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US10707552B2 Folded rib truss structure for reflector antenna with zero over stretch
A foldable and expandable antenna reflector, and method of making and using the same are disclosed. The antenna reflector includes a reflector and a support structure where the support structure includes a hub assembly; a hub tower extending from the hub assembly; a plurality of drive strut assemblies that are connected to the hub assembly; and a plurality of rib assemblies connected to the hub tower and to the plurality of drive strut assemblies. Each rib assembly has a multi-piece rib hinge assembly so that each drive strut assembly is pivotably connected to one of the rib hinge assemblies and applies a force to expand the rib assembly in response to the hub assembly applying a force to at least one of the drive strut assemblies to thereby fold or expand the antenna reflector from a first folded configuration to a second expanded configuration.
US10707551B1 Wireless router and wireless device
A wireless router that can be switched to operate at different wireless modes by repeated presses on a button includes a rotatable disk and a first printed circuit board. A first magnetic component and a first conductive sheet array are fixed on the rotatable disk. The first conductive sheet array includes first conductive sheets. A first and a second magnetic component arrays are fixed on the first printed circuit board. The first magnetic component array includes second magnetic components. The second conductive sheet array includes second conductive sheets. The wireless router is configured to be switched between wireless modes by rotating the rotatable disk to one of the wireless modes, the first magnetic component absorbs the second magnetic component corresponding to the first magnetic component, an electrical contact is made between one of the first conductive sheets and the second conductive sheet that is corresponding to the first conductive sheet.
US10707546B2 Dielectric filter unit comprising three or more dielectric blocks and a transmission line for providing electromagnetically coupling among the dielectric resonators
A dielectric filter unit includes three or more dielectric blocks including a first dielectric block and a second dielectric block and arranged in a predetermined direction, and a transmission line. The three or more dielectric blocks include at least one dielectric block between the first dielectric block and the second dielectric block. Each of the three or more dielectric blocks is electromagnetically coupled to one or two adjacent dielectric blocks included in the three or more dielectric blocks. The transmission line is electromagnetically coupled to the first dielectric block and the second dielectric block.
US10707541B2 Lithium-ion battery charging method for correcting and compensating voltage
Lithium-ion battery charging method for correcting and compensating voltage, when it is charged to limited charge voltage of the battery, the battery stops charging, or start charging by constant-voltage charging and won't stop charging until the charging current is lower than 50%-99.99% of the current before constant-voltage charging; the limited charge voltage of the battery positive and negative electrodes is set as 3U0−US−USO; the battery would be rapidly charged and charged close to saturation, and have better cycle life than the battery charged by constant-current and constant-voltage charging method of the same charging rate; or with the same cycle frequency, the battery charged with the charging method of the present invention would have larger discharge capacity.
US10707540B2 Battery pack
A battery packing includes: a bare cell; a protective circuit module electrically connected to the bare cell; a first lead plate connecting the protective circuit module and a terminal of the bare cell; and a first cover at an upper portion of the bare cell, wherein a portion of the first cover protrudes outward and accommodates the protective circuit module.
US10707539B2 Battery
A battery is provided including an anode, a cathode and an electrolyte; wherein the electrolyte includes one or both of fluoro ethylene carbonate and difluoro ethylene carbonate in an amount of 0.5% by mass or more and 10% by mass or less, wherein the anode includes an anode active material layer provided on an anode current collector, and wherein a thickness of the anode active material layer, after charging the battery, is 58 um or more and 75 um or less.
US10707538B2 Safety sensor module with vehicle communication to first responders
A battery system for a vehicle includes a battery pack having a structure receiving at least one battery. Multiple sensors are mounted to the structure and sense operating conditions inside and outside of the structure. A safety module is disposed on the structure, the safety module having a centralized sensor processor processing signals received from the multiple sensors to identify if any of the operating conditions defines an abnormal condition of the structure. At least one battery pack sensor senses a condition within the battery pack and is in communication with a vehicle battery management system (BMS). The safety module is in communication with the BMS such that the condition within the battery pack is also communicated to the safety module. The centralized sensor processor identifies if the condition within the battery pack correlates with the abnormal condition of the structure.
US10707534B2 Battery
A battery includes a first portion and a second portion, in which the first portion includes a first positive electrode layer, a first negative electrode layer, and a first solid electrolyte layer located between the first positive electrode layer and the first negative electrode layer, in which the second portion includes a second positive electrode layer, a second negative electrode layer, and a second solid electrolyte layer located between the second positive electrode layer and the second negative electrode layer, in which the first portion and the second portion are in contact with each other, the second portion is more sharply bent than the first portion, the first solid electrolyte layer contains a first binder, the second solid electrolyte layer contains a second binder, and the second solid electrolyte layer containing the second binder has higher flexibility than a flexibility of the first solid electrolyte layer containing the first binder.
US10707533B2 Processing device of nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and manufacturing method thereof
To melt and diffuse metallic foreign bodies immixed in electrodes of a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery before initial charging, electrodes wound with a separator between a cathode plate and an anode plate are placed in a battery case and the battery case is filled with an electrolyte. After the case has been filled, the electrolyte is allowed to permeate into the electrodes. Then, the electrolyte-filled battery is placed in a processing device, and fixed with a surface pressure between at least 0.1 MPa and 5.0 MPa. Thereafter, the cathode potential is adjusted and held for a period of one hour and 35 hours while the battery remains fixed, after which the pre-initial charging process is terminated.
US10707532B2 Composition for adhesive layer of non-aqueous secondary battery, adhesive layer for non-aqueous secondary battery, adhesive layer-equipped separator for non-aqueous secondary battery, adhesive layer-equipped electrode for non-aqueous secondary battery, non-aqueous secondary battery, and method for producing same
Provided is a composition for an adhesive layer of a non-aqueous secondary battery allowing formation of an adhesive layer that can achieve both high process adhesiveness and high blocking resistance in battery members such as an electrode and a separator. The presently disclosed composition for an adhesive layer of a non-aqueous secondary battery includes a particulate polymer A that has a glass-transition temperature of no higher than 20° C. and a volume-average particle diameter of at least 100 nm and less than 450 nm, and a particulate polymer B that has a glass-transition temperature of at least 30° C. and less than 60° C. and a volume-average particle diameter larger than the volume-average particle diameter of the particulate polymer A.
US10707531B1 All-inorganic solvents for electrolytes
An all-inorganic electrolyte formulation for use in a lithium ion battery system comprising at least one of each a phosphoranimine, a phosphazene, a monomeric organophosphate and a supporting lithium salt. The electrolyte preferably has a melting point below 0° C., and a vapor pressure of combustible components at 60.6° C. sufficiently low to not produce a combustible mixture in air, e.g., less than 40 mmHg at 30° C. A solid electrolyte interface layer formed by the electrolyte with an electrode is preferably thermally stable ≥80° C.
US10707525B2 Method for producing sulfide solid electrolyte material
A sulfide solid electrolyte material having high Li ion conductivity can be obtained by providing a method for producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material that has peaks at 2θ=20.2° and 2θ=23.6° in an X ray diffraction measurement using a CuKα ray, the method including steps of: an amorphizing step of obtaining sulfide glass by amorphization of a raw material composition that includes at least Li2S, P2S5, LiI and LiBr and a heat treatment step of heating the sulfide glass at a temperature of 195° C. or higher.
US10707518B2 Method of producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material, sulfide solid electrolyte material, and lithium battery
A method of producing a sulfide solid electrolyte material includes: forming an intermediate having crosslinking sulfur but no Li2S, by vitrifying, in a first vitrification process, a starting material composition obtained by mixing Li2S and a sulfide of a group 14 or group 15 element such that a proportion of Li2S with respect to the sum total of the Li2S and the sulfide of a group 14 or group 15 element is smaller than a proportion of Li2S required for the sulfide solid electrolyte material to obtain an ortho composition; and eliminating the crosslinking sulfur by vitrifying, in a second vitrification process, an intermediate-containing composition resulting from mixing a bond cleaving compound, which cleaves a bond of the crosslinking sulfur, with the intermediate.
US10707516B2 Sheet layering jig, method for manufacturing layered product, and method for manufacturing sheet-shaped secondary cell
A sheet layering jig of the present invention include a sheet holding portion that includes a sheet holding side face to hold sheets and is arranged on a stage so that the sheet holding side face faces a work space; an electrode holding portion that includes an electrode holding side face to hold electrodes and is arranged on the stage so that the electrode holding side face faces the work space, a sheet holding guide that holds the sheets along the sheet holding side face, an electrode holding guide that holds the electrodes along the electrode holding side face, and a magnetic circuit that generates magnetic force to generate a gap between the sheets.
US10707513B2 Aqueous redox flow batteries comprising metal ligand coordination compounds
This invention is directed to aqueous redox flow batteries comprising redox-active metal ligand coordination compounds. The compounds and configurations described herein enable flow batteries with performance and cost parameters that represent a significant improvement over that previous known in the art.
US10707511B2 Low temperature solid oxide cells
The present invention provides solid oxide cells such as fuel cells, electrolyzers, and sensors comprising an electrolyte having an interface between an yttria-stabilized zirconia material and a glass material, in some embodiments. Other embodiments add an interface between a platinum oxide material and the yttria-stabilized zirconia material in the electrolyte. Further embodiments of solid oxide cells have an ion-conducting species such as an ionic liquid or inorganic salt in contact with at least one electrode of the cell. Certain embodiments provide room temperature operation of solid oxide cells.
US10707510B2 Membrane electrode assembly
In pore diameter distribution curves of a first stack body formed by stacking a first gas diffusion layer and a first porous layer of an anode, and of a second stack body formed by stacking a second gas diffusion layer and a second porous layer of a cathode, on a region where a pore diameter is smaller than a reference pore diameter at which a pore volume is maximum, both the curves coincide with each other for the most part. On a region where the pore diameter is equal to or larger than the reference pore diameter, the distribution curve of the second stack body lies above that of the first stack body. A pore volume ratio which is a ratio of the total pore volume of the second stack body to the total pore volume of the first stack body is in the range of 1.10 to 1.60.
US10707509B2 Redox flow battery
Provided in the present invention is a redox flow battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separation membrane, wherein a positive electrode electrolyte composed of an aqueous solution containing vanadium ions is supplied into a positive electrode chamber, and a negative electrode electrolyte composed of an aqueous solution containing vanadium ions is supplied into a negative electrode chamber, to carry out charging and discharging of the battery. In the redox flow battery, zirconium or titanium coated with a noble metal or a compound thereof is used as a positive electrode material, and when the positive electrode material is zirconium coated with a noble metal or a compound thereof, the positive electrode electrolyte and the negative electrode electrolyte contain sulfuric acid; and when the positive electrode material is titanium coated with a noble metal or a compound thereof, the positive electrode electrolyte contains nitric acid.
US10707507B2 Method of inspecting output of fuel cell
In an electric potential difference forming step of a method of inspecting output of a fuel cell, a hydrogen gas as an anode gas is supplied to an anode, and an inert gas as a cathode gas is supplied to the cathode to generate an electric potential difference between the anode and the cathode. In a maintaining step, measurement current which is smaller than rated current of the fuel cell is applied to the anode and the cathode, and the voltage between the anode and the cathode is maintained at less than the reduction potential of the electrode catalyst. In a measurement step, in the state where the measurement current is applied to the anode and the cathode, and voltage between the anode and the cathode is maintained, the cathode gas is changed to a mixed gas, and then, output of the fuel cell is measured.
US10707499B2 Fuel cell cassette and fuel cell stack
Provided is a fuel cell cassette capable of assuredly suppressing separator deformation and maintaining good battery characteristics. A fuel cell cassette (2) includes a flat plate-shaped single cell (11), a separator (12), a fuel electrode frame, an interconnector and an air electrode insulating frame (15) stacked together. In the fuel cell cassette (2), the separator (12) and the fuel electrode frame (13) are joined by welding. The air electrode insulating frame (15) has gas channels (75, 76) defined therein for flow of oxidant gas. The fuel cell cassette has a welding mark (77) formed on an exposed region of the separator (12) inside the gas channel (75, 76) such that the exposed region of the separator (12) is fixed to the fuel electrode frame by the welding mark (77).
US10707496B2 Method for depositing layer of ceramic material onto a metallic support for solid oxide fuel cells
A method for depositing a layer of material on a metallic support for fuel cells or electrolysis cells includes the steps of preparing the surface of the metallic support, preparing an apparatus for an electrolytic bath, with the relative actuation means of the apparatus, including an aqueous solution with the cations necessary to obtain at least one material, dipping the metallic support into the electrolytic bath, and commanding the actuation means of the electrolytic bath so as to selectively carry out the electrochemical deposition of at least one layer of material on the metallic support, the layer of material includes an anti-corrosion protective ceramic material and/or a ceramic material with catalytic properties.
US10707492B2 Solvent-free electrode fabrication
The invention relates to an electrode formed by the blending of dry active powdery electrode forming materials with an aqueous binder dispersion, and the subsequent adhering of the wet binder/dry active powdery electrode-forming materials blend to an electroconductive substrate, resulting in an electrode. The aqueous binder is preferably a fluoropolymer, and more preferably polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). The hybrid process provides the good dispersion and small particle size of a wet process, with the energy savings and reduced environmental impact of a dry process. The resulting electrode is useful in energy-storage devices.
US10707491B2 Binder for secondary battery
An object of the present invention is to provide a binder composition for a secondary battery for achieving improved charge-discharge efficiency and good cycle characteristics at the same time. The binder composition for a secondary battery according to the present invention is characterized in comprising a polyamic acid comprising a repeating unit consisting of a skeleton based on an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and a skeleton based on an alicyclic diamine represented by structural formula: NH2—(CH2)n—R2—(CH2)m—NH2, wherein R2 represents alicyclic group, and n and m each independently represent the number of repeating units selected from 1 to 5; and/or a polyamic acid comprising a repeating unit consisting of a skeleton based on an alicyclic tetracarboxylic acid dianhydride and a skeleton based on an aromatic diamine.
US10707489B2 High solids content paste formulations for secondary battery electrode
A high solids content paste for fabrication of secondary battery electrodes may comprise: a negative active material or a positive active material; a binder; a solvent; and a hyperdispersant; wherein the high solids content paste has a specific viscosity chosen for a particular coating tool and a composition such that the high solids content paste will maintain a deposited shape after coating at least until the high solids content paste has dried and wherein the dry coating thickness is in the range of 5 microns to 300 microns. The high solids content paste with negative active material has a viscosity in the range of 30,000 cP to 45,000 cP and a corresponding density of 1.40 g/cc to 1.43 g/cc. The high solids content paste with positive active material has a viscosity in the range of 25,479 cP to 47,184 cP and a corresponding density of 2.72 g/cc to 2.73 g/cc.
US10707488B2 Carbon electrode and lithium ion hybrid capacitor comprising same
A carbon material is described, having utility for fabricating an electrode of an electrochemical energy device, wherein the carbon material includes a particulate carbon having a particle size d50 in a range of from 1 to 15 μm, a bulk density in a range of from 0.3 g/cc to 1.2 g/cc, a surface area as measured by nitrogen BET surface area determination at 25° C. that does not exceed 10 m2/g, and an impurity content of less than 3000 ppm by weight, based on weight of the carbon material. Such carbon material may be utilized in amorphous or graphitic form in an electrode of an electrochemical energy device, such as a negative electrode of a lithium-ion battery or a lithium-ion hybrid capacitor.
US10707483B2 Electrode, secondary battery, battery pack, and vehicle
According to one embodiment, an electrode including an active material-containing layer and a film is provided. The active material-containing layer contains an active material containing a titanium-containing oxide. The film is present on at least a part of a surface of the active material-containing layer. The film contains fluorine, an organic atom, and a metal ion. The fluorine includes fluorine bonded to the organic atom and fluorine bonded to the metal ion. The film satisfies a relationship of following formula (1), where F1 is a proportion of the fluorine bonded to the organic atom, and F2 is a proportion of the fluorine bonded to the metal ion: 0.1≤F2/F1≤0.6  (1).
US10707482B2 Negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, method for producing negative electrode material for non-aqueous secondary battery, and method for producing non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
A negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries which has particles of negative electrode active material, the particles of negative electrode active material containing a silicon compound (SiOx: 0.5≤x≤1.6) that contains a Li compound, including a carbon coating on at least a part of a surface of the silicon compound and a salt coating containing one or more kinds of a metal silicate containing a metal element other than a lithium element and a metal salt containing a metal element other than the lithium element on a part of a surface of the silicon compound or a surface of the carbon coating or both of these. Thus, the negative electrode active material for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary batteries having high stability to an aqueous slurry, high capacity and excellent cycle characteristics and initial efficiency may be provided.
US10707481B2 Stable silicon-ionic liquid interface lithium-ion batteries
The disclosure includes a composition of matter including a film formed on substantially all nSi-cPAN particles included in an electrode, the film including fluorine, oxygen, sulfur, carbon and lithium.
US10707479B2 Lithium transition metal phosphate secondary agglomerates and process for its manufacture
A Lithium-transition-metal-phosphate compound of formula Li0.9+xFe1-yMyPO4) in the form of secondary particles made of agglomerates of spherical primary particles wherein the primary particles have a size in the range of 0.02-2 pm and the secondary particles a mean size in the range of 10-40 pm and a BET surface of 16-40 m2/g, a process for its manufacture and the use thereof.
US10707477B2 High energy density multilayer battery cell with thermally processed components and method for making same
A method of producing a monolithically integrated high energy density solid-state battery device. The method can include positioning a substrate and depositing one or more stacked monolithically integrated high energy density solid-state electrochemical cells in series or in parallel configurations sequentially or individually. Each of these cells can have a first barrier layer, a cathode current collector deposited overlying the first barrier layer, a cathode overlying the electrically conductive layer, an anode, an anode current collector deposited overlying the solid state layer of negative electrode material, and a second barrier layer. The method can also include rapidly heating the one or more stacked cells to a target temperature for at least 60 minutes, and connecting and terminating the one or more stacked monolithically integrated high energy density solid-state electrochemical cells electrically in series or in parallel, to from a monolithically integrated high energy density solid-state battery device.
US10707474B2 Secondary battery and method for manufacturing same
Provided is a secondary battery including a pressure type current interrupt device with reduced welding failures and high productivity as a result. A secondary battery disclosed herein includes an electrode body, a battery case for housing the electrode body, an electrode terminal electrically connected to the electrode body, and a current interrupt device provided in a conduction path between the electrode body and the electrode terminal to interrupt the conduction path in response to increase in pressure in the battery case. The current interrupt device includes a rivet and a reverse plate welded to the rivet. The current interrupt device has one continuous welding mark. The one continuous welding mark has a circumferential part that is continuous circumferentially along an outer edge part of the reverse plate. The start and end points of the one continuous welding mark are positioned offset from the circumferential part.
US10707470B2 Energy storage arrangement, in particular for a motor vehicle, motor vehicle and method for producing an energy storage receptacle for an energy storage arrangement
An energy storage arrangement includes an energy storage receptacle which has multiple cup-shaped receiving compartments and energy storages respective positive and a negative electrode and being received in the receiving compartments, wherein one of the electrodes of each of the energy storages is in electrically conductive contact with the receiving compartment that receives the respective energy storage and the electrodes of all energy storages that are in contact with the energy storage receptacle are electrically conductively connected via the energy storage receptacle.
US10707466B2 Separators for three-dimensional batteries
An electrode structure for use in an energy storage device, the electrode structure comprising a population of electrodes, a population of counter-electrodes and an electrically insulating material layer separating members of the electrode population from members of the counter-electrode population, each member of the electrode population having a longitudinal axis AE that is surrounded by the electrically insulating separator layer.
US10707463B2 Battery pack minimized with mounting space for device
The present invention provides a battery pack mounted to a battery pack mounting part of a device for supplying power, including: a base plate including one surface on which two or more battery module assemblies respectively having a plurality of battery cells arranged therein are mounted in a separated state from each other with a predetermined interval therebetween; a cover member mounted on one surface of the base plate while enclosing the battery module assemblies; and a reinforcement supporting member positioned at a separation part between the battery module assemblies while supporting the mounting state of the cover member for the base plate, wherein the battery pack is mounted in a state in which an external circumferential surface of the cover member faces a battery pack mounting part of a device.
US10707454B2 Packaging material for power storage device and power storage device using the same
A packaging material for a power storage device includes a structure made up of a cover layer, a barrier layer, a sealant adhesive layer, and a sealant layer laminated in this general order. In the packaging material, the barrier layer has an aluminum foil layer and an anticorrosion treatment layer that is provided to a sealant layer side surface of the aluminum foil layer and faces the sealant adhesive layer. The sealant layer side surface of the aluminum foil layer has a 60° glossiness that is 690 or less in both MD and TD, and has a difference in 60° glossiness between MD and TD that is 100 or less.
US10707451B2 OLED substrate and method for manufacturing same
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) substrate and a method for manufacturing same. The method includes providing a substrate that includes a non-pixel area, a first pixel area, a second pixel area, and a third pixel area; forming a first sacrificial layer in the first pixel area and the second pixel area, forming a third light-emitting material layer on the substrate, and removing the first sacrificial layer, so as to form a third pixel area organic layer; and using the same steps to form a second pixel area organic layer and a first pixel area organic layer.
US10707450B2 OLED thin film packaging structure and method
Disclosed is an OLED thin film packaging structure, including: a TFT substrate, an OLED, a first barrier layer, a first buffer layer, and a second barrier layer. The OLED is disposed on the TFT substrate. The first barrier layer is disposed on four sides and an upper surface of the OLED. The first buffer layer is disposed on an upper surface of the first barrier layer, and the second barrier layer covers the first barrier layer and the first buffer layer. An OLED thin film packaging method includes steps of: preparing a first barrier layer and a first buffer layer by using a first mask, and preparing a second barrier layer by using a second mask, thereby reducing a quantity of times for changing a mask, reducing a quantity of particles, and improving a thin film packaging effect.
US10707449B2 Array substrate, method of preparing the same and display panel
An array substrate, a method of preparing the array substrate, and a display panel are provided, the method of preparing the array substrate includes: providing a base substrate; forming a plurality of light emitting devices arranged in an array on the base substrate; covering the base substrate, on which the plurality of light emitting devices are formed, with a black matrix material; activating the plurality of light emitting devices to expose the black matrix material; and developing the exposed black matrix material to form a black matrix.
US10707443B2 Organic light-emitting display apparatus and manufacturing method of the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, an inorganic insulation film on the substrate, an organic insulation film on the inorganic insulation film, an organic light-emitting device on the organic insulation film, and an encapsulation unit including a first inorganic film covering the organic light-emitting device and having a first boundary portion contacting the organic insulation film, an organic film covering the first inorganic film and having a second boundary portion contacting the inorganic insulation film, and a second inorganic film covering the organic film and having a third boundary portion contacting the substrate.
US10707442B2 Composite gas barrier multilayer body, method for producing the same, and composite electrode
A composite gas barrier multilayer body, wherein a gas barrier multilayer body (A) having a film (a) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and an inorganic layer (a) formed on at least one surface of the film (a) and a gas barrier multilayer body (B) having a film (b) of an alicyclic polyolefin resin and an inorganic layer (b) formed on at least one surface of the film (b) are bonded via a layer of a styrene-based thermoplastic elastomer resin so that the inorganic layer (a) and the inorganic layer (b) face to each other.
US10707441B2 Foldable display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a foldable display apparatus including: a display panel that is foldable; and a protection film on a surface of the display panel, the protection film including a thin film zone having a predetermined depth at a location corresponding to a folding portion of the display panel, wherein the thin film zone has edges wider than a central portion of the thin film zone.
US10707440B2 Display panel with an elastic component surrounding by a frame sealant
The disclosure discloses a display panel, a method for fabricating the same and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate and a cover plate arranged opposite to each other, an organic light emitting display arranged between the base substrate and the cover plate, a frame sealant arranged between the base substrate and the cover plate and located around the organic light emitting display, and a filler arranged in a sealing space constituted by the base substrate, the cover plate and the frame sealant. The display panel further comprises: an elastic component arranged between the frame sealant and the organic light emitting display.
US10707439B2 Packaging adhesive, packaging method, display panel and display device
The present disclosure provides a packaging adhesive, a packaging method, a display panel, and a display device. The packaging adhesive includes a frit, an organic solvent, and a material with a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the frit. Using the packaging adhesive provided by the present disclosure, the thermal expansion coefficient of the packaging adhesive from which the organic solvent is removed may be enhanced by doping the material with a thermal expansion coefficient larger than that of the frit into existing glass cement, so that in a packaging process using laser radiation, an expansion volume of the packaging adhesive when heated is increased. In this way, a gap between the packaging adhesive and an array substrate is effectively reduced, and a packaging effect is improved.
US10707436B2 Illumination device
The present disclosure relates to an illumination device which is realized by an organic light emitting element having a plurality of stacks and which achieves an improvement in relation to the efficiency difference among wavelengths by changing a light emitting layer structure of a predetermined stack.
US10707433B2 Display panel, method of manufacturing the same, and display device
A display panel, a method of manufacturing the display panel, and a display device are provided, the display panel includes a substrate; an underlayer on the substrate; a first electrode on the underlayer; an electroluminescent functional layer on the first electrode; and a second electrode on the electroluminescent functional layer, a longitudinal section of the underlayer has a contour which is concave from the first electrode toward the substrate as a whole, and in the longitudinal section, a thickness of a region of the underlayer close to a center of the panel is not greater than a thickness of a region of the underlayer close to an edge of the panel.
US10707431B2 Stretchable display panels and manufacturing methods thereof
The present disclosure discloses a stretchable display panel and a method of manufacturing the same. The stretchable display panel includes an elastic base layer and a number of array-distributed display units embedded in the elastic base layer. At least one of the display units include a pixel unit and a rigid protection body, and the rigid protection body includes at least a rigid sidewall disposed on at least one side of the pixel units.
US10707430B2 Display device
A display device includes: an insulating substrate having flexibility and including a bent portion that is bent at 90 degrees or more outside a display area provided with an image display function; and a spacer disposed inside the bent portion and including a curved area around which the bent portion is wrapped and a plane area facing the insulating substrate, wherein the insulating substrate includes a flat portion adjacent to the bent portion and provided so as to face the plane area.
US10707428B2 Light emitting device, electronic device, and method for manufacturing light emitting device
A light-emitting unit (140) is formed on one surface (101) of a substrate (100). Further, the light-emitting unit (140) includes a first electrode (110), an organic layer (120), and a second electrode (130). A covering member (180) covers the light-emitting unit (140). An integrated circuit (300) is arranged on the one surface (101) of the substrate (100). In addition, the integrated circuit (300) is electrically connected to at least one of the first electrode (110) and the second electrode (130). A protective member (400) is located in a region (105) between the covering member (180) and the integrated circuit (300). Further, the protective member (400) is provided so as to expose the entirety of a first surface (301) of the integrated circuit (300) on a side opposite to the substrate (100).
US10707426B2 Liquid crystal photoalignment materials
A charge transporting, liquid crystal photoalignment material comprising a charge transporting moiety connected through covalent chemical bonds to a surface derivatising moiety, and a photoalignment moiety connected through covalent chemical bonds to a surface derivatising moiety.
US10707424B2 Synthetic method of fused heteroaromatic compound and fused heteroaromatic compound and intermediate therefor and synthetic method of intermediate
A method of making a chemical product includes reacting a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 with a metal alkyl chalcogenide using a palladium catalyst and a tertiary phosphine catalyst to obtain a first intermediate represented by Chemical Formula 2, obtaining a second intermediate represented by Chemical Formula 3 from the first intermediate, obtaining a third intermediate from the second intermediate and a compound represented by Chemical Formula 4, obtaining a fourth intermediate including a chalcogen-containing ring from the third intermediate, and performing a cyclization reaction of the fourth intermediate to obtain a fused heteroaromatic compound. A fused heteroaromatic compound obtained by the method, an intermediate thereof, and a synthetic method of the intermediate are disclosed.
US10707422B2 Production of organic phosphorescent layers with addition of heavy main group metal complexes
A method is provided for producing organic electrical layers having organic emitters that are phosphorescent at room temperature. Organic fluorescent emitters, together with organic complex ligands containing metal complexes, and at least one heavy main group metal, selected from the group comprising In, Tl, Sn, Pb, Sb and Bi, are deposited jointly inside a layer, and the heavy main group metal changes its coordination sphere by receiving the organic fluorescent emitter.
US10707421B1 Organic semiconductor transistor
An organic semiconductor transistor is provided. The organic semiconductor transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer positioned on the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode which are positioned on the gate insulating layer and spaced apart from each other, a channel layer formed of an organic semiconductor on the gate insulating layer on which the source electrode and the drain electrode are formed, and a dopant layer formed by injecting dopant molecules downward from an upper portion of the channel layer, wherein the dopant layer is formed to be spaced above a position at which each of the source electrode and the drain electrode is in contact with the channel layer, and the dopant molecules and the organic semiconductor form a material combination in which the dopant molecules diffuse in the organic semiconductor in a solid-state diffusion manner.
US10707419B2 Light source and a manufacturing method therewith
A method of forming a device includes emitting a coherent light beam and providing a mask including a region transparent to the light beam. The method further includes projecting the light beam on a photosensitive layer through the transparent region of the mask. The method further includes forming a recess in the photosensitive layer, wherein the recess corresponds to a position of the transparent region of the mask. The method further includes filling an organic light emitting material in the recess.
US10707418B2 Organic light-emitting diode device, manufacturing method thereof and evaporation equipment
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) device, comprising at least two electron transport layers between a cathode and a light-emitting layer of the device, wherein energy barrier of different electron transport layers successively increase from the cathode to the light-emitting layer. The present disclosure also provides an evaporation equipment and an OLED device manufacturing method, wherein the electron transport layers of the OLED device are formed by an evaporation process using the evaporation equipment. The OLED device of the present disclosure improves the luminescence efficiency of OLED devices, and the evaporation equipment can readily effect a fast switching between different evaporation rates within a same evaporation chamber.
US10707417B1 Single-sided liner PCM cell for 3D crossbar PCM memory
A cross-point memory array and method for manufacturing. The memory array includes a plurality of first conductive line structures formed in a dielectric material layer; a plurality of memory elements, each memory element including a fill-in phase change memory (PCM) cell, and an access device enabling read or write access to said memory PCM structure; a plurality of second conductive line structures, the plurality of second conductive structures perpendicularly oriented relative to the plurality of first conductive structures. An individual memory element of the plurality of memory elements is conductively connected at a respective intersection between a first conductive line structure and a second conductive line structure. Each phase change memory (PCM) cell of a memory element at an intersection having a sub-lithographic conductive tuning liner disposed on only one sidewall of the PCM cell. The manufacturing maintains a minimal number of masking and processing steps.
US10707416B2 Resistance variable memory device with nanoparticle electrode and method of fabrication
A chalcogenide-based programmable conductor memory device and method of forming the device, wherein a nanoparticle is provided between an electrode and a chalcogenide glass region. The method of forming the nanoparticle utilizes a template over the electrode or random deposition of the nanoparticle.
US10707413B1 Formation of embedded magnetic random-access memory devices
Techniques are provided for fabricating magnetic random-access memory devices, which eliminate junction shorts and minimize gouging of an underlying insulating layer. For example, a bottom electrode layer, a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack, and an upper electrode layer are formed over an insulating layer. The bottom electrode layer and the MTJ stack are etched to form an upper electrode and a MTJ structure. A cleaning etch process removes residual metallic material which is re-deposited on sidewalls of the MTJ structure as a result of etching the MTJ stack. A conformal dielectric layer is formed to encapsulate the upper electrode and the MTJ structure and prevent oxidation or re-deposition of metallic material on the cleaned sidewalls of the MTJ structure. A final etch process is performed to pattern the conformal dielectric layer and bottom electrode layer to form a spacer on sidewalls of the MTJ structure and form a bottom electrode.
US10707411B1 MRAM structure for efficient manufacturability
A semiconductor device comprises a first conductive material, a contact, an a magnetic tunneling junction positioned between the first conductive material and the contact. The semiconductor device further comprises a spacer that is positioned between the first conductive material and the contact and surrounds at least a portion of the magnetic tunneling junction. The spacer comprises spacer material that has at least some etch selectivity compared to a dielectric material that surrounds at least a portion of the first conductive material.
US10707410B2 Magnetoresistive stacks with an unpinned, fixed synthetic anti-ferromagnetic structure and methods of manufacturing thereof
A magnetoresistive magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) stack includes a free magnetic region, a fixed magnetic region, and a dielectric layer positioned between the free magnetic region and the fixed magnetic region. In one aspect, the fixed magnetic region consists essentially of an unpinned, fixed synthetic anti-ferromagnetic (SAF) structure which comprises (i) a first layer of one or more ferromagnetic materials, including cobalt, (ii) a multi-layer region including a plurality of layers of ferromagnetic materials, wherein the plurality of layers of ferromagnetic materials include a layer of one or more ferromagnetic materials including cobalt, and (iii) an anti-ferromagnetic coupling layer disposed between the first layer and the multi-layer region. The free magnetic region may include a circular shape, the one or more ferromagnetic materials of the first layer may include cobalt, iron and boron, and the dielectric layer may be disposed on the first layer.
US10707409B2 Techniques for forming spin-transfer torque memory having a dot-contacted free magnetic layer
Techniques are disclosed for fabricating a self-aligned spin-transfer torque memory (STTM) device with a dot-contacted free magnetic layer. In some embodiments, the disclosed STTM device includes a first dielectric spacer covering sidewalls of an electrically conductive hardmask layer that is patterned to provide an electronic contact for the STTM's free magnetic layer. The hardmask contact can be narrower than the free magnetic layer. The first dielectric spacer can be utilized in patterning the STTM's fixed magnetic layer. In some embodiments, the STTM further includes an optional second dielectric spacer covering sidewalls of its free magnetic layer. The second dielectric spacer can be utilized in patterning the STTM's fixed magnetic layer and may serve, at least in part, to protect the sidewalls of the free magnetic layer from redepositing of etch byproducts during such patterning, thereby preventing electrical shorting between the fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer.
US10707408B2 Hall effect sensor with enhanced sensitivity and method for producing the same
Methods of forming a high sensitivity Hall effect sensor having a thin Hall plate and the resulting devices are provided. Embodiments include providing a SOI substrate having a sequentially formed Si substrate and BOX and Si layers; forming a first STI structure in a first portion of the Si layer above the BOX layer, the first STI structure having a cross-shaped pattern; forming a second STI structure in a frame-shaped pattern in a second portion of the Si layer; the second STI structure formed outside and adjacent to the first STI structure; removing a portion of the Si layer between the first and second STI structures down to the BOX layer; removing the first STI structure, a cross-shaped Si layer remaining; and implanting N+ dopant ions into each end of the cross-shaped Si layer to form N+ implantation regions.
US10707407B2 Ultrasonic device, method for manufacturing the same, electronic device and ultrasonic imaging device
An ultrasonic device includes a substrate having a first opening, a second opening and a wall part partitioning the first opening and the second opening; a first vibration film and a second vibration film which close the first opening and the second opening respectively; a first piezoelectric element and a second piezoelectric element which are formed on surfaces of the first vibration film and the second vibration film opposite to the substrate; an acoustic matching layer which is disposed within the first opening and the second opening so as to come into contact with the first vibration film and the second vibration film.
US10707399B2 Thermoelectric material, thermoelectric element, optical sensor, and method of manufacturing thermoelectric material
Better thermoelectric characteristics of a thermoelectric material containing nanoparticles are achieved. The thermoelectric material contains a plurality of nanoparticles distributed in a mixture of a first material having a band gap and a second material different from the first material. The first material contains Si and Ge. A concentration of atoms of the second material and a composition ratio of Si to Ge satisfy relational expressions in expressions (1) and (2) below with c representing a concentration of atoms (unit of atomic %) of the second material in the thermoelectric material and r representing the composition ratio of Si to Ge: r≤0.62c−0.25  (1) r≥0.05c−0.06  (2).
US10707394B2 Micro LED structure and method of manufacturing same
The present invention relates to a micro LED structure and a method of manufacturing the same. More particularly, the present invention relates to a micro LED structure and a method of manufacturing the same, the micro LED structure including: a micro LED; a circuit board driving the micro LED; and an anisotropic conductive anodic oxide film provided between the micro LED and the circuit board to electrically connect the circuit board and the micro LED. According to the present invention, without applying an external force (thermocompression bonding) to the anisotropic conductive anodic oxide film, it is possible to electrically connect the circuit board and the micro LED. In addition, it is possible to obtain characteristics such as uniform conductivity in a vertical direction and heat dissipation.
US10707392B2 Semiconductor light-emitting element
A semiconductor light-emitting element according to the present invention includes a metal layer, a light-emitting layer, a first conductivity type layer and a second conductivity type layer sandwiching the light-emitting layer, and a plurality of contact portions that electrically connects the metal layer and the first conductivity type layer. The semiconductor light-emitting element includesa surface electrode including a pad electrode and a branch-shaped electrode that extends from the pad electrode between the plurality of contact portions. Distances between the contact portions and the surface electrode satisfies the following relational expression: d1>d2>d3, wherein d1 represents a distance between a first contact portion in the periphery of the pad electrode among the contact portions and the pad electrode; d2 represents a distance between the first contact portion and the branch-shaped electrode closest to the first contact portion; and d3 represents a distance between a second contact portion spaced further away from the pad electrode than the first contact portion among the contact portions and the branch-shaped electrode closest to the second contact portion.
US10707391B2 Light emitting device with asymmetrical radiation pattern and manufacturing method of the same
A monochromatic chip-scale packaging (CSP) light emitting diode (LED) device with an asymmetrical radiation pattern, including a flip-chip LED semiconductor die, and a reflective structure, is disclosed. A white-light broad-spectrum CSP LED device with asymmetrical radiation pattern is also disclosed by further including a photoluminescent structure in the CSP LED device. The photoluminescent structure covers at least the upper surface of the LED semiconductor die. The reflective structure adjacent to the LED semiconductor die and the photoluminescent structure reflects at least partial light beam emitted from the edge surface of the LED semiconductor die or the edge surface of the photoluminescent structure, therefore shaping the radiation pattern asymmetrically. A method to fabricate the aforementioned CSP LED device is also disclosed. Without using additional optical lens, the CSP LED device is suitable for the applications requiring asymmetrical illuminations, while keeping the advantage of its compact form factor.
US10707390B1 Area light source display module
An area light source display module is provided. The area light source display module includes a substrate and a light emitting diode (LED) array disposed on the substrate. A plurality of LED particles disposed on the LED array emit wide-angle light. Each of the LED particles has a lower light intensity distribution at a center of 0° and a higher light intensity distribution at an off-center polar angle θ. θ ranges between 30 degrees and 80 degrees. The LED array includes LED particles emitting the wide-angle light. Therefore, the area light source module can adopt fewer LEDs at a same thickness of the light source display module with an LED having a common light shape, or the area light source module can have a smaller light mixing distance with the same number of LEDs.
US10707385B2 Wavelength conversion member and light-emitting device
Provided are a fluorescent member that has high thermal conductivity, can prevent an increase in temperature of a fluorescent layer, and can maintain their fluorescence performance even during irradiation with high-intensity source light, and a light-emitting device using the fluorescent member. A transmissive-type wavelength conversion member 100 converts light with a wavelength in a specific range to light with a different wavelength and allows light passing through the wavelength conversion member to be used as illuminating light. The wavelength conversion member 100 includes: a substrate 110 that is formed of an inorganic material and allows light to pass through; and a fluorescent material layer 120 disposed on the substrate 110. The fluorescent material layer 120 includes fluorescent material particles 122 that absorb light and emit converted light and a light-transmitting ceramic 121 that bonds the fluorescent material particles 122 together. The ratio of the thickness of the fluorescent material layer 120 to the average particle diameter of the fluorescent material particles 122 is less than 30.
US10707384B2 Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device includes a substrate including a base member having an upper surface having a substantially rectangular shape, a lower surface opposite to the upper surface, a first longer lateral surface, a second longer lateral surface opposite to the first longer lateral surface, a first shorter lateral surface, and a second shorter lateral surface opposite to the first shorter lateral surface, first wirings disposed on the upper surface, and second wirings disposed on the lower surface and each electrically connected with a respective one of the first wirings; at least one light-emitting element; and a light-reflective covering member covering lateral surfaces of the light-emitting element and the upper surface of the base member. The base member has at least one first recess open at the upper surface and the first longer lateral surface. Surfaces defining the at least one first recess are covered with the covering member.
US10707383B2 Light emitting device and method of manufacturing light emitting device
A light emitting device includes: a light emitting element; a light-transmissive member including a first lower surface, an outer periphery of which being located on an outer side of the light extraction surface in a plan view, an upper surface having a greater area than an area of the first lower surface, a first lateral surface connected to the upper surface, a second lateral surface positioned on an inner side of the first lateral surface and connected to the first lower surface, and a second lower surface connected to the first and second lateral surfaces; a light guiding member covering at least a portion of a lateral surface of the light emitting element and at least a portion of the second lateral surface and the second lower surface; and a covering member covering the first lateral surface and a lateral surface of the light guiding member.
US10707376B2 Optoelectronic device
An optoelectronic device includes a substrate; a semiconductor stack, formed on the substrate; a current blocking region, including a first pad portion formed above the semiconductor stack and wherein the current blocking region includes transparent insulated material; a transparent conductive layer, formed on the current blocking region and/or a surface of the semiconductor stack; a first opening, formed in the first pad portion, wherein in a top view, the first opening includes elongated shape; and a first electrode, including a first pad electrode formed above the first pad portion of the current blocking region and electrically connecting to the semiconductor stack through the first opening.
US10707375B2 Light emitting device
An embodiment provides a light emitting element comprising: a first conductive semiconductor layer including a first layer and a second layer; an active layer on the first conductive semiconductor layer; a second conductive semiconductor layer on the active layer; and a first electrode and a second electrode arranged on the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer, respectively, wherein the first layer includes a plurality of first grooves, and a growth prevention layer is arranged on the bottom surface and side surfaces of each of the first grooves.
US10707374B2 Etendue enhancement for light emitting diode subpixels
A method of forming a light emitting device includes forming a growth mask layer including openings on a doped compound semiconductor layer, forming first light emitting diode (LED) subpixels by forming a plurality of active regions and second conductivity type semiconductor material layers employing selective epitaxy processes, and transferring each first LED subpixel to a backplane. An anode contact electrode may be formed on the second conductivity type semiconductor material layers for redundancy. The doped compound semiconductor layer may be patterned with tapered sidewalls to enhance etendue. An optically clear encapsulation matrix may be formed on the doped compound semiconductor material layer to enhance etendue. Lift-off processes may be employed for the active regions. Cracking of the LEDs may be suppressed employing a thick reflector layer.
US10707371B2 Highly luminescent nanostructures and methods of producing same
Highly luminescent nanostructures, particularly highly luminescent quantum dots, are provided. The nanostructures have high photoluminescence quantum yields and in certain embodiments emit light at particular wavelengths and have a narrow size distribution. The nanostructures can comprise ligands, including C5-C8 carboxylic acid ligands employed during shell formation and/or dicarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid ligands provided after synthesis. Processes for producing such highly luminescent nanostructures are also provided, including methods for enriching nanostructure cores with indium and techniques for shell synthesis.
US10707369B2 Avalanche photodiode
An avalanche photodiode according to the present invention includes, inside a substrate semiconductor layer having a first conductivity type and a uniform impurity concentration, a first semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type, a second semiconductor layer having a second conductivity type, a third semiconductor layer having the second conductivity type, a fourth semiconductor layer having the second conductivity type, a fifth semiconductor layer having the first conductivity type and formed at a position away from the third semiconductor layer in a lateral direction, a sixth semiconductor layer having the second conductivity type, a first contact, and a second contact. The first semiconductor layer is positioned just under the second semiconductor layer and the fifth semiconductor layer in contact therewith. An avalanche phenomenon is caused at a junction between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer.
US10707368B2 Solar cell having a plurality of absorbers connected to one another by means of charge-carrier-selective contacts
A tandem solar cell structure is described with the following features: (a) Monolithic configuration with at least two different absorbers (104, 108) of different materials for photovoltaic energy conversion (b) an absorber (108) consisting of crystalline silicon (c) a charge carrier selective contact arranged on the side of the silicon absorber (108) directed to the adjacent absorber (104) (d) configuration of the charge carrier selective contact from a thin interface oxide 107 and an amorphous, partially crystalline or polycrystalline layer applied thereto, mainly consisting of silicon, either p (106) or n doped (201) The charge carrier selective contact made up of layers 107 and 106 or 201, respectively, ensures excellent surface passivation of the crystalline silicon absorber 108, as well as selective extraction of a charge carrier type from the latter over the entire surface. Thus, a vertical current flow is achieved, so that lateral transverse conductivity is not required in every sub-cell. The formation of a tunnel contact to the adjacent layer may be achieved by high doping of the layers 106 and 201. The thickness and/or the doping of the layers 106 and 201 may be used to match the generation currents in the individual sub-cells. The temperature stability of layers 107, 106 or 201, respectively, allows the application of subsequent manufacturing steps with temperatures >400° C.
US10707363B2 Assembly for housing wire elements
The assembly has a central block that includes a first main face, a second main face and side faces. The second main face is opposite to the first main face, and the side faces connect the first main face to the second main face. The assembly also includes a first cover arranged on the first main face. The first main face and a first external surface of the first cover form a first groove for housing a first wire element, and the first groove extends along an entire length of the first main face. The assembly further includes a second cover arranged on the second main face. The second main face and a second external surface of the second cover form a second groove for housing a second wire element, and the second groove extends along an entire length of the second main face.
US10707362B2 Controlling of photo-generated charge carriers
Embodiments related to controlling of photo-generated charge carriers are described and depicted. At least one embodiment provides a semiconductor substrate comprising a photo-conversion region to convert light into photo-generated charge carriers; a region to accumulate the photo-generated charge carriers; a control electrode structure including a plurality of control electrodes to generate a potential distribution such that the photo-generated carriers are guided towards the region to accumulate the photo-generated charge carriers based on signals applied to the control electrode structure; a non-uniform doping profile in the semiconductor substrate to generate an electric field with vertical field vector components in at least a part of the photo-conversion region.
US10707357B2 Semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The second electrode is separated from the first electrode in a first direction. The first semiconductor layer includes n-type SiC, is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and is electrically connected to the first electrode. The second semiconductor layer contacts the first semiconductor layer and the second electrode, is provided between the first semiconductor layer and the second electrode, and includes n-type AlxGa1-xN (0.5≤x≤1). A thickness of the second semiconductor layer is not less than 10 nm and not more than 1 μm.
US10707355B2 Multiple state electrostatically formed nanowire transistors
A transistor (100), including a planar semiconducting substrate (36), a source (42) formed on the substrate, a first drain (102) formed on the substrate, and a second drain (104) formed on the substrate in a location physically separated from the first drain. At least one gate (38, 40) is formed on the substrate and is configured to selectably apply an electrical potential to the substrate in either a first spatial pattern, which causes a first conductive path (62) to be established within the substrate from the source to the first drain, or a second spatial pattern, which causes a second conductive path to be established within the substrate from the source to the second drain.
US10707347B2 Transistor with a negative capacitance and a method of creating the same
The various described embodiments provide a transistor with a negative capacitance, and a method of creating the same. The transistor includes a gate structure having a ferroelectric layer. The ferroelectric layer is formed by forming a thick ferroelectric film, annealing the ferroelectric film to have a desired phase, and thinning the ferroelectric film to a desired thickness of the ferroelectric layer. This process ensures that the ferroelectric layer will have ferroelectric properties regardless of its thickness.
US10707345B2 Laterally diffused MOSFET with low Rsp*Qg product
An improved laterally diffused MOSFET (LDMOS) device enables an ability to tune some device parameters independently of other device parameters and/or provides a device architecture with component dimensions that significantly improve device performance. The LDMOS device includes a stepped gate having a first portion with a thin gate insulator over a body region and a second portion with a thick gate insulator over part of a drift region. In some embodiments, a gate shield is disposed over another part of the drift region to reduce a gate-drain capacitance of the LDMOS device. In some embodiments, the LDMOS device has a specific resistance (Rsp) of about 5-8 mOhm*mm2, a gate charge (Qg) of about 1.9-2.0 nC/mm2, and an Rsp*Qg product figure of merit of about 10-15 mOhm*nC.
US10707344B2 Power MOSFET with metal filled deep source contact
A planar gate power MOSFET includes a substrate having a semiconductor surface doped a first conductivity type, a plurality of transistor cells (cells) including a first cell and at least a second cell each having a gate stack over a body region. A trench has an aspect ratio of >3 extending down from a top side of the semiconductor surface between the gate stacks providing a source contact (SCT) from a source doped a second conductivity type to the substrate. A field plate (FP) is over the gate stacks that provides a liner for the trench. The trench has a refractory metal or platinum-group metal (PGM) metal filler within. A drain doped the second conductivity type is in the semiconductor surface on a side of the gate stacks opposite the trench.
US10707343B2 Method of manufacturing semiconductor device and semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes in this order: a semiconductor base body preparing step; a first trench forming step; a first insulation film forming step of forming a first insulation film; a gate insulation film forming step; a gate electrode forming step; a second trench forming step of forming a second trench in the inside of a first trench by removing a center portion of the first insulation film; a second insulation film forming step of forming a second insulation film in the inside of the second trench under a condition that a gap remain in the inside of the second trench; a shield electrode forming step of forming a shield electrode in the inside of the gap; and a source electrode forming step of forming a source electrode.
US10707339B2 Semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third regions, and first to third electrodes. The first region includes a first partial region, a second partial region, and a third partial region between the first and second partial regions. A direction from the first partial region toward the first electrode is aligned with a first direction. A direction from the second partial region toward the second electrode is aligned with the first direction. A second direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode crosses the first direction. A direction from the third partial region toward the third electrode is aligned with the first direction. At least a portion of the third region is provided between the first and second electrodes in the second direction. At least a portion of the second region is provided between the third and first regions.
US10707338B2 Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a first barrier layer containing AlN, over the substrate; a channel layer containing BGaN, over the first barrier layer; and a second barrier layer containing AlN, over the channel layer. A difference between a first lattice constant of the channel layer and a second lattice constant of the first barrier layer is less than or equal to 1.55% of the second lattice constant.
US10707336B1 High-performance lateral BJT with epitaxial lightly doped intrinsic base
High-performance lateral bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) are provided in which a lightly doped upper intrinsic base region is formed between a lower intrinsic base region and an extrinsic base region. The lightly doped upper intrinsic base region provides two electron paths which contribute to the collector current, IC. The presence of the lightly doped upper intrinsic base region increases the total IC and leads to higher current gain, β, if there is no increase of the base current, IB.
US10707335B2 Magnetoresistance effect element, magnetic sensor and spin transistor
The magnetoresistance effect element includes a semiconductor layer, a first ferromagnetic layer and a second ferromagnetic layer. The semiconductor layer has a first region, a second region, and a third region. The first ferromagnetic layer is provided on the first region, the second ferromagnetic layer is provided on the second region, and the third region is sandwiched between the first region and the second region in the first direction. The third region has n-type conductivity, and crystal orientations of the semiconductor material in the direction are substantially the same in the first region, the second region, and the third region. An interatomic distance of the third region in an upper surface neighboring region is larger than an interatomic distance of the third region in a lower surface neighboring region.
US10707332B2 FinFET with epitaxial source and drain regions and dielectric isolated channel region
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a pedestal of an insulating material present over at least one layer of a semiconductor material, and at least one fin structure in contact with the pedestal of the insulating material. Source and drain region structures are present on opposing sides of the at least one fin structure. At least one of the source and drain region structures includes at least two epitaxial material layers. A first epitaxial material layer is in contact with the at least one layer of semiconductor material. A second epitaxial material layer is in contact with the at least one fin structure. The first epitaxial material layer is separated from the at least one fin structure by the second epitaxial material layer. A gate structure present on the at least one fin structure.
US10707328B2 Method of forming epitaxial fin structures of finFET
A method of forming a semiconductor device having first and second fin structures on a substrate includes forming a first epitaxial region of the first fin structure and forming a second epitaxial region of the second fin structure. The method further includes forming a buffer region on the first epitaxial region of the first fin structure and performing an etch process to etch back a portion of the second epitaxial region. The buffer region helps to prevents etch back of a top surface of the first epitaxial region during the etch process. Further, a capping region is formed on the buffer region and the etched second epitaxial region.
US10707326B2 Vertical field-effect-transistors having a silicon oxide layer with controlled thickness
A vertical field-effect transistor and a method for fabricating the same. The vertical field-effect transistor includes a substrate and a bottom source/drain region. The vertical field-effect transistor also includes at least one fin structure, and further includes a bottom spacer layer. The bottom spacer layer has a substantially uniform thickness with a thickness variation of less than 3 nm. A gate structure contacts the bottom spacer layer and at least one fin structure. The method includes forming a structure including a substrate, a source/drain region, and one or more fins. A polymer brush spacer is formed in contact with at least sidewalls of the one or more fins. A polymer brush layer is formed in contact with at least the source/drain region and the polymer brush spacer. The polymer brush spacer is removed. Then, the polymer brush layer is reflowed to the sidewalls of the at least one fin.
US10707315B2 Hybrid doping profile
A semiconductor device having a hybrid doping distribution and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are presented. The semiconductor device includes a gate disposed over an active semiconducting region and a first S/D region and a second S/D region each aligned to opposing sides of the gate side walls. The active semiconducting region has a doping profile that includes a first doping region at a first depth beneath the gate and having a first dopant concentration. The doping profile includes a second doping region at a second depth beneath the gate greater than the first depth and having a second dopant concentration less than the first dopant concentration.
US10707309B2 GaN laminate and method of manufacturing the same
To provide a new GaN laminate obtained b growing a GaN layer on a GaN substrate by HVPE, including: a GaN substrate containing GaN single crystal and having a low index crystal plane as c-plane closest to a main surface; and a GaN layer epitaxially grown on the main surface of the GaN substrate wherein a surface of the GaN layer has a macro step-macro terrace structure in which a macro step and a macro terrace are alternately arranged, one of the macro step and the macro terrace has a step-terrace structure in which a step having a height of equal to or more than a plurality of molecular layers of GaN and extending in a direction orthogonal to m-axis direction, and a terrace are alternately arranged, and the other one of the macro step and the macro terrace has a step-terrace structure in which a step having a height of equal to or more than a plurality of molecular layers of GaN and extending in a direction orthogonal to a-axis direction, and a terrace are alternately arranged.
US10707308B2 Hetero-epitaxial output device array
A GaN-on-Si output transistor array comprises a plurality of small monolithic output transistors. The substrate surface has multiple grids, upon which multiple pieces of the small monolithic GaN films are grown epitaxially on the silicon substrate. Each small monolithic output transistor is formed in a respective small monolithic GaN film. By disabling defective transistors, the overall yield/reliability is improved.
US10707302B2 Semiconductor device manufacturing method and semiconductor device
A semiconductor device manufacturing method includes: a pretreatment step of performing a hydrophobic treatment on a first exposed region of an exposed surface, an n-type semiconductor layer being exposed from the first exposed region, and a pn junction being exposed from the exposed surface; an impurity supplying step of supplying an n-type impurity to the first exposed region; a channel stopper forming step of irradiating the first exposed region with a laser beam to introduce the n-type impurity into the n-type semiconductor layer, thus forming a channel stopper; and a glass layer forming step of forming a glass layer using a glass composition so as to cover the exposed surface.
US10707298B2 Methods of forming semiconductor structures
A method includes forming a semiconductor structure. The structure includes a first material, a blocking material, a second material in an amorphous form, and a third material in an amorphous form. The blocking material is disposed between the first material and the second material. At least the second material and the third material each comprise silicon and/or germanium. The structure is exposed to a temperature above a crystallization temperature of the third material and below a crystallization temperature of the second material. Semiconductor structures, memory devices, and systems are also disclosed.
US10707295B2 Memory device and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a capacitor structure, a first contact plug, and a spacer. The capacitor structure is over the semiconductor substrate. The capacitor structure includes a bottom electrode, a capacitor dielectric, and a top electrode. The bottom electrode is over the semiconductor substrate. The capacitor dielectric is over a first portion of the bottom electrode. The top electrode is over the capacitor dielectric. The first contact plug is on and connected to a second portion of the bottom electrode. The spacer is on at least a sidewall of the second portion of the bottom electrode.
US10707291B2 Image display device and method for repairing short circuit failure
The present invention relates to an image display device and a method for repairing a short circuit failure. The present invention is applicable to, for example, an active matrix type image display device using an organic EL device, and a short circuit location between wiring patterns is able to be repaired. In a scanning line WSL or a signal line DTL, a bypass wiring pattern BP for bypassing a region where the signal line DTL and the scanning line WSL intersect with each other is provided. By using the bypass wiring pattern BP, a short circuit location between wiring patterns is repaired.
US10707289B2 Flexible display panel and flexible display
The present disclosure discloses a flexible display panel and a flexible display. The flexible display panel includes a flexible substrate with at least one bendable side, the flexible substrate comprises a display area and a drive controller, the flexible display panel of the present disclosure adjusts the aspect ratio by changing the structure of the drive controller, thereby shortening the length of the drive controller along the direction parallel to the bend line in the bend area, effectively avoiding defects of the structure of the drive controller on the flexible display panel, also increasing the viewing angle. In addition, in order to save the space, the flexible substrate connected to the drive controller is bent to the other side of the flexible substrate to make the drive controller drive the light emission of the display panel, which greatly reduces the volume of the flexible panel.
US10707288B2 TFT array substrate and OLED display panel
The present disclosure provides a TFT array substrate and an OLED display panel. The TFT array substrate includes a display area, a non-display area around the display area, a COF bonding area and a test area. The COF bonding area and the test area are arranged in the non-display area. The test area includes several test pads spaced apart. According to the present disclosure, the test pads are arranged on the TFT array substrate. Thus, during testing, it is not necessary to cut off the connection wire between the test pads and the TFT array substrate. Therefore, the problem of uncovered metal residue after the cut-off of the connection wire may be avoided. Moreover, when the test of the TFT array substrate is finished, the test pads will be covered by insulating material such that the problem of uncovered metal residue of the test pads can be avoided.
US10707287B2 Organic light emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light emitting display (OLED) device includes an organic light emitting diode having an anode and a cathode. The organic light emitting diode is configured to receive a reference voltage. A control transistor includes a first control electrode and a first semiconductor active layer. The control transistor is configured to receive a control signal. A driving transistor includes a second control electrode that is electrically connected to the control transistor, an input electrode that is configured to receive a power voltage, an output electrode that is electrically connected to the anode of the organic light emitting diode, and a second semiconductor active layer that includes a different material from that of the first semiconductor active layer. A shielding electrode is disposed on the second semiconductor active layer, overlapping the driving transistor, and configured to receive the power voltage.
US10707286B2 OLED device and a method of preparing the same
An OLED device and a method of preparing the same are provided, the OLED device including: a substrate; a first source electrode on the substrate, the first source electrode having a first side surface; a first insulating layer on the first source electrode, the first insulating layer having a second side surface intersecting with an upper surface of the first source electrode and the first side surface of the first source electrode, with at least one of an angle between the first side surface and the upper surface of the substrate and an angle between the second side surface and the upper surface of the substrate being an acute angle; an active layer on the substrate, the active layer covering the first side surface and the second side surface; a gate insulating layer on the active layer; an anode on the gate insulating layer; a light emitting functional layer on the anode; and a cathode on the light emitting functional layer, the cathode including a first drain region covering the first insulating layer and being in contact with the active layer.
US10707282B1 Organic light-emitting diode display panels
A display may have organic light-emitting diode pixels formed from thin-film circuitry. An organic layer including planarization layers and a pixel definition layer may overlap the thin-film circuitry. Thin-film encapsulation may overlap the organic layer. The thin-film encapsulation may be formed from an organic dielectric layer interposed between two layers of inorganic dielectric material. A strip of peripheral crack-stopper structures may run along an edge of the display and may surround the array of pixels. The crack-stopper structures may include parallel inorganic lines formed from a first inorganic layer such as an inorganic layer of the thin-film circuitry. A strip of the organic layer may overlap the parallel inorganic lines. The crack-stopper structures may have parallel tapered polymer lines. The polymer lines may be overlapped by a second inorganic dielectric layer formed from the inorganic material of the thin-film encapsulation layer.
US10707272B2 Imaging device including photoelectric conversion layer
An imaging device includes a photoelectric converter including first and second electrodes, a photoelectric conversion layer therebetween, and a hole-blocking layer between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer; and a signal detection circuit electrically connected to the first electrode. The hole-blocking material has an electron affinity lower than both a work function of the first conducting material and an electron affinity of the first photoelectric conversion material. The photoelectric conversion unit is applied with a voltage between the first and second electrodes, and responsive to the voltage within a range from a first voltage to a second voltage, shows that a density of current passing between the first and second electrodes when light is incident on the photoelectric conversion layer becomes substantially equal to that when no light is incident thereon. A difference between the first voltage and the second voltage is 0.5 V or more.
US10707267B2 Energy harvesting components and devices
A unique, environmentally-friendly energy harvesting element is provided for generating autonomous renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, in electronic systems, electronic devices and electronic system components. The energy harvesting element includes a first conductor layer, a low work function layer, a dielectric layer, and a second conductor layer that are particularly configured in a manner to promote electron migration from the low work function layer, through the dielectric layer, to the facing surface of the second conductor layer in a manner that develops an electric potential between the first conductor layer and the second conductor layer. Electric leads are provided to connect the energy harvesting element to a load to power the load with the energy harvesting element. An energy harvesting component is also provided that includes a plurality of energy harvesting elements electrically connected to one another to increase a power output of the electric harvesting component.
US10707265B2 Display devices
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate, and a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel disposed on the substrate, wherein the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel respectively correspond to two different colors. The first sub-pixel includes a first light-emitting element and a first wavelength conversion layer adjacent to the first light-emitting element, wherein a light emitted from the first light-emitting element passes through the first wavelength conversion layer. The second sub-pixel includes a second light-emitting element and a second wavelength conversion layer adjacent to the second light-emitting element, wherein a light emitted from the second light-emitting element passes through the second wavelength conversion layer. An area of the first wavelength conversion layer and an area of the second wavelength conversion layer are different.
US10707258B2 Semiconductor device with multiple substrates electrically connected through an insulating film
A semiconductor device includes a first substrate having an attaching surface on which first electrodes and a first insulating film are exposed, an insulating thin film that covers the attaching surface of the first substrate, and a second substrate which has an attaching surface on which second electrodes and a second insulating film are exposed and is attached to the first substrate in a state in which the attaching surface of the second substrate and the attaching surface of the first substrate are attached together sandwiching the insulating thin film therebetween, and the first electrodes and the second electrodes deform and break a part of the insulating thin film so as to be directly electrically connected to each other.
US10707255B2 Image sensors and methods of forming the same
An image sensor includes a substrate including a light-receiving region and a light-shielding region, a device isolation pattern in the substrate of the light-receiving region to define active pixels, and a device isolation region in the substrate of the light-shielding region to define reference pixels. An isolation technique of the device isolation pattern is different from that of the device isolation region.
US10707249B2 Camera module having support member with extension structure
A camera module includes a circuit board; a photosensitive chip coupled to the circuit board, a package material body attached on the circuit board, and a support member mounted on the package material body. The package material body has a photosensitive surface, which includes a photosensitive region. The support member includes a support body and an extension structure. A side of the support body away from the package material body is coplanar with the extension structure. An orthographic projection of the extension structure on the photosensitive surface is spaced apart from the photosensitive region.
US10707247B2 Layout and operation of pixels for image sensors
Various embodiments include methods and apparatuses for forming and using pixels for image sensors. In one embodiment, an image sensor having at least two pixel electrodes per color region, and having at least two modes is disclosed. The example image sensor includes a first, unbinned, mode; and a second, binned, mode. In the first, unbinned mode, the at least two pixel electrodes per color region are to be reset to substantially similar levels. In the second, binned mode, a first pixel electrode of the at the least two pixel electrodes is to be reset to a high voltage that results in efficient collection of photocharge, and a second pixel electrode of the at the least two pixel electrodes is to be reset to a low voltage that results in less efficient collection of photocharge. Other methods and apparatuses are disclosed.
US10707246B2 Solid state imaging device and method for manufacturing same
In a solid state imaging device having a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix on a substrate, each of the plurality of pixels includes a photoelectric conversion region and an element separation region separating the photoelectric conversion region. The substrate includes a semiconductor substrate, a first epitaxial layer formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a second epitaxial layer formed on the first epitaxial layer. The photoelectric conversion region and the element separation region are formed over the first epitaxial layer and the second epitaxial layer.
US10707245B2 Display panel, array substrate, and fabrication method thereof
The disclosure provides a display panel, an array substrate and a fabrication method thereof. The fabrication method of the array substrate includes forming a plurality of first thin film transistors and a plurality of second thin film transistors on the first substrate. The etch stopper layer of the second thin film transistor is different from an etch stopper layer of the first thin film transistor, and a threshold voltage of the second thin film transistor is higher than a threshold voltage of the first thin film transistor. By using the disclosed thin film transistors to form the gate driving circuit, the second thin film transistor with a high threshold voltage can be used as the driving signal outputting transistor. The abnormal multi-pulse of the gate driving circuit and the display panel caused by the low threshold voltage of the second thin film transistors may be therefore avoided.
US10707240B2 Display device
The purpose of the invention is to countermeasure a disconnection between the drain electrode or the source electrode and the wiring or the electrode formed on the insulating film via through hole. The concrete structure is that: A display device having a display area including a plurality of pixels comprising: the pixel includes a thin film transistor having a semiconductor layer as an active element, a first insulating film is formed to cover a drain electrode of the thin film transistor, the drain electrode is connected with an electrode or an wiring that are formed on the first insulating film via a through hole, an oxide semiconductor layer exists between the drain electrode and the first insulating film, the oxide semiconductor layer does not exist at the bottom of the through hole.
US10707237B2 Displays with silicon and semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors
An electronic device may include a display having an array of display pixels on a substrate. The display pixels may be organic light-emitting diode display pixels or display pixels in a liquid crystal display. In an organic light-emitting diode display, hybrid thin-film transistor structures may be formed that include semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors, silicon thin-film transistors, and capacitor structures. The capacitor structures may overlap the semiconducting oxide thin-film transistors. Organic light-emitting diode display pixels may have combinations of oxide and silicon transistors. In a liquid crystal display, display driver circuitry may include silicon thin-film transistor circuitry and display pixels may be based on oxide thin-film transistors. A single layer or two different layers of gate metal may be used in forming silicon transistor gates and oxide transistor gates. A silicon transistor may have a gate that overlaps a floating gate structure.
US10707231B2 Semiconductor memory device having vertical supporter penetrating the gate stack structure and through dielectric pattern
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device comprising a peripheral circuit structure on a first substrate, a second substrate on the peripheral circuit structure, a stack structure on the second substrate and comprising a plurality of gate electrodes, a through dielectric pattern penetrating the stack structure and the second substrate, and a vertical supporter on a top surface of the second substrate and vertically extending from the top surface of the second substrate and penetrating the stack structure and the through dielectric pattern.
US10707228B2 Three-dimensional memory device having bonding structures connected to bit lines and methods of making the same
Three-dimensional memory devices in the form of a memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, in which each of the memory stack structures includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel contacting an inner sidewall of the memory film. Bit lines are electrically connected to an end portion of a respective one of the vertical semiconductor channels. Bump connection via structures contact a top surface of a respective one of the bit lines, in which each of the bump connection via structures has a greater lateral dimension along a lengthwise direction of the bit lines than along a widthwise direction of the bit lines. Metallic bump structures of another semiconductor die contact respective ones of the bump connection via structures to make respective electrical connections between the two dies.
US10707224B2 FinFET vertical flash memory
A plurality of fin structures containing, from bottom to top, a non-doped semiconductor portion and a second doped semiconductor portion of a first conductivity type, extend upwards from a surface of a first doped semiconductor portion of the first conductivity type. A trapping material (e.g., an electron-trapping material) is present along a bottom portion of sidewall surfaces of each non-doped semiconductor portion and on exposed portions of each first doped semiconductor portion. Functional gate structures straddle each fin structure. Metal lines are located above each fin structure and straddle each functional gate structure. Each metal line is orientated perpendicular to each functional gate structure and has a bottommost surface that is in direct physical contact with a portion of a topmost surface of each of the second doped semiconductor portions.
US10707220B2 Ferroelectric memory and methods of forming the same
Ferroelectric memory and methods of forming the same are provided. An example memory cell can include a buried recessed access device (BRAD) formed in a substrate and a ferroelectric capacitor formed on the BRAD.
US10707219B2 Semiconductor integrated circuit
A semiconductor integrated circuit of an embodiment includes: first to fifth wiring lines; a first OTP memory element including a first and second terminals connected to the first and second wiring lines; a first p-channel transistor including a source and drain terminals connected to the first and third wiring line, and a gate terminal receiving a first control signal; a first n-channel transistor including a source and drain terminals connected to the first and fourth wiring lines, and a gate terminal receiving a second control signal; a second p-channel transistor including a source and drain terminals connected to the second and third wiring lines, and a gate terminal receiving a third control signal; and a second n-channel transistor including a source and drain terminals connected to the second and fifth wiring lines, and a gate terminal receiving a fourth control signal.
US10707216B2 Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
Provided is a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including: patterning a substrate to form a plurality of active patterns including two adjacent active patterns having a first trench therebetween; forming a semiconductor layer on the plurality of active patterns to cover the plurality of active patterns; forming a device isolation layer on the semiconductor layer to cover the semiconductor layer for oxidization and fill the first trench; patterning the device isolation layer and the plurality of active patterns so that a second trench intersecting the first trench is formed and the two active patterns protrudes from the device isolation layer in the second trench; and forming a gate electrode in the second trench. Here, a first thickness of the semiconductor layer covering a top surface of each of the two active patterns is greater than a second thickness of the semiconductor layer covering a bottom of the first trench.
US10707214B2 Fabricating method of cobalt silicide layer coupled to contact plug
A method of fabricating a cobalt silicide layer includes providing a substrate disposed in a chamber. A deposition process is performed to form a cobalt layer covering the substrate. The deposition process is performed when the temperature of the substrate is between 50° C. and 100° C., and the temperature of the chamber is between 300° C. and 350° C. After the deposition process, an annealing process is performed to transform the cobalt layer into a cobalt silicide layer. The annealing process is performed when the substrate is between 300° C. and 350° C., and the duration of the annealing process is between 50 seconds and 60 seconds.
US10707213B2 Method of forming layout of semiconductor device
A method of forming a layout of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. First line patterns extend along a first direction in a first area and a second area, but the first line patterns extend along a second direction in a boundary area. Second line patterns extend along a third direction in the first area and the second area, but the second line patterns extend along a fourth direction in the boundary area, so that minimum distances between overlapping areas of the first line patterns and the second line patterns in the boundary area are larger than minimum distances between overlapping areas of the first line patterns and the second line patterns in the first area and the second area. A trimming process is performed to shade the first line patterns and the second line patterns in the boundary area and the second area.
US10707210B2 Devices having a transistor and a capacitor along a common horizontal level, and methods of forming devices
Some embodiments include an assembly having a stack of first and second alternating levels. The first levels are insulative levels. The second levels are device levels having integrated devices. Each of the integrated devices has a transistor coupled with an associated capacitor, and the capacitor is horizontally offset from the transistor. The transistors have semiconductor channel material, and have transistor gates along the semiconductor channel material. Each of the transistors has a first source/drain region along one side of the semiconductor channel material and coupled with the associated capacitor, and has a second source/drain region. Wordlines extend horizontally along the device levels and are coupled with the transistor gates. Digit lines extend vertically through the device levels and are coupled with the second source/drain regions. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated structures.
US10707209B2 Asymmetric semiconductor memory device having electrically floating body transistor
Asymmetric, semiconductor memory cells, arrays, devices and methods are described. Among these, an asymmetric, bi-stable semiconductor memory cell is described that includes: a floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a state of the memory cell; a first region in electrical contact with the floating body region; a second region in electrical contact with the floating body region and spaced apart from the first region; and a gate positioned between the first and second regions, such that the first region is on a first side of the memory cell relative to the gate and the second region is on a second side of the memory cell relative to the gate; wherein performance characteristics of the first side are different from performance characteristics of the second side.
US10707207B1 Method, apparatus, and system for improved gate connections on isolation structures in FinFET devices
A semiconductor device, comprising first and second sets of fins; first and second gate electrodes; first and second isolation structures each separating one of the gate electrodes into a first portion and a second portion; and first and second conductive structures wider than the corresponding isolation structure and disposed on an entirety of a top of the corresponding isolation structure and on a part of the top of each of the first and second portions of the corresponding gate electrode. A method for making the semiconductor device. A system configured to implement the method and manufacture the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may have a low parasitic capacitance and high chip performance.
US10707204B2 Composite semiconductor device
A composite semiconductor device with improved response performance and reliability is provided while an increase in wiring area being suppressed. Fingers 1 are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. A signal inputted via a gate terminal (3) is supplied from intermediate regions in a row-wise direction of gate wires (18) connected to gate electrodes (G) of the same row or two adjacent rows of fingers 1 of the fingers 1 and formed along the rows.
US10707203B2 Cascode semiconductor device structure and method therefor
A method for forming a cascode rectifier structure includes providing a group III-V semiconductor structure includes a heterostructure disposed on a semiconductor substrate. A first current carrying electrode and a second current carrying electrode are provided adjacent a major surface of the heterostructure and a control electrode is provided between the first and second current carrying electrode. A rectifier device is provided integrated with the group III-V semiconductor structure and is electrically connected to the first current carrying electrode and to a third electrode. The control electrode is provided further electrically connected to the semiconductor substrate and the second current path is generally perpendicular to a primary current path between the first and second current carrying electrodes. The cascode rectifier structure is provided as a two terminal device.
US10707193B2 Semiconductor device package having a mounting plate with protrusions exposed from a resin material
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a substrate, a metal plate having a main portion having a first width in a first direction and a second width in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a first semiconductor chip located between the metal plate and the substrate, the first semiconductor chip having a third width in the first direction and a fourth width in the second direction, and a second semiconductor chip located between the first semiconductor chip and the substrate, wherein the first width is smaller than the third width, and the second width is smaller than the fourth width.
US10707188B2 Light emitting device
There is presented a light emitting device, having plural light emitting elements disposed on a substrate, in which a protection element, such as a zener diode, can be disposed at an appropriate position. The light emitting device includes: a substrate; a light emitting section having plural light emitting elements disposed in a mounting area on the substrate; a positive electrode and negative electrode each having a pad section and wiring section to apply voltage to the light emitting section through the wiring sections; a protection element disposed at one of the positive electrode and negative electrode and electrically connected with the other one electrode; and a light reflecting resin formed on the substrate such as to cover at least the wiring sections and the protection element, wherein the wiring sections are formed along the periphery of the mounting area such that one end portions thereof are adjacent to each other.
US10707186B1 Compliant layer for wafer to wafer bonding
Techniques and mechanisms for forming a bond between wafers using a compliant layer. In an embodiment, a layer or layers of one or more compliant materials is provided on a first surface of a first wafer, and the one or more compliant layers are subsequently bonded to a second surface of a second wafer. The bonded wafers are heated to an elevated temperature at which a compliant layer exhibits non-elastic deformations to facilitate relaxation of stresses caused by wafer distortions. In another embodiment, a material of the compliant layer exhibits viscoelastic behavior at room temperature, wherein stress is mitigated by allowing wafer distortion to relax at room temperature.
US10707185B2 Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is provided with a semiconductor element having a plurality of electrodes, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element. The sealing resin covers the plurality of terminals such that a bottom surface of the semiconductor element in a thickness direction is exposed. A first terminal, which is one of the plurality of terminals, is disposed in a position that overlaps a first electrode, which is one of the plurality of electrodes, when viewed in the thickness direction. The semiconductor device is provided with a conductive connection member that contacts both the first terminal and the first electrode.
US10707183B2 Flip chip package utilizing trace bump trace interconnection
A flip chip package includes a substrate having a die attach surface; and a die mounted on the die attach surface with an active surface of the die facing the substrate, wherein the die is interconnected to the substrate via a plurality of copper pillar bumps on the active surface, wherein at least one of the plurality of copper pillar bumps has a bump width that is substantially equal to or smaller than a line width of a trace on the die attach surface of the substrate.
US10707178B2 Wiring substrate
A wiring substrate includes: a wiring member that includes a first surface and a second surface, the wiring member including a plurality of wiring layers between the first surface and the second surface; and a carrier that is bonded to the first surface via an adhesive and that includes a plurality of layers whose coefficients of thermal expansion are different from each other. A pitch of wires included in the plurality of wiring layers is narrower on the second surface side than on the first surface side. When being heated, a direction in which the wiring member tends to warp and a direction in which the carrier tends to warp are opposite.
US10707176B2 Method of manufacturing semiconductor package
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package that includes: disposing a semiconductor chip on a support board; sealing the semiconductor chips with a sealant to form a sealed body on the support board, thereby forming sealed semiconductor chips; and forming a rewiring layer and bumps on a side where the semiconductor chip is disposed, after the support board is removed from the sealed body The method also includes an individualizing step of cutting the sealed body along regions corresponding to division lines on the support board, to perform individualization in such a manner that the sealed semiconductor chips each have an upper surface and a lower surface larger than the upper surface, with a side wall inclined from the upper surface toward the lower surface; and a step of forming a conductive shield layer on the upper surfaces and the side walls of the plurality of sealed semiconductor chips.
US10707175B2 Asymmetric overlay mark for overlay measurement
One illustrative example of an overlay mark disclosed herein includes four quadrants (I-IV). Each quadrant of the mark contains an inner periodic structure and an outer periodic structure. Each of the outer periodic structures includes a plurality of outer features. Each of the inner periodic structures includes a plurality of first inner groups, each of the first inner groups having a plurality of first inner features, each first inner group being oriented such that there is an end-to-end spacing relationship between each first inner group and a selected one of the outer features.
US10707169B1 Ceramic interposers for on-die interconnects
Ceramic interposers in a disaggregated-die semiconductor package allow for useful signal integrity and interconnecting components. Low-loss ceramics are used to tune ceramic interposers for a die assembly that may have components from different process-technology nodes.
US10707166B2 Advanced metal interconnects
A method of fabricating a metallization layer of a semiconductor device in which one or more interconnect structures are to be formed includes depositing a dielectric layer and forming a trench for each interconnect structure to be formed in the metallization layer. An insulating liner layer is deposited that serves both as a metal diffusion barrier and as a metal adhesion layer for the interconnect structures.
US10707165B2 Semiconductor device having an extra low-k dielectric layer and method of forming the same
A method for manufacturing an extra low-k (ELK) inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer includes forming a first IMD layer including a plurality of dielectric material layers over a substrate. An adhesion layer is formed over the first IMD layer. An ELK dielectric layer is formed over the adhesion layer. A protection layer is formed over the ELK dielectric layer. A hard mask is formed over the protection layer and is patterned to create a window. Layers underneath the window are removed to create an opening. The removed layers include the protection layer, the ELK dielectric layer, the adhesion layer, and the first IMD layer. A metal layer is formed in the opening.
US10707163B2 Logic cell including deep via contact and wiring layers located at different levels
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a plurality of conductive areas formed on the substrate at a first vertical level; a first wiring layer formed on the substrate at a second vertical level which is higher than the first vertical level, the first wiring layer including first lines that extend in a first direction, one first line of the first lines connected to a first conductive area selected from the plurality of conductive areas through a via contact; a second wiring layer formed on the substrate at a third vertical level which is higher than the second vertical level, the second wiring layer including second lines that extend in a second direction that crosses the first direction, one second line of the second lines connected to a second conductive area selected from the plurality of conductive areas; and a deep via contact spaced apart from lines of the first wiring layer in a horizontal direction and extending from the second conductive area to the one second line.
US10707159B2 Semiconductor device, chip module, and semiconductor module
Provided is a semiconductor device having a surface layer power supply path in a surface layer wiring layer, on which a chip module is mounted, of a main substrate that has a plurality of wiring layers and through holes, the surface layer power supply path supplying power to a semiconductor chip via an inner peripheral-side power supply terminal group and an outer peripheral-side power supply terminal group. The surface layer power supply path overlaps the inner peripheral-side power supply terminal group and the outer peripheral-side power supply terminal group as seen in the orthogonal direction, and is formed continuously so as to extend in a direction from a position at which the surface layer power supply path is connected to the inner peripheral-side power supply terminal group toward the outer peripheral side of the main substrate.
US10707156B2 Electronic device
An electronic device comprises a semiconductor chip, an accommodating part that accommodates the semiconductor chip, a plurality of terminals that are provided along a first side of a first surface and along a second side opposite to the first side with respect to the semiconductor chip, the plurality of terminals being electrically connected to the semiconductor chip and being exposed on the rectangular first surface of the accommodating part, and a plurality of conductive members that penetrate from the first surface of the accommodating part to the second surface opposite to the first surface.
US10707153B2 Semiconductor device having die pad
A semiconductor device includes: one or more semiconductor dice, a die pad supporting the semiconductor die or dice, a package molded onto the semiconductor die or dice supported by said die pad, wherein the die pad is exposed at the surface of the package, and the exposed die pad with an etched pattern therein to form at least one electrical contact land in the die pad.
US10707151B2 Through silicon via structure and method for manufacturing the same
The present disclosure provides a through silicon via structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The through silicon via structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a shaping film, a conductive line, a barrier layer, and an insulating layer. The shaping film is disposed over a back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and is configured to maintain a planar formation of the semiconductor substrate. The conductive line is disposed through the shaping film and in the semiconductor substrate. The barrier layer surrounds the conductive line, and the insulating layer surrounds the barrier layer.
US10707148B2 Elbow contact for field-effect transistor and manufacture thereof
A field-effect transistor (FET) and method of manufacture thereof include patterning a mask above a source and drain of a FET to form holes in the mask, growing epitaxial structures from the holes in the mask, and growing a doped epitaxial shell to coat sidewalls of the epitaxial structures.
US10707147B2 Clip for semiconductor package
Implementations of a clip may include a die attach portion including at least one protrusion extending from the die attach portion and a lead frame alignment portion including at least one alignment feature. The at least one alignment feature may be configured to couple into at least one hole in a lead frame thereby aligning the clip with the lead frame. The at least one protrusion may be configured to couple into at least one recess in the die.
US10707145B2 High density multi-component packages
Provided is a high density multi-component package and a method of manufacturing a high density multi-component package. The high density multi-component package comprises at least two electronic components wherein each electronic component of the electronic components comprise a first external termination and a second external termination. At least one interposer is between the adjacent electronic components and attached to the interposer by an interconnect wherein the interposer is selected from an active interposer and a mechanical interposer. Adjacent electronic components are connected serially.
US10707143B2 Plug-in type power module and subsystem thereof
A plug-in type power module includes a power unit and a heat-transfer unit vertically disposed on the power unit and extending outwardly away from two sides of the power unit. A first ceramic layer is disposed between the power unit and the heat-transfer unit. Therefore, heat generated by the power unit can be transferred from the first ceramic layer to the heat-transfer unit to increase the speed of heat dissipation. A subsystem having the plug-in type power module is also provided.
US10707132B2 Method to recess cobalt for gate metal application
After forming a material stack including a gate dielectric, a work function metal and a cobalt gate electrode in a gate cavity formed by removing a sacrificial gate structure, the cobalt gate electrode is recessed by oxidizing the cobalt gate electrode to provide a cobalt oxide layer on a surface of the cobalt gate electrodes and removing the cobalt oxide layer from the surface of the cobalt gate electrodes by a chemical wet etch. The oxidation and oxide removal steps can be repeated until the cobalt gate electrode is recessed to any desired thickness. The work function metal can be recessed after the recessing of the cobalt gate electrode is completed or during the recessing of the cobalt gate electrode.
US10707129B2 Processing method of wafer
A processing method of a wafer includes a cut groove forming step of carrying out cutting with a cutting blade along streets from the back surface of the wafer to form cut grooves, a wafer dividing step of irradiating the wafer with a laser beam along the cut grooves and dividing the wafer into individual chips after the cut groove forming step is carried out, and a die bonding layer disposing step of applying a liquid die bonding agent on the back surface of the wafer and curing it to form the chips on which die bonding layers are formed on the back surface. According to the processing method of the present invention, the occurrence of clogging in the cutting blade and generation of a burr or the like in the die bonding layers can be prevented.
US10707127B2 Field effect transistor devices with self-aligned source/drain contacts and gate contacts positioned over active transistors
A method of forming a transistor device is provided. The method includes forming a plurality of gate structures including a gate spacer and a gate electrode on a substrate, wherein the plurality of gate structures are separated from each other by a source/drain contact. The method further includes reducing the height of the gate electrodes to form gate troughs, and forming a gate liner on the gate electrodes and gate spacers. The method further includes forming a gate cap on the gate liner, and reducing the height of the source/drain contacts between the gate structures to form a source/drain trough. The method further includes forming a source/drain liner on the source/drain contacts and gate spacers, wherein the source/drain liner is selectively etchable relative to the gate liner, and forming a source/drain cap on the source/drain liner.
US10707123B2 Etch profile control of interconnect structures
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming an etch stop layer on a substrate, forming a metal oxide layer over the etch stop layer, and forming an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer on the metal oxide layer. The method further includes forming a trench etch opening over the ILD layer, forming a capping layer over the trench etch opening, and forming a via etch opening over the capping layer.
US10707122B2 Methods for depositing dielectric barrier layers and aluminum containing etch stop layers
In some embodiments, a method of forming an interconnect structure includes selectively depositing a barrier layer atop a substrate having one or more exposed metal surfaces and one or more exposed dielectric surfaces, wherein a thickness of the barrier layer atop the one or more exposed metal surfaces is greater than the thickness of the barrier layer atop the one or more exposed dielectric surfaces. In some embodiments, a method of forming an interconnect structure includes depositing an etch stop layer comprising aluminum atop a substrate via a physical vapor deposition process; and depositing a barrier layer atop the etch stop layer via a chemical vapor deposition process, wherein the substrate is transferred from a physical vapor deposition chamber after depositing the etch stop layer to a chemical vapor deposition chamber without exposing the substrate to atmosphere.
US10707119B1 Interconnect structures with airgaps and dielectric-capped interconnects
Structures that include interconnects and methods for forming a structure that includes interconnects. A metallization level includes a metallization level having a first interconnect with a first top surface, a second interconnect with a second top surface, and a cavity with an entrance between the first interconnect and the second interconnect. A first dielectric layer includes a first section arranged on the first top surface of the first interconnect and a second section arranged on the second top surface of the second interconnect. The first section of the first dielectric layer is separated from the second section of the first dielectric layer by the entrance of the cavity. A second dielectric layer is arranged to surround the cavity and to close the entrance to the cavity in order to encapsulate an airgap inside the cavity.
US10707118B2 Multi stack optical elements using temporary and permanent bonding
Systems and methods herein are related to the formation of optical devices including stacked optical element layers using silicon wafers, glass, or devices as substrates. The optical elements discussed herein can be fabricated on temporary or permanent substrates. In some examples, the optical devices are fabricated to include transparent substrates or devices including charge-coupled devices (CCD), or complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors, light-emitting diodes (LED), a micro-LED (uLED) display, organic light-emitting diode (OLED) or vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSELs). The optical elements can have interlayers formed in between optical element layers, where the interlayers can range in thickness from 1 nm to 3 mm.
US10707114B2 Method of forming isolation layer
According to an exemplary embodiment, a method of forming an isolation layer is provided. The method includes the following operations: providing a substrate; providing a vertical structure having a first layer over the substrate; providing a first interlayer dielectric over the first layer; performing CMP on the first interlayer dielectric; and etching back the first interlayer dielectric and the first layer to form the isolation layer corresponding to a source of the vertical structure.
US10707111B2 Wafer level flat no-lead semiconductor packages and methods of manufacture
Methods of manufacturing semiconductor packages. Implementations may include: providing a substrate with a first side, a second side, and a thickness; forming a plurality of pads on the first side of the substrate; and applying die attach material to the plurality of pads. The method may include bonding a wafer including a plurality of semiconductor die to the substrate at one or more die pads included in each die. The method may also include singulating the plurality of semiconductor die, overmolding the plurality of semiconductor die and the first side of the substrate with an overmold material, and removing the substrate to expose the plurality of pads and to form a plurality of semiconductor packages coupled together through the overmold material. The method also may include singulating the plurality of semiconductor packages to separate them.
US10707110B2 Matched TCR joule heater designs for electrostatic chucks
A substrate support for supporting a substrate in a substrate processing system includes a plurality of thermal elements. The thermal elements are arranged in one or more thermal zones, and each of the thermal zones includes at least one of the thermal elements. Each of the thermal elements includes a first resistive material having a positive thermal coefficient of resistance and a second resistive material having a negative thermal coefficient of resistance. The second resistive material is electrically connected to the first resistive material. At least one of the first resistive material and the second resistive material of each of the thermal elements is electrically connected to a power supply to receive power, and each of the thermal elements heats a respective one of the thermal zones based on the received power. At least one ceramic layer is arranged adjacent to the thermal elements.
US10707109B2 Substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing apparatus includes carry in/out station, transfer station, processing station, and image capturing unit. The carry in/out station includes first conveyance device that takes out and conveys substrate from cassette. The transfer station is disposed adjacent to the carry in/out station, and includes substrate placement unit on which the substrate conveyed by the first conveyance device is placed. The processing station is disposed adjacent to the transfer station, and includes second conveyance device that takes out and conveys the substrate from the substrate placement unit, and a plurality of processing units that processes the substrate conveyed by the second conveyance device. The image capturing unit is disposed in the transfer station, and captures an image of the peripheral edge portion of one of the upper and lower surfaces of the substrate and the end surface of the substrate.
US10707105B1 Selective shape memory alloy pick-up head
A pick-up head array with shape memory alloy (SMA) pick-up heads is used for selective pick-up and placement of semiconductor devices. In response to the application of heat, the SMA body portions of one or more of the pick-up heads of the pick-up head array transition from a shortened state to an extended state. In the extended state, the one or more pick-up heads are able to attach to one or more LEDs on a carrier substrate. The LEDs are removed from the carrier substrate and placed onto a target substrate by the pick-up head array. Heat may be applied to the one or more pick-up heads to bond the LEDs to the target substrate. The LEDs are then detached from the pick-up head array, and heat may be removed from the one or more pick-up heads to return them to their rest state.
US10707103B2 Substrate cleaning apparatus and substrate processing apparatus
A substrate cleaning apparatus for performing scrub cleaning of a surface of a substrate by rotating both of the substrate and a roll cleaning member while keeping the roll cleaning member in contact with the surface. The apparatus includes a roll holder configured to support and rotate a roll cleaning member, a vertical movement mechanism, having a vertically movable unit vertically movable by actuating an actuator having a regulating device, configured to vertically move the roll holder coupled to the vertically movable unit so the roll cleaning member applies a roll load to the substrate W while cleaning the substrate. A load cell provided between the vertically movable unit of the vertical movement mechanism and the roll holder is configured to measure the roll load. A controller is configured to perform feedback control of the roll load through the regulating device based on a measured value of the load cell.
US10707101B2 Substrate treating apparatus and substrate treating method
Disclosed are a substrate treating apparatus and a substrate treating method. The substrate treating apparatus including a spin head configured to support the substrate, a nozzle configured to discharge a chemical to the substrate located on the spin head, a first passage configured to supply a first chemical, a chemical property of which is the same as the chemical, a second passage configured to supply a second chemical, a chemical property of which is the same as the first chemical, and a discharge passage connecting the first passage and the second passage, and the nozzle.
US10707097B2 Substrate processing apparatus
A substrate processing apparatus includes a chamber, a substrate holding part, a substrate rotating mechanism, and a processing liquid supply part. The chamber includes a chamber body and a chamber cover, and the chamber cover is moved up and down by a chamber opening and closing mechanism. A top plate is attached to the chamber cover. While the chamber cover is in contact with the chamber body, a sealed space is formed and processing is performed. When the chamber cover is moved up, an annular opening is formed between the chamber cover and the chamber body. A cup part is positioned outside the annular opening. A processing liquid spattering from a substrate is received by the cup part.
US10707094B2 Semiconductor package and manufacturing process thereof
A semiconductor package has a first redistribution layer, a first die, a second redistribution layer, and a surface coating layer. The first die is encapsulated within a molding material and disposed on and electrically connected to the first redistribution layer. The second redistribution layer is disposed on the molding material, on the first die, and electrically connected to the first die. The second redistribution layer has a topmost metallization layer having at least one contact pad, and the at least one contact pad includes a concave portion. The surface coating layer covers a portion of the topmost metallization layer and exposes the concave portion of the at least one contact pad. A manufacturing process is also provided.
US10707093B2 Method of treating silicon wafers to have intrinsic gettering and gate oxide integrity yield
The disclosure is directed to a method to recover the gate oxide integrity yield of a silicon wafer after rapid thermal anneal in an ambient atmosphere comprising a nitrogen containing gas, such as NH3 or N2. Generally, rapid thermal anneals in an ambient atmosphere comprising a nitrogen containing gas, such as NH3 or N2 to thereby imprint an oxygen precipitate profile can degrade the GOI yield of a silicon wafer by exposing as-grown crystal defects (oxygen precipitate) and vacancies generated by the silicon nitride film. The present invention restores GOI yield by stripping the silicon nitride layer, which is followed by wafer oxidation, which is followed by stripping the silicon oxide layer.
US10707090B2 Plasma etching method
A plasma etching method includes a first process of generating a first plasma from a first processing gas that contains fluorine-containing gas and hydrogen-containing gas, by using a first radio frequency power, to etch a laminated film including a first silicon-containing film layer and a second silicon-containing film layer that is different from the first silicon-containing film layer, with the generated first plasma; and a second process that is performed after the first process and includes generating a second plasma from a second processing gas that contains bromine-containing gas, by using a second radio frequency power, to etch the laminated film with the generated second plasma. Unevenness is formed at an interface between the first silicon-containing film layer and the second silicon-containing film layer in the first process, and the unevenness is removed in the second process.
US10707088B2 Method of processing target object
A method of processing a target object is provided. The target object has an etching target layer, an organic film on the etching target layer and a mask on the organic film. The organic film includes a first layer and a second layer, the mask is provided on the first layer, the first layer is provided on the second layer, and the second layer is provided on the etching target layer. The method includes generating plasma of a first gas within a processing vessel of a plasma processing apparatus in which the target object is accommodated; etching the first layer with the plasma of the first gas and the mask until the second layer is exposed; and conformally forming a protection film on a side surface of the first layer; and generating plasma of a second gas and removing the mask with the plasma of the second gas.
US10707078B2 Imprint method, imprint apparatus, program, and article manufacturing method
There is provided a method for use in molding an imprint material supplied onto a substrate with a mold to form a pattern on the substrate, the method comprising steps of: with respect to each of regions obtained by dividing a region of the mold based on information of a pattern of the mold, obtaining first information of a first arrangement pattern of the imprint material based on information of the pattern of the mold; obtaining second information of a second arrangement pattern of the imprint material based on information of a thickness of a residual layer of the pattern to be formed on the substrate; and obtaining third information of a third arrangement pattern of the imprint material to be arranged on the substrate based on the first information and the second information.
US10707075B2 Semiconductor wafer, semiconductor device, and method for producing semiconductor device
A semiconductor wafer includes a silicon carbide substrate having a first carrier concentration, a carrier concentration transition layer, and an epitaxial layer provided on the carrier concentration transition layer, the epitaxial layer having a second carrier concentration, and the second carrier concentration being lower than the first carrier concentration. The carrier concentration transition layer has a concentration gradient in the thickness direction. The carrier concentration decreases as the film thickness increases from an interface between a layer directly below the carrier concentration transition layer and the carrier concentration transition layer, and the carrier concentration decreases at a lower rate of decrease as the film thickness of the carrier concentration transition layer increases. The carrier concentration of the carrier concentration transition layer has the concentration gradient that falls within a predetermined concentration range lying between a first concentration gradient condition and a second concentration gradient condition.
US10707072B2 Semiconductor structure with etched fin structure
Semiconductor structures are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a first fin structure and a second fin structure formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes an isolation structure formed adjacent to the second fin structure and covering the first fin structure and a gate structure formed over the first fin structure and the second fin structure. In addition, the first fin structure is lower than the second fin structure, and the first fin structure has a curved top surface under the isolation structure.
US10707070B2 Methods and systems for coating a substrate with a fluid
Methods and systems for coating a substrate with a fluid are described. In an embodiment, a method may include receiving a substrate in a substrate processing unit, the substrate having one or more physical features formed on a surface of the substrate. The method may include introducing a gas into an environment of the surface of the substrate. Additionally, the method may include applying a fluid to the surface of the substrate, wherein the gas facilitates distribution of the fluid relative to the one or more physical features formed on the surface of the substrate. The method may further include controlling one or more processing parameters related to distribution of the fluid in order to achieve device formation objectives.
US10707066B2 Quadrupole mass filter and quadrupole mass spectrometrometer
Four main rod electrodes included in a main electrode section are disposed in a rotationally symmetric manner around an ion optical axis. Among four pre-rod electrodes included in a pre-electrode section disposed in front of the main electrode section, two are in contact with a circle of a radius r0, whereas the other two are disposed to be in contact with a circle of a radius R0 larger than r0, resulting in rotational asymmetry around the ion optical axis. Accordingly, a shape of acceptance on an x-y plane regarding positions of ions in the pre-electrode section becomes elliptical. This allows the shape of the acceptance to become gradually flat as the ions travel along the ion optical axis, reducing a mismatch between emittance of incoming ions and the acceptance on a receiving side, and relieving ion loss during ion introduction.
US10707064B2 Mass spectrometer, mass spectrometry method and program for mass spectrometry
Provided is a mass spectrometer including a storage section in which an MRM measurement condition specifying an MRM transition and an execution time slot is stored for target compounds; an applied-voltage candidate value determiner for determining applied-voltage candidate values for each of the MRM transitions; a preliminary measurement number determiner for determining the number of times a preliminary measurement is performed to optimize an applied-voltage value in the plurality of MRM transitions; a unit measurement divider for dividing a plurality of unit measurements which correspond to all combinations of the MRM transitions and the applied-voltage values into the same number of groups as the number of times of the preliminary measurement, in such a manner as to minimize the number of overlaps of execution times; and a preliminary measurement execution file creator for creating a preliminary measurement execution file for each group.
US10707059B2 Method and device for plasma treatment of substrates
A device for bombarding at least one substrate with a plasma with a first electrode and a second electrode that can be arranged opposite thereto, which electrodes are formed together producing the plasma between the electrodes wherein at least one of the electrodes is formed from at least two electrode units. In addition, this invention relates to a corresponding method.
US10707056B2 Using modeling to determine ion energy associated with a plasma system
Systems and methods for determining ion energy are described. One of the methods includes detecting output of a generator to identify a generator output complex voltage and current (V&I). The generator is coupled to an impedance matching circuit and the impedance matching circuit is coupled to an electrostatic chuck (ESC). The method further includes determining from the generator output complex V&I a projected complex V&I at a point along a path between an output of a model of the impedance matching circuit and a model of the ESC. The operation of determining of the projected complex V&I is performed using a model for at least part of the path. The method includes applying the projected complex V&I as an input to a function to map the projected complex V&I to a wafer bias value at the ESC model and determining an ion energy from the wafer bias value.
US10707054B1 Plasma processing apparatus
In a plasma processing apparatus of an exemplary embodiment, a radio frequency power source generates radio frequency power for plasma generation. A bias power source periodically applies a pulsed negative direct-current voltage to a lower electrode to draw ions into a substrate support. The radio frequency power source supplies the radio frequency power as one or more pulses in a period in which the pulsed negative direct-current voltage is not applied to the lower electrode. The radio frequency power source stops supply of the radio frequency power in a period in which the pulsed negative direct-current voltage is applied to the lower electrode. Each of the one or more pulses has a power level that gradually increases from a point in time of start thereof to a point in time when a peak thereof appears.
US10707047B2 Measuring device and measuring method
A measuring device for measuring a sample by emitting a charged particle beam includes a particle source, an electronic lens, a detector, a stage, a sensor for measuring the environment, and a control device, in which the control device includes a control module having a height calculation module configured to calculate a height estimation value indicating an estimated height of the sample at a measurement position; and a correction value calculation module configured to calculate a correction value reflecting a change of the environment based on the measurement position of the sample and an amount of change of the environment measured by the sensor, and the control module corrects the height estimation value based on the correction value, and sets a control value for controlling focus adjustment using the electronic lens based on the corrected height estimation value.
US10707045B2 Elastomeric joystick assembly
The present invention provides, in some aspects, a rugged and inexpensive joystick assembly comprising a core configured to manipulate a series of switches and located by an elastomeric overlay. The elastomeric overlay can include a tactile surface for a user, a water-resistant coating for a switch panel and a flex-wall disposed between the tactile surface and switch panel coating. The elastomeric overlay can be configured to positively locate the joystick core relative to the switch panel and provide a water-tight seal. The thickness, width and hardness of the flex-wall can be tuned to provide adequate locating strength and resistance to wear.
US10707044B1 Block fuse and jump start box including the block fuse
A block fuse including a body and a plurality of fuses coupled to the body is described herein. The block fuse also includes a plurality of electrical connectors extending from the body in a first direction and electrically coupled to the plurality of fuses, and at least one block fuse removal tab extending from the body in a second direction, opposite to the first direction.
US10707041B2 Switching device for medium voltage electric power distribution installations
A switching device including: one or more fixed contacts and one or more movable contacts, each movable contact being reversibly movable between an opening position, at which the movable contact is decoupled from a corresponding fixed contact, and a closing position, at which the movable contact is coupled with the corresponding fixed contact; an electromagnetic actuator adapted to actuate the movable contacts between the opening and closing positions, the electromagnetic actuator including a fixed yoke and a movable armature operatively associated with the fixed yoke to form a magnetic circuit, the movable armature being reversibly movable between a first position, which corresponds to the opening position of the movable contacts, and a second position, which corresponds to the closing position of the movable contacts; and a kinematic chain to operatively connect the movable armature with the movable contacts, wherein the electromagnetic actuator includes a first excitation coil and a second excitation coil wound around the fixed yoke. The switching device further include a first power drive circuit adapted to provide a first excitation current to the first excitation coil and a second power drive circuit adapted to provide a second excitation current to the second excitation coil; the first and second power drive circuits are galvanically separated one from another and capable of operating independently one from another.
US10707035B2 Rotary electronic component
A rotary electronic component includes a base member, a shaft attached to the base member so as to be rotatable around an axis, and a regulating member that regulates a rotation angle of the shaft. The shaft includes a flange section including a projecting sections and recessed sections alternately disposed in a circumferential direction. The regulating member includes a contact member in contact with the projecting sections and the recessed sections of the flange section of the shaft, and a biasing member that biases the contact member radially inwardly toward the shaft.
US10707032B1 Electronic device having travel-magnifying input/output structure
Electronic devices having input structures that are operative to translate a relatively small travel of an input surface to a larger travel elsewhere. For example, force exerted on an input surface of an input body may cause a corresponding input body to move a first distance. An arm, lever mechanism, or the like may have an end or other portion that moves a second distance in response to the input body's motion. The second distance may be greater than the first; in some embodiments, the second distance may be an order of magnitude or more than the first distance. The travel may close or open a switch in response to the force exerted on the input surface.
US10707023B2 Electronic components
An electronic component includes: a plurality of multilayer capacitors stacked in multiple rows and columns and each having external electrodes on both ends thereof in a first direction; and a board including a body and a connection portion. The connection portion includes: a plurality of positive electrode land patterns; a plurality of negative electrode land patterns; positive and negative electrode terminal patterns formed on a lower surface of the body to be spaced apart from each other in the first direction; a positive electrode connection portion connecting the plurality of positive electrode land patterns to the positive electrode terminal pattern; and a negative electrode connection portion connecting the plurality of negative electrode land patterns to the negative electrode terminal pattern.
US10707021B2 Multilayer ceramic electronic component and board having the same
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a body with a plurality of first and second internal electrodes alternately arranged with dielectric layers interposed therebetween. There may be M each of third and fourth external electrodes on opposing sides of the body, where M is greater than or equal to 3 and all external electrodes have different polarities than the adjacent external electrodes. There may be N via electrodes penetrating through the body, where N is greater than or equal to 3 and the via electrodes are connected to either of the first or second internal electrodes. The multilayer ceramic electronic component may achieve low equivalent series inductance (ESL) characteristics and may reduce the mounting area on the circuit board.
US10707020B2 Electronic component
An electronic component includes an element body and an external electrode disposed on the element body. The external electrode includes a sintered metal layer and a conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer is formed over the sintered metal layer and the element body. An average thickness of the conductive resin layer is smaller than that of the sintered metal layer.
US10707018B2 Polycrystalline dielectric thin film and capacitor element
A polycrystalline dielectric thin film and a capacitor element have a large relative dielectric constant. The polycrystalline dielectric thin film has a perovskite oxynitride as a principal component. The perovskite oxynitride is represented by compositional formula Aa1Bb1OoNn (a1+b1+o+n=5), and the a-axis length of the crystal lattice of the perovskite oxynitride is larger than a theoretical value.
US10707014B2 Wireless load control device
A provided wireless wallbox dimmer may accommodate a plurality of button configurations. The dimmer may be configured to contain a variable number of controllably conductive devices. The dimmer may include a yoke that defines a first plane and an antenna that defines a second plane that is substantially parallel to and spaced apart from the first plane. The yoke may have a flange that is oriented angularly offset relative to the first plane and provides a plurality of mounting locations for controllably conductive devices. The antenna may provide the dimmer with a first wireless transmission range. The dimmer may include a faceplate that cooperates with the antenna to provide the dimmer with a second wireless transmission range that is broader than the first wireless transmission range. The dimmer may include a button assembly that is supported independently of the yoke.
US10707013B2 Sheet for shielding electromagnetic waves for wireless charging and method of manufacturing the same
A sheet to shield electromagnetic waves for wireless charging includes: a base part formed of a resin; and a magnetic material embedded in the base part, wherein a density of the magnetic material in a region of the magnetic material corresponding to a shape of a coil of a reception coil member or a transmission coil member and a region of the magnetic material corresponding to an inner side of the coil is higher than a density of the magnetic material in other regions of the magnetic material.
US10707009B2 Thin film-type inductor
A thin film-type inductor includes a body including a support member having a through-hole filled with a magnetic material and a via hole, a coil disposed on at least one side of the support member and including a plurality of coil patterns, and a magnetic material sealing the support member and the coil. Each of the coil patterns includes a first conductor layer, a second conductor layer, and a third conductor layer. The second conductor layer is disposed on a side surface of the via hole, and is disposed to seal a lower surface of the via hole.
US10707007B2 Transformer with heated radiator member
An electrical device for connecting to a high-voltage power grid has a boiler, which is filled with an insulating fluid and in which a magnetizable core and at least one winding, which surrounds a section of the core, are arranged, and a cooling system which includes at least one radiator which is arranged outside the boiler and is connected thereto via the radiator in order to circulate the insulating fluid, wherein the radiator has at least two heat exchange elements which are connected in parallel with one another. In order to enable a cold start to be accelerated and to be carried out even at relatively low temperatures only one of the heat exchange elements has a heat-conducting connection, as a heated heat exchange element, to a heat source which generates heat when the operation of the electrical device is started.
US10707004B2 Linear actuator
A linear actuator for an active motor mount of a motor vehicle includes a stator which has an electrically energizable coil for generating an electromagnetic field, as well as a magnetic armature which is mounted axially movable with regard to a longitudinal axis of the coil and has at least one permanent magnet ring which opposes the stator and has several permanent magnet ring segments. Between a surface of the permanent magnet ring segments which faces the stator and a surface of the stator which faces the permanent magnet ring segments there exists an angular gap with a gap angle (α) of preferably 4°.
US10707003B2 Electrical connection device
An electrical connection device for an electromagnetic valve that has a temperature sensor for sensing the temperature of a medium. The electrical connection device includes an electrical contact plug. The electrical contact plug is part of a common housing which additionally includes an actuator coil for the electromagnetic valve as well as a plug contact for making electrical contact with the temperature sensor when the housing is mounted onto the electromagnetic valve.
US10706999B2 Magnetorheological fluid composition and vibration damping device using same
This vibration damping device (10) includes a magnetorheological fluid composition in a cylinder (12). The magnetorheological fluid composition includes magnetic particles; a dispersant having the magnetic particles dispersed therein; and a friction modifier. The friction modifier is an amine-based additive having a hydrocarbon chain having 14 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably an alkyl chain or an alkenyl chain. The content of the friction modifier is 0.1 to 5 mass %.
US10706997B2 Preparation of MnBi LTP magnet by direct sintering
A method comprising sintering a Mn and Bi powder compact at a first temperature for a first predetermined duration, based on the first temperature, and sintering the compact at a second temperature, less than the first temperature, for a second predetermined duration, greater than the first duration, is disclosed. The sintering at a first temperature for a first predetermined duration generates a predetermined MnBi LTP transition driving force to decrease a formation energy barrier for transition to MnBi LTP. Sintering the compact at the second temperature for the second predetermined duration forms a magnet containing the MnBi LTP.
US10706986B2 Aluminum alloy wire, aluminum alloy strand wire, covered electrical wire, and terminal-equipped electrical wire
An aluminum alloy wire is composed of an aluminum alloy. The aluminum alloy contains equal to or more than 0.005 mass % and equal to or less than 2.2 mass % of Fe, and a remainder of Al and an inevitable impurity. In a transverse section of the aluminum alloy wire, a surface-layer crystallization measurement region in a shape of a rectangle having a short side length of 50 μm and a long side length of 75 μm is defined within a surface layer region extending from a surface of the aluminum alloy wire by 50 μm in a depth direction, and an average area of crystallized materials in the surface-layer crystallization measurement region is equal to or more than 0.05 μm2 and equal to or less than 3 μm2.
US10706985B2 Aluminum foil, electronic component wiring board manufactured using the same, and method of manufacturing aluminum foil
An aluminum foil having a high adhesiveness to solder and containing at least one of Sn and Bi, in which a ratio of a total mass of Sn and Bi to a total mass of the aluminum foil is 0.0075 mass % or more and 15 mass % or less.
US10706980B2 Filling devices, systems and methods for transferring hazardous waste material into a sealable container
The present invention provides systems, methods and devices for storing and/or disposing of hazardous waste material such as calcined material. In certain embodiments, the system comprises a filling nozzle having a valve body having a distal end and an outer surface, the outer surface proximate the distal end being configured to sealingly and removeably couple to an inner surface of a filling port of the container. In certain embodiments, the method comprises (a) coupling an outer surface of a filling nozzle with an inner surface of a filling port of a container to form a first seal (b) adding hazardous waste material into the container (c) decoupling the filling port from the filling nozzle and (d) inserting a fill plug into the filling port, the fill plug forming a second seal with the inner surface of the filling port, the second seal being distally spaced from at least a portion of the first seal with respect to the container.
US10706978B2 Core of boiling water reactor
There is provided a core of a boiling water reactor that can be operated without loading a new fuel assembly at an operation cycle before decommissioning. The core of the boiling water reactor includes multiple fuel assemblies loaded in a square lattice shape. The multiple fuel assemblies are arranged in the core based on the number of residence cycles of fuel assemblies laterally adjacent and longitudinally adjacent to a fuel assembly having the shortest loading period in core cross section. The arrangement of fuel assemblies is also based on the number of residence cycles of fuel assemblies diagonally adjacent to the fuel assembly having the shortest loading period.
US10706972B2 Fuel bundle for a liquid metal cooled nuclear reactor
In one embodiment, the fuel bundle for a liquid metal cooled reactor includes a channel, a nose assembly secured to a lower end of the channel, and a plurality of fuel rods disposed within the channel. At least one of the fuel rods has at least one guard ring surround the fuel rod and spacing the fuel rod from adjacent fuel rods.
US10706970B1 Distributed data analytics
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a distributed data processing system in which multiple processing devices communicate with one another over at least one network. The distributed data processing system is configured to obtain reads of biological samples of respective microbiomes, with each of the biological samples containing genomic material from a plurality of distinct microorganisms of its corresponding one of the microbiomes, and to perform distributed data analytics to detect a disease, infection or contamination that involves genomic material from multiple ones of the distinct microorganisms in one or more of the microbiomes. Performing distributed data analytics illustratively comprises performing local analytics in respective ones of a plurality of data zones, and performing global analytics utilizing results of the local analytics performed in the respective data zones. Each of the data zones may comprise, for example, one or more sequencing centers utilized to generate a corresponding subset of the reads within that data zone.
US10706967B2 Apparatus and system for processing diagnostic data on the basis of medical interview data and camera data
A diagnostic data processing apparatus based on medical interview data and camera data according to the present invention includes: an interview engine for transmitting information on a question about previously provided standardized items to a user terminal or a smart mirror; an analysis engine for receiving medical interview information including information on an answer corresponding to the information on the question from the user terminal or the smart mirror, determining a state of a user by analyzing the medical interview information, and diagnosing the state of the user by analyzing a picture or an image received from the user terminal or the smart mirror; and a proposal engine for proposing complementary and alternative medical contents corresponding to information on a result of the analysis to the user terminal or the smart mirror through the information on the result of the analysis performed by the analysis engine.
US10706965B2 Sensor information acquiring device, sensor information acquiring method, recording medium in which sensor information acquiring program is recorded, and medical instrument
A sensor information acquiring device includes a sensor and a control section configured to determine that a position of a target object does not change even if a relative relation between the sensor and the target object changes and control an information acquisition direction of the sensor on the basis of information concerning displacement of a displacement section to which the sensor is attached. Even when a position, a direction, and the like of the sensor are changed by influence of work and the like, the sensor information acquiring device can always acquire effective sensor information concerning a desired target object.
US10706963B2 Systems and methods for a health care E-commerce marketplace
Systems and methods for an e-commerce health care marketplace are provided. In one embodiment, a method comprises, responsive to a query from a user, retrieving from a database a list of responses comprising one or more health care providers offering one or more health care services at a provider-supplied price; filtering the list of responses based on a geographic location included in the query; providing, for display, the filtered list of responses; receiving a payment from the user for a response selected from the filtered list of responses; automatically sending a notification of the payment to a provider associated with the selected response; and responsive to receiving an order fulfillment notification from the provider, automatically providing the payment to the provider. In this way, health care consumers may make informed purchasing decisions when shopping for health care services and health care providers may receive prompt payment for services delivered.
US10706962B1 Apparatus and system for verifying accomplishment of an activity which utilitizes penalties or accountability fees to encourage performance of an activity
A system for monitoring the accomplishment of an activity of a user. The system includes an activity monitoring system for monitoring the accomplishment of an assigned physical activity of the user. The activity monitoring system includes data storage and an activities compiler for storing information associated with the assigned physical activity for the user of the system. The system also includes an interactive communication and verification (ICV) apparatus which accumulates information related to the accomplishment of the assigned activity. The ICV apparatus sends the accumulated information to the activity monitoring system. The activity monitoring system stores a predefined activity parameter and penalty/accountability fee assessment. The activities compiler compiles the accumulated information received from the user and determines if the assigned physical activity is performed based on the predefined activity parameter. If the physical activity is not correctly performed, the compiler assesses the penalty/accountability fee assessment.
US10706961B2 Methods, systems and apparatuses for management and storage
The present invention relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses for the management, distribution, dispensing, and administration of consumer products, including over-the-counter and prescription medications through use of a product container labeling system and an optional integrated computer-based or online management system. In certain aspects, the invention relates to a product container comprising a hollow body, a child-resistant cap, and a specialized information label affixed to the hollow body.
US10706960B1 Automated system and method for electronic health record indexing
A system includes one or more processors to receive a representation of a document from a client computing device, the document comprising one of a scanned document, a faxed document, and an electronic document, determine a document type of the document based at least on the representation of the document, index the document using a classification and index processing engine based on the document type, the document type comprising at least one of a plurality of document types used by an electronic health record (EHR) system, extract index data from the document based on the document type using the classification and index processing engine, and match the document with a patient from a database of the EHR system using the index data when the classification and index processing engine successfully indexes the document and extracts index data from the document.
US10706956B2 Bambam: parallel comparative analysis of high-throughput sequencing data
Methods are provided for evaluating and/or predicting the outcome of a clinical condition, such as cancer, metastasis, AIDS, autism, Alzheimer's, and/or Parkinson's disorder. The methods can also be used to monitor and track changes in a patient's DNA and/or RNA during and following a clinical treatment regime. The methods may also be used to evaluate protein and/or metabolite levels that correlate with such clinical conditions. The methods are also of use to ascertain the probability outcome for a patient's particular prognosis.
US10706953B2 Semiconductor memory devices and methods of operating semiconductor memory devices
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array and an address decoder. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks, each of the plurality of memory blocks includes a plurality of dynamic memory cells coupled to word-lines and bit-lines, each of the plurality of memory blocks are divided into a plurality of row blocks by row block identity bits of a row address, and each of the of row blocks includes a plurality of sub-array blocks arranged in a first direction. The address decoder changes a physical row address of a memory cell that stores or outputs data based on a column address received with a write command or a read command.
US10706946B2 One-time programmable memory device
Provided is a one-time programmable (OTP) memory device, which includes a data input circuit that receives a supply voltage and applies the supply voltage to one of a plurality of bit lines that is selected by a write switch, and an OTP memory cell array including a plurality of OTP memory cells arranged in a plurality of rows and columns. The OTP memory cells on the same row connected to the same bit line. The OTP memory device also includes a column decoder that selects one of the plurality of columns of the OTP memory cells to apply the supply voltage thereto, and a detection amplifier that performs a read operation of the OTP memory cells connected to one of the plurality of bit lines that is selected by a read switch.
US10706936B1 System and method for avoiding back to back program failure
In one embodiment, there is a system comprising a first group of blocks connected to a first address line, a second group of blocks connected to a second address line separate and distinct from the first address line, a host controller (or memory device) configured to: allocate a single open block to each of: the first group of blocks connected to the first address line that transmits an address signal generated by a first peripheral circuitry module, and the second group of blocks connected to the second address line that transmits an address signal generated by a second peripheral circuitry module; in response to receiving a first program request: program the open block in the first group of blocks connected to the first address line in response to a first program request in response to receiving a second program request separate and distinct from the first program request: forego programming any of the blocks in the first group of blocks connected to the first address line; and program one of the blocks in the second group of blocks connected to the second address line.
US10706935B2 Read window budget based dynamic program step characteristic adjustment
A read window budget (RWB) corresponding a group of memory cells is determined. The determined RWB and a target RWB is compared. In response to the determined RWB being different than the target RWB, one or more program step characteristics are adjusted to adjust the determined RWB toward the target RWB.
US10706934B2 Failure detection circuitry for address decoder for a data storage device
A data storage device can detect for a failure in decoding of an x-bit row address and/or a y-bit column of an (x+y)-bit address. The data storage device decodes the x-bit row address and/or the y-bit column address to provide wordlines (WLs) and/or bitlines (BLs) to access one or more cells from among a memory array of the data storage device. The data storage device compares one or more subsets of the WLs and/or of the BLs to each other to detect for the failure. The data storage device determines the failure is present in the decoding of the x-bit row address and/or the y-bit column of the (x+y)-bit address when one or more WL and/or BL from among the one or more subsets of the WLs and/or the BLs differ.
US10706929B2 Memory device and method of operating the same
Presented herein is a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device may include a memory cell, and a page buffer coupled to the memory cell via a bit line and configured to perform a read operation on the memory cell. The page buffer may include a storage unit configured to control a bit line precharge operation during the read operation and to store a result value of a first sensing operation. After the bit line precharge operation, a value stored in the storage unit is inverted before the storage unit stores the result value of the first sensing operation.
US10706926B2 Devices and methods to program a memory cell
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to memory devices and, more particularly, to programming a memory cell.
US10706922B2 Memristive arrays with offset elements
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a device is described. The device includes a cross-bar array of memristive elements. Each memristive element has a conductance value. The device also includes a column of offset elements. An offset element is coupled to a row of memristive elements and has a conductance value. The device also includes a number of accumulation elements. An accumulation element is coupled to a column of memristive elements. The accumulation element collects an intermediate output from the column and subtracts from the intermediate output an output from the column of offset elements.
US10706918B2 Memory with symmetric read current profile and read method thereof
Memories with symmetric read current profiles are provided. A memory includes a first memory array formed by a plurality of memory cells, a second memory array formed by a plurality of memory cells, and a read circuit. The read circuit includes an output buffer. The output buffer is configured to simultaneously obtain first data from the first memory array and second data from the second memory array according a first address signal, and selectively provide the first data or the second data as an output according to a control signal. Binary representation of the first data is complementary to that of the second data.
US10706916B1 Method and apparatus for integrated level-shifter and memory clock
An integrated level-shifter and memory clock is disclosed that minimizes delay of voltage level-shifting from an external clock on a first logic supply voltage to an internal clock on a higher array supply voltage that is pulse-width independent of the external clock used to generate the internal clock. The generation of the internal clock on the higher array supply voltages is accomplished in two stages of logic. An array-tracking timing delay circuit mimics access delay to generate a MRST_P to reset the internal clock on the higher array supply voltage.
US10706914B2 Static random access memory
A static random access memory (SRAM) structure includes a first inverter comprising a first pull-up transistor and a first pull-down transistor, a second inverter comprising a second pull-up transistor and a second pull-down transistor, a first pass transistor coupled to the first inverter, and a second pass transistor coupled to the second inverter. Preferably, the first inverter is coupled to a first tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) structure and the second inverter is coupled to a second TMR structure.
US10706912B2 Memories configured to control discharge of a control gate voltage of a transistor connected between a data line and a common source
Memory might include control logic configured to apply an erase pulse to a data line and to a common source concurrently with applying a higher second voltage level to a control gate of a transistor connected between the data line and the common source, concurrently discharge the voltage level of the data line and the voltage level of the common source, monitor a representation of a voltage difference between the voltage level of the data line and the voltage level of the control gate of the transistor, activate a current path between the control gate of the transistor and the common source in response to the voltage difference being deemed to be greater than a first value, and deactivate the current path between the control gate of the transistor and the common source in response to the voltage difference being deemed to be less than a second value.
US10706911B1 Sense amplifier for sensing multi-level cell and memory device including the sense amplifier
A sense amplifier includes a first sense amplification circuit electrically connected between a bit line, to which a multi-bit memory cell is also connected, and a complementary bit line. The first sense amplification circuit is configured to sense a least significant bit (LSB) of 2-bit data in the memory cell and latch the LSB in a first sensing bit line pair. A second sense amplification circuit is provided, which is configured to sense a most significant bit (MSB) of the 2-bit data and latch the MSB in a second sensing bit line pair. A switching circuit is provided, which is configured to selectively connect between bit lines of the first sensing bit line pair and bit lines of the second sensing bit line pair.
US10706910B2 Memory controller
A memory controller component includes transmit circuitry and adjusting circuitry. The transmit circuitry transmits a clock signal and write data to a DRAM, the write data to be sampled by the DRAM using a timing signal. The adjusting circuitry adjusts transmit timing of the write data and of the timing signal such that an edge transition of the timing signal is aligned with an edge transition of the clock signal at the DRAM.
US10706909B2 Apparatuses and methods for refresh operations including multiple refresh activations
A system for refresh operations including multiple refresh activations, and a method and an apparatus therefore, are described. The system includes, for example, a memory array; a command address input circuit configured to provide a command for a per bank refresh operation or an all-bank refresh operation, a command control circuit configured to receive the command, and provide first and second internal control signals; a refresh control circuit configured to provide a first refresh control signal; and a row control circuit configured to provide a second refresh control signal. The provided first internal control signal is based on the provided command. For the per bank refresh operation, the provided second internal control signal is based on the second refresh control signal, and, for the all-bank refresh operation, the provided second internal control signal is based on the first internal control signal delayed by the command control circuit.
US10706904B2 Dynamic reference scheme for improving read margin of resistive memory array
A method of providing a reference voltage for reading of a resistive memory array, and a read circuit for reading of a resistive memory array. The method comprises the steps of generating a first reference voltage when a bitline of the resistive memory array is in a first resistance state, and generating a second reference voltage when the bitline is in a second resistance state; wherein the first reference voltage is different from the first reference voltage and the first resistance state is different from the second resistance state.
US10706903B2 Nonvolatile memory cell, memory cell unit, and information writing method, and electronic apparatus
A nonvolatile memory cell includes a layered structure body formed by layering a storage layer that stores information in accordance with a magnetization direction and a magnetization fixed layer that defines a magnetization direction of the storage layer; and a heating layer that heats the magnetization fixed layer to control a magnetization direction of the magnetization fixed layer.
US10706902B2 Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes: memory cells, first word lined arranged for first ports and each arranging corresponding to respective rows of the memory cells; second word lines arranged for second ports and each arranged corresponding to respective rows of the memory cells, first dummy word lines each provided above the respective first word lines, second dummy word lines each provided above the respective second word lines, a word line driver driving the first and second word lines, and a dummy word line driver driving, in an opposite phase, the second dummy word line for the adjacent second word line according to driving of the first word line from among the first and second word lines, or the first dummy word line for the adjacent first word line according to driving of the second word line from among the first and second word lines.
US10706901B2 Integrated circuit having an electrostatic discharge protection function and an electronic system including the same
An integrated circuit includes a data processing circuit, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit which is connected between a voltage rail and a ground rail and protects the data processing circuit from an ESD event on the voltage rail, and a switch circuit for controlling a connection between the voltage rail and the data processing circuit in response to a control signal.
US10706900B2 Data and clock synchronization and variation compensation apparatus and method
An apparatus is provided for mitigating uncertainties in process, voltage, random, and systematic variations between first and second dies. The first die comprises a clock compensator to adjust one or more signal characteristics of an input clock, and to provide first and second clocks; a data transmitter to sample data with a version of the first clock and to transmit the sampled data to a data receiver of the second die, wherein the data receiver is to receive the sampled data and generate a received data; and a clock transmitter to transmit the second clock to a clock receiver of the second die, wherein the clock receiver is to generate a third clock, wherein a phase of the third clock is adjusted to generate a fourth clock, wherein a delayed version of the fourth clock is received by a sampler coupled to the data receiver to sample the received data.
US10706896B2 Charge pump supply oscillator
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells and first circuitry coupled the plurality of memory cells, wherein the first circuitry is configured to perform a memory operation on at least one memory cell of the plurality of memory cells. The memory device also includes a charge pump coupled to the first circuitry, wherein the charge pump comprises a pump oscillator configured to generate an oscillator signal having only pulses with a width above a predetermined threshold pulse width and a pump core configured to receive the oscillator signal and a first electrical power signal at a first voltage, generate a second electrical power signal at a second voltage based upon the oscillator signal and the first voltage.
US10706894B1 Data storage device for server
A data storage device includes a tray, a circuit board module and two storage units. The tray has a carrying space. The circuit board module includes a circuit board, a pair of adapter slots and a connection slot. The pair of adapter slots are disposed with an interval at one side of the tray, and the storage units are arranged side by side in the carrying space. Each storage unit includes a carrying box and a storage component. The carrying box is pivoted with a handle, and two sides of the handle are pivoted at opposite sides of the carrying box so that the handle is capable of rotating above the carrying box. The storage component is inserted in the adapter slot to electrically connect with the circuit board.
US10706893B1 Method of temporarily sealing data storage device and device
It has been discovered that the cavity of data storage devices may be temporarily sealed to inhibit loss of gasses from the cavity by use of a sealing solution comprising a sealing component that is in contact with the gasket of the device, so that the gasket and sealing solution, together with the structural cover and base deck of the device, temporarily seals the cavity. The sealing solution comprises a sealing component having molecular weight of from about 1000 to about 30,000 Daltons.
US10706891B2 Video image processing apparatus and processing method
In order to solve a conventional problem that it is not possible to clearly indicate a scene switching point as appropriate, a video image processing apparatus includes: a change information acquiring unit that acquires inter-frame change information, which is information indicating a change between two or more frames, among two or more frames constituting a video image; a point determining unit that, in a case where the inter-frame change information is information indicating a change that is large enough to satisfy a predetermined condition, determines a first point corresponding to the inter-frame change information; and a point output unit that outputs a point in the video image that is the first point determined by the point determining unit, in a visually recognizable manner. Accordingly, it is possible to clearly indicate a scene switching point as appropriate.
US10706888B2 Methods and systems for creating, combining, and sharing time-constrained videos
A method includes displaying, by a video display device, to a user of a client device, a broadcast of an audiovisual data feed. The method includes receiving, by the client device, an identification of a portion of the audiovisual data feed. The method includes generating, by the client device, a time-constrained video from the identified portion of the audiovisual data feed.
US10706887B2 Apparatus and method for displaying times at which an object appears in frames of video
An information processing apparatus comprising that includes a reproduction unit to reproduce video content comprising a plurality of frames; a memory to store a table including object identification information identifying an object image, and frame identification information identifying a frame of the plurality of frames that includes the object image; and a processor to extract the frame including the object image from the video content and generate display data of a reduced image corresponding to the frame for display.
US10706885B2 Method for manufacturing information recording medium
The same digital data is recorded with highly integrated manner on a plurality of media able to durably hold information over long-term. A minute graphic pattern indicating data bit information is drawn on a resist layer formed on a quartz glass substrate by exposing a beam and developed so as to prepare a master medium (M1), which comprises the quartz glass substrate having a minute recess and protrusion structure formed by etching where the remaining resist are used as a mask (FIG. (a)). The recess and protrusion structure recorded on the master medium (M1) is shaped and transferred onto a flexible recording medium (G2) on which a UV curable resin layer (61) is formed, whereby an intermediate medium (M2) is prepared (FIGS. (b)-(d)). The inverted recess and protrusion structure transferred to the intermediate medium (M2) is shaped and transferred onto a recording medium (G3) comprising a quartz glass substrate (70) on which a UV curable resin layer (80) is formed, whereby a reproduction medium (M3) having the same recess and protrusion structure as that of the master medium (M1) is prepared (FIGS. (e)-(h)). In shaping and transferring process, the media are separated using the flexibility of the intermediate medium (M2).
US10706882B1 Servo wedge skipping during track seeking
A method includes processing, via an integrated circuit, data read from a first servo wedge; processing, via the integrated circuit, data from a second servo wedge; and skipping processing data from a third servo wedge positioned between the first servo wedge and the second servo wedge.
US10706881B1 Magnetic disk device
A magnetic disk device includes a case including a magnetic disk, a magnetic head configured to read or write data from or to the magnetic disk, an actuator configured to move the magnetic head, and a humidity sensor positioned within the case to measure a humidity in the case and output a measurement value; a control circuit configured to calculate a value of a voltage to be applied to the actuator based on a displacement amount of the magnetic head and the measurement value output from the sensor, and output the calculated value; and a servo controller configured to control the actuator by applying the voltage to the actuator according to the value output by the control circuit.
US10706879B2 Vertically translating load/unload ramp mechanism for cold storage data storage device
An approach to a reduced-head hard disk drive (HDD) involves a load/unload (LUL) ramp subsystem that includes a ramp assembly that includes a rotatable latch link configured for mechanical interaction with a head-stack assembly (HSA) and a LUL ramp coupled with the latch link, configured such that in response to a force applied to the latch link by the HSA, the latch link rotates which disengages a magnetic latch and drives the LUL ramp to rotate into an operational state disengaged from any recording disk of a multiple-disk stack. The subsystem may further include a motor configured to drive rotation of a lead screw to which the ramp assembly is attached, to drive vertical translation of the ramp assembly, thereby providing for loading the vertically-translatable HSA onto and off of each of the disks of the disk stack.
US10706878B2 Tapered junction shield for self-compensation of asymmetry with increasing aspect ratio for tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) type read head
A junction shield (JS) structure is disclosed for providing longitudinal bias to a free layer (FL) having a width (FLW) and magnetization in a cross-track direction between sidewalls in a sensor. The sensor is formed between bottom and top shields and has sidewalls extending from a front side at an air bearing surface (ABS) to a backside that is a stripe height (SH) from the ABS. The JS structure has a lower layer (JS1) with a magnetization parallel to that of the FL, and a tapered top surface such that JS1 has decreasing thickness with increasing height from the ABS. As aspect ratio or AR (SH/FLW) increases above 1, longitudinal bias increases proportionally to slow an increase in asymmetry as AR increases, and without introducing a loss in amplitude for a reader with low AR. The JS1 layer may be antiferromagnetically coupled to an upper JS layer for stabilization.
US10706876B1 Wire assisted magnetic recording with an alternating current driving the wire
A recording head for writing data on tracks of a data storage medium. The recording head includes a writer having a write pole and a trailing shield. The write pole includes a pole tip configured to write on the tracks of the data storage medium. The recording head also includes a writing-assistance wire that is positioned between the pole tip and the trailing shield in a down-track direction.
US10706875B2 Magnetic tape apparatus
A magnetic tape apparatus includes a magnetic tape, a reading element unit and an extraction unit, in which a C-H derived C concentration calculated from a C-H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on the surface of the magnetic layer of the magnetic tape at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is equal to or greater than 45 atom %, and the extraction unit performs a waveform equalization process according to a deviation amount between positions of the magnetic tape and the reading element unit, with respect to each reading result for each reading element, to extract data derived from the reading target track from the reading result.
US10706874B2 Voice signal detection method and apparatus
An audio signal is obtained by a user terminal. The audio signal is divided into a plurality of short-time energy frames based on a frequency of a predetermined voice signal. Energy of each short-time energy frame is determined. Based on the energy of each short-time energy frame, whether the audio signal includes a voice signal is determined.
US10706872B2 Wireless audio synchronization
A method of synchronizing playback of audio data sent over a first wireless network from an audio source to a wireless speaker package that is adapted to play the audio data. The method includes comparing a first time period over which audio data was sent over the first wireless network to a second time period over which the audio data was received by the wireless speaker package, and playing the received audio data on the wireless speaker package over a third time period that is related to the comparison of the first and second time periods.
US10706870B2 Sound processing method, apparatus for sound processing, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A sound processing method includes: executing a time frequency conversion process; executing a noise level evaluation process; executing a bandwidth controlling process; executing a sound source direction decision process; executing a gain setting process; executing a correction process; and executing a frequency time conversion process.
US10706869B2 Active monitoring headphone and a binaural method for the same
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for forming a binaural filter for a stereo headphone in order to preserve the sound quality of the headphone, whereby the sum of the direct and crosstalk paths from loudspeakers to each ear have flat magnitude responses.
US10706868B2 Multi-mode noise cancellation for voice detection
Methods and systems provide dynamic selection of noise-cancelling algorithms, and dynamic activation and deactivation of microphones to provide multi-mode noise cancellation for a voice-detecting headset in situations where ambient noise prevents voice navigation from accurately interpreting voice commands. To do so, when an ambient noise is detected that exceeds a threshold, a particular noise-cancelling algorithm best-suited for the situation is selected, and one or more noise-detecting microphones is activated. The noise-detecting microphone(s) receiving the highest level of ambient noise can remain activated while the remaining noise-detecting microphones can be deactivated. A speech signal received by the speech microphone can then be optimized by cancelling the ambient noise signal received from the activated noise-detecting microphone(s) using the selected noise-cancelling algorithm. After the speech signal is optimized, it can be communicated to the voice-detecting headset for interpretation.
US10706866B2 Audio signal encoding method and mobile phone
An audio signal encoding method and a mobile phone, where the audio signal encoding method includes obtaining a digital audio signal in time domain; transforming the digital audio signal in time domain to an audio signal in frequency domain, which comprises a current frame comprises a plurality of subbands; obtaining, reference parameters of the plurality of subbands; encoding, using a HQ algorithm, the current frame to obtain an encoded audio signal when the reference parameters meet a preset parameter condition; and transmitting the encoded audio signal via a network. The audio signal encoding method and the mobile phone help improve encoding quality or encoding efficiency in audio signal encoding.
US10706863B2 Cross product enhanced subband block based harmonic transposition
The invention provides an efficient implementation of cross-product enhanced high-frequency reconstruction (HFR), wherein a new component at frequency QΩ+rΩ0 is generated on the basis of existing components at Ω and Ω+Ω0. The invention provides a block-based harmonic transposition, wherein a time block of complex subband samples is processed with a common phase modification. Superposition of several modified samples has the net effect of limiting undesirable intermodulation products, thereby enabling a coarser frequency resolution and/or lower degree of oversampling to be used. In one embodiment, the invention further includes a window function suitable for use with block-based cross-product enhanced HFR. A hardware embodiment of the invention may include an analysis filter bank, a subband processing unit configurable by control data and a synthesis filter bank.
US10706859B2 Transport of audio between devices using a sparse stream
Transportation of audio data is provided between a first network element and a second network element. The first network element divides multichannel audio data by channel into a plurality of individual channels. The first network element packages each of the plurality of individual channels together with a corresponding sampling set of audio data into a single packet. The first network element transmits to the second network element each packet that includes a channel having an active sampling set of audio data.
US10706858B2 Error concealment unit, audio decoder, and related method and computer program fading out a concealed audio frame out according to different damping factors for different frequency bands
There is provided an error concealment unit, method, and computer program for providing an error concealment audio information for concealing a loss of an audio frame in an encoded audio information. In one embodiment, the error concealment unit is configured to provide an error concealment audio information using a frequency domain concealment based on a properly decoded audio frame preceding a lost audio frame. The error concealment unit is configured to fade out a concealed audio frame out according to different damping factors for different frequency bands.
US10706856B1 Speaker recognition using deep learning neural network
A speaker identification/verification system comprises at least one feature extractor for extracting a plurality of audio features from speaker voice data, a plurality of speaker-specific subsystems, and a decision module. Each of the speaker-specific subsystem comprises: a neural network configured to generate an estimate of the plurality of extracted audio features based on the plurality of extracted audio features, and an error module. Each of the plurality of neural networks is associated with one of a plurality of speakers, and the one speaker associated with each of the plurality of neural networks is different for all neural networks. The error module is configured to estimate an error based on the plurality of extracted audio features and the estimate of the plurality of extracted audio features generated by the associated neural network. The neural networks are speaker-specific auto-encoders trained for one user and therefore calibrated on that particular user's speech. As a result, that speaker-specific neural network is highly tuned for the particular user and out of tune for all other users. Thus, the error associated with the speaker-specific neural network is relatively small and useful for purposes of identification or verification.
US10706854B2 Dialog management with multiple applications
Features are disclosed for performing functions in response to user requests based on contextual data regarding prior user requests. Users may engage in conversations with a computing device in order to initiate some function or obtain some information. A dialog manager may manage the conversations and store contextual data regarding one or more of the conversations. Processing and responding to subsequent conversations may benefit from the previously stored contextual data by, e.g., reducing the amount of information that a user must provide if the user has already provided the information in the context of a prior conversation. Additional information associated with performing functions responsive to user requests may be shared among applications, further improving efficiency and enhancing the user experience.
US10706853B2 Speech dialogue device and speech dialogue method
A correspondence relationship between keywords for instructing the start of a speech dialogue and modes of a response is defined in a response-mode correspondence table. A response-mode selecting unit selects a mode of a response corresponding to a keyword included in the recognition result of a speech recognition unit using the response-mode correspondence table. A dialogue controlling unit starts the speech dialogue when the keyword is included in the recognition result of the speech recognition unit, determines a response in accordance with the subsequent recognition result from the speech recognition unit, and controls a mode of the response in such a manner as to match the mode selected by the response-mode selecting unit. A speech output controlling unit generates speech data on the basis of the response and mode controlled by the dialogue controlling unit and outputs the speech data to a speaker.
US10706852B2 Confidence features for automated speech recognition arbitration
The described technology provides arbitration between speech recognition results generated by different automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines, such as ASR engines trained according to different language or acoustic models. The system includes an arbitrator that selects between a first speech recognition result representing an acoustic utterance as transcribed by a first ASR engine and a second speech recognition result representing the acoustic utterance as transcribed by a second ASR engine. This selection is based on a set of confidence features that is initially used by the first ASR engine or the second ASR engine to generate the first and second speech recognition results.
US10706839B1 Electronic signatures via voice for virtual assistants' interactions
The present invention provides a method and a system utilizing an AI entity for confirming an agreement has been entered between a first entity and a second entity during a verbal communication, capturing the portions of the communication that constitute the elements of an agreement and storing the portions for later verification of the agreement.
US10706838B2 Method and device for performing voice recognition using grammar model
A method of updating speech recognition data including a language model used for speech recognition, the method including obtaining language data including at least one word; detecting a word that does not exist in the language model from among the at least one word; obtaining at least one phoneme sequence regarding the detected word; obtaining components constituting the at least one phoneme sequence by dividing the at least one phoneme sequence into predetermined unit components; determining information regarding probabilities that the respective components constituting each of the at least one phoneme sequence appear during speech recognition; and updating the language model based on the determined probability information.
US10706837B1 Text-to-speech (TTS) processing
A speech model includes a sub-model corresponding to a vocal attribute. The speech model generates an output waveform using a sample model, which receives text data, and a conditioning model, which receives text metadata and produces a prosody output for use by the sample model. If, during training or runtime, a different vocal attribute is desired or needed, the sub-model is re-trained or switched to a different sub-model corresponding to the different vocal attribute.
US10706834B2 Systems and methods for disabling adaptation in an adaptive feedforward control system
A system and method for disabling adaptation in an adaptive feedforward control system at low speeds. The method includes generating a noise signal representative of undesired noise detected by a noise sensor of a vehicle and generating a noise-cancellation signal via a controller within the vehicle. Residual noise resulting from the combination of the acoustic energy of the noise-cancellation signal and the undesired noise is detected by a reference sensor, which generates an error signal based on the residual noise. The error signal and a speed signal from a speed sensor on the vehicle are transmitted to an adaptive processing module for the generation of a filter update signal. The adaptive processing module selectively permits or prevents the filter update signal to adapt filter coefficients of a filter when the speed signal is within a set of conditions.
US10706833B2 Active noise control apparatus, active noise control method and program
The active noise control device detects noise, and delays a phase of a detected noise signal in a low frequency band. In a non-closed-type noise control device, since there occurs such a phenomenon that the phase of the noise signal advances in the low frequency band, the correction unit performs a correction to cancel the phase advance by delaying the phase. By outputting the noise reduction sound based on the phase-corrected noise signal, the noise is reduced.
US10706829B2 Magnetically secured instrument trigger and instrument trigger mounting systems and methods
An apparatus, system, and method for a magnetically and releasably attachable trigger for an instrument is provided. Additionally, the trigger provides for an increased sensitivity of sound by being in direct physical contact with the surface on which it is attached.
US10706826B1 Flip ring for holding a guitar pick
A guitar pick holder uses a finger or thumb worn ring to which the guitar pick is attached. The ring has a riser on its outer circumference, the riser having a pair of opposing openings. An offset clasp is rotatably received within the opening of the guitar pick with the guitar pick slid to a desired position on the offset clasp. The offset clasp is rotatably attached to the riser via a pair of prongs on the offset clasp that face each other such that each prong is received within one of the riser openings. The prongs are able to rotate within their respective opening.
US10706825B2 Timestamp based display update mechanism
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a timestamp based display update mechanism. A display control unit includes a timestamp queue for storing timestamps, wherein each timestamp indicates when a corresponding frame configuration set should be fetched from memory. At pre-defined intervals, the display control unit may compare the timestamp of the topmost entry of the timestamp queue to a global timer value. If the timestamp is earlier than the global timer value, the display control unit may pop the timestamp entry and fetch the frame next configuration set from memory. The display control unit may then apply the updates of the frame configuration set to its pixel processing elements. After applying the updates, the display control unit may fetch and process the source pixel data and then drive the pixels of the next frame to the display.
US10706822B2 Device configuration using orientation cues
One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using one or more sensors, data associated with a device orientation; determining, using the data and at least one feature of an environment of the device, a device configuration; and implementing the determined device configuration on the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10706821B2 Mission monitoring system
One example includes a mission monitoring system. The system includes a data store configured to store map data associated with a geographic region of interest and a plurality of graphical elements corresponding to at least one mission asset and to mission constraints. Each of the plurality of graphical elements includes a layer assignment associated with one of a plurality of graphical layers. The system also includes a human-machine interface (HMI) configured to facilitate user inputs to selectively activate the plurality of graphical layers associated with the plurality of graphical elements and to display a graphical rendering of the selectively activated graphical layers superimposed over a graphical virtual environment of the geographic region of interest via a display system.
US10706820B2 Methods and apparatus for producing a multimedia display that includes olfactory stimuli
A system may produce a multimedia presentation that includes visual stimuli, auditory stimuli, olfactory stimuli, thermal stimuli and air currents that are perceptible to a human user. All or part of the system may be housed in or affixed to a table or desk. Sensors may monitor physiology or activities of the user and provide feedback regarding the user's response to the presentation. A user may input instructions for the system. Based on these instructions, the system may present a multimedia presentation which tends to produce a target physiological state of the user that is specified in the instructions or which tends to maintain a current physiological state of the user. The system may employ a control space to control the presentation. This control space may have axes that correspond to how a user perceives multimedia presentations.
US10706814B2 Processing method and processing device for display data, and display device
An aspect of the disclosure provides a processing method for display data applied in a computing device, which processing method includes: determining a region of interest in the display area of the computing device; compressing data of an image in the display area; and transmitting data of an image of the region of interest and the compressed image data in the display area. The disclosure further provides a corresponding processing device and display device.
US10706813B1 Apparatus, system, and method for mitigating motion-to-photon latency in head-mounted displays
A special-purpose hardware device for achieving intraframe image processing in head-mounted displays may include an image-correction component that receives a single image frame destined to be displayed for presentation to a user wearing a head-mounted-display system. The image-correction component may also receive user-motion data indicating that the user wearing the head-mounted-display system has made at least one movement since generation of the single image frame. The image-correction component may further perform hardware-accelerated intraframe processing operations on the single image frame in accordance with the user-motion data to compensate for the movement made by the user on a line-by-line basis. In addition, the special-purpose hardware device may include a frame-output interface that feeds the single image frame to a display device of the head-mounted-display system to facilitate displaying the single image frame for presentation to the user. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10706812B2 Source-side tone mapping based on native color gamut and brightness of display
A display system includes a rendering device configured to couple to a display monitor. The rendering device includes a graphics processing unit (GPU) configured to render display images for a video stream to be displayed at the display monitor. The rendering device further includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to obtain display parameters for the display monitor, the display parameters including data identifying a native color gamut, a native luminance range of the display monitor, and one or more backlighting characteristics of the display monitor, and to configure the GPU to render a display image of the video stream that is tone mapped to the native color gamut and the native luminance range and based on the one or more backlighting characteristics. The display monitor is configured to provide the display image for display without tone re-mapping the display image.
US10706805B2 Source driver using an interpolation method and display driver including the same
A source driver includes a buffer unit including a plurality of unit buffers corresponding to a plurality of source lines, where each of the plurality of unit buffers includes a plurality of input terminals and an output terminal connected to at least one of the plurality of source lines, and a decoder unit configured to receive image data and a plurality of gamma voltages, and input at least one of the plurality of gamma voltages to the plurality of input terminals of each of the plurality of unit buffers, using the image data. The decoder unit inputs two or more of the gamma voltages, having different magnitudes, to the plurality of input terminals of each of first unit buffers among the plurality of unit buffers, and the first unit buffers output a gradation voltage higher than a first voltage and lower than a second voltage.
US10706803B2 Shift register circuit
Provided is a shift register circuit capable of preventing occurrence of malfunction caused by a threshold shift of a thin-film transistor due to an influence of external light. A unit circuit constituting each stage of the shift register circuit includes a plurality of thin-film transistors. The plurality of thin-film transistors are categorized into a first group (T2, T4, T9) whose on-off state is controlled at relatively high on-duty and a second group (T1, T3, T5, T6, T7, T8) whose on-off state is controlled at relatively low on-duty. In such a configuration, a light shielding film (LS) is provided only for the thin-film transistor included in one of the first group and the second group.
US10706802B2 Display device
A display device includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines, a timing controller, and a gate driver. The gate lines are electrically coupled to the pixels. The timing controller provides an initial pulse signal. The gate driver is electrically coupled to the timing controller and the gate lines and receives the initial pulse signal. The gate driver receives the initial pulse signal with a high level and outputs a plurality of gate signals to the gate lines during a period which is longer than half of a frame of the display device, in response to a scan frequency of the display device changing from a first frequency to a second frequency, where the first frequency is higher than the second frequency.
US10706801B2 Liquid crystal display device and electronic device including the same
A driver circuit includes first to third transistors, a first circuit, and a second circuit. In the first transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to a second wiring, a second terminal is electrically connected to a first wiring, and a gate is electrically connected to the second circuit and a first terminal of the third transistor. In the second transistor, a first terminal is electrically connected to the first wiring, a second terminal is electrically connected to a sixth wiring, a gate is electrically connected to the first circuit and a gate of the third transistor. A second terminal of the third transistor is electrically connected to the sixth wiring. The first circuit is electrically connected to a third wiring, a fourth wiring, a fifth wiring, and the sixth wiring. The second circuit is electrically connected to the first wiring, the second wiring, and the sixth wiring.
US10706799B2 Display device without a driver IC
A display device has a substrate for disposing a display area having an array of pixels, and control circuits having shift registers and latches to provide image data and timing control signals to the pixels. The control circuits have signal lines electrically connected to a connection cable to receive therefrom data signals indicative of the image data and timing pulses indicative of the timing control signals. The connection cable is also configured to provide reference signals to the shift registers and latches in the control circuits. The data signals are digital signals having an amplitude range greater than the amplitude range of the reference signals. No driver IC is disposed on the substrate to process analog signals. Each of the pixels has three sub-pixels and each of the color sub-pixels has three color sub-areas configured to receive timing control signals from a different scan line.
US10706797B2 Liquid crystal display, display panel and reference voltage control method and device
The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display, a display panel and a reference voltage control method of a display panel and a reference voltage control device for a display panel. The reference voltage control method of a display panel includes acquiring a refreshing frequency of the display panel; invoking a reference voltage database according to the refreshing frequency, to acquire reference voltage data corresponding to the refreshing frequency; generating a reference voltage adjusting signal for adjusting a reference voltage signal fixedly output by the display panel according to the reference voltage data; and synthesizing the reference voltage adjusting signal and the reference voltage signal fixedly output by the display panel to generate a reference voltage synthesis signal, and outputting the reference voltage synthesis signal to a reference voltage signal input terminal of the display panel.
US10706790B2 Display device, display module including the display device, and electronic device including the display device or the display module
Provided is a novel display device without deterioration of display quality or a novel display device in which flickering due to a reduced refresh rate is suppressed. The display device includes a pixel for displaying a still image at a frame frequency of less than or equal to 1 Hz. The pixel includes a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer includes a molecule whose dipole moment is greater than or equal to 0 debye and less than or equal to 3 debye. Thus, flickering due to a reduced refresh rate can be suppressed, which leads to an improvement in display quality.
US10706786B2 Gate driver and organic light emitting display device including the same
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a gate driver includes a plurality of stages which is dependently connected to each other and each of the plurality of pixels includes: a first output unit which outputs a sensing signal by voltages of a Q node and a QB node; a second output unit which outputs a reference signal by the voltages of the Q node and the QB node; a third output unit which outputs a scan signal by the voltages of the Q node and the QB node; a first controller which controls the Q node; and a second controller which controls the QB node, and at least two of the first to third output units share at least one clock signal among a plurality of clock signals, thereby reducing an area of the gate driver.
US10706779B2 Device and method for image data processing
A display driver for driving a display panel includes a voltage data generator circuit calculating a voltage data value from an input grayscale value and a driver circuitry driving the display panel in response to the voltage data value. The voltage data generator circuit includes a basic control point data storage circuit storing therein basic control point data specifying a basic correspondence relationship between the input grayscale value and the voltage data value, a correction data memory storing correction data for each of the pixel circuits, a control point calculation circuit and a data correction circuit. When the voltage data value is calculated for a specific pixel circuit, the control point calculation circuit generates control point data associated with the specific pixel circuit by correcting the basic control point data on the basis of the correction data associated with the specific pixel circuit, and The data correction circuit calculates the voltage data value from the input grayscale value on the basis of the correspondence relationship specified by the control point data associated with the control point data.
US10706775B2 Display device and driving method of the same
The present disclosure relates to a display device and a driving method of a display device. In one embodiment, the display device includes: a display panel having a plane area and at least one curved area outside of the plane area; a timing controller; and a data driver. The timing controller includes: an image analyzer which analyzes a portion of the image signal corresponding to the at least one curved area and a luminance controller which controls the portion of the image signal corresponding to the at least one curved area to increase a luminance of the at least one curved area. The luminance of the at least one curved area may be increased based on the viewing angle to increase the luminance uniformity of the display panel, thereby minimizing the deterioration of the image quality due to the curved area.
US10706770B2 Display system having module display panel with circuitry for bidirectional communication
A modular display panel includes a plastic housing having a recess, a printed circuit board disposed in the recess, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) attached to the printed circuit board, a transparent potting compound overlying the LEDs, a driver circuit attached to the printed circuit board, and a heat sink disposed between a back side of the housing and the printed circuit board. The heat sink thermally contacts the back side of the housing and the printed circuit board. The panel also includes a power supply and a network interface controller.
US10706766B2 Display panel and method for driving the display panel
A display panel is provided. In the display panel, a plurality of pixels respectively including a plurality of sub pixels are arranged in a matrix form on a glass. Each of the plurality of sub pixels includes a driving circuit disposed on the glass and configured to receive a pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) data voltage and a pulse width modulation (PWM) data voltage, and an inorganic light emitting device mounted on the driving circuit and configured to be electrically connected to the driving circuit, and to emit a light based on a driving current provided from the driving circuit. The PAM data voltage is applied at once to the plurality of pixels included in the display panel. The driving circuit is configured to control a grayscale of a light emitted by the inorganic light emitting device by controlling a pulse width of a driving current having an amplitude corresponding to the applied PAM data voltage based on the applied PWM data voltage.
US10706760B2 Shift register, method for driving the same, gate driver circuit, and display device
A shift register, a method for driving the same, a gate driver circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register includes an input circuit, a reset circuit, a first control circuit, a first output circuit, and a second output circuit, where the first output circuit includes two output channels, where one channel is that under the joint control of signals of a first clock signal terminal and a first node, a signal of a first clock signal terminal is provided to a drive signal output terminal of the shift register, and the other channel is that under the joint control of signals of the second clock signal terminal and the first node, a signal of a second clock signal terminal is provided to the drive signal output terminal.
US10706759B2 Current comparison circuit, display device and driving method thereof
A current comparison circuit for use in a display device. The display device is configured to be supplied with a plurality of power supply voltages for powering a digital portion and an analog portion of the display device through respective power supplying paths. The current comparison circuit includes a plurality of comparator circuits, each of which is configured to compare a current on a respective one of the power supplying paths with a respective reference value and to output the respective comparison value. A combination of the respective comparison values output by the comparator circuits indicates a type of content being displayed by the display device.
US10706758B2 Shift register unit, driving method thereof and display device
A shift register unit, driving method thereof and display device are provided. The shift register unit includes an input module (P1), a pull-down compensation module (P2), a pull-down module (P4) and a pull-up module (P3), wherein the pull-down compensation module (P2) is used to pull down at least twice a signal of a pull-down control node (QB) when a signal of a pull-up control node (Q) is in a high-level state to pull down the signal of the pull-down control node (QB) to the low-level state. The accuracy of the signal of the pull-down control node can be ensured even in such conditions as instability, high or low temperature in the manufacturing process, and the influence on signals transmitted in a shift register unit caused by the instability, high or low temperature and so on in the manufacturing process is reduced thereby improving the display effect of the display device.
US10706750B2 Display header system
A product display includes a display header and a cabinet. The display header is coupled to the cabinet for showing product indicia related to products stored in the cabinet to a customer at a retail location.
US10706747B2 Pyramidical displays and methods for forming the same
Pyramidical displays and methods for forming the same are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a first panel, a second panel, a third panel, and a fourth panel, when in an erected position, the first panel, the second panel, the third panel and the fourth panel form a first cross-section at a first height and a second cross-section at a second height, the first cross-section having a greater area than the second cross-section, the first height lower than the second height. The example apparatus includes a first stop extending between a first vertex between the first panel and the third panel and a second vertex between the second panel and the fourth panel, the first stop to prevent movement of the first panel about the first vertex.
US10706744B2 Penile prosthesis demonstration tool
A penile prosthesis demonstration tool includes a male genital tool connected to an exterior of the housing. The housing has a first lateral side and an opposing second lateral side, with the first lateral side and the second lateral side each formed to have a concave curvature. The male genital tool has a penis tool attached to a scrotum tool. An inflatable penile implant placed inside of the penis tool; a pump placed inside of the scrotum tool and coupled to the inflatable penile implant; a reservoir placed inside of the housing and coupled to the pump; and a lubricant placed inside of the scrotum tool. An entirety of the lubricant outside of the pump.
US10706743B2 Simulated dissectible tissue
A simulated dissectible tissue model for practicing surgical skills is provided. The simulated tissue comprises a simulated anatomical structure, such as one or more artificial vessel, embedded with a silicone gel layer between two silicone layers. The simulated dissectible tissue, with or without a simulated anatomical structure, is connected to one or more artificial organ via a fiberfill layer. The fiberfill layer includes a plurality of entangled fibers embedded between two adjacent silicone layers. The fiberfill layer creates a dissection plane that permits the one or more artificial organ to be removed by spreading apart and selectively dissecting the chains of entangled fibers. Artificial nerves may be included in fiberfill layer.
US10706737B2 Systems and methods for computer implemented treatment of behavioral disorders
A system and method are provided for treating excessive or problematic computer use. In at least one embodiment, a method is employed to treat excessive or problematic computer use by acquiring information about the unwanted user activity, monitoring user activity for the unwanted behavior, controlling the behavior when it occurs, enabling the user to record self-observations and evaluating the results. This method may employ a computer based system to treat excessive or problematic computer use which includes configuring a user activity monitor with constraints, programmatically enforcing those constraints, reporting the activities monitored and restricted, and enabling a user to input self-observations. Potential constraints include a complete bar on the user activity, as well as, progressively decreasing the amount of time the user may engage in the activity, i.e. titrating the user activity.
US10706728B2 Operation management apparatus, operation management method, and non-transitory recording medium
An operation management apparatus includes a surrounding environment estimating unit, an energy calculator, and a time changer. The surrounding environment estimating unit is configured to estimate a surrounding environment at a returning start time of a movable body. The energy calculator is configured to search, based on the surrounding environment, a returning route along which the movable body performs the returning, to a first position from a second position, that is started at the returning start time, and calculate an energy amount necessary for the returning. The time changer is configured to advance the returning start time by a predetermined time period until the energy amount reaches or falls below a predetermined value. The surrounding environment estimating unit and the energy calculator are configured to respectively perform the estimation of the surrounding environment and the calculation of the energy amount, each time the time changer changes the returning start time.
US10706726B2 Multiple flight data reference for a specific selection on a vertical and lateral display
Methods and systems for a flight display system are provided. The method includes: commanding a vertical situation display (VSD) and a lateral navigation display (ND) to render, concurrently, a viewing segment of a flight plan. The method includes receiving a user input selecting a section of the viewing segment, the user input being received on only one of the VSD and the ND. The method continues by commanding, concurrently, the VSD and the ND to visually distinguish the section, and to demark the section on the VSD with starting points and ending points. The method identifies a flight parameter, and for the flight parameter, includes (a) determining which display, among the VSD and the ND, is appropriate for the rendering of flight parameter information; (b) generating flight parameter information based on (a); and (c) overlaying the flight parameter information on the appropriate display.
US10706723B2 Parking fee charging system and operating method thereof
A system and method for addressing roadside parking issues are provided. The method includes: determining whether a parking fee has been paid for an on-street parking space, and if not, activating a detector of the corresponding parking meter; determining whether an object exists in the parking space and whether the object, if existing, is a vehicle, and if yes to both, activating a camera of the parking meter to obtain an image of the parking space; determining again whether the object is a vehicle by performing image and license plate recognition, and if yes, either prompting a parking enforcement officer to go to the parking space and issue a parking ticket or issuing the parking ticket automatically; updating the parking meter after the parking ticket is issued; and reducing the detection frequency. The method is labor-saving and reduces power consumption by the parking meter.
US10706719B2 Traffic signal indicating method, apparatus and system, and machine-readable medium
Embodiments of the application relate to the field of traffic, more particularly to a method, apparatus and system for indicating a traffic signal. An embodiment is directed to a traffic signal indicating method effective on a pedestrian and/or vehicle. A traffic signal indicating system of an embodiment includes a traffic signal indicating apparatus, configured to acquire a traffic control state of a traffic management area; and a projection apparatus, configured to project first visual information for indicating the traffic control state to a first-segment pavement of the traffic management area. By projecting visual information for indicating a current traffic control state to a pavement of a traffic management area, a purpose of reminding a pedestrian and a vehicle is achieved. The projected visual information may transfer rich information. Further, it is unnecessary to modify existing traffic lights.
US10706718B2 Remote control device
A remote control device includes a housing and an upper element. The top surface of the upper element can be partitioned to include different frictionally engaging surfaces. At least one frictionally engaging surface can be used as an input surface that receives user inputs such as touch or force inputs. An input device, such as a force sensing switch, can be positioned in the housing and used in determining an amount of force applied to the input surface. The bottom surface of the upper element below the second surface can be affixed to the housing in a manner that permits the input surface to bend based on the applied force.
US10706717B2 Electronic device and control method thereof
A device includes a first sensor to generate a movement signal of a user movement; a second sensor to generate a PPG signal of the user; and a processor configured to set each of time periods as a predetermined amount of time to determine one sleeping state of the user, set a first part of the predetermined amount of time in each time period to emit the light, and set a remaining part of the predetermined amount of time in each time period to not emit the light, control the light emitter of the second sensor to emit the light in the first part of each time period and to not emit the light in the remaining part of each time period, and determine, for each time period, the sleeping state of the user based on the movement signal and the PPG signal that are generated for each time period.
US10706711B2 Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium
A vehicle control device (100) includes a recognizer (130) that recognizes a surrounding situation of an automatically driven vehicle, and a driving controller (120, 160) that automatically controls acceleration/deceleration and steering of the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the surrounding situation recognized by the recognizer and also includes a situation information acquirer that acquires situation information indicating an in-vehicle situation of an automatically driven vehicle, a detector that detects a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of the situation information acquired by the situation information acquirer, and a controller that controls the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of the detection of the detector.
US10706709B2 Preventive maintenance method of driving device
The present invention includes: collecting information about a change in energy magnitude according to time measured with the driving device in normal operation separately for each of a peak period and a mean period; collecting information about a change in energy magnitude according to time measured with the driving device in operation before the driving device breaks separately for each of the peak period and the mean period; setting a mean fault of the mean period on the basis of the information collected; and collecting information about a change in energy magnitude according to time measured in real time with the driving device in operation separately for each of the peak period and the mean period and of detecting the driving device in an abnormal state when the collected energy values in the mean period exceed the peak fault of the mean period set in the setting.
US10706707B2 Security management system, security management method and recording medium
The present invention provides a feature that manages security while maintaining the privacy of a user. The present invention is provided with an object detection unit for detecting the state of an object in a target booth, an abnormality determination unit for comparing the detection result of the object with a prescribed state and determining abnormality on the basis of the comparison result, a photograph unit for photographing the inside of the target booth, and a video control unit for setting the resolution of a video signal outputted from the photograph unit on the basis of the result of the abnormality determination.
US10706704B1 Utilizing a high generation cellular network for identifying devices associated with unauthorized activities and notifying enterprise facilities
Aspects of the disclosure relate to utilizing a high generation cellular network for identifying devices associated with unauthorized activities and notifying enterprise facilities. A computing platform may detect a plurality of user devices at a first enterprise facility. Then, the computing platform may collect device information for the plurality of user devices. Then, the computing platform may receive, from an enterprise device, a message related to a first activity at the first enterprise facility. Then, the computing platform may identify a sub-plurality of the plurality of user devices located at the first enterprise facility at a time of occurrence of the first activity. Then, the computing platform may generate an alert notification comprising information related to the first activity and device information for the sub-plurality of user devices. Subsequently, the computing platform may send the alert notification to a collection of enterprise devices at a plurality of enterprise facilities.
US10706692B2 Device, system and method for mobile devices to communicate through skin response
Devices, systems and methods for communicating to another user or users through skin response technology are provided. The present disclosure provides for receiving at least one message over a network by a mobile device; transmitting the received at least one message to a vibrotactile device configured to be worn on the skin of a user; converting, by the vibrotactile device, the transmitted at least one message into a predefined vibration pattern; and effecting the predefined vibration pattern onto the skin of a user by at least one actuating element of the vibrotactile device.
US10706687B2 Skill-based bonus game building in a gaming system
Technology for providing skill-based bonus game building in a gaming system is disclosed. An electronic gaming machine (EGM) may collect one or more bonus symbols during game play of a base game funded by one or more wagers. An intermediate bonus game may be initiated and executed according to a first outcome of the base game based on the collection of the one or more bonus symbols, where the first outcome is randomly determined. A skill-based bonus game may then be initiated and executed according to a second outcome of the intermediate bonus game, the skill-based bonus game using one or more skill-based inputs to generate a third outcome of the skill-based bonus game.
US10706681B2 Systems and methods of reading gaming chips and other stacked items
In one embodiment, a method includes obtaining a first plurality of identifiers associated with a first plurality of gaming chips present at a table, the first plurality of gaming chips having a stacked configuration; determining whether each of the first plurality of identifiers associated with the first plurality of gaming chips is valid; determining a value of the first plurality of gaming chips present at the table; identifying an outcome of a game involving the first plurality of gaming chips; calculating a payout associated with the outcome; identifying a second plurality of identifiers associated with a second plurality of gaming chips present at the table; determining a value of the second plurality of gaming chips present at the table, utilizing the second plurality of identifiers; and confirming that the value of the second plurality of gaming chips corresponds to the payout associated with the outcome.
US10706680B2 Enabling financial transactions for electronic gaming machines
A client device, a system and a method for enabling financial transactions for an electronic gaming machine is described. The client device includes an electronic gaming machine processor, a printer, a printer sharing module and a controller. The printer sharing module is electrically coupled to the printer and the electronic gaming machine processor. The controller is electrically coupled to the printer sharing module. The controller reroutes the communications between the electronic gaming machine processor and the printer and allows the controller to communicate with the printer so that the controller instructs the printer to print a voucher. The system also includes a wireless communications module that enables communications with at least one other wireless communication module over short distances using point to point or broadcast packets that allow for bi-directional data transmission between each client device located on a casino gaming floor.
US10706676B2 Method and system for revealing a prize embedded in a candle
A candle with an embedded item and methods for manufacturing same are disclosed. A method for manufacturing a candle having an embedded item can include a prize and a redeemable code. The redeemable code can be associated with a value. The value can be used to select a prize based on the associated value. A method, system and non-transitory computer-readable medium for revealing a value associated with the prize and redeemable code is also disclosed.
US10706672B2 Accident data recorder for electronic gaming machines
A method of generating crash reports by an electronic gaming machine includes detecting an error condition during operation of a wagering game on the EGM, wherein the error condition affects operation of a wagering game executed on the EGM. In response to detecting the error condition, the EGM (a) generates a crash data file comprising data related to the error condition; (b) generates a screenshot of a screen displayed on the display screen at or near a time the error condition was detected; and (c) transmits the crash data file and the screenshot to a central server using a secure communications network to which the EGM and the central server are connected.
US10706670B2 Gaming device
Embodiments of the invention include a gaming device that has a video display. When the player initiates the game, an animation is shown. If the game had a losing outcome, the animation is very short and allows the player to quickly try for a win. If instead the game has a winning outcome the gaming device spins reels or otherwise shows the player how much he or she has one. The animation may also indicate progress toward a mystery jackpot or a group mystery jackpot.
US10706665B2 Button panel assembly and security system for a gaming device
Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods and systems for facilitating secure access to various components of electronic wager-based gaming devices such as video slot machines, video poker machines, and other types of wager-based gaming machines. One aspect disclosed herein is directed to an improved button panel assembly design which enables a button panel to be attached/detached to/from the gaming machine cabinet in a manner which does not require the opening of the main access door, and in a manner which does not require access to the interior of the gaming machine cabinet. Another aspect is directed to an improved button panel security system.
US10706661B2 Augmented reality sports betting and augmented reality features
The present disclosure relates generally to use of and interaction with a wearable device comprising a wireless communications interface, an augmented reality display, an input device, a processor coupled with the wireless communications interface, the display, and the input device, and a memory coupled with and readable by the processor. The memory can store therein a set of instructions which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive, through the wireless communications interface from a gaming system of a gaming venue, information related to a competitive event. The processor can present, through the augmented reality display, a menu comprising a set of options related to the competitive event, receive, from the input device an input indicating a selected option from the set of options related to the competitive event, and send, to the gaming system of the gaming venue, a message comprising information related to the selected option.
US10706655B2 Keyless access control with neuro and neuro-mechanical fingerprints
In accordance with one embodiment, an access control system is disclosed. The access control system comprises an access control panel including a touchable surface, a multi-dimensional touch sensor under the touchable surface, and a processor coupled to the multi-dimensional touch sensor. The multi-dimensional touch sensor captures a multi-dimensional motion signal including a micro-motion signal component representing neuro-mechanical micro-motions of a user touching the multi-dimensional touch sensor. The processor performs signal processing of the multi-dimensional motion signal to obtain the micro-motion signal component; and extracts unique values of predetermined features from the micro-motion signal component to form a neuro-fingerprint (NFP) that uniquely identifies the user. The NFP can be used as a gatekeeper to control entry into homes, offices, buildings, or other real properly typically protected by access control.
US10706650B2 Key unit, control system, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having program stored therein
A key unit includes: a first communication module; a second communication module; an authentication unit configured to perform authentication using authentication information when an operation request including the authentication information has been received via the first communication module; and a control unit configured to perform locking and unlocking with a key in response to the operation request when the authentication using the authentication information has succeeded and to transmit a control signal for performing an operation other than the locking and unlocking with the key to the control device via the second communication module after the authentication.
US10706649B2 Dual card programming for access control system
A method of programming an access control system including presenting an access card and a configuration card to a device; determining a validity of the access card at the device; process the configuration card at the device; decrypting a payload on the configuration card based on information from the access card; using the payload form the configuration card to switch the device to a high security mode of operation.
US10706647B2 Method and apparatus for implementing a vehicle inspection waiver program
Position data received wirelessly from a vehicle enrolled in an inspection waiver program are employed to determine when the enrolled vehicle is approaching an inspection station. After determining that the enrolled vehicle is approaching an inspection station, and if the enrolled vehicle has a valid inspection waiver, a bypass confirmation can selectively be provided to the vehicle operator, authorizing the operator to bypass the inspection station. The task of determining when an enrolled vehicle is approaching the location of an inspection station can be performed using a processor disposed in the vehicle, or at a remote location separate from both the vehicle and the inspection station, or at the inspection station. The inspection stations can be mobile so that their locations are varied to prevent operators from intentionally avoiding an inspection, as may occur with fixed inspection stations.
US10706645B1 Remote diagnostic system and method
A vehicle diagnostic system and method of performing vehicle diagnostics includes a local system that is adapted to connect with a vehicle and a remote system that is adapted to connect with the local system via an Internet. The local system has a vehicle interface and a local computer system operatively connected with the vehicle interface. The local computer system operates a diagnostic program specific to the vehicle under test. The remote system has a remote diagnostic control program. The remote diagnostic control program interfaces with the local computer system for performing a diagnostic evaluation of a vehicle under test. The remote system controls the local system to perform the diagnostic evaluation of the vehicle under test exclusive of the local system operator.
US10706644B2 Systems and methods for determining fuel information of a vehicle
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining or providing fuel information of a vehicle, such as predicting fuel intake and usage for the vehicle. A method for predicting a fueling event of a vehicle comprises using a mobile computing device carried in the vehicle to track the vehicle along a route. Multiple stop events may be detected when tracking the vehicle, and for each of the multiple stop events, each of duration and a geographic location may be determined. Next, a given stop event of the multiple stop events may be determined to be a fueling event based at least in part on a duration and geographic location of the given stop event.
US10706643B2 Apparatus and system for acquiring non-standard parameter ID, and the method thereof
This invention relates to an apparatus and system for acquiring non-standard PID corresponding to non-standard operation of a vehicle by using selection input of a user received through a user terminal and OBD data collected from an OBD (On Board Diagnostics) terminal in a vehicle, and the method thereof, and non-standard PID of non-standard operation of a vehicle may be acquired through simple operation of a user terminal regardless of types of vehicles.
US10706640B2 System and method for identifying a power tool
A system for identifying a type of a power tool, the system comprising: a power tool having an electric motor; and a usage attachment configured to couple to the power tool, the usage attachment having a vibration sensor that generates vibration data when the power tool vibrates, a memory that stores the vibration data generated by the vibration sensor, and an identification subsystem that receives the vibration data from the memory, and identifies the type of the power tool by comparing the received vibration data to predetermined vibration data of a known type of power tool.
US10706636B2 System and method for creating editable configurations of 3D model
A system and method is provided for creating editable configurations of 3D models. A 2D vector outlining a plurality of geometries is created and overlaid on the UV map of a 3D model. The 2D vector is used to create a plurality of virtual mesh groups outlined by the 2D vector, on the underlying mesh group of the 3D model. At least one mesh is selected from the plurality of virtual mesh groups for editing, thereby creating a plurality of editable configurations of the 3D model. The virtual mesh group is edited by applying any one of coloring, imaging, and texturing operations. The editing a virtual mesh group for applying a color transformation is replaced by applying the color transformation to the 2D vector and rasterizing the 2D vector into an image and applying the image as a texture on the UV map.
US10706634B1 System for generating augmented reality content from a perspective view of an unmanned aerial vehicle
A system has an augmented reality device and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The augmented reality device captures, from a perspective view of the augmented reality device, real-world imagery of a user within an augmented reality environment. Further, the augmented reality device generates virtual imagery to overlay the real-world imagery captured by the augmented reality image capture device from the perspective view of the augmented reality device. Finally, the augmented reality device determines a position and an orientation of an augmented reality device accessory within a common coordinate space. Moreover, the unmanned aerial vehicle captures, from a perspective view of the unmanned aerial vehicle, real-world imagery of the user within the augmented reality environment. The unmanned aerial vehicle determines a position of the unmanned aerial vehicle within the common coordinate space. Further, the unmanned aerial vehicle generates virtual imagery to overlay the real-world imagery captured by the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US10706630B2 Augmented reality user interface including dual representation of physical location
There is disclosed an augmented reality user interface including dual representation of a physical location including generating two views for viewing the augmented reality objects, a first view includes the video data of the view including the augmented reality objects superimposed thereover in augmented reality locations and a second view that includes data derived from the physical location to generate a map with the augmented reality objects from the first view visible as objects on the map in the augmented reality locations, combining the location, the motion data, the video data, and the augmented reality objects into an augmented reality video such that when the computing device is in a first position, the first view is visible and when the computing device is in a second position, the second view is visible, and displaying the augmented reality video on a display.
US10706629B2 Coordinate override in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications
Systems and methods for coordinate override in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a first Head-Mounted Device (HMD) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the first HMD to: receive a position of a second HMD; and display an xR environment generated using the position of the second HMD.
US10706627B2 Method of controlling a device for generating an augmented reality environment
The invention relates to processing and generating image data and analysis and displaying a 3D image. A method of controlling a device for generating an augmented reality consists in receiving object-related data from sensors, recognizing the object and generating a virtual object, the authenticity of an activation code that identifies a set of pictures containing objects is pre-verified, data related to an object obtained in the form of photo or video frame(s), the object is identified on said frame(s) by comparison with images stored in the memory of the user device, and a virtual object is generated in the form of a 3D model, reproduced in real time, on a display of the user device, on top of the acquired frames. Wherein the object is a two-dimensional image of at least one item depicted on a picture contained in a set to which an activation code is assigned.
US10706626B1 Augmented reality procedural system
An augmented reality device is provided to assist users in performing new or unfamiliar experimental techniques, identify materials and products utilized in a documented action set and within a work environment, identify equipment and instruments needed in the documented action set and within the work environment, assist in performing single person (autonomous) work, collaborate with other workers, and record data and observations in an electronic laboratory notebook.
US10706625B2 Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium storing program
The apparatus draws virtual objects as an image from a predetermined point of view, determines whether the virtual objects interfere with each other, calculates the region of interference of the virtual objects determined as interfering with each other, and outputs an image in which the region of interference located behind of the virtual objects as seen from the point of view is drawn.
US10706623B1 Systems and methods for preparing a virtual three-dimensional (3D) object for 3D printing
Computer-implemented systems and methods for preparing a virtual three-dimensional (3D) object for 3D printing are provided. A hollowed-out representation of an input model is generated. The input model defines a solid virtual 3D object, and the hollowed-out representation comprises a shell and an internal volume that is a void. The internal volume is meshed to generate a polygonal mesh representation of the internal volume. A lattice microstructure corresponding to the polygonal mesh representation is generated by (i) replacing each edge of the polygonal mesh representation with a solid part, and (ii) uniting the solid parts to form the lattice microstructure. A lightweight representation of the input model is generated, where the lightweight representation comprises the shell and the lattice microstructure.
US10706622B2 Point cloud meshing method, apparatus, device and computer storage media
A method, an apparatus, a device and a computer storage media for point cloud meshing are provided. The method includes performing a mesh reconstruction on point cloud data corresponding to a target object to obtain a reconstruction model for characterizing a surface contour of the target object; performing image registration on the reconstruction model with respect to a standard model corresponding to the target object; determining a mesh portion in the registered reconstruction model that does not overlap with the standard model; and removing the determined mesh portion from the registered reconstruction model to obtain a resulting reconstruction model of the target object. The point cloud meshing method repairs a hole structure of an object surface without the need of post-editing manually, and thus is able to improve the efficiency of repairing the hole structure of the object surface.
US10706618B2 3D building modeling systems
Described herein is a process and system for constructing three-dimensional (3D) representations of buildings. The 3D representations of buildings are semantic models that include roof nodes, roof edges, as well as roof faces with associated properties (e.g., pitch, azimuth). The system receives a 2D representation such as a roof outline including nodes connected by edges and associated data such as a height value, a pitch value, an independent structure, or a dependent structure. The system determines height values where a building structure changes. The system propagates a wavefront representing a cross-section of the building to the height values to generate 3D model edges. The 3D representation is generated based on the 3D model edges. The system can create 3D representations of buildings including roof structures of arbitrary complexity and can create representations of dependent roof structures such as dormers.
US10706616B2 Fragment compression for coarse pixel shading
One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit comprising a processing cluster to perform coarse pixel shading and output shaded coarse pixels for processing by a pixel processing pipeline and a render cache to store coarse pixel data for input to or output from pixel processing pipeline.
US10706615B2 Determining and/or generating data for an architectural opening area associated with a captured three-dimensional model
Systems and techniques for determining and/or generating data for an architectural opening area associated with a three-dimensional (3D) model are presented. A portion of an image associated with a 3D model that corresponds to a window view or another architectural opening area is identified based at least in part on color data or depth data. Furthermore, a surface associated with the 3D model and visual data for the window view or the other architectural opening area is determined. The visual data for the window view or the other architectural opening area is applied to the surface associated with the 3D model.
US10706612B2 Tile-based immediate mode rendering with early hierarchical-z
An embodiment of a graphics pipeline apparatus may include a vertex shader, a visibility shader communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader to construct a hierarchical visibility structure, a tile renderer communicatively coupled to an output of the vertex shader and to the visibility shader to perform a tile-based immediate mode render on the output of the vertex shader based on the hierarchical visibility structure, and a rasterizer communicatively coupled to an output of the tile renderer to rasterize the output of the tile renderer based on the hierarchical visibility structure. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10706610B2 Method for displaying an object
A method and a device for displaying an object, in particular biological tissue. The method has the following steps: a) generating a first image of at least one sub-region of the object using a first device; b) generating a second image of at least one sub-region of the object using a second device; c) ascertaining first coordinates of at least some image points of the second image in a first coordinate system; d) ascertaining second coordinates of the image points of the second image by projecting the first coordinates in a second coordinate system which is different from the first coordinate system and which is assigned to the first device; and e) generating a combined image of the object from the first and the second image using the ascertained second coordinates of the image points of the second image.
US10706609B1 Efficient data path for ray triangle intersection
Described herein is a technique for performing ray-triangle intersection without a floating point division unit. A division unit would be useful for a straightforward implementation of a certain type of ray-triangle intersection test that is useful in ray tracing operations. This certain type of ray-triangle intersection test includes a step that transforms the coordinate system into the viewspace of the ray, thereby reducing the problem of intersection to one of 2D triangle rasterization. However, a straightforward implementation of this transformation requires floating point division, as the transformation utilizes a shear operation to set the coordinate system such that the magnitudes of the ray direction on two of the axes are zero. Instead of using the most straightforward implementation of this transform, the technique described herein scales the entire coordinate system by the magnitude of the ray direction in the axis that is the denominator of the shear ratio, removing division.
US10706606B2 Information processing apparatus for modifying a graphical object based on sensor input
An information processing apparatus includes a display, at least one detector, and a display controller. The display displays an image of an object three-dimensionally. The at least one detector detects a physical quantity as a detection target. The display controller makes a change to a specific part of the object displayed on the display in accordance with an output from the at least one detector.
US10706605B1 Vehicular telematic systems and methods for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces
Telematics systems and methods are described for generating interactive animated guided user interfaces (GUIs). A telematics cloud platform is configured to receive vehicular telematics data from a telematics device onboard a vehicle. A GUI value compression component determines, based on the vehicular telematics data, a plurality of GUI position values and a plurality of corresponding GUI time values. A geospatial animation app receives the plurality of GUI position values and the plurality of corresponding GUI time values. The geospatial animation app implements an interactive animated GUI that renders a plurality of geospatial graphics or graphical routes on a geographic area map via a display device. The geospatial graphics or graphical routes are rendered to have different visual forms based on differences between respective GUI position values and corresponding GUI time values.
US10706601B2 Interface for receiving subject affinity information
Devices and methods are described for presenting a graphical user interface on a display for the purpose of receiving inputs from a reference person indicating a subject affinity between the reference person and a subject. Images for presentation are determined by scoring images based on the subjects that appear in the images and the subject affinity scores for the subjects. In some embodiments, the subject affinity is sent from a display device to a server device and the server device scores the images and returns the designated images back to the display device for presentation. In some embodiments, the images are displayed sequentially on the display device. In some embodiments, the subject information is displayed with the images as they are presented on the display.
US10706594B2 Systems and methods for image data processing in computerized tomography
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for image data processing. A first correction coefficient corresponding to a first collimation width of a collimator of a scanner may be obtained. The collimator may have a collimation width being adjustable. A relationship between scattered radiation intensities and collimation widths may be obtained. A relationship between correction coefficients and collimation widths may be determined based on the first correction coefficient, the first collimation width, and the relationship between scattered radiation intensities and collimation widths. A target collimation width of the collimator may be obtained. A target correction coefficient may be determined based on the target collimation width and the relationship between correction coefficients and collimation widths.
US10706590B2 Subtitle beat generation method, image processing method, terminal, and server
A subtitle beat generation method includes: obtaining a current geographic location of a terminal; uploading the current geographic location of the terminal to a server; receiving candidate filter effects and candidate subtitles, obtained by the server according to the current geographic location of the terminal; obtaining a filter effect and a subtitle, selected from the candidate filter effects and the candidate subtitles; and forming a subtitle beat according to the selected filter effect and the selected subtitle, and outputting the subtitle beat.
US10706582B2 Real-time monocular structure from motion
Systems and methods are described for multithreaded navigation assistance by acquired with a single camera on-board a vehicle, using 2D-3D correspondences for continuous pose estimation, and combining the pose estimation with 2D-2D epipolar search to replenish 3D points.
US10706581B2 Image processing apparatus for clipping and sorting images from read image according to cards and control method therefor
An image processing apparatus estimates obverse and reverse pairs as obverse and reverse images of a plurality of cards even if positions of obverse and reverse images of respective cards shift when a user turns cards upside down to scan reverse images when scanning obverse and reverse images of cards and associating obverse and reverse images of cards with each other as obverse and reverse pairs, and presents estimated pairs to the user. A first image and second image are acquired to extract first and second rectangular images and central coordinate values thereof from acquired first and second images. When the central coordinate value extracted from the acquired second image is located within a predetermined distance from the central coordinate value extracted from the acquired first image, it is discriminated that the first rectangular image and second rectangular image as a combination serving as an obverse and reverse pair.
US10706568B2 Image processing apparatus, generation method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
Coordinates on a two-dimensional image that respectively correspond to points on a three-dimensional space that configures an object included in a field of view based on a viewpoint are specified. A depth map is generated based on a result of assignment processing that assigns distance information of a first point corresponding to first coordinates to a first area including the first coordinates and assigns distance information of a second point corresponding to second coordinates to a second area including the second coordinates, the first and second coordinates belonging to coordinates on the two-dimensional image. A distance from the viewpoint to the first point is longer than a distance from the viewpoint to the second point, and the first area is smaller than the second area. The points configuring the object include the first and second points.
US10706567B2 Data processing method, apparatus, system and storage media
A data processing method includes determining feature points in first point cloud data and feature points in second point cloud data, the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data being used for representing different parts of a same object; performing feature matching between the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data to determine feature points satisfying feature matching condition(s) between the first point cloud data and the second point cloud data, and form a plurality of feature point pairs; determining a transformation matrix in which spatial distances between feature points in one or more feature point pairs of the plurality of feature point pairs conform to a proximity condition; and performing coordinate transformation on the one or more feature point pairs using the transformation matrix to register the first point cloud data with the second point cloud data.
US10706566B2 Determining X,Y,Z,T biomechanics of moving actor with multiple cameras
A plurality of high speed tracking cameras is pointed towards a routine hovering area of an in-the-field sports participant who routinely hovers about that area. Spots within the hovering area are registered relative to a predetermined multi-dimensional coordinates reference frame (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw) such that two-dimensional coordinates of 2D images captured by the high speed tracking cameras can be converted to multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A body part recognizing unit recognizes 2D locations of a specific body part in the 2D captured images and a mapping unit maps them into the multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A multi-dimensional curve generator then generates a multi-dimensional motion curve describing motion of the body part based on the mapped coordinates (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw). The generated multi-dimensional motion curve is used to discover cross correlations between play action motions of the in-the-field sports participant and real-world sports results.
US10706564B2 Systems, methods, and media for determining object motion in three dimensions from light field image data
In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods and media for determining object motion in three dimensions using light field image data are provided. In some embodiments, a system for three dimensional motion estimation is provided, comprising: an image sensor; optics that create many images of a scene; and a hardware processor configured to: cause the image sensor to capture a first plurality of images; generate a first light field; cause the image sensor to capture a second plurality of images at a second time; generate a second light field; calculate light field gradients using the first light field and second light field; and calculate, for each point in the scene, three dimensional motion using the light field gradients by applying a constraint to the motion in the scene.
US10706563B2 State and position prediction of observed vehicles using optical tracking of wheel rotation
Various embodiments may include methods of using image data to estimate motion of a vehicle observed within camera images, such as images captured by a vehicle navigation system of a host vehicle. Various embodiments may include a camera capturing a sequence of images including the observed vehicle, and a processor performing image processing to identify a wheel of the observed vehicle, and determining a rate of rotation of the wheel based on changes in orientation of the wheel between at least two images within the sequence of images. The processor may further determine a speed of the observed vehicle based on the wheel's rate of rotation and diameter. The processor may further determine a direction of travel and/or turning rate of the observed vehicle by determining relative angles of wheels of the observed vehicle in at least one image.
US10706561B2 Systems and methods to track objects in video
Systems and methods to track objects in video are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may obtain a user entry and/or selection of a depiction of an object visible within a first frame of a video and process the depiction of the object for use as a current reference. For subsequent frames, the systems and methods may determine whether the depiction of the object is visible. If the depiction of the object is no longer visible within a particular frame, image features of subsequent frames are compared with the latest reference of the depiction of the object until the depiction of the object is visible again. If and when the object is visible, an object indicator may be displayed on the relevant frames and/or otherwise presented to a viewer.
US10706557B2 Methods and systems for providing fast semantic proposals for image and video annotation
Methods and systems for providing fast semantic proposals for image and video annotation including: extracting image planes from an input image; linearizing each of the image planes to generate a one-dimensional array to extract an input feature vector per image pixel for the image planes; abstracting features for a region of interest using a modified echo state network model, wherein a reservoir increases feature dimensions per pixel location to multiple dimensions followed by feature reduction to one dimension per pixel location, wherein the echo state network model includes both spatial and temporal state factors for reservoir nodes associated with each pixel vector, and wherein the echo state network model outputs a probability image; post-processing the probability image to form a segmented binary image mask; and applying the segmented binary image mask to the input image to segment the region of interest and form a semantic proposal image.
US10706554B2 Three-dimensional segmentation of digital models utilizing soft classification geometric tuning
The present disclosure includes methods and systems for identifying and manipulating a segment of a three-dimensional digital model based on soft classification of the three-dimensional digital model. In particular, one or more embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods identify a soft classification of a digital model and utilize the soft classification to tune segmentation algorithms. For example, the disclosed systems and methods can utilize a soft classification to select a segmentation algorithm from a plurality of segmentation algorithms, to combine segmentation parameters from a plurality of segmentation algorithms, and/or to identify input parameters for a segmentation algorithm. The disclosed systems and methods can utilize the tuned segmentation algorithms to accurately and efficiently identify a segment of a three-dimensional digital model.
US10706550B2 System and method for positron emission tomography imaging
Systems and methods for image reconstruction are provided. The methods may include obtaining a scout image including a target object, determining a first area and a second area based on the scout image, wherein the second area is located in the first area, obtaining positron emission tomography (PET) data of the first area and first computed tomography (CT) data of the second area, and reconstructing a PET image with respect to the first area based on the PET data and the first CT data.
US10706549B2 Iterative method for salient foreground detection and multi-object segmentation
A system and method that performs iterative foreground detection and multi-object segmentation in an image is disclosed herein. A new background prior is introduced to improve the foreground segmentation results. Three complimentary methods detect and segment foregrounds containing multiple objects. The first method performs an iterative segmentation of the image to pull out the salient objects in the image. In a second method, a higher dimensional embedding of the image graph is used to estimate the saliency score and extract multiple salient objects. A third method uses a metric to automatically pick the number of eigenvectors to consider in an alternative method to iteratively compute the image saliency map. Experimental results show that these methods succeed in accurately extracting multiple foreground objects from an image.
US10706547B2 Image segmentation method and apparatus
An image segmentation method for performing image segmentation through a neural network implemented by an image segmentation apparatus is provided. The image segmentation method includes the steps outlined below. Previous CNN weight data is received by a current convolution neural network unit of the neural network, wherein the previous CNN weight data is generated by a previous convolution neural network unit of the neural network based on a previous image of video data corresponding to a previous time spot. A current image of the video data corresponding to a current time spot next to the previous time spot is received by the current convolution neural network unit. Convolution is performed according to the previous CNN weight data and the current image to generate a current image segmentation result by the current convolution neural network unit.
US10706543B2 Systems and methods of registration for image-guided surgery
A method includes accessing a set of model points of a model of one or more passageways of a patient; detecting a point collection condition in image data obtained from an image-capture device of a catheter based upon machine vision; automatically initiating collection of a set of measured points based on detection of the point collection condition in the image data obtained from the image-capture device; performing a point set registration algorithm using the set of model points of the model of one or more passageways of the patient and the set of measured points to produce a registered set of model points; and displaying a visual representation of the registered set of model points in a user interface provided by a display system.
US10706538B2 Automatic image segmentation methods and analysis
The invention provides methods and apparatus for image processing that perform image segmentation on data sets in two- and/or three-dimensions so as to resolve structures that have the same or similar grey values (and that would otherwise render with the same or similar intensity values) and that, thereby, facilitate visualization and processing of those data sets.
US10706536B2 Photon structure and chemometrics pathologic system
A photonic structural and chemometric pathology system for cancer and precancerous or general detection, diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis utilizes fresh or frozen tissue standard pathology sections without prior as staining or other labeling techniques. The unlabeled tissue section may be imaged, with a phase and fluorescence imaging microscope, to obtain phase differential contrast (Q-DIC) images and fluorescence images. The Q-DIC images are analyzed to generate two dimensional Q-DIC data maps, such as morphology, cell mass, and scattering characteristic digital image maps. The fluorescence images are analyzed to generate fluorescence intensity and tissue native fluorescent component absolute concentration maps. The combination of Q-DIC data maps and fluorescent component content maps is comparatively analyzed to perform cancer and pre-cancerous or general diagnosis and prognosis. The system can be applied to a wide range of cancers and tissues for noninvasive and unlabeled cancer and pre-cancerous or general detection, diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis.
US10706531B2 Electronic device and method for checking dispensing of glue in relation to circuit board
A method for checking the proper dispensation of glue onto a circuit board in manufacture includes the use of fluorescent materials in such glue, activating a light source to illuminate a circuit board when the circuit board is placed on an electronic device, and controlling an image capturing device to capture an image of the circuit board. The image captured by the capturing device is compared with a standard stored image of the circuit board, and a determination is made as to whether the circuit board passes test according to the comparison.
US10706530B2 Object detection
This disclosure provides a method for object detection. The method comprises receiving a user input that specifies one or more first regions and one or more second regions in a template image. The one or more second regions include one or more objects of interest. The method further comprises for each of the one or more first regions discovering a third region in an image under detection corresponding to the first region in the template image by matching the image under detection with the template image. The method further comprises computing a transformation function based on the matching from each of the one or more first regions to its corresponding third region. The method further comprises applying the computed transformation function to the one or more second regions to localize one or more fourth regions in the image under detection for the object detection.
US10706526B2 Substance adhesion simulation apparatus
This substance adhesion simulation system includes an input unit for inputting a model of a device, and information of a presence state of a substance which may be able to adhere to the device, and a processing unit which estimates an adhesion state of the substance to the device by using the information, which is input to the input unit, and the substance is in a liquid state, a gas state, a mist state, a powder state, a dust state, or a state combining the liquid state and the mist state.
US10706525B2 Methods and systems for improved quality inspection
A method of performing automated object inspection includes obtaining a plurality of test images. For each of the plurality of test images, the method includes performing independent object inspection on each of two or more sub-portions of the test image. The method further includes segmenting the test image into at least a first sub-portion of the test image and a second sub-portion of the test image; performing object inspection on the first sub-portion of the test image using a first subset of information channels of the test image and a first model trained on a first set of training images containing the first component; and performing object inspection on the second sub-portion of the test image using a second subset of information channels of the test image, and a second model trained on a second set of training images containing the second component.
US10706524B2 Systems and methods for analyzing stained fabric articles
Systems and methods for analyzing stained fabric articles are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method for analyzing stained fabric articles includes providing a stained fabric article that includes a foreign oily substance disposed in and/or on the fabric article. At least one image of the stained fabric article is captured using a three-dimensional imaging device, wherein the at least one image is captured in the absence of a colored dyes added to the foreign oily substance in and/or on the fabric article. The at least one image is processed using a contrast function to produce a processed data set. One or more of a processed image or a quantitative data set that is representative of oily substance presence in the viewing area of the three-dimensional imaging device is produced based upon the processed data set.
US10706523B2 Assembly completeness inspection method using active ranging
A method for completeness inspection of an assembled structure to check whether said structure has all the mounted parts comprising scanning the whole assembled structure with an active ranging scanner, thus obtaining a 3D picture; obtaining a 3D model of the whole structure based on CAD data; subdividing said 3D picture into a number of smaller picture comparison areas and said 3D model into a number of smaller corresponding model comparison areas using a best fit algorithm, thus obtaining a set of final picture comparison areas and corresponding final model comparison areas; for each final model comparison area, identifying desired mounting parts located therein and searching for mounted parts in the corresponding final picture comparison area that match said desired mounting parts; and identifying the desired mounting parts, which have no matching mounted part in the final picture comparison areas, as missing from the assembled structure.
US10706522B2 System and method for generation of wafer inspection critical areas
A method includes receiving one or more sets of wafer data, identifying one or more primitives from one or more shapes in one or more layers in the one or more sets of wafer data, classifying each of the one or more primitives as a particular primitive type, identifying one or more primitive characteristics for each of the one or more primitives, generating a primitive database of the one or more primitives, generating one or more rules based on the primitive database, receiving one or more sets of design data, applying the one or more rules to the one or more sets of design data to identify one or more critical areas, and generating one or more wafer inspection recipes including the one or more critical areas for an inspection sub-system.
US10706506B2 Image quality index and/or imaging parameter recommendation based thereon
A method includes determining a low contrast detectability of a scan and generating an image quality index based on the determined low contrast detectability. Another method includes identifying an image quality index of interest, identifying an acquisition and/or reconstruction parameter based on the image quality index and a pre-determined mapping between image quality indexes and acquisition parameter and reconstruction parameters, and displaying the identified acquisition and/or the reconstruction parameter. A system (100) includes a metric determiner (122) that determines a first image quality index for a scan based on at least one of a low contrast detectability of the scan or a project domain noise of the scan, and/or a parameter recommender (126) that recommends at least one of an acquisition or a reconstruction parameter for a scan based on a second image quality index, and a display (114) that visually presents the first or second image quality index.
US10706504B2 Image processing methods and image processing devices
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image processing method, and a processing device. The image processing method comprises: acquiring a first image including N components, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1; and performing image conversion processing on the first image using a generative neural network, to output a first output image, wherein the generative neural network is trained using a Laplace transform function.
US10706503B2 Image processing using a convolutional neural network
According to one implementation, an image processing system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a system memory storing a software code including a convolutional neural network (CNN) trained using one or more semantic map(s). The hardware processor executes the software code to receive an original image including multiple object images each identified with one of multiple object classes, and to generate replications of the original image, each replication corresponding respectively to one of the object classes. The hardware processor further executes the software code to, for each replication, selectively modify one or more object image(s) identified with the object class corresponding to the replication, using the CNN, to produce partially modified images each corresponding respectively to an object class, and to merge the partially modified images, using the CNN, to generate a modified image corresponding to the original image.
US10706500B2 Generating enhanced digital content using piecewise parametric patch deformations
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for applying piecewise deformations to digital content using a plurality of parametric patches. For example, the disclosed system generates a plurality of parametric patches (e.g., Bezier patches) within a parametric quilt for digital content (e.g., a digital image or digital text). The disclosed system also provides interface controls for user-defined split/patch locations for the parametric quilt. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed system divides digital content into a plurality of portions. The disclosed system modifies one or more parametric patches and deforms a corresponding portion(s) of the digital content based on the modified parametric patch(es). The disclosed system then recombines the portions of the digital content to generate modified digital content that includes any deformations based on the modified parametric patch(es).
US10706486B2 System for determining user-centric treatment data
A system relating to medical treatment, such as hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis, for determining user-centric treatment data includes a user device and a central device. The user device and the central device each include a wireless communication component. The wireless communication component of the central device and/or the wireless communication component of the user device is/are configured to distinguish between the user device being in a first location and the user device being in a second location, wherein the first location is associated with a treatment area and the second location is associated with a general purpose area. The user device and/or the central device is configured to determine, based on the user device being in the first location and/or the user device being in the second location, an overall treatment time and an overall spent time.
US10706481B2 Personalizing default search queries on online social networks
In one embodiment, a method includes scoring a set of content objects based on one or more user-engagement factors, identifying one or more related content objects, wherein each related content objects is connected within the online social network to one or more content objects of the set of content objects having a score greater than a threshold score, generating a plurality of structured queries that each comprise references to one or more content objects, wherein at least one of the structured queries is a personalized query comprising a reference to at least one of the related content objects, and sending instructions to a client device for presenting one or more of the generated structured queries to a first user for display on an interface currently accessed by the first user, wherein at least one of the sent structured queries is a personalized query.
US10706475B2 System and method for rules driven data record reduction
According to some embodiments, data is received indicative of a plurality of insurance claims submitted in connection with insurance policies. A rules driven claim processing engine may then apply a first exclusion filter to the received plurality of claims, wherein the first exclusion filter operates to remove claims from the received plurality of claims to create a first subset of claims. A second exclusion filter may then be applied to the first subset of claims, wherein the second exclusion filter operates to remove claims from the first subset of claims to create a second subset of claims. It may then be automatically arranged for the second subset of claims to be processed via an expedited claim processing workflow.
US10706472B1 Systems and methods for analysis of digital asset development and transaction behaviors
The fundamental health of a crypto-asset is determined based on factors associated with the development and utility of the crypto-asset. Developer activity data associated with the crypto-asset is received from one or more interfaces associated with one or more development servers associated with the crypto-asset, and a developer activity factor is calculated based on the developer activity data. A connection is established to a blockchain server that maintains a blockchain that tracks transactions associated with the crypto-asset, and transaction data for a plurality of the transactions is received from the blockchain server. A project utility factor is calculated based on a plurality of behavioral use cases derived from the transaction data, where the behavioral use cases are respectively associated with different uses of the crypto-asset. Then, a fundamental health score is determined for the crypto-asset based on the developer activity factor and the project utility factor.
US10706469B2 Synchronized processing of data by networked computing resources
Systems 100, 1000, methods, and machine-interpretable programming or other instruction products for the management of data processing by multiple networked computing resources 106, 1106. In particular, the disclosure relates to the synchronization of related requests for processing of data using distributed network resources.
US10706450B1 Artificial intelligence system for generating intent-aware recommendations
The present disclosure is directed to training and using machine learning models to determine user intent from a search query, for example via a semantic parse that identifies particular catalog fields for items in an electronic catalog that would satisfy the user's current mission as reflected in their search query intent. The determined intent can then be used to filter recommendations and/or pre-select attribute-value input fields on detail pages displayed after the user navigates away from the search results page, until the mission is complete.
US10706449B2 Systems and methods for a real time configuring, ordering and manufacturing of color related products
A unique, user generated product (UGP) configurator, ordering and manufacturing system that utilizes a mobile device or other digital device, to capture a specific color or multiple colors, by way of an image capture converted from a RGB profile and converted into a manufacturable, mixable formula for future mixing and filling in the system specific processing line for enamel product is described. The user defined final product chosen by an individual user, through the system's user interface that runs on all web enabled digital devices which includes mobile, tablet, computer or other color capture user interface connected to the internet by way of a browser, where the individual identifies a color, type of material to be manufactured, size of container and then orders a finished goods product on their phone or other digital device, then manufactured or processed on a system specific equipment platform, using a computer controlled system that identifies an individual order by way of a variable and unique bar code identifier, where containers move down a proprietary conveyor line to be filled by a series of individually powered, micro-droplet dispensers whose canisters have been filled with specific colored paints from a system defined palette of colors and additives, where those individual paints are mixed to match the color that the individual specified on the system specific user interface.
US10706448B2 Service monitoring system and service monitoring method
A service monitoring system includes a voice collector that collects a voice of an employee in a predetermined voice collection region, a storage unit that stores service event data including determination conditions for each predetermined service event, terminal operation history data indicating an operation history of an employee on a predetermined business terminal and voice data of the employee in correlation with each other, a detector that detects the service event of the employee based on the service event data and the terminal operation history data, a calculator that calculates a service speech evaluation value corresponding to a predetermined speech keyword on the basis of the voice data of the employee during the service event, and an output that stores the service speech evaluation value in correlation with identification information of the employee, and voice data of the employee specified by a service position and time point of the employee.
US10706446B2 Method, system, and computer-readable medium for using facial recognition to analyze in-store activity of a user
One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods providing improved customer service to visiting customers of a brick-and-mortar merchant location. For example, a customer recognition system intelligently detects and notifies a merchant when a customer is in need of assistance based on the customer's facial expression. The customer recognition system can also identify a product associated with the customer need. In some examples, the customer recognition system identifies a user profile associated with a customer shopping at a merchant location, determines a trust level for the customer based on user profile information, and based on the trust level, causes a secured product display to provide a customer access to a secured product.
US10706445B2 Method of billing an online purchase
The present disclosure relates to a method of billing an online purchase of a user by himself or a third party. The disclosure particularly provides a method for handling a superordinated virtual shopping cart in which articles of different online providers can be accumulated and billed commonly.
US10706441B2 Product and service purchase-cycle tracking
Systems and methods for using wireless communication devices to track the effects of advertising are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes representing the identity of an advertising impression, that is, a specific advertisement, with an impression code. According to exemplary embodiments, the advertising impression is directed to at least one commodity, such as one or more products and services. The method may also further include receiving the impression into a computer-readable memory of a wireless communication device. The method further includes detecting the wireless communication device, and then providing the impression code during the purchase of the commodity. The method continues with obtaining the identity of the advertising impression from the impression code. The method additionally includes creating a transaction record, wherein the transaction record includes the advertising impression identity and an identity of the commodity, and storing the transaction record in a database.
US10706438B2 Systems and methods for generating and recommending promotions in a design matrix
Systems and methods for the generation of a promotional design matrix with recommendation overlay are provided. A product, discount, quantity and offer structure selection are received from a user, or are imputed based upon previous offers. Variants for the discount vale and quantity are generated by incrementing these values. The quantity and its variants are each assigned to a column of a design matrix, while the discount and variants are assigned to the design matrix rows. At each intersection of a row and column of the design matrix a plurality of offer structures based upon the offer structure selection is generated. The system applies recommendation logic to flag offers that are most likely to be successful based upon their performance, feasibility and diversity. This flagging may include placing an icon, such as a star, next to the recommended offers.
US10706435B2 Method, apparatus, and computer program product for calculating a supply based on travel propensity
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for managing a sales pipeline, and in some embodiments, calculating supply based on travel propensity. An example method comprises identifying a total demand for a promotion tuple at a geographic location, determining, using a processor, a promotion area for the promotion tuple, the promotion tuple comprising at least a category, price information and a geographic area, identifying one or more promotions offered by a promotion and marketing service that comprise at least the category and the price information of the promotion tuple, determining whether the total demand for the promotion tuple at the geographic location is satisfied, wherein the total demand is satisfied in an instance in which the geographic location is within the promotion area for the one or more promotions, and identifying a demand gap in an instance in which the total demand for the promotion tuple at the geographic location is not satisfied.
US10706434B1 Methods and systems for determining location information
Approaches for displaying a user interface including a map based on interaction data are disclosed. A set of interaction data and can be acquired and stored in a data structure. This data can be associated with a plurality of consuming entities that may have purchased something during these interactions. A set of provisioning entities can be determined based on spending or purchasing habits of the consuming entities. Based on this set of provisioning entities, a user interface can be generated which may include various shapes similar to a heat map. These shapes can indicate an average amount spent in a particular neighborhood, among other attributes.
US10706433B2 Individual level learning mechanism
Disclosed herein are systems and methods of individual level learning that include receiving purchase event data from a merchant device that indicates that a purchase event occurred by a user on a user device, and transmitting the purchase event data to an analytics server. The methods may also include processing the purchase event data. The processing may include calculating a time gap for each of two sequential purchase events in a list of purchase events, and calculating an average duration of consecutive events by averaging all of the purchase events in the list of purchase events. The method may determine a purchase hazard probability that a purchase event will occur on a given day, when the average duration of consecutive events is larger than a standard deviation of the event occurring. When the purchase hazard probability is above a threshold, the system may push a message to the user device.
US10706432B2 Method, apparatus and non-transitory medium for customizing speed of interaction and servicing on one or more interactions channels based on intention classifiers
A computer-implemented method and apparatus for predicting customer intentions defines a plurality of categories for classifying customer interaction data. The plurality of categories includes at least one action category for classifying information related to customer actions on interaction channels. Data signals corresponding to a customer interaction on one or more interaction channels is received. The data signals include information related to at least one customer action. A sequence of values is generated for each customer action for classifying information related to the each customer action. A value is generated corresponding to each action category to configure the sequence of values. The sequence of values is associated with a fixed length equal to a number of action categories in the at least one action category. The fixed length of the sequence of values facilitates use of one or more intention classifiers to predict an intention of the customer.
US10706431B2 Techniques for automatic real-time calculation of user wait times
A computer-implemented technique can process overhead images of users in a line at a venue to obtain a user wait time for the line. The processing can include (a) identifying a user of the group of users that is second in the line to obtain a target user, (b) detecting when the target user becomes first in the line to obtain a start time, (c) after the target user becomes first in the line, detecting when the target user leaves the line to obtain an end time, (d) determining a period from the start time to the end time, and (e) calculating the user wait time by calculating a product of (i) the determined period and (ii) a quantity of the group of users in the line after the target user leaves the line. The calculated user wait time can then be output.
US10706426B2 Automated remote transaction assistance
A customer uses a customer device to interact with an expert using a remote device in a real-time communication session. The expert drives the interactions and can activate peripherals on the customer device to capture information, which is automatically sent from the customer device to the remote device for consumption by the expert.
US10706423B1 Systems and methods for mitigating fraudulent transactions
Disclosed are systems and methods for mitigation of fraudulent transactions. In some embodiments, a server is communicatively coupled to a user device, and is configured to receive a proposed transaction from a merchant device communicatively coupled to the server, apply a dynamic classification algorithm to the proposed transaction to determine if the proposed transactions appears to be fraudulent, generate a user verification request when the proposed transaction appears to be fraudulent, transmit the user verification request to a user computing device communicatively coupled to the server, receive an approval or a refusal of the proposed transaction based on the user verification request, and process the proposed transaction based on the received approval or refusal of the proposed transaction.
US10706422B2 Voice recognition to authenticate a mobile payment
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating mobile payments from a customer account to a merchant. The systems and methods may include a financial service provider receiving a request to authorize an electronic transaction at a point-of-sale. A financial service provider server computer may verify that the customer is present at the point-of-sale using received location data. An image having distorted text such as a captcha may be transmitted to a device at the point-of-sale, and the customer may read the captcha aloud. A voice sample of the customer may be sent to the financial service provider for comparison to stored voice recordings, to verify that the customer's voice sample is authentic if the voice matches a previously generated voice recording for the account. If the voice sample is authentic, the financial service provider may authorize the mobile payment.
US10706419B2 System and method for financial transaction authentication using travel information
Systems and methods for verifying a distant-from-home financial transaction related to a customer account based on travel indicators in earlier purchase transactions made by that customer.
US10706416B2 System and method of generating and validating encapsulated cryptographic tokens based on multiple digital signatures
Functional data for use in one or more digital transactions are secured by using an encapsulated security token (EST). In certain embodiments, the EST is created by encapsulating digital data including the functional data using at least two cryptographic systems of two parties. The encapsulation and subsequent de-encapsulation can utilize cryptographic systems of the parties that involve a private key for signing and decryption and a public key for encryption and signature verification. If constructed carefully over a series of rigorous events, the resulting EST can be practically impossible to counterfeit. In addition, a propagation of rights can be tracked for auditing and rights can be easily terminated or modified.
US10706415B2 Money transfer smart phone methods and systems
A method includes establishing a first funds transfer account associated with a first device and a second funds transfer account with a second device, funding at least the first fund account, and selecting the second device as the recipient of a funds transfer from the first device. The method further includes sending a communications link request from the first device to the second device and receiving acceptance of the communications link request from the second device. The method then establishes a communications link between the first device and the second device, initiates a funds transfer from the first device to the second device, wherein the amount is designated at the first device, and verifies the funds transfer amount, the first funds transfer account, and the second funds transfer account. Then, the method transfers the amount to the second funds transfer account associated with second device.
US10706412B2 System and methods for providing secure transactional solutions
The present invention provides a method and system for verifying and tracking identification information. In an embodiment of the invention, a system for delivering security solutions is provided that includes at least one of the following: a radio frequency (RF) identification device, an identification mechanism (e.g., a card, sticker), and an RF reader.
US10706411B2 Automatically communicating user device data to a transaction computing system
Automatically communicating information related to a user computing device from a central computing system to a transaction computing system prior to initiation of a transaction between the user computing device and the transaction computing system comprises a digital wallet application and a central computing system. A digital wallet application receives a beacon signal from a transaction computing system indicating the specific identification of the terminal with which the user intends to conduct a transaction. The user computing device communicates the terminal identification to the central computing system. The central computing system communicates customer data, such as loyalty information and offers, to the transaction computing system associated with the terminal. The transaction computing system communicates the customer data to the terminal. When the user taps the user computing device to initiate the transaction, the terminal provides any benefits associated with the customer data.
US10706406B2 Method and a system for authenticating and identifying the location of a communication device
Disclosed is a system and a method for authenticating the location of a user's communication device using a central server to a third party. The method and the system is a secure way to calculate the GPS location on a centralized server which is operating the Time and Place Decryption software that has one of its inputs being a Communication device transmitted encrypted prevailing code string which contains the original GPS coordinated representing the location and the Atomic time at which the encryption took place, as well as a combination of all or some other Knowledge, Ownership or Inheritance identification factors or tokens—FaktokIns. The more FaktokIns that are used in the encryption the harder it is to fake or replicate the GPSTOTP.
US10706403B2 Settlement system, information processing device and server device
An example system is provided that controls a standby time for performing contactless communication based on whether the device performing the communication is a stationary or portable device.
US10706401B2 Information processing apparatus, information processing method, non-transitory computer readable medium storing program, electronic receipt system, and terminal device
An electronic receipt system includes a mobile terminal in possession of a customer, a POS (Point of Sales) device installed at a store and an electronic receipt center on a cloud. When the POS device generates, as a digitized electronic receipt, receipt information on purchased merchandise purchased by a customer at the store, the POS device acquires information indicating a weight of the purchased merchandise, generates the electronic receipt in a format in which the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise is further added, transmits the electronic receipt to the electronic receipt center. The electronic receipt center stores the received electronic receipt and, upon receiving a transmission request from the mobile terminal, transmits the electronic receipt to the mobile terminal that has made the request. Upon receiving the electronic receipt, the mobile terminal provides a screen display of the information indicating the weight of the purchased merchandise.
US10706395B2 Fund transfer service for multiple linked transaction accounts
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for transferring funds from multiple transaction accounts are provided. The system may allow a user to link one or more credit, debit, or other similar transaction accounts to a single transaction instrument. The system may receive a transaction authorization request, retrieve a merchant account number and a consumer transaction account number based on the transaction authorization request, and generate a funds transfer request comprising the merchant account number, the consumer transaction account number, and a payment amount. The funds transfer request may be executed by a transaction account network to transfer funds from the consumer transaction account to the merchant account.
US10706387B1 Systems and methods for computer-determined efficient packaging determination
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for automatic packaging determination comprising memory storing instructions and at least one processor performing steps comprising: receiving an order comprising at least one item; searching at least one data store to determine tags and properties associated with each item; sorting the items into at least one group; for each group: performing an optimization process for packaging the items in the group, by: selecting a data structure representing a first package; iteratively simulating packaging of a largest item of the group into the first package until all items are packaged, wherein if the simulating determines that the items in the group do not fit into the selected package: choosing a larger package, iteratively packing until all items are packed in the larger package; and generating set of instructions for packaging the items into the box; and sending the generated instructions for display.
US10706385B2 Item exchange locker and station
An item exchange locker station may include a station-level user interface accessible from outside the station enclosure to receive identifying information of a deliverer or a retriever seeking to enter the station and to transmit the identifying information to an off-site data server for the identifying information to be validated against a database. The station may also include lockers disposed within the station enclosure, the lockers including a locker access door, and a locker locking mechanism configured to alternatively lock and unlock to impede and permit, respectively, opening of the locker access door. The station may also include a locker-level controller configured to receive locker unlocking instructions from the off-site data server upon validation of the identifying information.
US10706382B2 Delivery vehicle including an unmanned aerial vehicle loading robot
Systems and methods include UAVs that serve to assist carrier personnel by reducing the physical demands of the transportation and delivery process. A UAV generally includes a UAV chassis including an upper portion, a plurality of propulsion members configured to provide lift to the UAV chassis, and a parcel carrier configured for being selectively coupled to and removed from the UAV chassis. UAV support mechanisms are utilized to load and unload parcel carriers to the UAV chassis, and the UAV lands on and takes off from the UAV support mechanism to deliver parcels to a serviceable point. The UAV includes computing entities that interface with different systems and computing entities to send and receive various types of information.
US10706381B2 Vehicle and drone management system
The disclosure provides a system and method of delivering packages. The system may include a plurality of land vehicles that transport a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to locations within a distance of delivery destinations. The system may determine, based on a number of packages to be delivered to destinations in a geographical area, a number of land vehicles to carry the packages to within a UAV round-trip range of each of the destinations. The system may allocate the number of packages to the number of land vehicles. The system may determine a route for each land vehicle that brings the land vehicle within the UAV round-trip range of each destination. The system may dispatch the UAVs carrying the packages from the land vehicle at dispatch locations along the respective route.
US10706379B2 Data processing systems for automatic preparation for remediation and related methods
A Data Processing Risk Remediation System may be configured to: (1) access risk remediation data for an entity that identifies suitable action(s) to remediate a risk in response to identifying one or more data assets of the entity that may be affected by potential risk trigger(s); (2) receive an indication of an update to the one or more data assets; (3) identify one or more updated risk triggers for the entity; (4) analyze the one or more potential updated risk triggers to determine a relevance of a risk posed to the entity by the one or more updated risk triggers; (5) use one or more data modeling techniques to identify one or more data assets associated with the entity that may be affected by the risk; and (6) update the risk remediation data to include the one or more actions to remediate the risk.
US10706378B2 Method for determining a net throughput time between process steps of a process instance
A computer-implemented method is provided for determining a net throughput time between process steps of a process instance, wherein a processor is used for determining the net throughput time of the process instance in a calendar, in which a number of time intervals is stored, which are to be considered for the determination of the net throughput times, and the processor performs a matching procedure between the time specifications stored for the process steps and the time intervals stored in the calendar, wherein subsequently to the matching procedure, a net throughput time between two process steps is calculated.
US10706371B2 Data processing techniques
A device may include one or more processors. The device may receive first data to be processed. The device may receive information identifying a plurality of tasks to be performed to process the first data. The device may determine that one or more first tasks, of the plurality of tasks, are to be performed by an automation device, and that one or more second tasks, of the plurality of tasks, are to be performed by workers. The device may provide, to the automation device and to the workers, the first data. The device may receive, from the automation device and the workers, second data. The second data may be generated based on the automation device performing the one or more first tasks and based on the workers performing the one or more second tasks.
US10706369B2 Verification of information object attributes
Systems and methods for utilizing user-verified data for training confidence level models. An example method comprises: receiving a first attribute value and a second attribute value associated with an information object representing an entity referenced by a natural language text; receiving a first confidence level associated with the first attribute value and a second confidence level associated with the second attribute value; responsive to determining that the first confidence level falls below a threshold confidence value, displaying the first attribute value using a verification graphical user interface; responsive to receiving, via the verification graphical user interface, a first input verifying the first attribute value, performing at least one of: increasing the first confidence level by a first pre-defined value or setting the first confidence level to a second pre-defined value; displaying the second attribute value using the verification graphical user interface; and responsive to failing to receive, before a triggering event, via the verification graphical user interface, a second input verifying the second attribute value, performing at least one of: increasing the second confidence level by a third pre-defined value or setting the second confidence level to a fourth pre-defined value, wherein the third pre-defined value is less than the first pre-defined value and the fourth pre-defined value is less than the second pre-defined value.
US10706367B2 Sentiment polarity for users of a social networking system
A social networking system infers a sentiment polarity of a user toward content of a page. The sentiment polarity of the user is inferred based on received information about an interaction between the user and the page (e.g., like, report, etc.), and may be based on analysis of a topic extracted from text on the page. The system infers a positive or negative sentiment polarity of the user toward the content of the page, and that sentiment polarity then may be associated with any second or subsequent interaction from the user related to the page content. The system may identify a set of trusted users with strong sentiment polarities toward the content of a page or topic, and may use the trusted user data as training data for a machine learning model, which can be used to more accurately infer sentiment polarity of users as new data is received.
US10706366B2 Modeling superconducting quantum circuit systems
In a general aspect, a superconducting quantum circuit system is modeled. In some aspects, a graph representing a quantum circuit system is generated. The graph includes vertices and edges; the edges represent circuit elements of the quantum circuit system, and the vertices represent physical connections between the circuit elements. Inverse inductances, conductances, capacitances, and junction inverse inductances are assigned to respective edges of the graph based on a lumped-element approximation of the quantum circuit system. A coordinate system is determined based on the graph, and a matrix representation of the system is determined based on the coordinate system. A Hamiltonian for the quantum circuit system is determined using the matrix representation, and the quantum circuit system is simulated based on the Hamiltonian.
US10706364B2 System and method for providing patient-specific dosing as a function of mathematical models updated to account for an observed patient response
A system and method for predicting, proposing and/or evaluating suitable medication dosing regimens for a specific individual as a function of individual-specific characteristics and observed responses of the specific individual. Mathematical models of observed patient responses are used in determining an initial dose. The system and method use the patient's observed response to the initial dose to refine the model for use to forecast expected responses to proposed dosing regimens more accurately for a specific patient. More specifically, the system and method uses Bayesian averaging, Bayesian updating and Bayesian forecasting techniques to develop patient-specific dosing regimens as a function of not only generic mathematical models and patient-specific characteristics accounted for in the models as covariate patient factors, but also observed patient-specific responses that are not accounted for within the models themselves, and that reflect variability that distinguishes the specific patient from the typical patient reflected by the model.
US10706356B1 System and method for understanding human level meaning using a 9-dimensional hypercube of cognitive frames
The present invention provides for a computerized method for generation an action instruction based on cognitive learning. The present method and apparatus provides for accessing at least one neural network having a data set stored therein. The present method and apparatus determines at least one meaning data map of the data set. The meaning data map includes a plurality of cognitive frames that are embedded within a nine dimensional hypercube. For example, one embodiment may include a four frames making up a four dimensional cognitive dimension grammar that is embedded within the nine dimensional hypercube. The method and apparatus calculates a data meaning based on the at least one meaning data map. From this data meaning, the method and system then generates an action instruction.
US10706353B2 Integrated circuit
An integrated circuit includes a data storage circuit, a weight storage circuit, and an operation circuit. The data storage circuit stores, according to a preset control instruction, gray-scale value data of an image in a first preset time period; the weight storage circuit stores a data weight corresponding to the gray-scale value data in the first preset time period; the operation circuit carries out an operation on the gray-scale value data and the data weight in the first preset time period and outputs first data; the data storage circuit further stores the first data according to the preset control instruction in a second preset time period; the weight storage circuit further stores the data weight corresponding to the first data in the second preset time period; the operation circuit carries out an operation on the first data and the data weight in the second time period and outputs second data.
US10706339B2 Image processing apparatus for determining the size of a read document to be printed
An image processing apparatus which reads an image of a document and prints the read image on a sheet includes a detecting unit, an obtaining unit, and a controller. The detecting unit detects a size of the document. The obtaining unit obtains a size of the sheet. The controller performs control such that, in a case where the size of the sheet obtained by the obtaining unit is not a predetermined size, an image in a reading region based on the size of the document detected by the detecting unit is read, and in a case where the size of the sheet obtained by the obtaining unit is the predetermined size, an image in a reading region based on the size of the sheet is read.
US10706337B2 Character recognition device, character recognition method, and recording medium
An multifunction peripheral includes a font dictionary data configured to include an italic font and a non-italic font for each character code, a determination method selection unit that selects, from a plurality of italic determination methods that are used for italic determination for the character, the italic determination method that is associated with the character code that has been acquired, an italic determination unit that determines whether or not the character in the image data is italic using the italic determination method that has been selected by the determination method selection unit, and a font specifying unit that specifies a font of the character by checking the character that has been determined to be italic by the italic determination unit only with the italic font and checking the character that has been determined to be non-italic only with the non-italic font.
US10706335B2 Multi-perspective detection of objects
Technology disclosed herein may involve a computing system that (i) generates (a) a first feature map based on a first visual input from a first perspective of a scene utilizing at least one first neural network and (b) a second feature map based on a second visual input from a second, different perspective of the scene utilizing at least one second neural network, where the first perspective and the second perspective share a common dimension, (ii) based on the first feature map and a portion of the second feature map corresponding to the common dimension, generates cross-referenced data for the first visual input, (iii) based on the second feature map and a portion of the first feature map corresponding to the common dimension, generates cross-referenced data for the second visual input, and (iv) based on the cross-referenced data, performs object detection on the scene.
US10706325B2 Method and apparatus for selecting a network resource as a source of content for a recommendation system
There are disclosed a method of and a system for selecting a network resource as a source of a content item, the content item to be analyzed by a recommendation system as part of a plurality of content items to generate a set of recommended content items as a recommendation for a given user of the recommendation system. The method comprises, for a network resource, receiving, by the server, a plurality of features associated with a network resource to be processed; generating given network resource profile for the network resource, the given network resource profile being based on the plurality of features; executing a machine learning algorithm in order to determine a source suitability parameter for the network resource, selecting at least one content item from the network resource if the source suitability parameter is determined to be above a pre-determined threshold.
US10706324B2 Multi-view embedding with soft-max based compatibility function for zero-shot learning
Described is a system for multi-view embedding for object recognition. During operation, the system receives an input image and transforms raw data of objects in the image with corresponding labels into low-level features and high-level semantic representations of the labels. A trained object recognition model is generated by embedding the low-level features with multiple high-level semantic representations. The system then receives data of an unknown object and assigns a label to the unknown object using the trained object recognition model. Finally, a device can be controlled based on the label.
US10706323B1 Processor and method of weighted feature importance estimation
A method includes determining a feature importance ranking for each pair of clusters of a plurality of clusters to generate a first plurality of feature importance rankings. The method further includes determining a feature importance ranking between a particular data element and each cluster to generate a second plurality of feature importance rankings. A distance value associated with each pair of clusters of the plurality of clusters is determined to generate a plurality of distance values, and a probability value associated with each data element is determined to generate a plurality of probability values. The method further includes weighting the first plurality of feature importance rankings based on the plurality of distance values to determine a first plurality of weighted feature importance rankings and weighting the second plurality of feature importance rankings based on the plurality of probability values to determine a second plurality of weighted feature importance rankings.
US10706320B2 Determining a document type of a digital document
Disclosed are systems and method for determining document type of a digital document. An example method comprises: executing a first MLA classifier in order to determine a document type for a digital document, wherein the first MLA classifier is associated with a first hierarchical order of execution, and wherein the first MLA classifier is trained on a first trained dataset containing a first document type and a second document type, wherein the first document type is confidently predictable by the first MLA classifier and the second document type is not confidently predictable by the first MLA classifier; and responsive to determining that the first MLA classifier produced the second document type for the digital document, executing a second MLA classifier in order to determine the document type for the digital document, wherein the second MLA classifier is associated with a second hierarchical order of execution following the first hierarchical order of execution, and wherein the second MLA classifier is trained on a second trained dataset containing no documents of the first document type.
US10706319B2 Template creation apparatus, object recognition processing apparatus, template creation method, and program
A viewpoint position-related parameter setting unit determines which approximate spherical shape to use in order to determine a viewpoint position. A viewpoint position creation unit creates a plurality of approximate spherical shapes set by the viewpoint-position-related parameter setting unit, and creates respective viewpoint positions. An optimal viewpoint position creation unit calculates a rotation angle at which the number of slave viewpoints associated with master viewpoints is substantially equal and a maximum distance between the master viewpoint and the slave viewpoint associated therewith is a minimum.
US10706318B2 Systems, apparatus, and methods to improve object recognition
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to improve robot object recognition. An example apparatus includes a visual object recognizer to obtain a visual identifier associated with a target object, and a recognizable object model generator to generate a model of the target object based on mapping an image of the target object to classifier information corresponding to the visual identifier.
US10706317B2 Nuanced-color search and recommendation system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for implementing a nuanced-color search and recommendation system. Employing various techniques described herein, an improved search engine for categorizable items is provided to generate accurate color-based search results and recommendations that are relevant to a nuanced color provided as a search parameter. In various implementations, digital assets that depict categorizable items can be analyzed to characterize the depicted items with, among other things, a particular shade of a determined dominant color. In this way, categorizable items can be searched based at least in part on a selected shade of a particular dominant color to generate a primary search result. In further embodiments, other categorizable items can be generated as recommendations based on characteristics of the primary search result. That is, other items not necessarily subject of the search, can be provided as recommended items if predefined rules dictate that such items may complement the categorizable items included in the primary search result.
US10706314B2 Image recognition method, apparatus and device, and non-volatile computer storage medium
The present disclosure provides an image recognition method and apparatus, a device and a non-volatile computer storage medium. In embodiments of the present disclosure, it is feasible to obtain the to-be-recognized image of the designated space, then perform image segmentation processing for the to-be-recognized image, to obtain at least one area image of the designated space, and then perform image matching processing for each area image in said at least one area image, to obtain a reference image corresponding to said each area image, so that it is possible to perform recognition processing for said each area image according to image information of the reference image corresponding to said each area image to obtain article information of said each area image. The so doing does not require manual participation and exhibits simple operations and a high rate of correctness, and thereby improves the recognition efficiency and reliability.
US10706312B2 Automated filtering of item comments
Aspects analyze published items to identify and distinguish a graphic image content or text string content element from other elements within the content of the published item, wherein the item is published with user comments. In response to a selection of the distinguished element, metadata and text content of the comments are analyzed to identify associations to the selected element. Aspects differentially display a subset of the comments in association with the published item, relative to display of remaining others of the comments, in response to determining that the analyzed metadata or analyzed text content of the subset of comments is associated with the selected element, and that the analyzed metadata or analyzed text content of the remaining others of the comments is not associated with the selected element.
US10706308B2 Image processing for automated object identification
A device obtains an image and generates, based on the image and using an image generation model, a set of candidate images for object recognition. The device determines, based on the set of candidate images and using an image evaluation model, that one or more candidate images, of the set of candidate images, are processed during image generation and using the image generation model to improve a resolution of the image. The device determines image embeddings for the one or more candidate images and based on the image, and determines an embeddings error for the one or more candidate images based on the image embeddings and the image. The device determines an identification of a feature of the image based on the image embeddings and the embeddings error, and performs an action relating to the identification of the feature based on determining the identification of the feature.
US10706307B2 Methods and devices for processing fingerprint information
A method of processing fingerprint information is provided. According to an example, the method may include: receiving fingerprint information in response to a fingerprint input operation of a user, where the fingerprint information is configured to trigger a terminal to execute a first application; and outputting fingerprint erasure prompt information when it is determined that the execution of the first application is finished, where the fingerprint erasure prompt information is configured to prompt the user to erase a fingerprint impression corresponding to the fingerprint information.
US10706305B2 Method and system for replaying a voice message and displaying a signed digital photograph contemporaneously
Systems and methods for generating authentic digital memorabilia are described. A signor may be provided a digital photograph. The signor's signature, written message, or voice message may be received. Biometric authentication or verification may be performed on the signor's handwriting or voice sample through comparison with stored samples. If the verification signifies a high likelihood signor's handwriting or voice sample is authentic, creation of digital memorabilia is performed by embedding signor's signature or written message in a digital photograph and linking the signor's voice message with the photograph. The digital memorabilia is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity and distributed to a customer or displayed on a website.
US10706298B2 Method to automate detection of vehicle lamp degradation
A method to automate detection of a vehicle light degradation or failure includes generating a distinct pattern to be executed by at least one vehicle light, and sending a command to a light control module operative to cause the at least one vehicle light to emit the distinct pattern. The method continues with extracting features from camera images of the distinct pattern emitted by the at least one vehicle light, and then comparing the features extracted from the camera images with features from the commanded distinct pattern to determine degradation or failure of the at least one vehicle light's state of health.
US10706297B2 Management of parking spaces
Management of parking spaces in a parking area comprising a plurality of zones. A ticket is provided to an individual associated with a vehicle parked in the parking area, and the ticket is associated with the vehicle. Also, a first zone in which the vehicle is parked is identified. Responsive to the individual validating the ticket, it is determined that the vehicle associated with the ticket will be leaving the identified first zone, and there is provided an indication that a parking space of the identified first zone is to become available.
US10706293B1 Vehicle camera clearness detection and alert
A method of operating a vehicle may include detecting that a vehicle user is exiting the vehicle, that a user is approaching the vehicle or that the user remote starts the vehicle. Upon the one of these events occurring, automatically conducting a camera lens clearness test. If the test detects an unclear camera lens, notifying the user while outside of the vehicle that the camera lens needs cleaning.
US10706291B2 Trailer angle detection system for vehicle
A trailer angle detection system for a vehicle towing a trailer includes a camera disposed at a rear portion of the vehicle and having a field of view rearward of the vehicle. The camera includes a two dimensional imager array having multiple rows and columns of photosensing elements. An image processor processes image data captured by the camera. With the vehicle towing a trailer, and via processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, the trailer angle detection system detects a portion of the trailer that is being towed by the vehicle. The trailer angle detection system determines, via processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle responsive to determination of which columns of photosensing elements sense the detected portion of the trailer in the field of view of the camera.
US10706290B2 Method and system for providing personalized on-location information exchange
A method includes: deploying a frontend system (FIES); activating input streams from on-site cameras located at a current deployment location of the FIES; in accordance with the respective input stream of a first camera, registering an inspection event of a user in association with a first sample product on display; detecting a close-proximity interaction between the user and the FIES; automatically generating a first product recommendation, including: if the inspection event meets enhanced inspection criteria, which are met when a second inspection event of the first user exists in previously stored inspection events associated with the respective first sample product, automatically adding a product-specific description of the first sample product in the first product recommendation; and otherwise, forgoing including the product-specific description of the first sample product in the first product recommendation; and providing, through the frontend information exchange system, the first product recommendation to the first user.
US10706280B2 Virtual reality device with iris acquisition function
A virtual reality device with iris acquisition function, includes a housing having an accommodating space, an observing lens embedded in the housing, a display screen accommodated in the housing and arranged opposite to the observing lens, and at least one iris camera accommodated in the housing. The virtual reality device further includes at least one infrared source accommodated in the housing, the infrared source is arranged on a focal plane of the observing lens and light emitted from the infrared source passes through the observing lens to an iris of a human eye. The iris camera is configured to acquire an iris image of a human eye through the observing lens and the iris camera is arranged at a position which will not interfere a line of sight of the human eye on the infrared source and the display screen.
US10706279B2 Content verification apparatus, method for verifying content, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a program for verifying content, the program executing a process includes identifying, among a plurality of elements included in a content to be verified and displayed in two browsers that display the content respectively, a dynamic element whose attribute relating to display changes over time or whose element image changes over time in at least one of the two browsers; and identifying an area in which displayed content is different between the two browsers by comparing element images of the plurality of elements other than the dynamic element between the two browsers.
US10706272B2 Method of determining an amount, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and information processing apparatus
A method includes extracting a plurality of feature points from a first image and a second image of an image-capture target, acquiring, from the second image, for each of the plurality of feature points in the first image, a set of points having a correlation with the feature point, identifying, for each of the plurality of feature points in the second image, a position of a center of gravity of the set of points, and determining an amount of movement of the image-capture target by performing weighting processing, the weighting processing being performed on each of amounts of displacements and a number of points in the set of points acquired for each of the plurality of feature points, each of the amounts of displacements being a displacement from a position of each of the plurality of feature points in the first image to the position of the center of gravity.
US10706270B2 Information provision device, and moving body
An information provision device is disclosed. The information provision device comprises: cameras and a driver's seat microphone which detect the state of a user of a moving body, the user being located within a predetermined area including the moving body; an emotion engine which estimates emotions of the user based on the detection results from the cameras and the driver's seat microphone; and an image transmission unit which, when the emotion level of the user estimated by the emotion engine is increased by a predetermined level or higher, captures an image of the user through the driver's seat camera and transmits the captured image data of the user to a communication terminal of the user.
US10706268B2 Ensuring a desired distribution of images in a multimedia document utilizing facial signatures
A method, system and computer program product for ensuring a desired distribution of images in a multimedia document (e.g., yearbook, slideshow). A desired distribution of facial signatures in a multimedia document to be created by the user is received. Upon receiving an image to be added to the multimedia document by the user, a facial signature for a face detected in the image is generated. The current number of instances of the facial signature in the multimedia document is then determined. A determination is then made as to whether the current number of instances of the facial signature meets the desired distribution. An indication is then provided to the user as to whether the current number of instances of the facial signature meets or does not meet the desired distribution. In this manner, the user can ensure a desired distribution of images in the multimedia document.
US10706264B2 Mobile terminal providing face recognition using glance sensor
Disclosed is a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal may include a front camera obtaining a 2D face image of a user, a glance sensor tilted by a certain angle and disposed adjacent to the front camera to obtain metadata of the 2D face image, and a controller obtaining a distance between the glance sensor and the front camera, the distance enabling an area of an overlap region, where a first region representing a range photographable by the front camera overlaps a second region representing a range photographable by the glance sensor, to be the maximum.
US10706262B2 Intelligent body measurement
A method for estimating the body measurements of a subject from at least two photographic images of the subject. The method includes capturing the photographic images using a digital imaging device, for example, a mobile device camera, and estimating the body measurements of the subject using heatmap data generated by an intelligent computing system such as a trained neural network.
US10706254B2 Method and apparatus for calibrating fingerprint image, and terminal
A method and an apparatus for calibrating a fingerprint image, and a terminal, are provided. The method for calibrating a fingerprint image includes steps of: obtaining prestored information about a non-fingerprint image; and collecting a fingerprint image, and calibrating the fingerprint image according to the information about the non-fingerprint image. The method can remove a non-fingerprint image part from a collected fingerprint image and improve accuracy of the collected fingerprint image, thereby improving a fingerprint recognition effect.
US10706253B2 Full-spectrum flash for electronic devices
Introduced here are light sources for flash photography configured to produce high-fidelity white light that is tunable over a broader range of correlated color temperatures (CCTs) than conventional flash technologies. The light source can include multiple independently controllable color channels representing illuminants (e.g., light-emitting diodes) of different colors with varying degrees of saturation. Operating collectively, the multiple color channels can produce a high spectral quality white light corresponding to different CCTs (e.g., “warm” white light having a red hue, “cool” white light having a blue hue). Operating independently, these same color channels can be pre-flashed in a variety of prescribed sequences to probe the spectral characteristics of a scene, thereby allowing for an enhanced, spectrally matched white flash as well as collecting per-pixel reflectivity data that can be later used in during post processing of the captured image.
US10706252B2 Electronic device with strain-based force sensor
Input members with capacitive sensors are disclosed. In one embodiment of an electronic button, a first circuit is configured to capture a fingerprint of a user's finger placed on the electronic button, and a second circuit is configured to sense a force applied to the electronic button by the user's finger. The first circuit is further configured to provide temperature information to compensate for temperature sensitivities of the second circuit, and the second circuit is further configured to provide force information to the first circuit.
US10706250B2 Capacitive image sensing device
A capacitive image sensing device is provided. The capacitive image sensing device includes a first charge amplifier, a second charge amplifier and a differential amplifier. The first charge amplifier is coupled to one of sensing electrodes of a sensor array. The differential amplifier has a first input terminal, a second input terminal and a differential output terminal pair. The first input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to the first charge amplifier. The second input terminal of the differential amplifier is coupled to the second charge amplifier.
US10706248B2 QR code positioning method and apparatus
Implementations of the present application provide a QR code positioning method and apparatus. Based on a predetermined pixel detection rule, centers of candidate position detection patterns in the QR code image are determined from a QR code image that includes first-type pixels and second-type pixels. The predetermined pixel detection rule includes that a consecutive arrangement ratio of the first-type pixels, the second-type pixels, and the first-type pixels satisfies a predetermined ratio. The candidate position detection patterns are identified based on the centers of the candidate position detection patterns. A set of patterns that satisfies a QR code image positioning rule are determined from the candidate position detection patterns. The set of patterns are used as position detection patterns of the QR code image.
US10706246B2 Optical information reading apparatus and optical information reading method
An optical code reading process and a reading stability determining process are performed while suppressing an increase in the cost of a transfer system and avoiding a decrease in work efficiency. CCD performs imaging. Processor reads a one-dimensional code contained in image data taken by CCD, and outputs a signal when a reading process in which the number of reading successes related to the one-dimensional code reaches a determination reference value is completed. In addition, processor determines reading stability during a period from the first reading success to completion of the reading process and outputs predictive maintenance information (PMI) representing a determination result of reading stability.
US10706244B2 System and method for reconciling RFID read locations
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring locations of products in a facility. In some embodiments, a system comprises a plurality of RFID readers placed at predetermined locations about the facility, a plurality of RFID tags, wherein the RFID tags are associated with products, and a control circuit configured to receive, from one or more of the plurality of RFID readers, an indication of an RFID read, determine, based on the indication of the RFID read, a product associated with the RFID read and a location of the product, compare the location of the product with locations of previous reads of a same type of item as the product, determine, based upon the locations of previous reads of the same type of item as the product, if the location of the product consistent with the location of the previous reads.
US10706241B2 Method for keeping active state of smart card until re-entering field, and smart card
A method and a device for keeping an active state of a smart card until re-entering a field, and a smart card are provided. The method includes: sending a waiting time extension instruction by a smart card to an electronic device when the smart card is in an electromagnetic field of the electronic device and in an active state; starting a timer after the smart card receives a reply in response to the waiting time extension instruction; detecting that the smart card leaves the field, determining whether the timer times out, and keeping a current state of the smart card as the active state when the timer does not time out and detecting that the smart card re-enters the field, determining whether the timer times out, and keeping the current state of the smart card as the active state when the timer does not time out.
US10706234B2 Constituent centric architecture for reading comprehension
A constituent-centric neural architecture for reading comprehension is disclosed. One embodiment provides a method that performs reading comprehension comprising encoding individual constituents from a text passage using a chain of trees long short-term encoding, encodes question related to the text passage using a tree long short-term memory encoding, generates a question-aware representation for each constituent in the passage using a tree-guided attention mechanism, generates a plurality of candidate answers from the question-aware representation using hierarchical relations among constituents, and predicts an answer to the question in relation to the text passage using a feed-forward network. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US10706230B2 System and method for inputting text into electronic devices
Systems for inputting text into an electronic device are provided. The systems are configured to receive a sequence of characters input into the device. The systems comprise a means configured to generate from the sequence of characters a sequence of word-segments. The systems also comprise a text prediction engine comprising a language model having stored sequences of word-segments. The text prediction engine is configured to receive the sequence of word-segments. In a first embodiment, the text prediction engine is configured to determine whether each word-segment of the sequence of word-segments corresponds to a stored word-segment of the language model and output the sequence of word-segments as a candidate prediction when each of the word-segments of the sequence of word-segments corresponds to a stored word-segment of the language model, regardless of whether the sequence of word-segments corresponds to a stored sequence of word-segments. Various other systems and corresponding methods are provided. A system is provided comprising a word-segment language model comprising stored sequences of word segments and a candidate filter. The candidate filter is used to filter word predictions generated by the word-segment language model.
US10706226B2 Graphical user interface for inter-party communication with automatic scoring
An embodiment may involve transmitting, to a first client device, a representation of a first graphical user interface. The first graphical user interface may define fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may involve receiving, from the first client device, a first submission of the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may involve transmitting, to a second client device, a representation of a second graphical user interface. The second graphical user interface may allow the second client device to fill out the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may further involve receiving, from the second client device, a second submission of the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may further involve determining numerical scores associated with each of the fillable web-based forms. The embodiment may also involve transmitting a representation of a third graphical user interface. The third graphical user interface may show the fillable web-based forms and their respective numerical scores.
US10706225B2 Form management system and method
The present invention provides a form management system, comprising: a form building module, the form building module calling a word processing application software to obtain layout information of a form; and a common library building module, the common library building module building a correlation between a specific field of the form and default data of the specific field and storing the correlation in a common library.
US10706221B2 Method and system operable to facilitate the reporting of information to a report reviewing entity
A method and system are described herein that facilitate the reporting of information to a report reviewing entity. The method and system, in an embodiment, involve a plurality of identifiers, each of which corresponds to a different category of information. The identifiers are configured to be incorporated into a report file that is configured in accordance with a first markup protocol. The method and system also involve generating a detail file configured in accordance with a second markup protocol that differs from the first markup protocol, determining all of the numerical pieces of information that are present in the report file, and incorporating all of the determined numerical pieces into the detail file.
US10706216B2 Link association analysis systems and methods
Link association analysis systems are presented. Disclosed systems are configured to analyze links created by users and to determine possible reasons underpinning why a user would create such a link. The system derives such reasons by analyzing the context within which the link was created and to which the link points, and then presents the reasons as a data object to users for feedback. The system can be made to be self-refining by collecting survey data regarding its accuracy, so that the more users interact with the system, the more accurate the system is at deriving reasons for link creation.
US10706210B2 User interface for dictation application employing automatic speech recognition
In an automatic speech recognition (ASR) dictation application, a user interface may be provided for informing a user how to dictate desired text. Input may be received from the user of the dictation application, specifying a desired text sequence. In response to the received input, output may automatically be provided to the user via the user interface, indicating one or more speech sequences that, when spoken by a user and recognized by the dictation application using ASR, would cause the dictation application to output the desired text sequence as a recognition result.
US10706208B1 Priority aware balancing of memory usage between geometry operation and file storage
A dynamic memory management method for layout verification tools that maximizes main memory usage and minimizes required disk storage capacity. Layout data generated during each given geometric operation is retained in main memory at the end of the given geometric operation. At the beginning of each new (current) geometric operation, an estimated amount of main memory required to perform the current geometric operation at peak processing speed is determined. When insufficient available main memory is available, a Central Balancer Module determines whether previously generated layout data can be moved from main memory to disk storage. Layout data file(s) are then selected based on minimizing the amount of transferred layout data needed to provide the required estimated amount. A Distributed File Manager then transfers the selected layout data file(s) from main memory to disk storage, thereby facilitating execution of the current geometric operation at peak operating speed.
US10706205B2 Detecting hotspots in physical design layout patterns utilizing hotspot detection model with data augmentation
A method for detecting hotspots in physical design layout patterns includes receiving a given physical design layout pattern, utilizing a hotspot detection model to detect one or more potential hotspots in the given physical design layout pattern, and performing a verification to determine whether a given potential hotspot of the one or more potential hotspots detected by the hotspot detection model comprises a real hotspot or a nonexistent hotspot. The method also includes, responsive to determining that the given potential hotspot comprises an actual hotspot, modifying the given physical design layout pattern to remove the actual hotspot. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the given potential hotspot comprises a nonexistent hotspot, augmenting the hotspot detection model with additional training data generated based on the nonexistent hotspot.
US10706195B1 System, method, and computer program product for over-constraint/deadcode detection in a formal verification
The present disclosure relates to a method for use in the formal verification of an electronic circuit. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, a portion of an electronic circuit design and analyzing a syntactic structure of a string associated with the electronic circuit design. Embodiments may also include generating a parse tree, based upon, at least in part, the analysis and traversing the parse tree to identify one or more conditional nodes. Embodiments may further include generating a new node for each of the one or more conditional nodes and displaying, at a graphical user interface, a check, at least one of the one or more conditional nodes or the new node prior to performing either register-transfer-level RTL synthesis or final synthesis.
US10706192B1 Voltage reconciliation in multi-level power managed systems
A method and EDA software tool for analyzing and verifying that a multi-level power managed system description (IC design) is free of power-state combination conflicts by way of identifying and reconciling voltage level and power-state combination conflicts caused by reused blocks (IP cores). The reconciliation process involves generating Power-State Tables (PSTs) associated with each hierarchical circuit level (e.g., top/system level and lower/block levels) of the IC design using both initial power supply voltage values and reconciled/revised voltage values, which are determined by the main driver voltage levels of each power supply. Initial supply relationships generated using the initial PSTs are then compared with final supply relationships generated using the reconciled PSTs, whereby conflicts are identified when one or more initial supply relationship fails to match a final supply relationship, or when one or more final supply relationship fails to match an initial supply relationship.
US10706189B2 Systems and method for dynamic combustion tests
A testing system computer device for dynamically updating a test plan of an apparatus includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The testing system computer device is configured to store a plurality of historical data and generate a simulation model of the apparatus based in part on the historical data. The simulation model includes a plurality of inputs and a plurality of outputs of the apparatus. The testing system computer device is also configured to determine a plurality of tests to perform on the apparatus based on the simulation model and the plurality of historical data. The testing system computer device is further configured to receive a plurality of desirability ratings from a user, rank the plurality of tests to perform based on the plurality of desirability ratings, and present the ranked plurality of tests to the user.
US10706185B2 Systems and methods for automated spatial change detection and control of buildings and construction sites using three-dimensional laser scanning data
Systems and methods for automated spatial change detection and control of buildings and construction sites using three-dimensional laser scanning data are disclosed.
US10706184B2 Designing a virtual preparation and a virtual gingival
A computer product for generating a digital 3D model for use in a dental component based on a digital 3D model of the dental component showing a shape of the teeth and a digital 3D representation of a pre-prepared set of teeth showing the region for which the dental component is intended, said product causing a system to generate a digital 3D combined model representing a target dental situation when the dental component is arranged at the teeth, where the instructions are configured for digitally replacing one or more teeth of the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth with the digital 3D model of the dental component by digitally removing the one or more teeth of the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth and adding the digital 3D model of the dental component to the digital 3D representation of the pre-prepared set of teeth.
US10706183B2 Computing boundary continuity constraints for patching curve networks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving data describing a model, the model describing a curve network; determining boundary continuity constraints for each edge, of each face, in the model; combining the determined boundary continuity constraints to determine respective boundary continuity for each face; and determining, using the respective boundary continuity constraints, a respective surface patch for each face.
US10706181B1 Randomization of dangling nodes in a digital circuit design to mitigate hardware trojans
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to randomizing logic associated with dangling nodes in a digital circuit design. A dangling node is an input to or output from a logic gate in the digital circuit design that is identified as not impacting a desired output of the digital circuit design. Randomizing the logic associated with a dangling node can include deleting a logic gate, adding a logic gate, replacing a logic gate with another logic gate, etc. Randomizing the logic associated with the dangling node prevents hardware trojans that may have been inserted into the circuit design from being implemented in a circuit that is generated based upon the design.
US10706180B2 System and method for enabling a malware prevention module in response to a context switch within a certain process being executed by a processor
A performance monitoring unit in a processor is programmed to issue an interrupt when a context switch occurs within an operating system if the currently executing thread belongs to a process that is subject to the malware prevention mechanism of the present invention. The interrupt enables a module that identifies mispredictions by the branch prediction unit of the processor and analyzes the address of the branch that was not predicted correctly. If the address of the branch is not contained on an existing whitelist of permissible branch addresses, and alert is generated and/or a protective action is taken. Such protective actions may include thread suspension, thread termination, process suspension, or process termination.
US10706168B2 Rights-based system
A rights-based system is described in which vouchers are employed for creating, managing, distributing, and redeeming rights in digital contexts. A voucher is a digital, possession-based rights representation. An authorization component of the system validates the vouchers and issues corresponding tokens. Access to digital resources is provided in response to presentation of the tokens which are validated by matching voucher refresh values to corresponding values maintained by the system. New refresh values are generated and inserted in the vouchers each time they are redeemed.
US10706167B1 Systems and methods for enforcing privacy in cloud security
A computer-implemented method for enforcing privacy in cloud security may include (i) identifying, by a computing device, a set of files in a backup process for a cloud service, (ii) determining, by the computing device, that at least one file in the set of files is a private file, (iii) modifying, by the computing device encrypting the private file, the set of files in the backup process, (iv) completing the backup process for the cloud service with the modified set of files, and (v) enforcing a security policy of the cloud service based on a scan of file hashes. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10706164B2 Crypto-enforced capabilities for isolation
Apparatuses for computing are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, a memory, and a compiler to be operated by the one or more processors to compile a computer program. The compiler may include one or more analyzers to parse and analyze source code of the computer program that generates pointers or de-references pointers. The compiler may also include a code generator coupled to the one or more analyzers to generate executable instructions for the source code of the computer program including insertion of additional encryption or decryption executable instructions into the computer program, based at least in part on a result of the analysis, to authenticate memory access operations of the source code.
US10706158B2 Systems and methods for controlling data exposure using artificial-intelligence-based modeling
Systems and methods for controlling the exposure of data privacy elements are provided. The systems and methods may generate an artificial profile model. The artificial profile model may include a constraint for generating new artificial profiles. A signal may be received indicating that a computing device is requesting access to a network location. One or more data privacy elements associated with the computing device can be detected. An artificial profile can be determined for the computing device. The artificial profile may be usable to identify the computing device. The one or more data privacy elements may be automatically modified according to the constraint included in the artificial profile model. The method may include generating a new artificial profile for the computing device. The new artificial profile may include the modified one or more data privacy elements. The new artificial profile may mask the computing device from being identified.
US10706156B2 Security risk identification in a secure software lifecycle
A system and method for security risk identification in a secure software lifecycle. A knowledge database has a plurality of security elements which are identified for a particular software application depending on software environment and prioritized in a task list. Code vulnerabilities are identified using code scanners, with security requirements updated based on identified vulnerabilities, lack of vulnerabilities for weaknesses covered by a code scanner, potential weaknesses not adequately covered by code scanners, and software environment changes.
US10706151B2 Systems and methods for tracking malicious behavior across multiple software entities
Described systems and methods allow protecting a computer system from malicious software. In some embodiments, a security application organizes a set of monitored executable entities (e.g., processes) into a plurality of groups, wherein members of a group are related by filiation and/or code injection. The security application may further associate a malice-indicative entity score with each monitored entity, and a malice-indicative group score with each entity group. Group scores may be incremented when a member of the respective group performs certain actions. Thus, even though actions performed by individual members may not be malware-indicative per se, the respective group score may capture collective malicious behavior and trigger malware detection.
US10706149B1 Detecting delayed activation malware using a primary controller and plural time controllers
A malicious content detection (MCD) system and a computerized method for manipulating time uses two or more time controllers operating within the MCD system in order to capture the behavior of delayed activation malware (time bombs). Each time controller may include a monitoring agent located in a software layer of a computer runtime environment configured to intercept software calls (e.g., API calls or system calls) and/or other time checks that seek to obtain a “current time,” and time-dilation action logic located in a different layer (e.g., a hypervisor layer) configured to respond to the software calls by providing a “false” current time that indicates considerably more time has transpired than the real clock. Additionally, a primary controller may be used in some embodiments to configure and manage, the time controllers.
US10706145B2 Runtime detection of vulnerabilities in software containers
A system and method for detecting vulnerabilities in software containers at runtime are provided. This method includes intercepting a request to instantiate a new software container in a first execution environment; creating a second execution environment; migrating the new software container from the first execution environment to the second execution environment for execution therein; monitoring the operation of the new software container in the second execution environment to detect at least one unauthorized action; and upon detection of the at least one unauthorized action, generating a detection event identifying at least a type of vulnerability associated with the detected unauthorized action.
US10706137B2 Apparatus and method for using a customer device certificate on a device
An apparatus for using a certificate on a device is proposed, including a processing unit for generating a certificate request and a transmitter-receiver unit for transmitting the generated certificate request to a first external computing unit, which is configured to generate a certificate for the device and to allow a second external computing unit to re-sign the certificate with an additional manufacturer's signature, and for receiving the re-signed certificate from the external computing unit. The processing unit is further configured to check the manufacturer's signature based on information stored in the device and to use the certificate depending on a result of the check. Furthermore, a system and a corresponding method are proposed.
US10706136B2 Authentication-activated augmented reality display device
A portable device is provided. The portable device may include a display; an input device; a camera; a processor coupled to the display, the input device, and the camera; and a computer readable medium coupled to the processor, the computer readable medium comprising code, executable by the processor, to implement a method comprising: receiving authentication data from the input device, determining whether the received authentication data matches authentication data associated with an authorized user, and displaying, on the display, a credential, an item, and data associated with the item.
US10706134B2 Method and system for providing a brain computer interface
A method for providing a brain computer interface that includes detecting a neural signal of a user in response to a calibration session having a time-locked component and a spontaneous component; generating a user-specific calibration model based on the neural signal; prompting the user to undergo a verification session, the verification session having a time-locked component and a spontaneous component; detecting a neural signal contemporaneously with delivery of the verification session; generating an output of the user-specific calibration model from the neural signal; based upon a comparison operation between processed outputs, determining an authentication status of the user; and performing an authenticated action.
US10706124B2 Storage and retrieval of structured content in unstructured user-editable content stores
Systems and techniques are disclosed for enabling structured data to be associated with visual content in a manner that preserves the ability to edit the visual content using a content application such as a notebook application. Techniques and systems enable semantic notation to be introduced into selected regions of the visual content that indicate the visual content's structured data, allowing the content to be searched and accessed more easily by common search technologies and search engines. The semantic notation is assigned to the visual content so that the introduction of the semantic notation does not hinder the user's viewing or editing of the visual content with a content application. The inclusion of the semantic notation does not cause existing visual editing tools that do not understand the semantic notation to cease to function properly.
US10706116B2 Providing electronic search and guidance using non-address destination designations
Disclosed are various embodiments for providing an electronic search and guidance application that uses non-address destination designations. In one embodiment, a user enters a particular building identifier via a mobile device. A particular geographic location corresponding to the particular building identifier is determined. Navigation instructions to the geographic location are presented to the user.
US10706113B2 Domain review system for identifying entity relationships and corresponding insights
A system and method is provided for generating a dynamic comprehensive domain review. A domain review engine obtains authoritative literature associated with a domain to extract insights using entity recognition and relationship extraction, and ranks the extracted results to generate a dynamic domain review.
US10706107B2 Search systems and methods utilizing search based user clustering
Embodiments of search systems that leverage the search or access activities of a core group of users to improve search functionality and performance of such search systems are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments may utilize users' search activity to generate clusters of users and associated labels for those clusters. These clusters can be leveraged during a search to generate suggestions for a user conducting the search.
US10706100B2 Method of and system for recommending media objects
A method of and a system for selecting recommended media objects comprising: acquiring media objects, each respective media object having at least one respective user interaction parameter, acquiring at least one tag associated with each respective media object, receiving, a request for a media object recommendation, acquiring at least one tag and at least one user interaction parameter associated with the media object, determining potential recommended media object candidates based on at least one tag of the media object overlapping with tags associated with the respective media objects, determining for each potential recommended media object candidate, a number of overlapping tags with the media object, generating a respective correspondence parameter based on the number of overlapping tags and the respective user interaction parameter, selecting at least one recommended media object, the at least one recommended media object being associated with a predetermined value of the correspondence parameter.
US10706098B1 Methods to present search keywords for image-based queries
Techniques for providing recommended keywords in response to an image-based query are disclosed herein. In particular, various embodiments utilize an image matching service to identify recommended search keywords associated with image data received from a user. The search keywords can be used to perform a keyword search to identify content associated with an image input that may be relevant. For example, an image search query can be received from a user. The image search query may result in multiple different types of content that are associated with the image. The system may present keywords associated with matching images to allow a user to further refine their search and/or find other related products that may not match with the particular image. This enables users to quickly refine a search using keywords that may be difficult to identify otherwise and to find the most relevant content for the user.
US10706095B2 Redirecting blocked media content
A method includes determining, using a processor system, that a portion of media content is objectionable to an audience based at least on a comparison between an identified aspect of the portion of media content and a first set of preferences associated with the audience. The first set of preferences defines a type of media content corresponding to the portion of media content as being objectionable to the audience. The audience is associated with a primary viewing device. The method also includes determining that the portion of media content is not objectionable to a member of the audience based at least on a second set of preferences. The second set of preferences defines the type of media content corresponding to the portion of media content as not being objectionable to the member. The method can transmit the portion of the media content to a secondary display device of the member.
US10706094B2 System and method for customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content element signatures
A system and method customizing a display of a user device based on multimedia content elements. The method may include detecting a trigger event; identifying a user profile of the user device, wherein the user profile includes one or more signatures indicating a user interest; accessing signatures for a plurality of multimedia content elements; comparing the signatures of at least one of the plurality of multimedia content elements with the one or more signature of the user profile; and customizing the display of the user device, wherein the customized display includes the at least one interesting multimedia content element.
US10706092B1 Error and manipulation resistant search technology
Search may be provided using a database storing a plurality of documents comprising a first set of documents and a second set of documents, a set of vetting values and a computer readable medium. In such a system, for each document in the second set of documents, the first set of documents comprises a document for which that document from the second set of documents is identified as a subsequent related document. Additionally, the set of vetting values may comprise, for each document from the second set of documents, a vetting value for the document from the first set of documents for which that document from the second set of documents is identified as the subsequent related document. Additionally, the medium may store instructions to respond to a query by determining, based on the set of vetting values, a search result set comprising documents from the first set of documents.
US10706089B2 Techniques for time intersection
Techniques to intersect time information include receiving a set of time tokens, the set of time tokens comprising at least a first time token and a second time token; performing a compatibility check of joining the first time token and the second time token into a combined time token; and performing a join attempt of joining the first time token and the second time token into the combined time token where the compatibility check is positive. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10706087B1 Delegated decision tree evaluation
Disclosed are various embodiments for delegated evaluation of a decision tree. A client device receives an expression and a plurality of responses from a second computing device, the expression providing an evaluation of a user input and each of the plurality of responses representing a potential response for the first computing device to provide to the user input. The client device then evaluates the user input with the expression received from the second computing device to determine a user intent. The client device then selects a response to the user intent from the plurality of responses and renders the response within a user interface.
US10706085B2 Method and system for exposing virtual assistant services across multiple platforms
Techniques for exposing virtual assistant skills as authorable content items interpretable across multiple platforms are disclosed. In an embodiment, a query system comprises an execution engine and a plurality of wrapper services including (a) a first wrapper service for converting messages between a first protocol of a first virtual assistant platform and a target protocol and (b) a second wrapper service for converting messages between a second protocol of a second virtual assistant platform and the target protocol. The query system may receive a specification for a skill and requests from the plurality of virtual assistant platforms that invoke the skill. The wrapper services convert the requests to a target protocol consumable by the execution engine and convert responses from the execution engine a protocol consumable by the virtual assistant platform through which the request originated.
US10706083B2 Digital device and method of processing data therein
Disclosed are a digital device and method of processing data therein. The present invention includes a first receiving unit for receiving application data, a second receiving unit for receiving a signal including a request for a search service and search word data for the search service, a memory storing search history data, a controller configured to perform a first operation based on the search word data in response to the received search service request, control to display a first search result data on a screen, if the displayed first search result data is not valid, add the received search word data to the search history data, and control to display a second search result data on the screen by performing a second search based on the search word data included in the search history data after the search service, and a display unit displaying the application data, the first search result data and the second search result data.
US10706082B1 Deduplication database management
An apparatus may include a controller configured search a hash database storing entries corresponding to hash values of previously stored data to find a hash page of the hash database corresponding to a range of hash values including the first hash value. When the hash page is found, the controller may be configured to determine whether the hash page does not include an entry for the first hash value, the first hash page further including a base hash value for the range of hash values. When the hash page does not include an entry for the first hash value, the controller may be configured to generate a first entry of the first hash page for the first hash value, the first entry including an offset value from the base hash value corresponding to the first hash value and a data location at which the received data is to be stored.
US10706078B2 Bidirectional integration of information between a microblog and a data repository
Arrangements described herein relate to collaborative environments and, more particularly, to use of a microblog to enhance communication in an organization. The present arrangements can include receiving from a first user a first microblog entry into a microblog, identifying at least one keyword associated with the first microblog entry, and assigning to the at least one keyword a tag creating an association between the at least one keyword and at least one data repository. The arrangements further can include establishing bidirectional integration between the microblog and the at least one data repository of information related to the tag creating the association between the at least one keyword and the at least one data repository.
US10706077B2 Performance of distributed databases and database-dependent software applications
Computer-implemented systems and methods for categorizing tables of a database into groups are provided. A set of queries used to access a database are processed to generate a log that identifies for each of the queries (i) a database operation associated with the query, (ii) a table of the database accessed via the query, and (iii) a column or columns of the table used by the query to access the table. Database operation criteria for categorizing database tables into groups are accessed. The criteria are based on a total number of times that a table is accessed by the set of queries and a number of times that the table is accessed using a column or group of columns. An algorithm that evaluates data of the log against the criteria is applied. The algorithm is configured to automatically categorize tables identified in the log into groups based on the evaluation.
US10706076B2 Method and system to categorize items automatically
A method and system to automatically categorize a merchant listing in an electronic marketplace are provided. The method includes parsing the category information submitted by a seller to derive a first category identifier. A first search is performed to locate the first category identifier in a first database containing a listing of category identifiers. If no match is found, the first category identifier is identified as expired or invalid. A second search is performed on a second database that includes mapping information of an expired category identifier to a new category identifier. If a match is found, the first category identifier is assigned as the new category identifier, thereby enabling the listing to be listed in the updated category automatically.
US10706072B2 Data replication method and storage system
A data replication method and a storage system are provided. The method is applied to a storage system including a first storage device and a second storage device. According to the method, after determining replication information, a first storage system determines a first replication sub-information and a second replication sub-information according to the replication information, where the replication information is used to indicate data that needs to be replicated by the first storage system to a second storage system in a current replication task. Then, the first storage device replicates data to the second storage system according to the second replication sub-information, and the second storage device replicates data to the second storage system according to the second replication sub-information. According to the data replication method, efficiency of replication performed between the first storage system and the second storage system can be improved.
US10706071B2 Bandwidth-reduced coherency communication system
A computerized, bandwidth-reduced system that will reconcile two ordered sets of values such that a series of changes made to the one are reflected in the other by creating defined REMOVE SERIES, SWAP SERIES, INSERT SERIES and CHANGE SERIES for one set of ordered values, transferring the REMOVE SERIES, SWAP SERIES, INSERT SERIES and CHANGE SERIES and using the REMOVE SERIES, SWAP SERIES, INSERT SERIES and CHANGE SERIES to reconcile another ordered set of values.
US10706065B2 Optimizing transformation of data
Methods and system are disclosed that generate an execution schedule to optimize a transformation of business. In one aspect, from multiple tables residing in multiple databases and storing business data associate with multiple business management systems, dependencies between the tables may be determined based on attributes associated with the tables. When execution time for transforming business data exists, a decrease time algorithm or a critical path algorithm may be executed to generate execution schedule and to calculate processor idle times during the transformation of business data. Based on the calculated processor idle times, whether or not to execute a local optimization algorithm may be determined. Based on the determination, execution schedule that optimize the transformation of business data may be generated. The transformation of business data may be executed based to the generated execution schedule that optimizes a time consumed for transforming the business data in the tables.
US10706048B2 Weighting and expanding query terms based on language model favoring surprising words
An approach is provided that receives a question at a question answering (QA) system. The question includes a number of words. The approach operates by calculating weights that correspond to search terms included in the plurality of words. The search terms include the plurality of words and may include terms that are one or more sequences of adjacent words included in the question. Based on the calculated weights and the words in the question, the approach generates a query that is used to search a corpus that is managed by the QA system with the search resulting in one or more search results.
US10706044B2 Natural language processing based on textual polarity
Natural language processing (NLP) with awareness of textual polarity. An NLP system, such as a search engine or a Question-Answering (QA) system receives input text for processing. The input text may be a text fragment, a search phrase, a question having a general type, or a polar question having a yes or no answer. The NLP system identifies textual polarity and provides responses to the input text (for example, in answer form) based on identifying evidence whose selection, scoring, and processing, is informed by the textual polarity of the input text, and the textual polarity of candidate evidence passages.
US10706040B1 System for ensuring transactional integrity thereof that includes a plurality of subsystems, one of which takes an action upon a loss of transactional integrity
A system is configured to ensure transactional integrity thereof. The system includes a first subsystem and a second subsystem. Each of the subsystems receive the same request to process a transaction. An indicia engine at each subsystem computes indicia of the outcome of the processing of the same request. The computed indicia from each of the subsystems is compared. An action is completed at one of the subsystems when the computed indicia does not match. The action completed at one of the subsystems is one or more of issuing a database rollback on one of the subsystems, executing self-diagnostics on one of the subsystems, shutting down one of the subsystems, taking one of the subsystems offline, aborting the transaction executing on one of the subsystems, and generating an error indication for one of the subsystems.
US10706039B2 Data coherency between trusted DBMS and untrusted DBMS
The present disclosure relates to a method for processing data in a database engine. The method includes storing a first instance of a first table in the database engine in plaintext. Encryption information about encryption methods and encryption keys of at least one predefined column of the first table may be maintained. In response to data changes in the column, first log entries for the data changes may be written in plaintext. The data changes may be encrypted by an encryption component using the encryption information. This results in encrypted data changes. Second log entries for the encrypted data changes may be written and applied to a second instance of the first table. The second instance of the first table is stored at a further database engine.
US10706035B2 Auto unload
A system for unloading tables of a database is provided. In some aspects, the system performs operations including determining that a number of accesses to a table occurring within a time period has satisfied an access threshold. The operations may further include identifying, in response to the determining, a first timestamp indicating a most recent access to the table. The operations may further include determining whether a difference between a current timestamp and the first timestamp satisfies a first time threshold. The operations may further include comparing, in response to the difference satisfying the first time threshold, a ratio of the difference and a size of the table to a ratio threshold. The operations may further include unloading, in response to satisfying the ratio threshold, the table. The operations may further include adjusting, based on the feedback, the first time threshold and/or the ratio threshold.
US10706033B2 Content management system and method for managing ad-hoc collections of content
A content management system is provided that allows users to create collections of content for management or delivery purposes by assigning content items to labels. Labels can be persisted in the system as managed objects separate from content objects. Because the labels may be separate managed objects from the content, the labels can be implemented in a manner that does not change the content items or disrupt the lifecycle of the content.
US10706030B2 Utilizing artificial intelligence to integrate data from multiple diverse sources into a data structure
A device extracts data files from different data sources, and processes the data files to generate data from the data files. The device trains a first artificial intelligence model and a second artificial intelligence model based on historical data parameters, wherein the historical data parameters are associated with historical data previously processed by the device. The device utilizes the trained first artificial intelligence model and the data to generate data parameters for the data, and utilizes the trained second artificial intelligence model, the data, and the data parameters to generate a data structure configuration. The device generates a data structure for the data based on the data parameters and the data structure configuration, stores the data in the data structure, and provides a user interface for accessing the data structure.
US10706027B2 Database management system with dynamic allocation of database requests
The invention provides for a database management system (100, 400) comprising a container management system (102). The container management system comprises: a container management system memory (106) for storing machine executable instructions (114) and a container management system processor (104). Execution of the machine executable instructions cause the container management system processor to repeatedly: receive (200) multiple database requests (116) via a first network connection (110), wherein each of the multiple database requests comprises metadata descriptive of the multiple database requests; calculate (202) a receiving rate (118) by counting the multiple database requests received in a predetermined duration; calculate (204) a processor count (120) using a predictive model and the receiving rate; determine (206) a number of data containers (122) using the receiving rate and a container memory model, wherein each of the data containers is a block of the container management system memory assigned by continuous address space; request (208) a processor pool from a processor hosting service (306) via a second network connection (112) to satisfy the processor count; allocate (210) data containers (128, 130, 132, 134) equal to the number of the data containers in the container management system memory; transfer (212) the multiple data base requests to the data containers as they are received, wherein each of the multiple data base requests is assigned to a chosen data container selected from the data containers using the metadata; and transfer (214) a filled data container selected from the number of data containers to the processor hosting service via the second network connection, wherein the filled data container is filled with the multiple data requests above a predetermined threshold.
US10706025B2 Database system providing single-tenant and multi-tenant environments
A database service may provide multi-tenant and single-tenant environments in which tables may be maintained on behalf of clients. The service (or underlying system) may create database instances and tables in either or both types of environments (e.g., by default or according to various parameter values specified in requests to create the instances or tables). When receiving and servicing requests directed to a table hosted in a single-tenant environment, the system may elide at least some of the authentication or metering operations that would be performed when servicing requests directed to tables hosted in a multi-tenant environment. Tables may be moved from a single-tenant environment to a multi-tenant environment, or vice versa, automatically by the system (e.g., dependent on an observed, expected, or desired throughput) or in response to an explicit request from a client to do so (e.g., to increase throughput or reduce cost).
US10706024B2 Techniques for managing a data replication mode
A technique for managing a data replication mode between a primary storage device and a secondary storage device includes in response to a data replication state between the primary storage device and the secondary storage device satisfying a first predetermined condition, selecting at least one candidate logical unit from a plurality of logical units implementing synchronous replication in the primary storage device at least according to priority information of the plurality of logical units. A data replication mode of the at least one candidate logical unit is then modified from synchronous replication to asynchronous replication.
US10706017B2 Methods and systems for storing sequence read data
The present invention generally relates to storing sequence read data. The invention can involve obtaining a plurality of sequence reads from a sample, identifying one or more sets of duplicative sequence reads within the plurality of sequence reads, and storing only one of the sequence reads from each set of duplicative sequence reads in a text file using nucleotide characters.
US10706015B2 System and method for managing a workflow for biomedical development
A method and system for managing a workflow for producing a biostatistical analysis (BA) of biomedical data. The data originates from a milestone (or snapshot) of a clinical study performed by, or on behalf of a life science company that performs the BA. The data may be from a blinded or un-blinded clinical study. SAS programs are used for the BA. An audit trail is produced to track changes to any of the data or programs used during the course of the workflow. The programs and data used to produce reported results from the BA are stored in electronic format for sending to a regulatory agency.
US10706012B2 File creation
The present subject matter relates to file creation. In one example a user request for creating a new file is received. An inode corresponding to a pre-created file is retrieved from a pre-created pool of files in response to receiving the user request. Further, the inode is associated with an in-memory dentry corresponding to the new file. Further, a log entry is created in an intent log to indicate intent of lazy linking of the pre-created file with a target directory in which the new file is to be created. Further, lazy linking of the pre-created file with the target directory is performed using a file system link operation upon occurrence of a predefined event.
US10706010B2 Methods and systems for managing data
Systems and methods for managing data, such as metadata or index databases. In one exemplary method, a notification that an existing file has been modified or that a new file has been created is received by an indexing software component, which then, in response to the notification performs an indexing operation, where the notification is either not based solely on time or user input or the notification includes an identifier that identifies the file. Other methods in data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.
US10706009B2 Techniques to parallelize CPU and IO work of log writes
Techniques are provided for managing cached data objects in a mixed workload environment. In an embodiment, a system, log data is stored in one or more buffers. In response to receiving a request to perform a logical write, a first process writes a first portion of the log data to a log file in persistent storage. While the first portion of the log data is being written to the log file, a second process writes a second portion of the log data in the one or more buffers to the log file in persistent storage. In another embodiment, a request to perform a second logical write may be received before the first logical write completes. While the first log data is being written to the log file, one or more processes write second log data for the second logical write to the log file.