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US10561048B2	Anisotropic conducting body and method of manufacture A layer of the mixture that contains polymer and conductive particles is applied over a first surface, when the mixture has a first viscosity that allows the conductive particles to rearrange within the layer. An electric field is applied over the layer, so that a number of the conductive particles are aligned with the field and thereafter the viscosity of the layer is changed to a second, higher viscosity, in order to mechanically stabilise the layer. This leads to a stable layer with enhanced and anisotropic conductivity.
US10561047B2	Electromagnetic gaskets for a cable connection A gasket assembly structure including a frame which includes a front half and a back half joined together with a plurality of interlocking tabs located around a perimeter of the frame, defining a window, and an electromagnetic gasket, constrained between the front half and the back half of the frame; where the electromagnetic gasket lines an interior perimeter of the window and partially extends from the frame into the window, and a passageway through the window of the frame with boarders defined by the constrained electromagnetic gasket. A housing structure including a receptacle recessed within an opening on a front side of the housing, the receptacle is rigidly attached to the housing, and a gasket assembly recessed within the opening and located between the front side of the housing and the receptacle, where the gasket assembly is directly secured to the housing.
US10561046B2	EMC-shielding seal and electrical or electronic device comprising a seal A seal for an International Protection (IP)-sealing and electromagnetic capability (EMC)-shielding connection between a first housing component and a second housing component of an electrical or electronic device is disclosed. The seal includes an elastomer-containing sealing body and a metallic support that is embedded to some extent in the sealing body. The sealing body and the metallic support are connected to one another in an adhesive and/or form-fitting manner and thus form a material bond, and the metallic support has a plurality of contact segments, which project out of the sealing body and are configured such that the contact segments make electrical contact in resilient fashion with a first boundary surface that is assigned to the first housing component, and a second boundary surface that is assigned to the second housing component, the seal being pressed in between said boundary surfaces in an installed state.
US10561039B2	Frame for printed circuit board support in high vibration A frame for dampening vibrations in a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is provided. The frame includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface and multiple ridges extending from at least one of the first and second surfaces. The ridges define recesses, and at least one of the recesses is configured to accommodate an electronic component of a PCB in the PCB assembly. Also provided is a PCB assembly including a PCB and the frame.
US10561038B2	Equipment rack having mounting brackets An equipment rack, mounting break thereof, and associated methods. The bracket is secured to a frame assembly of the equipment rack by a releasable snap-fit connection. The snap-fit connection can maintain engagement of the bracket with abutments of the frame assembly and/or maintain mated connections of the bracket with the frame assembly. The brackets can be used to mount electrical power distribution units, cable baskets, or other equipment.
US10561037B1	Backplane structure A backplane structure includes: a backplane; an electronic board having a plurality of first through-holes and a plurality of second through-holes spaced apart from the plurality of the first through-holes, the first through-holes each having a rectangular cross section; a plurality of strutting components, a plurality of connecting pieces, and a plurality of locking components, wherein the plurality of strutting components and the plurality of locking components are both disposed at positions corresponding to the second through-holes and the first through-holes on the backplane, respectively, the plurality of strutting components are fixedly connected to the electronic board via the plurality of connecting pieces, each of the locking components includes an inwardly concave locking slot disposed in a side surface of the locking component perpendicular to the backplane, and each of the locking components is locked with the electronic board via each of first through-holes.
US10561036B1	Peripheral component interconnect express bus bar A system is provided relating to a peripheral component interconnect express bus bar. In use, the bus bar includes a circuit board and at least two electrical interface surface mount connectors attached to the circuit board, each of the at least two electrical interface surface mount connectors configured to be connected to a respective add-in card. Further, at least one power connector is attached to the circuit board and connected to at least one electrical interface surface mount connector of the at least two electrical interface surface mount connectors, and is configured to receive power and distribute the power to the at least two electrical interface surface connectors.
US10561033B2	Ceramic sintering for uniform color for a housing of an electronic device A method of manufacturing a housing of an electronic device includes determining a sintering profile configured to produce a selected color at a selected depth within a wall of the housing, sintering a ceramic housing precursor in accordance with the determined sintering profile, thereby forming the housing, and removing material from the housing up to the selected depth.
US10561030B2	Radio frequency subscriber drop units having printed circuit boards with ground plane layers and/or housings with ground walls Radio frequency subscriber drop units include a housing having an input port and an output port and a printed circuit board mounted in an interior of the housing. The printed circuit board includes a dielectric layer, a wiring layer that includes conductive wirings that comprise at least part of a communications path between the input port and the output port that is on a first face of the dielectric layer, and a ground plane layer that includes a conductive ground plane that is on a second face of the dielectric layer.
US10561029B1	Electronic device An electronic device includes a first electronic module, a second electronic module, and a shifting distance S. The first electronic module includes first electronic units arranged in rows, wherein the top row of first electronic units defines the first base line. The second electronic module is adjacent to the first electronic module. The second electronic module includes second electronic units arranged in rows, wherein the top row of second electronic units defines a second base line. There is a shifting distance S between the first base line and the second base line. The shifting distance S satisfies 0
US10561028B2	Flexible display A flexible display is disclosed. The flexible display includes: a roller, an external wall of the roller is provided with an opening; a first rotating shaft rotatably connected with the roller; and a flexible display screen configured to protrude from the roller or withdraw into the roller through the opening, the flexible display screen has a movable first end and a second end fixed at the first rotating shaft, the first end and the second end are opposite to each other.
US10561025B2	Method of manufacturing polymer printed circuit board A method of manufacturing a polymer printed circuit board contains steps of: A. providing a material layer consisting of polymer; B. forming circuit pattern on the material layer; C. depositing metal nanoparticles on the LIG of the circuit pattern so as to use as a metal seed; D. pressing the circuit pattern; and E. forming a metal layer on the LIG of the circuit pattern. In the step of B, the circuit pattern includes laser induced graphene, and the laser induced graphene is porous. Thereby, the circuit pattern is adhered on the material layer securely and has outstanding electric conductivity after being pressed in the step D.
US10561023B2	Method of making an electronic device having a thin film resistor formed on an LCP solder mask and related devices A method of making an electronic device may include forming at least one circuit layer that includes solder pads on a substrate and forming at least one liquid crystal polymer (LCP) solder mask having mask openings therein. The method may also include forming at least one thin film resistor on the LCP solder mask and coupling the at least one LCP solder mask to the substrate so that the at least one thin film resistor is coupled to the at least one circuit layer and so that the solder pads are aligned with the mask openings.
US10561020B2	Pin array including segmented pins for forming selectively plated through holes A process includes utilizing a pin array that includes multiple segmented pins for forming selectively plated through holes. The process includes forming a PCB laminate structure that includes multiple spinel-doped core layers and multiple through holes. Each spinel-doped core layer includes a heat-activated spinel material incorporated into a dielectric material. The process includes aligning individual segmented pins of a pin array with corresponding through holes of the PCB laminate structure, where each segmented pin includes heated segment(s) and insulating segment(s). The process includes inserting the segmented pins of the pin array into the corresponding through holes and generating heat within each heated pin segment that is sufficient to form metal nuclei sites in selected regions of the spinel-doped core layers adjacent to portions of the through holes that contain the heated pin segments. The metal nuclei sites function as seed layers to enable formation of selectively plated through holes.
US10561019B2	Ecological multilayer structure for hosting electronics and related method of manufacture Integrated multilayer structure (100, 400) for hosting electronics, comprising a first substrate (102) comprising organic, electrically substantially insulating natural material including and exhibiting a related naturally grown or natural textile based surface texture, said first substrate having a first side (102A) facing a predefined front side of the structure, said first side of the first substrate being optionally configured to face a user and/or use environment of the structure or of its host device, and an opposite second side (102B), a plastic layer (112), optionally comprising thermoplastic or thermoset plastics, molded onto said second side of the first substrate so as to at least partially cover it, and circuitry (104, 104B) provided on the second side of the first substrate, said circuitry being at least partially embedded in the molded material of the plastic layer. Related method of manufacture is presented.
US10561018B2	Connection structure and method for manufacturing connection structure A method for manufacturing connection structure, the method includes arranging conductive particles and a first composite on a first electrode located on a first surface of a first member, arranging a second composite on a region other than the first electrode of the first surface, arranging the first surface and a second surface of a second member where a second electrode is located, so that the first electrode and the second electrode are opposed to each other, pressing the first member and the second member; and curing the first composite and the second composite.
US10561012B2	Methods related to implementing surface mount devices with ground paths Disclosed are apparatus and methods related to ground paths implemented with surface mount devices to facilitate shielding of radio-frequency (RF) modules. In some embodiments, a method for fabricating a radio-frequency module includes providing a packaging substrate, the packaging substrate configured to receive a plurality of components and the packaging substrate including a ground plane. In some embodiments, the method includes mounting a surface mount device on the packaging substrate, and forming or providing a conductive layer over the surface mount device such that the surface mount device electrically connects the conductive layer with the ground plane to thereby provide radio-frequency shielding between first and second regions about the surface mount device.
US10561011B1	Combined heat sink and photon harvestor A heat transfer system includes a first component formed of a thermally conductive material and a second component including a surface adapted to capture stray photons to provide heat to the electronic device. The first component is secured and thermally coupled with an electronic device. In particular, the first component includes first and second layers. The first component is in superposed relation with the second component.
US10561008B2	Laser driven lamp The laser driven lamp comprising: a main body having a columnar shape; a concave reflecting portion formed at a front side of the main body, the concave reflecting portion having a focal point at which the laser beam converges; a light exit window provided in front of the concave reflecting portion; a laser beam passing hole formed at a center of the main body, the laser beam passing hole penetrating the main body in an optical axial direction of the lamp; and a light entrance window provided at a rear side of the main body, the laser beam being incident to the light entrance window, the main body, the light exit window and the light entrance window constituting in combination a closed space, and the light emitting gas being enclosed in the closed space.
US10561006B2	Environment optimization for space based on presence and activities A method for facilitating space experiences for at least a first space user and for at least first and second different spaces, the method comprising the steps of storing first and second space experience specifications for the first and second different spaces, respectively, wherein the first and second space experience specifications indicate space affordance settings for the first and second spaces, respectively, sensing a trigger event associated with at least one of the first and second different spaces, where the sensed trigger event is associated with the first space, using the first space experience specification to control the first space affordances and where the sensed trigger event is associated with the second space, using the second space experience specification to control the second space affordances.
US10561004B2	Home automation system including light dimmer operation based upon a sequence of partial dimming commands and related methods A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices within a structure. At least one of the HA operation devices may include a light dimmer for a given area. The HA system may also include HA user interface devices for respective users within the structure. Each HA user interface device may be configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one of the HA operation devices. A HA hub device within the structure may provide communications for the HA user interface and operation devices. The HA hub device may receive a light-off command from an HA user interface device for the light dimmer and send a sequence of partial dimming commands to the light dimmer to turn the light off, and determine whether the given area is occupied based upon at least one HA operation device, and when occupied, then send a light-on override command to the light dimmer.
US10561000B2	Modular luminaire, related module, system and lighting apparatus A luminaire incorporating a plurality of lighting module units, each module comprising a plurality of preferably independently controllable light sources, optionally LEDs and/or laser lamps, each light source having preferably dedicated lens structure associated therewith, wherein the modules are individually configurable and further wherein the light output characteristics of each module of said plurality are individually controllable to yield a target overall distribution of output light from the luminaire. Yet, it is presented a lighting apparatus comprising a single point-like light source, preferably a LED, and a transmissive lens structure optically connected to said light source defining a plurality of optically functional, mutually different segments dedicated for controlling the light, e.g. distribution and direction, originally emitted by said single light source. A corresponding transmissive element such as a lens is presented.
US10560999B2	Data generation method, data reproduction method, data generation device and data reproduction device A data generation method is for generating video data that covers a second luminance dynamic range wider than a first luminance dynamic range and has reproduction compatibility with a first device that does not support reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range and supports reproduction of video having the first luminance dynamic range, and includes: generating a video signal to be included in the video data using a second OETF; storing, into VUI in the video data, first transfer function information for identifying a first OETF to be referred to by the first device when the first device decodes the video data; and storing, into SEI in the video data, second transfer function information for identifying a second OETF to be referred to by a second device supporting reproduction of video having the second luminance dynamic range when the second device decodes the video data.
US10560998B2	Circuit assembly and method for simulating a load current from an on-board electrical system A circuit assembly for simulating a load current from an on-board network having an input connected to a line of the on-board network of a vehicle for connecting to a load, an output connected to a light source which replaces the load. A series circuit formed by a resistor and a switch, wherein the resistor has a resistance in the same order as that of the load to be simulated, and the series circuit is connected in parallel with the input. A switching controller with the input connected in parallel to the input of the circuit assembly, and draws a current from the line of the on-board network for connecting to a load smaller than the load current of the load to be replaced. The circuit assembly is open the switch and actuate the switching controller and to close the switch and deactivate the switching controller.
US10560997B2	Method for MR16 lamp to pass EMI test with CCG A lamp driver for an LED lamp includes a voltage input port which is adapted to connect the lamp driver to a power source. A boost converter circuit is connected to the voltage input port. A voltage output port is adapted for connecting an LED to the lamp driver. A shutdown circuit provides a shutdown signal, which is connected to the voltage input port for detecting an input voltage of the voltage input port and is connected to the boost converter circuit for controlling at least one active component of the boost converter. The shutdown circuit is arranged to shut down the boost converter circuit when a shutdown voltage at the voltage input port is detected. During the shutdown of the boost converter circuit, the voltage output port still provides an operation voltage for the LED.
US10560995B2	Configuration of the intensity of the light sources composing a lighting system The invention relates to a method for configuring a lighting system including a set of at least 3 light sources (Li) having different spectra (Si(λ)), including a step of automatically defining the intensities (φi) of each of the light sources of said set by minimising a distance between a reference spectrum (SR(λ)) and a synthetic spectrum (Ss(λ)) defined by the sum of the spectra (Si(λ)) of each source (Li) of said set weighted by said intensities (φi).
US10560993B1	Dimming controller for LED driver and method of indirect power estimation A dimming controller is coupled to receive an out-source current from a dimming interface for each LED driver connected thereto. Based on the out-source current received, the controller can estimate the number of connected LED drivers. When the LED driver(s) are determined to be on based on the received out-source current, the dimming controller generates and transmits a dimming control voltage. The dimming controller is programmable with relationships between the dimming control voltage and operational parameters for the certain type of LED driver and the certain type of LED load. The dimming controller then estimates the power characteristics (e.g., the input power and the output power) of the LED driver and associated LED load based on the programmed relationships. Power characteristics can accordingly be reported to the customer via a dimming controller without requiring specifically designed power measuring devices. Driver failure in the group can be reported in real time.
US10560990B1	Light emitting diode circuit with accurate current monitoring of two or more different LED strings This disclosure is directed to a light emitting diode (LED) circuit for driving two or more different LED strings, which may be controlled in a complimentary fashion. The LED circuit includes current monitoring capabilities that are configured to monitor current through the two or more different LED strings. The circuit is designed in a way that can reduce or eliminate excessive sensing pins that are otherwise needed for the current monitoring. According to this disclosure, for example, very accurate current monitoring can be achieved by using two or more sensing resistors while only using two sensing pins for the current monitoring through two or more different LED strings.
US10560987B2	Electrode composition The present invention relates to a self-calcining electrode material for electric arc furnaces, containing one or more carbon components and a binder, wherein the binder is hard bitumen and having a needle penetration at 25° C. according to DIN EN 1426 of <50 [per 0.1 mm] and/or a softening point (ring and ball) according to DIN EN 1 427 of at least 65° C. and/or having a density at 25° C. according to DIN EN 52004 of 0.5 to 2 g/cm3, wherein the electrode material has a PAH content of <500 ppm. The hard bitumen is preferably derived by flash distillation from soft and medium-hard bitumen types and has a high sulfur content.
US10560984B2	Inductive heater for fluids Aspects and embodiments of inductive heating systems are described. In one embodiment, the system includes a manifold assembly with number of manifold pipes that are connected to a manifold plate. An inductive coil is around the manifold assembly. A control circuit is electrically coupled to the inductive coil and to a power supply to inductively heat the manifold pipes of the manifold assembly using the inductive coil.
US10560981B2	Method of receiving data for a user equipment in a wireless communication system and apparatus using the same A method by which a terminal receives data in a wireless communication system and a device using the method are provided. The method is characterized by receiving first data in a unit of transport block, the transport block including at least one code block, transmitting acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information for each code block, of which there is at least one, and receiving, in a unit of code block, second data included in a code block, for which NACK has been transmitted, among code blocks, of which there is at least one.
US10560978B2	Control plane connectivity for wireless devices There is provided mechanisms for assigning control plane connectivity for a wireless device in a dual connectivity supported communications network. The communications network comprises a first network node supporting a group of low frequency bands and a second network node supporting a group of high frequency bands. A method is performed by a control node. The method comprises acquiring an uplink load level for the group of low frequency bands. The method comprises acquiring a first pathloss level between the wireless device and the first network node and a second pathloss level between the wireless device and the second network node. The method comprises selecting, from the acquired uplink load level, the first pathloss level, and the second pathloss level, which one of the first network node and the second network node to provide control plane connectivity for the wireless device.
US10560977B2	Method for performing an interaction from a communicating device configured to establish a wireless communication channel and corresponding telecommunication system A method is described for performing an interaction between a first communication device configured to establish a first wireless communication channel and one or more second devices configured to operate on the first wireless communication channel. The wireless communication channel is suitable to allow the execution of discovery operations, or discovery, to search for devices that are visible, or discoverable, on the wireless communication channel within a radius of operation of the first wireless communication channel.
US10560973B2	Terminal device, terminal device control method, and wireless communication system using said terminal device A terminal device is activated by causing an electric storage part to store power from a power generator, causing a voltage converter to convert a first voltage from the electric storage part into a second voltage, and supplying the second voltage to a control circuit. The terminal device includes a timer. The terminal device determines, according to registration data, which one of a normal mode signal and a pairing mode signal is transmitted by radio. The registration data is determined based on a time measured by the timer.
US10560972B2	Information processing apparatus, and control method thereof An information processing apparatus that is capable of externally controlling a projection apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to perform communication with the projection apparatus, an acquiring unit configured to acquire function information of the projection apparatus from the projection apparatus via the communication unit, a presenting unit configured to present the function information of the projection apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit, and a control unit configured to control the presenting unit so as to present an indication of whether the projection apparatus is operating with a projection function or with a lighting function based on the function information of the projection apparatus acquired by the acquiring unit.
US10560970B2	Information processing apparatus and method and program for controlling information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus is configured to acquire the history of access points previously connected to the information processing apparatus and to enable selection, based on the acquired history, an access point to be set for a device. Based on information on an access point selected from the displayed access points, the information processing apparatus notifies the device of a setting for connection to the selected access point.
US10560966B2	Wireless communications device and method Management of receiver sensitivity in a packet based wireless communication system is achieved by controlling a clear channel sensing process which determines if the channel is clear for use, governed by a sensitivity to use of the channel. The sensitivity of the clear channel sensing process is effected by monitoring transmission performance over a plurality of emissions, and making adjustments to the sensitivity based on comparison of that performance with a performance criterion.
US10560964B2	Method for channel access in wireless communication system and apparatus for performing same A method for performing channel access in an unlicensed band by a base station in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: sensing, in an unlicensed band, a carrier for transmitting a downlink signal; and transmitting the downlink signal when power detected by sensing the carrier is less than an energy detection threshold set by the base station, wherein the energy detection threshold is set to be equal to or less than a maximum energy detection threshold determined by the base station, and when another radio access technology (RAT) sharing the carrier exists, the maximum energy detection threshold is adaptively determined depending on the bandwidth size of the carrier, using the value, in decibels, of the ration between a reference bandwidth and the bandwidth of the carrier.
US10560963B2	First radio node and method therein for performing a listen-before-talk (LBT) with a selected LBT method A method performed by a first radio node to select a Listen-Before-Talk, LBT, method based on a type of information to be transmitted in a radio channel in unlicensed spectrum. The first radio node performs an LBT using the selected LBT method. When the information is data, the method includes always deferring transmission until: A) after completion of a first period of observation, an outcome of at least a second period of observation is that the channel is idle, or B) an outcome of a first period and one or more defer periods is that the channel is idle. When the information is control or management information, the selected method includes allowing transmission immediately after an outcome of the first period is that the channel is idle. A duration of the first period provides priority to the control or management information over data.
US10560961B2	Method for processing request through polling channel in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A method for processing a request through a polling channel in a wireless communication system is provided according to one embodiment of the present invention. The method is performed by a first apparatus, and may comprise the steps of: transmitting to a second apparatus a retrieve response for a polling channel, including a first request which has been received from a third apparatus; receiving, from the second apparatus, a second request including a first response corresponding to the received first request; verifying whether a request identifier of the first response and a request identifier of the received first request are the same or not; and if the request identifier of the first response and the request identifier of the received first request are the same, transmitting the first response to the third apparatus.
US10560960B2	Method and apparatus for data transmission Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method at a communications device of a first type that is operable on both a licensed carrier and an unlicensed carrier. The method comprises performing channel sensing on the unlicensed carrier, at different sensing slots within a time duration, for respective links directed to at least two communications devices of a second type that are operable on both the licensed carrier and the unlicensed carrier. The time duration is specified as a portion of a subframe in a frame structure used on the licensed carrier. The method also comprise scheduling transmission on a channel that is determined to be available based on corresponding channel sensing. Correspondingly, there is also provided an apparatus embodied at or as at least part of a communications device of a first type, e.g. a base station that is operable on both a licensed carrier and an unlicensed carrier.
US10560959B2	Spreading options for non-orthogonal multiple access A network device (e.g., an evolved Node B (eNB), user equipment (UE) or the like) can operate to enable scheduling of transmissions within physical resource blocks (PRBs) as a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) zone and as an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) zone to enable multiplexing UEs over a long term evolution (LTE) or next generation (NextGen) 5G based network for uplink transmissions. A first UE of the UEs can be scheduled to generate uplink transmissions from PRBs within the NOMA zone without an explicit grant message based on predefined threshold of a first transmission packet size or a first transmission rate. Another UE can also be scheduled to utilize resources of the NOMA zone or the OMA zone based on the predefined threshold.
US10560958B2	Interface device and method in wireless communication network A signal processing device of a base station being connected to one or more wireless devices of the base station is provided. The signal processing device includes a memory and a processor configured to transmit wireless device setting information to the one or more wireless devices via a front-haul interface during a predetermined time frame, transmit a downlink packet, which is obtained by packetizing downlink baseband data, to the one or more wireless devices via the front-haul interface, receive an uplink packet through the front-haul interface, obtain uplink baseband data and inherent control information by performing uplink packetization on the received uplink packet, and process the uplink baseband data based on analysis of the obtained inherent control information.
US10560956B2	Priority indication for communication over shared access systems A method or apparatus for wireless communication at a scheduling entity communicating with a plurality of devices over a plurality of links in a shared spectrum in a way to avoid undue interference among the plurality of links. The apparatus receives a set of priority indicators, each priority indicator corresponding to time varying priorities for communicating over the plurality of links. The apparatus assigns each of the plurality of links a subset of the set of priority indicators. Each priority indicator maps to a time varying priority level for the communication during each of a plurality of frames. The apparatus may also receive an indication of a mapping function for determining the corresponding priority level for each priority indicator according to a frame number. Links assigned disjoint priority indicators may have TDM transmissions, whereas links having an overlapping priority indicator may have simultaneous transmissions.
US10560955B2	Apparatus and methods for moving relay interference mitigation in mobile e.g. cellular communication networks A system for multicarrier cellular communication in a cellular network including a multiplicity of nodes, the system comprising, at an individual moving relay from among the multiplicity of nodes, an rBS having downlink communication, according to a protocol, with UEs served thereby; and a co-located rRM (relay Resource Manager) having a controller; wherein the controller is operative to induce the rBS to generate a selective minimally interfered region in a domain and/or to coordinate between schedulers in the relay to ensure that each user has its own time and/or frequency such that channels do not overlap because time and/or frequency are shifted to prevent the overlap.
US10560952B2	Creating library of interferers A system includes a method for detecting a signal interference in a communication signal of a wireless communication system. An identified source of the signal interference is determined according to an interference profile of a plurality of interference profiles associated with an interference profile library having information that approximates characteristics of the signal interference. The signal interference of the communication signal is mitigated according to an interference parameter associated with the identified source by filtering the communication signal according to the interference parameter.
US10560951B2	Mitigation of adjacent channel interference in communication satellites A method for carrier frequency assignment to users includes receiving, by a service provider scheduler, a service request from a user. The method further includes receiving, by the service provider scheduler, satellite beams information of a satellite. A user location corresponding to the user is determined. A service beam to service the user and a distance from a center of the service beam to the user location are determined based on the satellite beams information. The service beam is a satellite beam of a plurality of satellite beams provided by the satellite, and the satellite is in communication with the user via the service beam. Carrier frequency assignment to users is made to mitigate adjacent channel interference.
US10560948B2	Method and apparatus for supporting vehicle to everything service A method for supporting a vehicle communication (connected car or vehicle to everything (V2X)) service in a wireless communication system and an apparatus thereof are provided. The method includes receiving threshold information for reporting a channel busy ratio (CBR), measuring the CBR for a resource pool, identifying whether a reporting condition is satisfied by comparing the measured CBR with the threshold information, and reporting the measured CBR if the reporting condition is satisfied. The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with an Internet of things (IoT) technology, and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology.
US10560944B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for performing multi-radio access technology carrier aggregation A method of managing carrier aggregation for a multi-radio access technology (RAT) wireless transmitter/receiver unit (WTRU) is disclosed. The method may include: receiving, by the WRTU over a primary channel associated with a RAT of a first type, provisioning information for provisioning a supplementary channel associated with a RAT of a second type; establishing the supplementary channel associated with the RAT of the second type based on the received provisioning information; and wirelessly exchanging, by the WRTU, first data associated with a communication over the primary channel via the RAT of the first type, while wireless exchanging second data associated with the communication over the supplementary channel via the RAT of the second type.
US10560943B2	Network termination and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a repeater device having a first coupler to extract downstream channel signals from first guided electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system. An amplifier amplifies the downstream channel signals to generate amplified downstream channel signals. A channel selection filter selects one or more of the amplified downstream channel signals to wirelessly transmit to the at least one client device via an antenna. A second coupler guides the amplified downstream channel signals to the transmission medium of the guided wave communication system to propagate as second guided electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560941B2	Dynamically adjusting communication channel bandwidth Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for adjusting communication channel bandwidth. In some implementations, a method includes determining to change a bandwidth of a wireless communication channel on which a transmitter and receiver communicate. In response, and while the transmitter and the receiver maintain data communication on the wireless communication channel, a target value and rate of change is determined for each of one or more communication parameters of the wireless communication channel. The rate of change is a rate at which the communication parameter can be changed over time while continuing to transfer data on the wireless communication channel. Data is provided to the transmitter. The data can cause, for each communication parameter, the transmitter to gradually adjust the communication parameter using the rate of change until the communication parameter reaches the target value.
US10560939B2	User terminal device and control method therefor Disclosed are a user terminal device and a control method therefor. The control method for a user terminal device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining state information of a satellite device connected with a user terminal device when a call request message is received from another terminal device; determining communication configuration information with the another terminal device on the basis of the state information of the satellite device, and transmitting a call response message including the communication configuration information to the another terminal device; and receiving audio data from the another terminal device according to a communication scheme corresponding to the communication configuration information. Therefore, in comparison with the prior art, the present invention can reduce a call negotiation time between user terminal devices, and thus reduce a call cost.
US10560938B2	Retransmission method for dynamic subframe setting in wireless communication system and apparatus for same Disclosed is a method for allowing a terminal to transmit and receive signals to and/from a base station in a wireless communication system using a time division multiplexing method. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a request signal for resetting into a second uplink/downlink setting while transmitting and receiving a signal according to a first uplink/downlink setting; terminating an uplink retransmission process associated with a specific uplink subframe when the use of the specific uplink subframe is changed into a downlink subframe according to the second uplink/downlink setting; and applying the second uplink/downlink setting at a specific time point to transmit and receive signals.
US10560937B2	Method and equipment for determining transmitting resources in V2X communication The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). A method for determining transmitting resources in vehicle to vehicle/pedestrian/infrastructure/network (V2X) communication is provided. The method includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), a set {ti} consisting of configurable V2X subframes within one system frame period, by the UE, determining information about a bitmap for configuring a resource pool, determining, in the set {ti}, subframes belonging to the resource pool, by the UE, selecting, after resource reselection, the position of a resource for initial transmission, determining, in the resource pool, the subframe position of the reserved resource according to a resource reservation subframe interval Prsv and the number of resource reservations, readjusting the position of the reserved resource when a certain condition is satisfied, and transmitting, by the UE, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) on the determined resource for initial transmission and the reserved resource.
US10560933B2	Multi-beam cellular communication system A cellular communication system comprising a plurality of geographically spaced base stations (2) each of which comprises an antenna arrangement (4, 6, 8) per base station sector, each of which antenna arrangements has an antenna element for generating an array of narrow beams (10, 12, 14) covering the sector. Timeslots are simultaneously transmitted over each of the beams so as to generate successive sets of simultaneously transmitted timeslots per sector. The timeslots are each split into multiple orthogonal codes, for example Walsh codes. The communication system additionally comprising a scheduling device (31) for allocating for successive sets of timeslots common overhead channels, including a common pilot channel, which are allocated to the same sub-set of codes of each timeslot in the set. For successive sets of timeslots different data traffic is allocated to the same sub-set of codes of each timeslot in the set. This effectively generates a sector wide antenna beam carrying the common overhead channels and a plurality of narrow beams each of which carry different data traffic. Inter-beam interference is addressed by the application of Adaptive Modulation and Coding and by an inter-beam handoff scheme. The handoff scheme ensures that when an end user equipment is located in a cusp region between adjacent beams the antenna arrangement simultaneously transmits data traffic to that mobile station on at least both of the adjacent beams.
US10560930B2	Enhanced physical downlink control channel supporting common search space This disclosure relates to techniques for transmitting and receiving control information in the common search space on an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH). According to some embodiments, a cellular base station may allocate some resource blocks of a subframe as the EPDCCH. The cellular base station may provide control information on a common search space in the EPDCCH for wireless user equipment (UE) devices in the cell provided by the cellular base station during a subframe. A UE device may monitor the EPDCCH to determine whether any indication on the common search space decodable by the UE device is contained in the EPDCCH, and may decode such information if present.
US10560929B2	Resource request method and system, device, and network side node A resource request method and system, a device, and a network side node are provided. The method includes the following steps: A target device sends a first target device message to a relay device. When receiving the first target device message, the relay device sends a first relay device message to a network side node according to the first target device message. The network side node receives the first relay device message, and sends first grant information to the target device according to the first relay device message. The first grant information includes a data transmission resource allocated by the network side node to the target device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, energy consumption of a sending device, that is, a target device, can be reduced while the sending device obtains a transmission resource.
US10560927B2	Downlink quality improvement method and apparatus [Object] To provide a mechanism capable of efficiently operating vast millimeter-wave band resources.[Solution] Provided is an apparatus that operates a small cell, the apparatus including: a processing unit configured to improve a downlink quality of a unit frequency band used in the small cell by limiting resources used for downlink transmission.
US10560925B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink control information in wireless communication system Provided are a method and an apparatus for transmitting uplink control information (UCI), which is carried out by a terminal in a wireless communication system. If the number of information bits of the UCI falls inside a specific range when different types of UCI are transmitted through the same PUCCH format, a bit sequence of each of the UCI are channel-coded by aligning/interleaving, wherein the aligning/interleaving is carried out so that the UCI having high importance are channel-coded so as to have better decoding performance.
US10560922B2	Channel transmission method, base station, and terminal device A channel transmission method, a base station, and a terminal device are provided. In one example method, a base station determines a communication mode to be used between the base station and a terminal device. The base station determines a transmission parameter set of a first channel according to the determined communication mode. The communication mode corresponds to the transmission parameter set of the first channel. The base station transmits information associated with the first channel to the terminal device.
US10560919B2	Method for executing paging sequence in wireless communication system, and device for same In a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention, in which MME and eNB are unsynchronized, a method for the MME to transmit a paging message to a terminal may comprise: a step for transmitting to the eNB, support information which includes an identifier for the terminal and an eDRX cycle; a step for receiving from the eNB, a Paging Info Response message as a response to the support information, wherein the Paging Info Response message includes the time remaining until the next paging of the terminal, such time being calculated based on the support information; and a step for setting the remaining time as an initial eDRX timer value, and transmitting the paging message to the eNB when the eDRX timer expires.
US10560913B2	Method, device, and system for acquisition of control node information Disclosed are a method, a device, and a system for the acquisition of control node information. In embodiments of the present invention, on the basis of information transmitted by a base station, a relay node acquires control node information on user terminal access attached in the information acquired, thereby allowing a relay node in a system placed after the introducing relay node to be informed of the control node information on user terminal access.
US10560912B2	Wireless device ranging A method and apparatus for detecting, by a first device, a timing measurement frame from a second device, the timing measurement frame having a plurality of time measurement samples, wherein at least the first of the measurement samples has a transmit timestamp value; determining transmit timing values for the subsequent measurement samples; applying a receive timestamp value to each of the received measurement samples; and determining a relative clock drift between a clock of the first device and a clock of the second device by comparing the receive timestamp values with transmit timing values of one or more measurement samples contained in the frame.
US10560905B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting power headroom information in a communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In addition, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, includes: receiving system information including first uplink waveform information for an initial access; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message based on the first uplink waveform information; receiving an RRC connection response message including second uplink waveform information for uplink data transmission; and transmitting data based on the second uplink waveform.
US10560902B2	Method, device and apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power, and storage medium The present disclosure provides a method, a device and an apparatus for controlling uplink transmission power, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving, by a UE, configuration information, and determining a PC parameter corresponding to a TTI length of a first type and a PC parameter corresponding to a TTI length of a second type in accordance with the configuration information; and determining, by the UE, transmission power of a channel which is transmitted using the TTI length of the first type in accordance with the PC parameter corresponding to the TTI length of the first type, and transmission power of a channel which is transmitted using the TTI length of the second type in accordance with the PC parameter corresponding to the TTI length of the second type.
US10560900B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting power headroom report in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for transmitting a power headroom report (PHR) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits a first PHR for a first carrier group, which is configured by a first eNodeB (eNB), to a second eNB; and transmitting a second PHR for a second carrier group, which is configured by the second eNB, to the first eNB. The first PHR and the second PHR include a PHR for a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) regardless of whether simultaneous transmission of the PUCCH and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) is configured or not.
US10560896B2	Method and device for receiving signals by station in wireless communication system The present specification relates to a method for transmitting signals by a station (STA) which operates in a wireless LAN system. Here, the method for transmitting signals by a station can comprise: a step of receiving a first frame for converting a power saving (PS) mode, from an access point (AP) station, to an awake mode; and a step of transmitting a second frame for informing the awake mode of the station in response to the first frame. Here, the second frame can be a null data packet (NDP) frame.
US10560890B2	Roaming network access method and apparatus Embodiments of the present invention provide a roaming network access method and apparatus, where the method includes: obtaining a mobile country code MCC of a roaming area; obtaining a preferential roaming list, where the preferential roaming list is used to indicate information about at least one network that a user preferentially attempts to register with when the user is roaming; selecting a network that matches the MCC from the preferential roaming list and searching for the selected network; and each time a network is found by the searching, attempting to register with the found network. By means of the roaming network access method and apparatus provided in the embodiments of the present invention, duration of network searching performed by user equipment is shortened, time spent by the user equipment on initial network access in the roaming area is reduced.
US10560889B2	User terminal, radio base station, radio communication method, and radio communication system A user terminal that communicates with a plurality of cell groups (CG), each group being formed with one or more cells to use different frequency bands, and a control section that selects at least one cell, from the cells where uplink control signals can be allocated, which are configured in each CG, and controls the cell to transmit the uplink control signals. When information to indicate cross-carrier scheduling (CCS) is included in a downlink control signal, the control section decides whether or not the cell having received the downlink control signal and the cell that is designated by the information to indicate CCS belong to the same CG, and selects the cell based on this decision. Thus, the decrease of overall system performance can be reduced even when CCS and uplink control signal transmission in secondary cells are employed at the same time.
US10560875B2	Responsive quality of service management A system manages a quality of service provided to an electronic device during a communication session in a network. A quality of service monitor of the electronic device detects satisfaction of a quality of service adjustment condition for changing the quality of service provided to the electronic device by the network. A quality of service manager of the electronic device requests an adjusted quality of service provided to the electronic device by the network. A communication interface of the electronic device communicates in a communication session at the adjusted quality of service provided to the electronic device by the network.
US10560874B2	System and method for bandwidth profile based allocation and management of a time-varying topology network Disclosed methods include a resource manager in a multiple node network receiving a demand for additional bandwidth, from a terminal, and the resource manager having updated information on the state of the mobile node network and, using that the state information, performing test allocation of the requested bandwidth to the requesting terminal. Disclosed methods include determining whether previous commitments of service can be met with the test allocation in place. Associated with a positive result, an allocation is sent to the terminal.
US10560868B2	Terminal-aided backhaul compression A delegate wireless terminal can receive and store messages sent to it by a receiving network node. The wireless terminal can identify a message label based on a mapping for the received message. A transmitting network node can transmit a message label to a receiving network node across a backhaul link. The receiving network node can transmit a message label to the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal can identify a stored message that corresponds to the received message label, and send the corresponding message to the receiving network node. The receiving network node can then transmit the message to its intended destination.
US10560867B2	Reducing intermodulation distortion in a radio frequency circuit Embodiments of the disclosure relate to reducing intermodulation distortion (IMD) in a radio frequency (RF) circuit. In examples discussed herein, the RF circuit operates in an uplink carrier aggregation (ULCA) mode to transmit an RF uplink signal simultaneously in a first uplink band and a second transmit band. However, nonlinear components in the RF circuit can create an IMD product(s) that can fall into a downlink band of an RF downlink signal, thus impairing a receive filter's ability to receive the RF downlink signal in the downlink band. The receive filter can be opportunistically reconfigured to form an IMD shunt path to attenuate the IMD product. By reconfiguring the receiver filter to form the IMD shunt path, it is possible to suppress the IMD product in the RF uplink signal, thus leading to an improved desense performance in the ULCA mode without incurring additional cost and/or battery life penalty.
US10560863B1	Method of operating cellular mobile radio network A process in which the acquisition of parameters of a mobile radio system, in particular a cellular mobile radio network, is carried out in particular according to GSM, UMTS, E-UTRAN/LTE or WiMAX standards. Parameters of the mobile radio system, in particular the cellular mobile radio network, are acquired by the mobile radio terminals, in particular by serial subscriber terminals of users of this network, without additional external devices for determination of position, such as in particular external GPS receivers or a storage and processing module, and are forwarded to a centralized or decentralized/distributed acquisition, analysis and processing unit in the network.
US10560862B1	Interference-aware applications for connected vehicles Methods and systems are disclosed and include receiving a first reporting signal from a vehicle-to-everything communication system. The first reporting signal includes data indicating (i) a noise measurement of a communication channel and (ii) a location associated with the noise measurement. The method includes determining the location is associated with a noisy region in response to a value of the noise measurement exceeding a first threshold value. The method includes generating an entry based on the first reporting signal in response to the value of the noise measurement exceeding the first threshold value. The method includes storing the entry in a database that includes a plurality of additional entries. The method includes generating an alert based on at least one of the entry and the plurality of additional entries. The alert is configured to indicate a presence of noise at a location associated with one of the entries.
US10560859B2	Channel state information measurement method and user equipment The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a channel state information measurement method, including: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), resource indication information for a CSI measurement; performing, by the UE, the CSI measurement according to the resource indication information, and transmitting a Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) report to a control node. According to the present disclosure, users may be scheduled by the base station more effectively and the efficiency of the whole network may be increased.
US10560858B2	Method and apparatus for configuring measurement for discovery reference signal in wireless communication system A method and apparatus for configuring measurements in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a reference signal (RS) indicator from a network, and evaluates whether a measurement report triggering event is satisfied by only using a measurement result based on a RS indicated by the RS indicator. The RS indicator may indicate which RS is used for reporting the measurement result. The RS indicator may indicate a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a discovery reference signal (DRS).
US10560855B2	Optimizing performance between a wireless distribution system (WDS) and a macro network(s) Optimizing performance between a wireless distribution system (WDS) and a macro network(s). In this regard, a macro network optimization system is configured to detect a performance indicator(s) between a WDS and a macro network and optimize the performance of the macro network based on the detected performance indicator(s). The macro network optimization system analyzes a macro network performance report provided by the macro network and/or a WDS performance report provided by the WDS to detect the performance indicator(s) between the WDS and the macro network. The macro network optimization system reconfigures operations of one or more macro network elements to optimize performance between the WDS and the macro network based on the detected performance indicator(s). By detecting and optimizing performance between the WDS and the macro network, capacity, throughput, and/or coverage of the WDS and the macro network can be improved, thus providing better quality of experience (QoE).
US10560838B2	Method and apparatus for deleting UE information by single base station Provided are a method for deleting, by a mobility management entity (MME) of a local evolved packet core (EPC), user equipment (UE) information in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method may include: receiving a UE information delete request message from a normal base station (BS), and deleting UE information on all UEs in an area of the normal BS, wherein the local EPC is comprised in an isolated BS, the MME is comprised in the local EPC, and the normal BS comprises no local EPC.
US10560835B2	Lighting system, setting device, and pairing method for lighting system Luminaires in a lighting system have mutually different addresses. A setting device includes a communication unit that transmits an address request signal at a first transmission power level and a control unit that determines whether a total number of the addresses transmitted from one or more of the luminaires in response to receiving the address request signal is within a target range. The control unit instructs the communication unit to transmit the address request signal at a transmission power level different from the first transmission power level when the total number of the addresses is outside the target range, and executes pairing of the one or more of the luminaires that responded to the address request signal with a wireless controller when the total number of the addresses is within the target range.
US10560832B2	Method and apparatus for interworking between devices for short-range communication The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Provided is a method and apparatus for supporting interworking between devices by using short-range communication. A server for supporting interworking between devices using short-range communication includes an interface unit configured to receive purchasing information regarding a first device and device information regarding a second device that is a target device for interworking with the first device and a controller configured to generate interworking information regarding the first device based on the device information received from the interface unit and to transmit the interworking information to the second device.
US10560831B2	Providing assistance in an emergency A notification of an emergent condition. In one example, a mobile device application executing on the processor of a user device communicates with a server system over a telecommunications network, which generally comprises the public Internet. The mobile device user includes a “dead man's switch” control, which begins the emergency notification process if released. The emergency alert process uses a central case management server to provide a uniform interface into key data, reducing the need for operators to provide information verbally.
US10560830B2	Wireless communication terminal, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and information processing method This wireless communication terminal is provided with: a short-range wireless communication unit; a data storage unit; a data synchronization unit that synchronizes data by using short-range wireless communications to transmit/receive to/from another wireless communication terminal data that is stored in the data storage unit; and an activation control unit that, at the same time as an activation target structure that is provided to the other wireless communication terminal is activated, activates an activation target structure that includes at least the data synchronization unit and causes the activation target structure to operate so as to synchronize data.
US10560824B1	Early notification of driving status to a mobile device Applications, systems, and methods, configured to automatically detect whether a vehicle containing a mobile device of a driver is being driven and automatically notify selected friends and family of the driving status of the vehicle so that the friends and family may opt not to send a message or other distraction to the driver.
US10560823B1	Systems and methods for roadside assistance Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention can proactively determine if an individual is likely in need of roadside assistance. Information can be collected from the individual's phone, including the person's location, the type of road, and/or ambient noise. If it is determined that the individual likely needs roadside assistance, the system can proactively contact the individual to see if roadside assistance is desired, and if so, initiates roadside assistance. The system also can provide helpful information, such as safety information, and/or automatically contact other individuals to alert them of the roadside event and the location of the individual.
US10560821B2	Associating external devices to vehicles and usage of said association Methods, apparatuses and products for associating external devices to vehicles and usage of said association. One method obtains information from one or more mobile devices that are connected to the external device. The information is used to determine that the external device is associated with a vehicle, whereby another mobile device is enabled to determine that it is being located on the vehicle based on the mobile device being connected to the external device. Another method obtains an indication that a mobile device is connected to an external device. A database is accessed to retrieve an associated of the external device with a vehicle, whereby it is deduced that the mobile device is located in or on the vehicle. In response to the deduction, a predetermined action may be performed.
US10560818B2	Device and method for controlling charging in a mobile communication system The present invention relates to a method, packet data network gateway (PGW), and server in a mobile communication system and device for controlling charging in a mobile communication system. The method by a PGW in a mobile communication system includes identifying data usage information associated with a specific service for a terminal, determining whether the data usage information satisfies a predetermined condition, and transmitting a notification message including the data usage information if the data usage information satisfies the predetermined condition, to a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) entity. The data usage information is used to display a message in the terminal.
US10560817B2	Variable volume data transmission in a mobile communication network A method for transmitting data between a network node of a mobile communication network and a mobile terminal, implemented by the network node after receiving a data packet intended for the mobile terminal. The method includes: sending an alert message to the mobile terminal after receiving the data packet; receiving in response a service request from the mobile terminal; determining in accordance with a parameter received during a phase of attaching the mobile terminal to the network, a channel among a data transport channel and a signaling channel of the mobile network; when the data-transport channel is to be used, establishing a data-transport channel between the mobile terminal and the network node and transmitting the data packet via the data-transport channel; and when the signaling channel is to be used, inserting the data to be transmitted into a signaling message and transmitting the signaling message towards the mobile terminal.
US10560813B2	Method and apparatus for index-coded multicast transmission in a wireless communication system A method for transmitting downlink data in a multicast scheme by a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first request signal requesting first data from a first user equipment (UE), receiving a second request signal requesting second data from a second UE, generating a transmission message by applying an exclusive OR (XOR) operation to the first data and the second data, and transmitting the transmission message to the first UE and the second UE in the multicast scheme.
US10560811B2	Tracking device, system for tracking objects, and associated method of use A tracking device including a housing, wherein the housing includes a cavity, and further wherein the housing is adapted for association with a user; an optional securement member, wherein the optional securement member is associated with at least a portion of the housing; a tracking assembly that tracks a motion logic and defines a job function of an employee/janitor.
US10560809B2	Position providing method and apparatus therefor The present disclosure provides a position providing apparatus installed in a server or a terminal device and configured to calculate a current position of a terminal device user by analyzing voice information or image information and to indicate the calculated position on a map database.
US10560804B2	System and method for enabling mobile device applications and functional components A computer-implemented method of enabling device use is provided. The method includes receiving from a first user an indication of at least one geographic area. Location information of a second user corresponding to a mobile device is received. The location information of the second user and the at least one geographic area are compared, and at least one of an application on the mobile device and a functional component of the mobile device are enabled based on the comparison of the location information of the second user and the at least one geographic area. A computing system for enabling device use is also provided.
US10560797B2	Information processing device and method To propose an information processing device and method capable of planning an effective scheme, such as distributing information appropriate to a user. Time-series positional data composed of time-series positional information of a mobile communication body are collected, and a regular behavior of a user of the mobile communication body is estimated on the basis of the collected time-series positional data of the mobile communication body.
US10560794B2	Home cinema system devices A television and a home cinema device work together in various embodiments to render an audio signal including at least a left channel, a right channel and a center channel. The left and right channels are rendered by left and right speakers coupled to the home cinema device, while the center channel is rendered by the left and right speakers of the television. The television can receive the audio signal, decode and render the center channel and send the audio, possibly reencoded left and right channels, to the home cinema device. The television can also send the audio to the home cinema device the returns the, possibly reencoded, center channel for rendering on the television. Alternatively, the home cinema device can receive the audio signal and provide the possibly reencoded center channel to the television. In an alternative, the center channel can be rendered by a soundbar coupled to the television.
US10560793B2	Transducer assembly A diaphragm for a loudspeaker may include a conductive coupler, a voice coil having a voice coil lead, where the voice coil lead is positioned in conductive contact with the conductive coupler, and a terminal lead, where the terminal lead is positioned in conductive contact with the conductive coupler, and where the voice coil lead and the terminal lead are attached to the conductive coupler.
US10560789B2	Systems and methods for self-fitting an electroacoustic stimulation system to a patient An exemplary system includes an electro-acoustic stimulation (EAS) sound processor, a cochlear implant communicatively coupled to the EAS sound processor, an electrode array communicatively coupled to the cochlear implant, and a receiver communicatively coupled to the EAS sound processor and configured to be in communication with an ear of a patient. The EAS sound processor 1) directs, while in a self-fitting mode, the receiver to apply acoustic stimulation to the patient, 2) records, using at least one electrode included in the electrode array, an evoked response that occurs in response to the acoustic stimulation, 3) compares the evoked response to a baseline evoked response recorded by the EAS sound processor prior to recording the evoked response, and 4) performs a predetermined action based on the comparison between the evoked response and the baseline evoked response. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10560788B2	Hearing device with sound impulse suppression and related method Disclosed is a method and a hearing device. The hearing device comprises a first microphone for provision of a first microphone input signal; a sound impulse suppression module configured for detecting a sound impulse in the first microphone input signal; a processor for processing the first microphone input signal in a processing set of frequency bands to obtain an electrical output signal; and a receiver for converting the electrical output signal to an audio output signal, wherein the sound impulse suppression module is configured to apply a detection scheme on the first microphone input signal, wherein the detection scheme defines a detection set of frequency bands, wherein the frequency bands of the detection set covers a part of the frequency bands of the processing set, and wherein a sound impulse is detected based on the detection set of frequency bands.
US10560787B2	Hearing device comprising an amplifier system for minimizing variation in an acoustical signal caused by variation in gain of an amplifier The disclosure presents a method and an amplifier system for minimizing variation in an acoustical signal caused by variation in gain of an amplifier, comprising a battery for providing a supply voltage to the amplifier, a digital signal processor for providing the acoustical signal to the amplifier, a controller unit receiving an enablement signal when the supply voltage is in an offset mode, and based on the enablement signal requesting a measured voltage during a time period, and a first analog-to-digital converter configured for measuring the supply voltage to the amplifier when receiving the request from the controller unit or the first analog-to-digital converter is configured for measuring the supply voltage to the amplifier continuously, and where variations in the measured voltage relates to variations in the supply voltage during the time period. Furthermore, the controller unit is configured to predict offset modes (i.e. changes) in the supply voltage based on the enablement signals and a fitting of the measured voltages, and wherein the controller unit is configured to generate a compensating signal based on the fitting and transmit the compensating signal to the digital signal processor, the digital signal processor is then configured to minimize variation in the acoustical signal at the output of the amplifier by compensating the variation in gain of the amplifier based on the compensating signal.
US10560785B2	Electronic device An electronic device comprising: a substrate; a first elastic body which is positioned on one surface of the substrate; and a second elastic body which is positioned under the other surface of the substrate and is harder than the first elastic body, wherein the first elastic body and the second elastic body sandwich and hold the substrate.
US10560779B2	Sound radiating arrangement and method of providing the same The invention relates to a sound wall comprising in total M elements comprising a front face (F), where the sound wall (1) has a lateral extension along an x-axis and a vertical extension along a y-axis, where the sound wall (1) comprises N elements (3), where N≤M, which N elements in the front face (F) of each respective of these N elements are provided with a sound radiating unit, such as one or more loudspeaker units, configured to radiate sound energy from the respective front face and into the surroundings, such that a sound field can be created in front of the sound wall; where the sound wall is provided with signal providing means configured to provide the sound radiating units with a signal that is a combination of input signals, such as the left and right channel signals S1(t), S2(t) of a stereophonic signal. In embodiments of the invention, the sound wall (1) further comprises A elements (2), where A≤M−N, which A elements (2) are provided with sound absorbing means associated with the front face (F), whereby the sound wall (1) can be used to reduce the reverberation time of a room or other enclosure, in which the sound wall (1) is provided and/or H elements (4), where H≤M−N−A, which H elements (4) comprises hardware components configured to control and provide signals to the sound radiating units in said N elements (3). The invention also relates to a method for controlling a sound field in front of the sound wall.
US10560778B2	System and method for a loudspeaker with a diaphragm A loudspeaker is disclosed. The loudspeaker includes a diaphragm with a fixed portion and a movable portion. The fixed portion is attached to the movable portion by a plurality of leaf springs disposed between the fixed portion and the movable portion of the diaphragm. A coil is disposed over the diaphragm in the movable portion of the diaphragm. A magnet assembly is operatively disposed relative to the coil, wherein upon flow of current through the coil, the movable portion of the diaphragm moves relative to the fixed portion.
US10560766B2	Wireless drop in a fiber-to-the-home network One embodiment is directed to a wireless drop terminal (WDT) for use in a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The wireless drop terminal comprises a fiber interface to optically couple the wireless drop terminal to an optical line terminal (OLT) of the FTTH network via at least one optical fiber and a wireless interface communicatively coupled to the fiber interface. The wireless interface is configured to wirelessly communicate with a wireless optical network terminal (W-ONT) over a directional wireless drop. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560765B2	Node with combined optical and electrical switching A Multi-Chip Module (MCM) includes a substrate and a switch controller on the substrate. An optical module on the substrate includes at least one optical crosspoint switch for selectively routing optical signals received by the optical module out of the MCM without the MCM buffering data from the optical signals or without converting the optical signals into electrical signals for processing data from the optical signals by the switch controller. According to another aspect, at least one memory on the substrate is connected to the switch controller by a parallel bus. In another aspect, the MCM includes a plurality of input optical paths for receiving optical signals from outside the MCM, a plurality of output optical paths for transmitting optical signals from the MCM, and a plurality of optical crosspoint switches each connecting an input optical path to an output optical path to selectively route optical signals.
US10560758B1	Two-stage content item selection process incorporating brand value An online system presents content in videos to users. Content providers may value having their content injected into videos from certain sources more than others. This preference is quantified as a brand value score. The brand value score is determined as a function of user engagement with a source of the video and, to account for brand value, the system performs a two-stage auction. First, the system determines whether to inject any content into a video by determining a distribution of brand value of videos per demand for videos in a previous period and filling a projected demand for the content in a current period to determine a brand value threshold. Then, any videos having a brand value above the threshold are eligible for the second stage of the selection process where the system performs an auction where projected benefit of presenting the content is compared to projected loss.
US10560757B1	Integrated diagnostic and debugging of regional content distribution systems System, method, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for integrated diagnosis and debugging of content distribution systems. A system includes a networking module that receives, from a central server, instructions for running network diagnostics on a cable headend. A diagnostics environment module is configured to perform diagnostic operations based on the received instructions. The networking module transmits results of the diagnostic operations to the central server.
US10560753B2	Method and system for image alteration Methods and systems for image alteration. A video signal having multiple images is accessed, and images are altered to blur the video signal based on a subscriber alteration request. The alteration request is selectable among a partial blur, a full blur, and a restore image. The request includes instructions to selectably blur a partial portion of an image by stretching a first portion, without stretching a second portion. The alteration includes accessing an alternation setting selected from a cycle of alteration settings, a group of preprogrammed alteration settings and combinations thereof. The blurred video signal is provide for presentation by subscriber equipment. The video signal is restored in response to a restorative event detected within the blurred video signal. The detecting of the restorative event includes determining a location of a scene change in the blurred video signal.
US10560750B2	Information display method, apparatus and smart television An information display method is disclosed to solve a problem of tediousness and inefficiency of a process of displaying an information set corresponding to an information portal in existing technologies. The method includes: acquiring a selection instruction for an information portal; acquiring an information set corresponding to the information portal; and displaying the information set. The present disclosure further discloses an information display apparatus and a smart television.
US10560749B2	Video playing method, video playing device, video playing system, apparatus and computer-readable storage medium A video playing method, a video playing device, a video playing system, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The video playing method includes dividing a video to be played into a plurality of video segments and labelling, respectively, the plurality of video segments with emotion categories of a user as labels according to a pre-stored correspondence between the emotion categories of the user and video contents, and determining whether each video segment is to be played according to the label of the video segment.
US10560746B2	Methods and systems for generating and providing program guides and content Systems and methods for identifying, assembling, and publishing content are described. A content item, such as a video, having a first time length, is identified by a system to be included in a program scheduled for a first time period. The video may be hosted on a third party system. A first span of time within the first program is allocated for the video, wherein the first span of time is longer than the first time length. The system determines, prior to or at the first time period, a time difference between a current length of the video and the first span of time. At least partly in response to determining that the video has a time length shorter than the first span of time, the system selects supplemental content based at least in part of the determined time difference to be streamed to user terminals over a data network within the first time period.
US10560742B2	Pointer activity as an indicator of interestingness in video A method is provided, that initiates with providing a video over a network to a plurality of client devices, wherein each client device is configured to render the video and track movements of a pointer during the rendering of the video. Movement data that is indicative of the tracked movements of the pointer is received over the network from each client device. The movement data from the plurality of client devices is processed to determine aggregate pointer movement versus elapsed time of the video. The aggregate pointer movement is analyzed to identify a region of interest of the video. A preview of the video is generated based on the identified region of interest.
US10560737B2	Voice-controlled multimedia device A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a microphone of a voice-controlled device, a speech input from a user and determining, by the voice-controlled device, that a power state of an AV display device that is coupled to the voice-controlled device is an ON or OFF state. Based on the user intent determined from the speech input and the power state of the AV display, the voice-controlled device sends data to the AV display device to switch the AV display device ON or OFF. The method can further include receiving, by the voice-controlled device, content from a content source location and sending the content to the AV display device via an AV port.
US10560736B2	System and method for providing in-vehicle services to commuters A method and a system for providing in-vehicle services to commuters are provided. A first device transmits online and offline applications to a second device. The online and offline applications are rendered on the second device by way of a first master application installed on the second device. The first device receives one of a first or second request from the second device indicating a selection of an online or offline application, respectively. The first device retrieves one of a first multimedia file from a first memory of the first device in response to the first request or a second multimedia file from a first server in response to the second request. The first device streams one of the first or second multimedia file to the second device.
US10560733B2	Dynamic adjustment of electronic program guide displays based on viewer preferences for minimizing navigation in VOD program selection Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.
US10560732B2	Method and system for the delivery and storage of high definition audio-visual content A system for permitting temporary access for delivery of owned content to a location selected by a subscriber is provided. The system includes a central facility in communication with a plurality of local networks. Through one of the local networks, the subscriber can access a database in the central facility, which contains content owned by the subscriber. An enhanced progressive download system and method for high definition audio-visual content is also provided. This method uses the download speed of the subscriber, the run time of the content to be downloaded, the size of the content, and the amount of local storage in the appliance of the subscriber. A desired wait time for downloading the content is selected, and based on these parameters, the amount of local storage needed for the content is calculated. If a ratio of the local storage available to the local storage needed for the content is above a desired threshold, a download of the content can begin.
US10560731B2	Server apparatus and method for content delivery based on content-aware neural network The present disclosure provides a method and a server apparatus for delivering content based on content-aware using a neural network. A server apparatus for content delivery is provided, including a content clustering unit for clustering multiple contents provided from a content provider based on a similarity; a training unit for training a cluster-wise content reconstruction model by using contents contained in each cluster in accordance with a result of clustering performed by the content clustering unit; a storage unit for storing the multiple contents and the cluster-wise content reconstruction model; and a transmission unit for transmitting content requested by a user and a content reconstruction model corresponding to a cluster containing the content requested to a user terminal.
US10560730B2	Electronic apparatus and operating method thereof An electronic apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes: a communication interface comprising communication circuitry; a display; a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions, the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic apparatus to: transmit, to an external server, information for recognition of content displayed on the display, receive, from the external server, address information of replacement content to be displayed in a replacement slot including a section between the content and next content displayed next to the content in response to the transmission of the information, increase a display time of one or more frames included in the replacement content when length of the replacement content is less than length of the replacement slot, and remove one or more frames included in the replacement content when the length of the replacement content is greater than the length of the replacement slot.
US10560729B2	Interference profile of a bursty channel A network test instrument is operable to generate an interference profile for a bursty channel of a cable television network. Frequency spectrum data of a received signal is cross-correlated with predetermined frequency spectrum data to identify traces representative of noise. The interference profile may be built from the traces.
US10560723B2	Context modeling for transform coefficient coding A device for coding video data is configured to determine a context for a first syntax element based on already coded information for a current block of video data, wherein a value for the first syntax element indicates whether there is at least one non-zero transform coefficient level associated with the current block of video data; and code the first syntax element based on the determined context.
US10560721B2	Method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using adaptive filter Provided is a method and apparatus for performing intra-prediction using an adaptive filter. The method for performing intra-prediction includes the steps of: determining whether or not to apply a first filter for a reference pixel value on the basis of information of a neighboring block of a current block; applying the first filter for the reference pixel value when it is determined to apply the first filter; performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference pixel value; determining whether or not to apply a second filter for a prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block, which is predicted by the intra-prediction performance on the basis of the information of the neighboring block; and applying the second filter for the prediction value according to each prediction mode of the current block when it is determined to apply the second filter.
US10560720B2	Conditional signalling of reference picture list modification information Innovations in signaling of reference picture list (“RPL”) modification information. For example, a video encoder evaluates a condition that depends at least in part on a variable indicating a number of total reference pictures. Depending on the results of the evaluation, the encoder signals in a bitstream a flag that indicates whether an RPL is modified according to syntax elements explicitly signaled in the bitstream. A video decoder evaluates the condition and, depending on results of the evaluation, parses from a bitstream a flag that indicates whether an RPL is modified according to syntax elements explicitly signaled in the bitstream. The condition can be evaluated as part of processing for an RPL, modification structure that includes the flag, or as part of processing for a slice header. The encoder and decoder can also evaluate other conditions that affect syntax elements for list entries of the RPL modification information.
US10560713B2	Method and apparatus for motion vector refinement-based inter prediction in image coding system An inter prediction method performed by a decoding apparatus includes: receiving information on a motion vector difference (MVD) in units of integer samples; deriving a first motion vector predictor (MVP) in units of fraction samples on the basis of neighboring blocks of a current block; deriving a second MVP in units of integer samples on the basis of the first MVP; determining a first motion vector (MV) in units of integer samples for the current block on the basis of the second MVP and the MVD; determining a second MV in units of fraction samples for the current block on the basis of the first MVP and the first MV; and generating a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the second MV. The present invention is capable of increasing the accuracy of the MV while reducing the amount of data allocated to the MVD.
US10560712B2	Affine motion prediction for video coding An example method includes obtaining, for a current block of video data, values of motion vectors (MVs) of an affine motion model of a neighboring block of video data; deriving, from the values of the MVs of the affine motion model of the neighboring block, values of predictors for MVs of an affine motion model of the current block; decoding, from a video bitstream, a representation of differences between the values of the MVs of the affine motion model for the current block and the values of the predictors; determining the values of the MVs of the affine motion model for the current block from the values of the predictors and the decoded differences; determining, based on the determined values of the MVs of the affine motion model for the current block, a predictor block of video data; and reconstructing the current block based on the predictor block.
US10560710B2	Method for coding recovery point supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages and region refresh information SEI messages in multi-layer coding Methods for coding recovery point supplemental enhancement information (SEI) messages and region refresh SEI messages in multi-layer coding are disclosed. In one aspect, the method may include determining at least one picture among a plurality of pictures included within an access unit with which to associate at least one recovery point SEI message, the access unit being included within the multi-layer bitstream. The method may further include associating the at least one recovery point SEI message with the determined at least one picture. The method may also include coding the video information based at least in part on the association of the at least one recovery point SEI message with the determined at least one picture.
US10560709B2	Method for encoding/decoding block information using quad tree, and device for using same Disclosed decoding method of the intra prediction mode comprises the steps of: determining whether an intra prediction mode of a present prediction unit is the same as a first candidate intra prediction mode or as a second candidate intra prediction mode on the basis of 1-bit information; and determining, among said first candidate intra prediction mode and said second candidate intra prediction mode, which candidate intra prediction mode is the same as the intra prediction mode of said present prediction unit on the basis of additional 1-bit information, if the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit is the same as at least either the first candidate intra prediction mode or the second candidate intra prediction mode, and decoding the intra prediction mode of the present prediction unit.
US10560707B2	Chroma subsampling and gamut reshaping Downsampled video content is generated in a subsampling color space from linearized video content in the subsampling color space. The linearized video content represents a first spatial dimension, whereas the downsampled video content represents a second spatial dimension lower than the first spatial dimension. Opponent channel data is derived in a transmission color space from the downsampled video content. Output video content is generated from luminance data in the linearized video content and the opponent channel data in the transmission color space. The output video content may be decoded by a downstream recipient device to generate video content in an output color space.
US10560706B2	High layer syntax for temporal scalability Disclosed are techniques for temporal scalable video coding. By including a temporal_switching_point_flag and/or a temporal_nesting_flag into a normative part of the scalable bitstream, reference picture management in decoder can be simplified, and media-aware network elements and decoder can easily identify those pictures from which onward a higher temporal layer can be added.
US10560704B2	Scanning orders for non-transform coding Non-transform blocks of video content may be coded by selectively changing a scanning order. In some implementations, an encoder or decoder may perform a scanning process on a block according to a scanning order. When the block has not been transformed, the encoder or decoder may selectively change the scanning order to a different order. For example, if the block is associated with a particular type of prediction, the scanning order may be changed to a different order. In another example, if the non-transform block has a size that is smaller than a predetermined size, the scanning order may be changed to a different order.
US10560703B2	FLC-based image compression method and device A fixed length code (FLC)-based image compression method and a device thereof. The method is utilized to compress a block containing plural pixels and includes the following steps: determining a first representative pixel, a second representative pixel and a third representative pixel from the pixels according to pixel values of the pixels, the three representative pixels being noncollinear in a color space to which the pixels correspond; generating plural first interpolated pixels by interpolation according to the first representative pixel and the third representative pixel; generating plural second interpolated pixels by interpolation according to the second representative pixel and the third representative pixel; and generating an index value for each pixel according to the three representative pixels, the first interpolated pixels and the second interpolated pixels.
US10560702B2	Transform unit size determination for video coding Techniques related to transform unit size determination for video coding are discussed. Such techniques may include comparing individual prediction residues of a unit of a picture of video such as a coding unit to an adaptive threshold and splitting a transform unit corresponding to the unit if any of the prediction residues exceed the adaptive threshold.
US10560701B2	Signaling for addition or removal of layers in scalable video In one embodiment, a method of signaling individual layers in a transport stream includes: determining a plurality of layers in a transport stream, wherein each layer includes a respective transport stream parameter setting; determining an additional layer for the plurality of layers in the transport stream, wherein the additional layer enhances one or more of the plurality of layers including a base layer and the respective layer parameter settings for the plurality of layers do not take into account the additional layer; and determining an additional transport stream parameter setting for the additional layer, the additional transport stream parameter setting specifying a relationship between the additional layer and at least a portion of the plurality of layers, wherein the additional transport stream parameter setting is used to decode the additional layer and the at least a portion of the plurality of layers.
US10560697B2	Image processing device and method The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method that enable suppression of an increase in the amount of coding of a quantization matrix.An image processing device of the present disclosure includes an up-conversion unit configured to up-convert a quantization matrix limited to a size less than or equal to a transmission size that is a maximum size allowed for transmission, from the transmission size to a size that is identical to a block size that is a processing unit of quantization or dequantization. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, an image processing device for processing image data.
US10560689B2	Viewpoint-optimized light field display A method of displaying a light field to at least one viewer of a light field display device, the light field based on a 3D model, the light field display device comprising a plurality of spatially distributed display elements, the method including the steps of: (a) determining the viewpoints of the eyes of the at least one viewer relative to the display device; (b) for each eye viewpoint and each of a plurality of the display elements, rendering a partial view image representing a view of the 3D model from the eye viewpoint through the display element; and (c) displaying, via each display element, the set of partial view images rendered for that display element.
US10560688B2	Display device system with non-telecentric imaging to prevent ghost images A non-telecentric display system that prevents ghost images includes an optical waveguide and a display engine. An image former of the display engine includes a reflective surface having a surface normal thereto. An illumination engine of the display engine emits light towards the reflective surface of the image former such that chief rays are offset by acute angles from the surface normal to the reflective surface. The display engine directs light corresponding to an image, that reflects off the reflective surface of the image former, towards an input-coupler of the optical waveguide so light corresponding to the image is coupled therein and travels by total internal reflection to an output-coupler of the waveguide. Ghost images are prevented at least in part due to the chief rays of light emitted by the illumination engine being offset by acute angles from the surface normal to the reflective surface.
US10560681B2	Stereo logo insertion A method for inserting a logo into a stereo video image to generate an overlaid stereo image, the method comprising: detecting presence of stereo pictures in the video image and, when stereo pictures are detected, determining the 3D format of said stereo pictures, said 3D format being a stereo spatially multiplexed format; generating a stereo logo comprising stereo spatially multiplexed logo pictures including a representation of the logo, said stereo spatitally multiplexed logo pictures being arranged in said 3D format; and combining the stereo logo and the video image to generate the overlaid stereo image in said 3D format.
US10560679B2	Deformation detection and automatic calibration for a depth imaging system Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for detecting deformation of a structured light depth imaging system and automatic re-calibration for the depth imaging system. In one embodiment, a depth imaging device includes a light projector, a camera and a processor. The light projector emits light corresponding to a projected pattern image having a plurality of features with known locations in the projected pattern image. The camera captures the light reflected by an environment of the depth imaging device and generates a reflected pattern image as a two-dimensional (2D) projection of the environment. The reflected pattern image includes a plurality of features that correspond to the features of the projected pattern image. The processor detects a misalignment for a distance or an orientation between the light projector and the camera based on a relationship between the features in the projected pattern image and the features in the reflected pattern image.
US10560677B2	Three-dimensional image processing apparatus and electric power control method of the same A three-dimensional image processing apparatus and a method of controlling power of same are provided. The three-dimensional image processing apparatus may include a display, a three-dimensional image filter disposed a prescribed distance from the display to adjust optical paths of the displayed view images, a camera configured to capture an image of a user, an ambient light sensor, and a controller configured to control the view images, the three-dimensional image filter, or the camera. The controller may determine a position of the user based on the captured image and adjust a perceived three-dimensional view of the view images based on the determined position of the user. Moreover, the controller may control an operational state of the camera and the at least one process based on the determined position of the user or a detected amount of ambient light.
US10560676B2	Color calibration of color image rendering devices Color calibration of color image rendering devices, such as large color displays, which operate by either projection or emission of images, utilize internal color measurement instrument or external color measurement modules locatable on a wall or speaker. A dual use camera is provided for a portable or laptop computer, or a cellular phone, handset, personal digital assistant or other handheld device with a digital camera, in which one of the camera or a display is movable with respect to the other to enable the camera in a first mode to capture images of the display for enabling calibration of the display, and in a second mode for capturing image other than of the display. The displays may represent rendering devices for enabling virtual proofing in a network, or may be part of stand-alone systems and apparatuses for color calibration. Improved calibration is also provided for sensing and correcting for non-uniformities of rendering devices, such as color displays, printer, presses, or other color image rendering device.
US10560674B2	Transmitting device, transmitting method, receiving device, and receiving method Display with an appropriate luminance dynamic range is realizable on a receiving side. A gamma curve is applied to input video data having a level range from 0% to 100%*N (N: a number larger than 1) to obtain transmission video data. This transmission video data is transmitted together with auxiliary information used for converting a high-luminance level on the receiving side. A high-level side level range of the transmission video data is converted on the receiving side such that a maximum level becomes a predetermined level based on the auxiliary information received together with the transmission video data.
US10560671B2	Medical camera A medical camera includes a camera head having a first a first color separation prism, a second color separation prism, a third color separation prism, and a fourth color separation prism. The four color separation prisms respectively separate light incident from an affected area into a blue, red and green color components, and an infrared (IR) component. A light emission surface of the first color separation prism is disposed opposite to a light emission surface of the second color separation prism. A light emission surface of the third color separation prism is disposed across an incident ray which is incident vertically to an object side incident surface of the first color separation prism.
US10560669B2	Image sensor and image-capturing device An image sensor includes: a plurality of microlenses arranged in a two-dimensional pattern; and a plurality of pixels that are provided in correspondence to each of the microlenses and receive lights of different color components, respectively. Pixels that are provided at adjacent microlenses among the microlenses and that receive lights of same color components, are adjacently arranged.
US10560663B2	Method and apparatus for distributing content The invention includes a method and apparatus for delivering content to one or more content destination nodes. A method includes receiving content utility prediction information for a content item, selecting a content distribution mode for the content item using the content utility prediction information, and propagating the content item toward at least one of the content destination nodes using the selected content distribution mode and, optionally, with a defined priority, sequence, or schedule. The content utility prediction information is associated with the content destination nodes, and is indicative of a level of utility of the content item to the content destination nodes. The content distribution mode may include any content distribution mode, such as broadcast, switched broadcast, multicast, unicast, and the like. The content utility prediction information is received from one or more content prediction nodes. The content is distributed to one or more content destination nodes, which may include end user terminals and/or network-based caching nodes.
US10560658B2	Imaging module and imaging-module-attached catheter An imaging module includes: an image-sensing device; a first substrate including a first insulating substrate main body that includes a plurality of surfaces, an electrode terminal, a first cable terminal disposed on only one of the plurality of surfaces of the first insulating substrate main body; a second substrate including a second insulating substrate main body and a second cable terminal; and a signal cable disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, that electrically connects the first cable terminal to the second cable terminal. The one of the plurality of surfaces of the first insulating substrate main body where the first cable terminal is connected to the signal cable and a surface of the second insulating substrate main body where the second cable terminal is connected to the signal cable are disposed on a same plane.
US10560657B2	Systems and methods for intelligently synchronizing events in visual content with musical features in audio content Systems for synchronizing events or transitions in visual content with musical features in audio content are configured to obtain audio and visual content; determine a minimum, maximum, and/or a target display duration for items of visual content; determine a first playback-time in the first audio content to associate with a start-of-display time for the first visual content; identify a first timeframe in the first audio content corresponding to a range of acceptable end-of-display times for the first visual content; identify musical features within the first timeframe; identify a candidate musical feature among the identified musical features in accordance with a hierarchy; and/or define a first candidate end-of-display time that aligns with the playback time of the candidate musical feature. A set of candidate end-of-display times are defined for multiple visual content items in a single multimedia project, the set identified by seeking a solution that increases rank among the hierarchy.
US10560651B2	Imaging element, imaging method, and electronic equipment The present technology relates to an imaging element, an imaging method, and a piece of electronic equipment that permit faster processing. A column AD signal processing section and a ramp signal generation section are provided. The column AD signal processing section has, for each pixel column, an AD conversion section. The plurality of pixels arranged in the same column are connected to the AD conversion section via a vertical signal line. In parallel with reset operation or signal transfer operation, the pixel signals output from the pixels connected via other vertical signal lines are converted from analog to digital form by the AD conversion section. The ramp signal is supplied to the AD conversion sections that perform AD conversion of the pixel signals and is not supplied to the AD conversion sections that do not perform AD conversion. The present technology is applicable, for example, to CMOS image sensors.
US10560649B2	Imaging systems having dual storage gate overflow capabilities An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode that generates first charge for a first frame and second charge for a second frame, first and second storage gates coupled to the photodiode, a floating diffusion coupled to the first storage gate through a first transistor, a second transistor coupled to the second storage gate, and a capacitor coupled to the floating diffusion through a third transistor. The image sensor pixel may output image signals associated with the first charge generated by the photodiode for the first image frame while the photodiode concurrently generates the second charge for the second image frame. The second storage gate may be used to store overflow charge. Overflow charge for the second frame may be stored at the second storage gate while image signals associated with the first image frame are read out from capacitor and the floating diffusion.
US10560647B2	Driver circuit, driving method, active pixel sensor, image sensor, and electronic device A driving circuit and a driving method, an active pixel sensor, an image sensor, and an electronic device. The driving circuit includes: a reset circuit, a photoelectric sensing circuit, a signal forming circuit, a signal conversion circuit, and a signal output circuit. The reset circuit resets the photoelectric sensing circuit and the signal forming circuit; the photoelectric sensing circuit performs photoelectric conversion on incident light irradiation to form a photoelectric voltage signal; the signal forming circuit transmits the photoelectric voltage signal to the signal conversion circuit, and transmits a compensated photoelectric voltage signal to the signal conversion circuit; the signal output circuit transmits a second voltage to the signal conversion circuit and the signal forming circuit and outputs a photoelectric current signal; the signal conversion circuit forms the compensated photoelectric voltage signal and outputs the photoelectric current signal to signal output circuit.
US10560642B2	Image processing device, image processing method and imaging device Provided is an image processing device for improving quality of an image generated using an image obtained when infrared light is radiated and an image obtained when infrared light is not radiated. A modulation coefficient setting unit sets a first modulation coefficient used for correction of infrared luminance information of an infrared image obtained when infrared light is radiated. The first modulation coefficient is set on the basis of a ratio between the infrared luminance information and visible luminance information of a visible image obtained when the infrared light is not radiated. A modulation coefficient correcting unit corrects the first modulation coefficient to a second modulation coefficient on the basis of a parameter indicating brightness of a subject of the visible image or brightness of a photographing environment. A luminance correcting unit corrects the infrared luminance information using the second modulation coefficient.
US10560639B2	Endoscope system Provided is an endoscope system that maintains the hue of an endoscopic image even in a case where a wavelength shift occurs in light for observation.An endoscope system includes a light source unit including at least one first light source that emits light including two color components with mutually different wavelengths; an image sensor having at least a first element part that has a spectral sensitivity for a first color component and a second element part that has a spectral sensitivity for the second color component out of the two color components of the first light source; and a processor that images an observation object using the light emitted from the at least one first light source of the light source unit and obtains a first signal value of the first color component obtained in the first element part of the image sensor, and a second signal value of the second color component obtained in the second element part. The processor calculates a signal ratio between the first signal value and the second signal value, and sets the signal ratio to a predetermined set value by changing at least one signal value out of the first signal value and the second signal value.
US10560637B2	Image processing system, remotely controlled shooting assembly and exposure information prompt method An image processing system includes an image receiving unit configured to receive a picture sent by a remote shooting apparatus, an image analysis unit configured to analyze the picture to obtain exposure situations of respective parts in the picture, an exposure evaluation unit configured to evaluate exposure conditions of the respective parts in the picture based on the exposure situations of the respective parts in the picture to determine whether the respective parts in the picture are overexposed and determine overexposed parts, and an exposure information prompt unit configured to prompt an evaluation result in accordance with evaluation of the exposure evaluation unit.
US10560629B2	Systems and methods for automatic exposure in high dynamic range video capture systems The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for implementing high dynamic range and automatic exposure functions in a video system. In one aspect, a method is performed at a video camera device and includes, while operating in an HDR mode: (1) capturing video data of a scene, including: (a) capturing a first subset of the video data with a first exposure time; and (b) capturing a second subset of the video data with a second exposure time, lower than the first exposure time; (2) combining video data of the first subset with video data of the second subset to generate an HDR frame; and (3) adjusting a duration of at least one of the first exposure time and the second exposure time based on one or more parameters of the captured video data, thereby altering a ratio of the first exposure time to the second exposure time.
US10560627B2	Dual sensor camera A dual sensor camera that uses two aligned sensors each having a separate lens of different focal length but the same f-number. The wider FOV image from one sensor is combined with the narrower FOV image from the other sensor to form a combined image. Up-sampling of the wide FOV image and down-sampling of the narrow FOV image is performed. The longer focal length lens may have certain aberrations introduced so that Extended Depth of Field (EDoF) processing can be used to give the narrow FOV image approximately the same depth of field as the wide FOV image so that a noticeable difference in depth of field is not see in the combined image.
US10560626B2	System, method and computer program product for contextual focus/zoom of a key individual A contextual zoom control method, system, and computer program product, includes detecting faces in an area of interest when a user is performing an image capturing action, extracting a facial image for each of a set of key individuals attending an event where the user is performing the image capturing action, creating a ranked list of the set of key individuals according to a predetermined parameter of each key individual, pairing each detected face with a matching extracted facial image to label an identity of each key individual in the area of interest, and in a single individual capturing mode, performing a camera function to assist the user in performing the image capturing action on the identity that is paired with a highest ranked individual on the ranked list within the area of interest.
US10560621B2	Methods and apparatus for controlling a networked camera An apparatus for controlling a remote camera is described. The apparatus includes a housing and a processor positioned within the housing. A transceiver coupled to the processor communicates with a remote server. The remote server is coupled to the remote camera. A motion tracking component is mechanically coupled to the housing and electrically coupled to the processor. The motion tracking component generates a motion signal. The remote server controls a parameter of the remote camera in response to the motion signal. A display is coupled to the processor for displaying the output signal from the remote camera. The output signal is associated with the parameter of the remote camera.
US10560616B2	Imaging apparatus, lens apparatus, and intermediate accessory A camera body includes a DCL terminal, a DLC terminal, and a LCLK terminal, that perform communication with a lens apparatus by a first voltage, or a second voltage that differs from the first voltage. The camera body also includes a DLC2 terminal that is only used when communication using the DCL terminal, DLC terminal, and LCLK terminal is performed by the first voltage. The DLC2 terminal is disposed adjacent to the LCLK terminal.
US10560614B2	Polygon monitoring camera with multi-functional mounting structure A polygon monitoring camera with multi-functional mounting structure has a housing, a first assembling surface and a second assembling surface. A camera module is provided within the inside of the housing. The first assembling surface formed on either side of the housing is configured to fix an mounting module thereon; while the second assembling surface formed on another surface of the housing is configured to install additionally a fixing unit configured to fix another mounting module or a second polygon monitoring camera that is identical in appearance and contains a depth camera module. In this manner, manufacturers can customize the mounting modules required for different user according to their actual needs, and solve the problem that the conventional multi-functional cameras cannot meet the requirements of customized design due to different specifications of the camera, and present disclosure can achieve increased functions of a single camera in flexible manner.
US10560613B2	Vehicle camera with modular construction A camera assembly for a vehicular vision system includes a housing that accommodates a lens and a circuit board. An imager is disposed at the circuit board and optically aligned with the lens, and circuitry is disposed at the circuit board and electrically connected with the imager. The housing includes a rear housing portion that has an aperture therethrough, with the aperture aligned with an electrical connecting element of the circuit board. A bracket includes a mounting portion configured to attach at the vehicle and at the rear housing portion. With an electrical connector electrically connected to the electrical connecting element of the circuit board, the bracket is attached at the rear housing portion, and a structural element of the electrical connector is clamped between the bracket and the rear housing portion to maintain electrical connection of the electrical connector with the electrical connecting element of the circuit board.
US10560611B2	Interchangeable mounting platform An assembly includes a payload configured to obtain sensor data and a mounting platform coupled to the payload via a first coupling and including one or more actuators configured to adjust a spatial disposition of the payload. The assembly is for interchangeably mounting onto a plurality of base supports including a first base support and a second base support. The mounting platform is configured to be releasably coupled via a second coupling to each of the first base support and the second base support. The first base support is configured to control a function of the payload when the mounting platform is coupled to the first base support.
US10560610B2	Method of synchronizing multiple vehicular cameras with an ECU A method of synchronizing cameras with an electronic control unit (ECU) of a vehicular vision system includes providing camera control signals to the cameras from the ECU via respective links from the ECU to the cameras, with the camera control signals regulating timing of the respective camera to be synchronous with reference timing of the ECU. The timing regulation of the cameras includes starting the camera synchronous to the ECU reference timing and holding the camera synchronous to the ECU reference timing. Image data is captured with each camera and provided to the ECU via the respective link. Image data captured by at least one of the cameras may be processed to detect an object present exterior of the vehicle.
US10560609B2	System and related method for synchronized capture of data by multiple network-connected capture devices A system includes at least two capture devices, each switchable from a respective idle mode to a respective recording mode upon receipt of a trigger signal from a trigger via a network. A controller saves data packets generated by the capture devices during the respective idle modes to a short-term memory, and saves data packets generated during the respective recording modes to a long-term memory such that the data packets form respective saved data streams. The synchronizer sends a sync signal to the capture devices via the network. The compensator determines respective delay periods between sending of the sync signal by the synchronizer and receipt of the sync signal by each of the capture devices, and transfers from the short-term memory to the long-term memory any data packets generated during the respective delay period.
US10560607B2	Color correction system and method A computer-implemented method for color correction includes determining a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) for a noise evaluation image, determining a corrected PSNR for a corrected noise evaluation image, determining a downsampled PSNR for a downsampled noise evaluation image obtained by downsampling the noise evaluation image, determining a downsampled corrected PSNR for a downsampled corrected noise evaluation image obtained by downsampling the corrected noise evaluation image, and determining a noise amplification metric based on the PSNR, the corrected PSNR, the downsampled PSNR, and the downsampled corrected PSNR.
US10560605B2	Three dimensional, hue-plane preserving and differentiable quasi-linear transformation method for color correction Color correction methods relate device dependent sensor responses (RGB) to device independent color values (XYZ). The present invention discloses a new approach to Hue Plane Preserving Color Correction (HPPCC) using weighted constrained 3×3 matrices. Accordingly, the methods of the present invention employ hue angle specific weighted matrixing. Given a device RGB from which a device hue angle is derived, a corresponding transformation matrix is found as the normalized weighted sum of all pre-calculated constrained white point and training color preserving matrices. Each weight is calculated as a power function of the minimum difference between the device and the training color hue angle. The weighting function provides local influence to the matrices that are in close hue angle proximity to the device color. The power of the function can be further optimized for global accuracy. The methods of the present invention are termed HPPCC-WCM for Hue Plane Preserving Color Correction Weighted Constrained Methods. Experiments performed using different input spectra demonstrate that the claimed methods consistently improve the stability and accuracy of state-of-the-art methods for color correction.
US10560603B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method In the case of performing halftone processing using a threshold value matrix, the memory capacity for storing the threshold value matrix is reduced without reducing the image quality of an output image. An image processing apparatus that generates a halftone image by performing halftone processing using a threshold value matrix for each piece of image data of a plurality of color planes corresponding to color materials used for printing processing, and the number of bits of a threshold value in a first threshold value matrix for a color plane whose visibility is relatively low of the plurality of color planes is smaller than the number of bits of a threshold value in a second threshold value matrix for a color plane whose visibility is relatively high of the plurality of color planes.
US10560602B2	Systems, processes, and computer program products for control of gutter creep A system and method provide an improvement to publications with gutter creep that shifts page content to the edges of pages. In an exemplary embodiment, a process may be triggered which determines a printable page area for pages of each respective sheet that will be printed on, based on the sheet gutter value for the page. A scaling factor may be applied to the printable page area to produce a scaled printable area. The printed content may be scaled within the printable area by the scaling factor so that when the gutter creep value becomes larger and there is less printable area available, the content remains readable on the page. A user interface may include a manual creep shift button to shift positioned scaled printed content toward or away from a sheet fold axis.
US10560597B2	System and method for sharing images using an upload menu There is disclosed a system and method for uploading an image file to an image repository from a mobile handheld communications device having an integrated camera. In an embodiment, the method comprises: upon determining capture of an image using the integrated camera, automatically initiating an image upload module; configuring the image upload module to display an image upload user interface having user selectable image upload settings; and upon receiving user instructions, uploading the image file to the image repository with the selected image upload settings. The upload settings may be preselected and the device may be preauthorized to access an account on the image repository.
US10560594B2	Image scanning apparatus, and method and computer-readable medium therefor An image scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a light quantity adjustment determining process to determine whether a detection light quantity needs to be adjusted, based on adjustment determination values, in a black-white detectable position, a light quantity adjusting process to adjust the detection light quantity to maximize an adjustment difference value between a gradation value generated by scanning a white portion of a reference member and a gradation value generated by scanning a black portion of the reference member, a threshold calculating process to calculate a detection threshold based on a black value and a white value, and a reference position detecting process to detect a reference position by comparing, with the detection threshold, gradation values generated by scanning the reference member while illuminating the reference member with the detection light quantity.
US10560592B2	Operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance device, operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance method, program for avoiding operation switch press erroneous-detection, operation panel, and multifunctional machine An operation switch press erroneous-detection avoidance device, if an operation on an operation switch is performed by an approaching object to the operation switch, in a case where the operation on the operation switch is detected during a period when an event which occurs in association with the operation on the operation switch occurs, prohibits a process associated with the operation switch from being activated.
US10560589B2	Image transmission apparatus When an address is inputted through input means for inputting an address of a receiving end, an image transmission apparatus carries out an authentication process that determines whether or not the inputting person is a right authorized person. When it is determined that the corresponding operation is right through the authentication process, the image transmission apparatus transmits image data to the address of the receiving end thus inputted.
US10560588B2	Cloud storage for image data, image product designs, and image projects A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.
US10560587B2	LiFi enabled guard security system A portable security device may enable a security guard to quietly and unobtrusively solicit assistance, or transmit information, when desired. A portable security device may include a user interface, a LiFi source and a controller that is operatively coupled to the user interface and to the LiFi source. In some cases, the controller may be configured to present two or more alert options to the security guard via the user interface and to receive a selection of one of the alert options by the security guard. In response to the selection of an alert option by the security guard, the controller may be configured to transmit a LiFi message that corresponds to the selected alert option via the LiFi source.
US10560584B2	Density classifiers based on plane regions In an example, a print system include a component device that is operation in a number of state, a density engine, and a component engine. An example density engine identifies a plane region of a plane where print fluid is to be printed based on data of a print job and determines a density classifier for the plane based on a location of the plane region on the plane. An example component engine causes an adjustment of a component attribute of the component device based on the density classifier.
US10560579B1	Intelligent communication routing A system and method for communicating in a communication network, comprising presenting a communication comprising data over a communications network to a router, said router being adapted to route the communication to one of a plurality of available network destinations; automatically executing a communication targeting algorithm in the router, based at least in part on the data, wherein the communication targeting algorithm operates to contextually jointly analyze a plurality of parameters extracted from the data and a plurality of contextual parameters, to determine an optimum target for the communication, wherein the optimum target varies in dependence on both the data and the context of the communication; and routing the communication in dependence on the algorithm execution.
US10560577B2	Efficient mechanism for customer feedback from a voice call System and method to provide customer feedback in a telephone call between a customer and a contact center, the method comprising: monitoring an audio media stream from the customer in the telephone call, detecting a dual tone multi frequency (DTMF) feedback code within the monitored media stream, and assigning a feedback rating from the detected feedback code.
US10560576B1	Electronic device for performing task including call in response to user utterance and operation method thereof An electronic device includes: a microphone; a speaker; a touchscreen display; a communication circuit; at least one processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: receive a first user input; identify a service provider and a detailed service; select a first menu corresponding to the detailed service from menu information; attempt to connect a call to the service provider; when the call to the service provider is connected, transmit one or more responses until reaching a step corresponding to the first menu; in response to reaching the first menu, determine whether an attendant is connected; in response to completion of connection to the attendant, output a notification indicating that the connection to the attendant has been completed; and in response to reception of a second user input for the output notification, display a screen for a call with the service provider.
US10560573B2	Apparatus and method for managing communications An apparatus and a method for managing communications, wherein the apparatus includes an input component adapted to receive signaling information from a caller communication terminal that is trying to establish a connection with a called communication terminal which is unavailable, an output component adapted to send at least a non-availability message to the caller communication terminal, and a processor configured for determining attempting information on the basis of data generated by the caller communication terminal during a communication attempt, and generating, on the basis of the signaling information and the attempting information, the non-availability message or at least a configuration message allowing the communication between said caller and called communication terminals.
US10560565B2	Electronic device and operating method thereof Disclosed is an operating method of an electronic device. The operating method includes acquiring phase information of the electronic device while a first application is executed; determining whether the electronic device is rotated based on the phase information; and executing a second application when the electronic device is rotated.
US10560563B1	Haptic device The present haptic device is adapted for sending at least one message. The haptic device comprises a housing, a communication module located inside the housing, a touchpad and a processor. The touchpad is affixed to the housing. The touchpad captures a movement of a user and generates a signal corresponding to the captured movement. The processor is also located inside the housing. The processor receives the signal and instructs the communication module to transmit one of a plurality of stored messages corresponding to the captured movement. The transmitted message includes at least one predetermined recipient address and a message for the recipient.
US10560562B1	Multi-mode smartphone or mobile computing device Smartphones with multi-mode functionality allowing the given smartphone to connect to and utilize technologically diverse and different networks (e.g., terrestrial based cellular and/or Wi-Fi networks and/or satellite based networks), as well as different networks being operated by different service providers are described. Such smartphones may have at least three different antenna and radio communications integrated circuits, one for cellular and/or Wi-Fi communications, one for satellite communications, and one for communications across the internet. For example, if a cellular and/or Wi-Fi network may not be available, then the smartphone may connect to a satellite network. The dedicated antenna for satellite communications may be extendable and retractable. Such smartphones may have a LED lighting system (Lumminax System) for indicating incoming communications. Such smartphones may also be charged by solar energy due to integrated solar panel(s). Such smartphones may also have integrated proprietary “apps” for managing various devices connected to the internet.
US10560560B2	Contact information exchanging and content system and method for networking and marketing An application for storing on a server for download to a client device for executing on the client device. The client device comprising a processor executing steps for performing various functionalities including: •sharing entered contact information of a user with the client device of another person using the same or similar application when the respective client devices are in a prescribed proximity to each other, and that other person being able to reciprocate sharing of their entered contact information into their client device with the client device of the user; •viewing, optionally joining, and/or creating a meeting where contact information between the participants is shared by the client devices of users joining or engaged in the meeting; •a user accessing, viewing and/or searching a list of contact information objects captured by the client device of the user; •entering of profile data details associated with a user and storing these in the client device for the purposes of constituting contact information for sharing with the client device of another user operating the application.
US10560559B2	Light-emitting device having a bent substrate A light-emitting device or a display device that is less likely to be broken is provided. Provided is a light-emitting device including an element layer and a substrate over the element layer. At least a part of the substrate is bent to the element layer side. The substrate has a light-transmitting property and a refractive index that is higher than that of the air. The element layer includes a light-emitting element that emits light toward the substrate side. Alternatively, provided is a light-emitting device including an element layer and a substrate covering a top surface and at least one side surface of the element layer. The substrate has a light-transmitting property and a refractive index that is higher than that of the air. The element layer includes a light-emitting element that emits light toward the substrate side.
US10560550B1	Automatic configuration of a replacement network device in a high-availability cluster A first network device may establish connectivity with a second network device. The first network device may determine information that identifies a cluster identifier based on establishing connectivity with the second network device. The first network device may compare a first software version of the first network device and a second software version of the second network device. The first network device may selectively obtain and install a system image of the second network device based on comparing the first software version and the second software version. The first network device may receive, from the second network device, configuration information and user session information based on selectively obtaining the system image. The first network device and the second network device may form a high-availability cluster.
US10560548B2	Delivery system, delivery method, and delivery program Disclosed herein is a delivery system including a delivery apparatus. The delivery apparatus includes a setting information acquisition section configured to acquire setting information set to a terminal on which an application is executed on the basis of the setting information, a terminal section configured to have at least part of functions of the terminal and execute an application in accordance with an instruction from the terminal on the basis of the setting information acquired by the setting information acquisition section, and a delivery section configured to deliver image information based on the execution of the application to one of the terminal and a terminal related to the terminal.
US10560545B1	Application state client-side cache for a state-based client-server application A client updates a display of a user interface associated with a state-based client-server application in accordance with a client-side cache. The server supplies data for a new state and additional data for one or more subsequent states that possibly follow the new state if appropriate one or more operations are performed. When a client request is generated that indicates an operation that causes the application to transition to the new state, the client updates the display in accordance with the data that corresponds to the new state from the client-side cache, if available from the client-side cache. The new state data is available since the server has previously supplied the new state data.
US10560542B2	Mechanism and method for communicating between a client and a server by accessing message data in a shared memory A mechanism and method for accessing message data in a shared memory by at least one client, includes an allocation of data in the shared memory, the memory configured in a plurality of buffers, and accessing the data by a client or a server without locking or restricting access to the data.
US10560539B1	Automatic script code coverage measurements for software scripts In an example embodiment, a proxy server receives a request from a web browser operated on a client device, the request including a call for computer code written in a scripting language. The request is forwarded to a web server to obtain the computer code written in the scripting language. The computer code written in the scripting language is automatically instrumented by adding instrumentation code to the computer code written in the scripting language, the instrumentation code configured to, when executed, measure one or more metrics and report the resultant measurements. Then the instrumented computer code written in the scripting language is sent to the web browser for execution.
US10560533B2	Leveraging media device pairing to simplify granting mobile device access to external network A media server receives a request from an unpaired mobile device, queries a login database to determine whether the mobile device is logged in for high speed Internet access, and, when yes, identifies a particular guest area of the hospitality establishment according to details in its login record. One of the media devices accessible from within the particular guest area is selected and paired with the mobile device without requiring a user of the mobile device to input into the mobile device a connect code of the selected media device. In another example, a user initiates a codeless pairing mode on a particular one of the media devices and begins interacting with the media server utilizing an unpaired mobile device. Since, only one media device can be in that mode at a time, the media server pairs the newly detected unpaired mobile device with the particular media device.
US10560531B2	Location-based system and method for controlling a plurality of electrical or electronic devices The present invention relates to a location-based system and method for controlling electrical or electronic devices comprising: beacons coupled to said devices for sending and receiving positioning signals; a control device for determining the position thereof, on the basis of the positioning signals received, and sending it to a central control module together with indications to act on a parameter of the devices; a central control module for sending control instructions to a processor module of the corresponding device, which is determined depending on the position of the control device; and a processor module, coupled to each of the devices, for directly acting on the parameters of the device depending on the control instructions received.
US10560525B2	Synchronization between virtual network functions and host systems A network function virtualization (NFV) platform may include one or more processors to identify a condition associated with the NFV platform, where the condition may affect operation of at least one virtual network function (VNF) hosted by or associated with the NFV platform; determine, based on the condition, information that may be provided or an action that may be performed with regard to the at least one VNF; and/or generate or transmit a message identifying the information and/or that may cause the action to be performed with regard to the at least one VNF.
US10560522B2	Method, system and apparatus for dynamically assigning master devices in communication sessions A method of dynamically selecting a master device for a communication session from a set of peer devices includes: at a first device of the set of peer devices, transmitting local capability data to a second device of the set of peer devices, the local capability data defining an operational capability of the first device; at the first device, receiving remote capability data from the second device, the remote capability data defining an operational capability of the second device; comparing the local and remote capability data at the first device; based on the comparison, determining, at the first device, whether to establish the communication session as a master device; at the first device, establishing the communication session with the second device according to the determination.
US10560516B2	System and method for signaling through data storage An application platform system and method. A data synchronization instance manages a reference state object for a data synchronization system (DSS) account. A first local state object is stored at a first application system. The first application system receives update notifications provided by the DSS. A second local state object is stored at a second application system. The second application system receives update notifications provided by the DSS. An application instruction of the first application system is transformed into a state update, and the first local state object is modified to include the state update. The state update is provided to the DSS via a local update notification. The reference state object is modified to include the state update. The state update is provided to the second application system via a reference update notification. The second local state object is modified to include the state update.
US10560512B2	Method for file management and an electronic device thereof File management in an electronic device is provided. A method for operating an electronic device for file management includes transmitting a file comprising media data to an external storage, wherein the file include a part of the file and a rest of the file, deleting the rest of the file in a local storage of the electronic device, playing the media data using the stored part of the file in the local storage, and playing the media data using the rest of the file received from the external storage.
US10560511B2	Adaptive tile framework The present disclosure includes an adaptive tile framework. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising sending an access request from a mobile application operating on a mobile device to one or more remote systems, receiving a plurality of interactive features available on the remote systems, associating the plurality interactive features with a plurality of tiles, where particular interactive features are associated with particular tiles, and where the tiles are user interface elements for interfacing with one or more specific interactive features of the remote systems, and displaying the tiles.
US10560509B2	Method and apparatus for using HTTP redirection to mediate content access via policy execution Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable HTTP redirect messages to indicate content access policy information. In this manner, policy rules may be implemented based on the policy information in the HTTP redirect messages to control network congestion and/or quality of service (“QOS”).
US10560508B2	Personalized video playback Systems and methods for personalizing video playback are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer-implemented method, comprises: initiating, by a computing device, a video playing session of a video; recording, by the computing device, user initiated playback actions during the video playing session as playback event data; determining, by the computing device, context data based on content of the video, and saving the context data; determining, by the computing device, insights regarding the user playback event data utilizing the context data; and generating, by the computing device, one or more recommendations based on the insights.
US10560507B2	Standardized hot-pluggable transceiving unit providing a cloud gateway functionality Standardized hot-pluggable transceiving unit implementing a cloud gateway functionality. The transceiving unit receives a source video IP flow. At least one processing unit in the housing executes a HTTP client and a conversion function. The HTTP client establishes a connection with a HTTP server hosted by a cloud video server, and receives the source video IP flow from the HTTP server of the cloud video server via the first connector. The source video IP flow uses one of the HTTP or the HTTPS protocol. The conversion function generates a video stream based on the source video IP flow, and the video stream is outputted by the transceiving unit. Alternatively, the transceiving unit receives a source video stream converted in a video IP flow by the conversion function, and the HTTP client uploads the video IP flow to the HTTP server of the cloud video server.
US10560506B2	Identifying previously streamed portions of a media title to avoid repetitive playback A sequence analyzer compares different episodes of an episodic serial to identify portions of a current episode of the serial that have already been played back to a user. Those portions may include introductory material such as credits, or a recap section that includes content from previous episodes. The sequence analyzer parses previous episodes of the serial and selects a representative frame for each shot sequence. The sequence analyzer then generates a fingerprint for each shot sequence based on the associated representative frame. The sequence analyzer compares fingerprints associated with a current episode of the serial to fingerprints associated with one or more previous episodes of the serial to identify shot sequences that have already been played. The user may then skip those repeated sequences via a playback interface.
US10560504B2	Stream duration management In general, in one aspect, streaming content is received from a server, the streaming content being stored and queued for client-side playback from the server. Information about the streaming content is received. A virtual current duration of the streaming content is determined at a client-side application based on the information about the streaming content. A timeline control is generated based on the determined virtual duration, the timeline control presenting a representation of the virtual duration and allowing navigation forward and backward in the streaming content. The timeline control is displayed at the client-side display device.
US10560502B2	Method to re-synchronize live media streams, commands, and on-screen events transmitted through different internet pathways Embodiments of the present invention are directed to computer systems and methods of re-synchronizing playback of a live media stream with execution of a stream of out-of-band commands, where the commands and media stream are transmitted through different network pathways. The systems and methods, at a multimedia player, retrieve a command manifest file from a publishing server or CDN and parse the location of the media stream from the file. The systems and methods load and buffer the media stream from the parsed location and start playback of the media stream. The systems and methods monitor current playback time of the live media stream. The systems and methods also poll the user-initiated commands appended to the command manifest file. The systems and methods determine whether to execute a user-initiated command of the polled user-initiated commands in a user interface of the multimedia player based on the monitored current playback time.
US10560500B2	Systems and methods for recording and storing media content In an example, a method for recording media content using a mobile device includes establishing a communication session between a control system and the mobile device over a communication network and receiving, by a mobile device, a trigger signal transmitted by a control system over a communication network. The method also includes, responsive to the trigger signal, recording media content using a camera of the mobile device. The method further includes storing the recorded media content in a memory of the mobile device, terminating the recording, and, after terminating the recording, uploading the stored multimedia from the mobile device to a server. After uploading the media content to the server, the method includes receiving a signal indicating that the multimedia was successfully uploaded. The method still further includes, responsive to the signal, deleting the media content from the memory.
US10560499B2	Displaying content from multiple devices Systems and methods of content sharing on a display are provided by establishing connections between a receiver, moderator client device and a plurality of member client devices via a local network that includes at most one node in the communication pathway between any two endpoints in the network, such as a display and one of the plurality of member client devices. The moderator client device transmits a request to promote a first one of the plurality of member client devices to the receiver, which then receives and transmits to the display content from the first one of the plurality of member client devices. The moderator client device also may monitor the screen displays of the plurality of member client devices; enable the receiver to simultaneously show on the display content from two or more of the plurality of member client devices; request transfer of data from the plurality of member client devices to the moderator client device; or delegate moderator authority or control to a subset of the member client devices.
US10560497B1	Location-based controls for remote visitation in controlled-environment facilities Systems and methods for developing, deploying, and/or providing location-based controls for remote visitation in controlled-environment facilities are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method may include identifying a request to establish a visitation session between a resident and a non-resident of a controlled-environment facility, wherein the visitation session includes at least one of: a voice or a video call, and wherein the non-resident operates a mobile device; receiving spacial information of the mobile device; and applying a rule to the visitation session based upon the spacial information.
US10560496B2	Automatic registration of devices Exemplary methods, computer systems, and computer program products for automatic registration of devices in a computer environment are provided. In one embodiment, the computer environment is configured for monitoring a fibre channel. In response to one of a fabric login (FLOGI) and a fixed disk (Fdisk) received from one of an initiator and a target disk, executing each of an automatic name server registration, a state change registration, and a management server registration to identify at least one of the plurality of devices, and signing up one of the initiator and the target disk for the automatic name server registration, the state change registration, and the management server registration, wherein port initialization is eliminated for the initiator.
US10560495B2	System and method for processing telephony sessions In one embodiment, the method of processing telephony sessions includes: communicating with an application server using an application layer protocol; processing telephony instructions with a call router; and creating call router resources accessible through a call router Application Programming Interface (API). In another embodiment, the system for processing telephony sessions includes: a call router, a URI for an application server, a telephony instruction executed by the call router, and a call router API resource.
US10560493B1	Initializing device components associated with communications Described are techniques for establishing video communication between devices while reducing delays associated with initialization of a camera system. When a command from a sender device to initiate a communications session with a recipient device is received, the command may include recipient information indicative of the recipient device. Correspondence between the recipient information and sender contact data may be used determine a recipient profile identifier. Prior to providing a communication request to the recipient device, an initialization command may be provided to the recipient device to cause the recipient device to begin initializing a camera system. Providing the initialization command to the recipient device responsive to the command from the sender device, in advance of the communication request, enables the communications session to be initiated more rapidly than if the recipient device began to initialize the camera system responsive to the communication request.
US10560487B2	Intrusion detection and mitigation in data processing A security manager configured to generate a plurality of learned security policies and provide at least one learned security policy and a security agent to a client machine for enforcement of the at least one learned security policy by the security agent on the client machine. The security manager configured to receive alerts from the security agent indicating anomalous behavior on the client machine.
US10560483B2	Rating organization cybersecurity using active and passive external reconnaissance A system for cybersecurity rating using active and passive external reconnaissance, that uses a web crawler that sends message prompts to external hosts and receives responses from external hosts, a time-series data store that produces time-series data from the message responses, and a directed computational graph module that analyzes the time-series data to produce a weighted score representing the overall cybersecurity state of an organization.
US10560481B2	Stereotyping for trust management in IoT systems Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for a trust management system (TMS) in connected devices including a service provider device and a service consumer device, actions including receiving, by the TMS, side information associated with the service provider device, the side information including profile data and context data, processing, by the TMS, the side information using a computer-executable stereotype model to determine a prior trust value, determining, by the TMS, a trust value using a computer-executable experiential trust model, and at least partially based on the prior trust value, and selectively conducting a transaction between the service consumer device, and the service provider device based on the trust value.
US10560480B1	Rule enforcement based on network address requests A first device may include one or more processors. The first device may receive a network address request to obtain a network address that is associated with an application. The network address request may include application information that identifies the application. The first device may determine that the application is associated with a rule. The first device may store the application information and information identifying the network address request. The first device may obtain the network address based on the network address request. The first device may determine that the network address is associated with the rule. The first device may provide the network address, the rule, and/or the application information to a second device, to permit the second device to enforce the rule, based on determining that the application is associated with the rule and determining that the network address is associated with the rule.
US10560477B2	Information processing system, control method therefor, image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor An information processing system that facilitates management of information security policy even for an extended application installed from exterior. A receiving unit receives security policy data in which a security policy is described. A management unit manages an extended application that can be added and deleted and that operates in an image processing apparatus. A notification unit notifies an administrator of error information about a security policy of an extended application managed by the management unit, when the extended application managed by the management unit does not comply with the security policy described in the security policy data, and when an identifier of an extended application that is extracted from the security policy data and that is excepted from applying the security policy does not match with the identifier of the extended application managed by the management unit.
US10560472B2	Server-supported malware detection and protection A method includes receiving a first file attribute from a computing device. The method also includes determining whether a classification for a file is available from a first cache of the server based on the first file attribute. The method includes sending the first file attribute from the server to a second server to determine whether the classification for the file is available at a base prediction cache of the second server. The method includes receiving a notification at the server from the second server that the classification for the file is unavailable at the base prediction cache. The method includes, in response to receiving the notification, determining the classification for the file by performing an analysis of a second file attribute based on a trained file classification model. The method includes sending the classification to the computing device and sending at least the classification to the base prediction cache.
US10560467B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing control program, control method, and information processing device A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a control program causing a computer to execute processing, the processing includes: displaying a first node of a first type and a second node of a second type; receiving registration of a third node representing an access destination in association with the first node; receiving registration of a fourth node representing mask processing on information in association with the second node; receiving registration of a fifth node representing an information category in association with the second node; allowing transmission of information about a cyber attack event to the third node; and providing the information about the cyber attack event after executing the mask processing associated with the fourth node on information belonging to the information category associated with the fifth node, when the information about the cyber attack event is transmitted to the third node.
US10560466B2	Vertical threat analytics for DDoS attacks Embodiments are provided to allow institutions and individuals the ability to subscribe to notifications regarding DDoS attacks on certain types of institutions, e.g., institutions that fall into certain market verticals or categories. Subscriber data can be integrated with an attack monitoring platform (AMP), which can push out certain information to a system, which tabulates and analyzes the information regarding attacks. If an attack is detected based on predefined thresholds and conditions, a database lookup is performed and a notification that contains certain attack attributes can be sent out to the appropriate subscribers. Subscribers can also be provided with a mechanism to modify their level of DDoS attack notification threshold.
US10560462B2	Context-based resource access mediation Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for a context-based access mediator (“CAM”) are described. The CAM may be configured to mediate access to computer-accessible resources by a user using a computing device after receiving a request from the computing device for the computing device to access a computer-accessible resource. The computer-accessible resource may be local or remote to the computing device. The CAM may be configured to receive the request and to mediate access to the requested resource. Such mediation may be performed through the CAM determining whether the resource may be accessed by the computing device and/or through the CAM determining which resources are available to the be accessed by the computing device. The CAM may be configured to mediate access to computer-accessible resources based on information about a context for the computing device and/or computer-accessible resource. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10560461B1	Automatic group assignment of users in a social network Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing electronic messages of users in a social network. One method includes an operation for receiving attributes of a profile of a person with a person account that has started following an entity with an entity account, in the social network. Further, the person is added to one or more groups in the entity account based on the attributes. Each of the groups is associated with defined properties for adding persons to each group. Furthermore, messages, created by the entity and addressed to the one or more groups, are distributed to a stream of the person account.
US10560459B2	Multiple data store authentication Systems and methods for authenticating access to multiple data stores substantially in real-time are disclosed. The system may include a server coupled to a network, a client device in communication with the server via the network and a plurality of data stores. The server may authenticate access to the data stores and forward information from those stores to the client device. An exemplary authentication method may include receipt of a request for access to data. Information concerning access to that data is stored and associated with an identifier assigned to a client device. If the identifier is found to correspond to the stored information during a future request for access to the store, access to that store is granted.
US10560458B2	Resource sharing in cloud computing In one respect, there is provided a system a data processor and a memory. The system can be configured to receive, from a first user associated with a first tenant, a request to access a resource associated with a second tenant. The first tenant and the second tenant can be tenants of a multi-tenant cloud-computing platform. The resource can be accessible via the multi-tenant cloud-computing platform. The first user can be authorized to access the resource associated with the second tenant based on a sharing relationship that allows the first user to access the resource. In response to determining that the first user is authorized to access the resource associated with the second tenant, access to the resource can be provided to the first user. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
US10560455B2	Systems and methods for scalable-factor authentication Authentication systems and methods can selectively authenticate a request to access a resource data store storing access rights associated with a user device. The systems and methods can scalably execute challenges workflows as part of the authentication process. For example, a request to access one or more access rights stored in the data store can be received from the user device. The user device can be authenticated using challenge workflows selected based on a device identifier of the user device. The selected challenge workflows can be executed to determine whether or not to grant access to the access rights stored in the resource data store.
US10560454B2	Authentication system and method An authentication system for authenticating the identity of a requester of access by an unauthorized service client to a secured resource. The system has a messaging gateway having a first set of instructions operable to receive from a requester purporting to be an authorized user of a secured resource a request for limited access to the secured resource by an unauthorized service client for a particular transaction; a server having a second set of instructions operable to determine a key string known to both the secured resource and the authorized user the requestor purports to be, the key string being adapted to provide a basis for authenticating the identity of the requester as the authorized account holder; and a service user interface having a third set of instructions embodied in a computer readable medium operable to receive transaction specific information input into the request by the unauthorized service client.
US10560452B2	Apparatus and method to control transfer apparatuses depending on a type of an unauthorized communication occurring in a network An apparatus controls transfer apparatuses that transfer a packet transmitted and received by terminals in a network. Upon receiving detection information notified from a server that detects unauthorized communication of a terminal by using the packet, the apparatus identifies the terminal and a type of the unauthorized communication, based on the detection information. The apparatus determines a transfer apparatus to be controlled, by referencing first information that stores information identifying the transfer apparatus in association with the terminal, and determines a control to be performed on the transfer apparatus by referencing second information that stores information on the control in association with the type of the unauthorized communication. The apparatus reads a control command corresponding to the control from third information that stores the control command in association with a type of the transfer apparatus, and transmits a control packet including the control command to the transfer apparatus.
US10560451B2	Table-connected tokenization A tokenization system tokenizes sensitive data to prevent unauthorized entities from accessing the sensitive data. The tokenization system accesses sensitive data, and retrieves an initialization vector (IV) from an IV table using a first portion of the sensitive data. A second portion of the sensitive data is modified using the accessed initialization vector. A token table is selected from a set of token tables using a third portion of the sensitive data. The modified second portion of data is used to query the selected token table, and a token associated with the value of the modified second portion of data is accessed. The second portion of the sensitive data is replaced with the accessed token to form tokenized data.
US10560446B2	Increased communication security A method of increasing communication security may include receiving, from a first computer system at a second computer system, a Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) message, wherein the CoAP message may include authentication data. Message validation may be performed based on the authentication data, wherein the performing message validation may include determining that the CoAP message is invalid if at least one condition is not met. The method may also include performing, if the CoAP message is valid, at least one operation associated with the CoAP message.
US10560443B2	Scheduled power mode switch for thin client devices Certain aspects direct to systems and methods for performing scheduled power mode switch for thin client computing device. The system includes a server a computing device. The server receives a plurality of inputs, generates, based on the inputs, a power mode switch schedule including at least one sleep time and at least one wake time, and controls at least one computing device functions as a thin client to update configuration data of the at least one computing device with the power mode switch schedule and to switch between the wake mode the sleep mode according to the updated configuration data.
US10560442B2	Participation thresholding for extending communication security functionality Systems and methods can support change management thresholds within human machine interfaces. An operation or feature may be introduced into a multi-user information system where a benefit is conveyed to specific benefited instances of events. A user indication associated with the specific benefited instances may be initially disabled. A quantity of the specific benefited instances may be calculated or counted. The calculated quantity may be compared to a threshold quantity. The user indication associated with the specific benefited instances may be enabled in response to the comparison indicating that the threshold has been exceeded. The user indication may be presented via a user interface mechanism associated with the multi-user information system. According to certain examples, sender authentication may be added to an email system such that instances of authentication are not displayed until a certain number or percentage of messages is being authenticated.
US10560439B2	System and method for device authorization and remediation A method is provided for authorizing a device for consuming content. In method includes the steps of generating an authorization request, the authorization request for authorization data including device diagnostic data (instructions) an device remedial data (instructions), transmitting the authorization request from the device to an authorizing service, and authorizing or remediating the device according to an authorization response to the authorization request received from an authorization server.
US10560438B2	Remote monitoring and management of an instant issuance system A system and method for remote monitoring and management of an instant issuance system is provided. The embodiments provide secure communication between different entities within the instant issuance system. Security can be established via mutual authentication between the communicating entities of the instant issuance system prior and/or concurrent with a communication taking place.
US10560437B2	Security in mixed networks A device may include a processor circuit configured to transmit, over a network medium, a request for transmission of a data communication to a first device of a network, and receive, over the network medium, a grant of the request. When the first device is associated with a first security profile, the processor circuit may be configured to encrypt the data communication based at least on a first password associated with the first security profile. When the first device is associated with a second security profile, the processor circuit may be configured to encrypt the data communication based at least on a second password associated with the second security profile. The second password may be associated with a higher password strength than the first password. The processor circuit may be configured to transmit, over the network medium, the encrypted data communication to the first device in response to the grant.
US10560436B2	Pseudonymous proximity location device A pseudonymous proximity location device and methods of operating and/or interacting with the same are provided. The pseudonymous proximity location device is configured to provide meaningful information to authorized reading devices but useless information to non-authorized reading devices, thereby prohibiting the use of the pseudonymous proximity location device by unauthorized reading devices.
US10560435B2	Enforcing restrictions on third-party accounts Disclosed are various embodiments for management of third-party accounts for users in an organization. A request is received from a client corresponding to a user in an organization to access a third-party network site under management by the organization. The third-party network site is operated by a third party that does not correspond to the organization. It is determined whether network traffic between the client and the third-party network site is routed via a proxy server operated by the organization. Access of the client to a managed account with the third-party network site is denied in response to determining that the network traffic between the client and the third-party network site is not routed via the proxy server.
US10560434B2	Automated honeypot provisioning system Systems and methods for automatically provisioning honeynets are disclosed. The honeynets continuously gather and capture unauthorized network traffic and/or other information being transmitted, processed, accessed, and/or executed within the honeynet network that is indicative of a network threat or attack by unauthorized users.
US10560433B2	Vertical cloud service A system for securely provided content to a user hides the identity of the user and/or the content from an outside observer by utilizing a plurality of virtual private networks (VPNs) and virtual machines (VMs) to obfuscate transmission sources. A key is used to generate and control access to a first VPN between a user device and a server that has access to the content. Once the first VPN is generated, user device and server could communicate securely to generate unique VMs having distinct identifiers from the user device and the server, and a second VPN could be generated between the two newly generated VMs. Once content has been provided to the user device via its VM, the content session could end and all the secure infrastructure could be deconstructed.
US10560428B2	Flexible hybrid firewall architecture A flexible hybrid firewall architecture that allows a mix of firewalls at end points in front of a target and at the initiator points. Groups of Priv-IDs may be created where each group is isolated from other worlds, with all firewalls controlled by a device management and security module.
US10560423B1	Identifying and predicting spammer domains through DNS reputation system lookups and DNS query volumes The methodology for detecting spammer domains includes storing a plurality of DNS requests, wherein each DNS request comprises a combination of a higher level domain name and a lower level domain name, and wherein the higher level domain name corresponds to a blacklist server and the lower level domain name is a domain name that is to be used as a query directed towards the blacklist server, filtering the DNS requests to obtain a plurality of lower level domains, calculating a popularity score for each unique lower level domain name of the plurality of lower level domain names, determining whether a given unique lower level domain name is suspicious based on the popularity score, and when the given unique lower level domain name is determined to be suspicious based on the popularity score, adding the given unique lower level domain name to a blocklist.
US10560418B2	Techniques for managing discussion sharing on a mobile platform Techniques for managing discussion sharing on a mobile platform, comprising a mobile discussions application. The mobile discussions application may include, among other components, a discussions imaging component for recognizing a ticket associated with a resource in a social networking system and a discussions management component for enabling a user having an associated user profile information to access the resource based at least partially on the ticket associated with the resource.
US10560416B2	Hero cards that display contextual information and actions for backend systems Systems herein supply hero cards that display contextual information and actions based on backend systems. The information and actions are related to a trigger content item in an application that does not have access to the backend systems. A hero agent running a user device can communicate the trigger content to a hero server. The hero server can determine which connectors to backend systems relate to the user device, and then can retrieve result information from one or more of the backend systems. The result information populates the hero card, which the hero agent displays within the application. Action buttons on the hero card cause the hero agent to contact one or more of the backend systems to cause an action to take place there.
US10560414B2	Dynamic e-mail chain participant manager An approach for new recipient inclusion to e-mail chains. E-mail chain manager receives include participants associated with an e-mail chain, current participants in the current e-mail chain distribution and authorization rules associated with the e-mail chain. The e-mail chain manager determines inclusion authorizations for the include participants based on comparing the include participants with the authorization rules and creates authorization results associated with the include participants. In response to determining the authorization results are passed, the e-mail chain manager creates authorized include participants. The e-mail chain manager creates the participant notifications where the participant notifications are based on the authorized include participants and outputs the participant notifications based on predetermined participant preferences of the current participants. The e-mail chain manager outputs the e-mail chain to the authorized include participants and creates a next e-mail chain distribution based on combining the authorized include participants and the current participants.
US10560413B2	Systems and methods associated with collective contact information Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving, at the system, a request from a user regarding a topic; selecting automatically, at the system, a potential referrer, the potential referrer selection being based on the likelihood that the potential referrer will respond to the user's request; and communicating automatically with the potential referrer regarding the user's request without the system indicating to the user that the potential referrer has been contacted.
US10560408B2	Computerized system and method for selectively communicating HTML content to a user's inbox as a native message Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions between servers in a messaging system supported by or configured with content providing servers or platforms. The disclosed systems interact to filter data across platforms, which data can be used to improve the contextual quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed computer systems and methods enable the communication of contextually relevant Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) content to a user's inbox. Such messages are native to a communication platform, application or service associated with the user's inbox. Such messages can be selected for delivery to a user based on the user's profile data, behavioral information, a user's geographic location, demographic information, a time period, and the like.
US10560401B2	Network packet microburst detection via network switching device hardware supporting quantizied congestion notification Hardware of a network switching device supports quantized congestion notification (QCN) to notify senders of network packets received at the network switching device that the network switching device is experiencing congestion. The hardware is instead programmed to notify a processor of the network switching device of the congestion at an egress queue of the network switching device. The processor receives a congestion notification message (CNM) from the hardware that the hardware has detected the congestion at the egress queue. Responsive to receiving the CNM from the hardware, the processor detects a microburst of the network packets at the egress queue of the network switching device.
US10560397B2	Resource allocation in distributed processing systems A distributed processing system is disclosed herein. The distributed processing system includes a server, a database server, and an application server that are interconnected via a network, and connected via the network to a plurality of independent processing units. The independent processing units can include an analysis engine that is machine-learning-capable, and thus uniquely completes its processing tasks. The server can provide one or several pieces of data to one or several of the independent processing units, can receive analysis results from these one or several independent processing units, and can update the result based on a value characterizing the machine learning of the independent processing unit.
US10560390B2	Time-based network operation profiles in a software-defined network A software-defined network controller (SDN controller) defines a first network flow to be selectively implemented by a networking device according to a first network operation profile. The SDN controller defines a second network flow to be selectively implemented by the networking device according to a second network operation profile. The first and second network operation profiles are stored within a memory of the networking device to be selectively implemented during different time periods based on a precision time input via a precision time input port on the networking device. In some embodiments, the networking device may detect a network event and implement a network operation profile for a preset time period based on the precision time input.
US10560387B2	Method for adjusting manner of issuing acknowledgement for downloading data and electronic device using the same An electronic device which is able to acknowledge downloaded data packets at a maximum download speed includes at least one processor and a storage device. The resource allocations of a physical layer of a network are obtained, and a transmission volume of a download link of the physical layer is calculated. The rate of issuing and transmitting acknowledgments through an upload link, based on respective sizes of data packets and acknowledgments, is also calculated. A determination is made as to whether the rate of issuing acknowledgments per download packets should be changed to achieve effectively equal speed of issuing acknowledgments through the upload link and the manner of the issue is adjusted accordingly.
US10560378B2	Data link layer-based communication method, device, and system A method includes: a first network device generates a data link layer-based autonomic control plane (L2 ACP) packet, wherein the first network device is an autonomic device in the autonomic network; encapsulates, based on a frame at a data link layer, the L2 ACP packet, wherein the frame at the data link layer comprises a source data link layer address and a destination data link layer address, and the source data link layer address is a data link layer address of the first network device; and sends, according to the destination data link layer address, the L2 ACP packet encapsulated based on the frame at the data link layer to a second network device, wherein the second network device is also an autonomic device in the autonomic network, and the second network device is a neighboring device of the first network device.
US10560360B2	Diagnostic heartbeat throttling A method, system, and computer program product for a diagnostic heartbeat throttling are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A component, executing using a processor and a memory in a data processing system, sends diagnostic heartbeat packets over a communication link at a first rate, wherein a diagnostic heartbeat packet is a packet comprises a header, a set of heartbeat parameters, and a set of diagnostic attributes. The component detects a change in data traffic over the communication link. The component changes a rate of sending diagnostic heartbeat packets from the first rate to a second rate responsive to the change in the data traffic over the communication link.
US10560354B2	End-to-end, in situ packet enrichment for network analytics End-to-end, in situ packet enrichment for network analytics includes receiving, at a network device is a part of an end-to-end path in a network, a template that specifies unique information elements to be added to a header of a packet traversing the network device when different combinations of network features are applied to the packet at the network device. When the network device applies one or more of the network features to the packet, the network device inserts one a particular information element of the unique information elements into the header of the packet based on the template and the one or more network features applied to the packet. The particular information element inserted into the header is resolvable to a list of the one or more network features applied to the packet at the network device.
US10560350B2	Systems and methods for monitoring globally distributed remote storage devices Methods and systems are described for remotely monitoring a plurality of distributed remote storage devices. An example computer implemented method includes locally collecting monitoring data for one of the plurality of distributed remote storage devices, and periodically sending at least one of an aggregate of the locally recorded monitoring data and a summary of the locally recorded monitoring data to a remote location. The remote location includes at least one of another one of the plurality of distributed remote storage devices, at least one central server, and a set of the plurality of distributed remote storage devices.
US10560348B2	Network access device for facilitating the troubleshooting of network connectivity problems A network access device for facilitating the troubleshooting of network connectivity problems on a directly connected client device is provided. In one embodiment, the network access device can receive, from the client device, a request directed to a preconfigured web address associated with the network access device. In response to the request, the network access device can generate a web page comprising a ticket number for the client device and a link or form element for submitting a support request and can transmit the web page to the client device. The network access device can subsequently receive a submission of the support request from the client device. In response to the submission, the network access device can automatically collect diagnostic information pertaining to the client device. The network access device can then transmit the diagnostic information and the ticket number to one or more remote servers.
US10560345B2	Consistent placement between private and public cloud deployments of application services A management method accesses a service template indicative of dependencies among tiers of an application service. A deployment schema is extracted from a public cloud provider and a cloud deployment template is generated in accordance with the schema. The service is then migrated from one deployment platform to another in accordance with the templates. Migration may be from an on-premises deployment to a public cloud deployment or vice versa. Migrating may include mapping application service requirements indicated in the service template to public cloud features available from the public cloud provider. The application template may identify a dependency between two tiers of the service placed within a performance-optimized domain of a premises deployment wherein mapping the application service requirements may include identifying, from the schema, an analogous domain for the public cloud provider and instantiating instances of the first tier and the second within an instance of the optimization domain.
US10560338B2	Event-based data path detection A method and apparatus for path detection are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a data path may link two path-end nodes in a network. Event data for the network may be received and may be used to determine, for each node resident on the path, proximity measures to each path-end node. The proximity measure of network nodes may be evaluated to determine whether a path exists between the two path-end nodes.
US10560337B2	Method, apparatus, and system for implementing software-defined network SDN A method for implementing a software-defined network (SDN) includes receiving, by an SDN controller, virtual network information sent by a cloud computing platform, where the virtual network information includes a correspondence between information about a virtual machine (VM) and information about a server running the VM. The method also includes acquiring, by the SDN controller, physical network information, where the physical network information includes a correspondence between information about a top-of-rack (TOR) switch and the information about the server. Additionally, the method includes acquiring, by the SDN controller, a correspondence between the information about the VM and the information about the TOR switch according to the virtual network information and the physical network information.
US10560336B2	Network visibility Systems, methods, and related technologies for device monitoring are described. In certain aspects, network traffic data is analyzed to determine one or more devices associated with a network. The network may be a remote network. The network traffic data may further be used to determine one or more non-active devices associated with the network.
US10560335B2	Position parameterized recursive network architecture with topological addressing A digital data communications network that supports efficient, scalable routing of data and use of network resources by combining a recursive division of the network into hierarchical sub-networks with repeating parameterized general purpose link communication protocols and an addressing methodology that reflects the physical structure of the underlying network hardware. The sub-division of the network enhances security by reducing the amount of the network visible to an attack and by insulating the network hardware itself from attack. The fixed bandwidth range at each sub-network level allows quality of service to be assured and controlled. The routing of data is aided by a topological addressing scheme that allows data packets to be forwarded towards their destination based on only local knowledge of the network structure, with automatic support for mobility and multicasting. The repeating structures in the network greatly simplify network management and reduce the effort to engineer new network capabilities.
US10560331B2	Self-driven and adaptable multi-vBNG management orchestration A broadband network gateway (BNG) controller is described that includes a network subscriber database (NSDB) and one or more core applications. The NSDB is configured to store vBNG instance information for one or more subscriber devices. The vBNG instance information specifies vBNG instances operable by one or more edge routers. The vBNG instances are configured to receive requests to access service provider services from the one or more subscriber devices and to selectively authenticate the one or more subscriber devices for network services based on authentication information included in the requests to access services provider services. The one or more core applications include a network instance and configuration manager (NICM). The NICM is configured to modify the vBNG instance information at the NSDB to include an additional vBNG instance and to output, to an edge router, an instruction to generate the additional vBNG instance at the edge router.
US10560330B2	Techniques for cloud control and management Techniques for cloud control and management are provided. The control, creation, and management of workloads in distributed infrastructures are coordinated via a master Configuration Management Database (CMDB). The master CMDB is also used to unify the multiple distributed infrastructures so that the workloads are rationalized. Moreover, data centers are coordinated with the distributed infrastructures so the configuration settings and policies included in the master CMDB are enforced and synchronized throughout the network.
US10560327B2	Cell measurement method, cell resource sharing method, and related device Disclosed are a cell measurement method, a cell resource sharing method, and a related device. The cell measurement method includes: a user equipment receives a measurement configuration message sent by a base station, wherein the measurement configuration message comprises at least one physical cell identity and CSI-RS configuration information corresponding to a measured cell, and wherein the physical cell identity is used to indicate the measured cell; measuring the CSI-RS corresponding to the measured cell according to the CSI-RS configuration information, and obtaining a measurement result of the measuring; sending the obtained measurement result of the measured cell and measurement object information of the measured cell to the base station via a measurement report. The technical solution provided by the present disclosure can effectively improve the accuracy of the measurement result, and enable the base station to distinguish different measurement results corresponding to different cells.
US10560323B2	Configuring wireless devices for a wireless infrastructure network Systems and method enable a wireless media player to receive data wireless via an infrastructure wireless network. In a first operational mode, the wireless media player may play digital media content stored on a digital media device via an ad hoc wireless connection with a remote wireless communication device. The remote wireless communication device may also transmit credential data for the infrastructure wireless network to the wireless media player via the ad hoc wireless network. In a second operational mode, the wireless media player plays digital media content from a remote digital media content source via the infrastructure wireless network.
US10560321B2	Information processing method, network node, authentication method, and server The present embodiments relate to an information processing method, a network node, an authentication method, and a server. In the information processing method provided in the embodiments, a central node determines that a first access node goes online, a virtual access node on the central node obtains configuration information related to the first access node, and after the first access node goes online, the virtual access node sends the configuration information related to the first access node to the first access node.
US10560316B2	System for cloud-based service outage detection and verification An embodiment provides a system for cloud-based service outage detection and verification, including: a network link that receives, over a data communications network, cloud service provider outage information indicating a possible cloud outage at a cloud service provider, wherein the information comprises new content on a website associated with the cloud service provider; a processor that generates outage data comprising a third party cloud service provider identification and an outage characteristic, wherein the outage characteristic is identified from the new content and identifies an outage type; the processor identifying at least one entity implicated in the possible cloud outage, wherein the identifying comprises identifying an entity that subscribes to cloud services provided by the cloud service provider by querying a database that stores information related to the cloud service provider; and the processor providing information to the at least one entity confirming the possible cloud outage, wherein the confirming is based at least in part on the new content.
US10560314B2	Methods and systems for application session modeling and prediction of granular bandwidth requirements A method includes receiving from a networked spoke device information describing network flows to and from an application, analyzing the information to characterize the application in at least one dimension selected from the group consisting of bi-directional bandwidth usage, network response times, application response times, a number of idle and active application sessions and a maximum number of concurrent application sessions and transmitting the dimensions to at least one networked spoke device as traffic profile information.
US10560312B2	Multi-mode configurable network audio In one embodiment, an audio device includes a plurality of ports. The audio device receives, from a first network via a first port included in the plurality of ports, at least one of a first audio signal and a first control signal. The audio device transmits the at least one of the first audio signal and the first control signal to an audio output device. In case of a fault associated with the first port, the audio device transmits at least one of a second audio signal and a second control signal to the audio output device, where the at least one of the second audio signal and the second control signal is received from a second network via a second port included in the plurality of ports.
US10560309B1	Identifying a root cause of alerts within virtualized computing environment monitoring system This disclosure describes techniques for analyzing information generated as a result of monitoring resources within computing environments. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes observing a plurality of alerts generated in response to monitoring resources associated with a plurality of connected elements within a network; determining a plurality of occurrence counts; determining a plurality of concurrent occurrence counts, wherein each of the plurality of concurrent occurrence counts represents a count of concurrent occurrences of two or more of the alerts in the set of historical alerts; and identifying one or more root cause alerts, wherein the one or more root cause alerts are determined based on the plurality of occurrence counts and the plurality of the concurrent occurrence counts, and wherein the one or more root cause alerts are a subset of the plurality of alerts.
US10560307B2	Method and system for management of an openflow agent in openflow devices A method for managing OpenFlow communications between an OpenFlow Agent and an OpenFlow Controller is disclosed. The method involves extending the command line interface (CLI) based on distributed management task force (DTMF) server management command line protocol (SM CLP) exposed by an integrated Lights Out Management (LOM) software preexisting in enterprise class network equipment to support a plurality of OpenFlow targets, a plurality of verbs, and a plurality of properties, adding a managed element configured to provide handlers for each of the plurality of OpenFlow targets, registering the managed element for the plurality of OpenFlow targets with a manageability access point (MAP) entity, and configuring at least one of the plurality of properties to facilitate communication between an OpenFlow Agent and an OpenFlow Controller within the enterprise class network equipment using the plurality of OpenFlow targets, the plurality of verbs, and the plurality of properties.
US10560306B2	Pervasive realtime framework A pervasive realtime framework supports the execution of realtime software applications with high-level functions that significantly reduce the effort and time needed to develop realtime software applications in a new operating environment paradigm in which realtime connections between network nodes are pervasive. The pervasive realtime framework handles the complex tasks of connecting to communicants, virtual areas, and other network resources, as well as switching those connections in response to user inputs and thereby enables software application developers to focus on developing high-level realtime software application functionality.
US10560299B2	Multi-portion radio transmissions Techniques are disclosed relating to generating and receiving radio frames with multiple portions that have different encoding schemes. An apparatus may include one or more processing elements configured to receive, via a wireless radio, wireless data that includes a plurality of portions that each include multiple orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. Different ones of the portions have different frequency transform sizes and different sampling rates. The wireless data may also include control data that indicates the frequency transform sizes and sampling rates for the ones of the portions. The apparatus may select, based on the control data and a determined velocity of the apparatus, one or more but not all of the plurality of portions and may decode the selected one or more portions to determine data represented by the OFDM symbols in the selected one or more portions. Different portions of the wireless data may be adapted for decoding by devices moving at different maximum velocities.
US10560297B1	Demodulation reference signaling in LTE/NR coexistence There is disclosed a method of operating a network node, the network node operating according to a first radio access technology, RAT. The method includes transmitting signaling having communication signaling and Demodulation Reference Signaling, DMRS, in a transmission resource pattern. The DMRS is arranged in the transmission resource pattern according to a DMRS pattern, in which the DMRS pattern is selected from a set of DMRS patterns based on a coexistence indication indicating the presence of cell-specific reference signals, CRS, associated to a second RAT.
US10560292B1	Transmission apparatus and communication system A transmission apparatus includes a waveform processing circuit. The waveform processing circuit is configured to receive a modulated signal indicating each of values of pulses by one of four signal levels including first, second, third, and fourth signal levels ascending in this order. The waveform processing circuit is configured to output a signal corresponding to the modulated signal. A portion of the output signal corresponding to a portion of the modulated signal that transitions between the first and fourth signal levels, transitions between a first adjusted signal level different from the first signal level and a second adjusted signal level different from the fourth signal level. The transmission apparatus is configured to transmit a signal corresponding to the signal output from the waveform processing circuit through a wired communication path.
US10560287B2	Relative uplink channel estimation There is provided mechanisms for relative uplink channel estimation. A method is performed by a terminal device. The method comprises transmitting reference signals from at least two antennas on respective uplink channels towards a network node. The method comprises receiving a forwarded representation of each of the reference signals from the network node. The method comprises estimating a relation between the uplink channels towards the network node for the at least two antennas using the reference signals and the received forwarded representations of the reference signals, thereby estimating the relative uplink channel, towards the network node, between the at least two antennas.
US10560285B2	Method and device for evaluating signal data A method for evaluating signal data includes a bus signal channel supplying the signal data, a reference channel supplying reference signal values, which form the basis of the signal data, and a computer performing a signal interpretation based on an interpretable portion of the signal data and on the reference signal values, and reconstructing a signal based on the interpretation.
US10560281B2	Method for transmitting communication data between a multiplicity of vehicle components of a motor vehicle The present disclosure pertains to a method for transmitting communication data between a plurality of vehicle components of a motor vehicle, said vehicle components being coupled via a common communication channel. The present disclosure provides that said vehicle components transmit said communication data between any two of them, wherein one of said vehicle components broadcasts the communication data to be sent by it without demand and without a specific addressee via said communication channel, such that the sent communication data arrive at a plurality or all of the other vehicle components, and at least one of said other vehicle components reads and stores said communication data via said communication channel, if it is in demand thereof, wherein all transmitting vehicle components determine their transmission timings on the basis of a transmission schedule stored in each of said transmitting vehicle components independent from a bus master.
US10560280B2	Network security analysis for smart appliances A method and system for detecting malicious behavior from smart appliances within a network. Smart appliances have a certain level of intelligence that allows them to perform a specific role more effectively and conveniently. Network traffic data and appliance identification data is collected about smart appliances within a network. The data is sent to a behavior analysis engine, which computes confidence levels for anomalies within the network traffic that may be caused by malicious behavior. If the behavior analysis engine determines that malicious behavior is present in the network, it sends an instruction to a network traffic hub to block network traffic relating to the anomaly. In some embodiments, network traffic is blocked based on source-destination pairs. In some embodiments, network traffic is blocked from a device outside the network that is determined to be malicious.
US10560279B2	Method and server for controlling smart devices based on predefined scenario mode The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling for configuring a scenario mode for smart devices. The method include: acquiring a user account bound with a first smart device and a second smart device; identifying a predefined scenario mode template according to device information of the first smart device and the second smart device, wherein the predefined scenario template corresponds to a predefined scenario mode which associates at least one startup condition for the first smart device to trigger the scenario mode with at least one task to be performed by the second smart device when the scenario mode is triggered; bounding the predefined scenario mode template with the user account to enable the predefined scenario mode for the first smart device and the second smart device.
US10560277B2	System and method to provide multicast group MLID dynamic discovery on received multicast messages for relevant MGID in a high performance computing environment Systems and methods for providing multicast group multicast local identifier (MLID) dynamic discovery on received multicast messages for a relevant multicast global identifier (MGID) in a high performance computing environment. By allowing InfiniBand (IB) clients to associate local queue pairs (QPs) with the MGID(s) of relevant multicast group(s) without requiring any join request to the subnet manager (SM)/subnet administration (SA), it is possible to receive relevant multicast (MC) messages without imposing the SM/SA overhead of a conventional multicast group join request. After receiving, at an end-node of the subnet, a multicast packet including a multicast global identifier and a multicast local identifier, the end-node can inspect the multicast packet to learn the multicast local identifier and include the learned multicast local identifier in the multicast group record at the end-node for the received multicast global identifier.
US10560268B2	Node characterization in a blockchain A blockchain may be used to store transactions in an immutable ledger. The types of transactions may vary and the information from the transactions could be used to identify information about nodes in a particular network. One example operation may include one or more of identifying a number of nodes operating on a blockchain, determining a new blockchain transaction, and determining one or more of the nodes as having one or more characteristics based on the new blockchain transaction.
US10560259B2	Architecture and instruction set for implementing advanced encryption standard (AES) A flexible aes instruction for a general purpose processor is provided that performs aes encryption or decryption using n rounds, where n includes the standard aes set of rounds {10, 12, 14}. A parameter is provided to allow the type of aes round to be selected, that is, whether it is a “last round”. In addition to standard aes, the flexible aes instruction allows an AES-like cipher with 20 rounds to be specified or a “one round” pass.
US10560254B1	Picosecond LPD time alignment The application is generally directed to transmitting and receiving signals in a fashion that can mask the presence of the signals by including timing information in the signals using artifacts in a carrier signal. For example, one embodiment includes a method of transmitting a signal in a way to mask the presence of the signal or to reduce the ability of external entities to extract data from the signal. The method includes accessing a data signal. A phase of the data signal is correlated to a phase of a substantially continuous carrier signal carrying the data signal. The substantially continuous carrier signal carrying the data signal with the phase of the data signal correlated to the phase of the substantially continuous carrier signal is transmitted to a receiver, such that the data signal can be extracted by using phase correlation between the data signal and the substantially continuous carrier signal.
US10560251B2	Method and system for power management in a network device based on multi-protocol detection A network device may comprise one or more circuits including a clock signal generator, an ADC, and a processor. The ADC may digitize a received signal across a range of frequencies that encompasses a first band of frequencies used for a first network and a second band of frequencies used for a second network. A sampling frequency of the ADC may be determined by a frequency of a clock signal output by the clock signal generator. The processor may determine whether the first network is active and whether the second network is active. The processor may configure the clock generator such that, when both of the first network and the second network are active, the clock signal is set to a first frequency, and when the first network is active and the second network is inactive, the clock signal is set to a second frequency.
US10560250B2	TDD uplink/downlink re-configuration mechanism The invention relates to methods for communicating within a communication system when re-configured from a source to a target uplink/downlink configuration. The invention is also providing mobile station for performing these methods, and computer readable media the instructions of which cause the mobile station to perform the methods described herein. Specifically, the invention suggests to perform PUSCH transmissions in response to Downlink Control Information, DCI, transmissions such that the source uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received up to and including subframe N−6, a predefined uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received during subframes N−5 to N−1; and the target uplink/downlink configuration is applied to PUSCH transmissions relating to DCI transmissions received from subframe N onward.
US10560249B2	Wireless device and method for receiving downlink control channel An embodiment of the present description provides a method for receiving a downlink control channel by a wireless device. The method can comprise a step for, when a wireless device receives configuration for repetition of a downlink control channel, determining a plurality of subframes for receiving the repetition of the downlink control channel. A special subframe, on the basis of particular TDD special subframe configuration, can be determined to be excluded from the receiving of the repetition of the downlink control channel. The method can comprise a step for receiving the repetition of the downlink control channel on the determined plurality of subframes from which the special subframe has been excluded.
US10560247B2	Timing synchronization for downlink (DL) transmissions in coordinated multipoint (CoMP) systems Technology for a user equipment (UE) operable to adjust a receiver timing is disclosed. The UE can decode a plurality of channel-state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) received from a plurality of cooperating nodes, wherein the plurality of cooperating nodes are included in a coordination set of a Coordinated MultiPoint (CoMP) system. The UE can generate a plurality of received RS timings from the plurality of CSI-RSs, wherein the received RS timings represent timings from the plurality of cooperating nodes. The UE can determine a composite received RS timing from the plurality of received RS timings. The UE can adjust the receiver timing based on the composite received RS timing.
US10560240B2	Method for supporting flexible resource allocation in wireless communication system, and device therefor Disclosed is a method by which an operating station (STA) transmits a signal in a multiple user (MU) scheme in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. In the present method, the STA configures a wireless frame, which includes a data field for data transmission and a signaling (SIG) field including control information, wherein the SIG field includes a SIG A field, which includes bandwidth information indicating the whole bandwidth having a bandwidth of 2n times that of 20 MHz, and a SIG B field, which includes user specific information. Here, the bandwidth information of the SIG A field additionally indicates whether the whole bandwidth includes one or more 20 MHz bands (null channel), which are not used in the data transmission.
US10560238B2	Wireless communication device, network node, methods and computer programs for aiding finding of synchronisation signals A method of a network node of a cellular communication system for mobility from a first radio access network, RAN, operating using a first radio access technology, RAT, to a second RAN operating using a second RAT. The first RAT has synchronisation signals with a first frequency allocation and the second RAT has synchronisation signals with a second frequency allocation in relation to a network frequency for the second RAT. The method comprises determining allocation information about the synchronisation signals of the second RAT, and transmitting a radio resource control, RRC, message including the allocation information about the synchronisation signals of the second RAT. A method for the wireless communication device is also disclosed, as well as a network node, a wireless communication device and computer programs for them.
US10560237B2	Cell-specific reference signal transmissions for evolved machine type communication The present disclosure provides reduced cell-specific reference signal (CRS) transmissions for evolved machine type communication (eMTC). In one aspect, a network entity may determine at least one narrow band for transmission of a CRS. The network entity may further identify one or more resource blocks proximate the at least one narrow band and transmit the CRS on the narrow band and the one or more proximate resource blocks to a UE. In another aspect, a UE may apply a receive window to filter one or more noise samples outside at least one narrow band allocation, the receive window corresponding to one or more resource blocks located outside the defined number of resource blocks of the at least one narrow band allocation. The UE may further receive the CRS within the at least one narrow band allocation from a network entity in response to applying the receive window.
US10560236B2	Method and apparatus for allocating a pilot signal adapted to the channel characteristics A set of different pilot structures are designed for use in different environments and/or different user behaviours that are expected to occur in a cell. The radio conditions for a user are estimated. Each user is then assigned an area (108A-E) in resource space for its communication, which has a suitable pilot configuration. In one embodiment, the entire resource space is provided with different pilot structures in different parts (110A-D) In advance and allocation of resources to the users are then performed in order to match estimated radio conditions to the provided pilot structure. In another embodiment, allocation is performed first, and then the actual pilot structure is adapted within the allocated resource space area to suit the environmental conditions.
US10560228B2	Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) in listen before talk systems Systems and methods presented herein provide for increasing a contention window of a UE employing a LTE communications operating in a radio frequency (RF) band comprising a conflicting wireless technology. In one embodiment, an eNodeB receives a transport block of data from a user equipment (UE). The transport block includes a cyclic redundancy check (CRC). The eNodeB then determines a checksum of the transport block based on the CRC, fails the checksum, and transmits a non-acknowledgement (NACK) of the transport block to the UE based on the failed checksum. The UE, in response to the NACK, increases a contention window and re-transmits the transport block to the eNodeB.
US10560225B2	Method of operating a communication system in a time-division multiplexing technique An embodiment of the invention relates to a method of operating a communication system (10) that comprises at least four communication nodes (A, B, C, D). The communication system is operated in a time-division multiplexing technique wherein the communication is carried out in consecutive time frames which are divided into slots. At least one slot is allocated to each of the communication nodes. Each of the slots comprises, or preferably consists of, at least two consecutive sub-slots, hereinafter referred to as transmission sub-slot (TSS1-TSS4) and echo sub-slot (ESS1-ESS4). Echo signals (E (DS1)-E (DS4)) are transmitted during echo sub-slots (ESS1-ESS4).
US10560222B2	Methods and devices for sub-block decoding data signals Embodiments of the invention provide a decoder for decoding a signal received through a transmission channel in a communication system, said signal comprising a vector of information symbols, said transmission channel being represented by an upper triangular matrix, wherein the decoder comprises: a processing unit (309) configured to determine a set of division parameters depending on at least one division metric derived from components of said upper triangular matrix; a decoding unit (311) configured to divide said upper triangular matrix into two or more sub-matrices using said set of division parameters in accordance with a division of said vector of information symbols into two or more sub-vectors, and to determine at least one estimate of each sub-vector of information symbols by applying a symbol estimation algorithm, wherein the decoder is configured to determine at least one estimate of said vector of information symbols from the estimates of said sub-vectors of information symbols.
US10560221B2	Apparatus and methods for training-based channel code design One or more codewords are generated by encoding input bits at input bit positions onto sub-channels that are provided by a code. Each of the sub-channels has an associated reliability of correct decoding of an input bit at an input bit position. Each codeword is transmitted to a decoder, and a word based on each transmitted codeword is received at the decoder. Each received word is decoded, and the reliabilities of the sub-channels are determined based on decoded bits and known input bits from which each codeword was generated. An indication that is based on the determined reliabilities of the sub-channels, such as an indication of the determined reliabilities, is transmitted to the encoder, and may be used by the encoder in selecting the sub-channels for encoding subsequent input bits, for example.
US10560218B2	Apparatus and methods for decoding assistant bit-based polar code construction An assistant sub-channel to carry a decoding assistant bit, in input bits that are to be encoded, is selected from each of a plurality of non-adjacent segments. Each segment includes a subset of sub-channels with associated reliabilities. Some embodiments also involve grouping the sub-channels into the segments. After a target number of assistant sub-channels have been selected, the input bits are encoded to generate a codeword, and the codeword is transmitted. Assistant sub-channel selection could involve iterations to select assistant sub-channels at each iteration, until at least the target number of assistant sub-channels have been selected.
US10560216B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving signal in communication system Fifth Generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data transfer rate higher than that of a fourth Generation (4G) communication system, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), and subsequent systems. The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting a signal by a transmission terminal in a communication system using a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The method include receiving a change request for changing a coding rate of the LDPC code, from a reception terminal; determining a first coding rate based on the change request; and transmitting information on the first coding rate in respond to the change request, to a reception terminal, wherein the change request for changing the coding rate comprises at least one of information indicating a coding rate determined by the reception terminal, or information indicating a state of the reception terminal.
US10560215B1	Quality control service using input quality metrics Transcoders may be used to transcode multimedia inputs to generate output multimedia segments encoding segment quality scores that relate to the quality of transcoded segments and may be based at least in part on whether transcoding errors were detected. A system may be used to monitor quality control information relating to the generation of transcoded segments and invoke a quality control routine to determine a root cause for issues in the transcoding environment.
US10560208B2	Cell search method in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor A cell search method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, comprises: a step of receiving a narrow band synchronization signal through a narrow band from a base station; and a step of acquiring time synchronization and frequency synchronization with the base station on the basis of the narrow band synchronization signal and detecting an identifier of the base station, wherein the narrow band has a system bandwidth of 180 kHz and includes twelve carriers arranged at intervals of 15 kHz, and the narrow band synchronization signal consists of a first narrow band synchronization signal and a second narrow band synchronization signal, wherein the first narrow band synchronization signal can be transmitted in a sixth subframe of a radio frame and the second narrow band synchronization signal can be transmitted in a tenth subframe of the radio frame.
US10560206B2	Processing a beamformed radio frequency (RF) signal A device may receive a beamformed wireless signal from a base station. The device may perform a frequency conversion of the beamformed wireless signal to form a frequency converted signal after receiving the beamformed wireless signal. The device may perform, after performing the frequency conversion, processing related to at least one of: analyzing the frequency converted signal, scanning a channel associated with the frequency converted signal, or generating a map related to the frequency converted signal. The device may generate, after performing the processing, output related to at least one of: the analyzing the frequency converted signal, the scanning the channel, or the generating the map.
US10560205B2	Detecting satellite radio reception interference A system and method of detecting satellite radio broadcast interference at a vehicle includes receiving a satellite radio broadcast at the vehicle, determining that the satellite radio broadcast has been interfered with by the existence of a cellular communications signal, and transmitting a data message identifying the location of the interference to a remote facility.
US10560202B2	Reducing impedance discontinuities on a shared medium Systems and methods are provided for reducing the effects of an impedance mismatch between a communications system and a shared communications medium. A communication system, such as a transceiver within a cable modem, switches between various operating modes including a transmit mode, a receive mode, and a standby mode. The standby mode may be used while the transceiver is in an idle state between modes, such as while changing an amplifier gain states in between transmissions. While transitioning between modes, the impedance presented by the communications system can temporarily fluctuate causing unwanted signal reflections to propagate out of the communications system and on to the shared medium. Circuitry within the communications system, such as transmission circuitry including an adjustable attenuator, may be placed into a hybrid attenuation-isolation mode during the transition causing the magnitude of any unwanted signal reflections to be attenuated and reducing the impact on the shared medium.
US10560200B2	Optical module for dynamically adjusting optical power receiving range A technology of dynamically adjusting an optical power receiving range of an optical module in a passive optical network is provided. In an optical module it includes an optical signal receive end receives an optical signal, an avalanche photodiode converts the optical signal into an optical current, an optical power detection module obtains an optical power value of the optical current, a main control chip adjusts a resistance value of a variable feedback resistor circuit according to the optical power value, and a transconductance amplifier outputs a voltage according to the resistance value of the variable feedback resistor circuit and the optical current. In this way, a bit error rate is effectively reduced, an optical power receiving range of the optical module is expanded, and system robustness is enhanced.
US10560198B2	RX delay line inteferometer tracking in closed-loop module control for communication The present invention is directed to a communication signal tracking system comprising an optical receiver including one or more delay line interferometers (DLIs) configured to demultiplex incoming optical signals and a transimpedance amplifier configured to convert the incoming optical signals to incoming electrical signals. The communication signal tracking system further includes a control module configured to calculate a bit-error-rate (BER) of the incoming electrical signals before forward-error correction decoding, and use the BER as a parameter for optimizing settings of the one or more DLIs in one or more iterations in a control loop and generating a back-channel data.
US10560192B2	Technique for focusing waves on moving objects In certain embodiments, a system for transmitting (electromagnetic or acoustic) wave-based signals towards a target includes a plurality of transceivers and a controller. Each transceiver transmits a probe signal towards the target and receives an associated backscatter signal corresponding to reflection of the probe signals from the target. The controller determines, for each transceiver, a Doppler frequency shift and a time delay, modifies each associated backscatter signal based on the corresponding Doppler frequency shift and time delay to generate an associated motion-compensated backscatter signal, and applies time reversal (TR) processing to each motion-compensated backscatter signal to generate an associated motion-compensated TR signal. Each transceiver transmits towards the target a transmission signal based the associated motion-compensated TR signal. In communications systems, the transmission signals are data-modulated versions of the motion-compensated TR signals. In radar and sonar systems, the transmission signals are the motion-compensated TR signals.
US10560191B2	Node device, repeater and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a node device includes an interface configured to receive first signals. A plurality of coupling devices are configured to launch the first signals on a transmission medium as a plurality of first guided electromagnetic waves at corresponding plurality of non-optical carrier frequencies, wherein the plurality of first guided electromagnetic waves are bound to a physical structure of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560190B2	Adapting to differing optical line termination characteristics An optical network unit (ONU) of a gigabit-capable passive optical network (GPON) adapts to an optical line termination (OLT) to which it is coupled. The ONU determines a type of the OLT to which it is coupled, and based on the type, configures an optical transmitter of the ONU to be compatible with the OLT. The ONU can also determine which OMCI software stack to load based on the type of the OLT.
US10560189B2	Optical network and optical network element An optical network is suggested, comprising a first set of optical fibers, a multimode multiplexer, a multimode amplifier, a multimode demultiplexer, and a second set of optical fibers, wherein the first set of optical fibers is connected via the multimode multiplexer to the multimode amplifier and wherein the multimode amplifier is connected via the multimode demultiplexer to the second set of optical fibers. Accordingly, an optical network element is provided.
US10560187B2	Visible light communications network wavelength filter for security at transparent structures In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a filter operable to block visible light from passing through a transparent structure at a wavelength corresponding to the wavelength used by a visible light communications network operable in an area containing the transparent structure. The filter is operable to provide security in the visible light communications network while allowing at least some visible light to pass through the transparent structure.
US10560183B2	Data transport privacy and redundancy via small UAVs in cooperation A communication system includes (1) a first airborne linear array configured to project a first fan beam over a first ground coverage elongated in a first direction, the first fan beam delivering a first information data associated with a first data stream; and (2) a second airborne linear array configured to project a second fan beam over a second ground coverage elongated in a second direction, the second fan beam delivering a second information data associated with a second data stream. The first and second ground coverages are overlapped to form a common coverage area. The first and second data streams are complementary to each other and are linear combinations of a plurality of segmented substreams. The plurality of segmented substreams is formed from an information data stream. The first and second data streams are generated from a ground control facility.
US10560181B2	Aerial vehicle management for an aeronautical communications network The invention provides a system and method of providing service coverage for the provision of data services to a target aircraft comprising the step of configuring one or more other aircraft in an area at a specific time such that the data services can be provided via a radio or communication link to the target aircraft via the one or more other aircraft; and predicting a data services requirement in an area and configuring a pattern of communication links with the one or more other aircraft and the target aircraft to maintain the predicted data services.
US10560176B2	Radio communication devices and methods for controlling a radio communication device A radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: a receiver configured to receive data using an antenna on a first carrier and a second carrier; an operation mode determination circuit configured to determine an active antenna operation mode based on information of the first carrier and information of the second carrier; and an antenna controller configured to control the antenna to operate in the determined active antenna operation mode.
US10560174B2	Latency reduction for wireless data transmission Embodiments of latency reduction for wireless data transmission are generally described herein. A user equipment (UE) identifies a shortened transmission time interval (xTTI) length configuration for a time division duplexing (TDD) component carrier (CC), the xTTI length configuration comprising a length in time or a length in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols. The UE identifies scheduling timing and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timing of physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) on the TDD CC based on the identified xTTI length configuration. The UE signals for transmission of a HARQ acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) based on the identified xTTI length configuration.
US10560164B1	Group addressing for beamforming training A first communication device generates a beamforming training initiator packet for transmission in the wireless communication network, the beamforming training initiator packet including i) information indicating a start of a beamforming training session, and ii) respective identifiers of multiple second communication devices that are to process beamforming training packets transmitted by the first communication device during the beamforming training session. The first communication device transmits the beamforming training initiator packet, and after transmitting the beamforming training initiator packet, transmits a plurality of beamforming training packets during the beamforming training session.
US10560162B2	Transmit diversity method, device, and system A transmit diversity method, a device, and a system are described herein. The method includes: measuring, by a second network device, channel state information based on a pilot signal, and sending rank index information and precoding matrix index information to a first network device based on the channel state information; receiving, by the first network device, the rank index information and the precoding matrix index information that are sent by the second network device; determining a diversity coding scheme based on the rank index information; determining a precoding matrix based on the precoding matrix index information; and performing transmission processing on to-be-transmitted data based on the diversity coding scheme and the precoding matrix.
US10560161B2	High spatial resolution beam space CSI feedback A method in a radio communications network, the network comprising a base station and at least one user equipment, UE, wherein the base station comprises an antenna array comprising a plurality of antenna elements, the method being implemented in the base station and comprising the steps of precoding (1101) a multi-dimensional channel state information reference signal, CSI-RS, with a precoding virtualization matrix such that each antenna element of the antenna array is associated with a non-zero weight in at least two precoders of the precoding virtualization matrix, transmitting (1102) the multi-dimensional channel state information reference signal to a UE, receiving (1103) an identifier from the UE, wherein the identifier identifies a selected precoder from a codebook using (1104) the selected precoder to identify a desired precoder and transmitting (1105) a data signal to the UE using the desired precoder.
US10560158B2	Triggered uplink transmissions in wireless local area networks In a method for communicating in a wireless communication network a trigger frame is generated to trigger simultaneous uplink transmissions by multiple communication devices. The trigger frame includes a padding portion having a length determined based on respective time duration requirements of the multiple communication devices, the respective time duration requirements for preparing uplink transmission by the corresponding second communication devices. The trigger frame is transmitted to the multiple communication devices. The simultaneous uplink transmissions, triggered by the trigger frame, are received from the multiple communication devices.
US10560154B2	Power line signal coupler A main power line (+ and − lines) is coupled to a power supply, for example a car battery, grounded to a vehicle chassis. Positive and negative main power lines are coupled to a power line gateway module, and spliced to carry power for a segment, until receiving, by splices, RF power line communications. The main power lines, now carrying power and RF power line communications are then coupled to remote modules. RF power line communication carries signal from the power line gateway module to a impedance matching network or a transformer are used to match impedances.
US10560150B2	Backhaul link for distributed antenna system A distributed antenna and backhaul system provide network connectivity for a small cell deployment. Rather than building new structures, and installing additional fiber and cable, embodiments described herein disclose using high-bandwidth, millimeter-wave communications and existing power line infrastructure. Above ground backhaul connections via power lines and line-of-sight millimeter-wave band signals as well as underground backhaul connections via buried electrical conduits can provide connectivity to the distributed base stations. An overhead millimeter-wave system can also be used to provide backhaul connectivity. Modules can be placed onto existing infrastructure, such as streetlights and utility poles, and the modules can contain base stations and antennas to transmit the millimeter-waves to and from other modules.
US10560147B1	Guided surface waveguide probe control system Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling the operation of a guided surface waveguide probe. A control system coupled to the guided surface waveguide probe can monitor and control the guided surface waveguide probe and one or more subsystems associated with the guided surface waveguide probe. Based on data collected from the guided surface waveguide probe and/or the various subsystems, the control system can adjust the operation of the guided surface waveguide probe. Human operators can interact with the control system at a location outside of a safety perimeter surrounding the guided surface waveguide probe.
US10560144B2	Transmission medium and communication interfaces and methods for use therewith Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for receiving first electromagnetic waves via a transmission medium without utilizing an electrical return path, and inducing second electromagnetic waves at an interface of the transmission medium without the electrical return path. In an embodiment, the first and second electromagnetic waves have a non-optical frequency range. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560142B2	Spectral analysis apparatus and spectral analysis method A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a procedure to determine a feature of each standard of a wireless environment in which radio signals including a CSS signal chirp-modulated co-exist, the procedure includes obtaining a spectrum by subjecting each radio signal to fast Fourier transform with predetermined frequency resolution and time resolution capable of visualizing a feature of the CSS signal, coarsening the frequency resolution of the spectrum by adopting an effective value in a specific frequency domain, calculating a duration of the radio signal, based on the coarsened frequency resolution of the spectrum, coarsening the time resolution of the spectrum by adopting an effective value in the duration, calculating a bandwidth of the radio signal, based on the coarsened time resolution of the spectrum, and determining the feature of the radio signal of each standard, based on the duration and the bandwidth.
US10560141B2	Mobile terminal, base station and non-transitory computer-readable medium to securely receive signal Disclosed are a mobile terminal, a base station and a non-transitory computer-readable medium to securely receive a signal. When the mobile terminal sends information, randomly implementing an XNOR calculation is randomly implemented on corresponding digits of a low-frequency digital sequence which is to transmit the information and a first cyclic PN sequence or a second cyclic PN sequence so as to obtain spread sequences. The spread sequences are modulated and sent. The base station or the mobile terminal receives the spread sequence, and despreads the same using the first and second cyclic PN sequences. The present invention effectively prevents lawbreakers from decoding and monitoring a communication process.
US10560138B2	Transceiver circuit and related radio frequency circuit A transceiver circuit and related radio frequency (RF) circuit are provided. An RF circuit is coupled to a transceiver circuit configured to generate an envelope tracking (ET) target voltage. The RF circuit includes a tracker circuit and a power amplifier circuit(s). The tracker circuit may have inherent frequency-dependent impedance that can interact with a load current of the amplifier circuit(s) to cause degradation in an ET modulated voltage, which can lead to spectral distortions in an RF offset spectrum. As such, a voltage compensation circuit is provided in the transceiver circuit and configured to add a voltage compensation term in the ET target voltage. By adding the voltage compensation term into the ET target voltage, it is possible to compensate for the degradation in the ET modulated voltage, thus helping to reduce the spectral distortions in the RF offset spectrum and improve linearity and efficiency of the amplifier circuit(s).
US10560136B2	Antenna continuity An arrangement for determining a connected state of an antenna component with another component, such as a base unit of remote access unit in a wireless distribution system. The arrangement can include a filter block integrated into an antenna base unit that incorporates all or a part of a circuit configured to determine the connected state. The filter block can be a cavity filter block that provides a DC current path across the block.
US10560126B2	Mixed-mode millimeter-wave transmitter A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a set of input ports to receive baseband samples of a signal to be transmitted on a set of disjoint frequency bands, a set of filter banks, there is one filter bank for each input port, each filter bank includes a plurality of digital polyphase interpolation filters to sample a shifted phase of the corresponding sequence of baseband samples and to interpolate the sampled phases to produce a plurality of sequences of interpolated baseband phased samples with the shifted phase, and a set of oscillators banks, each oscillator bank includes a plurality of polyphase Digital Direct Synthesizer (DDS) corresponding to the plurality of digital polyphase interpolation filters to generate a plurality of sequences of samples of digital waveform. The RF transmitter includes a set of mixer banks to mix corresponding sequences of samples of digital waveform and interpolated baseband phased samples to up convert each sequence of interpolated baseband phased samples to the effective frequency, a parallel digital combiner to combine in-phase sequences of interpolated baseband phased samples of different frequency bands to produce a plurality of sequences of multiband upconverted samples, and a pulse encoder to modulate and encode the plurality of sequences of multiband upconverted samples to produce a plurality of encoded multi-band signals. The RF transmitter converts the plurality of encoded multi-band signals into a RF bitstream and radiate the RF bitstream as an analog signal.
US10560125B2	Techniques for data compression This disclosure relates to a data processing device, comprising: a digital front end (DFE) configured to convert an antenna signal to digital data, wherein the digital data comprises a plurality of data symbols; a baseband (BB) circuitry configured to process the digital data in baseband; and a digital interface between the DFE and the BB circuitry, wherein the DFE comprises a data compression circuitry configured to compress the plurality of data symbols for use in transmission via the digital interface to the BB circuitry.
US10560124B2	Interleaver for turbo codes as a function of the puncturing pattern A method is provided for encoding an input digital message bearing K information symbols using a turbo-encoder forming a turbocode, the turbo-encoder including an interleaver and first and second encoders for encoding according to at least one elementary code and delivering the information symbols and redundancy symbols. With a puncturing of the symbols delivered by the turbo-encoder being done according to at least one periodic puncturing pattern of a length N, defining the puncturing period N, the interleaver distributes the information symbols of the input message into Q layers of the interleaved input message in complying with an interleaving function defined from the at least one puncturing pattern, according to the relationship: π(i)=Pi+S(i mod Q)mod K=Pi+(Tl+AlQ)mod K.
US10560123B2	Method for generating a sequence for a pola code and medium therefor and method and apparatus for transmitting data using thereof The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for coding data to be transmitted in a communication system, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for generating a sequence for a polar code for use in a communication system and a method and an apparatus for transmitting data using the same. The method according to the embodiment of the present disclosure is a method for transmitting data using a polar code including: generating a single polar code sequence for transmitting the data; coding the data using the generated single polar code sequence; and transmitting the polar-coded data.
US10560122B2	Memory system and method of controlling nonvolatile memory According to one embodiment, a memory system comprises an encoder that encodes by a graph code and a data holding unit that holds data to be used in encoding. A check matrix of the graph code includes first to sixth submatrices, and the encoder produces a first vector obtained by multiplying an information word and the first submatrix, produces a second vector obtained by multiplying the information word and the third submatrix, produces a third vector obtained by multiplying the first vector and the fifth submatrix inverted in sign, produces a fourth vector obtained by adding the third vector and the second vector, produces a first parity obtained by multiplying the fourth vector and the data, produces a fifth vector obtained by multiplying the first parity and the second submatrix inverted in sign, and produces a second parity obtained by adding the fifth vector and the first vector.
US10560112B2	Capacitor order determination in an analog-to-digital converter An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that has a configurable capacitor array. Based on measurements of differential nonlinearity (DNL) and/or integral nonlinearity (INL) error by an external test computer system, an order for use of the DAC's capacitors can be determined so as to reduce DNL error aggregation, also called INL. The DAC includes a switch matrix that can be programmed by programming data supplied by the test computer system.
US10560110B1	Precision microwave frequency synthesizer and receiver with delay balanced drift canceling loop An example frequency converter includes a drift canceling loop with a balanced delay and a linear signal path (e.g., linear with respect to frequency scaling, amplitude modulation, and/or phase modulation). One side of the drift canceling loop includes a fixed delay, and the opposite side includes an adjustable, complementary delay. The adjustable, complementary delay facilitates precision matching of the signal delays on each side of the loop over a range of frequencies, which results in a significant improvement in noise cancelation, particularly at large offsets to the carrier, while permitting the use of a higher noise, but very fast tuning course scale oscillator. The linear signal path from the signal generator to an RF output facilitates modulation of the signal by the signal generator. A modular format is an advantageous embodiment of the invention that includes the removal of the frequency synthesizer's low phase noise reference into a separate module.
US10560106B2	Clock recovery circuit, semiconductor integrated circuit device, and radio frequency tag A clock recovery circuit includes a delay line circuit configured to output a plurality of first clocks having different phases obtained by delaying an input data signal, a register circuit configured to determine and write received data in the input data signal based on the first clocks, and a control circuit configured to control the writing of the data in the register circuit based on transitions of the input data signal.
US10560105B1	Delay-locked loop with large tuning range A delay-locked loop (DLL) is provided that includes both a first delay line and a second delay line. The delay-locked loop functions to synchronize a DLL output clock signal relative to a received clock signal using the first delay line while a phase difference between the received clock signal and a received data signal corresponds to a delay within an operating range for the first delay line. As the phase difference increases to force the first delay line out of its operating range, the delay-locked loop transitions to using the second delay line to synchronize the DLL output clock signal relative to the received clock signal.
US10560099B1	Semiconductor apparatus using swing level conversion circuit A semiconductor apparatus includes an input selection circuit that selects one of a first input signal and a second input signal in response to a control signal, and outputs the selected input signal as a selection signal, wherein swing levels of the first input signal and the second input signal are different one another. The semiconductor apparatus also includes a conversion circuit that generates an output signal, in response to the selection signal, which swings to a level substantially identical to a level of the second input signal.
US10560094B2	Isolation module for use between power rails in an integrated circuit An integrated circuit (IC) can include multiple power domains that are served by a common power source. In an example, a first IC power rail can be coupled to the source and a first consumer circuit. A second IC power rail can be coupled to a second consumer circuit. The second IC power rail can receive a filtered power signal from an isolation module that is coupled between the first and second power rails. In an example, an isolation module includes an integrated inductor and a capacitor (e.g., a land-side capacitor). The integrated inductor can optionally include multiple spaced apart conductive layers that are electrically coupled. The integrated inductor can optionally include a series of conductive traces and plated through holes or vias that together provide a current path with multiple turns.
US10560089B2	Electronic circuit with device for monitoring a power supply A power supply voltage is monitored by a monitoring circuit including a band gap voltage generator core including a first node and a second node. A control circuit connected to the first and second nodes is configured to deliver a control signal on a first output node having a first state when an increasing power supply voltage is below a first threshold and having a second state when increasing power supply voltage exceeds the first threshold. The first threshold is at least equal to the band gap voltage. An equalization circuit also connected to the first and second nodes with feedback to the band gap voltage generator core generates the bandgap voltage at a second output node. The control signal operates to control actuation of the equalization circuit.
US10560087B2	Passive leakage management circuit for a switch leakage current A passive leakage management circuit for a switch leakage current including a switch having operable in a first operating mode, wherein the switch output supplies an output current having a first predetermined voltage, and a second operating mode, wherein the switch output supplies a leakage current having a second voltage, a first current path, and a leakage current path.
US10560084B2	Level shift circuit According to one embodiment, in a level shift circuit, a first PMOS transistor is electrically connected at a gate to a first node to which a first signal having an amplitude to be a first power-supply potential is input, is electrically connected to a second node at a source, and is electrically connected at a drain to an output terminal from which a signal having an amplitude to be a second power-supply potential is output. The first NMOS transistor is electrically connected to the first node at a gate and is electrically connected to the output terminal at a drain. The second PMOS transistor is electrically connected to a node to be the second power-supply potential at a source, and is electrically connected to the second node at a drain. The potential adjusting circuit is electrically connected to at least the second node.
US10560083B2	Control device for power supply line A control device for connecting between two portions of an electrical power supply line. The device includes a bipolar transistor including a wide bandgap semiconductor material and having its emitter connected to one portion of the power supply line, its collector connected to another portion of the power supply line, and the device also including control connected to the base of the transistor.
US10560082B2	Pulse width modulation circuit, corresponding device and method In an embodiment, a PWM modulation circuit includes a first circuit block configured to receive a square wave input signal and produce from the square wave input signal a triangular wave signal, a second circuit block configured to receive a modulating signal and produce a PWM signal by comparing the modulating signal with a carrier signal, a switching circuit block coupled between the first circuit block and the second circuit block and sensitive to reference signals having upper and lower reference values and selectively switchable between a carrier transfer setting in which the switching circuit block couples the first circuit block to the second circuit block to transfer the triangular wave signal as the carrier signal, and one or more carrier forcing settings for optimizing or inhibiting pulse skipping in the PWM signal, wherein the switching circuit block forces the carrier signal to the upper and lower reference values, respectively.
US10560081B2	Method, apparatus, system for centering in a high performance interconnect In an example, a system and method for centering in a high-performance interconnect (HPI) are disclosed. When an interconnect is powered up from a dormant state, it may be necessary to “center” the clock signal to ensure that data are read at the correct time. A multi-phase method may be used, in which a first phase comprises a reference voltage sweep to identify an optimal reference voltage. A second phase comprises a phase sweep to identify an optimal phase. A third sweep comprises a two-dimensional “eye” phase, in which a plurality of values within a two-dimensional eye derived from the first two sweeps are tested. In each case, the optimal value is the value that results in the fewest bit error across multiple lanes. In one example, the second and third phases are performed in software, and may include testing a “victim” lane, with adjacent “aggressor” lanes having a complementary bit pattern.
US10560080B1	Duty cycle correction A duty cycle correction circuit is disclosed. The duty cycle correction circuit includes an input stage, an output stage and a feedback component including a feedback amplifier and a low pass filter. The feedback component compares and adjusts the duty cycle of a signal from an input stage to a target value via a control voltage. The input stage reduces the rise and fall times of received signal to increase the duty cycle sensitivity to a control voltage from the feedback component. The output of the output stage is coupled to the input of the feedback component and the output stage amplifiers the duty cycle adjusted signal processed by both input stage and feedback component.
US10560079B1	Capacitor ratio identification A system includes an oscillator comprising a first switch, a current source, a capacitor, and a comparator, the capacitor and the comparator coupled at a node. The system includes one or more delay buffers coupled to the comparator. The system includes a first inverter coupled to the one or more delay buffers. The system includes a first buffer coupled to the one or more delay buffers. The system includes a first coupling capacitor coupled to the first inverter and the first buffer via second and third switches, respectively. The system includes a second inverter coupled to the one or more delay buffers. The system includes a second buffer coupled to the one or more delay buffers. The system includes a second coupling capacitor coupled to the second inverter and the second buffer via fourth and fifth switches, respectively. The first and second coupling capacitors are coupled to the oscillator.
US10560077B2	CR oscillator A CR oscillator has a first logic inversion unit including odd-number stages of logic inversion elements connected in series, a second logic inversion unit including odd-number stages of logic inversion elements connected in series, the second logic inversion unit being connected to a latter stage of the first logic inversion unit, and two or more resistors and a capacitor connected in series between an output node of the first logic inversion unit and an output node of the second logic inversion unit. An electric potential in accordance with an electric potential of an intermediate node between the two or more resistors is supplied to an input node of the first logic inversion unit.
US10560075B1	FPGA configured vector network analyzer for measuring the z parameter and s parameter models of the power distribution network in FPGA systems Measurement of power distribution network (PDN) Z-parameters and S-parameters of a programmable logic device (PLD), such as field programmable gate array (FPGA) or complex programmable logic device (CPLD), is performed by configuring and using only logic blocks and I/O blocks commonly available in any existing programmable logic device, without the need of built-in dedicated circuits. The measured models include the PDN elements on the PLD die, PLD package, and PCB. The S-parameter and Z-parameter models can be then used in circuit simulation tools to evaluate the power supply noise in the PLD logic core and the timing jitter in the PLD I/O data links.
US10560074B1	Switched capacitor circuit and method thereof A method couples a first bias signal to first and second internal nodes via first and second resistors, couples a second bias signal to third and fourth internal nodes via third and fourth resistors, couples the first internal node to the second internal node via a switch of a first type, and couples the third internal node to the fourth internal node via a switch of a second type. The method further couples the first internal node to the third internal node via a first transmission gate, couples the second internal node to the fourth internal node via a second transmission gate, couples a first terminal to the first and third internal nodes via first and third capacitors, respectively, and couples a second terminal to the second and fourth internal nodes via second and fourth capacitors, respectively.
US10560073B2	Method for the non-linear estimation of a mixture of signals This method for the non-linear estimation of no more than two mixed signals from separate sources, the time/frequency representation of which shows an unknown non-zero proportion of zero components, using an array made up of P>2 antennas, when the directional vectors U and V of the sources emitting these signals are additionally known or estimated, includes the following steps: a) Calculating the successive discrete Fourier transforms of the signal received by the antennas and sampled to obtain a time-frequency P-vector grid of the signal; each element of the grid being referred to as a box and containing a complex vector X forming a measurement; b) For each box, calculating the conditional expectation estimator of the signal, or of the signals, from the measurement X and an a priori probability density for the signals that is a Gaussian mixture.
US10560069B2	Elastic wave apparatus An elastic wave apparatus includes a multilayer substrate, first through fourth band pass filters, an antenna terminal, and first and second inductors. The multilayer substrate includes first through sixth wiring layers. The first through fourth band pass filters are disposed on the multilayer substrate and are connected to a common node. The antenna terminal is connected to an antenna and also to the common node. The first inductor is connected to the antenna terminal. The second inductor is connected between the first band pass filter and the common node. The first inductor is disposed on the fourth and fifth wiring layers. The second inductor is disposed on the second and third wiring layers which are different from the fourth and fifth wiring layers. The first and second inductors overlap each other at least partially as viewed from above.
US10560068B2	Multiplexer A multiplexer includes: first and second substrate respectively having first and second surfaces facing each other across an air gap; a first filter including first resonators located on the first surface and connected between a common terminal and a first terminal; a second filter including second resonators located on the second surface and connected between the common terminal and a second terminal, a first resonator connected in series between the common terminal and the first terminal and closest to the common terminal overlapping with a second resonator connected in series between the common terminal and the second terminal and closest to the common terminal, first resonators other than the first resonator closest to the common terminal not overlapping with the second resonators, second resonators other than the second resonator closest to the common terminal not overlapping with the first resonators.
US10560067B2	Broadband probes for impedance tuners A multi-section probe and a tapered probe for impedance tuners to broaden the band width of the probes and hence the band width of the tuners. Each section of the multi-section probe has a nominal length equal to one quarter wavelength at a midpoint of the operating band. The tapered probe has a length equivalent to a plurality of one quarter wavelengths of the frequency midpoint. The multi-section probe and the tapered probe are configured to transform the characteristic impedance of the tuner transmission line step-by-step or continuously to a target impedance value.
US10560064B2	Differential amplifier including cancellation capacitors In examples, a system comprises a differential amplifier coupled to a parasitic capacitor positioned between a first node and a first reference voltage source. The system comprises a buffer amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal coupled to the first node and the output terminal coupled to a cancellation capacitor. The system includes a controlled current source coupled to the first node and the input terminal, the controlled current source coupled to a second reference voltage source. The system comprises a current sense circuit coupled to the cancellation capacitor and the second reference voltage source.
US10560060B2	Linear CMOS PA with low quiescent current and boosted maximum linear output power The present disclosure relates to a power amplifier (PA) system provided in a semiconductor device and having feed forward gain control. The PA system comprises a transmit path and control circuitry. The transmit path is configured to amplify an input radio frequency (RF) signal and comprises a first tank circuit and a PA stage. The control circuitry is configured to detect a power level associated with the input RF signal and control a first bias signal provided to the PA stage based on a first function of the power level and control a quality factor (Q) of the first tank circuit based on a second function of the power level.
US10560055B2	Voltage mode power combiner for radio frequency linear power amplifier A radio frequency (RF) power combining amplifier circuit has a circuit input and a circuit output. A first amplifier is connected to the circuit input and to a first bias input. A first output matching network is connected to an output of the first amplifier and to the circuit output. A second amplifier is connected to the circuit input and to a second bias input. A second output matching network is connected to an output of the second amplifier, and to the circuit output. A voltage level of an input signal applied to the circuit input, together with the respective first bias input and the second bias input, selectively activates the first amplifier and the second amplifier.
US10560053B2	Digital fractional frequency divider Frequency synthesizer circuitry includes multi-phase clock generator circuitry, frequency divider circuitry, signal retiming circuitry, and signal combining circuitry. The multi-phase clock generator circuitry receives an input clock signal and generates a number of multi-phase clock signals. The frequency divider circuitry also receives the input clock signal and performs frequency division thereon to generate a reference signal. The signal retiming circuitry receives the reference signal and the multi-phase clock signals and generates a number of retiming signals. The signal combining circuitry combines two of the retiming signals to provide an output clock signal that has the same frequency as the reference signal but a different duty cycle.
US10560051B2	Photovoltaic apparatus Provided is a photovoltaic apparatus including: a power generation part including a plurality of power generating elements each generating power in accordance with an amount of received light, the power generation part having a light receiving surface and a back surface positioned on an opposite side to the light receiving surface; a function part provided separately from the power generation part and configured to provide functions regarding the photovoltaic apparatus; and a position changeable part provided between the power generation part and the function part and capable of changing positions of the power generation part and the function part, wherein the back surface of the power generation part faces the function part face, and the position changeable part is capable of changing the positions of the power generation part and the function part while maintaining a state where the back surface of the power generation part faces the function part.
US10560046B2	Motor control device A first PWM count computation unit computes a first PWM count for each of three phases in a first system. A second PWM count computation unit computes a second PWM count for each of three phases in a second system. Upper and lower switching elements for each phase in the first system are controlled in accordance with a first pattern in which the upper and lower switching elements are varied in the order of an upper on state, a lower on state, and the upper on state from the time of start of PWM cycles. Upper and lower switching elements for each phase in the second system are controlled in accordance with a second pattern in which the upper and lower switching elements are varied in the order of a lower on state, an upper on state, and the lower on state from the time of start of PWM cycles.
US10560045B1	Driving device for multi-axis common-mode voice coil motor A driving device for multi-axis common-mode voice coil motor is provided, which includes a control signal processing interface and a plurality of drive-stage circuits. The control signal processing interface generates a plurality of control signals and a plurality of command signals. The drive-stage circuits receive the control signals and the command signals respectively; each of the drive-stage circuits is connected to one end of one of the coils of a voice coil motor and includes a half-bridge switch circuit; the drive-stage circuit controls the half-bridge switch circuit to generate a driving current to drive the coil according to the control signal. The drive-stage circuit compares the feedback signal of the feedback elements of the coil loop with the command signal to generate an adjustment signal and adjusts the driving current according to the adjustment signal, such that the driving current can track the command signal.
US10560037B2	Apparatus and method for control of multi-inverter power converter A control apparatus includes a control logic circuit that is configured to generate control signals for controlling at least two inverters (e.g., 3-phase inverters) that are coupled in parallel. The control logic circuit is configured to sample output currents present in common load terminals of the inverters, and to compare the sampled currents to generated current references. The output currents may be sampled, and/or the current references generated, at a fixed rate. Errors between the sampled currents and current references are evaluated against hysteresis dead bands around the current references. The control signals are generated based on (i) retrieved modulator output values for a selected one of the inverters and (ii) the errors as evaluated against the hysteresis dead bands. The control logic circuit may implement first and second counters for coordinating the current reference generation, sampling the output currents, retrieving the modulator output values, etc.
US10560029B2	Controller for increasing efficiency of a power converter and a related method thereof A controller for increasing efficiency of a power converter includes a comparison module and a gate signal generation unit. The comparison module is used for generating a detection voltage according to a direct current (DC) input voltage of a primary side of the power converter, and comparing the detection voltage with a predetermined value to generate a comparison result. The gate signal generation unit is used for changing a sink current flowing through a gate pin of the controller according to the comparison result, wherein the gate pin of the controller is coupled to a power switch of the primary side of the power converter.
US10560027B2	Semiconductor device and method therefor In one embodiment, a power supply controller, or alternately a semiconductor device having a power supply controller, may have a first circuit configured to form a sense signal that is representative of a signal from an auxiliary winding of a transformer. A feedback circuit may be configured to allow the sense signal to increase in response to a turn-off of the power switch, to subsequently detect a second increase of the sense signal prior to subsequently turning on the power switch, and to form a feedback signal as a value of the sense signal responsively to the second increase of the sense signal.
US10560025B2	Frequency hopping for reducing switching power converter noise A switching power converter is configured to control switching noise by implementing a plurality of pulse width modulation modes of operation. The peak current in each pulse width modulation mode of operation is controlled so that an output power for the switching power converter is continuous with regard to transitions between the pulse width modulation modes.
US10560021B2	DC-DC converter and display apparatus having the same A DC-DC converter includes: a first switch; a second switch connected to the first switch; a mode selecting circuit to select a converting mode from one of at least a first mode and a second mode based on an input voltage; and a controller to generate a first switching control signal for controlling the first switch based on the converting mode, and a second switching control signal for controlling the second switch based on the converting mode.
US10560020B2	Method of voltage drop compensation on a cable and corresponding circuit A method can be used for compensating a voltage drop on a cable connected between a source device and a receiver device. The source device delivers an offset current on a channel configuration pin of the source device, the offset current causing an increase in a voltage on the channel configuration pin of the source device to a chosen reference voltage. The offset current is stored in the source device. The source device absorbs an absorption current originating from the channel configuration pin of the source device, the absorption current depending on the stored offset current and on the voltage drop. The source device generates a compensated supply voltage on a power supply pin of the source device, the compensated supply voltage equal to a reference supply voltage increased by the voltage drop to within a tolerance.
US10560015B1	Systems and methods for optimizations and field configurations of power converters for a power supply unit A power supply unit may include a first power converter configured to generate an output voltage to an output of the power supply unit, wherein the first power converter has a first power capacity, a second power converter configured to generate the output voltage to the output of the power supply unit, wherein the second power converter has a second power capacity substantially greater than the first power capacity, and a controller configured to selectively enable and disable each of the first power converter and the second power converter based on one or more parameters associated with the power supply unit.
US10560014B2	Fault protection for voltage source converters Fault protection of a voltage source converter is provided. An apparatus has a chain-link circuit in series with a director switch. The chain-link circuit includes cells including an energy storage element and cell switching elements connected with anti-parallel diodes. Each cell switching element has a cell switching element controller. The director switch includes director switch units, each having a director switching element and a director switch unit controller. Each cell switching element controller monitors for a fault current and turns-off its associated cell switching element and reports a fault event to a fault controller. Each director switch unit controller monitors for a fault current and reports a fault event to the fault controller but the director switch unit control keeps its associated director switching element turned-on. The fault controller monitors for reports of fault events to order the cell switching elements of at least some of the cells to turn-off.
US10560011B2	Linear electromechanical actuators An actuator includes a plurality of linear motors. A carriage is operatively connected to each linear motor to be driven by each of the linear motors. An output forcer rod is operatively connected to at least one of the linear motors to be driven by at least one of the linear motors. A position sensor is operatively connected to the output forcer rod to measure motion of the output forcer rod. A fly-by-wire system includes a plurality of electromechanical actuators. Each electromechanical actuator includes a plurality of linear motors. A flight control computer is operatively connected to the linear motors of each of the electromechanical actuators. The fly-by-wire system includes a plurality of hydraulic systems. Each hydraulic system is operatively coupled to a respective one of the electromechanical actuators.
US10560006B2	Method to apply an insulation The present disclosure relates to a method to apply an insulation to a retaining ring for end windings of an electric machine and to a fillable bag to apply an insulation to a retaining ring. Disclosed is a method to apply an insulation to a retaining ring for end windings of an electric machine, with the steps of providing a retaining ring housing, attaching an insulation at the inside of the retaining ring housing, and inflating a bag inside the retaining ring housing to apply pressure to the insulation. Also disclosed is a fillable bag to apply a pressure to an electric insulation inside a retaining ring for end windings of an electric machine.
US10559999B2	Submersed electric motor A submersed electric motor includes a stator assembly arranged within an annular insulation chamber, and a stator with stator windings and a capacitive electric starter which is connected electrically thereto. The insulation chamber is formed between an outer tubular jacket, an inner tubular jacket, which is coaxial to the outer tubular jacket, with two annular end covers adapted to close the annular interspace between the outer jacket and the inner jacket. The submersed electric motor further includes a rotor arranged inside the inner tubular jacket. The capacitive electric starter includes at least two capacitors, which are mutually complementary, and have a transverse cross-section with an arc-like profile and are connected in parallel to each other.
US10559994B2	Linear vibration motor A linear vibration motor for fixing a ring-shaped coil provided within the linear vibration motor using a simpler structure. A linear vibration motor in which an upper casing and a bracket are configured to have an integrated shape and fixed to the inside or upper side of the coil to form magnetism, thereby facilitating fabrication due to a simple structure, preventing a reduction of a vibration power through a small space, and minimizing a rise of a material cost. Accordingly, the coil within the internal space of the casing is stably fixed by providing a structure for fixing the coil through the simple process of the bracket itself. Furthermore, since parts forming the vibration motor and the linear vibration motor are integrated, an assembly process is simplified, performance is satisfied by realizing a reduced production cost, and a working process and price competitiveness is secured.
US10559992B2	Stator of rotating electrical machine, and rotating electrical machine Provided is a stator provided with a high withstand voltage insulating system operable at a high drive voltage without increasing the thickness of a slot insulating paper, and a rotary electric machine incorporating the stator. A stator of a rotary electric machine according to the present invention includes a stator core in which a plurality of slots is formed, a stator coil to be inserted into the slot, and an insulating paper to be inserted into the slot, and insulating the stator coil and the stator core, wherein the insulating paper includes a first insulating paper portion arranged adjacent to the stator core at an outside of an end surface in an axial direction of the slot and at least a second insulating paper portion arranged between the first insulating paper portion and the stator coil, and the insulating paper forms a resin reservoir portion in which an insulating resin is arranged, between the first insulating paper portion and the second insulating paper portion.
US10559989B2	Rotor carrier and locking diaphragm spring A hybrid drive module, comprising an annular diaphragm spring having an inner surface and one or more fingers protruding radially inward from the inner surface and a carrier hub concentric with the diaphragm spring and connected to a rotor of an electric motor and a cover of a torque converter, the carrier hub having an outer surface with one or more retention grooves configured to interlock with the one or more fingers of the diaphragm spring to inhibit axial movement of the diaphragm spring relative to the carrier hub.
US10559988B2	Rotor for rotary electric machine A first magnet group provided to a first core member and a second magnet group provided to a second core member are adjacent to each other in an axial direction of a rotor. The first magnet group includes a plurality of first magnets arrayed in a circumferential direction of the rotor. The second magnet group includes a plurality of second magnets arrayed in the circumferential direction. The first magnet and the second magnet, which are adjacent to each other and have the same polarity, are shifted from each other by a certain angle in the circumferential direction. One of the first core member and the second core member has a first recessed portion, and another of the first core member and the second core member has a first protruding portion to be engaged with the first recessed portion in the circumferential direction.
US10559987B2	Electromagnetic armature for rotating electrical machine and method for manufacturing same An electromagnetic armature comprising an electromagnetic yoke having a cylindrical surface of axis z, intended to be facing an air-gap. Said cylindrical surface is the interaction surface and comprises a plurality of teeth forming poles, associated with the interaction surface and projecting from same, and disposed at regularly spaced intervals around the whole yoke. Each tooth comprises a recess arranged on one of the faces of the tooth in a so-called polar plane. Each recess is intended to receive the winding. Said teeth are disposed on the yoke in such a way that the recesses are disposed alternately to either side of the polar plane. Alternatively, one or more teeth of the armature can be removed from the yoke.
US10559982B2	Efficient antennas configurations for use in wireless communications and wireless power transmission systems Various techniques are described herein for efficiently transmitting and receiving wireless power and/or data signals. In one example, a transmitter includes multiple antennas, a dielectric material in proximity to the multiple antennas, and multiple scattering elements embedded in the dielectric material. One or more of the multiple scattering elements are configured to be excited by one or more signals emitted by the multiple antennas.
US10559976B2	System, method, and apparatus for electric power grid and network management of grid elements Systems, methods, and apparatus for smart electric power grid communication are disclosed in the present invention. At least one grid element is constructed and configured in network-based communication with a server via at least one coordinator. The at least one grid element is transformed into at least one active grid element automatically and/or autonomously after initial connection with the server. The at least one active grid element sends and receives messages to and from the server via at least one coordinator. The at least one coordinator matches and prioritizes the at least one active grid element. The at least one coordinator provides a priority flag on the messages. The at least one coordinator tracks an actual amount of power introduced to and available for an electric power grid or a curtailment power available from the at least one active grid element.
US10559975B2	System and method for distributed grid control with sub-cyclic local response capability Distributed static synchronous series compensators (DSSSCs) which may also be designated tower routers capable of injecting series inductive or capacitive impedances to enable distributed power-flow control. When a large number of these (a fleet of) DSSSCs are distributed over the grid for power-flow control, it is necessary to ensure that coordinated communication and control capabilities are also established, enabling fast reaction to changes that can exist across the grid. A system architecture and method for enabling localized high-speed low-latency intelligent control with communications between subsections (local network) of the grid along with communication to the central Grid operations center at the utility for supervisory control is disclosed herein. The architecture provides sub-cyclic (< 1/60 of a second) response capability, using the local DSSSCs with high-speed communication at the local network level to power-system disturbances, such as power-oscillation damping (POD), sub-synchronous resonance (SSR) etc.
US10559974B1	Constant power output from emergency battery packs An electrical system can include a power supply that provides primary power, and a light fixture having at least one light source, where the light fixture is coupled to the power supply, where the at least one light source illuminates when the light fixture receives the primary power. The electrical system can further include an energy storage unit having at least one energy storage device that charges using the primary power. The electrical system can also include a controller that determines an initial charging period during which the at least one energy storage device is charged using a constant supply of the primary power, where the controller changes the constant supply of the primary power to a trickle charge of the primary power at the end of the initial charging period to maintain a minimum charge level of the at least one energy storage device.
US10559972B2	Two-tier battery solution for data center backup Methods, systems, and apparatus, including for back-up power sources. In one aspect, a method includes providing a plurality of first battery devices, each first battery device respectively electrically coupled to a respective server rack in a plurality of server racks and having a respective capacity to provide power to the respective rack for a power anomaly for up to a first duration. Providing a second battery device electrically coupled to the plurality of server racks and having a capacity to provide power to the plurality of respective server racks for a power anomaly for up to a second duration, wherein the second duration is longer than the first duration. A power anomaly is a deviation of mains power from one or more of a nominal supply voltage and frequency.
US10559968B2	Charge/discharge control circuit and battery apparatus A charge/discharge control circuit includes a first power supply terminal connected to a first electrode of a secondary battery, and a discharge control output circuit which outputs a discharge control signal to a gate of a discharge control FET which controls discharging of the secondary battery. The discharge control output circuit includes a clamp voltage output circuit which outputs a clamp voltage lower than a voltage of the first power supply terminal to a discharge control terminal to turn on the discharge control FET when the voltage of the first power supply terminal is higher than a prescribed voltage, and a power supply voltage output circuit which outputs the voltage of the first power supply terminal to the discharge control terminal to turn on the discharge control FET when the voltage of the first power supply terminal is equal to or less than the prescribed voltage.
US10559965B2	Display assembly having multiple charging ports An electronic display assembly includes a housing with a pass-through device which accepts a utility line. One or more electronic display subassemblies are placed within said housing and a are surrounded by a substantially sealed closed loop pathway. An open loop pathway permits ambient air to pass through said housing and thermally interact with said closed loop pathway without mixing. At least two peripheral devices are located within said housing, one of which is a charging subassembly and the other is selected from the group consisting of: a camera, a touchscreen, an additional electronic display, video communications equipment, audio communications equipment, and an emergency notification subassembly.
US10559959B2	Multi-generator power plant arrangement, energy supply network having a multi-generator power plant arrangement and method for distributing reactive power generation in a multi-generator power plant arrangement A multi-generator power plant arrangement, energy supply network having a multi-generator power plant arrangement and method for distributing reactive power generation in a multi-generator power plant arrangement, is provided. A multi-generator power plant arrangement, and also a method for distributing reactive power generation in a multi-generator power plant arrangement, is provided. The control parameters for the controllers of the individual generators of a multi-generator power plant arrangement are thereby calculated individually on the basis of predetermined parameters and transmitted to the controllers of the individual generators. Consequently, the reactive power component to be generated in each case can be individually specified for each generator of a multi-generator power plant arrangement.
US10559958B2	Method, controller, and network for controlling devices in power distribution network A method of controlling a plurality of power units in a power distribution network (PDN), comprising: a) receiving one or more requests to increase or decrease the power drawn from, or the power supplied to, the PDN; b) determining, based on aggregated power and/or energy data regarding the plurality of power units, and the one or more requests, one or more parameters defining properties of power units to be controlled in response to the one or more requests; c) receiving status updates from the plurality of power units; d) for each status update, determining whether the properties of the power unit fulfils the determined parameters; and e) if the properties of the power unit fulfils the determined parameters, controlling the power unit to change the amount of power drawn from or supplied to the PDN.
US10559953B2	Redundant and fault-tolerant power distribution system having an integrated communication network A power distribution and communication system includes nodes connected by power lines and communication links. The system receives power from one or more power sources. Each node contains at least one power port, data port and load port. Associated with each power port and load port is a port monitor for measuring current flowing into or out of the port and the voltage difference between the port outlet and ground, which measurements are passed to a processing element. The processing element and monitor analyze measured values to detect fault conditions. Upon fault condition detection, the port is disabled by opening a switch, disconnecting the port from the system voltage. The processing element receives power directly from the power line, thus receiving power from a live power line even if the associated power port is disabled allowing the processing element to enable a disabled node following a failure.
US10559952B2	Digital line protection A line protection device includes terminals to connect the line protection device in series with an electric line. A current sensor of the line protection device senses a value of electric current through the electric line. A digital filter circuit of the line protection device performs digital filtering of the value of electric current. Depending on the digitally filtered value of the electric current, a switch control circuit of the line protection device controls a switch to interrupt flow of the electric current through the line.
US10559945B1	Insulative boots and power distribution assemblies A power distribution assembly includes a first conductor having a first conductor end and a first shape in cross-section and a second conductor having a second conductor end and a second shape in cross-section. A splice couples the first conductor end to the second conductor end. An insulative boot has a first opening of the first shape, wherein the insulative boot encompasses the first conductor end. The insulative boot also has a second opening having the second shape, wherein the second opening encompasses the second conductor end. The insulative boot has a cavity between the first end and the second end, wherein the cavity is configured to encompass the splice.
US10559937B2	Pulsed light generation device, pulsed light generation method, exposure apparatus having pulsed light generation device and inspection apparatus having pulsed light generation device A pulsed light generation device, includes: a first optical fiber through which first pulsed light and second pulsed light, having an intensity that decreases while an intensity of the first pulsed light increases, and increases while the intensity of the first pulsed light decreases, having been multiplexed and entered therein, are propagated; and a second optical fiber at which the first pulsed light, having exited the first optical fiber and entered therein, is amplified while being propagated therein, wherein: at the first optical fiber, phase modulation occurs in the first pulsed light due to cross phase modulation caused by the second pulsed light; and self-phase modulation occurring in the first pulsed light at the second optical fiber is diminished by the phase modulation having occurred at the first optical fiber.
US10559934B2	Multifunctional rotary data memory A multifunctional rotary data memory, comprising a housing, a master control module, a memory, a first connector, and a second connector. The housing has an upper housing and lower housing. The upper housing and lower housing are movably connected and can relatively and rotatably move around a pivot shaft. The first connector is mounted on the upper housing. The second connector is mounted on the lower housing. The first connector and the second connector are both communicatively connected to the master control module. This breaks through spatial and angular limitations on the connection between an Apple device and a periphery device, is a simple apparatus for an Apple device to possess both the functions of a data line and a mobile memory, and is compact in volume and easy to carry.
US10559933B1	Manual disconnect with connector position assurance assembly A manual disconnect for an electric circuit includes a base with primary terminals and an interlock connector. A plug assembly has fuse terminals and an interlock resistor assembly. The plug assembly is adapted to be moved relative to the base between a disconnected position, a primary circuit engaged position, and an interlock position. The plug assembly is moved linearly and rotationally relative to the base when moving between these positions. The manual disconnect also includes a connector position assurance assembly. The connector position assurance assembly includes a connector position assurance button that is movable relative to the plug assembly. The connector position assurance button can be moved between a pre-lock position and an assurance position. When located in the assurance position, the connector position assurance assembly prevents the plug assembly from rotating relative to the base.
US10559929B2	Electrical connector system having a PCB connector footprint A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a substrate and a PCB connector footprint defined along a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis being subdivided into PCB column grouping footprints in columns parallel to the longitudinal axis. The PCB includes signal vias arranged in pairs along a signal pair axis. The pairs of signal vias are aligned in the columns parallel to the longitudinal axis and in rows parallel to the lateral axis. The signal pair axis is non-parallel to the lateral and longitudinal axes. The PCB includes ground vias with at least one ground via arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias within the PCB column grouping footprints and at least one ground via is arranged between adjacent pairs of signal vias in adjacent PCB column grouping footprints. This orientation is to allow more spacing between the signal vias and some ground vias to enhance signal integrity.
US10559928B2	Electric connector A shell member that is ground-connected to a connected object is constituted by a first shell that faces the connected object and entirely covers a contact member and a second shell that faces the first shell in a part between a connecting object and the connected object. Each of the first and second shells is provided with ground contact points with a ground conducting path of the connecting object and a ground conducting path of the connected object, with a signal transmission path sandwiched between ground paths by the first and second shells and configured to achieve satisfactory electromagnetic shielding of the signal transmission path.
US10559927B2	Switchable RJ45/ARJ45 jack A communication connector has a housing for receiving a communication plug, a printed circuit within the housing, a switch which actuates the printed circuit board, and a translating crossbar which engages the switch. The printed circuit board is moved dependent upon a type of plug inserted. The movement of the circuit board can help to selectively engage one of two sets of circuit traces and groupings of contacts.
US10559923B2	Electrical connection device with connection detecting function An electrical connection device includes a first connector (C1) having a first housing (10), a second connector (C2) having a second housing (20) for receiving the insertion of the first housing (10), and a connection detecting tool (30). The first housing (10) includes a housing body (12), a lock (14) having a tool restraining portion (14d) and a displacement restricting portion (16) for blocking an insertion allowing displacement of the lock (14). The connection detecting tool (30) is held at an operating position to resiliently deform the displacement restricting portion (16) to allow the insertion allowing displacement. The tool restraining portion (14d) restrains the connection detecting tool (30) at the operating position so as not to be separable while allowing the separation of the connection detecting tool (30) from the operating position as the lock (14) resiliently returns to a lock position.
US10559919B2	Connector having elastically deformable pressing protrusions A connector includes a terminal-equipped electrical wire, an inner housing, an outer housing, and a front holder. The terminal-equipped electrical wire includes an electrical wire and a terminal, the terminal having a box-shaped portion configured to fit with a mating terminal in a fitting direction intersecting with an extending direction of the electrical wire. The inner housing includes a terminal accommodating chamber. The outer housing includes an electrical wire leading-out opening and a housing fitting opening. One or more pressing protrusions are provided on at least one of the terminal and the front holder. When the outer housing is fitted to the mating connector, the one or more pressing protrusions are elastically deformed by a fitting pressing force acting on the front holder to press and urge the box-shaped portion toward inside of the terminal accommodating chamber.
US10559917B2	Magnetic electrical connector assembly An electrical connector assembly includes a panel mount connector having an electrical connector having an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts and magnetic elements retained in the insulative housing, and a panel mounting piece which the insulative housing is attached to and has latching devices for attaching to an electrical device. A complementary connector is adapted to be mated with the panel mount connector.
US10559914B2	Connector assembly A connector assembly (1) comprises an outer housing (300); and a latch (330), which is carried by the outer housing (300), to allow a coupling of the connector assembly to a corresponding counter connector. Further, the outer housing (300) is configured to receive at least one of two different types of cables (100) through a first end and at least one of two different module mating interfaces (430, 432, 434) at a second end. In another embodiment the outer housing (300) is arranged movable on an inner housing (200), and the latch (330) is rotatably arranged on the outer housing (300).
US10559911B2	Plug connector module providing ground connection through a module holding frame An electrical plug connector module and holding frame assembly is provided alone or in combination with further plug connector modules for forming a modular plug connector. The electrical plug connector module is inserted directly in the plug connector housing or can be received fastened in the holding frame with further modules in a plug connector housing. The electrical plug connector module includes an electrical contact that is connected in an electrically conductive manner in the interior of the electrical plug connector module to an electrical contact that is received therein. The electrical contact is guided on the outer side of the electrical plug connector module contacts in addition by way of a resilient region the holding frame or the plug connector housing in which the electrical plug connector module is inserted.
US10559906B2	Securement of solder unit upon contact An electronic component includes a first module, a second module and a third module between the first module and the second module. Each of the first module and the second module includes a plurality of conductive pads thereon. A connecting part includes a plate body and a plurality of first tails and a plurality of second tails respectively extending on two opposite sides of the plate body wherein the first tails are soldered upon the first conductive pads and the second tails are soldered upon the second conductive pads, respectively. Each of the first tails and the second tails includes a mounting pad with a through hole therein, and a folded section on the end edge with a solder unit received with a space formed in the folded section and communicatively above the corresponding through hole.
US10559898B2	Connector producing a biasing force A connector includes, in one embodiment, a first component, a coupling element configured to engage the first component, and a second component configured to engage the first component. The second component, in one embodiment, is configured to produce a spring, pushing or biasing force.
US10559897B1	Push-in electrical terminal with insulation contact An electrical terminal includes a terminal base. A mate portion is attached to the terminal base. The mate portion is adapted to mate with a corresponding electrical terminal. The electrical terminal includes a conductor contact portion. The conductor contact portion includes a box attached to the terminal base. A lever extends from one wall of the box. The lever is curved to extend toward the terminal base. The lever is adapted to engage a conductor of a wire inserted into the box. The electrical terminal also includes an insulation contact portion. The insulation contact portion is attached to the terminal base. The insulation contact portion is adapted to engage an insulation of the wire.
US10559895B2	Connection adapter for connecting an earthing line to a metal protective hose Connection adapter for connecting an earthing line to a metal protective hose comprising a line contact having at least one ring segment resting on the outer sheath of the earthing line and comprising a hose contact having a contact tab resting on the inner sheath of the protective hose.
US10559889B2	Slot array antenna, and radar, radar system, and wireless communication system including the slot array antenna A slot array antenna includes: a first conductive member having a first conductive surface and a plurality of slots therein, the slots being arrayed in a first direction and in a second direction which intersects the first direction; a second conductive member having a second conductive surface which opposes the first conductive surface; a plurality of waveguide members arrayed between the first and second conductive members along a direction which intersects the first direction, each waveguide member having an conductive waveguide face which extends along the first direction so as to oppose at least one of the slots; and an artificial magnetic conductor in a subregion which is within a region between the first and second conductive members but outside of a subregion containing the waveguide members. Neither an electric wall nor an artificial magnetic conductor exists in a space between two adjacent waveguide faces among the waveguide members.
US10559886B2	Antenna lens array for tracking multiple devices A radio frequency antenna array uses multiple lenses, and mechanically movable elements, to provide ground-based and sky-based coverage for multiple object communication and tracking. The antenna array includes at least two spherical lenses, where each spherical lens has at least two associated RF elements. A third lens is added, along with at least two additional RF elements to narrow and track the overlapped beams from the first and second lenses. Each lens also includes a sub-controller configured to adjust a phase of the signals produced by the RF elements. The antenna includes a control mechanism configured to enable a user to move the RF elements along their respective tracks, and automatically configure the phase shifter to modify a phase of the output signals from the elements based on the relative positions between the RF elements. The overlapped beams track independent targets, such as satellites, across an area.
US10559882B2	Mobile device A mobile device includes a nonconductive mechanism element and an antenna structure. The antenna structure is formed over the nonconductive mechanism element. The antenna structure includes a feeding connection element, a first radiation element, a second radiation element, a grounding connection element, and a third radiation element. The feeding connection element is coupled to a feeding point. A first end of the first radiation element is coupled to the feeding connection element, and a second end of the first radiation element is open. A first end of the second radiation element is coupled to the feeding connection element, and a second end of the second radiation element is open. The grounding connection element is coupled to a grounding point. A first end of the third radiation element is coupled to the grounding connection element, and a second end of the third radiation element is open.
US10559879B2	Phased array burst sampler An active electronic steered antenna (AESA) circuit monitors bursts of a phased array that has a plurality of signal chains. Each signal chain therefore has a burst output for transmitting at least one burst. To monitor bursts, the AESA circuit has an input that is operably couplable with the burst output of at least one signal chain of the phased array. The input is configured to receive one or more bursts transmitted by the burst output(s) of the at least one signal chain. The AESA circuit also has a sample circuit operably coupled with the input and configured to sample the one or more bursts to produce one or more corresponding samples, and memory operably coupled with the sample circuit. The memory receives and stores the one or more samples. To provide access to the samples, the AESA circuit also has a memory interface.
US10559878B2	Indoor antenna system and method of operation An antenna module, system, and method for receiving an incoming signal in a confined space are disclosed. The antenna module comprises a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of combiners, each of the plurality of combiners coupled to a subset of the plurality of antenna elements. The system includes the antenna module, a processor, and a controller. The processor receives and analyzes outputs from the antenna module and generates an output signal corresponding to the incoming signal. The controller controls states of the antenna module, which is capable of being in any of a plurality of states to receive the incoming signal.
US10559877B2	Integrated camera and communication antenna An apparatus includes a camera lens assembly and a printed circuit board attached to said camera lens assembly. The camera lens assembly may be configured to provide a forward view through a windshield of a vehicle. The printed circuit board generally comprises an antenna, a ground plane, and an image sensor. The antenna is generally disposed on a front surface of the printed circuit board. The ground plane may be disposed either on the front surface or within a layer of the printed circuit board. The image sensor is generally mounted on a back surface of the printed circuit board. The camera lens assembly is generally configured to focus an image of the forward view through the windshield on the image sensor.
US10559871B2	Antenna structure and wireless communication device using same An antenna structure includes a housing, four feed sources, a first radiator, a second radiator, and a third radiator. The housing includes a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. The first to third radiators are positioned in the housing. The first radiator is spaced apart from the second radiator. The four feed sources respectively connect to the first radiating portion, the second radiating portion, the first radiator, and the third radiator. The first radiating portion activates a first operation mode and a second operation mode. The second radiating portion activates a third operation mode. The first to third radiators activate a fourth operation mode, a fifth operation mode, and a sixth operation mode.
US10559868B2	Methods of forming tunable resonators using high dielectric constant ferrite rods Disclosed are methods of forming a single-piece magnetically tunable ferrite rods that can be used for radio-frequency (RF) applications, including using synthetic garnets. This can include methods of forming cellular towers and antennas. In some embodiments, a separate tuner need not be used in the resonator during magnetic tuning. Examples of fabrication methods and RF-related properties are disclosed.
US10559864B2	Nanofluid contact potential difference battery A nanofluid contact potential difference cell comprises a cathode with a lower work function and an anode with a higher work function separated by a nanometer-scale spaced inter-electrode gap containing a nanofluid with intermediate work function nanoparticle clusters. The cathode comprises a refractory layer and a thin film of electrosprayed dipole nanoparticle clusters partially covering a surface of the refractory layer. A thermal power source, placed in good thermal contact with the cathode, drives an electrical current through an electrical circuit connecting the cathode and anode with an external electrical load in between. A switch is configured to intermittently connect the anode and the cathode to maintain non-equilibrium between a first current from the cathode to the anode and a second current from the anode to the cathode.
US10559861B2	Battery management method, battery, flight control system and unmanned aerial vehicle A battery includes a first cell unit, a first control circuit electrically connected with the first cell unit, a second cell unit connected with the first cell unit in parallel, and a second control circuit electrically connected with the second cell unit. The first control circuit is configured to disconnect an electrical connection between the first cell unit and a power output terminal of the first control circuit in response to a failure of the first cell unit. The second control circuit is configured to disconnect an electrical connection between the second cell unit and a power output terminal of the second control circuit in response to a failure of the second cell unit.
US10559860B2	Power storage device, power storage control device, and power storage control method The present disclosure provides a power storage device, a power storage control device, and a power storage control method for suppressing a burden imposed on a cell when voltages of cells are equalized. A power storage device includes: a plurality of cells which are connected in series; a series resonance circuit configured to include a reactor and a capacitor; and a power storage control device configured to control a connection state of the cells and the series resonance circuit. The power storage control device causes energy to be transferred between equal numbers of cells via the series resonance circuit.
US10559856B2	Battery A battery comprises: a plurality of cells each of which has two electrodes; a control unit with a circuit board; and a housing that contains the cells and the control unit. The housing is provided with a first terminal and a second terminal. The cell, which is disposed closest to the first terminal, is connected to the first terminal; and the cell, which is disposed adjacent to the control unit, is connected to the second terminal via the control unit. Among the cells and the control unit, the control unit is disposed closest to the second terminal. A bus bar is provided between the cell and the cell so as to serve as a folding portion that folds back the current path between the first and second terminals.
US10559855B2	Rechargeable aluminum ion battery A rechargeable battery using a solution of an aluminum salt as an electrolyte is disclosed, as well as methods of making the battery and methods of using the battery.
US10559852B2	Electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery having same Provided is an electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery having the same, the electrolyte solution further including an expressed solid salt which has an ammonium-based cation and a cyanide anion (CN−). According to an embodiment of the present invention, an electrolyte solution including the solid salt may be provided, and thus the problem of decrease in stability of a negative electrode due to copper ions that are dissolved from a copper current collector in a high-temperature environment may be resolved. Therefore, a lithium secondary battery having excellent battery performance such as battery capacity, charging and discharging efficiency, and cycle characteristics even under a high-temperature condition may be provided.
US10559851B2	Magnesium battery electrolyte A magnesium battery electrolyte with a wide electrochemical window was developed. The electrolyte includes an organic boron magnesium salt and an aprotic polar solvent. The organic boron magnesium salt is an organic boron magnesium salt complex formed by compounding a Lewis acid with a boron center and a magnesium-containing Lewis base R′2-nMgXn, wherein n is 0 or 1, R and R′ respectively represent a fluoroaryl group, an alkylated aryl group, an aryl group, an alkyl group, or a pyrrolidinyl group, and X represents a halogen. The solvent is an aprotic polar solvent such as ether or a mixed solvent thereof. The concentration of the electrolyte is 0.25 to 1 mol/L, and the electric conductivity is 0.5 to 10 mS/cm. The electrolyte allows reversible deposition/dissolution of magnesium, features good cycling stability, and has a wide electrochemical window (>3.0V vs. Mg/Mg2+).
US10559849B2	Glass-ceramic, lithium ion conductor, battery, electronic device, and method for producing electrode A glass-ceramic includes an oxide containing lithium (Li), silicon (Si), and boron (B) and has an X-ray diffraction spectrum with two or more peaks appearing in the range 20°≤2θ≤25° and with two or more peaks appearing in the range 25°<2θ≤30°.
US10559845B2	Stacked battery A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a stacked battery in which an unevenness of short circuit resistance among a plurality of cells is suppressed. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a stacked battery comprising: a plurality of cells in a thickness direction, wherein the plurality of cells are electrically connected in parallel; each of the plurality of cells includes a cathode current collector, a cathode active material layer, a solid electrolyte layer, an anode active material layer, and an anode current collector, in this order; the stacked battery includes a surface-side cell that is located on a surface side of the stacked battery, and a center-side cell that is located on a center side rather than the surface-side cell; and the surface-side cell and the center-side cell satisfy at least one of: condition i) an electron conductivity of the cathode active material layer in the surface-side cell is less than an electron conductivity of the cathode active material layer in the center-side cell; and condition ii) an electron conductivity of the anode active material layer in the surface-side cell is less than an electron conductivity of the anode active material layer in the center-side cell.
US10559843B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte battery, non-aqueous electrolyte battery pack, and vehicle A non-aqueous electrolyte battery includes an electrode group including positive, negative and bipolar electrodes and separators interposed between these electrodes. In the positive electrode, positive electrode active material layers are formed on both side surfaces of a current collector. In the negative electrode, negative electrode active material layers are formed on both side surfaces of a current collector. In the bipolar electrode, positive and negative electrode active material layers are formed on both side surfaces of a current collector respectively. In the group, these electrodes are stacked with the interposed separators. The group includes current collecting tabs for these electrodes. Connecting portions of these tabs are arranged in different positions on an outer periphery of the group.
US10559836B2	Method and arrangement for distributing reactants into a fuel cell or into an electrolyzer cell A fuel flow guiding arrangement is disclosed for a solid oxide fuel cell wherein the arrangement is configured for guiding oxygen rich side gas to and from an electrolyte element. The arrangement includes a flow field plate for each cell to arrange flows in the cell, a flow distribution area on the flow field plate, and a flow outlet area on the flow field plate. The arrangement can guide fuel feed flow to the flow distribution area from sides of a fuel cell, and can turn at least one of the fuel feed flow on the flow distribution area and fuel outlet flow on the flow outlet area to equalize flow distribution on the electrolyte element. A fuel flow adjusting structure can essentially homogenously adjust at least one of the fuel feed flow and fuel outlet flow over the electrolyte element.
US10559835B2	Resin-framed membrane-electrode assembly for fuel cell A resin-framed membrane-electrode assembly for a fuel cell includes a stepped membrane-electrode assembly and a resin frame member. The stepped membrane-electrode assembly includes a polymer electrolyte membrane, a first electrode, and a second electrode. The resin frame member surrounds an outer perimeter of the polymer electrolyte membrane and includes an inner perimeter base end and an inner protruding portion. The inner protruding portion includes a flat surface portion which extends to face an outer perimeter surface portion of a second surface of the polymer electrolyte membrane and on which an adhesive layer is provided so that the adhesive layer lies at least between the flat surface portion and the outer perimeter surface portion. The adhesive layer has a tapered shape in which a thickness of the adhesive layer increases from a tip of the inner protruding portion toward the inner perimeter base end.
US10559827B2	Electrochemical cell having solid ionically conducting polymer material The invention features an electrochemical cell having an anode and a cathode; wherein at least one of the anode and cathode includes a solid ionically conducting polymer material that can ionically conduct hydroxyl ions.
US10559821B2	Cathode active material and lithium secondary battery comprising the same Disclosed is a cathode active material for secondary batteries comprising at least one compound selected from the following formula 1: (1−s−t)[Li(LiaMn(1−a−x−y)NixCoy)O2]s[Li2CO3]t[LiOH] (1) wherein 0
US10559820B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte battery, battery pack and vehicle According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte battery is provided. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer, a separator layer, an intermediate region, and a gel nonaqueous electrolyte. The separator layer and the intermediate region hold at least a part of the gel nonaqueous electrolyte. The nonaqueous electrolyte battery satisfies a volume ratio VA/VB of 5 or more. VA is a volume of the intermediate region. VB is an average volume of gaps among the particles of the niobium-and-titanium-containing composite oxide in the negative electrode active material layer.
US10559819B2	Titanium oxide, and electrode and lithium ion secondary battery each manufactured using same A titanium oxide compound according to the present invention comprises bronze-type titanium oxide or titanium oxide mainly composed of bronze-type titanium oxide, and contains calcium and/or silicon. The titanium oxide compound contains 0.005 to 2.5 mass % inclusive of calcium or 0.15 to 0.55 mass % inclusive of silicon, or contains 0.005 to 1.2 mass % inclusive of calcium and 0.15 to 0.2 mass % inclusive of silicon, or contains 0.005 to 0.1 mass % inclusive of calcium and 0.15 to 0.5 mass % inclusive of silicon.
US10559817B2	Sulfur particles coated with inorganic-organic hybrid membranes as cathode active material and batteries containing the particles A core-shell composite sulfur particle containing a core of elemental sulfur having homogeneously dispersed particles of a conductive carbon and a polyelectrolyte polymer; and a shell containing a hybrid membrane coating of branched polyethyleneimine (bPEI) on the core and at least one sequential set of a negatively charged clay nanosheet and a further coating of bPEI encapsulating the core is provided. In the sulfur particle the dispersed particles of conductive carbon are associated with the polyelectrolyte polymer. A cathode having an active material containing the core-shell composite sulfur particle and a sulfur loading of 1.0 mg S/cm2 to 10 mg/cm2 and a battery containing the cathode are also provided.
US10559813B2	Negative electrode for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery The negative electrode includes a current collector, a negative electrode active material layer arranged on a surface of the current collector, and a protective layer arranged on a surface of the negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer includes a first negative electrode active material having an aspect ratio defined as “a”/“b” to fall in a range of from two or more to eight or less when a length of the major axis is defined “a” and a length of the minor axis is defined “b.” The protective layer includes a ceramic powder.
US10559806B2	Battery and battery module According to one embodiment, a battery is provided. The battery includes an electrode body, a lead, a container member, and a terminal. The container member includes a main part and a terminal-connecting part adjacent to the main part. The electrode body is housed in the main part of the container member. The lead is electrically connected to the electrode body. The lead is housed in the terminal-connecting part of the container member. The terminal is electrically connected to the lead. The terminal is provided on the terminal-connecting part. A thickness of the main part of the container member is larger than a thickness of the terminal-connecting part of the container member.
US10559804B2	Battery pack A battery pack is disclosed. In one aspect, the battery pack includes first and second cell groups each including one or more cells, a circuit board electrically connected to the first and second cell groups and a connector provided in the circuit board and including a plurality of connector terminals. The connector terminals include first and second connector terminals respectively electrically connected to first and second electrodes of the first cell group. The connector terminals include first and second connector terminals respectively electrically connected to first and second electrodes of the second cell group. The first and third connector terminals are detachably in contact with each other, wherein the second and fourth connector terminals are detachably in contact with each other. According to some embodiments, it is possible to simply physically release a parallel connection of a plurality of cells or a plurality of cell groups.
US10559802B2	Separator membranes for lithium ion batteries and related methods A battery separator for a secondary lithium battery includes a microporous/porous membrane with a ceramic coating of one or more layers, a layer may include one or more particles having an average particle size ranging from 0.01 μm to 5 μm and/or binders that include poly (sodium acrylate-acrylamide-acrylonitrile) copolymer.
US10559794B1	Battery sealing enclosure Embodiments are disclosed of a battery enclosure for a vehicle. The battery enclosure includes a rigid frame forming a perimeter of the enclosure. The rigid frame has a T-shaped cross section including a web and a flange. The flange has a pair of flange sections that project away from the centerline of the web. A bottom panel having an inner side and an outer side is positioned within the perimeter formed by the rigid frame so that the outer side of the bottom panel rests on one of the pair of flange sections. A perimeter edge of the bottom panel is positioned in a corner formed by the web and the flange section on which the bottom panel rests. A seal is positioned in the corner formed by the inner side of the bottom panel and the web, and a joiner couples the bottom panel to the flange section on which the bottom panel rests.
US10559793B2	Battery array retention method and assembly An example retention method includes, among other things, resting opposing laterally outer regions of a battery array on a respective first and second rails that are disposed on an enclosure structure such that the battery array is spaced a distance from the enclosure structure. The method then includes securing, from at least one position between the laterally outer regions, the battery array relative to the enclosure structure. An example retention assembly includes, among other things, an enclosure, a first and a second rail, and a battery array having a first laterally outer region resting on the first rail and an opposing, second laterally outer region resting on the second rail. The battery array is secured relative to the enclosure at a position spaced from the first and second laterally outer regions to clamp the first and second laterally outer regions against the first and second rails.
US10559792B1	Structurally-integrated battery pack A structurally-integrated battery pack may comprise an outer skin, an inner skin, structural foam, battery cells, and/or other components. Structural foam may be disposed between the outer skin and the inner skin. The structural foam may include battery voids and/or one or more cooling channels. Battery cells may be disposed within the battery voids. The battery cells within the battery voids and the structural foam may form layers. The layers may comprise a first layer including a first structural foam layer, a second layer including a first battery disposed within a first battery void, a third layer including at least a partial structural foam layer, and/or other layers. The partial structural foam layer may at least partially form a cooling channel. The outer skin, the inner skin, the structural foam, and/or the battery cells may be incorporated into a structural or non-structural element of an aircraft and/or vehicle.
US10559786B2	Cell packaging techniques Battery systems according to embodiments of the present technology may include a battery cell having an electrode tab extending from an edge of the battery cell. The systems may also include a module electrically coupled with the battery cell. The module may be characterized by a first surface, a height, and a second surface opposite the first surface. A conductive tab coupled along the first surface of the module may extend from a first end parallel to a plane of the first surface. The conductive tab may be characterized by a curvature proximate a midpoint of the conductive tab. A distal region of the conductive tab may return back across the first surface of the module substantially parallel to the first surface. A distal portion of the electrode tab may be fixedly coupled with the distal region of the conductive tab.
US10559785B2	Sealing apparatus for secondary battery The present invention relates to a sealing apparatus sealing a sealing part of a battery case at which an electrode lead coupled to an electrode assembly is disposed. The sealing apparatus comprises: a thermal fusion member applying heat and a pressure to the sealing part of the battery case, at which the electrode lead is disposed, to seal the sealing part; and a temperature rising prevention member supported on a front end of the electrode lead to cool the sealing part through the electrode lead, thereby preventing the sealing part from increasing in temperature.
US10559784B2	Insulating molding for a battery cell An insulating molding (1) for a housing of at least one battery cell is disclosed, specifically for a housing of at least one lithium-ion battery cell, wherein, on at least one molding sidewall (3a, 3b) of the insulating molding (1), a depression (5) is configured, which is constituted by means of a reduced wall thickness, in order to reduce the force acting on the battery cell.
US10559782B2	Method of manufacturing organic light emitting display apparatus An organic light emitting display apparatus and a method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display apparatus, the apparatus including a first substrate; an organic light emitting diode on the first substrate, the organic light emitting diode including an emitting area that generates light, and a non-emitting area which generates no light; a second substrate facing the organic light emitting diode; a black matrix layer on a surface of the second substrate that faces the organic light emitting diode, the black matrix layer including an open area aligned with the emitting area of the organic light emitting diode, and a closed area aligned with the non-emitting area of the organic light emitting diode; and a photoresist member, at least a portion of the photoresist member being on the open area of the black matrix layer and protruding toward the organic light emitting diode.
US10559779B2	Flexible display with stress-relief layer in trench A flexible display and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. In one aspect, the flexible display includes a flexible substrate including a bending area, an insulating layer disposed on the flexible substrate, and at least one groove in the insulating layer within the bending area. The flexible display also includes a stress relaxation layer disposed on the at least one groove and a plurality of wires formed over the insulating layer and the stress relaxation layer.
US10559775B2	Organic EL display device An organic EL display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a base material; a plurality of pixels; a lower electrode which each of the plurality of pixels is provided with; an organic insulation layer which sections the plurality of pixels; an organic material layer which is disposed on the lower electrode and the organic insulation layer, and includes a plurality of layers; and an upper electrode on the organic material layer. A level difference part is positioned on an upper surface of the organic insulation layer, a first layer included in the organic material layer is divided at the level difference part, or has a thin part being thinner at the level difference part than at a position at which the first layer faces the lower electrode, and a second layer included in the organic material layer is not divided at the level difference part.
US10559774B2	Lighting apparatus using organic light-emitting diode and manufacturing method thereof According to a lighting apparatus using an organic light-emitting diode and a manufacturing method thereof of the present disclosure, a current imbalance due to a short circuit is controlled using a transparent high-resistance conductive film as a positive electrode instead of indium tin oxide (ITO), and a decrease in luminance is prevented by decreasing resistance of a positive electrode of an emission region through a post treatment. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to solve the problem of lighting malfunction of an entire panel, caused by a short circuit due to a foreign substance, even without reducing an aperture ratio, and concurrently, it is possible to secure normal luminance as resistance of an emission region is decreased.
US10559772B2	Display device and production method thereof An organic EL display device includes, as an organic layer stopper defining edges of an organic layer, a frame-shaped bank surrounding a display region. An upper face of the bank includes recessed portions and protrusions including a plurality of protrusions, and upper faces of the protrusions includes planar portions.
US10559769B2	Flexible substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display apparatus employing the same A method of manufacturing a flexible substrate includes injecting a first reactant above a polymer substrate into a top surface of the polymer substrate and infiltrating the first reactant into the polymer substrate, injecting a second reactant below the polymer substrate into a bottom surface of the polymer substrate and infiltrating the second reactant into the polymer substrate, and forming a barrier region by filling at least a portion of a free volume of the polymer substrate with an inorganic material formed via a reaction of the first and second reactants inside the polymer substrate.
US10559768B2	Adhesive and flexible display using the same A patterned adhesive can prevent detachment and easily return to an original state even during repeated folding operations, and a flexible display including the same are discussed. The patterned adhesive includes a patterned adhesive layer so that it can easily return to an original state by formation of a plurality of neutral planes upon compression and extension through a folding operation.
US10559765B2	Organic light-emitting device An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An electron transport region is between the second electrode and the emission layer. The electron transport region includes an electron injection layer including a first component including at least one halide of an alkali metal (Group I), a second component including at least one organometallic compound, and a third component including at least one of a lanthanide metal or an alkaline earth metal (Group II).
US10559763B2	Photoelectric conversion element, imaging device, optical sensor, and method of using photoelectric conversion element The present invention provides a photoelectric conversion element having a photoelectric conversion film which exhibits excellent photoelectric conversion efficiency and responsiveness, an imaging device, an optical sensor, and a method of using a photoelectric conversion element. In the photoelectric conversion element of the invention, a photoelectric conversion material contains at least one selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by General formula (1), a compound represented by General formula (2), and a compound represented by General formula (3).
US10559759B2	Organic electroluminescent device The organic EL device of the present invention has an anode, a first hole transport layer, a second hole transport layer, a luminous layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode in the order of description. The second hole transport layer includes an arylamine derivative represented by the following general formula (1): and the electron transport layer includes a pyrimidine compound represented by the following general formula (2):
US10559758B2	Organic light emitting diode of high efficiency Disclosed herein is an organic light-emitting diode, comprising: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a light-emitting layer and an electron density control layer in that order between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the electron density control layer includes at least one selected from among compounds represented by the following Chemical Formulas A to D, and the light emitting layer includes at least one anthracene compound represented by the following Chemical Formula H. The structures of Chemical Formulas A to D and H are as described in the specification.
US10559756B2	Materials for electronic devices The invention relates to compounds with benzindenofluorene base bodies having a structure of formula (I): and to the use thereof in electronic devices, in particular in organic electroluminescent devices.
US10559754B2	Organic semiconductor solution blends for switching ambipolar transport to N-type transport The present disclosure describes additives that attenuate a specific transport channel in ambipolar semiconductors to achieve unipolar characteristics. Carrier selective traps are included in the ambipolar semiconductors and are chosen on the basis of energetic preferences for holes or electrons and the relative positions of the molecular orbital energies of host polymer and the dopants. In one embodiment, a composition of matter useful as a current transport region in an organic semiconductor device comprises a semiconducting polymer; and means for accepting holes (e.g., a hole trapping compound) injected into the current transport region so as to impede conduction of the holes in the semiconducting polymer. This simple solution-processable method can improve the on and off current ratios (ION/IOFF) of OFETs by up to three orders of magnitude. Moreover, the treatment yields tailored blends that can be used to fabricate complementary inverters with excellent gain and low-power characteristics.
US10559753B2	Doping organic semiconductors We describe a method for reducing a parasitic resistance at an interface between a conducting electrode region and an organic semiconductor in a thin film transistor, the method comprising: providing a solution comprising a dopant for doping said semiconductor, and depositing said solution onto said semiconductor and/or said conducting electrode region to selectively dope said semiconductor adjacent said interface between said conducting electrode region and said semiconductor, wherein depositing said solution comprises inkjet-printing said solution.
US10559752B2	Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a first word line and a first bit line. The semiconductor device further includes a mold film disposed between the first word line and the first bit line, and a first memory cell disposed in the mold film. The first memory cell includes a first lower electrode in contact with the first word line. Side surfaces of the first lower electrode are in direct contact with the mold film. The first memory cell includes a first phase-change memory in contact with the first lower electrode, a first intermediate electrode in contact with the first phase-change memory, a first ovonic threshold switch (OTS) in contact with the first intermediate electrode, and a first upper electrode disposed between the first OTS and the first bit line, the first upper electrode in contact with the first OTS and the first bit line.
US10559751B1	Bottom electrode for semiconductor memory device A conductive microstud is formed in a recess of an insulator layer formed on the substrate. A bottom pedestal is formed on a top surface of the microstud. The material used for the bottom pedestal has a lower electrochemical voltage than a material used for the microstud. A top pedestal is formed on a top surface of the bottom pedestal. The top surface of at least one of the bottom pedestal and top pedestal is planarized. A conductive layer is formed on a top surface of the top pedestal. Next, a conical structure is formed. The conical structure is comprised of at least the conductive layer and a top portion of the top pedestal.
US10559742B1	Mounting pad and method for deterring theft and securing air conditioning units against high winds A mounting pad system and method for an HVAC outdoor unit that includes providing a lightweight fillable pad shell containing a gelling material and having securing slots extending from an underside surface to an upper side surface of the shell. The shell is filled with water through a port at its upper surface. Prior to leveling the filled pad on the soil at the site and installation of the outdoor unit, securing straps are inserted into the slots from the underside surface of the shell so as to extend through an upper surface thereof. The filling port is covered when the HVAC unit is placed on top of the pad. One or more securing anchors can be used to anchor the pad to the ground, which are also covered when the HVAC unit is place on top of the pad and an anti-theft cable can be employed to further prevent theft.
US10559740B2	Driving device, piezoelectric motor, electronic component conveyance apparatus, and robot A driving device includes a plurality of motive power generators that receive electric power supply and generate motive power, the plurality of motive power generators form a plurality of sets of motive power generators in which two or more of the motive power generators are electrically parallel-connected, and the plurality of sets of motive power generators are electrically series-connected. A driving device includes a plurality of vibrators that receive electric power supply and vibrate and provide drive power for driving a driven member to the driven member, the plurality of vibrators form a plurality of sets of vibrators in which two or more of the vibrators are electrically parallel-connected, and the plurality of sets of vibrators are electrically series-connected.
US10559735B2	Light emitting device having a pair of vias passing through a center of the concave component A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element and a light transmissive member. The substrate has a first main surface, a second main surface, and a mounting surface. The substrate includes an insulating base material defining a concave component opening on the second main surface and the mounting surface, a pair of connection terminals disposed on the first main surface, a pair of external connection sections disposed on the second main surface, and a pair of vias arranged at positions that interpose therebetween a line passing through a center of the concave component when viewed along a direction normal to the second main surface. The light emitting element has a pair of electrodes which connect to element connection sections of the pair of connection terminals. The light transmissive member is disposed on an upper surface of the light emitting element.
US10559734B2	Light emitting device package and light unit including the same Disclosed are a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package includes a body having recess; a first lead frame including a first and second portions on a first region of the body; a second lead frame including a third and fourth portions on a second region of the body; a third lead frame between the first and second lead frame. The body has a length of the first direction greater than a width of the second direction, wherein the second portion of the first lead frame extends toward the second lead frame and has a small width, and wherein the fourth portion of the second lead frame extends toward the first lead frame. A first light emitting device is disposed on the first portion of the first lead frame and a second light emitting device is disposed on the third portion of the second lead frame.
US10559733B2	Light-emitting device package A light-emitting device package according to an embodiment may include a body; N (herein, N denotes a positive integer of 5 or more) upper pads disposed on the body to be spaced apart from each other; N−1 light-emitting device chips respectively arranged on N−1 upper pads among the N upper pads; and a plurality of first wires for electrically connecting the N−1 light-emitting device chips and the N upper pads to each other by at least one of a plurality of wiring structures.
US10559731B1	Highly reliable and reflective LED substrate Aspects include features for improving the reliability of a reflective base structure for light emitting diodes (LED) chip-on-board (COB) array products. The reflective base structure reduces reflective material of a reflective layer (e.g., silver) from migrating into adjacent layers. In one configuration used to reduce the migration of reflective material, a reflective base for a light-emitting diode (LED) may comprise a substrate, a reflective layer, and a diffusion barrier layer between the substrate and the reflective layer. In another configuration used to reduce the migration of reflective material, a reflective base for an LED comprising: a substrate, a reflective layer; and a planarizing layer between the substrate and the reflective layer, a thickness of the planarizing layer between the substrate and the reflective layer being less than 70 nm.
US10559728B2	Semiconductor package structure A semiconductor package structure is disclosed. The package structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate on which the first substrate is disposed, and a semiconductor chip which is disposed on the first substrate. The two substrates can include two notches or two solder receiving portions. Therefore, when the package structure is disposed on the printed circuit board (PCB), the package structure will protrude less on the surface of the printed circuit board (PCB); or, the solders on the printed circuit board (PCB) will not be shifted by the package structure.
US10559727B2	Manufacturing method of colorful Micro-LED, display modlue and terminals The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing method of colorful Micro-LEDs. The method includes: bringing the array of the blue-light Micro-LEDs into contact with a first-color photosensitive solution and a second-color photosensitive solution; turning on first preset blue-light Micro-LEDs and the second preset blue-light Micro-LEDs of the array for conducting polymerization on the first and the second preset blue-light Micro-LEDs to form at least one lens. After the lens are formed, the first preset blue-light Micro-LEDs emit the light beams of the first color, the second preset blue-light Micro-LEDs emit the light beams of the second color, and the remaining blue-light Micro-LEDs emit the blue light beams to constitute three colors so as to obtain the colorful Micro-LEDs. In addition, the present disclosure also relates to a display module having the above array of the Micro-LEDs, and a terminal including the display module.
US10559721B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a substrate, a light emitting element, a light reflecting resin member, a sealing member, an electrically conductive wiring and a lens member. The light reflecting resin member surrounds the light emitting element. The sealing member is disposed in a region surrounded by the light reflecting resin member. The electrically conductive wiring is arranged on an upper surface of the substrate such that the substrate includes an exposed region exposed from the electrically conductive wiring with at least a part of the exposed region of the substrate being embedded in the light reflecting resin member. The lens member is disposed above the light emitting element to reach an outer edge of the substrate. The lens member is in contact with an upper surface of the sealing member and an upper surface and an outer lateral surface of the light reflecting resin member.
US10559718B2	Light-emitting device having plural recesses in layers A light-emitting device has a first conductive semiconductor layer; an active layer arranged on the first conductive semiconductor layer, and including a plurality of first recesses; an EBL arranged on the active layer, and including a plurality of second recesses arranged on the first recesses; and a second conductive semiconductor layer arranged on the EBL. The ratio of a first area doping concentration and a second recess doping concentration is from 1:0.8 to 1:1. The active layer emits first light and second light, the first light has a peak in a wavelength of 450 nm to 499 nm, and the second light has a peak in a wavelength of 500 nm to 550 nm.
US10559716B2	Semiconductor light emitting device and method for manufacturing same A semiconductor light emitting device according to an embodiment includes a stacked body. The stacked body includes a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a light emitting layer is provided on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type provided on the light emitting layer. The stacked body includes a first protrusion on an upper surface of the stacked body. The first protrusion protrudes in a first direction from the first semiconductor layer to the light emitting layer. Length of the first protrusion in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction decreases toward the first direction. The first protrusion includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion has a first side surface inclined with respect to the first direction. The second portion is provided below the first portion and having a second side surface inclined with respect to the first direction. The second side surface is curved so as to be convex downward.
US10559715B2	Light emitting diode A light emitting diode is provided to comprises: a substrate that has an elongated rectangular shape in one direction; a light emitting structure positioned on the substrate and having an opening for exposing a first conductive semiconductor layer; a first electrode pad disposed to be closer to a first corner of the substrate; a second electrode pad disposed to be relatively closer to a second corner of the substrate opposing to the first corner; a first extension extending from the first electrode pad; and a second extension and a third extension extending from the second electrode pad to sides of the first extension, wherein an imaginary line connecting an end of the second extension and an end of the third extension is located between the first electrode pad and the first corner.
US10559709B2	Mapping of measurement data to production tool location and batch or time of processing The present invention provides methods and systems for manufacturing process control of photovoltaic products. Some embodiments relate to a method for tracking wafers for photovoltaic products with respect to which production tool processed them and their position within that production tool. Some embodiments relate to measuring and characterizing the critical-to-quality parameters of the partially-finished photovoltaic products emerging from the production tool in question. Some embodiments relate to display and visualization of the measured parameters on a computer screen, such that the parameters of each production unit can be directly observed in the context of which production tools processed them, which location within a specific production tool they were located in during processing, and which batch, or in the case of continuous processing, what time, the unit(s) was/where processed.
US10559702B2	Monolithically integrated thin-film device with a solar cell, an integrated battery, and a controller A thin-film monolithically integrated solar module with a solar cell, an integrated energy storage device, and a controller may be provided. It may comprise a thin-film solar cell, having at least one solar diode, on a transparent substrate, a thin-film energy storage device, and an electronic controller comprising at least one thin-film transistor above the thin-film energy storage device. The electronic controller may be electrically connected to the thin-film solar cell and the thin-film energy storage device by vias. The named functional units may build a monolithically integrated device on one substrate.
US10559699B2	Semiconductor device A transistor includes oxide semiconductor stacked layers between a first gate electrode layer and a second gate electrode layer through an insulating layer interposed between the first gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor stacked layers and an insulating layer interposed between the second gate electrode layer and the oxide semiconductor stacked layers. The thickness of a channel formation region is smaller than the other regions in the oxide semiconductor stacked layers. Further in this transistor, one of the gate electrode layers is provided as what is called a back gate for controlling the threshold voltage. Controlling the potential applied to the back gate enables control of the threshold voltage of the transistor, which makes it easy to maintain the normally-off characteristics of the transistor.
US10559698B2	Oxide thin film transistor, manufacturing method thereof, array substrate and display device Embodiments of the present application provide an Oxide TFT, a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate and a display device. The Oxide TFT includes a base substrate; a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer and an active layer which are located on the base substrate; a source electrode and a drain electrode, the active layer is at least partly covered with the source electrode and the drain electrode; and a channel protection layer located between the source electrode and the drain electrode, each of the source electrode and the drain electrode includes at least part of a first metallic layer and at least part of a second metallic layer, the first metallic and the second metallic layer are stacked one on another, the channel protection layer is of a metal oxide.
US10559695B2	Semiconductor device and manufacturing method thereof To offer a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor having excellent characteristics and high reliability and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device without variation. The summary is to include an inverted-staggered (bottom-gate structure) thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film containing In, Ga, and Zn is used for a semiconductor layer and a buffer layer is provided between the semiconductor layer and source and drain electrode layers. An ohmic contact is formed by intentionally providing a buffer layer containing In, Ga, and Zn and having a higher carrier concentration than the semiconductor layer between the semiconductor layer and the source and drain electrode layers.
US10559693B2	Area-efficient single-legged SOI MOSFET structure immune to single-event-effects and bipolar latch-up New device structure for single-legged Silicon-On-Insulator Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (SOI MOS) transistor is presented. This new structure imposes a hard barrier for an Impact-Ionizations current and for transients due to Single-Event-Effects (SEE's) in Body to laterally conduct (or diffuse) to the Source through the Body/Source junction. It forces these currents to conduct instead to the Source through an alternate path made of highly conductive Silicide. This alternate path effectively suppresses the latch-up of the built-in parasitic Bipolar structure without necessitating the incorporation of Body-Tied-Source (BTS) into the device layout which is known to increase the device periphery without correspondingly scaling its device current.
US10559674B2	Manufacturing method of a trench power semiconductor device A manufacturing method of a trench power semiconductor device is provided. The manufacturing method includes the steps of forming a protective layer on an epitaxial layer and forming a trench gate structure in a trench formed in an epitaxial layer. The trench gate structure includes a shielding electrode, a gate disposed on the shielding electrode and an inter-electrode dielectric layer disposed therebetween. The step of forming the trench gate structure includes forming an insulating layer covering an inner surface of the trench; and before the step of forming the inter-electrode dielectric layer, forming an initial spacing layer, the spacing layer including a first sidewall portion and a second sidewall portion, both of which include bottom end portions spaced apart from each other and extending portions protruding from the protective layer.
US10559672B2	Vertical transport field-effect transistor including dual layer top spacer A vertical transport field-effect transistor includes a top source/drain region separated from an underlying gate stack by a multi-layer top spacer that includes an oxygen barrier layer beneath a top dielectric layer. Techniques for fabricating the transistor include depositing the oxygen barrier layer over the gate stack prior to depositing the top dielectric layer. The oxygen barrier layer blocks oxygen diffusion during deposition of the top dielectric layer, thereby avoiding damage to underlying interfacial and gate dielectric layers.
US10559671B2	Vertical transport field-effect transistor including air-gap top spacer A vertical transport field-effect transistor includes a top source/drain region separated from an underlying gate stack by a top spacer including open gaps to reduce capacitance therebetween. Techniques for fabricating the transistor include using a sacrificial spacer that is selectively removed prior to growth of the top source/drain region. The top source/drain region may be confined by opposing dielectric layers.
US10559669B2	Indium gallium arsenide metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor having a low contact resistance to metal electrode A semiconductor device that includes source and drain regions that are doped to an n-type conductivity and are comprised of a type III-V semiconductor material. The semiconductor device further includes a contact to at least one of the source and drain regions. The contact includes an interface passivation layer atop the at least one source and drain region, and an n-type zinc oxide layer. A conduction band of the type III-V semiconductor material of the at least one source and drain region is substantially aligned with a conduction band of the n-type zinc oxide containing layer.
US10559666B2	Device isolation using preferential oxidation of the bulk substrate A structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor buffer layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate, an oxide layer disposed over the buffer layer, and a fin including a semiconductor material disposed over the oxide layer. The semiconductor material has an oxidation rate different from an oxidation rate of the buffer layer.
US10559664B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor device by removing a bulk layer to expose an epitaxial-growth layer and by removing portions of a supporting-substrate to expose portions of the epitaxial-growth layer A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes assigning a plurality of chip regions on an epitaxial-growth layer of a semiconductor substrate where the epitaxial-growth layer is grown on a bulk layer and forming a plurality of device structures on the plurality of chip regions, respectively, thinning the semiconductor substrate from a bottom-surface side of the bulk layer, bonding a supporting-substrate on a bottom surface of the thinned semiconductor substrate, selectively removing the supporting-substrate so that the bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate is exposed, at locations corresponding to positions of each of main current paths in the plurality of device structures, respectively, dicing the semiconductor substrate together with the supporting-substrate along dicing lanes between the plurality of the chip regions so as to form a plurality of chips.
US10559663B2	Semiconductor device with improved current flow distribution A semiconductor device is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate; a transistor section provided in the semiconductor substrate; and a diode section provided in the semiconductor substrate being adjacent to the transistor section, wherein the diode section includes: a second conductivity-type anode region; a first conductivity-type drift region; a first conductivity-type cathode region; a plurality of dummy trench portions arrayed along a predetermined array direction; a contact portion provided along an extending direction of the plurality of dummy trench portions that is different from the array direction; and a lower-surface side semiconductor region provided directly below a portion of the contact portion at an outer end in the extending direction.
US10559662B2	Hybrid aspect ratio trapping A semiconductor structure includes a material stack located on a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The material stack includes, from bottom to top, a silicon germanium alloy portion that is substantially relaxed and defect-free and a semiconductor material pillar that is defect-free. A dielectric material structure surrounds sidewalls of the material stack and is present on exposed portions of the semiconductor substrate.
US10559659B2	Power semiconductor device A power semiconductor device includes an emitter electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and through which a main current flows, a conductive layer that is disposed on the emitter electrode and is not a sintered compact, and a sintered metal layer that is disposed on the conductive layer and is a sintered compact. The sintered metal layer has a size to cover all the emitter electrode in plan view, and has higher heat conductivity than the conductive layer. The power semiconductor device can improve heat dissipation performance and adhesion.
US10559655B1	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device comprises at least one gate structure disposed on a substrate; a first dielectric layer disposed on the substrate and contacting an outer sidewall of the at least one gate structure; a second dielectric layer having a L shape disposed on the first dielectric layer and contacting the outer sidewall of the at least one gate structure; an etch stop layer contacting the second dielectric layer, the first dielectric layer and the substrate, wherein the second dielectric layer has an upper portion and a lower portion contacting the upper portion, the upper portion extends along the outer sidewall, the lower portion extends from the outer sidewall to the etch stop layer; and an air gap between the second dielectric layer and the etch stop layer; wherein the first dielectric layer and the lower portion of the second dielectric layer have a same width.
US10559652B2	Semiconductor device A gate connection layer (14) includes a portion placed on an outer trench (TO) with a gate insulating film (7) being interposed. A first main electrode (10) includes a main contact (CS) electrically connected to a well region (4) and a first impurity region (5) within an active region (30), and an outer contact (CO) being spaced away from the active region (30) and in contact with a bottom face of the outer trench (TO). A trench-bottom field relaxing region (13) is provided in a drift layer (3). A trench-bottom high-concentration region (18) has an impurity concentration higher than that of the trench-bottom field relaxing region (13), is provided on the trench-bottom field relaxing region (13), and extends from a position where it faces the gate connection layer (14) with the gate insulating film (7) being interposed, to a position where it is in contact with the outer contact (CO) of the first main electrode (10).
US10559649B2	Metal insulator metal capacitor with extended capacitor plates A capacitor structure is described. A metal insulator metal capacitor in an integrated circuit device includes a first dielectric layer on a substrate. The first dielectric layer has a linear trench feature in which the capacitor is disposed. A bottom capacitor plate is in a lower portion of the trench. The bottom capacitor plate has an extended top face so that the extended top face extends upwards in a central region of the bottom capacitor plate metal relative to side regions. A high-k dielectric layer is disposed over the extended top face of the bottom capacitor plate. A top capacitor plate is disposed in a top, remainder portion of the trench on top of the high-k dielectric layer.
US10559648B2	Chip resistor and chip resistor assembly A chip resistor includes a base substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, two side surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface, and two end surfaces connecting the first surface and the second surface, a resistive layer disposed on the second surface of the base substrate, the resistive layer having a first surface in contact with the base substrate and a second surface opposing the first surface of the resistive layer, a first terminal and a second terminal spaced apart from each other and each being connected to the resistive layer on the second surface of the resistive layer, and a third terminal connected to the resistive layer on the second surface of the resistive layer, disposed between the first terminal and the second terminal, and extending to the first surface of the base substrate along the side surfaces.
US10559639B2	Organic light-emitting display device and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed are an organic light-emitting display device and a method for manufacturing the same. In the organic light-emitting display device, a switching thin film field-effect transistor comprises a first active layer for reducing a sub-threshold swing of a transfer characteristic curve of the switching thin film field-effect transistor; and a driving thin film field-effect transistor comprises a second active layer for increasing a sub-threshold swing of a transfer characteristic curve of the drive film field-effect transistor.
US10559638B2	Display panel having various layers overlaping one another in vertical direction and a method for forming the same A display panel and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The display panel includes: a TFT array substrate; an OLED array disposed on the TFT array substrate, a package layer which covers the OLED array, an upper protection layer covering the package layer, and a lower protection layer. In a first direction, a first projection of the OLED array on the TFT array substrate is located within a second projection of the package layer on the TFT array substrate, and there is a first distance between a boundary of the first projection and a boundary of the second projection. Also in the first direction, the second projection is located within a third projection of the upper protection layer on the TFT array substrate, and there is a second distance between the boundary of the second projection and a boundary of the third projection.
US10559637B2	Thin film encapsulation unit, organic light emitting diode display including the same and manufacturing method thereof A thin film encapsulation unit including an inorganic layer, a first organic layer on the inorganic layer and including a light-blocking unit and a light-transmitting unit, and a reflection-preventing layer on the first organic layer.
US10559635B2	Pixel defining layer, production method thereof, and display substrate There is provided a pixel defining layer, a production method thereof, and a display substrate. The pixel defining layer comprises a first lyophobic material layer located on a base substrate, wherein the first lyophobic material layer is repellent to solutions for forming respective layers of a light-emitting diode; the pixel defining layer defines a plurality of openings in an array arrangement; and the first lyophobic material layer has a plurality of wall surfaces facing to each of the openings, wherein at least one wall surface of the plurality of wall surfaces has a slope angle larger than 0 degree and less than 90 degrees.
US10559632B2	Display substrate, method for manufacturing the same and display apparatus The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate; light-emitting devices for displaying on the base substrate; driver thin film transistors on the base substrate for driving the light-emitting devices for displaying to emit light; optical fingerprint identification devices on the base substrate; and switch thin film transistors on the base substrate for controlling the optical fingerprint identification devices. The optical fingerprint identification devices are in a display area of the display substrate. Each film layer of each driver thin film transistor and a corresponding same film layer of each switch thin film transistor are in an identical layer and are made of the same material.
US10559630B2	Light emitting devices featuring optical mode enhancement A light emitting device includes a substrate supporting a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element, the first light emitting element being configured to emit, in a first principal direction, light in a first wavelength band and the second light emitting element being configured to emit, in the first principal direction, light in a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, each light emitting element including: a light emitting diode layer, extending in a plane perpendicular to the first direction, having a thickness of 10 microns or less in the first direction and a maximum lateral dimension of 100 microns or less orthogonal to the first direction, the light emitting diode layer including a semiconductor material; and one or more layers configured to enhance an optical mode of the light emitted in the corresponding first or second wavelength band perpendicular to the plane and/or suppress an optical mode of the light emitted in the corresponding first or second wavelength band in the plane.
US10559626B2	Neuromorphic device including a synapse having carbon nano-tubes A neuromorphic device is provided. The neuromorphic device may include a pre-synaptic neuron; a row line extending in a row direction from the pre-synaptic neuron; a post-synaptic neuron; a column line extending in a column direction from the post-synaptic neuron; and a synapse disposed at an intersection between the row line and the column line. The synapse may include a first synapse layer including a plurality of first carbon nano-tubes; a second synapse layer including a plurality of second carbon nano-tubes having different structures from the plurality of first carbon nano-tubes; and a third synapse layer including a plurality of third carbon nano-tubes having different structures from the plurality of first carbon nano-tubes and the plurality of second carbon nano-tubes.
US10559617B2	Light emitting device with reflective sidewall Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor light emitting device including a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. A wavelength converting structure is disposed in a path of light emitted by the light emitting layer. A diffuse reflector is disposed along a sidewall of the semiconductor light emitting device and the wavelength converting structure. The diffuse reflector includes a pigment. A reflective layer is disposed between the diffuse reflector and the semiconductor structure. The reflective layer is a different material from the diffuse reflector.
US10559614B2	Dual conversion gain circuitry with buried channels An imaging device may have an array of image sensor pixels each having a photodiode and a floating diffusion node. Each image sensor pixel in the array may also include a dual conversion gain switch and a dual conversion gain capacitor that allows the image sensor pixel to operate in a low conversion gain mode during which the switch is turned on to share charge between the floating diffusion node and the dual conversion gain capacitor, and a high conversion gain mode in which the switch is turned off. During integration, the photodiode may generate more charge than can be held at the floating diffusion node. A buried channel may be provided beneath the dual conversion gain switch to provide a path along which the excess charge can be shared between the floating diffusion node and the dual conversion gain capacitor even when the dual conversion gain switch is off.
US10559611B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a control circuit and pixels. Each pixel includes: a photosensitive area, a substantially rectangular storage area adjacent to the photosensitive area, and a read area. First and second insulated vertical electrodes electrically connected to each other are positioned opposite each other and delimit the storage area. The first electrode extends between the storage area and the photosensitive area. The second electrode includes a bent extension opposite a first end of the first electrode, with the storage area emerging onto the photosensitive area on the side of the first end. The control circuit operates to apply a first voltage to the first and second electrodes to perform a charge transfer, and a second voltage to block charge transfer.
US10559604B2	Array substrate, gate driving circuit and display panel An array substrate, a gate driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a first display area, a second display area and an opening area. The opening area is surrounded by the first display area. Among the sub-pixels in the first display area, the sub-pixels in at least two adjacent columns are connected to a same first data line. Among the two sub-pixels in the same row electrically connected to the same first data line, one sub-pixel is connected to the first gate line, and the other sub-pixel is connected to the second gate line. For the sub-pixels in the second display area, the sub-pixels in different columns are connected to different second data lines, and the sub-pixels in different rows are connected to different gate lines.
US10559603B2	Display panel and display apparatus thereof A display panel and a display apparatus are provided. A display panel includes a display region and a bonding region bonding a flexible circuit board with the display panel. The bonding region comprises a first surface located at a displaying side of the display panel and an opposing second surface, and includes a plurality of first pins and a plurality of second pins. The plurality of first pins are disposed at the first surface of the bonding region, and the plurality of second pins are disposed at the second surface of the bonding region. The display panel also includes a plurality of first transmission lines and a plurality of second transmission lines. A first transmission line is connected to a first pin, a second transmission line is connected to a second pin, and the second transmission line and the second pin are disposed at different film layers.
US10559601B2	Array substrate and method for manufacturing the same The present disclosure relates to an array substrate and a method for manufacturing the same. The array substrate includes a thin film transistor and comprises at least a first region and a second region. A thickness of an active layer of the thin film transistor in the first region is different from that of an active layer of the thin film transistor in the second region. A ratio of the overlapped area between the source electrode or the drain electrode and the active layer of the thin film transistor to the thickness of the active layer is kept uniform over the first region and the second region.
US10559596B2	Display device A display device is disclosed, which includes: a substrate; a first metal layer, disposed on the substrate and having a first pinhole; a second metal layer, disposed on the first metal layer and having a second pinhole; a pixel electrode layer, disposed on the second metal layer; and a light detecting element for detecting a light passing through the second pinhole and the first pinhole.
US10559595B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device A substrate in which an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and an insulating film are stacked on a semiconductor substrate and an element isolation region is embedded in a trench is prepared. After the insulating film in a bulk region is removed by dry etching and the semiconductor layer in the bulk region is removed by dry etching, the insulating layer in the bulk region is thinned by dry etching. A first semiconductor region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in a SOI region by ion implantation, and a second semiconductor region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in the bulk region by ion implantation. Then, the insulating film in the SOI region and the insulating layer in the bulk region are removed by wet etching. Thereafter, a first transistor is formed on the semiconductor layer in the SOI region and a second transistor is formed on the semiconductor substrate in the bulk region.
US10559593B1	Field-effect transistors with a grown silicon-germanium channel Structures for a field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure for a field-effect transistor. A first channel region containing a first semiconductor material and a second channel region containing a second semiconductor material are formed over a buried insulating layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate. A first gate electrode of a first field-effect transistor is formed over the first channel region. A second gate electrode of a second field-effect transistor is formed over the second channel region. The first semiconductor material of the first channel region has a first germanium concentration. The second semiconductor material of the second channel region has a second germanium concentration that is greater than the first germanium concentration in the first semiconductor material of the first channel region.
US10559592B1	Memory device and forming method thereof Methods and structures of a three-dimensional memory device are disclosed. In an example, the memory device includes a substrate and a first alternating conductor/dielectric stack disposed on the substrate and a dielectric layer disposed over the first alternating conductor/dielectric stack. A second alternating conductor/dielectric stack is disposed on the dielectric layer. The NAND memory device includes one or more array common source contacts extending orthogonally with respect to the surface of the substrate through the first layer stack and the second layer stack, wherein at least one of the one or more array common source contacts includes a first conductive contact and a second conductive contact that is disposed over and electrically connected with the first conductive contact.
US10559591B2	Vertical memory devices and methods of manufacturing the same A vertical memory device includes first, second and third impurity regions sequentially stacked in a first direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, a gate electrode structure including gate electrodes spaced apart from each other in the first direction on the third impurity region, a channel extending through the gate electrode structure, the second and third impurity regions, and an upper portion of the first impurity region on the substrate in the first direction, and a charge storage structure covering a portion of an outer sidewall and a lower surface of the channel. The channel directly contacts a sidewall of the second impurity region.
US10559580B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes insulating patterns and gate patterns alternately stacked on a substrate, a channel structure that intersects the insulating patterns and the gate patterns and connected to the substrate, a charge storage structure between the channel structure and the gate patterns, and a contact structure on the substrate at a side of the insulating patterns and the gate patterns. One of the gate patterns includes a first barrier pattern between a first insulating pattern of the insulating patterns and a second insulating pattern of the insulating patterns adjacent the first insulating pattern in a first direction perpendicular to a main surface of the substrate, the first barrier pattern defining a concave region between a first portion of the first barrier pattern extending along the first insulating pattern and a second portion extending along the second insulating pattern, and a metal pattern in the concave region.
US10559579B2	Assemblies having vertically-stacked conductive structures Some embodiments include a method in which an assembly is formed to have voids within a stack, and to have slits adjacent the voids. Peripheral boundaries of the voids have proximal regions near the slits and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. A material is deposited within the voids under conditions which cause the material to form to a greater thickness along the distal regions than along the proximal regions. Some embodiments include an assembly having a stack of alternating first and second levels. The second levels include conductive material. Panel structures extend through the stack. The conductive material within the second levels has outer edges with proximal regions near the panel structures and distal regions adjacent the proximal regions. Interface material is along the outer edges of the conductive material and has a different composition along the proximal regions than along the distal regions.
US10559577B2	Non-volatile memory devices and methods of fabricating the same A non-volatile memory device may include a first semiconductor layer including a peripheral region, the peripheral region including one or more peripheral transistors on a lower substrate. The non-volatile memory device may further include a second semiconductor layer on the peripheral region, the second semiconductor layer including an upper substrate, the second semiconductor layer further including a memory cell array on the upper substrate. The upper substrate may include a first upper substrate on the first semiconductor layer, a first layer on the first upper substrate, and a second upper substrate on the first layer.
US10559576B2	Manufacturing method of semiconductor device including transistor having offset insulating layers A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a memory array region and a peripheral region, isolation layers formed in the peripheral region to define an active region, offset insulating layers separated from each other and formed in the active region, and a gate electrode having edges overlapping with the offset insulating layers and arranged in the active region between the offset insulating layers.
US10559575B2	Non-volatile memory with restricted dimensions A memory device includes a memory plane including a succession of neighboring semiconductor recesses of a first type of conductivity, wherein each semiconductor recess houses a plurality of memory words including a plurality of memory cells, wherein each memory cell includes a state transistor having a floating gate and a control gate. The memory device further includes a plurality of control gate selection transistors respectively allocated to each memory word of the plurality of memory words, wherein each control gate selection transistor is coupled to the control gates of the state transistors of the memory word to which the control gate selection transistor is allocated, wherein each control gate selection transistor is situated in and on a neighbor semiconductor recess of the semiconductor recess housing the memory word to which the control gate selection transistor is allocated.
US10559565B2	Integrated circuit device and method of manufacturing the same An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a first and a second fin-type active region protruding from a first region and a second region, respectively, of a substrate, a first and a second gate line, and a first and a second source/drain region. The first fin-type active region has a first top surface and a first recess has a first depth from the first top surface. The first source/drain region fills the first recess and has a first width. The second fin-type active region has a second top surface and a second recess has a second depth from the second top surface. The second depth is greater than the first depth. The second source/drain region fills the second recess and has a second width. The second width is greater than the first width.
US10559563B2	Method for manufacturing monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuits A method for manufacturing a monolithic three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC) with junctionless semiconductor devices (JSDs) is provided. A first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over a semiconductor substrate, while also forming first vias and first interconnect wires alternatingly stacked in the first ILD layer. A first doping-type layer and a second doping-type layer are transferred to a top surface of the first ILD layer. The first and second doping-type layers are stacked and are semiconductor materials with opposite doping types. The first and second doping-type layers are patterned to form a first doping-type wire and a second doping-type wire overlying the first doping-type wire. A gate electrode is formed straddling the first and second doping-type wires. The gate electrode and the first and second doping-type wires at least partially define a JSD.
US10559560B2	Semiconductor electrostatic discharge protection device The present disclosure provides a semiconductor ESD protection device. The semiconductor ESD protection device includes a substrate including a first conductivity type, a gate formed on the substrate, a source region and a drain region formed in the substrate, and a body region formed in the substrate. The substrate and the body region include a first conductivity type. The source region and the drain region include a second conductivity type. And the first conductivity type and the second conductivity type are complementary to each other. The body region is electrically connected to the gate.
US10559556B2	Optoelectronic semiconductor component An optoelectronic semiconductor component is disclosed, comprising: a semiconductor body (1) having a semiconductor layer sequence (2) with a p-type semiconductor region (3), an n-type semiconductor region (5), and an active layer (4) arranged between the p-type semiconductor region (3) and the n-type semiconductor region (5); a support (10) having a plastic material and a first via (11) and a second via (12); a p-contact layer (7) and an n-contact layer (8), at least some regions of which are arranged between the support (10) and the semiconductor body (1), wherein the p-contact layer (7) connects the first via (11) to the p-type semiconductor region (3) and the n-contact layer (8, 8A) connects the second via (12) to the n-type semiconductor region (5); and an ESD protection element (15) which is arranged between the support (10) and the semiconductor body (1), wherein the ESD protection element (15) is electrically conductively connected to the first via (11) and to the second via (12), and wherein a forward direction of the ESD protection element (15) is anti-parallel to a forward direction of the semiconductor layer sequence (2).

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