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| US10515624B2 |
Content processing method and system using audio signal of advertisement data
Disclosed is a content processing method including receiving content including broadcast data and advertisement data into which additional information is inserted, extracting the additional information from the advertisement data, identifying the advertisement data from the content based on the extracted additional information, and extracting the broadcast data excluding the advertisement data identified from the content, wherein the additional information is inserted at at least one of optimal intervals determined based on test additional information inserted at a plurality of analysis intervals of an audio signal associated with the advertisement data. |
| US10515621B2 |
Vehicle, method for controlling the vehicle, and audio device for vehicle
A vehicle having a plurality of electronic components includes: a communicator configured to receive communicated signals from the plurality of electronic components, at least one electronic component of the plurality of electronic components outputting noise; a storage configured to store noise-related information of the plurality of electronic components; a speaker configured to output sound; and a controller configured to produce an antiphased sound signal to the noise output from the at least one electronic component based on the noise-related information stored in the storage when the at least one electronic component is operating, and control the speaker to output a sound corresponding to the antiphased sound signal. |
| US10515619B1 |
Portable smart electronic device for noise attenuating and audio broadcasting
Disclosures of the present invention describe a portable smart electronic device, which consists of several first reference microphones, a first loudspeaker, a first error microphone, several of second reference microphones, a second loudspeaker, a second error microphone, and a noise controlling module. Both the first error microphone and the second error microphone are set to have a noise detection direction and face to a first region near to a right ear and a second region near to a left ear, respectively. Therefore, the noise detection direction and an audio broadcasting direction of both the first loudspeaker and the second loudspeaker have a same progress direction. By such arrangement, this portable smart electronic device can be operated to adaptively provide an anti-noise audio to the first region and the second region for establishing a quiet zone in both the two regions by attenuating various environment noises. |
| US10515617B2 |
Device for controlling electronic musical instruments
A device for controlling electronic musical instruments includes a casing having a base. The casing and the base define the body of the control device. The device also includes a slotted hole for connecting to an instrument pedalboard. The slotted hole is located in a cavity in the body of the control device such that the slotted hole is integrated in the body of the device. |
| US10515616B2 |
Free bass a system
An accordion includes a right hand play side, a left hand play side, a bellow provided between the right hand play side and the left hand play side. A plurality of columns of buttons provide on at least one of the right hand play side and the left hand play side. Each of the plurality of columns may have at least three buttons to which three single pitches are assigned, the three single pitches constituting a triad major chord. Embodiments of the present invention provide a user-friendly system for accordionists that can also cover more than 90% of the accordion songs being public in the world. |
| US10515614B2 |
Musical notation system
A musical notation system is disclosed. The musical notation system comprises: a pitch symbol representing a key of a keyboard instrument, wherein the pitch symbol corresponds to a number representing a pitch in a numbered musical notation system and represents a white key and a black key of the keyboard instrument respectively in different forms; and a duration symbol representing a duration of the pitch symbol, the duration symbol corresponding to a symbol representing a duration in the numbered musical notation system. |
| US10515608B2 |
Method and system for improving ghosting in display screen
The present disclosure provides a method for improving ghosting in a display screen, including the steps of: acquiring a brightness of a screen to be displayed and an average brightness of a ghosting; acquiring a position of the ghosting in the display device, if the average brightness of the ghosting is greater than the brightness of the screen to be displayed; and processing the screen to improve a brightness of the screen corresponding to the ghosting in the screen to be displayed. The present disclosure further provides a system for improving ghosting in a display screen. The present disclosure utilizes the software algorithm to locally adjust the brightness at a position with high reflection and high glare in the display screen so as to enhance the local brightness of the display device and enhance the readability of the display screen and achieve the anti-glare effect and the anti-reflection effect. |
| US10515606B2 |
Parallelizing display update
A target image can be analyzed determine a respective level of visual saliency for each of a plurality of information presented in the target image. At least a first sub-frame update for a display panel can be determined, the at least first sub-frame update providing at least a partial rendering of the target image on the display panel, the at least partial rendering of the target image providing the information presented in the target image that is determined to have a highest level of visual saliency from among the plurality of information. The at least first sub-frame update can be applied to the display panel. |
| US10515605B2 |
Display device with corrected gate-off voltage and method of operating the same
A display device includes: a substrate; a gate line, a dummy gate line, a data line, a dummy data line, a pixel electrode, and a dummy pixel electrode, each disposed on the substrate; a switching element connected to the gate line, the data line, and the pixel electrode; a dummy switching element connected to the dummy gate line, the dummy data line, and the dummy pixel electrode; a compensation circuit detecting a change amount of a drain current based on drain currents generated from the dummy pixel at different time points, and detecting a change amount of a gate voltage of the dummy switching element based on the change amount of the drain current; a power supply circuit outputting a corrected gate-off voltage based on the change amount of the gate voltage; and a gate driver applying the corrected gate-off voltage to the gate line. |
| US10515604B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A liquid-crystal display device and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The driving method of the liquid-crystal display device comprises: generating first and second power supply voltages; generating gamma-compensated voltages based on the first and second power supply voltages; converting data of an input image to the gamma-compensated voltages to output data voltages; distributing, by a multiplexer, the data voltages output from the data driver to a plurality of data lines; and varying at least one of the first and second power supply voltages at a given time interval. |
| US10515602B1 |
GOA circuit
The present invention provides a GOA circuit, which includes, which includes multi-stage GOA circuit repeat unit that are cascade connected, and each stage of the GOA circuit repeat units includes: a first pull-up control module (101), a first pull-down holding module (102), a first pull-down module (106), a first bootstrap capacitor module (103), a first output module (104), a second output module (105), a second pull-up control module (201), a second pull-down holding module (202), a second pull-down module (206), a second bootstrap capacitor module (203), a third output module (204) and a fourth output module (205). The present invention can reduce the number of thin film transistors (TFTs) in the GOA circuit for realizing a narrow-border design as well as reducing power consumption of the GOA circuit. |
| US10515593B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit, self-luminous display panel module, electronic apparatus, and method for driving power supply line
A semiconductor integrated circuit and corresponding display panel and electronic apparatus. A pixel element includes a self-luminous element and a drive transistor connected to a power supply line. In an emission period of the self-luminous element, an active voltage and an intermediate voltage are sequentially applied between the power supply line and a potential line with a pulse-shaped waveform such that a predetermined luminance duration is obtained in the emission period. In a non-emission period of the self-luminous element, an off-state voltage is applied between the power supply line and the potential line so as to maintain the self-luminous element in a non-emission state. |
| US10515591B2 |
Pixel driving circuit, driving method thereof, display substrate and display apparatus
In the pixel driving circuit of the disclosure, the control terminal of the driving unit is connected with a first terminal of the storage capacitor, the first signal terminal of the first switching unit, the first signal terminal of the second switching unit and the control terminal of the third switching unit. The control terminal of the first switching unit is operable to input a reset signal. The second signal terminal of the first switching unit is connected with an initialization voltage. The control terminal of the second switching unit is operable to input a scan signal. The second signal terminal of the second switching unit is connected with the first signal terminal of the third switching unit. The second signal terminal of the third switching unit is operable to input a data signal. The control terminal of the fourth switching unit is operable to input a light emitting signal. |
| US10515588B2 |
Detection method for pixel circuit, driving method for display panel and display panel
A detection method for a pixel circuit, a driving method for a display panel and a display panel are disclosed. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor including a gate electrode, and a first terminal connected to a sensing line. The detection method includes: applying a data voltage and a setting voltage to the driving transistor so as to obtain a sensed voltage and obtaining a threshold voltage of the driving transistor based on the data voltage, the setting voltage and the sensed voltage. The data voltage and the setting voltage are respectively applied to the gate electrode and the first terminal so as to set the driving transistor to be in a saturation region, the gate electrode is set to be in a suspension state when the driving transistor is maintained in the saturation region, and the sensed voltage is obtained after a pre-determined time period. |
| US10515586B2 |
Display device having auxiliary electrodes in switching transistors
The present disclosure discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes pixel circuits arranged in an array. Each pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, at least two switching transistors and at least two first auxiliary electrodes arranged in a one to one relationship to the switching transistors. By electrically connecting each of the first auxiliary electrodes with a gate of a related switching transistor, the first auxiliary electrode and the gate of the corresponding switching transistor have a same potential. A capacitor can be formed between the first auxiliary electrode and the active layer, and a capacitor is formed between the gate and the active layer. |
| US10515582B2 |
Light emitting diode driving circuit and light emitting diode display device
An LED driving circuit is provided in the present disclosure for driving an LED matrix module. The LED matrix module includes a plurality of LED units. The LED driving circuit includes a control module, a first driving module and a switch module. The first driving module is used for driving at least one column of the LED matrix module according to a first driving signal provided by the control module. The switch module is electrically connected to the control module for receiving a second driving signal from the control module to drive the at least one row of the LED units of the LED matrix module. |
| US10515581B2 |
LED pixel, LED component, LED panel and LED display screen
The LED pixel includes a driver IC (20) and an LED chip (40); the LED chip (40) is stacked and mounted on a surface of the driver IC (20), and a wire (31) going from the cathode of the LED chip (40) is connected to the driver IC (20). The driver IC (20) is an unpackaged die. An insulation layer is disposed on the surface of the die, and a pad (30) disposed on the insulation layer is connected to a positive electrode. The LED chip (40) is mounted on the pad (30), and the anode of the LED chip (40) is electrically connected with the pad (40). This improves the light transmittance of the LED display product. |
| US10515575B2 |
Bistable display and driving method thereof
A bistable display includes: an inner box constituted of a first substrate, a second substrate and a box body surrounding a space between the first substrate and the second substrate, a bistable display material is injected into the space, and one or more of a common electrode conductive layer, a pattern conductive layer, and a background conductive layer are respectively formed on the first substrate and/or the second substrate inside the inner box, and the common electrode conductive layer is led out of the inner box through a common electrode, the pattern conductive layer is led out of the inner box through a pattern electrode, and the background conductive layer is led out of the inner box through a background electrode. |
| US10515572B1 |
Decoration support pole
The decoration support pole is configured for use with celebratory activities. The decoration support pole is configured for use with a cubicle. The decoration support pole attaches to the wall of a cubicle such that the decoration support pole projects above the wall of the cubicle in a visible manner. The festive adornments are attached to the decorative support pole in support of a celebration. The decoration support pole is further illuminated to further support the celebration. The decoration support pole comprises a stanchion, a stanchion cap, a clip, and a festive illumination. The clip and the stanchion cap attach the stanchion to the cubicle wall. The festive illumination installs in the stanchion. The stanchion is a support structure that separates the clip from the stanchion cap. The festive illumination is an electric circuit that illuminates the stanchion. |
| US10515571B2 |
Layered signage system
A signage system comprising a first panel and a second panel arranged in a substantially parallel configuration, wherein portions of the first panel and second panel are kept apart at a predetermined distance by a plurality of spacers, thereby providing a space between the first panel and second panel that can enhance the visibility of designs on the first panel and second panel. |
| US10515567B2 |
Cryptographic machines with N-state lab-transformed switching devices
N-state switching tables are transformed by a Lab-transform into a Lab-transformed n-state switching table. Memory devices, processors and combinational circuits with inputs and an output are characterized by the Lab-transformed n-state switching table and perform switching operations between physical states in accordance with a Lab-transformed n-state switching table. The devices characterized by Lab-transformed n-state switching tables are applied in cryptographic devices. The cryptographic devices perform standard cryptographic operations that are modified in accordance with a Lab-transform. |
| US10515564B2 |
Mission-based, game-implemented cyber training system and method
A mission-based cyber training platform allows both offensive and defensive oriented participants to test their skills in a game-based virtual environment against a live or virtual opponent. The system builds realistic virtual environments to perform the training in an isolated and controlled setting. Dynamic configuration supports unique missions using a combination of real and/or virtual machines, software resources, tools, and network components. Game engine behaves in a manner that will vary if participant attempts to replay a scenario based upon alternate options available to the engine. Scoring and leader boards are used to identify skill gaps/strengths and measure performance for each training participant. A detailed assessment of a player's performance is provided at the end of the mission and is stored in a user profile/training record. |
| US10515563B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing realistic education media
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for providing realistic education media which enable the most realistic education on not only an image and a sound but also even the minute motion of an expert who is proficient in a high level of technique when the technique is performed by the expert. |
| US10515562B2 |
Systems and methods for instrumentation of education processes
Systems and methods for education instrumentation can include one or more servers configured generate a plurality of models for modeling various aspects of an education process using training data related to academic performance of students. The one or more servers can collect data from client devices associated with various education institutions or stakeholders throughout an life cycle of the education process. The one or more servers can use the generated models and the collected data to assess the addressing of education standards and predict or estimate performance metrics associated with the education process. The one or more servers can provide computed metrics or assessments of how well education standards are addressed to one or more client devices for display. |
| US10515561B1 |
Video presentation, digital compositing, and streaming techniques implemented via a computer network
Various aspects disclosed herein are directed to Online Education techniques and award incentives for facilitating collaborative, social online education. One aspect disclosed herein is directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for facilitating mobile video presentations using digital compositing techniques. |
| US10515555B2 |
System and method for managing a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles
Systems and methods for managing communication of a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles. The present invention can include a central server and a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles including a master and secondary unmanned aerial vehicle. The master and secondary unmanned aerial vehicles can communicate with the central server and each other. The master and secondary unmanned aerial vehicle can deliver packages to different locations. In doing so, the master and secondary unmanned aerial vehicle can form a swarm that at least partially share a route for delivery of the packages to their destinations. The master unmanned aerial vehicle can be configured to: (i) receive delivery information for the master and secondary unmanned aerial vehicles, (ii) monitor communication between the swarm, and (iii) determine if the swarms encounters a risk. |
| US10515553B2 |
Method of controlling inter-vehicle gap(s)
A vehicle is configured to perform the steps of: obtaining an indicator of a potential collision threat identified by an autonomous emergency braking system of the vehicle, wherein the autonomous emergency braking system of the vehicle comprises pre-defined control phases, and wherein the indicator at least partly determines a current control phase of the autonomous emergency braking system; and sending the obtained indicator to one or more following vehicles. |
| US10515549B1 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for evaluating public transportation use
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are described herein for determining public transportation use. Methods may include receiving probe data points associated with movement of a plurality of people; associating the movement of the plurality of people with a public transit route having a plurality of public transit stop locations; determining, from the probe data points associated with movement of the plurality of people, transit stop locations at which people board a public transit vehicle associated with the public transit route; determining, from the probe data points associated with movement of the plurality of people, transit stop locations at which people exit the public transit vehicle; calculating, from the probe data points associated with the movement of the plurality of people, a number of people boarding the public transit vehicle at each respective transit stop location and a number of people exiting at each respective transit stop location. |
| US10515548B2 |
Transit vehicle information management systems and methods
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing vehicle occupancy and/or selecting and delivering content to vehicle occupants. Sensor information that may be used to estimate an occupancy of one or more vehicles, such as vehicle weight information, may be collected by a service and used to estimate a relative passenger occupancy of a vehicle and/or a number of occupants in the vehicle. Indications of estimated vehicle occupancy may be provided to prospective passengers via one or more visual displays associated with a transit station and/or mobile and/or personal electronic devices associated with the prospective passengers. Vehicle occupancy information may further be used in connection with managing advertisements displayed to occupants of a vehicle. |
| US10515542B2 |
Automated traffic data validation
A first traffic-flow prediction associated with a roadway segment and a particular time is obtained by a verification module. The first traffic-flow prediction generated as an output of a prediction module implemented using a processor and associated memory, the prediction module operating on input including first traffic-related information obtained from a first plurality of traffic probe devices. A verification module obtains second traffic-related information from a recorded dataset. The recorded dataset includes information obtained from a second plurality of traffic probe devices. Information obtained from particular traffic probe devices is selected, and an estimated actual traffic-flow is generated based on that information. The verification module determines at least one quality measure based on a relationship between the first traffic-flow prediction and the estimated actual traffic-flow. |
| US10515541B2 |
Control device, sensor node, and computer-readable recording medium
A control device includes: a processor configured to: control calibration of sensing values in a sensor node group formed of sensor nodes each including a sensor and a wireless device and being capable of performing multi-hop communication; divide the sensor node group into a plurality of clusters such that each of the clusters includes at least one partial cluster including a relay node and a child node that performs wireless communication; collect an average of sensing values in each of the partial clusters from the relay node of each of the partial clusters; calculate a calibration reference value of each of the clusters from the collected averages of the respective partial clusters; and provide the calculated calibration reference value of each of the clusters to each of the clusters. |
| US10515538B2 |
Communication systems
A message communication system, such as a security system, having a distributed architecture includes a plurality of customer terminals, one or more proprietary routers, one or more automation systems, each customer terminal being associated with an associated at least one of the automation systems, wherein each customer terminal includes at least one communication address of at least one of the proprietary routers, the proprietary router including a routing table to forward the message to the associated automation system or a central station gateway linked to the automation system. |
| US10515535B1 |
System and method to provide a misplacement notification
One general aspect includes a system to provide a misplacement notification, the system including: a memory configured to include a program and a processor configured to execute the program, where the program enables the processor to, after a vehicle ingress event, cause a sensor to capture a reference image of a portion of a vehicle interior; after a vehicle egress event, cause the sensor to capture a test image of the portion of the vehicle interior; determine whether the test image includes one or more objects not found in the reference image; and generate a notification, based on the determination of whether the test image includes one or more objects not found in the reference image. |
| US10515533B2 |
Alerting system and method
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to alerting. A server accesses a user-provided specification, the user-provided specification indicating an initial alert range for a measured value and a subsequent alert schedule for the measured value. The server monitors a physical measurement of the measured value. The server determines that the physical measurement falls within the initial alert range. The server provides an initial alert in response to the physical measurement falling within the initial alert range. The server provides a subsequent alert according to the subsequent alert schedule in the user-provided specification. |
| US10515527B1 |
Security surveillance device
A multifunctional portable surveillance device having a strap and a first and second end modules disposed on the opposite ends of the strap. A first electronic device resides within the first end module, and the second electronic device resides within the second end module. The strap is configured to straddle an object, whereby the first and the second electronic devices are positioned on the opposite sides of the object. The surveillance device has a control unit. The device further includes a sensor configured to detect a predefined event. A network of connectors resides within the strap, the connectors configured to carry electric signals between the first electronic device, the second electronic device, the sensor, and the control unit. Responsive to detecting a predefined event through a sensor, the control unit actuates the first electronic device, the second electronic device, or both. |
| US10515524B2 |
Security apparatus and method
A security method and apparatus is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing an alarm for a window by a security apparatus comprises calculating a first distance between a detector mounted within a movable portion of the window and a window frame edge and calculating a second distance between the detector and the window frame edge. The method further comprises determining whether the movable portion of the window has remained stationary for more than a predetermined time period based on the first distance and the second distance and, if the movable portion has remained stationary for more than the predetermined time period, storing the second distance in a memory, placing the security apparatus into an active alarm state, calculating a third distance observed by the detector, determining a change between the third distance and the second distance, determining whether the change exceeds a predetermined distance, and generating an alarm signal if the change exceeds the predetermined distance. |
| US10515521B2 |
Methods and apparatus for securing a tracking beacon to personal protection equipment
This disclosure presents various means for securing a tracking beacon to personal protection equipment. The tracking beacon mount is constructed of a cover, a base, a transmitter and a mounting mechanism, such as a strap. The transmitter has a unique identifier which is detected by a proximity sensor. The proximity sensor is operably connected to a tracking system which can be used to detect the presence of the beacons. The system is programmed to recognize the types of items used and warn the user if something predetermined as required for the location or job type is missing. |
| US10515517B2 |
Game of chance systems and methods
In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context. |
| US10515513B2 |
Gaming system, gaming device and method for utilizing mobile devices at a gaming establishment
A gaming system which facilitates the two-way communication between mobile devices, such as mobile phones, and different gaming system components to enhance a player's gaming experience. |
| US10515510B2 |
Interleaved wagering system with reconciliation system
An interleaved wagering system with a reconciliation system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller constructed to receive a user input from a user, communicate the user input to an application controller, determine a first action outcome using the user input, and communicate the action outcome to the application controller. The application controller operatively connects the interactive controller to a wager controller, and the application controller is constructed to receive the user input and the action outcome from the interactive controller, determine a second action outcome from the user input, and correct the first action outcome using the second action outcome based on a comparison of the first action outcome and the second action outcome. |
| US10515505B2 |
Apparatus and method for mobile vending
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for mobile vending. A system for mobile vending comprises a mobile vending machine comprising: an item dispenser configured to display a plurality of items for purchase, a set of motorized wheels, a navigation sensor device, a communication device, and, a control circuit configured to navigate the mobile vending machine based on navigation instructions; and a central computer system configured to communicate with the mobile vending machine via the communication device, the central computer system being configured to: determine a destination for the mobile vending machine, provide the navigation instructions to the mobile vending machine to cause the mobile vending machine to travel to the destination using the set of motorized wheels and the navigation sensor device. |
| US10515503B2 |
Sheet processing system, sheet processing apparatus, and sheet housing section
A sheet processing system A includes a sheet processing apparatus 1 that transports and stores a sheet in one of short-edge leading orientation and long-edge leading orientation; a sheet housing section 3 that stores the sheet in the other of the short-edge leading orientation and the long-edge leading orientation; and an orientation changing section 4 that transports the sheet between the sheet processing apparatus 1 and the sheet housing section 3, changes transport orientation of the sheets which is being transported between the short-edge leading orientation and the long-edge leading orientation. |
| US10515498B2 |
Electric lock and control method thereof
A control method for operating an electric lock by using a portable device includes the portable device obtaining an encrypted message according to an encryption function; the portable device transmitting the encrypted message to the electric lock; the electric lock decrypting the encrypted message according to a decryption function; and the electric lock determining whether to perform an action according to a decryption result of the encrypted message. |
| US10515493B2 |
Method and system for tracking and pictorially displaying locations of tracked individuals
Methods, systems, and techniques for tracking and pictorially displaying locations of tracked individuals involve retrieving a location of the tracked individual and pictorially representing the location of the tracked individual on a display. The location can be acquired using a credentials acquisition device to read credentials issued to the tracked individuals. Pictorially representing the location on a display may involve showing one or both of the location and number of the tracked individuals on a map. |
| US10515490B2 |
Method and device for determining whether a motor vehicle is instantaneously driven manually or automatically
A method for determining whether a motor vehicle is instantaneously driven manually or automatically, the motor vehicle being operable in a first operating mode in which the motor vehicle may be driven manually, and operable in a second operating mode in which the motor vehicle may be driven automatically. The method includes checking whether minimum conditions are met. If the change instruction specifies that a change is to be made from the first into the second operating mode, determining that the motor vehicle is instantaneously driven automatically when all minimum conditions are met, and otherwise, determining that the motor vehicle is instantaneously driven manually. If the change instruction specifies that a change is to be made from the second into the first operating mode, determining that the motor vehicle is instantaneously driven manually when all minimum conditions are met, and otherwise, determining that the motor vehicle is instantaneously driven automatically. |
| US10515486B1 |
Systems and methods for employing augmented reality in appraisal and assessment operations
An augmented reality structural assessment system may include a display device, at least one sensor configured to generate image data from a structure, and a processor. The processor may receive the image data that represents one or more portions of the structure and generate a visualization of a scenario related to structural damage to the one or more portions of the structure. The visualization may be presented via the display device, such that the visualization augments a view of the structure via the display device. The processor may then receive input data regarding one or more assessments of damage to the structure corresponding to the scenario and the image data and store the data regarding one or more assessments of damage in a storage component. |
| US10515484B1 |
Systems and methods to facilitate interactions with virtual content in an interactive space using visual indicators
A system configured to facilitate interactions with virtual content in an interactive space may comprise one or more of a hand tracking device, a light source, an optical element, one or more physical processors, non-transitory electronic storage, and/or other components. The hand tracking device may be configured to generate output signals conveying ranges of surfaces and/or objects present in the real world. A hand of a user may be identified and tracked through three-dimensional space. A virtual cursor may be presented as positionally linked with the hand. The virtual cursor may be modified to reflect change in hand pose. As the hand comes close to virtual objects, an individual virtual object may be modified to reflect which virtual object is closest to the hand. |
| US10515483B2 |
Beam visualization and using augmented reality for control and interaction
Presenting a visualization of antenna radiation patterns may include sending a request to a server for up-to-date information regarding an antenna mode; receiving the request at the server and reading a register value for the antenna mode; responding, by the server, with updated antenna mode information; and overlaying antenna radiation patterns on an image based on the mode information. |
| US10515479B2 |
Collaborative 3D modeling system
A collaborative 3D modeling system, comprising a computer processing unit, a digital memory, and an electronic display, the computer processing unit and the digital memory configured to provide 3D model representations of a first plurality of versions of an object component for a first user, the versions being selectable along a first axis, and using the electronic display, provide a plurality of user identifications which are selectable along a second axis, wherein selecting a subsequent user causes a second plurality of said versions of said object component to be displayed on the electronic display. |
| US10515477B2 |
Photorealistic three dimensional texturing using canonical views and a two-stage approach
Images of various views of objects can be captured. An object mesh structure can be created based at least in part on the object images. The object mesh structure represents the three-dimensional shape of the object and includes a mesh with mesh elements. The mesh elements are assigned views first from a subset of views to texture large contiguous portions of the object from relatively few views. Portions that are not textured from the subset views are textured using the full set of views, such that all mesh elements are assigned views. The views first assigned from the subset of views and the views then assigned from the full plurality of views can be packaged into a texture atlas. These texture atlas views can be packaged with mapping data to map the texture atlas views to their corresponding mesh elements. The texture atlas and the object mesh structure can be sent to a client device to render a representation of the object. The representation can be manipulated on the client device in an augmented reality setting. |
| US10515475B2 |
Implementing layered navigation using interface layers
A device may provide multiple interface layers for display in a layered manner. The multiple interface layers may be associated with a single application. The multiple interface layers may be layered such that at least one interface layer, of the multiple interface layers, at least partially obscures at least one other interface layer of the multiple interface layers. The device may display, via a display of the device, the multiple interface layers in a manner that permits user interactions with more than one interface layer of the multiple interface layers. The device may detect a user interaction with an interface layer of the multiple interface layers displayed via the display. The device may adjust the manner in which the multiple interface layers are displayed based on the user interaction. |
| US10515471B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating best-view image centered on object of interest in multiple camera images
Provided are an apparatus and method for generating a best-view image centered on a object of interest in multiple camera images. The apparatus and method for generating a best-view image centered on a object of interest in multiple camera images accurately provide a best-view image clearly showing a figure, a motion, or the like of a object of interest desired by a viewer by selecting the best-view camera image on the basis of a criterion of a judgment about the best-view image centered on the object of interest. |
| US10515469B2 |
Proactive monitoring tree providing pinned performance information associated with a selected node
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system that displays performance data for a computing environment. During operation, the system first determines values for a performance metric for a plurality of entities that comprise the computing environment. Next, the system displays the computing environment as a set of nodes representing the plurality of entities. While displaying the nodes, the system displays a chart with a line illustrating how a value of the performance metric for the selected node varies over time, wherein the line is displayed against a background illustrating how a distribution of the performance metric for a reference subset of the set of nodes varies over time. |
| US10515466B2 |
Optimized deferred lighting in a foveated rendering system
A method for implementing a graphics pipeline. The method includes determining a plurality of light sources affecting a virtual scene. Geometries of objects of an image of the scene is projected onto a plurality of pixels of a display from a first point-of-view. The pixels are partitioned into a plurality of tiles. A foveal region of highest resolution is defined for the image as displayed, wherein a first subset of pixels is assigned to the foveal region, and wherein a second subset of pixels is assigned to a peripheral region that is outside of the foveal region. A first set of light sources is determined from the plurality of light sources that affect one or more objects displayed in a first tile that is in the peripheral region. At least two light sources from the first set is clustered into a first aggregated light source affecting the first tile when rendering the image in pixels of the first tile. |
| US10515462B2 |
Pixel wise illuminant estimation
The disclosure concerns estimating an illumination spectrum of a pixel of hyperspectral or multispectral image data. A processor determines an optimised illumination spectrum for a first point based on an initial illumination spectrum and based on associations between the first point and multiple second points of multiple instances of the image data, wherein each of the multiple instances is associated with a refined amount of image information. It is possible to determine the illumination spectrum per pixel of the original image data without clustering pixels or restrictive assumptions but instead by utilising the associations for the statistical inference on the illumination spectrum. |
| US10515459B2 |
Image processing apparatus for processing images captured by a plurality of imaging units, image processing method, and storage medium storing program therefor
An image processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect positions of an index of which an arrangement is sequentially changed from respective images captured by two imaging devices, a calibration unit configured to calibrate a position of at least one of the two imaging devices based on the positions of the index arranged at an identical position detected from the respective images captured by the two imaging devices, a determination unit configured to determine a candidate position where the index is to be newly arranged based on the positions where the index has already been detected, and a presentation unit configured to present the candidate position. |
| US10515458B1 |
Image-matching navigation method and apparatus for aerial vehicles
A method and apparatus for estimating the position and attitude of an aerial vehicle transiting over terrain through a combination of steps combining image registration and the inherent image coordinate system of the camera. The aerial vehicle captures an image of the terrain and extracts features from the camera image and pre-existing aerial imagery, and determines a perspective transform between the images. Image reference points are projected with the 2D perspective transform and an elevation map provides estimated 3D coordinates of the image reference points. Subsequently a camera position and orientation necessary for the camera to obtain the initial camera image is determined by projecting reference points with locations defined by the image coordinate system of the camera to define terrain points, and conducting an optimization to minimize displacements between the estimated coordinates and the terrain coordinates. The estimated camera position provides a location and attitude for the aerial vehicle. |
| US10515457B2 |
Image collation system and image collation method
An image collation system comprising: a detection unit that detects an object from an image acquired by imaging a predetermined position using an imaging unit; a tracking unit that tracks an object image of the same object; a selection unit that calculates an evaluated value for each of the object images of the same object and selects the object image of which the evaluated value is equal to or greater than a predetermined value as a best shot image; a collation unit that performs a collation process of collating the best shot image with a registered image and determining whether the object present at the predetermined position is a previously registered object; and a display that displays a performance result of the collation process, the image collation system including a storage unit that stores the best shot image; and a preparation unit that updates or re-prepares an evaluation expression that calculates the evaluated value. |
| US10515453B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium for performing an edge correction processing based on color variations
An image processing apparatus counts at least one of the number of pixels having an identical color to a target pixel, the number of pixels having a similar color to the target pixel, and the number of pixels having a different color from the target pixel in a target window, and determines an attribute of the target pixel based on a result of the counting. |
| US10515450B2 |
Systems and methods for using a single-cell to create chromosomal spreads
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods and systems for preparing chromosomal spread for a selected cell so that chromosomal spreads and/or translocations can be correlated with the selected cell. |
| US10515449B2 |
Detection of 3D pose of a TEE probe in x-ray medical imaging
Pose of a probe is detected in x-ray medical imaging. Since the TEE probe is inserted through the esophagus of a patient, the pose is limited to being within the esophagus. The path of the esophagus is determined from medical imaging prior to the intervention. During the intervention, the location in 2D is found from one x-ray image at a given time. The 3D probe location is provided by assigning the depth of the esophagus at that 2D location to be the depth of the probe. A single x-ray image may be used to determine the probe location in 3D, allowing for real-time pose determination without requiring space to rotate a C-arm during the intervention. |
| US10515447B2 |
Analysis of data obtained from microarrays
Disclosed are methods and software for biological data analysis. Specifically, provided are methods, computer programs and systems for analyzing data in the form of various intensity measurements obtained from an oligonucleotides microarray experiment. Such data may be microarray data obtained from an experiment conducted to determine copy number of a human genetic sample. The data are corrected by application of one or more covariate adjusters which may be applied simultaneously and which may be selected by a user. Further, the present application provides methods of filtering image data and signal restoration of image data using log2 ratio data. |
| US10515441B2 |
Method and device for rectifying image photographed by fish-eye lens
A method and device for rectifying an image photographed by a fish-eye lens, comprising the following steps: acquiring a fish-eye lens mapping parameter and a lens field angle; acquiring a fitted mapping curve according to the lens mapping parameter; acquiring centre coordinate and the radius of a fish-eye circle in a fish-eye image; creating a blank image used for rectifying the image according to the lens field angle; based on the lens field angle, the fitted mapping curve, the centre coordinate and the radius of the fish-eye circle, and the width and height of the blank image, mapping a point on the blank image used for rectifying the image to a corresponding point in the fish-eye image; and based on a colour sample of the corresponding point in the fish-eye image, drawing same onto the corresponding point in the blank image used for rectifying the image, and drawing the rectified image. |
| US10515439B2 |
Method for correcting an acquired image
A method of correcting an image obtained by an image acquisition device includes obtaining successive measurements, Gn, of device movement during exposure of each row of an image. An integration range, idx, is selected in proportion to an exposure time, te, for each row of the image. Accumulated measurements, Cn, of device movement for each row of an image are averaged across the integration range to provide successive filtered measurements, G, of device movement during exposure of each row of an image. The image is corrected for device movement using the filtered measurements G. |
| US10515434B2 |
Adjustment of architectural elements relative to facades
Improper positioning of architectural features is corrected during construction or reconstruction of a multi-dimensional (e.g., 3D) building model using known architectural dimensions and known relationships to planes (facades). The system identifies architectural elements that have known architectural standard positions relative to planes within the multi-dimensional model. Dimensional measurements of architectural elements in the multi-dimensional model are used to properly position one or more architectural elements relative to associated planes within the multi-dimensional building model. For example, a window position on a 3D building model first façade is moved inward (offset) according to the known relationship of a window (architectural element) being inset relative to a façade (e.g., exterior wall). In addition, a window frame could be repositioned outwardly relative to the same façade plane based on a known relationship of a frame being located on an external surface of the façade (e.g., exterior wall). |
| US10515430B2 |
Allocating device buffer on GPGPU for an object with metadata using access boundary alignment
A method is provided for buffer allocation on a graphics processing unit. The method includes analyzing, by the graphics processing unit, a program to be executed on the graphics processing unit to determine, for an object in the program, a set of elements in the object that are designated to be accessed during an execution of the program. The method further includes allocating, by the graphics processing unit, a placement of the object in a device buffer on the graphics processing unit based on the set of elements to minimize a number of memory accesses during the execution of the program. |
| US10515428B2 |
Facilitating and tracking clinician-assignment status
Subject matter described herein is related to assigning a healthcare clinician to provide care to a patient. For example, a GUI is provided that includes contextual information relevant to the assignment and that allows a user to electronically create the assignment. Relevant information includes a list of clinicians, a list of patients, and an estimate of the amount of resources required to provide care to a patient. In addition, this disclosure describes tracking the status of a healthcare clinician, such as primary provider, secondary provider, and on-break. Status might be tracked by capturing an image of a display board, which supports clinician barcodes that are movable to desired locations within a depiction of a healthcare facility (e.g., floor plan laid out using barcodes). |
| US10515426B2 |
Method for estimating a characteristic of a liquefied natural gas load
A method of estimating a characteristic (Qn′, Q1′) of a load of liquefied natural gas being transported by a tanker at any point on a route (401, P; 501, 502, 503), the method being characterized in that the estimation is made by integrating, over the route (410, 411, 412, 420; 510, 511, 512) from a reference point (400, P; 500) at which said characteristic is known (Qn, Ql), a relationship associating the instantaneous transformation of the load with instantaneous navigation conditions. |
| US10515425B2 |
Agricultural implement and implement operator monitoring apparatus, systems, and methods
Apparatus, systems and methods for monitoring one or more agricultural implements during agricultural operations and for monitoring operator performance criterion. In some embodiment, the operator performance criterion may be reported to a monitor on the agricultural implement as well as a remote fleet monitor. |
| US10515424B2 |
Machine learned query generation on inverted indices
Methods and systems for generating queries from a behavioral index model are described. According to various embodiments, a system receives a query input including one or more search terms from a client device associated with a member profile. The system generates a query from the one or more search terms and one or more profile terms. The system causes one or more query machines to search one or more inverted indices using the query and receives one or more result of documents distributed across the inverted indices. The system generates an ordered list of the one or more result sets and causes presentation of the ordered list at a client device associated with the member profile. |
| US10515420B2 |
Method, system and software program for handling and storing purchase transactions between a user and a point-of-sale
A method and system for managing and storing purchase transactions between a users' computing device and a point-of-sales computing device is described. The method comprises the steps of: a user purchasing an item from a point-of-sale, the point-of-sale computing device generating an electronic receipt related to the item. The point-of sale transmits the electronic receipt to a users' computer based accounting system programmed for performing bookkeeping operations related to purchase transactions. The accounting system stores the electronic receipt, extracts price and purchase transaction information about the item. The accounting system analyzes the price and information for automatically updating accounting records of the user in real time. |
| US10515419B1 |
Systems and methods for leveraging remotely captured images
Systems and methods can leverage images of remotely captured items to extract information, populate forms, authenticate users, and perform other actions. |
| US10515413B1 |
System and method for dynamically adapting asset allocation and withdrawal rates
Methods and systems for generating a recommended retirement profile for a retiree are disclosed herein. An indication to generate, for a retiree, a recommended retirement profile is received. A plurality of decumulation parameters are identified, and a utility function is computed based on the decumulation parameters. The recommended retirement profile is generated based on the computed utility function. |
| US10515410B2 |
Method and system for calculating and providing initial margin under the standard initial margin model
A Standard Initial Margin Model (SIMM) is calculated and provided as an overall initial margin for non-cleared derivatives. In certain embodiments, using at least one computing device, information associated with a plurality of risk classes is acquired, and a delta margin, a vega margin, and a curvature margin for each risk class based on the acquired information associated is determined. The at least one computing device calculates initial margin for each risk class by summing the respective delta margin, the respective vega margin, and the respective curvature margin. The at least one computing device determines whether product classes will be used in calculating the overall initial margin, calculates the overall initial margin using an equation based on the determination, and provides the overall initial margin. The amount of the initial margin call for the underlying derivatives contract may then be generated based on the calculated initial margin. |
| US10515406B1 |
Information decision making and display
An information processing and display system includes a first database storing milestones associated with an approval process. A computing system is configured to access the first database and estimate start dates for the milestones. A risk of delay is determined for the milestones based on information associated with the approval process, and first adjusted start dates are estimated based on the determined risk of delay. Alternative actions associated with the determined risk of delay are determined, and second adjusted start dates based on the alternative actions are estimated. The computer generates a display of the first adjusted start dates, the alternative actions, and the second adjusted start dates. |
| US10515405B2 |
Person-to-person lending program product, system, and associated computer-implemented methods
An individual consumer borrower accessing a person-to-person lending website is provided an opportunity to have a loan request wholly or partially satisfied by a financial institution at loan terms from the financial institution. The financial institution, for example, can receive information about a person-to-person loan request, determine whether to authorize a financial institutional loan, offer a loan to the individual on terms determined by the financial institution, and issue the loan to an individual consumer borrower responsive to approval of the terms. Prior to an auction, the individual consumer can choose an immediate loan offer having financial institution terms or choose to solicit individual consumer loan offers with more favorable terms through the person-to-person lending website. The financial institution can also offer a gap filling loan for a deficiency amount so that the loan request can be partially satisfied by individual consumer loan offers. |
| US10515397B2 |
System and method for facilitating virtual gift giving
A system for facilitating virtual gifting of goods or services over a communications network includes: a) a first client module configured for purchasing a virtual gift for a recipient, b) a second client module configured for receiving and viewing the purchased virtual gift from the server, over the communications network; c) a third client module configured for receiving a wireless signal for the recipient from the second client module and viewing the purchased virtual gift, and d) a web server module configured for processing electronic payment for the purchased virtual gift with a payment gateway, transmitting the purchased virtual gift to the second client module, and transmitting a confirmation of payment for the purchased virtual gift to a brick and mortar outlet, wherein the purchased virtual gift is configured for redemption at said brick and mortar outlet. |
| US10515390B2 |
Method and system for data optimization
Embodiments can provide an intelligent vehicle that determines that the vehicle interior comprises multiple occupants; identifies the occupants; based on the driving behavior of the vehicle, creates a composite occupant profile associated with the group of plural occupants, the composite occupant profile comprising the identities of the plural occupants and group preferences for various vendor products or services; and, based on the composite occupant profile and received inputs from a user interface, an automatic vehicle location system, and a plurality of sensors in the vehicle, performs one or more actions, such as: (a) proposing one or more vendor products or services for the group of occupants; (b) publishing the vendor products or services selected by the group of occupants, via a social network, to associated or selected associates of the occupants in the group; and (c) presenting advertisement information from a vendor server associated with the proposed or selected vendor products or services to one or more of the occupants in the group. |
| US10515382B2 |
System and method for aggregation, enhancing, analysis or presentation of data for vehicles or other commodities
Embodiments of systems and methods for the aggregation, analysis, display and monetization of pricing data for commodities in general, and which may be particularly useful applied to vehicles are disclosed. Specifically, in certain embodiments, historical transaction data associated with a particular vehicle configuration may be obtained and processed to determine pricing data associated with the vehicle configuration. The historical transaction data or determined pricing data may then be presented in an intuitive manner. |
| US10515380B2 |
Proactive surveys based on customer information
A context-aware computing system for delivering surveys to a customer. The choice of which survey to send to a customer may be tailored based on a click path (route), customer history, and customer interests. A customer browsing a Web page initiates the survey decision process. A control module selects a survey to send to a customer based on the criteria above and customer intent. Customer responses are then harvested from the Web-based survey. |
| US10515378B2 |
Extracting relevant features from electronic marketing data for training analytical models
In certain embodiments, an analytical application accesses electronic marketing data that is automatically generated by interactions with marketing communications. The analytical application represents the set of electronic marketing data as a data matrix, in which columns of the matrix correspond to features of the data set. The analytical application selects a constraint for a singular value decomposition of the initial matrix and performs the singular value decomposition with the constraint. The constrained singular value decomposition derives, from the initial matrix, a matrix of singular vectors having a threshold number of rows with non-zero coefficients. The analytical application identifies certain columns from the initial matrix that correspond to the rows of the derived matrix with the non-zero coefficients and selects the features corresponding to those columns. The analytical application trains the analytical model using the selected features. |
| US10515376B2 |
Systems and methods of tracking the delivery and post-delivery status for electromagnetically transmissible contents delivered via user initiated and controlled hybrid delivery modes with the interplay of a machine-readable code system
The present invention discloses a network communication system that includes a network processing center for receiving and converting an electronic or electro-magnetically transmissible data/content into a physically deliverable object and/or network transmissible content data files for carrying out a hybrid delivery of the data/content by a physical delivery process and/or a network electro-magnetic delivery process to a recipient or an ECRMA. A machine-readable code such as QR code is used in the continuous information flow among the various components of this system. The delivery status of the electronic contents and the post-delivery activities are tracked by a variety of mechanisms and the information obtained from the tracking is send back to the content-senders. |
| US10515374B2 |
Keyword generation method and apparatus
Methods, apparatuses, and articles for receiving one or more indicators indicating one or more degrees of relevance or irrelevance of one or more items or entities to advertising keywords of interest, generating one or more advertising keyword suggestions suggesting one or more advertising keywords based at least in part on whether there are predetermined relationships among the suggested one or more advertising keywords, and between some of the suggested one or more advertising keywords and the one or more items or entities, are described herein. |
| US10515367B2 |
Fraud detection in self-service terminal
A method includes monitoring patterns of commands provided by a self-service terminal controller, identifying potential fraud in the monitored patterns of commands, and suspending operation of a dispenser of the self-service terminal responsive to the identification of potential fraud. |
| US10515364B2 |
Automated teller machine with an encrypting card reader and an encrypting pin pad
A banking system operates responsive to data read from data bearing records. The system includes an automated banking machine comprising a card reader. The card reader includes a movable read head that can read card data along a magnetic stripe of a card that was inserted long-edge first. The card reader includes a card entry gate. The gate is opened for a card that is determined to be properly oriented for data reading. The card reader can encrypt card data, including account data. The machine also includes a PIN keypad. The card reader can send encrypted card data to the keypad. The keypad can decipher the encrypted card data. The keypad can encrypt both deciphered card data and a received user PIN. The card data and the PIN are usable by the machine to authorize a user to carry out a financial transfer involving the account. |
| US10515363B2 |
Software PIN entry
A card reader configured to read a smart card can be detachably connected to a mobile computing device. When the card reader is attached to the mobile device, an application installed on the mobile computing device permits the mobile device to communicate with the card reader in order to process transactions.Security measures can be used on the mobile device to prevent theft of a PIN during software PIN entry of a payment transaction. The mobile device can prevent the keypad or other input interface from displaying feedback. The mobile device can also prevent passcodes from being stolen by displaying media encoded with digital rights management (DRM) and by managing the media and user inputs at a secure server.A mobile device can securely communicate with a card reader for a payment transaction using asymmetric or symmetric encryption. |
| US10515356B2 |
Method and system for utilizing authorization factor pools
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides a system and associated processes for sharing cardholder data (CHD) between a merchant that utilizes tokenization and a second merchant that may or may not utilize tokenization. In one embodiment, the merchant, or an employee of the merchant, can use the system and associated processes to reacquire CHD from a tokenization provider system. In one embodiment, the merchant identifies to the tokenization provider system a desire to share CHD, which is associated with a token, with a second merchant. The merchant and/or the tokenization provider system can then invite the second merchant to register with the tokenization provider system. Once registered with the tokenization provider system, the second merchant can access any CHD that the merchant associated with the second merchant. |
| US10515351B1 |
GPS validation for transactions
A location verification provision is implemented to determine the location of a device associated with a user at the time of an attempted transaction. The attempted transaction includes receiving user identification and/or payment information, which is associated with the device in an entry stored in a database. Location information of the device, as well as a time at each location, may also be stored in the database. To verify that the device is located at the location of the transaction, a comparison operation may be performed. If the device is located where the transaction is being processed, the transaction may be completed. Predetermined criteria may be defined to account for possible inaccuracies in location and time calculations. |
| US10515350B2 |
Method and apparatus to trigger mobile payment based on distance
A method, mobile device, and non-transitory computer readable medium for transmitting information. The method includes determining, by a mobile device, a distance between the mobile device and another device in response to a request for the mobile device to transmit the information. The method also includes determining, by the mobile device, whether the distance between the mobile device and the other device is within a threshold distance. Additionally, the method includes transmitting, by the mobile device, the information to the other device after determining that the distance between the mobile device and the other device is within the threshold distance. |
| US10515347B2 |
Techniques for kiosk transactions
Techniques for transacting with a kiosk are provided. A user activates a remoting feature of a kiosk. A kiosk agent on the kiosk directly or indirectly causes a link to be sent to a mobile device of the user. The link when activated on the mobile device providing an interface for transacting with the kiosk from the mobile device. |
| US10515345B2 |
Payment link
In one embodiment, an intended recipient of money transmits a payment link created by the recipient to an intended sender of money, where the link contains a locator to a site of a payment provider, information about the recipient (e.g., phone number), and the amount of money to be sent. The link can be sent via email, text, IM, or other means. The sender then accesses the link, such as by clicking or tapping on the link, which launches a checkout or payment page for the sender on the payment provider site. The sender completes the payment page, and the payment is sent to the recipient by the payment provider. |
| US10515340B2 |
Systems and methods for formulating customized beverages
In various example embodiments, a system and method for determining an ideal customized beverage for a particular user and generating user-specific instructions to create the beverage. In example embodiments, a beverage request may be received by the system from a network. The system may further receive and store information about a dispenser responsible for creating the beverage and information about the user. The received information may be used by the system to determine a user-specific ideal beverage formulation. The system may further use the determined formulation to generate user-specific composition instructions and export the instructions over a network to the dispensing device. |
| US10515337B1 |
User identification system
Image-based object representation (OR) tracking of users or other objects in a facility may occasionally lose the identity associated with a particular OR. For example, in a crowded aisle the respective ORs for individual users may merge, resulting in a loss of identity of the particular OR. As the crowd dissipates, confidence in the identity of a particular OR may be low. In one implementation, image processing is used to determine OR movement data descriptive of the time(s) when the OR is in motion or stopped. Device movement based on data acquired by sensors on a mobile device carried by a user is descriptive of when the mobile device is in motion or stopped. A match between the particular OR movement data and the particular device movement data allows the identity of the particular OR to be determined as an identity associated with the mobile device. |
| US10515333B2 |
Secure product identification and verification
A device may receive an indication that a product has arrived at a destination. The product may have been shipped by an entity to the destination. The device may perform an analysis on the product to determine an attribute of the product. The device may perform a comparison of information identifying the attribute of the product and information included in an encrypted record, for the product, of a blockchain, to verify the attribute of the product. The information included in the encrypted record may be related to attributes of the product. The attributes of the product may have been determined by the entity that shipped the product to the destination. The device may determine whether the attribute of the product is verified based on performing the comparison. The device may perform an action based on determining whether the attribute of the product is verified. |
| US10515332B2 |
Managing a supply chain
Logistics data includes a plurality of shipments, each including deliveries tied to a purchase order line item (POLI). Each of the deliveries has a delivery quantity and a post goods issue (PGI) date. The logistics data further includes a plurality of logistics services for the plurality of shipments including deliveries tied to the POLI. A multi-mode shipment has a plurality of sequential logistics services. The logistics data includes a plurality of deliveries tied to the POLI, wherein a goods received (GR) quantity and a GR date is determined for each of the deliveries. The processor provides a display of the PGI date and the GR date for the multi-mode shipment. The processor calculates the goods received (GR) date for a purchase order line item (POLI) based on multiple shipments tied to the POLI and multiple GRs tied to the POLI entered at a field location. |
| US10515322B2 |
Method and system for generating occupant schedules
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the modeling of building occupant behavior. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for generating interdependent schedules in an occupant simulation model. Within schedules generated in accordance with the present invention may be included activities that require the attendance of other occupants. Disclosed are methods for distributing multi-occupant activities among other occupants of a building. In another embodiment of the present invention, personas are used to generate simulated occupant schedules from a limited number of real-world occupant surveys. Characteristics of the real-world schedules are manipulated so as to fit desired characteristics. Multiple persona models are disclosed. |
| US10515320B2 |
Biometric verification of ticket users
Techniques are disclosed for validating a ticket based on biometric data provided by a ticket holding user. A ticket controller device broadcasts an inquiry frame specifying a request for authentication data for a ticket user requesting access to a service hosted by the ticket controller. A mobile device may receive the inquiry frame and generate a response frame encapsulating a ticket identifier and biometric data associated with a user. The ticket controller receives the response frame including the ticket identifier and the biometric data. Upon determining that the ticket identifier and the biometric data encapsulated in the response frame matches a stored ticket identifier and biometric data, the ticket controller grants the user access to the service. |
| US10515318B2 |
Automated resolution of Wi-Fi connectivity issues over SMS
Wi-Fi connectivity issues are automatically resolved over SMS. An SMS message including a MAC address is received for a station having a wireless connectivity issue involving a Wi-Fi portion of the data communication network. The SMS message is converted according to an API (application programming interface) of the network manager. Error logs are retrieved according to the MAC address. Based on the error logs, a connectivity solution (or other type of solution) to the connectivity issue is determined. The connectivity solution from the network manager API to an SMS message. The SMS message with the connectivity solution is sent to the station. Subsequent SMS messages are sent to the station to determine whether the connectivity solution was effective in improving a client experience. |
| US10515317B1 |
Machine learning algorithm for user engagement based on confidential data statistical information
In an example embodiment, a machine learning algorithm is used to train an engagement score model to calculate an engagement score for a particular member indicating a probability that the particular member would increase engagement with the social networking service if provided with statistical information about confidential data submitted by other members. Member usage information is obtained corresponding to a first member of a social networking service. Then a plurality of features are extracted from the member usage information corresponding to the first member. This plurality of features is inputted into the engagement model to obtain an engagement score for the first member. It is then determined whether or not to provide statistical information to the first member about confidential data submitted by other members based on the engagement score for the first member. |
| US10515313B2 |
Predictive model evaluation and training based on utility
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a plurality of different types of predictive models using training data, wherein each of the predictive models implements a different machine learning technique. One or more weights are obtained wherein each weight is associated with an answer category in the plurality of examples. A weighted accuracy is calculated for each of the predictive models using the one or more weights. |
| US10515309B1 |
Weight based assistance determination
Described are systems and methods for determining if assistance is to be provided to a user. In some instances, a total weight associated with a user pattern may be monitored by sensors of a base surface and a determination made if an abnormality related to the user pattern is present. If an abnormality exists, the appropriate assistance may be determined based on the abnormality and provided to the user. |
| US10515308B2 |
System, method and cloud-based platform for predicting energy consumption
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a prediction system is provided. The system comprises a first data decomposition facility configured to decompose a provided time series of consumption data into a plurality of different training sets for different types of days and a second data decomposition facility configured to decompose each one of the plurality of training sets into at least a seasonal component and a trend component. The system further comprises a regression facility configured to perform a regression analysis on the decomposed consumption data based on at least the trend component and chronological information associated with the consumption data of the respective training set to train a prediction function and a prediction facility configured to estimate predicted energy consumption data based on the trained prediction function and the type of a day for which the prediction is performed.According to further embodiment, a method for predicting energy consumption data based on a time series of consumption data and a cloud-based prediction platform are disclosed. |
| US10515305B2 |
Recognition apparatus based on neural network and method of training neural network
A recognition apparatus and a training method are provided. The recognition apparatus includes a memory configured to store a neural network including a previous layer of neurons, and a current layer of neurons that are activated based on first synaptic signals and second synaptic signals, the first synaptic signals being input from the previous layer, and the second synaptic signals being input from the current layer. The recognition apparatus further includes a processor configured to generate a recognition result based on the neural network. An activation neuron among the neurons of the current layer generates a first synaptic signal to excite or inhibit neurons of a next layer, and generates a second synaptic signal to inhibit neurons other than the activation neuron in the current layer. |
| US10515302B2 |
Neural network unit with mixed data and weight size computation capability
In a neural network unit, each neural processing unit (NPU) of an array of N NPUs receives respective first and second upper and lower bytes of 2N bytes received from first and second RAMs. In a first mode, each NPU sign-extends the first upper byte to form a first 16-bit word and performs an arithmetic operation on the first 16-bit word and a second 16-bit word formed by the second upper and lower bytes. In a second mode, each NPU sign-extends the first lower byte to form a third 16-bit word and performs the arithmetic operation on the third 16-bit word and the second 16-bit word formed by the second upper and lower bytes. In a third mode, each NPU performs the arithmetic operation on a fourth 16-bit word formed by the first upper and lower bytes and the second 16-bit word formed by the second upper and lower bytes. |
| US10515296B2 |
Font recognition by dynamically weighting multiple deep learning neural networks
The present disclosure relates to a font recognition system that employs a multi-task learning framework and training to improve font classification and remove negative side effects caused by intra-class variances of glyph content. For example, in one or more embodiments, the font recognition system trains a hybrid font recognition neural network that includes two or more font recognition neural networks and a weight prediction neural network. The hybrid font recognition neural network determines and generates classification weights based on which font recognition neural network within the hybrid font recognition neural network is best suited to classify the font in an input text image. By employing a hybrid trained font classification neural network, the font recognition system can improve overall font recognition as well as remove the negative side effects from diverse glyph content. |
| US10515295B2 |
Font recognition using triplet loss neural network training
The present disclosure relates to a font recognition system that employs a multi-task learning framework to jointly improve font classification and remove negative side effects caused by intra-class variances of glyph content. For example, in one or more embodiments, the font recognition system can jointly train a font recognition neural network using a font classification loss model and triplet loss model to generate a deep learning neural network that provides improved font classifications. In addition, the font recognition system can employ the trained font recognition neural network to efficiently recognize fonts within input images as well as provide other suggested fonts. |
| US10515294B2 |
Training data generating device, method, and program, and crowd state recognition device, method, and program
At least one storage stores a dictionary of a discriminator acquired by machine learning by use of a plurality of pairs of crowd state image as an image which expresses a crowd state at a predetermined size and includes a person whose reference site is expressed as large as the size of the reference site of a person defined for the predetermined size, and training label for the crowd state image. At least one processor extracts regions from a given image and recognizes states of the crowds shot in the extracted regions based on the dictionary. |
| US10515287B2 |
Image retrieval apparatus, computer readable medium, and method for specifying an image group and extracting a representative image
An image retrieval apparatus includes a processor, and the processor performs a process including: determining an image in which a first characteristic object is included in a subject to be a first image, and determining an image that is captured after the first image and in which a second characteristic object is included in the subject to be a second image, from among a series of captured images; specifying images as an image group, the images being captured during a period after the first image is captured before the second image is captured from among the series of captured images; and extracting a representative image from the image group. |
| US10515286B2 |
Image processing apparatus that performs compression processing of document file and compression method of document file and storage medium
Even in the case of a document file including an annotation and text within a page, the file size is reduced while retaining annotation and text information. An image processing apparatus that extracts an annotation object and a text object from a page of an input document file, converts other objects included within the page except for the extracted annotation object and text object into one image object, compresses the converted one image object, and generates page data based on the compressed image object and the extracted annotation object and text object. |
| US10515285B2 |
Method and apparatus for blocking information from an image
Some aspects of the invention relate to a mobile apparatus including an image sensor configured to convert an optical image into an electrical signal. The optical image includes an image of a vehicle license plate. The mobile apparatus includes a license plate detector configured to process the electrical signal to recover information from the vehicle license plate image. |
| US10515284B2 |
Single-processor computer vision hardware control and application execution
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are presented for reacting to scene-based occurrences. Such an apparatus may comprise dedicated computer vision (CV) computation hardware configured to receive sensor data from a sensor array comprising a plurality of sensor pixels and capable of computing one or more CV features using readings from neighboring sensor pixels of the sensor array. The apparatus may further comprise a first processing unit configured to control operation of the dedicated CV computation hardware. The first processing unit may be further configured to execute one or more application programs and, in conjunction with execution of the one or more application programs, communicate with at least one input/output (I/O) device controller, to effectuate an I/O operation in reaction to an event generated based on operations performed on the one or more computed CV features. |
| US10515283B2 |
Mobile device for iris based authentication and controlling method thereof
Disclosed are a mobile device and controlling method thereof. The present invention includes a memory configured to register a first iris image, an illumination sensor configured to sense an external illuminance of the mobile device, a display configured to emit a light from a preset region, a camera configured to detect either a second iris image or a pupil image, and a controller configured to control the memory, the illumination sensor, the camera and the display and control the display to display a message for guiding a change of an eye according to the external illuminance sensed by the illumination sensor, wherein the message for guiding the change of the eye is changed according to the sensed external illuminance. |
| US10515282B1 |
Multi-hand interface method
A method for multi-user recognition for a multi-touch display is provided. The method identifies a user by using metrics from a hand touch on the display. A hand based menu system is provided on the display in response. Menu system can be oriented in accordance with the hand touch. Stored user preferences can be retrieved for the identified user. The display can recognize an additional hand from the same user or an additional user's hand. These can be used to provide a collaborative display. Optionally additional metrics can be utilized for user identification. |
| US10515281B1 |
Blood vessel image authentication
The innovation discloses systems and methods of authenticating users using vein or blood vessel characteristics. The innovation retrieves, based on an authentication request, an authentication image associated with a user. The authentication image comprises a first predetermined point and a second predetermined point. The innovation projects the authentication image onto a body part of the user and reads a blood vessel from the body part. The user orients the blood vessel such that it corresponds to the predetermined points in the projected authentication image. The user is authenticated when the blood vessel appears to connect the predetermined points in the direction of the blood flow. |
| US10515280B2 |
Apparatus, vehicle including the same, and control method for the same
An apparatus includes: a storage configured to store a data structure including first one or more feature points hierarchically listed and a contribution list including information about a contribution rank of each of second one or more feature points; and a controller configured to compare the first one or more feature points in the data structure with the second one or more feature points of the contribution list, and to determine whether to update the data structure based on a comparison result. |
| US10515279B2 |
Vehicle vision system with front and rear camera integration
A vehicular control system includes a front camera, a rear camera and an electronic control unit (ECU). The cameras connect with the ECU via respective coaxial cables. Image data captured by the cameras is converted at a respective LVDS serializer to a respective image signal and is carried to the ECU via the respective coaxial cable by LVDS. The image signals are de-serialized at the respective LVDS de-serializer of the ECU. The image processor of the ECU may process a de-serialized image signal to detect a vehicle present in the field of view of the front camera, whereby, responsive to determination that the equipped vehicle and the detected vehicle may collide, the system, at least in part, controls a braking system of the equipped vehicle. The image processor may process a de-serialized image signal to detect objects present in the rearward field of view of the rear camera. |
| US10515275B2 |
Intelligent digital image scene detection
The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and computer readable media, that identify one or more scene categories that correspond to digital images. In one or more embodiments, disclosed systems analyze a digital image to determine, for each of a plurality of object tags, a probability that the object tag associates with the digital image. The systems further determine, for each of the plurality of object tags, a similarity score for each of a plurality of scene categories (e.g., a similarity between each object tag and each scene category). Using the object tag probabilities and the similarity scores, the disclosed systems determine a probability, for each scene category, that the digital image pertains to the scene category. Based on the determined probabilities, the disclosed systems are able to identify an appropriate scene category for the digital image. |
| US10515273B2 |
On-line oil and foreign matter detection system and method employing hyperspectral imaging
A method for removing foreign matter from an agricultural product stream of a manufacturing process. The method includes conveying a product stream past an inspection station; scanning a region of the agricultural product stream as it passes the inspection station using at least one light source of a single or different wavelengths; generating hyperspectral images from the scanned region; determining a spectral fingerprint for the agricultural product stream from the hyperspectral images; comparing the spectral fingerprint obtained in step (c) to a spectral fingerprint database containing a plurality of fingerprints using a computer processor to determine whether foreign matter is present and, if present, generating a signal in response thereto; and removing a portion of the conveyed product stream in response to the signal. A system for detecting foreign matter within an agricultural product stream is also provided. |
| US10515270B2 |
Systems and methods to enable and disable scrolling using camera input
In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, a camera, at least one sensor, a display, and storage. The storage bears instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive input from the at least one sensor and determine, based on the input, whether a user is making physical contact with the device. Based on a determination that the user is not making physical contact with the device, the instructions are executable by the at least one processor to execute scrolling of content based on input from the camera, with the content presented on the display. Based on a determination that the user is making physical contact with the device, the instructions are executable by the at least one processor to decline to execute scrolling of content based on input from the camera. |
| US10515268B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device includes an iris camera; and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display screen, in which an infrared OLED is integrated, wherein the infrared OLED is configured to emit infrared light to assist the iris camera in acquisition of an iris image. |
| US10515254B2 |
Method and apparatus for acquiring fingerprint, chip and terminal device
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for acquiring a fingerprint, a chip and a terminal device, which may reduce interference caused by ambient light, temperature and a chip dark current and other factors. The method includes: acquiring a first fingerprint image and at least one second fingerprint image, where a screen luminance for acquiring the first fingerprint image is higher than a screen luminance for acquiring the at least one second fingerprint image; determining a third fingerprint image according to the first fingerprint image and the at least one second fingerprint image, where the third fingerprint image is an interference image having a same exposure time as the first fingerprint image; and performing interference cancellation on the first fingerprint image according to the third fingerprint image to obtain a fourth fingerprint image. |
| US10515245B2 |
Variable depth of field scanning and lighting devices and methods
Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, devices, barcode scanners, and software for variable depth of field scanning and lighting devices and methods. One such embodiment includes adjusting variable lenses on each of a plurality of barcode scanner scan-field lighting elements to a first depth of field and capturing a number of first images with a camera of a barcode scanner at the first depth of field. The method of this embodiment then outputs at least one of the number of the first images to a barcode reading process. This example method may then continue by adjusting the variable lenses of each of the plurality of barcode scanner scan-field lighting elements to a second depth of field, capturing a number of second images with the camera of the barcode scanner at the second depth of field, and then outputting at least one of the number of the second images to the barcode reading process. The adjusting, capturing, and outputting may then be repeated again in some embodiments for a third depth of field, a fourth depth of field, and onward, depending on the number of depths of field in a particular embodiment. |
| US10515243B1 |
Controlled-environment facility location analytics system
A location-based analytics system provides tracking and visualization of individuals within a controlled-environment facility. A plurality of sensors, such as RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) sensors, are located within the controlled-environment facility and detect individuals located within a first proximity to the sensors. An analytics system determines the identity of individuals detected by the sensors and reports the locations of the identified individuals. A user interface provides the ability to select the display of the location and movement of selected individuals of the identified individuals on a three-dimensional model of the controlled-environment facility. The user interface also provides the ability to select a three-dimensional representation for the selected individuals and various other aspects of the controlled-environment facility. The selected representation of the selected individuals is projected onto the three-dimensional model of the controlled-environment facility at locations corresponding to the reported locations of the selected individuals within the facility. |
| US10515241B2 |
Signal transmission device, signal transmission method, and signal transmission system
[Object] To provide a signal transmission system capable of ascertaining positions or the like of mounting targets with more versatile and simpler configurations.[Solution] A signal transmission device including: a power generation unit configured to generate power in accordance with a surrounding environment; a first communication unit configured to send a signal using the power generated by the power generation unit; a storage unit configured to store communication control information for controlling the first communication unit; a communication control unit configured to control the first communication unit on a basis of the communication control information; and a contactless communication unit configured to receive rewrite information for rewriting the communication control information stored in the storage unit by contactless communication. |
| US10515240B1 |
Method, system and apparatus for radio-frequency echo cancellation
An RFID echo cancellation assembly includes: a circulator defining a transmission path from a transmit module to an antenna module, and a reception path from the antenna module to a receive module; a combiner on the reception path between the circulator and the receive module; a variable reflector for applying a cancellation signal to the combiner; a controller for setting an operational parameter at the variable reflector according to an attribute of a transmitted signal from the transmit module; and a coupler defining a segment of the transmission path between the transmit module and the circulator, and a cancellation path between the variable reflector and the combiner. The coupler couples a portion of the transmitted signal to the variable reflector, whereupon the variable reflector generates the cancellation signal based on the operational parameter, for transmission to the combiner via the cancellation signal path. |
| US10515234B2 |
Method and apparatus for securing KVM matrix
A method for securing a KVM Matrix system by inserting a plurality of input security isolators, each of the input security isolators is placed between a host computer and matrix host adapter of the KVM matrix system to enforce security data flow policy that is applicable for the corresponding host computer. Additionally, a security filter is placed between peripheral devices and a matrix console adapter to enforce security data flow policy that is applicable for the corresponding peripheral devices. |
| US10515231B2 |
Method of obfuscating relationships between data in database tables
Relationships between data in database tables are obfuscated. An input data set is divided into two database tables with corresponding rows. A key field if created in a second one of the tables, and for each row, the field is populated with a value generated with a one-way function, using a unique value associated with the corresponding row of the first one of the tables as an input. The two tables are stored in a data store, so that the data in corresponding rows may be associated only with access to the one way function, and the unique value associated with a row of the first table. |
| US10515230B2 |
Locative social networking using a mobile device
Technologies are generally described for providing a locative social networking service utilizing wireless access point. In some examples, a method performed under control of a mobile device may include connecting to a wireless local area network, finding at least one other mobile device connected to the wireless local area network and satisfying a predetermined condition, and for each found mobile device, requesting a public user profile associated with the found mobile device, in response to the request, receiving the public user profile associated with the found mobile device, and for each found mobile device from which an associated public user profile is received, transmitting to the found mobile device a public user profile associated with the mobile device. |
| US10515229B2 |
Information discriminating device, information discriminating method, and non-transitory storage medium storing information discriminating program
An information discriminating device includes an information acquiring unit, an information discriminating unit, and an information superimposing unit. The information acquiring unit acquires private information to be privately used by a user of the information discriminating device. The information discriminating unit discriminates a public information portion that is also usable as public information accessible by a special majority in the private information acquired by the information acquiring unit from a private information portion unusable as the public information. The information superimposing unit superimposes the private information portion on the public information. |
| US10515228B2 |
Commit and rollback of data streams provided by partially trusted entities
A collection of key-value pairs may be maintained by a key-value database management system. Updates to the collection may be provided by a partially trusted entity. The updates to the collection may be stored in a series of transactions that are committed synchronously but associated with a second version of the collection of key-value pairs that is not immediately visible to a data consumer. The second version of the collection may initially be associated with an unaccepted state. The second version may be accepted and made available to the data consumer, or rejected and rolled back to the previous version. |
| US10515227B2 |
Encrypted collaboration system and method
A method of sharing collaborative data between registered users in an online collaboration system. The collaboration system has a server and one or more electronic user devices that are capable of data communication with the server over a data network. Each registered user is allocated a unique asymmetric key pair comprising a user public key and a user private key for encryption and decryption of shared data content. The server is able to modify uploaded encrypted data content to enable access by multiple authorized users, and is able to convert uploaded data content into alternative formats, typically to enable web-browser viewing. |
| US10515226B2 |
Systems and methods for protected local backup
Systems and methods for protected local backup. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include one or more processors and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the one or more processors, cause the IHS to: receive, via a file system filter driver, a request targeting a file system within a storage device, wherein the file system filter driver is owned by a backup application; and reject the request, via the file system filter driver, in response to the request having been issued by an application other than the backup application. |
| US10515224B2 |
Method, device and storage medium for printing information
The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a storage medium for printing information. The method includes: acquiring authentication information of a current operator of a terminal; determining whether the current operator is a legitimate user according to the authentication information of the current operator; and sending the authentication information to a preset printer associated with the terminal when the current operator is an illegitimate user. In the technical solution, when it is determined that the current operator is an illegitimate user, the authentication information of the current operator is sent to a preset printer, in order for the preset printer to print the authentication information. It can improve the security of the terminal, and thus improve the user experience. |
| US10515221B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method of distinguishing mounting of encryption unit in information processing apparatus, and storage medium
An information processing apparatus, equipped with a processor for controlling the information processing apparatus and a storage device, has an encryption unit that encrypts or decrypts data stored in the storage device and data read from the storage device, and determines whether or not the encryption unit is mounted on the same circuit board as a control unit, and changes processing for detecting whether or not a connection between the encryption unit and the control unit is disconnected in accordance with the determination result. |
| US10515219B2 |
Determining terms for security test
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to determining terms for a security test. Terms associated with an application under test are determined. The terms are filtered with words in a dictionary to generate a filtered set or wordlist. The set or wordlist is used for input to the application under test for the security test. |
| US10515215B2 |
Method and system for protecting computerized systems from malicious code by means of mutable instructions
The invention relates to a method for providing a computerized system which is protected from unauthorized programs coming from an external source, the method comprises the steps of (a) secretly, and in a manner unknown to authors of external programs, providing a non-standard compiler which mutates (modifies) each high level program to one or more non-standard mutated machine code instructions that a standard CPU cannot properly execute! (b) subjecting all authorized programs to said non-standard compiler; and (c) providing a translator which converts each mutated machine code instruction resulting from said non-standard compiler to a respective standard instruction which the CPU can properly execute, whereas any program which is not subjected to both said non-standard compiler and said translator will result in one or more instructions that the CPU cannot properly execute. |
| US10515210B2 |
Detection of malware using an instrumented virtual machine environment
Various techniques for detection of malware using an instrumented virtual machine environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, detection of malware using an instrumented virtual machine environment includes instantiating a first virtual machine in the instrumented virtual machine environment, in which the first virtual machine is configured to support installation of two or more versions of a resource; installing a first version of the resource on the first virtual machine and monitoring the instrumented virtual machine environment while executing the first version of the resource with a malware sample opened using the first version of the resource; and installing a second version of the resource on the first virtual machine and monitoring the instrumented virtual machine environment while executing the second version of the resource with the malware sample opened using the second version of the resource. |
| US10515209B2 |
Sandboxing third party components
A method and apparatus of a device for security management by sandboxing third-party components is described. The device can determine whether a third-party component supports network access. If the third-party component supports network access, the device can request a user input regarding whether to restrict the network access of the component. The device can receive a user input to restrict network access of the third-party component. Upon receiving the user input to restrict network access, the device can construct a sandbox for the third-party component to restrict network access of the component and prevent the component from performing data exfiltration. Other embodiments are also described and claimed. |
| US10515208B2 |
Isolation and presentation of untrusted data
Architecture that provides a secure environment in which data (e.g., code, instructions, files, images, etc.) can be opened and run by a client application. Once opened the data can be viewed (in a “protected view”) by the user without incurring risk to other client processing and systems. Accordingly, the architecture mitigates malicious attacks by enabling users to preview untrusted and potentially harmful data (e.g., files) in a low risk manner. Files opened in the protected view are isolated from accessing key resources on the client computer and provides the user a safer way to read files that can contain dangerous content. The protected view also provides a seamless user experience. The user is unaware that the client is operating on data in a different mode and allows for the reduction of security prompts. |
| US10515205B2 |
Systems and methods for determining trust levels for computing components
Systems and methods for determining trust levels for components of a computing application including a development framework, a trust matrix, a trust level calculation module, a visual design subsystem, and a deployment subsystem, where trust levels are associated with components, combinations of components, graphs, and blueprints, where trust levels relate to categories of use. |
| US10515204B2 |
Method and system for securing user access, data at rest and sensitive transactions using biometrics for mobile devices with protected, local templates
Biometric data are obtained from biometric sensors on a stand-alone computing device, which may contain an ASIC, connected to or incorporated within it. The computing device and ASIC, in combination or individually, capture biometric samples, extract biometric features and match them to one or more locally stored, encrypted templates. The biometric matching may be enhanced by the use of an entered PIN. The biometric templates and other sensitive data at rest are encrypted using hardware elements of the computing device and ASIC, and/or a PIN hash. A stored obfuscated Password is de-obfuscated and may be released to the authentication mechanism in response to successfully decrypted templates and matching biometric samples. A different de-obfuscated password may be released to authenticate the user to a remote or local computer and to encrypt data in transit. This eliminates the need for the user to remember and enter complex passwords on the device. |
| US10515193B2 |
Secure large volume feature license provisioning system
Disclosed is a manufacturing process and feature licensing system for provisioning personalized (device-unique) licenses to devices, with the following characteristics. The system is secure in that it uses a secure key wrapping mechanism to deliver the LSK to LPS. Another feature is that various network communication links are secured using standard security protocol. Further, application messages, license templates, licenses are digitally signed. The system is also flexible because it is configured to allow multiple manufacturers and to allow various feature configurations via the use of License Template. The system is also scalable, as it is possible to use multiple LPS hosts to serve multiple programming stations. The system is available in that the delegation of license signing capability from CLS to LPS eliminates the dependency on unreliable Internet connections. Redundant LPS hosts provide high level of availability required for high volume license provisioning. |
| US10515186B2 |
Method of decomposing a layout for multiple-patterning lithography
A method of decomposing a layout for multiple-patterning lithography includes receiving an input that represents a layout of a semiconductor device. The layout includes a plurality of conductive lines of a cell. A first set of conductive lines are overlaid by a second set of conductive lines. The method further includes partitioning the second set of conductive lines into groups. A first group has a different number of conductive lines from the second set than a second group. The method further includes assigning conductive lines from the first set overlaid by conductive lines of the first group to a first photomask and assigning conductive lines from the first set overlaid by conductive lines of the second group to second and third photomasks. |
| US10515185B2 |
Method of determining colorability of a semiconductor device and system for implementing the same
A method of determining colorability of a layer of a semiconductor device includes iteratively decomposing a conflict graph to remove all nodes having fewer links than a threshold number of links. The method further includes determining whether the decomposed conflict graph is a simplified graph based on a comparison between the decomposed conflict graph and a stored conflict graph. The method further includes determining whether the decomposed conflict graph is colorable based on a number of masks used to pattern the layer of the semiconductor device. The method further includes flagging violations in response to a determination that the decomposed conflict graph is not colorable. |
| US10515183B2 |
Integrated circuit identification
Techniques facilitating integrated circuit identification and reverse engineering are provided. A computer-implemented method can comprise identifying, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, an element within a first elementary cell of one or more elementary cells of an integrated circuit. The method can also comprise matching, by the system, the element with respective elements across the one or more elementary cells including the first elementary cell. The respective elements can be replicas of the element. Further, matching the element with respective elements can be based on a layout analysis of the integrated circuit. |
| US10515180B1 |
Method, system, and computer program product to implement snapping for an electronic design
Disclosed is an approach to implement snapping techniques that aid the interactive, assisted, or automatic placement of layout instances or groups of layout instances for generating a legal placement layout while reducing or entirely eliminating any subsequent or separate performance of design rule checking with respect to the relevant design rules, constraints, or requirements governing the legality of the instances or groups of instances placed in the placement layout. |
| US10515178B2 |
Merged pillar structures and method of generating layout diagram of same
A method (of generating a layout diagram of a conductive line structure includes: determining that a first set of first to fourth short pillar patterns (which represent portions of an M(i) layer of metallization and are located relative to a grid), violates a minimum transverse-routing (TVR) distance of alpha-direction-separation, wherein (1) the grid has orthogonal alpha and beta tracks, and (2) the short pillar patterns have long axes which are substantially co-track aligned with a first one of the alpha tracks and have a first distance (of alpha-direction-separation between immediately adjacent members of the first set) which is less than the TVR distance; and merging pairings of the first & second and third & fourth short pillar patterns into corresponding first and second medium pillar patterns which have a second distance of alpha-direction-separation therebetween; the second value being greater than the TVR distance. |
| US10515176B1 |
System and method for visualizing component data routes
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for visualizing one or more IP-XACT component data routes is provided. The method may include receiving, using at least one processor, an IP-XACT description of one or design elements including at least one target ingress interface, and at least one of an initiator egress interface, a memory map and an address space. The method may further include analyzing, using the at least one processor, the IP-XACT description of the one or design elements and displaying a graphical user interface, based upon, at least in part, the IP-XACT description of one or design elements, wherein the graphical user interface is configured to display the at least one target ingress interface, and any number of the initiator egress interface, the memory map and the address space. |
| US10515174B1 |
Interface modeling for power analysis of an integrated circuit
The present embodiments relate to generation of an interface model for performing a power analysis on a hierarchical integrated circuit design. According to some aspects, embodiments relate to a method of power analysis. The method can include partitioning an integrated circuit design into at least a first partition and a second partition sharing an interface with the first partition. The method can include generating a connectivity database of a signal net traversing from the first partition to the second partition across the first interface. The method can include determining a slew rate and a signal arrival time at the input pin of the destination cell, a capacitance load of the signal net, and one or more signal transitions and signal states on the signal net. The method can include calculating the power consumption of the circuit elements in the first partition using the connectivity database, and the determined information. |
| US10515173B2 |
Input-output processing on a remote integrated circuit chip
An electronic device includes a first integrated circuit chip including a processing functional block, and a second integrated circuit chip including an input-output (IO) functional block. The IO functional block performs one or more IO processing operations on behalf of the processing functional block in the first integrated circuit chip. The first integrated circuit chip lacks at least some elements of the IO functional block, so that the processing functional block is unable to perform corresponding IO operations without the IO functional block. |
| US10515171B2 |
Circuit description generation apparatus and circuit description generation method
According to one embodiment, a circuit description generation apparatus includes: a reduction candidate extraction unit that generates a waveform of an input signal based on a verification vector, and extracts a candidate for reducing the number of stages of shift registers, based on a minimum value of the number of cycles that last until a change in a value of a signal represented by the waveform; and a reduction circuit generation unit that generates circuit information describing a circuit in which the reduction has been made, and verifies whether or not there is equivalence in output between a circuit before the reduction and a circuit after the reduction. |
| US10515169B1 |
System, method, and computer program product for computing formal coverage data compatible with dynamic verification
The present disclosure is directed towards electronic circuit design and verification. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, source code corresponding to at least a portion of an electronic design and generating at least one coverage model for each of a dynamic verification and a formal verification. The method may further include determining a formal data set including stimuli coverage status, cone of influence coverage status, and proof coverage status and consolidating the formal data set using a user-programmable consolidation function to generate a combined formal coverage data set. |
| US10515168B1 |
Formal verification using microtransactions
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing formal verification of circuit descriptions. In certain example embodiments, the disclosed technology involves the formal verification of a register-transfer-level (“RTL”) circuit description produced from a high level synthesis tool (e.g., a C++ or SystemC synthesis tool) relative to the original high level code from which the RTL description was synthesized (e.g., the original C++ or SystemC description) using sub-functional-call-level transactions. |
| US10515165B2 |
State visibility and manipulation in integrated circuits
In a first mode, a control circuit can implement a circuit design with storage circuits in an integrated circuit by programming configuration memory bits via configuration resources. The storage circuits can be accessed for read and write operations during execution of the implemented circuit design with the integrated circuit. In a second mode, the control circuit can perform read and write access operations at the storage circuits via configuration resources or via an interface circuit and interconnect resources that are allocated to the circuit design implementation. Typical applications for performing access operations at the storage circuits include fault injection and observation, statistical monitoring of the circuit design, initialization and the distribution of certain signals such as reset signals, event sampling, just to name a few. |
| US10515164B2 |
Clock-gating phase algebra for clock analysis
A design tool can implement phase algebra based design evaluation to evaluate a circuit design with a compact representation of numerous waveforms without simulating the individual waveforms. The design tool can determine an input sequence of signal transition representations associated with an input net of a component in RTL circuit design, where each signal transition representation represents a nondeterministic transition from a previous signal state to possible signal state(s). Determining the input sequence of signal transition representations includes determining that the input sequence of signal transition representations indicates an input gated clock waveform. The design tool also can determine, based on the indicated component and on the input gated clock waveform, an output sequence of signal transition representations derived from the input sequence of signal transition. Determining the output sequence includes determining whether signal transition representation(s) of the output sequence indicate an output gated clock waveform. |
| US10515162B2 |
Method for optimal design of aquifer injection-pumping system
The invention relates to a design method for an underground reservoir injection-pumping system. According to one embodiment, provided is a design method for an underground reservoir injection-pumping system, comprising a first optimization step of optimizing a first determination variable related to injection wells and pumping wells on the basis of hydrogeological data of an underground reservoir, and a second optimization step of optimizing a second determination variable related to a pump and water pipe network to be installed in the underground reservoir, on the basis of variable values of the first determination variable derived in the first optimization step, wherein the first determination variable includes the numbers and the position data of injection wells and pumping wells to be installed in the underground reservoir, and the second determination variable includes data related to a pipe diameter distribution of water pipes and a pump specification for each well. |
| US10515161B1 |
Transient blade row flow modeling with profile-transformation pitch-change model and harmonic solution method
Systems and methods are provided for modeling fluid flow in a turbomachine. A specification of a system including at least a stator and a rotor of a turbomachine is received. The stator is coupled to the rotor via a profile-transformation (PT) interface. A flow profile for fluid flow across the PT interface is expanded or compressed based on a pitch ratio between the stator and the rotor. Flow variables of governing flow equations for the fluid flow in the system are represented as a Fourier series with spatially-varying Fourier coefficients. The Fourier series representation is substituted into the governing flow equations to obtain a modified form of the governing flow equations. The modified form of the governing flow equations is solved using a steady-state solution method to model the fluid flow in the system. The modeling utilizes an implicit solution discretization across the PT interface. |
| US10515160B1 |
Systems and methods for executing a simulation of a physical system via a graphical user interface
Systems and methods are provided for executing a simulation of a physical system that includes a plurality of objects representing physical entities or phenomena. Parameters of objects currently present in a simulation are evaluated. When one of the parameters is in an invalid state, a first multi-layer context menu is provided having multiple selectable options on each layer on a graphical user interface, where a first layer includes a highlight indicating that an object needs fixed, and where a subsequent layer includes a highlight indicating an identity of the object that needs fixed. The objects currently present in the simulation are evaluated based on a task to be performed. When a required object for the task to be performed is missing from the simulation, a second multi-layer context menu having multiple selectable options on each layer is provided. |
| US10515148B2 |
Arabic spell checking error model
Disclosed is a data driven error model that is based on error patterns found at the morphemes level. A model is generated by error-correct patterns generator and is stored in an error-correct patterns database (ECPD). The ECPD is used in conjunction with a correction candidates' generator (CCG) to provide a list of correction candidates for a given error word. The error model can learn the types and forms of the language patterns from an annotated corpus. The error model can be used to analyze the type of error and can provide candidates corrections for wide ranges of Arabic spelling errors. |
| US10515142B2 |
Method and apparatus for extracting webpage information
A method is provided for extracting page information. The method includes obtaining to-be-processed source code of a webpage; based on a preset filtering characteristic string and a preset tag matching mode, extracting target information from the source code; and generating page information in a specified format based on the extracted target information. |
| US10515139B2 |
Techniques for electronic aggregation of information
Techniques for an electronic montage system are described. An apparatus may comprise a logic device arranged to execute a montage application comprising an authoring component operative to provide a presentation surface having multiple presentation tiles, receive control directives to associate content files with presentation tiles, generate tile objects for the content files based on content file types for the content files, and store the presentation surface and tile objects as a montage. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10515134B2 |
Implementation of a transform and of a subsequent quantization
An approximation of a DCT and a quantization are to be applied subsequently to digital data for compression of this digital data. In order to improve the transform, a predetermined transform matrix is simplified to require less operations when applied to digital data. In addition, elements of the simplified transform matrix constituting irrational numbers are approximated by rational numbers. These measures are compensated by extending a predetermined quantization to include the operations which were removed in the simplification of the predetermined transform matrix. The included operations are further adjusted to compensate for the approximation of elements of the simplified transform matrix by rational numbers. If the simplified transform matrix and the extended quantization are used as basis for implementation, a fast transform with a good resulting quality can be achieved. An approximation of an IDCT employed in decompression of compressed digital data can be simplified correspondingly. |
| US10515126B2 |
Reversible redaction and tokenization computing system
A computing system for redacting and/or tokenizing non-public information of electronic documents stored in a database may include a data redaction computing device and/or a data tokenization computing device, a first database storing a plurality of electronic documents, and a second database storing computer executable instructions for analyzing information associated with the plurality of electronic documents stored in the first database. The computer executable instructions may cause the data redaction/tokenization computing device to identify non-public information in one or more of the plurality of electronic documents and/or at least one of a document type, a source of the electronic document, and a destination to which the electronic document is to be communicated. Based on this analysis, the data redaction/tokenization computing device may modify the electronic document to redact and/or tokenize the non-public information based on the computer executable instructions retrieved from the second database. |
| US10515124B1 |
Placeholder case nodes and child case nodes in a case model
Case management systems and techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication to create a case instance is received. A case model definition is parsed to determine a hierarchical data model to be used to create the case instance and a placeholder data to be associated with a case node comprising the hierarchical data model. The case model definition is used to create the case instance, including by associating the placeholder data with the case node in the case instance as created. |
| US10515116B2 |
Generation of video recommendations using connection networks
A method receives ratings for videos from a first user that is using a video delivery service. A first model includes connection networks where each connection network corresponds to a rating. The method inputs each rating into a connection network in an order. Also, parameters for the ratings and ratings other than the rating received from the first user are modeled in a respective connection network. Values for the set of parameters are trained such that the plurality of connection networks predict conditional probabilities that the first user would provide the rating corresponding to the each connection network in the order. The conditional probabilities are based on the first user providing ratings that are previously located in the order. The parameters are then used to generate a list of videos to recommend to the first user using the first model. |
| US10515115B2 |
System and method for closed-circuit television file archival and compression
Systems and methods for compressing and decompressing video files are provided. The system includes a digital recording device configured to transfer a digital video feed to a computing device. The system can be applied to the archival and compression of closed-circuit television (CCTV) files. The system includes hardware configured to store and read machine readable instructions. The machine readable instructions-cause the processor to access the digital video feed, extract a series of image files from the digital video feed, organize image files from the series of image files into a grouping of image files, compress the grouping of image files into a singular compressed file, decompress the singular compressed file, extract the number of image files from the decompressed file, and organize the extracted number of image files into a playable video file. The compression may involve use of the Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm 2 (LZMA2) compression method. |
| US10515105B2 |
Computer automatically implemented element-noun reference numeral acquiring method for acquiring element-noun reference numeral of claim-element-noun
The invention discloses a computer automatically implemented element-noun reference numeral acquiring method that acquires an element-noun reference numeral of a claim-element-noun from a patent claim. The computer automatically implemented element-noun reference numeral acquiring method has an element-noun reference numeral retrieving step and an element-noun reference numeral correlating step. The element-noun reference numeral retrieving step retrieves a claim-element-noun and/or a specification-element-noun according to a rule related to a noun-initial word and part of speech. In addition, the element-noun reference numeral retrieving step retrieves a specification-element-noun possible word string according to an element-noun determining word. The element-noun reference numeral correlating step builds a correlated relationship between the claim-element-noun reference numeral retrieved from the element-noun reference numeral retrieving step and the claim-element-noun. |
| US10515101B2 |
Determining clusters of similar activities
Determining clusters of similar activities is disclosed, including: receiving a plurality of activities, wherein an activity included in the plurality of activities includes GPS data recorded using a GPS recording device; determining a cluster of similar activities from the plurality of activities; and generating a map display for the cluster of similar activities. |
| US10515100B2 |
Systems and methods for interactive boundary mapping
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for generating interactive boundaries of service sites for a selected geographic location. In one implementation, a primary boundary enclosing a geographical region is determined. A primary layer is generated based on the primary boundary. One or more secondary layers are generated, and each secondary layer has a plurality of secondary boundaries each defined based on a service location. A union layer is generated based on the primary layer and the one or more secondary layers. The union layer has a plurality of union boundaries corresponding to a subset of the service sites. |
| US10515099B2 |
Medical clinical trial site identification
A method and system for identifying clinical trial sites is provided. The method includes receiving clinical trial data associated with a plurality of planned clinical trials. Portions of the clinical trial data are identified based on differing data sources. Relevant information is extracted from the portions. Socioeconomic data, demographics data, and epidemiological data are received and combined into a common format. Incorrect address data is corrected and the clinical trial data, socioeconomic data, demographics data, and epidemiological data are standardized. In response, an initial list is generated. The initial list includes associated principle investigators and clinical trial sites associated with planned clinical trials overlaid on the clinical trial data, the socioeconomic data, the demographics data, and the epidemiological data. |
| US10515093B2 |
Systems and methods for interactive visual analysis using a specialized virtual machine
A method implements a virtual machine for interactive visual analysis. The method receives a data visualization data flow graph, which is a directed graph including data nodes and transform nodes. Each transform node specifies a set of inputs for retrieval, where each input corresponds to a data node. Each transform node also specifies a transform operator that identifies an operation to be performed on the inputs. Some transform nodes specify (a) a set of outputs corresponding to respective data nodes and (b) a function for use in performing the operation of the transform node. The method traverses the data flow graph according to directions of arcs between nodes in the data flow graph, thereby retrieving data corresponding to each data node and executing the respective transformation operator specified for each of the transform nodes. This generates a data visualization according to transform nodes that specify graphical rendering. |
| US10515092B2 |
Structured record compression and retrieval
This technology relates to encoding data. For example, a sequence of one or more structured records as input data, at least one of the structured records including one or more field tags and associated field data. The input data may be parsed into data buffers, each data buffer corresponding to a field tag in the one or more field tags, wherein each data buffer includes the associated field data of the corresponding field tag. A control sequence specifying a sequence of the one or more fields tags may be encoded into a transition record. A state machine comprising nodes and transitions may be generated, with each node corresponding to occurrences of the one or more field tags and each transition corresponding to successive pairs of the one or more field tags. The data buffers, a representation of the state machine, and the encoded control sequence may be output. |
| US10515087B2 |
Methods and systems for searching a database of objects
Methods and systems for searching for objects. A plurality of Attributes can be assigned to each of a plurality of objects in a collection. Each of the Attributes can be assigned to a Kind. A search query can be received including at least one Attribute specified by a user. A list of Kinds can be displayed. The Attributes can be grouped into Kinds such that searching the objects to determine if the objects have a particular Attribute is not performed if the objects do not have Attributes of that Kind associated with an object to be searched. Grouped Attributes can be subdivided into smaller groupings and resulting subdivisions can be given a numerical score indicating how far a subdivision is from all or none. |
| US10515085B2 |
Consolidator platform to implement collaborative datasets via distributed computer networks
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a system may include data ingestion controller configured to format datasets to form a first and a second atomized dataset, the second atomized dataset including the first atomized dataset and one or more other atomized datasets. The system may include a dataset query engine configured to identify a portion of a dataset relevant to a query, and to retrieve query results from at least one of different data repositories. |
| US10515079B2 |
Auto tuning data anomaly detection
Automatic tuning anomaly detection is described. The context metric keys are established during a training phase based on the surrounding context of data received from devices over time. Anomaly and tuning windows are also established for metric ranges of the context metric keys. After the training phase, incoming data is correlated against the keys to identify sets of the data associated with certain context metric keys. For any given context metric key, metric data values in the associated set of data fall either within or outside the metric range of the context metric key. If they fall outside the range for longer than the anomaly window, an alarm is raised. If they fall outside the range for longer than the tuning window, boundaries for the metric range are updated. Additionally, the contextual parameters of the context metric keys are also updated over time, as new data contexts appear. |
| US10515075B2 |
Method for optimization of imperative code executing inside a relational database engine
Processing a database query. A method includes receiving a database query from a user. The database query includes one or more imperative functions. The one or more imperative functions are converted to one or more declarative query representations. The one or more declarative query representations include standardized relational operators included in a relational query language. Further, the one or more declarative query representations are optimizable by a query optimizer of the database. The database query is optimized at the query optimizer to create a query plan by evaluating any declarative query representation originally in the database query received from the user and the one or more declarative query representations. |
| US10515074B2 |
Data encoding and retrieval system and method
Methodologies are provided for generating, organizing, storing and retrieving medical records using voice recognition in combination with unique codes assigned to data elements, and include microprocessor and memory, such as non-transient computer readable medium, having stored thereon a database including vocabulary terms. Methods include receiving spoken language via a speech recognition interface, and generating on a display an output according to vocabulary terms uniquely associated with the spoken language. Data stored in the database can include records organized into specific modules having specified vocabulary terms synced with each module and unique computer code to key vocabulary terms in the database. Using an associated unique code can cause specific data field to open on display when recognizing specific spoken word or phrase by the speech recognition interface. |
| US10515060B2 |
Method and system for generating a master clinical database and uses thereof
A method and system for generating a master clinical database from disparate sources, including public databases, private databases, and data from users, correlating the received data, determining a degree of confidence in and requesting and seeking confirmation of any data matched from the correlated data. The invention may identify key time points and users from whom to seek and receive confirmation of correlated data. The invention may be utilized to create a cross-trial, cross-sponsor, clinical master database that maintains appropriate user, subject and data confidentiality and privacy and which may be utilized to facilitate study design collaboration. |
| US10515059B2 |
Time slider operator for temporal data aggregation
Calculation of aggregated values in a history database table can be optimized using an approach in which an ordered history table is accessed. The ordered history table can include a sequential listing of commit identifiers associated with updates, insertions, and/or deletions to values in the database table. The ordered history table can be traversed in a single pass to calculate an aggregation function using an optimized algorithm. The optimized algorithm can enable calculation of an aggregated metric of the values based on a selected method for tracking invalidated values to their corresponding commit identifiers. The calculated metric is generated for a current version of the database table; and promoted. |
| US10515058B2 |
Unified file and object data storage
A request to perform an operation on an object in a first storage system may be received from a client computing device via a local area network or a wide area network. Mapping data that associates an account identifier from the request to perform the operation on the object in the first storage system to a volume of a file system of a second storage system may be received. The second storage system may be mounted to perform the operation using the file in the second storage system that corresponds to the object in the first storage system. The second storage system may be mounted by using the account identifier from the mapping data. |
| US10515054B2 |
Fast and efficient multi-threaded algorithm for deleting an arbitrarily wide and deep directory tree using limited system resources
Example implementations described herein include systems and methods for processing the deletion of a directory that can include one or more subdirectories. In a system including a server having a hardware-side and a software-side that manages one or more storage systems or storage devices, a client may request the deletion of a directory, whereupon the processing of the directory occurs in a work queue and subtree queue for processing subdirectories. |
| US10515052B2 |
File system that supports both case sensitive and case insensitive directory lookup
A file system stores directories and files in a file system directory that uses case sensitive names. The same file system directory can support directory and file name lookups that treat the directory and file names in a case sensitive manner or in a case insensitive manner. The search criteria used for the lookup can be based on case-folding the name to produce a case-neutral name and on the original name with its case preserved. Search criteria can be generated for a case sensitive name lookup or for a case insensitive name lookup on the same file system directory, thus avoiding having to support separate file systems or separate file system directories for case sensitive and case insensitive file access. |
| US10515051B2 |
Data analysis supporting apparatus
A data analysis supporting apparatus according to an embodiment comprises a variable-type determining device, a variable-variation generating device, and a variable-contribution rate determining device. The variable-type determining device determines the type of each variable. The variable-variation generating device generates variations of each variable in accordance with the variable type determined and with a variable variation rule that defines a method of generating the variations of each variable of any type. The variable-contribution rate determining device calculates the rate at which the variations and analysis data contribute to the objective variable, and determines, from the rate, whether the variations should be used or deleted. |
| US10515049B1 |
Memory circuits and methods for distributed memory hazard detection and error recovery
Methods and apparatuses relating to distributed memory hazard detection and error recovery are described. In one embodiment, a memory circuit includes a memory interface circuit to service memory requests from a spatial array of processing elements for data stored in a plurality of cache banks; and a hazard detection circuit in each of the plurality of cache banks, wherein a first hazard detection circuit for a speculative memory load request from the memory interface circuit, that is marked with a potential dynamic data dependency, to an address within a first cache bank of the first hazard detection circuit, is to mark the address for tracking of other memory requests to the address, store data from the address in speculative completion storage, and send the data from the speculative completion storage to the spatial array of processing elements when a memory dependency token is received for the speculative memory load request. |
| US10515045B1 |
Computing in parallel processing environments
A computing system comprises one or more core processors coupled to a communication network among the cores via a switch in each core and switching circuitry to forward data among cores and switches. Features include a programmable classification processor for directing packets, techniques for managing virtual functions on an IO accelerator card, packet scheduling techniques, multi-processor communication using shared FIFOs, programmable duty cycle adjustment and delay adjustment circuits, a new class of instructions that use a ready bit, and cache coherence and memory ordering techniques. |
| US10515043B2 |
Smart interface card control method and apparatus through a virtualized management interface
Embodiments can provide a smart interface card control method and apparatus. Under such a method or apparatus, after a smart interface card is inserted into a smart interface card slot of a host, a virtualized management interface can be registered with the host using a protocol stack of a preset type. A virtual link can be created to connect a baseboard management controller management interface to the virtual link. A management address configuration instruction sent by the host can be received for configuring a management address of the management interface. A control instruction sent by the host by using the management address can be received, and the control instruction to the BMC management interface can be sent by using the virtual link. According to the foregoing smart interface card control method and apparatus, scalability of the smart interface card can be improved. |
| US10515038B2 |
Input/output command rebalancing in a virtualized computer system
The present disclosure provides new methods and systems for input/output command rebalancing in virtualized computer systems. For example, an I/O command may be received by a rebalancer from a virtual queue in a container. The container may be in a first virtual machine. A second I/O command may be received from a second virtual queue in a second container which may be located in a second virtual machine. The rebalancer may detect a priority of the first I/O command and a priority of the second I/O command. The rebalancer may then assign an updated priority each I/O command based on a quantity of virtual queues in the virtual machine of origin and a quantity of I/O commands in the virtual queue of origin. The rebalancer may dispatch the I/O commands to a physical queue. |
| US10515033B2 |
Device management system, device manager, relay management device, device management method, and recording medium
Provided is technology simplifying managing locally connected devices. A device management system configured to connect through a network a device manager and a relay manager that connects to multiple devices through a local communication path. The device manager sends to the relay manager through the network a first process request, the first process request conforming to SNMP, and containing device identification information identifying a device that connects to the relay manager. The relay manager acquires from the first process request target identification information identifying management information to process in the management information of a device, generate a second process request containing the target identification information, and send the second process request through the local communication path indicated by the device identification information contained in the first process request. |
| US10515029B2 |
Conversion tool for moving from block-based persistence to byte-based persistence
Techniques for facilitating conversion of an application from a block-based persistence model to a byte-based persistence model are provided. In one embodiment, a computer system can receive source code of the application and automatically identify data structures in the source code that are part of the application's semantic persistent state. The computer system can then output a list of data types corresponding to the identified data structures. |
| US10515028B2 |
Reference voltage calibration using a qualified weighted average
An apparatus and method for encoding data are disclosed that may allow for performing periodic calibration operations on a communication link. A controller may determine multiple possible values for a reference voltage used with the communication link based on an initial value. Calibration operations may be performed using each possible value, and the results of the operations scored based on the width of data eyes measured during the calibration operations. The controller may then select a new value for the reference voltage from the multiple possible values dependent upon the scores of each of the multiple possible values. |
| US10515023B2 |
System for address mapping and translation protection
This disclosure is directed to a system for address mapping and translation protection. In one embodiment, processing circuitry may include a virtual machine manager (VMM) to control specific guest linear address (GLA) translations. Control may be implemented in a performance sensitive and secure manner, and may be capable of improving performance for critical linear address page walks over legacy operation by removing some or all of the cost of page walking extended page tables (EPTs) for critical mappings. Alone or in combination with the above, certain portions of a page table structure may be selectively made immutable by a VMM or early boot process using a sub-page policy (SPP). For example, SPP may enable non-volatile kernel and/or user space code and data virtual-to-physical memory mappings to be made immutable (e.g., non-writable) while allowing for modifications to non-protected portions of the OS paging structures and particularly the user space. |
| US10515022B2 |
Data center with data encryption and method for operating data center
A high-security data center, having at least one data storage device, a host and an encryption and decryption key space. Each data storage device has a non-volatile memory and a controller chip. The controller chip includes an encryption and decryption module. The host machine operates the non-volatile memory via the controller chip. The encryption and decryption key space stores a key for the encryption and decryption module to perform data encryption and decryption. The encryption and decryption key space is isolated from the data storage device and the host machine by default so that a user who does not pass identity authentication is unable to operate the encryption and decryption module through the host to decrypt data of the non-volatile memory. |
| US10515014B1 |
Non-uniform memory access (NUMA) mechanism for accessing memory with cache coherence
According to one embodiment, a data processing system includes a plurality of processors, each of the processors being coupled to each of remaining processors via a processor interconnect, a plurality of memory controllers, each memory controller corresponding to one of the processors, a plurality of memory targets, each memory target includes one or more branches and a plurality of memory leaves for storing data, and an Ethernet switch fabric coupled to the memory controllers and the memory targets. When a first of the memory controllers writes data to a first of the memory leaves, the first memory controller sends a cache coherence message to remaining ones of the memory controllers to indicate that the data stored in the first memory leaf has been updated, such that any of the remaining memory controllers can update its cache by fetching the data from the first memory leaf. |
| US10515011B2 |
Compression status bit cache and backing store
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for increasing available storage space within compressed blocks of memory attached to data processing chips, without requiring a proportional increase in on-chip compression status bits. A compression status bit cache provides on-chip availability of compression status bits used to determine how many bits are needed to access a potentially compressed block of memory. A backing store residing in a reserved region of attached memory provides storage for a complete set of compression status bits used to represent compression status of an arbitrarily large number of blocks residing in attached memory. Physical address remapping (“swizzling”) used to distribute memory access patterns over a plurality of physical memory devices is partially replicated by the compression status bit cache to efficiently integrate allocation and access of the backing store data with other user data. |
| US10515003B1 |
Installation testing in automated application distribution
A system and method of deploying applications to networked computing environments is disclosed. Application packages and installation instructions are received by a deployment manager. The installation instructions include test instructions. Application packages are distributed in response to requests by developers and installation instructions executed on a target computing environment. Failure of an installation test provides an indication of issues with the application in the target environment. Records of failures received are stored for use by application developers. |
| US10515002B2 |
Utilizing artificial intelligence to test cloud applications
A device receives application information associated with a cloud application provided in a cloud computing environment, and utilizes a first AI model to generate test cases and test data based on the application information. The device utilizes a second AI model to generate optimized test cases and optimized test data based on the test cases and the test data, and utilizes a third AI model to generate test classes based on the optimized test cases and the optimized test data. The device executes the test classes to generate results, and utilizes a fourth AI model to generate an analysis of the results, recommendations for the cloud application based on the analysis of the results, or a code coverage report associated with the cloud application. The device automatically causes an action to be performed based on the analysis of the results, the recommendations, or the code coverage report. |
| US10514993B2 |
Analyzing large-scale data processing jobs
Methods, systems, and apparatus for data analysis in a distributed computing system by accessing data stored at a first processing zone associated with a distributed data processing job, detecting information identifying a particular child job associated with the distributed data processing job, comparing the identifying information to data stored at a second processing zone, and identifying an additional child job as associated with the distributed data processing job based on a result of the comparison. The methods, systems and apparatus are further for correlating particular output data associated with the particular child job and additional output data associated with the additional child job for the distributed data processing job, determining performance data for the distributed data processing job based on the output data associated with each of the particular child job and the additional child job, and providing for display the performance data for the distributed data processing job. |
| US10514991B2 |
Failover device ports
In some examples, a switch includes a plurality of switch ports, and a processor. The processor is to send, through selected switch ports of the plurality of switch ports, respective requests for port information of device ports of a device connected to the selected switch ports, and receive, from the device responsive to the requests, the port information of the device ports. The processor is to identify, from the device ports of the device in response to the received port information, a failover device port for a first device port of the device, and send, to the device, information of the failover device port for the first device port at the device. |
| US10514981B2 |
Memory system performing error correction of address mapping table
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device, a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) configured to store an address mapping table for an access to the nonvolatile memory device, and a controller configured to store, in the DRAM, the address mapping table that is divided in units of address mapping data, each of the units having a size of an interface of the DRAM, read, from the stored address mapping table, target address mapping data corresponding to a logical address that is received from a host, the target address mapping data including a target parity and physical addresses of the nonvolatile memory device, and perform an error correction on the read target address mapping data, using the target parity. |
| US10514979B2 |
Method and device for processing data
A method for processing data includes coding a data item to obtain a coded data item that includes a predefinable number of bits, influencing maximally k many bits of the coded data item to obtain a changed data item, decoding the changed data item by using a fault-correcting code to obtain a decoded data item, and processing the decoded data item. |
| US10514978B1 |
Automatic deployment of corrective measures for storage arrays
Proactively providing corrective measures for storage arrays includes: receiving data from a storage array, the data including one or more events; detecting, in dependence upon a problem signature, one or more events from the data indicative of a particular problem, where the problem signature comprises a specification of a pattern of events indicative of the particular problem experienced by at least one other storage array; determining whether the particular problem violates an operational policy of the storage array, the operational policy specifying at least one requirement for an operational metric of the storage array; and if the particular problem violates the operational policy of the storage array, deploying automatically without user intervention one or more corrective measures to prevent the storage array from experiencing the particular problem. |
| US10514975B2 |
Preventing corruption by blocking requests
A method and system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment implemented by a cluster of host machines, each of the host machines comprises a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (UVM), a connection manager, and an I/O controller. The system includes a virtual disk accessible by all of the I/O controllers and comprising a plurality of storage devices. The system includes a first host machine of the host machines designated as a leader node, wherein the leader node configured to confirm a second one of the host machines is unreachable; and transmit, in response to the confirmation, an update message to other host machines in the cluster. The update message identifies the unreachable host machine and causes the other host machines to block messages from the unreachable host machine and send an acknowledgement of the update message back to the leader node. |
| US10514972B2 |
Embedding forensic and triage data in memory dumps
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to embed forensic and triage data in memory dumps. Memory dump data being written to kernel memory of a computing system by a firmware interface is detected. An operating mode of an operating system executing on the computing system is activated. Hardware forensic data is generated by reading local computer bus data, firmware event log data, and memory mapped input/output (I/O) data associated with the computing system. The hardware forensic data is then stored in a memory location of the kernel memory, causing the hardware forensic data to be included in the memory dump data being written to kernel memory. |
| US10514967B2 |
System and method for rapid and asynchronous multitenant telemetry collection and storage
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for rapid, asynchronous multitenant telemetry collection and storage of multiple tenants. An embodiment operates by receiving a telemetry storage request from a telemetry application configured to collect telemetry information from a deployed application and queuing the received telemetry storage request into a gatekeeper command queue. The embodiment further operates by retrieving the received telemetry storage request from the gatekeeper command queue and publishing a decorated telemetry collection event to a global event stream by transmitting the decorated telemetry collection event to an event stream component configured to manage the global event stream. |
| US10514959B2 |
Distributed virtual local operating system stored in cloud and its method
The present invention describes a distributed operating system that allows any local operating system to run more than one cloud-hosted virtual machine. The described system uses three different server clusters: one for storing, one for general processing and other for image processing. The processed image is sent to the user over the network, all the user needs is a screen to display the final image and an input terminal as a touch screen or a mouse and keyboard. |
| US10514958B2 |
Remotely managing execution of jobs in a cluster computing framework
A device, that provides serverless computing, receives a request to execute multiple jobs, and determines criteria for each of the plurality of jobs, wherein the criteria for each of the multiple jobs includes at least one of job posting criteria, job validation criteria, job retry criteria, or a disaster recovery criteria. The device stores information associated with the multiple jobs in a repository, wherein the information associated with the multiple jobs includes the criteria for each of the multiple jobs. The device provides a particular job, of the multiple jobs, to a cluster computing framework for execution, determines modified criteria for the particular job, and provides the modified criteria for the particular job to the cluster computing framework. The device receives, from the cluster computing framework, information indicating that execution of the particular job is complete, and validates a success of completion of the execution of the particular job. |
| US10514953B2 |
Systems and methods for managing resource allocation and concurrent program execution on an array of processor cores
Systems and methods provide an extensible, multi-stage, realtime application program processing load adaptive, manycore data processing architecture shared dynamically among instances of parallelized and pipelined application software programs, according to processing load variations of said programs and their tasks and instances, as well as contractual policies. The invented techniques provide, at the same time, both application software development productivity, through presenting for software a simple, virtual static view of the actually dynamically allocated and assigned processing hardware resources, together with high program runtime performance, through scalable pipelined and parallelized program execution with minimized overhead, as well as high resource efficiency, through adaptively optimized processing resource allocation. |
| US10514949B1 |
Efficient data processing in a serverless environment
A method, system and computer program product, the method comprising: initiating a first task executor configured to: initiating a first task executor; determining whether sufficient resources are available for performing a task; detecting whether there are data items from a batch upon which the task is to be executed, wherein the data items are not being handled and not processed; subject to detecting the data items, and determining sufficient resources are available, initiating a second task executor configured as the first; selecting a data item; marking the data item as being handled; processing the data item comprising calling an external function for processing, wherein usage of the external function is priced by a number of calls; and terminating upon any one of the following: receiving an indication that the external function has completed or failed; a predetermined time passed since the data item was transmitted; or multiple task executors exist. |
| US10514946B2 |
System and method for providing an infiniband SR-IOV vSwitch architecture for a high performing cloud computing environment
Systems and methods are provided for implementing a Virtual Switch (vSwitch) architecture that supports transparent virtualization and live migration. In an embodiment, a vSwitch with prepopulated Local Identifiers (LIDs). Another embodiment provides for vSwitch with dynamic LID assignment. Another embodiment provides for vSwitch with prepopulated LIDS and dynamic LID assignment Moreover, embodiments of the present invention provide scalable dynamic network reconfiguration methods which enable live migrations of VMs in network environments. |
| US10514943B2 |
Method and apparatus for establishing system-on-chip (SOC) security through memory management unit (MMU) virtualization
In an aspect, an apparatus that includes a first security domain and at least a second security domain obtains, at a virtual machine of the first security domain, a stream identifier associated with the second security domain. The apparatus generates, at the virtual machine of the first security domain, a command to map the stream identifier associated with the second security domain to a first address translation context. The apparatus maps, at a hypervisor device, the first address translation context to a second address translation context that is associated with the second security domain of the stream identifier. The apparatus processes a stream of memory access transactions that includes the stream identifier based on at least the first address translation context or the second address translation context. |
| US10514942B2 |
Using linker scripts for loading system configuration tables
Systems and methods for using linker scripts for loading system configuration tables. An example method may comprise: packaging, by a host computer system, a first system configuration table and a second system configuration table into one or more memory image files; providing a script comprising a first instruction to load the memory image files into a memory of a virtual machine being executed by the host computer system, the script further comprising a second instruction to resolve, in view of a base address, a reference by the first system configuration table to the second system configuration table; and providing the memory image files and the script to the virtual machine. |
| US10514939B2 |
Parallel hardware hypervisor for virtualizing application-specific supercomputers
A parallel hypervisor system for virtualizing application-specific supercomputers is disclosed. The hypervisor system comprises (a) at least one software-virtual hardware pair consisting of a software application, and an application-specific virtual supercomputer for accelerating the said software application, wherein (i) The virtual supercomputer contains one or more virtual tiles; and (ii) The software application and the virtual tiles communicate among themselves with messages; (b) One or more reconfigurable physical tiles, wherein each virtual tile of each supercomputer can be implemented on at least one physical tile, by configuring the physical tile to perform the virtual tile's function; and (c) A scheduler implemented substantially in hardware, for parallel pre-emptive scheduling of the virtual tiles on the physical tiles. |
| US10514938B2 |
Making direct calls to a native device driver of a hypervisor using dynamic device driver virtualization
A system and method for providing dynamic device virtualization is herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, the computer-implemented method includes providing a device virtualization via context switching between a guest user process and a host. The guest user process has an address space comprising at least a guest kernel and a host kernel. The guest user process is capable of making a first direct call into the host via the guest kernel of the address space. The host is capable of making a second direct call to the guest user process. |
| US10514933B2 |
Virtual attraction controller
A ride system includes a first ride vehicle and a second ride vehicle positioned within a course and configured to travel within the course. The ride system also includes a control system having at least one controller and at least one position tracking system, where the at least one controller is configured to control movement of the first and second ride vehicles, and where the at least one position tracking system is configured to facilitate identification of a first location and a second location of the first and second ride vehicles, respectively, within the course. The ride system also includes a wireless network configured to enable communication between components of the ride system. The at least one controller is configured to receive data indicative of the first and second locations of the first and second ride vehicles, respectively, where the at least one controller determines a control loop for the first and second ride vehicles based on the data indicative of the first and second locations, and where the at least one controller is configured to process the data indicative of the first and second locations to synchronize one or more show elements with the first and second locations. |
| US10514931B2 |
Computing platform interface with memory management
In some embodiments, a PPM interface may be provided with functionality to facilitate to an OS memory power state management for one or more memory nodes, regardless of a particular platform hardware configuration, as long as the platform hardware is in conformance with the PPM interface. |
| US10514925B1 |
Load speculation recovery
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing dependencies between instruction operations when speculatively issuing load instruction operations. A processor may maintain dependency vectors for sources of instruction operations dispatched to the scheduler. The dependency vector may include a column for each cycle of the load recovery window and a row for each load execution pipeline. When a load speculatively issues, any instruction operation which is dependent on the load may have a bit set in the earliest bit position of its dependency vector to indicate the dependency. The bit may shift in the dependency vector toward the cancel bit position during each clock cycle as the load executes. If the load does not produce its data at the expected latency, an instruction operation may be canceled if there is a bit in the cancel bit position of the dependency vector row corresponding to the execution pipeline of the load. |
| US10514922B1 |
Transfer triggered microcontroller with orthogonal instruction set
A microcontroller includes a program memory, data memory, central processing unit, at least one register module, a memory management unit, and a transport network. Instructions are executed in one clock cycle via an instruction word. The instruction word indicates the source module from which data is to be retrieved and the destination module to which data is to be stored. The address/data capability of an instruction word may be extended via a prefix module. If an operation is performed on the data, the source module or the destination module may perform the operation during the same clock cycle in which the data is transferred. |
| US10514920B2 |
Dynamically updating hardware prefetch trait to exclusive or shared at program detection
A processor includes a processing core that detects a predetermined program is running on the processor and looks up a prefetch trait associated with the predetermined program running on the processor, wherein the prefetch trait is either exclusive or shared. The processor also includes a hardware data prefetcher that performs hardware prefetches for the predetermined program using the prefetch trait. Alternatively, the processing core loads each of one or more range registers of the processor with a respective address range in response to detecting that the predetermined program is running on the processor. Each of the one or more address ranges has an associated prefetch trait, wherein the prefetch trait is either exclusive or shared. The hardware data prefetcher performs hardware prefetches for the predetermined program using the prefetch traits associated with the address ranges loaded into the range registers. |
| US10514912B2 |
Vector multiplication with accumulation in large register space
An apparatus is described having an instruction execution pipeline that has a vector functional unit to support a vector multiply add instruction. The vector multiply add instruction to multiply respective K bit elements of two vectors and accumulate a portion of each of their respective products with another respective input operand in an X bit accumulator, where X is greater than K. |
| US10514908B2 |
Program analysis device for classifying programs into program groups based on call relationship between programs, program analysis method for classifying programs into program groups based on call relationship between programs, and recording medium storing analysis program for classifying programs into program groups based on a call relationship between programs
A program analysis device includes: a memory that stores an analysis program; and a processor coupled to the memory, the processor preforms operations of: classifying, based on a call relationship between programs in a program asset including the programs and pieces of data, the programs into one or more program groups; generating, based on data which is accessed from the programs included in the program groups, one or more first service component candidates which associates the program groups with the pieces of data; extracting, as common data, data which is updated by another first service component candidate from among the pieces of data associated with the one or more first service component candidate; and setting one or more second service component candidates generated by removing the common data from the one or more first service component candidates and the common data as a service component of the program asset. |
| US10514906B2 |
Constructing software delta updates for controller software and abnormality detection based on toolchain
Disclosed embodiments relate to generating an update package for updating software on an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in a vehicle. Operations may include accessing a plurality of attributes of a software update to be stored on the ECU in the vehicle; accessing a corresponding plurality of attributes of current software stored on the ECU in the vehicle; comparing the plurality of attributes with the corresponding plurality of attributes; generating a delta file representing differences between the plurality of attributes and the corresponding plurality of attributes determined in the comparison; and providing the delta file to the ECU, wherein the delta file is configured to be processed by startup code in the ECU that enables the delta file to execute in the ECU in the vehicle. |
| US10514905B1 |
System and method of remediating and redeploying out of compliance applications and cloud services
A system and method for remediating and redeploying out of compliance applications and cloud services uses integrated vulnerability information. The system and method may use Conda packages and compliance reports to perform the monitoring, remediation and redeployment. |
| US10514902B2 |
Method and system for updating a software program installed in an electronic device
A method for updating a software program installed in a target electronic device includes: displaying a barcode that encodes device information; by a mobile electronic device, scanning the barcode and decoding the barcode to obtain the device information; communicating, by the mobile electronic device, with an update server to download update data; by the mobile electronic device, transmitting the update data to the target electronic device through wireless communication; and updating, by the target electronic device, the software program installed therein to a new version using the received update data. |
| US10514896B2 |
Web application builder framework
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for providing a web application builder framework in a database system. A database system maintains a multi-tenant database associated with a number of users and a number of web application builder components for constructing web application components based on user input. The system displays a user interface for the web application builder framework with a selectable list of web application builder components and one or more development areas for building a web application builder based on user input. Based on a user request to select one or more web application builder components, the system presents and displays the selected web application builder components as implemented within the one or more development areas. |
| US10514893B1 |
Apparatuses and methods for pseudo-random number generation
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for improved pseudo-random number generation are provided. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a request for a pseudo-random number, selecting, by extraction circuitry of the computing device, a first parameter from a server parameter dataset, and obtaining a first value for the first parameter. The method further includes selecting, by the extraction circuitry, a second parameter, and obtaining a second value for the second parameter. The method includes generating, by transformation circuitry, the pseudo-random number based on the first value and the second value. |
| US10514888B1 |
User-adaptive volume selection
Techniques for user-adaptive volume selection are disclosed. A system receives audio input that includes a user request to a virtual assistant. The system determines one or more sound characteristics corresponding to the audio input, and applies the sound characteristic(s) to a volume selection model. The volume selection model selects a volume level based on the sound characteristic(s). The system plays an audio response to the user's request at the selected volume level. Subsequently, the system receives user input to modify output volume to a different volume level. Based on the user input, the system calibrates the volume selection model. When the system receives another audio input, the system analyzes the other audio input to determine one or more sound characteristics of the other audio input. The system uses the calibrated volume selection model to select a volume level for an audio response to the other audio input. |
| US10514885B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling audio mixing in virtual reality environments
An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following: based on a plurality of distinct audio sources visible in a current virtual or augmented reality view, provide for control of audio mixing of groups of the distinct audio sources in the virtual or augmented reality view, the groups determined by automatic grouping of the distinct audio sources based on analysis of the type of audio from each of the distinct audio sources. |
| US10514883B2 |
Multi-channel morphing digital audio filter
The present disclosure provides a multi-channel morphing digital audio filter, including methods and systems for real-time interpolation between a plurality of fixed frequency responses. Real-time interpolation may be performed simultaneously along three separate axes. Various embodiments of the present technology include receiving, in real-time via a digital filter module, at least one acoustic signal and one or more control input signals indicative of one or more corresponding interpolator values. The methods and systems may further include determining one or more filter coefficients based on a linear interpolation in an encoded space of a plurality of fixed frequency responses, generating a filter from the one or more determined filter coefficients, and applying the generated filter to the at least one received acoustic signal. In some embodiments, frequency and amplitude (i.e., angle and radius) of poles and zeros of the filters may be processed independently, and poles may be unconditionally stable. |
| US10514882B2 |
Digital audio processing system for adjoining digital audio stems based on computed audio intensity/characteristics
A digital audio processing system determines characteristics of an electronic presentation to generate a musical composition that is unique to the electronic presentation by adjoining digital audio stems in accordance with the characteristics of the electronic presentation. Embodiments enable a user to define an order for displaying images and a level of importance of the images with respect to one another. For example, the user may designate a specific one of the multiple images as a “highlight image” for emphasizing during the electronic presentation. Then, the system may arrange numerous musical segments adjacent to one another so that the intensity (e.g., energy level) of a resulting musical composition coincides with key events (e.g., a highlight image being shown) of the particular electronic presentation. The intensity of a particular musical segment may indicate a relative note structure density as compared to other musical segments that are defined within the stem data. |
| US10514879B2 |
Foldable display
A foldable display is disclosed. In one aspect, the foldable display includes a first display unit located on a front surface of the foldable display, a second display unit located on a first side surface of the foldable display, and a third display unit located on a second side surface of the foldable display. The foldable display includes a first configuration in which the first to third display units are exposed and a second configuration in which the first display unit is folded and the second and third display units are exposed. The second and third display units are configured to form a fourth display unit inclined with respect to the folded first display unit in the second configuration of the foldable display. |
| US10514877B2 |
Hinge overtravel in a dual screen handheld communication device
A handheld communication device includes first and second screen assemblies, each including a screen having an active display area and housing having a rear surface, and a side surface extending between a periphery of the screen and the rear surface of the housing and a hinge connected to the first and second screen assemblies, whereby the hinge has a range of motion of more than 180 degrees. |
| US10514874B1 |
Sheet removal determination system and sheet removal determination method
In accordance with an embodiment, a sheet taking away determination system comprises a first detection device configured to detect a sheet discharged to a discharge port; a second detection device configured to detect a terminal device positioned within a communication enabled range of the second detection device; and a controller configured to determine that the sheet is taken away if the second detection device detects the terminal device and a quantity of the sheets is less than that of the sheets before detection after the sheet is detected by the first detection device. |
| US10514871B2 |
Print management method and print management apparatus
A print management apparatus includes a memory and a processor configured to receive print data and first attribute information of the print data from a terminal, perform a determination of a first printer as an output destination candidate from among a plurality of printers in accordance with setting information and the first attribute information, generate first print data adapted to the first printer based on the print data before an output instruction is received from the first printer, and when the output instruction is received from the first printer, transmit first output data to the first printer based on the first print data, and when an output instruction is received from a second printer, generate second print data adapted to the second printer based on the print data, and transmit second output data to the second printer based on the second print data. |
| US10514870B2 |
Image forming apparatus that executes jobs, control method therefor, and storage medium
An image forming apparatus which is capable of preventing degradation of operability associated with setting of job setting information. The image forming apparatus is unable to directly edit the job setting information required to execute a submitted job. The submitted job is executed based on the job setting information. In a case where user-specific setting information corresponding to identification information on a user who has logged into the image forming apparatus and corresponding to a type of the submitted job is registered in the image forming apparatus, the user-specific setting information is set as the job setting information. |
| US10514868B2 |
Device registration to fleet service using gateway feature
Methods and apparatus for utilizing a network device manager (NDM) as an agent for printing devices are provided. An NDM executing on a computing device can be registered as a. as a maintenance agent for a plurality of printing devices. The NDM can be utilized as the maintenance agent for the plurality of printing devices by: receiving inputs related to modifying data at the NDM; receiving data from the plurality of printing devices at the NDM; modifying the data received from the plurality of printing devices based on the inputs related to modifying data using the NDM; sending the modified data from the NDM to a device management system; after sending the modified data, receiving, at the NDM from the device management system, one or more maintenance messages related to maintenance of the plurality of printing devices; and providing a notification of the one or more maintenance messages. |
| US10514865B2 |
Managing concurrent I/O operations
Techniques for a managing concurrent I/Os in a file system may include receiving a sequence of conflicting I/O lists of write data stored in a cache, the sequence specifying a sequential order in which the I/O lists are to be flushed to a file stored on non-volatile storage; determining a first I/O list of the sequence having a conflict with a second I/O list of the sequence, wherein the conflict between the first I/O list and the second I/O list is a first common block written to by both the first and second I/O lists; and performing first processing that modifies the first I/O list and the second I/O list to remove the conflict. |
| US10514864B2 |
I/O device and computing host interoperation
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media for receiving, via an external interface of a storage device, a command from a computing host, the command including at least one non-standard command modifier, executing the command according to a particular non-standard command modifier, storing an indication of the particular non-standard command modifier in an entry of a map associated with a logical block address of the command, and storing a shadow copy of the map in a memory of the computing host. |
| US10514863B2 |
Memory system and operation method for the same
A memory system includes: a non-volatile memory device; a host controller suitable for generating a cache read command for controlling a cache read operation of the non-volatile memory device and at least one other command for controlling at least one other operation of the non-volatile memory device excluding the cache read operation in response to a request received from a host; and a memory controller suitable for controlling an operation of the non-volatile memory device in response to the cache read command and the at least one other command that are inputted from the host controller. The memory controller suitable for checking out the operation of the non-volatile memory device corresponding to a command that is inputted next to the input of the cache read command, and adding a read operation command including a read preparation command or a read end command next to the cache read command. |
| US10514857B2 |
Dynamic adjusting of parameters based on resource scoring
A method includes obtaining an input factor regarding dispersed storage operational criteria and generating a set of hardware scores for hardware resources of a computing device based on at least one of: operational conditions of the computing device and the DSN. The method further includes ordering the set of hardware scores based on the dispersed storage operational criteria and identifying a set of modules based on at least one of the dispersed storage operational criteria and the ordered set of hardware scores. The method further includes determining, for each module in the set of modules, a desired adjustment based on at least one of the dispersed storage operational criteria and the ordered set of hardware scores. The method further includes adjusting the set of modules to produce a set of adjusted modules, and utilizing an adjusted module to at least partially satisfy the dispersed storage operational criteria. |
| US10514855B2 |
NVRAM path selection
A memory access request including an address is received from a memory controller of an application server. One of a plurality of paths to the NVRAM is selected based on the address from the memory access request. |
| US10514854B2 |
Conditional authorization for isolated collections
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods of conditionally authorization access to isolated collections of data. In aspects, a request to access an isolated collection of resource identifiers and relationships may be received by an application. A set of conditions may control access to the isolated collection. Upon receiving the request, the application may attempt to determine whether the set of conditions has been satisfied. If the set of conditions is determined to be satisfied, the application may provide the requestor with access to the isolated collection. If the set of conditions is determined to be unsatisfied, the application may prohibit the requestor from accessing the isolated collection. |
| US10514850B2 |
Information processing system, server device, Information processing method, and computer program product
According to an embodiment, an information processing system includes a server and a client. The server includes a storage, a receiver, and a storage controller. The storage is configured to store data and its version in a record indexed by a key for identifying the record. The receiver is configured to receive, from the client, a write request including write data, requested key for identifying a record where the write data is to be stored, and a write version that indicates a version of the write data. The storage controller is configured to replace the data and its version in the record identified by the requested key with the requested write data and the requested write version, respectively, if the version in the record identified by the requested key is smaller than the write version. |
| US10514849B2 |
Storage system including a plurality of networked storage nodes
A storage system includes a plurality of nodes, each of the nodes including a processor and a nonvolatile storage device, and a connection unit directly connected to at least one of the nodes and configured to issue commands directed to a target node. The processor of the target node is configured to access the nonvolatile storage device of the target node in accordance with a command received from the connection unit, notify completion of processing for the command to the connection unit when a processing result responsive to the command is returned from the nonvolatile storage device of the target node within a reference time period, and notify a busy state of the target node to the connection unit when the processing result responsive to the command is not returned from the nonvolatile storage device of the target node within the reference time period. |
| US10514848B2 |
Data storage method for selectively storing data in a buffer preset in a memory of an electronic device or an inherent buffer in an SSD
A data storage method and a solid state disk (SSD) are provided. The method comprises: obtaining, by the SSD, target data; determining a target buffer for storing the target data between a first buffer and a second buffer based on a data type of the target data, wherein the first buffer is a buffer preset in a memory of an electronic device which includes the SSD, and the second buffer is an inherent buffer in the SSD; and caching the target data into the target buffer. The method further includes: obtaining state information of the electronic device, wherein the state information indicates a current status of the electronic device, and includes a utilization rate of a central processing unit of the electronic device; determining whether a status of the electronic device has changed, based on the state information, to obtain a determination result; and transferring first data from the second buffer to a specified region in a storage medium of the SSD, or from the specified region in the storage medium to the second buffer, according to the determination result, wherein the storage medium is a flash memory in the SSD. |
| US10514845B1 |
Password capability using color keys for mobile device
The usage of a new key on an existing keyboard that would have the symbol of a lock on it that when used in conjunction with other keys, such as, an alphabetical key, a number key, a symbol key, and/or an alpha character key when clicked would result in showing a color keyboard on an existing cellular telephone or mobile device would help the user or owner of the telephone to create or type a complicated password to gain access to the various functions of the cellular device. |
| US10514841B2 |
Multi-layered ink object
An ink object component of a content creation application is provided that can transform an ink object into a multi-layered ink object that enables a user to move between the layers without losing access to the previous layers or the original ink object. One or more ink strokes can be received, displayed, and stored in an ink object. The ink object can be transformed into a multi-layered ink object by obtaining content objects based on recognized entities of the ink object and generating a data structure storing the content objects associated with the ink object. Conversion between layers of the multi-layered ink object can be performed in response to a designated gesture and can include displaying any of the content objects or the one or more ink strokes in place of the one or more ink strokes. |
| US10514839B2 |
Display device and display control method
A display device includes a display section, a gesture acceptance section, and a display control section. The display section has a touch panel function. The gesture acceptance section accepts a scroll gesture on the display section. The display control section allows a target screen image for display to move in a scrolling direction instructed by the scroll gesture and, when the gesture acceptance section accepts the scroll gesture for scrolling toward an end of the target screen image for display in a state where a display area of the target screen image for display being displayed on the display section has reached the end of the target screen image for display, subjects the display area to image processing corresponding to an amount of scroll instructed by the accepted scroll gesture. |
| US10514837B1 |
Systems and methods for security data analysis and display
Systems and methods are provided for improved security services. In one aspect, a method is provided for controlling an autonomous data machine situated near a monitored environment. The method comprises: obtaining security data from a plurality of data sources; analyzing the security data to generate an analysis result; determining, based on the analysis result, an action to be performed by the autonomous data machine; and transmitting a command to the autonomous data machine causing it to perform the action. |
| US10514835B2 |
Method of shifting content and electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a method of shifting content on a display of an electronic device. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying the content, setting a first coordinate value for a touch as a reference point, setting at least one shift direction determination area based on the reference point, identifying a second coordinate value for the touch, setting the direction in which the content is to be shifted based on the shift direction determination area and the second coordinate value, and shifting the content in the set shift direction. Other embodiments are possible. |
| US10514833B2 |
Contextual paste target prediction
Contextual paste target prediction is used to predict one or more target applications for a paste action, and do so based upon a context associated with the content that has previously been selected and copied. The results of the prediction may be used to present to a user one or more user controls to enable the user to activate one or more predicted application, and in some instances, additionally configure a state of a predicted application to use the selected and copied content once activated. As such, upon completing a copy action, a user may, in some instances, be provided with an ability to quickly switch to an application into which the user was intending to paste the content. This can provide a simpler user interface in a device such as phones and tablet computers with limited display size and limited input device facilities. It can result in a paste operation into a different application with fewer steps than is possible conventionally. |
| US10514830B2 |
Bookmark overlays for displayed content
Virtual bookmarks can be set in digital content to enable a user to quickly locate a portion of interest. A user can provide an input to enter into an overview mode wherein multiple pages of content are displayed concurrently. The user can navigate through the pages, and when a bookmarked page is caused to no longer appear on the display an overlay element such as a thumbnail of the page can be positioned near the edge of the display, representing the current relative location of the page in the overview. A user can select one of the displayed pages to view, or can select the bookmark overlay element to return to the current page. A user can perform an action to cause the bookmarked page to be updated, or can perform various actions to cause multiple bookmarks to be created with respect to the content. |
| US10514828B2 |
Selecting a picture of a device to identify an associated codeset
A browser device communicates via Wi-Fi with a central function device. The function device has information regarding all the various remote controls needed by the consumer. The function device communicates wirelessly with the browser device and in turn then operates all of the consumer's electronic devices. |
| US10514826B2 |
Contextual command bar
A user input is detected that triggers a contextual command bar to be surfaced. A commanding context, in an application that the user has open, is identified and a set of commands to be surfaced in the contextual command bar is identified, based upon the context. The identified set of commands is surfaced on the contextual command bar for user interaction. |
| US10514825B2 |
Image recognition result visualization over time
A system and method for image processing result visualization. The method includes receiving a job, wherein the job includes a panoramic image and image recognition information, and creating a visualization based on the job, wherein the visualization includes the panoramic image with the image recognition information layered over the panoramic image. |
| US10514824B2 |
Pivot-based tile gallery with adapted tile(s)
Techniques are described herein that are capable of providing a pivot-based tile gallery with an adapted tile (e.g., in an application, such as a web application in a browser). A pivot is code that enables selection of a subset of tiles from multiple subsets of tiles. A pivot element is an interface element that represents a pivot. For instance, selection of the subset of tiles via the pivot may cause a user interface (UI) representation of the tile gallery to include UI representations of the tiles in the selected subset (e.g., and not UI representations of the tiles that are not included in the selected subset). An adapted tile is a tile that includes a wrapper and a second tile. The wrapper wraps the second tile. For instance, the wrapper may enable the adapted tile to use the second tile to implement functionality of an aspect of a resource. |
| US10514822B2 |
Systems and methods for text entry for multi-user text-based communication
Systems and methods described for text entry for multi-user text-based communication using a portable communication device with a graphical user interface shown on a display. A plurality of text character icons are displayed on a display by an electronic processor in a center area of the graphical user interface and messages are displayed along a perimeter area of the graphical user interface. A selection of one or more text character icons in the center area of the graphical user interface is detected and a new text message is generated based on the detected selection of the one or more text character icons. The new text message is chronologically inserted and displayed in accordance with the chronological sequence along the perimeter of the graphical user interface. The new text message is then transmitted from the device. |
| US10514816B2 |
Enhanced user assistance
An apparatus, method, and system distinct from an item that provides user assistance for the item. |
| US10514812B2 |
Array substrate, display panel and driving method
An array substrate, a display panel and a driving method are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate including a display region and a border region surrounding the display region; multiple pixel units arranged in the display region in an array; a data-line metal layer arranged in the display region, where the data-line metal layer includes multiple wiring units arranged in an array, with each wiring unit corresponding to multiple pixel units in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and multiple pixels units corresponding to a same wiring unit being electrically connected to the wiring unit via transistors, respectively. Multiple first gate lines are arranged in parallel and extending in a row direction; and multiple second gate lines arranged in parallel and extending in a column direction. The first gate line and the second gate line are arranged to control a conduction state of the transistor. |
| US10514810B2 |
Display apparatus with touch detection functions and with driving electrodes shared by two more pixels in the same column, driving method for same, and mobile device with same
A display apparatus with a substrate having a long side and a short side, a plurality of driving electrodes arranged on the substrate parallel to the long side of the substrate, a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged on the substrate parallel to the short side of the substrate, a control unit electrically coupled to each of the plurality of driving electrodes and which sequentially drives the plurality of driving electrodes, and a detection unit electrically coupled to each of the touch detection electrodes. |
| US10514809B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device including a display panel providing a base surface and a touch sensing part disposed on the base surface. The display panel further includes a buffer layer and is divided into a plurality of emission areas and non-emission areas disposed adjacent thereto. The buffer layer includes recessed portions, each of which has a groove defined in a corresponding emission area of the emission areas and flat portions connected to the recessed portions. The touch sensing part disposed on the buffer layer includes conductive patterns and an insulation layer covering the conductive patterns. |
| US10514806B2 |
Operation detection device, operation detection method and projector
An operation detection device includes: first and second illuminations that irradiate illumination light from different positions onto an operation surface on which a user performs an operation, and a camera that captures the operation surface together with at least two fingers of a same hand of the user. First and second shadows of a same hand of the user are extracted from captured images obtained by the camera. Respective touch points of the same hand of the user on the operation surface are detected including when the first and second shadows corresponding to first and second fingers of the same hand have overlapping areas. |
| US10514805B2 |
Method and apparatus for data entry input
A method and apparatus for inputting data for an electronic data entry device are provided. In one embodiment, identification of an input object such as the particular fingers of a user that are used to actuate a key region is performed. The symbol associated with the actuated key region and the finger (or other input object) used is determined. In other embodiments, virtual input devices with interfaces such as QWERTY style keyboards, phone keypads, and multi-touch capable touchpads or tablets are provided in input regions. One or more video capturing devices remotely acquire actuation information from the input regions during data entry. User inputted symbols or functions are determined based on the actuations, their locations and identified input object sets that caused the actuations. |
| US10514804B2 |
Input device and input device manufacturing method
As an input device capable of suppressing the occurrence of an optical issue and of achieving sufficient strength even if the input device is thin, an input device is provided which includes a first substrate formed into a light-transmissive curved surface and having optical isotropy or uniform optical uniaxial anisotropy in plane, a first electrode layer disposed on a surface of the first substrate, a second electrode layer opposing the first electrode layer, and a space adjusting resin layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, being light-transmissive, and having optical isotropy. |
| US10514803B2 |
Pen in field force sensing calibration
A method for identifying an error in a tip status indication from a stylus includes detecting input from a stylus with a digitizer sensor via an electrostatic (ES) wireless communication channel established between said stylus and said digitizer sensor. An indication of a tip status is received from the stylus, indicating whether the tip status is in hover or touch. The tip status is verified based on input detected with the digitizer sensor. When an error is identified in the tip status indication, a notification of the error is sent. |
| US10514800B2 |
Touch panel and display apparatus including the same
A touch panel includes first touch electrodes, second touch electrodes, and third touch electrodes. The first touch electrodes include sub electrodes spaced apart from one another in a first direction. The second touch electrodes extend in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second touch electrodes are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. The third touch electrodes extend in the second direction and are spaced apart from one another in the first direction. The third touch electrodes are shaped differently than the second touch electrodes. |
| US10514798B2 |
Touch panel with fingerprint identification function and method for fabricating the same
A touch panel with a fingerprint identification function includes a cover plate, a mask layer, a flexible substrate, and a fingerprint sensing array. The mask layer is disposed on the cover plate for defining an operating region and a non-operating region of the touch panel. The flexible substrate is disposed on the mask layer and at least in the non-operating region. The fingerprint sensing array is directly disposed on the flexible substrate in the non-operating region. Through the configuration that the fingerprint sensing array is disposed on the flexible substrate, the distance between the fingerprint sensing array and a user's fingers is reduced, thereby increasing the sensitivity of fingerprint identification. |
| US10514796B2 |
Electronic apparatus
An electronic apparatus having a front touch sensor and a rear touch sensor on a front surface and a rear surface thereof, respectively, includes a display unit and a controller, wherein the controller, based on detection of contact with the rear touch sensor for a predetermined period of time or longer, enables an operation of the rear touch sensor to the display unit. |
| US10514793B2 |
Touch sensor panel
A touch sensor panel has a touch sensor portion which is provided on a substrate and includes a detection portion and a peripheral wiring portion, an antenna, a transmission line portion connected to the antenna, and a control board connected to the touch sensor portion and the transmission line portion. The transmission wiring portion has a signal wire which is provided on one surface of the substrate and connected to the antenna and two ground wires which are provided on the other surface of the substrate across a disposition region corresponding to a region, in which the signal wire is provided, and electrically connected to each other at least at an end on the antenna side. |
| US10514792B2 |
Display device and method of driving the display device
A display device includes a first display unit and a first sensor unit provided on one surface of the first display unit, a second display unit and a second sensor unit provided on one surface of the second display unit, a third sensor unit provided between the first sensor unit and the second sensor unit and a driver unit including a display driver which controls the first display unit and the second display unit, a sensor driver which controls the first, second and third sensor units, and a mapping controller which maps a position information of a touch input detected from a sensing signal of the second sensor unit into a corresponding position information on the first display unit. |
| US10514786B2 |
Touch system and touch detection method of the same
A touch detection method includes performing a detection method to obtain a signal point along with a signal value and a signal state, wherein the signal state has a positive state generated by proximity touch and a negative state by generated by impurity touch; checking a previous signal state generated by previous detection method and a current signal state generated by current detection method; comparing the previous signal state and the current signal state, and counting a number when the signal states of the previous signal state and the current signal are the same; determining if the number is greater than a threshold; and proceeding a base signal updating when the number is greater than the threshold. |
| US10514785B1 |
Active stylus
An active stylus includes a signal processing section. The signal processing section during operation in a first mode, while supplying a downlink signal DS1, obtained by modulating a pulse train signal with a pen pressure level P, to an electrode, determines whether it is necessary to switch to a second mode. The signal processing section during operation in the second mode, while supplying a downlink signal DS2, obtained by modulating a sine wave signal with the pen pressure level P, to the electrode, determines whether it is necessary to switch to the first mode. The signal processing section switches to operation in the second mode when determining that such is necessary, and switches to operation in the first mode when determining that such is necessary. The active stylus may be used with two position detection devices, one supporting only the first method and the other supporting only the second method. |
| US10514782B2 |
Active stylus signal identification method applied to capacitive touch panel
An active stylus signal identification method applied to a capacitive touch panel is disclosed. When an active stylus and a finger approach the capacitive touch panel at the same time, the active stylus signal identification method includes steps of: (a) during a first period, the active stylus emits an active stylus signal toward the capacitive touch panel according to a protocol; (b) during a second period after the first period, the active stylus stops emitting the active stylus signal and a touch sensing circuit performs a finger touch sensing on the capacitive touch panel; (c) during a third period after the second period, the active stylus emits the active stylus signal toward the capacitive touch panel again according to the protocol. |
| US10514769B2 |
Volumetric tracking for orthogonal displays in an electronic collaboration setting
Systems and methods for providing volumetric tracing for orthogonal displays in an electronic collaboration setting. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: identify a first characteristic associated with a given one of a plurality of participants of an electronic collaboration session, at least in part, using an image sensing device; identify a second characteristic associated with the given participant, at least in part, using a proximity sensing device; identify a volumetric space for the given participant based upon a combination of the first and second characteristics; and provide a user interface to the given participant. The user interface may have a set or one or more features selected, at least in part, based upon a characteristic of the volumetric space. |
| US10514763B2 |
System, terminal apparatus, method, and recording medium
There is provided a system that enables rich communication using tactile simulation, the system including: a first terminal apparatus; and a plurality of second terminal apparatuses. The first terminal apparatus transmits first tactile information that has been generated by combining first sensor information related to a first user detected by sensors and indicates a state of the first user. The plurality of second terminal apparatuses receive and output the first tactile information. |
| US10514762B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a vibration signal that indicates a detected vibration of a prescribed real object and a sound signal that indicates a collected sound from the real object, a control unit configured to synchronize the acquired vibration signal with the acquired sound signal, and associate the vibration signal and the sound signal with each other, the vibration signal and the sound signal having been synchronized, and a recoding unit configured to record the vibration signal and the sound signal which have been associated with each other. |
| US10514760B2 |
Tactile sensation providing apparatus and electronic device
A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a base, a panel having an interface surface, and a piezoelectric actuator that is attached to the base and the panel and configured to allow lateral movement of the panel with respect to the interface surface. The panel moves laterally with respect to the interface surface in accordance with bending of the piezoelectric actuator to provide a tactile sensation on the interface surface. |
| US10514756B2 |
Adjusting an electronic display based on gaze tracking
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for employing gaze tracking systems with automatic luminance adjustment devices, in particular those commonly used with the Silverstein-method. By employing the aspects disclosed herein, it can been seen that with the disclosed concepts a pupil-size detector may be employed with both a forward looking light sensor, and ambient light sensor, and an adjustment system to utilize the data to determine luminance adjustment. |
| US10514755B2 |
Glasses-type terminal and control method therefor
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a glasses-type terminal can specify one external object on the basis of a user's eyes and perform a related function to the specified object. More particularly, the glasses-type terminal according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a display unit provided at a main body of the glasses-type terminal; a camera for photographing an external environment; a sensing unit for sensing the user's eyes with respect to the external environment; and a control unit analyzing the user's eyes with respect to the external environment so as to specify an object, which is the user's eyes are facing, from an image corresponding to the external environment, which is photographed by the camera, such a function icon is linked to a preset region that corresponds to a region in which the specified object is located, on the basis of an event related to the specified object through the camera. |
| US10514752B2 |
Methods and apparatus to determine objects to present in virtual reality environments
In at least one general aspect, a method can include detecting an interaction with a first object in a virtual reality (VR) environment, producing first contextual information based on user interaction with the first object, determining a second object to display in the VR environment based on the first contextual information, and presenting the second object in the VR environment. The interaction of the user may include at least one of a movement, a speech, or a physiological trait of the user. |
| US10514748B2 |
Reactive power management for non-volatile memory controllers
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided that can reduce power consumption of memory controllers in response to memory command backlog in various situations. A data storage device includes a plurality of sets of non-volatile memory (NVM) devices, a central controller, and a plurality of channel controllers. Each channel controller is coupled to a distinct set of the plurality of sets of NVM devices. Each channel controller includes a command queue configured to store pending memory commands and provide backlog information. The central controller is configured to receive the backlog information of the command queues of the plurality of channel controllers, and adjust a clock frequency of the central controller and one or more clock frequencies of the plurality of channel controllers based on the backlog information such that the pending memory commands in each of the command queues are below a predetermined threshold level. |
| US10514739B2 |
Power over ethernet management devices and connection between ethernet devices
In one embodiment, a connection is maintained between a pair of ethernet ports that have circuitry connected in series with the ports and receiving power-over-ethernet (PoE) from one of the ports, by providing a controllable bypass circuit coupled to the pair of ethernet ports in parallel with the circuitry receiving power-over-ethernet, sensing a preselected condition, and opening and closing the bypass circuit in response to the presence or absence of the preselected condition. Power sourcing equipment (PSE) may supply the one of the ports with power over ethernet, and the circuitry may transports data between the pair of ethernet ports. The circuitry may also supply the switch with a control signal in response to the detection of the preselected condition. |
| US10514733B1 |
Computer case
A computer case including a frame, a motherboard stand and a motherboard extension stand is provided. The frame includes a front plate, a rear plate, a top plate and a bottom plate. The motherboard stand is adjacent to the top plate and the rear plate. The motherboard extension stand is connected to the motherboard stand and has a first position or a second position. When the motherboard extension stand is located at the first position, the motherboard extension stand and the motherboard stand are disposed in parallel, and two sides of the motherboard extension stand are respectively connected to the motherboard stand and the front plate. When the motherboard extension stand is located at the second position, the motherboard extension stand is parallel to the front plate and the rear plate, and located between the front plate and the rear plate. |
| US10514724B2 |
Foldable display neutral axis management with thin, high modulus layers
A foldable display of a computing device includes a back stiffening layer, a transparent frontplate layer, a transparent cover window layer, and an OLED display layer disposed between the back stiffening layer and the transparent frontplate layer. The OLED display layer characterized by a Young's modulus that is lower than the Young's modulus of the transparent frontplate layer and that is lower than the Young's modulus of the back stiffening layer; a neutral plane of the foldable display is located within the OLED display layer. |
| US10514721B2 |
Validation of clock to provide security for time locked data
A computational device receives an input/output (I/O) operation directed to a data set. In response to determining that there is a time lock on the data set, a determination is made as to whether a clock of the computational device is providing a correct time. In response to determining that the clock of the computational device is not providing the correct time, the I/O operation is restricted from accessing the data set. In response to determining that the clock of the computational device is providing the correct time, a determination is made from one or more time entries of the time lock whether to provide the I/O operation with access to the data set. |
| US10514720B1 |
Hitless switching when generating an output clock derived from multiple redundant input clocks
A phase locked loop (PLL) includes a multiplexer (MUX), a phase detector, a filter block, an oscillator, a frequency divider, and a clock switch controller, and achieves hitless switching between a primary clock and a redundant clock. The clock switch controller, upon detecting a condition requiring switching from the primary clock to the redundant clock, is operable to restart the feedback divider synchronously with respect to the redundant clock, and derive the output of the PLL from the redundant clock. The PLL further includes a delay block to process delayed phase error signals generated by the phase detector. The PLL performs hitless clock switching in the event of input clock loss or in response to a command to switch input clocks. The PLL further includes circuitry for estimating and cancelling residual phase errors. |
| US10514719B2 |
System and method for synchronization among clocks in a wireless system
A system and method for synchronization among clocks within a wireless system is presented. The method can comprise sending a gong signal comprising a gong signal time to the clocks when a fixed amount of time elapses; at each clock, when the gong signal is received and when the gong signal time is not equal to the clock time, setting the clock time to the gong signal time; and at each clock, when the gong signal is not received, setting the clock time to an estimated time; and learning a skew. In one aspect, a Gaussian distribution fitting technique is used for learning and for calculating the estimated time. |
| US10514713B2 |
Mailbox data storage system
A mailbox data storage mechanism for a remote device in a heating, ventilation and air conditioning environment. The mechanism, as a part of a gateway device and acting as a citizen of the heating, ventilation and air conditioning environment, may collect system information regularly and maintain a copy of the latest data locally which can be a response to external access requests in time at any moment. The mechanism may limit the latency for external access and improve user experience. The mechanism may help satisfy multiple interfaces. |
| US10514711B2 |
Flight control using computer vision
A flight control operation of a reference aerial vehicle is performed. For example, an image captured by an image sensor of the reference aerial vehicle is received. A target is detected in the image. A three-dimensional relative location of the target with respect to the reference aerial vehicle is determined based on the image. The flight control operation is performed based on the three-dimensional relative location of the target with respect to the reference aerial vehicle. |
| US10514710B2 |
Unmanned aerial vehicle alignment system
Herein is disclosed an unmanned aerial vehicle alignment system comprising one or more image sensors, configured to obtain an image of a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and provide to one or more processors image data corresponding to the obtained image; one or more processors, configured to detect from the image data image positions of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles; derive a target position based on a relationship between an image position and a target alignment; and determine an adjustment instruction to direct an unmanned aerial vehicle toward the target position. |
| US10514709B2 |
Airborne relays in cooperative-MIMO systems
An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) comprises a situational awareness system coupled to at least one onboard sensor and senses the location of other UAVs. A cooperative Radio Access Network (RAN)-signal processor is configured to process RAN signals cooperatively with at least one other UAV to produce RAN performance criteria. A flight controller provides autonomous navigation control of the UAV's flight based on the relative spatial locations of other UAVs and the RAN performance criteria, which operates within predetermined boundaries of navigation criteria. The UAV can employ mitigation tactics against one or more radio devices identified as a threat and may coordinate other UAVs to conduct such mitigations. |
| US10514705B2 |
Constraint augmentation in a navigational system
A navigation system for a host vehicle is provided. The system may comprise at least one processing device programmed to receive, from a camera, a plurality of images representative of an environment of the host vehicle; analyze the plurality of images to identify a navigational state associated with the host vehicle; determine a first predefined navigational constraint implicated by at least one aspect of the navigational state; identify, based on analysis of the plurality of images, a presence of at least one navigational constraint augmentation factor; determine a second navigational constraint based on identification of the at least one navigational constraint augmentation factor; determine, based on the identified navigational state, a navigational action for the host vehicle satisfying the second navigational constraint; and cause at least one adjustment of a navigational actuator of the host vehicle in response to the determined navigational action. |
| US10514701B2 |
Self-propelled surface treating device
A self-propelled surface treating device, in particular a cleaning robot, with a device housing and a collision detection device for detecting a collision between the surface treating device and an obstacle, wherein the collision detection device has at least one touch-sensitive contact sensor. In order to protect the surface treating device against impacts in the vertical direction, it is proposed that the touch-sensitive contact sensor be a vertical contact sensor, which is arranged on the device housing in such a way that its detection area is vertically aligned during a movement with the surface treating device conventionally oriented, so that the vertical contact sensor is configured to detect a force acting vertically on the surface treating device. |
| US10514700B2 |
System and method for managing a vehicle storage area
An autonomous system for managing a vehicle storage area includes a control module configured to communicate, via an application program, with an autonomous yard truck. The control module instructs and facilitates the autonomous yard truck to move, dock, and/or store a trailer in the vehicle storage area. The autonomous yard truck includes a cab-less truck having a first end including a first trailer hookup and a second end including a second trailer hookup, a first set of sensors configured to position the autonomous yard truck in the vehicle storage area, a second set of sensors configured to maneuver the trailer, and a third set of sensors configured to prevent the autonomous truck from colliding with an object. |
| US10514699B2 |
Apparatus, method and computer program for enabling charging of a vehicle
An apparatus (1), method and computer program wherein the apparatus (1) comprises: processing circuitry (5); and memory circuitry (7) including computer program code (11); the memory circuitry (7) and the computer program code (11) configured to, with the processing circuitry (7), cause the apparatus (1) at least to perform: obtaining information from a solar powered vehicle (31) wherein the information comprises at least a current location of the solar powered vehicle (31); obtaining information (25) relating to distribution of solar power in a predetermined area; using the obtained information to determine a solar power charging strategy (27); and enabling the solar powered vehicle (31) to access the solar power charging strategy (27). |
| US10514698B2 |
Route guidance device and route guidance method
A route guidance unit includes: a change determination unit configured to determine whether the host vehicle should change the travel lane to another lane so as to travel toward a junction or an intersection on the travel route; a road determination unit configured to determine whether a road between the position of the host vehicle and the junction or the intersection meets road conditions; and a guide unit configured to provide guidance to change lanes, wherein, when the change determination unit determines that the host vehicle should change the travel lane to the other lane, and the road determination unit determines that the road between the position of the host vehicle and the junction or the intersection meets the road conditions, the guide unit changes a point to provide the guidance depending on the road conditions. |
| US10514695B2 |
Driver assisting system
A driver assisting system for a vehicle that is capable of operating in an autonomous drive mode and a manual drive mode is provided. The driver assisting system includes: an autonomous drive apparatus that controls the vehicle during the autonomous drive mode; a navigation apparatus; a detector that obtains information associated with an eagerness of the driver; an eagerness determiner that determines; and a controller that switches between the autonomous drive mode and the manual drive mode. The navigation apparatus is configured to initially suggest an original route, suggest an alternative route, and suggest a fastest route when the vehicle deviates from the original route and the eagerness determiner determines that the driver is in the high eagerness state. The controller is configured to set the autonomous drive mode, maintain the autonomous drive mode, and switch to the manual drive mode. |
| US10514694B1 |
System and method for classifying agents based on agent movement patterns
Described is a system and method for the classification of agents based on agent movement patterns. In operation, the system receives position data of a moving agent from a camera or sensor. Motion data of the moving agent is then extracted and used to generate a predicted future motion of the moving agent using a set of pre-calculated Echo State Networks (ESN). Each ESN represents an agent classification and generates a predicted future motion. A prediction error is generated for each ESN by comparing the predicted future motion for each ESN with actual motion data. Finally, the agent is classified based on the ESN having the smallest prediction error. |
| US10514689B2 |
Remote control methods and systems
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a first communication module, a second communication module, and one or more processors. The first communication module is configured to directly receive control data from a controlling terminal via a first communication link and the control data is used to control operations of the UAV. The second communication module is configured to transmit feedback data to a monitoring terminal via a second communication link. The monitoring terminal is located remotely from the UAV. The one or more processors are, individually or collectively, configured to terminate and reactivate the first wireless communication link based on one or more predetermined criteria. |
| US10514686B2 |
Operation support system, operation support device, and operation support method
An operation support system for supporting an operation to each facility installed in a plant, the operation support system may include, but is not limited to, a data storage that stores historical data which represent information regarding operations performed to the facility as history, and at least one operation support device portable by a field operator, wherein the operation support device may include a position information acquirer configured to acquire a current position of the operation support device, and to output current position information, an inspection information processor configured to add information regarding the operation performed to the facility, and to output the current position information regarding position where the operation was performed to at least the facility that is associated with the historical data to data storage, and an operation supporter configured to represent information regarding the operation performed to the facility as operation information based on the historical data, and to enable one or more further functions regarding the operation associated with the operation information to be executed. |
| US10514685B2 |
Automatic recipe stability monitoring and reporting
Systems and methods for monitoring stability of a wafer inspection recipe over time are provided. One method includes collecting inspection results over time. The inspection results are generated by at least one wafer inspection tool while performing the wafer inspection recipe on wafers at different points in time. The method also includes identifying abnormal variation in the inspection results by comparing the inspection results generated at different times to each other. In addition, the method includes determining if the abnormal variation is attributable to the wafers, the wafer inspection recipe, or one or more of the at least one wafer inspection tool thereby determining if the wafer inspection recipe is stable over time. |
| US10514678B2 |
Method for leveling a 3-D printing platform and a 3-D platform with adjustable level
An adjustable level 3-D printing platform includes a platform, three support posts, and an adjusting component by which heights of the three support posts are adjustable. The bottom of the build platform includes at least one socket to engage with a ball end of one of the three support posts, thereby enabling two point leveling. The adjusting component is configured to simultaneously adjust a height of the at least three support posts using a first arm and a second arm, each connected to the build platform at respective pivot points and configured to apply respective clamping forces to the support posts. The printing platform further includes at least one sensor leveling system that deploys a probe, measures a relative probe state, and compares the measurement to a predetermined value. During the leveling processes, the 3-D printer is configured to provide sensory feedback. |
| US10514677B2 |
Frameworks and methodologies configured to assist configuring devices supported by a building management system
Described herein are frameworks and methodologies configured to assist configuring devices supported by a building management system. Embodiments of the invention have been particularly developed to allow commissioning of devices, such as HVAC components, to be performed more efficiently in the field. While some embodiments will be described herein with particular reference to that application, it will be appreciated that the invention is not limited to such a field of use, and is applicable in broader contexts. |
| US10514668B2 |
Graphical process variable trend monitoring in a process control system using a navigation pane
A process control monitoring system for a process control plant uses graphic trend symbols to assist in detecting and monitoring trends of process variables within the process control plant. A graphic display application within the process control monitoring system may implement and display each graphic trend symbol to graphically indicate or encapsulate current trend and value information of a process variable within the process control plant. The graphic display application may display the graphic trend symbol in a spatially realistic location within a graphical representation of the process control plant while maintaining the hierarchical structure or each hierarchical level of the process plant. The graphic display application may also include a navigation pane and a zoom feature that enable a user to quickly drill down through tend data to obtain more information and to support problem identification and diagnosis tasks. |
| US10514662B1 |
Oxygen mixing and delivery
An adaptive gas mixture controller system. A pulse oximeter interface receives pulse oximeter data. A gas blender interface communicates with a separate externally connected gas blender. A processor receives pulse oximeter data via the pulse oximeter interface and outputs data to the gas blender interface for adaptive feedback control of the gas mixture based upon the SpO2 level signals from the pulse oximeter interface. When the processor receives data from the gas blender indicating that the gas mixture has been manually changed, enters a manual override mode and halts sending adaptive feedback control signals to the gas blender. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract. |
| US10514659B2 |
Movement with power reserve extension
A timepiece movement is provided, including a first regulating member and a first escapement connected by a first train to a first energy source, where the first train, the first escapement, the first regulating member, and the first energy source together define a first assembly; a second regulating member and a second escapement connected by a second train to a second energy source, where the second train, the second escapement, the second regulating member, and the second energy source together define a second assembly; at least one differential gear configured to ensure a kinematic connection between the first and the second assemblies; a display of the current time; and a mechanism for stopping and allowing operation of one of the regulating members, where the differential gear carries the display to display the current time regardless of which of the regulating members is operating. |
| US10514657B2 |
Selection method for additives in photopolymers
The invention relates to a method for selecting compounds which can be used as additives in photopolymer formulations for producing light holographic media, and to photopolymer formulations which contain at least one softener which are selected according to the claimed method. The invention also relates to the use of photopolymer formulations for producing holographic media. |
| US10514656B2 |
Drum cartridge and development cartridge capable of suppressing variation in position of electrical contact surface
A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame. |
| US10514649B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory is configured to store information related to a recording medium type detected by a detector in the past. The controller is configured to control a feeder so as to prevent feeding of a recording medium from starting, when a printing operation is started in a first mode, in a case that a recording medium type set through a setting unit and a recording medium type discriminated based on the information stored in the memory do not match with each other. |
| US10514648B2 |
Image forming apparatus and toner amount calculating method
An exposure device irradiates a photoconductor with light on the basis of an exposure signal and thereby forms an electrostatic latent image. A toner amount calculating unit (a) determines a distribution pattern of the electrostatic latent image on the basis of the exposure signal, (b) determines an electric field variation level of a target pixel, (c) determines an electric field intensity of the target pixel on the basis of a value of the target pixel in the distribution pattern and the electric field variation level, and (d) determines a toner consumption amount corresponding to the electric field intensity. Further, using spatial filters independently of each other in a primary scanning direction and in a secondary scanning direction, the toner amount calculating unit determines the electric field variation level on the basis of (a) the distribution pattern or (b) the exposure signal. |
| US10514641B1 |
Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a developing system, a drum, and a processor. The developing system includes a developing sleeve that is rotatable in a forward direction and a reverse direction and rotates in the forward direction to cause a developer toner filled in a container to adhere to a surface, and a blade that removes a part of the developer toner adhered to the surface of the developing sleeve. The drum receives a toner contained in the developer on the surface of the developing sleeve, and forms a toner image on a transfer belt used to transfer the toner image to the printing medium. The processor recognizes a temperature of the developing system when an operation of the developing system is stopped, determines a reverse rotation amount of the developing sleeve based on the recognized temperature, and reversely rotates the developing sleeve based on the reverse rotation amount. |
| US10514634B2 |
Image forming device have a reducing element reduces an amount of current to a face-forming member upstream of a transfer region
An image forming device includes an image carrier, a transfer device, a face-forming member, and a reducing element. The image carrier carries an image. The transfer device is disposed in contact with the image carrier, transports a recording medium, and applies a transfer voltage to a transfer region between the transfer device and the image carrier to transfer the image on the image carrier to the recording medium. The face-forming member is disposed in contact with a back face of the image carrier further upstream than the transfer region, is provided grounded along a direction intersecting the movement direction of the image carrier, and includes a conductive member forming a movement track face of the image carrier leading to the transfer region. The reducing element is provided on a current path going through the face-forming member, and reduces an amount of current leading from the face-forming member to ground. |
| US10514632B2 |
Method of remanufacturing a toner cartridge
A method of remanufacturing a toner cartridge includes installing a modified end cap in which a portion of a drive assembly for an internal toner seal removal mechanism has been disabled. With the modified end cap installed, the toner cartridge may be post tested without removing the internal toner seal. When the post test is complete the modified end cap is removed and a non-modified end cap with a functional drive assembly is installed in its place. |
| US10514628B2 |
Developing device including a resin-made regulating blade
A developing device includes a rotatable developing member, a resin-made regulating blade, and a resin-made developing device frame including at least a mounting portion. The regulating blade is fixed, in a state that the regulating blade is flexed, in a region of the mounting portion corresponding to a maximum image region of an image bearing member so that a gap between the rotatable developing member and the regulating blade falls within a predetermined range over a rotational axis direction of the rotatable developing member. The mounting portion is provided with a rib which includes a portion projecting from the mounting portion and extending along a direction parallel to the rotational axis direction of the rotatable developing member and which is formed over an entirety of a region of the mounting portion corresponding to the maximum image region of the image bearing member. |
| US10514627B2 |
Image forming apparatus and control method of image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus including a photoconductor and a light emitting unit further includes a generating unit configured to generate correction data used for correcting a shift in the sub-scanning direction of a latent image to be formed on the photoconductor; a correcting unit configured to correct image data based on the correction data; and a control unit configured to control light emission of the light emitting unit so as to form the latent image on the photoconductor. The generating unit is configured to generate the correction data based on configuration information of the light emitting unit, information indicating time required for causing a plurality of light emitting elements to emit light, and information indicating a rotation speed of the photoconductor. |
| US10514623B2 |
Electrostatic charge image developing toner, electrostatic charge image developer, and toner cartridge
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: a toner particle that contains a releasing agent, that has an exposed portion in which the releasing agent is exposed on a surface, and in which a proportion of the exposed portion occupying a surface, which is obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis is 1 atom % or more and 20 atom % or less; and a strontium titanate particle that is externally added to the toner particle, that is doped with a metal element other than titanium and strontium, and in which an average primary particle diameter is 10 nm or more and 100 nm or less. |
| US10514621B2 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, image forming apparatus, and imide compound
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive substrate; a photosensitive layer provided on the conductive substrate; and an undercoating layer that is provided between the conductive substrate and the photosensitive layer and includes a charge transport material containing at least one of imide compounds represented by Formula (1) or (2): (in Formulas (1) and (2), R10, R11, R20, or R21 independently represents a group represented by Formula (3) or (4) where X represents a monovalent organic group having at least one of an alkyl group, an alkylene group, an ether group, an ester group, and a keto group, a halogen atom, a nitro group, an aralkyl group, or an aryl group, Y represents a sulfur atom or an oxygen atom, n represents an integer of 0 to 2, and when n represents 2, two X's may be the same or different), and an imide compound is represented by Formula (1A) where Ar represents an aromatic group having 6 to 18 carbon atoms except for a tetravalent perylene group, X1 and X2 each independently represent a nitrogen atom or a substituted or unsubstituted carbon atom, Y1 and Y2 each independently represent an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a selenium atom, or NH, and R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group: |
| US10514619B2 |
Sensor arrangement for a lithography system, lithography system, and method for operating a lithography system
The disclosure provides a sensor arrangement for sensing a position of an optical element in a lithography system. The sensor arrangement includes: a first capacitive sensor device having a position-dependent variable first sensor capacitance that can be sensed using a first excitation signal; a second capacitive sensor device having a position-dependent variable second sensor capacitance that can be sensed using a second excitation signal; and a control device configured to produce the first and second excitation signals so that charges present on a parasitic capacitance associable with the first sensor device are at least partially compensated for by charges that are present on a parasitic capacitance associable with the second sensor device via a signal path outside the first and/or the second excitation signal path. |
| US10514617B2 |
Exposure apparatus, manufacturing method of flat-panel display, device manufacturing method, and exposure method
A liquid crystal exposure apparatus is equipped with: a substrate holder that is disposed below a projection optical system and holds a substrate; a first drive section that moves the substrate holder along an XY plane; heads that measures the position information of the substrate holder; head stages that support the heads and are movable within the XY plane; and a second drive section that moves the head stages in the X-axis direction and the Y-axis direction, and the second drive section moves the head stages in the X-axis direction or the Y-axis direction when the substrate holder is moved in the X-axis direction or the Y-axis direction by the first drive section. |
| US10514613B2 |
Pattern modification and patterning process
A pattern modification method and a patterning process are provided. The method includes extracting a first pattern and a second pattern to be respectively transferred to a first target portion and a second target portion of a resist layer. The method also includes obtaining regional information of the first target portion and the second target portion. The method includes determining a first desired focus position for transferring the first pattern based on the regional information. In addition, the method includes determining a second desired focus position for transferring the second pattern based on the regional information. The method includes modifying one or both of the first pattern and the second pattern. As a result, focus positions of the first pattern and the second pattern are shifted to be substantially and respectively positioned at the first desired focus position and the second desired focus position during an exposure operation. |
| US10514612B2 |
Method and system for overlay control
A method for overlay monitoring and control is introduced in the present disclosure. The method includes selecting a group of patterned wafers from a lot using a wafer selection model; selecting a group of fields for each of the selected group of patterned wafers using a field selection model; selecting at least one point in each of the selected group of fields using a point selection model; measuring overlay errors of the selected at least one point on a selected wafer; forming an overlay correction map using the measured overlay errors on the selected wafer; and generating a combined overlay correction map using the overlay correction map of each selected wafer in the lot. |
| US10514610B2 |
Lithography patterning with a gas phase resist
Disclosed is an apparatus for lithography patterning. The apparatus includes a substrate stage configured to hold a substrate coated with a deposition enhancement layer (DEL), a radiation source for generating a patterned radiation towards a surface of the DEL, and a supply pipe for flowing an organic gas near the surface of the DEL, wherein elements of the organic gas polymerize upon the patterned radiation, thereby forming a resist pattern over the DEL. |
| US10514609B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and method for preventing peripheral exposure of a substrate
A lithographic apparatus (10) and method for preventing exposure of a peripheral portion (P) of a substrate (S). An edge mask (M) has a radial concave edge (E) that extends over less than half a circle arch. The edge mask (M) is connected to a mask carrier (4) that circumnavigates the projection system (2) to adjust a tangential coordinate (Φ) and a radial coordinate (R) of the edge mask (M) with respect to the optical axis (A) of the projection system (2) for inserting the edge mask (M) at a variable distance into the beam of radiation (B). The tangential and radial positions (Φ,R) of the edge mask (M) are coordinated with a changing position (X,Y) of the substrate (S) to prevent exposure of the peripheral portion (P) of the substrate (S) during exposure of the target region (T). |
| US10514603B2 |
Photoresist and method
Shrinkage and mass losses are reduced in photoresist exposure and post exposure baking by utilizing a small group which will decompose. Alternatively a bulky group which will not decompose or a combination of the small group which will decompose along with the bulky group which will not decompose can be utilized. Additionally, polar functional groups may be utilized in order to reduce the diffusion of reactants through the photoresist. |
| US10514599B2 |
Imprint apparatus and method of manufacturing article
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus which forms a relief pattern in an imprint material on a substrate using a mold, the apparatus including a curing unit configured to cure the imprint material, a moving unit configured to relatively move the mold and the substrate, a detection unit configured to detect a pattern of light reflected by the mold and light reflected by the substrate, and a processing unit configured to obtain information on a separation state of the mold and the cured imprint material on the substrate based on the pattern detected by the detection unit while separating the mold from the imprint material by widening, using the moving unit, an interval between the mold and the substrate. |
| US10514598B2 |
Vacuum-integrated hardmask processes and apparatus
Vacuum-integrated photoresist-less methods and apparatuses for forming metal hardmasks can provide sub-30 nm patterning resolution. A metal-containing (e.g., metal salt or organometallic compound) film that is sensitive to a patterning agent is deposited on a semiconductor substrate. The metal-containing film is then patterned directly (i.e., without the use of a photoresist) by exposure to the patterning agent in a vacuum ambient to form the metal mask. For example, the metal-containing film is photosensitive and the patterning is conducted using sub-30 nm wavelength optical lithography, such as EUV lithography. |
| US10514597B2 |
Lithography mask with both transmission-type and reflective-type overlay marks and method of fabricating the same
A lithography mask includes a substrate that contains a low thermal expansion material (LTEM). A reflective structure is disposed over a first side of the substrate. An absorber layer is disposed over the reflective structure. The absorber layer contains one or more first overlay marks. A conductive layer is disposed over a second side of the substrate, the second side being opposite the first side. The conductive layer contains portions of one or more second overlay marks. In some embodiments, the lithography mask includes an EUV lithography mask. |
| US10514595B2 |
Dual-color laser light source and laser projector
The present application discloses a dual-color laser light projection device, wherein the dual-color laser light projection device includes a first blue laser transmitter, a second blue laser transmitter, a red laser transmitter, a light combining component, a fluorescent wheel, a light-pipe; wherein the fluorescent wheel comprises a green fluorescent region provided with a green fluorescent powder and a transmission region, and wherein the green fluorescent region is excited by a first blue laser emitted from the first blue laser transmitter to generates green fluorescence. The light path system of the present application is simple and has a small volume. |
| US10514592B2 |
Telescopic camera mechanism and electronic device
The present disclosure discloses a telescopic camera mechanism, which includes a holder having a holding cavity, a camera is placed in the holding cavity, and a top of the camera is provided with a protective cover, the holder is further equipped with a protective cover movement component and a camera telescopic component, wherein the protective cover movement component includes a rotating motor, a screw rod, and a guide plate, the screw rod is connected to a lateral face of the holding cavity, the guide plate is sleeved on the screw rod, and a top end of the guide plate is fixedly connected to the protective cover, the camera telescopic component includes a support spring strip and a poke rod, wherein the support spring strip is connected to a bottom of the camera and is fixedly connected to the holder, and the poke rod is movably connected to the holder. |
| US10514589B2 |
Protruding camera lens protection
A mobile device includes a device housing with an opening there through, the housing having a front external surface and a back external surface. A camera housing is sized to fit within the opening in the device housing, the camera housing including two cameras and two respective lenses. In a centered position, the lenses protrude beyond the front and back surfaces of the mobile device. A retention mechanism applies a force to the camera housing to retain it substantially centered in the opening unless an outside force of damaging magnitude is encountered. |
| US10514585B2 |
Optical quantification of interfacial charge states
An apparatus for probing an interface via second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopy is provided. The apparatus comprises a sample cell comprising a noncentrosymmetric material having a selected orientation angle with respect to a reference axis; optics configured to illuminate an interface formed between the noncentrosymmetric material and a different material, or formed between two different materials and disposed over the noncentrosymmetric material, with light having a frequency ω under conditions to generate a second harmonic generation (SHG) signal having frequency 2ω; a detector configured to detect the SHG signal, the SHG signal comprising a bulk second harmonic signal from the noncentrosymmetric material and an interfacial second harmonic signal from the interface; and a device comprising a processor and a computer-readable medium operably coupled to the processor, the computer-readable medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to: illuminate the interface to generate the SHG signal and detect the SHG signal. |
| US10514581B2 |
Electrochromic nickel oxide simultaneously doped with lithium and a metal dopant
An electrochromic device comprising a counter electrode layer comprised of lithium metal oxide which provides a high transmission in the fully intercalated state and which is capable of long-term stability, is disclosed. Methods of making an electrochromic device comprising such a counter electrode are also disclosed. |
| US10514577B2 |
Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same
A first organic insulating film is arranged in a circumference area outside an active area on a first substrate. A circumference color filter is arranged in the circumference area on a second substrate. A second organic insulating film covers the circumference color filter. A seal material is arranged between the first and second organic insulating films to attach the first substrate and the second substrate. The seal material extends up to a position in which end portions of the first and second substrates overlap. A first spacer is arranged between the first and second organic insulating films in the circumference area. The first spacer is arranged on an active area side in the seal material. A second spacer is formed between the first and second organic insulating films in a position in which the end portions of the substrates overlap. |
| US10514576B2 |
Image display apparatus
Image display apparatus includes liquid crystal cell, flat plate-shaped back frame, light guide plate, and a pair of support mechanisms. The pair of support mechanisms are fixed to back frame in positions at which light guide plate is clamped at both sides that intersect a first axis (X-axis). The pair of support mechanisms each includes movable component that supports light guide plate, body component that movably retains movable component, and elastic member that pushes movable component toward opposite support mechanism. Protrusion is disposed on movable component, and engagement section with which protrusion engages is disposed on light guide plate. Engagement section includes tab that is formed outwardly on an end surface of light guide plate, and notch disposed on tab and engages with protrusion. |
| US10514573B2 |
Device and arrangement for controlling an electromagnetic wave, methods of forming and operating the same
Various embodiments may provide a device for controlling an electromagnetic wave. The device may include a first electrode layer. The device may also include a second electrode layer. The device may further include a matrix layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The matrix layer may include a liquid crystal layer. The matrix layer may also include at least one resonator element in contact with the liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer may be configured to switch from, at least, a first state to a second state in response to a voltage applied between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, thereby changing an optical property of the matrix layer to control the electromagnetic wave received by the matrix layer. |
| US10514572B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
The invention provides an LCD device, with both the upper polarizer and the lower polarizer having a multi-layer film structure, and comprising a plurality of stacked polarizing film units, with each comprising at least two layers of material films with different refraction index. The backlight module emits light to shine onto the upper and lower polarizers at a tilt angle, and the light is reflected and refracted a plurality of times at the interfaces inside the multi-layer film structure, and the S-polarized light and P-polarized light are separated completely to form linearly polarized light. Only the P-polarized light can pass. Compared to the conventional absorbing polymer polarizer, the upper and lower polarizers use a multi-layer film structure and the backlight module emitting light at a specific angle, so that the upper and lower polarizers provide high temperature stability, high humidity stability and high reliability, and simple to manufacture. |
| US10514571B2 |
Display panel and method of fabricating a display panel
A display panel according to an embodiment has a first region surrounding a second region. The display panel includes a top substrate, a bottom substrate opposite to the top substrate, a sealant located within the first region, and a display medium layer encased by the top substrate, the bottom substrate, and the sealant. A patterned light shielding layer is disposed on an upper surface of the top substrate in the first region. A light filtering layer is disposed on the top substrate in the second region of the display panel. The light filtering layer causes a reduction of a transmittance of light of wavelength ranged from about 300 nm to about 410 nm by at least about 20% to about 50%, and a transmittance of the light filtering layer for light of wavelength ranged from about 450 nm to about 800 nm is at least about 80% to 95%. |
| US10514570B2 |
Display device, display method, and color separation device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first arrangement layer and a second arrangement layer. The first layer includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel are arranged periodically in one direction. The second layer is opposed to the first layer, and the second layer includes a first element, a second element, and a third element which are arranged periodically to correspond to the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel, respectively, and separate emission light to light of wavelength corresponding to a first color, light of wavelength corresponding to a second color, and light of wavelength corresponding to a third color to be emitted on the first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel, respectively. |
| US10514568B2 |
Color filter substrate and curved surface display device
A color filter substrate and a curved surface display device are disclosed. The technical field of display is related to. Dark stripes appearing at a position corresponding to a central line of a sub pixel region can be eliminated, and a display effect of the curved display device can be improved. The color filter substrate includes a first light shading region corresponding to a gate line and a data line of an array substrate; and a second light shading region corresponding to a central line of a sub pixel region of the array substrate. A width of the second light shading region is larger than a width of the central line of the sub pixel region. |
| US10514563B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and an external circuit, the first substrate including a first area, a second area, and wirings, the first area including a display area in which pixels are arranged the external circuit being mounted on the second area. The wirings are electrically connected to the external circuit, provided in the first area and the second area, and arranged in the first direction. At least one of the wirings is inclined with respect to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction in a first portion of the second area. The first substrate is bent in the first portion. |
| US10514561B2 |
Optical modulator
An optical modulator includes a substrate, an optical waveguide, a control electrode applying a high frequency signal in order to modulate light waves propagating through the optical waveguide, and a relay substrate provided with a relay line to transfer the high frequency signal to the control electrode. The control electrode and the relay line together have a coplanar line structure inclusive of at least electrical connection portions of both the control electrode and the relay line. The control electrode includes an electrical connection portion and a routing portion positioned between the electrical connection portion and an active portion applying an electrical field to the optical waveguide. The routing portion has a coplanar line structure. A distance between ground electrodes sandwiching a signal electrode in the electrical connection portion of the control electrode is substantially equal to a distance between ground electrodes sandwiching a signal electrode of the routing portion. |
| US10514554B2 |
Optical motion detecting device for a flight vehicle
An optical motion detecting device for a flight vehicle includes a base, an optical motion sensor and an operating processor. The optical motion sensor is disposed on the base and adapted to capture a plurality of frames. The operating processor is electrically connected with the optical motion sensor. The operating processor analyzes a pattern within the plurality of frames to acquire displacement of the base relative to a reference plane according to a known height value, and the known height value represents a height that the flight vehicle starts to move. |
| US10514551B2 |
Stereo display device
A stereo display device includes a light source module, a display module, and first, second, and third lenticular lens. The light source module sequentially provides a plurality of groups of timing light. The first lenticular lens is disposed in front of the light source module. The second lenticular lens is disposed in front of the first lenticular lens. By two optical Fourier transforms performed by the first and second lenticular lens, different groups of timing light are respectively focus on different sub-regions of each of the pixels of the display module. The display module is disposed in front of the second lenticular lens and transforms the timing light focused on the pixels into a plurality of groups of pixel light. The third lenticular lens is disposed in front of the display module and directs the pixel light to a plurality of views. |
| US10514549B2 |
Wavelength beam combining laser systems with high beam quality factor
In various embodiments, optical repositioners and/or angled dispersive elements are utilized to manipulate portions of an input laser beam emitted by a group of laser emitters in order to form a multi-wavelength output beam having a high beam quality factor. |
| US10514547B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing an image
An apparatus and method wherein the apparatus includes an image source; an exit pupil configured to be positioned proximate to an eye of a user to enable a user to view an image from the image source; and a plurality of grating areas between the image source and the exit pupil wherein the plurality of grating areas are configured to direct beams of light from the image source to the exit pupil; wherein the image source is configured to be moved relative to the plurality of grating areas to control the position of the exit pupil relative to the eye of the user. |
| US10514546B2 |
Steerable high-resolution display
A display system comprising a foveal display having a monocular field of view of at least 1 degree is positioned within a scannable field of view of at least 20 degrees, the foveal display positioned for a user. In one embodiment, the foveal display is positioned for the user's fovea. |
| US10514539B2 |
Image display device and vehicle incorporating the same
An image display device includes a lens array, and a scanner to two-dimensionally scan the lens array with a light beam for image display, in which each of lenses of the lens array includes a convex surface with different curvatures in two directions orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens and to each other. |
| US10514538B2 |
Head-mounted display device
Disclosed is a head mounted display device, the head mounted display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a prism for changing a path of incident light and then emitting the incident light, the prism having therein a reflection-transmission surface for reflecting or transmitting the incident light; and a camera module of which a lens is disposed in a direction that faces the prism. |
| US10514537B2 |
Installation for improving the binocular visual field
An installation for improving the binocular visual field includes a structural element located at a distance from the observer equal to or greater than the observer's interpupillary distance. The structural element is provided with at least one through aperture, in which an optical system is applied that has two convergent lenses, between which a divergent lens is centrally interposed, the distance between each of the convergent lenses and the central divergent lens being such as to make the optical system of a neutral afocal type. |
| US10514529B2 |
Portrait lens system formed with an adjustable meniscus lens
A portrait lens configuration for meeting handheld device form factor constraints. First and second meniscus lenses each have a reflective surface to provide internal reflections for transmitting light toward a focal plane. A third lens is positioned between the meniscus lenses and the focal plane. The first lens includes an anterior concave surface having a reflective material extending over a portion thereof. Light received by the first meniscus lens can be transmitted therethrough. The reflective material is positioned along the anterior concave surface to receive light transmitted therethrough and reflected back from the second lens. In an associated method the first meniscus lens is positioned to receive light through a first of two opposing refractive surfaces. After each lens provides an internal reflection, reflected light is transmitted through the second of the two opposing surfaces and then through a bore positioned within the second lens to the third lens. |
| US10514524B2 |
Imaging devices having progressive magnification
A method and apparatus for capturing an image of at least one object appearing in a field of view (FOV). A housing has an image sensor and a base lens assembly fixedly mounted relative thereto. A moveable lens assembly is movably mounted relative to the housing. The moveable lens, the base lens assembly, and the image sensor are aligned such that light received within the FOV passes through the moveable lens and the base lens assembly and impinges onto the image sensor. The light received from the FOV forms an original image prior to entering the movable lens and the base assembly. Light from the FOV impinging onto the sensor forms an impinging image. |
| US10514522B2 |
Lens drive unit
A lens drive unit that prevents an actuator from being inclined is provided. In the lens drive unit, when a lens frame is displaced in a direction orthogonal to a direction in which the actuator extends and contracts with respect to a base member by, for example, impact from an outside of the lens drive unit, a drive shaft of the actuator abuts on a first lateral wall and a column, so that the actuator is prevented from being inclined with respect to the base member. |
| US10514521B2 |
Optical fiber assemblies, and methods and apparatus for the manufacture thereof
Methods for manufacturing cables and cables assemblies include providing powder particles within a tube extruded about optical fiber. The particles may be accelerated so that as they strike the tube and mechanically attach to the tube. |
| US10514514B2 |
Backlight module and display device
A backlight module includes a light guide plate (LGP) comprising an incident surface, an emergent surface, and a reflective surface, a reflecting plate, a diffuser, a prismatic lens group, a rim tape layer, a light source, and a shading layer. The shading layer corresponds to an incident surface of the diffuser. The shading layer comprises a middle portion and side portions separated from the middle portion, and a length of the middle portion is greater than lengths of the side portions. Each of the side portions are fixed on two sides to the diffuser and the rim tape layer, respectively. The middle portion is fixed on only one side, the one side of the middle portion being fixed to the rim tape layer. |
| US10514510B2 |
Optical component assembly having a keyed structure for ensuring proper insertion orientation within an optical subassembly
The present disclosure is directed to a keyed optical component assembly that ensures that the same has a proper orientation when press-fit into or otherwise coupled to a complimentary opening of an optical subassembly housing. In an embodiment, the keyed optical component assembly includes a base portion defined by a first end and a second end disposed opposite the first end along a longitudinal axis. A first arcuate region extends from the first end towards the second end and transitions into a tapered region. A second arcuate region extends from the second end towards the first end and also transitions into the tapered region. Therefore, the tapered region extends between the first arcuate region and the second arcuate region, and generally tapers/narrows from the second arcuate region to the first arcuate region. The resulting shape of the base portion may generally be described as an asymmetric tear-drop shape. |
| US10514506B2 |
Optical couplers for evanescent coupling of polymer clad fibers to optical waveguides using alignment features
An optical coupler that provides evanescent optical coupling includes an optical fiber and a waveguide. The optical fiber has a glass core, a glass inner cladding surrounding the glass core, and a polymeric outer cladding surrounding the glass inner cladding. The glass core and glass inner cladding define for the fiber a glass portion, which can be exposed at one end of the fiber by removing a portion of the polymeric outer cladding. The glass portion has a glass-portion surface. The waveguide has a waveguide core and a surface, and can be part of a photonic device. The glass portion of the fiber is interfaced with the waveguide to establish evanescent coupling between the fiber and the waveguide. Alignment features are used to facilitate aligning the fiber core to the waveguide core during the interfacing process to ensure suitable efficiency of the evanescent coupling. |
| US10514499B2 |
Photonic chip with an input wavelength filter
A photonic chip includes a device layer and a port layer, with an optical port located at the port layer. Inter-layer optical couplers are provided for coupling light between the device and port layers. The inter-layer couplers may be configured to couple signal light but block pump light or other undesired wavelength from entering the device layer, operating as an input filter. The port layer may accommodate other light pre-processing functions, such as optical power splitting, that are undesirable in the device layer. |
| US10514498B2 |
Waveguide architecture for photonic neural component
A photonic neural component includes optical transmitters, optical receivers, inter-node waveguides formed on a board, transmitting waveguides configured to receive optical signals emitted from the optical transmitters and transmit the received optical signals to the inter-node waveguides, mirrors to partially reflect optical signals propagating on the inter-node waveguides, receiving waveguides configured to receive reflected optical signals produced by the mirrors and transmit the reflected optical signals to the optical receivers, and filters configured to apply weights to the reflected optical signals. The transmitting waveguides and receiving waveguides are formed on the board such that one of the transmitting waveguides and one of the receiving waveguides crosses one of the inter-node waveguides with a core of one of the crossing waveguides passing through a core or clad of the other. |
| US10514496B2 |
Improving shaped component for an antenna comprising a sheaf of unclad waveguide beam-makers composed of generalized unclad waveguides and parabolic reflectors
The invention provides an improved method and apparatus, in general, for a use of a sheaf of unclad waveguide beam-makers to provide for a multi-stage forcedly-conveying waveguide effect of waveguide fibers in combination with the self-focusing waveguide effect of parabolic antennas, on the one hand, to absorb the ambient radiation, and in particular, for sunlight rays energy absorption to detect and transform the energy into either warmth, or electrical power, or mechanical thrust, and, on the other hand, to transmit the wave-energy through a homogeneous poorly-permeable medium. |
| US10514493B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device that can prevent light emitted from, a light guide plate from arriving at a display panel via a gap in an optical sheet and a gap between the optical sheet and a holding frame member. The display device is provided with: a light guide plate having a light exit surface; an optical sheet that is arranged facing the light exit surface, that is configured from a plurality of stacked unit sheets, and in which a plurality of flanges are arranged in each of the unit sheets so as to extend along the sheet surface of the unit sheet from the side edge of the unit sheet toward the exterior; and a holding frame member having formed therein a plurality of accommodating sections in which the flanges of the optical sheet are accommodated when holding the optical sheet. One or more of the plurality of flanges in each of the unit sheets is a matching flange having a shape that matches the shape of the accommodating section along the sheet surface. In this way, the accommodating section blocks light from the light guide plate by accommodating one or more of the matching flanges. |
| US10514489B2 |
LED light source
A LED light source includes a longitudinally extending light guide, at least one LED, and a diffuser. The light guide has a first longitudinally extending light emitting face. The light emitting face having a first end face, a longitudinally spaced apart second end face, and first and second side faces extending between the first and second end faces. The at least one LED is provided at the first end face. The diffuser includes a central panel that is spaced from and facing the first light emitting face. A LED light source having a reflector facing a rear face of the light guide is also disclosed. |
| US10514487B2 |
Light guides
Light guide assemblies including first, second and third light guides, a first optical coupling component disposed between and attached to the first and second light guides, and a second optical coupling component disposed between and attached to the second and third light guides are described. The first optical coupling component is adapted to couple light between the first and second light guides, and the second optical coupling component is adapted to couple light the between second and third light guides. The first light guide, the second light guide and the first optical coupling component are coextensive over a first region of the assembly, and the second light guide, the third light guide and the second optical coupling component are coextensive over a different second region of the assembly. |
| US10514485B2 |
Holographic diffraction-through-aperture spectrum splitting system and method
An apparatus for obtaining energy from a polychromatic energy source that emits radiation in a first and a second wavelength band comprises a reflector or an energy receiver having an aperture therein; and a holographic lens that diffracts and focuses the radiation within the first wavelength band from the energy source through said aperture towards a first energy receiver, and transmits the radiation within the second wavelength band from the energy source to the reflector or energy receiver. If a reflector is used, the reflector reflects the radiation transmitted by the holographic lens towards a second energy receiver. |
| US10514481B2 |
Annular optical element, imaging lens module and electronic device
An annular optical element having an optical axis includes an outer diameter surface, an inner annular surface, an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The object-side surface includes an annular reflecting surface, an annular auxiliary surface and a connecting surface. The annular reflecting surface is inclined with the optical axis. The annular auxiliary surface is closer to the optical axis than the annular reflecting surface is to the optical axis. The connecting surface is for connecting to an optical element, wherein the connecting surface is closer to the optical axis than the annular auxiliary surface is to the optical axis. The image-side surface is located opposite to the object-side surface and includes an annular optical surface. A V-shaped groove is formed by the annular auxiliary surface and the annular reflecting surface of the object-side surface. |
| US10514479B2 |
Ophthalmic lens, intraocular lens, and method for manufacturing ophthalmic lens
The present disclosure relates to manufacturing an intraocular lens which includes a matrix and a pigment dispersed in the matrix. A color of the intraocular lens can thus be red. An intraocular lens and a method for manufacturing the intraocular lens are also provided. |
| US10514476B2 |
Adjustable sensitivity magnet sensor
A device is provided. The device includes one or more of a radially-wound coil, a hall-effect sensor, a power source, and a control circuit. The radially-wound coil is configured to produce a first magnetic field in response to a DC current applied to the coil. The hall-effect sensor includes a sensor output that indicates proximity of a magnet to the hall-effect sensor. The magnet produces a second magnetic field and the sensor output indicates proximity in response to a sum of a strength of the first magnetic field and a strength of the second magnetic field at the hall-effect sensor exceeds a trip level. The radially-wound coil is in fixed proximity to the hall-effect sensor. The power source is coupled to the hall-effect sensor and is configured to provide power that alternates between on and off voltages to the hall-effect sensor. The control circuit is configured to receive the sensor output and in response provide the DC current to the radially-wound coil in order to control a polarity of the first magnetic field to detect the magnet. |
| US10514475B2 |
Post-critical reflection muting in seismic migration
A method for processing seismic data includes obtaining a velocity model, determining a critical angle for an interface represented in the velocity model based on a ratio between velocity of the seismic wave on first and second sides of the interface, determining an orientation of a normal vector extending normal to a location of the interface, determining an orientation of an arrival direction vector of a wavefield at the location of the interface, calculating an angle between the normal vector and the arrival direction vector, determining that the angle between the normal vector and the arrival direction vector is greater than the critical angle at the location, and attenuating the wavefield associated with the location in response to determining that the angle between the normal vector and the arrival direction vector is greater than the critical angle at the location. |
| US10514473B2 |
Seabed coupling plate for an ocean bottom seismic node
Systems, methods, and apparatuses related to coupling an autonomous seismic node to the seabed. In one embodiment, the node may comprise a plurality of holes on a bottom surface of the node and a plurality of openings on one or more sides and/or surfaces of the node. The bottom surface may comprise a coupling plate that is coupled to the node and/or coupled to a housing or casing that substantially surrounds a pressure node housing. The node may be configured to route water vertically from the bottom holes through the side openings and/or upper holes to decrease the potential of cavitation and fluidization of the seismic sediment and increase the seismic coupling of the node to the seabed. |
| US10514471B2 |
Apparatus for radiation detection in a digital imaging system
The disclosure is directed at a detector element that includes a conductive shield electrode, or shield electrode layer that can assist in reducing breakdown and also improve the reliability of the detector element. The detector element includes a substrate layer that supports at least two electrodes and a semiconducting layer. A shield electrode layer is deposited or patterned adjacent at least one of the two electrodes. |
| US10514470B2 |
Radiation detector, and method for producing radiation detector
A radiation detector has a photoelectric conversion element array having a light receiving unit and a plurality of bonding pads; a scintillator layer stacked on the photoelectric conversion element array; a resin frame formed on the photoelectric conversion element array so as to pass between the scintillator layer and the bonding pads away from the scintillator layer and the bonding pads and so as to surround the scintillator layer; and a protection film covering the scintillator layer and having an outer edge located on the resin frame; a first distance between an inner edge of the resin frame and an outer edge of the scintillator layer is shorter than a second distance between an outer edge of the resin frame and an outer edge of the photoelectric conversion element array; the outer edge and a groove are processed with a laser beam. |
| US10514468B2 |
Vehicle positioning method and system
A vehicle positioning method and system are provided. The vehicle positioning method comprises: receiving a first sampling signal from a mobile communication device and a second sampling signal from a vehicle; selecting a target sampling signal from the first and second sampling signals; and determining a position of the vehicle based on the target sampling signal. The vehicle positioning method and system can improve the vehicle positioning accuracy while reducing battery consumption. |
| US10514458B2 |
Detection system, detection device, and detection method
A detection system includes a detection device and a display device. The detection device includes a light projecting unit that projects light to a detection object, a light receiving unit that receives reflection light of the light, a light reception quantity acquiring unit that acquires a light reception quantity, and a distance acquiring unit that acquires a distance between a position at which the light is reflected and the detection object. The control device includes a setting unit that sets a threshold value range which is a combination of a threshold value of the light reception quantity and a threshold value of the distance, a detector that detects the detection object based on whether the light reception quantity and the distance belong to the threshold value range, and a display unit that displays correspondence information in which the light reception quantity and the distance are related to each other. |
| US10514451B2 |
Marine sonar display device with three-dimensional views
A marine sonar display device comprises a display, a sonar element, a memory element, and a processing element. The display presents sonar images. The sonar element generates a sonar beam and presents transducer signals. The processing element is in communication with the display, the sonar element, and the memory element and receives the transducer signals, calculates sonar data from the transducer signals and generates a three-dimensional view of a portion of the body of water, wherein the view includes a plurality of sonar images. Each sonar image is generated from sonar data derived from a previously-generated sonar beam and includes representations of underwater objects and a water bed. The processing element also generates a cursor plane and a cursor positioned thereon, both of which appear on the three-dimensional view. The processing element further controls the display to present the three-dimensional view, the sonar images, the cursor plane, and the cursor. |
| US10514449B2 |
Ultrasonic device, ultrasonic probe, electronic equipment, and ultrasonic imaging apparatus
An ultrasonic device includes a substrate having an ultrasonic element arranged on a first face of the substrate, an acoustic lens provided on a first face side of the substrate via an acoustic matching layer, and a frame having a first fixing portion and a second fixing portion. The first fixing portion and the second fixing portion being disposed between the substrate and the acoustic lens. The first fixing portion and the second fixing portion protrude toward each other in a direction generally along the first face of the substrate. The first fixing portion and the second fixing portion are separated by a perforated portion therebetween through which the acoustic matching layer penetrates. The first fixing portion and the second fixing portion are connected to the substrate and in contact with the acoustic lens. |
| US10514448B2 |
Proximity sensor, proximity illumination intensity sensor, electronic device, and proximity sensor calibration method
A proximity sensor includes: a light emitting unit that emits light; a light receiving unit that generates measurement current which includes object reflected light current and non-detection-target-object reflected light current; and an initial calibration execution unit that updates, on the basis of a value of the measurement current, an offset value according to the non-detection-target-object reflected light current, in a case where the value of the measurement current is equal to or less than an initial threshold. |
| US10514447B2 |
Method for propagation time calibration of a LIDAR sensor
A method for propagation time calibration of a LIDAR sensor which includes a pulsed light source, a detector surface with a plurality of optoelectronic elements for receiving light pulses of the light source reflected on objects and for converting these light pulses into electronic signals, and an electronic evaluation circuit for detecting the light pulses and for measuring the propagation times thereof. In the method, the measured propagation times are corrected with respect to the propagation times of the electronic signals in the evaluation circuit by decoupling, for at least some of the light pulses, a portion of the light, using a beam splitter at the light source, and using detection times of the decoupled light pulses as a time reference. The detector surface is illuminated with the decoupled light via a light-scattering system and used for detecting the decoupled light pulses. |
| US10514443B2 |
Method for evaluating radar radiation, and radar apparatus
A method for evaluating radar radiation. A plurality of radar waves are received, and respective individual measured signals are outputted in a complex form. A total measured signal is ascertained and outputted by respective weighted summation of at least one product of each individual measured signal times a respective conjugatedly complex individual measured signal. |
| US10514442B2 |
Dynamic code allocating apparatus and method
Provided is a code allocating apparatus including an interference signal measurer configured to measure interference signals, an interference signal sharer configured to control radars to share the measured interference signals between the radars, a code allocator configured to dynamically allocate a code generated based on the measured interference signals to each of the radars, and a code applier configured to apply the code to each of the radars. |
| US10514438B2 |
Method for performing positioning in wireless communication system and device therefor
Disclosed is a method for performing positioning by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system including: receiving first assistance data including first reference cell information and first neighbor cell information from a first base station (BS) through a first frequency; receiving second assistance data including second reference cell information and second neighbor cell information from a second base station through a second frequency; receiving a positioning reference signal (PRS) on the basis of the first assistance data and receiving a discovery reference signal (DRS) on the basis of the second assistance data; performing measurement using the received PRS and the DRS; and reporting a measurement result to a serving BS. |
| US10514433B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus extracting an intervertebral disk region based on sagittalimages of a subject
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processor and memory. The memory stores processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to extract, based on a plurality of sagittal images at least including an intervertebral disk of a subject, an intervertebral disk region spanning across the plurality of sagittal images from spines visualized in the plurality of sagittal images; and set an imaging region of an intervertebral disk image based on the intervertebral disk region. |
| US10514432B2 |
Magnetic field adjusting method
In the present invention, a current plane which is virtually disposed and surrounds a measurement position is assumed from magnetic field measurement values, and a current distribution (or magnetic moment distribution) which mimics a measured magnetic field is reproduced with current potentials. This is used to perform shimming calculation by a truncated singular value decomposition method with discrete shim trays that are actually used and ideal virtual continuous shim trays to carry out shimming under conditions for shimming having a uniformity that is close to ideal shimming. |
| US10514426B2 |
Smart jumper cable having a display module
The present disclosure provides a smart jumper cable having a display module, which comprises a pair of clamps and a control module. The clamps are configured to electrically connect to a vehicle battery; the control module is electrically connected with the clamps through electric wires; the control module further comprises an input port for connecting with an external power supply. The control module comprises a MCU, a switch module and a display module; wherein the display module is electrically connected with the MCU. The switch module is configured to turn on/off the power-supply to the vehicle battery from the external power supply; and the switch module is controlled by the MCU. The smart jumper cable having a display module can display not only the load voltage but also some other working status visually. |
| US10514421B2 |
Method for detecting an error in a generator unit
The invention relates to a method for detecting an error in a generator unit which has an electric machine (100) with a rotor winding (110), a stator winding (120) transformer-coupled to the rotor winding (110), and a rectifier (130) connected to said stator winding, via which the electric machine (100) is connected to an onboard power supply (150) of a motor vehicle, wherein a decision is made, depending on a magnitude of a correlation (K1, K2) between a curve of an excitation current (IE) flowing through the rotor winding (110) of the electric machine (100) and a curve of a voltage drop (UY, UDF) on one side of the transformer, as to whether the error is present or not. |
| US10514419B2 |
Method of identifying a mechanical trip in an electronic miniature circuit breaker
A method of establishing, and recording, the cause of a power interruption to the load in solenoid-operated electronic miniature circuit breakers of various types without extensive digital resources is presented. In some designs of electronic miniature circuit breakers a circuit breaker trip event will change the inductance of the trip solenoid. This change will take place for an electronic trip or a mechanical trip. A record of the electronic trip signal issued to the solenoid will be present to check against and differentiate the occurrence of an electronic trip from a mechanical trip. The mechanical trip occurs without the electronics and is also indicated by the change in inductance. Thereby, the cause of the power interruption can be determined, recorded and reported. |
| US10514418B2 |
Optimized wavelength photon emission microscope for VLSI devices
A method for emission testing of a semiconductor device (DUT), by mounting the DUT onto an test bench of an emission tester, the emission tester having an optical detector; electrically connecting the DUT to an electrical tester; applying electrical test signals to the DUT while keeping test parameters constant; inserting an optical filters into an optical path of the emission tester and collecting emission test signal from the optical detector; removing the filter from the optical path and collecting emission test signal from the optical detector. Comparing the images obtained with and without the filter. The filter may be shortpass to obtain emission signal, a bandpass for detecting forward bias, or longpass to obtain thermal signal. |
| US10514417B2 |
IC degradation management circuit, system and method
An IC degradation sensor is disclosed. The IC degradation management sensor includes an odd number of first logic gates electrically connected in a ring oscillator configuration, each first logic gate having an input and an output. Each first logic gate further includes a first PMOS transistor, a first NMOS transistor and a second logic gate having an input and an output. The input of the second logic gate is the input of the first logic gate, and the drains of the first PMOS transistor and the first NMOS transistor are electrically connected to the output of the second logic gate, and the output of the second logic gate is the output of the first logic gate. |
| US10514414B2 |
Method and device for monitoring an energy transmission device
A method monitors an energy transmission device, in particular an energy transmission line or an energy distribution network, via which electric current is transmitted at a predefined network frequency. An electrical measurement signal having at least one non-network frequency, i.e. a frequency which differs from the network frequency, or a non-network frequency band, is fed into the energy transmission device at a predefined position thereon. An electrical measured quantity related to the non-network frequency or the non-network frequency band is measured at the predefined position or a different position on the energy transmission device with the formation of at least one measured value or frequency-band-related measured value characteristic. A fault signal is generated if the measured value, the frequency-band-related measured value characteristic, a comparative value or comparative value characteristic formed with the measured value or the measured value characteristic indicates a fault in the energy transmission device. |
| US10514413B2 |
Estimation of arc location in three dimensions
Multiple magnetic field sensors are arranged around a current-containing volume at multiple longitudinal and circumferential positions. Each sensor measures multiple magnetic field components and is characterized by one or more calibration parameters. A longitudinal primary current flows through two end-to-end electrical conductors that are separated by an arc gap, and flows as at least one longitudinal primary electric arc that spans the arc gap and that moves transversely within the arc gap. Estimated transverse position of the primary electric arc is calculated, based on the longitudinal position of the arc gap, and two or more of the measured magnetic field components along with one or more corresponding sensor positions or calibration parameters. In addition, estimated occurrence, position, and magnitude of a transverse secondary current (i.e., a side arc) can be calculated based on those quantities. |
| US10514409B2 |
Device and method for detecting a number of electrostatic discharges
A device for detecting a number of electrostatic discharges including a discharge protection unit, in which a detection unit is electrically connected in parallel to the discharge protection unit and the detection unit generates an output signal, which represents the number of electrostatic discharges. A related method is also described. |
| US10514408B2 |
Method and assembly for locating electrostatic discharges on aircraft in flight
A method for locating electrostatic discharges occurring on an aircraft in flight including a step of recording, during the flight of the aircraft, electromagnetic signals resulting in the electrostatic discharges and received by a plurality of detectors arranged at different places on an exterior surface of the aircraft, a step of analyzing the signals recorded during the flight, each of the signals, received by the various detectors and corresponding to one and the same electrostatic discharge, are processed to identify at least one zone of an exterior surface of the aircraft, determining a structural part in which the electrostatic discharge probably occurred. |
| US10514406B2 |
High resistivity material-based packaging element for electric field sensor
A high resistivity material-based packaging element for an electric field sensor comprises: a substrate; a first packaging frame fixed to the substrate; and a first packaging cover fixed to the packaging frame; wherein at least one electric field sensor chip is located in an inner cavity formed by the substrate, the first packaging frame, and the first packaging cover, and at least one of the substrate, the first packaging frame, and the first packaging cover is of a high resistivity material having an electrical resistivity equal to or greater than 108Ω·cm. The present invention can ensure accurate measurement of the electric field, and provide an approach to solve the problem of environmental adaptability, thereby enhancing the stability and reliability of electric field detection. |
| US10514398B2 |
Inverter regulation
According to various aspects and embodiments, a power device is provided. The power device includes an input configured to receive input power, an output configured to provide output power to a load, a power conversion circuit coupled to the input and configured with a first output line and a second output line, the first output line coupled to the output and configured to provide output current at the output, a capacitor coupled to a junction of the first output line and the output, and coupled to the second output line, and a controller coupled to the power conversion circuit. The controller is configured to receive a first current measurement for the first output line receive a first voltage measurement across the capacitor, and determine a load current based on the first current measurement and the first voltage measurement. |
| US10514391B2 |
Resistivity probe having movable needle bodies
Resistivity probes can be used to test integrated circuits. In one example, a resistivity probe has a substrate with multiple vias and multiple metal pins. Each of the metal pins is disposed in one of the vias. The metal pins extend out of the substrate. Interconnects provide an electrical connection to the metal pins. In another example, a resistivity probe has a substrate with a top surface and multiple elements extending from the substrate. Each of the elements curves from the substrate to a tip of the element such that each of the elements is non-parallel to the top surface of the substrate. |
| US10514384B2 |
Development and use of cysteine-labeled fluorescent probes of unbound analytes
A method for high throughput discovery of proteins fluorescently labeled at a cysteine residue and that undergo a change in fluorescence ratio at 2 wavelengths upon binding an unbound analyte is described. Probes are disclosed which are labeled at a cysteine residue and also probes labeled at both cysteine and lysine with two different fluorophores. These probes are useful for characterization and measurement of hydrophobic species in a fluid sample, particularly characterization and measurement of levels of unbound free fatty acids. A profile of unbound free fatty acids can be determined for an individual which can be used to determine the individual's relative risk for disease. |
| US10514377B2 |
Method of diagnosing and therapeutically treating a patient for a traumatic brain injury
Known or suspected traumatic brain injuries may be treated therapeutically by administering a therapeutically effective dose of resibufogenin. A preferred method for determining if a patient has a traumatic brain injury includes obtaining a body specimen from the patient, determining the concentration of marinobufagenin in the body specimen, comparing the concentration of marinobufagenin to the concentration in such body specimens in normal patients, and if the marinobufagenin concentration is substantially above the concentration of a normal patient, concluding traumatic brain injury exists. In a preferred embodiment, a substantial elevation is deemed to be an increase of about 30 percent above the marinobufagenin concentration of a normal patient. The body specimen may be blood, urine, or cerebrospinal fluid. If a substantial elevation is deemed to exist, the magnitude of the departure from the concentration of a normal patient may be employed in determining the timing and nature of treatment provided to the patient. The method may be repeated at predetermined intervals to monitor changes in the marinobufagenin with time. |
| US10514374B2 |
In vitro model for pathological or physiologic conditions
The present invention generally relates to in vitro methods for mimicking in vivo pathological or physiologic conditions. The methods comprise applying shear forces to a cell type or cell type plated on a surface within a cell culture container. Methods for testing drugs or compounds in such systems are also described. |
| US10514371B2 |
Reactive diffusive gradient in thin-film sampler and mercury speciation by use of same
Sampling devices for mercury speciation protocols are described. Devices can be utilized to separate mercury species from one another as a sample diffuses through a sampling device. Methods can determine the presence or quantity of targeted mercury species in a fluid sample. The devices are passive sampling devices based upon diffusion gradient in thin film (DGT) passive sampling devices. Devices include a reactant component and a sequesterant component that selectively react with a targeted species and retain a species (or a reaction product of a species) of a sample flow. Remaining mercury species can optionally be captured downgradient, for instance at an ion exchange resin. |
| US10514370B2 |
Methods and systems for measuring anions
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for methods for detecting the presence and/or concentration of anions in a solution, systems for detecting the presence and/or concentration of anions in a solution, anion sensor systems, and the like. |
| US10514367B2 |
Real time indicator for quaternary ammonium compound concentration
The present disclosure generally relates to a color indicator that signals when the concentration of an antimicrobial solution changes. In some embodiments, the color indicator is specific for changes in the concentration of an antimicrobial quaternary ammonium compound in an antimicrobial solution. The color indicator can be incorporated into a variety of articles including towels, labels, containers, buckets, trays, sinks, spray bottles, liners for containers, buckets, sinks, or spray bottles, indictor wands or strips, and test kits. |
| US10514366B2 |
Refractive index-based detection for liquid chromatography using a microring resonator array
A liquid chromatograph comprising a column coupled to a microring resonator array and methods of using the same are disclosed. The microring resonator array measures the bulk refractive index of the mobile phase and any sample injected onto and separated in the column. While carrying out the methods, the composition of a mobile phase passing through the chromatography column may remain substantially constant (isocratic elution) or it may vary (gradient elution). One or more microrings may comprise a covering to act as a thermal control. In addition, the sensor surface may be modified with some type of capture agent that can interact with one or more components in the sample. |
| US10514363B2 |
Laser ultrasound scanning for visualizing damage or irregularities
Methods and systems may be configured to integrate data from fixed nondestructive inspection sensors positioned on a test specimen and data from laser ultrasound scans of the test specimen, in order to monitor and track damage and stress indications in the test specimen in real-time during mechanical stress testing of the test specimen. Data from the laser ultrasound scans may identify emergent areas of interest within the test specimen that were not predicted by stress analysis, and further allow for reconfiguration of the test plan in view of the emergent areas of interest, without having the stop the test. Laser ultrasound scans may be performed on the entire test specimen, with high-resolution scans being performed on emergent areas of interest. Thus, stress indications, or stress effects, in the test specimen may be measured, identified, and tracked in real-time (e.g., as growth is propagating) in a test specimen undergoing structural tests. |
| US10514362B2 |
Wire rope flaw detection device
Provided is a wire rope flaw detector including a magnetizer configured to form a main magnetic flux in a part of a wire rope in a longitudinal direction thereof. A plurality of search coils are configured to detect a leakage flux that occurs from a damaged part of the wire rope in a segment in which the main magnetic flux is formed. A control unit is configured to detect induced voltages generated in the plurality of search coils. Further, the control unit is configured to superimpose voltage waveforms of the plurality of search coils on one another while shifting the voltage waveforms by a time calculated based on an interval between the plurality of search coils adjacent to each other and on a relative moving speed of the wire rope with respect to the magnetizer, to thereby amplify a peak of the induced voltage. |
| US10514361B2 |
Tattletale ion-implanted nanoparticles
Ion-doped metal or ceramic nanoparticles can be added into, for example, a component that upon exposure to an environmental stimulus, will release the ion and ‘tattle’ on any impending destruction. |
| US10514350B2 |
Wellbore fluid discrimination using impedance spectra characteristics
An apparatus and method may operate to mount an electrode assembly with the exterior of a casing string to be placed in a borehole in a subterranean formation. The electrode assembly may include electrodes in spaced relation to one another. After the casing string and associated electrode assembly are in the borehole, the method may include providing a series of excitation signals at a plurality of frequencies to at least one electrode to inject a series of injection signals into fluid in the annulus. The method can further include receiving signals in response to the series of injection signals through at least one other electrode. The received signals can be representative of an impedance spectrum including impedance values representative of the fluid in the borehole annulus. The method can further include identifying the fluid in reference to the impedance spectrum. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US10514347B2 |
Biopharmaceutical aggregation assessment and counterfeit detection using magnetic resonance relaxometry
The present invention generally relates to a method of using NMR relaxation rates (R2) of water molecules as an indicator of the extent of aggregation of biopharmaceutical formulations. The biopharmaceutical can be evaluated nondestructively without the vial or container being opened or protective seal compromised (i.e., broken). The method is applicable to all biopharmaceuticals and the water signal obtained by magnetic resonance relaxometry is very strong and sensitive because water is used as the solvent and is present in high (>90%) concentrations in every biopharmaceutical formulation. |
| US10514346B2 |
X-ray fluorescence spectrometer
Provided is an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, which has a simple structure, and is capable of promptly performing high-accuracy analysis. The X-ray fluorescence spectrometer according to the present invention includes: an X-ray source (100) configured to irradiate a sample (103) with primary X-rays; a spectroscopic device (120) configured to disperse secondary X-rays emitted from the sample (103); an energy-dispersive detector (110) configured to measure an intensity of the secondary X-rays; a retracting mechanism (108) configured to retract the spectroscopic device (120) from a path of the secondary X-rays; a scanning mechanism (114), which is configured to continuously move the detector (110) between an auxiliary measurement area (124) for measuring the secondary X-rays in a state where the spectroscopic device (120) is retracted and a main measurement area (122) for measuring the dispersed secondary X-rays; a storage device (116) configured to store, in advance, a ratio between a background intensity measured in the auxiliary measurement area (124) and a background intensity measured in the main measurement area (122); and an arithmetic device (118) configured to perform correction and quantitative analysis, the correction including subtracting a value, which is obtained by multiplying the background intensity in the auxiliary measurement area (124) by the ratio, from a measured intensity in the main measurement area (122). |
| US10514342B2 |
Omnidirectional scattering- and bidirectional phase-sensitivity with single shot grating interferometry
X-ray scattering imaging can provide complementary information about the unresolved microstructures of a sample. The scattering signal can be accessed with various methods based on coherent illumination, which span from self-imaging to speckle scanning. The directional sensitivity of the existing methods is limited to a few directions on the imaging plane and it requires the scanning of the optical components, or the rotation of either the sample or the imaging setup, if the full range of possible scattering directions is desired. A new arrangement is provided that allows the simultaneous acquisition of the scattering images in all possible directions in a single shot. This is achieved by a specialized phase grating and a device for recording the generated interference fringe with sufficient spatial resolution. The technique decouples the sample dark-field signal with the sample orientation, which can be crucial for medical and industrial applications. |
| US10514337B2 |
Device for time controlled fluorescence detection
The present invention provides a device for DNA sequencing, comprising DNA base calling at an early stage in the detection and processing of time controlled fluorescence detection for DNA sequencing applications. |
| US10514336B2 |
Terahertz measuring apparatus for measuring test object and a terahertz measurement method
The invention relates to a terahertz measuring device (1) for measuring a test object (7), comprising:a THz transmitter and receiver unit (2) for emitting terahertz radiation (3) at a spatial angle of emittance (4) along an optical axis (A), receiving reflected terahertz radiation (8) and generating a signal amplitude (S) as a function of the time or frequency (t, f), and a controller and evaluator device (12) for receiving and evaluating the signal amplitude (S). Hereby, the controller and evaluator device (12) determines defects (10, 110) of the test object (7) from the signal amplitude (S). In particular, it is possible to mask a core area (4a) of the emitted terahertz radiation (3).An alternative measuring arrangement can reveal defects also by injecting the THz radiation at a right angle in that additional measuring peaks are detected which cannot be associated with the layer thickness measurement as such. |
| US10514335B2 |
Systems and methods for optical spectrometer calibration
Systems and methods spectrally and radiometrically calibrate an optical spectrum detected with a color-image sensor of an optical spectrometer. When the color-image sensor includes a Bayer filter, the red-peaked, green-peaked, and blue-peaked spectral responses of the color filters forming the Bayer filter may be used to identify unique spectral signatures in the red, green, and blue color channels. These spectral signatures may be used to associate calibration wavelengths to the pixel locations of the color-image sensor where the spectral signatures are observed. A fitted model may then be used to associate a wavelength to each pixel location of the color-image sensor. These systems and methods account for translational shifts of the optical spectrum on the color-image sensor induced by optical image stabilization, and thus may aid optical spectrometry utilizing a digital camera in a smartphone or tablet computer. |
| US10514332B1 |
Systems and methods for providing a profile of a material property using multiple analysis stations
Systems and methods for profiling a material property are provided. A plurality of measurement devices can be configured to measure at least a portion of the material property. A controller including at least one processor can be in communication with one or more of the plurality of measurement devices. At least one measurement device of the plurality of measurement devices can measure at least one segment of the material property, and at least one additional measurement device of the plurality of measurement devices can measure at least one additional segment of the material property. The at least one segment and the at least one additional segment can be combined to provide at least a partial profile of the material property. |
| US10514330B2 |
Device for isolation and/or purification of biomolecules
The present invention refers to a device, comprising a hollow body having at least one open end comprising at least one solid matrix binding, adsorbing, absorbing, chelating or retaining compounds which are not desired in a sample and preferably at least one barrier which is non-permeable for liquids and solids under ambience conditions, however, becomes liquid-permeable by applying an external force to the barrier, the use of such a device for isolating or purifying a biomolecule from a sample, a method for preparation of the device and a method for isolation or purification of any biomolecule using said device. |
| US10514327B2 |
Autosampler
An autosampler includes a pressure release operation unit for performing, by controlling operation of a needle drive mechanism and a switching mechanism, before a tip end of a needle is pulled out from an injection port following a state where a sampling channel is disposed between a feeding device and an analytical column, a pressure release operation of switching the switching mechanism in such a way that the sampling channel is not disposed between the feeding device and the analytical column and a system including the sampling channel is made an open system, and of performing standby until a pressure inside the sampling channel is returned to atmospheric pressure. |
| US10514326B2 |
Powder sampling vessel and sampling method
A sampling vessel which can prevent the operator from being exposed to a powder. A metal sampling vessel (1) for sampling powder has a cylindrical body (2) having a closed first end (2a), an opposite second end (2b) including an opening and a cavity (3), and a connector (6a, 6b) for connecting the cylindrical body (2) to a hanging line. The cylindrical body (2) satisfies a relationship M1>M2, wherein M1 represents the mass between the first end (2a) and a bottom (3c) of the cavity and M2 represents the mass between the opening (5) at the second end and the bottom (3c) of the cavity. |
| US10514325B2 |
Automatic assembly equipment for door check
The invention discloses an automatic assembly equipment of door check comprising an L-shaped component semi-finished product assembly device and a finished product assembly device; the L-shaped component semi-finished product assembly device comprises a first material feeding device, a first riveting device, a first flipping device and a first large turntable, wherein the first material feeding device, the first pressing riveting device and the first flipping device are connected by the first large turntable; the finished product assembly device comprises a second material feeding device, a second riveting device, two turning devices, a material exporting device and a second turntable, wherein the second material feeding device, the second riveting device, the second flipping device and the material exporting device are arranged in turn around the second large turntable. The automatic assembly equipment for door check of this present invention is used for automatically assembling the door check. |
| US10514324B2 |
Methods relating to designing wellbore strengthening fluids
Generally, assessing the properties of a plug comprising wellbore strengthening materials may enable the design of more efficient wellbore strengthening additives and fluids because the properties of the plug may translate to the near wellbore strengthening effect of the wellbore strengthening materials of the plug. Assessing such properties may involve applying a differential pressure to a plug formed in a passageway of a tool comprising at least one sensor proximal to the passageway plug, and then measuring at least one attribute selected from the group consisting of a normal plug pressure, a normal plug displacement, and any combination thereof with the at least one sensor. |
| US10514323B2 |
Apparatus and method for assessing vehicle wheel alignment
A method for the diagnostic assessment of the wheel alignment of a vehicle (2) equipped with wheels (3) having tyres (301) coupled to respective rims (302), comprises the following steps: in a longitudinal movement of the vehicle (2) in a forward travel direction with one wheel (3) on a longitudinal track (4A), until the wheel (3) surmounts a measuring platform (5A) located along the track (4A), acquiring a forward travel measurement signal, representing a lateral force applied to the platform and directed transversely to both the longitudinal direction and the weight force at a forward travel instant at which the wheel surmounts the measuring platform (5A) as it moves along the track (4A) in the forward travel direction; in a longitudinal movement of the vehicle (2) in a return travel direction opposite to the forward travel direction with the wheel (3) on the track (4A), until the wheel (3) surmounts the measuring platform (5A), acquiring a return travel measurement signal, representing a lateral force applied to the platform (5A) and directed transversely at a return travel instant at which the wheel (3) surmounts the measuring platform (5A) as it moves along the track (4A) in the return travel direction; processing the forward and return measurement signals in order to determine, for the wheel (3), at least an angle of camber and/or toe. |
| US10514317B2 |
Gas density increase measurement in a film chamber
A method for a tightness test of a test piece (16) in a test chamber (10) whose wall is at least partly made of a flexible material, wherein said test piece is introduced into said test chamber and said test chamber is then evacuated, is characterized in that the tightness test is performed by measuring the gas density inside said test chamber (10) in the area outside said test piece (16). |
| US10514316B2 |
Diagnostic apparatus and testing method
A diagnostic apparatus for testing a milking point of a milking machine includes sensors for measuring fluid-transport related parameters, including various pressure levels and/or flow values relating to a set of teatcups includes a controllable valve and a set of test tubes. Each test tube is configured to be attached to one teatcup, where the controllable valve selectively arranges a particular one of the test tubes for measurement of at least one parameter via one of the sensors in response to a control signal. The measurements are performed while all the teatcups are simultaneously attached to the test tubes and an external vacuum pressure is applied either on a milk-line side of the controllable valve or on a side opposite to the milk-line side relative to the controllable valve. |
| US10514310B2 |
Measuring assembly for measuring the torque on a shaft, crank drive, and vehicle
A measurement assemblage for measuring the torque on a shaft, and in particular the torsional moment of the shaft, having a sensor device that is configured to measure a magnetic field carried or generated by the shaft; a sensor holder for holding the sensor device and for disposing the sensor device with respect to a region of an outer circumferential surface of the shaft; and at least one force element that is configured to dispose the sensor holder, by force impingement, in stationary fashion with respect to the region of the outer circumferential surface of the shaft, the at least one force element being configured to exert a tensile force on the sensor holder in such a way that the sensor holder is pulled against the region of the outer circumferential surface of the shaft as a result of the tensile force. |
| US10514309B2 |
Temperature abnormality detection method for power conversion device and temperature abnormality detection device for power conversion device
A temperature abnormality detection method is provide for a power conversion device which includes calculating a temperature difference between a first inverter temperature and a cooling water temperature, and then determining a temperature abnormality exists when a first abnormality determination condition is satisfied, i.e., when the temperature difference exceeds a preset difference threshold and the first inverter temperature exceeds a preset power conversion unit threshold temperature. |
| US10514306B2 |
Overheat detection circuit, overheat protection circuit, and semiconductor device
Provided is an overheat detection circuit capable of easily adjusting a detection temperature of the overheat detection circuit. The overheat detection circuit includes: a first resistor; a second resistor, which has the same temperature characteristics with the first resistor, and has an adjustable resistance value; and a heat sensitive element connected to one end of the second resistor, in which a first current, which is based on a first voltage, is supplied to the first resistor, a current, which is proportional to the first current, is supplied to the second resistor so that a second voltage is generated at another end of the second resistor, and when the first voltage and the second voltage are compared, a result of the comparison is output as an overheat detection signal. |
| US10514301B2 |
Visual and thermal image recognition based PHM technique for wellsite
A method for monitoring wellsite equipment may include producing a digital image and a thermal image of the wellsite equipment; identifying one or more equipment units in the digital image; overlaying the thermal image on the one or more identified equipment units in the digital image to thermally map the one or more identified equipment units; and analyzing temperature conditions of at least a first identified equipment unit. |
| US10514294B2 |
Optical measurement apparatus having a synchronizing function of synchronizing time between a master device and a slave device, and connectable to an industrial network
The optical measurement apparatus includes an interface unit and a measuring unit. The interface unit is configured to receive a synchronization signal transmitted from a PLC to a fieldbus at a constant communication cycle, and output, in synchronization with the synchronization signal, a result of measurement (a measured value) by the optical measurement apparatus and a synchronization supervisory signal. The measuring unit is configured to execute optical measurement at a measurement cycle irrelevant to the communication cycle and generate a result of the measurement and a synchronization supervisory signal. The measuring unit sets the synchronization supervisory signal into an ON state in synchronization with receipt of the synchronization signal by the interface unit after start of the measurement, and sets the synchronization supervisory signal into an OFF state in synchronization with receipt of the synchronization signal by the interface unit when the interface unit outputs the measurement result. |
| US10514293B2 |
Speckle reduction method and apparatus
An apparatus adapted for confocal imaging of a non-flat specimen comprising a coherent light source for producing a light beam, imaging optics adapted to focus the light beam into at least one spot on a surface of a specimen, and a detector adapted to receive and detect light reflected from the specimen surface. The imaging optics comprise at least one optical component located so that the light reflected from the specimen surface passes therethrough on its way to the detector. The optical component is movable so as to move the at least one spot, within a range of movement, to a number of distinct locations in a plane perpendicular to the apparatus' optical axis, within the detector's integration time. |
| US10514284B2 |
Flow sensor system including spring contacts
A flow sensor sub-assembly for sensing flow of a fluidic medicament is disclosed. The flow sensor sub-assembly includes a first spring contact and a second spring contact. The spring contacts are secured to a base that has a circuit for conducting an electrical signal to and from the spring contacts to a microprocessor. The first spring contact is in electrical communication with a first piezo element and the second spring contact is in electrical communication with a second piezo element. The first spring contact has a first contact force against the first piezo element and the second spring contact has a second contact force against the second piezo element, and the first and second contact forces are equivalent. A circuit board for interfacing to a flow sensor having a plurality of piezo elements for transmitting a flow signal indicative of flow of fluidic medicament is also disclosed. |
| US10514283B2 |
Exhaust gas flow rate measuring unit and exhaust gas analyzing apparatus
The present invention is an exhaust gas flow rate measuring unit that eliminates the disturbance of the flow velocity distribution of exhaust gas flowing through an attachment pipe to accurately measure an exhaust gas flow rate, and is mounted in a vehicle to measure the flow rate of exhaust gas emitted from an exhaust pipe of the vehicle. In addition, the exhaust gas flow rate measuring unit includes the attachment pipe that is connected to the exhaust pipe and forms a flow path through which the exhaust gas flows, a flowmeter that is provided in the flow path and measures the flow rate of the exhaust gas flowing through the flow path, and a straightening mechanism that is provided on the upstream side of the flowmeter in the flow path. |
| US10514268B2 |
Search system
An in-vehicle terminal sends a speech input from a voice input unit as a voice signal to a relay server using a short-range wireless communication unit. The relay server converts the voice data received from the in-vehicle terminal into a string with a voice recognition unit, and makes an inquiry, via a communication unit, to an address database of a database server as to whether the string is a geographical condition. If the string converted by the voice recognition unit is a geographical condition based on the inquiry result of the communication unit, a POI data base is searched based on the geographical condition and a stored non-geographical condition, and the geographical condition is stored in a search history. If the string is a non-geographical condition, the POI database is searched based on the non-geographical condition and the geographical condition stored in the search history, and the non-geographical condition is stored in the search history. |
| US10514263B2 |
Navigation device, route search server, and route search method
The present invention performs route guidance that excludes a difficult-to-travel section appropriately and provides an alternative route with favorable route quality. A navigation device 200 includes an arithmetic device 204 that, when a route including a difficult-to-travel section is found, identifies the route as a candidate route while adding a predetermined penalty cost to the cost of the route, identifies an alternative route obtained by coupling a first partial route from a constituent node in the difficult-to-travel section of the found route to a destination with a second partial route from the departure point of the found route to a node having already been searched for, identifies the alternative route as a candidate route after adding a coupling cost for reaching from the already-searched node to the certain constituent node in the difficult-to-travel section to costs of the first and second partial routes, selects one of the candidate route with the penalty cost and the candidate route with the coupling cost with the smaller cost as a guidance route. |
| US10514260B2 |
Integrity control method and merging/consolidation device comprising a plurality of processing modules
The invention concerns a method for controlling the integrity of the value of a piece of navigation information delivered by a merging/consolidation device including a plurality of processing modules. Each module generates a navigation solution from measurements coming from one or a plurality of separate navigation devices, which involves defining, for each processing module, a radius of protection, corresponding to a given probability of failure. The method includes defining at least one consolidated area that encompasses protection areas centered on the solution values that are output from the processing modules and that correspond to the radii of protection defined for these modules. The radius of protection of the merging/consolidation device for the probability of failure itself is defined to correspond to the consolidated area. |
| US10514257B2 |
Detecting device
There is provided a detecting device which detects a contact with an object, which includes, a fixed portion provided in the detecting device, a shaft portion, and a base portion which is connected to the shaft portion and configured to move relative to the fixed portion, a sensor which measures a displacement resulting from an inclination of the base portion relative to the fixed portion caused by a contact between an object and the shaft portion, and a control portion which determines if a contact between an object and the shaft portion occurs or not based on the measured displacement. |
| US10514252B2 |
Shape-detecting machine for slender articles
A geometry-detecting machine for a slender body includes a fixed reference frame (30, 31) provided with at least one pair of constraint points (1) for the slender body and sensor element (28) for the spatial detection of the geometry of the slender body, wherein the constraint points are in the shape of vertical constraints points (1, 3, 5) coupled in pairs by interconnecting element (4, 34) in turn making up vertical constraint points to be coupled in pairs on multiple levels and wherein the interconnection element are pivoting arms, such to allow the slender body to meander freely in order to guarantee for the slender body an attitude as natural as possible. |
| US10514249B2 |
Optical displacement sensor element
The present invention relates to an optical displacement sensor comprising a first at least partially reflective surface and a second surface having a diffractive pattern, the surfaces being provided on elements having a variable distance between them, each surface pair defining a cavity between them. The sensor also comprising at least one light source transmitting light at least one a chosen wavelength range into said cavities and at least one light detector receiving light from the cavities, wherein said diffractive patterns are adapted to direct light toward at least one detector provided in a known position relative to said diffractive surfaces. |
| US10514245B2 |
Gap sensor and gap measuring method using a capacitance measuring technique detecting or measuring gaps between conductive member surfaces
A probe is a three-layer substrate having two faces on which paired electrodes are formed at corresponding positions and guard patterns are formed around the electrodes. The guard patterns and all electrodes are driven by a common probe signal to an equal potential, thereby commonly guarding the electrodes. Based on a clamp current of each electrode, a capacitance is found to obtain gap data. |
| US10514240B1 |
Multiple wire guided submissile target assignment logic
A missile system wherein a missile carrier delivers a plurality of submissiles over a target area. A passive or active scanner on the missile carrier repeatedly scans the target area as the missile carrier descends by drag brake over the target area. Submissile assignment to identified targets is performed at a selected altitude. A data processor controls the launching of the submissiles and actively guides the submissiles for substantial portions of their flights via optical fiber or wire links separately connecting each submissile to the missile carrier. Each submissile includes either passive or active identification devices enabling the data processor to track the submissiles individually. A missile assignment table stores a correspondence between identified targets and submissiles assigned thereto. Submissile assignment is effected on the basis of the strength of target signature. Alternatively, the most closely spaced group of targets equal in number to the number of submissiles will be assigned submissiles. |
| US10514236B2 |
Detachable shield for tactical equipment box
A detachable shield for tactical equipment box has a rectangular form, an outer surface and an opposite inner surface, a long first edge and a second edge, at least two hinges upon the first edge that cooperate with second hinges mounted to a box, a second lock component that cooperates with a prime lock component mounted to a box opposite the second hinges, and a handle joined to the inner surface. The first hinges, handle, and second lock component join to the shield without fracturing it. The first hinges separate from the second hinges so that a law enforcement officer can take the shield from the box for use as protection from projectiles. In an alternate embodiment, the shield pivotally connects to a top plate upon the box with lips that overlap the front and sides in a return. |
| US10514235B1 |
Tape switch mounting bracket for firearm
The present invention relates to tape switch mounting bracket for use with a firearm comprising of a one-piece mounting bracket with at least two (2) parallel opposite first and second ends, a switch slot adapted to receive a tape switch, a rail attachment feature adapted to mount to a variety of rail mounting systems, and at least one cable passage adapted to receive a cable of the tape switch. The cable passage configured to receive, contain and manage the tape switch cable during application. |
| US10514233B2 |
LED light source capable of projecting graphic logo and red dot sight thereof
An LED light source capable of projecting a set graphic logo and a red dot sight thereof, comprising a point light source (1) and a peripheral light source (2) around the point light source (1), the peripheral light source (2) being discontinuous line light source. The LED light source capable of projecting the set graphic logo does not need a raster being matched with transmission to obtain an LED with luminous set graphic logo, so that the power consumption is reduced, system design is simplified, product functions are increased, and simplification of structure, convenience of operation and reduction of cost for red dot sight are facilitated. |
| US10514230B2 |
Valve device for toy gun
The valve device includes a main member for installing on a toy gun and connecting to a high-pressure gas source. Inside the main member, there is a first chamber, a second chamber connected to the first chamber, and an inlet channel. A valve member is movably housed in the main member. The valve member includes a valve channel, a through hole, an inlet blocking element, and an outlet blocking element. The valve member selectively blocks the connection between the first chamber and the inlet channel. As such, the pressure difference between the second chamber and the high-pressure gas source drives the valve member to selectively block the inlet channel, without using a spring to control the valve member. The valve device therefore has enhanced operation life and reduced cost. |
| US10514229B2 |
Crossbow cocking system
A crossbow cocking system may include a sled having first and second arms, an elongated cocking cable, a first handle, a second handle, a first engagement feature and a second engagement feature. The first and second engagement features may be used to engage the first handle to the first arm and the second handle to the second arm, respectively. Each engagement feature may include at least one cavity and at least one protrusion that is received in the cavity for engagement. The handles may be disengaged to permit a user to cock the crossbow. |
| US10514228B2 |
Bow accessory mounting system and method
A bow accessory mount system and method are described herein. The bow accessory mount system, in an embodiment, includes a bow engager configured to be engaged with an archery bow and an accessory support coupled to the bow engager. The accessory support is configured to support a bow accessory. The system includes an adjuster support, a driver engaged with the adjuster support, and a biaser coupled to the driver. The biaser is configured to generate a biasing force acting on the driver. |
| US10514224B2 |
Gun, especially air gun or firearm
The invention relates to a gun, especially an air gun or firearm, comprising a barrel arrangement (1) that has at least one barrel element (2) forming at least part of a barrel of the gun, and a silencer element (3) that is or can be fastened to the barrel element (2); in order for the silencer element (3) to be fastened to the barrel element (2), at least one clamping element (12) that can be or is fastened within the silencer element (3) is used to be able to axially clamp or axially clamp the silencer element (3) against at least one contact element (5) located or formed on the barrel element (2). |
| US10514220B2 |
Self-releasing magazine and follower assembly thereof for firearms
Examples of a self-releasing magazine and a magazine follower assembly thereof for firearms are described. The magazine follower assembly includes a casing and a self-releasing actuator received in the casing. When in use, the magazine follower assembly generally moves along a first axis with respect to the casing between a first position in the magazine when the magazine is fully loaded and a second position in the magazine when the magazine contains no ammunition cartridge. When the magazine follower assembly is at the second position in the magazine, the self-releasing actuator is configured to actuate a magazine release mechanism of the firearm to disengage the magazine from the firearm so that the magazine is detachable from the firearm. |
| US10514219B2 |
Removable bolt handle for bolt action firearms
A bolt assembly for a bolt action firearm includes a bolt body, a handle coupled to the bolt body, and a shroud that receives the bolt body and the handle. Rotation of the shroud with respect to the bolt body allows the handle to be removed from the bolt assembly. A bolt handle for a firearm includes a shaft having a radial extension at one end and a knob at an opposite end, a radial protrusion extending from the radial extension, and prongs extending from the radial extension that define a space for coupling the handle to the bolt body without engaging a firing arm of the firearm. |
| US10514218B2 |
Firearm and method of forming channels to contain compressible material
A firearm has a lower receiver with a first channel formed in a first surface of the lower receiver, and an upper receiver attached to the lower receiver at a pivot point. A compressible material is disposed within the first channel between the upper receiver and lower receiver. The upper receiver compresses the compressible material when the upper receiver closes onto the lower receiver. A recess can be formed within the first channel and extends into the lower receiver deeper than the first channel. A second channel is formed in a second surface of the lower receiver. Alternatively, the lower receiver has a slot formed in a surface of the lower receiver, and the compressible material is disposed within the slot. The slot includes a bottom surface and vertical surface extending from the bottom surface to the surface of the lower receiver, and rounded ends. |
| US10514216B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger includes: a first heat transfer portion including a plurality of first flat tubes arranged at equal intervals and spaced apart from each other by a distance Dp in a gravity direction; and a second heat transfer portion positioned downstream of the first heat transfer portion in a flow direction of a heat exchange medium perpendicular to the gravity direction, the second heat transfer portion including a plurality of second flat tubes arranged at equal intervals and spaced apart from each other by the distance Dp in the gravity direction. |
| US10514211B2 |
Vapor chamber
A vapor chamber having improved heat transfer capacity by efficiently returning the working fluid to the evaporating portion is provided. A hollow flat container 2 is formed by a base member 4 and a lid 3 closing an opening of the base member. Phase-changeable working fluid is held in the container, and fins 9 are arranged in the container to transmit heat of a heat generating object between the bottom plate of the base member and the lid. The fins are densely juxtaposed on an evaporating portion in comparison with the other fins juxtaposed on the outside of the evaporating portion. |
| US10514208B2 |
Heat storage
Provided is a heat storage including a container including a first container made of ceramics and a second container made of ceramics, the first container and the second container being combined, and a heat storage material housed inside the container. The first container and the second container are bonded via a bonding member. A volume occupied by pores in the first container, in a first contact region including a surface section in contact with the bonding member, is greater than a volume occupied by pores in regions other than the first contact region. A volume occupied by pores in the second container, in a second contact region including a surface section in contact with the bonding member, is greater than a volume occupied by pores in regions other than the second contact region. |
| US10514206B2 |
Multi-coil heat exchanger
A heat exchanger including more than one fluid conductor, each of the fluid conductors is configured to receive a distinct flow of fluid and heat from only one heat source, wherein the coils are configured to be interleaved to form a structure of a single-sized lumen in which the heat source is disposed. |
| US10514204B2 |
Multiport extruded heat exchanger
A heat exchanger is provided including a first manifold and a second manifold separated from the first manifold. A plurality of heat exchange tube segments are arranged in spaced parallel relationship and fluidly couple the first and second manifold. Each of the plurality of tube segments includes a first heat exchange tube and a second heat exchange tube at least partially connected by a web extending there between. The plurality of heat exchange tube segments includes a bend defining a first section and a second section of the heat exchange tube segments. The first section is arranged at an angle to the second section. A plurality of first fins extends form the first section of the heat exchange tube segments and a plurality of second fins extends from the second section of the heat exchange tube segments. |
| US10514203B2 |
Plant and process for ammonia production with cryogenic purification, and related method of revamping
Process for the synthesis of ammonia from a make-up gas containing hydrogen and nitrogen, said process comprising: generation of a synthesis gas (8) containing hydrogen and nitrogen in a molar ratio lower than 3, inside a front-end section (2); a first cryogenic purification, designed to remove nitrogen and raise said molar ratio; conversion of the synthesis gas into ammonia (13) inside a high-pressure synthesis loop (6), with extraction from said loop of a purge stream (14) containing hydrogen and inert gases; wherein at least a portion of said purge stream (14) undergoes a further purification in order to recover at least part of the hydrogen contained therein, obtaining at least one stream (15, 15a, 16, 18) containing recovered hydrogen which is recycled to the process. |
| US10514202B2 |
Systems and methods for multi-stage refrigeration
Systems and methods for multi-stage refrigeration in mixed refrigerant and cascade refrigeration cycles using one or more liquid motive eductors in combination with a pump. |
| US10514194B2 |
Multi-evaporator appliance having a multi-directional valve for delivering refrigerant to the evaporators
A refrigerating appliance includes a refrigerant line having a compressor and a condenser. A thermal exchange media is delivered from the condenser and through the refrigerant line to at least a freezer evaporator of a plurality of evaporators, wherein the thermal exchange media leaving the freezer evaporator defines spent media that is returned to the compressor. A multi-directional outlet valve selectively delivers the thermal exchange media to the freezer evaporator, wherein the multi-directional outlet valve also selectively delivers the thermal exchange media to at least one secondary evaporator of the plurality of evaporators to define a partially-spent media that is delivered to the freezer evaporator. |
| US10514191B2 |
De-icing control in a vapor compression heat pump system
A vapor compression heat pump (VCHP) system for an electrified vehicle and a method for de-icing the VCHP system is provided. The electrified vehicle may include a vehicle cabin, the VCHP system, and a controller. The VCHP system may be in thermal communication with the cabin and include an outside heat exchanger and a compressor. The controller may be configured to, in response to detection of a predefined ice condition associated with the outside heat exchanger, output commands to adjust a speed of the compressor to influence a temperature of refrigerant flowing through the compressor such that the refrigerant carries an amount of heat sufficient to eliminate the predefined ice condition within a preselected time period. The predefined ice condition may be a condition in which the heat exchanger has accumulated ice or is likely to accumulate ice. |
| US10514186B2 |
Solar collector assembly
A solar collector assembly (10) comprising a pipe (18) exposed to solar energy adapted to accommodate a fluid flow in such a way that the solar energy is transferred to the fluid, a heat pipe or any other energy guiding system or absorber; a reflector assembly (12) with a curved reflector (14) for focusing solar radiation in the range of the pipe (18), and an actuator (90,64, 80) for moving the reflector assembly (12) in a way that the solar radiation is reflected in the direction of the pipe (12), is characterized in that means (30, 32) are provided for releasably fixing the reflector assembly (12) to the pipe (18), and the actuator (90, 64, 80) is fixed at the reflector assembly (12) or in the reflector assembly (12). |
| US10514184B2 |
Ignition temperature control apparatus of gas water heater
The present disclosure discloses an ignition temperature control apparatus of a gas water heater, comprising: a heat exchanger made of stainless steel; a combustion device which supplies high-temperature flue gas to the heat exchanger; a water passage communicated with the heat exchanger; a first temperature detection device provided on the heat exchanger or on the water passage; a controller, wherein if a temperature detected by the first temperature detection device is lower than or equal to a first preset temperature or a rate of decline of a temperature detected by the first temperature detection device is higher than or equal to a first preset value the controller controls the combustion device to operate in such a state that a requirement for thermal bearing capacity of the heat exchanger made of stainless steel is satisfied. The heat exchanger of the ignition temperature control apparatus of the gas water heater of the present disclosure, which is made of stainless steel, has good thermal inertia and excellent thermal insulation properties, and thus the combustion device is started for heating when the ignition temperature control apparatus of the gas water heater is in a stop state, such that it is possible to ensure that the heat exchanger will not fail while an anti-freezing effect can be achieved. |
| US10514182B1 |
Automatic self-cleaning evaporator drain pan system
An automatic self-cleaning evaporator drain pan system, having a container housing with a chemical container and a smart control pump. The smart control pump has at least one microprocessor. An evaporator drain system has at least one sensor connected to the smart control pump; and further having an electrical system. The container housing has a container tubing, and a chemical conduit with first and second chemical delivery lines. The chemical conduit extends from the smart control pump to the evaporator drain system, transporting a chemical composition. In operation, the chemical composition is mixed with condensed water and drains from the drain outlet toward a drainage line, whereby the chemical composition prevents microorganism growth, algae, gunk and/or other solid material from forming on the drain pan and the drainage line. |
| US10514178B2 |
Central plant control system with computation reduction based on graph theory
Systems and methods for predicting a plurality of thermodynamic states of a plurality of heat, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) devices of an energy plant are disclosed. The system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions when executed causing the processor to: obtain plant netlist data describing the plurality of HVAC devices of the energy plant and connections of the plurality of HVAC devices to corresponding nodes; identify, from the plurality of thermodynamic states of the energy plant at a plurality of nodes, a reduced subset of the plurality of thermodynamic states to be predicted based on the connections of the plurality of HVAC devices; predict the reduced subset of the plurality of thermodynamic states using a non-linear solver; and determine the plurality of thermodynamic states of the energy plant based on the reduced subset of the predicted thermodynamic states. |
| US10514176B2 |
Systems and methods for refrigerant leak management
A refrigerant leak management system includes a return inlet assembly and a purge exhaust outlet assembly. The system also includes a sensor configured to detect refrigerant proximate an air handling enclosure of a HVAC unit. The system further includes a controller configured to control the system to drive air from a conditioned interior space of a building into an external environment via the purge exhaust outlet assembly when the sensor detects the refrigerant proximate the air handling enclosure by: actuating the return inlet assembly to close the return inlet assembly, actuating the purge exhaust outlet assembly to open the purge exhaust outlet assembly, and activating a reversible supply fan of the HVAC unit in a reverse direction. |
| US10514172B2 |
Fluid distribution system
Fluid distribution systems comprising a wireless, self-recharging fluid distribution system and method for their use. In a preferred example, the fluid distribution system is an automated or semi-automated on-command hot water system, wherein the wireless, self-recharging fluid distribution system comprises a fluid turbine and a battery, for converting fluid flow into electricity to recharge the battery. In certain examples, the wireless, self-recharging fluid distribution system also comprises a sensor component, such as a sensor selected from the group consisting of a pressure sensor, a moisture sensor, a sound-receiving sensor, a temperature sensor, a flow sensor, and a chemical sensor. In some examples such fluid distribution systems may be of particular use in environments having limited access to electricity, such as vessels, mobile homes, trailers, and “of the grid”structures having no access to dependable electricity supply. |
| US10514167B1 |
Method and apparatus for controlling exhaust pressure for an extreme ultraviolet generation chamber
An apparatus coupled to a chamber for processing extreme ultraviolet radiation includes a gas inlet configured to direct exhaust gases from the chamber into a combustion zone. The combustion zone is configured to flamelessly ignite the exhaust gases. An air inlet is configured to direct a mixture of air and a fuel into the combustion zone. A control valve is configured to change a volume of fluid exhausted from the combustion zone. A controller configured to control the control valve so as to prevent a pressure inside the combustion zone from exceeding a preset pressure value is provided. |
| US10514163B2 |
Ex vivo proliferation of epithelial cells
The technology relates in part to methods and compositions for ex vivo proliferation and expansion of epithelial cells. |
| US10514162B2 |
Bathtub having at least one window and method of making a window in a bathtub
The bathtub generally has a wall having a translucent inner layer defining a cavity for receiving water. The bathtub has at least one translucent outer reinforcement member which is secured to a portion of the translucent inner layer, thus forming at least one window with the corresponding portion of the translucent inner layer. The bathtub has a corresponding light source which faces the translucent outer reinforcement member for lighting through the window, into the cavity. The wall further has an outer reinforcement layer covering the translucent inner layer around the at least one window. |
| US10514161B2 |
Helmets with lighting and lighting systems for helmets
Helmets and helmet lighting systems for use in demanding environments, such as fire, rescue, police and military applications. The helmets and systems provide one or more of high levels of light emission, long operational life, waterproofing/ability to operate in wet or submerged environments and relatively low weight. In some configurations, a helmet comprises a lighting system including an exterior layer and an interior layer applied to a shell of the helmet. In some configurations, a lighting module having an internal layer and an exterior layer is attached to an underlying helmet. In some configurations, a lighting system includes pods and/or strips containing a source of light. The pods or strips can be attached to an underlying helmet. |
| US10514160B2 |
Light fixture mount for light fixtures in hazardous locations
The present disclosure is directed to a light fixture mount. The light fixture mount includes a first end to receive a light fixture, a cap coupled to the light fixture that is coupled to the first end to form a first seal, and a second end to receive a collar that is coupled to a mounting member, wherein the collar comprises a sealed wire pass-through and a second seal is formed between the second end and the collar. |
| US10514151B2 |
Light-emitting device, illumination device, and vehicle headlamp
A headlamp includes a light-emitting section which emits fluorescence upon receiving excitation light from a laser element. Energy intensity distribution of the excitation light, which is received by the light-emitting section, is a top-hat distribution. |
| US10514150B2 |
Solid-state luminaire reflector assembly
A reflector assembly for a solid-state luminaire is disclosed. The disclosed reflector assembly may be configured, in accordance with some embodiments, to be disposed over a given printed circuit board (PCB) of a host luminaire such that emissions of emitters populated over that PCB are reflected out of the luminaire via the reflector assembly. In some embodiments, the reflector assembly may be formed from one or more reflective members, which may be generally bar-shaped or cup-shaped, or other example configurations. In some other embodiments, the reflector assembly may be formed from a bulk body having one or more reflective cavities formed therein. The particular configuration of a given reflective member or reflective cavity, as the case may be, of the reflector assembly, as well as the particular arrangement thereof for a host luminaire, may be customized as desired for a given target application or end-use. |
| US10514147B2 |
Headlight module having thin plate type metal PCB
Provided is a headlight module having a thin plate type metal PCB, wherein the headlight module has the assembly structure of a metal PCB formed of a thin plate which is a thermal conductor and capable of being bent in various directions and including at least one protruded portion increasing a surface area on both sides, and a back plate coupled to the metal PCB through the protruded portion. |
| US10514145B1 |
Optical systems for a headlamp
A headlamp assembly, an optical system and a method for generating a hybrid luminous intensity are provided. The headlamp includes a low beam assembly and a high beam assembly. The low beam assembly is configured to generate a low beam distribution. The low beam assembly includes a plurality of low beam modules including at least one high luminance source optically configured to emit a first luminous intensity distribution and at least one light source optically configured to emit a second luminous intensity distribution. The high beam assembly includes one or more high beam modules. |
| US10514140B2 |
Multi-powering solar lamps
A portable device for generating and providing electricity is disclosed. The device includes one or more flat solar panels; one or more batteries arranged to be changed with electric power from the one or more flat solar panels; one or more lights arranged to be powered from the one or more batteries; one or more electric connectors arranged to receive electric power form the one or more batteries and to connect to combined power/data connections on portable electronic devices; and an expandable and collapsible housing holding the solar panels, batteries, and lights, and arranged to form a hollow inner volume when expanded and a flat panel when contracted. |
| US10514139B2 |
LED fixture with integrated driver circuitry
A solid state lighting fixture with an integrated driver circuit. A housing has a base end and an open end through which light is emitted from the fixture. The reflective interior surface of the fixture and the base define an optical chamber. At least one, and often multiple, light sources are mounted at the fixture base along with the circuitry necessary to drive and/or control the light sources. The drive circuit and the light sources are both located in the optical chamber. A reflective cone fits within the optical chamber such that it covers most of the drive circuit and other components at the base of fixture that might absorb light. The reflective cone is shaped to define a hole that is aligned with the light sources so that light may be emitted through the hole toward the open end of the fixture. |
| US10514138B2 |
Lighting placements system
A light placement system includes a mounting strip including an illuminating device. The light placement system also includes a clip that is attached to a surface of an object and holds the mounting strip to illuminate an area of the object. The surface is an internal surface that is not visible from an external appearance of the object. |
| US10514136B2 |
Lighting devices
A device includes a light emitting assembly including at least one light panel including one or more phosphorescent organic light emitting devices. The device may, for example, be a personal lighting device. The at least one light panel has a peak luminance less than 5,000 cd/m2, an efficiency of greater than 30 lm/W, and a maximum surface temperature during illumination in ambient conditions of no greater than 40° C., At least a portion of the light emitting assembly is touch sensitive to provide control of the device. |
| US10514135B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a semiconductor laser element configured to emit a first light, a wavelength converting member configured to emit a second light upon being irradiated by the first light, and a support member defining a through-hole allowing an optical path of the first light to pass through. The through-hole is defined by, in order from a light incident side to a light emitting side with respect to the first light, a lower portion with opening width decreasing from the light incident side to the light emitting side, and an upper portion where the wavelength converting member is fixed. The semiconductor laser element is disposed at a location allowing the first light to enter the lower portion of the through-hole while also allowing a part of the first light to be reflected at a wall defining the lower portion of the through-hole. |
| US10514131B2 |
Light-emitting apparatus
A light-emitting apparatus includes a supporting element, a light-emitting device, and a connecting pin. The light-emitting device has a pair of conductive pads and is disposed on the supporting element. The connecting pin is inserted from the side surface of the supporting element and electrically connected to one of the conductive pads. The topmost surface of the supporting element is lower than the top surface of the light-emitting device. |
| US10514129B2 |
Hybrid tanks
A commercial hybrid tank includes a metal liner with an upper wall and a lower wall. The upper wall and the lower wall define a cavity therebetween. A weld joint joins the upper and lower walls together. A fiber winding layer is wrapped around an outer surface of the metal liner. A method for manufacturing a commercial hybrid tank includes overlapping surfaces of an upper wall and a lower wall to form a metal liner defining a cavity. The method includes joining the surface of the upper wall and the surface of the lower wall together by welding to form a weld joint between the upper wall and the lower wall. The method includes wrapping the metal liner with a fiber winding layer around an outer surface of the metal liner to form a hybrid tank. |
| US10514126B2 |
Multi-function travel-friendly workstation with cooling and ventilation
An ergonomically designed space saving, collapsible multi-function travel-friendly modular workstation for supporting a broad range of electronic systems, reading materials and the like for users while standing, sitting or on-the-go, and fits in anywhere, anytime is presented. The workstation comprises a support unit, telescopic rod and tripod and is designed to provide needed cooling and ventilation for electronic systems, support healthy postures, and complete comfort and versatility of a multi-function workstation with all the important things needed when working at a desk, thereby improving a user's comfort when using the workstation. Further, the workstation is designed for easy transportation, storage and set up, as well as provide a versatile workspace for a user in many different environments, for everyday use such as note taking, writing, reading, presentations, performing arts and rehearsing while playing a musical instrument, music or conductor stand, etc. |
| US10514122B2 |
Combination spray nozzle/QD connector assembly for filling firefighter backpack bladders
Wildfire water-supply hose having a QD nozzle with an outer sleeve adapted to engage a firefighter's backpack water bladder's QD connector. The combination male QD nozzle/female QD system permits rapid and easier bottom-up filling of the bladders without dismounting the tank from the firefighter's back, by inserting the QD nozzle into the female QD fitting on the bottom of the backpack bladder. The QD nozzle tip is long enough to open the internal spring-biased shut-off valve in the female QD connector when inserted. Upon opening the supply line valve, water flows into the backpack bladder until full. The supply valve is closed and the QD nozzle is withdrawn from the bladder female QD connector. Rotation of the QD nozzle outer sleeve controls water flow from stream, to spray to mist. The QD nozzle is also used with other types of nozzles on dual fittings having 3-way valves, e.g., fog nozzles. |
| US10514121B2 |
Emergency detachable pipe coupling
An emergency detachable pipe coupling configured to decouple a female coupling member and a male coupling member which are coupled together when an external force makes the male coupling member tilted at a predetermined angle relative to a female coupling member. When the male coupling member is tilted, a pressing surface of the male coupling member presses a to-be-pressed surface of a locking element restraining member of the female coupling member to displace the locking element restraining member to a release position where a locking element becomes displaceable to an unlocking position. |
| US10514120B2 |
High pressure, large inner diameter hose coupling with termination attachment
A hose coupling for attachment to an end portion of a hose. The hose coupling may include a fitting, a termination attachment, and an end termination. The fitting may be attachable to the end portion of the hose. The fitting may include a ferrule and a stem. The ferrule may be attached to the stem. The termination attachment may be attached to the fitting in opposing relationship to the end portion of the hose. The end termination may be associated with the termination attachment. In some examples, the end termination is threaded, welded, integrally formed, integrally machined, or otherwise associated with the termination attachment. |
| US10514117B2 |
Fluidic fitting with integral face seal
A fitting for a fluidic coupling includes a tube assembly that includes an inner tube, an intermediate tube formed of a polymeric material and disposed over at least a portion of a length of the inner tube, and an outer tube formed of a metal and disposed over the intermediate tube. The inner tube has an inner tube endface and a first fluid channel. The intermediate tube includes an extruded portion having a length and an intermediate tube endface. The outer tube has an outer tube endface and an outer surface. First and second radial crimps are formed on the outer surface at first and second distances from the outer tube endface and extend for first and second axial lengths, respectively. The inner and outer tube endfaces are co-planar and the intermediate tube endface is separated from the inner and outer tube endfaces by the length of the extruded portion. |
| US10514116B2 |
Pipe connection for conducting a fluid that is under pressure
A pipe connection for conducting a fluid that is under pressure is provided, having two tubular connection parts for a conical clamping connection, which are screwed together by a union nut while one is inserted in the other, wherein each connection part has a conical sealing surface that contacts the other in a sealing manner and wherein an annular groove is provided in one of the sealing surfaces. In order to enable the pipe connection also to conduct a fluid having cycling or varying temperature, the inner of the two connection parts has thermal insulation on the inside of the pipe at least in the axial segment of the sealing surface of the connection part, wherein the thermal insulation tube has a cam or a collar on the outer surface, which engages in a recess, which is axially bounded by the two connection parts. |
| US10514115B2 |
Flexible tube
A flexible tube includes a tube body made of metal and having a bellows shape, and a tube circumference covering made of metal and covering the tube body, in which a fluorine-based resin film is provided between the tube body and the tube circumference covering. |
| US10514114B2 |
Hose for transporting refrigerant
Provided is a hose for transporting a refrigerant, including an innermost layer having a tubular shape and a rubber layer arranged on an outer periphery of the innermost layer, wherein the innermost layer is formed of a resin composition containing a polymer, which contains a polyamide resin (A) as a main component, and an aromatic secondary amine compound (B) having two secondary amino groups per molecule and having a melting point of 100° C. or more. Accordingly, the hose for transporting a refrigerant excellent in refrigerant permeation resistance, flexibility, and the like, and also excellent in performance of preventing the hydrolytic deterioration of the innermost layer of the hose can be provided. |
| US10514113B2 |
Metal pipe having thickened end portion, and method of manufacturing same
A metal pipe having a thickened end portion, the metal pipe includes: when viewed in a longitudinal direction of the metal pipe, a thin portion which has a thickness t0; a first thickened portion which is provided on one end and has a thickness T which is larger than the thickness t0; and a first taper portion which is provided between the thin portion and the first thickened portion and has the thickness which gradually increases from t0 to T; when a hardness of an inner surface of the first thickened portion is measured in a circumferential direction and the hardness is plotted with respect to a position in the circumferential direction, in which a waveform representing a high hardness portion having a hardness which is 95% or more of a maximum hardness in the circumferential direction and a waveform representing a low hardness portion having a hardness which is less than 95% of the maximum hardness alternately appear, and a plurality of combinations of the waveform representing the high hardness portion and the waveform representing the low hardness portion appear. |
| US10514109B2 |
Valve opening and closing timing control apparatus
A valve opening and closing timing control apparatus includes: a driving side rotator disposed rotatably about a rotation axis and configured to rotate synchronously with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine; a driven side rotator disposed rotatably about the rotation axis and configured to be rotatable relative to the driving side rotator and to rotate integrally with a valve opening and closing camshaft of the internal combustion engine; and a phase adjustment mechanism configured to set a relative rotation phase between the driving side rotator and the driven side rotator by a driving force of an electric actuator. The phase adjustment mechanism includes: an internally toothed ring gear; an inner gear; and a drive shaft, and the valve opening and closing timing control apparatus further includes: a biasing member; and a displacement regulation portion. |
| US10514101B2 |
Low load seal with outer diameter flap
A seal for insertion in a bore in an outer member and engaging an inner member received in the bore. The seal includes an annular insert having an elastomeric body over-molded on the annular insert and an inner seal extending radially inward from the annular insert. The inner seal including an inboard sealing surface and the elastomeric body over-molded on the annular insert defining an outer portion including an outboard sealing surface including an annular flap on an exterior side of the annular insert that, in an installed position, is adapted to be compressed between the outer annular insert and the outer member. |
| US10514098B2 |
Sealing gasket for piping systems and its manufacturing process
The present invention is for sealing gaskets applicable to pipes, valves and boiler equipment. In this context, the present invention provides a sealing gasket for piping systems comprising (i) a core (10) formed by a plurality of concentric metal rings (10a), each ring (10a) comprising a substantially rectangular cross-section, wherein the height of the rectangular cross-section is the same for all the rings (10a), and (ii) surface coating (12) of flexible material applied to the upper and lower surfaces of the core (10). The present invention also provides the manufacturing process of said sealing gasket. Thus, the present invention provides a sealing gasket (i) that eliminates the need for an external rigid ring, (ii) that is easy to conform for reduced-diameter sealing gaskets and (iii) can be easily formed into different shapes, such as an oval shape, which is particularly useful for sealing between the body and the gate valve bonnet. |
| US10514097B2 |
Method for producing piston ring with recess
A method for producing a piston ring for a cylinder that moves in a sliding direction includes providing a piston ring base material having an upper surface, a lower surface and an outer circumferential surface having a first recess between the upper surface and the lower surface, forming a hard film in the first recess and on a cylindrical surface at a predetermined thickness, and removing, by performing a polishing process on the sliding surface, the hard film formed on the cylindrical surface and a part of the piston ring base material disposed adjacent to the removed hard film, to form a second recess. The second recess is formed by removing an area of the removed part of the piston ring base material as a result of polishing the sliding surface due to a difference in the hardness of the hard film and the piston ring base material. |
| US10514096B2 |
Continuously variable transmission ratio measuring device
The continuously variable transmission (CVT) assembly includes a CVT including a drive pulley, a driven pulley, and an endless rotatable device coupled between the drive pulley and the driven pulley. The CVT assembly also includes an actuator coupled to the drive pulley. The CVT assembly also includes an angle sensor coupled to the endless rotatable device such that the angle sensor is configured to measure an angular position of the endless rotatable device. The CVT assembly also includes a controller in communication with the actuator and the angle sensor. The controller is programmed to: (a) determine a speed ratio of the CVT based on the angular position of the endless rotatable device; and (b) control the actuator to adjust the clamping force exerted on the drive pulley in response to determining the speed ratio of the CVT. |
| US10514095B2 |
Control device and control method for continuously variable transmission mechanism for vehicle
A control device for a continuously variable transmission mechanism of a vehicle includes: a stepwise variable transmission mechanism which is disposed in series with the continuously variable transmission mechanism, and which has at least two or more forward gear stages; and a controller configured to increase the belt capacities to be greater than the belt capacity set when an accelerator opening degree is zero, at least in a time period from a timing when the accelerator opening degree becomes zero, to a timing when a braking force is generated by a depression of a brake pedal, the controller being configured to set an increase amount with respect to the belt capacity set when the accelerator opening degree is zero, to a smaller value as a transmission gear ratio of the stepwise variable transmission mechanism is higher. |
| US10514092B2 |
Position sensor body assembly
A transmission position sensor body assembly configured to be securely attached to a transmission housing includes a sensor body housing, a cap member and compression limiters. The sensor body housing has a central rim and a pair of outer receiving lobes that define a corresponding pair of bores. The cap member has a central body portion including integrally formed outer ears extending therefrom. The cam member is coupled to the sensor body. The compression limiters are coupled to the cap member at the respective outer ears and that extend through the bores of the sensor body housing. Fasteners are received through respective compression limiters. Clamping forces are transferred onto the cap member during the tightening of the fasteners to the transmission housing without acting on the sensor body housing. |
| US10514089B2 |
Auxiliary oil pump system
An auxiliary oil pump system for a gearbox, comprising: an auxiliary battery; a controller electrically connected to the auxiliary battery; and an auxiliary oil pump driven by the controller using a self-adaptive process, wherein the self-adaptive process comprises: the controller receives current operational pressure signal and compared the current operational pressure signal to a pressure threshold; if the current operational pressure signal is bigger than the pressure threshold, the auxiliary oil pump keeps current rotational speed; if the current operational pressure signal is smaller than the pressure threshold, the auxiliary oil pump improves the rotational speed by a pre-determined speed. |
| US10514087B2 |
Driving system
A driving system includes a drive source for driving a left drive portion and a right drive portion, a power transmission mechanism having first and second differential mechanisms each including a first rotating element, a second rotating element and a third rotating element and a switching unit. The first rotating elements of the first and second differential mechanisms are connected to each other so as to rotate in the same direction, the second rotating elements of the first and second differential elements are connected to the left drive portion and the right drive portion, respectively, and the third rotating elements of the first and second differential mechanisms are connected to each other so as to rotate in opposite directions. |
| US10514086B2 |
System and method to align belt integrated starter generator tensioners
Some belt-driven integrated-starter generators (BISGs) have twin-arm tensioners mounted directly to the BISG. Because the distance between the tensioner and the BISG pulley is quite short, any stack up tolerance leads to relatively high misalignment, which, in turn, leads to belt wear and noise. To minimize misalignment, a process is disclosed to machine the tensioner pulley bearing seats on the tensioner arms after assembly to the BISG. The BISG pulley is rotated with three probes recording the axial position change of the BISG pulley over a complete revolution. These data are used to establish a best-fit plane and the tensioner pulley bearing seats are machined to match the best-fit plane so that during operation belt twisting and shifting are minimized. |
| US10514084B2 |
Infinitely variable power transmission system
A power transmission system is disclosed for infinitely variable speed capability. The power transmission system includes a pair of power units, each configured to deliver a rotational torque to drive an output element. A transmission arrangement receives the rotational torques from the power units and delivers a resulting torque to the output element. The transmission arrangement includes a gear set coupling the one power unit to the output element to deliver torque through a mechanical meshing engagement that is continuously effected between the first power unit and the output element. |
| US10514083B2 |
Cross-linked elastomeric low friction faced synchronous power transmission belt
A synchronous drive belt includes an outer tension section and opposing continuous tooth section defining an outer surface. The synchronous drive belt further includes a cross-linked elastomeric body, and a tensile reinforcement section disposed between the outer tension section and the cross-linked elastomeric body. A fabric reinforcement is disposed inwardly adjacent the outer surface of the continuous tooth section, and the fabric reinforcement is enveloped by the cross-linked elastomeric body. Further, the cross-linked elastomeric body forms the outer surface of the continuous tooth section. In some aspects, the cross-linked elastomeric body contains a urethane material, which may be formed from the reaction product of a polyisocyanate and a hydroxyl functional polyol during a belt molding process. The polyisocyanate and the hydroxyl functional polyol may envelop the fabric reinforcement prior to reacting during the belt molding process, or even while reacting in the molding process. |
| US10514082B2 |
Flywheel system
The present disclosure relates to a flywheel system (1), comprising a ring-shaped flywheel rotor (3), arranged on a rotation axis (7); and a substantially cylindrical casing (2), enveloping the flywheel rotor (3) at least in a radial direction to contain the flywheel (3) in case of a calamity. The flywheel system (1) further exhibits the feature that the casing (2) comprises and having at least one inward protruding bumper (8) defining a variation from the circular shape in cross section of the casing wall (5) surrounding the flywheel rotor (3). The casing wall (5) may itself be circular and the bumper (8) can define a deviation relative to the circular shape thereof, to enhance deceleration of the flywheel rotor (3), if, in case of an accident or calamity, the flywheel rotor (3) comes loose. |
| US10514081B2 |
Balance device for internal combustion engine
A balance device for an internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft and a balance shaft. The crankshaft includes a CS eccentric weight. The balance shaft includes a BS eccentric weight. A CS connected point deviated from the CS main shaft, and a BS connected point deviated from the BS axial shaft are connected with a connection rod. A CS connection mechanism that enables relative rotation of the crankshaft and the connection rod is provided at the CS connected point. A BS connection mechanism that enables relative rotation of the balance shaft and the connection rod is provided at the BS connected point. A guide section guides a motion of the connection rod so that the balance shaft rotates in an opposite direction to the crankshaft. |
| US10514078B2 |
Vibration control pad
A vibration control pad (5) comprises a gel elastic body (7) made of an elastic-viscous material and heavy-object support members (8) embedded in the gel elastic body (7). A protrusion (11) is formed only on either the top or bottom surface of the gel elastic body (7) or formed on each of the top and bottom surfaces of the gel elastic body (7) in such a manner as to cover part of the support bodies (8). The protrusion (11) securely contains the support bodies (8) in the gel elastic body (7) to prevent the support bodies (8) from being detached or separated from the gel elastic body (7) when the vibration control pad (5) is taken out of its packaging member for use. |
| US10514076B2 |
Shock absorber for aircrafts
A shock absorber includes an upper vibration damping sheet and a lower vibration damping sheet. Multiple first vibration dampers and a second vibration damper are located between the upper vibration damping sheet and the lower vibration damping sheet; the first vibration dampers are close to an edge of both the upper vibration damping sheet and the lower vibration damping sheet. One end of the second vibration damper is located on the lower vibration damping sheet and is far away from the edge of the lower vibration damping sheet, the other end of the second vibration damper extends towards the upper vibration damping sheet along an axial direction of the lower vibration damping sheet, whereby when a carrier moves, the shock absorber provides a damping effect for a gimbal through the first vibration dampers and the second vibration damper. An aircraft includes the shock absorber mentioned above and a gimbal. |