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| US10608331B2 |
Antenna device for mobile communication system
The present disclosure relates to an antenna device for a mobile communication system, including a reflection plate, a service band separator/coupler and a radome. The reflection plate is configured in a plate shape, multiple radiation elements being mounted on one surface of the reflection plate so as to transmit/receive radio signals. The service band separator/coupler is installed on the other surface of the reflection plate so as to separate/couple the service band of the corresponding antenna device. The radome is configured in the shape of an integrated barrel that surrounds the reflection plate and the service band separator/coupler as a whole. |
| US10608330B2 |
Method and apparatus to conceal near transparent conductors
The present application generally relates to antennas embedded in or on glass structures. More specifically, the application teaches a method and apparatus for camouflaging near-transparent conductors by adding additional conductive or non-conductive materials of non-conductive areas by applying the additional materials in the same plane or a different plane than the antenna. |
| US10608327B1 |
Antenna structure and wireless communication device employing same
An antenna structure requiring less installation space but providing 2G-5G wireless capabilities includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and a ferrite beads module. The ferrite beads module connects between the first antenna and the second antenna. When the antenna structure operates at a first radiation frequency band, a connection between first antenna and second antenna is open, thus the second antenna operates independently. For a second radiation frequency band, the first antenna and the second antenna are shorted out and cooperatively transmit and receive wireless signals, frequencies of the first radiation frequency band being greater than frequencies of the second radiation frequency band. A wireless communication device employing the antenna structure is also provided. |
| US10608324B2 |
Electronic device comprising antenna
An electronic device includes a metal housing, a conductive member disposed adjacent to the metal housing, a plurality of ground parts including a first ground part electrically connected with a first point of the conductive member and a second ground part electrically connected with a second point of the conductive member, a ground plate electrically connected with the metal housing and electrically connected with the conductive member via the plurality of ground parts, and a feeding part electrically connected with the conductive member. |
| US10608322B2 |
Antenna component and mobile terminal having the same
An antenna component includes an antenna body and a conductor. The antenna body includes a PCB board and a spring piece, and a first end of the spring piece is connected to the PCB board. The conductor is configured to be connected to an insulator and an end metal piece, and includes a first conductive portion opposite to the insulator, and a second conductive portion connected to the first conductive portion and opposite to the end metal piece, and the first conductive portion abuts against a second end of the spring piece. A mobile terminal including an antenna component is further provided. |
| US10608321B2 |
Antennas in patterned conductive layers
An electronic device may include a substrate and a conductive layer on the substrate. The conductive layer may be patterned to form a first region and a second region that surrounds and defines the shape of the first region. The first region may be formed from a continuous portion of the conductive layer. The second region may include a grid of openings that divides the conductive layer into an array of patches. The first region may form an antenna resonating element for an antenna. The second region may block antenna currents from the antenna resonating element and may be transparent to radio-frequency electromagnetic waves. The openings may have a width that is too narrow to be discerned by the human eye. This may configure the first and second regions to appear as a single continuous conductive layer despite the fact that an antenna resonating element is formed therein. |
| US10608320B2 |
Attenuation of cavity modes on foldable wireless electronic devices using ohmic contacts
Foldable wireless electronic devices that communicate wirelessly are provided that can attenuate the cavity modes created when the devices are folded. The electronic devices may utilize prescribed housing dimensions, ohmic contacts, and capacitive coupling to attenuate the cavity modes. There may be minimal impact on the industrial design of the devices. The radiation efficiency and VSWR of the antennas of the electronic devices may not be degraded. Also, the frequency of the cavity modes may be controlled such that the cavity modes are resonated out of frequencies of interest, and the severity and occurrence of RF energy absorption may be attenuated or eliminated. Users of the foldable wireless electronic devices may have increased satisfaction as the devices may perform better while still having desirable aesthetics and appearance. |
| US10608316B2 |
Ka-band antenna with fine azimuth and elevation adjustment
According to an aspect, an antenna mount includes a pole canister and an assembly. The assembly includes a first bracket coupled in a fixed position to the pole canister. The assembly also includes a second bracket coupled to the first bracket at a pivot. The assembly also includes a third bracket movably coupled to the second bracket. The assembly further includes a first cam adapted to pivot the second bracket about the pivot in relation to the first bracket along a horizontal axis. The assembly also includes a second cam adapted to slide the third bracket in relation to the second bracket. |
| US10608311B2 |
Cable assembly comprising a single wire coupled to a signal launcher and housed in a first cover portion and in a second ferrite cover portion
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for a cable assembly for single wire communications (SWC). In one instance, the cable assembly may comprise a wire having a wire end to couple with a signal launcher of an electronic device, and a first cover portion to house a first portion of the wire that extends from the wire end. The first cover portion may comprise a shape to conform to a shape of the signal launcher, and may be fabricated of a material with a dielectric constant above a threshold. The assembly may further comprise a second cover portion coupled with the first cover portion to house a second portion of the wire that extends from the first wire portion and protrudes from the first cover portion. The second cover portion may be fabricated of a ferrite material. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10608309B2 |
Magnetoresistance effect device and high-frequency device
A magnetoresistance effect device includes a first port, a second port, a magnetoresistance effect element, a first signal line that is connected to the first port and applies a high-frequency magnetic field to the magnetoresistance effect element, a second signal line that connects the second port to the magnetoresistance effect element, and a direct current application terminal that is connected to a power source configured to apply a direct current or a direct voltage in a lamination direction of the magnetoresistance effect element. The first signal line includes a plurality of high-frequency magnetic field application areas capable of applying a high-frequency magnetic field to the magnetoresistance effect element, and the plurality of high-frequency magnetic field application areas in the first signal line are disposed at positions at which high-frequency magnetic fields generated in the high-frequency magnetic field application areas reinforce each other in the magnetoresistance effect element. |
| US10608300B2 |
Housing arrangement for at least one battery cell
The present invention relates to a housing arrangement (10) for at least one battery cell (1), preferably a lithium battery cell (1) and/or a lithium pouch cell (1), wherein the housing arrangement (10) comprises at least one frame element (20) which comprises a wall (30) and an intermediate space (40) configured by the wall (30) for the acceptance of the battery cell (1), wherein at the wall (30) multiple ventilation recesses (50) are provided, wherein the ventilation recesses (50) comprise such an alternating orientation that the entry of a fluid (5) can occur alternatingly through the ventilation recesses (50). |
| US10608299B2 |
Cooling system for a battery pack system for quickly addressing thermal runaway
A battery pack system includes a battery pack module having a plurality of sealed battery cell containers, each having at least one battery cell configured to store electrical energy and a port. The battery pack system further includes a battery pack management system having a controller and a plurality of sensors operatively connected to the controller. The battery pack system further has a cooling system having a coolant source, a fluid channel connecting the coolant source to the port of at least one of the plurality of sealed battery cell containers, and at least one valve operatively connected to controller. The controller is configured to receive a signal from one of the plurality of sensors indicative of an abnormal condition at one of the sealed battery cell containers and control the at least one valve to introduce coolant fluid into the sealed battery cell container. |
| US10608297B2 |
Systems and methods for cooling batteries in a battery powered blow dryer
A battery powered blow dryer having a novel battery cooling feature to simultaneously cool the batteries and improve hair dryer performance. |
| US10608293B2 |
Dual sided reusable battery indicator
A reusable battery indicator comprises a voltage sensor configured to convert sensed analog characteristics of a battery to digital information; a communication circuit communicatively connected to the voltage sensor; an antenna operatively coupled to the communication circuit; and a connection mechanism having at least a first connector and a second connector that are electrically connected to the voltage sensor, the first connector and the second connector being adapted to be removably connected to a first battery terminal and to a second battery terminal, respectively, thereby completing an electrical circuit between the voltage sensor and the first and second battery terminals when the connection mechanism is coupled to the first battery terminal and to the second battery terminal. |
| US10608292B2 |
Battery module having structure in which battery management system is directly connected to terminal plates
Disclosed herein is a battery module including a battery cell stack configured to have a structure in which a plurality of battery cells is arranged such that the battery cells are adjacent to each other laterally, a pair of cell frames mounted to opposite ends of the battery cell stack, terminal plates for electrically connecting electrode terminals of the battery cells to each other, and a battery management system (BMS) mounted to one side surface of the battery cell stack in the state in which the BMS is directly connected to the terminal plates. |
| US10608283B2 |
Electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same
Provided are an electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same, wherein the electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery of the present invention may improve DC-IR characteristic and battery storage characteristic, and may improve high-temperature stability, low-temperature characteristic, and lifespan characteristic to thereby be effectively used for manufacturing a secondary battery. |
| US10608279B2 |
Cathode additives to provide an excess lithium source for lithium ion batteries
A lithium ion electrochemical cell is described in which the lithium comprising further comprises a lithiation agent. The lithiation agent, which comprises a lithium constituent, is designed to provide an excess source of lithium to minimize capacity loss of the lithium ion electrochemical cell. The anode of the lithium ion cell comprises a material matrix comprising carbon, graphene and an active element such as silicon or tin. |
| US10608275B2 |
Redox flow battery cell, redox flow battery cell stack, and redox flow battery
A redox flow battery cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a membrane interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The positive electrode and the negative electrode have an overlapping region where the positive electrode and the negative electrode overlap each other with the membrane therebetween, and at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode has a non-overlapping region where the positive electrode and the negative electrode do not overlap each other with the membrane therebetween. The total area of the non-overlapping region is 0.1% to 20% of the area of the overlapping region. |
| US10608269B2 |
Temperature measuring method
A fuel cell system comprising a controller, a temperature sensor that has a physical presence in a conduit within the system to measure the temperature of the fluid at a point within the conduit (Tg) and a wall temperature sensor for sensing a temperature of a wall of the conduit (Tw). The controller takes Tg and Tw as inputs and applies an equation with known constants to calculate measurement error of Tg based on the local flow temperature and geometry and arrives at a calculated temperature. The equation may be applied iteratively until the difference between the calculated temperature and Tg is below an acceptable value when the calculated temperature can then be assumed to be an accurate representation of the actual gas temperature at the Tg measurement point. The direction of calculation is controlled by the relative difference between Tg and Tw. |
| US10608265B2 |
System for controlling low-temperature starting of fuel cell vehicle and method for the same
A system for controlling low-temperature starting of a fuel cell vehicle includes a high-pressure hydrogen flow control valve controlling a flow of hydrogen supplied to a fuel cell stack. A fuel cell controller is configured to change and control an opening rate of the high-pressure hydrogen flow control valve when an internal temperature of the fuel cell stack is a reference value or less. When the opening rate of the high-pressure hydrogen flow control valve decreases, a pressure of the hydrogen passing through the high-pressure hydrogen flow control valve decreases to increase a temperature of the hydrogen which is supplied to the fuel stack. |
| US10608264B2 |
Fuel cell system and control method therefor
A fuel cell system includes an auxiliary machine driven by power of the fuel cell, a heater electrically connected to the fuel cell and configured to heat cooling water supplied to the fuel cell, and a warm-up control unit configured to control power supply to the auxiliary machine and the heater during start-up of the fuel cell below freezing point. The warm-up control unit is configured to compute a produced water amount until the temperature of the fuel cell increases to a freezing point temperature on the basis of a degree of wetness and a temperature of the fuel cell and a generated power of the fuel cell during warm-up, and increase a power ratio of power to the heater in regards to the auxiliary machine during the warm-up when the computed produced water amount is determined to be larger than a threshold value. |
| US10608262B2 |
Fuel cell vehicle
A fuel cell vehicle comprises a fuel cell module configured to include a fuel cell stack, a tank configured to store a gas that is supplied to the fuel cell stack, a fuel cell placement chamber configured to place the fuel cell module therein and a tank placement chamber formed on a rear side of the fuel cell placement chamber in a vehicle longitudinal direction of the fuel cell vehicle under a floor of the fuel cell vehicle and configured to place the tank therein. The fuel cell module is placed vertically above the tank such as not to overlap with the tank when being viewed in the vehicle longitudinal direction. |
| US10608258B2 |
Catalyst for solid polymer fuel cells and method for producing same
The present invention aims to provide a catalyst that makes it possible to reduce an amount of solid electrolyte mixed and improve initial performance of a fuel cell, and also a method for producing the catalyst. The present invention relates to a catalyst for a solid polymer fuel cell, which has sulfo groups (—SO3H) on catalyst particles. In TEM-EDX analysis, a ratio (IS/IPt) of a sulfur peak intensity (IS) to a platinum peak intensity (IPt) on the catalyst particles is within a range of 0.0044 or more and 0.0090 or less. The catalyst makes it possible to reduce the amount of solid electrolyte added and also a fuel cell with excellent initial performance, and thus contributes to a practical use of a fuel cell. |
| US10608253B2 |
Lithium secondary battery and method of fabricating the same
A lithium secondary battery includes a cathode formed from a cathode active material including a first cathode active material particle and a second cathode active material particle, an anode and a separator interposed between the cathode and the anode. The first cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide including a continuous concentration gradient in at least one region between a central portion and a surface portion. The second cathode active material particle includes a lithium metal oxide including at least two metals except for lithium which have constant concentrations from a central portion to a surface, and the second cathode active material particle includes an excess amount of nickel among the metals except for lithium. |
| US10608246B2 |
SBA-15/C anode for a lithium-ion battery and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention is directed to an anode for a lithium-ion battery and a method of manufacturing the same. The anode is manufactured from a material composed of Si and C known as SBA-15/C having a porous structure of mesopores interconnected by micropores, wherein carbon nanofibers occupy the pore space of the porous structure. The anode has improved conductivity properties and allows to mitigate the drawbacks linked to the volumetric expansion of the anode during the operation of a lithium-ion battery. |
| US10608239B2 |
Method for producing electrode body
A method for producing an electrode body, suppressing a decrease in capacity of an oxide active material while improving the Li-ion conductance of a sulfide solid electrolyte material. The method producing an electrode body, including a heating step of heating an oxide active material and amorphous sulfide solid electrolyte material in state where the oxide active material and amorphous sulfide solid electrolyte material are in contact with each other, in which the oxide active material is a rock salt bed type active material, the sulfide solid electrolyte material contains a Li element, P element, and S element, and includes an ion conductor containing PS43—as main component of an anion structure, LiI, and LiBr, and heating temperature in the step is equal to or higher than the crystallization onset temperature of the sulfide solid electrolyte material and equal to or lower than the sulfide solid electrolyte material crystallization peak temperature. |
| US10608237B2 |
Secondary battery
A secondary battery having improved safety includes an electrode assembly, a case configured to accommodate the electrode assembly, and a cap assembly coupled to the case. The cap assembly includes a cap plate configured to cover the case and defining a short-circuit opening therein, a short-circuit plate exterior to the cap plate and positioned such that at least a portion of the short-circuit plate is positioned in the short-circuit opening, a first deformable plate inside the cap plate, and a cover exterior to the short-circuit plate extending over the short-circuit plate. A space defined between the cover and the first deformable plate has a negative pressure. |
| US10608235B2 |
Multi-electrode electrochemical cell and method of making the same
A multi-electrode device that includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a gate electrode situated between the anode and cathode, and having an electrolyte. The multi-electrode device can be a secondary (rechargeable) electrochemical cell. The gate electrode is permeable to at least one mobile species which is redox-active at at least one of the anode and cathode. The gate electrode has a resistance that is lower than that of a conductive non-uniform morphological feature that could be grown on the anode. The gate electrode provides the ability to avoid, recognize, and remove the presence of such non-uniform morphological features, and provides an electrical electrode that can be used to remove such non-uniform morphological features. |
| US10608234B2 |
Multi-electrode electrochemical cell and method of making the same
A multi-electrode device that includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a gate electrode situated between the anode and cathode, and having an electrolyte. The multi-electrode device can be a secondary (rechargeable) electrochemical cell. The gate electrode is permeable to at least one mobile species which is redox-active at at least one of the anode and cathode. The gate electrode has a resistance that is lower than that of a conductive non-uniform morphological feature that could be grown on the anode. The gate electrode provides the ability to avoid, recognize, and remove the presence of such non-uniform morphological features, and provides an electrical electrode that can be used to remove such non-uniform morphological features. |
| US10608231B2 |
Battery module constant current relay control systems and methods
A battery module may include a housing, a plurality of battery cells disposed in the housing, a battery terminal extending from the battery module for coupling the battery module with electrical components in the vehicle, and a contactor. A voltage supplied to a relay coil in the contactor may generate a magnetic field to actuate a contactor switch. The battery module may also include a printed circuit board (PCB) disposed in the housing. The PCB may include a relay control circuit configured to control a current flowing across the relay coil, and the relay control circuit may operate in a pull-in mode to transition the contactor switch into a closed position and in a hold mode to maintain the contactor switch in the closed position. |
| US10608230B2 |
External connection busbar holding module and connection module
An external connection busbar holding module includes: a first external connection busbar includes a bolt-fastening portion that is bent orthogonal to one end, and to which an external connection component is to be bolted, the bolt-fastening portion being provided at another end; and an external connection busbar protector that holds the first external connection busbar. The external connection busbar protector includes a positioning portion into which the bolt-fastening portion is inserted, and that positions the first external connection busbar. The positioning portion includes an entrance portion having a predetermined clearance relative to the bolt-fastening portion, and a clearance reduction portion that reduces the predetermined clearance. |
| US10608227B2 |
Electricity storage module
An electricity storage module includes a layered object obtained by layering power storage elements each having positive and negative foil-shaped lead terminals that project in an outward direction from an end portion, and connection members that connect the lead terminals of adjacent power storage elements to each other. An insulating holding member is arranged between the layered object and the connection members. Connection member holding portions that hold the connection members are provided on the insulating holding member, and slits are provided on the insulating holding member so as to extend along edge portions of the connection members. The lead terminals are connected to the connection members by being inserted through the slits and folded over onto the connection members. |
| US10608219B2 |
Integrated cartridge and battery pack comprising same
An integrated cartridge, comprising: a main frame composed of a front plate having a plurality of lead passing holes provided in a slit form so that electrode leads of a plurality of layered battery cells pass therethrough, and first and second side plates extending at both edges of the front plate in parallel to each other and having a plurality of cell insert slots provided at inner sides thereof, which face each other, so that the plurality of battery cells are capable of being inserted from a free end to the front plate; a cover plate coupled to the first and second side plates to cover the plurality of battery cells arranged in a layered form between the first and second side plates; and a sensing unit mounted to the front plate and electrically connected to the electrode leads to sense electric characteristics of the plurality of battery cells. |
| US10608216B2 |
Battery module and battery pack including same
A battery module is provided. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the battery module may include: a cartridge assembly including a plurality of cartridges, each receiving a battery cell; a casing surrounding the cartridge assembly; and a support member configured to enclose the casing for supporting the casing. |
| US10608215B2 |
Curved surface-structured battery pack
Disclosed herein is a battery pack including a battery cell having a curved surface and a pack housing having a curved surface, the pack housing having a battery cell receiving space corresponding to the curved surface of the battery cell to prevent occurrence of a spring back phenomenon of the battery cell and to prevent change in curvature of the battery cell due to external impact. |
| US10608213B2 |
Rechargeable battery modules and rechargeable battery module handling methods
Rechargeable battery modules and rechargeable battery module handling methods are described. According to one aspect, a rechargeable battery module includes a housing, a plurality of terminals, a plurality of rechargeable cells within the housing and coupled with the terminals, and wherein the rechargeable cells are configured to store electrical energy, a plurality of lift members at different locations of the housing, and wherein the lift members provide a plurality of lift points for the rechargeable battery module which enable the rechargeable battery module to be lifted in a plurality of different orientations. |
| US10608211B2 |
Outer casing material for battery and lithium secondary battery
An outer casing material for a battery 4 is provided, wherein an outer layer 11, a metal foil layer 10 and an inner layer 8 are laminated via an adhesive layer 5; the inner layer 8 comprises a sealant layer 8b and a base material layer 8a; the sealant layer 8b is made from a propylene-ethylene random copolymer wherein a melt flow rate at 230° C. thereof is in a range of 3 to 30 g/10 minutes; the base material layer 8a is made of a resin composition wherein a melt flow rate at 230° C. thereof is in a range of 0.1 to 15 g/10 minutes, xylene-soluble component Xs thereof satisfies the predetermined conditions, and the resin composition comprises 50 to 80% by mass of a propylene component (A) and 50 to 20% by mass of a copolymer component (B) which is an elastomer of a copolymer of propylene and ethylene and/or α-olefin having 4 to 12 carbons and includes 50 to 85% by mass of a polymerization unit originated from propylene. |
| US10608209B2 |
Method for manufacturing of display device using inspection pattern
A method for manufacturing a display device is provided. A process of forming an inspection pattern, in which a protective film unit is partially removed in a thickness direction, in a pad area portion of the protective film unit, which corresponds to a pad area of a display unit, may be performed, and then, a process of delaminating the pad area portion of the protective film unit may be performed. A process of checking whether the inspection pattern exists may be performed to check whether the delamination has succeeded, and, at the same time, a process of measuring distances from an alignment mark to each of a long side and a short side of the display unit may be performed. |
| US10608207B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode display device including a thin film encapsulation layer
A display device includes: a substrate; an organic light-emitting diode positioned above the substrate; and a thin film encapsulation layer disposed on the organic light-emitting diode. The thin film encapsulation layer includes: at least one inorganic layer; and at least one organic layer disposed on the at least one inorganic layer. The at least one organic layer has a refractive index of about 1.66 or greater. |
| US10608205B2 |
Sealing structure and light emitting device
A sealing structure (200) seals a light emitting unit (140) and includes a first inorganic film (210), a second inorganic film (220), a first resin-containing film (230), and a second resin-containing film (240). The film thickness of the first inorganic film (210) is equal to or greater than 1 nm and equal to or less than 300 nm. The first resin-containing film (230) is in contact with the first inorganic film (210) and includes a first resin. The second inorganic film (220) is positioned on an opposite side of the first inorganic film (210) with the first resin-containing film (230) interposed between the first and second inorganic films. The second resin-containing film (240) is positioned between the first resin-containing film (230) and the second inorganic film (220) and is in contact with the second inorganic film (220). The second resin-containing film (240) includes a second resin. |
| US10608204B2 |
Encapsulation structure-containing display device, method for producing the same, array substrate and display apparatus
Provided are an encapsulation structure-containing display device, a method for producing the same, an array substrate and a display apparatus. The display device has a base substrate, function layers on the base substrate, and an encapsulation unit on the function layers, wherein the encapsulation unit is in contact with the base substrate around the function layers, to encapsulate the function layers; wherein the base substrate comprises a first substrate, a first moisture-oxygen-blocking organic layer on the first substrate, and a second substrate on the first moisture-oxygen-blocking organic layer; wherein the function layers are on the second substrate; wherein the encapsulation unit comprises a second moisture-oxygen-blocking organic layer, wherein the second moisture-oxygen-blocking organic layer is in contact with the first moisture-oxygen-blocking organic layer around the function layers and combines with the first moisture-oxygen-blocking organic layer at the contact surface to form an one-piece structure. |
| US10608189B2 |
Condensed cyclic compounds and organic light-emitting devices including the same
A condensed cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same, the condensed cyclic compound being represented by Formula 1 below: |
| US10608185B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
The present invention includes fused tetraphenylene compounds that may be used as charge transporters, hosts or emitters in OLEDs. |
| US10608181B2 |
Manufacturing method of light-emitting element
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element, in particular, a method for manufacturing a light-emitting element with high emission efficiency is provided. In the method for manufacturing a light-emitting element that includes a light-emitting layer containing a host material and a light-emitting material that is an organic compound or an organic metal complex, the light-emitting layer is formed by co-evaporation of the light-emitting material and the host material, and the light-emitting layer is deposited by co-evaporation while the percentage of the partial pressure of carbon dioxide with respect to the total pressure in an evaporation chamber for the co-evaporation is kept higher than that in the air. |
| US10608177B2 |
Self-gated RRAM cell and method for manufacturing the same
The present disclosure discloses a self-gated RRAM cell and a manufacturing method thereof; which belong to the field of microelectronic technology. The self-gated RRAM cell comprises: a stacked structure containing multiple layers of conductive lower electrodes; a vertical trench formed by etching the stacked structure; a M8XY6 gated layer formed on an inner wall and a bottom of the vertical trench; a resistance transition layer formed on a surface of the M8XY6, gated layer; and a conductive upper electrode formed on a surface of the resistance transition layer, the vertical trench being filled with the conductive upper electrode. The present disclosure is implemented on a basis of using the self-gated RRAM as a memory cell. It may not depend on a gated transistor and a diode, but relies on a non-linear variation characteristic of resistance of its own varied with voltage to achieve a self-gated function, which has a simple structure, easy integration, high density and low cost, capable of suppressing a reading crosstalk phenomenon in a cross array structure; and is also adapted for a planar stacked cross array structure and a vertical cross array structure, achieving 3D storage with a high density. |
| US10608174B2 |
Double-patterned magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) for reducing magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) pitch for increased MRAM bit cell density
Double-patterned magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) for reducing magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) pitch for increased MRAM bit cell density is disclosed. In one aspect, to fabricate MTJs in an MRAM array with reduced MTJ row pitch, a first patterning process is performed to provide separation areas in an MTJ layer between what will become rows of fabricated MTJs, which facilitates MTJs in a given row sharing a common bottom electrode. This reduces the etch depth and etching time needed to etch the individual MTJs in a subsequent step, can reduce lateral projections of sidewalls of the MTJs, thereby relaxing the pitch between adjacent MTJs, and may allow an initial MTJ hard mask layer to be reduced in height. A subsequent second patterning process is performed to fabricate individual MTJs. Additional separation areas are etched between free layers of adjacent MTJs in a given row to fabricate the individual MTJs. |
| US10608171B2 |
Self contacting bit line to MRAM cell
Embodiments of the invention disclose magnetic memory cell configurations in which a magnetic storage structure is coupled to an upper metal layer with minimal overlay margin. This greatly reduces a size of the memory cell. |
| US10608169B2 |
Magnetic tunnel junction device with spin-filter structure
A magnetic device includes a conductive layer into which current can be injected in a first direction, the conductive layer causing spin Hall effect or Rashba effect. A ferromagnetic layer is disposed in contact with the conductive layer such that the ferromagnetic layer and the conductive layer are stacked on each other, a magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic layer being switched. A spin filter structure has a fixed magnetization direction, the spin filter structure being disposed on at least one of the opposite side surfaces of the first direction of the conductive layer to inject spin-polarized current into the conductive layer. |
| US10608168B2 |
Isolated hall effect element with improved electro-magnetic isolation
A planar Hall effect element be formed upon or can include a P-type substrate. The planar Hall effect element can also include a Hall plate region. The Hall plate region can include a first portion of an N-type layer disposed over the P-type substrate. The first portion of the N-type layer can include a top surface distal from the P-type substrate, and a continuous N-type outer boundary intersecting the top surface of the Hall plate region. The planar Hail effect element can also include an isolation region having a continuous outer boundary and having a continuous inner boundary, the continuous inner boundary in contact with all of the outer boundary of the Hall plate region, the P-type substrate and the first portion of the N-type layer not forming a P/N junction. |
| US10608165B2 |
Piezoelectric element and liquid ejecting head
Provided is a piezoelectric element including a first electrode provided above a substrate, a piezoelectric layer provided above the first electrode, containing potassium, sodium, and niobium, and having a perovskite structure, and a second electrode provided above the piezoelectric layer. In a case where the piezoelectric layer is divided into two portions at a center thereof in a thickness direction, the piezoelectric layer includes a first portion on the first electrode side and a second portion on the second electrode side. The piezoelectric layer includes line defects. A density of the line defects in the second portion is higher than a density of the line defects in the first portion. |
| US10608164B2 |
Piezoelectric thin film, manufacturing method therefor, and piezoelectric element
A piezoelectric thin film composed of aluminum nitride and which contains magnesium and 31 to 120 atomic percent of niobium relative to 100 atomic percent of the magnesium, and the total content of the magnesium and the niobium relative to the total sum of contents of the magnesium, the niobium and the aluminum nitride falls within the range of 10 to 67 atomic percent. |
| US10608162B2 |
Stacked film, electronic device substrate, electronic device, and method of fabricating stacked film
A stacked film includes an oxide film including a ZrO2 film, a metal oxide film provided on the oxide film, and a predetermined metal film provided on the metal oxide film and having a single orientation, and the metal oxide film is a PtO film or a PdO film. In the case of this structure, the predetermined metal film has a single orientation, and characteristics of the piezoelectric film such as PZT formed on the predetermined metal film are improved. Therefore, excellent characteristics such as an increase in the driving force due to the piezoelectric film or a reduction in leakage current can be exhibited. |
| US10608161B2 |
Method for manufacturing multilayer components, and multilayer component
A method for manufacturing multilayer components, and a multilayer component are disclosed. The method includes manufacturing a body comprising electrically conductive layers and dielectric layers which are stacked one above the other, wherein the body comprises at least one cavity and at least partially filling the cavity with an insulation material using capillary forces. The method further includes after partially filling the cavity, singulating the body into at least two base bodies and applying a passivation layer to surfaces of the singulated base bodies, wherein the passivation layer comprises a material which is different from the insulation material. |
| US10608160B2 |
Vibration sensor with integrated temperature detection
A vibration sensor with a diaphragm that can be set into vibration, a piezo-electric drive for setting the diaphragm into vibration and for detecting vibrations in the diaphragm, with the drive having at least two serial mechanical piezo elements, a temperature sensor, with at least a first piezo element made from a first piezo-electric material and at least a second piezo element made from a second piezo-electric material. |
| US10608159B2 |
Method of making a superconductor device
A method of forming a superconductor device structure is disclosed. The method comprises forming a base electrode in a first dielectric layer, forming a junction material stack over the base electrode, forming a hardmask over the junction material stack, etching away a portion of the junction material stack to form a Josephson junction (JJ) over the base electrode, and depositing a second dielectric layer over the hardmask, the JJ, the base electrode and the first dielectric layer. The method additionally comprises forming a first contact through the second dielectric layer to the base electrode to electrically couple the first contact to a first end of the JJ, and forming a second contact through the second dielectric layer and the hardmask to electrically coupled the second contact to a second end of the JJ. |
| US10608157B2 |
Qubit network non-volatile identification
A technique relates to a superconducting chip. Resonant units have resonant frequencies, and the resonant units are configured as superconducting resonators. Josephson junctions are in the resonant units, and one or more of the Josephson junctions have a shorted tunnel barrier. |
| US10608151B2 |
Light source device
A light source device includes a light emitting element and a light transmissive member having a light incident surface opposite to the light emitting element, and a light emitting surface. The light incident surface includes an inner region having a retroreflective lens portion and directly facing the light emitting element, and an outer region having a shape different from a shape of the retroreflective lens. |
| US10608150B2 |
Light-emitting device and method of manufacturing same
A light-emitting device includes: a light-transmissive member having a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a third surface contiguous with the first surface and the second surface; a phosphor layer disposed opposite to the second surface of the light-transmissive member; a cover layer disposed on a lateral surface of the phosphor layer and the third surface of the light-transmissive member; a light-emitting element disposed opposite to the phosphor layer; and a light-reflective member that covers at least a portion of the cover layer. |
| US10608148B2 |
Stabilized fluoride phosphor for light emitting diode (LED) applications
A stabilized fluoride phosphor for light emitting diode (LED) applications includes a particle comprising manganese-activated potassium fluorosilicate and an inorganic coating on each of the particles. The inorganic coating comprises a silicate. A method of making a stabilized fluoride phosphor comprises forming a reaction mixture that includes particles comprising a manganese-activated potassium fluorosilicate; a reactive silicate precursor; a catalyst; a solvent; and water in an amount no greater than about 10 vol. %. The reaction mixture is agitated to suspend the particles therein. As the reactive silicate precursor undergoes hydrolysis and condensation in the reaction mixture, an inorganic coating comprising a silicate is formed on the particles. Thus, a stabilized fluoride phosphor is formed. |
| US10608147B2 |
Package and light-emitting device
A package includes a resin molded body having a side wall provided between a first side and a second side to surround a recess portion which has a bottom portion on the second side. The bottom portion of the recess portion includes an element mount region provided in a vicinity of the side wall and a wire connection region separated from the element mount region. The element mount region has a polygonal outer peripheral shape having corners and diagonals connecting two of the corners when viewed in the height direction. An area of the wire connection region is smaller than an area of the element mount region when viewed in the height direction. The wire connection region is provided on an extension of one of the diagonals passing through one of the corners of the element mount region to face toward the adjacent to one of the corners. |
| US10608146B2 |
Production of radiation-emitting components
A method includes providing a metallic auxiliary carrier and forming metallic structure elements on the auxiliary carrier by carrying out at least one metal deposition process with the aid of at least one masking layer. Provision is furthermore made for arranging a reflective embedding material enclosing the metallic structure elements on the auxiliary carrier and removing the auxiliary carrier, such that a carrier comprising the structure elements and the embedding material and comprising two opposite main sides is provided. The main sides of the carrier are formed by the structure elements and the embedding material. The method furthermore includes arranging radiation-emitting semiconductor chips on the carrier, arranging a conversion material for radiation conversion on the carrier provided with the semiconductor chips, and carrying out a singulation process of forming separate radiation-emitting components. |
| US10608145B2 |
Illumination device for desorbing molecules from inner walls of a processing chamber
An illumination device is described for desorbing molecules from inner walls of a processing chamber. In some examples, the device includes a chassis, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) mounted to the chassis, wherein the plurality of LEDs emit ultraviolet (UV) radiation when electrically powered, a thermally non-conductive main housing surrounding the chassis and configured to be placed on a wafer carrier of the processing chamber, and an electrical system to activate the LEDs within the processing chamber. |
| US10608143B2 |
Light-emitting component
A light-emitting component is disclosed. In an embodiment the light-emitting device includes a first layer stack for generating light, at least one additional layer stack for generating light, wherein each of the first layer stack and the at least one additional layer stack are separately drivable from one another and an auxiliary structure arranged between the first layer stacks and the at least one additional layer stacks. |
| US10608142B2 |
Method of making a light emitting device having a patterned protective layer
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: providing a substrate; forming a light-emitting structure comprising an active layer on the substrate; forming a protective layer having a first thickness on the light-emitting structure; etching the protective layer such that the protective layer has a second thickness less than the first thickness; and patterning the protective layer. |
| US10608135B2 |
Wafer level sensing module
The instant disclosure provides a wafer level sensing module and a manufacturing method thereof. The wafer level sensing module includes a chip substrate, a proximity sensing unit, and an ambient light sensing unit. The proximity sensing unit is disposed on the chip substrate and includes an emitter, a first receptor, and a shielding assembly. The shielding assembly includes a first shielding member, a second shielding member, a third shielding member, a first lens, and a second lens. The ambient light sensing unit is disposed on the chip substrate and is separate from the proximity sensing unit. The ambient light sensing unit includes a second receptor and a transparent shielding plate. The first receptor and the second receptor are formed on the chip substrate and exposed from a top surface of the chip substrate, and the transparent shielding plate corresponds in position to the second receptor. |
| US10608134B2 |
Solar power system using hybrid trough and photovoltaic two-stage light concentration
A solar power method is provided using two-stage light concentration to drive concentrating photovoltaic conversion in conjunction with thermal collection. The method concentrates light rays received in a plurality of transverse planes towards a primary linear focus in an axial plane, which is orthogonal to the transverse planes. T band wavelengths of light are transmitted to the primary linear focus. R band wavelengths of light are reflected towards a secondary linear focus in the axial plane, which is parallel to the primary linear focus. The light received at the primary linear focus is translated into thermal energy. The light received at the secondary linear focus is focused by optical elements along a plurality of tertiary linear foci, which are orthogonal to the axial plane. The focused light in each tertiary primary focus is focused into a plurality of receiving areas, and translated into electrical energy. |
| US10608132B2 |
Back-contact cell module and method of manufacturing same
A back-contact cell module including cells and connecting ribbons; a main gate electrode for gathering currents of the auxiliary gate electrode and a linear back side electrode for leading out the currents provided on the back side of the cell; the main gate electrodes, located on the back side of the cell and in one-to-one correspondence with positions of current collection holes, are arranged linearly, parallel to the back side electrode and located at two ends of the back side of the cell; the plurality of cells are arranged parallelly in columns, between two adjacent cells, the main gate electrode of one cell is arranged adjacent to the back side electrode of the other cell; the main gate electrode of one cell is fixedly connected to the back side electrode of the other adjacent cell via the connecting ribbon. |
| US10608130B2 |
Solar cell module
Discussed is a solar cell module including a plurality of bi-facial solar cells having a front surface and a back surface, a light transmission protection part positioned on the front surfaces of the plurality of bi-facial solar cells, a front protection part positioned between the light transmission protection part and the front surfaces of the plurality of bi-facial solar cells, a back sheet positioned on the back surfaces of the plurality of bi-facial solar cells, wherein the back sheet includes a first area overlapping the plurality of bi-facial solar cells, and a second area being a remaining portion except the first area and a back protection part positioned between the back sheet and the back surfaces of the plurality of bi-facial solar cells, wherein the back sheet includes a base layer, a first sheet layer, and a second sheet layer. |
| US10608126B2 |
Laser process and corresponding structures for forming contact holes of solar cells
Contact holes of solar cells are formed by laser ablation to accommodate various solar cell designs. Use of a laser to form the contact holes is facilitated by replacing films formed on the diffusion regions with a film that has substantially uniform thickness. Contact holes may be formed to deep diffusion regions to increase the laser ablation process margins. The laser configuration may be tailored to form contact holes through dielectric films of varying thicknesses. |
| US10608123B2 |
Metal oxide semiconductor varactor quality factor enhancement
An integrated circuit formed with a process that enables multiple types of gate stacks improves a quality factor of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) varactors at the device level. In one instance, the integrated circuit includes multiple first type transistors having a first gate stack with a first resistance and multiple second type transistors having a second gate stack with a second resistance that is higher than the first resistance. The integrated circuit also includes a metal oxide semiconductor varactor having the first gate stack with the first resistance. |
| US10608121B2 |
FinFET transistor gate and epitaxy formation
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device and resulting structures that reduce shallow trench isolation (STI) undercutting, floating gates, and gate voids without degrading epitaxy quality. The method includes forming a first and second semiconductor fin on a substrate. A buffer layer is formed on a surface of the substrate between the first and second semiconductor fins and a semiconducting layer is formed on the buffer layer. The buffer layer is selectively removed and replaced with a dielectric layer. A first gate is formed over a first channel region of the first semiconductor fin and a second gate is formed over a second channel region of the first semiconductor fin. Source and drain epitaxy regions are selectively formed on surfaces of the first gate. |
| US10608118B2 |
Semiconductor device
An embodiment is a semiconductor device which includes a first oxide semiconductor layer over a substrate having an insulating surface and including a crystalline region formed by growth from a surface of the first oxide semiconductor layer toward an inside; a second oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide semiconductor layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer which are in contact with the second oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer covering the second oxide semiconductor layer, the source electrode layer, and the drain electrode layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer and in a region overlapping with the second oxide semiconductor layer. The second oxide semiconductor layer is a layer including a crystal formed by growth from the crystalline region. |
| US10608113B1 |
Semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, at least a silicon germanium (SiGe) epitaxial region disposed in the semiconductor substrate, and a contact structure disposed on the SiGe epitaxial region. The contact structure includes a titanium nitride (TiN) barrier layer and a metal layer surrounded by the TiN barrier layer. A crystalline titanium germanosilicide stressor layer is disposed in the SiGe epitaxial region and between the TiN barrier layer and the SiGe epitaxial region. |
| US10608110B2 |
I-shaped gate electrode for improved sub-threshold MOSFET performance
Metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors with reduced subthreshold conduction, and methods of fabricating the same. Transistor gate structures are fabricated in these transistors of a shape and dimension as to overlap onto the active region from the interface between isolation dielectric structures and the transistor active areas. Minimum channel length conduction is therefore not available at the isolation-to-active interface, but rather the channel length along that interface is substantially lengthened, reducing off-state conduction. |
| US10608109B2 |
Vertical transistor with enhanced drive current
A stacked vertical field effect transistor that has enhanced drive current is provided. The stacked vertical field effect transistor includes a lower functional gate structure located adjacent sidewall surfaces of a lower channel portion of a semiconductor channel material pillar. An upper functional gate structure is located above the lower functional gate structure and adjacent sidewall surfaces of an upper channel portion of the semiconductor channel material pillar. A bottom source/drain region is located beneath the lower functional gate structure, a middle source/drain region is located between the lower functional gate structure and the upper functional gate structure, and a top source/drain region is located above the upper functional gate structure. |
| US10608107B2 |
Silicon carbide semiconductor device
A silicon carbide substrate includes a first impurity region, a second impurity region in contact with the first impurity region and having p type, a third impurity region on the first impurity region and the second impurity region and having n type, a body region, and a source region. A gate insulating film is in contact with the source region, the body region and the third impurity region at a side surface, and in contact with the third impurity region at a bottom surface. When viewed in a direction perpendicular to a main surface, the second impurity region contains the bottom surface, and an area of the second impurity region is greater than an area of the bottom surface, and is not more than three times the area of the bottom surface. An impurity concentration of the second impurity region exceeds 1×1019 cm−3, and is not more than 1×1021 cm−3. |
| US10608106B2 |
Power semiconductor devices
A power semiconductor device including a first conductivity type semiconductor substrate, a drain metal electrode, a first conductivity type semiconductor drift region, and a second conductivity type semiconductor body region. The second conductivity type semiconductor body region includes a first conductivity type semiconductor source region and anti-punch-through structure; the anti-punch-through structure is a second conductivity type semiconductor body contact region or metal structure; the lower surface of the anti-punch-through structure coincides with the upper surface of the first conductivity type semiconductor drift region or the distance between the two is less than 0.5 μm, so that make the device avoid from punch-through. An anti-punch-through structure is introduced at the source end of the device to avoid punch-through breakdown caused by short channel and light-doped body region. |
| US10608104B2 |
Trench transistor device
A transistor device includes a semiconductor mesa region between first and second trenches in a semiconductor body, a body region of a first conductivity type and a source region of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor mesa region, a drift region of the second conductivity type in the semiconductor body, and a gate electrode adjacent the body region in the first trench, and dielectrically insulated from the body region by a gate dielectric. The body region separates the source region from the drift region and extends to the surface of the semiconductor mesa region adjacent the source region. The body region comprises a surface region which adjoins the surface of the semiconductor mesa region and the first trench. The surface region has a higher doping concentration than a section of the body region that separates the source region from the drift region. |
| US10608101B2 |
Detection circuit for photo sensor with stacked substrates
Embodiments relate to a stacked photo sensor assembly where two substrates are stacked vertically. The two substrates are connected via interconnects at a pixel level to provide a signal from a photodiode at a first substrate to circuitry on a second substrate. The circuitry on the second substrate performs operations that were conventionally performed on first substrate. More specifically, charge storage of the first substrate is replaced with capacitors on the second substrate. A voltage signal corresponding to the amount of charge in the first substrate is generated and processed in the second substrate. By stacking the first and second substrates, the photo sensor assembly can be made more compact while increasing or at least retaining the photodiode fill factor of the photo sensor assembly. |
| US10608100B2 |
Unipolar spacer formation for finFETs
A semiconductor device includes gate structures formed transversely over semiconductor fins on a substrate. The gate material includes a gate conductor and a dielectric cap on the gate conductor. The device further includes unipolar spacers formed over the gate structures only. The semiconductor fins are free from the unipolar spacers, and the unipolar spacers have a substantially uniform thickness vertically along the gate structures and include a spacer material with an etch selectivity greater than SiN for oxide removal. |
| US10608097B2 |
Low thickness dependent work-function nMOS integration for metal gate
Film stacks and methods of forming film stacks including a high-k dielectric layer on a substrate, a high-k capping layer on the high-k dielectric layer, an n-metal layer on the high-k capping layer and an n-metal capping layer on the n-metal layer. The n-metal layer having an aluminum rich interface adjacent the high-k capping layer. |
| US10608096B2 |
Formation of air gap spacers for reducing parasitic capacitance
A method is presented for reducing parasitic capacitance. The method includes forming a source region and a drain region within a substrate, forming spacers in direct contact with sidewalls of a sacrificial layer, depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) over the source and drain regions, replacing the sacrificial layer with a gate structure, removing the ILD, and depositing a sacrificial dielectric layer. The method further includes removing portions of the sacrificial dielectric layer to expose top surfaces of the source and drain regions, depositing a conductive material over the exposed top surfaces of the source and drain regions, and removing remaining portions of the sacrificial dielectric layer to form air gap spacers between the gate structure and the source and drain regions. |
| US10608095B2 |
Electronic device based on black phosphorous single channel with multi-function and method of manufacturing the same
The present disclosure provides a multi-functional electronic device with a black phosphorous-based single channel, wherein the device comprises: a black phosphorous-based single channel layer including a horizontal arrangement of a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region to define a horizontal junction therebetween, wherein the second semiconductor region has a lower hole-carrier density than the first semiconductor region; a first electrode connected to the first semiconductor region; a second electrode spaced from the first electrode and connected to the second semiconductor region; an ionic gel layer disposed on the first semiconductor region; and a gate electrode for receiving a gate voltage to generate an electric field in the channel layer. |
| US10608093B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of forming the same
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are disclosed. First, a substrate having a main surface is provided. At least a trench is formed in the substrate. A barrier layer is formed in the trench and a conductive material is formed on the barrier layer and filling up the trench. The barrier layer and the conductive material are then recessed to be lower than the upper surface of the substrate. After that, an oxidation process is performed to oxidize the barrier layer and the conductive material thereby forming an insulating layer. |
| US10608091B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a conductive pattern on a substrate, forming a filling insulation layer covering the conductive pattern, forming a contact hole in the filling insulation layer and adjacent to the conductive pattern, forming an opening in the conductive pattern by removing a portion of the conductive pattern adjacent to the contact hole such that the opening is connected to the contact hole, and forming a contact plug filling the contact hole and the opening. A width of the opening is greater than a width of the contact hole. |
| US10608088B2 |
Electrode structure of a transistor for increasing and stabilizing current flowing through drain electrode to source electrode, and pixel structure and display apparatus comprising the same
An electrode structure of a transistor, and a pixel structure and a display apparatus comprising the electrode structure of the transistor are disclosed. The electrode structure of the transistor comprises a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode has at least two first portions and at least one second portion. The first portions are substantially parallel with each other and each has a first width. The second portion has a second width, and connects the substantially parallel first portions to define a space with an opening. The first width is substantially greater than the second width. |
| US10608086B2 |
Semiconductor structure with diffusion barrier region and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure includes a substrate, at least one active area is defined on the substrate, a buried word line is disposed in the substrate, a source/drain region disposed beside the buried word line, a diffusion barrier region, disposed at the top of the source/drain region, the diffusion barrier region comprises a plurality of doping atoms selected from the group consisting of carbon atoms, nitrogen atoms, germanium atoms, oxygen atoms, helium atoms and xenon atoms, a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, and a contact structure disposed in the dielectric layer, and electrically connected to the source/drain region. |
| US10608084B2 |
Nanosheet isolated source/drain epitaxy by surface treatment and incubation delay
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of stacked structures spaced apart from each other on a substrate, wherein the plurality of stacked structures each comprise a plurality of gate layers and a plurality of channel layers, a plurality of arsenic implanted regions on portions of a surface of the substrate adjacent the plurality of stacked structures, and a plurality of epitaxial source/drain regions extending from the plurality of stacked structures, wherein the plurality of epitaxial source/drain regions are spaced apart from the plurality of arsenic implanted regions. |
| US10608069B2 |
Displays with redundant bent signal lines and neutral plane adjustment layers
A display may have an array of organic light-emitting diodes that form an active area on a flexible substrate. Display driver circuitry such as a display driver integrated circuit may be coupled to an inactive area of the flexible substrate. Metal traces may extend across a bent region of the flexible substrate between the active area and inactive area. Metal traces may have zigzag shapes to reduce stress when bending. Adjacent pairs of parallel segments in the metal traces may be shorted together by a bridging segment that extends perpendicular to the two parallel segments. The bridging segment may be offset from corners to avoid clusters of stress zones in the metal trace. Neutral plane adjustment layers in the bent region may include a metal layer to help counteract the bending force of the flexible substrate and the relaxation of an upper polymer coating. |
| US10608068B2 |
OLED panel with a thin passivation layer below light emitting structure
The present disclosure relates to an OLED panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The OLED panel includes: a glass substrate; a TFT light shielding layer; a buffer layer, a semiconductor layer; a patterned gate insulating layer; a patterned first metal layer; a interlayer insulating layer; a patterned second metal layer; a passivation layer deposited on the second metal layer by atomic layer deposition; a color filter; a planarization layer, wherein the planarization layer is provided with an opening structure corresponding to a storage capacitor area; an anode; a pixel defining layer; a light emitting layer; and a cathode. The present disclosure further provides a manufacturing method of an OLED panel thereof. The OLED panel and the manufacturing method thereof of the present disclosure can effectively increase the storage capacitance of the OLED panel, reduce the design area of the storage capacitor, and improve the panel aperture ratio. |
| US10608067B2 |
Top emission device and organic light-emitting diode display device
An organic light-emitting diode display device includes a first substrate that includes a display region with a plurality of pixels and a non-display region in a periphery of the display region, a first electrode disposed on the first substrate, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, an organic light-emitting layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least one light sensing member disposed on a rear surface of the first substrate that overlaps the display region. |
| US10608065B2 |
Organic light-emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed and these improve electrical connection between a cathode and an auxiliary electrode in order to reduce the resistance of the cathode that covers a plurality of sub-pixels, and may prevent lateral current leakage using the same structure. |
| US10608061B2 |
Light emitting display device and method of manufacturing the same
Disclosed are a light emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same, which prevent a lifetime of a light emitting layer from being shortened and prevent occurrence of a turn-on defect. The light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels each including a transistor having a gate electrode, an active layer overlapping the gate electrode, a source electrode connected to one side of the active layer, and a drain electrode connected to another side of the active layer. The pixels further include a light emitting device having a first electrode, a light emitting layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the light emitting layer. The light emitting display device includes a contact hole, and the first electrodes of at least two of the pixels are positioned on and electrically connected to respective source electrodes or to respective drain electrodes in the contact hole. |
| US10608060B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display and a method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting diode display including a substrate, a first transistor, and an organic light-emitting element. The first transistor is positioned on the substrate. The first transistor includes a first active layer including a first source region, a first channel region extending from the first source region, a first drain region extending from the first channel region, a first conductive pattern, and a first gate electrode positioned on the first active layer. The organic light-emitting element is connected to the first transistor. The first conductive pattern is in contact with the first active layer and covers the first source region and the second source region. |
| US10608057B2 |
Display device including touch electrode
A display device comprises a plurality of touch electrodes, a link portion including first wiring configured to transmit an AC signal and a touch electrode line configured to transmit a touch drive signal to a corresponding one of the touch electrodes, the first wiring disposed in a first layer and the touch electrode line disposed in a second layer different from the first layer; and a shield layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer where the first wiring overlap the touch electrode line. A constant voltage is applied to the shield layer. |
| US10608055B2 |
AMOLED display panel and AMOLED display having virtual pixel area disposed between display area and boundary area
An AMOLED display panel comprises a display area and a non-display area. The display area has a plurality of pixel electrodes and the neighboring pixel electrodes are spaced apart from each other. The non-display area surrounds the display area and comprises a virtual pixel area and a boundary area. The virtual pixel area is close to the display area and has a plurality of virtual electrodes. At least part of the virtual electrodes are disposed close to the pixel electrodes at a boundary of the display area. The virtual electrodes and the pixel electrodes are formed by the same manufacturing process. The boundary area is close to the virtual pixel area or both the virtual pixel area and the display area. The virtual pixel area is located between the display area and the boundary area. The present invention may improve display uniformity of the AMOLED display panel. |
| US10608051B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device and manufacturing method thereof, and electronic apparatus
Provided is a solid-state image pickup device that makes it possible to enhance image quality, and a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic apparatus. A solid-state image pickup device includes a pixel section that includes a plurality of pixels, the pixels each including one or more organic photoelectric conversion sections, wherein the pixel section includes an effective pixel region and an optical black region, and the organic photoelectric conversion sections of the optical black region include a light-shielding film and a buffer film on a light-incidence side. |
| US10608048B2 |
Select device for memory cell applications
The present disclosure includes select devices and methods of using select device for memory cell applications. An example select device includes a first electrode having a particular geometry, a semiconductor material formed on the first electrode and a second electrode having the particular geometry with formed on the semiconductor material, wherein the select device is configured to snap between resistive states in response to signals that are applied to the select device. |
| US10608046B2 |
Integrated two-terminal device with logic device for embedded application
Devices and methods of forming a device. A two-terminal device element includes a device stack coupled between first and second terminals. The first terminal contacts a metal line in an underlying interconnect level, and the second terminal is formed over the device layer. An encapsulation liner covers exposed side surfaces of the device stack of the two-terminal device element. A dual damascene interconnect is coupled to the two-terminal device element. |
| US10608045B2 |
Method of forming semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a substrate, first plug, a magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure, a spacer layer, a seal layer and a first conductive pattern. The substrate has a first region and a second region, and the first plug is disposed on a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate, within the first region. The MRAM structure is disposed in the dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first plug. The spacer layer is disposed both within the first region and the second region, to cover the MRAM structure. The seal layer is disposed on the MRAM structure and the first plug, only within the first region. The first conductive pattern penetrates through the seal layer to electrically connect the MRAM structure. |
| US10608041B2 |
Bendable x-ray detector with TFT backplane in the neutral plane
Transitioning conventional x-ray detector materials and structures to bendable or flexible (e.g., plastic) substrates makes them rugged against breakage when dropped but exposes the detectors to damage if bent. Disclosed are bendable digital x-ray detector structures that are rugged with regard to bending as well as dropping. The structures provide strain matching between layers so that a detector backplane is in and/or near the mechanical neutral plane and therefore less susceptible to bending stress. |
| US10608040B2 |
Photodetection device which has an inter-diode array and is overdoped by metal diffusion and manufacturing method
A photodetection device and a method for manufacturing the device, the device including a substrate and an array of diodes, the substrate including an absorption layer including a first type of doping, and each diode including, in the absorption layer, a collection region including a second type of doping opposite to the first type. The device further includes, under the surface of the substrate, a conductive mesh including at least one conductive channel inserted between the collection regions of two adjacent diodes, the at least one conductive channel including the first type of doping and a higher doping density than the absorption layer. The doping density of the at least one conductive channel is the result of a diffusion of metal in the absorption layer from a metal mesh provided on the surface of the substrate. |
| US10608038B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device
A solid-state image pickup device is provided which can inhibit degradation of image quality which may occur when a global electronic shutter operation is performed. A gate drive line for a first transistor of gate drive lines for pixel transistors is positioned in proximity to a converting unit. |
| US10608035B2 |
Time-of-flight image sensor and light source driver having simulated distance capability
An apparatus is described that includes an image sensor and a light source driver circuit having configuration register space to receive information pertaining to a command to simulate a distance between a light source and an object that is different than an actual distance between the light source and the object. |
| US10608034B2 |
Solid-state image pickup apparatus and image pickup system
An apparatus according to the present invention in which a first substrate including a photoelectric conversion element and a gate electrode of a transistor, and a second substrate including a peripheral circuit portion are placed upon each other. The first substrate does not include a high-melting-metal compound layer, and the second substrate includes a high-melting-metal compound layer. |
| US10608033B2 |
Image sensor and manufacturing method thereof
An image sensor includes a semiconductor layer, a plurality of light sensing regions, a first pixel isolation layer, a light shielding layer, and a wiring layer. The semiconductor layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The plurality of light sensing regions is formed in the semiconductor layer. The first pixel isolation layer is disposed between adjacent light sensing regions from among the plurality of light sensing regions. The first pixel isolation layer is buried in an isolation trench formed between the first surface and the second surface. The light shielding layer is formed on the second surface of the semiconductor layer and on some of the adjacent light sensing regions. The wiring layer is formed on the first surface of the semiconductor layer. |
| US10608031B2 |
Image sensor
A substrate has a first surface and a second surface facing each other. A photoelectric conversion region includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices provided in the substrate. An interlayered insulating layer is provided on the first surface of the substrate. A plurality of wires is provided on the interlayered insulating layer. An inter-wire insulating layer covers the plurality of wires. A plurality of micro lenses is provided on the second surface of the substrate. A grid pattern is provided in at least one of the interlayered insulating layer and the inter-wire insulating layer. The grid pattern, when viewed in a plan view, overlaps a region between two adjacent photoelectric conversion devices of the plurality of photoelectric conversion devices. |
| US10608030B2 |
Image sensors with diffractive lenses
An image sensor may include an array of imaging pixels. Each imaging pixel may have a photosensitive area that is covered by a respective diffractive lens to focus light onto the photosensitive area. The diffractive lenses may have a higher index of refraction than the surrounding materials. The diffractive lenses may be formed on an upper or lower surface of a planarization layer or may be embedded within the planarization layer. In some cases, multiple diffractive lenses may be formed over the imaging pixels. Some of the multiple diffractive lenses may have refractive indexes lower than the planarization layer such that the diffractive lenses defocus light. Focusing and defocusing diffractive lenses may be used to tune the response of the imaging pixels to incident light. |
| US10608029B2 |
Image sensors with color filter variations
Color filters may affect imaging performance attributes such as low light sensitivity, color accuracy, and modulation transfer function (MTF). In an image pixel array, these factors are influenced by both the spectral absorption and pattern of the color filter elements. Different portions of an image sensor may prioritize different imaging performance attributes. Accordingly, in certain applications it may be beneficial for color filter characteristics to vary across an image sensor. Different color filters of the same color may have different structures to optimize imaging performance across the image sensor. |
| US10608026B2 |
Image sensors
An image sensor for securing an area of a photodiode includes a pixel area and a transistor area adjacent to the pixel area. The pixel area may include a photodiode and a floating diffusion area. The transistor area may include transistors extending along an edge of the pixel area. The transistors in the transistor area may include a reset transistor, one or more source follower transistors, and one or more selection transistors, and the reset transistor and one source follower transistor adjacent to the reset transistor may share a common drain area. The source follower transistors and the selection transistors may each share a common source area or a common drain area between two adjacent transistors thereof. |
| US10608021B2 |
TFT substrate manufacturing method and TFT substrate
The present invention provides a TFT substrate manufacturing method and a TFT substrate. In the TFT substrate manufacturing method of the present invention, a pattern of the gate metal layer has been designed such that reflective blocks are included in a gate metal layer at locations corresponding to areas in which connection holes are to be formed so that in a process of forming the connection holes, light is reflected by the reflective blocks to enhance intensity of exposure on locations where the connection holes are formed. Thus, even under the condition that limit exposure size of an existing exposure machine is constrained, it is still possible to ensure full exposure in forming the connection holes in a high PPI display panel device to thereby realize production of high display panel products. |
| US10608016B2 |
Semiconductor device
A display device has a thin film transistor on a substrate. The thin film transistor includes a first transistor having an oxide semiconductor film, a first gate insulating film, and a first gate electrode and a second transistor having a silicon semiconductor film, a second gate insulating film, and a second gate electrode. The first gate insulating film includes a first insulating film and a second insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film is positioned between the first insulating film and the substrate. The first insulating film is positioned between the silicon semiconductor film and the substrate and between the second insulating film and the substrate. The second gate insulating film includes an insulating film made of the same material in the same layer as the second insulating film. The first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are in the same layer. |
| US10608014B2 |
Battery management chip circuit on the base of silicon on insulator (SOI) process
A battery management chip circuit on the basis of an SOI process. The battery management chip circuit comprises a high-voltage multiplexer MUX, a voltage reference circuit, a Sigma-delta ADC (comprising an analog modulator and a digital filter), an SPI communication circuit, a function control circuit and a voltage value register. The battery management chip circuit is integrated on the basis of an SOI high-voltage process, and particularly, high-voltage MOS transistors adopted by the battery management chip circuit are high-voltage MOS device units on the basis of the SOI process. In addition, the present invention highlights the design of interface circuit-chopper circuit of the high-voltage multiplexer MUX and the Sigma-delta ADC, so as to describe the advantages such as decrease of difficulty of circuit design and reduction of layout area brought about when the present invention adopts the SOI process design and tape-out. |
| US10608006B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory gate disposed on a main surface of a substrate. The memory has a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall. A control gate is in proximity to the memory gate. The control gate has a third sidewall directly facing the second sidewall, and a fourth sidewall opposite to the third sidewall. A gap is provided between the second sidewall of the memory gate and the third sidewall of the control gate. A first single spacer structure is disposed on the first sidewall of the memory gate. A second single spacer structure is disposed on the fourth sidewall of the control gate. A gap-filling layer is deposited into the gap and fills up the gap. |
| US10608004B2 |
Semiconductor devices and methods of fabrication
Some embodiments include a semiconductor device having a stack structure including a source comprising polysilicon, an etch stop of oxide on the source, a select gate source on the etch stop, a charge storage structure over the select gate source, and a select gate drain over the charge storage structure. The semiconductor device may further include an opening extending vertically into the stack structure to a level adjacent to the source. A channel comprising polysilicon may be formed on a side surface and a bottom surface of the opening. The channel may contact the source at a lower portion of the opening, and may be laterally separated from the charge storage structure by a tunnel oxide. A width of the channel adjacent to the select gate source is greater than a width of the channel adjacent to the select gate drain. |
| US10608003B2 |
Integrated circuitry and 3D memory
Integrated circuitry has an array circuitry region having a repeating array of electronic components. An adjacent circuitry region is immediately laterally adjacent to and contacts one elongated major peripheral side of the array circuitry region. The adjacent circuitry region is distinct in structure from the array circuitry region where contacting the array circuitry region and distinct in operation from the array circuitry region. The array circuitry region and the adjacent circuitry region have a respective longitudinally non-linear edge at an interface relative one another along the one elongated major peripheral side of the array circuitry region. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10607998B1 |
Integrated circuitry, DRAM circuitry, method of forming a plurality of conductive vias, and method of forming DRAM circuitry
A method of forming a plurality of conductive vias comprises forming spaced contact openings individually having two opposing sidewalls comprising SiwBxOyNz, where “w” is from 0.1 to 0.3, “x” is from 0.1 to 0.4, “y” is from 0 to 0.2, and “z” is from 0.4 to 0.6. A lining comprising silicon nitride is formed over the two opposing sidewalls in individual of the contact openings. A conductive via is formed in the individual contact openings over the lining. Integrated circuitry is disclosed. |
| US10607997B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of lower electrodes disposed on the substrate and are repeatedly arranged in a first direction and in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a first electrode support contacting a sidewall of at least one of the lower electrodes. The first electrode support includes a first support region including a first opening and a second support region disposed at a border of the first support region. An outer sidewall of the first electrode support includes a first sidewall extending in the first direction, a second sidewall extending in the second direction, and a connecting sidewall connecting the first and second sidewalls. The second support region includes the connecting sidewall. In a first portion of the second support region, a width of the first portion of the second support region decreases in a direction away from the first support region. |
| US10607994B2 |
Vertical 2T-2C memory cells and memory arrays
Some embodiments include a memory cell having first and second transistors and first and second capacitors. The first capacitor is vertically displaced relative to the first transistor. The first capacitor has a first node electrically coupled with a source/drain region of the first transistor, a second node electrically coupled with a common plate structure, and a first capacitor dielectric material between the first and second nodes. The second capacitor is vertically displaced relative to the second transistor. The second capacitor has a third node electrically coupled with a source/drain region of the second transistor, a fourth node electrically coupled with the common plate structure, and a second capacitor dielectric material between the first and second nodes. Some embodiments include memory arrays having 2T-2C memory cells. |
| US10607993B2 |
Quantum device with spin qubits
A quantum device with spin qubits, comprising: a first semiconducting layer comprising a first matrix of data qubits and measurement qubits connected to each other through tunnel barriers; means of addressing qubits configured for controlling conduction of each tunnel barrier by the field effect and comprising: first and second conducting portions arranged in first and second superposed metallisation levels respectively; first and second conducting vias each comprising a first end connected to one of the first and second conducting portions respectively, and a second end located facing one of the tunnel barriers; a first dielectric layer interposed between the tunnel barriers and the second ends of the first and second conducting vias. |
| US10607989B2 |
Graphene FET devices, systems, and methods of using the same for sequencing nucleic acids
Provided herein are integrated circuits for use in performing analyte measurements and methods of fabricating the same. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in chemical and/or biological processes, including DNA hybridization and/or sequencing reactions. The methods for fabricating the integrated circuits include steps of depositing an insulating layer on a semiconducting substrate, and forming trenches in the insulating dielectric layer. Conductive material may be deposited in the trenches to form electrodes, and the insulating layer may be conditioned so that the electrodes protrude above the insulating layer. A 2D material, such as graphene, may be deposited on to electrodes to form a channel between the electrodes. |
| US10607984B2 |
High voltage bipolar structure for improved pulse width scalability
According to an embodiment, a bipolar transistor is disclosed for Electrostatic discharge (ESD) management in integrated circuits. The bipolar transistor enables vertical current flow in a bipolar transistor cell configured for ESD protection. The bipolar transistor includes a selectively embedded P-type floating buried layer (PBL). The floating P-region is added in a standard NPN cell. During an ESD event, the base of the bipolar transistor extends to the floating P-region with a very small amount of current. The PBL layer can provide more holes to support the current resulting in decreased holding voltage of the bipolar transistor. With the selective addition of floating P-region, the current scalability of the bipolar transistor at longer pulse widths can be significantly improved. |
| US10607983B2 |
Transient voltage suppressor
A transient voltage suppressor includes a substrate, a first well, a second well, a third well, a first electrode, a second electrode and a doped region. The first well is formed in the substrate and near a surface of the substrate. The second well is formed in the first well and near the surface. The third well is formed in the first well and near the surface. There is a gap between the second well and the third well. The first electrode and second electrode are formed in the second well and near the surface respectively. The first well and first electrode have a first electrical property. The second well, third well and second electrode have a second electrical property. The doped region is formed between the first electrode and second electrode and near the surface and electrically connected with the first well and third well. |
| US10607982B2 |
Layout connection isolation technique for improving immunity to jitter and voltage drop in a standard cell
A standard cell architecture provides an improved immunity to power-supply voltage-drop, does not induce power-supply voltage drop on a continuous-row power rail of a standard cell, and maintains standard-cell environment compatibility. A circuit includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer that are formed different distances above a substrate. At least one first standard cell drives a first timing signal and includes at least one transistor receiving power from a first power rail in the first metal layer. At least one second standard cell drives a second timing signal and includes at least one transistor receiving power from a second power rail in the second metal layer. The second power rail has both a low peak noise level and a resistance that is lower than that of the first metal layer. |
| US10607978B2 |
Semiconductor device and electronic apparatus
A semiconductor device, including a first semiconductor chip including a first substrate having a semiconductor larger in bandgap than silicon, the first semiconductor chip being formed with a first FET including a first gate electrode, a first source, and a first drain, a second semiconductor chip including a second substrate having a semiconductor larger in bandgap than silicon, the second semiconductor chip being formed with a second FET having a second gate electrode, a second source, and a second drain, and a third semiconductor chip including a third substrate having silicon, the third semiconductor chip being formed with a MOSFET including a third gate electrode, a third source, and a third drain. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are mounted over a first chip mounting section, and the third semiconductor chip is mounted over a second chip mounting section. |
| US10607973B2 |
Micro-LED array display devices with CMOS cells
Micro-LED array display devices are disclosed. One of the micro-LED display devices includes: a micro-LED panel including a plurality of micro-LED pixels; a CMOS backplane including a plurality of CMOS cells corresponding to the micro-LED pixels to individually drive the micro-LED pixels; and bumps electrically connecting the micro-LED pixels to the corresponding CMOS cells in a state in which the micro-LED pixels are arranged to face the CMOS cells. The micro-LED pixels are flip-chip bonded to the corresponding CMOS cells formed on the CMOS backplane through the bumps so that the micro-LED pixels are individually controlled. |
| US10607972B2 |
Semiconductor devices for integration with light emitting chips and modules thereof
A semiconductor device includes an active region disposed in a semiconductor substrate and an uppermost metal level including metal lines, where the uppermost metal level is disposed over the semiconductor substrate. Contact pads are disposed at a major surface of the semiconductor device, where the contact pads are coupled to the metal lines in the uppermost metal level. An isolation region separates the contact pads disposed at the major surface. Adjacent contact pads are electrically isolated from one another by a portion of the isolation region. Reflective structures are disposed between the upper metal level and the contact pads, where each of the reflective structures that is directly over the active region completely overlaps an associated portion of the isolation region separating the contact pad. |
| US10607965B2 |
Stacked semiconductor device, system including the same and method of transferring signals in the same
A stacked semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor dies stacked in a first direction, M data paths electrically connecting the plurality of semiconductor dies, one data path including one or more through-silicon vias, where M is a positive integer, a transmission circuit including M serialization units configured to serialize P transmission signals to M serial signals and output the M serial signals to the M data paths, respectively, where P is a positive integer greater than M and a reception circuit including M parallelization units configured to receive the M serial signals from the M data paths and parallelize the M serial signals to P reception signals corresponding to the P transmission signals. The number of the through-silicon vias is reduced by serializing the transmission signals, transferring the serialized signals through the smaller number of data paths between the stacked semiconductor dies and then parallelizing the transferred signals. |
| US10607963B2 |
Chip package for two-phase cooling and assembly process thereof
Devices that have integrated cooling structures for two-phase cooling and methods of assembly thereof are provided. In one example, a chip manifold can be affixed to a chip. An interface can be located at a first position between the chip manifold and the manifold cap. Furthermore, the interface can create a seal. |
| US10607951B2 |
Ground plane vertical isolation of, ground line coaxial isolation of, and impedance tuning of horizontal data signal transmission lines routed through package devices
A ground isolation transmission line package device includes (1) ground isolation planes between, (2) ground isolation lines surrounding, or (3) such ground planes between and such ground isolation lines surrounding horizontal data signal transmission lines (e.g., metal signal traces) that are horizontally routed through the package device. The (1) ground isolation planes between, and/or (2) ground isolation lines electrically shield the data signals transmitted in signal lines, thus reducing signal crosstalk between and increasing electrical isolation of the data signal transmission lines. In addition, data signal transmission lines may be tuned using eye diagrams to select signal line widths and ground isolation line widths that provide optimal data transmission performance. This package device provides higher frequency and more accurate data signal transfer between different horizontal locations of the data signal transmission lines, and thus also between devices such as integrated circuit (IC) chips attached to the package device. |
| US10607950B2 |
Versatile and reliable intelligent package
A package comprises a body, and an electrically conductive pattern supported by said body. An interface portion is configured to receive a module to a removable attachment with the package. The electrically conductive pattern comprises, at least partly within said interface portion, a wireless coupling pattern that constitutes one half of a wireless coupling arrangement. |
| US10607945B1 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a frame having a first through-hole, a semiconductor chip disposed on the first through-hole an having an active surface on which a connection pad is disposed and an inactive surface, a first encapsulant covering at least a portion of the inactive surface and a side surface of the semiconductor chip, a connection structure disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad of the semiconductor chip and a ground pattern layer, a side surface cover layer covering at least an outer side surface of the frame, and a metal layer disposed on the upper surface of the first encapsulant and extending downwardly along the side surface cover layer to cover the side surface cover layer and a portion of the side surface of the connection structure. |
| US10607943B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a window combined with a substrate. The substrate includes a display region with pixels and a non-display region with power lines for the pixels. The window includes a display part corresponding to the display region and a non-display part corresponding to the non-display region. A plurality of alignment marks are on the substrate at a location corresponding to the non-display region. The alignment marks are integrally provided with an outermost power line at an outermost side of the non-display region, and each of the alignment marks overlaps with the non-display part of the window. |
| US10607938B1 |
Power distribution networks for monolithic three-dimensional semiconductor integrated circuit devices
Devices and methods are provided for fabricating monolithic three-dimensional semiconductor integrated circuit devices which include power distribution networks that are implemented with power distribution planes disposed below a stack of device tiers, in between device tiers, and/or above the device tiers to distribute positive and negative power supply voltage to field-effect transistor devices of the device tiers. |
| US10607937B2 |
Increased contact alignment tolerance for direct bonding
A bonded device structure including a first substrate having a first set of conductive contact structures, preferably connected to a device or circuit, and having a first non-metallic region adjacent to the contact structures on the first substrate, a second substrate having a second set of conductive contact structures, preferably connected to a device or circuit, and having a second non-metallic region adjacent to the contact structures on the second substrate, and a contact-bonded interface between the first and second set of contact structures formed by contact bonding of the first non-metallic region to the second non-metallic region. The contact structures include elongated contact features, such as individual lines or lines connected in a grid, that are non-parallel on the two substrates, making contact at intersections. Alignment tolerances are thus improved while minimizing dishing and parasitic capacitance. |
| US10607933B2 |
Interconnect structures with fully aligned vias
A structure having fully aligned via connecting metal lines on different Mx levels. The structure may include a first metal line and a second metal line in a first ILD, a cap covering the first ILD, the second metal line and a portion of the first metal line, a second ILD on the cap, and a via that electrically connects the first metal line to a third metal line, wherein the third metal line is above the first metal line and runs perpendicular to the first metal line, the via is fully aligned to the first metal line and the third metal line, and the via electrically connects the first metal line to the third metal line. |
| US10607928B1 |
Reduction of laminate failure in integrated circuit (IC) device carrier
An integrated circuit (IC) device carrier, such as a chip carrier, die carrier, or the like, includes a contact that locally reduces laminate strain within the IC device carrier. One type of contact pad described includes tapered sidewall(s). For example, a positively tapered contact pad includes one or more sidewalls obtusely angled relative to the contact surface of the IC carrier and a negatively tapered contact pad includes one or more sidewalls acutely angled relative to the contact surface of the IC carrier. Another type of contact pad described includes a contact pad connected to one or more pillars. The pillar(s) are also connected to a ring formed within an internal wiring level of the IC device carrier. |
| US10607927B2 |
Spot-solderable leads for semiconductor device packages
A semiconductor device that has at least one semiconductor chip attached to a leadframe made of sheet metal of unencumbered full thickness. The leadframe has leads of a first subset that alternate with leads of a second subset. The leads of the first and second subsets have elongated straight lead portions that are parallel to each other in a planar array. A cover layer of insulating material is located over portions of un-encapsulated lead surfaces. The portions of the leads of the first and second subsets that don't have the cover layer have a metallurgical configuration that creates an affinity for solder wetting. |
| US10607926B1 |
Preformed lead frame device
A preformed lead frame device includes multiple spaced-apart longitudinal sections, multiple spaced-apart transverse sections intersecting the longitudinal sections, and multiple preformed lead frame units each surrounded by two adjacent ones of the longitudinal sections and two adjacent ones of the transverse sections. Each of the preformed lead frame units includes a die pad sub-unit including a die pad portion, multiple pillar portions, and a first gap formed among the die pad portion and the pillar portions, a lead sub-unit including leads and a second gap formed among the die pad sub-unit and the leads, an adhesion-strengthening layer disposed in the first and second gaps, and a molding layer filling the first and second gaps to cover the adhesion-strengthening layer. |
| US10607923B1 |
Integrated assemblies comprising redundant wiring routes, and integrated circuit decks having openings extending therethrough
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a conductive line supported by a deck and extending along a longitudinal direction. The conductive line is configured to carry an electrical signal. A connection region is along the conductive line. The conductive line splits amongst multiple components as it passes through the connection region. The components are spread-apart from one another along a lateral direction which is orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. An opening extends vertically through the deck and through the connection region. The opening breaks one of the components of the conductive line to leave another of the components to carry the electrical signal across the connection region. |
| US10607922B1 |
Controlling via critical dimension during fabrication of a semiconductor wafer
An Nblock layer is deposited onto a semiconductor substrate that includes metal deposits. A titanium nitride (TiN) layer is deposited directly onto the Nblock layer; an oxide layer is deposited directly onto the TiN layer; and a via hole is formed through the oxide and TiN layer to contact bottom interconnect. The via hole is aligned to one of the metal deposits in the substrate. |
| US10607921B2 |
Method for forming a semiconductor package
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include a die including a first side and a second side opposing the first side, the second side of the die coupled to a layer, a first end of a plurality of wires each bonded to the first side of the die, a mold compound encapsulating the die and the plurality of wires, and a second end of the plurality of wires each directly bonded to one of a plurality of bumps, wherein a surface of the layer is exposed through the mold compound. |
| US10607919B2 |
Semiconductor package having junction cooling pipes embedded in substrates
Implementations of semiconductor packages may include a first substrate coupled to a first die, a second substrate coupled to a second die, and a spacer included within a perimeter of the first substrate and within a perimeter of a second substrate, the spacer coupled between the first die and the second die, the spacer include a junction cooling pipe therethrough. |
| US10607918B2 |
Phase-change cooler and phase-change cooling method
A cooler grows in size and its structure becomes complicated in a phase-change cooler if it is intended to cool a plurality of heating elements; therefore, a phase-change cooler according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a heat-conducting board configured to be thermally connected to a cooling object; heat receiving means for storing a refrigerant and receiving heat of the cooling object through the heat-conducting board; radiation means for radiating heat, condensing and devolatilizing a vapor-phase refrigerant arising from vaporization of the refrigerant in the heat receiving means; and connection means for connecting the heat receiving means and the radiation means. |
| US10607915B2 |
Joined body manufacturing method, multilayer joined body manufacturing method, power-module substrate manufacturing method, heat sink equipped power-module substrate manufacturing method, and laminated body manufacturing device
A joined body manufacturing method includes: a laminating step for forming a laminated body in which either a copper circuit substrate (first member) or a ceramic substrate (second member) is coated beforehand with a temporary fixing material the main ingredient of which is a saturated fatty acid, the copper circuit substrate and the ceramic substrate are stacked and positioned by the temporary fixing material which has been melted, and by cooling the temporary fixing material the stacked copper substrate and ceramic substrate are temporarily fixed; and a joining step for forming a joined body in which the copper circuit substrate and the ceramic substrate are joined by heating with pressurizing the laminated body in the stacking direction. |
| US10607914B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor package including a core member having a through-hole, a first semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole and having an active surface with a connection pad disposed thereon, a first encapsulant for encapsulating at least a portion of the first semiconductor chip, and a connection member disposed on the active surface of the first semiconductor chip and including a redistribution layer electrically connected to the connection pad of the first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor package disposed on the first semiconductor package and including a wiring substrate electrically connected to the connection member, at least one second semiconductor chip disposed on the wiring substrate, and a second encapsulant for encapsulating at least a portion of the second semiconductor chip, and a heat dissipation member covering a lateral surface of the second semiconductor package and exposing an upper surface of the second encapsulant. |
| US10607913B2 |
Integrated circuit die and manufacture method thereof
The present invention provide an IC die, including an underlay; an active component; an interconnection layer, covering the active component, where the interconnection layer includes multiple metal layers and multiple dielectric layers, the multiple metal layers and the multiple dielectric layers are alternately arranged, a metal layer whose distance to the active component is the farthest in the multiple metal layers includes metal cabling and a metal welding pad; and a heat dissipation layer, where the heat dissipation layer covers a region above the interconnection layer except a position corresponding to the metal welding pad, the heat dissipation layer is located under a package layer, the package layer includes a plastic packaging material, and the heat dissipation layer includes an electrical-insulating material whose heat conductivity is greater than a preset value. |
| US10607910B2 |
Composite compositions for electronics applications
An electronics composition includes a curable matrix material and, optionally, a filler material disposed within the matrix material. The cured matrix material includes an oligomer or polymer material derived from a compound selected from a methylene malonate monomer, a multifunctional methylene monomer, a methylene beta ketoester monomer, a methylene beta diketone monomer, or a mixture thereof. |
| US10607906B2 |
Semiconductor package, semiconductor device and semiconductor device manufacturing method
To provide a semiconductor package including a protruding part at the bottom surface of a package main body. A semiconductor package including a semiconductor chip is provided, the semiconductor package including: a package main body; a plurality of electrodes exposed at a bottom surface of the package main body; and a protruding part projecting from the bottom surface of the package main body and above the plurality of electrodes, wherein the protruding part is arranged not to overlap two least separated electrodes, among the plurality of electrodes, in a second direction different from a first direction in which the two electrodes are arrayed. |
| US10607904B2 |
Method for producing airtight package by sealing a glass lid to a container
Provided is a method for producing an airtight package that can reduce thermal stress occurring in the inside of a glass lid due to irradiation with laser light to prevent occurrence of cracks and the like in the glass lid. A method for producing an airtight package in which a container 1 containing a device 5 mounted therein is sealed with a glass lid 3 includes the steps of: mounting the device 5 to an interior of the container 1; disposing a sealing material 6 between a frame 2 of the container 1 and the glass lid 3 and placing the glass lid 3 on top of the frame 2 of the container 1; and irradiating the sealing material 6 through the glass lid 3 with laser light while scanning the laser light along the frame 2 to melt the sealing material 6 by heat and form a sealing material layer, thus sealing the glass lid 3 and the frame 2 together with the sealing material layer, wherein irradiation with the laser light is started from an irradiation start point B, then performed by scanning the laser light a plural number of times all around along the frame 2, and then terminated at an irradiation end point C located ahead of the irradiation start point B in a direction of the scanning A. |
| US10607902B2 |
Method for measuring proximity effect on high density magnetic tunnel junction devices in a magnetic random access memory device
A method for testing individual memory elements or sets of memory elements of an array of magnetic memory elements. The method involves forming a mask such as photoresist mask over an array memory elements. The mask is configured with an opening over each of the selected memory elements to be tested. The mask can be formed of photoresist which can be patterned by focused electron beam exposure to form opening at features sizes smaller than those available using standard photolithographic processes. An electrically conductive material is deposited over the mask and into the openings in the mask to make electrical contact with the selected memory element or memory elements to be tested. Then, electrical connection can be made with the electrically conductive material to test the selected one or more magnetic memory elements. |
| US10607901B2 |
Stress sensor for semiconductor components
An example embodiment may include a sensor for monitoring and/or measuring stress in a semiconductor component. The component may include a substrate formed of a semiconductor material. The substrate may include a planar main surface. The sensor may include at least one slanted surface of the substrate material, the slanted surface being defined by an oblique inclination angle with respect to the main surface of the substrate. The sensor may also include at least one straight resistive path extending on at least part of the slanted surface and a plurality of contacts and terminals for accessing the at least one resistive path. The contacts and terminals may allow for the measurement of an electrical resistance of the resistive path and an assessment of a shear stress in a plane that is not parallel to the main surface of the substrate. |
| US10607897B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same
A method for fabricating semiconductor device includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first region and a second region; forming a first fin-shaped structure on the first region; removing part of the first fin-shaped structure to form a first trench; forming a dielectric layer in the first trench, wherein the dielectric layer comprises silicon oxycarbonitride (SiOCN); and planarizing the dielectric layer to form a first single diffusion break (SDB) structure. |
| US10607895B2 |
Method for forming a semiconductor device structure comprising a gate fill metal
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is disclosure. The method may include, depositing an NMOS gate dielectric and a PMOS gate dielectric over a semiconductor substrate, depositing a first work function metal over the NMOS gate dielectric and over the PMOS gate dielectric, removing the first work function metal over the PMOS gate dielectric, and depositing a second work function metal over the NMOS gate dielectric and over the PMOS gate dielectric. Semiconductor device structures including desired metal gate electrodes deposited by the methods of the disclosure are also disclosed. |
| US10607894B2 |
Fabrication of a pair of vertical fin field effect transistors having a merged top source/drain
A method of fabricating a vertical fin field effect transistor with a merged top source/drain, including, forming a source/drain layer at the surface of a substrate, forming a plurality of vertical fins on the source/drain layer; forming protective spacers on each of the plurality of vertical fins, forming a sacrificial plug between two protective spacers, forming a filler layer on the protective spacers not in contact with the sacrificial plug, and selectively removing the sacrificial plug to form an isolation region trench between the two protective spacers. |
| US10607886B2 |
Semiconductor device with conductive member in tapered through-hole in semiconductor substrate and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes forming a first mask over a semiconductor substrate including a first and second surfaces and an electrode provided on the second surface side, forming a first part having tapered shape by etching the semiconductor substrate with the first mask as a mask, forming a second mask covering a side surface of the first part and exposing the bottom surface of the first part, forming a second part reaching the electrode by etching the semiconductor substrate with the second mask as a mask, forming an insulating film covering the side surfaces of the first and second parts, and forming a conductive member connected to the electrode in the first and second parts. A difference between a maximum width and a minimum width of the second part is smaller than a difference between a maximum width and a minimum width of the first part. |
| US10607885B2 |
Shell structure for insulation of a through-substrate interconnect
Techniques and mechanisms for providing electrical insulation of a through-substrate interconnect (TI). In an embodiment, the TI extends between a first side of the substrate and a second side of the substrate opposite the first side. The substrate has formed therein a conductive shell structure that extends at least partially around a periphery of the TI. A first dielectric liner structure is disposed between the conductive shell structure and a bulk material of the substrate. A second dielectric liner structure is disposed between the conductive shell structure and the TI. In another embodiment, a voltage of the conductive shell structure is allowed to float while the TI exchanges a signal or a supply voltage. |
| US10607884B2 |
Gate aligned contact and method to fabricate same
Gate aligned contacts and methods of forming gate aligned contacts are described. For example, a method of fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of gate structures above an active region formed above a substrate. The gate structures each include a gate dielectric layer, a gate electrode, and sidewall spacers. A plurality of contact plugs is formed, each contact plug formed directly between the sidewall spacers of two adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. A plurality of contacts is formed, each contact formed directly between the sidewall spacers of two adjacent gate structures of the plurality of gate structures. The plurality of contacts and the plurality of gate structures are formed subsequent to forming the plurality of contact plugs. |
| US10607883B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device having a semiconductor element (a thin film transistor, a thin film diode, a photoelectric conversion element of silicon PIN junction, or a silicon resistor element) which is light-weight, flexible (bendable), and thin as a whole is provided as well as a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. In the present invention, the element is not formed on a plastic film. Instead, a flat board such as a substrate is used as a form, the space between the substrate (third substrate (17)) and a layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) is filled with coagulant (typically an adhesive) that serves as a second bonding member (16), and the substrate used as a form (third substrate (17)) is peeled off after the adhesive is coagulated to hold the layer including the element (peeled layer (13)) by the coagulated adhesive (second bonding member (16)) alone. In this way, the present invention achieves thinning of the film and reduction in weight. |
| US10607874B2 |
Electrostatic chuck
According to one embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, and a heater plate. The ceramic dielectric substrate has a surface where a processing object is placed. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate. The heater plate is provided between the ceramic dielectric substrate and the base plate. The heater plate includes a first support plate including a metal, a second support plate including a metal, a heater element, a first resin layer, and a second resin layer. The heater element is provided between the first support plate and the second support plate. The heater element emits heat due to a current flowing. The first resin layer is provided between the first support plate and the heater element. The second resin layer is provided between the second support plate and the heater element. |
| US10607871B2 |
Reticle pressing unit and EUV reticle pod using same
A reticle pressing unit and an EUV reticle pod using the same are provided. An inner assembly includes an upper cover and a lower cover. The lower cover includes a supporting element for supporting the reticle. A pressing unit for pressing the reticle is disposed on the upper cover and includes a pressing element and a limiting cap. The pressing element has oppositely arranged pressing part and pressure receiving part. The pressing part extends through the upper cover to press against the reticle. The pressing element is covered by the limiting cap and is protruded outwardly from a top surface of the limiting cap. An outer cover has a pushing surface for forming a surface-to-surface contact with the pressure receiving part and for simultaneously pressing against the pressure receiving part and the top surface to solve the problems relating to the reticle which is applied with uneven forces. |
| US10607870B2 |
Substrate carrier for active/passive bonding and de-bonding of a substrate
Embodiments of substrate carriers which enable active/passive bonding and de-bonding of a substrate are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate carrier for holding a substrate comprises a disk formed of a porous material, the disk being formed symmetrically about a central axis and defining a substantially planar upper surface. In some embodiments, the porous material is silicon carbide and the substrate carrier includes a semi-porous surface coating formed atop the upper surface of the disk. |
| US10607869B2 |
Substrate processing system and control device
Disclosed is a substrate processing system that includes a substrate processing apparatus configured to perform a predetermined processing on a substrate accommodated in a processing container. The substrate processing system includes: a processing execution unit configured to execute a film deposition processing on the substrate; a characteristic acquiring unit configured to acquire the characteristic of the film deposited on the substrate by the film deposition processing; and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the characteristic of the film includes an abnormal value based on the characteristic of the film acquired by the characteristic acquiring unit. |
| US10607868B2 |
Manufacturing cell and manufacturing cell management system
A manufacturing cell includes an allowable range setting unit configured to set an allowable range for physical quantity data or statistical processing data, and data output unit configured to output, in a case where the physical quantity data or the statistical processing data deviates from the allowable range, output information. The manufacturing cell further includes an abnormality information determination unit configured to compare the physical quantity data or the statistical processing data of a manufacturing cell as an abnormality source, with the retained physical quantity data or the retained statistical processing data of the manufacturing cell, to determine whether or not the abnormality is inherent to the manufacturing cell as the abnormality source, and a determination result notification unit for notifying a determination result. |
| US10607864B2 |
System, apparatus, and method for processing substrates using acoustic energy
A system, apparatus, and method for processing substrates using acoustic energy. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for processing flat articles including a support for supporting the flat article and an acoustic energy treatment apparatus. The acoustic energy treatment apparatus may include a support arm and a plurality of transducer assemblies coupled thereto. The transducer assemblies may include a housing with a transducer coupled thereto, and the housings of the transducer assemblies may be arranged in an end-to-end manner. A trough may also be included that extends along at least a portion of a length of the transducer assemblies. The trough may serve as a reservoir that upon being filled and overflowed with a liquid allows the liquid to fluidly couple the transducer assemblies to the flat article. |
| US10607862B2 |
Substrate cleaning apparatus
A substrate cleaning apparatus cleans a surface of a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer and dries the substrate. The substrate cleaning apparatus includes a process chamber having a substrate conveying unit configured to hold a substrate horizontally with its upper surface facing upwardly and to convey the substrate in one direction, and a cleaning unit configured to clean the surface of the substrate in non-contact state by supplying a cleaning liquid to the surface of the substrate which is moving in the process chamber. The substrate apparatus has an inert gas blowing unit configured to blow an inert gas toward the front and reverse surfaces of the substrate which has been cleaned in the cleaning unit to produce an inert gas atmosphere in the process chamber while drying the substrate with the inert gas. |
| US10607859B2 |
Adhesive-bonded thermal interface structures
A heat sink can be attached to a heat-producing electronic device by aligning an adhesive material to a surface of the heat sink, applying the adhesive material to the surface to form an outer perimeter and applying, within the outer perimeter, a thermally conductive material to the surface. The surface of the heat sink and a surface of the heat-producing electronic device can then be aligned, and the heat sink can be assembled to the heat-producing electronic device by bringing the heat-producing electronic device surface into contact with the adhesive material. The heat sink can then be affixed to the heat-producing electronic device by applying a compressive force to the assembly to activate the adhesive material. |
| US10607857B2 |
Semiconductor device assembly including a thermal interface bond between a semiconductor die and a passive heat exchanger
A method of joining a semiconductor die to a passive heat exchanger can include applying a bond enhancing agent to a semiconductor device; creating an assembly that includes a thermal interface disposed on the semiconductor device such that a first major surface of the thermal interface material is in touching relation with the bond enhancing agent on the semiconductor device, and a heat exchanger disposed in touching relation with a second major surface of the thermal interface material; and reflowing the assembly such that the thermal interface bonds the heat exchanger to the semiconductor device. Embodiments can use the ability of indium to bond to a non-metallic surface to form the thermal interface, which may be enhanced by a secondary coating on either or both joining surfaces. |
| US10607855B2 |
Method for fabricating semiconductor device using a hybrid mask pattern
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating layer on a substrate; forming a first mask pattern including silicon on the insulating layer and forming a second mask pattern including an oxide on the first mask pattern; forming a coating layer that includes carbon and which covers an upper surface of the insulating layer, a sidewall of the first mask pattern, and the second mask pattern; removing a portion of the coating layer and the second mask pattern; forming a metal layer on an upper surface of the first mask pattern and on a sidewall of the coating layer; exposing the upper surface of the insulating layer by removing the coating layer; and etching the insulating layer by using the first mask pattern and the metal layer as a mask. |
| US10607848B2 |
Method of fabricating semiconductor device
Provided is a method of fabricating a semiconductor device including the following steps. A substrate is provided. A material layer having an opening is formed on the substrate. A first passivation material layer is formed on sidewalls of the opening and on the substrate. A treatment process is performed to the first passivation material layer to form a second passivation material layer. A first surface of the second passivation material layer and a second surface (at an inner side) of the second passivation material layer are differ in a property, and the first surface is located at a side of the second passivation material layer relatively away from the material layer. |
| US10607847B1 |
Gate all around device and method of formation using angled ions
A method of forming a three-dimensional transistor device. The method may include providing a fin array on a substrate, the fin array comprising a plurality of fin structures, formed from a monocrystalline semiconductor, and disposed subjacent to a hard mask layer. The method may include directing angled ions at the fin array, wherein the angled ions form a non-zero angle of incidence with respect to a perpendicular to a plane of the substrate. The angled ions may etch the plurality of fin structures to form a stack of isolated nanowires, within a given fin structure. |
| US10607845B1 |
Patterned atomic layer etching and deposition using miniature-column charged particle beam arrays
Methods and systems for direct atomic layer etching and deposition on or in a substrate using charged particle beams. Electrostatically-deflected charged particle beam columns can be targeted in direct dependence on the design layout database to perform atomic layer etch and atomic layer deposition, expressing pattern with selected 3D-structure. Reducing the number of process steps in patterned atomic layer etch and deposition reduces manufacturing cycle time and increases yield by lowering the probability of defect introduction. Local gas and photon injectors and detectors are local to corresponding columns, and support superior, highly-configurable process execution and control. |
| US10607841B2 |
Silicide films through selective deposition
Methods for forming silicide films are disclosed. Methods of selectively depositing metal-containing films on silicon surfaces which are further processed to form silicide films are disclosed. Specific embodiments of the disclosure relate to the formation of silicide films on FinFET structures without the formation of a metal layer on the dielectric. |
| US10607839B2 |
Method of reducing an impurity concentration in a semiconductor body
A method includes kicking out impurity atoms from substitutional sites of a crystal lattice of a semiconductor body by implanting particles via a first surface into the semiconductor body, reducing a thickness of the semiconductor body by removing semiconductor material of the semiconductor body, and annealing the semiconductor body in a first annealing process at a temperature of between 300° C. and 450° C. to diffuse impurity atoms out of the semiconductor body. |
| US10607837B2 |
Gas flow control for EPI thickness uniformity improvement
One implementation provides a method including providing a substrate into a processing chamber through a loading port, rotating the substrate clockwise, providing a gas mixture into a processing region through an inject insert comprising a first, second, and third sets of inject inlets, wherein the first set of inject inlets creates an inner zone inside the processing region, the second set of inject inlets creates a middle zone radially outward of the inner zone, and the third set of inject inlets creates an outer zone radially outward the middle zone, the gas mixture is provided by flowing the gas mixture through the first and second sets of inject inlets, and inject inlets of the third set of inject inlets that are away from the loading port, while blocking flow of the gas mixture into inject inlets of the third set of inject inlets that are closer to the loading port. |
| US10607836B2 |
Methods of forming structures
A method of forming a structure comprises forming a pattern of self-assembled nucleic acids over a material. The pattern of self-assembled nucleic acids is exposed to at least one repair enzyme to repair defects in the pattern. The repaired pattern of self-assembled nucleic acids is transferred to the material to form features therein. A method of decreasing defect density in self-assembled nucleic acids is also disclosed. Self-assembled nucleic acids exhibiting an initial defect density are formed over at least a portion of a material and the self-assembled nucleic acids are exposed to at least one repair enzyme to repair defects in the self-assembled nucleic acids. Additional methods are also disclosed. |
| US10607835B2 |
Etching method
An etching method is provided for etching a silicon-containing layer into a pattern of a mask that is formed by etching—from a block copolymer layer that includes a first polymer and a second polymer, that is layered on the silicon-containing layer of a process-target object via an intermediate layer, and that is enabled to be self-assembled—a region including the second polymer and the intermediate layer right under the region. The method includes forming a protective film on the mask by arranging upper and lower electrodes facing each other, by applying a negative DC voltage to the upper electrode in a processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus in which the process-target object is provided, by applying high-frequency power to the upper or lower electrode, and by supplying a process gas including a hydrogen gas and an inert gas into the processing chamber to generate plasma. |
| US10607834B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device by etching and washing
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor film including an oxide semiconductor material, forming a gate electrode facing the semiconductor film, forming a gate insulating film between the gate electrode and the semiconductor film, the gate insulating film having a side face that is uncovered with the gate electrode; and washing the side face of the gate insulating film with use of a chemical liquid that is able to dissolve the oxide semiconductor material. |
| US10607830B2 |
LED light apparatus and assembling method thereof
A conductive structure comprising: a plurality of conductive devices; a first conductive spring sheet, comprising a first connecting point; and a second conductive spring sheet, comprising a second connecting point. Each of the conductive devices comprises a first conductive end and a second conductive end. The second conductive end is connected to the second connecting point, and the first conductive end is connected to the first connecting point corresponding to the second connecting point to which the second conductive end is connected. |
| US10607829B2 |
Transition radiation light sources
Transition radiation from nanotubes, nanosheets, and nanoparticles and in particular, boron nitride nanomaterials, can be utilized for the generation of light. Wavelengths of light of interest for microchip lithography, including 13.5 nm (91.8 eV) and 6.7 nm (185 eV), can be generated at useful intensities, by transition radiation light sources. Light useful for monitoring relativistic charged particle beam characteristics such as spatial distribution and intensity can be generated. |
| US10607827B2 |
Method and apparatus for the chemical ionization of samples
An ionising apparatus for ionising a sample of gaseous fluid. The ionising apparatus comprises an ioniser configured to provide reactant ions; an ion modifier configured to modify the reactant ions, and a reaction region arranged to receive the modified reactant ions and a sample and to combine the sample with the modified reactant ions to ionise the sample for analysis by a detector configured to identify a substance of interest in the sample. |
| US10607825B2 |
Mass spectrometer
Acceleration of decelerated ions and a reduction in the velocity dispersion width of decelerated ions are both achieved, whereby the sensitivity of detected ion sensitivity is improved and resolution is improved. The distance dx between at least one set of facing rod-shaped electrodes among rod-shaped electrodes (4-2-a) to (4-2-d) differs at the inlet part at which ions enter and the outlet part at which ions exit, and the distance dx between the at least one set of facing rod-shaped electrodes is gradually reduced or increased from the inlet part toward the outlet part. |
| US10607823B2 |
Shot-to-shot sampling using a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer
Embodiments relate to an apparatus, method, or computer program. A laser may be configured to irradiate a plurality of laser pulses on a target area to ionize a sample placed in the target area into at least one ionized particle. Electrodes at a first end of a flight tube may be configured to accelerate ionized particles into the flight tube. A detector at a second opposite end of the flight tube may independently measure a time of flight of the ionized particles through the flight tube and an intensity of the ionized particles. |
| US10607821B2 |
Sputtering system and method including an arc detection
A sputtering system that includes a sputtering chamber having a target material serving as a cathode, and an anode and a work piece. A direct current (DC) power supply supplies electrical power to the anode and the cathode sufficient to generate a plasma within the sputtering chamber. A detection module detects the occurrence of an arc in the sputtering chamber by monitoring an electrical characteristic of the plasma. In one embodiment the electrical characteristic monitored is the impedance of the plasma. In another embodiment the electrical characteristic is the conductance of the plasma. |
| US10607817B2 |
Thermal repeatability and in-situ showerhead temperature monitoring
Embodiments described herein generally related to a substrate processing apparatus, and more specifically to an improved showerhead assembly for a substrate processing apparatus. The showerhead assembly includes a gas distribution plate and one or more temperature detection assemblies. The gas distribution plate includes a body having a top surface and a bottom surface. The one or more temperature detection assemblies are interfaced with the top surface of the gas distribution plate such that a thermal bond is formed between the gas distribution plate and each of the one or more temperature detection assemblies. Each temperature detection assembly includes a protruded feature and a temperature probe. The protruded feature is interfaced with the top surface of the gas distribution plate such that an axial load is placed on the gas distribution plate along an axis of the protruded feature. The temperature probe is positioned in a body of the protruded feature. |
| US10607810B2 |
Vibration control system and optical equipment equipped therewith
The vibration control system configured to control vibration of a vibration-controlled object is disclosed. The vibration control system comprises: (i) actuator units each including a piezoelectric element configured to expand and contract; (ii) a drive power source configured to supply drive voltages to the piezoelectric elements of the actuator units for causing the piezoelectric elements to expand and contract; (iii) a vibration detector configured to detect a status of vibration of the vibration-controlled object; and (iv) a vibration controller configured to control the vibration of the vibration-controlled object by controlling the voltages supplied by the drive power source to the piezoelectric elements of the actuator units based on the status of vibration detected by the vibration detector, respectively. |
| US10607809B2 |
Radiation imaging apparatus
An X-ray imaging apparatus comprises a first operation unit 31 and a second operation unit 41 that execute an input operation relative to an X-ray image displayed on a display element. The first operation unit comprises a touch panel and the second operation unit comprises a lever. A mounted first operation unit can change an angle relative to a rail installed relative to a table. The second operation unit is attachable to both the rail and the table, and first operation unit is and detachable therefrom for convenience. |
| US10607807B2 |
Electron spectroscopy system
An electron spectroscopy system and method are disclosed. In another aspect, an ultrabright and ultrafast angle-resolved electron spectroscopy system is provided. A further aspect of the present system employs an electron gun, a radio frequency cavity and multiple spectrometers. Yet another aspect uses spectrometers in an aligned manner to deflect and focus electrons emitted by the electron gun. Moreover, an ultrafast laser is coupled to an electron spectroscopy system. A bunch of monochromatic electrons have their energy compressed and reoriented in an additional aspect of the present system. A further aspect of the present electron spectroscopy system employs adaptive and/or adjustable optics to optimize both time and energy compression. Another aspect provides at least two RF lenses or cavities, one before a specimen and one after the specimen. |
| US10607805B2 |
Filament positioning system and filament positioning method
Disclosed are a filament positioning system and a filament positioning method. The filament positioning system includes a bottom plate, a first positioning regulating mechanism and a second positioning regulating mechanism, wherein the first positioning regulating mechanism is configured to conduct positioning regulation of a position of a filament seat on the bottom plate, so that filament seats of different models can be fixed to the bottom plate, and the second positioning regulating mechanism is configured to conduct positioning regulation on the filament; and a detection module configured to collect and display position information of a filament tip and the filament seat, wherein the first positioning regulating mechanism and the second positioning regulating mechanism correspondingly regulate positions of the filament seat and the filament tip according to the position information. |
| US10607803B2 |
Electron microscope and method of controlling same
An electron microscope includes an electron source, an extraction electrode that extracts an electron beam emitted from the electron source, a monochromator having an energy filter that disperses the electron beam emitted from the electron source based on an energy thereof and an energy selection slit that selects the energy of the electron beam, an incident-side electrode provided between the extraction electrode and the monochromator, and an incident-side electrode controller that controls the incident-side electrode based on a change in a voltage applied to the extraction electrode. |
| US10607796B2 |
Electrical switching apparatus with springs and shunt trip mechanism
An apparatus includes a switch having alternately open and closed conditions, and a shunt trip mechanism configured to detect and respond to an electrical fault condition. The apparatus further includes an operating mechanism including a spring assembly. The operating mechanism is actuatable manually to deflect the spring assembly into a stressed condition, and is actuatable automatically in response to the shunt trip mechanism to shift the switch into the open condition upon return deflection of the spring assembly from the stressed condition. The spring assembly may include springs connected in parallel. |
| US10607795B2 |
Linkage for fuse switch
A rotatable switching member includes a support bracket having a first arm, a second arm, and a middle portion, and a switch flange. The rotatable switching member further includes a switch bracket connected to the middle portion of the support bracket having an attachment portion and an engagement portion. A handle is fixed to the first arm of the support bracket to rotate the rotatable switching member. |
| US10607793B1 |
Keyboard device
A keyboard device includes a base plate and a key structure. The key structure includes a keycap, a first connecting element, a second connecting element and a stabilizer bar. The first connecting element and the second connecting element are arranged between the base plate and the keycap and connected with the base plate and the keycap. The stabilizer bar is fixed on the first connecting element and the second connecting element. Since the stabilizer bar does not collide with the base plate to generate the unpleasant noise, the keyboard device of the present invention is capable of reducing the noise. Moreover, since the stabilizer bar is fixed on the first connecting element and the second connecting element, it is not necessary to install hooks corresponding to the stabilizer bar on the keycap and the base plate and the fabricating cost is reduced. |
| US10607792B2 |
Disconnecting device for galvanic direct current interruption
A disconnecting device for interrupting a direct current between a direct current source and an electric apparatus, having a current-conducting mechanical switch, a power electronics unit connected thereto, and an energy store which is charged by an arcing voltage generated on the switch by an arc as the switch is being disconnected. A pulse generator that is connected to the energy store triggers at least one semiconductor switch of the power electronics unit in such a way that the power electronics unit short-circuits the switch and the arc is extinguished. |
| US10607791B2 |
Energy storage device
An energy storage device includes: an external terminal having any one of positive and negative polarities and including a protrusion and a first terminal; a case having a polarity opposite to the external terminal and including an extension; a substrate disposed to surround an outer circumference of the protrusion of the external terminal through a hole formed at a center thereof; and a connection member located at an upper surface of the substrate and coupled to the first terminal of the external terminal, wherein the first terminal and the substrate are connected by means of the connection member, and the extension is connected to the substrate. Since positive and negative electrodes of the energy storage device are electrically connected to a substrate having a cell balancing function without a harness or any other member, it is possible to improve the economic feasibility and productivity of the energy storage device module. |
| US10607789B2 |
Porous interconnected corrugated carbon-based network (ICCN) composite
A porous interconnected corrugated carbon-based network (ICCN) composite and methods for making the same are disclosed. The porous ICCN composite is made up of a plurality of carbon layers that are interconnected and expanded apart from one another to form a plurality of pores. Metallic nanoparticles are disposed within the plurality of pores. In one embodiment, a light exposure only based method for producing the porous ICCN composite is disclosed. In another embodiment a light exposure plus an electrodeposition method for producing the porous ICCN composite is disclosed. In yet another exemplary embodiment, a capacitor having a first electrode and a second electrode separated from the first electrode by a dielectric wherein at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode is formed from the porous ICCN composite is disclosed. |
| US10607788B2 |
Aerogel capacitor and method for manufacturing the same
An aerogel capacitor includes: a substrate including a capacitor structure including an aerogel, a dielectric layer and a conductive layer, and a support surrounding the capacitor structure; and an electrode unit including a first electrode and a second electrode provided on the substrate. The first electrode is connected to the aerogel and the second electrode is connected to the conductive layer. |
| US10607785B2 |
Electronic component and electronic device
An electronic component includes an antenna electrode functioning as a first electrode plate, a circuit board functioning as a second electrode plate, and a short-circuit section that electrically connects the antenna electrode and the circuit board. The circuit board includes a surface functioning as a first surface opposed to the antenna electrode, a grounding section, a circuit component functioning as a conductive structure disposed on the surface, and a wiring pattern that connects the circuit component and the grounding section. |
| US10607784B2 |
Film capacitor, combination type capacitor, inverter, and electric vehicle
A film capacitor includes a wound body in which a dielectric film and an electrode film are wound; and a pair of external electrodes provided respectively on a pair of end faces positioned in an axial direction of the wound body. The dielectric film includes an electrode-free portion provided on one end side in a width direction, continuously in a longitudinal direction of the dielectric film. The electrode film has a first projection portion on a surface on the other end side in the width direction, and the first projection portion has a string shape extending in the width direction. |
| US10607780B2 |
Ceramic electronic component and dielectric ceramic composition
A ceramic electronic component or a dielectric ceramic composition having a first element group and a second element group. The first element group consists of Ba, Si, and Al, and contains in 100 parts by weight of the first element group, 20 to 40 parts by weight of BaO, 48 to 75 parts by weight of SiO2, and 5 to 20 parts by weight of Al2O3. The second element group consists of at least one of Ti and Fe, Mn, Sr, and Mg, and contains, with respect to 100 parts by weight of the first element group, 1 to 10 parts by weight of MnO, 1 to 35 parts by weight of SrO, 0.1 to 6 parts by weight of MgO, and 1 to 35 parts by weight of TiO2 and/or Fe2O3. |
| US10607779B2 |
Chip capacitor having capacitor region directly below external electrode
A chip capacitor includes a substrate having a main surface, a first conductive film including a first connecting region and a first capacitor forming region and formed on the main surface of the substrate, a dielectric film covering the first capacitor forming region of the first conductive film, a second conductive film including a second connecting region facing to the first capacitor forming region of the first conductive film across the dielectric film, and a second capacitor forming region facing to the first capacitor forming region of the first conductive film across the dielectric film, a first external electrode electrically connected to the first connecting region of the first conductive film, and a second external electrode electrically connected to the second connecting region of the second conductive film. |
| US10607778B2 |
Ceramic electronic device
A ceramic electronic device includes multiple chip components and a pair of metal terminal portions. The chip components consist of a pair of chip end surfaces and four chip side surfaces. Terminal electrodes are formed on the pair of chip end surfaces. The pair of metal terminal portions is arranged correspondingly with the pair of chip end surfaces. Each of the pair of metal terminal portions includes an electrode face portion, a pair of engagement arm portions, and a mount portion. The electrode face portion faces the chip end surface. The pair of engagement arm portions sandwich and hold the chip component. The mount portion extends from one of terminal second sides toward the chip component and is partially substantially vertical to the electrode face portion. The electrode face portion has a slit. |
| US10607777B2 |
Integrated capacitor filter and integrated capacitor filter with varistor function
Disclosed are apparatus and a method for providing an integrated multiterminal multilayer ceramic device that has three or more capacitive elements. Two of such capacitive elements may be in series, with a third in parallel. The integrated device may be packaged as an overmolded three leaded component, or can be mounted as SMD (surface mount device). The integrated device may also be combined with a separate varistor in a stacked arrangement of leaded components. |
| US10607775B2 |
Electronic component device, high-frequency front end circuit, and communication device
An electronic component device includes an electronic component, a resin structure including the electronic component such that one main surface thereof is exposed, a through-electrode, and first and second wiring layers, in which the electronic component includes an element body, an inner electrode in the element body and connected to the first and second wiring layers, and an adjustment electrode provided in an adjustment region in the element body, the first wiring layer is continuously provided on the inner electrode, the adjustment region, and the resin structure, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the resin structure, a thermal expansion coefficient of the adjustment region, and a thermal expansion coefficient of the inner electrode satisfy an expression of the thermal expansion coefficient of the resin structure≤the thermal expansion coefficient of the adjustment region≤the thermal expansion coefficient of the inner electrode. |
| US10607771B2 |
Shielded power coupling device
Axisymmetric solid of revolution derivable from section at FIG. 5 is generally toroidal with electric current(s) in windings preferably flowing circumferentially along major circle(s) during power coupling device operation. Current(s) in windings, current(s) in half-shields, and the volume of space swept out by shield airgap(s) emerge from plane of paper perpendicularly at FIG. 5, but as these emerge therefrom, they curve to follow toroidal major circle(s). Core regions preferably shunt and align magnetic flux such that magnetic field lines escape therefrom primarily only in region(s) of core airgap(s) and such that magnetic flux loops lie in planes of toroidal minor circle(s). Half-shield(s) preferably have electrically conductive material(s) distributed therein as is sufficient to substantially cancel magnetic flux lines impinging thereon before effects of such impinging magnetic flux lines would reach shield airgap(s) and/or outer surface(s) of half-shields. |
| US10607769B2 |
Electronic component including a spacer part
An electronic component includes a magnetic body, and first and second internal coil parts embedded in the magnetic body spaced apart from each other and including coil conductors disposed on first and second surfaces of a support member. First and second spacer parts are disposed between the first and second internal coil parts in upper and lower portions of the magnetic body, respectively, with an interval therebetween. |
| US10607767B2 |
Buried inductive element structure of slim type
A buried inductive element structure includes a base having a chamber, two stands and two terminals, wherein the chamber having a holding space is formed on the base, each stand is arranged on a corner of the base, the two terminals are respectively mounted inside the two stands, a bending part is formed on a top of each of the two terminals and is exposed to the base and each stand, a hook part is formed on the bottom of each of the two terminals, a part of the hook part is arranged inside the base, another part of the hook part is exposed to the base and is defined as a connecting part. The coil has two ends connected electrically and respectively to the bending part of the terminals. The electronic component is connected electrically to the connecting parts of the two terminals. |
| US10607765B2 |
Coil component and board having the same
A coil component and a board having the same are provided. The coil component includes: a first coil; a second coil sharing a magnetic core with the first coil; a main board disposed between the first and second coils; first and second external electrodes connected to the first coil; and third and fourth external electrodes connected to the second coil. |
| US10607764B2 |
Electronic component and system-in-package
An electronic component includes: a body having electrical insulating properties; an external electrode disposed on an external surface of the body; and a reinforcing layer disposed on a surface of the body and including a metal oxide layer and a graphene oxide layer. |
| US10607762B2 |
Reactor including tubular core, motor drive device, and amplifier device
A reactor capable of eliminating a heat source provided within a power cabinet housing a motor drive device. The reactor includes a tubular core, a coil installed inside the core, a terminal which is provided at an axially first end of the core and which is connected to the coil, and an attachment flange which extends radially outside of the core and which is provided between the terminal and a second end of the core. |
| US10607761B2 |
Attachment structure for coil devices and coil device
A fixing structure for a coil device according to an aspect of the disclosure is an attachment structure for a coil device which attaches a flat coil device including a coil portion to an attachment portion, the attachment structure including a cylindrical holding portion provided in the attachment portion to hold the coil device, and a cylindrical engaged portion provided in the coil device and engaged with the holding portion, wherein the holding portion and the engaged portion are disposed along an axis extending in a thickness direction of the coil device, and the engaged portion is engaged over an entire circumference thereof with the holding portion. |
| US10607759B2 |
Method of fabricating a laminated stack of magnetic inductor
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a laminated magnetic inductor and resulting structures having anisotropic magnetic layers. A first magnetic stack is formed having one or more magnetic layers alternating with one or more insulating layers. A trench is formed in the first magnetic stack oriented such that an axis of the trench is perpendicular to a hard axis of the magnetic inductor. The trench is filled with a dielectric material. |
| US10607757B1 |
Production method of soft magnetic metal powder
The present invention is a method of producing a soft magnetic metal powder comprising, a material powder preparation step of preparing a material powder comprising a particle including a boron and a soft magnetic metal including an iron, a first nitriding step of nitriding the boron included in said particle by carrying out a heat treatment to said material powder under a non-oxidizing atmosphere including nitrogen, and a spheroidizing step of spheroidizing said particle by carrying out a heat treatment to said material powder of after said first nitriding step under a non-oxidizing atmosphere having lower nitrogen partial pressure than a nitrogen partial pressure of the non-oxidizing atmosphere during said first nitriding step. According to the present invention, the soft magnetic metal powder comprising the particle having a shape of a complete sphere or close to complete sphere, and comprising the small standard deviation of the particle size distribution of the powder can be obtained. |
| US10607753B2 |
Superconductor article with directional flux pinning
A method and composition for doped HTS tapes having directional flux pinning and critical current. |
| US10607744B2 |
Semiconductor device for directly converting radioisotope emissions into electrical power
A device for producing electricity. In one embodiment, the device comprises a doped germanium or a doped GaAs substrate and a plurality of stacked material layers (some of which are doped) above the substrate. These stacked material layers, which capture the beta particles and generate electrical current, may include, in various embodiments, GaAs, InAlP, InGaP, InAlGaP, AlGaAs, and other semiconductor materials. A beta particle source generates beta particles that impinge the stack, create electron-hole pairs, and thereby generate electrical current. In another embodiment the device comprises a plurality of epi-liftoff layers and a backing support material. |
| US10607740B2 |
System, a device and a method for passive decay heat transport
In one implementation, a passive core decay heat transport system comprising of a device in the reactor core and an assembly of heat dissipating fins is disclosed. The device comprises at least one coolant channel 2 containing the fuel assembly 3; at least one collect joint 4 connecting the fuel in the assembly to shield plug 6; at least one liquid metal thermo-siphon 5 for transporting of decay heat from fuel; at least one other liquid metal thermo-siphon 7 for transport of heat from thermo-siphon 5; and at least an assembly of heat dissipating fins 10 for transport of heat from thermo-siphon 7 to ultimate sink. The thermal expansion of the liquid metal by melting establishes the conductive and convective heat transfer paths and transfers the heat from the fuel assembly 3 to the thermo-siphon 5, which transports the heat to other thermo-siphon 7 and then to the assembly of fin 10, which dissipates the heat by natural circulation of air to atmospheric air. |
| US10607739B2 |
Systems and methods for anatomical modeling using information obtained from a medical procedure
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for anatomical modeling using information obtained during a medical procedure, whereby an initial anatomical model is generated or obtained, a correspondence is determined between the initial model and additional data and/or measurements from an invasive or noninvasive procedure, and, if a discrepancy is found between the initial model and the additional data, the anatomical model is updated to incorporate the additional data and reduce the discrepancy. |
| US10607737B2 |
Systems and methods to derive models to evaluate behavior outcomes based on brain responses to complex sounds
Disclosed systems and methods analyze a complex auditory response to generate a particular model for a behavioral outcome. An example method includes analyzing one or more response to a complex stimulus to identify regions in each response and peaks in each region. The example method includes constructing a behavioral outcome model based on region and peak information by evaluating a plurality of parameters based on the information associated with the regions and peaks and applying a best fit analysis to include and/or exclude parameters from the plurality of parameters to determine parameters and relationship between the parameters to form the model. The example method includes facilitating application of the model to generate a score by obtaining values for the parameters forming the model and combining the values according to the relationship between the parameters specified in the model, the score indicative of the behavior outcome with respect to at least one first subject. |
| US10607736B2 |
Extending medical condition base cartridges based on SME knowledge extensions
Mechanisms are provided for extending a medical condition base cartridge (MCBC) based on user modifications of the MCBC. The mechanisms generate a MCBC for a medical condition at least by performing cognitive processing of natural language content in a corpus to extract patient attributes and treatment information associated with the medical condition. Information stored in the MCBC is presented to a user via at least one interface and user input is received, where the user input indicates at least one of a modification of, addition to, or deletion of, a portion of the information presented to generate an extension to the MCBC. The extension to the MCBC is stored as an expert medical condition cartridge (EMCC) in association with the MCBC in a repository. The EMCC is input to a medical cognitive system to perform a medical cognitive operation on patient information based on the EMCC. |
| US10607731B2 |
Method and system for authenticating and monitoring home health interactions
A system uses a multi-pass authentication method to authenticate the presence of a health care provider co-located with an assigned patient at a specific time and in a specific place that includes a data reader and transmitter with particular capabilities held by the health care provider, a token held by the patient, and a back-end database and internet-based interface. The system includes an object that includes a wirelessly detectable patient identification (ID) and an electronic device. The electronic device includes a provider ID and is configured to receive the patient ID from the object, retrieve, from a database, healthcare intervention data. The electronic device selectively locks and unlocks access to clinical data recording functions of the electronic device based on the healthcare intervention data. |
| US10607730B2 |
Apparatus for preventing unauthorized access to computer files and for securing medical records
Apparatus and method for identifying and managing a requesting person who wishes to access information in a computer memory, calls for capturing local images of the requesting person and determining whether this person is the same as one of the registered persons whose identifying information is stored in a database. Identifying information stored in the database pertains to at least one visually observable biologic identifier on a body portion of each registered person. The accuracy of requesting person identification enhanced by allowing the access grantor of information to provide visual content which modulates the appearance of the biologic identifier of the requesting person. An identified human gatekeeper further hardens the system against inappropriate access. Utilization of the system for the documentation of encounters such as medical and other events is provided. |
| US10607726B2 |
System for anonymizing and aggregating protected health information
A patient anonymizing system includes a plurality of hashing appliances and data sources. Each appliance receives medical records containing at least confidential protected health information (PHI). A salt value is appended to each confidential PHI, and a hash is generated, which replaces the confidential PHI to generate an anonymized record. A master patient index server aggregates the anonymized records. A vector and cluster matching engine determines if the anonymized record matches a unique patient identifier corresponding to a second anonymized record. A comparison vector is generated by comparing hash values of the confidential PHI with hash values in the second anonymized record, and is crossed with a confidence vector having weights based on match conditions. This produces a match confidence level, which is compared to a threshold. If the threshold is met, the anonymized record is mapped to the unique patient identifier associated with the second record. |
| US10607725B2 |
Surgical operative notes
A computer-implemented method comprising: retrieving a surgical center template for a surgical procedure that is performed by a surgical center; retrieving medical records pertaining to the patient; automatically pre-populating a portion of the template based on contents of the retrieved medical data records; transmitting, to a device used by a physician, the pre-populated template for presentation to the physician; receiving data pertaining to the surgical procedure, wherein the received data comprises at least one of data entered into a predefined data field of the plurality of predefined data fields and data indicative of a selection of a selectable field in the plurality of selectable fields; populating one or more other portions of the template with the received data pertaining to the surgical procedure; and generating, based on the populated template, a surgical operative note for the surgical procedure. |
| US10607724B2 |
Information processing apparatus and method for clinical laboratory management
To facilitate management of the entirety of one or a plurality of clinical laboratories. This information processing apparatus is used in management of a clinical laboratory in which an analyzer configured to analyze specimens is installed. The information processing apparatus includes: a communication section configured to communicate with a terminal operable by a user; and a controller configured to control display of the terminal via the communication section. On the basis of information collected from a plurality of analyzers installed in one or a plurality of clinical laboratories and from apparatuses relevant to the analyzers, the controller causes the terminal to display a screen including an index that indicates a status of the entirety of the one or the plurality of clinical laboratories. In response to the user selecting the index displayed in the screen, the controller causes the terminal to display the selected index so as to be divided in a plurality of categories. |
| US10607720B2 |
Associating gene expression data with a disease name
The present invention relates to a method and system for associating gene expression data with a disease name. A first data set associated with a plurality of genetic probes for a plurality of biological samples may be received. The first data set may be sorted based on a normalized gene expression values for the plurality of genetic probes. A largest value gap of the normalized gene expression values may be identified. A set of expressed genes within the first data set may be identified. An indexable document may be generated for a biological sample of the plurality of biological samples comprising data associated with the set of expressed genes. A second data set associated with an expressed gene of the set of expressed genes may be searched. A disease name may be associated with an expressed gene based on a threshold correlation between the disease name and the expressed gene. |
| US10607719B2 |
Robust variant identification and validation
A non-transitory storage medium stores an assembled genetic sequence comprising aligned sequencing reads. An electronic processing device is configured to perform operations including: identifying a possible variant in the assembled genetic sequence; computing value of at least one read property for reads of the assembled genetic sequence; and calling the possible variant conditional upon the computed values of the at least one read property for sequencing reads of the assembled genetic sequence that include the possible variant satisfying an acceptance criterion. The electronic processing device may be further configured to select at least one region of the assembled genetic sequence for validation based on a non random selection criterion. |
| US10607718B2 |
Algebraic phasing of polyploids
Embodiments of the present invention include method, systems and computer program products for algebraic phasing of polyploids. Aspects of the invention include receiving a matrix including a set of two or more single-nucleotide poloymorphisms (SNPs) for two or more sample organisms. Each row of the matrix is set to a ploidy based on a number of ploidies present in the two or more sample organisms. Each allele in the set of two or more SNPs is represented as a binary number. A set of algebraic rules is received, wherein the set of algebraic rules include an algebraic phasing algorithm. And the set of algebraic rules are applied to the matrix to determine a haplotype of a parent of the two or more sample organisms. |
| US10607714B2 |
Verification of storage media upon deployment
Described here in are systems, methods and, software to verify storage media and storage subsystems upon deployment. In one example, a computer apparatus to test storage media in a storage subsystem includes processing instructions that direct a computing system to identify initiation of a storage subsystem, initiate a testing process of the storage media, and identify a partition availability event for the storage media. The processing instructions also direct the computing system to, in response to the partition availability event, make a partition of the storage media available to a host processing system, wherein the partition comprises storage locations in the storage media tested via the testing process, and continue the testing process on the storage media. The computer apparatus also includes one or more non-transitory computer readable media that store the processing instructions. |
| US10607712B1 |
Media error reporting improvements for storage drives
A method of managing errors in a plurality of storage drives includes receiving, at a memory controller coupled to at least one storage medium in an SSD, a read command from a host interface. The method also includes retrieving, from the storage medium, read data corresponding to a plurality of data chunks to be retrieved in response to the read command, and determining that at least one data chunk of the plurality of data chunks is unable to be read, the at least one data chunk corresponding to a failed data chunk. And in response to determining the failed data chunk, sending to the host interface the read data including the failed data chunk or excluding the failed data chunk. And in response to the read command sending to the host interface status information about all data chunks. |
| US10607711B2 |
Current sample-and-hold circuit and sensor
A current sample-and-hold circuit and a sensor, are provided. The current sample-and-hold circuit is used for offsetting a background photocurrent of a photodiode, and includes a capacitor and a first transconductance amplifier which has adjustable transconductance and outputs a sampled current to the photodiode to offset the background photocurrent of the photodiode. One end of the capacitor is connected with a power supply, the other end of the capacitor is connected with one end of the first transconductance amplifier; and the other end of the first transconductance amplifier is connected with the photodiode to output the sampled current to the photodiode. When the background photocurrent of the photodiode is increased, a change of a voltage of the capacitor within a large range can be avoided by increasing the transconductance of the first transconductance amplifier, so that the current sample-and-hold circuit can offset a larger background photocurrent. |
| US10607708B2 |
Operation method of nonvolatile memory device and storage device
An method of operating a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory cells comprises receiving a read command from an external device, in response to the read command, performing, based on a reference voltage, a first cell counting operation with respect to the plurality of memory cells, adjusting at least one read voltage of first through nth read voltages (where n is a natural number greater than 1) based on a first result of the first cell counting operation, and performing, based on the adjusted at least one read voltage, a read operation corresponding to the read command with respect to the plurality of memory cells. |
| US10607706B2 |
Memory system and operating method thereof
There are provided a memory system and an operating method thereof. A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks configured with a plurality of pages, the memory device performing a read operation in units of pages; and a memory controller configured to control the memory device to perform the read operation, wherein the memory device is controlled such that a first initial turn-on time of a turn-on voltage for a first selected page among the plurality of pages and a second turn-on time of the turn-on voltage for subsequently selected pages are different from each other. |
| US10607700B2 |
Semiconductor circuit, driving method, and electronic apparatus
A semiconductor circuit of the disclosure includes a first circuit that is able to generate, on the basis of a voltage at a first node, an inverted voltage of the voltage at the first node, and apply the inverted voltage to a second node, a second circuit that is able to generate, on the basis of a voltage at the second node, an inverted voltage of the voltage at the second node, and apply the inverted voltage to the first node, a first transistor that is turned ON to couple the first node to a third node, a second transistor that is turned ON to supply a first direct-current voltage to the third node, and a first storage section that is coupled to the third node and includes a first storage device that is able to take a first resistance state or a second resistance state. |
| US10607689B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for providing driving signals in semiconductor devices
Apparatuses and methods for providing driving signals in semiconductor devices are described. An example apparatus includes a plurality of memory cell mats including a plurality of word lines and a word line driver coupled to the plurality of word lines of the plurality of memory cell mats. The word line driver is configured, responsive to a row active command, to provide a first voltage to a selected word line of the plurality of the word lines of a selected memory cell mat of the plurality of memory cell mats, provide a second voltage different from the first voltage to each of unselected word lines of the plurality of the word lines of the selected memory cell mats of the plurality of memory cell mats, and provide no voltage to each of the plurality of word lines of each of unselected memory cell mats of the plurality of memory cell mats. |
| US10607683B2 |
Semiconductor memory device capable of performing a hammer refresh operation while performing a normal refresh operation and memory system having the same
A semiconductor memory device and a memory system having the same are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including plural memory cell array blocks, and a refresh controller configured to control the memory cell array blocks to perform a normal refresh operation and a hammer refresh operation. The refresh controller controls one or more third memory cell array blocks excluding a first memory cell array block and one or more second memory cell array blocks adjacent to the first memory cell array block to perform the hammer refresh operation while the normal refresh operation is performed on the first memory cell array block among the memory cell array blocks. |
| US10607681B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for switching refresh state in a memory circuit
An apparatus may include a semiconductor device that includes an internal clock circuit configured to receive an internal clock signal and to provide a local clock signal based on the internal clock signal. The internal clock circuit comprises a clock synchronizer configured to, in response to receipt of a command to exit a self-refresh mode, disable provision of the local clock signal by a number of cycles of the internal clock signal. |
| US10607678B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling erasing data in ferroelectric memory cells
Methods and apparatuses for erasing data on a plurality of ferroelectric memory cells in a memory cell array in a memory apparatus are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a memory cell array including a first plurality of word lines; a digit line; and a plurality of ferroelectric memory cells; a control circuit that provides a section select signal and a word line select signal to select a second plurality of word lines among the first plurality of word lines responsive to an address; and an address decoder that activates the second plurality of word lines. Each ferroelectric memory cell includes: a ferroelectric capacitor having a first terminal coupled to a cell plate node and a second terminal coupled to a selection circuit that couples the digit line to the second terminal responsive to a signal on a corresponding word line of the second plurality of word lines. |
| US10607676B2 |
Sensing a memory cell
Devices and methods for sensing a memory cell are described. The memory cell may include a ferroelectric memory cell. During a read operation, a cascode may couple a precharged capacitor with the memory cell to transfer a charge between the precharged capacitor and the memory cell. The cascode may isolate the capacitor from the memory cell based on the charge transferred between the capacitor and the memory cell. A second capacitor (e.g., a parasitic capacitor) may continue to provide an additional amount of charge to the memory cell during the read operation. Such a change in capacitance value during the read operation may provide a large sense window due to a non-linear voltage characteristics associated with the change in capacitance value. |
| US10607675B2 |
Compensation for threshold voltage variation of memory cell components
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. Before reading a memory cell, the voltage on an access line of the memory cell may be initialized to a value associated with the threshold voltage of a switching component in electronic communication with the memory cell. The voltage may be initialized by reducing the existing voltage on the access line to the value. The switching component or an additional pull down device, or both, may be used to reduce the voltage of the access line. After the access line has been initialized to the value, the read operation may be triggered. |
| US10607673B2 |
Semiconductor devices for controlling input of a data strobe signal
A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include a period code generation circuit configured to generate a period code having a logic level combination corresponding to a first command or a second command. The semiconductor device may include a code synthesis circuit configured to add the period code to a previous synthesis code to generate a synthesis code. The semiconductor device may include a buffer control circuit configured to compare the synthesis code with a selection control code to generate a buffer inactivation signal for controlling input of a data strobe signal. |
| US10607672B2 |
Storage device and operating method of storage device
A storage device including a nonvolatile memory device including memory blocks and a controller connected with the nonvolatile memory device through data input and output lines and a data strobe line may be provided. The nonvolatile memory device and the controller may be configured to perform training on the data input and output lines by adjusting a delay of a data strobe signal sent through the data strobe line and adjust delays of the data input and output lines based on the training result. |
| US10607670B2 |
Memory components and controllers that calibrate multiphase synchronous timing references
A first timing reference signal and a second timing reference signal are sent to a memory device. The second timing reference signal has approximately a quadrature phase relationship with respect to the first timing reference signal. A plurality of serial data patterns are received from the memory device. The transitions of the first timing reference and the second timing reference determining when transitions occur between the bits of the plurality of data patterns. Timing indicators associated with when received transitions occur between the bits of the plurality of data patterns are received from the memory device. The timing indicators are each measured using a single sampler. Based on the timing indicators, a first duty cycle adjustment for the first timing reference signal, a second duty cycle adjustment for the second timing reference signal, and a quadrature phase adjustment are determined and applied. |
| US10607669B2 |
Memory buffer with data scrambling and error correction
A method for operating a DRAM device. The method includes receiving in a memory buffer in a first memory module hosted by a computing system, a request for data stored in RAM of the first memory module from a host controller of the computing system. The method includes receiving with the memory buffer, the data associated with a RAM, in response to the request and formatting with the memory buffer, the data into a scrambled data in response to a pseudo-random process. The method includes initiating with the memory buffer, transfer of the scrambled data into an interface device. |
| US10607667B2 |
Data output circuit
A data output circuit includes: a voltage generation circuit configured to generate an operating voltage having a potential level higher than levels of a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage; a pre-driver circuit configured to generate pull-up code signals and pull-down code signals according to calibration code signals and the operating voltage; a data pre-driver circuit configured to generate and output internal data according to a data signal and the first power supply voltage; and a main driver circuit configured to generate output data according to the internal data and the second power supply voltage, wherein a driving strength of the main driver circuit is adjusted according to the pull-up code signals and the pull-down code signals. |
| US10607666B2 |
Data transfer device and semiconductor device including the data transfer device
A data transfer device may include: a global input/output (GIO) driver configured for driving input data and outputting the driven data to a first GIO line, and configured for using a second supply voltage lower than a first supply voltage as a source voltage to drive the input data; and a repeater configured for amplifying data applied to the first GIO line, outputting the amplified data to a second GIO line, and shifting the data applied to the first GIO line to a level of the first supply voltage. The repeater may drive the data applied to the first GIO line to a first node, drive an output of the first node to the second GIO line, and reset the first node to the level of the first supply voltage based on a reset signal before a read operation. |
| US10607664B2 |
Sub-threshold voltage leakage current tracking
An apparatus has an array of memory cells and a controller coupled to the array. The controller is configured to track a sub-threshold leakage current through a number of memory cells of the array and determine a threshold voltage based on the sub-threshold leakage current. |
| US10607663B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit device and semiconductor device
Even when a driven circuit has a large-scale load, a small-scale step-down driver circuit can supply an internal potential to the driven circuit at high speed. A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a step-down driver circuit which supplies, to a driven circuit to be driven by an internal potential lower than an external potential supplied from an external power supply, the internal potential. The step-down driver circuit includes an NMOS transistor having a drain coupled to an external power supply terminal to be coupled to the external power supply and a source to be coupled to a voltage supply point of the driven circuit and a driver circuit to drive the gate of the NMOS transistor. |
| US10607658B1 |
Hard disk drive tray
The disclosure provides a hard disk drive tray including a tray body, an engagement component, a first elastic component and a switch. The engagement component includes a pivot part, a first arm part, a second arm part and a hook part connected to each other. The pivot part is pivotably disposed on the tray body. The first elastic component is disposed on the engagement component and can force the engagement component to pivot. The switch is movably disposed on the tray body. When the switch is in an engaged position, the switch and the second arm part are engaged with each other, and the hook part is engaged with a casing. When the switch is in a released position, the switch is disengaged from the second arm part, and the first elastic component pivots the engagement component so as to disengage the hook part from the casing. |
| US10607652B2 |
Dubbing and translation of a video
A method and system of converting a first language of a soundtrack of a person speaking in a video to a second language. A meaning of a word of the first language is translated, and one or more synonym words in the second language stored in a database of the computer system is located. The first and second languages are different languages. Outlines of shapes of mouth openings of the one or more synonym words in the second language are compared with the outlines of the shapes of mouth openings of the word of the first language. A synonym word of the one or more synonym words translated from the second language into the first language having mouth openings with a smallest difference from the mouth openings of the word of the first language is selected. |
| US10607651B2 |
Digital media editing
Implementations are directed to providing a digital media editing environment for editing at least a portion of a digital video using a mobile device, establishing communication between the mobile device and a data source, receiving, from the data source, a first portion of the digital video, the first portion including a first set of frames including less than all frames of the digital video, applying an edit to the first portion of the digital video, while less than all frames of the first digital video are stored on the mobile device, subsequent to applying the at least one edit, receiving, from the data source, a second portion of the digital video, the second portion including a second set of frames, and storing an edited digital video including at least one frame of the first set of frames, at least one frame of the second set of frames, and the edit. |
| US10607646B2 |
Calculating a heater power that compensates for laser induced writer protrusion for a heat-assisted magnetic recording device
A method includes moving a heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) slider relative to a magnetic recording medium. The slider comprises a writer, a writer heater, and a near-field transducer (NFT). For each of a plurality of different head-to media spacings a test tone is written to a track of the medium, the test tone is read and a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) of an amplitude of the read test tone is captured. A first DFT curve is generated at a beginning of writing the test tones. A second DFT curve is generated at a saturated state of writing the test tones. An amount of horizontal shift between the first and second DFT curves is computed. The amount of horizontal shift corresponding to writer heater power required to compensate for NFT clearance offset due to laser induced writer protrusion. |
| US10607643B2 |
Magnetic disk device and recording method
A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic head that writes data on and reads data from the magnetic disk, and a controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to control a gap between the magnetic head and the magnetic disk, and select one of two or more gap values for the fly height, based on a write location in the magnetic disk of data to be written by the magnetic head. |
| US10607639B2 |
Method of forming an in-situ protective film
A method according to one embodiment includes forming a wear-resistant in-situ film on a magnetic read transducer having a sensor with magnetic shields. The in-situ film including material derived from a flexible medium. The material is formed on the transducer by passing the flexible medium over the transducer at an elevated temperature. |
| US10607636B1 |
System for transition curvature improvement on a thermally assisted magnetic recording
A system for transition curvature improvement on thermally assisted magnetic recording, includes: an energy source, a thermally assisted magnetic recording head including a magnetic main pole for writing of a thermally assisted magnetic recording medium, a waveguide for directing an energy produced by the energy source, and a PPG including a peg and adjacent to the waveguide, the PPG being for turning the energy into a surface plasmon which travels down the peg to heat the thermally assisted magnetic recording medium. The magnetic main pole includes a first portion enabling a first magnetic field strength and at least one additional portion enabling a magnetic field strength stronger than the first magnetic field strength such that a magnetic field of the magnetic main pole along a horizontal direction thereof enables generation of a substantially straight transition curve while writing on the thermally assisted magnetic recording medium. |
| US10607618B2 |
Encoder and encoding method, decoder and decoding method, and program
The present technology relates to an encoder and an encoding method, a decoder and a decoding method, and a program by which encoding efficiency is able to be improved by constraining an appearance probability of a predetermined quantization value of an encoding target to 0 when encoding with a combination of Huffman encoding and multidimensional encoding is performed. |
| US10607612B2 |
Hierarchical intimacy for cognitive assistants
A computer-implemented method executed by a cognitive system for incorporating hierarchy knowledge. In one embodiment, the computer-implemented method includes the steps of identifying one or more participants during an interaction; obtaining profile information for each of the participants; determining a hierarchy score for each of the participants based on a plurality of factors using the profile information for each of the participants; monitoring and analyzing communications between the participants during the interaction to identify boundary conditions based on the hierarchy score; and interacting with one or more the participants in a manner consistent with the hierarchy score of the participants. |
| US10607611B1 |
Machine learning-based prediction of transcriber performance on a segment of audio
When transcribing large audio files, such as in the case of legal depositions, there are often many transcribers to choose from. Embodiments described herein enable calculation of expected accuracy of transcriptions by transcribers, which can be used to guide the selection of transcribers for specific tasks. In one embodiment, a computer receives a segment of an audio recording that includes speech of a person, and identifies an accent of the person and a topic of the segment. The computer generates feature values based on data that includes the accent and the topic, and utilizes a model to calculate, based on the feature values, an expected accuracy of a transcription of the segment by a certain transcriber. The model is generated based on training data that includes segments of previous audio recordings and values of accuracies of transcriptions, by the certain transcriber, of the segments. |
| US10607602B2 |
Speech recognition device and computer program
An object is to provide a speech recognition device with improved recognition accuracy using characteristics of a neural network. A speech recognition device includes: an acoustic model 308 implemented by a RNN (recurrent neural network) for calculating, for each state sequence, the 45 posterior probability of a state sequence in response to an observed sequence consisting of prescribed speech features obtained from a speech; a WFST 320 based on S-1HCLG calculating, for each word sequence, posterior probability of a word sequence in response to a state sequence; and a hypothesis selecting unit 322, performing speech recognition of the speech signal based on a score calculated for each hypothesis of a 50 word sequence corresponding to the speech signal, using the posterior probabilities calculated by the acoustic model 308 and the WFST 320 for the input observed sequence. |
| US10607601B2 |
Speech recognition by selecting and refining hot words
Speech recognition is performed by receiving a speech signal that includes spoken phones. A dynamic time warping procedure is applied to the received speech signal to generate a time-warped signal. The time-warped signal is compared to a plurality of stored reference patterns to identify a set of stored reference patterns that are most similar to the time-warped signal. A candidate hot word is selected from a list using the identified set of stored reference patterns. The selection of the candidate hot word is then refined. |
| US10607600B2 |
System and method for mobile automatic speech recognition
A system and method of updating automatic speech recognition parameters on a mobile device are disclosed. The method comprises storing user account-specific adaptation data associated with ASR on a computing device associated with a wireless network, generating new ASR adaptation parameters based on transmitted information from the mobile device when a communication channel between the computing device and the mobile device becomes available and transmitting the new ASR adaptation data to the mobile device when a communication channel between the computing device and the mobile device becomes available. The new ASR adaptation data on the mobile device more accurately recognizes user utterances. |
| US10607599B1 |
Human-curated glossary for rapid hybrid-based transcription of audio
Described herein are curation of a glossary and its utilization for automatic speech recognition (ASR). In one embodiment, a server receives an audio recording of speech, taken over a period spanning at least two hours. During the first hour, the server generates, utilizing an ASR system, a transcription of a segment of the audio, recorded during the first twenty minutes. The server receives, from a transcriber, a phrase that does not appear in the transcription, but was spoken in the segment, and adds the phrase to a glossary. After the first hour of the period, the server generates, utilizing the ASR system, a second transcription of a second segment of the audio, provides the second transcription and the glossary to a second transcriber, and receives a corrected transcription, in which the second transcriber substituted a second phrase in the second transcription, which was not in the glossary, with the phrase. |
| US10607597B2 |
Speech signal recognition system and method
A speech signal recognition method, apparatus, and system. The speech signal recognition method may include obtaining by or from a terminal an output of a personalization layer, with respect to a speech signal provided by a user of the terminal, having been implemented by input of the speech signal to the personalization layer, the personalization layer being previously trained based on speech features of the user, implementing a global model by providing the obtained output of the personalization layer to the global model, the global model being configured to output a phonemic signal indicating a phoneme included in the speech signal through the global model being previously trained based on speech features common to a plurality of users, and re-training the personalization layer based on the phonemic signal output from the global model, where the personalization layer and the global model collectively represent an acoustic model. |
| US10607591B1 |
Sound playback device and method for masking interference sound through noise masking signal thereof
A sound playback device and a method for masking interference sound through a noise masking signal thereof are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: playing an audio signal as a noise masking signal; receiving an ambient sound; analyzing whether the ambient sound has an interference sound in N different frequency bands; if so, finding at least one interference sound frequency band and a time period, and the interference sound conforms to the condition that an instant sound entropy value is greater than a dynamic sound average entropy value, wherein the instant sound entropy value is the calculated sound entropy value in a current sampling time; the dynamic sound average entropy value is an average entropy value of the sum of the previous instant sound entropy values; and increasing an energy of the noise masking signal in the interference sound frequency band and the time period. |
| US10607589B2 |
Nonwoven composite
The application relates to a nonwoven composite containing a lofty nonwoven layer and a film. The lofty nonwoven layer contains a plurality of primary fibers and defines a plurality of peak regions and a plurality of valley regions. The film contains a thermoplastic polymer and has a peak film thickness in the peak regions of the layer. The film is present on at least a majority of the second surface of the nonwoven layer. Within the valley regions, the film encapsulates a plurality of fibers from the nonwoven layer. The cross-sectional area fraction of total fibers in the film within the valley regions is at least about 8% and the cross-sectional area fraction of total fibers in the film within the peak regions is less than about 5%. |
| US10607588B2 |
Free form modular pickup system
The present invention discloses a modular pickup system that is integrated into an electric guitar that facilitates quick change-out of pickups, free form repositioning of pickups, switch assignment of pickups to the guitar's pickup switch positions or phase (polarity) selection of the pickups. |
| US10607580B2 |
Intonation system for stringed instruments
An intonation system for a stringed musical instrument and a stringed instrument including the intonation system. An instrument such as a guitar includes a bridge having bridge string saddles that can be adjusted separately to raise or lower a single string and to adjust the position of the bridge end of the vibrating length of the string. The instrument also includes a nut having nut string saddles that are adjustable individually to adjust the position of the nut end of the string. The structures by which the string saddle positions are adjusted are substantially concealed, largely retaining a conventional appearance of the musical instrument. |
| US10607578B2 |
Guitar with replaceable soundbox
Disclosed is a guitar with a replaceable soundbox. The guitar with a replaceable soundbox according to the present invention comprises: a soundbox; a neck having a neck hill that protrudes therefrom and is detachably coupled to one side of the soundbox, and having a plurality of strings disposed to hold chords in accordance with a scale and harmony; a bridge detachably coupled to the soundbox such that one end of the plurality of strings is fixed; a playing part including a head extended to the neck such that the other end of the plurality of strings is fixed; and an adjustment part, coupled on the head, for adjusting the tension of the plurality of strings to increase or decrease. |
| US10607576B2 |
Display device, and control method for display device
To achieve prompt display of image data to be displayed as well as seamless display of consecutive image data, a host (10) of a display device (1) includes an image generation section (11) configured to generate image data and an image transferring section (12) configured to transfer the image data to a display control section. The image generation section is configured to: start generating, in a case where generation of image data was completed within less than a single unit period, image data for a subsequent frame after the single unit period has passed since the generation of the image data; and start generating, in a case where the generation of the image data was not completed within less than the single unit period, image data for a subsequent frame any time after completion of the generation of the image data. |
| US10607574B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
In order to provide a technology with which an area that meets the intention of a user is scrolled when the user gives a scroll instruction while specifying a part of an image, provided is an information processing device which performs control for scrolling an image that is displayed on a display unit and that includes a scrollable first area and a second area which is a part of the first area and which is scrollable independently, the information processing device including: a unit configured to receive information that specifies a point on the display unit and that instructs to scroll an image corresponding to the specified point; a unit configured to determine, when the specified point corresponds to the second area, whether the first area is to be scrolled or the second area is to be scrolled independently. |
| US10607568B2 |
Method for processing virtual pointer movement
A method for processing virtual pointer movement. The method and related components that, when active in an application or virtual environment as a whole, will aid a user in tasks that would require more effort and dexterity with currently implemented pointers. The method uses three operations (separated into two components, Smooth Pointer and Aim Assist Area) that result in a systematic asynchronous movement of a controller and its interface counterpart. Smooth Pointer, responsible for the pointer's stability, is a group of features that manage the process of smoothing the controller's rotation and final virtual pointer position by using a continuous interpolation process. Furthermore, Aim Assist Area is the component (based on two methods: Magnetism and Friction) that describes how the pointer will suffer interferences from the environment to help users have more stability while aiming at elements available in the interface. |
| US10607559B2 |
Display method and display device
The present application discloses a display method and a display device, the display method includes analyzing and acquiring the gray scale voltage corresponding to the row image data in the image data by receiving the image data of the image to be displayed, sorting the row image data according to the gray scale voltage and generating the sorting label, sequentially scanning the display device by the sorting label of the gate lines to display the image to be displayed. This method can reduce the voltage switching frequency, thereby reducing the power consumption of the display device. |
| US10607555B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel
A liquid crystal display panel includes a first odd source electrode and a first odd drain electrode on a first odd semiconductor layer have the same shapes as a first even drain electrode and a first even source electrode on a first even semiconductor layer, and when viewed in a plan view, a shape of a even pixel, except for a first even transistor, has substantially inversion symmetry with a shape of a odd pixel about a point on a virtual line parallel to a second direction. |
| US10607554B2 |
Display device for displaying a marked image field
Embodiments of a display device for displaying a marked image on a display device are disclosed. The display device includes a control circuit configured to receive image data and supplementary data, and a display panel. The display panel includes a plurality of main pixels, each of the plurality of main pixels including a main pixel electrode and configured to display the image data, and a plurality of supplementary pixels, each of the plurality of supplementary pixels including a supplementary pixel electrode and configured to display the supplementary data. The plurality of main pixel electrodes are arranged in a series of columns and rows to form a matrix with the plurality of supplementary pixel electrodes being interspersed within the matrix. The plurality of main pixels are larger in size than the plurality of supplementary pixels. |
| US10607553B2 |
Display apparatus and method of driving the same
A display apparatus includes an image data compensator. The image data compensator receives input image data, compensates for the input image data according to a temperature of a display panel to output first compensation image data in order to compensate for a luminance decrease of the display panel according to the temperature of the display panel, and compensates for the first compensation image data according to an efficiency and a life expectancy of a quantum dot to output second compensation image data in order to compensate for a luminance decrease of the display panel by the quantum dot. |
| US10607549B2 |
Data signal adjustment for displays
A display may have an active area that includes display pixels. The display may include an inactive notch region that extends into the active area. Data lines may provide image data from display driver circuitry to the display pixels. The image data may include data signals that correspond to portions of the display that do not include pixels, such as the inactive notch region. The null data signals may cause nonuniformities in the displayed image. The null data signals may be adjusted to minimize the nonuniformities. Null data signals corresponding to the inactive notch region may be adjusted to have gray levels that gradually decrease with distance from the border between the inactive notch and the active area. All of the data signals corresponding to the inactive notch may be set to a uniform gray level. |
| US10607544B2 |
Organic light-emitting display panel, organic light-emitting display device, data driver, and low power driving method
An organic light-emitting display device includes an organic light-emitting display panel having a plurality of subpixels connected to data lines and gate lines; a data driver driving the data lines; and a gate driver driving the gate lines, wherein the organic light-emitting display device has a first mode having a first refresh rate and a second mode having a second refresh rate that is lower than the first refresh rate, the second mode having a first period and a second period that is subsequent to the first period, and wherein, in the first period of the second mode, the data driver subsequently supplied data voltages to at least two of the plurality of subpixels, and in the second period of the second mode, the data driver supplies a specific voltage to the plurality of subpixels, the specific voltage being the same as one of at least two of the data voltages sequentially supplied to the at least two subpixels. |
| US10607543B2 |
Systems and methods for display systems with dynamic power control
Methods and systems to dynamically adjust a voltage supply of a display are provided. Systems are provided to receive a digital data input indicative of an amount of luminance to be emitted from the display, to determine a desired supply voltage to supply to the display based on the received digital data, and to adjust an adjustable voltage supply according to the determined desired supply voltage. Furthermore, the methods and systems disclosed herein provide for dynamically separately controlling supply voltages supplied to distinct subsections of the display. Systems and methods are also provided for operating a display device in an idle mode by turning off subsections of the display that would otherwise be shown dark and thereby save energy required to program the subsections with display information. |
| US10607542B2 |
Pixel circuit, pixel, and AMOLED display device comprising pixel and driving method thereof
A pixel circuit, a pixel, and an AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display device comprising the pixel and a driving method thereof. The pixel circuit comprises a power supply circuit, a basic circuit and a compensation circuit, which are sequentially connected. The power supply circuit is connected to a first power supply to supply power to the basis circuit. The compensation circuit is connected to second and third power supplies, respectively, for providing difference values compensating for a voltage and current of an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode). The pixel comprises an OLED and the pixel circuit. The AMOLED display device comprises the pixel circuit. By compensating for a difference between threshold and power supply voltages of a transistor, the response characteristics of the AMOLED may be improved to generate light of a same brightness, thereby meeting requirements on image uniformity and consistency of an AMOLED. |
| US10607539B2 |
Organic light emitting display apparatus and pixel driving circuit that compensates for a threshold voltage degradation of a driving transistor
A display apparatus comprises a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines intersected with the scan lines in a grid, a plurality of pixel units, a first driving circuit for providing a plurality of scanning signals to the plurality of pixel units, and a plurality of pixel driving circuits. Each pixel driving circuit corresponds to one of the plurality of pixel units, and drives the corresponding pixel unit. Each pixel driving circuit comprises a switching transistor, a driving transistor, an organic light emitting diode and a reset transistor. The reset transistor pulls down a voltage applied on the driving transistor during a reset period under a control of a received another scanning signal having a phase previous to the scanning signal applied on a corresponding scan line being selected. |
| US10607538B2 |
Pixel circuit, pixel, AMOLED display device comprising same and driving method thereof
A pixel circuit, a pixel, and an AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display device comprising the pixel and a driving method thereof. The pixel circuit comprises a power supply circuit, a basic circuit and a compensation circuit, which are sequentially connected. The power supply circuit is connected to a first power supply to supply power to the basis circuit. The compensation circuit is connected to second and third power supplies, respectively, for providing difference values compensating for a voltage and current of an OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode). The pixel comprises an OLED and the pixel circuit. The AMOLED display device comprises the pixel circuit. By compensating for a difference between threshold and power supply voltages of a transistor, the response characteristics of the AMOLED may be improved to generate light of a same brightness, thereby meeting requirements on image uniformity and consistency of an AMOLED. |
| US10607537B2 |
Systems and methods of optical feedback
What is disclosed are systems and methods of optical feedback for pixel identification, evaluation, and calibration for active matrix light emitting diode device (AMOLED) and other emissive displays. Optical feedback is utilized to calibrate pixel whose output luminance exceeds a threshold difference from a reference value, and may include the use of sparse pixel activation to ensure pixel identification and luminance measurement, as well as a coarse calibration procedure for programming the starting calibration data for a fine calibration stage. |
| US10607535B2 |
Lighting panel, driving method of the same, and lighting lamp
The lighting panel includes a plurality of light-emitting devices, each light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a light-emitting layer disposed therebetween, the first electrodes of at least a part of the plurality of light-emitting devices are divided into a first and second group of first electrodes; touch scan lines and touch sensing lines, the touch scan lines are electrically coupled to the first group of first electrodes which are configured to receive a first lighting signal during a lighting period and receive a touch driving signal during a touch period, and the touch sensing lines are electrically coupled to the second group of first electrodes which are configured to receive a second lighting signal during the lighting period and transmit touch sensing signals during the touch period; and a controller configured to control lighting parameters of the lighting panel according to the touch sensing signals. |
| US10607533B2 |
Display apparatus with light emitting portions
A display apparatus includes: a substrate having a first principal surface and a second principal surface opposite to the first principal surface; light-emitting portions disposed on a first principal surface side; a time-division driving circuit which is disposed on the first principal surface side, and outputs a light-emission control signal to the light-emitting portions via respective light-emission control signal lines in a time-division manner; a driving signal line which is disposed on a second principal surface side, and feeds the light-emission control signal to the light-emitting portions via the time-division driving circuit; and a connection conductor which extends from the first principal surface to the second principal surface, and electrically connects the time-division driving circuit and the driving signal line. A number of the connection conductor is smaller than a number of the light-emission control signal lines by electrically connecting the one connection conductor to the light-emission control signal lines. |
| US10607529B2 |
Shift register unit and driving method thereof, gate driving circuit and display apparatus
A shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving circuit and a display apparatus are disclosed. The shift register unit includes: a pull-up node control module (21), a pull-down node control module (22), a gate driving signal output terminal (OUTPUT(N)) and a gate driving signal output module (23), the gate driving signal output module (23) is connected to a pull-up node (PU(N)), a pull-down node (PD(N)), an non-inverting clock signal input terminal (CLK) and the gate driving signal output terminal (OUTPUT(N) respectively; and the pull-down node control module (22) is connected to the pull-down node (PD(N)) and an inverting clock signal input terminal (CLKB) respectively; the shift register unit further includes: a noise reduction module (24) connected to a noise reduction control signal output terminal (Ctrl) and a gate driving signal output terminal respectively (OUTPUT(N)). |
| US10607527B1 |
System and method for a six-primary wide gamut color system
Systems and methods for a six-primary color system for display. A six-primary color system increases the number of primary colors available in a color system and color system equipment. Increasing the number of primary colors reduces metameric errors from viewer to viewer. The six-primary color system includes Red, Green, Blue, Cyan, Yellow, and Magenta primaries. The systems of the present invention maintain compatibility with existing color systems and equipment and provide systems for backwards compatibility with older color systems. |
| US10607523B2 |
Color filter substrate assembly, manufacturing method thereof, and display apparatus and display method thereof
A color filter substrate assembly and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display apparatus and a display method thereof are disclosed. The color filter substrate assembly includes a color filter layer including pattern units arranged in an array. Each of the pattern units includes: a pattern subunit of a first primary color, a pattern subunit of a second primary color, a pattern subunit of a third primary color and a color mixture pattern subunit which are arranged in sequence. The color mixture pattern subunit consists of patterns of the first primary color, the second primary color and the third primary color, and the patterns of the first primary color, the second primary color, and the third primary color do not completely overlap. |
| US10607521B2 |
Emission controller, control method thereof and display device
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an emission controller, a control method thereof and a display device, capable of preventing luminance of sub-pixels from deviating from its standard value and improving display quality. The emission controller includes a plurality of emission control circuits each including: a first processing module configured to receive a first voltage signal, provide a first signal to a first node and a second signal to a second node; a second processing module configured to provide a third signal to a third node; a third processing module configured to receive a second voltage signal and provide a fourth signal to the first and third nodes; a fourth processing module configured to pull down signal at the first node; and a gating module configured to receive the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal and provide an emission control signal to the emission control signal terminal. |
| US10607519B2 |
Gate driving circuit and display device including the same
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit, a sensor part, and a control voltage generator. The gate driving circuit includes driving transistors including a first control electrode and a second control electrode. The sensor part is configured to measure an environmental factor that changes a threshold voltage of the driving transistors. The control voltage generator is configured to apply to the second control electrode a control voltage for controlling the threshold voltage of the driving transistors on the basis of the environmental factor measured by the sensor part. |
| US10607514B1 |
Traffic handheld control warning sign
A Traffic Handheld Control Warning Sign including a first and second display sign which are fastened together and have the capability to display different traffic control warnings and commands simultaneously. The invention is battery powered and can be controlled by a separate or built in remote control. The invention can be hand held or can be used hands free by placing it in a tripod or pole and operating it with a remote control from a distance of up to 40 meters. |
| US10607510B2 |
Elastic band with embedded label
A method for manufacturing a plurality of labeling bands includes extruding an elastic material, co-extruding a label material with the elastic material, curing the elastic material and the label material, and locating a plurality of demarcations at intervals along the length of the tube to define the plurality of labeling bands. Co-extruding the label material with the elastic material includes forming a tube having an outer surface, an inner surface and a length, so that the label material forms a stripe on the outer surface. In another aspect, an article of manufacture includes an endless band of a first elastic material and a label of a second material embedded into an outer surface of the endless band. The endless band includes the outer surface, an inner surface and first and second opposed perimeter edges, each of the first and second opposed perimeter edges having a common unstretched perimeter dimension. |
| US10607509B2 |
Linerless label and cutting apparatus
A linerless label including a support, a release layer over one surface of the support, and an adhesive layer over another surface of the support, wherein when the linerless label is cut with an apparatus including a mechanism in which an upper blade of cutter blades is immobilized and a lower blade of the cutter blades is configured to move upward, in a manner that the lower blade is inserted into the linerless label from a side of the linerless label at which the adhesive layer is provided, a cutter load voltage during a cutter operation performed after the linerless label is cut five thousand times repeatedly has a difference of less than or equal to 2.0 V from the cutter load voltage during cutting of a label support, which is the linerless label before treated to have adhesiveness. |
| US10607506B2 |
Braille reading using fingerprint scanner and varying vibration frequencies
Systems and methods for braille reading using a fingerprint scanner and varying vibration frequencies are disclosed. A method includes: obtaining, by a computer device, data defining a braille cell; identifying, by the computer device, one of six predefined areas of a fingerprint based on the one of the six predefined areas being centered on a fingerprint sensor; determining, by the computer device, a state of a braille dot of the braille cell that corresponds to the one of the six predefined areas of the fingerprint; and generating, by the computer device, one of a first type of vibration and a second type of vibration based on the determined state of the braille dot. |
| US10607503B2 |
Blush guide device and method thereof
A blush guide device is provided to guide a user to draw a blush. The blush guide device includes an image capturing unit, a processing unit and a display unit. The image capturing unit captures a user face image. The processing unit receives the user face image, and obtains a plurality of face feature points according to the user face image. The processing unit performs calculation according to the face feature points to obtain at least one blush guide block. The display unit displays the user face image and the corresponding blush guide block, and guides the user to put on makeup to the blush guide block. The disclosure further provides a blush guide method adapted to the blush guide device. |
| US10607500B1 |
Providing background music tempo to accompany procedural instructions
In an approach to determining a background music tempo, one or more computer processors receive a request from a user. The one or more computer processors determine a response to the request will include an action to be performed by the user. The one or more computer processors determine a ranking of one or more instruction characteristics associated with a first instruction. The one or more computer processors predict a performance of the first instruction by the user. Based on the determined ranking and the predicted performance of the first instruction by the user, the one or more computer processors determine a beats per minute range for music to accompany performance of the first instruction. The one or more computer processors render the first instruction and background music associated with the first instruction, where the background music is at the determined beats per minute range. |
| US10607499B2 |
Simulation device for a flight management system
The present application relates to a simulation device of flight management system (FMS), comprising a navigable database and a performance database; a display portion; a horizontal section portion and a vertical section portion, wherein the horizontal section portion and vertical section portion provide horizontal route information and vertical route information of the route designated by a user through the navigable database and performance database; and wherein the display portion is mutually integrated with the horizontal section portion and vertical section portion. |
| US10607497B2 |
Skateboard system
Example embodiments may relate to a system, method, apparatus, and computer readable media configured for monitoring a user performing various athletic movements and generating performance characteristics based on the data corresponding to such athletic movements. Users may also be encouraged to participate in athletic challenges or competitions against other users or groups of users. In addition, athletic movement data for multiple persons can be collected at a central location, and subsequently displayed to a user at a desired remote location, so that the user can compare his or her athletic activities to others. |
| US10607495B2 |
Method for operating an at least temporarily unmanned aircraft or spacecraft and an aircraft or spacecraft of this type
A method for operating an, at least temporarily, unmanned aircraft or spacecraft wherein a flight procedure of the aircraft or spacecraft is carried out in controlled airspace using a previously cleared flight plan, wherein a C2 link is at least temporarily unavailable, and wherein at least one sensor device of the aircraft or spacecraft identifies a dangerous and/or emergency situation which makes it necessary to deviate from the cleared flight plan. To have available a method which makes it possible for an at least temporarily unmanned aircraft or spacecraft to react independently to particular dangerous and/or emergency situations and to avoid damaging events, a control device of the aircraft or spacecraft independently uses a wireless data link to a supervisory authority in order to agree to a changed flight plan containing at least one change. |
| US10607491B2 |
Autonomous vehicle notification system
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a computing device of a first vehicle, a message, from a second vehicle, to be presented to an entity within proximity of the first vehicle. The method includes determining, by the computing device of the first vehicle, a location of the entity relative to the first vehicle. The method includes selecting, by the computing device of the first vehicle, a notification device of the first vehicle based on the location of the entity relative to the first vehicle. The method includes causing, by the computing device of the first vehicle, the message from the second vehicle to be presented to the entity by the selected notification device. |
| US10607483B2 |
Vehicle identification methods and systems
Disclosed is a vehicle identification method and system. The method includes: acquiring appearance information of an inspected vehicle; obtaining external features of the vehicle based on the appearance information; acquiring a transmission image of the vehicle and obtaining internal features of the vehicle from the transmission image; forming descriptions on the vehicle at least based on the external features and the internal features; and determining a vehicle model of the vehicle from a vehicle model databased by utilizing the descriptions. This method merges various types of modality information, especially introducing the transmission image, and combines the internal structure information with the appearance information, so that the present disclosure can identify a vehicle model more practically. |
| US10607479B2 |
Remote control framework
A remote control framework enables a plurality of target devices to be controlled by a plurality of remote control devices irrespective of bearer types. In a preferred embodiment any target device may also act as a control device and any control device may also act as a target device. The framework also enables any application running on any target device to be controlled by any controller device. |
| US10607476B1 |
Building security system with site risk reduction
Systems and methods for identifying at risk building sites. The security system includes a processing circuit configured to receive building security data from the plurality of building sites, the building security data indicating one or more vulnerability time periods for each of the plurality of building sites and determine an average vulnerability time period associated with each of the plurality building sites based on the one or more vulnerability time periods. The processing circuit can also be configured to determine a tunable threshold associated with the average vulnerability time period; determine whether each of the plurality of building sites are at risk by determining whether a current vulnerability time period for each building site is greater than the tunable threshold associated with the average vulnerability time period; and generate a report indicating one or more of the plurality of building sites that are at risk. |
| US10607475B1 |
Remote monitoring system
A remote monitoring system for monitoring parameters of an underground asset, such as an electric cable system, a pipeline serving as a conduit for water, gas, oil, sewage, or the like. Parameter detectors, such as sensors that measure temperature, voltage, current, moisture, etc., are distributed along the asset to provide electrical signals that represent respective monitored parameters of the asset. An underground hub disposed in an underground vault, or manhole, through which the asset passes is coupled to the parameter detectors to acquire the signals provided by the parameter detectors. The hub includes a controller to provide data derived from the acquired signals, the data being transmitted to a remote central location by a transceiver, or modem, via LP-WAN communication. Signals from the transceiver are transmitted directly from underground. |
| US10607472B1 |
Smart lock system
A method according to one embodiment includes detecting, by a security, device, an event indicative of a potential security breach. The method also includes determining at least one other device to receive an alert indicating occurrence of the event in response to detecting the event. The method includes sending, by the security device, an alert indicating occurrence of the event to the at least one other device in response to detecting the event. A method according to another embodiment includes monitoring, by a security device, for an event indicative of a potential security breach. The method also includes receiving, by the security device, an alert indicating occurrence of a potential security breach from a second security device. The method includes changing a state of the security device in response to receiving the alert. |
| US10607465B1 |
Remote trigger for security system
Techniques for automatically securing receptacles of a retailer via an electronic lock include receiving a user request to reserve a receptacle, selecting a suitable receptacle based on one or more conditions, some of which may be specified by the user, and transmitting an electronic locking signal to secure, and thereby reserve, the selected receptacle. An association between the reserved receptacle and the user is stored, and the user is electronically notified. Subsequently, an electronic signal indicative of the identification of the user (or of the user's agent) is locally received. Upon determination that the user is expected and associated with the reserved receptacle, the techniques include causing an electronic unlocking signal to be transmitted to the electronic lock, thereby unlocking the receptacle. Further subsequently, upon receiving an electronic locking instruction, the receptacle may automatically be secured via its corresponding electronic lock, and a retailer agent may be electronically notified. |
| US10607460B2 |
Single-element door/window opening detector
A door/window opening detector including an antenna having at least a first resonant frequency and a second resonant frequency associated therewith, the second resonant frequency being different from the first resonant frequency, the antenna having the first resonant frequency when in proximity to a door/window having a given dielectric constant and the second resonant frequency when not in proximity to a door/window having the given dielectric constant, and an alarm indication generator operable, in response to receiving an indication that a resonant frequency of the antenna has changed from the first resonant frequency to the second resonant frequency, for generating an alarm indication of opening of the door/window. |
| US10607451B2 |
Share table issuance device, share table issuance method, and storage medium
A share table issuance device (1) issues first through N-th share tables (T1 to TN) to first through N-th object persons, respectively. N represents an integer of 2 or greater. The first through N-th share tables (T1 to TN) each include first through N-th ticket fields (D1 to DN), first through N-th share fields (E1 to EN), and an object person field (Cn). The same draw ticket is allocated to n-th ticket fields (Dn) included in the first through N-th share tables (T1 to TN). n represents an integer from 1 to N. A share written in an n-th share field (En) included in an n-th share table (Tn) differs from a share written in an n-th share field (En) included in a k-th share table (Tk). k represents an integer from 1 to N, which differs from the integer represented by n. |
| US10607448B2 |
Gaming system and method for providing a cascading multiple sided symbol game
A gaming system including a cascading symbol or tumbling reel game which utilizes a plurality of multiple sided symbols or multiple sided game elements. Each multiple sided symbol or multiple sided game element includes a separate or distinct symbol displayed on each of one or more of the sides or faces of that multiple sided symbol. As the gaming system displays such multiple sided symbols at different symbol display positions, the gaming system differs or modifies which sides of which multiple sided symbols are displayed to the player (and thus differs or modifies which separate or distinct symbols of which sides or faces of the multiple sided symbols are displayed to the player). |
| US10607441B2 |
Method of modifying a primary game of an existing legacy gaming machine to include secondary game features
Secondary gaming functionality is implemented relative to a casino gaming machine by a secondary controller which is associated with the gaming machine. In this manner, primary gaming functionality, such as primary wagering games and the award of primary awards and/or player reward points, may be implemented by the main game controller of the gaming machine. In addition, however, secondary gaming functionality may also be implemented at the gaming machine, such as secondary wagering games and the award of secondary awards and/or player reward points, via the secondary controller. The secondary controller may only implement secondary gaming functionality in response to a secondary wager placed by a player beyond a primary wager which enables the primary gaming functionality. |
| US10607438B2 |
Electronic gaming machine with movable display device
An electronic gaming machine including a housing that supports a movable display device that is movable to a first position and to a second position. The electronic gaming machine may be configured to cause the movable display device to display a play of a first game in the first position and cause the display device to display a play of a second game in the second position. |
| US10607435B2 |
Game of chance display
In various embodiments player may participate in gaming related activities using a terminal with multiple display screens. |
| US10607434B2 |
System to process a valuable document
A sensing system to process at least one valuable document is described herein. The system includes a light source to generate a light beam. The system also includes at least one light pipe having one or more diverting surfaces to direct the light beam at a predetermined angle of incidence onto the valuable document. At least one reflective surface, to receive a first portion of the light beam transmitted through the valuable document and to reflect off the first portion of the light beam towards the valuable document, is included. A light detector is configured to receive at least a second portion of the light beam re-transmitted through the valuable document. |
| US10607432B1 |
Locking a touch screen of a mobile device
A method, a mobile device, and a computer program product for locking a touch screen of a mobile device. The method includes playing video on a display, detecting movement of the mobile device and calculating a movement value. The method further includes determining if the movement value is greater than a movement value threshold and in response to determining that the movement value is greater than the movement value threshold, triggering a sensor component to detect activity data associated with a current use of the mobile device. The method further includes determining if the detected activity data matches reference activity data corresponding to use of the mobile device by a specific user of the mobile device and in response to determining that the detected activity data does not match the reference activity data, rejecting inputs to the touch screen to prevent interruption of the playing of the video. |
| US10607431B2 |
Electronic identification, location tracking, communication and notification system with beacon clustering
A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allows for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking. Also provided is a system and method for identifying a customer's location at a business and provide notification to a company representative upon arrival of the customer at the business location. Real-time location determinations for the customer and customer location tracking can be provided. One or more wireless beacons communicate with the customer's electronic device. The beacons provide the system with real-time data about the customer's whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking of the customer at the location. A first non-limiting example of use, include a company that provides food and beverage allowing the customer to place an order for food and beverages on their electronic device and having the order delivered to the person at their current location as determined by the system. Another non-limiting example includes a company using the notification system to have assigned staff members notified of the customer's arrival. |
| US10607430B2 |
Method for operating a start and entry system of a motor vehicle and start and entry system for a motor vehicle
A method for operating a start and entry system of a motor vehicle, including the steps of: detecting whether an authorization of the starting of the motor vehicle is carried out on the basis of a key signal received on the vehicle side, which has been sent from a transmitting and receiving unit of a vehicle key, or whether the authorization of the starting of the vehicle is carried out on the basis of a near-field signal received on the vehicle side, which has been sent by a near-field communication system of a mobile communication device. If the authorization of the vehicle start is carried out on the basis of the key signal received on the vehicle side: the start and entry system is operated in a key operating mode, in which, following the starting of the vehicle, only the availability of the vehicle key in a vehicle interior of the motor vehicle is monitored. |
| US10607428B1 |
Door access control method using a hand gesture
A door access control method includes capturing an identification information of a person in an identity verification range. A hand gesture of the person is detected when the captured identification information matches with an authenticated identification information. A door access operation is carried out to permit the person to pass through the door when the hand gesture is identified correct. On the other hand, when the person makes an incorrect hand gesture, does not make any hand gesture, or is located outside of the identity verification range, the door access operation is not carried out to prohibit any person from passing through the door. |
| US10607426B2 |
Aircraft fleet and engine service policy configuration
Systems and methods for the configuration of service policies for aircraft fleets and gas turbine engines are disclosed. One or more engine performance profiles may be generated based on historical engine performance data. The historical engine performance data may be retrieved based on one or more engine service parameters. A fleet performance profile may be generated based on the engine performance profiles. The engine service parameters may be varied to generate a configured engine performance profile. A configured fleet performance profile may be generated based on the configured engine performance profile. |
| US10607425B2 |
Vehicle electronic logging device (ELD) hour-of-service (HoS) audit and correction guidance system and method of operating thereof
A vehicle electronic logging device (ELD) hour-of-service (HoS) audit and correction guidance system provides preemptive pre-violation and violation alerts and interactive vehicle log entry correction guidance for commercial vehicle operations regulatory compliance. The vehicle ELD HoS audit and correction guidance system incorporates in-vehicle sensor data output values that are machine-interpreted by a vehicle OBD device, a driver's on-duty or off-duty confirmation entries, and other driver log adjustments to analyze an electronically-generated vehicle log. Subsequently, the system determines whether some log entries are anomalous and indicative of driver log entry or adjustment errors, which may result in commercial vehicle regulatory violation if left uncorrected. The vehicle ELD HoS audit and correction guidance system then prompts and assists a driver to correct anomalous log entries to prevent regulatory violations via interactive driver auditing-mode interfaces, multimedia alerts, sirens, and multi-language voice guidance. |
| US10607423B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing turns made by a vehicle
Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a systems and methods for assessing turns made by one or more vehicles. According to various embodiments, the system is configured to identify, based telematics data captured from the vehicles, turns executed by the vehicle during a particular time period. The system is further configured to analyze the identified turns to determine and display various turn segment attributes to a user in order to provide an indication of turns having an abnormal or excessive duration and/or to provide overall efficiency-indicative information relating to the vehicle turns. |
| US10607420B2 |
Methods of using an imaging apparatus in augmented reality, in medical imaging and nonmedical imaging
With inventive processing making use of surface-reconstruction and capping steps, more imagery acquired by 3C cameras can be put to use in augmented reality applications, especially applications, such as medical reconstruction, in which a certain theoretical ideal fit might be wanted but can be difficult or seemingly impossible to achieve due to highly complex, irregular shapes, perimeters and surfaces involved. The inventive technology is especially useful for ongoing wound measurement and comparative analysis and characterization of a wound over time, as well as working with anatomical reconstruction. The inventive technology also extends to non-medical augmented reality applications, and provides robust data sets representing a range of real-world objects, such as zoo animals, family pets, etc. susceptible of being imaged and stored as robust data sets that provide better verisimilitude when used in gaming or other virtual-world contexts as compared to a raw data set from a camera. |
| US10607418B2 |
Method for operating a display system and display system
A virtual object arranged in a virtual environment is displayed by virtual reality glasses worn by a person. A virtual hand is positioned within the virtual environment in accordance with a hand detected in the real environment. As the virtual hand dips into an area of the virtual object, the representation of the area is changed. |
| US10607413B1 |
Systems and methods of rerendering image hands to create a realistic grab experience in virtual reality/augmented reality environments
The technology disclosed relates to a method of realistic rendering of a real object as a virtual object in a virtual space using an offset in the position of the hand in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space. An offset between expected positions of the eye(s) of a wearer of a head mounted device and a sensor attached to the head mounted device for sensing a position of at least one hand in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space is determined. A position of the hand in the three-dimensional (3D) sensory space can be sensed using a sensor. The sensed position of the hand can be transformed by the offset into a re-rendered position of the hand as would appear to the wearer of the head mounted device if the wearer were looking at the actual hand. The re-rendered hand can be depicted to the wearer of the head mounted device. |
| US10607412B2 |
Mixed reality presentation system
An image composition unit outputs a composition image of a physical space and virtual space to a display unit. The image composition unit calculates, as difference information, a half of the difference between an imaging time of the physical space and a generation completion predicted time of the virtual space. The difference information and acquired position and orientation information are transmitted to an image processing apparatus. A line-of-sight position prediction unit updates previous difference information using the received difference information, calculates, as the generation completion predicted time, a time ahead of a receiving time by the updated difference information, and predicts the position and orientation of a viewpoint at the calculated generation completion predicted time using the received position and orientation information. The virtual space based on the predicted position and orientation, and the generation completion predicted time are transmitted to a VHMD. |
| US10607411B1 |
Specialized garments for augmented reality and method
A method of augmenting reality of a physical garment, comprising the receiving of a demand from a user by a receptor to create an augmented garment from information about the physical garment and about a digital component to be linked to the physical garment. The information is organized according to at least one classification by the receptor, which sends the information to a production tracker for garment process distribution. The information is tested to ensure the digital component is functioning properly and is compatible with the physical garment. The physical garment is manufactured, and then blended with the digital component into the augmented garment, and finally delivered to the user. |
| US10607408B2 |
Method for rendering 2D and 3D data within a 3D virtual environment
One variation of a method for modeling a human body includes: driving a sensor block along a path above a platform occupied by a user and recording a sequence of depth images and color images, via the sensor block, at each capture position in a sequence of capture positions along the path; compiling the set of depth images into a low-density 3D model of the user and a high-density 3D model of the user; extracting a set of color patches, from the sequence of color images, corresponding to discrete regions on a surface of the low-density 3D model of the user; projecting the set of color patches onto the surface of the low-density 3D model to generate a 3D color model of the user; and extracting a value of a dimension, projected from the low-density 3D color model onto the high-density 3D model, from the high-density 3D model. |
| US10607405B2 |
3D model generating system, 3D model generating method, and program
Processing load on a computer can be reduced while saving the labor of photographing an object to estimate a size of the object. Photographed image acquiring means of a 3D model generating system acquires a photographed image in which a first object and a second object are disposed in a real space. Virtual image generating means generates a virtual image in which a first model representing the first object that is a standard size and a second model representing the second object that is not the standard size are disposed in a virtual space. Parameter determining means determines a size parameter indicating a size of the second object based on a result of comparing the photographed image with the virtual image. |
| US10607404B2 |
Device and method for estimating a glossy part of radiation
The present invention relates to a glossy part of radiation is estimated coming from a surface illuminated by area light source(s) having source surface(s) (A) bounded by edge curves, by determining integrand function(s) representative of that glossy part. The latter corresponding to an integration of the integrand function along the edge curves. In this respect, the integrand function(s) is/are approximated by means of peak-shape function(s) having a known antiderivative over the edge curves, and the glossy part is computed from analytical expressions associated with integrations of the peak-shape function(s) along the edge curves. Such invention can offer efficient and accurate computation for specular part of reflection as well as glossy transmission, and is notably relevant to real-time rendering. |
| US10607395B2 |
System and method for rendering dynamic three-dimensional appearing imagery on a two-dimensional user interface
System and method for rendering dynamic three-dimensional appearing imagery on a two-dimensional user interface screen of a portable computing device in dependence on a user's view-point of the screen. The method includes processing, on a portable computing device, data defining a plurality of user view-points of a user interface screen of the portable computing device. The method next includes rendering a first image of a constructed scene on the user interface screen based on a first determined user's view-point of the user interface screen of the portable computing device. The method then includes rendering a different image of the constructed scene on the user interface screen based on a subsequently determined user's view-point of the user interface screen and thereby presenting the illusion of a three-dimensional image of the constructed scene on the user interface screen. |
| US10607390B2 |
Techniques for tiling compute work with graphics work
A device driver is configured to identify a group of compute shaders to be executed in multiple traversals of a graphics processing pipeline. Each such compute shader accesses a compute tile of data having particular dimensions. The device driver interoperates with a tiling unit to determines dimension for a cache tile so that an integer multiple of each compute tile will fit evenly within the cache tile. Thus, when executing compute shaders in different traversals of the graphics processing pipeline, the data processed by those compute shaders can be cached in the cache tile between passes. |
| US10607386B2 |
Customized avatars and associated framework
Various embodiments provide for techniques to facilitate online communication. In one embodiment, the communication is facilitated by providing a framework to enable the transmission of customized avatars across the messaging platform. The avatars may be recipe based, such that a receiving client device can receive the avatar recipe and render an avatar based on the recipe. In one embodiment the recipe includes set of components and a parameters associated with the set of components. An expression identifier associated with an expression to represent via the avatar can be received via the messaging platform and an animation of the avatar can be displayed to convey the intended expression. |
| US10607385B2 |
Augmented reality positioning and tracking system and method
Disclosed are systems and methods for detecting the specific location, orientation, surface plane(s) and scale of a real-world object, and providing an augmented reality (AR) experience of the object based therefrom. The disclosed systems and method provide a novel, efficient and accurate mechanism for launching an AR application that provides an AR view of a captured or currently being viewed image. The instant disclosure's AR positioning and tracking systems and methods provide a streamlined system that maximizes the device's computational resources in order to accurately determine and track the viewed object's and the capturing device's positioning and orientation, as well as the object's physical dimensions, thereby ensuring an efficiently produced AR experience. |
| US10607384B2 |
Page image display control system, page image display control method, and program therefor
A scene is assigned to each page image, and an image included in the assigned scene is pasted on each page image. A page image addition instruction region is displayed between adjacent page images. In a case where the page image addition instruction region is clicked, a new page image is displayed between two page images between which the clicked page image addition instruction region is interposed. An image included in a scene assigned to a first page image of the two page images or a scene assigned to a second page image of the two page images is pasted on the new page image. |
| US10607383B2 |
Seamless focus plane stitching to create panoramic video
A system for forming panoramic video that includes a server programmed to gather a plurality of videos of a predetermined event. The server is also programmed to extract metadata from the plurality of videos and determine the focus plane of each of the plurality of videos. The server is further programmed to plot a possible panoramic video path across some or all of the plurality of videos using the focus planes of the plurality of videos and at least two locations selected by a user. The server is programmed to then stitch some or all of the plurality of videos together to form a panoramic video based on the video path. |
| US10607382B2 |
Adapting content to augumented reality virtual objects
Technologies for adapting content to augmented reality virtual objects include a content consumption device to render selected content and a mobile computing device to render a virtual object within the physical environment of the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may transfer the virtual object to the content consumption device. The content consumption device may adapt the content based on the transferred virtual object, and render the adapted content. The adapted content may be selected from a number of pre-defined scenes, or may be generated to include the virtual object. The adapted content may include other characters or objects that react to the transferred virtual object. The virtual object may be transferred back to the mobile computing device with updated attributes. The content may be streamed from a content source over a network. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10607375B2 |
Encoding techniques
Embodiments of the present disclosure present devices, methods, and computer readable medium for techniques to display rectangular content in non-rectangular display areas without clipping or cutting off the content. These bounding path techniques can be employed for electronic devices with rounded corners and for display of content within software windows for applications, in which the windows have non-rectangular corners. The techniques disclosed include content shifting, aspect fit, run length encoding and corner encoding. These techniques can be applied to both static content and for dynamic content. Memory optimization techniques are disclosed to reduce the memory requirements for encoding display bitmaps and for optimal performance. The run length encoding feature can reduce the time and decrease the memory requirements for determining a location where the content can fit within a viewable area of the display. The corner encoding technique provides for encoding areas with non-linear curves. |
| US10607373B2 |
Point cloud compression with closed-loop color conversion
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. To compress the attribute and/or spatial information, the encoder is configured to convert a point cloud into an image based representation. Also, the decoder is configured to generate a decompressed point cloud based on an image based representation of a point cloud. A closed-loop color conversion process is used to improve compression while taking into consideration distortion introduced throughout the point cloud compression process. |
| US10607370B1 |
Coarse to fine calibration parameter validation and temperature mitigation
A method and system for calibration parameter validation. The method includes performing a camera calibration generating a calibration result, applying a coarse pass-fail criteria to the calibration result and rejecting the camera if the calibration result does not pass the coarse pass fail-criteria. The method further includes applying a fine pass-fail criteria based upon at least information stored at a central repository to the calibration result if the calibration result passes the coarse pass-fail criteria, rejecting the camera if the calibration result does not pass the fine pass fail-criteria, accepting the camera if the calibration result passes the fine pass fail-criteria, and entering the calibration result into the central repository. The information stored at the central repository includes key performance indicator/key performance metric information for one or more measured parameters of the calibration result. |
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Method and device for interactive calibration based on 3D reconstruction in 3D surveillance system
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for interactive calibration based on 3D reconstruction in a 3D surveillance system. The method includes: acquiring a reference background model and a surveillance video, capturing multiple scene images, and connecting multiple surveillance cameras corresponding to the surveillance video with each other, wherein at least one scene image of the multiple scene images has an overlapping portion with a site of the surveillance video; performing 3D reconstruction based on the multiple scene images to generate a 3D feature point cloud of the scene, and embedding the 3D feature point cloud into the reference background model; estimating an attitude of a current frame of the surveillance video, and automatically calibrating the surveillance camera; and calculating a homographic transformation from the attitude of the current frame to the reference background model, and embedding an image projection into the reference background model. |
| US10607366B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and non-transitory storage medium
An information processing apparatus includes a first image acquisition unit configured to acquire first image data derived from a photoacoustic wave generated by light irradiation, a position acquisition unit configured to acquire position information indicating a position in the first image data having an image value that is within a predetermined range, a neighborhood position acquisition unit configured to acquire neighborhood position information indicating a neighborhood position neighboring the position based on the position information, and a display control unit configured to cause a display unit to display an image based on the first image data, the position information, and the neighborhood position information. |
| US10607364B2 |
Position and attitude determination method and system using edge images
A method of determining at least one of position and attitude in relation to an object is provided. The method includes capturing at least two images of the object with at least one camera. Each image is captured at a different position in relation to the object. The images are converted to edge images. The edge images of the object are converted into three-dimensional edge images of the object using positions of where the at least two images were captured. Overlap edge pixels in the at least two three-dimensional edge images are located to identify overlap points. A three dimensional edge candidate point image of the identified overlapped points in an evidence grid is built. The three dimensional candidate edge image in the evidence grid is compared with a model of the object to determine at least one of a then current position and attitude in relation to the object. |
| US10607363B2 |
Visualization of distances on an electroanatomical map
Described embodiments include an apparatus that includes a display and processor. The processor is configured to receive, from a user, an input that indicates one or more points of interest on an electroanatomical map, of an anatomical surface, that is displayed on the display, and to superimpose on the map, in response to the input, a plurality of contours, each one of the contours being at a different respective geodesic distance, with respect to the surface, from the points of interest. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US10607361B2 |
Method for observing wildlife population size through remote sensing imagery
The present invention relates to the field of wildlife protection, and particularly relates to a method for observing wildlife population size through a remote sensing imagery. The method specifically comprises: a proportion of orthogonal projection area of animals in each pixel to pixel area is computed and summed through a linear correlation between a gray value of a remote sensing imagery pixel and a proportion of the orthogonal projection area of individual animals to the pixel area, to obtain the total orthogonal projection area of target animal population; and population size is obtained on the basis of dividing by the orthogonal projection area of animals of measured individual animals, thereby solving the problem that it is difficult to observe the wildlife population size and a distribution pattern at the same time point. In the present invention, a satellite remote sensing imagery is used to observe the animal population to obtain the population size at the same time point, thereby avoiding errors caused by the pasting counting, estimation and other methods and increasing investigation accuracy and reliability. In the present invention, the remote sensing imagery is used to observe the animal population, thereby avoiding disturbance to animal behaviors and destruction to habitats of the wildlife due to short-distance observation of the wildlife, greatly enhancing safety and economy of field observation and realizing higher application value. |
| US10607355B2 |
Method and system for determining the dimensions of an object shown in a multimedia content item
A method and system for determining at least a size dimension of objects shown in multimedia content items are presented. The method includes receiving an input multimedia content item; identifying objects shown in the multimedia content item; generating at least a first signature for at least a first object of the plurality of objects and at least a second signature for at least a second object; identifying at least one concept that matches the at least a first object; determining an actual size of the first object respective of the match to the at least one concept; determining a size scale between the first object and the second object using the at least a first signature and the at least a second signature; and determining the at least size dimension of the second object respective of the size scale and the actual size of the first object. |
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Method and apparatus for determining a depth map for an image
An apparatus for determining a depth map for an image of a scene comprises an active depth sensor (103) and a passive depth sensor (105) for determining a depth map for the image. The apparatus further comprises a light determiner (109) which determines a light indication indicative of a light characteristic for the scene. The light indication may specifically reflect a level of visible and/or infrared light for the scene. A depth map processor (107) determines an output depth map for the image by combining the first depth map and the second depth map. Specifically, a depth value for the output depth map is determined as a combination of depth values of the first and the second depth map where the combining is dependent on the light indication. The light determiner (109) estimates the first infrared light indication from a visible light indication indicative of a light level in a frequency band of the visible light spectrum. |
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Unattended object monitoring apparatus, unattended object monitoring system provided with same, and unattended object monitoring method
An alarm issuing time according to the degree of suspiciousness or danger of an unattended object is controlled. Unattended object monitoring apparatus is configured to include image acquisition unit that acquires a captured image of an monitoring area imaged by imaging apparatus, object tracker that detects an object appearing in the monitoring area from the captured image and tracks between the captured images for each detected object, unattended object detector that detects an object not displaced beyond a predetermined time as an unattended object based on a tracking result for each detected object by the object tracker, unattended object type determination unit that determines a type of the detected unattended object, alarm issuing time controller that controls an alarm issuing time from the time when an unattended object is detected to the time when an alarm is issued based on the determined type of the unattended object. |
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System and method for determining pupil location and iris radius of an eye
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for segmenting an image of a video stream with a client device, binarizing an area of interest within one or more image, identifying an initial pupil location and an initial iris radius, and determining a final pupil location and a final iris radius. Some embodiments enable the client device to perform one or more operations within a user interface based on the image segmentation. |
| US10607345B2 |
Augmented surgical reality environment
The present disclosure is directed to an augmented reality surgical system for viewing an augmented image of a region of interest during a surgical procedure. The system includes an image capture device that captures an image of the region of interest. A controller receives the image and applies at least one image processing filter to the image. The image processing filter includes a spatial decomposition filter that decomposes the image into spatial frequency bands. A temporal filter is applied to the spatial frequency bands to generate temporally filtered bands. An adder adds each band spatial frequency band to a corresponding temporally filtered band to generate augmented bands. A reconstruction filter generates an augmented image by collapsing the augmented bands. A display displays the augmented image to a user. |
| US10607344B2 |
Image data transfer system, connection node, medical work area and method for transferring image data and for configuring an image data transfer system
An image data transfer system including: at least one image data source; at least one image data sink; and a connection node; wherein the connection node is coupled to the image data source and the image data sink via at least one data connection; the image data source is configured to provide image data in at least two different data formats; the image data sink is configured to process image data in one of the at least two data formats; and the connection node is configured to receive information relating to a selection of the image data sink and to establish a data transfer path between a selected image data sink and the image data source, the data transfer path being configured in that, from the image data source, image data is provided to the selected image data sink in the data format of the selected image data sink. |
| US10607343B2 |
Digital histopathology and microdissection
A computer implemented method of generating at least one shape of a region of interest in a digital image is provided. The method includes obtaining, by an image processing engine, access to a digital tissue image of a biological sample; tiling, by the image processing engine, the digital tissue image into a collection of image patches; identifying, by the image processing engine, a set of target tissue patches from the collection of image patches as a function of pixel content within the collection of image patches; assigning, by the image processing engine, each target tissue patch of the set of target tissue patches an initial class probability score indicating a probability that the target tissue patch falls within a class of interest, the initial class probability score generated by a trained classifier executed on each target tissue patch; generating, by the image processing engine, a first set of tissue region seed patches by identifying target tissue patches having initial class probability scores that satisfy a first seed region criteria, the first set of tissue region seed patches comprising a subset of the set of target tissue patches; generating, by the image processing engine, a second set of tissue region seed patches by identifying target tissue patches having initial class probability scores that satisfy a second seed region criteria, the second set of tissue region seed patches comprising a subset of the set of target tissue patches; calculating, by the image processing engine, a region of interest score for each patch in the second set of tissue region seed patches as a function of initial class probability scores of neighboring patches of the second set of tissue region seed patches and a distance to patches within the first set of issue region seed patches; and generating, by the image processing engine, one or more region of interest shapes by grouping neighboring patches based on their region of interest scores. |
| US10607341B2 |
Rules-based processing and presentation of medical images based on image plane
Systems and methods that allow transfer and display rules to be defined based on one or more of several attributes, such as a particular user, site, device, and/or image/series characteristic, as well as whether individual images and/or image series are classified as thin slices and/or based on other characteristics, and applied to medical images in order to determine which images and/or image data are analyzed, downloaded, viewed, stored, rendered, processed, and/or any number of other actions that might be performed with respect to medical image data. The system and methods may include image analysis, image rendering, image transformation, image enhancement, and/or other aspects to enable efficient and customized review of medical images. |
| US10607331B1 |
Image segmentation into overlapping tiles
Systems and techniques for image segmentation into overlapping tiles are described herein. In an example, an anomaly detection system for super-high-resolution images is adapted to divide the image into tiles with a size and overlap between each tile, wherein the size and overlap is determined using a machine-learning model. The anomaly detection system may be further adapted to use a classifier model for each tile to identify anomaly presence in the tile, wherein the classifier model is trained using a data set of tile size images that are labeled according to anomaly presence in each tile size image. The anomaly detection system may be further adapted to determine a classification for the image based on results from the classifier model for the tiles. The anomaly detection system may be further adapted to output the classification. |
| US10607327B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and recording medium
An image processing apparatus includes a first memory used for first rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an input image, and a second memory used for second rearrangement processing on a group of pixels in an image obtained by the first rearrangement processing, and performs correction processing that includes the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing on the input image. One of the first and second memories is capable of higher-speed random access than the other memory and has a smaller memory capacity than the other memory. One of the first rearrangement processing and the second rearrangement processing is processing for rearranging a group of pixels in each of a plurality of block images generated from the input image, and the other rearrangement processing is processing for rearranging pixel rows among the block images. The one rearrangement processing involves random access to the one memory. |
| US10607321B2 |
Adaptive sharpness enhancement control
Techniques related to video processing with adaptive sharpness enhancement are discussed. Such techniques may include determining a detail versus noise score for a video frame based on a noise level, a motion level, an average luma value, and spatial frequency information of the video frame and enhancing sharpness of the video frame based on sharpness enhancement control parameters generated based on the detail versus noise score for the video frame. |
| US10607316B2 |
Image generating apparatus and image generating method
An image generating apparatus is provided with: first and second light sources that illuminate a material; an image sensor on which the material is disposed; a mask which includes a light-transmitting part that transmits light and a light-blocking part that blocks light, and which is positioned between the image sensor and the first and second light sources; and a light and dark image processing unit. The image sensor acquires first and second images of the material when illuminated by the first and second light sources, respectively. The light and dark image processing unit derives a difference between a luminance value of a pixel included in the first image and a luminance value of a pixel included in the second image at the same position as the pixel included in the first image, and thereby generates a third image of the material. |
| US10607314B2 |
Image auto resizing
Systems and methods for autonomously generating one or more images are disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, a method of autonomously generating one or more images includes: receiving, by a content server, an image having one or more characteristics rendering the image suitable for display at a device of a first breakpoint type; in response to receiving the image, autonomously deriving, by the content server, at least one image from the received image, the at least one derived image having one or more characteristics optimized for display at a device of a second breakpoint type different from the first breakpoint type; and controlling, by the content server, a display to display the received image and the at least one derived image. |
| US10607312B2 |
Method and apparatus for publishing locational copyrighted watermarking video
Method and apparatus are disclosed for publishing locational copyrighted watermarking video. According to some embodiments, a method for embedding location information into a video comprises: separating the video into at least one key frame and at least one in-between frame set corresponding to the at least one key frame; receiving location data for the at least one key frame; encrypting the location data for the at least one key frame based on a location private key; and embedding the encrypted location data into the at least one key frame. |
| US10607309B2 |
Importing of information in a computing system
A method and system. An information content is displayed on one or more respective screens in corresponding locations. An import request, for importing a digital representation of a physical object placed on a current screen in a current location, is received. A first digital image at least partially representing the current screen is acquired by one or more digital cameras. An object digital image representing an object area of the current screen being covered by the physical object is obtained. The object area is identified from comparison between the first digital image and a displayed digital image. A digital document representing the physical object is generated from the object digital image. The digital document is added to the information content for displaying the digital document at a position on each screen corresponding to a position of the physical object on the current screen. |
| US10607307B1 |
Collective purchasing systems and methods for controlled-environment facility residents via controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices
Systems or methods for collective purchasing by controlled-environment facility residents may employ a plurality of controlled-environment facility resident communication and/or media devices, each associated with a respective controlled-environment facility resident. These devices, disposed within one or more controlled-environment facilities, may each present an interface for purchasing goods and/or services via the device. The devices may each offer, via the interface, an option to collectively purchase a single good or service by a number of controlled-environment facility residents and may accept an indication of partial payment from the resident associated with the device. A controlled-environment facility management system, or similar functionality, may debit the partial payment from a respective controlled-environment facility trust account maintained to the benefit of each controlled-environment facility resident making a partial payment and may provision the collectively purchased good or service to these residents. |
| US10607302B1 |
Guiding progressive user engagement in an online environment
An entity having a brand page maintained by a social networking system defines a sequence of content items associated with a brand page is determined. Different content items in the sequence include different information that is dependent on interaction between a user and the sequence. For example, content items in the sequence provide increasingly more detailed or complex information when progressing from the first content item to the last content item in the sequence. When a viewing user of a social networking system interacts with the brand page, prior interactions with the sequence by the viewing user are used to classify the viewing user and to select a content item from the sequence that is communicated to the viewing user. |
| US10607299B2 |
Displaying social media content
In one aspect, in general, a method includes, at a social media playback system, receiving social media content from at least one social media service, the social media content comprising elements of social media, receiving schedule data pertaining to a media program from a media provider, identifying, at least in part based on the schedule data, social media content relevant to the media program, and storing data associating the identified social media content and the media program, the data indicating timing information associated with respective elements of social media content, at least some of the timing information expressed as an offset relative to a time associated with the media program. |
| US10607298B1 |
System and method for indicating sections of electronic tax forms for which narrative explanations can be presented
Computer-implemented method, tax return preparation systems and computer program products for presenting an explanation for a tax calculation or operation performed by a tax return preparation system when the system is in “forms” mode. An electronic version of a tax authority form that has been modified by inclusion of interface elements is displayed to a user. In response to the user selecting an interface element while in forms mode, presentation of an explanation regarding a tax calculation or operation for the associated field is invoked. The user interface controller provides data in response to selection of the interface element to an explanation engine, which determines an explanation based at least in part upon the tax calculation graph. The explanation is provided to the user interface controller for presentation to the user. |
| US10607297B2 |
Scalable and distributed shared ledger transaction management
A shared ledger of transactions may be used for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification. Authenticity of transactions requires active measures to ensure transaction participants including parties to the transactions, observers to the transaction, etc., are providing accurate information for each transaction. One example method of operation may include one or more of identifying a set of participants to one or more transactions, transmitting a request from an initiating participant to enable each of the set of participants to generate local numbers based on a number source, forwarding the local numbers to one or more of the set of participants before expiration of a specified time interval, receiving the local numbers at the initiating participant, and generating a final number based on the local numbers received, so that after a last participant among the set of participants has forwarded the local number, none of the set of participants can obtain the final number until after a limited amount of time. |
| US10607296B2 |
System and method for processing vehicle requests
A method and system for processing requests for vehicular data, including receiving a vehicle request for a vehicle parameter from a client system (e.g., third party application); verifying client access to the vehicle parameter; determining one or more parameter values for the requested vehicle parameter; and transmitting the one or more parameter values to the client system. |
| US10607295B1 |
Systems and methods for community-based cause of loss determination
Methods and systems for determining a cause of loss to a property for damage associated with an insurance-related event based upon data received from a second property. A smart home (or other building) controller and/or an insurance provider remote processor may generate a time sequence of events for damage associated with an insure-related event. The smart home controller or remote processor may also receive a time-sequence of events generated by a smart home controller associated with a second property. The smart home controller or remote processor may compare the two time-sequences of events to determine causes of loss associated with damage to the property. The compared data may be further used to assign a portion of the overall damage to each cause of loss. Subsequently, the smart home controller or remote processor may automatically generate an insurance claim for damage to the property associated with the insurance-related event. |
| US10607293B2 |
Automated insurance toggling for self-driving vehicles
A method and/or computer program product automatically toggles insurance policy provisions for a self-driving vehicle (SDV) based on an operational mode of the SDV. One or more processor(s) receive an electronic signal indicating an operational mode of an SDV in real-time, where operational mode is either an autonomous mode or a manual mode. A first insurance policy provision provides coverage while the SDV is operating in the autonomous mode, and a second insurance policy provision provides coverage while the SDV is operating in the manual mode. The processor(s) monitor the SDV for a change in real-time to the operational mode of the SDV. In response to detecting a change in real-time to the operational mode of the SDV, the processor(s) dynamically toggle activation of the first and second insurance policy provisions consistent with the change in real-time to the operational mode of the SDV. |
| US10607290B2 |
Methods and systems for showing perspective in market data
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing perspective to market data. In one embodiment, market data is displayed in a three-dimensional perspective that emphasizes important aspects of market data while minimizing less important aspects. In some embodiments, market data is mapped to an object that automatically moves to display the inside market. In another embodiment, orders can be entered, manipulated, and/or canceled in conjunction with, or separately from, the object. Single and combination gestures can be used to perform one or more commands for entering orders and viewing market data. In one embodiment, multiple displays from one or more different types of computing devices are used in conjunction with each other for operating and/or displaying a portion of the aspects of the disclosed technology. In another embodiment, a filter component is used to show select market data and to enter or trigger specific types of market orders. |
| US10607287B2 |
Real-time indicator of global trade
A real-time indicator of global trade can be generated. The real-time indicator provides a comprehensive indicator of the current global economic state by tracking current values for the available capacity for freight shipments as well as the volume of actual shipments. The capacity and volume can be tracked over multiple different transportation modes including sea, air, and rail. The real-time indicator is generated in real-time based on these current values. The real-time indicator can therefore provide investors, analysts, researchers, bankers, and the like with a reliable indicator of the current global economic state that is not heavily influenced by the biasing sentiments of individuals. |
| US10607281B2 |
Dynamically updated listing user interface
In an example embodiment, an item characteristic is received, the item characteristic pertaining to an item being listed for sale, by a seller, via an ecommerce service. Then, a plurality of past transactions of items having the item characteristic are analyzed. Based on this analysis, a first set of one or more optimal listing configuration parameters are identified in accordance with a first set of listing criteria. Then, the first set of one or more identified optimal listing configuration parameters to the seller in a user interface that permits the seller to change one or more listing configuration parameters based on the presentation. |
| US10607280B2 |
Estimate presentation device, estimate presentation method, program, and recording medium
An estimate presentation device (110) that presents an estimate for expenses associated with a gas turbine is provided with: a lease charges estimating unit (113) that, when a lease agreement is concluded in which a component of components of the gas turbine which requires regular maintenance is to be leased as a leased component for a desired lease period, estimates lease charges for the leased component; and an estimate presenting unit (116) that presents an estimate for expenses associated with the gas turbine including the lease charges estimated by the lease charges estimating unit (113). |
| US10607278B2 |
System and method for populating a database with a set of information related to an item owned by a first owner that is transferred to a second owner
Populating a database with information includes associating a first interactive item card with the first item; associating the card with the first owner; associating information content with the card. The information content includes a first location, or first image of the first item, social media interaction related to the card at a first moment of time or information related to the first owner; changing association of the card from the first owner to a second owner if the ownership of the first item is transferred; adding to the information content additional information content that includes a second location or a second image of the first item, at least one social media interaction related to the card at a second moment of time or an information related to the second owner; and populating the database with the associations and the information content. |
| US10607267B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying potential shoplifting incidents
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for identifying potential shoplifting incidents. In one embodiment, a system can receive and analyze information related to a number of items removed from a display and a number of items added to a shopping receptacle. These numbers of items can be detected by weight or load changes sensed by a sensor system, and if the counted numbers of items do not match, the system can flag nearby shopping receptacles via their unique identification numbers as potentially involved in shoplifting incidents. |
| US10607265B2 |
Systems and methods for managing electronic tip data to provide merchant reviews
The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and techniques for managing merchandising cards. A merchandising card may be, for example, a gift card, loyalty card, or the like. Consistent disclosed embodiments, a system for managing merchandising cards may include one or more memory devices storing instructions and one or more processors configured to acquire, from a device over a network, a plurality of locations associated with the device, the device locations being acquired at different instances in time within a predetermined period of time. Additionally, the processor may be configured to calculate a merchant confidence rating for a merchant using the device locations. Further, the one or more processors may be configured to, based on the merchant confidence rating, determine that the merchant matches a merchant that is associated with merchandising card, and send a reminder a user of the device. |
| US10607260B2 |
Systems and methods for presenting supplemental information related to an advertisement consumed on a different device within a threshold time period based on historical user interactions
Systems and methods are described for presenting supplemental information to a user that is related to an advertisement consumed by the user that the user found interesting. It may be determined that a user is interested in receiving supplemental information based on the user starting to use a device within a threshold time period from consuming the advertisement on a different device. The threshold time period may be determined based on historical amounts of time users have taken to access supplemental information after consuming the advertisement (e.g., if users access a webpage associated with the advertisement five minutes after the conclusion of the advertisement, the threshold time period may be five minutes). In response to determining that the user started using the first device within the threshold period of time from the end of the advertisement, supplemental information associated with the advertisement may be presented. |
| US10607259B2 |
System, method and computer program product for extracting user profiles and habits based on speech recognition and calling history for telephone system advertising
A system, method and computer program product for providing targeted messages to a person using telephony services by generating user profile information from telephony data and using the user profile information to retrieve targeted messages. |
| US10607256B2 |
Systems and methods for analyzing content affinities from digital wallet transaction data
A computer-based method for providing promotional content to a user based on attributes of digital content purchased by the user is provided. The method includes receiving enrollment data for a user in response to the user enrolling in a digital wallet application. The method further includes, storing the enrollment data, and receiving digital wallet transaction data as part of a digital wallet transaction for digital content, the digital wallet transaction initiated by the user using the digital wallet application. The method further includes determining at least one content attribute associated with the digital content, storing the at least one content attribute, determining, based at least in part on the at least one content attribute, a content affinity for the user, selecting promotional content that matches the content affinity, and causing the selected promotional content to be presented to the user. |
| US10607254B1 |
Attribution modeling using withheld or near impressions
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for attribution modeling using withheld or near impression data are provided. One method involves determining, for a first content item impression, withheld or near impressions for a competing content item within a content auction. The method further involves identifying a first set of paths including a sequence of events that includes an interaction with the first content item impression. The method further involves identifying a second set of paths, each including the sequence of events with the competing content item impression replacing the first content item impression. The method compares conversion metrics for the first and second paths to determine attribution credit for the first content item impression. |
| US10607253B1 |
Content title user engagement optimization
A method and system for generating content title recommendations for content titles associated with a content page is disclosed. The method and system collects user activity data representing user engagement levels relating to multiple content webpages, wherein each content page is associated with a content title. A title replacement candidate is identified in view of the collected user activity data, wherein the title replacement candidate includes a plurality of title components. The title replacement candidate is compared to one or more high user engagement value titles. Based on the comparison, one or more high user engagement title component recommendations are identified which correspond to one or more of the title components of the title replacement candidate. |
| US10607252B2 |
Methods and systems for targeted B2B advertising campaigns generation using an AI recommendation engine
Disclosed are methods and systems for generating targeted advertising campaigns for a business-to-business (B2B) company. The method comprises retrieving historical data on one or more historical experiments; determining, using a prediction engine, a prediction of a goal metric by finding a pattern in a historical metric that influences the goal metric, where the historical metric is included in the historical data; determining, using the prediction engine, correlations between one or more experimental parameters and the goal metric, based on the prediction of the goal metric; training, using the prediction engine, two or more experimental parameter models for the goal metric, based on the correlations between the one or more experimental parameters and the goal metric; generating, using a campaigns engine, one or more new experiments, each associated with the goal metric, and based on the two or more experimental parameter models; and generating, using the campaigns engine, a targeted advising campaign comprising a selected number of the new experiments. |
| US10607250B2 |
Advertisement selection and pricing using discounts based on placement
An advertising selection and placement system is provided for a social networking system. An advertising selection module identifies candidate advertisements for a user to view along with social networking content. The candidate advertisements can be placed in various slots on the user's display. The expected value of various arrangements of the candidate advertisements in the slots is determined, and advertisements may be selected and placed to optimize revenue to the system. Each advertisement is evaluated using a discount function that adjusts the price of the advertisement based on its placement. |
| US10607247B2 |
Systems and methods to enhance search results using transaction data of merchants
A computing apparatus includes: a transaction handler configured to process transactions in a payment processing network; a data warehouse configured to store transaction data recording the transactions processed at the transaction handler; a profile generator configured to generate, based on the transaction data, a profile including business activity data configured to identify a time period of active business, and a portal configured to communicate with a search engine to enhance search results using the business activity data. |
| US10607246B2 |
Promotion code validation apparatus and method
A method including interacting with a promotion code provider programmatically, providing a promotion code to a validation function of the promotion code provider, and evaluating a response from the promotion code provider. The act of interacting with a promotion code provider can include controlling an interface that simulates user actions, such as but not limited to controlling an in-memory web browser through an API, where the API provides a set of functions for simulating user actions. Accordingly, the method can be used to quickly and easily determine whether one or more promotion codes, such as online coupons, are valid. |
| US10607243B2 |
User behavior analysis method and device as well as non-transitory computer-readable medium
User behavior analysis method and device are disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining a behavior record of users regarding commodities; acquiring, by determining a commodity feature vector in a predetermined commodity feature space of each of the commodities, a commodity feature matrix consisting of the commodity feature vectors of the commodities; for each of the users, calculating, based on a sub behavior record of the corresponding user regarding each of the commodities, a preference score of the corresponding user regarding each of the commodities, so as to get a score matrix composed of the preference scores of the users regarding the commodities; and for each of the users, determining, based on a regularized least squares based solution of a difference function of the score matrix and a prediction matrix, a user feature vector of the corresponding user in its related predetermined commodity feature space. |
| US10607242B1 |
Generation of subscription recommendations for content creators
A system and method is provided for generating subscription recommendations suggesting ways that one or more creators of content may increase subscribership and/or prominence of the one or more creators. Subscription recommendations can involve changing and/or updating subscription levels offered by a content creator to potential, existing, or previous subscribers of the content creator. Current and/or historical performance data associated with the content creator, other content creators, and/or the consumers making up a community of subscribers may be analyzed in order to generate subscription recommendations. |
| US10607241B2 |
Identifying potential consumers for service provider marketplace
A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are described herein for a Potential Consumer Engine identifies profile data of a target member account accessible in a social network service during a period of time equal in length to a pre-submission time period. The Potential Consumer Engine identifies channel data and assembles feature vector data for the target member account. The Potential Consumer Engine inputs into generalized linear mix model the feature vector data. The Potential Consumer Engine receives predictive output from the generalized linear mix model. The predictive output indicative of a current probability of the target member account joining the freelancer marketplace. |
| US10607236B2 |
Universal system for enabling dynamically discounted buyer-vendor payments
Methods, systems and instructions stored on computer-readable media for receiving a plurality of invoices associated a vendor and one or more buyers. Each invoice is associated with a respective buyer and includes an invoice amount to be paid by a deadline. Each invoice is sent to the respective buyer. Possible early payment invoices that are available for early payment prior to the respective deadline from the plurality of invoices are determined. Notification, including a discount, is sent to the vendor regarding the possible early payment invoices. Approval to receive early payment of one or more of the possible early payment invoices is determined. A vendor financial institution and account, and buyer financial institutions and accounts are determined. A quantity of funds based upon the invoice amount and the discount of the one or more of the possible early payment invoices is transferred from the buyer accounts to the vendor account. |
| US10607233B2 |
Automated review validator
In response to a posting of a negative review of an information technology item, external environmental context data is collected that comprehends processing environment attributes of an external process that interacts with the item in a reviewed performance of the item. An attribute of the item criticized in the review is correlated with an attribute of the external environmental context data as a function of contemporaneous time of occurrence. Degrees of likelihood as the principal cause of the negative review are determined for the attributes of the information technology item and for the correlated external environmental context data attribute. The negative review is determined to be a false negative review if the degree of likelihood that the correlated attribute of the external environmental context data is the principal cause is higher than the degree of likelihood that the criticized attribute of the information technology item is the principal cause. |
| US10607232B2 |
Automatic assistance for resource reuse based on context extracted from a user workspace
A device may receive, from a user device, an implicit search request identifying a resource accessed by a user of the user device. Based on properties defined in a user role and a rule identified in context configuration information, the device may determine an intent associated with the user and a context associated with the intent and the resource accessed by the user. The device may send, based on query options identified in search configuration information, a search query identifying search criteria associated with the context, and may receive a search response identifying available resources that satisfy the search criteria. The device may determine a probability, for each of the available resources, that the available resource matches the context, identify a portion of the search response based on the probabilities, and send the portion to the user device. |
| US10607231B1 |
Systems and methods for optimizing transaction authorization conversion rate
A method for optimizing transaction authorization conversion rates includes retrieving payment transaction parameters and authorization results for a plurality of past payment transactions, generating authorization success factors for each of a plurality of payment transaction parameters based on the retrieved payment transaction parameters and authorization results, receiving, at an acquirer processor, a payment transaction from a merchant, modifying one or more parameters of the payment transaction according to the generated authorization success factors, and submitting the modified payment transaction to a financial institution for processing. |
| US10607227B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for detecting potential money laundering activities
Provided is a computer-implemented method for detecting potential money laundering activities. The method may include determining an overall transaction product category risk score for each transaction product category of a plurality of transaction product categories, where the overall transaction product category risk score is based on transaction data, a transaction product category risk score associated with the at least one issuer institution for each transaction product category, an issuer institution risk score associated with the at least one issuer institution, and a geographic risk score associated with the at least one issuer institution, determining an overall issuer institution risk score associated with the at least one issuer institution, determining whether the overall issuer institution risk score satisfies a threshold value, generating a notification, and communicating the notification to a client device based on generating the notification. A system and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US10607224B2 |
Systems and methods for secure authentication of transactions initiated at a client device
A method for authenticating a cardholder for a candidate purchase using an authentication computing device in communication with a memory is provided. The method includes receiving an authentication profile associated with the cardholder during an enrollment process for an authentication service, storing the authentication profile within the memory, and receiving an authentication request for the candidate purchase over a first communication link. The candidate purchase is initiated at a client device. The method further includes retrieving the stored authentication profile from the memory, generating a challenge message based on the stored authentication profile, transmitting the challenge message to a user device over a second communication link, receiving a challenge response including authentication information collected from the user device, comparing the collected authentication information to the stored authentication profile, and authenticating the cardholder for the candidate purchase based on the comparison. |
| US10607223B2 |
Utilizing phrase tokens in transactions
A system and method for facilitating transactions utilizing phrase tokens are provided. Individual entities can be associated with unambiguous transaction phrase tokens, such as multiple word phrases. The transaction phrase tokens are associated with transaction accounts by a service provider such that the entities can complete a transaction without having to exchange transaction account information. In a transaction, a transaction phrase token is offered to an accepting party, which tenders the offered transaction phrase token to the service provider. The service provider processes the offered transaction phrase token according to configuration information specified for the transaction phrase token. The service provider can automatically process the transaction request or request additional information. |
| US10607221B2 |
Secure passcode entry using mobile device with augmented reality capability
Secure passcode entry using a mobile device having augmented reality capability. The mobile device is registered with an authorization server to register an agreed input display algorithm with an initialization seed, and a user passcode is registered with the authorization server. A superset of options is obtained from an input interface device at which a user passcode is to be entered. The superset of options is processed using the input display algorithm and initialization seed to result in an arrangement of characters including the characters of a registered user passcode. The arrangement of characters is overlaid using the augmented reality capability of the mobile device in relation to an input interface of the input interface device. |
| US10607220B2 |
Systems and methods for consolidated message processing
A network translation computing device for processing consolidated messages is disclosed. The network translation computing device receives a web-based authentication response including a plurality of data elements in a web-based format. The network translation computing device translates the plurality of data elements from the web-based format to a network-based format. The network translation computing device generates a network-format authorization request message including the plurality of data elements in the network-based format. The network translation computing device transmits the network-format authorization request message to an issuer of the transaction card to initiate an authorization process of the transaction. |
| US10607219B2 |
Systems and methods to provide privacy protection for activities related to transactions
A computing apparatus includes: a portal configured to present a privacy control panel to receive input from a user to create a privacy policy; a data warehouse configured to store the privacy policy in connection with account information of the user; and a transaction handler configured to provide a privacy indicator, in accordance with the privacy policy stored in the data warehouse, in an authorization response for a transaction made using the account information of the user. |
| US10607218B1 |
Facilitating end-to-end encryption for E-commerce
A transaction intermediary configured to receive a transaction request, enable the input of transaction information, receive a transaction package including the inputted transaction information, route the transaction package to a processing location, receive an indication that the transaction package has been processed, and generate an electronic voucher in response to the indication. |
| US10607215B2 |
Account tokenization for virtual currency resources
Embodiments of the present invention are used in a token based financial transaction system, whereby individual tokens associated with one or more financial accounts provided to one or more third parties. Embodiments credit an amount of a virtual currency in at least one bank account of a customer, wherein the at least one bank account has an associated amount of funds that is increased by the credit of the amount of virtual currency; generate a payment token associated with the at least one bank account of the customer; receive a transaction request to process a transaction using the token; determine that the transaction request is associated with a transaction having a transaction amount less than or equal to the amount of funds associated with the at least one bank account; and approve and settle the transaction. |
| US10607214B1 |
Systems and methods for cryptographic authentication of contactless cards
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card, a client device, and one or more servers are provided. The contactless card may include one or more processors and memory. The memory may include one or more applets. The client device may include one or more processors and memory. The client device may be in data communication with the contactless card. One or more servers may be in data communication with the client device. A first set of information may be transmitted from the contactless card to the client device. The first set of information may include one or more links to activate the contactless card. The client device may be configured to receive the first set of information from the contactless card. Upon validation of the first set of information, the contactless card may be activated. |
| US10607210B2 |
Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for enabling direct electronic payment transfers
Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable media for enabling direct electronic payment transfers are disclosed. Identification information of a payer, based on a user selection at a mobile device, is received from a first application installed on the mobile device. A user identification of a payment amount is received via a second application installed on the mobile device. The second application is different from the first application. Biometric data of the user is captured at a biometrics reader of the mobile device, and then compared to authorized biometric data to authenticate the user. Upon successful authentication of the user, a request for the electronic payment transfer from the payer to the user for the payment amount is initiated from the mobile device. |
| US10607208B1 |
System and method for management and automation of instant purchase transactions
A system and related method for completing online transactions via mobile device includes a client-side e-commerce platform executing on the mobile device that identifies candidate items for purchase based on images related to an item desired by the user. Purchase information for items offered by participating vendors is retrieved by the platform via APIs of the vendor network. Purchase information for items offered by third-party vendors outside the network is retrieved by a middleware platform called by the client-side platform. The user may select items for purchase and complete the transaction via single click, whereby the middleware forwards payment details to the third-party vendors and retrieves pricing, inventory, and purchase information (as well as authorization codes and records of the completed transaction) from the third-party vendors. The client-side platform generates a single transaction and invoice whether the selected items are purchased from in-network or third-party vendors. |
| US10607207B2 |
Method and system for one-touch fueling authorization
Embodiments of a method and a cloud-assisted fueling system for one-touch fueling authorization are disclosed. |
| US10607202B2 |
Synchronization system for intermittently-connected point-of-sale terminals employing ad hoc network
A synchronization system for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions includes point-of-sale (POS) terminals and a server. Each of the terminals generates changes corresponding to one or more orders, queues the changes in order queues that correspond to the one or more orders, and transmits the changes in the order queues, from oldest to youngest, when operably connected to a network, where one or more of the terminals operably connect to the network by tethering to a cellular equipped device. The server receives the changes and transmits the changes to the terminals. The server has a queue processor that queues the changes in terminal queues that correspond to the terminals, where the changes are transmitted to a first one of the of terminals, from oldest to youngest, when it is operably connected to the network, and where the state changes are maintained in terminal queues corresponding to other ones of the terminals while the other ones remain operably disconnected from the network. |
| US10607201B2 |
Selective point-of-sale terminal for reconciling order state under non-persistent connection conditions
A point-of-sale (POS) terminal for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions includes a state processor and an order processor. The state processor queues state changes in one or more order queues that correspond to one or more orders. The order processor generates the changes and accesses and transmits the changes in each one of the one or more order queues to a server, from oldest to youngest, when operably connected to a network, where the order processor has current order state fields corresponding to a subset of all of the orders, and where the order processor utilizes rules disposed therein to resolve conflicts in the one or more orders occurring from state change updates received from the server which result from other state changes to the one or more orders generated by one or more other POS terminals, and where a service area map within the server associates the POS terminal to one or more service areas, and where the subset of all of the orders corresponds to one of the one or more service areas. |
| US10607200B2 |
Point of sale system having a customer terminal and a merchant terminal
A point of sale system includes a merchant terminal and a customer terminal. The merchant terminal is configured to display a user interface (UI) window on the merchant terminal. The UI window on the merchant terminal displays a merchant-specific version of a screen displayed on the customer terminal. The merchant terminal receives updates from the customer terminal regarding the status of the payment portion for a transaction. The merchant terminal can provide an input to the UI window which is sent as a message to the customer terminal. Control of state for the point of sale system is shared such that when the system is in a first state, the merchant terminal is the state control terminal, and when the point of sale system is in a second state, the customer terminal is the state control terminal and has control of state for the system. |
| US10607199B2 |
Method for using supervised model to identify user
An input value is derived at least in part from information associated with present data associated with a user and details of historical data associated with the user, with the historical data including a value indicating an option selected by the user and the option being a member of a plurality of options available to associate with the present data. A plurality of scores is obtained at least in part by passing, for each of the plurality of options, the input value as input to a plurality of decision rules. A preferred option is determined based at least in part on the plurality of scores. An interface is caused to display a plurality of selectable elements corresponding to the plurality of options that include the preferred option. A response that indicates selection of the preferred option is received via the interface. The present data is associated with the preferred option. |
| US10607194B2 |
Method and apparatus for managing maintenance for a service provider
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining device diagnostic data for a group of devices that provide communication services to a plurality of customer premises of a plurality of users over a network, obtaining configuration data associated with the plurality of customer premises, obtaining quality key performance indicators associated with the communication services of the plurality of customer premises, applying linear regression to the device diagnostic data, the configuration data and the quality key performance indicators to identify a quality threshold based on a particular configuration, detecting a subset of customer premises from among the plurality of customer premises that are not satisfying the quality threshold, and analyzing a subset of the device diagnostic data that corresponds to the subset of customer premises to determine equipment associated with the subset of customer premises for maintenance. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10607192B2 |
Methods and apparatus for autonomous vehicle scheduling
Methods and apparatus for autonomous vehicle scheduling are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, at a first processor, a first request for a vehicle to travel to a location. The first request is to be transmitted to the first processor from a second processor. The example method includes calculating an arrival time of the vehicle based on the first request. The example includes comparing the first request to a second request for the vehicle based on the arrival time. The example method includes scheduling the first request based on the comparison and directing the vehicle to the location based on the schedule. |
| US10607191B2 |
Efficient calendar creation
Systems and methods for creating a calendar event on a calendar are presented. In response to a request to create a calendar event on a calendar, a first set of calendar event suggestions are presented to a user on a computing device. In response to a selection of a calendar event suggestion, an attribute corresponding to the selected calendar event suggestion is added to an attribute set. A subsequent set of calendar event suggestions are then presented on the computing device. In response to a selection of a subsequent calendar event suggestion, an attribute corresponding to the subsequent calendar event suggestion is added to an attribute set. A calendar event is created on the calendar according to the attributes in the attribute set in response to an instruction to create the calendar event. |
| US10607190B2 |
Mobile check-in with push notification services
A system and method of mobile check-in are provided. The system includes a cloud composed of a database, a server, and a push gateway. The server generates a check-in request and sends the check-in request in the form of a push notification to a specific mobile communication device through the push gateway and an external push server. All executable functions of the mobile communication device are locked until a check-in operation is completed. |
| US10607185B2 |
Plant deliverable management system
A plant deliverable management system is presented. The system leverages plant construction agnostic templates to generate plant deliverables (e.g., training materials, inspections, reports, design drawings, etc.). The plant deliverables can be converted from common, a generic format to a format desired by a client paying for the plant construction. The system can also provision a computer system with a released version of plant deliverables where the deliverables are indexed according to a derived indexing scheme generated based on the templates and a client's desired formats or asset attributes. |
| US10607184B2 |
System and method for determining an amount of disposable material in a spool
A method and a system for determining an amount of material remaining in a spool are provided herein. The system includes a radiofrequency identification (RFID) reader that is configured to read an RFID tag disposed at an end of a core of the spool. The RFID reader is provided on or in a vicinity of a support surface configured to hold at least a portion of the material. The system further includes a computer system in communication with the RFID reader, the computer system being configured to compute an amount of remaining material in the spool based on a thickness of the material and based on a number of revolutions of the spool. The number of revolutions is determined by a number of times the RFID tag on the spool comes in a reading vicinity of the RFID reader. |
| US10607183B2 |
Order states durable queuing apparatus and method
A synchronization server for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions is provided. The server includes a terminal update element and a queue processor. The terminal update element receives state changes corresponding to one or more orders from one or more of a plurality of POS terminals. The queue processor queues the state changes in a plurality of durable terminal queues that correspond to the plurality of POS terminals, where the state changes are accessed by the terminal update element and are transmitted to a first one of the of plurality of POS terminals, from oldest to youngest, when the first one of the plurality of POS terminals is operably connected to the network, and where the state changes are maintained in durable terminal queues corresponding to other ones of the plurality of POS terminals while the other ones of the plurality of POS terminals remain operably disconnected from the network. |
| US10607178B2 |
Shipment planning
Systems and techniques are provided for generating a drop plan for a mailing containing a plurality of mailpieces. Tracking data may be received for mailings sent by a plurality of mailers, and estimated delivery times determined based upon the tracking data. A mailer may specify a delivery goal for a mailing and, based upon the estimated delivery times and the delivery goal, a drop plan for the mailing may be generated, which specifies at least one drop location for at least a portion of the mailing. The mailer also may modify the drop plan, such as by specifying additional constraints, modified attributes of the drop plan, additional or updated goals for the mailing, or the like. |
| US10607175B2 |
Automatically analyzing complexity or simplicity and performing an action based on the complexity or the simplicity
A device may receive a plurality of data items related to an entity to be analyzed. The device may store the plurality of data items using a storage device based on receiving the plurality of data items. The device may analyze the plurality of data items to identify complexity factors related to the entity based on storing the plurality of data items. The complexity factors may positively impact the entity or negatively impact the entity. The device may generate a set of action items associated with modifying operations of the entity to impact the complexity factors related to the entity. The set of action items may be associated with positively impacting the entity. The device may perform a set of actions based on the set of action items to positively impact the entity. |
| US10607170B1 |
Systems and methods for analyzing resource production
A method of producing fluids from a geological structure includes receiving field information associated with producing wells of a field; deriving a field specific model based on the field information, the field specific model including a proximity depletion synthetic variable and a fraction hit synthetic variable; identifying a proposed location based on the application of field management engine to the field specific model, the field management engine projecting a decrease in production from wells proximal to the location and projecting an improvement in a production objective; and drilling a well at the proposed location. |
| US10607164B1 |
Architects space programming process that determines new classroom sizes and count for educational institutions
Subject invention is a method that determines classroom needs for higher education institutions when they consider new buildings. The architect in charge of programming the new building can use existing tools available to them, in effect computer hardware and 3d modeler software, and utilize this method, which first plots classes as boxes in a virtual 3d space from course schedule data, then uses application programming interface (API) to execute geometry intersections, next performs matching processes to determine the number and sizes of classrooms needed for the course schedule, and lastly visualize room utilization and matching results on a computer screen. |
| US10607158B2 |
Automated assessment of operator performance
Embodiments are directed to assessing performances of physical activities. Assessment engines may collect performance content that includes information associated with performances of activities. The assessment engines may employ classifiers to classify the performance content to determine occurrences of features of the performance content and classify assessment content to determine scores that are associated with features included in the performances. The assessment engines may provide correlation values associated with the performances based on historical performance content, assessment content, or scores. The assessment engine may provide a report that includes a localized evaluation of the performances based on the correlation values, performance content, assessment content, and scores. In some cases, the performance content may include videos of the performances. |
| US10607155B2 |
Diagnosing slow tasks in distributed computing
Machine learning is utilized to analyze respective execution times of a plurality of tasks in a job performed in a distributed computing system to determine that a subset of the plurality of tasks are straggler tasks in the job, where the distributed computing system includes a plurality of computing devices. A supervised machine-learning algorithm is performed using a set of inputs including performance attributes of the plurality of tasks, where the supervised machine learning algorithm uses labels generated from determination of the set of straggler tasks, the performance attributes include respective attributes of the plurality of tasks observed during performance of the job, and applying the supervised learning algorithm results in identification of a set of rules defining conditions, based on the performance attributes of the plurality of tasks, indicative of which tasks will be straggler tasks in a job. Rule data is generated to describe the set of rules. |
| US10607153B2 |
LAT based answer generation using anchor entities and proximity
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a proximity based candidate answer pre-processor engine that outputs a sub-set of candidate answers to a question and answer (QA) system. The mechanisms receive a lexical answer type (LAT) and an entity specified in an input natural language question as well as an ontology data structure representing a corpus of natural language content. The mechanisms identify a set of candidate answers having associated nodes in the ontology data structure that are within a predetermined proximity of a node corresponding to the entity, and a sub-set of candidate answers in the set of candidate answers having an entity type corresponding to the LAT. The mechanisms output, to the QA system, the sub-set of candidate answers as candidate answers to the input natural language question for evaluation and selection of a final answer to the input natural language question. |
| US10607152B2 |
Using machine learning to predict outcomes for documents
Evaluations of a document are generated that indicate likelihoods of the document achieving its objectives. The evaluations are based on predictive characteristics of one or more outcomes of the client document that are indicative of whether the document will achieve its objectives. Specifically, a server receives the document from a client device. The server extracts a set of features from the document. The evaluations of the document are generated based on the predictive characteristics for the one or more outcomes of the document. The generated evaluations are provided to the client device such that the document can be optimized to achieve its desired objectives. The optimized document may also be sent to a posting server for posting to a computer network. The known outcomes of the optimized document are collected through reader responses to the document and analyzed to improve evaluations for other documents. |
| US10607148B1 |
User identification with voiceprints on online social networks
In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing devices of an online social network, receiving, from a client system of a first user of the online social network, a first audio input from an unknown user, identifying one or more candidate users, wherein each candidate user is a user of the online social network within a threshold degree of separation of a known user, calculating, for each candidate user, a probability score representing a probability that the unknown user is the candidate user, wherein the probability score is based on a comparison of the first audio input to a voiceprint of the candidate user stored by the online social network, wherein each voiceprint comprises audio data for auditory identification of the candidate user, and identifying one of the candidate users as being the unknown user based on the calculated probability scores of the candidate users. |
| US10607144B2 |
Systems and methods for modeling machine learning and data analytics
Systems and methods for implementing and using a data modeling and machine learning lifecycle management platform that facilitates collaboration among data engineering, development and operations teams and provides capabilities to experiment using different models in a production environment to accelerate the innovation cycle. Stored computer instructions and processors instantiate various modules of the platform. The modules include a user interface, a collector module for accessing various data sources, a workflow module for processing data received from the data sources, a training module for executing stored computer instructions to train one or more data analytics models using the processed data, a predictor module for producing predictive datasets based on the data analytics models, and a challenger module for executing multi-sample hypothesis testing of the data analytics models. |
| US10607143B2 |
Profile data camera adjustment
Camera settings are managed. A candidate subject for capture by a camera is detected. The detection is based on historical profile data related to a user of the camera. One or more adjustments of the camera are identified for capture of the candidate subject. The one or more adjustments are identified based on the detected candidate subject. A proper capture action is performed based on the identified adjustments. |
| US10607141B2 |
Apparatuses, methods and systems for a digital conversation management platform
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A DIGITAL CONVERSATION MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (“DCM-Platform”) transforms digital dialogue from consumers, client demands and, Internet search inputs via DCM-Platform components into tradable digital assets, and client needs based artificial intelligence campaign plan outputs. In one implementation, The DCM-Platform may capture and examine conversations between individuals and artificial intelligence conversation agents. These agents may be viewed as assets. One can measure the value and performance of these agents by assessing their performance and ability to generate revenue from prolonging conversations and/or ability to effect sales through conversations with individuals. |
| US10607137B2 |
Branch predictor selection management
Disclosed aspects relate to branch predictor selection management in a pipelined microprocessor architecture. A set of selection factor data may be collected in the pipelined microprocessor architecture. The set of selection factor data may be analyzed using a perceptron-based learning technique with respect to a set of candidate branch predictors. A chosen branch predictor may be selected from the set of candidate branch predictors based on analyzing the set of selection factor data with respect to the set of candidate branch predictors using the perceptron-based learning technique. The chosen branch predictor may be invoked in the pipelined microprocessor architecture. |
| US10607132B1 |
Techniques for managing device interactions in a workspace
Techniques for managing device interaction between components of an inventory management system are described herein. User input associated with an operational state of the user device may be received at the user device and the user device may begin operating in a particular operational state. While operating in this state, the user device may transmit a wireless signal having a predetermined frequency. A mobile drive unit of the system, upon receipt of the wireless signal, may slow or stop. Operational state information may be transmitted to other components of the inventory management system indicating that the wireless signal is being transmitted and/or that the user device is operating in a particular operational state and a fault detection process may commence. The user device may provide an indication (e.g., via visual, audible, and/or haptic feedback devices) that the user device is operating in the particular operational state. |
| US10607130B2 |
Two piece transaction card having fabric inlay
Disclosed embodiments generally relate to a transaction card with a fabric inlay. The transaction card may include a housing component having a first housing surface opposite a second housing surface and an inlay component having a first inlay surface opposite a second inlay surface. The inlay and housing may be joined along the second inlay surface and the first housing surface. In addition, the first inlay surface may include a fabric material and a backer layer configured to support the fabric material of the first inlay surface. |
| US10607128B1 |
Near-field communication data carrier installed on metal object
A near-field communication data carrier is adapted to be mounted in a metal object including a housing, an electronic assembly. The electronic assembly is disposed in the housing and includes a circuit board, a near-field communication chip, and a coil set. The circuit board has a first side and a second side, which are back to each other. The near-field communication chip is disposed on the first side. The coil set is disposed on the second side. The coil set includes a magnetic core and a coil. The coil is wound around the magnetic core and is electrically connected to the near-field communication chip. |
| US10607127B2 |
Race bib
A race bib and a method of assembling the same. The bib includes a first and second layers with a programmable tag embedded between them. Indicia are provided on a first surface or a second surface of the first layer. A backer is positionable between the tag and the first or second layers. During assembly, a competitor number is printed on the first layer with a digital printer, a tag number correlating to or corresponding to the competitor number is encoded into the tag with a RFID reader. The printing and encoding can be accomplished by a combined printer. Alternatively, an optical scanner reads the printed competitor number and transmits the same to the reader. The second layer overlays the first layer and is thermally welded or adhesively secured to the first layer. |
| US10607126B2 |
Asset tracker utilizing thread protector
A method for monitoring a piece of equipment during transport comprises a) applying a reporting device to the equipment, b) transporting the piece of equipment, c) transmitting sensed or location data using the transmitter, d) storing sensed or location in a memory device, e) retrieving the stored data from the memory device and d) using the retrieved data to assess the usability of the piece of equipment for an intended purpose. The reporting device may comprise a body adapted to mechanically couple to the end of the piece of equipment and a sensor package. The sensor package may comprise at least one dynamic sensor, the sensor generating sensed data corresponding to a sensed value, a satellite sensor generating location data, an optional ID reader, a cellular network transmitter, and a memory device adapted to receive, store, and report the sensed or location data. |
| US10607124B2 |
Label-printing control apparatus, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and label-printing control method
Provided are a label-printing control apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a label-printing control method. A hardware processor of the label-printing control apparatus creates an adjusting image, from a reference mark for determining a die-cutting position on a continuous label stock and a cut mark representing a shape to cut a label image printed on the continuous label stock, both extracted from print data, while arranging specific images each created from the cut mark, to be spaced apart from the respective reference marks with different distances in the adjusting image. The hardware processor further creates, from the reference mark and a label image extracted from the print data, an end product image including the reference mark and the label image, and instructs the label printing device to print the adjusting image and the end product image on a continuous label stock. |
| US10607123B2 |
Remotely-operated apparatus remotely operated by external terminal using a browser use mode or a transmitted image use mode, remote operation system including the same, and recording medium
A remotely-operated apparatus remotely operated by an external terminal notifies the external terminal of a first transition command when a server cooperation process which is a cooperation process with a server is performed. The first transition command is a command indicating that a display mode of the external terminal, in which a remote operation screen used for remotely operating the remotely-operated apparatus is displayed on a display part of the external terminal, should be changed from a transmitted image use mode in which a transmitted image screen is displayed to a browser use mode in which a browser screen is displayed. Further, the remotely-operated apparatus notifies the external terminal of a second transition command indicating that the display mode should be changed from the browser use mode to the transmitted image use mode when occurrence of a specific event inside or outside the remotely-operated apparatus is detected. |
| US10607118B2 |
Ensemble model for image recognition processing
Non-limiting examples described herein relate to ensemble model processing for image recognition that improves precision and recall for image recognition processing as compared with existing solutions. An exemplary ensemble model is configured enhance image recognition processing through aggregate data modeling processing that evaluates image recognition prediction results obtained through processing that comprises: nearest neighbor visual search analysis, categorical image classification analysis and/or categorical instance retrieval analysis. An exemplary ensemble model is scalable, where new segments/categories can be bootstrapped to build deeper learning models and achieve high precision image recognition, while the cost of implementation (including from a bandwidth and resource standpoint) is lower than what is currently available across the industry today. Processing described herein, including implementation of an exemplary ensemble data model, may be exposed as a web service that is standalone or integrated within other applications/services to enhance processing efficiency and productivity applications/services such as productivity applications/services. |
| US10607116B1 |
Automatically tagging images to create labeled dataset for training supervised machine learning models
A method of automatically producing a labeled dataset for training a supervised Machine Learning (ML) model to identify items purchased in a store. The method comprising receiving images captured by imaging sensor(s) deployed to monitor an interior space of a store in which a plurality of items are offered for sale, detecting items picked up by customers tracked in the store based on analysis of the images, detecting the picked up items while checked out for the tracked customers at a POS comprising a POS reader configured to read an identifier of each checked out item, correlating between the detected picked up items and respective identifiers received from the POS reader according to timestamps of the identifiers read events, labeling each image depicting a detected item with the respective identifier and outputting a labeled dataset comprising a plurality of labeled images. |
| US10607115B1 |
Automatic generation of training data for commercial document image classification
An automated method for generation of training samples for classification of electronic images of commercial documents such as invoices, bills of lading, explanations of benefits, etc. is described. An image of a page of a document is generated as a representative of similar pages from the same origin regardless whether the page of the document contains permanent and variable information or just permanent information. |
| US10607114B2 |
Trained generative network for lung segmentation in medical imaging
A generative network is used for lung lobe segmentation or lung fissure localization, or for training a machine network for lobar segmentation or localization. For segmentation, deep learning is used to better deal with a sparse sampling of training data. To increase the amount of training data available, an image-to-image or generative network localizes fissures in at least some of the samples. The deep-learnt network, fissure localization, or other segmentation may benefit from generative localization of fissures. |
| US10607112B2 |
Predicting biochemical recurrence in pre-treatment prostate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with field effect induced organ distension (FORGE)
Embodiments predict prostate cancer (PCa) biochemical recurrence (BCR) employing an image acquisition circuit that accesses a pre-treatment image of a region of tissue demonstrating PCa; a segmentation circuit that segments a prostate capsule represented in the image; a registration circuit that registers the segmented prostate with a BCR− median template, and generates a registered surface of interest (SOI) mask by registering an SOI mask with the registered prostate; a mask circuit that generates a patient-specific SOI mask from the registered prostate and the registered SOI mask, and generates a patient-specific SOI mesh from the patient-specific SOI mask; a field effect induced organ distension (FOrge) circuit extracts a set of FOrge features from the patient-specific SOI mesh, and computes a probability that the region of tissue will experience BCR; and a classification circuit classifies the region of tissue as likely to experience BCR based on the probability. |
| US10607106B2 |
Object symmetry axis detection method based on RGB-D camera
An object symmetry axis detection method based on an RGB-D camera includes: obtaining three-dimensional point cloud data of an image of a target object in natural scenes, identifying data corresponding to a point cloud of an area where the target object is located from the three-dimensional point cloud data according to a color difference threshold segmentation method, establishing a spherical coordinate system centering about a centroid of the target point cloud data, selecting n2 candidate symmetry planes with a spherical coordinate system segmentation method, and calculating a symmetry axis of the target point cloud data according to the n2 candidate symmetry planes as the symmetry axis of the target object. |
| US10607100B2 |
Device for recognizing vehicle license plate number and method therefor
A device for recognizing a vehicle license plate number comprises a division unit for dividing a vehicle license plate image into a plurality of images such that a predetermined area is included in each of the plurality of images; and a distribution management unit for distributing the plurality of divided images to a plurality of recognizing terminals corresponding to each area and receiving the results of recognizing the corresponding area from each of the plurality of recognizing terminals. |
| US10607099B2 |
Methods and systems for imaging performance analysis
A method for analyzing performance of an imaging device including a scanner with a phantom includes receiving image data related to a scanning, by the scanner, of a first part of the phantom including at least part of a first test component. The method also includes obtaining at least one positioning parameter indicative of a positioning manner of the phantom during the scanning. The method further includes generating a first test image based on the received image data and determining a first region of interest (ROI) related to the first test component in the first test image based on the at least one positioning parameter. |
| US10607095B1 |
Apparatuses, systems and methods for classifying digital images
The present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying digital images of occupants inside a vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to apparatuses, systems and methods for automatically classifying digital images of occupants inside a vehicle by comparing current image data to previously classified image data. |
| US10607094B2 |
Vehicle vision system with traffic sign recognition
A vision system for a vehicle includes a camera and a control. The control determines information on traffic signs and determines whether an indicated speed limit is for the lane being traveled by the vehicle. The vision system determines whether the indicated speed limit is for the lane being traveled by the vehicle responsive to a determination that the sign is at the left side of the lane and has an indicator representative of the right side of the lane and leaves the field of view at its left side, determination that the sign is at the right side of the lane and has an indicator representative of the left side of the lane and leaves the field of view at its right side, or determination of a speed limit sign at both sides of the road being traveled by the vehicle with both signs indicating the same speed limit. |
| US10607091B2 |
Off-road vehicle and ground management system
An off-road vehicle that travels on the off-road ground includes: a sensor group configured to detect unevenness of the ground; a camera configured to capture the unevenness of the ground; a ground unevenness degree calculation unit configured to calculate a ground unevenness degree indicating an unevenness degree of the ground based on an input parameter; an input parameter setting unit configured to set, as the input parameter, data selected from among data detected by the sensor group and image data captured by the camera; an unevenness-position data generation unit configured to associate the actual vehicle position with the ground unevenness degree to generate ground unevenness-position data; and a data storage unit configured to store the ground unevenness-position data. |
| US10607089B2 |
Re-identifying an object in a test image
An approach for re-identifying an object in a test image is presented. Similarity measures between the test image and training images captured by a first camera are determined. The similarity measures are based on Bhattacharyya distances between feature representations of an estimated background region of the test image and feature representations of background regions of the training images. A transformed test image based on the Bhattacharyya distances has a brightness that is different from the test image's brightness and matches a brightness of training images captured by a second camera. An appearance of the transformed test image resembles an appearance of a capture of the test image by the second camera. Another image included in test images captured by the second camera is identified as being closest in appearance to the transformed test image and another object in the identified other image is a re-identification of the object. |
| US10607087B2 |
Systems and methods for determining video highlight based on conveyance positions of video content capture
First video information defining first video content may be accessed. The first video content may have been captured by a first image sensor from a first conveyance position. Second video information defining second video content may be accessed. The second video content may have been captured by a second image sensor from a second conveyance position. A first highlight criterion may be selected for the first video content based on the first conveyance position. A second highlight criterion may be selected for the second video content based on the second conveyance position. A first set of highlight moments within the first video content may be identified based on the first criterion. A second set of highlight moments within the second video content may be identified based on the second criterion. The identification of the first set of highlight moments and the second set of highlight moments may be stored. |
| US10607082B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatus for image-responsive automated assistants
Techniques described herein enable a user to interact with an automated assistant and obtain relevant output from the automated assistant without requiring arduous typed input to be provided by the user and/or without requiring the user to provide spoken input that could cause privacy concerns (e.g., if other individuals are nearby). The assistant application can operate in multiple different image conversation modes in which the assistant application is responsive to various objects in a field of view of the camera. The image conversation modes can be suggested to the user when a particular object is detected in the field of view of the camera. When the user selects an image conversation mode, the assistant application can thereafter provide output, for presentation, that is based on the selected image conversation mode and that is based on object(s) captured by image(s) of the camera. |
| US10607072B2 |
System and method for quantifying reflection E.G. when analyzing laminated documents
A system for computerized authentication of a laminated object, the system comprising a digital medium storing a digital image of at least a portion of the laminated object in a computer-implemented memory; a shininess analyzer operative, using a processor, to generate shininess data quantifying shininess of the digital image; and a parameterized computerized authentication sub-system operative to differentially perform at least one laminated object authentication operation based on the shininess data. |
| US10607070B2 |
Human search and identification in complex scenarios
Systems, apparatuses and methods may generate a map of a search environment based on a probability of a target human being present within the search environment, capture a red, green, blue, depth (RGBD) image of one or more potential target humans in the search environment based on the map, and cause a robot apparatus to obtain a frontal view position with respect to at least one of the one or more potential target humans based on the RGBD images. |
| US10607069B2 |
Determining a pointing vector for gestures performed before a depth camera
A pointing vector is determined for a gesture that is performed before a depth camera. One example includes receiving a first and a second image of a pointing gesture in a depth camera, the depth camera having a first and a second image sensor, applying erosion and dilation to the first image using a 2D convolution filter to isolate the gesture from other objects, finding the imaged gesture in the filtered first image of the camera, finding a pointing tip of the imaged gesture, determining a position of the pointing tip of the imaged gesture using the second image, and determining a pointing vector using the determined position of the pointing tip. |
| US10607067B2 |
Fitness device and method for automatically checking for the correct performance of a fitness exercise
A stationary fitness device for set-up in a fitness studio is provided. The stationary fitness device comprises a sensor equipment for the contactless detection of the motions of a user of the fitness device and for forwarding signals generated by the sensor equipment on the basis of the motions of the user, a display unit for displaying motion sequences of a fitness exercise by a virtual fitness trainer and for displaying a virtual image of the user, a computer unit which on the basis of the signals received from the sensor equipment generates the virtual image of the user and displays the same by means of the display unit, and an identification means for identifying a particular user from a list of users stored in the computer unit. The computer unit is equipped and provided to display motion sequences of a fitness exercise stored in a memory of the computer unit for the identified user by the virtual fitness trainer by means of the display unit, perform a comparison with reference to the received signals concerning the extent to which the detected motions performed by the user for the fitness exercise deviate from the motion sequences stored in a memory of the computer unit and displayed by the virtual fitness trainer, and display to the user a deviation of the motions performed by the user from the stored motion sequences by means of the display unit. |
| US10607061B2 |
Display device, fingerprint recognition calibration method for display device and electronic apparatus
A display device, a fingerprint recognition calibration method for the display device and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The fingerprint recognition calibration method includes: for any fingerprint recognition unit, during an initial calibration, displaying a first image by the display panel and acquiring a bright screen calibration fingerprint data by the fingerprint recognition unit and not displaying any image by the display panel and acquiring a dark screen calibration fingerprint data by the fingerprint recognition unit; during a fingerprint recognition, displaying the first image by the display panel and acquiring a bright screen fingerprint data by the fingerprint recognition unit; and performing calibration according to a calibration formula to obtain a calibrated fingerprint recognition data by the fingerprint recognition unit. |
| US10607060B2 |
Electronic device an operating method thereof
An apparatus and method for setting a fingerprint recognition region in an electronic device are provided. An electronic device includes a display, a finger scan sensor overlapped with at least a partial region of the display, and a processor. The processor controls to detect a touch input for at least one object displayed at the display, when detecting a first fingerprint image through a fingerprint recognition region corresponding to the touch input, enlarge a size of the fingerprint recognition region, detect a second fingerprint image through the enlarged fingerprint recognition region, and when having succeeded in user authentication by using the second fingerprint image, perform a function corresponding to the at least one object. |
| US10607059B2 |
Method for assembling fingerprint identification module
A method for assembling a fingerprint identification module includes the following steps. Firstly, a first spray process is performed to form a first paint structure on a first surface of a sensing strip. Then, a first surface and a second surface of the sensing strip are protected. Then, a periphery region of the sensing strip is cut. Consequently, plural fingerprint sensors are produced, and the fat edge structures generated in the first spray process are eliminated. Then, a second spraying process is performed to spray a second paint structure is sprayed on sidewalls of the plural fingerprint sensors. Then, the cut first protective film and the cut second protective layer are removed from the fingerprint sensors. Consequently, the color of the first surface of the fingerprint sensor is identical to the color of the sidewall of the fingerprint sensor. |
| US10607056B2 |
Device and method for the direct optical recording of live skin areas
A device and method for direct optical recording of live skin areas, particularly of fingerprints or handprints, is disclosed. A novel possibility for direct optical recording of human skin prints with forensic quality where interference through ambient light is excluded is achieved in that, from a skin area to be recorded, image data of a calibration image generated under homogeneous illumination from an areal source and ambient light that may be present are read out from the sensor array, an adapted illumination pattern is calculated by means of the stored calibration image such that, through application of the adapted illumination pattern, a two-dimensionally structured illumination pattern is generated to minimize the influence of the ambient light and to homogenize the illumination at least of the deposited skin print, wherein an illumination array is controlled in individual light-emitting elements or in groups of light-emitting elements with the calculated illumination pattern. |
| US10607055B2 |
Method for authenticating a finger of a user of an electronic device
The present invention generally relates to a method for authenticating a finger of a user of an electronic device comprising a fingerprint sensor for sensing a fingerprint pattern, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring a candidate fingerprint image; determining, based on the candidate fingerprint image, a humidity level indication indicative of the humidity level of the finger; performing an authentication pre-process based on the humidity level indication; performing a fingerprint authentication process based on the pre-process to authenticate the user. |
| US10607053B1 |
Presenting an augmented reality within a custom graphic
Systems and methods for presenting an augmented reality within a custom graphic are provided. In example embodiments, one or more hardware processors may receive an image, identify candidate shape features in the image, identify a custom graphic by comparing the candidate shape features with a reference shape feature of the custom graphic, identify an optical barcode based on the identified custom graphic, identify an augmented reality based on the optical barcode, and transmit the augmented reality to the client device. |
| US10607052B2 |
Dynamic digital data loading in real time
A computer-implemented method for providing the ability to store a message for later retrieval that includes the steps of preparing an object with a surface having a bar code and associating the bar code with a digital store on an Internet-accessible server. A first user scans the bar code to access the digital store and records a message into the digital store. The digital store can be scanned by either the same or another user to access the message in the digital store. |
| US10607050B2 |
Service processing using a digital object identifier
A digital object identifier (DOI) display request is received. A service type of a service corresponding to the display request is determined. Basic user information of a first user and identity type information corresponding to the service type is determined based on the service type and stored calibration information, where the identity type information is pre-authenticated to ensure validity based on a validity period associated with the identity type information. A DOI of the first user is generated based on the basic user information and the identity type information. The DOI is displayed for a second user to perform service processing based on the basic user information and the identity type information in the DOI. |
| US10607049B2 |
Method and a system for XRF marking and reading XRF marks of electronic systems
Methods and systems for verifying compatibility of components of an electronic system are disclosed. The method includes irradiating a first and second components presumably associated with the electronic system, with XRF exciting radiation, and in response thereto, detecting one or more XRF response signals indicative of first and second XRF signatures, emitted from the first and second components. Then the first and second XRF signatures are processed to determine whether they are associated with respectively a first and second XRF marking compositions on the first and second components, and the compatibility of the first and second components to the electronic system is determined/verified based on the correspondence between the first and a second XRF signatures. Electronic systems are also disclosed including at least a first and a second electronic components respectively having the first and second XRF marking compositions that enable verification of compatibility of the components. |
| US10607048B2 |
Ergonomic portable data acquisition terminal
A portable data terminal including a main housing, a landscape-oriented large display screen disposed on a top front portion of the main housing and extending nearly an entire width of the main housing, a keyboard disposed on top of the main housing and rearward to the display screen, and left and right battery housings serving as ergonomic handle grips disposed on an underside of the main housing to accommodate two-handed grasping of the device, the keyboard being constructed and arranged to receive input from a pair of thumbs while corresponding hands are grasping and supporting the main housing. In an embodiment, the main housing includes a central housing portion extending downwardly on the underside of the main housing and having an extended front face for containing a scan engine/data reading mechanism and first and second cameras positioned on opposite lateral sides of the scan engine. |
| US10607047B2 |
Local tone mapping for symbol reading
Embodiments related to local tone mapping for symbol reading. A local pixel neighborhood metric is determined for at least one raw pixel in a region-of-interest, which identifies on one or more raw pixels near the at least one raw pixel. A local mapping function is determined for the at least one raw pixel that maps the value of the raw pixel to a mapped pixel value with a mapped bit depth that is smaller than the bit depth associated with the raw image. The local mapping function is based on a value of at least one other raw pixel near the at least one raw pixel within the local pixel neighborhood metric, and at least one parameter determined based on the raw image. A mapped image is computed for the region-of-interest by applying the local mapping function to the raw image. |
| US10607046B2 |
Systems and methods for authenticating a cartridge
System and methods for authenticating a cartridge comprising reading a unique identifier (UID) and a unique authentication string (UAS) stored on a data storage medium associated with a cartridge; generating, based on the UID or the UAS read from the data storage medium, a test unique authentication string (TUAS) or a test unique identifier (TUID), respectively, according to a methodology used to generate the UAS stored on the data storage medium; and comparing the TUAS or the TUID to the UAS or the UID read from the data storage medium, respectively, to determine if the cartridge is authentic. A method in which the UAS is generated and stored on the data storage medium at a first location, and subsequently authenticated at a second location. |
| US10607045B2 |
Apparatus and respective method for communicating with a transponder and system for communicating
The invention relates to an apparatus for communicating with a transponder. The apparatus includes a transmit apparatus, a receive apparatus and an evaluation apparatus. The transmit apparatus transmits a transmit signal to the transponder. Based on a signal emitted by the transponder, the receive apparatus receives a receive signal. Based on the transmit signal and/or a signal portion, the evaluation apparatus evaluates the receive signal with respect to data errors. Further, the invention relates to a respective method as well as to a system for communicating. |
| US10607044B2 |
Automatic mode detection in a dual operating mode RFID tag
A multi-mode, preferably dual mode, radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is adapted for automatic detection of whether a RFID reader located within communication range of the RFID tag is transmitting a continuous wave (CW) or modulated wave types of RF signal, and accordingly, mandating a response from the tag in read-only (RO) mode or read/write (R/W) mode, respectively. The tag includes means for designating one of the RO and R/W operating modes as a default mode of the tag, and for switching the tag from its default mode to its other operating mode, and vice versa, according to a rule for determining the frequency of occurrence of a selected event related to signal type of the reader. A device-implemented method of this automatic detection, and a method of fabricating the tag, are also disclosed. |
| US10607041B2 |
Reinforcement learning based document scanner
Apparatus and methods for transformation of a digital scanner image using machine-learning algorithms are provided. The apparatus and methods may include a portable USB device configured for connection to a scanner port. The device may access and store a scanned digital image captured by the scanner. A device processor may use OCR to generate an editable PDF file and use one or more machine-learning algorithms to apply auto-corrections to the PDF file. The processor may communicate with a user interface configured to display each line from the scanned digital image in line with the corresponding auto-corrected text. The user interface may receive separate inputs accepting each line of auto-corrected text. Auto-correction acceptance data may be transmitted to the device processor. Each accepted auto-correction may be associated with a quantified value. A machine-learning algorithm may be configured to maximize a total value for auto-corrections in a scanned document. |
| US10607037B2 |
Method for managing programmable logic circuits for applications invoking dynamic libraries
A method for managing a programmable logic circuit by invoking a dynamic library function. The method includes invoking an application programming interface (API) function by an application from a shared object; dynamically loading the library in memory and linked on demand; associating the library to a logic circuit configuration file describing logic connections within a programmable logic device (PLD); transmitting and loading the configuration file into the PLD to map the logic circuit configurations; writing, through the dynamic library, input data values as a circuit entry and clock signal for driving the logical execution of the function mapped in hardware; collecting through the dynamic library the output data values resulting of logic circuits execution by reading output of the logic circuit; converting through the dynamic library, the logic circuit output to the expected data type specified by the API function; and returning the data result to a calling application. |
| US10607031B2 |
Cryptographic ASIC with autonomous onboard permanent storage
A cryptographic ASIC and method for autonomously storing data into a one-time programmable memory in isolation. Internal circuitry provides programming pulses of a given voltage magnitude and duration for changing the state of selected memory elements. Use of internal circuitry reduces pin count and increases reliability and security over devices relying on external circuitry to provide programming pulses. In one embodiment, the stored data comprises cryptographic data for enforcing a derivative key hierarchy for managing an information stream, such as a blockchain. |
| US10607026B2 |
System and method for data backup using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer program products for performing data backup using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). An example method includes in response to detecting a data backup request from a user device, determining a geographic location of the user device and dispatching the UAV to the geographic location; controlling the UAV to obtain user data from the user device; and controlling the UAV to navigate to a data center to back up the obtained user data onto a cloud storage. |
| US10607022B2 |
Vertically integrated access control system for identifying and remediating flagged combinations of capabilities resulting from user entitlements to computing resources
A vertically integrated access control system may store in a database data records corresponding to the interfaces, access control rules, and computing resources of an information system, as well as data records for entity capabilities. Data records for related interfaces, access control rules, computing resources, and entity capabilities may be linked. Using the database, the system may determine the entity capabilities that can be performed based on an existing user entitlement. If the entity capabilities include a flagged combination of entity capabilities, the system may perform an information security action to remediate the flagged combination. The system may use the database to form vertically integrated access units. The vertically integrated access units may be used to form user entitlements. The system may continuously monitor whether any proposed configurations would create a flagged combination of entity capabilities, and if so take an action to prevent such flagged combination. |
| US10607021B2 |
Monitoring usage of an application to identify characteristics and trigger security control
A computing environment for monitoring usage of an application to identify characteristics and trigger security control includes an application system that performs a query configured to identify any application calls performed in a predetermined period of time within the computing environment; for each identified application call, builds a corresponding application characteristics entry in a database; for each identified application call, identifies a plurality of characteristics of the called application including at least one downstream resource; associates the identified plurality of characteristics with the application characteristics entry in the database, thereby creating an application mapping; identifies security controls associated with each of the applications in the application mapping; associates the identified security controls with the associated application characteristics entry in the application mapping; and automatically triggers assessment of an effectiveness of the security controls in response to identifying a future application call. |
| US10607019B2 |
System and methods for maintaining user privacy in applications providing products and/or services
Decentralization of application programs is a growing trend. It is known that user data communicated to different components of a transaction or application may be linked to derive a composite profile of users. A system and methods are presented that maintain user data privacy in decentralized networks, possibly containing multiple sensor devices. Applications to controlling smart devices and service portability across providers are shown. |
| US10607018B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method of securitization of memory modules against malicious acts
A secure memory that couples to a host memory controller via a host memory interface remains secure by permanently altering a security key when a hardware interrupt detector detects that a signal between the host memory interface hardware and the host memory controller hardware is interrupted. Such an interruption could be, for example, a blackout, a brownout, or a person decoupling any portion of the host memory interface, even pins that are normally unused by a standard memory module, such as a DRAM, MRAM, or SSD module. |
| US10607017B2 |
Restricting access to sensitive data using tokenization
A method includes receiving a security profile comprising user-defined rules for processing sensitive data, and identifying a plurality of sensitive data components in a data file according to the security profile. The method further includes generating a respective format-preserving token for each of the identified plurality of sensitive data components. The method additionally includes generating a corresponding token key for each of the respective-format preserving tokens, and replacing each of the plurality of sensitive data components in the data file with the respective format-preserving token. Further, the method includes cryptographically camouflaging each of the token keys using a first password and storing each of the cryptographically camouflaged token keys. |
| US10607016B2 |
Decrypting files for data leakage protection in an enterprise network
Techniques are provided for decrypting an encrypted file within an enterprise network. The techniques include identifying by a password collecting module a password entered during a file encryption procedure performed at a terminal and storing the password; receiving an encrypted file by a data leakage protection (DLP) module; and attempting to decrypt the encrypted file with the password by the DLP module. |
| US10607014B1 |
Determining monetary loss due to security risks in a computer system
A method of determining a monetary loss due to security risks associated with a plurality of applications executing on a plurality of computers in a computer system is provided. The method assigns a set of loss levels from a plurality of loss levels to each application. Each loss level in the set of loss levels corresponds to a different type of risk associated to an application. The method define a presentation that identifies a total monetary residual risk of loss due to security risks for the plurality of applications by assigning a monetary value to the set of loss levels assigned to each application. The method receives an adjustment to a loss level for at least one application. The method defines a presentation that identifies a revised total monetary residual risk of loss based on the adjustment to said at least one loss level. |
| US10607007B2 |
Micro-virtual machine forensics and detection
An isolated environment is instantiated in response to receiving a request to execute a process. One or more events occurring within the isolated environment in which the process executes are identified. Whether the actual behavior of the process executing within the isolated environment deviates from an expected behavior of the execution of the process is determined. Only when it is determined that the process deviates from the expected behavior is behavior data, which describes the actual behavior of the process during execution, stored. A determination is then made as to whether the process is compromised by analyzing the behavior data that describes the actual behavior of the process. |
| US10607003B2 |
Mitigation of code reuse attacks by restricted indirect branch instruction
A method, computer program product and/or system is disclosed. According to an aspect of this invention, one or more processors receive an indirect jump instruction comprising a target address offset and a maximal offset value. One or more processors determine whether the target address offset is valid by comparison of the target address offset and the maximal offset value and one or more processors execute a jump operation based on whether the target address offset is valid. In some embodiments of the present invention, the jump operation comprises one or more processors executing an instruction located at a target address referenced by the target address offset if the target address offset is valid. In some embodiments, the jump operation further comprises one or more processors raising an exception if the target address offset is not valid. |
| US10607002B2 |
Isolating an application running inside a native container application
Limiting access to native device capabilities. A method includes, at a container application installed at the computing device, the container application configured to execute hosted script based applications, identifying a hosted application to execute. The method further includes, at the container application, obtaining information identifying a limited set of capabilities from among the native device capabilities indicating which of the native device capabilities the hosted application has been granted access to. The method further includes, at the container application, executing the hosted application and enforcing limits on the hosted application such that the hosted application is only able to access the native device capabilities identified in the limited set of capabilities. |
| US10606989B2 |
Computational systems and methods for verifying personal information during transactions
Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accessing at least one persona that includes a unique identifier that is at least partly based on a first user's device-identifier data and the first user's network-participation data; verifying the persona by comparing the first user's device-identifier data and the first user's network-participation data of the unique identifier to a second user's device-identifier data and the second user's network-participation data; and presenting the persona in response to a request for personal information. |
| US10606988B2 |
Security device, methods, and systems for continuous authentication
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for securing a computing device. One security device includes a processor, memory and a connector. The memory includes a computer program that, when executed by the processor, performs a method. The method includes operations for detecting that the connector is coupled to a second computing device, and for determining a user associated with the security computing device. In addition, the method includes operations for receiving periodic images from an image capture device coupled to the second computing device, and for performing continuous authentication operations to validate an identification of the user based on the periodic images. The user is disabled from using the second computing device after an authentication operation fails. |
| US10606987B2 |
Role-based access control assignment
A first probability that indicates a probability that a user is associated with a role is determined, with the first probability having a first score. The first probability is perturbed to determine a second probability having a second score. The second score is evaluated against the first score to determine that the second probability indicates a more optimal probability of the user being associated with the role than the first probability. The role is assigned to the user based at least in part on the second score. |
| US10606986B2 |
Systems and methods for managing and protecting electronic content and applications
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing and protecting electronic content and applications. Applications, content, and/or users can be given credentials by one or more credentialing authorities upon satisfaction of a set of requirements. Rights management software/hardware is used to attach and detect these credentials, and to enforce rules that indicate how content and applications may be used if certain credentials are present or absent. In one embodiment an application may condition access to a piece of electronic content upon the content's possession of a credential from a first entity, while the content may condition access upon the application's possession of a credential from a second entity and/or the user's possession of a credential from a third entity. Use of credentials in this manner enables a wide variety of relatively complex and flexible control arrangements to be put in place and enforced with relatively simple rights management technology. |
| US10606983B2 |
Multicomputer data transferring and processing system
Healthcare is administered to members/enrollees of a healthcare plan according to objective quality standards. A patient population of eligible members/enrollees is identified and for each member/enrollee, medical information is aggregated via a web-based compilation of medical data from multiple sources that is continuously updated so as to provide an accurate, up-to-date and readily accessible compilation of a member/enrollee past diagnoses, healthcare history, medical procedures, medications and the like. Such member/enrollees are continuously tracked, on an individual basis, and monitored to ensure healthcare is delivered for a variety of specific medical conditions pursuant to objective health program quality criteria. |
| US10606982B2 |
Iterative semi-automatic annotation for workload reduction in medical image labeling
Semi-automatic annotation of medical images is provided. In various embodiments, a classifier is applied to each of a first plurality of medical images to generate a label and an associated confidence value for each of the first plurality of medical images. The classifier is pre-trained using a manually labeled set of medical images. Those of the first plurality of medical images having an associated confidence value below a predetermined threshold are selected. The selected medical images are provided to a user. Updated labels are received from the user for the selected medical images. The classifier is retrained using the first plurality of medical images, with the updated labels for the selected medical images and the generated labels for medical images not selected. |
| US10606980B2 |
Method and recording medium of reducing chemoepitaxy directed self-assembled defects
A method for reducing chemo-epitaxy directed-self assembly (DSA) defects of a layout of a guiding pattern, the method comprising: inserting a first external dummy along an external edge of the guiding pattern in a vertical direction; and inserting a second external dummy at a fixed distance from a second edge of the first external dummy, wherein the second external dummy includes a two-dimensional shape such that at least two edges of the second external dummy are parallel to the second edge of the first external dummy. |
| US10606975B2 |
Coordinates-based generative adversarial networks for generating synthetic physical design layout patterns
A method for generating physical design layout patterns includes the step of selecting one or more physical design layouts, a given physical design layout comprising a set of physical design layout patterns for features in at least one layer of a given patterned structure. The method also includes the step of converting the physical design layout patterns into coordinate arrays, a given coordinate array comprising feature center coordinates for the features in a given one of the physical design layout patterns. The method further includes the step of training, utilizing the coordinate arrays, a generative adversarial network (GAN) comprising discriminator and generator neural networks. The method further includes the step of generating one or more synthetic coordinate arrays utilizing the trained generator neural network of the GAN, a given one of the synthetic coordinate arrays comprising feature center coordinates of features for a new physical design layout pattern. |
| US10606974B1 |
System and method for dynamic visual guidance of mutually paired components in a circuit design editor
In an electronic circuit design system, dynamic visual guidance for relative placement of mutually paired electronic components, such as a bypass capacitance portion and a power pin in a power domain, is provided. A first, selected component is adaptively paired with one of a plurality of second components eligible for pairing with the first component, according to predetermined pairing criteria such as proximity criteria. A mutual placement zone between the paired components is generated to define a locus of valid placement locations of the paired first and second components one with respect to the other according to predetermined placement criteria therefor. Visual indicia to represent the mutual placement zone is generated, thereby providing visual guidance to reposition the first component. |
| US10606972B2 |
Method, design program, and design apparatus of a high level synthesis process of a circuit
A design method including a high level synthesis process that has (1) generating a hardware description of a circuit and high level synthesis report information from a source code based on a high level synthesis constraint, the hardware description describing a circuit including a plurality of stages and inter-stage registers; (2) determining a bypass stage selection pattern based on bypass constraint information including a constraint condition related to a bypass of the inter-stage register and the high level synthesis report information, the bypass stage selection pattern including a plurality of patterns each pattern having a combination of stages of inter-stage registers for which bypass setting is performed among stages of a bypass setting-capable inter-stage registers; and (3) generating bypass report information based on the bypass stage selection pattern, the bypass report information including combination information of the inter-stage registers for which the bypass is performed setting corresponding to a predetermined priority condition. |
| US10606971B2 |
Testing netlists based on singular independent signals
Examples of techniques for modifying testing tools are described herein. An example computer-implemented method includes receiving, via a processor, a netlist comprising a complex coverage event that depends on a singular independent signal. The method includes detecting, via the processor, that complex coverage event can be separated into the singular independent signal and a logic state based on a structural logic analysis. The method also includes modifying, via the processor, a testing tool to test the netlist based on the singular independent signal. |
| US10606970B2 |
Selection of corners and/or margins using statistical static timing analysis of an integrated circuit
Examples of techniques for statistical static timing analysis of an integrated circuit are disclosed. In one example according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method is provided. The method comprises performing an initial statistical static timing analysis of the integrated circuit to create a parameterized model of the integrated circuit for a plurality of paths using a plurality of timing corners to calculate a timing value for each of the plurality of paths, each of the plurality of timing corners representing a set of timing performance parameters. The method further comprises determining at least one worst timing corner from the parameterized model for each of the plurality of paths based on the initial statistical static timing analysis and calculated timing value for each of the plurality of paths. The method also comprises performing a subsequent analysis of the integrated circuit using the at least one worst timing corner. |
| US10606969B2 |
Predicting electrostatic charges in a liquid container
A method of predicting electrostatic charges in a liquid container is provided. The method includes generating a computer geometric model of the liquid container according to a design of the liquid container and generating executable code to reproduce fluid dynamics and electrostatic charge conservation during transfer of liquid into the liquid container. The method includes executing a simulating application to at least: perform a simulation of the transfer of liquid into the liquid container subject to the fluid dynamics and electrostatic charge conservation to produce a prediction of electrostatic charges in the liquid container during the transfer of liquid; and iterate the simulation to update the electrostatic charge conservation. The method includes outputting the prediction of electrostatic charges in the liquid container to enable certification of the design of the liquid container. |
| US10606966B2 |
Method and apparatus for modeling deformable body including particles
Provided are a method and a corresponding apparatus for modeling a deformable body including particles that define a strain energy generated by an external force with respect to a deformable body including particles, and control a displacement of the deformable body based on a volume of the particles corresponding to the displacement of the deformable body, where the displacement is determined based on the strain energy. |
| US10606965B2 |
System and method for emulation of unprivileged code in a simulated environment
A system, method and media are shown for emulating potentially malicious code involving emulating a first ring of an operating system, emulating a second ring of the operating system, where the second ring has greater access to system resources than the first ring and where the first and second rings are separately emulated, executing a code payload in the emulated first ring, checking the behavior of the executing code payload for suspect behavior, and identifying the code payload as malicious code if suspect behavior is detected. Some examples emulate the second ring by operating system or microarchitecture functionality such that the second ring emulation returns results to the executing code payload, but does not actually perform the functionality in a host platform. Some examples execute the code payload in the emulated first shell at one or more offsets. |
| US10606964B2 |
Inlet spacing on road grades
A method, system, apparatus, and computer program products provides the ability to dynamically define and generate inlet spacing along a road in a building information model (BIM) computer aided design (CAD) three dimensional (3D) model. A representation of a road is acquired in the BIM CAD 3D model, wherein the representation includes a geometry. An inlet spacing is defined for the road. Inlet locations for inlets are determined based on the inlet spacing. A determination is made regarding whether the inlet spacing and inlets satisfy design rules for the road. When the inlet spacing and/or inlets fail to satisfy the design rules, a different inlet spacing is selected from a group of preset integers, and the process repeats until the design rules are satisfied. |
| US10606957B1 |
Method and system for translating natural language policy to logical access control policy
Natural language policy text is translated into logical access control policy code with a policy composer that receives natural language policy text, an attribute dictionary connected to the policy composer to define attributes and their logical access control policy equivalents. A natural language policy set is connected to the policy composer and includes samples of natural language policy rules and their logical access control policy equivalents. The policy composer uses natural language processing, the attribute dictionary and the natural language policy set to translate the natural language policy text into logical access control code. |
| US10606954B2 |
Topic kernelization for real-time conversation data
Embodiments for text segmentation for topic modelling by a processor. Real-time conversation data may be analyzed and time intervals (e.g., inter-arrival times) between messages of the conversation data may be recorded. Each of the messages may be defined (and/or segmented) as burst segments or reflection segments according to the analyzing and recording. One or more topic modelling operations may be enhanced for text segmentation using the burst segments or reflection segments. |
| US10606950B2 |
Controlling playback of speech-containing audio data
A control method improves a user's ability to navigate in speech-containing audio data during playback of the audio data on a computing device. The control method is executed by a processor in the computing device and comprises operating (51) a media player on the computing device to play the audio data, detecting (52) a user-initiated time-shift command to step forward or backward in the audio data, and, after detecting the time-shift command at a current time in the audio data, identifying (55) a starting point of a sentence in the audio data and operating (56) the media player to play the audio data from the starting point. |
| US10606946B2 |
Learning word embedding using morphological knowledge
In some examples, a machine learning system may use morphological knowledge to enhance a deep learning framework for learning word embedding. The system may consider, among other things, morphological similarities between and among words in a learning process so as to handle new or rare words, edit distances, longest common substring similarities, morpheme similarities, and syllable similarities as morphological knowledge to build a relation matrix between or among words. The system may apply the deep learning framework to query classification, web search, text mining, information retrieval, and natural language processing tasks, for example. The system may accomplish such tasks with relatively high efficiency and speed, while utilizing less computing resources as compared to other systems. |
| US10606941B2 |
Annotating documents on a mobile device
A computing device displays electronic content associated with a plurality of annotations each corresponding to a respective portion of the electronic content. A first annotation, which includes one or more comments associated with a first portion of the electronic content, is displayed. While the first annotation is displayed, an input to display a second annotation is received. The second annotation is associated with a second portion of the electronic content, and includes one or more comments associated with the second portion. Responsive to receiving the input, the second portion of the electronic content and the one or more comments associated with the second portion are displayed. |
| US10606934B2 |
Generation of a modified UI element tree
A computing device comprises an electronic paper display, a processor and a memory. The memory is arranged to store platform software and application software for at least one application that is not adapted to work with an electronic paper display. The platform software comprises a UI conversion module comprising device-executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: access a UI element tree for the application; generate a modified UI element tree for the application by removing and/or re-styling at least one UI element; and render data from the application using the modified UI element tree for display on the electronic paper display. |
| US10606931B2 |
Systems and methods for scalable hierarchical coreference
A scalable hierarchical coreference method that employs a homomorphic compression scheme that supports addition and partial subtraction to more efficiently represent the data and the evolving intermediate results of probabilistic inference. The method may encode the features underlying conditional random field models of coreference resolution so that cosine similarities can be efficiently computed. The method may be applied to compressing features and intermediate inference results for conditional random fields. The method may allow compressed representations to be added and subtracted in a way that preserves the cosine similarities. |
| US10606929B2 |
Template selection for mapping a third-party web page to an object in a social networking system
A social networking system includes a mechanism for customizing display of content from an external web page. Nodes associated with a web page are included in the social graph based on one or more tags included in a web page, which contain meta-information for defining the node in the social networking system, such as the type of the node. The social networking system retrieves the tags from the markup language document and stores their information in connection with the node for the web page while using the tags to identify a template that describes display of content from the web page. The template may include user interface elements for receiving input, allowing a user to interact with a node in the social graph associated with the web page, allowing user interactions with the web page content to be tracked by and reflected back within the social networking system. |