for producing different light colors. The controller is configured to control the light source to provide a smooth transition between the different light colors. The images are different colors. Each of the different color images reacts with a respective color of the different light colors such that an appearance of the combined printed image changes gradually from a first display image having one particular shape into a second display image having a second particular shape in response to the different light colors interacting with the combined printed image to produce a moving, seemingly holographic effect. |
| US10403179B2 |
Roller display device
A display device includes a base holder having a cavity and a roller assembly. The roller assembly can include an upper cylindrical roller, a lower cylindrical roller, a framework arranged and constructed to maintain the upper cylindrical roller and the lower cylindrical roller a predetermined distance away from each other, and a conveyor belt wrapped around the upper cylindrical roller and the lower cylindrical roller. At least one or more rotating mechanisms can be attached to one or more of a left side of the upper cylindrical roller, a right side of the upper cylindrical roller, a left side of the lower cylindrical roller, or a right side of the lower cylindrical roller, where the one or more rotating mechanisms drive the lower cylinder to rotate and cause the conveyer belt to move around the upper cylinder and the lower cylinder. |
| US10403178B2 |
Lottery signs for displaying lottery jackpots of millions and billions of dollars
An illuminated display for displaying a lottery jackpot values in the range of millions and billions of dollars is disclosed. The lottery display has an LED array for selectively displaying either “MILLION” or “BILLION.” A special LED module for representing an uppercase letter “M” or uppercase letter “B” is positioned next to a series of LED elements configured to display “ILLION.” A special LED module having nine segments may be employed for the indicia of units, where the LED module may be illuminated to form the numerals 0 through 9, as well as an upper case letter “B.” The illuminated display may also display indicia for currency and the day of the week for the jackpot draw. |
| US10403171B2 |
System providing customized remedial training for drivers
A system is provided for determining likely and ongoing driving habits of registered drivers working for employers. The system using software adapted to operate and perform the system tasks, ascertains remedial driving courses for determined driving habits requiring them, and subsequently provides the driving courses to chosen drivers. The system tracks ongoing driver performance and compliance with assigned courses and provides notification of such to employers of the drivers. |
| US10403167B2 |
Fret lighting device
A learning device assembly for a stringed instrument includes one or more light strip members, at least one light element in the one or more light strips, a connecting member electrically connected to the one or more light strip members, a controller electrically connected to the connecting member and configured to electrically drive the at least one light element in the one or more light strip members and a computing device communicatively coupled to the controller, the computing device configured to be programmed with or more music arrangements and enable the controller to illuminate one or more of the at least one light element in the one or more light strip members to enable a playing of one or more music arrangements on the stringed instrument. |
| US10403163B2 |
Method and system for providing collaborative learning
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing collaborative learning. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting a first task to a plurality of users on a shared display and receiving inputs via respective input devices for collectively solving the task. The received inputs are analyzed to determine whether the task is correctly performed and to infer one or more probabilistic conclusions about a level of comprehension associated with the first task. An output is presented based upon the probabilistic conclusions about the level of comprehension. |
| US10403161B1 |
Interface for accessing airspace data
A process is described that includes the generation and transmission of collision avoidance data and/or collision avoidance instructions based on data from 3-D radar scans of an airspace. The transmitted data and/or instructions could facilitate collision avoidance by aerial vehicles operating in the airspace. The transmitted data could be limited to protect the security, privacy, and/or safety of other aerial vehicles, airborne objects, and/or individuals within the airspace. The transmitted data could be limited such that only information pertaining to a region of the airspace proximate to a particular aerial vehicle was transmitted. The transmitted data could be limited such that it included instructions that could be executed by a particular aerial vehicle to avoid collisions and such that the transmitted data did not include location or other data associated with other aerial vehicles or airborne objects in the airspace. |
| US10403160B2 |
Techniques for intelligent balloon/airship launch and recovery window location
Devices, methods and systems for minimizing the probability of a collision between an aircraft and a floating platform are described. The device may include a processor in communication with a memory. The processor is configured to obtain a flight-path vector of an aircraft; determine a probability related to a plurality of flight-paths of a floating platform over a period of time based on operating parameters for the floating platform and weather data; and determine, based on the flight-path vector and the probability related to the plurality of flight-paths of the floating platform, a time and/or a location for launch or recovery of the floating platform that minimizes a probability of a collision between the aircraft and the floating platform while the floating platform is in flight. |
| US10403153B2 |
Autonomous emergency flight management system for an unmanned aerial system
An autonomous emergency flight management system may find safe and clear landing sites for unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in emergency situations. Emergency flight management software may reside on an onboard computing system. The computing system may continuously look at internal databases and input from other systems (e.g., a global positioning system (GPS), camera, compass, radar, sonar, etc.), depending on what is available. The emergency flight management system may make decisions on its own without human intervention. For instance, a database may provide some local likely candidates for landing sites. Information associated with the candidates may include latitude, longitude, altitude for top of a building, etc. Position updates may be continuously provided from an autopilot or other suitable system. |
| US10403148B2 |
System and methods to detect blocked vehicles
Method and apparatus are disclosed for systems and method to detect blocked vehicles. An example vehicle includes range detection sensors and a body control module. When the vehicle is parked, the body control module (a) scans, with the range detection sensors, the area around the vehicle to detect objects, (b) based on positions of the objects, determines whether the vehicle is able to maneuver out of its current parking spot, and (c) when the vehicle is not able to maneuver, sends an alert to a mobile device of a driver of the vehicle. |
| US10403143B2 |
Traffic monitoring system for monitoring a traffic area
A traffic monitoring system for a traffic area with parking surfaces for vehicles or a freely arrangeable row of vehicles includes overhead radar sensors oriented towards the area for capturing a chronological sequence of digital radar images thereof. An analyzing unit detects vehicles parked on the area and ascertains locations and dimensions thereof from the captured sequence and determines an occupancy state of the surfaces from a data comparison of the ascertained locations and dimensions of parked vehicles with configured geodata of surfaces. The parking surface is occupied or free for a vehicle, and a parking surface for a freely arrangeable row of vehicles is occupied or provided by one or more free parking spaces. An image output unit outputs a map view of the area with marked surfaces and the current occupancy state of the surfaces. The traffic monitoring system allows a more effective monitoring of the area. |
| US10403140B2 |
Propagation of alerts regarding traffic events
In response to detecting a traffic event such as a motorcycle lane splitting or an accident, a vehicle broadcasts a notification over a V2V communication channel. Traffic events may be detected using sensor systems of the vehicle or in response to messages reporting the event. Notifications may be received from the vehicle over a cellular communication channel. Roadside infrastructure, such as DSRC or cellular communication installations receive the notification and may rebroadcast it to adjacent vehicles. A DSRC installation may broadcast the message by way of a cellular communication installation and vice versa. The vehicle may provide a cellular notification by way of a driver's mobile device connected to a controller of the vehicle. |
| US10403139B2 |
Local navigation system for vehicle navigation
A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to, upon receiving a first message including a map, a vehicle location, and a first location, navigate the vehicle to the first location, and then, after stopping the vehicle at the first location, navigate the vehicle to a second location upon receiving a second message. |
| US10403138B2 |
Traffic accident warning method and traffic accident warning apparatus
This application discloses a traffic accident warning method performed by a computing device. After obtaining location data of a first vehicle and a second vehicle respectively, and videos captured by a first video camera onboard the first vehicle and a second video camera onboard the second vehicle, the computing device generates traffic scenes based on the road status data, the vehicle motion data, the pedestrian motion data obtained from the videos, and broadcasted traffic data, and then generates traffic accident models based on past traffic accidents, synthesizes a simulation video including one or more target features based on the traffic scenes and the traffic accident models at a target area associated with the target features. Finally, the computing device performs traffic accident prediction based on the simulation videos and sends warning information to the first vehicle in accordance with a determination that the first vehicle is about have an accident in the target area. |
| US10403135B2 |
Network infrastructure for collaborative automated driving
Various systems and methods for a roadside network. The roadside network includes one or more processors to receive gather traffic data from a first set and a second set of sensors associated with a first sector and second sector, respectfully. A minimum forward visibility range is determined. Portions of the sectors overlap to provide the minimum forward visibility range. Processed traffic data is generated based on the traffic data for both sectors. The processed traffic data is then sent to antennas to be transmitted to the respective sector. |
| US10403131B2 |
Method and apparatus for implementing a cooperative multiple-input-multiple-output operation
A method and apparatus may include determining that a triggering has occurred. The triggering corresponds to a triggering of a formation of a multiple-input and multiple-output arrangement. The multiple-input and multiple-output arrangement comprises a grouping of user antennas and an antenna of the apparatus, and the apparatus is located at an existing infrastructure. The method may also include receiving data traffic information. The data traffic information comprises information that indicates an amount of data traffic that is requested by users of the user antennas. The method may also include forming the multiple-input and multiple-output arrangement based on the received data traffic information. |
| US10403129B1 |
Tactile warning pad for a pedestrian notification system
A tactile warning pad is configured for working in conjunction with a pedestrian notification system. The tactile warning pad includes a base pad, a pad and communication control unit, and a warning output device. The base pad has a plurality of tactile structures on a surface of the base pad. The base pad at least partially houses or is coupled to the pad and communication control unit and the warning output device. The warning output device is communicatively coupled with the pad communication and control unit and is configured to receive a warning control signal from the pedestrian notification system via the pad communication and control unit and to generate an output warning based on the warning control signal. |
| US10403125B2 |
Incident command system for safety/emergency reporting system
An incident command system (ICS) of the present disclosure may include an ICS application running on a network that includes multiple mobile digital devices and one or more servers. Each of the mobile digital devices may be used by a respective agent of a venue to report an incident and to carry out one or more procedures associated with the incident response. One such procedure is a child release process, in which a plurality of children may be efficiently and systematically reunited with adult guardians. |
| US10403119B2 |
Method and apparatus for detecting a hazard detector signal in the presence of interference
The present disclosure describes methods and apparatus for detecting a pattern warning signal from a hazard detector in the presence of a second pattern warning signal from a second hazard detector. In one embodiment, hazard detector monitoring device converts a pattern warning signal and a second pattern warning signal into a composite electronic signal, each of the first and second pattern warning signals comprising an on-time period followed by an off-time period. Next, the composite electronic signal is converted into a digital signal and then an on-time duration of the digital signal is determined as a time that the digital signal exceeded a first voltage threshold. Finally, an alarm signal is transmitted to a receiver when the pattern warning signal has been determined to be present, based on the on-time duration. |
| US10403118B2 |
System and method for generating an alert based on noise
A noise detector, a method of detecting noise and an analysis/alert engine. In one embodiment, the noise detector includes: (1) a vibration sensor configured to derive a raw signal from noise proximate the noise detector and (2) a noise score generator, coupled to the vibration sensor, and having a processor configured to generate a noise score based on electrical properties of the raw signal and an ambient sound level that uniquely corresponds to a location of the noise detector, the noise score being insufficient to reproduce a content of the raw signal. |
| US10403114B2 |
Patient monitoring system
A system for monitoring the movements or other activities of patient. Aspects include a monitoring device with one or more sensors such as a pressure or motion sensors that may be positioned on or near a patient. Alerts may be generated by the monitoring device if the sensor readings fall outside predetermined limits set in a patient profile specific to a particular patient. Sensor readings and/or alerts may be sent by the monitoring device to the central server which may notify nearby caregivers that a patient needs assistance. The server may be configured to analyze sensor readings and alert information to refine patient profiles to reduce or eliminate false alarms. |
| US10403108B2 |
Imaging and lighting device and surveillance and lighting system having same
A surveillance and lighting system utilizing an existing electricity wiring for its power supply includes imaging and lighting devices and a network video recorder (NVR) wirelessly coupled with the imaging and lighting devices. Each imaging and lighting device has an imaging member operably in an on-state or an off-state; a lighting member operably in an on-state or an off-state; a microcontroller unit coupled with the imaging member and the lighting member for controlling operations of each of the imaging member and the lighting member in a respective state in accordance with an operation mode of said imaging and lighting device, and a power module coupled between the microcontroller unit and a standard AC power source for converting an AC power of the standard AC power source to at least one DC power. |
| US10403104B2 |
System and method for tracking of deployed units
A tracker apparatus, and method thereof for tracking deployable units are provided. The tracker apparatus includes a first sensor group having a first power consumption profile; a second sensor group having a second power consumption profile; a communication circuit having a first network interface for communicating with a control server; an energy storage; a processing circuitry; and a memory, wherein the memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the tracker apparatus to: trigger the processing circuitry to awaken from a low power mode, in response to a first input from a first sensor of the first sensor group exceeding a first threshold; activate a second sensor of the second sensor group in response to the first input corresponding to an unauthorized movement; and activate a tracking mode of the tracker apparatus, in response to a second input from the second sensor corresponding to an unauthorized movement. |
| US10403103B1 |
Apparatus and method for tamper detection of a mounted device
A method and apparatus for determining tampering at a device coupled to a moveable object includes receiving a plurality of orientation states of the device, the plurality of orientation states measured by an orientation sensor, determining, based on the received orientation states, at least two expected orientation states, receiving a further orientation state of the device measured by the orientation sensor, in response to determining that the further orientation state differs from the at least two expected orientation states, generating a tamper alert. |
| US10403101B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for projecting light to indicate a device status
Systems, methods, and media for projecting light to indicate a device status are provided. In accordance with some implementations of the disclosed subject matter, systems for projecting light to indicate a device status are provided, the systems comprising: a hardware processor that: determines a light status; determines whether to turn a light source on; selects a light format corresponding to the light status; projects light of a light source according to the light format; and determines whether to turn the light source off. |
| US10403096B1 |
Methods, devices and systems for skill-based wagering games with programmatically-variable-randomness
A game, configured for execution in a regulated gaming machine, may require skillful actions by a player to achieve an objective of the game. The game may be further configured such that outcomes are partially determined by randomness and partially determined by inputs to the regulated gaming machine from the player. A computer-implemented method may comprise, iteratively, during game play of the game: receiving inputs from the player via a player interface; generating a skillful action within the game based upon the received player inputs, and generating an outcome of the skillful action that is partially determined by randomness and partially determined by the generated skillful action based upon the player inputs. A reward may be selectively provided to the player according to the generated outcome and according to a predetermined target Return to Player (RTP) percentage for the game. The degree to which the randomness affects the generated outcome and the degree to which the skillful action based upon inputs from the player affect the generated outcome may then be changed such that a later-generated outcome is differently affected by the randomness and by inputs from the player than a prior-generated outcome. |
| US10403094B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product for interactive sports game
A computer implemented game involving analytics and real time data analysis. The game can allow players to predict and wager on the types of plays that have yet to occur, for example, in a football game. The game may utilize an algorithm that compares situational data in a game to stored data regarding similar situations in past games. The game can then provide a likelihood that a certain type of play can be performed, which may be interpreted as odds of a certain type of play. Users can then utilize this information to predict and wager on the upcoming play. Depending on the results of the play, users may win or lose their wager. |
| US10403074B2 |
Systems and methods for wirelessly transmitting token data to a key card reading device
A mobile computing device for transmitting token data to a key card reading device having an activation mechanism is provided. The computing device is programmed to receive token data representing access data of a key card, generate a transmission signal representing the access data of the key card based on the token data in response to receiving the token data, and output the transmission signal to the key card reading device. The access data causes the key card reading device to activate the activation mechanism. The transmission signal causes the key card reading device to activate the activation mechanism when the mobile computing device is placed near the key card reading device and the transmission signal is authenticated by the key card reading device. |
| US10403073B2 |
Intelligent lock, method for operating the same, and intelligent safe deposit box
The present disclosure provides an intelligent lock, a method for operating the same, and an intelligent safe deposit box. The intelligent lock comprises: a mechanical lock body; an identity recognition module configured to acquire identity information of a user; a password input module configured to acquire a password input by the user; a controller electrically connected to the identity recognition module and the password input module, and configured to: determine whether the user is a legitimate user according to the identity information, determine whether the password is consistent with a reference unlocking password, and control a state of the mechanical lock body, wherein the controller controls the mechanical lock body to be in an unlocked state only on condition that it is determined that the user is a legitimate user and the password is consistent with the reference unlocking password. |
| US10403070B2 |
Secure access to physical resources using asymmetric cryptography
Digital certificates are signed by a server's private key and installed at lock controllers that restrict access to physical resources. The server's public key is distributed to lock controllers and to mobile electronic devices operated by users who are given access to the physical resources. Lock-access data is digitally signed by the server's private key and provided to mobile electronic devices to facilitate access. The lock controller validates lock-access data and grants access conditionally based on time, version, and/or identity data provided within lock-access data. The use of certificates reduces the need to rely on a security scheme specific to the network. Lock controllers can also broadcast status notifications, so that updates and log data can be securely communicated with the server using mobile electronic devices as a proxy. The system is highly scalable, as each lock controller need not track the full scope of access permissions. |
| US10403068B2 |
Terminal device, authentication system, and authentication control method
A terminal device that executes an authentication sequence through wireless communication with an external device includes a communication unit configured to transmit or receive a radio signal to be used for the authentication sequence, a first measurement unit configured to measure a change in a radio wave intensity for at least a part of the radio signal received by the communication unit; a second measurement unit configured to measure a change in a posture or a position of the terminal device, and a controller configured to determine whether there is a correlation between a measurement result of the first measurement unit and a measurement result of the second measurement unit, i) continue the authentication sequence when the controller determines that there is the correlation, and ii) interrupt the authentication sequence when the controller determines that there is no correlation. |
| US10403067B2 |
System and method for mobile base station authentication
A system and method for increasing the security of a secure resource by determining a current location of a mobile device associated with an end user based on determining the mobile base station to which the mobile device is connected and allowing access to the resource only if an end user has access credentials to access the resource and the physical location of secure resource matches the current location of the mobile device. |
| US10403066B2 |
Portable device having directional BLE antenna
A system and method for a portable device analyzing user information broadcast from target user devices is disclosed. The portable device includes a commodity user device (e.g. iPhone, smart phone) and a directional antenna system fastened to the commodity user device for receiving the user information broadcast from the target user devices. An application program executing on the portable device can then be used to disable a user account on an access control system, for example. |
| US10403064B2 |
Detecting and responding to an atypical behavior
Methods, devices, and systems are provided for optimizing the dissemination of information in various types of systems such as an access control system. More specifically, there are provided herein various mechanisms to provide a modified agent path such that an agent following the modified agent path, may update at least one non-networked reader. The update of the at least one non-networked reader not occurring if the agent follows an unmodified agent path. |
| US10403061B2 |
Simultaneous authentication of a security article and identification of the security article user
Authenticating a security article comprises capturing biographic information from the security article, detecting a physical property of a security feature on and/or in the security article, processing the captured biographic information and the detected physical property of the security feature to determine whether the security article is genuine, and outputting a signal indicative of the determination. |
| US10403060B2 |
Individualized control system utilizing biometric characteristic
A control system including a detection device and a control host is provided. The detection device is configured to detect a biometric characteristic to accordingly identify a user ID, and output an ID signal according to the user ID. The control host is configured to receive the ID signal to accordingly perform an individualized control associated with the user ID. |
| US10403054B2 |
Deconstructing and recombining three-dimensional graphical objects
Aspects of the technology described herein provide for generating a customized three-dimensional (3D) graphical object. A 3D graphical object is retrieved from a 3D map application and a plurality of 3D components that comprise the 3D graphical object is determined. A selection of a first 3D component of the plurality of 3D components is received. The first 3D component is replaced with a second 3D component, and a customized 3D object is provided. The customized 3D object includes the second 3D component in place of the first 3D component. |
| US10403053B2 |
Marking sparse areas on maps
Values of a physiologic parameter at respective measured points in a heart are obtained. A 3-dimensional model of the heart is constructed, which includes first spatial elements that include the measured points and second spatial elements that do not include the measured points. The values of the parameter in the second spatial elements are interpolated and regional densities of the measured points in the model determined. The values of the parameter at the first spatial elements and the second spatial elements are displayed on a functional map of the heart, and a graphical characteristic of the map is modified responsively to the regional densities. |
| US10403050B1 |
Multi-user virtual and augmented reality tracking systems
An aspect of the disclosure relates to an example marker identification and position tracking system configured to interface and work in conjunction with a marker device and camera system and to provide high fidelity tracking of user and object motion in a virtual and/or augmented reality experience. The example computing system enables use case scenarios in which certain computer aided design capabilities enable rapid creation/configuration of a multi-user, interactive, virtual reality, and/or augmented reality slide presentation experience. |
| US10403042B2 |
Systems and methods for generating and presenting augmented video content
Computerized systems and methods are provided for generating and providing augmented video content to viewers. In one implementation, a media player executed by a user device obtains playlist data identifying underlying video content and elements of overlay content. The media player may generate augmented video content by merging an element of the overlay content into the underlying video content at a temporal position within the underlying video content that is relevant to the overlay content element, and further, may present the augmented video content to a viewer. The media player may detect a triggering event during the presentation of the augmented video content, and may modify the augmented video content in response to the triggering event. |
| US10403039B2 |
Virtual interactive definition of volumetric shapes
A method and related system (IPS) to support definition of a sub-volume (SV) in an initial image volume (IV). |
| US10403038B2 |
3D geometry enhancement method and apparatus therefor
A 3D geometry enhancement method and an apparatus therefor. A random forest regressor is built using sketch patches and displacement patches, wherein the displacement patches are patches corresponding to the sketch patches and placing on a displacement map of a 3D geometry model. A new sketch is received. Displacement patches respectively corresponding to sketch patches are extracted by applying the sketch patches extracted from the new sketch to the built random forest regressor. A displacement map with respect to a 3D geometry model is generated using the extracted displacement patches. The generated displacement map is applied to the 3D geometry model. |
| US10403036B2 |
Rendering glasses shadows
Rendering glasses with shadows is disclosed, including: generating a face image corresponding to an image of a set of images based at least in part on a face model, wherein the set of images is associated with a user's face; generating a face with shadows image corresponding to the image based at least in part on shadows casted by a glasses model on the face model; generating a shadow transform based at least in part on a difference determined based at least in part on the face image and the face with shadows image; generating a shadowed image based at least in part on applying the shadow transform to the image; and presenting the shadowed image including by overlaying a glasses image associated with the glasses model over the shadowed image. |
| US10403035B2 |
Rendering images using ray tracing with multiple light sources
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for rendering an image of a scene affected by multiple light sources. In one aspect, a method includes subdividing the scene into cells; sampling light source —point pairs; for each pair, determining a contribution value of the light source to the point; for each cell and each light source: determining a maximum contribution value of the contribution values for the light source to the color of the points that are in the cell, and determining, based on the maximum contribution value, a significance value that is a measure of an estimated importance of the light source in rendering a portion of the image corresponding to the cell; and rendering the image of the scene by sampling light sources having a higher significance value more often than light sources having a lower significance value. |
| US10403032B2 |
Rendering an image from computer graphics using two rendering computing devices
An example system includes a first computing device comprising a first graphics processing unit (GPU) implemented in circuitry, and a second computing device comprising a second GPU implemented in circuitry. The first GPU is configured to perform a first portion of an image rendering process to generate intermediate graphics data and send the intermediate graphics data to the second computing device. The second GPU is configured to perform a second portion of the image rendering process to render an image from the intermediate graphics data. The first computing device may be a video game console, and the second computing device may be a virtual reality (VR) headset that warps the rendered image to produce a stereoscopic image pair. |
| US10403031B2 |
Learning to reconstruct 3D shapes by rendering many 3D views
Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining first image features derived from an image of an object, providing the first image features to a three-dimensional estimator neural network, and obtaining, from the three-dimensional estimator neural network, data specifying an estimated three-dimensional shape and texture based on the first image features. The estimated three-dimensional shape and texture are provided to a three-dimensional rendering engine, and a plurality of three-dimensional views of the object are generated by the three-dimensional rendering engine based on the estimated three-dimensional shape and texture. The plurality of three-dimensional views are provided to the object recognition engine, and second image features derived from the plurality of three-dimensional views are obtained from the object recognition engine. A loss is computed based at least on the first and second image features, and the three-dimensional estimator neural network is trained based at least on the computed loss. |
| US10403030B2 |
Computing volumes of interest for photogrammetric 3D reconstruction
Techniques for computing a volume of interest for photogrammetric 3D reconstruction are provided. According to one set of embodiments, a computer system can receive a plurality of observations of a scene captured by a camera operator via one or more cameras and, for each observation in the plurality of observations, determine a likelihood distribution function that outputs, for each point in 3D real coordinate space, a likelihood that the point was of interest to the camera operator in view of the observation. The computer system can further combine the likelihood distribution functions for the plurality of observations into an aggregate likelihood distribution function and can compute a volume of interest using the aggregate likelihood distribution function. The computer system can then perform a photogrammetric 3D reconstruction of the scene, where the photogrammetric 3D reconstruction is constrained to objects within the volume of interest. |
| US10403029B2 |
Methods and systems for multistage post-rendering image transformation
Systems and methods for multistage post-rendering image transformation are provided. The system may include a transform generation module arranged to dynamically generate an image transformation. The system may include a transform data generation module arranged to generate first and second transformation data by applying the generated image transformation for first and second sampling positions and storing the transformation data in a memory. The system may include a first image transformation stage that selects the first and second transformation data for a destination image position and calculates an estimated source image position based on the selected first and second transformation data. The system may include a second image transformation stage that selects the first and second transformation data for the destination image position, retrieves the first and second transformation data from the memory, and recalculates an estimated source image position based on the selected first and second transformation data. |
| US10403028B2 |
System and method for geometric warping correction in projection mapping
A system and method for geometric warping correction in projection mapping is provided. A lower resolution mesh is applied to A mesh model, at least in a region of the mesh model misaligned with a corresponding region of a real-world object. One or more points of the lower resolution mesh are moved. In response, one or more corresponding points of the mesh model are moved to increase alignment between the region of the mesh model and the corresponding region of the real-world object. An updated mesh model is stored in a memory. And one or more projectors are controlled to projection map images corresponding to the updated mesh model onto the real-world object. |
| US10403027B2 |
System for ray tracing sub-scenes in augmented reality
The present disclosure describes a new global illumination ray tracing, applied to augmented reality and virtual reality. The Acceleration Structures of prior art are replaced by a new and novel device—a Dynamically Aligned Structure (DAS), a means for carrying out the intersection between secondary rays and scene geometry in large groups of rays, gaining high speed and lowering computational complexity. Its reduced power consumption is suitable to consumer level computing devices. |
| US10403026B2 |
Noise reduction on G-buffers for Monte Carlo filtering
Techniques for selectively removing Monte Carlo (MC) noise from a geometric buffer (G-buffer). Embodiments identify the G-buffer for rendering an image of a three-dimensional scene from a viewpoint. Embodiments determine, for each of a plurality of pixels in the image being rendered, respective world position information based on the three-dimensional scene and a position and orientation of the viewpoint. A pre-filtering operation is then performed to selectively remove the MC noise from the G-buffer, based on the determined world position information for the plurality of pixels. |
| US10403016B2 |
Face syncing in distributed computing environment
Embodiments are disclosed for face syncing in a distributed computing environment. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, by a processor, media assets that include faces of individuals; detecting, by the processor of a mobile device, the faces on the media assets; generating, by the processor, faceprints for the detected faces; clustering, by the processor, the faceprints into clusters; generating, by the processor, a face crop image for each cluster; and sending, by the processor, the face crop images to a network-based, distributed syncing service. |
| US10403010B2 |
Methods and systems for reconstructing images
Methods and systems are provided for medical imaging systems. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more image reconstruction parameters defining an image reconstruction process for reconstructing one or more images from medical imaging data, identifying a target hardware allocation based on the one or more image reconstruction parameters, and reconstructing, via computing device hardware as specified by the target hardware allocation, one or more images from the medical imaging data according to the image reconstruction process. |
| US10403006B2 |
Guided filter for multiple level energy computed tomography (CT)
As set forth herein low energy signal data and high energy signal data can be acquired. A first material decomposed (MD) image of a first material basis and a second material decomposed (MD) image of a second material basis can be obtained using the low energy signal data and the high energy signal data. At least one of the first or second MD image can be input into a guide filter for output of at least one noise reduced and cross-contamination reduced image. A computed tomography (CT) imaging system can be provided that includes an X-ray source and a detector having a plurality of detector elements that detect X-ray beams emitted from the X-ray source. Low energy signal data and high energy signal data can be acquired using the detector. |
| US10403002B2 |
Method and system for transforming between physical images and virtual images
A method for transforming between physical and virtual images includes: disposing an image capturing device at a position that does not coincide with line-of-sight of a user; providing at least three physical distance references on the line-of-sight of the user at different distances from the user, and capturing images of the at least three physical distance references by the image capturing device so as to obtain an epipolar line formed by at least three virtual distance references corresponding respectively to the images; and obtaining a first relation by a computing unit according to a position corresponding relationship between the at least three physical distance references and the at least three virtual distance references. By using the image capturing device that is at a fixed position relative to the user and does not coincide with the line-of-sight of the user, the physical position of an object is obtained. |
| US10402999B2 |
Method, apparatus and terminal device for constructing map
The present disclosure discloses a method, apparatus and server for constructing a map. An embodiment of the method comprises: building a point cloud data frame sequence using point cloud data frames acquired in real time; extracting morphological data from the point cloud data frames; establishing a spatial position relation between the morphological data of two adjacent point cloud data frames in the point cloud data frame sequence; determining a reference spatial position relation corresponding to a stationary object based on the spatial position relation, and constructing a map with the reference spatial position relation. The present embodiment realizes constructing a map with the point cloud data. |
| US10402998B2 |
Position estimation apparatus and position estimation method
A position estimation apparatus which estimates a position of a mobile object in a space includes: a measurement unit which measures, for each of points in a local space in proximity to the mobile object, a position and an attribute; an extractor which extracts position information and attribute information from a result of the measuring by the measurement unit, for each measurement voxel in a group of measurement voxels arrayed three-dimensionally in association with the local space; a map manager which manages position information and attribute information, for each map voxel in a group of map voxels arrayed three-dimensionally in association with the space represented by a map; and a position estimator which estimates a position of the mobile object, based on a position information approximation degree and an attribute information approximation degree. |
| US10402995B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for real-time object detection using a cursor recurrent neural network
An approach is provided for object detection. The approach involves receiving a feature map encoding high level features of object contours detected in an image divided into a plurality of grid cells, and further encoding start locations of each detected object contour. The approach also involves selecting a grid cell including a start location of an object contour. The approach further involves determining a precise location of the start location within the grid cell. The approach further involves determining a set of feature values from a set of proximate grid cells. The approach further involves processing the precise location and the set of feature values using a machine learning network to output a displacement vector to indicate a next coordinate of the object contour, and updating a cursor of the machine learning network based on the displacement vector. |
| US10402994B2 |
3D body scanner data processing flow
A method implemented with a smart body scanner with applications for online apparel retail, fitness, and healthcare applications includes, with a plurality of depth sensors implemented in the body scanner, creating 3D depth images of a body. In a hardware processing step, 3D depth images are generated as recorded part-images with saturated bright regions and lost dark regions. In a pre-processing step, using High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing, depth data obtained in the bright regions is combined with depth data obtained in the dark regions. In a model fusion step, a single 3D body model is created from a stream of the 3D depth images obtained from multiple angles of view during rotating of the body. |
| US10402992B2 |
Method and apparatus for endoscope with distance measuring for object scaling
A method and apparatus for capturing images of a scene using a capsule device including a camera are disclosed. An image sequence is captured using the camera when the capsule device travels through a human gastrointestinal tract. Also, structured-light images are captured using the camera by projecting structured light to one or more objects in a field of view of the camera when the capsule device travels through the human gastrointestinal tract. The structured-light images are interleaved with regular images in the image sequence. The distance information with respect to the capsule camera associated with objects of the selected image is derived. Both the image sequence and the distance information are outputted. A method of determining the size of an object of interest utilizing the distance information is also disclosed. In another method, the distance information is used to scale object or adjust intensities. |
| US10402991B2 |
Device and method for registration of two images
The present invention relates to a device and method for registration of two images. To increase the accuracy of the registration the device comprises an input unit (126) for receiving one or more pairs of negative landmarks, which are indicated in the two images, a pair comprising two negative landmarks, one in each image, which structures are not identical and should not be aligned by the registration. Further, a registration unit (128) is provided for performing a registration of the two images by determining a transformation for transforming at least one of the images for registering it with the other image and determining a spacing measure of the distance between a first landmark in the transformed image and a second landmark in the other image, wherein the transformation is determined such that the spacing measure for a first landmark and a second landmark of at least one pair of negative landmarks is above a first distance threshold, whereby the negative landmarks are taken into account in the registration but are not aligned by the registration. |
| US10402990B2 |
Medical viewing system with a viewing plane determination
A medical viewing system (10) determines a viewing plane and provides medical images with the determined viewing plane. The medical viewing system (10) includes an X-ray image acquisition device (1), an echocardiographic image acquisition device (2) and a processing unit (3). The X-ray image acquisition device (1) is adapted to acquire an X-ray image in an X-ray imaging plane. The echocardiographic image acquisition device (2) is adapted to acquire a plurality of echocardiographic images. The processing unit (3) is adapted for a determination of an indicator in the X-ray image indicating a viewing plane for an echocardiographic image. The indicator may be an indicator line (41) in the X-ray image indicating the viewing plane perpendicular to the X-ray imaging plane. The processing unit (3) is further adapted for registering or fusing the X-ray image and the plurality of echocardiographic images together, and for then providing an echocardiographic image in the identified viewing plane. The identified viewing plane may be related to specific plane of a device (valve clips, plugs. . .) or of a specific anatomical structure. |
| US10402989B2 |
Neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, multi-camera motion tracking, and multi-camera event stitching for audio/video recording and communication devices
The present embodiments relate to improvements to audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, including improved approaches to using a neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, to a multi-camera motion tracking process, and to a multi-camera event stitching process to create a series of “storyboard” images for activity taking place across the fields of view of multiple cameras, within a predetermined time period, for the A/V recording and communication devices. |
| US10402985B2 |
Collision prediction
In some implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving data characterizing a plurality of digital video frames; detecting a plurality of features in each of the plurality of digital video frames; determining, from the detected features, a local scale change and a translational motion of one or more groups of features between at least a pair of the plurality of digital video frames; and calculating a likelihood of collision. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described. |
| US10402983B2 |
Surveillance system using deep network flow for multi-object tracking
A surveillance system and method are provided. The surveillance system includes at least one camera configured to capture a set of images of a given target area that includes a set of objects to be tracked. The surveillance system includes a memory storing a learning model configured to perform multi-object tracking by jointly learning arbitrarily parameterized and differentiable cost functions for all variables in a linear program that associates object detections with bounding boxes to form trajectories. The surveillance system includes a processor configured to perform surveillance of the target area to (i) detect the objects and track locations of the objects by applying the learning model to the images in a surveillance task that uses the multi-object tracking, and (ii), provide a listing of the objects and their locations for surveillance task. A bi-level optimization is used to minimize a loss defined on a solution of the linear program. |
| US10402980B2 |
Imaging system object recognition and assessment
A method and system for using one or more sensors configured to capture two-dimensional and/or three dimensional image data of one or more objects. In particular, the method and system combine one or more digital sensors with visible and near infrared illumination to capture visible and non-visible range spectral image data for one or more objects. The captured spectral image data can be used to separate and identify the one or more objects. Additionally, the three-dimensional image data can be used to determine a volume for each of the one or more objects. The identification and volumetric data for one or more objects can be used individually or in combination to obtain characteristics about the objects. The method and system provide the user with the ability to capture images of one or more objects and obtain related characteristics or information about each of the one or more objects. |
| US10402977B1 |
Learning method and learning device for improving segmentation performance in road obstacle detection required to satisfy level 4 and level 5 of autonomous vehicles using laplacian pyramid network and testing method and testing device using the same
A learning method for improving a segmentation performance in detecting edges of road obstacles and traffic signs, etc. required to satisfy level 4 and level 5 of autonomous vehicles using a learning device is provided. The traffic signs, as well as landmarks and road markers may be detected more accurately by reinforcing text parts as edge parts in an image. The method includes steps of: the learning device (a) instructing k convolutional layers to generate k encoded feature maps, including h encoded feature maps corresponding to h mask layers; (b) instructing k deconvolutional layers to generate k decoded feature maps (i) by using h bandpass feature maps and h decoded feature maps corresponding to the h mask layers and (ii) by using feature maps to be inputted respectively to k-h deconvolutional layers; and (c) adjusting parameters of the deconvolutional and convolutional layers. |
| US10402976B2 |
Isolation of aneurysm and parent vessel in volumetric image data
A framework for isolating an aneurysm and parent vessel in volumetric image data is provided herein. In accordance with one aspect, the framework generates a refined mask by performing region growing starting at an aneurysm dome point to eliminate vessels that are indirectly connected to an aneurysm or parent vessel in volumetric image data. A final mask may be generated based at least in part on the refined mask by eliminating any kissing vessel connected with the aneurysm from the refined mask. The final mask may then be used for segmentation of the aneurysm and the parent vessel in the volumetric image data. |
| US10402975B2 |
Method and apparatus for segmenting medical images
Provided is a method and apparatus for segmenting medical images. The apparatus sets a first seed group including voxels belonging to a segmentation target region among voxels of a medical image and a second seed group including voxels belonging to a remaining region thereof, assigns a weight to a link between a start node and an end node and a voxel node, and segments the medical image into two regions by cutting a link having a minimum weight in a shortest path in which a sum of weights of a path connecting the start node and the end node is minimum. |
| US10402974B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluation of medical data having a temporal resolution
In a method and an evaluation computer for evaluating medical data having a temporal resolution, a preprocessing phase and a postprocessing phase, are executed. The medical data include a first dataset acquired at a first time point of the temporal resolution and a second dataset acquired at a second time point of the temporal resolution. The preprocessing of the first dataset is performed in a first time period and the preprocessed first dataset is provided as an output. The preprocessing of the second dataset is performed in a second time period and the preprocessed second dataset is provided as an output, and an interactive preparation of the postprocessing is carried out in the second time period based on the preprocessed first dataset. The medical data are evaluated by postprocessing using the preprocessed first dataset and/or the preprocessed second dataset. |
| US10402973B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable recording medium
An image processing apparatus includes: a luminal shooting situation analysis unit configured to analyze a luminal shooting situation determined based on a relationship between a subject and an imaging unit that shoots the subject in a luminal image obtained by shooting an inside of a lumen; and a specific region detection unit configured to detect a specific region in accordance with the luminal shooting situation. |
| US10402964B2 |
System and method for automated cosmetic inspection of electronic devices
A system, device, and method for inspecting the cosmetic and operational features of electronic devices, including computing and telecommunications devices. The cosmetic inspection system includes an image capture unit for capturing the images of the electronic devices, and a user interface for processing the captured images and providing relevant information to the user of the system. Images of the external components such as external casing materials or touch screens of electronic devices are captured and the cosmetic inspection system uses baseline images to make determinations to identify defective components of the electronic devices. Based on these determinations, the system may conclude which, if any, replacement components of the devices are needed to restore the electronic device. In one embodiment, a user of the system may then be provided with information through a user interface about defective components and options for ordering replacement components. |
| US10402959B2 |
System and method of active torch marker control
A welding system includes one or more cameras and a controller coupled to the one or more cameras. The one or more cameras are configured to detect a plurality of sets of visual markers of a welding device, where each set is oriented in a respective marker direction. The controller is configured to determine one or more marker directions of one or more respective sets of visual markers based on a detected set of visual markers, to select one of the sets of visual markers as a tracked set of visual markers based at least in part on a determined marker direction of the tracked set of visual markers, to associate a rigid body model to the tracked set of visual markers, and to determine a position and an orientation of the welding device based on the associated rigid body model of the tracked set of visual markers. |
| US10402955B2 |
Long exposure filter
In one embodiment, a method includes a computer machine reviewing a picture image and an associated video with the associated video including several video frames. The computer machine then statistically analyzes the corresponding areas for each video frame. The computer machine then compares an area in the picture image with an associated area in a video frame image, wherein the video frame image is based in part on the statistical analysis of the corresponding area for each video frame. Next, the computer machine creates an area for a composite image based in part on the comparison of the area in the picture image with the associated area in the video frame image. |
| US10402953B2 |
Display method and display device
Provided is a display method of displaying, on a display device, video of video data where luminance of video is defined by a first EOTF indicating a correlation of HDR luminance and code values. The method includes: acquiring the video data; performing, regarding each of multiple pixels making up the video in the acquired video data, first determining of determining whether luminance of that pixel exceeds a first predetermined luminance; performing, regarding each of the multiple pixels, dual tone mapping where luminance of that pixel is reduced by a different format in a case of the luminance of the pixel being found to exceed the first predetermined luminance from the first determining, and a case of the luminance of the pixel being found to be equal to or lower than the first predetermined luminance; and displaying the video on the display device using the results of the dual tone mapping. |
| US10402950B1 |
Optical measurement system
Methods for quantifying pupil swim are disclosed in order to compensate for the same. A target image, in one embodiment, is displayed on a display of a head mounted display (HMD). Images of the target image are captured from a plurality of positions relative to an optical axis of an optics block of the HMD at an exit pupil of the HMD. The target image includes features and differences between observed locations of the features and their expected locations absent the optics block are determined. From these differences, a wavefront of the optics block is reconstructed and distortion corrections for the optics block are generated using the wavefront. The distortion corrections, when applied to a virtual scene, add pre-distortion that is canceled by the optical imperfections of the optics block as light of the virtual scene with the pre-distortion passes through the optics block. |
| US10402949B2 |
Method, device, and recording medium for processing image
A method of processing an image in a device, and the device thereof are provided. The method includes determining a distortion correction ratio of each of a plurality of vertices included in a source image, based on information about a lens through which the source image is projected, determining corrected location information of pixels located between the plurality of vertices, based on the distortion correction ratio of each of the plurality of vertices and interpolation ratios of the pixels, and rendering a distortion-corrected image including pixels determined as a result of performing interpolation on the plurality of vertices based on the corrected location information. |
| US10402947B2 |
Image processing apparatus and electronic endoscope system
Provided are an image processing device and an electronic endoscope system that can acquire a high-quality endoscope observation image by performing sufficient noise reduction processing even if an image capture environment changes. A noise reduction processing unit sets a pixel of interest and a neighboring pixel out of a plurality of pixels that constitute an endoscope observation image, and performs noise reduction processing on the pixel of interest according to a magnitude relationship between: a difference in pixel value between the pixel of interest and the neighboring pixel; and a reference threshold value. A reference threshold value changing processing unit changes the reference threshold value for noise reduction processing based on a ratio between at least two color components that are included in the pixel of interest. |
| US10402946B2 |
System and method for performing orthogonal rotation and mirroring operation in a device
A system including a rotate block including an array of bit storage units for storing image data bits of a subtile of an image to be rotated, the image data bits of the subtile being arranged in a plurality of subtile rows. The rotate block is operative to load the image data bits of each subtile row of the subtile into the array according to a subtile row load direction that is selected from a plurality of load directions based at least upon a rotate operation to be performed on the image. After loading all the image data bits of the subtile into the array, the rotate block repeatedly unloads image data bits out of the array to produce a rotated subtile. The image data bits that are unloaded from the array from each unloading operation form a subtile row of the rotated subtile. |
| US10402944B1 |
Determining a position of an object in a rotation corrected image
A user device may capture an image including an object, and may identify the object, including determining an outline of the object. The user device may determine a first center point of the object and an angle of orientation of the object in relation to the image. The user device may rotate the image based on the angle of orientation, including changing one or more dimensions of the image. The user device may, after rotating the image, determine the one or more dimensions of the rotated image, calculate one or more offset values associated with changing the one or more dimensions of the rotated image, and determine a second center point of the object based on the first center point and the one or more offset values. The user device may perform an action related to the rotated image based on determining the second center point of the object. |
| US10402943B2 |
Image enhancement device and method for convolutional network apparatus
An image enhancement device that includes a down-sampling module, correction modules and an up-sampling module is provided. The down-sampling module down-samples an input image to generate down-sampled images having different down-sampled resolutions. Each of the correction modules performs correction on one of the down-sampled images according to a correction model based on at least one correction parameter to generate one of corrected images. The up-sampling module up-samples the corrected images to generate up-sampled images, wherein each of the up-sampled images is of a same up-sampled resolution. The concatenating module concatenates the up-sampled images into an output image. |
| US10402939B2 |
Information processing device, information processing method, and program
There is provided an information processing device to improve visibility of an image displayed in a display area in which a plurality of normal directions are present of a curved display or the like, the information processing device including: a display controller that controls a way of displaying an object image corresponding to an image of an object displayed in a display area in which a plurality of normal directions are present. The display controller controls the way of displaying the object image such that a first display area included in the display area and a second display area included in the display area and different from the first display area have different ways of displaying. |
| US10402937B2 |
Multi-GPU frame rendering
A method for rendering graphics frames allocates rendering work to multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) that are configured to allow access to pages of data stored in locally attached memory of a peer GPU. The method includes the steps of generating, by a first GPU coupled to a first memory circuit, one or more first memory access requests to render a first primitive for a first frame, where at least one of the first memory access requests targets a first page of data that physically resides within a second memory circuit coupled to a second GPU. The first GPU requests the first page of data through a first data link coupling the first GPU to the second GPU and a register circuit within the first GPU accumulates an access request count for the first page of data. The first GPU notifies a driver that the access request count has reached a specified threshold. |
| US10402935B2 |
Performance profiling in computer graphics
A method of profiling the performance of a graphics unit when rendering a scene according to a graphics pipeline, includes executing stages of the graphics pipeline using one or more units of rendering circuitry to perform at least one rendering task that defines a portion of the work required to render the scene, the at least one rendering task associated with a set flag; propagating an indication of the flag through stages of the graphics pipeline as the scene is rendered so that work done as part of the at least one rendering task is associated with the set flag; changing the value of a counter associated with a unit of rendering circuitry in response to an occurrence of an event while that unit performs an item of work associated with the set flag; and reading the value of the counter to thereby measure the occurrences of the event caused by completing the at least one rendering task. |
| US10402933B2 |
Adaptive smart grid-client device computation distribution with grid guide optimization
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to monitor, by a process monitor, one or more processing factors of one or more client devices hosting one or more user sessions. More particularly, the systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a way to generate, responsively, a scene generation plan based on one or more of a digital representation of an N dimensional space or at least one of the one or more processing factors, and generate, by a global scene generator, a global scene common to the one or more client devices based on the digital representation of the space. The systems, apparatuses and methods may further provide for performing, by a local scene generator, at least a portion of the global illumination based on one or more of the scene generation plan, or application parameters. |
| US10402932B2 |
Power-based and target-based graphics quality adjustment
An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor, a power budget analyzer to identify a power budget for one or more of the application processor, the persistent storage media, and the graphics subsystem, a target analyzer communicatively coupled to the graphics subsystem to identify a target for the graphics subsystem, and a parameter adjuster to adjust one or more parameters of the graphics subsystem based on one or more of the identified power budget and the identified target. |
| US10402925B2 |
Employee wellness management system
A method managing wellness of employees is presented. A computer system receives a group of health factors for activities and group of preferences for activities of the employees. The computer system identifies a recommendation for an activity for a portion of the employees based on the group health factors, the group of preferences, and information for locations where recommended activities are to occur. The computer system then sends the recommendation for the activity to the portion of the employees. |
| US10402921B2 |
Network computer system for quantifying conditions of a transaction
Examples described herein pertain generally to network computer systems, and more specifically, to network computer systems for evaluating contingency based outcomes for network transactions. |
| US10402920B2 |
Order management system and process for drive-through and pickup window restaurants
A system and process for a causal dining drive-through restaurant ordering and order pick-up that displays order status to customers (guests) and eliminates sequential order pickup thus minimizing unnecessary wait time. Other features includes providing and displaying real time order status, optional display panels, means for acquisition of order and customer data for inventory control, automatic accounting and customer data entry for promotion and advertising. |
| US10402915B2 |
Methods and systems for on-device social grouping
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for social grouping are provided to perform social grouping of a user's contacts based on the user's interactions with the contacts. A set of attributes associated with interactions between a user and a set of contacts may be determined by a first device. The set of attributes associated with the interactions may be related to the first device. The set of contacts may be organized into a set of groups based on the set of attributes. |
| US10402914B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing contact-related information items
Mechanisms are provided for determining contact-related information items for presentation to a user, such that the user can refer to the information items to enhance the user's communication with the contact. Contact-related information items that have a high relevance level may be accessed and presented to the user. In a case in which no or limited high relevance level information items exist, contact-related information items associated with incrementally lower levels of relevance may be accessed and presented. Moreover, according to some example embodiments, relevance may be derived based on the relationship of the user with the particular contact and/or the frequency of communications with the contact. |
| US10402911B1 |
System, method, and computer-readable medium for removing credit card numbers from both fixed and variable length transaction records
A system, method, and computer readable medium for removing credit card numbers from a financial transaction record is provided. A temporary record containing only numeric characters is generated by parsing non-numeric characters from the financial transaction record. Numeric strings are then parsed from the temporary record and evaluated to determine if the parsed numeric strings potentially comprise a credit card number. Numeric strings that are evaluated as potentially comprising credit card numbers may then be further evaluated to determine if the numeric strings comprise valid credit card numbers. The original financial transaction record may then be searched for numeric strings evaluated as valid credit card numbers. Any string of consecutive characters that match a validated credit card number may then be replaced with white space characters or other innocuous characters in the transaction record. |
| US10402903B2 |
Trading based on fill rate
According to various embodiments, trades may be filled based at in part on order price and fill rates determined for providers of orders. In some embodiments, orders at a given price in an order book may be ordered in order of decreasing fill rate, such that orders associated with a higher fill rate (or higher probability of fill) are preferenced above orders associated with a lower fill rate. In some embodiments, order books may also be ordered based in part on response times from order providers. For example, orders in an order book may be ordered according to an algorithm that preferences higher fill rates and shorter response times ahead of orders with lower fill rates and longer response times. Order book ordering algorithms may also consider order quantity and interdependence and duplication of order quantity. |
| US10402901B2 |
System and method for providing an aggregation tool
Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources. |
| US10402898B2 |
Image-based financial processing
Image-based processing of sources of financial information for financial transactions is provided. A device is enabled to acquire one or more images including a representation of a source of financial information. The device can validate the source, independent of the financial information in a preliminary analysis. If the source is validated, one or more images are used to acquire the financial information. The financial information is then validated. If the financial information is valid, authorization of the financial transaction can be initiated. |
| US10402891B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus for wireless thermal printing for order fulfillment
Systems, methods, and a printer apparatus using network-based communication over 3G or 4G wireless networks, and provides for electronic response from the printer relating to order confirmation and fulfillment at the recipient printer, in communication to an order management coordinator or server. The printer provides an order output including at least one symbol representing an order, including at least one of order content, ordering entity or individual, price, time of order, and combinations thereof. |
| US10402889B1 |
Method, system, and computer readable medium for rendering a graphical user interface visually indicating search results including related suggested products
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for related search suggestions for products. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query for searching documents wherein the query specifies a first product. A number of occurrences of the first product in a plurality of prior queries of the documents submitted by users is determined. A product category for the first product is determined based on one or more attributes associated with the first product, the category having a predetermined plurality of category attributes. A suggested product is selected wherein the suggested product is associated with attributes that satisfy the category attributes. |
| US10402887B2 |
Systems and methods of product interaction recognition using sensors within a tag
Systems and methods for managing inventory. The methods comprise: generating sensor data by an Electronic Smart Tag (“EST”); processing, by the EST or a computing device remote from the EST, the sensor data to transform the same into information specifying at least one of a first person's intention with regard to an item to which the EST is coupled and the first person's interest in the item; generating a notification or a recommendation relating to inventory management, based on at least one of the first person's intention with regard to the item and the first person's interest in the item; and providing the notification or recommendation to a second person. |
| US10402885B2 |
Searchable texture index
Electronic content that has a tactile dimension when presented on a tactile-enabled computing device may be referred to as tactile-enabled content. A tactile-enabled device is a device that is capable of presenting tactile-enabled content in a manner that permits a user to experience tactile quality of electronic content. In one example embodiment, a system is provided for generating content that has a tactile dimension when presented on a tactile-enabled device. |
| US10402882B2 |
Method and system for integration of merchant trade areas into search results
A method for identifying merchant trade areas for search result filtering includes: storing a plurality of merchant profiles, each profile including data related to a merchant including a merchant identifier and merchant geographic location; storing a plurality of transaction data entries, each entry including data related to a payment transaction including a specific merchant identifier and merchant geographic location associated with a merchant involved in the transaction, a consumer primary geographic location associated with a consumer involved in the transaction, and a travel distance based on a distance between the merchant and consumer primary geographic locations; identifying, for each merchant profile, merchant trade area data, the data including trade distances based on the travel distance included in transaction data entries where the included specific merchant identifier corresponds to the merchant identifier included in the respective merchant profile; and updating merchant profiles to include the respective identified merchant trade area data. |
| US10402879B2 |
Offering a customized collection of products
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for customizing collections of products. A first user selects a subset of products for customization, and subsequently causes those products to be customized. The first user may place limitations on further customization of the subset of products. A second user associated with the customized products further customizes those products. The further customization may be restricted by the limitations imposed by the first user. |
| US10402878B2 |
Computer program, method, and system for facilitating commercial transactions between a user and a vendor
Embodiments facilitate commercial transactions between a user and one or more vendors without requiring a user to provide information unique to a user account for the vendor. Embodiments prompt a user to select one or more vendors from a list of vendors. An authorization is obtained from the user to allow the computer program to retrieve the product from the list of vendors and on behalf of the user. The computer program then requests and receives, from each vendor, information for accessing an electronic resource of the vendor. In embodiments, the received information is unique to the user account for the vendor. The computer program then obtains the product from the vendor based on the received information. The computer program thus presents a centralized management service for obtaining product from a plurality of vendors and without requiring the user to provide user information unique to the user for each vendor. |
| US10402877B2 |
Online transaction processing system for multi-product transactions
Systems, methods, and computer program products for processing an online transaction to purchase a set of products. In response to receiving a request to process a transaction to purchase the set of products, an On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) system retrieves data from a corresponding database record that defines the set of products being purchased. The database record may also define a seller, a supplier, and a merchant for each product. For each product having the seller as the merchant, the OLTP determines a form of payment to be used to pay the supplier of the product based on rules governing forms of payment retrieved from a payment rules database. When the forms of payment have been determined, the OLTP system may add data to the database record that identifies the form of payment used to pay the supplier for each product in the record. |
| US10402876B1 |
Domain name transfer risk mitigation
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive a request for a modification to domain name management; analyze metadata and registrant accounts associated with the request; determine whether related domain name activities indicate high or low risk of malicious behavior; if high risk, the request may be queued for manual review; on manual review, if the request is deemed high risk, an attempt to contact the registrant may be made; if unsuccessful, or if the registrant verifies an invalid request, the request may be cancelled. if the behavior or request is low risk, and/or if the registrant confirms the request is valid, the request may be approved and fulfilled. |
| US10402873B2 |
System for the acquisition of electronic services and/or products using electronic messages
The invention relates to a system for the acquisition of electronic services and/or products using electronic messages, comprising: at least a plurality of devices for receiving/sending instructions, wherein each of the devices for receiving/sending instructions is for generating an instruction of the selection carried out by an initial user of said system and sending same to an instruction-processing server for the processing thereof; an instruction-processing server for receiving and processing the selection instruction of the initial user in order to generate an assigning instruction and send same to an assigning server; an assigning server for receiving and processing the assigning instruction of the instruction-processing server, generating a sending instruction that is dealt with by the electronic message-sending device; a plurality of the final user devices, wherein each of the devices is managed by a final user, which receives an electronic message from the electronic message-sending device; and a plurality of servers providing products and/or services, into which the final user inputs information contained in the electronic message received in the final user device via an access portal available in each of said servers providing products and/or services, in order to be able to have access to the requested electronic service and/or product. |
| US10402872B1 |
Automated medical procedure coding and documentation system
A system for documenting and coding diagnostic and interventional procedures for hospital and physician reimbursement, and automating the process of documenting and coding so that the two steps are unified into a singular activity. The computer-based system provides a graphical user interface allowing the physician to input details pertinent to the diagnostic and interventional procedures in an interactive manner. The computer program provides active guidance that enforces specification of details required to justify medical necessity of each performed procedure. Based on the physician's procedure entry, the program generates the resulting CPT (Current Procedural Terminology) codes and their accompanying documentation, thereby eliminating the opportunity for error. The program produces reports ready for submission for reimbursement. |
| US10402867B2 |
Computerized method and system for personalized storytelling
A method and system are proposed for presenting information relating to a product to a potential customer for the product, upon the user scanning a 2D barcode using a mobile device. The information is presented to the customer as a story generated by an agent-based storytelling system. The story is personalized to the customer using online multimedia. It can be used to conduct mobile branding and advertisement, and is able thereby to augment offline shopping with online shopping experience. |
| US10402865B2 |
Determining whether to maintain information describing a group of online system users specified by a third-party system based on revenue from content selection based on the group
An online system receives information describing a target group of online system users from a third party system and stores the information describing the target group. The online system subsequently uses the target group to select content for presentation to one or more users. For example, users included in the target group are identified as eligible to be presented with content items. Based on revenue obtained by the online system from presenting content based on the target group, the online system determines a monetization value for the target group. The online system determines whether to continue storing the information describing the target group based on the monetization value. |
| US10402862B2 |
Method and apparatus for selecting an advertiser
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving a first radio frequency signal from a radio frequency identifier tag carried by a first item, retrieving from the first radio frequency signal information about the first item, and identifying at least one replacement item according to the retrieved information. The method can further include selecting at least one advertiser that promotes at least one product that is at least similar to the at least one replacement item, and selecting a presentation arrangement for the identified at least one advertiser to present the at least one product at a device of a user of the first item. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10402855B2 |
Advertisement distribution device and advertisement distribution method
An advertisement distribution device according to the present application includes a distribution unit. The distribution unit distributes advertising content while switching an advertisement distribution process in accordance with a predetermined target figure within the range an advertisement listing fee paid to a provider of a Web page on which the advertising content is placed reaches the predetermined target figure. |
| US10402853B1 |
Methods, systems, and media for managing online advertising campaigns based on causal conversion metrics
Methods, systems, and media for managing online advertising campaigns based on causal conversion metrics are provided. |
| US10402850B2 |
Reliability metrics for real-time auctions
A method includes receiving identification information with a first electronic device and via a network, wherein the identification information is unique to a particular user device accessing webpage content, determining whether the identification information matches an identifier of a plurality of identifiers stored in a memory associated with the first electronic device, generating a reliability metric based on the determining, and providing the reliability metric to a second electronic device different from the first electronic device via the network. In such methods, the reliability metric is accessible by at least one bidder during a real-time auction associated with the webpage content. |
| US10402847B2 |
System and method of electronically verifying required proof-of-performance to secure promotional rewards
A proof-of-performance verification system may include a receipt processing facility that receives a receipt image, wherein the receipt processing facility optionally enhances the receipt, converts the receipt image to text, and matches the text to a product or service description in accordance with a terminology database, a proof processor that electronically matches a user-selected reward offer against the product or service description to facilitate offer redemption, and at least one of a payment facility that distributes the offer redemption funds and a rewards facility that communicates incentive rewards to a central location. Related user interfaces, applications, and computer program products are disclosed. |
| US10402846B2 |
Anonymizing facial expression data with a smart-cam
A method of responding to a criterion-based request for information collected from users meeting the criterion while complying with a user-requested privacy requirement. In one embodiment a request is received for data comprising facial or audio expressions for users who meet the criterion. A program monitors activities indicative of user attention or user reaction based on face tracking, face detection, face feature detection, eye gaze determination, eye tracking, audio expression determination, or determination of an emotional state. When a user requests a high level of privacy, the timestream data collected for the user is aggregated with timestream data collected for other users into a statistical dataset by processing the timestreams to ensure the high level of privacy in the statistical dataset which is provided to a content provider without providing data collected for the user who has requested the high level of privacy. |
| US10402845B2 |
Refferal tracking and reward system for shared links
A referral tracking and reward system for shared links system that inserts trackable referral links into communications from a referring user to one or more recipients, and receives a fee from merchants for actions or transactions resulting from these referrals. A portion of the fee may be remitted to the referring user or to another designee. The system may be integrated into one or more communications applications. It analyzes message content to identify matches from a database of products, services, merchants, brands, and promotions, and offers the user the option to insert a referral link to matching items. The system may incorporate algorithms and business strategies that analyze characteristics of the user, recipient, content, merchants and items in order to prioritize and determine which referrals should be inserting into a communication. |
| US10402844B1 |
Post sale referral tracking
An e-commerce system is provided that tracks purchase transaction across multiple client devices. The e-commerce system stores hop information describing when a customer is exposed to a product of a vendor through an affiliate who advertises the vendor's products. The e-commerce system determines from the stored hop information which affiliate or affiliates to compensate for the sale of a product. This allows the e-commerce system to determine, after the sale, whether additional affiliates need to be compensated for the sale of the product based on the hop information. |
| US10402841B2 |
Enabling a user to verify a price change for an on-demand service
A method for enabling a user to verify a price change for an on-demand service is provided. One or more processors can determine a real-time price for providing the on-demand service to the user. The one or more processors can determine when the real-time price is equal to or exceeds a threshold price. In response to a request from the user for the on-demand service when the real-time price is equal to or exceeds the threshold price, an intermediate interface can be provided that the user is to correctly respond to before a service request can be transmitted to a service system. |
| US10402839B1 |
Methods and systems for determining drug trend and drug inflation
Methods and systems for determining drug trend and drug inflation are described. In one embodiment, an index sample may be selected including an identification of a plurality of drugs. A weighting factor associated with each of the plurality of drugs in the index sample may be calculated. A first weighted price of for the plurality of drugs may be calculated for a first time period. A second weighted price for the plurality of drugs may be calculated for a second time period. A price index may be calculated for the second time period based on the first weighted price and the second weighted price. Other methods and systems are described. |
| US10402836B2 |
System and method for selecting geographic regions for presentation of content based on characteristics of online system users in different geographic regions
An online system selects different geographic regions to evaluate content presented by the online system. The online system pairs a geographic region with another geographic region based on similarity of the geographic regions. To assist this pairing, the online system identifies users associated with locations within a threshold distance of different geographic regions and retrieves demographic and other characteristics of users associated with locations within the threshold distance of one or more geographic regions. Based on the retrieved characteristics and characteristics of the geographic regions, the online system generates vectors for different geographic regions. For each possible pairing of geographic regions, the online system computes a distance value and selects a pairing of geographic regions based on the distance values. For example, the online system selects a pair of geographic regions associated with a minimum distance value. |
| US10402835B2 |
Agricultural situational awareness tool
A system for collecting and analyzing agricultural data. A team of crop scouts performs a scouting operation in a farm, each crop scout interacting with a mobile device. The mobile device provides a navigation display guiding the scout along a route, from one data collection point to the next. At each data collection point, the crop scout makes observations and measurements and inputs the corresponding data into the mobile device. A control operator at a central location monitors the progress of the scouting operation and revises the routes or locations of data collection points when appropriate, based on data received during the scouting operation. A cloud service analyzes the data and provides recommendations to a farm operator. |
| US10402831B2 |
Three-dimensional authentication and identification methods, devices, and systems
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a tag that may include an encapsulant and a plurality of three-dimensional objects randomly oriented within the encapsulant. Each three-dimensional object may include a plurality of characteristics defining at least one statistically unique signature. At least one of the characteristics may be dependent on the orientation of the object. In some instances, the plurality of three-dimensional objects may also be randomly distributed within the encapsulant, and at least one of the characteristics defining at least one statistically unique signature may be dependent on the distribution of the objects. |
| US10402825B2 |
Device, system, and method of enhancing user privacy and security within a location-based virtual social networking context
Via a graphical user interface on a first mobile computing device of a first user, the first user is prompted to upload a first electronic photograph representing an appearance of the first user who is a participant of a virtual social network. Via the graphical user interface, the first electronic photograph uploaded by the first user is received. From a second user who is also a participant of the virtual social network, an electronic voucher is received. The electronic voucher is redeemable for a merchandise item that is offered by a physical venue, the physical venue corresponds to the virtual social network. A screen is generated that contains both the electronic voucher and the first electronic photograph. An electronic scan of the electronic voucher is detected. An electronic transaction is completed, in which the merchandise item is redeemed in response to the electronic scan of the electronic voucher. |
| US10402816B2 |
Partial data object acquisition and processing
A payment terminal such as a payment reader may receive and form electrical connections with an electronic transaction card such as an EMV chip card. The payment terminal may provide power to the electronic transaction card and initiate communications with the electronic transaction card. One or more records may be acquired from the electronic transaction card. Data objects may be extracted from those records and stored in a cache. Data objects may be needed to process transactions. If the data object is available from the data cache or is otherwise received prior to all records being received, transactions may be processed prior to the acquisition of all records from the electronic transaction card. |
| US10402815B2 |
Method for using barcodes and mobile devices to conduct payment transactions
Embodiments of the invention facilitate payment transactions by integrating the image capture and image processing capabilities of certain mobile devices with the card-based payment transaction infrastructure. In some embodiments, a camera contained in a mobile device is used to capture an image of a barcode that is visible on the surface of a substrate. The barcode may represent or otherwise encode one or more of payment account data, consumer authentication data, consumer profile data, or other relevant information. In some embodiments, the captured image may be processed by the mobile device to extract the payment account data, authentication data, or other relevant data. This data may then be communicated to a data processing element that is connected to, or forms part of, a payment processing network in order to conduct the desired payment transaction. |
| US10402814B2 |
Cloud-based transactions methods and systems
Systems and methods provide for communication of transaction data that is formatted according to a transaction type that is support by an access device. First transaction data may be formatted according to a first type of transaction supported by a first access device and second transaction data may be formatted according to a second type of transaction supported by a second access device. The first transaction data may be transmitted over a first wireless communication link to the first access device and the second transaction data may be transmitted to the second access over a second wireless communication link. |
| US10402810B2 |
Receipt generation service
A method includes receiving, by a server via a network, transaction information descriptive of a money transfer transaction initiated at a point of entry device. The transaction information includes information that identifies a location of the point of entry device. The method includes determining, by the server, receipt information to be included in a receipt for the money transfer transaction. The receipt information may be determined based, at least in part, on the transaction information, and at least a portion of the receipt information included in the receipt satisfies regulatory requirements associated with the location of the point of entry device. The method includes generating, by the server, the receipt that includes the receipt information, and transmitting the receipt from the server to the point of entry device via the network. |
| US10402808B1 |
Systems and methods for linking high-value tokens using a low-value token
Embodiments include methods and systems for linking high-value tokens using a low-value token, comprising receiving, from an electronic data server, a first high-value token and a request for a low-value token, the first high-value token being associated with sensitive data associated with a user, and the low-value token being associated with a subset of the sensitive data associated with the user. The methods and systems further comprise providing the low-value token to the electronic data server, and receiving, from a second electronic data server, the low-value token and a request for a second high-value token, the low-value token having been provided to the second electronic data server by the electronic data server. The methods and systems further comprise generating a second high-value token associated with the sensitive data associated with the user, and providing the second high-value token to the second electronic data server. |
| US10402803B1 |
Initiating a kiosk transaction
A method of initiating a banking transaction at a banking terminal is provided. The method includes optically capturing machine readable identification data of the banking terminal by a mobile device of a customer. A terminal identifier of the banking terminal is determined based on the machine readable identification data. Account information and the terminal identifier are transmitted from the mobile device for delivery to a server. The account information is associated with the customer and stored in the mobile device. The method also includes the step of transmitting the account information from the server to the banking terminal using the terminal identifier and receiving a customer transaction request from the customer at the banking terminal. |
| US10402802B2 |
Apparatus, method, and program for setting printing fee based on image analysis result
An apparatus is provided for setting a printing fee based on the result of image analysis. The apparatus determines whether an input image is color or monochrome, obtains the color amount in the input image, performs image processing on the input image, prints the processed input image, and sets a fee for printing the input image based on the obtained color amount. |
| US10402797B2 |
Secured authentication and transaction authorization for mobile and internet-of-things devices
Highly secured transactions for mobile or Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices can be conducted using a one-time seed technology (OTST). For example, registration of a user and authentication of a user device is based on a one-time seed (OTS) which is generated by an authentication server and sent to the user device. The user device employs the OTS to generate a one-time password (OTP). After registration and authentication, the OTS is deleted. As such, the OTS and OTP is used only one time. No seed is stored on the user device. As for securing the transactions, it may be signed by a one-time hash (OTH) or a one-time signing key (OTSK). Like the OTS, the OTH or OTSK is deleted from the user device after the transaction. Since the user device does not contain a seed, OTH or OTSK, there is no risk of the user device being hacked by unwanted third parties. |
| US10402786B2 |
Managing projects in a content management system
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects in a content management system. For example, the content management system can create a project folder (e.g., shared folder) for managing data associated with a project. The project folder can be shared with content management system users (e.g., project members) who are contributors to the project. The content management system can store project data (e.g., content items, communications, comments, tasks, etc.) related to the project in the project folder. When the project folder is selected by a user, the content management system can generate a project folder view that presents the project data associated with the project folder and/or project in a convenient and easy to access graphical user interface. The content management system can aggregate project data from various content items associated with the project and present the project data in a single graphical user interface. |
| US10402785B2 |
Terminal apparatus
A terminal apparatus includes a storage generation unit that generates a storage module that stores, in association with information concerning a process related to a job that is performed by executing multiple processes in a sequential order, and information concerning a process to be performed with a system connected from among the multiple processes, screen data of the system used in the process with the system connected and a display controller that performs control to display the screen data if the system is unconnectable when a request to execute the process is received. |
| US10402784B2 |
Dynamic notary system
A dynamic notary system having one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer readable medium coupled to the one or more processors with at least one of the computer readable medium being local to the one or more processors. The one or more non-transitory computer readable medium stores computer executable instructions, that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to: (1) verify a notary with user identification information stored on the at least one computer readable medium local to the one or more processors, (2) retrieve a document to be notarized from the one or more non-transitory computer readable medium, (3) receive a signatory's electronic signature, (4) receive the notary's electronic signature, (5) apply a notary seal to the document, and (6) lock the document in an unchangeable format. |
| US10402783B2 |
Method of automatically re-organizing structured data in a reporting system based on screen size by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium
A method of automatically re-organizing structured data in a reporting system based on screen size calculated an initial layout for data containers in a report, checks to see if any of the data containers are obscured by the right display edge, and re-arranges the data containers so that no containers are obscured. A similar process is performed on any data grids with obscured columns. Columns are removed according to importance to maintain context. Elements in a removed column are added below respective associated rows. |
| US10402782B2 |
Systems and methods for and displaying patient data
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a timeline screen, in response to the user input, processing patient-specific data to determine one or more medical events to be graphically depicted, the one or more medical events being specific to a patient, and displaying the timeline screen on the mobile device, the timeline screen displaying a timeline associated with the patient and comprising at least a portion of the one or more medical events, each medical event comprising summary information, the one or more medical events being displayed in chronological order. |
| US10402781B2 |
Multidimensional barcodes for information handling system service information
Multi-dimensional barcodes at a product include service identifiers for the product so that an end user with a portable information handling system captures an image of the multi-dimensional barcode and extracts the service identifiers to obtain service information from a service network location. For example, a service identifier embeds a URL that links to a video demonstrating how to assemble the product. As another example, a service identifier links to a service network location and includes a unique identifier so that an end user retrieves warranty or purchase information for the product. |
| US10402776B2 |
System and method for conducting a multi-channel order
A method for purchasing a product at a brick-and-mortar retail establishment is provided. The method includes, but is not limited to, inputting identification information into a local device for a product sold by the brick-and-mortar retail establishment, transmitting the identification information to an order creation application, and upon receiving the identification information, selecting a dispense type for the product. The dispense type is selected from a group of dispense types including: “carry” for personally carrying the product out of the brick-and-mortar retail establishment, “load” for having the product loaded into the user's vehicle, “pickup” for having the product provided to the user at a predetermined location whereby the user will go to get that product, and “delivery” for delivering the product to the user at a predetermined location. |
| US10402774B1 |
Intelligence platform for automated retrieval or protection of a package or a person by an unmanned vehicle (UV)
An intelligence platform determines that a package was delivered to a location, and receives real-time information associated with the package or location. The real-time information includes sensor data received from one or more sensor devices disposed proximate to the package, or third party data received from one or more third party devices associated with a geographic region that includes the location to which the package was delivered. The intelligence platform determines, using a machine learning model, a score for the package based on the real-time information, where the score predicts a measure of vulnerability of the package, and determines whether to retrieve or protect the package based on the score. The intelligence platform selects an unmanned vehicle (UV) to retrieve or protect the package based on vehicular data, and transmits instructions to the UV to cause the UV to navigate to the package and retrieve or protect the package. |
| US10402770B2 |
Assessing outsourcing engagements
Systems and methods for assessing performance of an outsourcing engagement are described. According to the present subject matter, the system(s) implement the described method(s) for assessing the outsourcing engagement. The method includes identifying at least one Critical Success Factor (CSF) associated with the outsourcing engagement between a vendor and a client based on conducive conditions of outsourcing. The method further includes determining at least one of a plurality of parameters and a plurality of sub parameters associated with the identified at least one CSF, wherein the plurality of parameters and the plurality of sub parameters are inter dependent and effect performance of the at least one CSF. Further, the method includes assessing a value of performance for at least one parameter and at least one sub parameter from amongst the plurality of parameters and the plurality of sub parameters respectively, based on a system dynamics model. |
| US10402758B2 |
Identifying additional applications for comparison to an application with which online system users interact
An online system maintains information describing interactions by its users with various applications. To allow evaluation of an application against other applications, the online system identifies additional applications having a threshold measure of similarity to the application and with which at least at threshold number of users interacted during a time interval. Based on a number of users who interacted with various additional applications and amounts of revenue obtained by additional applications, the online system selects a group of additional applications. The online system selects additional applications from the group based on scores for the additional applications determined from user interaction and revenue obtained by the additional applications and provides information about the additional applications selected from the group to an entity associated with the application. |
| US10402757B1 |
System and method for outsourcing projects
A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product for efficiently outsourcing projects, such as software development projects, are presented. A business entity may precisely and succinctly define one or more requests for proposals (RFPs) using predefined service identifiers which specify discrete, short-term projects (e.g., 4 weeks or less) with fixed inputs and outputs and objective evaluation metrics which allow for each project to be evaluated using, for example, automated evaluation software tools. By posting RFPs on a web site, the business entity solicits bids from third party vendors to perform the project identified in the RFP. Since individual projects are identified with objective inputs, outputs, and evaluation metrics, vendors can bid on the project with minimal evaluation and speculation regarding the appropriate bidding price for the project. When a bid is accepted or awarded to a vendor, a contract for the project can be easily prepared using the identifying information for the winning bid, such as the timeline, price, and the specific service identified with the project. Such short timeline projects allow the projects to be concisely described, results returned quickly, shortened evaluation duration, and payment within a normal monthly cycle. |
| US10402753B2 |
System, method and apparatus for power management
A system, method and apparatus provide management of power to meet demand of consumers that consume the power. An interface is configured to receive a pricing signal that indicates a price for the power. Wherein the interface is configured to control an appliance coupled to the interface to shift adjusting power consumption sooner in time than the appliance is predetermined to shift its power consumption. |
| US10402745B2 |
Method and system for analysing sentiments
The present system and method for analyzing sentiment is based on fuzzy set theory and clustering to classify text as positive, negative, or objective. The method for training and testing a document collection to analyze sentiment comprises computing a frequency matrix comprising at least one row and at least column vectors, executing term reduction of the terms, enumerating categories, computing centroids of the enumerated categories and computing a fuzzy polarity map. The row vectors may correspond to terms and the column vectors may correspond to documents. The frequencies of terms in a document indicate the relevance of the document to a query. |
| US10402744B2 |
Automatically self-learning bidirectional synchronization of a source system and a target system
A method and associated system for an automatically self-learning audit of a bidirectional synchronization means for synchronizing a source system and a target system. A processor identifies a mismatch between an element of production data of the source system and an analogous production-data element of the target system. If the mismatch is caused by an issue known to the synchronization means, the processor takes corrective action known to resolve the mismatch. Otherwise, the processor attempts to identify a resolution and, if successful, applies the resolution, teaches the resolution to the synchronization mechanism, records the solution, and resends data from the correct system to the incorrect system. If unable to identify a resolution, the processor implements a next-best solution that allows continued operation despite the unresolved mismatch. The processor then generates a report of the mismatch and continues searching for other mismatches in the loaded data models. |
| US10402741B2 |
Analytic system based on multiple task learning with incomplete data
A computing device computes a weight matrix to predict a value for a characteristic in a scoring dataset. For each of a plurality of related tasks, an augmented observation matrix, a plug-in autocovariance matrix, and a plug-in covariance vector are computed. A weight matrix used to predict the characteristic for each of a plurality of variables and each of a plurality of related tasks is computed. (a) and (b) are repeated with the computed updated weight matrix as the computed weight matrix until a convergence criterion is satisfied: (a) a gradient descent matrix is computed using the computed plug-in autocovariance matrix, the computed plug-in covariance vector, the computed weight matrix, and a predefined relationship matrix, wherein the predefined relationship matrix defines a relationship between the plurality of related tasks, and (b) an updated weight matrix is computed using the computed gradient descent matrix. |
| US10402738B2 |
Bayesian nonparametric method for infrastructure failure prediction
The present invention generally relates to failure prediction of an infrastructure (110). A failure likelihood for one or more components of an infrastructure (110) is determined. History data (210) representing prior failures of the components of the infrastructure (110) is applied (230-250) to a Bayesian nonparametric statistical model using a beta process. Then the failure likelihood of one or more components of the infrastructure from the Bayesian nonparametric statistical model is estimated (270). Aspects of the invention include computer-implemented methods (200, 300), software and computer systems (100). |
| US10402735B2 |
Methods and apparatus to improve decision tree execution
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve decision tree execution. An example method includes retrieving, with a processor, a decision tree logic expression in a sum-of-products (SOP) form, the decision tree logic expression consuming a first duration to evaluate a dataset, eliminating, with the processor, redundant variables of the decision tree logic expression by transforming the decision tree logic expression into a product-of-sums (POS) form, and evaluating, with the processor, the data set with the decision tree logic expression in the POS form, the decision tree logic expression in the POS form consuming a second duration to evaluate the data set that is less than the first duration. |
| US10402733B1 |
Adaptive ensemble workload prediction model based on machine learning algorithms
Workload data associated with past execution of an application by a computing system is obtained. Two or more prediction models are trained using the obtained past workload data. A weight is assigned to each of the two or more trained prediction models. The two or more weighted prediction models are combined to form an ensemble prediction model configured to predict, in real-time, workload associated with future execution of the application by the computing system. |
| US10402732B2 |
User management method, server device, and user management system
A user management method according to the present disclosure includes: storing appliance use information including: appliance identification information for identifying an appliance; user information for identifying a user of the appliance; and an operating state of the appliance when the appliance was used; analyzing the appliance use information stored in the storing to identify, from among a plurality of functions of the appliance, one or more first functions each having a use frequency less than or equal to a threshold value; and providing the user with a notice which prompts use of the one or more first functions identified in the analyzing. |
| US10402725B2 |
Apparatus and method for compression coding for artificial neural network
A compression coding apparatus for artificial neural network, including memory interface unit, instruction cache, controller unit and computing unit, wherein the computing unit is configured to perform corresponding operation to data from the memory interface unit according to instructions of controller unit; the computing unit mainly performs three steps operation: step one is to multiply input neuron by weight data; step two is to perform adder tree computing and add the weighted output neuron obtained in step one level-by-level via adder tree, or add bias to output neuron to get biased output neuron; step three is to perform activation function operation to get final output neuron. The present disclosure also provides a method for compression coding of multi-layer neural network. |
| US10402724B2 |
Method for acquiring a pseudo-3D box from a 2D bounding box by regression analysis and learning device and testing device using the same
A method for acquiring a pseudo-3D box from a 2D bounding box in a training image is provided. The method includes steps of: (a) a computing device acquiring the training image including an object bounded by the 2D bounding box; (b) the computing device performing (i) a process of classifying a pseudo-3D orientation of the object, by referring to information on probabilities corresponding to respective patterns of pseudo-3D orientation and (ii) a process of acquiring 2D coordinates of vertices of the pseudo-3D box by using regression analysis; and (c) the computing device adjusting parameters thereof by backpropagating loss information determined by referring to at least one of (i) differences between the acquired 2D coordinates of the vertices of the pseudo-3D box and 2D coordinates of ground truth corresponding to the pseudo-3D box, and (ii) differences between the classified pseudo-3D orientation and ground truth corresponding to the pseudo-3D orientation. |
| US10402721B2 |
Identifying predictive health events in temporal sequences using recurrent neural network
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using recurrent neural networks to analyze health events. One of the methods includes: processing each of a plurality of initial temporal sequences of health events to generate, for each of the initial temporal sequences, a respective network internal state of a recurrent neural network for each time step in the initial temporal sequence; storing, for each of the initial temporal sequences, one or more of the network internal states for the time steps in the temporal sequence in a repository; obtaining a first temporal sequence; processing the first temporal sequence using the recurrent neural network to generate a sequence internal state for the first temporal sequence; and selecting one or more initial temporal sequences that are likely to include health events that are predictive of future health events in the first temporal sequence. |
| US10402720B2 |
Decomposing convolution operation in neural networks
A method of training a neural network includes encouraging one or more filters in the neural network to have a low rank. |
| US10402717B2 |
Radio frequency identification enabled mirrors
A radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled mirror includes a mirror comprising a reflective layer. The reflective layer comprises at least one layer of a metallic material. At least one portion of the reflective layer is removed to form a booster antenna from a remaining portion of the reflective layer. A dielectric coating is applied to the mirror where the reflective layer was removed. The RFID-enabled mirror further includes an RFID chip coupled to the booster antenna. |
| US10402713B1 |
RF transponder on adhesive transfer tape
The disclosed transponder arrangement includes adhesive transfer tape and an RF transponder. The adhesive transfer tape includes an adhesive layer disposed directly on a release liner, and the release liner is separable from the adhesive layer. An antenna is adhered directly to the adhesive layer, and an RF transponder is disposed on the adhesive layer and coupled to the antenna. A layer of ink is disposed directly on one of the first adhesive surface or the second adhesive surface. |
| US10402709B2 |
All-digital sensing device and implementation method
Devices, systems, and methods provide direct digitization and encoding of a parameter to be sensed or measured. Digitized readings are encoded into binary bits, which are acquired and handled by digital devices. An all-digital sensing device can be implemented in passive, active, or semi-passive forms, and in some embodiments includes a transducer, digitizer/encoder, reader, and transmitter. A transducer converts the parameter to be measured into a digitizable quantity, based on such as mechanical deformation, dielectric properties, or electromagnetic wave or acoustic-wave properties. A piezoelectric material transducer converts stress/pressure into resistance or voltage. A fiber-optic interferometer transducer converts pressure/temperature/PH into irradiation amplitude or wavelength shift in spectrum domain. Encoded binary or quasi-binary states are identified by a reader. Binary states have resolutions arranged according to a 2N format. Each binary state can be presented in mechanical, electromagnetic, optical, or acoustic forms, or in step or continuous form. |
| US10402706B2 |
Image forming apparatus and image forming method
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to perform a printing process of forming an image on a print medium based on print data, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine whether or not the printing process has completed based on remaining print data to be printed, when the print medium is removed from a paper discharge tray in which the print medium on which the image is formed by the image forming unit is placed, and to cause a warning to be output upon determining that the printing process has not completed based on the remaining print data to be printed. |
| US10402705B2 |
Card reader
A card reader may include a card holder and a card ejection mechanism for moving the card holder. The card ejection mechanism includes a connection arm connecting the main body frame with the card holder, a solenoid for bending the connection arm, and an arm urging member urging the connection arm. When the solenoid is switched to a non-energized state, the solenoid pushes the connection arm and the connection arm is changed from an extended posture to a bent posture. The connection arm in the extended posture is restricted from bending to an opposite side to the bent posture side and, in a state that the connection arm is in the extended posture, the arm urging member applies an urging force to the connection arm so that the connection arm is bent to an opposite side to the side of the bent posture. |
| US10402704B1 |
Object recognition with attribute-based cells
Various examples are directed to methods and systems for object recognition in an image. A computer vision system may receive a patch comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a grid. The computer vision system may determine a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows in the patch. The plurality of columns may be based at least in part on a column target sum and the plurality of rows may be based at least in part on a row target sum. |
| US10402701B2 |
Face recognition system for face recognition in unlabeled videos with domain adversarial learning and knowledge distillation
A face recognition system is provided that includes a device configured to capture a video sequence formed from a set of unlabeled testing video frames. The system includes a processor configured to pre-train a face recognition engine formed from reference CNNs on a still image domain that includes labeled training still image frames of faces. The processor adapts the face recognition engine to a video domain to form an adapted engine, by applying non-reference CNNs to domains including the still image and video domains and a degraded image domain. The degraded image domain includes labeled synthetically degraded versions of the frames included in the still image domain. The video domain includes random unlabeled training video frames. The processor recognizes, using the adapted engine, identities of persons corresponding to at least one face in the video sequence to obtain a set of identities. A display device displays the set of identities. |
| US10402699B1 |
Automated classification of images using deep learning—back end
A method for training an automated classifier of input images includes: receiving, by a processing device, a convolution neural network (CNN) model; receiving, by the processing device, training images and corresponding classes, each of the corresponding classes being associated with several ones of the training images; preparing, by the processing device, the training images, including separating the training images into a training set of the training images and a testing set of the training images; and training, by the processing device, the CNN model utilizing the training set, the testing set, and the corresponding classes to generate the automated classifier. |
| US10402698B1 |
Systems and methods for identifying interesting moments within videos
Video information defining video content may be accessed. The video content may have a progress length and include a capture of an activity and a sub-activity at one or more moments in the progress length. Portions of the video content may be associated individually with values of an interest metric such that the values of the interest metric as a function of progress through the video content form an interest curve for the video content. The activity and the sub-activity captured within the video content may be identified. An activity metric modifier for the interest curve at the one or more moments in the progress length may be determined based on the identification of the activity and the identification of the sub-activity. The interest curve may be modified at the one or more moments based on the activity metric modifier. |
| US10402692B1 |
Learning method and learning device for fluctuation-robust object detector based on CNN using target object estimating network adaptable to customers' requirements such as key performance index, and testing device using the same
A method for learning parameters of an object detector by using a target object estimating network adaptable to customers' requirements such as KPI is provided. When a focal length or a resolution changes depending on the KPI, scales of objects also change. In this method for customer optimizable design, unsecure objects such as falling or fallen objects may be detected more accurately, and also fluctuations of the objects may be detected. Therefore, the method can be usefully performed for military purpose or for detection of the objects at distance. The method includes steps of: a learning device instructing an RPN to generate k-th object proposals on k-th manipulated images which correspond to (k−1)-th target region on an image; instructing an FC layer to generate object detection information corresponding to k-th objects; and instructing an FC loss layer to generate FC losses, by increasing k from 1 to n. |
| US10402690B2 |
System and method for learning random-walk label propagation for weakly-supervised semantic segmentation
Systems and methods for training semantic segmentation. Embodiments of the present invention include predicting semantic labeling of each pixel in each of at least one training image using a semantic segmentation model. Further included is predicting semantic boundaries at boundary pixels of objects in the at least one training image using a semantic boundary model concurrently with predicting the semantic labeling. Also included is propagating sparse labels to every pixel in the at least one training image using the predicted semantic boundaries. Additionally, the embodiments include optimizing a loss function according the predicted semantic labeling and the propagated sparse labels to concurrently train the semantic segmentation model and the semantic boundary model to accurately and efficiently generate a learned semantic segmentation model from sparsely annotated training images. |
| US10402686B1 |
Learning method and learning device for object detector to be used for surveillance based on convolutional neural network capable of converting modes according to scales of objects, and testing method and testing device using the same
A method for an object detector to be used for surveillance based on a convolutional neural network capable of converting modes according to scales of objects is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device (a) instructing convolutional layers to output a feature map by applying convolution operations to an image and instructing an RPN to output ROIs in the image; (b) instructing pooling layers to output first feature vectors by pooling each of ROI areas on the feature map per each of their scales, instructing first FC layers to output second feature vectors, and instructing second FC layers to output class information and regression information; and (c) instructing loss layers to generate class losses and regression losses by referring to the class information, the regression information, and their corresponding GTs. |
| US10402685B2 |
Recursive feature elimination method using support vector machines
Identification of a determinative subset of features from within a group of features is performed by training a support vector machine using training samples with class labels to determine a value of each feature, where features are removed based on their the value. One or more features having the smallest values are removed and an updated kernel matrix is generated using the remaining features. The process is repeated until a predetermined number of features remain which are capable of accurately separating the data into different classes. In some embodiments, features are eliminated by a ranking criterion based on a Lagrange multiplier corresponding to each training sample. |
| US10402683B2 |
Image display control system, image display control method, and image display control program for calculating evaluation values of detected objects
Provided are an image display control system, an image display control method, and a program that can inform a user of an image including a specific object with a high evaluation value. Each type of object in an image is detected and the evaluation values of the detected objects are calculated using different evaluation criteria for the types of objects. An image including an object of which the calculated evaluation value is equal to or greater than a threshold value is displayed so as to be highlighted. |
| US10402682B1 |
Image-matching navigation using thresholding of local image descriptors
Embodiments are directed to image matching using local image descriptors thresholding. An image matching tool is associated with at least one electronic processor. The image matching tool is configured to determine a unique bin magnitude threshold descriptor for a test image and an image of a known object of interest stored in a database. The image matching tool determines a classification match of the test image to the image of a known object of interest. |
| US10402680B2 |
Methods and apparatus for image salient object detection
A method and an apparatus for extracting a saliency map are provided in the embodiment of the present application, the method includes: conducting first convolution processing, first pooling processing and normalization processing on an original image via a prediction model to obtain eye fixation information from the original image, where the eye fixation information is used for indicating a region at which human eye gaze; conducting second convolution processing and second pooling processing on the original image via the prediction model to obtain semantic description information from the original image; fusing the eye fixation information and the semantic description information via element-wise summation function; and conducting detection processing on the fused eye fixation information and semantic description information via the prediction model to obtain a saliency map from the original image. It is used for improving the efficiency of extracting the saliency map from image. |
| US10402677B2 |
Hierarchical sharpness evaluation
Techniques are disclosed for estimating quality of images in an automated fashion. According to these techniques, a source image may be downsampled to generate at least two downsampled images at different levels of downsampling. Blurriness of the images may be estimated starting with a most-heavily downsampled image. Blocks of a given image may be evaluated for blurriness and, when a block of a given image is estimated to be blurry, the block of the image and co-located blocks of higher resolution image(s) may be designated as blurry. Thereafter, a blurriness score may be calculated for the source image from the number of blocks of the source image designated as blurry. |
| US10402673B1 |
Systems and methods for digitized document image data spillage recovery
Systems and methods for digitized document image data spillage recovery are provided. One or more memories may be coupled to one or more processors, the one or more memories including instructions operable to be executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors may be configured to capture an image; process the image through at least a first pass to generate a first contour; remove a preprinted bounding region of the first contour to retain text; generate one or more pixel blobs by applying one or more filters to smudge the text; identify the one or more pixel blobs that straddle one or more boundaries of the first contour; resize the first contour to enclose spillage of the one or more pixel blobs; overlay the text from the image within the resized contour; and apply pixel masking to the resized contour. |
| US10402665B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting traffic signs
Systems and methods are provided for detecting traffic signs. In one implementation, a traffic sign detection system for a vehicle include at least one image capture device configured to acquire at least one image of a scene including a traffic sign ahead of the vehicle. The traffic sign detection system also includes a data interface and at least one processing device programmed to receive the at least one image via the data interface, transform the at least one image, sample the transformed at least one image to generate a plurality of images having different sizes, convolve each of the plurality of images with a template image, compare each pixel value of each convolved image to a predetermined threshold, and select local maxima of pixel values within local regions of each convolved image as attention candidates, the local maxima being greater than the predetermined threshold. |
| US10402663B1 |
Visual-inertial positional awareness for autonomous and non-autonomous mapping
The described positional awareness techniques employing visual-inertial sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to provide positional awareness to machines with improved speed and accuracy. |
| US10402659B2 |
Predicting external events from digital video content
Computerized methods and systems, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, may detect event shown within digital video content captured by one or more video cameras, and correlate these detected events to real-world conditions that may not be captured within the digital video data. For example, a computing system may detect events shown within digital video content captured by one or more video cameras, and may obtain data that identifies at least one external event. The computer system may establish a predictive model that correlates values of event parameters that characterize the detected and external events during a first time period, and may apply the predictive model to an event parameter that characterizes an additional event detected during a second time period. Based on an outcome of the predictive model, the computing system may determine an expected value of the external event parameter during the second time period. |
| US10402657B2 |
Methods and systems for training an object detection algorithm
A method comprising: acquiring, from a camera, a video sequence of a real object; deriving a pose of the real object included in at least one image frame using a 3D model corresponding to the real object in the case where the at least one image frame is selected from the video sequence; tracking or deriving the pose of the real object included in image frames in the video sequence in forward and/or backward directions from the at least one image frame; and storing, for at least one of the tracked or derived pose, appearance information obtained from the corresponding image frame and data of a 2D model obtained from a projection of the 3D model using the corresponding tracked pose so that the appearance information and the data of the 2D model are associated with the corresponding tracked or derived pose. |
| US10402651B2 |
Exploiting visual information for enhancing audio signals via source separation and beamforming
A system for exploiting visual information for enhancing audio signals via source separation and beamforming is disclosed. The system may obtain visual content associated with an environment of a user, and may extract, from the visual content, metadata associated with the environment. The system may determine a location of the user based on the extracted metadata. Additionally, the system may load, based on the location, an audio profile corresponding to the location of the user. The system may also load a user profile of the user that includes audio data associated with the user. Furthermore, the system may cancel, based on the audio profile and user profile, noise from the environment of the user. Moreover, the system may include adjusting, based on the audio profile and user profile, an audio signal generated by the user so as to enhance the audio signal during a communications session of the user. |
| US10402649B2 |
Augmented reality display device with deep learning sensors
A head-mounted augmented reality (AR) device can include a hardware processor programmed to receive different types of sensor data from a plurality of sensors (e.g., an inertial measurement unit, an outward-facing camera, a depth sensing camera, an eye imaging camera, or a microphone); and determining an event of a plurality of events using the different types of sensor data and a hydra neural network (e.g., face recognition, visual search, gesture identification, semantic segmentation, object detection, lighting detection, simultaneous localization and mapping, relocalization). |
| US10402648B1 |
Systems and methods for color and pattern analysis of images of wearable items
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for color and pattern analysis of images including wearable items. For example, a method may include receiving an image depicting a wearable item, identifying the wearable item within the image by identifying a face of an individual wearing the wearable item or segmenting a foreground silhouette of the wearable item from background image portions of the image, determining a portion of the wearable item identified within the image as being a patch portion representative of the wearable item depicted within the image, deriving one or more patterns of the wearable item based on image analysis of the determined patch portion of the image, deriving one or more colors of the wearable item based on image analysis of the determined patch portion of the image, and transmitting information regarding the derived one or more colors and information regarding the derived one or more patterns. |
| US10402640B1 |
Method and system for schematizing fields in documents
A method for schematizing fields in documents involves segmenting an image of a document into snippets, classifying a first, a second, and a third snippet of the snippets as a first label, a second label, and a data field, respectively. The method further includes generating, for a combination of the first label and the data field, a first image to be classified, and classifying the first image to be classified to obtain a first classification score. The method further includes generating, for a combination of the second label and the data field, a second image to be classified, and classifying the second image to be classified to obtain a second classification score. The method also includes determining that the first classification score is greater than the second classification score and identifying, based on the determining step, that the data field is associated with the first label. |
| US10402637B2 |
Autogenerating video from text
A method of converting user-selected printed text to a synthesized image sequence is provided. The method includes capturing a first image of printed text and generating a model information associated with the text. |
| US10402636B2 |
Identifying a resource based on a handwritten annotation
Examples herein disclose capturing an image of printed text and a handwritten annotation and determining a topic as related to the printed text in the captured image. The examples disclose identifying a resource based on the handwritten annotation. |
| US10402633B2 |
Human detection in high density crowds
The present disclosure describes a non-learning based process and apparatus for detecting humans in an image. This may include receiving an image that has pixel distance information from a camera and using that to determine a height of the pixel above a ground surface. One or more regions may then be identified that may include a head and shoulders of an individual in the image. A multiple threshold technique may be used to remove some background regions, and a mean-shift technique used to find the local highest regions that may be combination of head and shoulders of the person. In embodiments, the view angle and/or the height of the camera may not be fixed. |
| US10402631B2 |
Techniques for automatically identifying secondary objects in a stereo-optical counting system
Techniques for distinguishing objects (e.g., an individual or an individual pushing a shopping cart) are disclosed. An object is detected in images of a scene. A height map is generated from the images, and the object is represented as height values in the height map. Based on height properties associated with another object, it is determined whether the other object is associated with the object. If so determined, the objects are classified separately. |
| US10402629B1 |
Facial recognition using fractal features
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facial recognition using fractal features are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accessing data encoding a facial image, the facial image including a face. The actions further include generating a hierarchical graphical model of the face in the facial image, the hierarchical graphical model including more than nodes from at least one level, each level approximating the face within a contour. The actions further include applying a bank of filters to the face at a particular node, each filter spanning more than one scale and at least one direction. The actions further include analyzing filter responses from the bank of filters applied at each direction to obtain a similarity measure that consolidates filter responses from filters applied at more than one scale. The actions further include generating a vector representation. |
| US10402626B2 |
Recognition of human faces based on population verified reproducible measurements between facial anthropological landmarks on 2 dimensional or 3 dimensional human photographs
A method of facial recognition has been developed by the application of a statistical method, standard deviations or standard errors versus sample number plots, to differentiate the degree of reproducibilities of various measurements between facial anthropological landmarks in individual ethnic groups. Reproducible measurements between facial anthropological landmarks in a particular ethnic group mean they are common features shared by individuals of that ethnic group. Non-reproducible measurements are unique features of each individual in that ethnic group which may be used for individual facial recognition purposes. Such methodology may be computerized for automatic facial recognition. A large amount of data of each ethnic group is needed for facial recognition. In turn, the development of databases of each ethnic group will result in a large amount of data of human faces. |
| US10402624B2 |
Presence sensing
One embodiment may take the form of a method of operating a computing device to provide presence based functionality. The method may include operating the computing device in a reduced power state and collecting a first set of data from a first sensor. Based on the first set of data, the computing device determines if an object is within a threshold distance of the computing device and, if the object is within the threshold distance, the device activates a secondary sensor to collect a second set of data. Based on the second set of data, the device determines if the object is a person. If the object is a person, the device determines a position of the person relative to the computing device and executes a change of state in the computing device based on the position of the person relative to the computing device. If the object is not a person, the computing device remains in a reduced power state. |
| US10402614B2 |
Sample processing apparatus and sample processing method
According to an embodiment, a sample processing apparatus includes an image capture unit which captures an image of a sample container, and a sorting unit which performs a sorting process for the sample container based on a type of the sample container detected from the image. |
| US10402613B2 |
Apparatus and method for reading barcodes and recording medium
A barcode reading apparatus has a scanner unit for reading barcodes and a processor for controlling whole operation of the apparatus. The barcode reading apparatus judges whether a distance between a operation unit for receiving an instruction to be given by a user and an operating body such as the finger of the user falls with in a prescribed range, and starts up and brings the scanner unit to a standby state, when it is determined that the distance between the operation unit and the operating body falls with in the prescribed range, and waits for an instruction of making the scanner unit start reading barcodes. |
| US10402611B2 |
Automated modification of imaging scanner function based on orientation
A code reader may include a housing, an image sensor, and a processing unit. The code reader may include a set of orientations. The housing may be configured to be adjustably oriented, such as rotated. The image sensor may be disposed within the housing, and configured to capture an image of a target area. The processing unit may be disposed within said housing, and be in communication with the image sensor. The processing unit may be configured to, in response to determining an orientation of the housing, select a function so that the code reader is configured to perform the function corresponding with the determined orientation. |
| US10402606B2 |
Device, method, and program managing RFID data based on environmental temperature
An RFID data management device includes an RFID data acquisition unit acquiring RFID management data including identification information of an RFID, a relevant data acquisition unit acquiring RFID relevant data including a use start date of the RFID, and a remaining time calculation unit calculating a remaining data guarantee time of the RFID using a data guarantee period dependent on the identification information and the environmental temperature of the RFID, and the environmental temperature. The remaining time calculation unit calculates the remaining time using an environmental temperature in a first period from a manufacturing date of the RFID to a use start timing, a data guarantee period according to the environmental temperature in the first period, an environmental temperature in a second period from the use start timing to a timing of confirmation, and a data guarantee period according to the environmental temperature in the second period. |
| US10402605B2 |
Dynamically changing a tag's displayed content responsive to detected customer handling thereof
Systems and methods for dynamically changing displayed content of a first tag. The methods comprising: detecting when an individual is in proximity to the first tag or when an item, to which the first tag is coupled, is being handled by the individual; identifying at least one first accessory for the item or at least one first related product that can be used in conjunction with or as an alternative to the item; obtaining information for the identified at least one first accessory or related product that is to be presented to the individual; and dynamically changing the displayed content of the first tag to include the obtained information while the individual is still in proximity to the first tag or handling the item. |
| US10402604B2 |
Radio-frequency identification tags
The present invention relates to radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags that produce a unique radar signature by passive reflection of an electromagnetic signal. In particular, provided herein are frequency-, phase-, and/or amplitude-shift encoded RFID tags, and methods of use and manufacture thereof. |
| US10402602B2 |
Reader for RFID tag for near-field wireless communication and near-field wireless communication system
In a reader for an RFID tag for near-field wireless communication, an antenna selection switch includes a plurality of antennae arranged with an extent within a predetermined range for transmitting and receiving data to and from an RFID tag, and selects one antenna to be used for transmission and reception of data from among the plurality of antennae. A detection part acquires, when a carrier wave transmitted from the RFID tag is received by any of the plurality of antennae, information indicative of an antenna selected by the antenna selection switch under the control of an antenna changeover controlling part. |
| US10402600B1 |
Mobile tray for performing RFID reads
Embodiments herein describe an RFID reader tray which includes a receptacle for detecting RFID tags disposed on physical items. In one embodiment, a sidewall is disposed around the periphery of a bottom support structure and extends away from the bottom support structure to form the receptacle. The reader tray includes an RFID antenna disposed under the bottom support structure on which the items can be placed. The material of the bottom support structure is selected such that RFID signals emitted by the RFID antenna can radiate through the bottom support structure and reach RFID tags placed on items in the receptacle. In one embodiment, the reader tray includes a shield for reflecting the RFID signals so that the most of the RFID signals radiate through the bottom support structure and into the receptacle. |
| US10402599B2 |
Card reader supporting high-speed data communication, and operating method thereof
An operating method of a card reader supporting high-speed data communication. The method comprises: if a card reader determines that a first in-place flag is not valid, then the card reader sends a card query instruction in a contactless field, sends a speed adjustment configuration instruction to a contactless card upon receiving of query response data returned by the contactless card, and determines whether response data indicating successful speed adjustment configuration and returned by the contactless card is received; and if so, then the card reader configures communication speeds thereof, such that a received first instruction is sent to the contactless card with a first communication speed, and an operation result returned by the contactless card is received with a second communication speed, otherwise the card reader configures the communication speeds thereof, such that a received first instruction is sent to the contactless card with a third communication speed, and an operation result returned by the contactless card is received with a fourth communication speed, wherein the first communication speed is greater than the third communication speed, and the second communication speed is greater than the fourth communication speed. The above method can shorten interaction time between a contactless card reader and a contactless card, thereby improving user experience. |
| US10402598B2 |
NFC tags with proximity detection
Systems, apparatuses and methods provide for detecting the proximate placement of an external NFC reader to a specific location on a display surface. The display surface can be intended for viewing indicia and enabling interaction with an NFC communication device embedded within the display. A circuit can control an NFC security system that can scan for unauthorized tags affixed to the surface of a display. The NFC security system may be activated by an NFC enabled mobile phone placed proximate to the indicated region for receiving an NFC coded message from the display. An NFC security scan can be performed prior to the mobile phone reading the message from the intended NFC tag in the display. Enabling interactive display modes can allow for making selections indicated on the display or detecting motion gestures across the face of the display. |
| US10402594B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium
There is provided an information processing apparatus. An acquisition unit acquires feature information of a latest block in a block chain when target data is generated. A registration unit registers proof information indicating that the generated target data is correlated with the feature information acquired by the acquisition unit when the target data is generated to a time proof service. |
| US10402587B2 |
Application-level in-place encryption
A method includes obtaining first text information in a first format, converting the first text information to an offset value from a base time in a second format, generating an encryption key, encrypting the offset value with the encryption key to produce an encrypted offset value in the second format, converting the encrypted offset value to second text information in the first format, and outputting the second text information as encrypted text corresponding to the first text information. |
| US10402586B2 |
Patient privacy de-identification in firewall switches forming VLAN segregation
The present disclosure relates to enabling users to logging access information associated with their license via a virtual network. In one example of the present disclosure, user data associated with a user having an account on a virtual network is obtained. Access control list associated with an identified application pid from an application database is then obtained, the identified application pid having been previously purchased by the user and the identified application being selected by the user from a user device. An application programming interface of the virtual network is then invoked to publish the transaction associated with the identified application pid to a central log storage. |
| US10402585B2 |
Management of privacy policies
Master privacy policies for different users are stored to a cloud-based central server. When a user interacts with a third-party service (such as FACEBOOK® or AMAZON®), the third party service may require acceptance of privacy policies before services are rendered. Here the cloud-based central server may automatically configure a privacy policy of the third-party service to the user's master privacy policy. The cloud-based central server thus relives the user of managing many different privacy policies required by many different third party service providers. |
| US10402581B2 |
Searching for encrypted data within cloud based platform
Searching encrypted data using encrypted contexts by performing at least the following: configuring a first encryption context that allows access to a first encrypted field, configuring a second encryption context that allows access to a second encrypted field, assigning the first encryption context to a first role and the second encryption context to a second role, assigning the first role to a first user account to allow the first user account to access the first encrypted field, assigning the second role to a second user account to allow the second user to access the second encrypted field, receiving a query request associated with the first user account for a search term, wherein the query request includes instructions to search for an unencrypted version of the search term and a first encrypted value of the search term that is based on the first encryption context. |
| US10402579B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus to provide private information retrieval
Systems, methods, and apparatus to provide private information retrieval are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a protected data enclave to store a first portion of data such that entities other than the first trusted hardware processing unit are unable to access the first portion of the data. The example apparatus includes a request processor to determine that a data element specified in a first request from an entity is stored in a second trusted hardware processing unit. The request processor is to send an encrypted request for the data element to the second trusted hardware processing unit, and send an encrypted dummy request to a third trusted hardware processing unit. The request processor is to determine whether an encrypted dummy response has been received from the third trusted hardware processing unit, and whether an encrypted response including the data element has been received from the second trusted hardware processing unit. |
| US10402571B2 |
Community-based de-duplication for encrypted data
Technologies for de-duplicating encrypted content include fragmenting a file into blocks on a computing device, encrypting each block, and storing each encrypted block on a content data server with associated keyed hashes and member identifications. The computing device additionally transmits each encrypted block with an associated member encryption key and member identification to a key server. As part of the de-duplication process, the content data server stores only one copy of the encrypted data for a particular associated keyed hash, and the key server similarly associates a single member encryption key with the keyed hash. To retrieve the file, the computing device receives the encrypted blocks with their associated keyed hashes and member identifications from the content data server and receives the corresponding member decryption key from the key server. The computing device decrypts each block using the member decryption keys and combines to blocks to generate the file. |
| US10402568B2 |
Protecting computing devices from unauthorized access
Methods and systems for performing an authenticated boot; performing a continuous data protection; performing automatic protection and optionally a consolidation; and performing other defenses and protection of a protected computing device (such as a computer system) are provided. The aspects include integrating security mechanisms (which may include a “call home” function, role and rule-based policies, validating technologies, encryption and decryption technologies, data compression technologies, protected and segmented boot technologies, and virtualization technologies. Booting and operating (either fully or in a restricted manner) are permitted only under a control of a specified role-set, rule-set, and/or a controlling supervisory process or server system(s). The methods and systems make advantageous use of hypervisors and other virtual machine monitors or managers. |
| US10402562B2 |
Method and device for encrypting application
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for encrypting an application, belonging to a field of computer technology. The method includes: receiving a foreground running request sent by the application, in which the foreground running request includes a system account ID of a system account logged in a system currently; detecting whether the system account ID is a main account ID of the system; replacing the system account ID with the main account ID of the system if the system account ID is not the main account ID of the system; and determining an encryption algorithm for the application in the system the main account logged in, and encrypting the application according to the encryption algorithm. |
| US10402556B2 |
Information handling system display security access through totem interactions
An information handling system security system presents a combination lock user interface at a display with numbers depicted at a perimeter of a totem placed on the display. Rotational movement of the totem relative to the perimeter selects security code inputs to unlock access to the information handling system. Random placement of the numbers at the perimeter and totem unique values provide additional security that help prevent hacking of the security code through mimicking of inputs actions by an unauthorized observer. |
| US10402553B1 |
System and method for using images to authenticate a user
Systems and methods for authenticating a user, the method including receiving an image of a user of a device, identifying a first facial descriptor of the user from the received image and from previously captured images of the user, and determining a difference between the first facial descriptor from the received image and that from the previously captured images. The method further includes identifying a second facial descriptor of a non-user from the previously captured images of the user, and applying facial recognition to images stored in a plurality of second social networking profiles associated with a first social networking profile of the user to identify the second facial descriptor from the images stored in the second social networking profiles. Based on the difference and the second facial descriptor, the user may be authenticated. |
| US10402552B2 |
Platform agnostic object processing
The present disclosure describes an integration platform providing a secure collaboration platform that simplifies and optimizes interactions between multiple users by facilitating secure cross-platform communications among users of the platform. Additionally, the present platform can provide a designated collaboration workspace for interactions within the platform. |
| US10402548B2 |
Authentication system and method
An object of the present invention is to provide an authentication system and method which can reduce a burden on a user while ensuring security by using a combination of a plurality of authentication methods. A method for authentication of the present invention comprises the steps of: obtaining a first authentication performance value for each transaction based on initial input information at a transaction; determining whether or not additional authentication is required for authentication of a person by comparing the first authentication performance value and the authentication performance threshold value required for authentication of a person; presenting, if the additional authentication is required, a plurality of authentication methods from which one authentication method or a combination of authentication methods can be selected so as to satisfy an additional authentication performance value obtained using the first authentication performance value and the authentication performance threshold value; and obtaining a second authentication performance value based on additional input information using the one or more authentication methods selected from the plurality of presented authentication methods, and determining whether to authenticate by comparing the additional authentication performance value and the second authentication performance value. |
| US10402545B2 |
Systems and methods for managing data assets associated with peer-to-peer networks
A system and method for targeting content to BitTorrent users is presented. The system searches torrent file websites for a torrent file according to specified search criteria and verifies that the torrent file corresponds to a media file containing the copyrighted work. The system obtains tracker server information from the torrent file and obtains the IP addresses of participants currently connected to the torrent file from the tracker server, attempts to establish a connection with a participant based on an IP address selected from the IP addresses and, if successful, receives a data piece with a cryptographic hash from the participant. The cryptographic hash is verified to correctly match with the torrent file. The system provides for correlation of information about participants in the peer-to-peer network and using the information to provide targeted campaign to each user based on the user's preferences. |
| US10402538B2 |
Healthcare management system using patient profile data
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method which gathers information from all of a person's healthcare providers and abstracts from that information the data necessary for a healthcare provider to render informed medical decisions. In one embodiment, information necessary to process proper payment to a provider (re: reimbursement to the insured patient) is used to develop a holistic view of the medical condition pertaining to the patient. Since this information comes from a myriad of providers, including physicians, surgeons, nursing care, druggists, testing labs, mental health counselors, dentists, oral surgeons, etc., the holistic view that is developed is comprehensive. In one embodiment, the system and method could set parameters on critical data such that if that data is outside the set parameters, alerts can be sent to the appropriate caregivers and/or patients. |
| US10402537B2 |
Remote interpretation system and method for management of interpretation request information and interpretation result information
Display control is performed for generation of a timeline screen in such a way that requester-side event information corresponding to request information is to be displayed at one of display areas separated from each other by a timeline axis on the timeline screen and that interpreter-side event information corresponding to radiological interpretation result information is to be displayed at the other of the display areas on the timeline screen, wherein the timeline axis is generated on the basis of time-and-date information of the request information and of the radiological interpretation result information determined on the basis of patient information. |
| US10402536B2 |
Prepopulating clinical events with image based documentation
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for protocol driven image acquisition are provided. In embodiments, a protocol is received by an image capturing device. The protocol comprises orders from a clinician, a workflow for capturing at least one image, or a combination thereof. At least one field for receiving metadata to be associated with the at least one image allows structured documentation to begin on the image capturing device. The at least one image and associated metadata are communicated to a medical information system. A patient is identified by the metadata or an existing patient to device association and the at least one image is associated with an electronic medical record for the patient. |
| US10402533B1 |
Placement of cells in a multi-level routing tree
Systems, methods, media, and other such embodiments are described for placement of cells in a multi-level routing tree, where placement of a mid-level parent node between a grandparent node and a set of child nodes is not set. One embodiment involves generating a first routing subregion between a first set of child nodes associated with a first grandparent node and a first connecting route from the first routing subregion to the first grandparent node, which together are set as a first routing region comprising the first routing subregion and the first connecting route. Sampling points are selected along the first routing region, and for each sampling point a set of operating values associated with the sampling point is calculated. A position for the parent node is selected based on the operating values for the sampling points. |
| US10402532B1 |
Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing an electronic design with electrical analyses with compensation circuit components
Various techniques implement an electronic design with electrical analyzes with compensation circuit components. A power pin of a power net may be identified in an electronic design. The electronic design may be reduced into a reduced electronic design at least by applying one or more circuit reduction techniques to at least a portion of the electronic design. At least one load device of a plurality of load devices in the reduced electronic design may be transformed into a transformed load device. One or more design closure tasks may be performed on the electronic design using at least the reduced electronic design and the transformed load device. |
| US10402527B2 |
Reconfigurable interconnect
Embodiments are directed towards a reconfigurable stream switch formed in an integrated circuit. The stream switch includes a plurality of output ports, a plurality of input ports, and a plurality of selection circuits. The output ports each have an output port architectural composition, and each is arranged to unidirectionally pass output data and output control information. The input ports each have an input port architectural composition, and each is arranged to unidirectionally receive first input data and first input control information. Each one of the selection circuits is coupled to an associated one of the output ports. Each selection circuit is further coupled to all of the input ports such that each selection circuit is arranged to reconfigurably couple its associated output port to no more than one input port at any given time. |
| US10402526B2 |
Integrated system of PDN implementation and digital co-synthesis
Design of a power delivery network (PDN) is integrated with a digital logic design flow. |
| US10402525B1 |
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing an electronic design with transistor level satisfiability models
The described techniques implement an electronic design with transistor level satisfiability models by identifying a plurality of channel connected components of an electronic design for sensitization. These techniques further determine a set of transistor level satisfiability (SAT) models for the plurality of channel connected components of the electronic design and transform the plurality of channel connected components into a set of conjunctive normal form (CNF) formulae using at least the set of transistor level SAT models. The plurality of channel connected components of the electronic design may be sensitized at least by determining one or more satisfying assignments with the set of CNF formulae. These techniques may also generate transistor level satisfiability (SAT) logic models and transistor level SAT state models for a circuit component based in part or in whole upon design specifications and one or more characteristics of the circuit component. |
| US10402523B2 |
System for monitoring electronic circuit and method for monitoring electronic circuit
A system for monitoring electronic circuit configured to monitor circuit parameters of an electronic circuit is provided. The system for monitoring electronic circuit includes an observing point monitoring circuit, a system control circuit, and a signal measuring circuit. The observing point monitoring circuit includes a plurality of sensor circuits arranged in an array. The sensor circuits respectively sense the circuit parameters of a plurality of observing points in the electronic circuit. The system control circuit selects at least one of the sensor circuits to sense the circuit parameters. One of the selected sensor circuits outputs a sensing signal. The signal measuring circuit receives the sensing signal and analyzes an electrical characteristic of the sensing signal to obtain a monitoring result of the circuit parameters. A method for monitoring electronic circuit is also provided. |
| US10402520B2 |
First principles design automation tool
An electronic design automation tool includes an application program interface API. The API includes a set of parameters and procedures supporting atomistic scale modeling of electronic materials. The procedures include a procedure to execute first principles calculations, a procedure to process results from the first principles calculations to extract device scale parameters from the results, and a procedure to determine whether the device scale parameters extracted from the results lie within a specified range of the stored information for the material. The procedures also include a procedure to parameterize an input parameter of a first principles procedure, including a procedure to execute a set of DFT computations across an input parameter space to characterize sensitivity of one of the intermediate parameter and the output parameter. Also included is a procedure to execute a second set of DFT computations across a refined input parameter space. Additional procedures include a first atomistic scale procedure to produce a set of preliminary configurations for the specified material, and a second atomistic scale procedure that utilizes DFT computations to refine the preliminary configurations and to produce the parameter set using refined configurations. The procedures include a procedure that utilizes DFT computations to parameterize the force field computations. |
| US10402519B2 |
Coherent state among multiple simulation models in an EDA simulation environment
A circuit design is simulated in a simulation environment. When a simulation model in the simulation environment transfers state information to a second simulation model, the simulation environment receives the state information and makes it available to the second simulation model without simulating the transfer through the simulated circuit design. |
| US10402513B2 |
Calculus targeting method and system
A calculus targeting system for performing a calculus targeting method includes a processor, a storage unit, a calculus coordinate acquisition module, a model establishing module, a prediction module, a firing determination module, and a shock wave module, all the latter six of which are connected to the processor. The calculus targeting method can be programmed as a computer program product and essentially includes a sampling step for acquiring different sets of calculus coordinates in a sampled respiration cycle, a model establishing step for establishing a prediction model, and a firing determination step for determining according to the prediction model whether to fire or not. |
| US10402507B1 |
Computer-based computational tools for use in electrophysiology
Computer-based computational tools for use in determining spatial charge distributions for biological systems that include one or more biological membranes are provided. At least one of the biological membrane includes at least two regions having different electrical properties, e.g., the biological membrane can include a pore having a higher conductivity than the surrounding bulk membrane. In other cases, the membrane can include non-active and active regions, with conservative fields acting at the non-active regions and a combination of conservative and non-conservative fields acting at the active regions. The non-conservative fields can, for example, originate from differences in ionic concentrations of the type which generate Nernst potential differences across membranes. Using the computer-based computational tools, charge distributions not previously known to exist have been discovered, e.g., ring-shaped charge distributions in the vicinity of an active pore. |
| US10402505B2 |
Computer implemented system and method of translation of verification commands of an electronic design
A computer implemented method of translation of verification commands of an electronic design, comprises the steps of receiving the electronic design, receiving at least one analog test harness model having at least one indirect branch contribution statement and having at least one of at least one stimulus parameter stored in at least one specification database and at least one measurement parameter stored in at least one specification database and at least one specification parameter stored in at least one specification database, translating the at least one indirect branch contribution statement into a plurality of direct branch contribution operators based at least in part upon the at least one analog test harness model and at least one of at least one stimulus parameter stored in at least one specification database and at least one measurement parameter stored in at least one specification database and at least one specification parameter stored in at least one specification database and generating a netlist based at least in part upon the translation. |
| US10402503B2 |
Method and system for designing a common end effector for a robot which is capable of grasping plurality of parts, each having its own geometry
The invention relates to a method for determining a grasp set of n gripping points for a common end effector of a robot, said end effector being used for grasping a plurality of parts, each part having its own geometry, the method comprises: (a) providing said plurality of parts in a CAD form; (b) meshing each of said parts; (c) determining for each of said parts all the possible grasps that are capable of holding the respective part by any k-contacts points end effector; (d) calculating a quality measure for each of said determined grasps; (e) calculating an allowable range for said calculated quality measures; (f) for each part, parametrizing each of its grasps that are found to be within said allowable range, by a feature vector; (g) performing a cross-part intersection between said grasps that are found to be within said allowable range, and determining those grasps that are intersected between parts; and (h) from among said intersected grasps, selecting a single grasp having a highest quality measure, said selected grasp is used for grasping said plurality of parts by said end effector. |
| US10402502B2 |
Knowledge discovery system
A knowledge discovery system configured to present global and local context sensitive and efficient augmented content in accordance with multiple criteria, including one or more user's preferences. The system enables one or more registered users to allocate, generate and share augmented content with other registered or unregistered users based on a sharing policy for each user. The system provides a first user the ability to generate augmented content using at least one of the first user's preferences, manual annotation, and profile; and automatically allocate, regenerate, or modify the augmented content generated for the first user using at least one of a designated process, preconfigured preferences of a designated process, preferences of a second user, a profile of a second user, preconfigured preferences of a registered user, and/or preconfigured preferences for an unregistered user. Real-time and theme based content augmentation may also be used to further enhance the user's experience. |
| US10402499B2 |
System and method for coupled detection of syntax and semantics for natural language understanding and generation
A method includes performing, with at least one processing device, natural language understanding using both (i) a semantic word and clause representation generated from syntactically-labeled context and (ii) a syntax generated from common semantic relations between sequential words and clauses. The semantic word and clause representation and the syntax could be generated iteratively. The method could include generating the semantic word and clause representation, where a significance of particular items of context is modified by a presence of words or clauses from a given lexicon of amplifiers along a syntax tree. The method could also include generating the syntax, where multiple semantic relations are considered to be equivalent if the multiple semantic relations have identical representations in an auto-associative memory. The semantic word and clause representation could include content semantics constructed from closest nodes in a syntax tree to a clause. |
| US10402498B2 |
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. |
| US10402494B2 |
System and method for automatically expanding input text
Provided is a method of automatically expanding input text. The method includes receiving input text composed of a plurality of documents, extracting a sentence pair that is present in different documents among the plurality of documents, setting the extracted sentence pair as an input of an encoder of a sequence-to-sequence model, setting an output of the encoder as an output of a decoder of the sequence-to-sequence model and generating a sentence corresponding to the input, and generating expanded text based on the generated sentence. |
| US10402493B2 |
System and method for inputting text into electronic devices
Systems comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user and a text prediction engine configured to receive the input text and generate text predictions. The text prediction engine may comprise a general language model and a context-specific language model. The text prediction engine is configured to generate text predictions from the general language model and the context-specific language model and combine the text predictions. The text prediction engine may comprise first and second language models and a first context-specific weighting factor associated with the first language model. The text prediction engine is configured to generate text predictions using the first and second language models, generate weighted probabilities of the text predictions from the first language model using the first context-specific weighting factor; and generate final text predictions from the weighted predictions generated from the first language model and the predictions generated by the second language model. |
| US10402491B2 |
System and method for creating and building a domain dictionary
This disclosure relates to system and method for dynamically creating and building a domain dictionary. In one embodiment, the method comprises computing a syntactic similarity score, a usage similarity score, and a contextual similarity score for an input word with respect to each of a plurality of domain specific words in each of a plurality of existing domains. The method further comprises computing a weighted overall similarity score for the input word with respect to each of the plurality of domain specific words in each of the plurality of existing domains based on the syntactic similarity score, the usage similarity score, and the contextual similarity score. The method further comprises determining belongingness of the input word to each of the plurality of existing domains based on the weighted overall similarity score. |
| US10402490B1 |
Edit distance based spellcheck
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for edit distance based spellcheck. A system may include a search engine using edit distance based spellcheck covering a set of valid words in a language model describing probabilities for each candidate word. The subject system first identifies strings that are one edit away from a source word, selects at least one of the strings with the highest probability in the language model and uses that selected string as the spelling correction. If there are no valid words found, the subject system determines the edit distance between the source word and all candidate words in the language model whose length differential with the source word is smaller than a threshold and whose first character is the same as that of the source word, and selects the candidate word with the highest language probability and lowest edit distance. |
| US10402486B2 |
Document conversion, annotation, and data capturing system
A document annotation system receives a document in an original format including content. The system converts the document to an intermediate format including page data elements representing pagination within the document. The system converts the intermediate format to a display format including data marker elements linking a portion of the content to a pin cite based on the page data elements. The system detects annotations to the display format and generates citations based on the annotations. |
| US10402484B2 |
Aligning annotation of fields of documents
Methods and systems of aligning annotation of fields of documents are provided. Training information that includes first measurement information pertaining to features of each of a plurality of fields associated with training clusters for documents of a document type is accessed. A first training cluster is annotated with a first name and the second training cluster is annotated with a second name. An electronic classification model is generated based on the training information. Second measurement information for features of fields associated with new clusters of a new document is accessed. Each of the new clusters is automatically annotated based on the second measurement information using the classification model. For example, a first new cluster that has fields of the first field type is annotated with the first name and a second new cluster that has fields of the second field type is annotated with the second name. |
| US10402482B2 |
Content management system
A method may include receiving an input at design time specifying an application to support and receiving an input describing an application user scenario to support. The method may also include determining all possible semantic components required to support the application user scenario and determining all possible properties for the semantic components. The method may also include determining all possible operations in the application necessary to achieve the application user scenario. The method may also include mapping each operation to the semantic components and each property for the semantic components. |
| US10402474B2 |
Keyboard input corresponding to multiple languages
A method and system for displaying words with a script corresponding to the language of the words, where an input word is received and the system determines whether the word is in a first language list. If the word is in the first language list, the word is displayed in a first script. If the word is not in the first language list, the word is converted to a different script corresponding to a different language, and displayed in the different script. |
| US10402473B2 |
Comparing, and generating revision markings with respect to, an arbitrary number of text segments
A system for comparing, and generating pairwise revision markings with respect to, an original text segment and a revised text segment that can include identifying pairwise unchanged text, marking the pairwise unchanged text in the revised text segment with a distinct visual style that signifies its status as such, attempting to successively identify pairwise text divergence points and pairwise text convergence points within the original text segment and the revised text segment, and taking further steps with respect to text that occurs between a pairwise text divergence point and a pairwise text convergence point and/or after a pairwise text divergence point (which steps can include copying text from the original text segment into the revised text segment and marking the copied text, if any, with a distinct visual style that signifies such text as either deleted text or inserted text, as applicable). |
| US10402470B2 |
Effecting multi-step operations in an application in response to direct manipulation of a selected object
An electronic document having a current layout can be presented in an application user interface. Based on a detected interaction with an object in the electronic document, an intent can be determined. The determined intent can be used to identify different sets of commands that result in corresponding visual representations that are likely to satisfy the determined intent. Different activation regions can be defined within the electronic document. A different command set, each identified from the determined intent, is associated with each different activation region. Movement and release of the selected object to a position within an activation region is detected, and the command set associated with the activation region is executed to perform a multi-step operation that modifies at least the current layout of the electronic document to result in the corresponding visual representation. |
| US10402469B2 |
Systems and methods of distributed optimization
Systems and methods of determining a global model are provided. In particular, one or more local updates can be received from a plurality of user devices. Each local update can be determined by the respective user device based at least in part on one or more data examples stored on the user device. The one or more data examples stored on the plurality of user devices are distributed on an uneven basis, such that no user device includes a representative sample of the overall distribution of data examples. The local updates can then be aggregated to determine a global model. |
| US10402463B2 |
Web browsing robot system and method
A method for using a robot on the web is disclosed. The method may include assigning a goal to a robot. The robot may then direct a web browser to code corresponding to a URL. Using the code, the web browser may render a webpage comprising a plurality of rendered elements. The robot may identify each rendered element by using OCR or an OCR equivalent or by positioning a virtual mouse in a plurality of locations on the webpage and obtaining, from the code, element-identification information corresponding to each location. The robot may map each rendered elements with an element type selected from a closed set of element types stored within a knowledge base accessible by the robot. The robot may further select, from a set of possible actions, an action corresponding to each rendered element that is most likely to lead toward the goal and implement each such action. |
| US10402462B2 |
Robust filters for social networking environments
Networking systems and methods according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention can provide robust filtering to enable users to customize their networking environments. A networking system can comprise a plurality of interfaces, a request unit, a management unit, and a filter unit. Each interface can include a plurality of displayable objects, each of which can represent some user of the networking system. The request unit can receive from a client a request for one of the interfaces. The management unit can manage filters, where each active filter hides one or more users from one or more other users. When an interface is requested by a client associated with a first user, the filter unit can apply the active filters to the requested interface to exclude displayable objects that represent users hidden from the first user by one or more active filters. |
| US10402458B2 |
Pair of spectacles with inquiry function and inquiring method using the pair of spectacles
Smart spectacles able to detect electrical activity in the brain include a display unit, a camera, a brain central detection unit, and a processor. The camera can shoot an image of currently-watched content. The brain central detection unit can detect current of user's neuronal cell in the brain. The processor can accordingly determine whether user is excited by what he is watching. When the user's neuronal cell is not excited, the processor controls the camera to shoot image including currently-watched content, analyze the content in the image, and regard such content as a first searched object. The processor searches for target content corresponding to the first searched object from a database, and displays the target content on the display unit. |
| US10402457B1 |
Methods and systems for correlating connections between users and links between articles
Methods and systems for correlating connections between users and links between articles to identify search and/or ad spamming are disclosed. Social networks can be used to identify connections between users for correlation with links between articles, which can be identified through searches of article contents and/or back tracing accesses to articles. One disclosed method comprises identifying first associations between a plurality of users in a network of associated users; identifying second associations between one or more users and one or more articles; identifying third associations between at least some of the articles or between some of the users and access to some of the articles; and determining at least one of the third associations is correlated with one or more of the first associations. |
| US10402455B1 |
Location and content based search for a mobile device
An apparatus receiving at least search strings, location data, time stamp data and additional data. Based on the received data, the apparatus calculates a number of display results, an average distance traveled, an average time taken, an average speed, an average time required, a first optimal radius, a region of overlap, a first revised optimal radius, and a second optimal radius. Based on the calculated data, the apparatus transmits first identification data, second identification data, a first number of search results for said first identification data, and a second number of search results for said second identification data, the first revised optimal radius, and the second revised optimal radius. |