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US10672600B2	Methods of detecting reverse triiodothyronine by mass spectrometry Provided are methods for determining the amount of reverse T3 in a sample using mass spectrometry. The methods generally involve ionizing reverse T3 in a sample and detecting and quantifying the amount of the ion to determine the amount of reverse T3 in the sample.
US10672598B2	Methods for testing or adjusting a charged-particle detector, and related detection systems Methods for testing or adjusting a charged-particle detector are provided. A diagnostic and/or adjustment method for a charged-particle detector of an instrument includes providing, from a photon source, photons incident on the charged-particle detector. Moreover, the method includes detecting a response by the charged-particle detector to the photons incident thereon. Related detection systems are also provided.
US10672597B2	Calibrating electron multiplier gain using the photoelectric effect An ion detector includes a first stage dynode configured to receive an ion beam and generate electrons, a photon source arranged to provide photons to the first stage dynode, the photons of sufficient energy to cause the first stage dynode to emit photoelectrons, an electron multiplier configured to receive the electrons or the photoelectrons from the first stage dynode and generate an output proportional to the number of electrons or photoelectrons, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive the output generated in response to the photoelectrons; calculate a gain curve of the detector based on the output; and set a voltage of the electron multiplier or the first stage dynode to achieve a target gain for the ion beam.
US10672596B2	Ionized physical vapor deposition (IPVD) apparatus and method for an inductively coupled plasma sweeping source Embodiments of methods and systems for an inductively coupled plasma sweeping source for an IPVD system. In an embodiment, a method includes providing a large size substrate in a processing chamber. The method may also include generating from a metal source a sputtered metal onto the substrate. Additionally, the method may include creating a high density plasma from a high density plasma source and applying the high density plasma in a sweeping operation without involving moving parts. The method may also include controlling a plurality of operating variables in order to meet one or more plasma processing objectives.
US10672593B2	Plasma processing apparatus and plasma processing method A plasma processing apparatus includes: a base that has an electrode body provided with a placing surface on which a substrate is placed and a pedestal which supports the electrode body; a lid that is liftable and lowerable with respect to the base and forms a sealed space for performing plasma processing on the substrate placed on the placing surface by being lowered to come into close contact with the pedestal; a cover that is provided integrally with the lid and covers at least a part of an outer edge of the substrate placed on the placing surface when the sealed space is formed; and a guide that is disposed around the electrode body.
US10672592B2	Non-thermal soft plasma cleaning The present invention provides a Soft Plasma Cleaning (SPC) system (30, 130, 230) including a Guided Soft-Plasma Cleaning (G-SPC) (30). The SPC system is a non-thermal, low temperature process and operable at atmosphere pressure, in both air and liquid medium. In an embodiment, a feedstock gas (40) is supplied to provide a discharging fluid (50) in the cleaning chamber (34). A plasma guiding and amplifying component (52) guides and expands the discharging fluid to cover a large ablation area over the workpiece (32), thereby also suppressing ion and electron bombardment damage or etching. The plasma guiding and amplifying component (52) may be formed with dielectric plates or tubes (37, 56, 58), with each dielectric having an aperture (37a, 56a, 58a). The electric field and ion energy in the cleaning chamber can be additionally controlled via a floating electrode (160, 160a), so as to suppress plasma damage during SPC.
US10672588B1	Using deep learning based defect detection and classification schemes for pixel level image quantification A heat map of probable defects in an image can be represented as a matrix of defect probability index corresponding to each pixel. The image may be generated from data received from a detector of a scanning electron microscope or other inspection tools. A number of pixels in the image that exceed a corresponding threshold in the matrix can be quantified.
US10672585B2	Vacuum penetration for magnetic assist bearing In one example, a lift assembly may exert a force on a rotatable anode of an X-ray source. The lift assembly may include a lift shaft and a lift electromagnet. The lift shaft may be coupled to an anode and configured to rotate around an axis of rotation of the anode. The lift electromagnet may be configured to apply a magnetic force to the lift shaft in a radial direction. The lift electromagnet may include a coupling portion extending between an interior of a vacuum envelope and an exterior of the vacuum envelope and a winding portion coupled to the coupling portion. Windings may at least partially surround the winding portion.
US10672583B1	Sheet beam electron gun using axially-symmetric spherical cathode Electron gun. The electron gun includes a circular cathode. The circular cathode comprises a spherical surface. The electron gun further includes a focus electrode. The focus electrode has four quadrants. The focus electrode is disposed about the circular cathode. The focus electrode includes four primary focus angle points. At least two of the four, adjacent, primary focus angle points have different angle values. Each of the four primary focus angle points is in a different quadrant. Focus angles on the focus electrode between any two primary focus angle points vary from one primary focus angle point to another primary focus angle point.
US10672581B2	Type-II overvoltage protection device The invention relates to a type-II overvoltage protection device having a varistor and a protective element, wherein the protective element has a first contact for connecting to a first potential of a supply network and a second contact that is connected to a first contact of the varistor, wherein the varistor further comprises a second contact for connecting to a second potential of a supply network, wherein the protective element has a fuse element that connects the first contact and the second contact of the protective element, wherein the protective element further comprises a third contact that is connected to the second contact of the varistor and is arranged so as to be near to but electrically insulated from the fuse element, wherein the fuse element has a constriction in the proximity of the neighboring contact, with the constriction being embodied such that the fuse element has an electrically conductive fluxing agent in the proximity of the constriction, with the fluxing agent having a lower fusion point than the fuse element itself, so that pulses corresponding to a load below the type-II rating do not result in a lasting change in the constriction, wherein the constriction, in conjunction with the fluxing agent, is dimensioned such that pulses corresponding to the limit range of the type-II rating result in the fusing of the fluxing agent into the fuse element, and wherein pulses corresponding to a load that is stronger and/or of greater duration than the type-II rating of the varistor result in the immediate disconnection of the fuse element.
US10672577B2	Signal conditioning circuit and a relay/circuit breaker control apparatus including such a signal conditioning circuit There is a need to monitor and control the state of relays and circuit breakers within power distribution systems. The monitoring of a relay state, i.e. open or closed, is often performed by applying a monitoring signal to sensing contacts added to the relay. Manufactures of such systems have chosen many different voltages for their own monitoring systems making it difficult to interconnect dissimilar monitoring systems. A signal conditioning circuit is provided that can cope with a large input voltage range and can be configured to allow may items of equipment (which may be new item or legacy items) to be connected to a controller.
US10672576B2	Electronic device with rotatable switch An electronic device comprising a lens and a selector ring is disclosed. The selector ring is mounted for rotation about the lens and comprises a plurality of tabs projecting inwards towards the lens which engaging with and are held within a tab receiving groove comprising a plurality of spaced notches. Each of the notches is dimensioned to receive one of said tabs. A wave spring positioned between an annular ledge of the lens and the selector ring which biases the plurality of tabs against the groove and such that when each of the plurality of tabs is positioned adjacent a respective one of the notches, the tabs are biased into the notches thereby preventing said selector ring from being rotated. A user disengages the tabs from the notches by pressing said selector ring against the bias of the wave spring, thereby allowing the selector ring to be rotated.
US10672573B1	Gas insulated grounding switch A circuit breaker apparatus has a housing, electrical power inlet, electrical power outlet, a main circuit breaker, a grounding switch, and a mechanical linkage. The main circuit breaker and the grounding switch each have a pair of contactors therein. The mechanical linkage is movable between a pair of positions in which one of the positions causes the pair of contactors of the main circuit breaker to close and the pair of contactors of the grounding switch to open and another position in which the pair of contactors of the main circuit breaker are open and such that the pair of contactors of the grounding switch are closed. The housing has an interior that is filled with an isolating gas.
US10672572B2	Smart acoustical electrical switch An electrical switch responds to acoustic inputs. A microphone integrated into the electrical switch generates electrical signals in response to the acoustic inputs. A network interface integrated into the electrical switch provides addressable communication with controllers, computers, and other networked devices. The electrical switch may thus be installed or retrofitted into the electrical wiring of all homes and businesses. Users may thus speak voice commands, which are received by the electrical switch and sent for voice control of appliances and other automation tasks.
US10672569B2	Secured keypad for an electronic data-entry device A keypad for an electronic data-entry device. The keypad includes: a plurality of keys defining a layer of keys; a connection printed-circuit board having a key-press detection portion having an external face oriented towards the layer of keys and an internal face opposite the external face; for each key of the layer of keys, an interconnection element and at least one pair of contacts on the connection printed-circuit board, the interconnection element being intended for making the electrical connection of the contacts of the pair of contacts when the associated key is pressed. The connection printed-circuit board is a flexible printed-circuit board further including a connecting portion forming a fold beneath the internal face of the key-press detection portion, and the pair of contacts is disposed on the internal face.
US10672567B2	MCC closed door operation (CDO) push button interlock mechanism A closed door operation racking device is provided for racking a circuit breaker to and from a power bus from outside of a housing of a motor control center unit. The racking device includes a racking operator assembly and a push-button interlock assembly. The racking operator is configured to rack-in the electrical device and connect the stabs to a power bus in a connected position and to rack-out the electrical device and disconnect the stabs from the power bus in a disconnected position. The push-button interlock assembly prevents the operation of the racking operator under certain conditions, and includes a spring-loaded locker assembly and a spring-loaded push-button operator assembly. A push-button operator of the push-button operator assembly is depressed to disengage the locker assembly from the racking operator to allow operation of the racking operator.
US10672565B2	Electronic component An aluminum electrolytic capacitor includes: an exterior case of a bottomed cylindrical shape for accommodating a capacitor element in which an anode foil and a cathode foil are wound in an overlapping manner with a separator interposed therebetween; and an elastic sealing member for sealing an opening of the exterior case, wherein the exterior case is formed with, on an outer circumferential surface, a plurality of tapered concave portions whose depth in the radial direction becomes shallow from the bottomed cylindrical bottom toward the opening side, whereby a tapered raised portion, which is raised toward the center side in the radial direction, is formed on an inner circumferential surface located on the back surface of the concave portion, and the capacitor element is abutted and supported by the raised portion.
US10672556B2	Wireless charging device for an electronic device A method of making a wireless charging device for an electronic device includes printing a decoration layer on a surface of a glass or glass-ceramic substrate using a non-conductive ink. A coil is printed on the decoration layer, and an electromagnetic interference absorber layer is applied over the printed coil.
US10672555B2	Surface-mountable coil element One object is to provide a new type of coil element capable of reducing leakage magnetic flux. A coil element according to one embodiment of the present invention is provided with an insulator body made of a magnetic material and having a mounting surface and an upper surface opposed to said mounting surface, a coil conductor embedded in the insulator body, an external electrode electrically connected to the coil conductor, a shield layer provided on the upper surface of the insulator body and having a larger magnetic permeability than the insulator body, and a plating layer formed to cover the mounting surface of the external electrode and having a larger magnetic permeability than the insulator body. The plating layer is formed to be thicker than the shield layer.
US10672550B2	State-of-charge indication method, device and terminal The present disclosure discloses a charging indication method. The method includes: acquiring a current ratio of a remaining battery capacity to a total battery capacity; determining a target curvature angle of a flexible display screen associated with a terminal based at least on the current ratio; and controlling the flexible display screen to present the target curvature angle.
US10672549B2	Solenoid diagnostics digital interface A solenoid electrical diagnostic system includes a solenoid circuit operable in response to an electrical current. A low-side switch includes a low-side input configured to receive a pulsed voltage signal and a low-side output in signal communication with the solenoid circuit. The low-side switch continuously switches between an on-state and an off-state based on the pulsed voltage signal to adjust a level of the current flowing through the solenoid circuit. A solenoid monitoring unit generates a low-side output state signal based on an output voltage at the low-side output, and a low-side input state signal based on an input voltage at the low-side input. The solenoid electrical diagnostic system further includes an electronic hardware controller determines at least one operating condition of the solenoid circuit based on a comparison between the state signals and a threshold value.
US10672547B2	Soft magnetic powder, powder magnetic core, magnetic element, and electronic device A soft magnetic powder of the invention has a composition represented by Fe100-a-b-c-d-e-fCuaSibBcMdM′eXf (at %) [wherein M is Nb, W, Ta, Zr, Hf, Ti, or Mo, M′ is V, Cr, Mn, Al, a platinum group element, Sc, Y, Au, Zn, Sn, or Re, X is C, P, Ge, Ga, Sb, In, Be, or As, and a, b, c, d, e, and f are numbers that satisfy the following formulae: 0.1≤a≤3, 0
US10672546B2	R-T-B based permanent magnet An R-T-B based permanent magnet includes main phase grains composed of R2T14B type compound. R is a rare earth element. T is iron group element(s) essentially including Fe or Fe and Co. B is boron. The magnet contains at least C, Ga, and M selected from Zr, Ti, and Nb in addition to R, T, and B. B is contained at 0.71 mass % to 0.88 mass %. C is contained at 0.15 mass % to 0.34 mass %. Ga is contained at 0.40 mass % to 1.40 mass %. M is contained at 0.25 mass % to 2.50 mass %. A formula (1) of 0.14≤[C]/([B]+[C])≤0.30 and a formula (2) of 5.0≤[B]+[C]−[M]≤5.6 are satisfied, where [B], [C], and [M] are respectively a content of B, C, and M by atom %.
US10672545B2	R-T-B based permanent magnet An object of the present invention is to provide an R-T-B based permanent magnet showing high residual magnetic flux density Br and coercive force HcJ, and further showing the same also after heavy rare earth element is diffused along grain boundaries. Provided is an R-T-B based permanent magnet in which, R is a rare earth element, T is an element other than the rare earth element, B, C, O or N, and B is boron. T at least includes Fe, Cu, Co and Ga, and a total of R content is 28.0 to 30.2 mass %, Cu content is 0.04 to 0.50 mass %, Co content is 0.5 to 3.0 mass %, Ga content is 0.08 to 0.30 mass %, and B content is 0.85 to 0.95 mass %, relative to 100 mass % of a total mass of R, T and B.
US10672542B2	Electrified-cable system for carriage transit and method of making same An electrified-cable system is disclosed herein. The system includes first and second wires each having a longitudinally-extending uninsulated region comprising at least a portion of the circumference of the first wire, and a longitudinally-extending insulated region comprising the remaining circumference of the first wire, and an insulating connector that couples the insulated region of the first wire to the insulated region of the second wire. The system is configured to form an electrical circuit from the first wire to the second wire through a carriage in electrical contact with the uninsulated region of the first wire and the uninsulated region of the second wire. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
US10672539B2	Power cable A power cable includes a conductor; an inner semi-conductive layer covering the conductor; an insulating layer covering the inner semi-conductive layer, the insulating layer being impregnated with an insulating oil; an outer semi-conductive layer covering the insulating layer; a metal sheath layer covering the outer semi-conductive layer; and a cable protection layer covering the metal sheath layer. The insulating layer is formed by cross-winding insulating paper and impregnating the insulating paper with the insulating oil. The inner semi-conductive layer and the outer semi-conductive layer are formed by cross-winding semi-conductive paper and impregnating the semi-conductive paper with the insulating oil. A thickness of the outer semi-conductive layer is 7.5 to 15% of a total thickness of the inner semi-conductive layer, the insulating layer, and the outer semi-conductive layer.
US10672538B2	Composite cable A composite cable in which noise generated by a ground wire is less likely to intrude signal lines even in the case where the ground wire is combined. The composite cable includes a plurality of wires, a separator which covers the outer circumference of the plurality of wires all together, and a sheath which covers the outer circumference of the separator. The plurality of wires includes a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of power lines, and a ground wire. The ground wire is isolated from the plurality of signal lines with the plurality of power lines interposed therebetween.
US10672536B2	Braided cable and method of identifying braided bundle in braided cable A cable, which can serve as a mounting device for sensors, includes strands to be connected to the sensors. The strands are formed as a braided wire bundle. An insulating layer is provided on a surface of each of the strands in order to prevent mutual electric conduction of the strands. A particular braided bundle can be specified from among many braided bundles by using, as two indicators, a combination of colors of the insulating layers and a twist direction of the braided bundle.
US10672535B2	Wire sheathing and insulation compositions Halogen-free polymer composite materials, which are commonly for use in sheathing and insulation applications for wire and cable, are provided. The composite materials include a polymeric blend, which includes ethylene/α-olefin copolymer and polyolefin, a hydrated metal oxide flame-retardant, such as hydrated magnesium oxide, and an antimony compound. In some instances, the polymeric blend may include an olefin/unsaturated ester copolymer.
US10672532B2	Making an enhanced magnet wire insulation suited for an electric submersible motor application A system and method for enhanced magnet wire insulation is described. The method comprises a sequence of operations to create an enhanced magnet wire insulation suitable for use in temperatures of about 550° Fahrenheit. A magnet copper wire is wrapped with a polyimide wrap and subsequently wrapped with an organic polymer thermoplastic (e.g., PEEK). The polyimide wrap is applied while the magnet copper wire is around a spool to create a wrapped magnet wire. The wrapped magnet wire can be heated using an induction coil in a metal tube bolted to an extruder to remove moisture and to enable adding the layer of organic polymer thermoplastic. The metal tube can be held at a partial vacuum to augment moisture removal of the wrapped magnet wire prior to running the wrapped magnet wire through the extruder which adds the organic polymer thermoplastic layer. This method produces an enhanced magnet wire suitable for a wide range of temperatures.
US10672531B2	Stretchable interconnects for flexible electronic surfaces A conductive paste and method of manufacturing thereof. The conductive paste comprises conductive particles dispersed in an organic medium, the organic medium comprising: (a) a solvent; and (b) a binder comprising a polyester. The conductive paste typically comprises silver and may contain various other additives. A stretchable conductive layer can be formed by curing the conductive paste.
US10672529B1	Compact spectrometer focusing apparatus A spectrometer focusing apparatus is provided that includes a hollow cylinder for x-rays to traverse a length thereof, a defracting element configured as a ring on an interior circumference of a portion of the hollow cylinder, at least one disk having an edge defining a circle aligned with the defracting element, and an aperture formed between the defracting element and the edge of the at least one disk.
US10672528B2	Multi-modular power plant with dedicated electrical grid A multi-modular power plant includes a plurality of on-site nuclear power modules that generate a power plant output, and a number of power plant systems which operate using electricity associated with a house load of the power plant. A switchyard associated with the power plant may electrically connect the power plant to a distributed electrical grid. The distributed electrical grid may be configured to service a plurality of geographically distributed consumers. Additionally, the switchyard may electrically connect the power plant to a dedicated electrical grid. The dedicated electrical grid may provide electricity generated from the power plant output to a dedicated service load, and the power plant output may be equal to or greater than a combined load of the dedicated service load and the house load. At least a portion of the power plant output may be distributed to both the power plant systems and the dedicated electrical grid.
US10672524B2	Passive integral isolation valve A valve assembly includes a flange connected to a vessel penetration of a reactor pressure vessel of a nuclear reactor. A valve is disposed inside the flange or protrudes from the flange into the vessel penetration. The valve includes a valve seat and a movable valve member positioned so that pressure inside the reactor pressure vessel urges the movable valve member against the valve seat to close the valve. The valve assembly further includes a plenum having an inlet via which the plenum can be pressurized to apply pressure to the movable valve member that urges the movable valve member away from the valve seat to open the valve. The plenum may be defined in part by a surface of the movable valve member. The valve assembly preferably does not include a valve actuator.
US10672523B2	Component cooling water system for nuclear power plant A component cooling water system for a nuclear power plant. In one embodiment, the system includes an inner containment vessel housing a nuclear reactor and an outer containment enclosure structure. An annular water reservoir is formed between the containment vessel and containment enclosure structure which provides a heat sink for dissipating thermal energy. A shell-less heat exchanger is provided having an exposed tube bundle immersed in water held within the annular water reservoir. Component cooling water from the plant flows through the tube bundle and is cooled by transferring heat to the annular water reservoir. In one non-limiting embodiment, the tube bundle may be U-shaped.
US10672520B1	Precision medicine approach to improving patient safety and access to MRI Disclosed is a method for determining, among other things, the temperature profile of a medical implant in a patient when subjected to an MRI scan or machine, thus enabling a determination of the risk of temperature induced tissue necrosis or damage to the implant. The specific position of the implant in the patient changes the temperature dispersion in the body and is accounted for in the creation of the temperature profile. The method includes mapping with an imaging unit location, size and orientation of the medical implant in a patient, and storing the location, size and orientation in a mapped data. Then, translating the data to a model patient of gender, age, weight, height, and body structure of the patient with a model medical implant. Further, determining the parameters of an MRI unit to be used and computing the temperature profile of the implant to ascertain temperature impact.
US10672518B2	Methods and systems using mathematical analysis and machine learning to diagnose disease Exemplified method and system facilitates monitoring and/or evaluation of disease or physiological state using mathematical analysis and machine learning analysis of a biopotential signal collected from a single electrode. The exemplified method and system creates, from data of a singularly measured biopotential signal, via a mathematical operation (i.e., via numeric fractional derivative calculation of the signal in the frequency domain), one or more mathematically-derived biopotential signals (e.g., virtual biopotential signals) that is used in combination with the measured biopotential signals to generate a multi-dimensional phase-space representation of the body (e.g., the heart). By mathematically modulating (e.g., by expanding or contracting) portions of a given biopotential signal, in the frequency domain, the numeric-based operation gives emphasis or de-emphasis to certain measured frequencies of the biopotential signals, which, when coupled with machine learning, facilitates improved diagnostics of certain pathologies.
US10672513B2	Physiologic simulator system Systems for the simulation of percutaneous medical procedures are disclosed. The systems can include a simulated vasculature including a first component configured to allow for introduction of a medical device into the system through an introductory port, a second component connected to the first component and shaped to simulate a portion of a human vasculature, and a third component connected to the second component and shaped to simulate a delivery site for the medical procedure. The system can be configured to allow for a medical device to be delivered to the third component by passing through the introductory port of the first component and passing through the second component. The system can be configured to replicate simulated conditions of use for the medical procedure. Methods for simulating a percutaneous medical procedure using a simulated vasculature are also disclosed.
US10672510B1	Medical user interface A system including a medical device to form a 3D image of an anatomical structure in a body of a living subject, a user interface including a display and an input device, and a processor to prepare a user interface screen presentation including a graphical representation of the anatomical structure based on the 3D image, generate a feature list of a plurality of features associated with the anatomical structure, each feature having a respective location, render the user interface screen presentation to the display showing a first view of the graphical representation, receive an input from the user interface selecting a feature from the list, and render the user interface screen presentation to the display showing the graphical representation of the anatomical structure being automatically rotated from the first view to a second view showing the selected feature at the respective location on the graphical representation.
US10672501B2	Control approach to cell reprogramming A method is presented for reprogramming cells of a subject. As a starting point, a biological sample of a sample cell is received from the subject, where the sample cell has a given cell type. The method includes: determining gene expression data for the sample cell from the biological sample; receiving gene expression data for a target cell having a target cell type, where the target cell type differs from the given cell type; deriving a state transition matrix which models cell dynamics; computing a regulatory set for a given transcription factor, where the regulatory set quantifies influence of the given transcription factor on a genome; expressing reprogramming of the sample cell to the target cell with a state-space representation of a linear system; and solving for the input vector in the state-space representation.
US10672500B2	Non-contact measurement of memory cell threshold voltage Methods, systems, and devices for non-contact measurement of memory cell threshold voltage, including at one or more intermediate stages of fabrication, are described. One access line may be grounded and coupled with one or more memory cells. Each of the one or more memory cells may be coupled with a corresponding floating access line. A floating access line may be scanned with an electron beam configured to set the floating access line to a particular surface voltage at the scanned bit line, and the threshold voltage of the corresponding memory cell may be determined based on whether setting the scanned bit line to the surface voltage causes a detectable amount current to flow through the corresponding memory cell.
US10672499B2	NAND flash memory controller and storage apparatus applying the same A flash memory controller is suitable for a NAND flash memory and a voltage supply circuit. The voltage supply circuit supplies a current to the flash memory. The flash memory controller includes a flash control circuit, a current sensing circuit, and a processor. The flash control circuit is configured to control an operation of the flash memory. The current sensing circuit is configured to measure the current consumed by the flash memory during its operation, and output a current value. The processor is configured to output a control signal based on the current value. Therefore, the flash memory controller can instantly obtain a current value consumed during the operation of flash memory, and determine, based on the current value, whether the flash memory runs normally. A storage apparatus having the flash memory controller can instantly determine whether the flash memory runs normally.
US10672494B2	Systems and methods to test a memory device A memory device, includes: a memory array comprising a plurality of bit cells arranged along a plurality of rows and along a plurality of columns, respectively; and a control logic circuit coupled to the memory array, and configured to determine respective locations of a first plurality of diagonal bit cells of the memory array for testing one or more peripheral circuits coupled to the memory array, wherein the control logic circuit is further configured to determine respective locations of at least a second plurality of diagonal bit cells of the memory array for testing the one or more peripheral circuits, wherein a number of the plurality of rows is different than a number of the plurality of columns and the first plurality of diagonal bit cells span a first equal number of rows and columns and the second plurality of diagonal bit cells also span a second equal number of rows and columns.
US10672490B2	One-time-programmable memory in a high-density three-dimensional structure Semiconductor memory devices and methods for manufacturing semiconductor memory devices are provided herein, An example method includes forming a first silicon layer on a bottom conductive layer, transforming the first silicon layer into a first polysilicon layer, forming a second silicon layer stacked on the first polysilicon layer, and a third silicon layer stacked on the second silicon layer, transforming the second and third silicon layers into second and third polysilicon layers, forming an amorphous silicon layer on the third polysilicon layer, forming the amorphous silicon layer into a silicide layer on at least a portion of the third polysilicon layer, depositing an oxide onto at least a portion of the first, second, and third polysilicon layers, selectively trimming the silicide layer, and forming a top conductive layer on at least a portion of the trimmed silicide layer.
US10672487B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes first and second memory cells, each of which includes a charge storage layer, a first bit line that is connected to the first memory cell, and a second bit line that is connected to the second memory cell. A writing operation includes multiple loops of a programming operation and a verification operation, and first data is written in the first memory cell, and second data different from the first data is written in the second memory cell through the writing operation. In a first loop of the writing operation, a first voltage is applied to the first bit line and the second bit line is maintained in an electrically floating state during the programming operation, and a verification operation relating to the second data is not performed and a verification operation relating to the first data is performed.
US10672485B2	Semiconductor storage device A semiconductor storage device achieving stabilization of an operating voltage of a selected memory chip. A flash memory device of the disclosure includes a master chip and at least one slave chip. A voltage output portion of a charge pump circuit of the master chip is connected to an internal pad of the master chip, and a voltage output portion of a charge pump circuit of the slave chip is connected to an internal pad of the slave chip, the internal pad of the master chip and the internal pad of the slave chip are connected by a wire. When the mater chip is operated, the charge pump circuit of the master chip is turned off, the charge pump circuit of the slave chip is turned on, and a voltage generated by the charge pump circuit of the slave chip is supplied to the master chip.
US10672483B2	Semiconductor memory device A memory device includes a memory cell array with memory strings including a first and second select transistor and memory cells between the first and second select transistors. Each memory string has a bit line connected thereto. A different word line is connected to each of the memory cells of a memory strings. A control circuit is configured to execute a first read operation in which data is read at the same time from memory cells connected to all the bit lines and a second read operation in which data is read from memory cells connected to a first subset of bit lines and a shield voltage is applied to a second subset of bit lines in the plurality of bit lines. The controller selects the first or second read operation for execution according to the number of read voltage levels required for determining data in the memory cells.
US10672477B2	Segmented memory and operation Apparatus having a plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells, and methods of their operation, where each string of series-connected memory cells of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells may be selectively connected to a common data line through a corresponding respective select gate, a first set of access lines may each be coupled to a respective memory cell of each string of series-connected memory cells of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells, and a second set of access lines may each be coupled to a respective memory cell of each string of series-connected memory cells of only a portion of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells.
US10672472B2	Memory controller and memory system for suppression of fluctuation of voltage drop Provided is an initialization control unit that causes a resistance value of a variable resistive element in an access restriction region to be changed to an initial value larger than a predetermined value. The resistance value is changed in a read only mode among the read only mode in which writing to the access restriction region is prohibited and a writable mode in which the writing to the access restriction region is permitted. The access restriction region is in a memory cell array in which the variable resistive elements are arranged, and the initialization control unit transitions to the writable mode. In addition, a write control unit causes a resistance value of an element corresponding to write data among the variable resistive elements in the access restriction region to be changed to a value smaller than the initial value in the writable mode, and transitions to the read only mode.
US10672469B1	In-memory convolution for machine learning A device comprises a first block of memory cells, a second block of memory cells to store a feature array, and a third block of memory cells to store an array of output values. Sensing circuitry is coupled to the first block of memory cells and the second block of memory cells to compare electrical differences between the memory cells in the first block and the memory cells in the second block to generate the array of output values. Writing circuitry is operatively coupled to the third block to store the array of output values in the third block of memory cells.
US10672463B2	Semiconductor device There is provided, for example, a write assist circuit for controlling the voltage level of a memory cell power supply line coupled to an SRAM memory cell to be written in the write operation. The write assist circuit reduces the voltage level of the memory cell power supply line to a predetermined voltage level, in response to a write assist enable signal that is enabled in the write operation. At the same time, the write assist circuit controls the reduction speed of the voltage level of the memory cell power supply line, according to the pulse width of a write assist pulse signal. The pulse width of the write assist pulse signal is defined in such a way that the greater the number of rows (or the longer the length of the memory cell power supply line), the greater the pulse width.
US10672462B2	Data management circuit A data management circuit is provided. The data management circuit includes a volatile memory, a power supply circuit, and a signal receiving circuit. An output terminal of the power supply circuit is coupled to the volatile memory, and an output terminal of the signal receiving circuit is coupled to the output terminal of the power supply circuit and the volatile memory. The power supply circuit is configured to provide power to the volatile memory. The signal receiving circuit is configured to receive a wireless control signal and to output a data clearance signal corresponding to the wireless control signal, such that data recorded in the volatile memory is cleared by the data clearance signal.
US10672453B2	Voltage system providing pump voltage for memory device and method for operating the same The present disclosure provides a charge pump system and a method of operating the same. The charge pump system includes a first pump circuit, a second pump circuit and a control device. The first pump circuit is configured to operate in a first voltage domain. The second pump circuit is configured to operate in a second voltage domain different from the first voltage domain. The control device is configured to selectively enable one of the first pump circuit and the second pump circuit based on an operating environment, wherein the one of the first pump circuit and the second pump circuit provides a pump voltage.
US10672448B2	Magnetic storage device According to an embodiment, a magnetic storage device includes a memory unit, a current supply circuit, a switch, and a controller. The memory unit includes a magnetic member and a switch element. The switch element is connected in series to the magnetic member, and changes to an on state in a case where a voltage equal to or larger than a predetermined value is applied in an off state. The current supply circuit supplies a current to the memory unit. The switch electrically connects or disconnects the current supply circuit and the memory unit. The controller applies a voltage for changing the switch element from the off state to the on state to the memory unit with the switch in a disconnected state, and sets the switch to be in a connected state after the switch element changes to the on state.
US10672446B2	Exchange bias utilization type magnetization rotational element, exchange bias utilization type magnetoresistance effect element, exchange bias utilization type magnetic memory, non-volatile logic circuit, and magnetic neuron element An exchange bias utilization type magnetization rotational element includes an anti-ferromagnetic driving layer which is made of first region and second region anti-ferromagnetisms, and a third region anti-ferromagnetism positioned between the first and second regions, a magnetic coupling layer anti-ferromagnetism which is magnetically coupled to the anti-ferromagnetic driving layer anti-ferromagnetism in the third region anti-ferromagnetism, a first electrode layer anti-ferromagnetism which is bonded to the first region anti-ferromagnetism; and a second electrode layer anti-ferromagnetism which is bonded to the second region anti-ferromagnetism.
US10672443B2	Methods and systems for performing decoding in finFET based memories A fin-Field Effect Transistor based system on chip (SoC) memory is provided and includes a control block, first logic gates, and row decoder blocks. The control block includes a clock generator circuit that generates an internal clock signal, and a global driver circuit coupled to the clock generator circuit that drives a global clock signal. Each row decoder block includes a second logic gate that receives higher order non-clocked address signals via input terminals, a transmission gate that combines the global clock signal and the higher order non-clocked address signals, third logic gates that receive lower order non-clocked address signals and higher order clocked address signals, and output a combined lower order address and higher order address along with the global clock signal, level shifter circuits that receive the outputs, and word-line driver circuits that generate word-lines based on the output of the level shifter circuits.
US10672439B2	Data dependent keeper on global data lines The present disclosure relates to a structure which includes at least one keeper circuit which is configured to hold data to a precharged state during a first operation and be disabled during a second operation.
US10672438B2	Dynamic reconfigurable dual power I/O receiver An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first circuitry to sample a first input signal to generate a first sampled signal, and to sample a second input signal to generate a second sampled signal, wherein the first input signal comprises data; a second circuitry to receive the first sampled signal and the second sampled signal, and to generate a first pair of differential signals; an offset cancellation circuitry to cancel or reduce an offset in the first pair of differential signals; and a latch to receive the first pair of differential signals subsequent to the cancellation or reduction of the offset, and to output a second pair of differential signals, wherein the second pair of differential signals is indicative of the data.
US10672435B2	Sense amplifier signal boost Apparatuses for signal boost are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: first and second digit lines coupled to memory cells; a sense amplifier including: first and second transistors having gates operatively coupled to the first digit line and drains coupled to a first node, sources of the first and second transistors coupled to first and second control lines providing first and second power supply voltage respectively; and third and fourth transistors having gates coupled to the second digit line and drains coupled to a second node, sources of the third and fourth transistors coupled to the first and second control lines respectively; a power line coupled to the first node and the second node; and a power switch providing either the first power supply voltage or a third power supply voltage smaller than the first power supply voltage to the power line.
US10672430B2	Chassis and heat sink for use in chassis The present disclosure relates to a chassis and a heat sink for use in the chassis. Disks in rows are arranged in the chassis, and the heat sink comprises an air ingress channel extending from a first end of a housing of the chassis to a side portion of the disks away from the first end; an air egress channel extending from the first end to a second end opposite to the first end, the air egress channel being spaced apart from the air ingress channel by the disks; an intermediate channel comprised of gaps between the disks and fluidically communicating the air ingress channel with the air egress channel; and a fan disposed in the air egress channel and being operable to form a negative pressure in the air egress channel.
US10672427B2	Optical memory devices using a silicon wire grid polarizer and methods of making and using Long term optical memory includes a storage medium composed from an array of silicon nanoridges positioned onto the fused silica glass. The array has first and second polarization contrast corresponding to different phase of silicon. The first polarization contrast results from amorphous phase of silicon and the second polarization contrast results from crystalline phase of silicon. The first and second polarization states are spatially distributed over plurality of localized data areas of the storage medium.
US10672424B2	Disk drive with base and cover According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a disk-shaped recording medium, a base accommodating the recording medium, the base including a bottom wall, a sidewall on a peripheral portion of the bottom wall, and a rib on a part of an upper surface of the sidewall, a first cover on a part of the upper surface of the sidewall, and a second cover on a first surface of the rib and above the first cover. The rib includes a first region with a first width, a second region with a second width less than the first width, and the first surface with a fixed width around an entire circumference of the rib. The first region and the second region are located corresponding to a side portion of the recording medium.
US10672422B2	In-situ protective film An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a magnetic read transducer comprised of a sensing portion and proximate magnetic shields, and a wear-resistant in-situ film on a media-facing side of the read transducer. The in-situ film is comprised of material derived from a flexible medium. The in-situ film is primarily above the read transducer.
US10672421B2	Magnetoresistive device with bias magnetic field generation unit having main and side portions partially surrounding free layer perimeter A magnetoresistive device includes an MR element and a bias magnetic field generation unit. The MR element includes a free layer shaped to be long in one direction. The bias magnetic field generation unit includes a ferromagnetic layer for generating a bias magnetic field. The ferromagnetic layer includes two main portions, a first side portion, and a second side portion arranged to surround the perimeter of the free layer. In any cross section perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the free layer, a shortest distance between the first side portion and the free layer and a shortest distance between the second side portion and the free layer are 35 nm or less.
US10672419B1	Magnetic recording and reading apparatus and magnetic recording method According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reading apparatus has a magnetic head and a system controlling a flying height of the magnetic head. The system includes a main control unit, a resistance measurement unit which measures a resistance value of a magnetic flux control layer, a calculation unit which obtains a resistance value change rate with respect to an initial resistance value, a determination unit which determines a flying height for recording corresponding to the resistance value change rate, and a flying height control unit which controls a flying height of the magnetic head.
US10672417B2	Systems and methods for machine-generated avatars Systems and methods are disclosed for creating a machine generated avatar. A machine generated avatar is an avatar generated by processing video and audio information extracted from a recording of a human speaking a reading corpora and enabling the created avatar to be able to say an unlimited number of utterances, i.e., utterances that were not recorded. The video and audio processing consists of the use of machine learning algorithms that may create predictive models based upon pixel, semantic, phonetic, intonation, and wavelets.
US10672415B2	System and method for network bandwidth management for adjusting audio quality Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for processing audio signals. An example system configured to practice the method receives audio at a device to be transmitted to a remote speech processing system. The system analyzes one of noise conditions, need for an enhanced speech quality, and network load to yield an analysis. Based on the analysis, the system determines to bypass user-defined options for enhancing audio for speech processing. Then, based on the analysis, the system can modify an audio transmission parameter used to transmit the audio from the device to the remote speech processing system. The audio transmission parameter can be one of an amount of coding, a chosen codec, or a number of audio channels, for example.
US10672411B2	Method for adaptively encoding an audio signal in dependence on noise information for higher encoding accuracy An audio encoder for providing an encoded representation on the basis of an audio signal, wherein the audio encoder is configured to obtain a noise information describing a noise included in the audio signal, and wherein the audio encoder is configured to adaptively encode the audio signal in dependence on the noise information, such that encoding accuracy is higher for parts of the audio signal that are less affected by the noise included in the audio signal than for parts of the audio signal that are more affected by the noise included in the audio signal.
US10672409B2	Decoding device, encoding device, decoding method, and encoding method A decoding device includes: a separating unit separating first encoded data, a spectrum including a low-band spectrum of audio signals having been encoded, and second encoded data, a high-band spectrum of a higher band having been encoded, based on the first encoded data; a first decoding unit decoding the first encoded data and generating a first decoded spectrum; a first amplitude normalizer dividing amplitude of the first decoded spectrum into sub-bands, normalizing the spectrum of each sub-band by the largest amplitude of the first decoded spectrum within each sub-band, and generating a normalized spectrum; an addition unit adding noise spectrum to the normalized spectrum and generating a noise-added normalized spectrum; a second decoding unit decoding the second encoded data using the noise-added normalized spectrum, and generating a second noise-added spectrum; and a converter performing time-frequency conversion regarding a spectrum coupled based on the first decoded spectrum and second noise-added spectrum.
US10672402B2	Speech with context authenticator A computer-implemented method for authenticating speech includes executing on a computer processor the step of receiving speech and context for the speech of a speaker, wherein the speech is received as electronic voice communication, wherein the context for the speech includes biometric information measured during the received speech. The speaker is authenticated according the received speech and the context by a speech with context model. A result of the authentication is returned.
US10672399B2	Switching between text data and audio data based on a mapping Techniques are provided for creating a mapping that maps locations in audio data (e.g., an audio book) to corresponding locations in text data (e.g., an e-book). Techniques are provided for using a mapping between audio data and text data, whether the mapping is created automatically or manually. A mapping may be used for bookmark switching where a bookmark established in one version of a digital work (e.g., e-book) is used to identify a corresponding location with another version of the digital work (e.g., an audio book). Alternatively, the mapping may be used to play audio that corresponds to text selected by a user. Alternatively, the mapping may be used to automatically highlight text in response to audio that corresponds to the text being played. Alternatively, the mapping may be used to determine where an annotation created in one media context (e.g., audio) will be consumed in another media context.
US10672397B2	Method and system for facilitating a guided dialog between a user and a conversational agent The present teaching relates to facilitating a guided dialog with a user. In one example, an input utterance is obtained from the user. One or more task sets are estimated based on the input utterance. Each of the one or more task sets includes a plurality of tasks estimated to be requested by the user via the input utterance and is associated with a confidence score computed based on statistics with respect to the plurality of tasks in the task set. At least one of the one or more task sets is selected based on their respective confidence scores. A response is generated based on the tasks in the selected at least one task set. The response is provided to the user.
US10672396B2	Determining an impact of a proposed dialog act using model-based textual analysis A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, utilizing a processor, textual data associated with a conversation between a first participant and a second participant, receiving, utilizing the processor, an objective of the first participant for the conversation between the first participant and the second participant, receiving, utilizing the processor, a proposed dialog act to be entered in the conversation from the first participant, determining, utilizing the processor, an impact of the proposed dialog act on the objective of the first participant, utilizing a model, and performing, utilizing the processor, one or more actions based on the impact of the proposed dialog act.
US10672393B2	Time capsule based speaking aid A system, apparatus, method, and computer program product for a speaking aid. The system including network interface circuitry to receive speech input from a user. The speech input includes a partial sentence with a missing word or the partial sentence with a stuttered word. The system also includes a processor coupled to the network interface circuitry and one or more memory devices coupled to the processor. The one or more memory devices include instructions, that when executed by the processor, cause the system to detect a stutter or pause in the speech input, predict the stuttered word or the missing word, present a predicted word from an n-best list to the user; and if a prompt is received from the user, present a next word from the n-best list until the user speaks a correct word to replace the stutter or the pause.
US10672391B2	Improving automatic speech recognition of multilingual named entities Methods and systems are provided for improving speech recognition of multilingual named entities. In some embodiments, a list comprising a plurality of named entities may be accessed by a computing device. A first named entity represented in the native language may be compared with the first named entity represented in the foreign language. One or more words that appear in both the first named entity represented in the native language and the first named entity represented in the foreign language may be identified as one or more foreign words. A grapheme-to-phoneme (G2P) conversion may be applied to the one or more foreign words, wherein graphemes of the one or more foreign words are mapped to phonemes in the native language. The G2P conversion may result in a native pronunciation for each of the one or more foreign words, which are added to a recognition dictionary along with the native pronunciations.
US10672390B2	Systems and methods for improving speech recognition performance by generating combined interpretations The systems and methods disclosed herein combine a plurality of interpretations of a voice-based input. The systems and methods may receive the voice-based input, process it using one or more automatic speech recognition modules to obtain a plurality of interpretations, and identify an entity set for each of the plurality of interpretations. The systems and methods may further generate a combined interpretation based on a first interpretation and second interpretation selected form the plurality of interpretations and assign a semantic score to the combined interpretation based on the entity sets of the first and second interpretation.
US10672389B1	Controller systems and methods of limiting the operation of neural networks to be within one or more conditions Systems and methods for automatically self-correcting or correcting in real-time one or more neural networks after detecting a triggering event, or breaching boundary conditions are provided. Such a triggering event may indicate incorrect output signal or data being generated by the one or more neural networks. In particular, machine controllers of the invention limit the operations of neural networks to be within boundary conditions. Autonomous machines of the invention can be self-corrected after a breach of a boundary condition is detected. Autonomous land vehicles of the invention are capable of determining the timing of automatic transition to the manual control from automated driving mode. The controller of the invention filters and saves input-output data sets that fall within boundary conditions for later training of neural networks. The controllers of the invention include security architectures to prevent damages from virus attacks or system malfunctions.
US10672385B2	Method and system for remotely training and commanding the speech recognition system on a cockpit via a carry-on-device in a connected aircraft A method for implementing a speaker-independent speech recognition system with reduced latency is provided. The method includes capturing voice data at a carry-on-device from a user during a pre-flight check-in performed by the user for an upcoming flight; extracting features associated with the user from the captured voice data at the carry-on-device; uplinking the extracted features to the speaker-independent speech recognition system onboard the aircraft; and adapting the extracted features with an acoustic feature model of the speaker-independent speech recognition system.
US10672376B1	Acoustic luminaires A luminaire can include a power source housing that houses at least one light fixture component. The luminaire can also include a light engine tray disposed proximate to the power source housing. The luminaire further can include a first acoustic feature coupled to the power source housing and the light engine tray, where the first acoustic feature comprises a first side wall having a first configuration, where the first configuration of the first side wall absorbs sound.
US10672373B2	Keyboard musical instrument, method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A keyboard musical instrument, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium that improve operability are provided. An electronic musical instrument comprises a keyboard including plural white keys each of which is allocated with plural characters and plural black keys, and a controller. The controller executes, in a musical sound producing mode that is set, accepting a sound producing instruction of a musical sound in response to an operation of the keyboard, and, in a symbol input mode that is set, according to both a white key designated from the plural white keys and a black key designated from the plural black keys, accepting an input of a character among the plural characters allocated to the white key designated from the plural white keys.
US10672370B2	Rotation stopper for cymbal pad One aspect of the rotation stopper (1) for the cymbal pad (10) has a holding hole (19) provided in a holding plate (18) of the cymbal pad (10) and a holding sleeve (22) provided on a supporting rod (20) of a cymbal stand. The holding sleeve (22) is arranged to be inserted through the holding hole (19) with an amount of play in the fitting. The holding hole (19) has a plurality of engaging recesses (34) on the inner periphery. The holding sleeve (22) has an outer peripheral surface having at least one ridge (33) that engages with at least one of the engaging recesses (34) so as to deter the cymbal pad (10) from rotationally moving relative to the holding sleeve (22).
US10672368B2	No miss cache structure for real-time image transformations with multiple LSR processing engines Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing improved cache structures and methods that are optimally sized to support a predetermined range of late stage adjustments and in which image data is intelligently read out of DRAM and cached in such a way as to eliminate re-fetching of input image data from DRAM and minimize DRAM bandwidth and power. The systems and methods can also be adapted to work with compressed image data and multiple LSR processing engines.
US10672362B2	Systems and methods for digital content creation and rendering A media engine includes modules to retrieve a first graphics object and a second graphics object to be displayed on a screen, and perform asynchronous pixel transfers of the first graphics object and the second graphics object such that the first graphics object and the second graphics object are shown independently in a single frame, and the asynchronous pixel transfers include batching of draw calls based on the similarity of meshes in the first graphics object and the second graphic object to generate a batch of draw calls.
US10672358B2	Driving circuit with filtering function and display device having the same A driving circuit of a display device includes first and second line buffers, first and second output circuits, and a filtering process circuit. The first line buffer stores a first present data signal and outputs a first previous line data signal, and the second line buffer stores a second present data signal and outputs a second previous line data signal. The filtering process circuit alternately outputs the present data signal as one of the first present data signal and the second present data signal, and outputs a first filtered data signal and a second filtered data signal. The first output circuit receives the first filtered data signal and drives a first data line group of a plurality of data lines, and the second output circuit receives the second filtered data signal and drives a second data line group of the data lines.
US10672354B2	GOA circuit Disclosed is a GOA circuit, and the GOA circuit includes multiple stages of GOA unit circuits. Each stage of GOA unit circuit includes a first scan module, a first clock input module, a first signal port control module, a third signal port control module, a first output module, a first global signal operation module, a second scan module, a second clock input module, a second signal port control module, a fourth signal port control signal module, a second output module and a second global signal operation module. The afterimages that may occur when a power supply of a crystal display panel is abnormally cut off can be avoided by using the disclosed GOA circuit, and thus the user experience can be improved.
US10672353B2	Display device and a method for driving the same A method of driving a display device includes receiving a reference clock signal and frequency determination data to determine a pixel driving clock frequency and generate a pixel driving clock signal, generating and outputting a gate driving clock signal according to the pixel driving clock frequency, and outputting a driving voltage according to the pixel driving clock frequency. The driving voltage increases as the pixel driving clock frequency increases.
US10672349B2	Device for project an image According to the present invention there is provided a projection device, which is configured to project an image which is co-operable with images projected by one or more other projection devices, wherein the projection device comprises a detector operable to detect characteristics of images projected on a display surface by the projection device and one or more other projection devices, and a controller operable to adjust the projection device and/or to adjust one or more of the other projection devices, based on the characteristics of the images detected by the detector, such that the images projected by each projection device co-operate on the display surfaces.
US10672348B2	Display device and drive method thereof A display device includes a display, a driver, a memory, and a controller. The display includes a display panel and a backlight unit with a plurality of light-emitting elements to display an image. The driver is electrically connected to the display to transmit a backlight control signal to the backlight unit. The memory stores a plurality of adjustment instructions, and each adjustment instruction includes a drive frequency and a control parameter. The controller is electrically connected to the display, the driver, and the memory. The controller is configured to determine a drive frequency and a control parameter corresponding to the drive frequency in the memory according to a frequency adjustment signal, and then adjust the backlight control signal according to the control parameter, to change a duty cycle of the backlight control signal, so that a refresh rate of the backlight unit meets a requirement of a user.
US10672346B2	Double sided display A double-sided display comprises: a first data driver that is connected to one end of the data lines and applies a data signal of a first image to the data lines; and a second data driver that is connected to the other end of the data lines and applies a data signal of a second image to the data lines. The first data driver supplies a first pixel data signal of the first image to a first data line and an nth pixel data signal of the first image to an nth data line, and the second data driver supplies a first pixel data signal of the second image to the nth data line and an nth pixel data signal of the second image to the first data line.
US10672344B2	Display device displaying a plurality of patterns receiving luminance and color coordinates data for said patterns from an external user device Disclosed is an optical compensation system comprising a user terminal device, and a display device for obtaining luminance data and color coordinates data by the use of user terminal device, and generating compensation data for compensating a deterioration of an organic light emitting diode based on obtained luminance data and color coordinates data and storing the compensation data, whereby it enables an optical compensation even after shipment of products, and it provides high-definition viewing quality to a user for a long time.
US10672339B2	Organic light-emitting display device Disclosed is an organic light-emitting display device capable of realizing a high resolution. The organic light-emitting display device includes a storage capacitor disposed on a substrate, which overlaps at least one transistor, with at least one buffer layer interposed therebetween, the at least one buffer layer disposed on the storage capacitor, and which includes a lower storage electrode and an upper storage electrode overlapping the lower storage electrode, with a storage buffer layer interposed therebetween, and a light-emitting diode connected to the transistor. One of the lower storage electrode and the upper storage electrode is formed to have the same line width and the same shape as the storage buffer layer, thereby ensuring a sufficient process margin and consequently realizing a high resolution and improving production yield.
US10672338B2	Organic light-emitting diode display with external compensation and anode reset A display may include an array of organic light-emitting diode display pixels having transistors characterized by threshold voltages subject to transistor variations. Compensation circuitry may be used to measure a transistor threshold voltage for a pixel. The threshold voltage may be sampled by controlling the pixel to sample the threshold voltage onto a capacitor at the pixel. The pixel may include at least one semiconducting-oxide transistor, silicon transistors, and a light-emitting diode. The diode may be coupled to a data line that can be used for both data loading and compensation sensing operations. Reset operations may be performed after data programming and before emission to reset the anode voltage for the diode.
US10672336B2	Organic light emitting display and method for driving the same A method for driving an organic light emitting display according to an embodiment includes applying an initial value of a high potential driving power and a test pattern to a display panel and sensing changes in driving characteristics of the display panel while varying a voltage level of the high potential driving power from the initial value, deciding whether or not a sensed driving characteristic value of the display panel satisfies a predetermined condition, setting a voltage level of the high potential driving power obtained when the sensed driving characteristic value satisfies the predetermined condition, as a reference value of the high potential driving power, and adding a voltage margin to the reference value of the high potential driving power to determine a final value of the high potential driving power, and driving the display panel using the final value of the high potential driving power.
US10672333B2	Wearable electronic device A display method for a display device is provided. The display method comprises activating a Head Mounted Theater (HMT) mode, the HMT mode displaying two images which are substantially same each other on first and second areas respectively, separated from each other, in a display area of the display device; and adjusting a display time, for displaying a black screen in the first and second areas, of a unit frame time when the HMT mode is activated.
US10672331B2	Display device and method of driving the same Provided herein may be a display device and a method of driving the display device. The display device may include pixels including first pixels and second pixels in a pixel area, scan lines coupled with the pixels, and configured to supply scan signals to the pixels, a first emission control line coupled to the first pixels, and configured to supply a first emission control signal to the first pixels, a second emission control line coupled to the second pixels, and configured to supply a second emission control signal to the second pixels, and a display driver configured to supply the first emission control signal to the first emission control line before supplying the second emission control signal to the second emission control line.
US10672330B2	Display region filtering based on priority Aspects of the present disclosure relate to display region filtering. A pixel priority value for each of a plurality of pixels on a display region are assigned in response to identifying portions of the display region for prioritization, wherein the pixel priority values indicate a relative importance of each of the pixels, respectively, for viewing based on a magnitude of the pixel priority values. The pixel priority value of each pixel is compared to a first pixel priority threshold to identify pixels of the plurality of pixels having pixel priority values which do not satisfy the first pixel priority threshold. The pixels of the plurality of pixels having pixel priority values which do not satisfy the first pixel priority threshold are deactivated, wherein a subset of pixels satisfies the first pixel priority threshold and remain active.
US10672324B2	Gate driver and electroluminescence display device including the same An electroluminescent display device includes sub-pixels connected to gate lines, and a gate driver configured to supply a scan signal to at least one of the gate lines, and including stages. One of the stages includes a QB-node regulation unit configured to charge a QB-node and a QP-node to turn-on voltage by using a first gate clock signal and a second gate clock signal, and a pull-down unit configured to output a turn-off voltage in response to a voltage of the QP-node. The QB-node regulation unit includes a QP-node control part configured to invert a phase of a voltage of a Q1-node and apply the voltage of the inverted phase to the QP-node, and a QB-node control part configured to bootstrap the QP-node. Accordingly, by employing the gate driver including the QB-node regulation unit that provides a stable voltage to the QB-node and the QP-node, the reliability of the gate driver can be improved, and the bezel of the electroluminescence display device can be reduced.
US10672323B2	Display device having a plurality of subpixels having shared data line and gate line A display device includes a selection line, a data line and plural pixel units. Each of the pixel units includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel. The second subpixel is disposed around the first subpixel and surrounds the first subpixel. The first subpixel includes a first capacitor, and the second subpixel includes a second capacitor. The selection line is configured to provide a selection signal. The data line is configured to provide a data signal. The first subpixel is configured to transmit the data signal to the first capacitor according to the selection signal, and the second subpixel is configured to transmit the data signal to the second capacitor according to the selection signal.
US10672322B2	Display apparatus having processors for generating data relating to display image and rendering display image, electronic timepiece, display processing method and computer-readable medium A display apparatus includes a first processor, a second processor and a display. The second processor has higher processing capability than the first processor. The display performs a display operation based on a control of the first processor. The second processor is intermittently activated to generate data relating to a display image to be rendered on the display in response to a predetermined command sent from the first processor. The first processor reads the data relating to the display image generated by the second processor and renders the display image of the data on the display.
US10672317B2	Display device supporting a low power mode and method of operating a display device A display device includes: a display panel; a power management circuit configured to: perform a short detection operation with a first short detection condition during a start-up operation; supply first and second power supply voltages in the normal mode; and stop supplying the first and second power supply voltages in the low power mode; and a display driver configured to provide a first image signal in the normal mode and a second image signal for in the low power mode, the display driver comprising a power block configured to supply first and second standby power supply voltages in the low power mode, wherein, in a transition frame between the low power mode and the normal mode, the display driver provides the second image signal for the standby image to the display panel, and the power management circuit performs the short detection operation with a second short detection condition.
US10672316B2	COF circuit board, display device, signal processing method and bridging chip A COF circuit board, a display device, a signal processing method and a bridging chip are provided. The COF circuit board includes: a flexible circuit board, a driver integrated circuit and a bridging chip disposed on the flexible circuit board, wherein the flexible circuit board is further provided with a first connecting terminal and a second connecting terminal. An output end of the driver integrated circuit is electrically connected to the first connecting terminal. The bridging chip includes N first registers, M second registers and a controller, wherein the N first registers are electrically connected to an input end of the driver integrated circuit, the M second registers are electrically connected to the second connecting terminal, the controller is configured to write values in the M second registers into the corresponding N first registers according to a register corresponding relationship.
US10672314B2	Display panel detection method and display panel detection device A display panel detection method and a display panel detection device, the detection method comprising the following steps: storing an image used for detection in a source driver circuit board of a display panel; electrically connecting a power board generating a power signal directly to the source driver circuit board; transmitting the power signal and a clock signal to the source driver circuit board, the clock signal being directly generated by the power board; connecting a data transmission port of the display panel to a serial interface of a computer system, a detection program for comparing a sample image and an image being configured in the computer system; and comparing the pixel consistency of the image and the sample image so as to produce a comparison result.
US10672313B2	Array substrate, method for determining abnormal display thereof, display panel and display device An array substrate, a method for determining an abnormal display thereof, a display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a source IC in a border area of the array substrate, wherein the source IC includes a reset pin and idle output pins; a reset unit in the border area of the array substrate, wherein the reset unit includes an output terminal and input terminals, the input terminals of the reset unit are electrically connected with the idle output pins of the source IC, and the output terminal of the reset unit is electrically connected with the reset pin of the source IC; and the reset unit is configured to determine whether the array substrate displays abnormally, and if so, to reset the source IC.
US10672308B2	Friction producing mechanism for use with a hanging banner and method of forming same An apparatus and related methods includes a base attached to an upright structure (such as a street light pole), a mounting bracket that releasably engages the base while supporting a hanging banner, and an install adapter that releasably holds the mounting bracket and banner until the mounting bracket attaches to the base. A removal adapter facilitates disengaging the mounting bracket and banner from the base. The mounting bracket and install adapter (and removal adapter) are attached to a pole and engage (and disengage) remotely and without using separate fasteners, thus allowing a worker to install (or remove) banners high on the upright structure while standing on the ground. The base and mounting bracket have tapered shapes that wedgingly engage, secured by a spring-biased friction retainer. The install adapter and removal adapter have structures that facilitate remote install and removal of the mounting bracket from the base.
US10672307B2	Flag holder for vehicle An apparatus for displaying a flag on a vehicle while the vehicle moves at a high speed includes a first suction cup assembly adapted to be releasably secured to the vehicle, a second suction cup assembly adapted to be releasably secured to the vehicle, a first attachment device secured to the first suction cup assembly, a second attachment device secured to the second suction cup assembly, and a flag pole secured, at a first location along the flag pole, to the first attachment device and secured, at a second location along the flag pole, to the second attachment device, wherein the first location is spaced apart from the second location.
US10672304B2	Display device A display device according to some example embodiments includes: a substrate including a first area, a second area, and a bending area between the first area and the second area; a display unit overlapping the first area; and a protection layer overlapping the bending area, wherein the substrate includes a groove at the bending area, and the protection layer is formed in the groove.
US10672303B1	Rigid banner support assembly and system A rigid banner support assembly is provided. The rigid banner support assembly comprises: an external arm having an open cavity and connectable to a support member; an internal arm located within the open cavity and connectable to a rigid banner; and at least one biasing member connecting the internal arm to the external arm and configured to permit vertical movement of the internal arm with respect to the external arm in response to a force.
US10672300B1	Multi-part label systems Multi-part label systems, and methods for their assembly. A carrier material with a first label and a second label removably adhered thereto is provided. The first label and second label are dispensed from the carrier material and applied to a surface simultaneously, whereby after application the underside of the first label is in contact with the surface and the undersurface of the second label is in contact with the top side of the first label.
US10672286B2	Cloud based test environment Systems and methods described herein provide for administering and proctoring of a secure online examination utilizing a ‘cloud’ computing environment. The cloud computing environment provides scalable, shared computing resources such as processing, memory, communications, storage and other hardware and software resources associated with the online examination. The computing resources provided by the cloud computing environment can be provisioned dynamically to match the requirements of the particular computing tasks carried out at the client and/or server level during the administration of the examination.
US10672283B2	Obstacle avoidance method and device, moveable object and computer readable storage medium This specification discloses an obstacle avoidance method and device, a moveable object and a computer readable storage medium. The obstacle avoidance method includes: obtaining a depth value of a spot in an area containing an obstacle, the depth value representing a distance between the spot and the moveable object; judging, according to the depth value, whether an edge of the obstacle exists in the area; and if the edge of the obstacle exists in the area, determining a movement direction of the moveable object according to the edge, so as to avoid the obstacle. According to embodiments of the present invention, an obstacle grid map does not need to be established, and a movement track does not need to be predicted, achieving advantages of a small amount of calculation and high control accuracy.
US10672282B2	Particle sensor system and method to determine visibility for a vehicle A system for determining visibility comprises a particle sensor unit mounted onboard a vehicle, and a processor unit in communication with the particle sensor unit. The particle sensor unit comprises a light source configured to transmit a light beam into an external air region; a set of receive optics configured to collect a scattered portion of the light beam from particles in the air region; and an optical detector configured to receive the collected scattered portion and measure a signal intensity. The processor unit is operative to perform a method for determining visibility that comprises analyzing data received from the particle sensor unit to determine particle distribution in a volume of the air region; performing particle differentiation to determine sizes and types of particles in the distribution; calculating visibility data based on the sizes and types of the particles; and outputting the visibility data to one or more onboard systems.
US10672280B1	Bimodal user interface system, device, and method for streamlining a user's interface with an aircraft display unit Present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for streamlining a user's interface with an aircraft display unit. The system is comprised of a tactile interface device, a voice recognition device, a display unit, and a bimodal interface processor (“BIP”). Both the tactile interface device and the voice recognition device are configured to provide tactile and voice input data to the BIP, and the display unit is configured with at least one page comprised of user-selectable widget(s) and user-enterable widget(s). The BIP is configured to receive the tactile input data corresponding to selections of each user-selectable widget and each user-enterable widget unless the latter has been inhibited by an activation of the user-enterable widget. The BIP is further configured to receive voice input data corresponding to each user-enterable widget unless the user-enterable widget has not been activated. The activation of each user-enterable widget is controlled through tactile input data.
US10672279B2	Systems and methods for presenting an intuitive timeline visualization via an avionics primary flight display (PFD) A method for providing air traffic control (ATC) message data onboard an aircraft is provided. The method establishes communication connections to one or more aircraft onboard communication devices, wherein each of the one or more aircraft onboard communication devices is configured to provide the ATC message data using a particular format; obtains the ATC message data via the communication connections; aggregates the ATC message data, to create an aggregate set of ATC message data; presents a menu of user-selectable options based on an aircraft state, by a display device, wherein each of the user-selectable options is associated with a category of the aggregate set of ATC message data; receives a user input selection of one of the user-selectable options; and presents graphical elements and text associated with the category of the aggregate set of ATC message data, in response to the user input selection.
US10672276B2	Image display system and riding device An imaging display system including an imaging unit that images an image of outside of a riding device and outputs a video signal that indicates the image, a video signal processing unit that receives the video signal from the imaging unit and outputs a digital video signal based on the video signal that has been received, a central signal processing unit that receives the digital video signal from the video signal processing unit via a transmission line in the riding device, a display control unit that receives the digital video signal from the video signal processing unit, generates a display signal from the digital video signal that has been received, and outputs the display signal, and a display unit that displays an image that is indicated by the display signal that has been received from the display control unit is configured.
US10672275B2	Vehicle control device and vehicle control method A vehicle control device obtains, a relative distance of an object to an own vehicle in the travel direction of the own vehicle and a lateral position that is a relative location of the object to the own vehicle in a lateral direction orthogonal to the travel direction. The vehicle control device sets a limit value indicating the lateral width of a determination region for determining whether or not the object is present in the traveling path of the own vehicle. The vehicle control device determines, on the basis of the lateral position of the object and the limit value for the determination region, whether or not the object is present in the traveling path of the own vehicle. The vehicle control device extends the determination region width by correcting the limit value when the object is a vehicle and the relative distance is less than a predetermined distance.
US10672272B2	System and method for determining parking availability Disclosed are systems and methods for determining whether a user of a navigation software or service has left a parking space and hence the parking space may have a potentially free space. The described technique comprises receiving an indication of a transportation-behavior change at a location; identifying one or more candidate parking spaces based on the received indication of the transportation-behavior change; calculating, for each of the candidate parking spaces, a confidence level that a user has left a respective a respective candidate parking space; and finally, identifying, based on a maximal confidence level, an available parking space, the available parking space having been vacated by the user.
US10672271B2	Systems and methods for detecting continued occupancy of transport users in transport vehicles The network system triggers registration of the start of a transport journey in response to a communication of a transport user device and a transport provider device with each other, performs a continuous coordinated proximity monitoring to verify the identity of a transport user and a transport provider vehicle, and triggers registration of the end of the transport journey through communication of the transport user device and the transport provider device with each other.
US10672270B2	Traffic information providing device and operation method thereof, and driving assistance device connected thereto A traffic information providing device according to an embodiment includes: a communication unit that receives driving information from a plurality of vehicles; and a controller that detects vehicles having danger of a collision at an intersection area from the plurality of vehicles on the basis of the received driving information, creates traffic information for the detected vehicles having danger of a collision to avoid a collision of the vehicles having danger of a collision, and controls the communication unit to transmit the created traffic information to the vehicles having danger of a collision before entering the intersection area.
US10672269B2	Display control assembly and control method therefor, head-up display system, and vehicle Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display control assembly, a control method for a display control assembly, a head-up display system, and a vehicle. The display control assembly includes a processor and a display source. The processor is configured to generate, according to driving state information of a vehicle, traffic information of an intersection to be approached by the vehicle and distance information, prompt information for indicating a driving suggestion; and the display source is configured to output the prompt information.
US10672268B1	Traffic signal indicating sign The improved traffic signal indicating sign may be coupled to a motorist warning such as a traffic signal or to a traffic sign in advance of the traffic signal. The improved traffic signal indicating sign may extend beyond the edges of the motorist warning to which it is coupled and may call attention to the motorist warning. A backplate surrounding the motorist warning may comprise an inner border and an outer border. The inner border may comprise a plurality of border indicator lights which may be associated with the traffic signal and may be communicatively coupled, either directly or indirectly, to a controller for the traffic signal such that the border indicator lights may change to reflect the state of the traffic signal. The outer border may comprise a reflective strip to further increase awareness.
US10672266B2	Systems and methods for monitoring roadways using magnetic signatures A system and method are disclosed for using magnetic signatures at predetermined positions along a roadway to monitor traffic travelling along the roadway by comparing the predetermined magnetic signatures with magnetic signatures being dynamically and continuously measured by each vehicle as they travel along the roadway. Magnetometers incorporated into mobile devices or otherwise incorporated within the vehicle measure magnetic signatures for comparison to the predetermined magnetic signatures that form a connection graph or database of points that correspond to possible paths along a roadway. When a magnetic signature match is made, the system recognizes that the vehicle has passed a particular point on a roadway and forwards that information to the appropriate entity for further processing, analysis, or toll assessment.
US10672262B2	Electronic apparatus and method for controlling the same An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling the same are provided. More particularly, an electronic apparatus controlled by a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same are provided. The y embodiments provide an electronic apparatus controlled by a selection of one button positioned in a first remote controller for a first electronic apparatus, and a method for controlling the same.
US10672261B2	Gesture-based control device for controlling an electrical load A control device is configured to control one or more electrical loads in a load control system. The control device is a wall-mounted device such as dimmer switch, a remote control device, or a retrofit remote control device. The control device includes a gesture-based user interface for applying advanced control over the one or more electrical loads. The types of control includes absolute and relative control, intensity and color control, preset, zone, or operational mode selection, etc. Feedback is provided on the control device regarding a status of the one or more electrical loads or the control device.
US10672260B2	Systems and methods for monitoring a patient health network Systems and methods for monitoring physiological monitoring systems are described herein. A communication interface module can be configured to receive from a physiological monitoring system first data based on a snapshot taken of a status of the physiological monitoring system at a first time. A memory module can be configured to store the first data and a baseline associated with the physiological monitoring system. A processor module can be configured to compare the first data with the baseline and to generate a notification if the first data deviates from the baseline by a predetermined amount. A display module can be configured to display a physical location of a plurality of physiological monitoring systems and display the notification.
US10672259B2	Automated sensing of firefighter teams A system and method for monitoring emergency personnel during an emergency incident is disclosed. The emergency personnel wear wireless communication units (CU) including a short-range radio and a long-range radio. CUs are configured to periodically transmit a unique identification from the short-range radio of the CU, receive the unique identification transmitted from the short-range radio of any other CU within range of the short-range radio, and transmit a data packet from the long-range radio, each data packet containing the unique identification of the CU and all the unique identifications recently received from any other CUs. The system can include an incident command monitoring system including a computing device to access a personnel and unique identifier database and analyze the data packets and initiate an alert if the unique identification associated with one of the emergency personnel has not been received by the communication unit of a team member.
US10672257B2	Method for securing fire-hazardous operations to be executed by a person A method for securing fire-hazardous operations to be executed by a person in a fire-hazardous spatial work area, wherein a unique area identifier is associated with the work area and wherein the area identifier in the work area is electronically readable, includes receiving a unique identifier of the person, receiving an indication of the type of fire-hazardous operations to be executed, electronically reading the area identifier; sending a request to a database for master data on the work area, the request comprising the area identifier; receiving, in response to the sending of the request, the master data from the database, the master data including a unique spatial position of the work area; interrogating the safety devices of the work area to be deactivated for the duration of the time period; and sending a deactivation command to a fire alarm system.
US10672255B2	Emergency event virtual network function deployment and configuration A method, computer-readable medium, and device for deploying virtual network functions in response to detecting an emergency event are disclosed. A method may detect an emergency event associated with a first location, deploy a first virtual network function on a first host device of the wireless network in a central zone associated with the first location, in response to detecting the emergency event, and configure a first alarm threshold for the first virtual network function that is indicative of a type loading condition at the first virtual network function. The method may further deploy a second virtual network function on a second host device of the wireless network in a second zone and configure a second alarm threshold for the second virtual network function that is indicative of the type of loading condition at the second virtual network function.
US10672251B1	Contextual assessment of current conditions In some examples, systems, methods, and devices are described that generate contextual suggestions for patients. Generation of the contextual suggestions is triggered by certain events performed by a medical professional with respect to a patient (e.g., updating a patient record). The contextual suggestions are related to addressing health conditions of the patient and represent tasks or considerations which the medical professional should be made aware. The contextual suggestions are generated in a way that is considerate of patient context, medical professional context, and contexts of similar patients. The contextual suggestions can be presented to the medical professional for selection and execution.
US10672250B2	Method for ascertaining a state of a product A method ascertains a state of a product in a plurality of time periods using a detection unit associated with the product. The method including the following for each of the time periods: setting a configuration of the detection unit at a beginning of the respective time period, the configuration different than a configuration available beforehand, and detecting at least one measured value using the detection unit in the respective time period on the basis of the set configuration.
US10672249B1	Determining, scoring, and reporting mobile phone distraction of a driver Among other things, information generated by sensors of a mobile phone and indicative of motion of the mobile phone and state information indicative of a state of operation of the mobile phone are monitored. Based on the monitoring, distraction by a user of the mobile phone who is a driver of a vehicle is determined.
US10672248B1	Systems and methods for the mitigation of drowsy or sleepy driving Systems and methods for mitigating drowsy and/or sleepy driving may include utilizing vehicle-related and wellness-related telematics to detect and/or predict drowsy and/or sleepy driving states of a driver of a vehicle and take mitigating actions to thereby increase the safety of the driver and other people and/or vehicles in the vicinity of the driver's vehicle. Vehicle-related telematics data and wellness-related telematics data (which may include sleep data) may be collected via sensors that disposed on-board the vehicle, in the vehicle's environment, and at a personal health/fitness tracker of the driver. The collected data may be collectively interpreted to detect, predict, and/or otherwise discover information relating to a drowsy and/or sleepy state of the driver, and one or more mitigating actions may be automatically performed based on the discovered information to thereby mitigate undesirable effects of drowsy/sleepy driving and increase driving safety.
US10672243B2	Smart tracker IP camera device and method A smart device comprising at least one memory, a retractable base, the retractable base being electronically adjustable, a processor, coupled to the at least one memory, one or more sensors, wherein at least one of the one or more sensors is exterior to a smart device housing and communicable to the processor, and wherein the one or more sensors acquire a space information, an individual information, or both, of a surrounding environment. The processor causes the retractable base to adjust based on instructions stored on the at least one memory, wherein the processor utilizes space information and individual information, in a surrounding environment, to determine how to adjust the retractable base, wherein the processor, in response to changes in the space information, the individual information or both, causes the retractable base to adjust, and wherein the processor stores the changes of the space information, the individual information or both, in the at least one memory, and causes the retractable base to adjust in response to new changes in the space information, the individual information or both.
US10672238B2	Doorbell communities Doorbells can send data to each other to enable a first doorbell user to warn a second doorbell user regarding a suspicious visitor. A first user can indicate a first trait of a visitor via a first remote computing device. The first user can create a user group to enable the members of the user group to use their doorbells to take pictures of suspicious visitors and to send the pictures of the suspicious visitors to other members of the user group.
US10672237B2	Doorbell sound output device controllers, doorbell switches, and associated systems and methods A doorbell switch includes a user input device configured to receive a user command to activate a doorbell sound output device, and activation circuitry configured to generate an activation signal in response to the user input device receiving the user command to activate the doorbell sound output device. A doorbell sound output device controller includes a switching device configured to control flow of electrical current between the doorbell sound output device controller and the doorbell sound output device, and control circuitry configured to control the switching device to enable flow of electrical current between the doorbell sound output device controller and the doorbell sound output device in response to receiving the activation signal from the doorbell switch.
US10672236B1	Intelligent POS machine The invention relates to an intelligent POS machine. The intelligent POS machine comprises a housing, a card reading module, a turning plate, and a rear work module; the housing is internally provided with an embedding groove; the card reading module is located in the embedding groove; the rear work module is installed on the turning plate; the turning plate is hinged on an inside wall of the embedding groove and located above the card reading module; the housing is internally provided with a control board; the card reading module is connected with the control board, and the rear work module is connected with the control board through an FPC board. In this way, the whole exterior of the POS machine is more integrated and more elegant.
US10672233B2	Linked game play on gaming machines Embodiments of the present concept provide gaming devices configured for linked game play. First and second gaming devices that are separately playable by first and second players are electronically linked so that a gaming event being played at the first gaming device may also be being played at the second gaming device. Also provided is a method of sharing game play across multiple gaming devices, where the method includes receiving a wager from a first player at a first gaming device, receiving a wager from a second player at a second gaming device, initiating a gaming event that is displayed at the first and second gaming devices, and awarding prizes associated with gaming outcomes displayed at the first and second gaming devices. These and other arrangements of the present concept may allow cooperative or competitive game play between the first and second player.
US10672229B2	Casino patron service validation device Methods, systems, and devices are provided for validating player entitlement to an award or service, such as complimentary goods or services or paid for goods or services, such as based upon game play activity and/or time since a last award or service. A validation system may include at least one wager-based gaming device. The system also has a validation module connected to the gaming device. The validation module may receive information from the gaming device or external devices. The validation module includes a visual notification output that provides a visual notification of the player's eligibility for an award or service.
US10672227B2	Hybrid game with manual trigger option Systems and method for providing a gambling hybrid game having manual triggering of gambling events is disclosed. The systems and method involve providing a proposition of a gambling event to a user and receiving an input accepting the proposition from a user. The gambling event that is associated with the proposition is then resolved. The results of the gambling event are then determined and the wagers are resolved. The results of the gambling event are then used to change variables in a set of game variables that are applied in the game.
US10672226B2	Method for authenticating a wager using a system and method for interacting with virtual geographic zones A system and method for user interaction includes a network, a server connected to the network, a supervisor device receiving information from a global positioning system and connected to the network, a user device receiving information from the global positioning system and connected to the network. The supervisor, having the supervisor device, defines a set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones in which the user device is tracked, and saves the set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones to a supervisor account on the server. The user downloads a user application, sets-up a user account, and downloads the set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones. As the user, having the user device, moves through the virtual geographic zones and sub-zones the location of the user device is determined and a set of supervisor-defined actions are executed on the user device based on the location of the user device.
US10672225B2	Use of mobile device as a direct input/output device for a player tracking system for gaming machines A mobile device is used as an input/output device for a player tracking system for gaming machines, such as slot machines. Each gaming machine has a unique identifier and each player has a unique identifier that is associated with an account of the player. Player credentials are electronically communicated via the mobile device directly to the player tracking system, and each player credential is associated with a player's unique identifier that is maintained by the player tracking system. The mobile device is also used to electronically communicate directly to the player tracking system a gaming machine that the player wishes to play. Prior to initiation of game play on a gaming machine, the player tracking system associates the unique identifier of a player with the unique identifier of a gaming machine that the player wishes to play. A play session is initiated at the gaming machine and game play at the gaming machine is associated with the account of the player, and activity from the play session is captured by the player tracking system. Information is displayed on a display screen of the mobile device during the play session, including data regarding the player that is maintained in the player tracking system.
US10672223B2	Live action craps table with monitored dice area A craps gaming system is directed to a craps table including a dice area and one or more sensors configured to sense when dice are added to the dice area and when dice are removed from the dice area. A plurality of player consoles located in close proximity to the craps table are connected over a network to the one or more sensors. Each player console is configured to enable players to place bets on a craps game played on the craps table. Each player console is configured to disable the player console from accepting further bets on the craps game when a signal is received from the one or more sensors indicating that dice have been removed from the dice area.
US10672220B2	Systems and methods of gaming machine image transitions A method of transitioning from one image to another image on an electronic display device of a gaming machine without the use of any pre-generated animation data file is provided. The method includes identifying a first image and a second image, where the first image is associated with display control data, and controlling the electronic display device to display the first image overlaid on the second image. The method also includes extracting a first set of details from the display control data associated with the first image, where the first set of details specify a first visual change of an incremental visual transition from the first image to the second image. The method may also include processing the first set of details, and applying, based upon the processing, the first visual change to a first part of the first image, whereby the first part of the first image is removed to reveal a first part of the second image under the first part of the first image.
US10672219B2	Storage container for a storage and delivery station for drugs A storage container for a storage and delivery station for drugs is provided. The storage container includes a retainer for preventing a multiple drug portions from being delivered simultaneously. The storage container includes a housing that surrounds a receiving chamber and has a circular cylindrical section and a base surface, and a separating device disposed rotatably in the circular cylindrical section and having multiple projections and channels. Each projection has a surface, the uppermost points of the surface defining an upper receiver boundary plane. The storage container also includes a retainer with a fastening section and a retaining section, the retaining section preventing entry of the drug portions into a channel aligned with a delivery opening, and at least one cam for removing drug portions from the retaining section, the cam being movable above the upper receiver boundary plane over the retaining section.
US10672215B2	Data authentication and provisioning method and system Techniques for authenticating the identity and validating the profile of an individual (“a presenter”) who presents him or herself to another party (“an acceptor”) as having a certain identity and having certain corresponding profile data are described. The invention can be advantageously used in Internet transactions where such authentication and validation is difficult to perform. The techniques of the present invention allow the trusted party to give a definitive answer regarding the authentication of identity and validity of profile data. Other services such as profile data provisioning and profile data updating can also be performed.
US10672211B2	Secure storage systems and methods Secure storage platforms and their application in secure temporary property storage applications are disclosed and comprise: secure locker systems; secure locker systems comprising emergency access; secure locker systems comprising collapsible lockable compartments; secure storage systems comprising chain of custody management, recording and authentication; redirected delivery including post-delivery redirected delivery, en route delivery and dispatch delivery services comprising chain of custody services; and secure property claim check and car valet systems. A secure storage platform uses a secure protocol to establish challenge code and verification code generators to provide short lived single use access authentication codes to enable secure access and custody management of secured and stored property.
US10672205B2	Method and apparatus to monitor an on-vehicle fluidic subsystem A vehicle including a fluidic subsystem composed of an electric motor, a motor driver and a fluidic pump that is disposed in a fluidic circuit of the vehicle is described. A controller includes an instruction set that is executable to determine operating parameters associated with the fluidic subsystem, and determine a plurality of power efficiency parameters for the fluidic subsystem based upon the operating parameters. The power efficiency parameters include a hydraulic power efficiency, an electro-mechanical power efficiency and an electric power efficiency. The controller can determine a state of health for the fluidic subsystem based upon the power efficiency parameters, and detect a fault in the fluidic subsystem when the state of health is less than a threshold state of health. The fault can be communicated to a vehicle operator.
US10672195B2	Information processing method and information processing device An information processing method and an information processing device are disclosed. The information processing method comprises: calculating at least one of a shape parameter and an expression parameter based on a correspondence relationship between a first set of fin a two-dimensional image containing a face of a person and a second set of landmarks in an average three-dimensional face model; and configuring a face deformable model using the at least one of the shape parameter and the expression parameter, to obtain a specific three-dimensional model corresponding to the face contained in the two-dimensional image.
US10672192B2	Display device, user terminal device, display system including the same and control method thereof A display device and a method thereof are provided. The display device includes a display, a communicator, and a processor to display a virtual reality (VR) content on the display, in response to a trigger signal and motion information to change a display viewpoint area of the VR content being received from a user terminal device through the communicator, control the display to display by changing a display viewpoint area of the VR content based on first motion direction included in the motion information until a predetermined signal is received. In response to the predetermined signal being received from the user terminal device, control the display to terminate changing the display viewpoint area.
US10672188B2	Surface reconstruction for environments with moving objects Optimizations are provided for reconstructing geometric surfaces for an environment that includes moving objects. Multiple depth maps for the environment are created, where some of the depth maps correspond to different perspectives of the environment. A motion state identifier is assigned to at least some pixels in at least some of the depth maps corresponding to moving objects in the environment. A composite 3D mesh is built using at least some of the multiple depth maps, by incorporating pixel information from the depth maps, while omitting pixel information identified by the motion state identifiers as being associated with moving objects.
US10672183B2	Graphics processing using directional representations of lighting at probe positions within a scene Graphics processing systems can include lighting effects when rendering images. “Light probes” are directional representations of lighting at particular probe positions in the space of a scene which is being rendered. Light probes can be determined iteratively, which can allow them to be determined dynamically, in real-time over a sequence of frames. Once the light probes have been determined for a frame then the lighting at a pixel can be determined based on the lighting at the nearby light probe positions. Pixels can then be shaded based on the lighting determined for the pixel positions.
US10672182B2	Compact visibility state for GPUs compatible with hardware instancing Methods and devices for rendering visible primitives in a scene of an application may include loading a primitive visibility buffer that includes a plurality of primitives representing at least one instance in a scene of the application. The primitive visibility buffer may include for each primitive of the plurality of primitives a visibility bit that describes a visibility state as visible or not visible for each of the plurality primitives. The methods and devices may include determining whether each of the plurality of primitives are visible in the scene based on the visibility bit, rendering a primitive when the visibility bit for the primitive indicates that the primitive is visible, and skipping the rendering of the primitive when the visibility bit indicates that the primitive is not visible. The methods and devices may also include combing pre-computed visibility states with runtime visibility testing when rendering the visibility bits.
US10672180B2	Method, apparatus, and recording medium for processing image A method of processing an image by a device obtaining one or more images including captured images of objects in a target space, generating metadata including information about mapping between the one or more images and a three-dimensional (3D) mesh model used to generate a virtual reality (VR) image of the target space, and transmitting the one or more images and the metadata to a terminal.
US10672177B2	Using directional irradiance data for selecting the distribution of sampling rays in a final gather step in graphics processing A graphics processing system performs a final gather process so as to generate final gather lighting data for a scene. The final gather process comprises casting sampling rays from a final gather point within the scene. Radiosity data provided for the scene is sampled using the sampling rays cast from the final gather point. Final gather lighting data is then generated from the sampled radiosity data. The sampling rays are cast from the final gather point in an informed manner based on directional irradiance data provided for the scene. The final gather process can therefore be carried out by the graphics processing system more efficiently and effectively.
US10672175B2	Order independent asynchronous compute and streaming for graphics An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The system may include one or more of a draw call re-orderer communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics subsystem to re-order two or more draw calls, a workload re-orderer communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics subsystem to re-order two or more work items in an order independent mode, a queue primitive included in at least one of the two or more draw calls to define a producer stage and a consumer stage, and an order-independent executor communicatively coupled to the application processor and the graphics subsystem to provide tile-based order independent execution of a compute stage. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10672174B2	Determining image handle locations Systems and techniques are described for determining image handle locations. An image is provided to a neural network as input, and the neural network translates the input image to an output image that includes clusters of pixels against a background that have intensities greater than an intensity of the background and that indicate candidate handle locations. Intensities of clusters of pixels in an output image are compared to a threshold intensity level to determine a set of the clusters of pixels satisfying an intensity constraint. The threshold intensity level can be user-selectable, so that a user can control a density of handles. A handle location for each cluster of the set of clusters is determined from a centroid of each cluster. Handle locations include a coordinate for the handle location and an attribute classifying a degree of freedom for a handle at the handle location.
US10672173B2	System and method for capturing and analyzing motions to be shared Techniques for storing attributes of motion and sharing the motion are described. The motion of a first user is captured and analyzed, where the attributes of motion are stored on a server or cloud. The attributes of motion are represented in a 3D anatomical coordinate system to ensure a reliable representation of an anatomy behind the motion. When accessed by a second user, an avatar is animated per the stored attributes of motion while capturing similar motion made by the second user. A stream of showing the differences in the motion by the second user and the avatar is provided to a device associated with the second user.
US10672172B2	Time-dependent client inactivity indicia in a multi-user animation environment A method for managing a multi-user animation platform is disclosed. A three-dimensional space within a computer memory is modeled. An avatar of a client is located within the three-dimensional space, the avatar being graphically represented by a three-dimensional figure within the three-dimensional space. The avatar is responsive to client input commands, and the three-dimensional figure includes a graphical representation of client activity. The client input commands are monitored to determine client activity. The graphical representation of client activity is then altered according to an inactivity scheme when client input commands are not detected. Following a predetermined period of client inactivity, the inactivity scheme varies non-repetitively with time.
US10672169B2	Method and system for generating a 360-degree presentation of an object Methods and systems for generating an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of an object are disclosed. The methods and systems obtain data describing the object, where the data includes information about a number of images of the object, as well as additional information about the object. The images are automatically obtained and rearranged into at least one sequence of images substantially evenly distributed around 360 degrees. It is determined whether to add hotspot(s) to image(s), and if hotspot(s) are to be added, the hotspot(s) are automatically added to the image(s). The ordered images of the sequence(s) are then merged into an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of the object.
US10672164B2	Predicting patch displacement maps using a neural network Predicting patch displacement maps using a neural network is described. Initially, a digital image on which an image editing operation is to be performed is provided as input to a patch matcher having an offset prediction neural network. From this image and based on the image editing operation for which this network is trained, the offset prediction neural network generates an offset prediction formed as a displacement map, which has offset vectors that represent a displacement of pixels of the digital image to different locations for performing the image editing operation. Pixel values of the digital image are copied to the image pixels affected by the operation by: determining the vectors pixels that correspond to the image pixels affected by the image editing operation and mapping the pixel values of the image pixels represented by the determined offset vectors to the affected pixels. According to this mapping, the pixel values of the affected pixels are set, effective to perform the image editing operation.
US10672155B2	Non-linear, multi-resolution visualization of a graph Methods, systems, and computer program products for non-linear, multi-resolution visualization of a graph are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating multiple sub-graphs derived from an input knowledge graph, wherein the input knowledge graph comprises multiple nodes and multiple edges, and wherein each of the generated sub-graphs comprises a distinct level of resolution; processing an input comprising at least one area of user interest on the input knowledge graph; generating a multi-resolution version of the input knowledge graph by combining two or more of the generated sub-graphs, wherein the two or more sub-graphs are selected based on the at least one area of user interest; and outputting the multi-resolution version of the input knowledge graph to the user via an interactive mechanism.
US10672154B2	3D toolface wellbore steering visualization Systems, devices, and methods for producing a three-dimensional visualization of a drill plan and drilling motor with a toolface are provided for drill steering purposes. A drilling motor with a toolface in communication with a sensor system is provided. A controller in communication with the sensor system is operable to generate a depiction of the drill plan and a depiction of the drilling motor, and to combine these depictions in a three-dimensional visualization of the downhole environment. This visualization is used by a user to steer the drill.
US10672153B2	Posterior image sampling using statistical learning model Image reconstruction can include using a statistical or machine learning, MAP estimator, or other reconstruction technique to produce a reconstructed image from acquired imaging data. A Conditional Generative Adversarial Network (CGAN) technique can be used to train a Generator, using a Discriminator, to generate posterior distribution sampled images that can be displayed or further processed such as to help provide uncertainty information about a mean reconstruction image. Such uncertainty information can be useful to help understand or even visually modify the mean reconstruction image. Similar techniques can be used in a segmentation use-case, instead of a reconstruction use case. The uncertainty information can also be useful for other post-processing techniques.
US10672146B2	Calibration apparatus for onboard camera and calibration method for onboard camera A calibration apparatus for an onboard camera includes an image acquiring unit, a marker recognizing unit, a movement distance calculating unit, an image storage unit, and a calibration unit. The movement distance calculating unit calculates a movement distance of a vehicle based on a number of times that a process in which a first feature portion in a marker moves to a position overlapping a second feature position in the marker in the image is repeated. The image storage unit stores a specific image that includes the marker. The calibration unit calibrates the onboard camera using the specific image. The image storage unit stores, as the specific image, (a) the image in which the marker is recognized, and (b) the image acquired when the movement distance from a position of the vehicle when the specific image has been acquired in the past reaches a predetermined distance.
US10672144B2	Image display method, client terminal and system, and image sending method and server A method, client terminal and server for displaying an image, and a method and a server for sending an image are disclosed. The image display method includes providing an input interface; receiving an input information from a user via the input interface, wherein the input information being used for determining an observation point; and displaying a projection image of at least one of an observation object or an observation area, wherein the projection image is an image formed by projecting the at least one of the observation object or the observation area onto a projection plane corresponding to the observation point. The present disclosure can display a viewing effect corresponding to an observation point.
US10672142B2	Object recognition apparatus, method for recognizing object, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for storing program An object recognition apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute an acquisition process that includes acquiring RGB-depth (D) image data on a target object in which an object is stored, the RGB-D image data being acquired by an RGB-D camera; execute a presumption process that includes presuming a frontmost plane of the target object from the acquired RGB-D image data; execute a sorting process that includes sorting features of the target object at a position specified by the presumed frontmost plane from among features extracted based on the RGB-D image data; and execute a computing process that includes computing a position and an orientation of the target object by performing matching between the RGB-D image data and a template of the target object using the sorted features.
US10672136B2	Active image depth prediction An active depth detection system can generate a depth map from an image and user interaction data, such as a pair of clicks. The active depth detection system can be implemented as a recurrent neural network that can receive the user interaction data as runtime inputs after training. The active depth detection system can store the generated depth map for further processing, such as image manipulation or real-world object detection.
US10672135B2	Device and methods for processing computer tomography imaging data The invention relates to a device for processing CT imaging data, comprising a processing unit, which is configured to receive a plurality of sets of CT imaging data recorded at different imaging positions and at different points in time. Furthermore, the processing device is configured to provide a plurality of auxiliary sets of CT imaging data, each auxiliary set of CT imaging data comprising processed image data allocated to spatial positions inside a respective spatial section of the object space, wherein a given one of the spatial sections contains those spatial positions which are covered by those sets of CT imaging data acquired at a respective one of the imaging positions, and to generate the processed image data for a given spatial position using those of the sets of CT imaging data acquired at the respective one of the imaging positions.
US10672134B2	Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium storing image processing program An image processing apparatus includes a deterioration degree estimation unit, a statistical information calculation unit, a correction coefficient calculation unit, and a contrast correction unit. The deterioration degree estimation unit estimates a deterioration degree of each local region of image data. The statistical information calculation unit calculates at least a luminance of a high luminance portion in a luminance distribution of the image data from statistical information of each local region of the image data. The correction coefficient calculation unit calculates a correction coefficient to perform contrast correction. The contrast correction unit performs the contrast correction for each local region of the image data on the basis of the correction coefficient calculated by the correction coefficient calculation unit.
US10672128B2	Online learning enhanced atlas-based auto-segmentation An image segmentation method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a plurality of atlases and a subject image, each atlas including an atlas image showing a structure of interest and associated structure delineations, the subject image being acquired by an image acquisition device and showing the structure of interest. The method further includes calculating, by an image processor, mapped atlases by registering the respective atlases to the subject image, and determining, by the image processor, a first structure label map for the subject image based on the mapped atlases. The method also includes training, by the image processor, a structure classifier using a subset of the mapped atlases, and determining, by the image processor, a second structure label map for the subject image by applying the trained structure classifier to one or more subject image points in the subject image. The method additional includes combining, by the image processor, the first label map and the second label map to generate a third label map representative of the structure of interest.
US10672121B2	Analysis method and analyzer Disclosed is an analysis method for detecting and analyzing light from a sample prepared so as to emit light in accordance with an amount of a test substance, the analysis method including taking an image of a storage member configured to store the sample therein; switching a state of a reflector to a state in which light from the sample is reflected toward a light detection unit and detecting light from the sample by the light detection unit; and outputting an analysis result of the sample on the basis of a light amount detected by the light detection unit.
US10672119B2	Inspection device In order to provide an inspection device capable of quantitatively evaluating a pattern related to a state of a manufacturing process or performance of an element, it is assumed that an inspection device includes an image analyzing unit that analyzes a top-down image of a sample in which columnar patterns are formed at a regular interval, in which an image analyzing unit 240 includes a calculation unit 243 that obtains a major axis, a minor axis, an eccentricity, and an angle formed by a major axis direction with an image horizontal axis direction of the approximated ellipse as a first index and a Cr calculation unit 248 that obtains a circumferential length of an outline of a columnar pattern on the sample and a value obtained by dividing a square of the circumferential length by a value obtained by multiplying an area surrounded by the outline and 4π as a second index.
US10672118B2	Method and apparatus for detecting surface features A method and apparatus for detecting a feature on a surface. A mesh comprising a plurality of mesh elements is generated using surface data generated for a surface region. The plurality of normal vectors is computed for the plurality of mesh elements. A distribution for the plurality of normal vectors is generated. A dominant subset of the plurality of mesh elements is identified in which a Z component of a corresponding normal vector for each mesh element of the dominant subset is in substantially a first direction. Z components of a portion of the plurality of normal vectors corresponding to a remaining subset of the plurality of mesh elements are analyzed to determine whether the feature is present within the surface region.
US10672116B2	Substrate inspection method and system A substrate inspection system and substrate inspection method for setting an inspection region having a three-dimensional shape and/or a two-dimensional arbitrary shape as a region of interest on an image of a substrate. The substrate inspection method includes: generating and displaying a 2D image of a substrate based on image data acquired from the substrate having an inspection object; receiving first input information including arbitrary point data or line data for setting a region of interest at a plurality of particular positions of the 2D image from a user; and displaying the region of interest corresponding to the point data or the line data as a 2D region of interest having an arbitrary shape in accordance with the first input information.
US10672114B1	Computationally efficient distance-based score approximations A distance-based score approximation having improved computational efficiency is provided. Responsive to receiving a score request, a computing entity identifies an observation point based on a location indicated in the score request and defines a set of annuli comprising a plurality of concentric annuli centered on the observation point and defined by a predetermined maximum radius. The computing entity queries a geographic database for map information corresponding to geometry elements located within the predetermined maximum radius of the observation point and determines an intersection of each geometry element with each annulus. The computing entity determines a contribution for each intersection based at least in part on a size of the intersection, a measure assigned to the corresponding geometry element, and a representative radius of the corresponding annulus. The computing entity aggregates the contribution for each intersection to determine the distance-based score approximation and provides the distance-based score approximation.
US10672102B2	Conversion and pre-processing of spherical video for streaming and rendering In one embodiment, a method receives spherical content for video and generates face images from the spherical content to represent an image in the video. A two dimensional sheet for the face images is generated. A size of the face images is reduced and a pixel frame around each of the plurality of face images is added on the sheet. Also, a plurality of gaps are added on the sheet in between edges of the face images that are neighboring. The method then adds gap content in the plurality of gaps where the gap content is based on content in an area proximate to the plurality of gaps. The method encodes the face images, the pixel frame, and gap content on the sheet and sends the encoded sheet to a decoder. The face images are decoded for placement on an object structure to display the spherical content.
US10672100B2	Image processing apparatus and image processing method An apparatus determines a second pixel range of an uncorrected image necessary to generate a first pixel range having pixels in a preset range of a corrected image, including a cache unit determining the second pixel range and reading and holding the second pixel range from memory before executing correction. Correspondences indicating positions of the uncorrected image corresponding to positions of pixels of the corrected image, respectively, are preset. The cache unit specifies a position of the uncorrected image corresponding to a pixel of one of four corners of a rectangular third pixel range including the first pixel range based on the correspondence, specifies pixel ranges of the uncorrected image necessary for pixel value generation, respectively, at the four corners of the third pixel range based on the specified position, and determines a pixel range including a convex set including the specified pixel ranges as the second pixel range.
US10672098B1	Synchronizing access to buffered data in a shared buffer Systems and method for synchronizing access to buffered data are disclosed. In such a method, video data is buffered in a frame buffer memory by a producer device. A write level indicator is provided to a synchronizer by the producer device. A read level indicator is provided to the synchronizer by a consumer device. The synchronizer compares the write level indicator with the read level indicator to determine a difference. The consumer device is informed by the synchronizer when the difference meets a sub-frame threshold. The consumer device reads the buffered data from the frame buffer memory on a sub-frame-by-sub-frame basis responsive to the informing.
US10672097B2	Display driving circuit and method of partial image data An electronic device includes a display, a processor generating image data, a graphic random access memory (GRAM) storing the image data, and a display driver integrated circuit for driving the display. The display driver integrated circuit is configured to select a part of the image data and to output the selected part to a specified area of the display.
US10672095B2	Parallel data transfer to increase bandwidth for accelerated processing devices Techniques for improving data transfer in a system having multiple accelerated processing devices (“APDs”) are described herein. In such a system, multiple APDs are coupled to a processor (e.g., a central processing unit (“CPU”)) via a general interconnect fabric and to each other via a high speed interconnect. The techniques herein increase the effective bandwidth for transfer of data between the CPU and the APD by transmitting data to both APDs through the portion of the interconnect fabric coupled to each respective APD. Then, one of the APDs transfers data to the other APD or to the processor via the high speed inter-APD interconnect. Although data transferred “indirectly” through the helper APD takes slightly more time to be transferred than a direct transfer, the total effective bandwidth to the target is increased due to the high-speed inter-APD interconnect.
US10672088B2	Automated valuation model with comparative value history information An automated valuation model and corresponding analysis tool that graphically displays value history information in association with a subject property is disclosed. In one example, the tool generates a graph plotting the valuation history of a subject property over an adjustable time range in relation to a general price index for a pertinent geographical area. When looking at an appraisal for a property, the graph also supports selective plotting of appraiser-selected comparable properties' valuation histories against that of the subject property. The valuation history for comparable properties can be scaled on a pro-rata basis according to the percentage of the adjustments made within the appraisal. In addition, the graph selectively incorporates model-generated comparables and their valuation histories.
US10672081B1	Providing data associated with insured losses A computer-implemented method for providing data associated with insured losses is presented. Data regarding an event that is a cause of the insured losses may be received. Respective indications of locations of properties insured by an insurance provider and sustaining the insured losses may be received. Image data from at least one image capturing device, where the image data is obtained from an aerial view of the properties and indicative of respective conditions of the properties, may be received. The image data may be processed to determine, for each property, an indication of the respective condition. The data associated with the insured losses may be provided via a user interface. The data associated with the insured losses may include (i) the respective indications of the locations of the properties, and (ii) the indications of the respective conditions of the properties.
US10672073B2	Systems and methods for providing a trading interface with advanced features Systems and methods for a trading interface with advanced features are provided. Using these systems and methods, a user may create orders, manipulate orders, cancel orders, configure alternative keyboard settings, and/or obtain additional information on transactions. When a user clicks on a bid and/or offer, a dialog box may pop-up, thereby providing the user with multiple options. To enable customization of the keyboard settings to a user's preference, a keyboard settings feature is provided. Users may also be provided with additional information relating to the user's wish to transact.
US10672069B2	Method, apparatus and interface for transaction toggling A method for submitting transactions from an automated trading tool to an electronic exchange. The method includes defining a proximity limit and automatically generating a transaction for a tradeable object. The method further includes applying the proximity limit to the transaction. When the transaction falls within the defined proximity limit, the transaction is submitted to the exchange. An apparatus and interface for transaction toggling based on proximity limits are also provided.
US10672068B1	Ensuring the accurateness and currentness of information provided by the submitter of an electronic invoice throughout the life of a matter A facility for insuring information currentness is described. The facility receives from a party a request to submit an invoice. In response to receiving a request, the facility tests the currentness of information to be provided by the party. The facility permits the party to submit an invoice in connection with the request only if the testing determines that the information to be provided by the party is current.
US10672064B2	On-line session trace system In various example embodiments, a system and method for enhancing a user's on-line experience by utilizing a computer-implemented on-line session trace system is provided. The on-line session trace system is provided in connection with an on-line trading platform. The on-line session trace system records and stores a state of an on-line session associated with a user identification and permits a user associated with the user identification to commence a further on-line session from a state corresponding to the saved state of a previous on-line session.
US10672063B2	Indoor location mapping and wayfinding system An Indoor location mapping and wayfinding system for mapping waypoints on an interactive mapping system that can function both indoors and outdoors based on user selections and location. It can include a shopping system that allows users to pre-select items for purchase, maps the items on an indoor map of the store, and provides a route to the user for the collection of the selected items.
US10672058B2	Secret sharing with a trusted initializer An item rating and recommendation platform identifies rating data comprising respective ratings of multiple items with respect to multiple users, identifies user-feature data comprising multiple user features contributing to the respective ratings of the multiple items with respect to the multiple users, and receives, from a social network platform via a secret sharing scheme with a trusted initializer, manipulated social network data computed based on social network data and first input data from the trusted initializer. The social network data indicate social relationships between any two of the multiple users. In the secret sharing scheme with the trusted initializer, the social network platform shares with the item rating and recommendation platform the manipulated social network data without disclosing the social network data. The item rating and recommendation platform updates the user-feature data based on the rating data and the manipulated social network data.
US10672054B2	System and method for purchase recommendation for wallet linked user A method includes storing interaction data related to a first user and at least one other user. The interaction data is indicative of interactions among mobile devices operated by the users. The method further includes generating respective ranking data for each of the other users besides the first user. The ranking data is derived from the interaction data pursuant to at least one ranking rule. In addition, the method includes storing transaction data for the other users. The transaction data indicates product purchases made by the other users. An offer or product recommendation is selected based at least in part on the ranking data and the transaction data. The offer or product recommendation is transmitted to the first user.
US10672047B2	Intelligent multimedia e-catalog An intelligent product catalog system provides for electronic creation, management and viewing of product information using a multimedia display system. A central database repository stores the product information and provides for an unlimited number of product attributes and dynamic reconfiguration of the product information. The central database repository comprises a meta data system, a scheme system and an object model system. A plurality of applications access the central database repository, the applications being automatically adaptive to the dynamic reconfiguration of the product information. A user interface provides display, sorting and filtering of the product information including the unlimited number of product attributes.
US10672045B2	Systems and methods for processing orders for structural designs A method includes receiving a plurality of design files at a computer-based system, wherein each of the design files is indicative of a respective structural design, a structural value associated with the respective structural design, and a source identifier associated with a designer of the respective structural design; causing a graphical representation of at least a portion of the structural designs to be displayed to a user; receiving a user selection of a first structural design of the displayed structural designs; generating an additive manufacturing file indicative of the first structural design in a predefined format, wherein the predefined format enables the processing of the additive manufacturing file into a physical structure through an additive manufacturing process; transmitting the selected first structural design in the predefined format; and determining, by the computer based system, a royalty value associated with the selected first structural design based at least on the structural value, the source identifier, and one or more additional parameters.
US10672043B2	Method of confidentially outputting delivery waybill, server system therefor and agent system therefor In a method of confidentially outputting a delivery waybill, a seller receives an order information including a customer's personal information and transmits the order information to a product provider after removing the personal information. The product provider generates a delivery information and transmits it with a delivery waybill print request to a confidential delivery waybill server. The confidential delivery waybill server generates a combined delivery waybill information by combining the delivery information and logistics information and transmits it with the delivery waybill print request to the confidential delivery waybill agent of the seller. The confidential delivery waybill agent generates a delivery waybill by combining the combined delivery waybill information and the personal information of the customer and transmits the delivery waybill to a printer of the product provider. Finally, the product provider prints the delivery waybill including the personal information of the customer on a document.
US10672041B2	In-store field-of-view merchandising and analytics Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to aspects of in-store field-of-view merchandising and analytics. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a system receives a message from a user device. The message can include an orientation of the user device and a location of the user device within an environment, such as a store. The system can obtain a potential field-of-view of a user associated with the user device. The system can determine, based upon the orientation, the location of the user device and the potential field-of-view of the user, an estimated field-of-view of the user. The system can query a database to look-up items located within the estimated field-of-view. The system can receive, in response to the query, a query response identifying an item located within the estimated field-of-view of the user within the environment.
US10672034B2	Document consumption and value add services Document consumption and value add service techniques and systems are described. In one example, a digital medium environment is configured to control availability of a value add service to consumers of a document. Consumption data is collected from a plurality of client devices. The consumption data describes characteristics of consumption of the document by respective client devices. A readership index is calculated that describes an amount of overall consumption of the document by the plurality of client devices. Responsive to a determination by the computing device that the readership index has exceeded a threshold, the value add service that relates to the document is exposed for interaction by at least one of the plurality of client devices.
US10672032B2	Intelligent marketing and advertising platform An intelligent marketing and advertising platform which provides an innovative merchandising solution for retailers by effectively transforming the glass surface of retail product containers (such as cooler doors) into a non-transparent display of planograms. The merchandising solution provides for digital planograms and pricing management, real time promotional updates and sales data, etc. This is accomplished by converting/transforming the simple glass surface of a retail product container (such as cooler/freezer doors) into digital “smart” screens that provide for innovative advertising solutions.
US10672030B2	Targeted advertisements from intended recipient predictions derived from user information A method of generating a targeted advertisement by identifying a target criteria from an entry of a search history associated with a user, identifying an intended recipient based on social information associated with the user and the target criteria, and associating at least one item with the intended recipient by analyzing the social information and the target criteria. Further, the method includes outputting as advertisement information the at least one item and at least one of a plurality of advertisement recipients. The advertisement information enables the generation of the targeted advertisement and the at least one item is utilized in the targeted advertisement.
US10672027B1	Systems, methods, and devices for determining predicted enrollment rate and imputed revenue for inquiries associated with online advertisements In one embodiment, a system for predicting imputed revenue of inquiries includes: one or more computing devices comprising computer hardware and configured to: obtain data relating to a plurality of inquiries. Each of the plurality of inquiries is (a) indicative of a request for information about one or more programs providing a service, and (b) received from a particular channel of a plurality of online channels for presenting the one or more programs. The plurality of inquiries are represented using one or more data structures in one or more data sources. The computing devices are further configured to determine a model for predicting enrollment rates of the plurality of inquiries based at least in part on historical enrollment data of at least one program of the one or more programs, the model specifying a predicted enrollment rate value for one or more characteristics associated with the plurality of inquiries. The computing devices are further configured to: using the model, determine a predicted enrollment rate for respective inquiry of the plurality of inquiries; determine an imputed revenue of the respective inquiry based at least in part on the predicted enrollment rate for the respective inquiry, the imputed revenue indicative of a potential revenue that can be generated from the respective inquiry; and adjust an allocation of presentation of the one or more programs among the plurality of online channels, the adjusting based at least in part on the determined imputed revenue of the respective inquiry.
US10672024B1	Generating filters based upon item attributes Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs that generate filters that can be used to filter offerings in a user interface. The effectiveness of filters can be evaluated to generate an effectiveness metric. The effectiveness metric can be used to weight the filters. The effectiveness metric can be based on a probability analysis of filters that are based on the probability that a filter was active when a transaction in the transaction history occurred.
US10672020B1	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for offering and processing promotions Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for classifying merchants. In one embodiment a method is provided comprising providing, a first promotion specifying a redemption and a charge monetary values, the redemption monetary value being specified by redemption parameters of the first promotion and a value indicative of a total amount of funds purchased in response to accepting an instance of the first promotion, wherein the funds purchased can be redeemed for offerings of one or more merchants specified by the promotion, the charge monetary value being a monetary value charged for accepting the first promotion, and providing a first classification classifying the first promotion as a promotion having a redemption monetary value that may be used to purchase offerings of the one or more merchants over the course of multiple transactions.
US10672008B2	System and method for data analytics The invention relates to a system and method for providing anonymized, filtered data from a financial institution having cardholders to a business client. The method may include the steps of storing data in at least one database. The data may include credit card transaction data and debit card transaction data maintained by the financial institution, cardholder demographic data maintained by the financial institution, and other data maintained by the business client. The method may also implement a heuristic process to clean the data. Further, the method may comprise providing an interface for the business client to allow the business client to filter and display the data. The interface can anonymize the data to safeguard the privacy of the cardholders, receive input from the business client as to desired filtering criteria, wherein the filtering criteria include time period, geographic region, type of merchant, and cardholder demographic data, and present the anonymized, filtered data to the business client. The invention can thus enable improved decision making by the business client in various promotions, investments and other transactions.
US10672005B1	Updating a machine learning fraud model based on third party transaction information A device receives first transaction information associated with a first transaction, and a first transaction account utilized for the first transaction and associated with a first financial institution. The device determines, based on a fraud model, that the first transaction is to be denied due to potential fraud associated with the first transaction account and receives second transaction information associated with a second transaction, and a second transaction account utilized for the second transaction and associated with a second financial institution. The device processes the first transaction information and the second transaction information, with a matching model, to determine whether the first transaction information matches the second transaction information and determines that the first transaction was incorrectly denied when the first transaction information matches the second transaction information within a predetermined threshold. The device performs one or more actions based on determining that the first transaction was incorrectly denied.
US10672001B2	Alert prioritization logic A first embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for determining a priority for a set of alert triggers and performing additional processing based on the determined priority. In some embodiments, additional processing may include generating and sending of alert messages. In other embodiments, additional processing may further include determining that the generating and sending of alert messages are to be delayed until a later time. In yet other embodiments, additional processing may include determining that no alert message is to be generated and sent. A second embodiment of the present invention relates to systems and methods for dynamically selecting a delivery channel and generating an alert message for the selected delivery channel. In some embodiments, the alert message may be formatted based on the selected delivery channel. According to one embodiment, the alert message may be generated based on a compact protocol format. When the alert message is received by a mobile device, the mobile device may use the alert message to generate a second alert message.
US10672000B1	Bypass system Computer bypass systems and methods using a customer portal of a core account computer system to bypass a core account provider computer system are disclosed. One method comprises receiving at a loan computer system a loan request from an electronic client device and obtaining core account access information comprising a core account provider identifier and core account authentication credentials of the client for a customer portal of the core account computer system. The loan computer system can use the core account authentication credentials to access the core account customer portal and obtain a core account balance and a maximum allowable loan limit. The loan computer system can provide machine readable instructions to render a graphical user interface indicating the maximum allowable loan limit and can receive a requested loan amount, which is used to transfer funds from the core fund to create a loan fund.
US10671999B2	E-coupon settlement and clearing process A system that automates the clearing and settlement of electronic coupons (E-Coupons) by leveraging existing technologies and enabling E-Coupon redemption at any merchant having electronic funds transfer (EFT) capabilities, such as credit/debit card acceptance. The system reduces opportunities for fraud, reduces or eliminates the need for manual clearinghouse counting and sorting of coupons, and provides an electronic audit trail for coupon redemption, tying a specific purchase to a specific coupon. After registering and selecting coupons, consumers then use an E-Coupon card or account access device at a merchant's point-of-sale (POS) terminal. E-Coupon values are deducted from the consumer's final amount due. Both consumer package goods manufacturers (CPGs) and merchants may be charged a fee. Expired coupons are automatically removed from the account and their value refunded to the CPGs. Reports on redeemed coupons and consumer profiles can be generated and provided to CPGs or merchants.
US10671993B2	Location-based mobile access device configuration system and method Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, apparatus, and methods for providing location-specific authentication at a mobile access device. In some embodiments, a mobile access device (e.g., a mobile POS terminal such as a smart phone) can receive a request to initiate a transaction. The mobile access device can determine a current location of the mobile access device, and can select an authentication process based upon the determined location. The selected authentication process can then be performed by the mobile access device. In some embodiments, when the current location is a first location, the selected authentication process can include requesting authentication data before authorization of the transaction and, when the current location is the second location, the selected authentication process can include requesting the authentication data after authorization of the transaction.
US10671992B2	Terminal and controlling method thereof Disclosed are a terminal and controlling method thereof. The present invention includes a display unit configured to display a sound output menu for selecting whether to perform a voice output in performing a payment, a communication unit configured to transceive payment information, a controller, if the payment is performed when the sound output menu is ON state, converting the payment information into a voice, and an audio output module configured to output the payment information converted into the voice.
US10671988B2	Methods and systems for processing an electronic payment A method is provided for processing an electronic payment. The method comprises (a) receiving, by a server, a first electronic request for a first token from a cardholder's device, the server being in communication with a database storing payment credentials for one or more payment cards associated with the cardholder; (b) generating the first token using an identity of the cardholder's device and transmitting the first token to the device; (c) receiving a second electronic request for processing the transaction from a merchant terminal, said second request comprising the first token and a merchant terminal identifier; (d) generating a second token using the first token and the merchant terminal identifier and transmitting the second token to the merchant terminal; (e) receiving a third token and a transaction authorization request from a merchant acquiring bank; (f) validating the third token using the second token; and (g) upon the validation operation (f) being successful, submitting the transaction authorization request to a card issuing bank.
US10671986B2	Self-service distribution, collection, and diagnostic system for mobile devices Systems and method are described herein for self-serve retail locations (e.g., interactive vending machines or kiosks) that are capable of handling the distribution, collection, and diagnosis of mobile devices in an on-demand manner. The self-serve retail locations may operate continuously (e.g., 24 hours a day, seven days a week). The mobile devices that are rentable and/or purchasable from the self-serve retail location may be equipped and/or activated with service plans (e.g., call, messaging, and/or data plans) offered by a local telecommunications service provider. The service plans may be pre-configured or may be customized in real-time by a user. The self-service retail locations may operate without human intervention, and may be deployed with minimal overhead at several destinations with a much smaller footprint than typical retail locations. A user may access the self-serve retail location to rent and/or purchase mobile devices as well as return previously rented and/or purchased mobile devices.
US10671983B2	Computer message routing and processing system and method A message routing and processing computing device and associated methods for routing and processing computer messages are disclosed. The message routing and processing computing device stores payment account identifiers and associated message routing instructions and is configured to receive a computer message including a payment account identifier. Based, at least in part, on the payment account identifier, the message routing and processing computing device determines a message route for the message and routes the message accordingly.
US10671982B2	Payment processing system, apparatus and method in real estate transactions Disclosed is a method for processing of earnest money checks comprising the steps of: a. receiving a physical earnest money check from a buyer that is a party to a real estate purchase and sale contract for a real estate property, b. via a computing device connected to the Internet, accessing an online application for the processing of physical check payments, c. selecting a Send Earnest Money Check functionality in the application and at one or more prompts capturing a photo of an image of a front face of the physical check and an image of a back face of the check, and d. at one or more prompts inputting information for an earnest money payment transaction, the information comprising buyer information, the real estate property information and title company information for a title company that is approved by the buyer and a seller to the real estate purchase contract for managing escrow and closing.
US10671980B2	Systems and methods for detecting potentially compromised payment cards A computer-implemented method for detecting potentially compromised payment cards is provided. The method uses a processor in communication with a memory. The method includes storing a plurality of tokens. Each token includes merchant identification data corresponding to a first merchant. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of tokens to the first merchant and receiving an authorization request message from a merchant. The authorization request message includes a token and a merchant identifier corresponding to the merchant. The method further includes determining that the received token is one of the plurality of tokens associated with the first merchant, determining that the merchant identifier does not correspond to the first merchant, transmitting a message including instructions to decline the transaction, and attaching a potentially compromised flag to the first merchant. The potentially compromised flag indicates a heightened probability of fraudulent activity.
US10671973B2	Systems and methods for automatic processing of forms using augmented reality The present disclosure discloses a method for automatic processing of forms using augmented reality. In an embodiment, a filled-out application form including one or more fields is scanned in augmented reality mode and its one or more images are captured. The captured images are used to identify the form type by comparing them with an original application form and to generate an electronic version of the form. Subsequently, filled-out content in the images is extracted and compared with a retrieved configuration file, which has a type same as the identified type of the filled-out application form. Based on this comparison, one or more messages are generated that are superimposed on the electronic version of the form in the augmented reality mode and that both are displayed.
US10671968B2	Method and system of processing commodity object information A method and system of processing commodity object information. The method includes: determining a commodity object as a future for conducting an advance sale and an advance sale quantity; determining information of a first user of the commodity object of the advance sale and information of a physical logistics warehouse associated with the first user; generating information of a virtual logistics warehouse of the commodity object of the advance sale; and acquiring address information of a second user and determining whether the address information of the second user is located in a distribution coverage of the virtual logistics warehouse when logistics warehouse information of the commodity object is displayed to the second user, and providing the information of the virtual logistics warehouse of the commodity object to the second user if affirmative. The present disclosure can avoid an occurrence of an event such as “over-sale”, exceeding a distribution coverage, etc., during a future advance sale.
US10671962B2	Methods, apparatus, and systems for transmitting a corrective pickup notification for a shipped item accompanying an ID node based upon intended pickup master node movement Improved movement-based technical solutions for transmitting a corrective pickup notification for a shipped item are described. For example, a first master node at a first location receives shipping information about the item. That master node identifies an intended pickup master node from the shipping information and determines the location of an ID node associated with the item over a time period, which may indicate the item is not moving away from the first location. After identifying the location of the intended pickup master node over the time period, the first master node automatically senses an adverse pickup condition when the intended pickup master node does is moving away from the first location while the ID node's detected location over time indicates the item is not moving away from the first location. The first master node then transmits the corrective pickup notification to a second logistics devices based on the adverse pickup condition sensed.
US10671961B2	Systems and methods for transportation Systems and methods for transportation includes a car sharing network that invites ride-sharers to join the network; a computer receiving a trip request from one or more riders including a module for: matching, by the computer, the trip request to one or more routes having a common route and satisfying a cost-effective navigation route; dispatching, by a computer, an autonomous vehicle to pick up the rider(s) along the cost-effective route; recommending an item or event of interest to the rider(s); and changing the route to accommodate the item or event.
US10671956B2	Measure factory A measure factory for generating analytic measures includes data sets representing business activities arranged as columnar arrays with each column being associated with a distinct source rule that applies to the column when it is used as a data source. The measure factory includes factory rules that govern which operations on available data sources may be executed under what conditions in the measure factory, such as by taking into account the source rules and other applicable factory rules. A factory rule execution hierarchy governs the execution of ready factory rules that lack dependency on other factory rules before executing ready factory rules that have dependency on other factory rules. A script generation facility generates a script to process the plurality of factory rules according to the factory rule execution hierarchy.
US10671945B2	Exchanging encumbrances across multiple ticket holders A ticketing system allows a ticket purchaser to encumber one or more tickets and, without purchasing the tickets, swap the encumbered tickets for other encumbered tickets. The ticketing system encumbers one or more tickets, and in response to an exchange request, searches for other encumbered tickets and facilitates an exchange. The shopping carts of the respective ticket holders can be updated to reflect the exchange. The encumbered ticket exchange may be between two parties, or may be a complex exchange between multiple holders of encumbered tickets prior to ticket purchase.
US10671944B2	Method for selling and searching for items A system capable of identifying and locking resources (e.g., items, tickets, etc.) may map resources to a bit vector and use bit vectors to efficiently identify and lock the resources. For example, tickets to a concert may be mapped to a bit vector and the system may generate an availability bit vector indicating an availability of the seat locations. Thus, the tickets may be reserved by changing a binary value for bits corresponding to individual tickets. In addition, the system may generate bit vectors corresponding to metadata associated with the seat locations (e.g., aisle seat, handicap accessible, first ten rows, back ten rows, etc.), allowing the system to easily identify available seat locations that satisfy the search request. As the bit vectors are relatively small and can be processed easily, the system may improve a latency and reduce an error rate associated with searching for and reserving seat locations.
US10671936B2	Method for clustering nodes of a textual network taking into account textual content, computer-readable storage device and system implementing said method The invention relates to a method for clustering nodes of a network, the network comprising nodes associated with message edges of text data, the method comprising an initialization step of determination of a first initial clustering of the nodes, and a step of iterative inference of a generative model of text documents. Edges are modeled with a Stochastic Block Model (SBM) and the sets of documents between and within clusters are modeled according to a generative model of documents. The inference step comprises iteratively modelling the text documents and the underlying topics of their textual content, and updating the clustering as a function of the modelling, until a convergence criterion is fulfilled and an optimized clustering and corresponding optimized values of the parameters of the models are output.
US10671933B2	Method and apparatus for evaluating predictive model An approach for a computer to evaluate a predictive model includes identifying features of training samples in a set of training samples. The approach selects evaluation metrics from a set of evaluation metrics as available metrics using identified features and includes determining recommended metrics using the predictive model, the available metrics, and a predetermined set of user-preferred metrics. The approach applies the predictive model created using the set of training samples to a set of test samples to calculate values of the available metrics. The approach evaluates the predictive model by using the available metrics and the values of the available metrics to evaluate the predictive model by evaluating the predictive model using the recommended metrics and the values of the recommended metrics.
US10671929B2	Question correction and evaluation mechanism for a question answering system Mechanisms are provided in a question answering (QA) system comprising a QA system pipeline that analyzes an input question and generates an answer to the input question, for pre-processing the input question. The mechanisms receive an input question and input the input question to a pre-processor flow path having one or more pre-processors. The one or more pre-processors transform the input question into a transformed question by correcting errors in a formulation of the input question that are determined to be detrimental to efficient and accurate processing of the input question by a QA system pipeline of the QA system. The transformed question is then input to the QA system pipeline of the QA system which processes the transformed question to generate and output an answer to the input question.
US10671928B2	Adaptive analytical modeling tool The methods include, for instance: building model connections between models in a knowledgebase, which stores case data as model networks. An exploration probability stored in the knowledgebase indicates a likelihood of new connections based on a case data input to be employed for an analytical model of the case data input, which includes numerous stages and multiple model choices in each stage. Based on the new connections and model networks of the knowledgebase, paths are created and performance of respective paths/connections are evaluated. A predefined number of top performing paths are selected and the models and attributes that do not appear in the top performing paths are eliminated from the knowledgebase. Probabilities of model networks and a future case data input are updated accordingly and a best-fit model for the case data input is presented to a user.
US10671925B2	Cloud-assisted perceptual computing analytics A computing device and method for cloud-assisted perceptual computing is described. The computing device includes a sensor to collect data for perceptual computing. The computing device also includes an analytics determiner to calculate a disposition result based on the data collected by the sensor and to calculate a confidence level of the disposition result. The computing device compares the confidence level to a threshold and sends the data to a cloud computing device in response to the confidence level being below the threshold.
US10671923B2	Genetic method for the tracking of time varying signals A method for the coherent tracking of a time varying signal using evolutionary computing including global and local optimization techniques for the purpose of obtaining better performance under poor signal reception conditions, multipath errors, indoors, and for obtaining more accurate estimates of carrier phase, carrier frequency, and modulation phase at low signal levels without being subject to the traditional phase lock tracking loops (PLL) or delay lock tracking loops (DLL) limitations.
US10671922B2	Batch renormalization layers Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a neural network. In one aspect, the neural network includes a batch renormalization layer between a first neural network layer and a second neural network layer. The first neural network layer generates first layer outputs having multiple components. The batch renormalization layer is configured to, during training of the neural network on a current batch of training examples, obtain respective current moving normalization statistics for each of the multiple components and determine respective affine transform parameters for each of the multiple components from the current moving normalization statistics. The batch renormalization layer receives a respective first layer output for each training example in the current batch and applies the affine transform to each component of a normalized layer output to generate a renormalized layer output for the training example.
US10671921B1	Crowd-sourced training of a neural network for RSS fingerprinting A method and system of crowd-sourced training of a neural network for mobile device indoor navigation and positioning. The method, executed in a processor of a server computing device, comprises: based on RSS parameters acquired at a mobile device from a wireless signal source, localizing the mobile device to a first position within indoor area in accordance with a probabilistic confidence level; if the confidence level exceeds a threshold confidence level, adding the RSS parameters in association with the first position to a fingerprint database of the indoor area; and training a neural network implemented in the processor at least in part based on the RSS parameters as added to the fingerprint database.
US10671919B2	Target detection method and device, neural network training method and device This application provides a target detection method and device based on a neural network and training method and device of a neural network for target detection. The target detection method comprises: acquiring a to-be-detected image that contains a target; acquiring first feature information of the to-be-detected image by use of a first neural network, acquiring second feature information of the to-be-detected image by use of a second neural network; combining the first feature information and the second feature information to acquire combined feature information; and acquiring a target detection result by use of the second neural network and based on the combined feature information, wherein the number of layers of the second neural network is larger than the number of layers of the first neural network, the first feature information is heatmap feature information, and the second feature information is picture feature information.
US10671916B1	Systems and methods to execute efficiently a plurality of machine learning processes Described herein are systems and methods for executing efficiently, in real-time, a plurality of machine learning processes. In one embodiment, a computing platform with multiple compute elements receives multiple data streams, each such stream associated with its own respective machine learning process. Each machine learning process is operative to use its data stream as input to train, in real-time, a respective mathematical model. Each of the processes has peaks and dips in processing demands. The system re-allocates, in real-time, compute elements from the processes with lower processing demands to processes with higher processing demands, thereby handling all of the multiple processes on-the-fly, preventing peak demands from causing the system to stall, and reducing overall the computational resources required by the system.
US10671914B2	Analog neuromorphic circuit implemented using resistive memories An analog neuromorphic circuit is disclosed, having input voltages applied to a plurality of inputs of the analog neuromorphic circuit. The circuit also includes a plurality of resistive memories that provide a resistance to each input voltage applied to each of the inputs so that each input voltage is multiplied in parallel by the corresponding resistance of each corresponding resistive memory to generate a corresponding current for each input voltage and each corresponding current is added in parallel. The circuit also includes at least one output signal that is generated from each of the input voltages multiplied in parallel with each of the corresponding currents for each of the input voltages added in parallel. The multiplying of each input voltage with each corresponding resistance is executed simultaneously with adding each corresponding current for each input voltage.
US10671906B1	Method for analyzing and verifying a microscopic imprint configured on an object for determining authenticity The present invention is a method for analyzing an imprint configured on a surface of an object at a source location and verifying at a destination location to determine the object's authenticity. The method includes capturing at least one image at a source location and examining and analyzing the captured image. The analysis is performed by dividing the captured image into multiple layers. For each layer area, size, threshold points, distance between threshold points and angle of lines are determined and then stored in the first database. Afterwards this data is encrypted by a source user and uploaded to a blockchain. When the object reaches the destination location the destination user performs the same operation of capturing, examining and analyzing by dividing the captured image into multiple layers in the same fashion as performed by the source user and then stored in a second database. The destination user also decrypts the encrypted data of the first database and compares the data of first database with the data of the second database. The results of the comparison help to determine an object's authenticity.
US10671901B1	Layered barcodes readable from multiple angles in three dimensions A computer-implemented method includes determining a set of parameters defining an arrangement of a plurality of copies of a standard barcode in two or more of layers of a layered barcode encoding subject data. The layered barcode has a plurality of cells, and for each cell in the layered barcode, a combined value for the cell is determined, where the combined value of the cell indicates a respective value of each layer at the cell, and the combined value is mapped to a color corresponding to the combined value. The plurality of layers of the layered barcode are generated, such that, at each cell of the plurality of cells, the layered barcode includes the color corresponding to the combined value of the cell.
US10671897B2	Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes an image processing part that creates bitmap data based on print data input from outside, a density correction part that performs pre-determined density correction such that a density of a print image, which is formed on a print medium, is maintained within a regulated range, and a determination part that determines whether or not it is necessary to re-create the bitmap data based on the print data according to a comparison result between a first density value which is created at a timing when the bitmap data is created and a second density value which is created at a timing when the density correction is performed by the density correction part. Wherein the image processing part re-creates the bitmap data based on the print data when the determination part determines that it is necessary to re-create the bitmap data, and does not re-create the bitmap data when the determination part determines that it is not necessary to re-create the bitmap data.
US10671896B2	Systems and user interfaces for enhancement of data utilized in machine-learning based medical image review Systems and techniques are disclosed for improvement of machine learning systems based on enhanced training data. An example method includes providing a visual concurrent display of a set of images of features, the features requiring classification by a reviewing user. The user interface is provided to enable the reviewing user to assign classifications to the images, the user interface being configured to create, read, update, and/or delete classifications. The user interface is responsive to the user, with the user response indicating at least two images with a single classification. The user interface is updated to represent the single classification.
US10671892B1	Apparatuses, methods, and systems for 3-channel dynamic contextual script recognition using neural network image analytics and 4-tuple machine learning with enhanced templates and context data In some embodiments, a method includes training a first machine learning model based on multiple documents and multiple templates associated with the multiple documents. The method further includes executing the first machine learning model to generate multiple relevancy masks, the multiple relevancy masks to remove a visual structure of the multiple templates from a visual structure of the multiple documents. The method further includes generating multiple multichannel field images to include the multiple relevancy masks and at least one of the multiple documents or the multiple templates. The method further includes training a second machine learning model based on the multiple multichannel field images and multiple non-native texts associated with the multiple documents. The method further includes executing the second machine learning model to generate multiple non-native texts from the multiple multichannel field images.
US10671884B2	Systems and methods to improve data clustering using a meta-clustering model Systems and methods for clustering data are disclosed. For example, a system may include one or more memory units storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving data from a client device and generating preliminary clustered data based on the received data, using a plurality of embedding network layers. The operations may include generating a data map based on the preliminary clustered data using a meta-clustering model. The operations may include determining a number of clusters based on the data map using the meta-clustering model and generating final clustered data based on the number of clusters using the meta-clustering model. The operations may include and transmitting the final clustered data to the client device.
US10671883B1	Approximate cross-check for real-time feature matching A method of feature matching is provided. The method includes the steps of (A) determining a set of correspondences between a set of reference feature points for a first image and a set of target feature points for a second image using a processor to compute a descriptor matching function for each pair of reference and target feature points and (B) reducing the set of correspondences using the processor to perform an approximate cross-check to obtain a set of valid correspondences based upon the descriptor matching function computed for each pair of feature points.
US10671881B2	Image processing system with discriminative control An image processing apparatus is described comprising a processor configured to access a template of image elements. The processor is configured to search an image which is larger than the template to find a region which is similar to the template, where similarity is measured using a similarity metric. The similarity metric comprises a normalized cross correlation function which is modified to include at least one factor related to a statistic of both the template and the region.
US10671879B2	Feature density object classification, systems and methods A system capable of determining which recognition algorithms should be applied to regions of interest within digital representations is presented. A preprocessing module utilizes one or more feature identification algorithms to determine regions of interest based on feature density. The preprocessing modules leverages the feature density signature for each region to determine which of a plurality of diverse recognition modules should operate on the region of interest. A specific embodiment that focuses on structured documents is also presented. Further, the disclosed approach can be enhanced by addition of an object classifier that classifies types of objects found in the regions of interest.
US10671876B1	Vehicle based notification record Methods and systems for generating and storing a vehicle based notification record including evidentiary License Plate Recognition (LPR) information are presented herein. A vehicle based notification record includes evidentiary images generated by an LPR imaging system, a portable imaging system, or a combination thereof. The vehicle based notification record includes the collected evidentiary images in their native format including metadata. The collected images and metadata are preserved in their original format during communication, storage, and retrieval operations. In some embodiments, the geographic location of image capture is appended to the image metadata. In some embodiments, the images are digitally signed after capture and the digital signature is appended to the metadata of each respective image. In some embodiments, a clock of the LPR imaging system and a clock of the portable imaging system are synchronized with a network time server and time of image capture is appended to image metadata.
US10671875B2	Main-subject detection method, main-subject detection apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium A degree-of-saliency map generated from an input image is divided into a plurality of partial areas, and the degree of nonuniformity is calculated from the distribution characteristics of the degrees of saliency of the partial areas. Whether a main subject is present in the input image is judged based on the calculated degree of nonuniformity.
US10671871B2	Fabric type identifying apparatus To provide a fabric type identifying apparatus capable of photographing an identifier of fabric with high resolution to correctly recognize the identifier. A fabric type identifying apparatus A for identifying a type of a fabric F provided with an identifier I includes a camera 51 for photographing the fabric F, a traversing device 53 for moving the camera 51 crosswise in a direction orthogonal to a conveying direction of the fabric F, and an image processing apparatus 52 for receiving an image input and photographed by the camera 51. The image processing apparatus 52 identifies the type of the fabric F on a basis of the identifier I included in the input image of the fabric F. The position of the camera 51 is adjustable so that the identifier I passes through a photographing area, thereby enabling to bring the camera 51 closer to the fabric F to photograph the small identifier I with high resolution, resulting in recognizing the identifier I correctly.
US10671870B2	Determining user authenticity with face liveness detection A first deep learning model is trained to classify general facial images. Cropped facial images are extracted from the general facial images. A second deep learning model is trained based on the cropped facial images. Face liveness detection is performed based on the trained first deep learning model and the trained second deep learning model.
US10671869B2	System and methods of monitoring driver behavior for vehicular fleet management in a fleet of vehicles using driver-facing imaging device Systems and methods monitor driver behavior for vehicular fleet management in a fleet of vehicles using driver-facing imaging device. The systems and methods herein relate generally to vehicular fleet management for enhancing safety of the fleet and improving the performance of the fleet drivers, and further relate to monitoring the operation of fleet vehicles using one or more driver-facing imaging devices disposed in the fleet vehicles for recording activities of the fleet drivers and their passengers, storing information relating to the monitored activities, selectively generating warnings related to the monitored activities, and reporting the monitored activities to a central fleet management system for use in enhancing the safety of the vehicles of the fleet and for helping to improve the performance of the fleet drivers.
US10671866B2	Vehicle blind spot detection system and control method thereof A vehicle includes: a communication device configured to receive information about a turn angle of an intersection at which the vehicle travels; an image sensor configured to photograph a reflector installed at the intersection to acquire an image of a target vehicle reflected in the reflector; and a controller configured to determine whether the target vehicle approaches the intersection, based on a change in position of the target vehicle on the image of the target vehicle, to decide an installation angle of the reflector based on the turn angle of the intersection, and to determine a position of the target vehicle reflected in the reflector based on the installation angle of the reflector.
US10671861B2	Image recording system, image recording method and image recording program An image recording system includes: a memory in which an image picked up by a camera and an index value are stored in association with each other, the camera being equipped in a vehicle, the index value indicating a possibility of collision between the vehicle and an obstacle at a time when the image is picked up; and at least one processing circuit configured to perform a quality changing process of decreasing a quality of the image, based on the index value.
US10671857B2	Methods and systems for video surveillance A system for video surveillance includes an image sensor configured capture an image including a reference zone and a memory device that stores instructions. The system also includes one or more processors that are configured to execute the instructions to determine 3D coordinates of a target comprised in the image and determine 3D coordinates of the reference zone. The one or more processors are further configured to identify an event according to the 3D coordinates of the target and the 3D coordinates of the reference zone.
US10671856B1	Detecting item actions and inventory changes at an inventory location Described is a system for counting stacked items using image analysis. In one implementation, an image of an inventory location with stacked items is obtained and processed to determine the number of items stacked at the inventory location. In some instances, the item closest to the camera that obtains the image may be the only item viewable in the image. Using image analysis, such as depth mapping or Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithms, the distance of the item from the camera and the shelf of the inventory location can be determined. Using this information, and known dimension information for the item, a count of the number of items stacked at an inventory location may be determined.
US10671850B2	Video image recognition apparatus, video image recognition method, and storage medium An apparatus includes an analysis unit configured to analyze a state of an environment at a time when a capturing unit captures a video image, based on a parameter for correcting the captured video image, a recognition unit configured to perform recognition processing on the captured video image, using a classifier, and a learning unit configured to learn the classifier based on a result of the analysis performed by the analysis unit and a result of the recognition performed by the recognition unit.
US10671849B2	System and method for sensor based visual adjustments According to one embodiment, a system includes a wearable device on a head of a user and including a display in a line of vision of the user, a first detector configured to detect a movement of the user, a second detector configured to detect a state of an apparatus operated by the user, and a server connected to the wearable device, the first detector and the second detector. The server is configured to display information about work contents of the user on the display based on a detection result of the first detector and a detection result of the second detector.
US10671847B2	Service implementing a work flow based on image analysis An image (e.g., a picture) is received from a communication device. The image has associated metadata that is captured while the image is taken. For example, the metadata may be a location, a date, and a time of the picture. One or more object(s) (e.g., a car) along with characteristics of the object(s) in the image are identified. For example, a characteristic may be an action associated with the object, such as a person is running. In response to analyzing the one or more objects for the one or more characteristics in conjunction with the metadata, one or more potential workflows are determined (e.g., a workflow to call the police). A list that identifies the one or more potential workflows is sent to the communication device. Input to select one of the one or more workflows is received, which initiates the selected workflow.
US10671845B2	Eyelid shape estimation using eye pose measurement Systems and methods for eyelid shape estimation are disclosed. In one aspect, after receiving an eye image of an eye (e.g., from an image capture device), an eye pose of the eye in the eye image is determined. From the eye pose, an eyelid shape (of an upper eyelid or a lower eyelid) can be estimated using an eyelid shape mapping model. The eyelid shape mapping model relates the eye pose and the eyelid shape. In another aspect, the eyelid shape mapping model is learned (e.g., using a neural network).
US10671840B2	Method and apparatus for person recognition using continuous self-learning A system and related method are provided for sensor-based person recognition. The system has a data store including global data of a user, the global data including a globally unique identifier and sensed training data. The system further has a classifier to identify the user at a first time using the global data, augment the global data with first context information of the user captured at the first time, and identify the user at a second time by finding correlations between second context information and the first context information when using the global data fails, the second context information of the user captured at the second time.
US10671832B2	Method and apparatus for tissue recognition A computer implemented image processing method is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining microscope image data defining a microscope slide image of a haematoxylin and eosin stained tissue sample, wherein the microscope slide image data comprises a plurality of image pixels; obtaining descriptor data indicating a type of tissue from which the tissue sample originates; selecting, based on the descriptor data, an image operation configured to transform the image data; applying the selected image operation to the image data to identify a number of discrete spatial regions of the image; selecting, from a data store, a set of quantitative image metrics wherein the quantitative image metrics are selected based on the descriptor data, determining, for each discrete spatial region, a sample region data value for each of the set of quantitative image metrics based on the subset of image data associated with the or each discrete spatial region, using the descriptor data to select, from the data store, at least one comparator set of tissue model data values, wherein each comparator set is associated with a different corresponding comparator tissue structure and each comparator set comprises data values of the set of quantitative image metrics for the corresponding comparator tissue structure; comparing the sample region data value for each discrete region with the at least one comparator set; and in the event that the sample region data value for the or each discrete spatial region matches the comparator set providing a map of the image data indicating that the discrete spatial region comprises the matching comparator tissue structure.
US10671830B2	Array substrate, display panel and display device An array substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting units, which are in the display area of the substrate and include emission colors: a first color, a second color and a third color, where a light transmittance of the first color and a light transmittance of the second color are both greater than a light transmittance of the third color; and a plurality of first fingerprint recognition units and a plurality of second fingerprint recognition units, which are in the display area of the substrate. Each light-emitting unit serves as a light source of each fingerprint recognition unit, and each first fingerprint recognition unit and each second fingerprint recognition unit have different configuration parameters so as to detect a same electric signal value with respect to a reflector.
US10671826B2	Indoor location services using a distributed lighting network A method includes the steps of obtaining distance measurements between a device and a number of lighting fixtures, processing the distance measurements to assign coordinates to each one of the lighting fixtures, and facilitating registration of the coordinates of a subset of the lighting fixtures to obtain registered coordinates for all of the lighting fixtures. The coordinates indicate a relative location of each one of the lighting fixtures with respect to one another. The registered coordinates indicate a location of each lighting fixture in a desired coordinate space. Accordingly, a location of a lighting fixture within a desired coordinate space can be easily obtained, which may enable significant additional functionality of the lighting fixture.
US10671823B2	Reader apparatus for upconverting nanoparticle ink printed images An improved system and method for reading an upconversion response from nanoparticle inks is provided. A is adapted to direct a near-infrared excitation wavelength at a readable indicia, resulting in a near-infrared emission wavelength created by the upconverting nanoparticle inks. A short pass filter may filter the near-infrared excitation wavelength. A camera is in operable communication with the short pass filter and receives the near-infrared emission wavelength of the readable indicia. The system may further include an integrated circuit adapted to receive the near-infrared emission wavelength from the camera and generate a corresponding signal. A readable application may be in operable communication with the integrated circuit. The readable application receives the corresponding signal, manipulates the signal, decodes the signal into an output, and displays and/or stores the output.
US10671821B2	Systems and methods for RFID-based access management of electronic devices Disclosed are systems and methods for preventing unauthorized persons from using an electronic device within a facility. In such an embodiment, the system may include an RFID tag having unique identification information associated with a wearer of the RFID tag. The RFID tag may be comprised in a non-removable item worn by the wearer, such as a bracelet. This system may also include an RFID reader associated with the electronic device and having an RFID coverage zone for detecting RFID tags within the coverage zone. A device management system may be connected to the reader and configured to determine whether a wearer in the coverage zone is authorized to use the electronic device based at least in part on detected RFID tag's unique identification information. In such an embodiment, the device management system is configured to activate the electronic device if it determines the authorized wearer is detected in the coverage zone.
US10671817B2	Electronic device, user input apparatus controlling the same, and control method thereof An electronic device executing an application through communication with a user input apparatus, the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a communication unit that is configured to communicate with the user input apparatus; an information generation unit that generates information about an exclusive controller that controls the application and is executed in the user input apparatus; and a controller that controls the information generation unit to generate the information about the exclusive controller when the electronic device is paired with the user input apparatus, and controls the communication unit to transmit the generated information about the exclusive controller to the user input apparatus.
US10671812B2	Text classification using automatically generated seed data Certain aspects produce a scoring model that can automatically classify future text samples. In some examples, a processing device perform operations for producing a scoring model using active learning. The operations includes receiving existing text samples and searching a stored, pre-trained corpus defining embedding vectors for selected words, phrases, or documents to produce nearest neighbor vectors for each embedding vector. Nearest neighbor selections are identified based on distance between each nearest neighbor vector and the embedding vector for each selection to produce a text cloud. Text samples are selected from the text cloud to produce seed data that is used to train a text classifier. A scoring model can be produced based on the text classifier. The scoring model can receive a plurality of new text samples and provide a score indicative of a likelihood of being a member of a selected class.
US10671809B2	Assisting with written communication style based on recipient dress style A method, computer system, and a computer program product for altering a written communication based on a dress style associated with a recipient is provided. The present invention may include receiving a plurality of visual data associated with the recipient. The present invention may also include analyzing the received plurality of visual data. The present invention may then include determining the dress style associated with the recipient based on the analyzed plurality of visual data. The present invention may further include retrieving a writing style associated with the recipient from a knowledge base based on the determined dress style. The present invention may also include generating a plurality of writing guidelines based on the retrieved writing style associated with the recipient.
US10671808B2	Pronoun mapping for sub-context rendering An approach is provided to detect pronouns that are included in textual posts that are found in an online discussion. The textual posts are analyzed using a natural language processing speech classification technique, that results in an identification of a noun to which the detected pronoun refers. The system then displays, on a display device, the noun to which the pronoun refers.
US10671807B2	System and method for unsupervised text normalization using distributed representation of words A system, method and computer-readable storage devices for providing unsupervised normalization of noisy text using distributed representation of words. The system receives, from a social media forum, a word having a non-canonical spelling in a first language. The system determines a context of the word in the social media forum, identifies the word in a vector space model, and selects an “n-best” vector paths in the vector space model, where the n-best vector paths are neighbors to the vector space path based on the context and the non-canonical spelling. The system can then select, based on a similarity cost, a best path from the n-best vector paths and identify a word associated with the best path as the canonical version.
US10671798B2	Digital component backdrop rendering Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for locating, using a content binder library, content elements of a publisher page. For each content element, the library determines presentation attributes of the content element and at least one other library detects a mode parameter that specifies a type of user device that is requesting the publisher page. The library selects a particular content element from the publisher page as a reference point for positioning a digital component at the publisher page using the presentation attributes of the particular content element. The library determines a location of the publisher page for rendering the digital component, where the location is determined based on the reference point and the mode parameter. The library provides the digital component for display at the location of the publisher page.
US10671796B2	Article authoring, distribution and rendering architecture A novel method of facilitating the authoring of content and the delivery of the authored content to different types of device is provided. The method supports the design of unique and aesthetically pleasing content while minimizes the amount of effort required from authors and/or publishers. The method does so by creating one single content presentation structure (CPS) for the authored content that is adaptable to different devices and different orientations. Such a universally adaptable content presentation structure is based on a standardized grid system that the publishers can easily become familiar with to author their content.
US10671794B1	Method for measuring the density of a semiconductor device layout A method for determining a density of an integrated circuit layout includes analyzing the IC layout represented by polygons. A portion of the IC layout is analyzed within a sample window located at a sample point. A local density of polygons within the sample window is determined, where an area of one or more of the polygons within the sample window is weighted according to a weighting function giving unequal weight to polygon area based on a position within the sample window. The local density values at each sample point in an array of sample points can be used to determine a layout density and to identify locations of density violations.
US10671793B1	Editing of layout designs for fixing DRC violations The present embodiments relate to providing an overlap view of external and internal components of all instance circuit cells related to a master circuit cell in a same layout view. A layout of a circuit having a plurality of instance circuit cells of a master circuit cell is provided. Further, a graphical user interface including a user selectable option for an overlay view is provided. In addition, responsive to the selection of the overlay view, the plurality of instance circuit cells of the master circuit cell is determined. In addition, a plurality of sets of circuit elements, each set of circuit elements including external circuit elements that overlap with a corresponding instance circuit cell of the plurality of instance circuit cells is determined. Further, the plurality of sets of circuit elements overlaid on the master circuit cell is displayed on the layout view.
US10671792B2	Identifying and resolving issues with plated through vias in voltage divider regions Identifying and resolving issues with placement of plated through vias in voltage divider regions of a printed circuit board (“PCB”) layout. Search parameters indicate an area of the PCB layout to be analyzed, and vias meeting the search parameters are evaluated for placement issues. Upon detecting a placement issue for a via, a solution is determined that addresses and resolves the placement issue of the via. The resolution in an embodiment includes modifying an adjacent power shape, modifying a region between shapes, and/or modifying via placement to minimize risks that include potential shorting, partially-connected vias, and/or poor plated barrel adhesion.
US10671786B2	Method of modeling a mask by taking into account of mask pattern edge interaction A mask layout is received. An interaction-free mask model is applied to the mask layout. An edge interaction model is applied to the mask layout. The edge interaction model describes an influence due to a plurality of combinations of two or more edges interacting with one another. A thin mask model is applied to the mask layout. A near field is determined based on the applying of the interaction-free mask model, the applying of the edge interaction model, and the applying of the thin mask model.
US10671781B2	Method and apparatus for performing register retiming in the presence of false path timing analysis exceptions A method for designing a system on a target device includes identifying a timing exception for a portion of a signal path. An area on the target device that includes components affected by the timing exception. Register retiming is performed where pipeline registers are added at boundaries of the area.
US10671780B2	Information processing device that executes simulation and a simulation method A simulation method executable by a computer that executes a simulation of an instruction execution of a program for a target processor, the method including: setting, to be a predicted result, an execution result of processing a memory access instruction; executing a functional simulation of an instruction execution based on an assumption of the predicted result, and obtaining timing information, so as to calculate an execution time for the memory access instruction in the case of the predicted result; generating and executing a host code; determining a type of memory to be accessed in the memory access instruction; and correcting an execution time for the memory access instruction in the case of the predicted result using a value corresponding to a result of determining the type of the memory, so as to obtain an execution time for the memory access instruction in the functional simulation.
US10671779B1	Function calls in high level synthesis A method of high level synthesis may include detecting in an application, using computer hardware, a first function including a first call site for a second function and a second call site for the second function, determining, using the computer hardware, that the first call site and the second call site each pass different data to the second function and each receive different return data from the second function, and generating, using the computer hardware, a circuit design from the application including a circuit block implementing the second function and multiplexer circuitry. The multiplexer circuitry may be configured to coordinate passing of data to the circuit block from a first source circuit corresponding to the first call site and a second source circuit corresponding to the second call site, with handshake signals exchanged between the circuit block, the first source circuit, and the second source circuit.
US10671777B2	Scalable finite element simulation of additive manufacturing Methods and systems for providing accurate, scalable, and predictive 3D printing simulations using numerical methods for part-level simulations. Complex parts can be discretized into finite elements using independent and arbitrary meshing. The real additive manufacturing tooling path and printing time of a printing machine are simulated and applied to the mesh of finite elements using an intersection module that combines the finite element mesh with the tool path information of the printing machine in a geometric sense. This allows for localized heating effects to be simulated very accurately, and for cooling assessments to be precisely computed given the intersection module's computation of partial facets and volumes of the finite elements at any given time in the printing simulation.
US10671775B2	Sediment transport simulation with parameterized templates for depth profiling Depth-averaged flow simulation systems and methods provided herein employ parameterized templates for dynamical depth profiling for at least one step of a simulation. In one illustrative computer-based embodiment, the simulation method includes, for each map point at one given time step: determining a flow template and a sediment concentration template based on depth-averaged flow velocity and depth-averaged sediment concentrations of different classes of grain size for that map point; employing the templates to construct a vertically-distributed flow velocity profile and vertically-distributed sediment concentration profiles for associated classes of grain size for that map point, thereby obtaining 3D flow velocity and 3D sediment concentration fields; using the 3D fields to calculate fluid and sediment fluxes; updating the flow velocity and sediment concentration profiles based on the divergence of the fluxes; integrating the profiles to compute updated depth-averaged flow velocity and sediment concentrations and center of gravity; and solving the depth-averaged flow equations for the next time step.
US10671769B2	Forecasting maintenance operations to be applied to an engine A method and system forecasting maintenance operations to be applied to an engine or a part of the engine including a set of components, the system including: a processor building a lifetime model for each component of the set of components; a processor analysing the lifetime model associated with each component to build a set of failure models corresponding to the set of components, each component being associated with a failure model defining an inter-inspection interval reflecting an advanced degradation risk rate lower than a predetermined safety threshold; a processor defining a maintenance strategy including opportunistic inspections on the set of components; and a processor iteratively simulating maintenance actions on the set of components by using the set of failure models and the maintenance strategy to build a global model of relaxed maintenance operations which takes the opportunistic inspections into account while fulfilling a predetermined safety threshold of each component.
US10671768B2	Finite element modeling and analysis of crack propagation in multiple planes of a structure An apparatus is provided for predicting propagation of a crack in a structure. A finite element model is provided that represents the layers of the structure by meshes of elements having interfaces defined between adjacent elements in orthogonal potential crack planes. Overlapping interface elements are defined at the interfaces and include a plurality of node pairs spaced apart along multiple interfaces and having a node cluster therebetween that includes bound node pairs. The nodes of each node pair are coincident with respective nodes of the adjacent elements on opposite sides of the interface. An analysis of the finite element model under an external load is performed in which a crack tip is established at a node cluster. A strain energy release rate between the nodes of the bound node pairs of the node cluster is calculated and based thereon propagation of the crack is identified.
US10671767B2	Smart construction with automated detection of adverse structure conditions and remediation Methods and apparatus for smart construction with automated detection of adverse structure conditions and remediation. A sensor cluster may be inserted into the walls of a smart structure (during construction or afterwards) to detect an array of conditions, such as temperature, humidity, and the presence of undesirable insects (which may be accomplished through, for example, vibration sensors). The sensor cluster may also have a remedial action device capable of resolving any undesirable conditions. For example, upon detection of wood-destroying organisms via vibration sensors, the remedial action device may deploy ultraviolet light or insecticide to automatically exterminate the wood-destroying organisms. In some embodiments, data from the sensor cluster may be displayed on a graphical user interface.
US10671763B2	Protecting circuits from hacking using a digital reset detector Computing devices are now used for various purposes ranging from monitoring a refrigerator to driving automobiles. Protecting the data and logic within the chips of the computing devices is essential to ensure reliable operation. When a particular partition of a chip is powered-up but the logic of the partition is not reset, the logic will be in an unpredictable random state. To operate in a secure environment, it is necessary to start the operation of the logic from a known state and not a random state. To ensure the logic is operating in a secure environment, a digital reset detector circuit (DRDC) is provided that indicates if the logic was reset after power-up. The DRDC can ensure chips are secure from attacks involving reset deprivation upon power-up and help protect various secure and secret assets in a chip, including customer keys.
US10671762B2	Unified addressable memory In one embodiment, a system includes a non-volatile memory that may serve as both the main memory system and the backing store (or persistent storage). In some embodiments, the non-volatile memory is divided into a main memory portion and a persistent portion. Data in the main memory operation may be encrypted using one or more first keys, and data in the persistent portion may be encrypted using one or more second keys, in an embodiment. The volatile behavior of main memory may be implemented by discarding the one or more first keys in a power down event or other event that indicates a loss of main memory data, while the one or more second keys may be retained. In one embodiment, the physical address space of the non-volatile memory may be a mapping from a second physical address space that is used within the system.
US10671759B2	Anonymizing user data provided for server-side operations A device implementing a system for anonymizing user data provided for server-side operations includes a processor configured to receive user input including a search term, wherein first and second data structures are stored on the device, the first data structure including user interest data items that correspond to prior user activity, the second data structure including topic data items mapped to the user interest data items, the topic data items being broader than the user interest data items. The processor accesses the second data structure to obtain one or more topic data items. The processor transmits, to a server, the search term and one or more topic data items for obtaining a query suggestion or search result. The processor receives, from the server, the query suggestion or search result, the query suggestion or search result having been obtained based on the search term and one or more topic data items.
US10671754B2	Detection of sensitive personal information in a storage device A method, system and computer program product for detecting sensitive personal information in a storage device. A block delta list containing a list of changed blocks in the storage device is processed. After identifying the changed blocks from the block delta list, a search is performed on those identified changed blocks for sensitive personal information using a character scanning technique. After identifying a changed block deemed to contain sensitive personal information, the changed block is translated from the block level to the file level using a hierarchical reverse mapping technique. By only analyzing the changed blocks to determine if they contain sensitive personal information, a lesser quantity of blocks needs to be processed in order to detect sensitive personal information in the storage device in near real-time. In this manner, sensitive personal information is detected in the storage device using fewer computing resources in a shorter amount of time.
US10671753B2	Sensitive data loss protection for structured user content viewed in user applications Systems, methods, and software for sensitive data handling frameworks for user applications are provided herein. An exemplary method includes receiving subsets of structured user content consolidated into associated flattened representations, the associated flattened representations having a mapping to the structured user content and accompanied by at least lengths and offset information relating to the mapping. The method includes individually parsing the subsets of structured user content to classify portions as comprising sensitive content corresponding to one or more predetermined data schemes and, for each of the portions, identifying an associated offset and length for the portion relating to the subsets of structured user content, and indicating at least the associated offset and length to the user application for marking of the sensitive content in a user interface to the user application.
US10671752B1	Computer-based methods and systems for managing private data of users A method includes receiving a data capture event affecting personal data of a user stored in at least one storage device of a computing system and mapped in a privacy graph database. Personal data of the user may be identified in the data capture event and classified into the data categories. In response to the data capture event, a mapping of user-centric nodes associated with the at least one user associated with other users in the privacy graph database is automatically updated using the classified personal data in the data capture event. A request by a requester for personal data of at least one specific user stored in the at least one storage device is received. The privacy graph database is queried to provide the requested personal data and locations of the requested personal data of the at least one specific user in the request stored in the computing system.
US10671750B2	System and method for data classification centric sensitive data discovery A method and a sensitive data discovery engine (SDDE) are provided for discovering substantial sensitive data in source systems spanning across similar and variant data sources and applications. The SDDE configures a scanning pathway for scanning data based on a predefined or configurable unique data classification. The scanning pathway defines a sequence of one or more match operations including master data field, dictionary, code, pattern and exact data matches to be performed on the data for the unique data classification. The SDDE executes the match operations in the scanning pathway on the data based on a scan level, scores the data, and determines sensitive data. The SDDE generates a sensitive data discovery map report including locations of the sensitive data and discovery metadata including information of users and programs that access the sensitive data, generated by inspecting application codes, for use in downstream data protection and governance operations.
US10671746B2	Controlling access when processing intents in a dispersed storage network A method for execution by a storage unit includes receiving, from an intent processing entity (IPE) via a network, a request to access at least one slice corresponding to an intent. An access query is transmitted to an access control system that includes an intent resource identifier (IRI) associated with the intent and an IPE identifier associated with the IPE. A query response, generated by the access control system based on the IRI and the IPE identifier of the access query, is received from the access control system. The request is executed when the query response indicates that permission to process the intent is granted to the IPE.
US10671743B2	Automatic protection of partial document content Protecting a fragment of a document includes automatically detecting the fragment without user intervention based on the content of the fragment and/or the context of the fragment within a set of documents, selectively encrypting the fragment to prevent unauthorized access, and providing an alternative view of the fragment that prevents viewing and access of content corresponding to the fragment unless a decryption password is provided. Automatically detecting the fragment may include detecting numbers and alphanumeric sequences of sufficient length that do not represent commonly known abbreviations, detecting generic terms, detecting proper names, detecting terms signifying a type of content, detecting mutual location of terms and sensitive content, and/or detecting user defined terms. The generic terms may correspond to password, passcode, credentials, user name, account, ID, login, confidential, and/or sensitive. The proper names may be names of financial organizations and security organizations.
US10671740B2	Supporting configurable security levels for memory address ranges A processor implementing techniques for supporting configurable security levels for memory address ranges is disclosed. In one embodiment, the processor includes a processing core a memory controller, operatively coupled to the processing core, to access data in an off-chip memory and a memory encryption engine (MEE) operatively coupled to the memory controller. The MEE is to responsive to detecting a memory access operation with respect to a memory location identified by a memory address within a memory address range associated with the off-chip memory, identify a security level indicator associated with the memory location based on a value stored on a security range register. The MEE is further to access at least a portion of a data item associated with the memory address range of the off-chip memory in view of the security level indicator.
US10671738B2	Controlled publication of sensitive content Systems and methods are disclosed herein for publishing sensitive content at a future time, where prior to the future time, receiving an encrypted version of the sensitive content is received and a sequence of proof rules are applied to random portions of the encrypted version of the sensitive content. Upon successful application of the sequence of proof rules, the encrypted version of the sensitive content is prepared for publication and optionally published in encrypted form. At the future time, an encryption key is received for the encrypted version of the sensitive content and the encrypted version of the sensitive content is decrypted with the encryption key to produce the sensitive content.
US10671733B2	Policy enforcement via peer devices using a blockchain A blockchain of transactions may be referenced for various purposes and may be later accessed by interested parties for ledger verification or information retrieval. One example method of operation may include one or more of receiving an access request from a requesting device for access to an encryption key associated with a user device, broadcasting the request to peer nodes for approval or disapproval, storing a transaction to a blockchain indicating the approval or disapproval of the request for access to the encryption key, and providing access to the encryption key when the approval is indicated.
US10671732B2	Electronic apparatus and secure boot method thereof An electronic apparatus and a secure boot method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes at least two connecting devices and a storage device. In the method, a current configuration of the connecting devices is detected, in which the current configuration includes one or a combination of a number, types, specifications and identifications of external devices connected with the connecting devices. Then, multiple preset configurations recorded in the storage device are retrieved and compared with the detected current configuration. If the current configuration matches one of the preset configurations, an apparatus function corresponding to the matched preset configuration is executed.
US10671729B2	Adaptive dynamic analysis method, adaptive dynamic analysis platform, and device equipped with the same Provided is an adaptive dynamic analysis method, an adaptive dynamic analysis platform and a device equipped with the same. The adaptive dynamic analysis method for an application running in a container environment of a Linux host includes stopping execution of a first activity of the application, and acquiring analysis information for malicious code diagnosis of the application, conducting dynamic analysis using the analysis information, acquiring environment information to execute a second activity based on the dynamic analysis, and performing an execution environment update of the application by reflecting the environment information, and executing the application to enable the second activity to run.
US10671728B2	Mobile device for analyzing malicious code using a container platform, system for analyzing malicious code in a mobile device using the same, and method for analyzing malicious code using the same A mobile device having a system for analyzing malicious code is provided. The mobile device includes a container agent generating at least one Android container executing Android malicious code for dynamic analysis in response to a request received from a cloud controller and checking a state of the at least one Android container, a Linux host, a hardware module containing an operating system (OS) for the Linux host, and an analysis agent detecting a problem occurring upon an operation of the Android malicious code in the at least one Android container through the Linux host, and transmitting information of kernel-related malicious code behavior to an analysis server.
US10671727B2	Systems and methods involving features of securely handling attempts to perform boot modifications(s) via a separation kernel hypervisor Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or data isolation. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a rootkit defense mechanism (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it), inter alia, for detection and/or prevention of malicious code, for example, in a manner/context that is isolated and not able to be corrupted, detected, prevented, bypassed, and/or otherwise affected by the malicious code.
US10671725B2	Malicious process tracking Malicious processes may be tracked by obtaining process history information of a computing device and obtaining an identification of a malicious software on the computing device. An associated process of the malicious software and actions of the associated process may be identified based on the process history information. Related processes of the associated process and actions of the related processes may be iteratively identified based on the process history information. Tracking information for the malicious software may be generated based on the associated process, the actions of the associated process, the related processes, and the actions of the related processes.
US10671724B2	Techniques for detecting encryption Encryption operations may be performed by a computer system for various reasons. It is often unclear, however, whether one of the many processes executing on a system is performing encryption. Encryption can be computationally expensive, and a process that engages in a large amount of encryption may represent a performance bottleneck for the system, limiting the ability of the system to do additional work (or weakening it to a Denial of Service attack). Further, while encryption is used in many legitimate contexts, it is also used by malware in certain scenarios to communicate with a remote attacker (e.g. command and control software) or used as part of ransomware. Thus, detecting whether a process is performing encryption can be important to identifying a performance bottleneck or uncovering malware. By monitoring a process and examining certain aspects of its activity, however, encryption operations can be detected and further remedial actions can be taken if needed.
US10671723B2	Intrusion detection system enrichment based on system lifecycle Techniques are described for automatically incorporating lifecycle context information for a secured environment into an intrusion detection system monitoring the secured environment's operations. In one example, an indication of a potentially malicious action occurring in a secured environment monitored by an intrusion detection system is identified. A lifecycle-based context associated with a lifecycle operations manager (LOM) is accessed, where the LOM is responsible for managing lifecycle operations associated with components in the secured environment, and where the context stores information associated with lifecycle operations executed by the LOM. A determination is made as to whether the potentially malicious action associated with the indication is associated with information associated with an executed lifecycle operation stored in the context. In response to determining that a malicious action is associated with a lifecycle operation, a mitigation action associated with the potentially malicious action can be modified.
US10671720B2	System and method of detecting unwanted software Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for detecting unwanted software. An exemplary method comprises identifying a first file associated with a first application and a second file installed on the computing device, wherein the first file is related to the second file, identifying a second application installed on the computing device that uses at least one of the first and second files, determining a first frequency of use for the first application and a second frequency of use for the second application, determining that the second application was installed at substantially the same time as the first application based on a comparison of the first frequency of use and the second frequency of use and determining that the first application is an unwanted application when the comparison of the first frequency and the second frequency results in a degree of similarity greater than a threshold value.
US10671713B2	Method for controlling unlocking and related products A method for controlling unlocking and related products are provided. An electronic device includes at least one processor and a computer readable storage coupled to the at least one processor. The computer readable storage stores at least one computer executable instruction thereon, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to carry out actions, including: obtaining a face image; carrying out a group of rough features and a group of fine features from the face image; carrying out a verification operation for the group of rough features and the group of the fine features; carrying out a next unlocking process when verification of the group of rough features and the group of fine features is passed.
US10671706B2	Tissue management system The present invention provides a comprehensive tissue management system for transplantable materials like tissues and organs. The tracking portion of the system prompts and verifies that staff members of a medical establishment like a hospital have handled, stored, transported, reconstituted, and used the tissue or organ materials in a safe and regulatory-compliant manner from the point of receipt to the point of issuance or surgical use throughout the hospital's organization. The tracing portion of the system creates an integral record that documents which hospital staff members have provided which processing steps to the tissue or organ, any associated materials used in conjunction with such tissue or organ, and an identification of the tissue or organ that was transplanted or implanted inside a patient. Such a system will enable adverse reaction investigations for transplant patients, and recalls of transplantable materials.
US10671705B2	Customizing recipe recommendations A method for customizing recipe recommendations may include receiving a target number of calories for a user, receiving physical movement data of the user from one or more electronic sensors configured to directly measure physical movement of the user, analyzing the received physical movement data, determining one or more physical movement parameters based on the analysis of the received physical movement data, determining the recentness of each of the recipes being recommended or logged to the user, assigning a weight to each of the recipes based on the received target number of calories for the user, the determined one or more physical movement parameters, and the determined recentness of the recipe being recommended or logged to the user, ranking the recipes based on their assigned weights, and generating a custom recipe recommendation for the user based on the ranking of the recipes.
US10671704B2	Predicting immune response Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for gathering activity data describing a user's activities from one or more activity sensors and using the activity data to predict immune-response to the activity. Predicting immune-response can involve creating, personalizing, and refining immune-response prediction models based on demographic user data, activity data, blood sample data, personal genetic information.
US10671703B1	Maintaining stability of health services entities treating influenza Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for determining and mitigating the aggregate loss risk associated with hospitalization for epidemic or pandemic influenza for health insurers, reinsurers, provider organizations, or public policy-makers. An accurate prediction of this risk may be provided, which may be used to determine parameters for reinsurance underwriting or for issuance and trading of catastrophe bonds (“cat bonds”) or other insurance-linked securities (ILS) and derivatives to lay off substantial amounts of such risk to capital markets investors. In particular, one embodiment uses a novel log-expit transformation of the raw data and non-parametric gradient-boosting machine-learning modeling in order to determine a high-claim right-tail risk. Some embodiments further comprise securitizing epidemic or pandemic influenza acute care health services catastrophe risk.
US10671701B2	Radiology desktop interaction and behavior framework Disclosed and described systems, methods, and apparatus provide diagnostic display and analysis of patient data. An example radiology desktop system includes a workload manager that organizes and displays one or more worklists. The example workload manager retrieves and displays, based on receiving a selection of an active worklist, one or more exams associated with the active worklist. The example system includes a diagnostic hub triggered based on selection of an exam. The example diagnostic hub generates an exam preview panel provides a summary of the selected exam. The example diagnostic hub facilitates comparison, based on selection of a comparison exam via the user interface from a patient library, between the selected exam and the comparison exam via the diagnostic hub. The example diagnostic hub updates a worklist entry for the selected exam based on an analysis resulting from the comparison between the selected exam and the comparison exam.
US10671700B2	Systems and methods for obfuscating a circuit design Systems and methods for obfuscating a circuit design are described. One of the methods includes receiving the circuit design from a user computing device. The circuit design includes a plurality of circuit components. The method further includes obfuscating each of the circuit components by transforming layout features associated with the circuit design into a generic layout feature representation. The generic layout feature representation excludes scaled representations of the layout features. The method also includes generating a visual representation of the obfuscated designs. Each of the obfuscated designs has an input port and an output port. The method further includes enabling placement of the obfuscated designs and routing between the input ports and the output ports of the obfuscated designs. The method includes generating an obfuscated integrated circuit design having a master input port, a master output port, the obfuscated designs, and the routing between the obfuscated designs.
US10671696B2	Enhancing hybrid quantum-classical algorithms for optimization A method for enhancing hybrid-classical algorithms for combinatorial optimization includes executing, on a quantum processor, a variational algorithm, the execution producing a subset of a set of solutions (solution space) of the variational algorithm within a predefined period, the variational algorithm computing a quantum state of a quantum system corresponding to a combinatorial optimization problem, each solution in the subset having a corresponding value; sorting, according to a sorting criterion, the subset of solutions; isolating, based on the sorting, a portion of the subset of solutions wherein a value corresponding to each solution in the portion is within a boundary defined by a threshold value; computing an average value of the solutions from the portion of the subset of solutions; and altering the variational algorithm to produce a second subset of solutions such that the second subset of solutions comprises solutions having values within the boundary.
US10671693B1	Systems and methods for online identity management Disclosed systems and methods allow a user to input digital content along with identification of one or more social media websites on which the user desires to publish the digital content. The systems and methods then query the identified social media webservers and retrieve a first set of publishing rules. When the digital content satisfies the first set of rules, the systems and methods query a database to retrieve a second set of rules comprising user restrictions specific to the identified social media websites. When the digital content does not satisfy at least one rule within the second set of rules, the systems and methods render a prompt on the user device to receive modified digital content. Subsequently, the systems and methods instruct the one or more social media websites to publish the modified digital content.
US10671691B2	Methods and apparatus for accelerating content authored for multiple devices Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and apparatus for improving the delivery of web content that has been authored for multiple devices. In certain embodiments, an intermediary device such as a proxy server determines the characteristics of a client device requesting multi-device content, obtains and examines the multi-device content, and in view of the particular requesting client device removes portions that are irrelevant for that device. Doing so can accelerate delivery of the content by reducing payload and relieving the client device of the processing burden associated with parsing the content to make that determination itself, among other things.
US10671689B2	Non-transitory storage medium storing instructions readable by information processing apparatus, and two-dimensional-code creating system A non-transitory storage medium storing instructions readable by an information processing apparatus. When executed by the computer, the instructions cause the information processing apparatus to perform: executing an obtaining processing for obtaining a URL; executing a determining processing for determining whether the number of characters of a first URL obtained in the obtaining processing is less than a threshold value; and executing a creating processing in which: in a case where the number of the characters of the first URL is less than the threshold value, the information processing apparatus creates a first two-dimensional code storing the first URL; and in a case where the number of the characters of the first URL is greater than or equal to the threshold value, the information processing apparatus creates a second two-dimensional code storing a second URL associated with the first URL and having less characters than the first URL.
US10671687B2	Managing access rights to content using social media Provided are methods and systems related to communications between a social media service or provider (e.g., Twitter®, Facebook®) or other resource (e.g., web page) and one or more content providers. In an aspect, provided are methods comprising receiving a request for content, wherein the request comprises a user agnostic identifier, determining user information associated with the request, determining time information associated with the request, determining media content associated with the user agnostic identifier based on the time information, determining one or more access rights to the media content based on the user information, and providing access to the media content based on the one or more access rights.
US10671686B2	Processing webpage data A method, apparatus and system for processing webpage data. The method includes: in response to a webpage being opened, sending a link contained in the webpage to a network side device; receiving a group identification from the network side device, the group identification being determined by the network side device according to the link and used to specify a group the link belongs to; determining whether there is a browsed link belonging to the group specified by the group identification; and in response to determining there is a browsed link belonging to the group specified by the group identification, prompting that webpage content pointed by the link contained in the webpage has been browsed.
US10671682B2	Media selection and display based on conversation topics Technical solutions are described for selecting and retrieving, by a media retrieval system, media items for displaying. An example method for selecting and retrieving the media items includes monitoring a conversation of a user via a user device, and extracting a conversation topic from the conversation. The method further includes determining that a metadata database of a media storage associated with the user includes the conversation topic. The method further includes adding, in response, to a topic match database, from the media storage, an identity of a media item matching with the conversation topic, and adding, to a list of media items to be played back by a media display device, the topic match database. Further yet, the method includes playing back, by the media display device, the media item.
US10671681B2	Triggering personalized search queries based on physiological and behavioral patterns A user interaction with a computer device is monitored, the user interaction comprising at least user consuming material via the computer device. Content of the material the user is consuming is identified. Physiological pattern generated by the user while consuming the content is captured via at a sensor device. Responsive to detecting that the physiological pattern represents an outlier, a term in the content is determined for which additional information is to be provided. The term may be determined from the content based on user knowledge, frequency of the term appearing in previous content consumed by the user and popularity of the term. A search query is executed with the determined term. Result of the search query may be filtered based on the user's knowledge. The filtered result and at least one of the previous content containing the term the user has previously consumed is presented.
US10671678B2	Surface acoustic wave sensor The present invention provides a surface acoustic wave sensor capable of suitably controlling the flow of a liquid sample onto IDT electrodes. A surface acoustic wave sensor has a piezoelectric substrate, a first IDT electrode and a second IDT electrode which are located on the upper surface of the piezoelectric substrate and are separated from each other while sandwiching a detection part on the piezoelectric substrate therebetween, and the cover which forms the space being on the first IDT electrode, second IDT electrode, and the detection part and straddling them. On the lower surface of the cover, the detection part-facing surface facing the detection part has a smaller contact angle to the liquid sample than that of a pair of electrode-facing surfaces facing the first IDT electrode and second IDT electrode.
US10671677B2	Advanced keyword search application Embodiments described herein generally relate to searching of media items associated with one or more keywords. Content search features may be generated and configured to receive search scope selections. A root level limitation may be associated with a folder within a media organization architecture. A query limitation may be associated with the content search features. In certain embodiments, means for automatically correcting the search scope selections to satisfy the query limitation are provided.
US10671676B2	Multiple index based information retrieval system An information retrieval system uses phrases to index, retrieve, organize and describe documents. Phrases are identified that predict the presence of other phrases in documents. Documents are the indexed according to their included phrases. The document index is partitioned into multiple indexes, including a primary index and a secondary index. The primary index stores phrase posting lists with relevance rank ordered documents. The secondary index stores excess documents from the posting lists in document order.
US10671674B2	Finding a problem in procedures described in a guide document The present invention may be a method, a computer system, and a computer program product. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for finding a problem in procedures described in a guide document for install and configuration of software. The method comprises calculating, using a dynamic programming matching, a distance between an install-and-configuration log generated by executing the install and configuration of the software according to the guide document at a user-side computer and a log template generated by executing the install and configuration of the software according to the guide document at an administrator-side computer, and finding a problem in the procedures, using the distance.
US10671670B2	Graph based content browsing and discovery Systems and methods for using graph databases to make digital content recommendations are described. A graph database may be associated with tagged digital content. The graph database may include a node for each content tag and edges identifying a relationship between nodes. When a user accesses or searches a digital content item, the graph database may be traversed to identify and present related content recommendations to the user based on the traversed nodes. Node graph traversal may initiate from a root node associated with a tag of content item being presented to a user. Nodes may be searched based on their proximity to the root node as determined by edge connections of the graph. Initially searched nodes may include nodes in the graph database directly connected by edges to the root node. Subsequently searched nodes may include nodes one edge connected removed from the root node, and so forth.
US10671668B2	Inferring graph topologies Example embodiments relates to method and systems to infer graph topologies. A computing device for inferring a graph topology, comprises a physical processor that executes machine readable instructions that cause the computing device to process a set of unclassified tables. For each table the computing device determines a primary key comprising a set of columns of a table being analyzed, determines a set of foreign keys, each foreign key comprising a column of the analyzed table, and identifies a parameter based on the analyzed table, the primary key and the set of foreign keys. The parameter may comprise a node identification, a set of node attributes, a set of edges without attributes, a set of edges with attributes or a set of edge attributes. The computing device can cause the display of the graph topology based on the processed set of unclassified tables.
US10671666B2	Pattern based audio searching method and system A pattern based audio searching method includes labeling a plurality of source audio data based on patterns to obtain audio label sequences of the source audio data; obtaining, with a processing device, an audio label sequence of target audio data; determining matching degree between the target audio data and the source audio data according to a predetermined matching rule based on the audio label sequence of the target audio data and the audio label sequences of the source audio data; and outputting source audio data having matching degree higher than a predetermined matching threshold as a search result.
US10671663B2	Generation device, generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium A generation device according to the subject application includes an acquiring unit and a generating unit. The acquiring unit acquires multiple pieces of vector information that correspond to each search target during the proximity search. The generating unit generates multiple pieces of centroid information, in which each piece of vector information is related in accordance with a distance for vector quantization, based on multiple pieces of vector information acquired by the acquiring unit such that a difference in the number of pieces of vector information related to each piece of centroid information falls within a predetermined value.
US10671658B2	Systems and methods for automatically generating supplemental content for a media asset based on a user's personal media collection Systems and methods describe presenting media to a user at a user device, determining a location relevant to the media, determining whether the user has visited a vicinity of the location by searching through information related to the user, and based on to determining that the user has visited the vicinity of the location searching through the user's personal collection of media in a time window corresponding to the user's visit to retrieve personal media related to the location, and generating for display, based on the searching, a list of personal media related to the location relevant to the media being presented at the user device.
US10671657B2	System and method for food categorization Disclosed embodiments include apparatuses, methods and storage media associated with food item categorization. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors and a food categorization engine. The food categorization engine may be operated by the one or more processors to cause the apparatus to receive a description of a food item; analyze the description of the food item; and select one or more food categories with which to associate the food item based at least in part on a result of the analysis. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10671654B2	Estimating probability of spreading information by users on micro-weblogs Methods and systems for estimating a probability of re-sharing information include extracting keywords from a set of documents addressed to a user. The keywords from the set of documents are weighted according a metric for the user's interest in the keywords' respective source documents to create an interest model. A new document having one or more keywords is received. A likelihood that the user will re-share the new document is determined. The likelihood is based on the interest model and the one or more keywords present in the new document. The new document is automatically responded to based on the determined likelihood.
US10671652B2	Method and device for creating an index Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a method and device for creating an index. For example, the embodiments of the present disclosure propose a method for creating an index, comprising: dividing a document into a plurality of regions; determining the number of times that a token appears in the plurality of regions, the token including at least one character in the document; assigning respective weights to the plurality of regions; and creating an inverted document linked list directed to the token based on the number of times that the token appears in the plurality of regions and respective weights of the plurality of regions. In addition, the embodiments of the present disclosure propose a corresponding device and computer program product for creating an index.
US10671644B1	Adaptive column set composition A column set server adapts to data use patterns by data consumers by modifying how a table produced by a data producer is partitioned into separate column sets to reduce the waste incurred in accessing the data by multiple consumers of the data. For example, the column set server adjusts a column set distribution when a new consumer process is added, when one is retired, or when relative data set size ratios change.
US10671638B2	Allocation and reassignment of unique identifiers for synchronization of content items A client can allocate identifiers to local content items and ensure the identifiers are unique at a content management system. For example, a client can add a first content item at a first path and determine the first content item does not have a first unique identifier. The client can determine that a second content item at a second path was previously associated with the first path and determine that the first content item should inherit a second unique identifier from the second content item. The client can then assign the second unique identifier to the first content item and add a node representing the first content item to a local tree representing a local state of content items at the client, the node including the second unique identifier. The client can also upload the first content item with the second unique identifier to the content management system.
US10671637B2	Switching between a non-partitioned hash join and a partitioned hash join based on an amount of available memory A method implemented by at least one processing device, a processing device, and a computer program product are provided for adjusting hash partitions for a hash join operation. An amount of rows within each of an initial number of hash partitions is determined during assignment of respective rows to respective hash partitions. The initial number of hash partitions is adjusted to a final number of hash partitions based on the amount of rows within each of the initial number of hash partitions and an amount of available memory. The adjusting further includes determining the final number of hash partitions based on the amount of rows within each of the initial number of hash partitions and the amount of available memory, and assigning the rows to the final number of hash partitions. The hash join operation is then performed.
US10671634B2	Adjusting push notifications based on location proximity Technology is disclosed for transmitting notification updates to computing devices (“the technology”). Various embodiments of the technology includes a proxy server that facilitates transmission of notifications to the computing devices based on a location proximity and/or access pattern of the computing devices. In one such embodiment, if a particular computing device of the user is not within a predefined location proximity of a primary computing device of the user, the proxy server delays or decreases the frequency of transmission of the notifications to the particular mobile device. In another example, based on the access pattern of the particular computing device, if the proxy server determines that the user is not likely to use the particular computing device, e.g. until a certain point of time, the proxy server delays or decreases the frequency of the transmission of the notifications to the particular mobile device until around that certain point of time.
US10671631B2	Method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for non-structured data profiling A system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable for generating a profile of one or more data objects comprising determining a format of the at least one data object and selecting a data transformation policy based on the format of the at least one data object and generating a model descriptive of the non-structured data contained in the at least one data object based on the data transformation policy and selecting at least a portion of the model indicative of a portion of the non-structured data and generating a profile of the portion of the non-structured data contained in all of the one or more data objects.
US10671620B2	Method for recommending a teacher in a network teaching system The present application provides a method for recommending a teacher to a target student in a network teaching system. The method comprises: obtaining characteristic information of the target student; retrieving at least one candidate teacher from a teacher database according to the characteristic information of the target student, so as to obtain a candidate teacher list including the at least one candidate teacher; calculating, for the target student, a probability of reserving a course provided by each candidate teacher in the candidate teacher list; and ranking the at least one candidate teacher in the candidate teacher list based on the calculated probability and providing the target student with the ranked candidate teacher list.
US10671618B2	Curriculum creation using cognitive computing Computer-implemented curriculum creation can include determining, using a processor, inquiries for educational content from data aggregated from a plurality of different users over time, determining, using the processor, topics of the inquiries, and categorizing, using the processor, the inquiries into groups based upon the topics. Computer-implemented curriculum creation may include searching, using the processor, for educational content for a subset of the topics, wherein the topics of the subset are selected based upon a ranking of the topics, and determining, using the processor, whether educational content is available for the topics of the subset based upon results of the searching.
US10671617B2	Method and device for refining selection of items as a function of a multicomponent score criterion The provided solution makes it possible to select one item from a set of items, a multicomponent score being associated with each item of the set of items. After having computed a value characterising a relation ranking between a first item of the set of items and a second item of the set of items, the computed value being computed as a function of a plurality of score components associated with the first and second item of the set of items, respectively, the first item or of the second item is selected based on the computed value.
US10671616B1	Selectively modifying scores of youth-oriented content search results A method for selectively modifying scores of youth-oriented content search results is disclosed. The method includes identifying a plurality of search results, with each search result being associated with one of a plurality of scores. The method further includes selecting a subset of search results from the plurality of search results, and selecting a subset of scores within the plurality of scores that includes scores associated with the selected subset of search results. The method further includes modifying each score of the subset of scores with a query-dependent factor.
US10671614B2	Query response device The invention concerns a query response device comprising: an input adapted to receive user queries; a memory (106) adapted to store one or more routing rules; one or more live agent engines (116) configured to support interactions with one or more live agents; one or more virtual assistant engines (120) configured to support interactions with one or more virtual assistants instantiated by an artificial intelligence module (103); and a routing module (104) coupled to said live agent engines and to said virtual assistant engines, the routing module comprising a processing device configured: to select, based on content of at least a first user message from a first user relating to a first user query and on said one or more routing rules, a first of said live agent engines or a first of said virtual assistant engines; and to route one or more further user messages relating to the first user query to the selected engine.
US10671611B2	Parallel quicksort A first quicksort is performed in parallel across pairs of partitions of a dataset assigned to respective ones of available processors, including swapping elements of a first partition of a given one of the pairs that are larger than a pivot with elements of a second partition of the given pair that are smaller than the pivot. A second quicksort is performed in parallel across those partitions having elements left unsorted by the first quicksort, and first misplaced elements from a first side of the dataset corresponding to the first partition are swapped with second misplaced elements from a second side of the dataset corresponding to the second partition to produce a first dataset having elements equal to or lower than the pivot and a second dataset having elements equal to or higher than the pivot.
US10671610B2	Processing window partitioning and ordering for on-line analytical processing (OLAP) functions Provided are techniques for processing window partitioning and ordering for OLAP functions. A prior compare operation is performed by: receiving an input vector for each of one or more attributes of input data that represent one of a partition-by column and an order-by column in a database query; generating a per-attribute comparison vector for each input vector; and producing a single output vector using each per-attribute comparison vector, wherein each value of the single output vector is a Boolean attribute whose value for a given tuple is true if a current value and a most recent prior value of any of the one or more attributes are different.
US10671609B2	Methods and apparatuses for facilitating compilation of measure data Embodiments are disclosed for facilitating the compilation of measure data. In the context of a method, an example embodiment includes generating, by configuration circuitry of an interpreter, at least one abstract syntax tree based on a CQL file containing measure logic and a CQL grammar file. This example embodiment of the method further includes converting, by the configuration circuitry, the at least one abstract syntax tree into at least one strongly-typed expression tree and storing the at least one strongly-typed expression tree in a memory. Finally, the example embodiment of the method may further include executing, by data evaluation circuitry of the interpreter, the at least one strongly-typed expression tree using retrieved user data. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US10671603B2	Auto query construction for in-database predictive analytics A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing an auto-query construction operation for use with a distributed analytics operation. More specifically, in certain embodiments, the auto-query construction operation provides automatically generates SQL code instructions via an auto-query construction user interface (UI) settings in a computational system, such as the Dell Statistica computational system. The auto-query construction operation allows a user to interact with a common interface to provide query information including decision variables, parameters of an analysis and convergence criteria. The query information provided via the UI is automatically transformed to database queries and subsequent computation system operations. Thus, the user experience remains intact whether the analytics is performed in database or within the computation system.
US10671598B2	Client information management apparatus and non-transitory recording medium A client information management apparatus comprises a hardware processor. The hardware processor performs: detecting a change in a department where one client member belongs and updating a department about one client member in client information if member name in client personal information is the same as a member name about the one client member registered with the client information and if the department in the client personal information differs from the department about the one client member registered with the client information; referring to the communication information and extracting a member relating to the one client member as an update target member from different client members registered with the client information; and updating a department about the update target member registered with the client information to the same department as the one client member.
US10671597B1	Data management system and method A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining, at the computing device, one or more dependencies associated with a plurality of managed objects and a plurality of backend objects. A plurality of consistency groups with one or more managed objects of the plurality of managed objects and one or more backend objects of the plurality of backend objects may be generated based upon, at least in part, the one or more dependencies associated with the plurality of managed objects and the plurality of backend objects. The one or more backend objects of the plurality of consistency groups may be fetched. The one or more managed objects of the plurality of consistency groups may be updated based upon, at least in part, the one or more fetched backend objects.
US10671592B2	Self-maintaining effective value range synopsis in presence of deletes in analytical databases A mechanism is provided for updating attribute value information for a data table. The data table involves a set of attributes. The data table has multiple records associated with multiple data blocks. Attribute value information is associated with each data block of the multiple data blocks. The attribute value information is descriptive of at least one attribute of the set of attributes. A first data block may be marked as modified in response to a delete process for deleting from a first data block of the multiple data blocks a record having at least one attribute value that is used for generating the attribute value information of the first data block. In response to scanning the marked first data block, the attribute value information associated with the first data block may be updated based on the scan results.
US10671587B2	Reduced fixed length sort of variable length columns Provided are techniques for reduced fixed length sort of variable length columns. A fixed length sort is performed to sort a table having rows for a query, wherein the fixed length sort is based on a sort key comprised of a variable length column. A pre-determined number of the rows are read to identify the variable length column as a candidate for truncation. A length for truncating the variable length column is determined based on database statistics and based on the reading of the pre-determined number of the rows. The variable length column is truncated to the determined length to output a truncated variable length column for the sort key. The rows are sorted on the sort key having the truncated variable length column. Results are generated using the sorted rows and returned for the query.
US10671580B2	Data stream quality management for analytic environments Data stream quality management for analytic environments includes an ingress quality specification (IQS) module with a data stream analytic module. The analytic module has a data quality expectation for data of the data stream and receives the data stream from the IQS module. A selector module receives the data stream from an object and selects a subset of the received data stream. A predicate module applies a predicate to the subset to determine if the subset meets the quality expectation of the analytic module. The predicate module modifies the subset of data by annotating the subset to indicate a quality status based on whether the subset meets the quality expectation. The IQS module outputs the data stream with the annotated subset of data to the analytic module. The analytic module outputs an analysis of the object based on whether the annotated subset of data met the quality expectation.
US10671578B2	System and method for dynamically estimating data classification job progress and execution time Embodiments can provide a computer implemented method in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory comprising instructions, which are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement a system for providing classification job estimation for a data security platform comprising one or more data sources, the method comprising: for each of the one or more data sources: counting the number of databases; counting the number of tables in each database; selecting a random database; selecting a random table within the random database; retrieving a database data sample from the random table; measuring one or more latencies associated with issuing and retrieving the database data sample; measuring a processing time required to evaluate the database data sample against one or more policy rules; compiling one or more mean times for the latencies and processing times; and calculating a data source scan time using the one or more mean times and the number of tables in each database; and calculating a total estimation time through summation of each of the one or more data source scan times compiled for each of the one or more data sources.
US10671577B2	Merging synonymous entities from multiple structured sources into a dataset Merging synonymous entities from multiple structured sources into a dataset includes receiving a first set of paired terms from a first authoritative source for a domain and a second set of paired terms from a second authoritative source for the domain. The first set of paired terms is compared to the second set of paired terms with a similarity assessment based on a clustering statistical algorithm to identify paired terms from the first set of paired terms that share a synonymous term with one or more paired terms from the second set of paired terms. The paired terms associated with the synonymous term are merged and a dataset is generated that associates a normalized version of the synonymous term with any terms included in the merged paired terms.
US10671571B2	Fast network performance in containerized environments for network function virtualization Aspects of the subject technology relate to methods for inter-container communication in a virtual network environment. Steps for implementing an inter-container communication method can include: creating, using a container management system, a file-structure in a shared memory, generating, by the container management system, a first memory-mapping between the file-structure and a first network container, and generating, by the container management system, a second memory-mapping between the file-structure and a second network container. In some aspects, the method can further include steps for transferring at least one data packet from the first network container to the second network container via the file-structure in the shared memory. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10671570B2	Web application open platform interface (WOPI) server architecture and applications for distributed network computing environments A Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) server is communicatively connected to an information management (IM) server and to an online application server which acts as a WOPI client of the WOPI server. When a user wishes to open, create, or edit a document in an online application hosted by the online application server, the WOPI server is called, instead of the IM server which manages the document at the backend of an enterprise computing network. The WOPI server is configured for obtaining a working copy of the document from the IM server and providing the working copy to the WOPI client. The WOPI client provides the working copy to the online application for display on the user device. When the work is done, the working copy is sync'd back through the WOPI server to the IM server as a new draft and deleted by the WOPI server.
US10671568B2	De-duplicating attachments on message delivery and automated repair of attachments Systems and techniques of de-duplicating file and/or blobs within a file system are presented. In one embodiment, an email system is disclosed wherein the email system receives email messages comprising a set of associated attachments. The system determines whether the associated attachments have been previously stored in the email system, the state of the stored attachment, and if the state of the attachment is appropriate for sharing copies of the attachment, then providing a reference to the attachment upon a request to share the attachment. In another embodiment, the system may detect whether stored attachments are corrupted and, if so, attempt to repair the attachment, and possibly, prior to sharing references to the attachment.
US10671565B2	Partitioning target data to improve data replication performance The presently claimed invention relates to a system and method for organizing data replicated in a target data repository. The method of the presently claimed invention may receive data from a primary data store for replication in the target data repository. The method may then determine that the received data should be organized and stored according to one or more priority metrics. The method may then organize the received data according to the one or more priority metrics, and store the received data based on the priority metrics. Higher priority data may be stored faster data storage devices or be stored in smaller files where lower priority data may be stored in slower data storage devices or be stored in larger files.
US10671564B2	Neural network unit that performs convolutions using collective shift register among array of neural processing units A neural network unit has a first memory that holds elements of a data matrix and a second memory that holds elements of a convolution kernel. An array of neural processing units (NPU) each have a multiplexed register that receives a corresponding element of a row from the first memory and that also receives the multiplexed register output of an adjacent NPU. A register receives a corresponding element of a row from the second memory. An arithmetic unit receives the outputs of the register, the multiplexed register and an accumulator and performs a multiply-accumulate operation on them. For each sub-matrix of a plurality of sub-matrices of the data matrix, each arithmetic unit selectively receives either the element from the first memory or the adjacent NPU multiplexed register output and performs a series of the multiply-accumulate operations to accumulate into the accumulator a convolution of the sub-matrix with the convolution kernel.
US10671563B2	Cache management in RDMA distributed key/value stores based on atomic operations A cache management system performs cache management in a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) key value data store. The cache management system receives a request from at least one client configured to access a data item stored in a data location of a remote server, and determines a popularity of the data item based on a frequency at which the data location is accessed by the at least one client. The system is further configured to determine a lease period of the data item based on the frequency and assigning the lease period to the data location.
US10671561B2	Memory system with independently adjustable core and interface data rates An integrated circuit device is disclosed including core circuitry and interface circuitry. The core circuitry outputs in parallel a set of data bits, while the interface circuitry couples to the core circuitry. The interface circuitry receives in parallel a first number of data bits among the set of data bits from the core circuitry and outputs in parallel a second number of data bits. The ratio of the first number to the second number is a non-power-of-2 value.
US10671560B2	Serial connection between management controller and microcontroller An example computing system includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a motherboard, and a daughterboard communicatively coupled to the motherboard. The BMC includes a serial interface. The daughterboard includes a universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) terminal, a bridging chip, and a microcontroller communicatively coupled to the BMC via the bridging chip. The BMC establishes a serial connection, through the serial interface and the UART terminal, with the microcontroller.
US10671557B2	Dynamic component communication using general purpose links between respectively pooled together of like typed devices in disaggregated datacenters Embodiments are provided herein for efficient component communication and resource utilization in a disaggregated computing system. A general purpose link is provided between a plurality of devices in the disaggregated computing system such that the general purpose link is used to connect the plurality of devices. For those of the plurality of devices communicating with one another within a same pool, the connection of the general purpose link is established using a backplane to facilitate the communication; and for those of the plurality of devices communicating with one another within differing pools, the connection of the general purpose link is established through an optical switching device to facilitate the communication.
US10671553B2	Link width scaling across multiple retimer devices Differing widths of retimers are developed using differing numbers of individual retimer elements combined together. To maintain synchronous operation, various signals are provided between the individual retimer elements to allow synchronization of the various operations. A first signal is a wired-OR signal that is used for event and operation synchronization. A second set of signals form a serial bus used to transfer proper state information and operation correction data from a master retimer element to slave timer elements. The combination of the wired-OR signal and the serial bus allow the various state machines and operations inside each retimer element to be synchronized, so that the entire width of the link is properly synchronized.
US10671549B2	Memory system A device includes a connector including first and second portions, each being configured to establish an independent data connection with a portion of first and second connectors in an external device, and a controller. When the first portion is connected with a third portion of the first external connector, and a request to connect with the second portion is received from the second external connector, the controller determines whether or not to accept the request, and transmit an acceptance signal or a rejection signal to the second external connector through the second portion, according to the determination result.
US10671546B2	Cryptographic-based initialization of memory content A technique includes receiving a request to initialize a region of a memory. Content that is stored in the region is encrypted based at least in part on a stored nonce value and a key. The technique includes, in response to the request, performing cryptographic-based initialization of the memory, including altering the stored nonce value to initialize the region of the memory.
US10671542B2	Application execution enclave memory method and apparatus Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with application execution enclave memory page cache management, are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include a processor with processor supports for application execution enclaves; memory organized into a plurality of host physical memory pages; and a virtual machine monitor to be operated by the processor to manage operation of virtual machines. Management of operation of the virtual machines may include facilitation of mapping of virtual machine-physical memory pages of the virtual machines to the host physical memory pages, including maintenance of an unallocated subset of the host physical memory pages to receive increased security protection for selective allocation to the virtual machines, for virtualization and selective allocation to application execution enclaves of applications of the virtual machines. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10671538B2	Memory system for supporting a merge operation and method for operating the same A memory system may include: a nonvolatile memory device comprising a plurality of memory blocks each of which includes a plurality of pages; a volatile memory device configured to temporarily store data to be transmitted between a host and the nonvolatile memory device; and a controller configured to enter an exclusive mode in response to a request of the host, a result of checking a state of the nonvolatile memory device, or performing a merge operation on the nonvolatile memory device, exclusively use the volatile memory device to perform the merge operation during an entry period of the exclusive mode, and exit the exclusive mode in response to completing the performing of the merge operation.
US10671536B2	Method and apparatus for cache pre-fetch with offset directives A method and apparatus for pre-fetching data into a cache using a hardware element that includes registers for receiving a reference for an initial pre-fetch and a stride-indicator. The initial pre-fetch reference allows for direct pre-fetch of a first portion of memory. A stride-indicator is also received and is used along with the initial pre-fetch reference in order to generate a new pre-fetch reference. The new pre-fetch reference is used to fetch a second portion of memory.
US10671533B2	Fast cache demotions in storage controllers with metadata Provided are techniques for fast cache demotions in storage controllers with metadata. A track in a demotion structure is selected. In response to determining that the track in the demotion structure does not have invalidate metadata set, demoting the track from cache. In response to determining that the track has invalidate metadata set, the track is moved from the demotion structure to an invalidate metadata structure. One or more tasks are created to process the invalidate metadata structure, wherein each of the one or more tasks selects a different track in the invalidate metadata structure, invalidates metadata for that track, and demotes that track.
US10671530B1	High-speed and memory-efficient flow cache for network flow processors The flow cache of a network flow processor (NFP) stores flow lookup information in cache lines. Some cache lines are stored in external bulk memory and others are cached in cache memory on the NFP. A cache line includes several lock/hash entry slots. Each slot can store a CAM entry hash value, associated exclusive lock status, and associated shared lock status. The head of a linked list of keys associated with the first slot is implicitly pointed to. For the other lock/entry slots, the cache line stores a head pointer that explicitly points to the head. Due to this architecture, multiple threads can simultaneously process packets of the same flow, obtain lookup information, and update statistics in a fast and memory-efficient manner. Flow entries can be added and deleted while the flow cache is handling packets without the recording of erroneous statistics and timestamp information.
US10671529B2	Address scheduling methods for non-volatile memory devices with three-dimensional memory cell arrays At least one address scheduling method includes selecting a first bit line, selecting a first string connected to the first bit line, performing address scheduling on N pages of each of multi-level cells in the first string sequentially from a bottom word line to a top word line, and after completing the address scheduling on all word lines in the first string, performing address scheduling on second to k-th strings sequentially in the same manner as performed with respect to the first string, where “k” is 2 or a natural number greater than 2.
US10671528B2	Memory system and operating method thereof A memory system may comprise: a memory device including a plurality of memory dies; and a controller including a first memory, Wherein the controller may store data segments of user data, corresponding to a plurality of commands received from a host, in the first memory, controls the memory device to sequentially store the data segments in the memory dies through interleaving, may update map segments of map data corresponding to storage of the data segments in the memory dies, may store the map segments in the first memory, controls the memory device to store the map segments stored in the first memory in the memory dies, and may assist the host in storing the map segments, stored in the first memory, in a second memory in the host.
US10671527B2	Data storage device and method for operating the same A method for operating a data storage device including a non-volatile memory device including a first region and a second region includes: storing data from a data cache memory in memory blocks in the first region; determining a first garbage collection cost with respect to a first target memory block having the least valid page among the memory blocks in the first region in which the data are kept; determining a second garbage collection cost with respect to a second target memory block having the least valid page among the memory blocks in the first region from which the data are cleared; and performing a garbage collection operation to copy valid data of a garbage collection target memory block into memory blocks in the second region based on a comparison result of the first garbage collection cost and the second garbage collection cost.
US10671526B2	Electronic computing device, method for adjusting the trigger mechanism of a garbage collection function, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof An electronic computing device, a method for adjusting the trigger mechanism of a garbage collection function, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. A storage unit of the electronic computing device stores a whitelist. The whitelist records a plurality of data sets, wherein each of the data sets has a name of an application and an offset value of the application. A processor of the electronic computing device executes a system program. The system program loads the whitelist into a memory during a initialization procedure. The system program detects that a specific application is triggered and retrieves the offset value of the specific application from the whitelist in the memory according to the name of the specific application. The system program forks a process to the specific application and updates a threshold of a garbage collection function according to the offset value.
US10671524B2	Data storage device including nonvolatile memory device and operating method thereof A method of operating a data storage device includes programming non-fully programmed memory blocks at a point in time when a reference time elapses from a point in time when each of the memory blocks is physically erased, acquiring a first interval and a second interval, calculating a disturb index based on the first interval and the second interval, selecting a victim block for garbage collection based on the disturb index, and copying valid page data of the victim block into a free block. The first interval is defined by a point in time when each of the memory blocks is physically erased and a point in time when each of the memory blocks is fully programmed. The second interval is an interval during which a fully programmed state is maintained after a point in time when each of the memory blocks is fully programmed.
US10671520B1	Scheduled tests for endpoint agents Techniques for scheduled tests for endpoint agents are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing scheduled tests for endpoint agents includes receiving a test configuration for scheduled tests that includes a set of conditions for dynamically selecting endpoint agents that match the set of conditions in the test configuration, wherein a plurality of endpoint agents are deployed to a plurality of endpoint devices; identifying one or more of the plurality of endpoint agents that match the set of conditions in the test configuration; assigning the scheduled tests associated with the test configuration to the matching endpoint agents for execution of the scheduled tests based on the test configuration, wherein test results are based on the scheduled tests executed on each of the matching endpoint agents for monitoring network activity; and receiving uploaded results of the scheduled tests executed on the matching endpoint agents, wherein the uploaded results of the scheduled tests executed on the matching endpoint agents are processed for generating graphical visualizations and/or alerts of the monitored network activity.
US10671519B2	Unit testing for changes to version control A computer device is provided that includes a display and a processor configured to execute an integrated development environment that includes a unit testing system configured to manage a plurality of unit tests for a set of code files. The processor is further configured to determine that a user is preparing to make a change to version control for the set of code files, retrieve test result data for one or more unit tests covering one or more code files of the set of code files that have been changed in the change to version control, and output the test result data on the display before completing the change to version control for the set of code files.
US10671513B2	System and method of capturing system configuration data to resolve an application malfunction Systems and methods for tracking mobile device software errors are disclosed. A mobile device, in response to receiving an indication of shaking, may capture error diagnostic information including, for instance, a screen shot, user information, and/or a session log. The mobile device may generate an error report including the error diagnostic information, and may submit the error report to a server after a user authorizes the submission. The mobile device may further subscribe the user to error report tracking, which may include periodically receiving and displaying progress status updates for a software error indicated by the error report. The progress status update may indicate that, for instance, the software error has previously been reported by a second user, that a solution for the software error is pending, or that a solution for the software error has been found.
US10671510B1	Techniques for evaluating collected build metrics during a software build process Techniques are disclosed for enforcing build policies for a software development project of a software platform. Metrics are collected during a stage in a build process for the software development project. The metrics are collected via a build module for building a software development project. The build module is common to software development projects of the software platform. Each of the metrics is evaluated against a plurality of policies. Each policy specifies one or more rules for whether to allow the build process to proceed. Upon determining that one of the metrics does not comply with at least one of a plurality of policies, the build process is aborted at the stage.
US10671508B2	Testing a cloud service Some examples described herein relate to testing of a cloud service. In an example, a cloud service to be tested may be deployed in a cloud system. A test load may be applied to the cloud service. Upon application of the test load to the cloud service, a determination may be made whether a performance metric related to the cloud service meets a pre-configured criterion. If the performance metric related to the cloud service meets a pre-configured criterion, the cloud service may be scaled. Operations of applying, determining, and scaling may iterated until an end condition is met, wherein the test load applied to the cloud service may vary after each iteration operation.
US10671507B2	Application performance analytics platform Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques of collecting analyzing information on various types of applications in an environment by an application performance analytics platform and acting on the analyzed information. The application performance analytics platform may include at least a monitoring system, a time series database, and an APM tool collector, all of which may be programmatically interfaced with or connected to each other. The APM tool collector may access or pull APM metrics from one or more APM tools and input the metrics to the monitoring system. The time series database may access or pull log files and extract log data for analysis. Based on the analysis, the application performance analytics platform may generate one or more alerts.
US10671506B2	Evaluating fairness in devices under test Pre-silicon fairness evaluation to detect fairness issues pre-silicon. Drivers drive a plurality of commands on one or more interfaces of a device under test to test the device under test. State associated with the device under test is checked. Based on the state, a determination is made as to whether the drivers are to continue driving commands against the device under test. Based on determining that the drivers are to continue driving the commands, a further determination is made as to whether a predefined limit has been reached. Based on determining the predefined limit has been reached, ending the test of the device under test in which the test fails.
US10671504B2	System performance monitoring and optimization One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using a processor, a system performance metric; determining, using a processor, a change in the system performance metric over time; obtaining, using a processor, system change data; associating, using a processor, the change in the system performance metric and the system change data; and indicating, using an output device, a system change associated with the change in the system performance metric. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10671502B1	Monitor device with local data processing A monitor device is configured to monitor a system, such as a utility system and/or appliance. The monitor device includes sensor(s) that measure characteristic(s) of the system, and data storage that stores parameter data that is provided from a remote service. The parameter data includes thresholds, signatures, and/or other information that describes a typical operational state of the system. The monitor device includes software that executes locally to compare current sensor data to the parameter data and determine whether the current operational state of the system is within the bounds of the typical state as defined by the parameter data. In instances where the current state is atypical, indicating a possible problem with the system, a notification can be sent describing the anomaly. The monitor device can also perform other action(s) to correct the problem or mitigate possible damage, and can operate autonomously if a network connection is unavailable.
US10671500B2	Sequential resilvering of storage devices with reduced restarts A method of resilvering a plurality of failed devices in a storage pool may include detecting a failure of a first storage device in the storage pool, and determining a plurality of data blocks that are stored on the first storage device. The method may also include sorting the plurality of data blocks into one or more buckets in an order in which the plurality of data blocks are located on the first storage device, and detecting a failure of a second storage device in the storage pool after detecting the failure of the first storage device. The method may further include determining that one or more of the plurality of data blocks are also located on the second storage device, and reusing at least part of the one or more buckets to resilver the second storage device.
US10671497B2	Efficient and selective sparing of bits in memory systems A memory system for storing data is disclosed, the memory system including a plurality of memory devices configured to store data, each memory device having a plurality of bits, the memory devices configured and associated to work together as a rank to respond to a request; a memory control circuit associated with the plurality of memory devices and configured to output command and control signals to the plurality of memory devices; a detector for detecting a bit error in an operation; and a controller for remapping the bit error to a spare bit lane in response to the detector detecting the bit error.
US10671496B2	Method and apparatus for reading and writing committed data According to some aspects, a database system comprising a processor configured to execute a plurality of system components is provided. The plurality of system components may include an interface component configured to receive a write commit command and provide a write commit confirmation, a snapshot component configured to generate a plurality of snapshots of data stored in a data storage node of a plurality of data storage nodes and identify a committed snapshot representative of data that has been replicated on a majority of the plurality of data storage nodes, and a command processing component configured to modify a data element based on the write commit command, determine whether the majority of the plurality of storage nodes have replicated the modification using the committed snapshot, and generate the write commit confirmation responsive to a determination that the majority of the plurality of data storage nodes have replicated the modification.
US10671493B1	Extended remote copy configurator of three-site data replication for disaster recovery A system, method, and computer-readable storage medium enable configuring data replication in a three-site disaster recovery solution by replicating data from more than one primary volume of storage devices at a primary datacenter using a first copy technology to a secondary data center and using a tertiary copy technology to a tertiary data center. A graphical user interface presents the sessions of replicating the data using the second copy technology including: (i) one or more characteristics of the sessions; (ii) identified volumes that are in each session; and (iii) any additions or removals of volumes per session.
US10671491B2	Asset browsing and restoration over a network using pre-staging and directory storage Example embodiments relate to asset browsing and restoration over a network using on demand staging. A method may include accessing a compound asset in the storage system and restoring it as a staged asset in a staging area of the storage access system before receiving an indication from a client device to browse at least a portion of the compound asset. The method may include accessing the internal structure of the staged asset to generate an asset directory, wherein the asset directory indicates discrete items within the compound asset. The method may include storing the asset directory in the storage access system. The method may include providing the stored asset directory or a portion of the stored asset directory to the client device over a network in response to an indication from the client device to browse the compound asset.
US10671490B2	Variable checkpointing in a streaming application with one or more consistent regions A variable checkpoint mechanism in a streams manager checkpoints a streaming application based on periodic time periods for checkpoints. The variable checkpoint mechanism can take a checkpoint before a periodic time period ends when a spike is coming, or can take a checkpoint after the periodic time period ends when there is backpressure in a consistent region of the streaming application. When there is no anticipated spike coming and when there is no backpressure in a consistent region of the streaming application, the checkpoint is performed at the normal end of the periodic time period for checkpoints. In this manner the checkpoint timing of the variable checkpoint mechanism can be adjusted real-time to minimize the negative impact of checkpointing on the performance of the streaming application.
US10671483B1	Calculating data value via data protection analytics A data protection ecosystem-based data valuation methodology includes the following steps. One or more of backup data, metadata, and analytics results maintained by a data protection ecosystem are accessed. The backup data, metadata, and analytics results are obtained during the course of the data protection ecosystem providing data backup and recovery functionalities for a data storage environment that stores one or more data sets. A valuation is calculated for at least one of the one or more data sets of the data storage environment based on at least a portion of the accessed backup data, metadata, and analytics results maintained by the data protection ecosystem.
US10671477B2	Memory device and operation method of the same A method for operating a memory device includes: receiving a first read command and a first address; reading a first read data and a first error correction code from memory cells selected based on the first address; detecting and correcting an error of the first read data using the first error correction code; storing the first address as an error detection address in an address latch circuit; storing an error-corrected bit of the first read data and a position of the error-corrected bit of the first read data in a data latch circuit; and transmitting an error-corrected first read data to an external device.
US10671476B2	In-band margin probing on an operational interconnect There is disclosed in an example an interconnect apparatus having: a root circuit; and a downstream circuit comprising at least one receiver; wherein the root circuit is operable to provide a margin test directive to the downstream circuit during a normal operating state; and the downstream circuit is operable to perform a margin test and provide a result report of the margin test to the root circuit. This may be performed in-band, for example in the L0 state. There is also disclosed a system comprising such an interconnect, and a method of performing margin testing.
US10671475B2	Recovery mechanisms across storage nodes that reduce the impact on host input and output operations Provided are a method, a system, and a computer program product in which a storage controller determines one or more resources that are impacted by an error. A cleanup of tasks associated with the one or more resources that are impacted by the error is performed, to recover from the error, wherein host input/output (I/O) operations continue to be processed, and wherein tasks associated with other resources continue to execute.
US10671471B2	Topology-based feature selection for anomaly detection Instead of attempting to scan all metric measurements of a distributed application, an anomaly detector intelligently selects instances of metrics from the universe of metric instances available for the distributed application to detect anomalies. Intelligent feature selection allows the anomaly detector to efficiently and reliably detect anomalies for a distributed application. The intelligent selection is guided by execution paths of transactions of the distributed application, and the execution paths are determined from a topology of the distributed application. The anomaly detector scans the incoming time-series data of the selected metric instances by transaction type and determines whether the scanned measurements across the selected metric instances form a pattern correlated with anomalous behavior.
US10671470B2	Application performance management system with dynamic discovery and extension An application performance management system is disclosed. Operational elements are dynamically discovered and extended when changes occur. Programmatic knowledge is captured. Particular instances of operational elements are recognized after changes have been made using a fingerprint/signature process. Metrics and metadata associated with a monitored operational element are sent in a compressed form to a backend for analysis. Metrics and metadata from multiple similar systems may be used to adjust/create expert rules to be used in the analysis of the state of an operational element. A 3-D user interface with both physical and logical representations may be used to display the results of the performance management system.
US10671466B2	Secure tunneling access to debug test ports on non-volatile memory storage units Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for receiving one or more debug communications and programming, via a bus, a set of debug registers with debug information corresponding to the one or more debug communications. Additionally, tunnel logic hardware may be instructed to transfer the debug information from the set of debug registers to one or more test access ports of an intelligent device such as a non-volatile memory storage unit having a microcontroller. In one example, if it is detected that debug permission has been granted during a boot process, a control status register may be unlocked. If, on the other hand, the debug permission is not detected during the boot process, the control status register may be locked. Accordingly, an enable bit of the control status register may be used to activate the tunnel logic hardware only if the control status register is unlocked.
US10671464B2	Memory device comprising status circuit and operating method thereof A memory device includes a command decoder and a status circuit. The command decoder decodes a command. The status circuit sequentially stores operation information of the memory device determined based on the decoded command and outputs at least one of the sequentially stored operation information in response to an output control signal.
US10671457B2	Isolating communication streams to achieve high performance multi-threaded communication for global address space programs Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for detecting an outbound communication and identifying a context of the outbound communication. Additionally, a completion status of the outbound communication may be tracked relative to the context. In one example, tracking the completion status includes incrementing a sent messages counter associated with the context in response to the outbound communication, detecting an acknowledgement of the outbound communication based on a network response to the outbound communication, incrementing a received acknowledgements counter associated with the context in response to the acknowledgement, comparing the sent messages counter to the received acknowledgements counter, and triggering a per-context memory ordering operation if the sent messages counter and the received acknowledgements counter have matching values.
US10671449B2	Methods and apparatuses for setting application property and message processing The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for setting application property and message processing. Based on a setting instruction, an object for the setting instruction is determined. The object is a preset group including at least one application. Properties of all the applications in the group are set uniformly in accordance with the setting instruction. With the above setting process, after a message has been received, a group to which the application as the recipient of the message belongs is determined, a property common to the applications in the group is obtained and the message is processed based on the public property.
US10671448B2	Session processing interaction between two or more virtual assistants Devices and systems supporting more than one Virtual Assistant (VA) are able to initiate and collaborate with multiple virtual assistants within the same session and at the same time. This system allows application specific virtual assistants to register and listen for intents from a general purpose virtual assistant. When the general purpose virtual assistant raises an intent, control can be passed to an interested application specific virtual assistant for handling. The system of registering new intents increases the knowledge of the general purpose virtual assistant, or overloads the handling of an existing intent.
US10671446B2	Risk-appropriate validation for live operating system migration Methods and systems for migrating a virtual machine instance between devices include one or more migration risk rules, each migration risk rule relating to a validation set having one or more validation substasks. A processor is configured to score a received migration request against one or more of the migration risk rules to generate one or more scores for the migration request, to compare each score to a respective threshold to determine if a level of risk according to the respective rule merits performing validation for the validation set, to validate the migration request by only those validation sets that correspond to the scores that exceed the respective threshold, and to trigger migration of a virtual machine to a target device in accordance with the migration request if none of the validation sets fail to validate the migration request.
US10671444B2	Systems and methods for scheduling tasks and managing computing resource allocation for closed loop control systems Systems and methods of scheduling tasks and managing computing resource allocation in a closed loop control system is provided. The system uses historical run-time statistics that includes expected run-time (μ) and standard-deviation (σ) in run-times, of the tasks. The run-time statistics are used by the system to first predictively allocate and then to order the execution of the tasks in order to minimize the make-span. The schedule predicted is a queue of tasks to be executed on each computing resource ordered by a function of the expected run-time (μ) and standard-deviation (σ). Reactive scheduling involves periodically probing the progress and reacting to imbalances in progress across computing resources by switching tasks between lagging and leading computing resources.
US10671443B1	Infrastructure resource monitoring and migration Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage-medium embodiments for implementing infrastructure resource monitoring and migration. An embodiment includes retrieving, via an API, a plurality of resource metrics; and ingesting, via a data-processing pipeline, the plurality of resource metrics. Some embodiments may further include queuing, via a stream-processing platform, the plurality of resource metrics. The first set of resource metrics and second set of resource metrics may be selected by at least one computer processor via an application framework. Further embodiments may include populating a time-series database with data comprising the first set of resource metrics and second set of resource metrics, using the at least one computer processor. The at least one computer processor may compute first and second indices corresponding to respective first and second values and perform comparison of the indices. Some embodiments may further include migrating, based on the comparison, a computing service between resources.
US10671442B2	Dynamic preparation of a new network environment, and subsequent monitoring thereof Dynamic preparation of a new network environment, and subsequent monitoring thereof is disclosed. It is automatically determined that a new network environment is designated for creation. A subset of computing hosts is identified from a pool of computing hosts for the new network environment. Network provisioning metadata for each computing host is determined. The network provisioning metadata for each computing host includes a communication address of a baseboard management controller that controls the computing host, and authentication credentials that authorize communication with the baseboard management controller. The network provisioning metadata is stored on a storage device in a predetermined format associated with a network environment provisioner.
US10671441B2	Communication system, management apparatus, control apparatus, and communication method A communication system according to the present disclosure includes: a management apparatus (30) configured to manage positional information regarding a communication terminal (10); a server (50) configured to provide a communication service for the communication terminal (10), and a control apparatus (60) configured to control start or stop of a communication function included in a communication apparatus (40). The server (50) is arranged in the vicinity of a base station (20), the management apparatus (30) transmits the positional information regarding the communication terminal (10) to the control apparatus (60), the control apparatus (60) controls start or stop of the communication function that the communication apparatus (40) includes based on the positional information, and the control apparatus (60) notifies the communication terminal (10) of start or stop of the communication function that the communication apparatus (40) includes via the management apparatus (30).
US10671438B2	Providing additional memory and cache for the execution of critical tasks by folding processing units of a processor complex A plurality of processing entities of a processor complex is maintained, wherein each processing entity has a local cache and the processor complex has a shared cache and a shared memory. One of the plurality of processing entities is allocated for execution of a critical task. In response to the allocating of one of the plurality of processing entities for the execution of the critical task, other processing entities of the plurality of processing entities are folded. The critical task utilizes the local cache of the other processing entities that are folded, the shared memory, and the shared cache, in addition to the local cache of the processing entity allocated for the execution of the critical task.
US10671435B1	Data transformation caching in an artificial intelligence infrastructure Data transformation caching in an artificial intelligence infrastructure that includes one or more storage systems and one or more graphical processing unit (‘GPU’) servers, including: identifying, in dependence upon one or more machine learning models to be executed on the GPU servers, one or more transformations to apply to a dataset; generating, in dependence upon the one or more transformations, a transformed dataset; storing, within one or more of the storage systems, the transformed dataset; receiving a plurality of requests to transmit the transformed dataset to one or more of the GPU servers; and responsive to each request, transmitting, from the one or more storage systems to the one or more GPU servers without re-performing the one or more transformations on the dataset, the transformed dataset.
US10671431B1	Extent group workload forecasts Forecasting workload activity for data stored on a data storage device includes selecting at least one metric for measuring workload activity, providing at least one grouping of portions of the data according to a workload affinity determination provided for each of the portions at a subset of a plurality of time steps, where the workload affinity determination is based on each of the data portions in the group experiencing above-average workload activity during same ones of the subset of the plurality of time steps, the subset corresponding to at least one business cycle for accessing the data, and forecasting workload activity for all of the portions of data in the group based on forecasting workload activity for a subset of the data portions that is less than all of the data portions.
US10671423B2	Hot-plug hardware and software implementation A network device may include various cards and modules, such as management modules, line cards, and switch fabric modules. In various implementations, these components can be “hot-plugged” meaning that the components can be inserted into and removed from the network device while the network device is powered on. In various implementations, hardware in the network device can identify when a component has been added. The hardware can notify a virtual machine, which can then notify the host operating system. The host operating system can added the component, and then notify the virtual machine to also add the component. Once the virtual machine has added the component, the component becomes available for use by processes executing on the virtual machine.
US10671421B2	Virtual machine start method and apparatus A virtual machine start method and apparatus is presented, where the method includes determining N types of virtualized network function components (VNFCs) according to a first service; obtaining a distribution relationship between the N types of VNFCs and virtual machines, where the distribution relationship indicates a quantity of each type of VNFC distributed in each virtual machine; selecting at least one to-be-started virtual machine from unstarted virtual machines according to the distribution relationship, so that a total quantity of each type of VNFC included in a started virtual machine and the at least one to-be-started virtual machine meets a corresponding preset quantity; and starting the at least one to-be-started virtual machine. In the present disclosure, types and a quantity of VNFCs running on each virtual machine are first obtained.
US10671420B2	System and method for dynamic virtualized network function descriptor management A Virtual Network Function Descriptor (VNFD) parameter may include subfields that allow a management entity to determine whether the VNFD parameter can be updated. The subfields may include a write-ability subfield that indicates whether the VNFD parameter is a dynamic/configurable VNFD parameter or a fixed/static VNFD parameter. The VNFD parameter may also include an access permission subfield that indicates which entities are authorized to modify/update the VNFD parameter. The VNFD parameter may also include an administrative priority subfield that indicates a priority of an entity that set an attribute of the VNFD parameter. The VNFD parameter may also include a constraints subfield that indicates one or more conditions that are required to occur in order for the VNFD parameter to be updated.
US10671419B2	Multiple input-output memory management units with fine grained device scopes for virtual machines A system and method of emulated input-output memory management units includes a management software associating a first device with a first input-output memory management unit having a first security designation, and associating a second device with a second input-output memory management unit having a second security designation different from the first security designation. A hypervisor constructs a table that describes associations between the plurality of devices and the plurality of input-output memory management units. The hypervisor provides the table to a guest virtual machine having a plurality of guest addresses including a first guest address and a second guest address. The first device accesses the first guest address through the first input-output memory management unit and the second device accesses the second guest address through the second input-output memory management unit.
US10671412B1	Fast cloning for background processes in scripting environments A programmable device including a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory is provided. The memory stores a plurality hybrid objects. Each hybrid object of the plurality of hybrid objects includes a native object wrapped by an interpreted object. The at least one processor can be coupled to the memory. The at least one processor can be configured to identify a message to execute an operation on one or more hybrid objects of the plurality of hybrid objects; clone, in response to reception of the message, each native object within the one or more hybrid objects to create one or more cloned native objects; wrap each cloned native object of the one or more native objects with a new interpreted object to create one or more new hybrid objects; and execute the operation on the one or more new hybrid objects.
US10671409B1	Application configuration tool A method, system, and program product for generating and processing application settings for a software application using an application configuration component operating on a computer system. An application settings object containing a plurality of application settings is generated for the software application. The application settings object are serialized and stored into an Extensible Markup Language (XML) application settings file on the computer system. A new instance of the application configuration component is generated. A request is received from the software application for an application settings object for a specific environment and module. If located on the computer system, the XML application settings file is deserialized into the application settings object. Each property of the application settings object is then processed and the application settings object is returned to the software application.
US10671402B2	Shadow channel message broadcasting A method for notifying a subset of users of a messaging channel may include publishing one or more shadow channels for the messaging channel. Each shadow channel is configured to prevent transmission of an event notification to one or more unregistered user devices. The method may also include broadcasting one or more event notifications to one or more registered user devices when an event associated with the one or more shadow channels is triggered. The one or more registered user devices are subscribers to the one or more shadow channels.
US10671398B2	Low-overhead, low-latency operand dependency tracking for instructions operating on register pairs in a processor core A computer processing system is provided. The computer processing system includes a processor configured to insert a move instruction in an instruction scheduling dependency graph generated for operands of the instruction operating on register pairs to ensure operand readiness for all of the operands used by the instruction operating on register pairs.
US10671397B2	Reduced save and restore instructions for call-clobbered registers A method and associated computer program product are disclosed for generating an executable file from an object file, the object file being associated with an architecture having a predefined calling convention designating one or more call-clobbered registers. The method comprises identifying, from a first annotation included in the object file with a function call instruction, at least one restore instruction that follows the function call instruction, the function call instruction associated with a predefined function of the object file. The at least one restore instruction corresponds to at least one of the one or more call-clobbered registers. The method further comprises determining, based on at least a first list of registers that are referenced by the predefined function, the first list being included in the object file, whether to eliminate the at least one restore instruction.
US10671396B2	Method for operating a processing unit A method for operating a processing unit, including a memory and at least one processor core that executes a plurality of program functions of a computer program, includes ascertaining all program instructions that belong to a program function to be executed at a future execution point in time and providing the ascertained program instructions in the memory before the execution point in time.
US10671395B2	Application specific instruction-set processor (ASIP) for simultaneously executing a plurality of operations using a long instruction word The invention provides an application specific instruction set processor (ASIP) that uses a Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) for simultaneously executing a plurality of operations. For simultaneously executing the plurality of operations, the ASIP processor comprises a fetching unit to fetch a long instruction word from an instruction memory unit and an instruction decoder unit that interfaces with the fetching unit and a program address counter. The instruction decoder unit decodes the long instruction word fetched from the instruction memory unit and enables a plurality of sub blocks responsible for execution of a plurality of simultaneous independent operations. The instruction decoder unit of the ASIP is capable of decoding a 32-bit instruction word and executing up to six simultaneous independent operations.
US10671390B2	Conditional instruction end operation A conditional instruction end facility is provided that allows completion of an instruction to be delayed. In executing the machine instruction, an operand is obtained, and a determination is made as to whether the operand has a predetermined relationship with respect to a value. Based on determining that the operand does not have the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, the obtaining and the determining are repeated. Based on determining that the operand has the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, execution of the instruction is completed. The obtaining the operand, the determining whether the operand has the predetermined relationship, the based on determining that the operand does not have the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, repeating the obtaining and the determining, and the based on determining that the operand has the predetermined relationship with respect to the value, completing execution of the instruction are performed as part of a single instruction having one operation code.
US10671386B2	Compiler controls for program regions Setting or updating of floating point controls is managed. Floating point controls include controls used for floating point operations, such as rounding mode and/or other controls. Further, floating point controls include status associated with floating point operations, such as floating point exceptions and/or others. The management of the floating point controls includes efficiently updating the controls, while reducing costs associated therewith.
US10671385B2	Dynamic code maturity determination for proactive code review and merge A computer-implemented method includes detecting a first user is editing a first version of a content piece. A first feature set value is determined, describing a first set of values of one or more features of the first version. Based on the first feature set value, a first maturity score of the first version is determined, using a mapping. It is detected that a second user is editing a second version of the content piece in parallel with the first user editing the first version. A second feature set value is determined, describing a second set of values of the one or more features of the second version of the content piece. Based on the second feature set value, a second maturity score of the second version is determined, using the mapping. It is detected that the second maturity score meets a maturity threshold. Thus, a remedial action is performed.
US10671381B2	Continuous integration with reusable context aware jobs A method includes accessing a build pipeline that includes multiple jobs that are reusable and configurable. The method includes retrieving a version of code for a software application, where the version of code is related to a context. The method includes configuring the jobs of the build pipeline according to the context. The method includes testing the version of code using the build pipeline with the configured jobs.
US10671380B2	Function-as-a-service (FaaS) platform in blockchain networks Implementations of the present specification include receiving, from a smart contract, and by a function controller executing within the blockchain network, a function call to execute a function, the function call including data for execution of the function, transmitting, by the function controller, the data of the function call to a function component, the function component executing the function based on the data of the function call, receiving, by the function controller, a function result from the function component, and providing, by the function controller, the function result to the smart contract.
US10671375B1	Tokenized mobile device update systems and methods Systems and methods are provided for managing mobile device updates. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems can include a key provisioning system, a key system, and mobile devices. The key provisioning system can provide keys to the mobile devices and the key system. The key system can receive a key from the key provisioning system, receive a request from an application system, calculate a first token, and provide the first token to the application system for transmission to a mobile device. The mobile device can receive a key from the key provisioning system, establish a local connection with a connected device, receive an application and the first token from the connected device, generate a second token using the application and the key, compare the first token and the second token, and update the mobile device according to the application based on a result of the comparison.
US10671371B2	Alerting an offline user of a predicted computer file update The method, computer program product and computer system may include a computing device which may receive a copy of a master digital, which may include metadata, file from a server. The computing device may analyze the metadata of the master digital file for a pattern of updates initiated by one or more users using one or more computing devices. The computing device may generate a file update prediction for discouraging use of an outdated version of the master digital file. The file update prediction may indicate an estimation for when the master digital file is likely to be updated based on the pattern of updates. The computing device may generate an alert for display offline on a user interface. The alert may indicate the estimation for when the master digital will be updated by the one or more users.
US10671369B2	Replacing an accelerator firmware image without operating system reboot The present disclosure relates to updating a firmware image on a coherent hardware accelerator concurrently with executing operations on the coherent hardware accelerator. According to one embodiment, while executing accelerator-enabled operations on the coherent hardware accelerator, a system stores a firmware update package in a local memory on the coherent hardware accelerator. Once the firmware update package is stored in local memory on the coherent hardware accelerator, the system restarting the coherent hardware accelerator by pausing the execution of at least a first operation initiated on the coherent hardware accelerator and applying the firmware update package to the firmware image on the coherent hardware accelerator. Once the firmware update package is applied to the coherent hardware accelerator, the system resumes the operation on the coherent hardware accelerator.
US10671368B2	Automatic creation of delivery pipelines A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) identifying one or more resources of a shared computing environment utilized in delivery of an application, to users of the shared computing environment. The processor(s) monitors communications to the one or more resources, to identify and intercept operations related to delivery of the application. The processor(s) analyze the intercepted operations, to determine when the operations comprise a pattern occurring with a frequency indicative of a predetermined level of confidence, where the pattern comprises one or more delivery operations. Based on determining the pattern occurs with the frequency, the processor(s) generates an automated delivery pipeline for the application, where the automated delivery pipeline automates at least one of the one or more delivery operations comprising the pattern. The processor(s) utilizes the automated delivery pipeline to deliver a new version of the application.
US10671361B2	Automatically determining data dependencies to facilitate code execution Technologies relating to determining data variable dependencies to facilitate code execution are disclosed. An example method includes: identifying a set of programming statements having a plurality of data parameters; identifying first data parameters associated with a first programming statement in the set of programming statements; determining one or more parameter dependencies associated with the first data parameters; and determining, based on the one or more parameter dependencies, a first execution performance of the first programming statement. The method may further include: determining a second execution performance of the second programming statement and scheduling execution of the first programming statement and of the second programming statement based on the first and second execution performances. For example, at least a portion of the first programming statement is executed in parallel to executing the second programming statement, or the first programming statement and the second programming statement are executed in a predefined sequence.
US10671359B2	Systems and methods for organizing, classifying, and discovering automatically generated computer software A system and method for organizing and classifying existing applications so as to enable users to create new applications using the one or more parts of existing applications. The system is capable of automatically generating a large number of template applications which are fully designed, coded, and ready-to-use. The system also automatically expands its catalog of template applications and screen components, which are categorized based on a specified purpose, whenever a user creates a new application or screen with the same purpose. In this way a user can simply specify the purpose of what they want to create, and the system will provide a ranked list of possibilities based on the actions of other users, and automatic generation mechanisms.
US10671358B2	Systems and methods for indexing source code in a search engine Method, system and computer readable storage medium for transmitting content from an SCM version of a repository maintained by an SCM system to a corresponding search engine (SE) version of the repository maintained by a search engine system. The method includes generating a content request, the content request comprising information defining a start state of the SCM version of the repository and a filter field; identifying one or more files in the SCM version of the repository that have changed between the start state and an end state; filtering the identified files based on the filter field in the content request to form a filtered set of files and a removed set of files; extracting content and metadata for one or more files from the filtered set of files; and transmitting the extracted content to the search system for storage as part of the search system version of the repository.
US10671355B2	Code completion with machine learning A code completion tool uses machine learning models to more precisely predict the likelihood of a method invocation completing a code fragment that follows one or more method invocations of a same class in a same document during program development. In one aspect, the machine learning model is a n-order Markov chain model that is trained on features that represent characteristics of the context of method invocations of a class in commonly-used programs from a sampled population.
US10671354B2	Method, system and apparatus for generating source code from table and using the same A method of automatically generating a source code for implementing a function in hardware according to specifications defining a communication protocol includes: obtaining input data including the specifications; preprocessing the input data by extracting a table including a plurality of fields from the input data and classifying the table; generating structured data by performing lexical analysis on values of the plurality of fields according to a desired rule; and generating the source code from the structured data.
US10671353B2	Programming-by-example using disjunctive programs Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for synthesizing a program for a task. A domain specific language that includes a disjunctive symbol and an input/output example for the task are received. A program for the task is synthesized based on the input/output example and the domain specific language. Sub-programs for an instance of the disjunctive symbol are synthesized, A set of feature calculators and target feature values are determined. The program for the task is returned. The program includes the sub-programs, the set of feature calculators and the target feature values.
US10671350B2	Systems and methods for analyzing stability using metal resistance variations This disclosure describes techniques for analyzing statistical quality of bitstrings produced by a physical unclonable function (PUF). The PUF leverages resistance variations in the power grid wires of an integrated circuit. Temperature and voltage stability of the bitstrings are analyzed. The disclosure also describes converting a voltage drop into a digital code, wherein the conversion is resilient to simple and differential side-channel attacks.
US10671347B2	Stochastic rounding floating-point multiply instruction using entropy from a register Embodiments are directed to a computer implemented method for executing machine instructions in a central processing unit. The method includes obtaining, by a processor system, a machine instruction for execution, the machine instruction being defined for computer execution according to a computer architecture. The method further includes executing the machine instruction, wherein the executing includes loading a multiplicand into a multiplicand register, and loading a multiplier into a multiplier register. The executing further generates an intermediate product having least significant bits by multiplying the multiplicand and the multiplier. The executing further includes generating a rounded product by performing a probability analysis on the least significant bits of the intermediate product, and initiating a rounding operation on the intermediate product to produce the rounded product based at least in part on the probability analysis.
US10671345B2	Methods and apparatus for performing fixed-point normalization using floating-point functional blocks An integrated circuit may include normalization circuitry that can be used when converting a fixed-point number to a floating-point number. The normalization circuitry may include at least a floating-point generation circuit that receives the fixed-point number and that creates a corresponding floating-point number. The normalization circuitry may then leverage an embedded digital signal processing (DSP) block on the integrated circuit to perform an arithmetic operation by removing the leading one from the created floating-point number. The resulting number may have a fractional component and an exponent value, which can then be used to derive the final normalized value.
US10671337B2	Automatic sizing of agent's screen for html co-browsing applications Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for automatic or adaptive sizing of a customer service agent's co-browsing view of a contact's user interface. According to one embodiment, at least a portion of the agent's interface in which the customers interface is presented can be resized so that the agent's view matches the customer's view, e.g., one-to-one. This sizing of the agent's view may be performed automatically, when the co-browsing view of the customer's interface is first presented to the agent or, according to one embodiment, may be toggled on and off by the agent, e.g., by the agent selecting a button or other control presented in the agent's interface. In this way, embodiments allow the agent to see exactly the same view of the web site as the customer sees in the customer's interface regardless of the device or screen size used by the customer.
US10671336B2	Method and device for controlling screen sharing among plurality of terminals, and recording medium The present disclosure relates to technologies for sensor networks, machine to machine (M2M), machine type communication (MTC), and Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be used in intelligent services based on such technologies (smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital educations, retail businesses, securities, disaster network communication, and safety-related services). Provided is a method of controlling, by a relay device, screen sharing between a plurality of terminals, the method includes: receiving a screen image of a first terminal from the first terminal; and transmitting the received screen image to at least one second terminal.
US10671335B2	Image forming apparatus, information processing apparatus, and image forming system with switchable connection interfaces An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a print medium based on print data supplied from an information processing apparatus; a first communication interface configured to perform wireless communication with the information processing apparatus by a first communication method in which the number of connectable apparatuses is set; a second communication interface configured to perform wireless communication with the information processing apparatus by a second communication method; and a system controller. The system controller is configured to cause the second communication interface to transmit a notification to the information processing apparatus when the number of apparatuses which are connected by the first communication interface has reached the number of connectable apparatuses, the notification representing that the number of apparatuses which are connected by the first communication interface has reached the number of connectable apparatuses.
US10671328B2	Method for generating addresses in a dispersed storage network A method begins by a processing module of a dispersed storage network (DSN) receiving a DSN retrieval request regarding a data object and performing a scoring function using properties of the DSN retrieval request and properties of DSN memory of the DSN to produce a storage scoring resultant. The method continues with the processing module identifying a set of primary storage units based on the storage scoring resultant and sending a set of retrieval requests to the set of primary storage units. When a primary storage unit does not provide a favorable response, using the storage scoring resultant to identify an alternative storage unit. When the alternative storage unit is identified, sending a corresponding retrieval request to the alternative storage unit.
US10671325B2	Selective secure deletion of data in distributed systems and cloud A processor-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product deletes data from a storage device. One or more processors identify a component sensitivity level of a component, an input sensitivity level of a data input to the component, and an output sensitivity level of a data output from the component, where the data output is stored in a storage device. The processor(s) average the component sensitivity level, the input sensitivity level, and the output sensitivity level to establish a composite sensitivity level, determine a deletion mode for deleting the output data from the storage device based on the composite sensitivity level, and delete the output data from the storage device by utilizing the deletion mode.
US10671322B1	Method for performing storage space management, associated data storage device, and controller thereof A method for performing storage space management, an associated data storage device, and a controller thereof are provided. The method includes: receiving an identify controller command from a host device; in response to the identify controller command, returning a reply to the host device to indicate that a plurality of logical block address (LBA) formats are supported, where the plurality of LBA formats are related to access of a non-volatile (NV) memory, and the plurality of LBA formats include a first LBA format and a second LBA format; receiving a first namespace (NS) management command from the host device; in response to the first NS management command, establishing a first NS adopting the first LBA format; receiving a second NS management command from the host device; and in response to the second NS management command, establishing a second NS adopting the second LBA format.
US10671319B2	Memory device configured to store and output address in response to internal command A memory device includes first and second bank groups, an internal command generator, and an address input/output circuit. Each of the bank groups includes a plurality of banks. The internal command generator generates and outputs internal commands to a first target bank. The internal commands are generated based on a command from a memory controller for controlling a memory operation of the first target bank. The address input/output (I/O) circuit receive a first address corresponding to the command, selects a storage path of the first address based on whether there is a bubble interval in a data burst operation interval corresponding to the first command, controls output of the first address in accordance with a time point at which each of the internal commands is output. The first address is stored in the address I/O circuit.
US10671315B2	Blockchain architecture for selective data restore and migration A system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for selective restore utilizing a blockchain architecture are provided. Embodiments comprise a controller assigned for selectively copying and reconstructing system data stored on a blockchain, the controller comprising at least one memory device with computer-readable program code stored thereon, at least one communication device connected to a network, and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is configured to execute the computer-readable program code to: establish a connection to a blockchain within a source environment, the blockchain storing system data; selectively clone a section of the blockchain from the source environment; and reconstruct the section of the blockchain in a target environment.
US10671313B2	Apparatus and methods for fast and secure storage of data A data storage apparatus includes a cache memory module and a NAND flash memory module including a cache memory mirror and a user data storage zone. The cache memory module is connected to the cache memory mirror via a path and electrically connected to the user data storage zone via another path. The cache memory module receives a write command that includes user data from a host, writes a copy of the user data into the user data storage zone in a write-back mode, and writes another copy of the user data cache memory mirror in a write-through mode. If some of the user data are lost from the cache memory module before they are written into the user data storage zone, the user data written in the cache memory mirror are copied and written into the cache memory module when the data storage apparatus is initiated again.
US10671311B1	System and method for dynamic data migration A storage gateway for managing data includes a persistent storage and a processor. The persistent storage stores a stored data history map. The processor obtains a data storage request for a datum from a client; stores the datum in a first storage based on a quality of storage service requirement associated with the datum; after the datum is stored in the first storage, updates the stored data history map associated with the datum based on the quality of storage service characteristics of the first storage; and after updating the stored data history map, migrates the datum to a second storage based on the quality of storage service requirement and the updated stored data history map.
US10671306B2	Chunk-based data deduplication A chunk-based data deduplication system and method. Incoming data chunk is partitioned into head and tail portions for fingerprinting and mapping into respective head SHA (secure hash algorithm) and tail SHA tables. Head or tail fingerprints are used to locate predecessor data chunks almost identical to incoming data chunks and to determine data bursts to deduplicate the incoming data chunks.
US10671302B1	Applying a rate limit across a plurality of storage systems Applying a rate limit across a plurality of storage systems, including: determining a rate limit for paired storage systems; receiving, by a first storage system, an amount of I/O operations serviced by the second storage system during a previous predetermined period of time; determining whether the amount of I/O operations serviced by the second storage system is less than half of the rate limit for the paired storage systems; if so, setting local a rate limit for a next predetermined period of time for the first storage system to the difference between the rate limit for the paired storage systems and the amount of I/O operations serviced by the second storage system during the previous predetermined period of time; and otherwise, setting a local rate limit for a next predetermined period of time for the first storage system to half of the rate limit for the paired storage systems.
US10671301B2	System and method of configuring one or more memory media In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, method, and/or processes may store first data associated with a virtual non-volatile dual in-line memory module (vNVDIMM) of a virtual machine (VM) via a portion of storage of a first physical memory medium of a physical information handling system (IHS); may receive a request for a size increase of the vNVDIMM; may allocate, based at least on the size increase, another portion of storage from the first physical memory medium or from a second physical memory medium of the physical IHS; may create another vNVDIMM configured to accommodate the size increase and configured to store data via the portion of storage and the other portion of storage; and may provide information associated with the other vNVDIMM to the VM.
US10671300B1	Command sequence response in a memory data buffer A method for responding to a command sequence includes receiving a signal from a host carrying a plurality of commands in the command sequence, detecting a non-consecutive clock associated with a start of a current command in the command sequence, and generating a control signal in an active state to indicate detection of the non-consecutive clock.
US10671297B2	Memory system and operating method thereof managing counting values for system operations A memory system may include: a nonvolatile memory device comprising K memory blocks; and a controller suitable for controlling an operation of the nonvolatile memory device. The controller may include: a counting management unit suitable for using K count codes capable of counting a preset range from a base value to a limit value in order to manage K counting values corresponding to predetermined operations of the K memory blocks, respectively, and adjusting the absolute values of the base value and the limit value using the count code in the form of a 1/N-chain depending on a distribution of the K counting values; and a wear-leveling operation unit suitable for performing a wear-leveling operation on the K memory blocks such that the K counting values are distributed in a section of values corresponding to 1/N of the preset range, the count code may be a J-based number, each of J and K may be a natural number larger than 2, and N may be any one of powers of J larger than 1.
US10671296B2	Management system for managing memory device and management method for managing the same Disclosed is a management system for managing a memory device having sub-chips each having a container area and a data area. A CPU selects a target sub-chip according to respective temperature of the sub-chips. When the CPU intends to access a first original data in one of the data areas, a hot date tracking device acquires a first original address of the first original data from the CPU. When the first original address is recorded in one of a plurality of tracking layers, the CPU is indicated to access a first copied data corresponding to the first original data in the container area of the target sub-chip according to a current tracking layer recording the first original address. When the first original address is not recorded in the tracking layers, the CPU accesses the first original data in the data area according to the first original address.
US10671292B2	Data shuffling in a non-uniform memory access device A method of orchestrated shuffling of data in a non-uniform memory access device including a plurality of processing nodes that connected by interconnects. The method includes running an application on a plurality of threads executing on the plurality of processing nodes. Data to be shuffled is identified from source threads running on source processing nodes among the processing nodes to target threads executing on target processing nodes among the processing nodes. The method further includes generating a plan for orchestrating the shuffling of the data among the all of the memory devices associated with the threads and for simultaneously transmitting data over different interconnects to a plurality of different target processing nodes from a plurality of different source processing nodes. The data is shuffled among all of the memory devices based on the plan and each processing node is capable of accessing data from first and second local memory devices.
US10671291B2	Iterative write sequence interrupt Example implementations relate to memory read requests. For example, an implementation may include tracking progress of an iterative write sequence to write data to a memory element of a memory module. A received read request is detected to be addressed to a memory bank that includes the memory element undergoing the iterative write sequence. Based on the tracked progress, a time is determined to interrupt the iterative write sequence with insertion of the read request. The time aligns between operations of the iterative write sequence and data is returned within a predetermined read latency.
US10671285B2	Tier based data file management A hierarchal storage management method is provided. The method includes detecting a first portion of a first file being deleted from a hybrid storage device including a hard disk drive (HDD) memory device, a solid state drive (SSD) memory device, and an archival storage memory device. A first set of memory blocks associated with the first portion of the first file is identified. The first set of memory blocks are determined to reside on the SSD memory device. In response, the first set of memory blocks are transferred from the SSD memory device to a first portion of the hybrid storage device.
US10671283B2	Systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing intelligently suggested keyboard shortcuts for web console applications In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided systems, methods, and apparatuses for implementing intelligently suggested keyboard shortcuts for web console applications. For example, an exemplary embodiment includes means for executing a hosted application via a system of a host organization, in which the hosted application includes a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to receive user interactions; transmitting the GUI to a user device remote from the host organization, in which the GUI is to be displayed to the user device and receive the user interactions as input at the displayed GUI of the user device; receiving, at the host organization, logged user data representing the user interactions with the hosted application received via the GUI displayed to the user device; analyzing the logged user data via the system of the host organization; and triggering a keyboard shortcut recommendation based on the analysis of the logged user data, in which the triggered keyboard shortcut recommendation is pushed from the host organization to the user device for display at the user device. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US10671280B2	User input apparatus, computer connected to user input apparatus, and control method for computer connected to user input apparatus, and storage medium A user input apparatus is provided with user input means for the user to input data or a command by using the user's human body, and use-form detection means for detecting a form in which the user uses the user input means by the user's human body. A computer connected to the user input apparatus changes the operation of the application being executed by application execution means, according to a detection result obtained by the use-form detection means. Therefore, input operations can be performed without inconvenience even if the user cannot use one hand due to another work.
US10671279B2	Interactive virtual keyboard configured to use gestures and having condensed characters on a plurality of keys arranged approximately radially about at least one center point A method according to one embodiment includes detecting a touch event on a touch-sensitive input area of a display. The touch event includes a gesture. The touch-sensitive input area has groups of virtual ambiguous keys arranged approximately radially about a center point. The method further includes determining at least one character from at least one of the virtual ambiguous keys selected by the gesture. The method further includes outputting the determined at least one character on the display.
US10671278B2	Enhanced virtual instrument techniques Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for implementing user interfaces for interacting with a virtual instrument. For example, a user interface for a virtual instrument may be presented on a display of a device. The user interface may have any suitable number of strings (or keys) associated with a physical instrument. Each string/key may correspond to an associated audio file. Touch input may be received at the user interface. In some embodiments, the touch input may include a location corresponding to a particular string. The associated audio file may be selected based on the location. The associated audio file may be presented (e.g., via a speaker of the device) at a volume that corresponds with the pressure at which the touch input was provided.
US10671276B2	Mobile terminal device and input device A mobile terminal device includes a display section having a display screen, an input section having a touch input region on the display screen, and a control section for displaying a plurality of keys. The display screen is provided as a software keyboard where a touch operation on a specific key causes an input of the specific key. In the specific display region on the display screen that can display operation keys on the software keyboard, the control section selects these keys from a previously prepared set of input candidate key groups. In response to a specific operation on the specific display region, the control section allows the plurality of keys to be displayed on the specific display region. In response to touch on a desired key in the specific display region, the control section determines that an input of the key has been performed.
US10671275B2	User interfaces for improving single-handed operation of devices The embodiments herein describe a mode of applications on the portable electronic device that improves single-handed operation of the devices. For example, the embodiments herein describe an ergonomic mode of an application that displays the graphical user interface (GUI) of the application in a bottom area of the display screen of the electronic device to allow the user to more easily interact with objects. The embodiments herein also describe an ergonomic mode of a keyboard displayed on the display screen of the portable electronic device. During the ergonomic mode of the keyboard, the keyboard is shifted towards a vertical edge of the display screen to allow a user to more easily reach keys of the keyboard that were previously unreachable without the user switching to two handed operation of the device or repositioning the electronic device in the user's hand.
US10671273B2	Method for controlling user interface according to handwriting input and electronic device for implementing the same An electronic device and a method of the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen display that displays a user interface, a force sensor that detects a pressure with which an external object touches the touch screen display, a wireless communication circuit, and a processor that controls the touch screen display to display the user interface, receives, from at least one of the force sensor and the wireless communication circuit, data representing that the external object is pressing a portion of the user interface with a pressure greater than or equal to a selected pressure, receives a handwriting input through the touch screen display, and displays the handwriting input on the user interface on the touch screen display.
US10671272B2	Touchscreen oriented input integrated with enhanced four-corner indexing A method, program product, and system for inputting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters into a touchscreen-enabled device is provided. The touchscreen-enabled device receives a plurality of finger touch events. Each of the plurality of finger touch events is a CJK text input stroke associated with a corner of the touchscreen-enabled device. A finger touch movement direction on the touchscreen-enabled device is determined for each of the plurality of finger touch events. In response to determining the finger touch movement direction, the finger touch movement direction associated with each of the plurality of finger touch events is converted to a numeric index value. The corner that is activated by each of the plurality of finger touch events is determined and associated to the numeric index value.
US10671269B2	Electronic device with large-size display screen, system and method for controlling display screen An electronic device includes a processor and a touch display screen. The touch display screen displays a touch icon. The processor receives a first touch operation and a second touch operation through a touch area of the electronic device. The processor moves the touch icon according to the first touch operation. The processor performs a touch operation at an indication position of the touch icon according to the second touch operation, and the touch operation is the same as or corresponding to the second touch operation. The indication position of the touch icon is located outside the touch area.
US10671267B2	Systems and methods for presentation of content items relating to a topic The present disclosure provides systems and methods that provide a lean-back, interactive experience that enables a user to browse and understand content items (e.g., news articles or reactions) that provide different perspectives around a topic (e.g., a news story). In particular, the systems and methods can provide context around a topic by assembling a wide-range of interesting content around a topic and seamlessly allowing users to scan through articles by surfacing unique information contained in them. The systems and methods of the present disclosure can read, understand, and organizes thousands of documents around a topic, hence allowing easy consumption of news.
US10671265B2	Display apparatus and display method Provided are a display apparatus and a display method. The display apparatus includes: a display configured to display a cursor based on an input of a control device; and a controller configured to control the display to add visual effects to the cursor at an edge of a scrolling area or to the scrolling area based on a scrolling distance of the control device in response to detecting a position of the cursor exiting the scrolling area at the edge of the scrolling area.
US10671262B2	Binning information associated with ranges of time Provided are systems and methods for determining and displaying automatically binned information via a graphical user interface. A graphical user interface (GUI) may include a first graphical element representing a first metric value for a first time window and a second graphical element representing a second metric value for a second time window. An indication of a selection of the first time window may be received via the GUI. An updated GUI comprising a third graphical element representing a third metric value for the third time window and a fourth graphical element representing the fourth metric value for the fourth time window may be displayed, wherein the third time window and the fourth time window may be sub-ranges of the first time window.
US10671260B2	System and method for distributing user interface device configurations A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect a plurality of User Interface (UI) device configurations, receive a request from a computing device to download one or more of the plurality of UI device configurations, and transmit to the computing device the one or more UI device configurations requested to configure one or more UI devices of the computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10671259B2	Guided video feed selection in a vehicle-to-vehicle network In V2V or other networks in which multiple video feeds are available to a participant, the participant's ability to select a particular video feed for display can be eased through the use of guided scanning. A guided scanning strategy is built based on operator inputs and used to select a particular set of video feeds that are initially shown as a video “slideshow” on the display used by the participant. Each video feed appears only for a limited period of time to enable easy participant review. Once the participant sees a particular video feed of interest, that video feed to can be selected for persisted presentation on the display.
US10671256B2	Chromeless user interface Techniques are described to implement a user interface for a display of a mobile device. In an implementation, the user interface may include a chromeless menu configured to be displayed when menu-based user input to the mobile device is available; a system tray configured to be displayed on the display when a notice containing status information affecting operability of the mobile device is available; and a task switcher module operable to cause a chromeless overlay be displayed over an active application being executed by the mobile device to allow selection of one or more applications of the mobile device.
US10671254B2	Method for operating execution icon of mobile terminal Functional applications (e.g., widgets) in the form of an icon are implemented to be merged or demerged, and a method for displaying, operating, and managing the widgets in a mobile terminal is provided. The concept of UI-wise merging and demerging is applied to simple widget functions to update the widget functions. Also, widgets can be effectively managed through various widget operations. The mobile terminal includes an input unit configured to detect a received input, a display unit configured to display a plurality of widgets and a controller configured to merge a plurality of widgets into an integrated widget based on the received input and to execute an integrated function related to a selected widget of the plurality of widgets merged into the integrated widget.
US10671250B2	Controlling a device using a radial graphical user interface The claimed invention relates to controlling electronic devices using a graphical user interface. The claimed method of controlling an electronic device using a radial graphical user interface includes the following steps: generating a radial interface in the form of a central region, containing at least one interface element, and at least one auxiliary region with interface elements arranged on elliptical arcs relative to the central region, wherein the element of the central region is related by a hierarchical relationship at least to interface elements of one of the auxiliary regions and represents a higher level of an interface tree consisting of N nodes, while the elements of the auxiliary region correspond to interface elements of a subsequent lower level; identifying user interaction with an interface element in an auxiliary region; moving said interface element into the central region and generating an image of one or more interface elements of the next N level of the hierarchy which are related to said element of the auxiliary region on an elliptical arc of the auxiliary region, or performing the action related to said interface element.
US10671249B2	Device and method for organizing and displaying instant messages in various structured fashions A device for organizing and displaying messages, the device comprising a processor, the processor being configured to: set a plurality of layout modes for organizing and displaying the messages exchanged among devices in a structured fashion; determine a layout mode for a chat session among the plurality of layout modes; display messages included in the chat session in the determined layout mode; and adjust the textbox-widths of all messages whenever a predetermined event occurs, wherein the event comprises at least one of a rotation of the device, sending or receiving of at least one message, and an input of at least one command for a scheme of displaying messages.
US10671248B2	Live agent chat console In embodiments, a method may include displaying a user interface comprising at least two windows, a first window displaying a live chat with a first individual and at least one of the remaining windows displaying content related to the live chat. The method may further include receiving an indication to pop-out the first window, and in response, displaying the first window as a separate moveable window, and displaying, within an original area of the first window, additional content related to one of the live chat or the first individual. The method may further include receiving an indication from a user to change the live chat to be with a second individual, and in response to the indication: displaying the live chat with the second individual in the separate moveable window; and displaying content related to the second individual in the at least one of the remaining windows.
US10671245B2	Collection and control of user activity set data and activity set user interface Techniques are described for creating and modifying task records and for controlling information displayed to a user in corresponding task representations. The task records are associated with more or more user activities, where each activity is associated with a record having an identifier for the activity, an application identifier that indicates a software application associated with the activity, and a content identifier identifying content associated with the software application and the activity. The activity records can include activation information. A user can select a task representation and resume one or more activities associated with the task. Tasks records can be shared between different computer devices of the user, and with different users. Task and activity records can be associated with navigational mnemonics. Representations of task and activity records can be displayed proximate representations of associated navigational mnemonics to help a user locate tasks and activities of interest.
US10671242B2	Displaying a desktop icon with multiple color sets using a moving angle of a mobile terminal The present invention discloses a desktop icon display method and a mobile terminal, relates to the field of mobile communications, and enhances a visual effect, of a user desktop icon, produced when the mobile terminal is shaken. The display method provided by the present invention is applied to a mobile terminal. A desktop icon is displayed on a display screen of the mobile terminal by using a first color set; a moving angle of the mobile terminal is obtained; and if the moving angle of the mobile terminal exceeds a preset angle, the desktop icon is displayed by using a second color set.
US10671241B1	Automatic orientation for mixed reality information delivery system The disclosed technology is generally directed to mixed reality devices. In one example of the technology, a mixed-reality view is provided to an operator. The mixed-reality view includes both a real-world environment of the operator and holographic aspects. The holographic aspects include at least a first hologram. The first hologram is displayed with a first hologram menu, such that the first hologram menu includes visible selectable menu options associated with the first hologram. In the mixed-reality view, the first hologram menu, including the visible selectable menu options of the first hologram menu, is rotated to face the operator as the operator moves, such that the first hologram menu rotates in a curved manner about the first hologram as the first hologram menu rotates. Responsive to the operator making a selection on the first hologram menu, the first hologram in the mixed-reality view is altered based on the selection.
US10671235B2	Software robots for programmatically controlling computer programs to perform tasks A system comprising at least one computer hardware processor; and at least one computer-readable storage medium storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one computer hardware processor, cause the at least one computer hardware processor to perform: generating an object hierarchy comprising a plurality of objects corresponding to active graphical user interface (GUI) elements of at least one of a first application program and a second application program; controlling the first application program to perform a first sub-task of a task at least in part by using the object hierarchy; and controlling the second application program to perform a second sub-task of the task at least in part by using the object hierarchy, wherein the first and second application programs are configured to execute at least in part by using different GUI application libraries.
US10671232B2	Information processing apparatus, and part generating and using method There is provided an information processing apparatus including a part generation unit configured to generate a part that is suitable for a predetermined application and that includes at least a portion of any photo and is displayed on a display screen at a time of execution of the application, and an application control unit configured to control the execution of the application and at least display the part on the display screen during the execution of the application.
US10671229B2	Touch screen and display device including the same A display device includes a display panel configured to generate an image and a touch screen disposed on the display panel. The touch screen includes sensor blocks. Each of the sensor blocks includes: k (k being a natural number of two or more) first sensors disposed in a first direction and electrically connected to each other; and j (j being a natural number of two or more) sensor groups disposed adjacent to a corresponding first sensor among the k first sensors. Each of the j sensor groups includes i (i being a natural number of two or more) second sensors arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. Some of the k first sensors and the i second sensors are configured to receive first signals. Some of the k first sensors and the i second sensors are configured to transmit second signals different from the first signals.
US10671224B2	Cell touch screen, method for driving the same, and display device The present disclosure provides an in cell touch screen including a plurality of touch electrodes and a shade structure, wherein the shade structure includes a plurality of first shade bars arranged in parallel along a first direction and a plurality of second shade bars arranged in parallel along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and the first shade bars are conductive, and the touch electrodes are electrically connected to the first shade bars, respectively.
US10671222B2	Touch sensor pattern for edge input detection An apparatus is disclosed. In some examples, the apparatus comprises a cover substrate having a front surface, a first edge and a first cavity adjacent to the first edge. In some examples, the apparatus comprises a plurality of touch sensor electrodes disposed opposite the front surface of the cover substrate. In some examples, the apparatus comprises at least one touch sensor edge electrode disposed within the first cavity on a surface that is angled relative to the front surface of the cover substrate. In some examples, at least one touch sensor edge electrode is disposed on an outward facing curved surface of the first cavity. In some examples, the plurality of touch sensor electrodes are formed from a first conductive material and the at least one touch sensor edge electrode is formed from a second conductive material. In some examples, the first conductive material is transparent, and the second conductive material is non-transparent. In some examples, the second conductive material is formed on a black mask layer disposed around a perimeter of a bottom surface of the cover substrate.
US10671221B2	Display apparatus with detection function A display apparatus with detection function of the present disclosure includes a first illumination unit that outputs first illumination light, a light valve that generates image light by modulating the first illumination light on the basis of image data, a projection optical system that projects the image light onto a projection plane, a second illumination unit that outputs second illumination light used for position detection of a position detection object on the projection plane, a third illumination unit that outputs third illumination light used for image recognition of an image recognition object on the projection plane, an imaging unit where the second illumination light and the third illumination light enter through the projection optical system, and includes an imaging device disposed at an optically conjugate position with the light valve, and an image processing unit that performs position detection of the position detection object and image recognition of the image recognition object on the basis of a result of imaging by the imaging unit.
US10671219B2	Scanning time of flight 3D sensing with smart pulsing A scanning display system includes smart infrared pulsing to detect gestures and touch events with reduced power consumption. Infrared laser light pulses are emitted at a first density in a field of view and reflections are detected. Times of flight of the infrared laser light pulses are measured to determine if an object is in the field of view. The density of the infrared pulses may be increased based on various factors to detect gestures and touch events. Power consumption is reduced by reducing the density of laser pulses when possible.
US10671218B2	Floating touch control panel, touch control method of the same, and display device Disclosed floating touch control panel includes a substrate, a modulated light source, a read sub-circuit, an output sub-circuit, an ultrasonic wave sensing unit and a light sensing unit; the ultrasonic wave sensing unit is configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to a touch control side, to convert an ultrasonic wave reflected back from the touch control side into an electric signal and then provide it to a first node; the light sensing unit is configured to convert a modulated light reflected from the touch control side into an electric signal and then provide it to the first node; the read sub-circuit is configured to output a touch control signal to the output sub-circuit according to a potential of the first node; the output sub-circuit is configured to be controlled by a corresponding first touch control scan line to provide a touch control read line with the received touch control signal.
US10671217B2	Touch processing method and electronic device for supporting the same An electronic device and method thereof are provided. In one aspect, the electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen with edges, and one or more processors. First and second touch recognition regions are defined adjacent to one of the touch screen edges. The one or more processors determine whether to ignore a touch input based at least on whether the touch input is in one of the first and second touch recognition region and at least one of the type and the duration of the touch input.
US10671213B1	Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for manipulating user interface objects with visual and/or haptic feedback In one embodiment, an apparatus and associated method are provided, comprising: at a device including a display and a touch interface: displaying, utilizing the display, a graphical user interface configured to display a sentence including a plurality of words; and while the graphical user interface is displayed: detecting, utilizing the touch interface, a gesture of a particular type at a location on the graphical user interface that corresponds to at least one of the plurality words, in response to detection of the gesture of the particular type at the location on the graphical user interface that corresponds to the at least one word, displaying a selection of the at least one word, during the display of the selection of the at least one word, detecting, utilizing the touch interface, another gesture of the particular type at a location on the graphical user interface that corresponds to the at least one word, and in response to detection of the another gesture of the particular type during the display of the selection of the at least one word, displaying the at least one word as being selected for movement of the at least one word with respect to other words of the plurality of words, such that detection of the gesture and the another gesture cause different operations to be performed in connection with the at least one word despite being of the same particular type.
US10671212B1	Gesture-equipped touch screen system, method, and computer program product In various embodiments, a system, method, and computer program product are provided, where one embodiment involves a non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer instructions that; when executed by at least one processor of a mobile device including a touch screen, and a memory, and an actuator coupled to the at least one processor; cause the mobile device to: display indicia associated with an application, utilizing the touch screen; when a first duration of a touch being applied to the touch screen is detected as ceasing in connection with the indicia, perform an operation; when a second duration of the touch, that is different than the first duration of the touch, being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first duration is detected without the ceasing, output feedback that is perceptible by touch, utilizing the actuator; when the second duration of the touch being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first duration of the touch is detected without the ceasing, display at least one menu including a plurality of particular actions; when a selection touch being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with at least one of the particular actions of the at least one menu after the second duration of the touch being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first duration of the touch is detected without the ceasing, the at least one particular action is performed; and when a slide or swipe gesture being applied to the touch screen is detected after the second duration of the touch being applied to the touch screen is detected in connection with the indicia after the first duration of the touch is detected without the ceasing, changing at least one aspect of the display of the at least one menu.
US10671209B2	Touch device and method of driving touch device A touch device is provided. The touch device includes a first touch electrode, a plurality of second touch electrodes, a first main connecting pad, at least one first sub-connecting pad, and a plurality of second connecting pads. The area of the first touch electrode is smaller than the area of each second touch electrode. The first main connecting pad is electrically connected to the first touch electrode. The at least one first sub-connecting pad is electrically connected to the first touch electrode. The second connecting pads are respectively electrically connected to the second connecting pads.
US10671207B2	Multi-tile display system and driving method of unrelated display devices using a user input pattern A multi-display system and a driving method of the same are disclosed. The multi-display system includes a multi-display having a plurality of displays each including a sensor for sensing a user input pattern, a position detector configured to sequentially output extended display identification data (EDID) and time-position information together with display identification information of each of the displays based on user input pattern sensing information and display information input from each of the displays, an arrangement calculator configured to store the display identification information and the EDID and time-position information of each of the displays, and calculate arrangement positions of the displays based on the display identification information and the EDID and time-position information, and an image processor configured to divide and distribute an original image of an image source in accordance with the arrangement positions of the displays.
US10671206B1	Method to mitigate coupling capacitance between touch sensing emitter and display cathode of a flexible OLED display apparatus, and touch device therefor A touch device and a touch method of a flexible OLED display apparatus are provided. The touch method includes: acquiring a variation value of a cathode voltage when the display mode is switched; comparing the variation value of the cathode voltage with a preset threshold value, and when the variation value of the cathode voltage exceeds the preset threshold value, increasing the emitter electrode voltage of the touch electrode layer in the Flexible OLED display apparatus. When the cathode voltage changes due to the display mode switching, if the variation value thereof exceeds the preset threshold value, the voltage output amplitude of the emitter electrode is increased, so as to keep the amount of variation of the electric quantity of the receiver electrode constant, thereby keeping the electric quantity of the node capacitance between the emitter and receiver electrodes constant and enhancing the consistency of touch performance.
US10671204B2	Touch panel and data processor Provided is a novel touch panel that is highly convenience or reliable, a novel data processor that is highly convenient or reliable, a novel touch panel, a novel data processor, or a novel semiconductor device. The touch panel includes a sensor element and a display element. The sensor element includes a first conductive film and a second conductive film. The display element includes a layer containing a liquid crystal material and a third conductive film which is provided so that an electric field controlling the alignment of the liquid crystal material contained in the layer can be applied between the first conductive film and the third conductive film.
US10671203B2	Display control apparatus and control method thereof There is provided an apparatus that can prevent invoking of unintended functions in gesture operation. The apparatus displays gesture functions executable by movement of touch position, and when movement of touch position satisfies a first condition, confirms executable gesture functions to display confirmed functions. When the movement of touch position satisfies a second condition after the confirmation, the apparatus cancels the confirmation. When the touch input is released in the confirmed state, the apparatus executes the confirmed functions, and when the touch input is released in the canceled state, control does not execute gesture functions.
US10671196B2	Touch substrate, method for forming the same, and touch display device A touch substrate, a method for forming the same and a touch display device are provided. The touch substrate includes: a primary touch region, a secondary touch region, a peripheral region, primary touch electrodes at the primary touch region, secondary touch electrodes at the secondary touch region, a plurality of bonding terminals, a plurality of primary touch signal channels and a plurality of secondary touch signal channels configured to transmit touch signals to the secondary touch electrodes at the peripheral region, where each bonding terminal is coupled to a corresponding primary touch electrode via a signal transmission line, and configured to provide the primary touch signal channel to transmit the touch signal to the corresponding primary touch electrode, where at least a part of the primary touch signal channels is reused as the secondary touch signal channels.
US10671193B2	Mobile device and method for displaying information A mobile device control method for displaying information on a touch screen of a mobile device is provided. The method includes determining a type of a cover for the mobile device, the cover having a screen projection portion, detecting a gesture or a trigger, and displaying a screen corresponding to a current state of the mobile device on the touch screen depending on the type of the cover, in response to the detection of the gesture or the trigger.
US10671190B2	Stylus pen with dynamic protocol selection for communication with a digitizer A stylus pen is disclosed that can detect touch signals from a digitizer and dynamically determine which digitizer (e.g., make/model) generated the touch signals. The stylus pen can then switch to one of a plurality of candidate protocols, without interaction from the user, so as to communicate with the digitizer. The digitizer need not explicitly communicate what protocol it supports to the stylus pen. Rather, the stylus pen analyzes the digitizer waveforms and compares the waveforms to known signatures to determine which digitizer is being used. The stylus pen can then dynamically set a protocol used to communicate with the digitizer that matches the protocol expected by the digitizer.
US10671189B2	Trackpad with capacitive force sensing and haptic feedback A trackpad includes: a substrate; a circuit board coupled to the substrate for detecting a position of an object adjacent the substrate; a haptic feedback component coupled to the circuit board; a first plate coupled to the circuit board; a second plate including a spring element, a spacer coupling the circuit board and the spring element to each other, the spring element facilitating first movement of the substrate, the circuit board and the first plate relative to the second plate, the spacer facilitating second movement of at least the substrate and the circuit board by the haptic feedback component; and a capacitive force sensor that detects a capacitance of the first plate and the second plate. A trackpad can include a circuit board coupled to the substrate and including the first plate.
US10671187B2	Pen input device sheet and method for manufacturing pen input device sheet A pen input device sheet, which contacts a tip part of a core body of an electronic pen for a pen input device, includes a resin film layer. A diameter of the tip part is SR. An amount of sinking of the resin film layer is δ and a coefficient of kinetic friction between the resin film layer and the tip part is μ, which change according to a load when the tip part is in contact with the pen input device sheet. When the load applied to the tip part of the core body is changed and corresponding measurements are taken, and the measurements plotted with μ allocated to an ordinate axis and a ratio of δ/SR is allocated to an abscissa axis, a fitted straight line plotted based on the measurements has a proportional relation corresponding to a proportional relation between μ and the ratio of δ/SR.
US10671185B2	Systems, methods, and media for providing an enhanced remote control having multiple modes Systems, methods, and media for providing a multipurpose remote control are provided. In some implementations, a system for controlling a media device is provided, the system comprising: a hardware processor connected to a touch sensor, a directional input region, and a motion sensor, wherein the hardware processor is configured to: detect that the touch sensor is activated for a predetermined period of time; and upon detecting that the touch sensor has been activated for the predetermined period of time, switching from a first mode to a second mode, wherein: the first mode comprises controlling a highlighted region displayed on the media device in response to an input provided on the directional input region and selecting an item corresponding to the highlighted region in response to depression of the touch sensor; and the second mode comprises controlling a position of a cursor displayed on the media device in response to an output of the motion sensor, selecting an item corresponding to the position of the cursor in response to depression of the touch sensor, and inhibiting the display of the highlighted region.
US10671184B2	Signal input device and electronic equipment driving device using same A signal input device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a base member including a bottom surface and a protruding part upwardly protruding from the bottom surface; a push button located on the upper side of the protruding part, and having a downward sidewall formed so as to cover the protruding part; a sensor unit provided on any one of an outer side surface of the protruding part or an inner side surface of the downward sidewall; and a contact point provided on the side, on which the sensor unit is not provided, of the outer side surface of the protruding part or on the inner side surface of the downward sidewall, wherein when the push button moves in a lateral direction, the sensor and the contact point come into contact with each other so as to generate a signal.
US10671183B2	Keyboard device A keyboard device applicable to various kinds of applications with high responsivity is provided. The keyboard device includes keys to which key addresses are assigned and a memory in which data for determining whether a key has been depressed is writable and readable at an memory address corresponding to each of the key addresses. The device also includes a key capacitance detecting unit to detect a capacitance of the key corresponding to a selected key address, a capacitance-voltage converting unit to convert the capacitance of the key detected by the key capacitance detecting unit into a voltage, a data converting unit that reads threshold data in the memory address in the memory corresponding to the key address that is selected to convert the threshold data into analog data, and a depression determining unit that compares the analog data with the voltage to determine whether the key has been depressed.
US10671181B2	Text entry interface Receiving user input. A method includes displaying a set of characters arranged sequentially in a curvilinear or linear fashion such that any one of the characters in the set of characters can be identified for selection by continuous and uniform user input from a user. The method further comprises displaying a plurality of the characters in the set of characters in a fashion where each given character in the plurality of characters is displayed at a level of prominence determined by a probability that the given character is a next character in a string of characters selected by a user. The method further includes receiving user input in a continuous and uniform fashion from a user to identify a character in the set of characters. The method further includes receiving user input selecting the identified character. The method further includes adding the identified character to the string of characters.
US10671177B1	Backlight module A backlight module includes a light blocking plate, a light guiding plate, a reflector, a circuit board, a flexible circuit board and a conductive connection element. The light blocking plate is disposed below a keyboard component and includes an emission zone. The light guiding plate is disposed below the light blocking plate and includes a hollowed-out portion. The reflector is disposed below the light guiding plate and includes a through hole. The through hole corresponds in position to the hollowed-out portion. The circuit board is disposed below the reflector. A light-emitting component is disposed on the circuit board. The flexible circuit board is disposed below the reflector which separates the flexible circuit board and the light guiding plate. The conductive connection element is disposed on the circuit board, penetratingly disposed at the hollowed-out portion and the through hole, and connected to the circuit board and the flexible circuit board.
US10671174B2	User interface control of responsive devices Among other things, a user interface device has a sensor configured to detect, at a wrist of a human, nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with an intended contraction of a muscle to cause a rapid motion of a finger. An output provides information representative of the nerve or other tissue electrical signals associated with the intended contraction of the muscle to an interpreter of the information.
US10671170B2	Haptic driving guidance system A system for directing a user to modify an aspect of a vehicle via haptic output. The system includes one or more haptic output devices disposed proximate to a vehicle device and configured to generate haptic output in response to a control signal. The system further includes a processor coupled to the one or more haptic output devices. The processor is configured to determine that a parameter associated with the vehicle device should be modified, and, in response to the determining, transmit the control signal to the one or more haptic output devices.
US10671165B2	Method and display device with tactile feedback An apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive data for at least one user interface element to be displayed on a displayed user interface at a location on a display and a tactile feedback signal indicator associated with the at least one user interface element; a touch sensor configured to determine at least one touch location corresponds to the at least one user interface element location of the displayed user interface; and a tactile effect generator configured to generate a tactile feedback signal to be output by the display dependent on the displayed user interface and based on the tactile feedback signal indicator such that the at least one user interface element provides a simulated experience.
US10671162B1	Eyeball tracking module for video glasses An eyeball tracking module for video glasses, including: at least two infrared light sources, at least one image sensor assembly and at least one infrared cut-off filtering device. Each of the image sensor assembly comprises an image sensor body and an infrared filter provided in front of the image sensor body. The at least two infrared light sources are fixedly provided in an area laterally in front of an eyeball and are used for emitting infrared light to the eyeball, so as to form, on the eyeball which reflects the infrared light, a reflection point. The at least one image sensor assembly is fixedly provided at an edge or outside of a visual angle of video glasses. The at least one infrared cut-off filtering device is provided in an overlapping area between a reflection light path of the eyeball and an acquisition area of an image sensor.
US10671160B2	Eye tracking calibration techniques Systems and methods for eye tracking calibration in a wearable system are described. The wearable system can present three-dimensional (3D) virtual content and allow a user to interact with the 3D virtual content using eye gaze. During an eye tracking calibration, the wearable system can validate that a user is indeed looking at a calibration target while the eye tracking data is acquired. The validation may be performed based on data associated with the user's head pose and vestibulo-ocular reflex.

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