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US10763611B2	Connector with reduced components The connector includes: at least one contact; a housing to which the contact is arranged; a shell formed into a cylindrical shape inside of which the housing is disposed; and a joining member formed of a resin material; wherein the housing and the contact form an integral unit by means of the joining member, and the joining member is closely fitted within an inner surface of the shell or the joining member is integrally coupled to the inner surface of the shell. Thus, the number of components of the connector can be reduced but the manufacturing flexibility thereof can be increased and the connector can be easily miniaturized and manufactured.
US10763610B2	Male connector and connector assembly comprising the same A connector assembly comprises a male connector and a female connector. The male connector includes a cap housing, an access terminal accommodated in the cap housing, a connecting part fixably mounted in the cap housing, and a protection part configured to be movable relative to the connecting part in a lengthwise direction of the access terminal. The female connector includes a plug housing configured to insert in the cap housing. The plug housing is configured to release a fastening state between the connecting part and the protection part and to push the protection part toward a floor surface of the connecting part during coupling of the male connector and the female connector.
US10763609B2	Electrically conductive terminal and connector An electrically conductive terminal that has a first terminal at its outer layer and a second terminal at its inner layer. The first terminal has a first contact portion at an end thereof. The second terminal is on an inner surface side of the first terminal and has a second contact portion at an end thereof. There is an opening in the first contact portion. A raised portion is on the second contact portion. The raised portion passes through the first terminal via the opening, so as to electrically contact with a mating member. The first terminal at the outer layer and the second terminal at the inner layer may be in electrical contact with the mating member simultaneously, so that the electrically conductive terminal may carry a larger electric current. The electrically conductive terminal can be part of a connector.
US10763607B2	Electrical connector A connector for connection to a substrate for mounting electronic devices. The connector includes a plurality of coupling contacts pivotably disposed within a housing. Each coupling contact is generally H-shaped and defines opposing first and second spaces. The connector also includes one or more mounting contacts partially disposed within the housing. Each mounting contact has a fastening structure joined to a bar section. The fastening structure is adapted for securement to the substrate and the bar section is disposed in a second space of at least one of the coupling contacts.
US10763604B2	Plug, receptacle, and connector A plug for mating with a receptacle includes: an insulator that has an inner bottom surface, which is orthogonal to a mating direction of the plug; and a plurality of pin contacts secured to the insulator and aligned in an alignment direction, each of which includes a contact tab having a pair of planar surfaces of the contact tab on two mutually opposite sides thereof which are parallel to each other, the planar surface of the contact tab each forming a contact surface. The contact tabs stand up from the inner bottom surface in the mating direction, the contact surfaces being parallel to the alignment direction. A plurality of protrusions are formed in the insulator that stand up from the inner bottom surface in the mating direction, such that each of the protrusions is positioned between two of the contact tabs which are next to each other in the alignment direction.
US10763603B2	Electronic card connector and electronic card connector assembly thereof An electronic card connector includes an insulative housing defining an accommodating cavity receiving a card tray and having a first base body, a number of conductive terminals, and a shielding shell. The terminals define an array of first contacts and an array of second contacts respectively located in two sides. Each terminal has an affixed portion, a contacting portion extending into the accommodating cavity, and a soldering portion extending outside of the insulative housing. The insulative housing is inject-molded with the first contacts and the shielding shell, and the first contacts are configured as same as the second contacts in a rotationally symmetrical direction in 180 degree so that disregarding the insertion orientations of the card tray, the conductive terminals are always electrically connected with pins of the electronic card correctly.
US10763598B1	Electric wire clip The present disclosure provides an electric wire clip, which includes a housing, a contact member and a pressing mechanism. The housing is provided with a mounting passage and an inserting hole communicating with the mounting passage. The pressing mechanism includes a pressing arm and a rotating shaft disposed on the pressing arm and hinged with the housing. In operation, the wire can pass through the inserting hole and be engaged with the clamping protrusion. When the wire needs to be pulled away, the driving pressing arm is rotated downwardly, and the first hook is swung downwardly to be engaged with the clamping protrusion. When rotating downwardly, the pressing arm is able to abut and drive the clamping piece to move outwardly, so that the clamping piece disengages from the wire to facilitate pulling away the wire.
US10763595B1	Electrical bridging device for bridging electrical components, in particular an energy source or an energy consumer The present invention relates to an electrical bridging device comprising two electrical conductors which are electrically isolated from each other and arranged such that two surface regions of both conductors are separated from each other by a gap. The two surface regions are each covered with a layer composed of an electrically conductive material which has a lower melting point than the electrodes. A reactive layer in which an exothermic reaction can be triggered is arranged above the two layers. The gap between the two surface regions is selected and the reactive layer is dimensioned and arranged such that the two layers which are composed of the electrically conductive material fuse at the gap due to the thermal energy which is emitted during the exothermic reaction of the reactive layer and consequently an electrical connection is created between the electrical conductors.
US10763593B1	Broadband single pol TX, dual pol RX, circular polarization waveguide network A polarization waveguide network includes a reactive transmit (TX) power splitter and multiple receive (RX)-reject waveguide filters to reject RX frequencies. The polarization waveguide network further includes a quadrature junction coupler that can couple the RX-reject waveguide filters to an antenna port. The polarization waveguide network is configured to be fabricated in three pieces with two zero-current split planes, and a first piece of the three pieces is used for coupling to the antenna port.
US10763589B2	Millimeter wave patch antennas with parasitic elements An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antenna structures and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. Antenna structures in the wireless circuitry may include patch antennas that are organized in a phased antenna array. Each patch antenna may include an antenna resonating element and a parasitic element. The parasitic element for the patch antenna may have dielectric-filled openings formed between coplanar parasitic conductors. The parasitic conductors may include a central parasitic conductor, four rectangular parasitic conductors formed around the central parasitic conductor, and corner parasitic conductors formed at the corners of the parasitic element. The corner parasitic conductors may be non-rectangular. For example, the corner parasitic conductors may have first and second perpendicular edges and a straight or curved third edge that joins the first and second edges.
US10763586B2	Antenna with frequency-selective elements Antenna systems have a substrate and antenna on the substrate, where the antenna has a plurality of leg elements. The plurality of leg elements comprises a conductive ink and forms a continuous path. At least one of the plurality of leg elements is individually selectable or de-selectable to change a resonant frequency of the antenna, and leg elements that are selected create an antenna path length corresponding to the resonant frequency. In some embodiments, the antennas are energy harvesters.
US10763585B2	Antennaless wireless device capable of operation in multiple frequency regions The present invention refers to an antenna less wireless handheld or portable device comprising a communication module including a radiating system capable of transmitting and receiving electromagnetic wave signals in a first frequency region and in a second frequency region, wherein the highest frequency of the first frequency region is lower than the lowest frequency of the second frequency region. The radiating system comprising a radiating structure and at least one internal port, wherein the input impedance of the radiating structure at the/each internal port when disconnected from the radiofrequency system has an imaginary part not equal to zero for any frequency of the first frequency region; and wherein said radiofrequency system modifies the impedance of the radiating structure, providing impedance matching to the radiating system in the at least two frequency regions of operation of the radiating system.
US10763582B2	Method for determining a phase bias in the signal transmitted by at least one of the radiating elements of an active antenna, and associated device A method for determining a phase bias in the signal transmitted by at least one of the radiating elements of an active antenna on the ground emitting signals into space using a space-division multiple access SDMA method, implementing a step, for each reference receiver, of comparing, to a threshold, the difference between the value of a measurement of the power received by each reference receiver and the sum, out of the radiating elements of the subset beamforming in the direction of the reference receiver, of the differences between the equivalent isotropically radiated power in the direction of the reference receiver and the free-space path loss of each radiating element of the subset.
US10763581B2	Wireless router with automatic switching between internal and external antennas A router includes a housing, a printed circuit board disposed within the housing, a cellular module disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, the cellular module being configured to enable connection to a mobile broadband network, at least one antenna terminal formed in the housing for connecting an external antenna to the cellular module, and a switch associated with the at least one antenna terminal, the switch being configured to automatically switch from an internal antenna of the router to the external antenna when the external antenna is connected to the router via the at least one antenna terminal.
US10763578B2	Dual band multiple-input multiple-output antennas Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of dual-band multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antennas. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna generally includes a circuit board, a first antenna radiating element positioned on the circuit board, a second antenna radiating element positioned on the circuit board, and at least two antenna feeding elements extending from the circuit board. Each of the at least two antenna feeding elements is electrically connected with a different one of the first and second antenna elements.
US10763575B2	Small cell pole antenna configuration The present disclosure is directed to small cell poles that are configured for use in urban environments. In various implementations, the small cell poles have a configuration similar to existing utility poles, which minimizes their aesthetic obtrusiveness. In order to reduce the size of an antenna structure of such a small cell pole, implementations utilizes antennas that are vertically stacked, which permits an antenna structure of a small cell pole to have a reduced width. In various implementations, one or more antennas are vertically stacked within a spatial envelope of a pole. For instance, one or more antennas may be disposed within the interior of a pole such that a resulting cell ole is similar in appearance to a utility pole.
US10763574B2	Display device, color filter substrate, mobile terminal and driving method thereof A display device, a color filter substrate, a mobile terminal and a driving method thereof are provided. The display device includes a first substrate, provided with a drive device array for controlling display; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, with a shield layer disposed on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate; and an antenna device on the second substrate, located on a side of the shield layer away from the first substrate.
US10763572B2	Antenna module and electronic device including the same An antenna module is provided. The antenna module includes a circuit board, a conductive layer, and a spiral coil. The circuit board has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The circuit board further includes a first block and a second block connected to each other. The conductive layer is disposed on the first block. The spiral coil is disposed in the second block of the circuit board. The conductive layer at least partially surrounds the spiral coil.
US10763571B2	Antenna structure and wireless communication device using same An antenna structure includes a housing and a feeding source. The housing forms a radiating portion, a first coupling portion, and a second coupling portion. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion are grounded. The feeding source is electrically connected to the radiating portion for feeding current to the radiating portion and divides the radiating portion into a first radiating section and a second radiating section. When the feeding source supplies current, the current flows through the first radiating section and is coupled to the first coupling portion to activate a first operation mode and a second operation mode. When the feeding source supplies current, the current flows through the second radiating section and is coupled to the second coupling portion to activate a third operation mode and a fourth operation mode.
US10763569B2	Deployable reflectarray antenna structure The invention is directed to deployable reflectarray antenna structure. In one embodiment, the deployable reflectarray antenna structure includes a pair of flexible electrical elements, a feed antenna, and a deployment mechanism that employs a plurality of tapes to respectively transition the pair of flexible electrical elements from an undeployed state in which the elements are folded towards a deployed state in which the deployment mechanism and electrical elements cooperate to form a reflectarray and a subreflector of a reflectarray antenna structure. Further, the deployment mechanism also operates to position the reflectarray and subreflector relative to one another and to the feed antenna so as to realize a reflectarray antenna structure.
US10763566B2	Millimeter wave transmission line structures An electronic device may include a millimeter wave transceiver, a first antenna having a first resonating element at a first side of a substrate, and a second antenna having a second resonating element at a second side of the substrate. A first coplanar waveguide may convey millimeter wave signals between the transceiver and the first resonating element and a second coplanar waveguide may convey millimeter wave signals between the transceiver and the second resonating element. The first coplanar waveguide may be coupled to the first resonating element through the second coplanar waveguide. The second coplanar waveguide may be coupled to the second resonating element through the first coplanar waveguide. Ground conductors in the coplanar waveguides may form antenna ground planes for the first and second antennas while serving to maximize electromagnetic decoupling between the coplanar waveguides and thus isolation between the ports of the transceiver.
US10763561B2	Band-pass filter and control method thereof There is provided a band-pass filter capable of easily changing a bandwidth of a pass band. A band-pass filter (1B) of the present disclosure includes: a housing (11), a plurality of resonant plates (12) stored in the housing (11), a first coupling conductor (15) connecting two adjacent resonant plates (12) of the plurality of resonant plates (12), and a second coupling conductor (16) arranged at a position affecting a coupling coefficient between the two adjacent resonant plates (12), wherein a distance from the resonant plate (12) to the second coupling conductor (16) is changeable.
US10763556B2	Vehicle battery assembly utilizing side cooling plates A vehicle battery assembly utilizing side cooling plates. This battery assembly avoids a stacked vertical battery and cooling plate or pack arrangement, optimizes tunnel (and other) space utilization, minimizes battery assembly intrusion into the passenger compartment of the associated vehicle, and allows seat position height to be as low as possible within the passenger compartment of the associated vehicle, while still allowing vertical access to the access points and electrical contacts of the battery modules within the battery assembly. Further, such battery assembly is compatible with conventional and novel cooling pipe configurations and cooling systems.
US10763554B2	Rechargeable battery protecting apparatus and power storage system A deteriorated capacity calculator calculates a deteriorated capacity that is a capacity reduced from the capacity of a cell in an initial state. A gas amount calculator calculates an amount of gas contained in a container for the cell, from the deteriorated capacity. A pressure calculator calculates a pressure inside the container for the cell from the amount of the gas, a volume of a void space of the container for the cell and the temperature of the cell. A pressure monitor outputs a control signal for stopping charging or discharging of the battery when the pressure inside the container for at least any one cell is equal to or greater than a threshold pressure.
US10763553B2	Battery charging apparatus and battery charging method A battery charging apparatus includes a charging power source, a plurality of charging circuits, a plurality of batteries, a plurality of switching circuits and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to determine the type of charging power source based on a current-voltage curve of the charging power source, and to control conduction states of the switching circuits to connect the charging circuits and the batteries in series in a series charging mode and to connect the charging circuits and the batteries in parallel in an equalizing charging mode. A battery charging method of the battery charging apparatus is also introduced.
US10763550B2	Stacked all-solid-state battery and method of manufacturing the same Provided is a stacked all-solid-state battery including a plurality of all-solid-state batteries, each all-solid-state battery including a cathode layer that has a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer containing a cathode active material and formed on the cathode current collector, an anode layer that has an anode current collector and an anode active material layer containing an anode active material and formed on the anode current collector, and a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the cathode active material layer and the anode active material layer and containing a solid electrolyte having a lithium ion conductivity. The plurality of all-solid-state batteries are stacked, and the plurality of all-solid-state batteries include two adjacent all-solid-state batteries, the two all-solid-state batteries being configured such that the cathode current collector of one all-solid-state battery is directly joined to the anode current collector of the other all-solid-state battery.
US10763549B2	Method for producing electrochemical cells of a solid-state battery A method for producing at least one electrochemical cell of a solid-state battery, comprising a mixed-conducting anode, a mixed-conducting cathode, and an interposed electrolyte, is characterized in that a mixed-conducting anode and a mixed-conducting cathode are initially produced or provided. The surface of at least one of the two electrodes is modified by way of an additional method step in such a way that the electronic conductivity perpendicular to the cell is reduced to less than 10−8 S/cm in a layer of the electrode near the surface. The anode and cathode are then assembled to form a solid-state battery in such a way that the surface-modified layer of at least one electrode is disposed as an electrolyte layer between the anode and cathode, and the mixed-conducting electrodes are thereby electronically separated.
US10763544B1	Solid electrolyte with low-symmetry garnet-related structure and lithium-ion secondary battery A solid electrolyte material having high ion conductivity and a all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery using this solid electrolyte material are provided. The solid electrolyte material has a garnet-related structure crystal represented by the chemical composition Li7−x−yLa3Zr2−x−yTaxNbyO12 (0.05≤x+y≤0.2, x≥0, y≥0), which belongs to an orthorhombic system and a space group belonging to Ibca. The solid electrolyte material has lithium-ion conductivity at 25° C. of at least 1.0×10−4 S/cm. Also, in this solid electrolyte material, the lattice constants are 1.29 nm≤a≤1.32 nm, 1.26 nm≤b≤1.29 nm, and 1.29 nm≤c≤1.32 nm, and three 16f sites and one 8d site in the crystal structure are occupied by lithium-ions. The all-solid-state lithium-ion secondary battery has a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a solid electrolyte, the solid electrolyte comprising this solid electrolyte material.
US10763539B2	Inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry, method for preparing, application and lithium-ion battery having the same A method for preparing an inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry includes: mixing an inorganic solid electrolyte powder with a first solvent and wet grinding an obtained mixture to form a preparatory slurry A; mixing a binder with a second solvent to form a preparatory slurry B; mixing the preparatory slurry A with the preparatory slurry B to obtain the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry. The inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry prepared by the present disclosure effectively solves the problem that it is difficult to reduce the inorganic solid electrolyte powder particle size in the preparation process, or it is difficult to fully dry the inorganic solid electrolyte powder after sand milling. The present disclosure further provides an inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry prepared by the method, an application of the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry, and a lithium-ion battery having the inorganic solid electrolyte composite slurry.
US10763537B1	Chemical method to create high stability heterogeneous carbon-bonded materials The disclosure provides a method a method for generating a heterogeneous carbon-bonded material using an activated carbon support a solution comprising a material precursor and a chemical agent. The material precursor is typically a salt such as SnCl2, and the chemical agent is a substance which thermally decomposes to generate reducing gases. The mixture is heated in an inert, nonreactive atmosphere to generate the reducing gases and remove surface groups from the carbon support, allowing material such as metal from the material precursor to nucleate and directly bond to the sites. The method typically utilizes high specific surface area carbon and may produce a plurality of metal particles having an average diameter of less than about 20 nm dispersed on and strongly bonded to the underlying carbon support.
US10763536B2	Large energy density batteries Embodiments of the claimed invention are directed to a device, comprising: an anode that includes a lithiated silicon-based material and a sulfur-based cathode, wherein the anode and the cathode are designed to have mesoporous structures. In certain embodiments, the sulfur-based cathode is a mesoporous carbon structure comprising sulfur within the mesopores. A further embodiment of the invention is directed to a device comprising a semi-liquid lithium-sulfur battery comprising a lithium anode and a sulfur cathode. In certain embodiments, the sulfur cathode comprises a liquid catholyte, which is housed within a reservoir that is a carbon nanotube sponge. An additional embodiment of the invention is directed to a method for producing a lithiated silicon anode and a sulfur-based cathode.
US10763535B2	Variable layer thickness in curved battery cell Examples are disclosed herein that relate to curved batteries. One example provides a battery comprising an anode arranged on an anode substrate, a cathode arranged on a cathode substrate, the anode substrate being curved at a first curvature and the cathode substrate being curved at a second curvature, and a separator between the anode and the cathode. A thickness of the anode substrate and a thickness of the cathode substrate are determined based on the curvature of the respective substrate, such that the one of the anode substrate and the cathode substrate with a larger curvature has a larger thickness.
US10763532B2	Electrolyte storage unit for redox flow battery and vanadium redox flow battery comprising same The present invention relates to an electrolyte storage unit applicable to redox flow batteries and a vanadium redox flow battery including the same. The electrolyte storage unit for redox flow batteries of the present invention can be useful in minimizing a contact area of an electrolyte with the air to improve a self-discharge phenomenon of a battery and solving a problem such as an imbalance between a concentration and a volume of the electrolyte, which is caused during battery driving. Accordingly, a cycle of a process of regenerating an electrolyte can be delayed, and capacity and lifespan characteristics of the battery can be improved. Also, the electrolyte storage unit of the present invention can be easily handled and installed because electrolytes may not be easily mixed even by external impact.
US10763523B2	Fuel cell system with waste heat recovery for production of high pressure steam A fuel cell system for generating electrical power and high level heat comprising at least one high temperature fuel cell stack having an anode side and a cathode side and adapted to generate electrical power, and a gas oxidizer/high level heat recovery assembly comprising an oxidizer adapted to oxidize one or more of exhaust output from the at least one high temperature fuel cell stack and a gas derived from the exhaust, and to generate high level heat, and a high level heat recovery system adapted to recover the high level heat generated in the oxidizer.
US10763521B2	Fuel cell separator and fuel cell stack A coolant flow field is formed between first and second metal separator plates of a joint separator (fuel cell separator). First and second beads protrude from the first and second metal separator plates. The beads include inner beads for preventing leakage of a reactant gas. An air release passage and a coolant drain passage extend through the fuel cell separator in a separator thickness direction, and the air release passage and the coolant drain passage are connected to a coolant flow field through a first connection channel and a second connection channel formed by recesses on the back of protrusions of the first and second beads.
US10763518B2	Plate member for a cell stack A plate member for a cell stack, a cell stack assembly, a method of forming a plate member for a cell stack and a method of assembling a cell stack may be provided, and the plate member comprises a channel sheet comprising at least one peak and one trough for forming fluid flow channels; two alignment parts, each alignment part comprising a main body and one or more alignment members, the main body having a through hole provided within the main body; and wherein the alignment part is capable of aligning the channel sheet parallel to a plane of the main body and the alignment member is capable of aligning the alignment member to another corresponding alignment member along an axis passing through the alignment member; and further wherein the channel sheet is disposed between the two alignment parts.
US10763514B2	Electrically conductive base material and layer composite, method for producing the same, and use of the same The invention relates to an electrically conductive base material (112) for receiving a coating material (114) which comprises electrically conductive particles (116), a method for the production thereof and the use thereof as current collector for an electrode material comprising electrically conductive particles. The base material (112) comprises a metal foil, wherein at least one surface (118) of the base material (112) provided for receiving the electrically conductive particles (116) has a first structure (120) and a second structure (122), wherein the first structure (120) has first ridges (124) and/or first grooves (126) relative to the surface (118) of the base material (112) and wherein the second structure (122) has second ridges (128) and/or second grooves (130) relative to the surface (132) of the first structure (120). Herein, the first ridges (124) and/or the first grooves (126) have first dimensions, wherein the second ridges (128) and/or the second grooves (130) have second dimensions, wherein the first dimensions exceed the second dimensions by a factor of at least 10.The invention further relates to an electrically conductive layer composite (110) which comprises the base material (112) and a coating material (114) comprising electrically conductive particles (116), a method for the production thereof and the use thereof in a secondary element of a rechargeable battery, in particular in a lithium ion battery. Herein, the particles (116) in the coating material (114) adhere to first ridges (124) and/or to first grooves (126) in a first structure (120) on the surface (118) of the base material (112) and/or to second ridges (128) and/or to second grooves (130) in a second structure (122) on the surface (132) of the first structure (120). A good bonding of the coating material (114) to the base material (112) reduces or prevents a layer delamination of the coating material (114) from the base material (112).
US10763513B2	Current collector, electrode plate including the same and battery The present disclosure provides a current collector, an electrode plate, and a battery. The current collector includes an insulation layer, a conductive layer and at least one protective layer. The insulation layer is used to support the conductive layer. The conductive layer is used to support an electrode active material layer and located above at least one surface of the insulation layer. The conductive layer has a thickness of D2 satisfying 300 nm≤D2≤2 μm. The at least one protective layer is arranged on at least one surface of the conductive layer.
US10763512B2	Lithium deposition with multilayer nanomebrane An electrode for a lithium battery constructed of a metal foil current collector, a coating of a pH sensitive polyelectrolyte polymer directly on the metal foil current collector; and a polyelectrolyte polymer nanomembrane comprising alternating layers of oppositely charged polyelectrolyte polymer wherein each succeeding polyelectrolyte layer has excess charge over the previous layer is provided. The pH sensitive polymer may be poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH), poly(dimethyldiallyl ammonium chloride) (PDAD), poly(vinyl pyridine) (PPy), polyethyleneimine (PEI), polyacrylic acid (PAA), polymethacrylic acid (PMA) or poly(styrene sulfonic acid-maleic acid, sodium salt) (PSSM3:1).
US10763511B2	Method for producing porous graphite, and porous graphite A method for producing porous graphite capable of realizing higher durability, output and capacity, and porous graphite. A carbon member having microvoids is obtained by a dealloying step for selectively eluting other non-carbon main components into a metal bath by immersing a carbon-containing material, composed of a compound including carbon or an alloy or non-equilibrium alloy, in the metal bath, wherein the metal bath has a solidifying point lower than the melting point of the carbon-containing material, and is controlled to a temperature lower than the minimum value of a liquidus temperature within a composition fluctuation range extending from the carbon-containing material to carbon by reducing the other non-carbon main components. The carbon member obtained in the dealloying step is graphitized by heating in a graphitization step. The carbon member graphitized in the graphitization step is subjected to activation treatment by an activation step.
US10763509B2	Positive electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, electrode for lithium ion secondary battery, electrode active material layer including polyolefin particles, and lithium ion secondary battery Provided are a positive electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, the positive electrode including a positive electrode active material layer, the positive electrode active material layer including insulating polyolefin particles and an electroconductive material; an electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery, the electrode including an electrode active material layer, the electrode active material layer including polyolefin particles and a resin including a structural unit derived from a nitrile group-containing monomer; and a lithium ion secondary battery using the same.
US10763504B2	Transition metal-containing hydroxide, and method for producing lithium-containing composite oxide To provide a transition metal-containing hydroxide, which is a precursor of a lithium-containing composite oxide, with which it is possible to obtain a lithium ion secondary battery excellent in the discharge capacity and cycle characteristics, by using as a cathode active material a lithium-containing composite oxide obtained from the hydroxide. A transition metal-containing hydroxide, which is a precursor of a lithium-containing composite oxide, wherein in a distribution of the logarithmic derivative pore specific surface area relative to the pore size, obtained by BJH method, the proportion of the sum of the logarithmic derivative pore specific surface areas with pore sizes of 10 nm or larger, to 100% of the sum of the logarithmic derivative pore specific surface areas in the entire distribution, is at least 23%.
US10763503B2	Composite cathode active material, cathode and lithium battery including the composite cathode active material, and method of preparing the composite cathode active material A composite cathode active material, and a cathode and a lithium battery each including the composite cathode active material. The composite cathode active material includes: a core including a first lithium transition metal oxide represented by Formula 1, LiaMO2 wherein, in Formula 1, M includes Ni and at least one non-nickel Group 4 to Group 13 element, a content of Ni is about 70 mol % or greater, based on a total content of M, 0.9≤a≤1.1, and wherein the first lithium transition metal oxide has a layered crystal structure belonging to an R3m space group; and a shell on a surface of the core, the shell having a spinel crystal structure and including a dopant.
US10763502B2	Active material for a positive electrode of a battery cell, positive electrode, and battery cell A positive active material for a positive electrode of a battery cell which includes a first component containing Li2MnO3, at least a portion of the manganese ions having been replaced by platinum ions and/or chromium ions. A positive electrode of a battery cell which includes a positive material, and a battery cell which includes at least one positive electrode are also described.
US10763499B2	Cathode active material for all-solid-state lithium secondary battery Provided is a novel positive electrode active material capable of suppressing resistance and improving rate characteristics and cycle characteristics while enhancing lithium ionic conductivity, wherein the surface of particles composed of a spinel-type composite oxide containing Li, Mn, O, and two or more other elements is coated with a lithium ion conductive oxide such as LiNbO3. Proposed is a positive electrode active material for an all-solid-type lithium secondary battery, wherein the surface of present core particles composed of a spinel-type composite oxide containing Li, Mn, O, and two or more other elements is coated with an amorphous compound containing Li, A (A represents one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Ti, Zr, Ta, Nb, and Al), and O; and the molar ratio (Li/A) of Li relative to the A element in the surface, as obtained by XPS, is 1.0 to 3.5.
US10763497B2	Positive electrode active material for secondary battery, and secondary battery comprising the same The present invention provides a positive electrode active material for a secondary battery, the positive electrode active material including a lithium composite metal oxide particle represented by Formula 1 below, and a secondary battery including the same. LiaNi1−x−yCoxM1yM2zM3wO2 [Formula 1] In Formula 1,M1 is a metal element whose surface energy (ΔEsurf) calculated by Equation 1 below is −0.5 eV or higher, M2 is a metal element whose surface energy (ΔEsurf) calculated by Equation 1 below is −1.5 eV or higher and less than −0.5 eV, M3 is a metal element whose surface energy (ΔEsurf) calculated by Equation 1 below is less than −1.5 eV, and 1.0≤a≤1.5, 0
US10763496B2	Silicon oxide-carbon composite, method of manufacturing the composite, and energy storage device having the composite Provided are a silicon oxide-carbon composite, a method of preparing the same, and an energy storage device containing the same. In the method of preparing a silicon oxide-carbon composite, a reaction solution containing an organic solvent including an aromatic compound is provided. Crystalline carbon structures are formed by generating plasma in the reaction solution. A slurry is formed by adding silicon halide and a polyol in the reaction solution in which the crystalline carbon structures are dispersed. The slurry is separated from the organic solvent and subjected to thermal treatment.
US10763494B2	Graphene/organic solvent dispersion and method for producing same, and method for producing lithium-ion battery electrode A graphene/organic solvent dispersion liquid is in a stably dispersed state and also unlikely to cause electrolysis of water. A graphene/organic solvent dispersion liquid is also provided including graphene dispersed in an organic solvent and having a value of (W2−W1)/G in the range of 0.005 or more and 0.05 or less, wherein W1 and W2 are the water fractions measured at 130° C. and 250° C., respectively, by the Karl Fischer's method and G is the solid fraction of the graphene.
US10763493B2	Silicon-based active material-polymer composite and method for preparing same The present invention relates to a silicon-based active material-polymer composite which is secondary particles in which silicon-based particles as primary particles and conductive polymer particles having a modulus of elasticity of 10 Pa to 100 Pa at a temperature of 20° C. to 40° C. are uniformly mixed. The uniform mixture with the elastic conductive polymer particles provides for a buffering action against the stress generated by volumetric changes of the silicon-based particles.
US10763492B2	Integrated electrode assembly and electrochemical device comprising same The present disclosure relates to an integrated electrode assembly, wherein a positive electrode, a first binder polymer layer, an inorganic coating layer comprising a plurality of inorganic layers and a second binder polymer, a third binder polymer layer, and a negative electrode are sequentially stacked and combined, each configurative element forming the electrode assembly is stacked and combined with excellent adhesion, and the durability of the inorganic coating layer preventing the internal short circuit of the electrode is excellent, and thus a lithium secondary battery using the integrated electrode assembly according to the present disclosure may have excellent cycle characteristics.
US10763491B2	Low-temperature synthesis process of making MgzMxOy, where M is Mn, V or Fe, for manufacture of electrode materials for group II cation-based batteries Preparation, characterization, and an electrochemical study of Mg0.1V2O5 prepared by a novel sol-gel method with no high-temperature post-processing are disclosed. Cyclic voltammetry showed the material to be quasi-reversible, with improved kinetics in an acetonitrile-, relative to a carbonate-, based electrolyte. Galvanostatic test data under a C/10 discharge showed a delivered capacity >250 mAh/g over several cycles. Based on these results, a magnesium anode battery, as disclosed, would yield an average operating voltage ˜3.2 Volts with an energy density ˜800 mWh/g for the cathode material, making the newly synthesized material a viable cathode material for secondary magnesium batteries.
US10763483B2	Battery pack The battery pack disclosed herein includes a plurality of unit cells. The plurality of unit cells is connected to each other by a bus bar. The bus bar has two terminal connection portions and a linking portion. A linear welded portion is formed in a portion where the terminal connection portions and the external terminals overlap with each other. The linear welded portion is non-annular in the plane of the terminal connection portions and has a straight linear portion extending in a direction orthogonal to the arrangement direction, and two circular arc portions that extend from respective ends of the straight linear portion and are curved toward a side opposite to the side where the linking portion is located.
US10763469B2	Energy storage apparatus An energy storage apparatus includes: one or more energy storage devices; an outer case; and a plate-like spacer disposed between the energy storage device at an end among the above-mentioned one or more energy storage devices and the outer case.
US10763466B2	Top cap assembly of a secondary battery, and secondary battery A top cap assembly of a secondary battery and second battery is provided. The top cap assembly may comprise: a top cap plate comprising an electrode extraction hole; an electrode terminal comprising a terminal plate, the terminal plate may be located on a side of the top cap plate and cover the electrode extraction hole; a first fixing component, the first fixing component may at least partially surround the terminal plate to fix the electrode terminal to the first fixing component; and a second fixing component comprising a main body and a first connection portion connected to the main body and extends away from the terminal plate, the main body may be fixedly connected to the first fixing component, and the first connection portion may be fixedly connected to the top cap plate.
US10763464B2	Cylindrical battery cell including can made of different kinds of metals Disclosed herein is a cylindrical battery cell configured such that an electrode assembly, having a structure in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are wound in the state in which a separator is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, is mounted in a cylindrical can in the state of being impregnated with an electrolytic solution, wherein an inner layer and an outer layer, each of which is made of stainless steel, are formed in at least a portion of the cylindrical can, and wherein a reinforcement layer is interposed between the inner layer and the outer layer, the reinforcement layer being made of a different metal than the inner layer and the outer layer.
US10763463B2	Secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same Disclosed are a secondary battery and a method for manufacturing the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a secondary battery, including: an exterior material which includes a pouch film and a sealing portion formed at an outer side of the pouch film; and an electrode assembly which includes a plurality of electrode bodies laminated with a separator interposed therebetween and are packaged by the exterior material, wherein a pair of forming portions are formed within the pouch film to house the electrode assembly, and a predetermined interval is formed between the pair of forming portions.
US10763461B2	Secondary battery The present invention relates to a secondary battery in which a stacked electrode assembly having a cathode, an anode and a separator is accommodated together with an electrolytic solution between exterior members. In the present invention, the secondary battery has a plurality of joint parts at which the outer peripheral portion of the separator is joined with the exterior members and a holding part formed at least between the joint parts so as to hold therein the electrolytic solution, wherein a sum of perimeters of the joint parts is longer than a perimeter of a rectangle of minimum area enclosing therein all of the joint parts. In this configuration, it is possible to refill the stacked electrode assembly with the electrolytic solution and protect the joint parts from breakage while preventing displacement of the stacked electrode assembly in the secondary battery.
US10763446B2	Organic thin film transistor An organic thin film transistor includes a substrate, a source/drain layer that is located on the substrate and has a source region and a drain region, a first buffer layer that is located between the source region and the drain region, a semiconductor layer that is located on the source/drain layer and the first buffer layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode. The first buffer layer covers at least one portion of the source region and at least one portion of the drain region. The first buffer layer is located among the semiconductor layer, the source region, the drain region, and the substrate. The gate insulating layer covers the source/drain layer and the semiconductor layer. The gate electrode is located on the gate insulating layer, and a portion of the gate insulating layer is located between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer.
US10763439B2	Organic light emitting device and display device including the same An organic light emitting device and a display device, the organic light emitting device including a first electrode; a hole transport region on the first electrode; an emission layer on the hole transport region; an electron transport region on the emission layer; and a second electrode on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region includes a compound represented by the following Formula 1:
US10763438B2	n-Doped electrically conductive polymeric material There is provided a material comprising a n-doped electrically conductive polymer comprising at least one electron-deficient aromatic moiety, each electron-deficient aromatic moiety having a gas-phase electron affinity (EA) of 1-3 eV; and at least one counter-cation covalently bonded to the polymer or to a further polymer comprised in the material, the polymer being n-doped to a charge density of 0.1-1 electron per electron-deficient aromatic moiety, the polymer being capable of forming a layer having a vacuum workfunction (WF) of 2.5-4.5 eV, and wherein all the counter-cations comprised in the material are immobilised such that any electron in the polymer cannot significantly diffuse or migrate out of the polymer. There is also provided a method of preparing the material.
US10763427B2	Hall element for 3-D sensing and method for producing the same A method of forming a 3D Hall effect sensor and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming a p-type well in a substrate; forming a first n-type well in a first region surrounded by the p-type well in top view; forming a second n-type well in a second region surrounding the p-type well; implanting n-type dopant in the first and second n-type wells; and implanting p-type dopant in the p-type well and the first n-type well.
US10763423B2	MEMS piezoelectric transducer formed at a PCB support structure A microelectro-mechanical system (MEMS) device includes a support structure formed of printed circuit board (PCB) materials; and a piezoelectric transducer formed at the support structure. Further, a MEMS assembly is described which shows such a MEMS device mounted at a component carrier. Furthermore, a method for manufacturing such a MEMS device is described.
US10763417B2	Thermal block assembly, LED arrangement with the same, and method of manufacturing said thermal assembly The invention describes a thermal block assembly comprising a first thermally and electrically conductive block part realised for connection to an anode pad of a light-emitting diode (LED) and dimensioned to provide an essentially complete thermal path for heat originating at the anode pad; a second thermally and electrically conductive block part realised for connection to a cathode pad of the LED and dimensioned to provide an essentially complete thermal path for heat originating at the cathode pad; and a bonding layer applied to the block parts to fix the positions of the block parts on either side of a gap. The invention further describes an LED arrangement comprising said thermal block assembly and at least one LED mounted thereto, and a method of manufacturing said thermal block assembly.
US10763414B2	Semiconductor light-emitting device A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate having a base, a conductive layer and an insulating layer, a semiconductor light-emitting element and a resin member. The base has a pair of base first side surfaces and a pair of base third side surfaces. The conductive layer includes a front-surface segment and a side-surface segment. The front surface segment includes a front-surface first part. The insulating layer includes an insulating-layer first part and an insulating-layer second part. The resin member covers the insulating-layer first part and the insulating-layer second part of the insulating layer. A first thickness of the insulating-layer first part is greater than a second thickness of the insulating-layer second part.
US10763412B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes light emitting elements having light extraction faces, respectively. A light transmissive member includes a lower face facing the light extraction faces, an upper face opposite to the lower face in a height direction, and first to fourth side faces that are connected to the lower face and the upper face. An area of the lower face is larger than a sum of areas of the light extraction faces. An area of the upper face is smaller than the area of the lower face. The second side face is substantially parallel to the first side face. The third side face and the fourth side face are provided between the first side face and the second side face and opposite to each other. The third side face and the fourth side face approach as approaching from the lower face to the upper face in the height direction.
US10763410B2	Light emitting device A light emitting device includes a resin package including: a first lead and a second lead, each including a top surface and a bottom surface, and a first resin portion located between the first lead and the second lead and extending in a first direction; a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element arrayed on the top surface of the first lead in the first direction, the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element each including at least a first side surface; and an encapsulant located on the top surface of the first lead and covering the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element. The first side surface of the first light emitting element and the first side surface of the second light emitting element partially face each other.
US10763403B2	Light emitting device and method of manufacturing light emitting device A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a light guide member, a reflecting member, a wavelength conversion member. The light emitting element has a light emitting surface and lateral surfaces. The light guiding member is provided on at least a portion of the lateral surfaces of the light emitting element. The reflecting member is provided on the lateral surface of the light emitting element with the light guiding member interposed therebetween. The wavelength conversion member is provided on the light emitting surface of the light emitting element, the light guiding member and the reflecting member. The wavelength conversion member is provided with a recess between an outer lateral surface of the wavelength conversion member and the light guiding member. The reflecting member is provided in the recess.
US10763402B2	Light-emitting diode package A light-emitting diode package includes a substrate, at least one light-emitting chip, a light-reflective layer and a wave-length conversion fluorescent layer. The light-emitting chip is located on the substrate. The light-reflective layer is arranged around the light-emitting chip. The wave-length conversion fluorescent layer is located over the light-emitting chip, wherein the light-reflective layer is spaced from the fluorescent wave-length conversion layer by a groove that reaches two opposite sides of the light-emitting diode package.
US10763400B2	Quantum dots having a nanocrystalline core, a nanocrystalline shell surrounding the core, and an insulator coating for the shell Semiconductor structures having insulators coatings and methods of fabricating semiconductor structures having insulators coatings are described. In an example, a method of coating a semiconductor structure involves adding a silicon-containing silica precursor species to a solution of nanocrystals. The method also involves, subsequently, forming a silica-based insulator layer on the nanocrystals from a reaction involving the silicon-containing silica precursor species. The method also involves adding additional amounts of the silicon-containing silica precursor species after initial forming of the silica-based insulator layer while continuing to form the silica-based insulator layer to finally encapsulate each of the nanocrystals.
US10763399B2	Light emitting device package A light emitting device package includes a light emitting structure including a first light emitting cell, a second light emitting cell, and a third light emitting cell, each of the first to third light emitting cells including an active layer to emit light of a first wavelength in a first direction and being separated from each other in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction, a first light adjusting portion including a first wavelength conversion layer in a first recess portion of the first light emitting cell, the first wavelength conversion layer to convert light of the first wavelength to light of a second wavelength, and a second light adjusting portion including a second wavelength conversion layer in a second recess portion of the second light emitting cell, the second wavelength conversion layer to convert light of the first wavelength to light of a third wavelength.
US10763396B2	Light-emitting module and display device comprising same A light-emitting module and a display device including the same are disclosed. In an embodiment a light-emitting module includes a plurality of emission regions configured to emit light, at least one first emission region and at least one second emission region of a first type configured to emit light of a first color locus and at least one first emission region and at least one second emission region of a second type configured to emit light of a second color locus and a control device for supplying the emission regions with current, wherein the emission regions are arranged on a common semiconductor chip, wherein the first color locus is different from the second color locus, wherein the first and second emission regions of the first type are adjacent to one another, and wherein the first and second emission regions of the second type are adjacent to one another.
US10763395B2	Light emitting diode element and method for manufacturing same A flip-chip light emitting diode element capable of reducing lateral resistance. The flip-chip light emitting diode element includes a stacked body structure configured by sequentially stacking a first n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration that is at least 1×1019 cm−3 but less than 3×1020 cm−3, a second n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer having a carrier concentration that is at least 5×1017 cm−3 but less than 1×1019 cm−3, a light-emitting layer formed by a group III nitride semiconductor, and a p-type group III nitride semiconductor layer. A height of unevenness on an interface between the first n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer and the second n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer is greater than that of unevenness of an interface between the second n-type group III nitride semiconductor layer and the light emitting layer.
US10763391B2	Display panel, method for processing defective pixels thereof, display device The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device comprising such a display panel, and a method for processing defective pixels of such a display panel. The display panel comprises: a substrate; a plurality of pixel units on the substrate and arranged in an array. Each of the pixel units includes a light emitting region and a driving circuit region. In each of the pixel units, the driving circuit region includes a transistor, the light emitting region includes a first electrode, and the first electrode is electrically coupled to a first terminal of the transistor. In a row direction or a column direction of the plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, light emitting regions of two adjacent pixel units are adjacent to each other.
US10763390B2	Optical device wafer processing method An optical device wafer processing method for dividing an optical device wafer along a plurality of division lines to obtain a plurality of individual device chips includes applying a laser beam to a wafer substrate along each division line to thereby form a laser processed groove along each division line, and next forming a V groove along each laser processed groove on the optical device wafer by using a cutting blade having a V-shaped tip in the condition where each laser processed groove is removed by the cutting blade. A crack is formed so as to extend from the bottom of each laser processed groove due to a load applied from the cutting blade, thereby dividing the optical device wafer into the individual device chips. The depth of each laser processed groove is set smaller than the depth of cut by the cutting blade.
US10763386B2	Heterostructure germanium tandem junction solar cell A photovoltaic device that includes an upper cell that absorbs a first range of wavelengths of light and a bottom cell that absorbs a second range of wavelengths of light. The bottom cell includes a heterojunction comprising a crystalline germanium containing (Ge) layer. At least one surface of the crystalline germanium (Ge) containing layer is in contact with a silicon (Si) containing layer having a larger band gap than the crystalline (Ge) containing layer.
US10763372B2	Semiconductor device with dual and single gate structure transistors As a display device has a higher definition, the number of pixels, gate lines, and signal lines are increased. When the number of the gate lines and the signal lines are increased, a problem of higher manufacturing cost, because it is difficult to mount an IC chip including a driver circuit for driving of the gate and signal lines by bonding or the like. A pixel portion and a driver circuit for driving the pixel portion are provided over the same substrate, and at least part of the driver circuit includes a thin film transistor using an oxide semiconductor interposed between gate electrodes provided above and below the oxide semiconductor. Therefore, when the pixel portion and the driver portion are provided over the same substrate, manufacturing cost can be reduced.
US10763366B2	V-shape recess profile for embedded source/drain epitaxy A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor base. A dielectric isolation structure is formed in the semiconductor base. A source/drain of a FinFET transistor is formed on the semiconductor base. A bottom segment of the source/drain is embedded into the semiconductor base. The bottom segment of the source/drain has a V-shaped cross-sectional profile. The bottom segment of the source/drain is separated from the dielectric isolation structure by portions of the semiconductor base.
US10763363B2	Gradient doped region of recessed fin forming a FinFET device An embodiment is a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes forming a fin on a substrate. A gate structure is formed over the fin. A recess is formed in the fin proximate the gate structure. A gradient doped region is formed in the fin with a p-type dopant. The gradient doped region extends from a bottom surface of the recess to a vertical depth below the recess in the fin. A source/drain region is formed in the recess and on the gradient doped regions.
US10763359B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first conductivity type first semiconductor region, a second semiconductor region on the first semiconductor region, a third semiconductor region on the second semiconductor region, a first insulating portion extending inwardly of, and surrounded by, the first semiconductor region, a gate electrode extending inwardly of the first insulating portion and spaced from the second semiconductor region in a second direction that intersects a first direction extending from the first semiconductor region to the second semiconductor region, by the first insulating portion, and a first electrode including a portion spaced from the first semiconductor region in the second direction by the first insulating portion, and surrounded by the first insulating portion and the gate electrode.
US10763358B2	High voltage semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same Disclosed is a high voltage semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same.
US10763355B2	Power semiconductor device A semiconductor device may include: a semiconductor layer; and a trench gate. The semiconductor layer may include: a first semiconductor region of a first conductive type; a second semiconductor region of a second conductive type provided above the first semiconductor region and facing a side surface of the trench gate; and a third semiconductor region of the first conductive type provided above the second semiconductor region, separated from the first semiconductor region by the second semiconductor region, and facing the side surface of the trench gate. The first semiconductor region may include: a lower semiconductor region; and an upper semiconductor region disposed between the lower semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region and having a lower impurity concentration than the lower semiconductor region. The upper semiconductor region may be disposed at a shallower position than the trench gate and face the side surface of the trench gate.
US10763354B2	Semiconductor device, inverter circuit, driving device, vehicle, and elevator A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a silicon carbide layer having a first and a second plane, a trench, a gate electrode in the trench, an n-type first silicon carbide region, a p-type second silicon carbide region and a p-type third silicon carbide region provided between the first silicon carbide region and the first plane and interposing the trench therebetween, a p-type sixth silicon carbide region between the first silicon carbide region and the second silicon carbide region, a p-type seventh silicon carbide region between the first silicon carbide region and the third silicon carbide region, an eighth silicon carbide region between the first silicon carbide region and the sixth silicon carbide region, and a ninth silicon carbide region between the first silicon carbide region and the seventh silicon carbide region. The eighth silicon carbide region has a plurality of first regions extending toward the ninth silicon carbide region.
US10763349B2	Quantum dot devices with modulation doped stacks Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device may include: a quantum well stack including a quantum well layer, a doped layer, and a barrier layer disposed between the doped layer and the quantum well layer; and gates disposed above the quantum well stack. The doped layer may include a first material and a dopant, the first material may have a first diffusivity of the dopant, the barrier layer may include a second material having a second diffusivity of the dopant, and the second diffusivity may be less than the first diffusivity.
US10763345B2	Semiconductor device In a semiconductor device, a boundary area is between an IGBT region and a diode region. In other words, the boundary region is at a position adjacent to the diode region. The boundary region has a lower ratio of formation of a high-concentration P-type layer than the IGBT region. Accordingly, during recovery, hole injection from the IGBT region to the diode region can be inhibited. The reduced ratio of formation of the high-concentration P-type layer in the boundary region also reduces the amount of hole injection from the high-concentration P-type layer of the boundary region. Thus, it inhibits an increase in maximum reverse current during the recovery, and also decreases the carrier density on the cathode side to inhibit an increase in tail electrical current, so that the semiconductor device reduces switching loss and is highly resistant to recovery destruction.
US10763342B2	Semiconductor devices having equal thickness gate spacers A method is presented for forming equal thickness gate spacers for a CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) device, the method includes forming a PFET (p-type field effect transistor) device and an NFET (n-type field effect transistor) device each including gate masks formed over dummy gates, forming PFET epi growth regions between the dummy gates of the PFET device, forming NFET epi growth regions between the dummy gates of the NFET device, depositing a nitride liner and an oxide over the PFET and NFET epi growth regions, the nitride liner and oxide extending up to the gate masks, and removing the dummy gates and the gate masks to form HKMGs (high-k metal gates) between the PFET and NFET epi growth regions.
US10763338B2	Silicide implants The present disclosure describes a silicide formation process which employs the formation of an amorphous layer in the SiGe S/D region via an application of a substrate bias voltage during a metal deposition process. For example, the method includes a substrate with a gate structure disposed thereon and a source/drain region adjacent to the gate structure. A dielectric is formed over the gate structure and the source-drain region. A contact opening is formed in the dielectric to expose a portion of the gate structure and a portion of the source/drain region. An amorphous layer is formed in the exposed portion of the source/drain region with a thickness and a composition which is based on an adjustable bias voltage applied to the substrate. Further, an anneal is performed to form a silicide on the source/drain region.
US10763337B2	Fabrication of gate all around device A method of forming a gate-all-around device includes forming a gate electrode layer over a substrate, patterning the gate electrode layer to form a conical frustum-shaped gate electrode, etching the conical frustum-shaped gate electrode to form a through hole extending through top and bottom surfaces of the conical frustum-shaped gate electrode, and after etching the conical frustum-shaped gate electrode, forming a nanowire in the through hole in the conical frustum-shaped gate electrode.
US10763336B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A semiconductor device which simplifies the manufacturing process while decreasing the width of separation between a first MOS transistor area and a second MOS transistor area, and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device. A first MOS transistor and a second MOS transistor configure a bidirectional switch. The first MOS transistor and second MOS transistor each have a vertical trench structure. A first impurity region abuts on the side wall of a first gate trench of a first MOS transistor element outside the first MOS transistor area and is electrically coupled to a first source region.
US10763333B2	Nitride semiconductor device and method of manufacturing nitride semiconductor device A nitride semiconductor device may comprise a p-type layer. The nitride semiconductor device may comprise a first n-type voltage-blocking layer in contact with the p-type layer. The nitride semiconductor device may comprise a second n-type voltage-blocking layer in contact with the first n-type voltage-blocking layer and separated from the p-type layer by the first n-type voltage-blocking layer. A donor concentration in the first n-type voltage-blocking layer may be lower than a donor concentration in the second n-type voltage-blocking layer. A carbon concentration in the first n-type voltage-blocking layer may be lower than a carbon concentration in the second n-type voltage-blocking layer.
US10763330B2	Silicon carbide semiconductor element and method for manufacturing same A silicon carbide semiconductor element includes a silicon carbide semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, a body region of a second conductivity type, a channel layer made of a silicon carbide semiconductor disposed on the silicon carbide semiconductor layer so as to be in contact with at least a part of the body region, and a gate electrode disposed on the channel layer via a gate insulating film. The channel layer has a multilayer structure of a high-concentration impurity layer containing impurities of the first conductivity type, a first medium-concentration impurity layer containing impurities of the first conductivity type, and a first low-concentration impurity layer containing impurities of the first conductivity type. The first low-concentration impurity layer is disposed closer to the body region than the high-concentration impurity layer and the first medium-concentration impurity layer.
US10763326B2	Middle-of-line (MOL) capacitance reduction for self-aligned contact in gate stack A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a middle-of-line (MOL) oxide layer in the semiconductor structure. The MOL oxide layer including multiple gate stacks formed on a substrate. A nitride layer is formed over a silicide in the MOL oxide layer. At least one self-aligned contact area (CA) element is formed within the nitride layer. The MOL oxide layer is selectively recessed on a first side and a second side of the at least one self-aligned CA element leaving remaining portions of the MOL oxide layer on the nitride layer and a nitride. A nitride cap of the plurality of gate stacks is selectively recessed. An air-gap oxide layer is deposited for introducing one or more air-gaps in the deposited air-gap oxide layer. The air gap oxide layer is reduced to the at least one self-aligned CA element and the nitride layer.
US10763320B2	OLED display panel and photomask An OLED display panel and a photomask are provided. The OLED display panel includes a plurality of pixel areas arranged in a matrix on a plane. Each of the pixel areas is defined by an electrode and an organic light emitting material. The pixel areas increase in size along a first direction and the pixel areas increase in size along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The application solves the problem of non-uniformity in displaying images, caused by a feed-through effect in existing arts.
US10763317B2	Organic light emitting display panel and organic light emitting display device including the same A display panel and an organic light emitting display device with enhanced light extraction efficiency is described. The display panel and the display device include an insulating film including at least one concave portion, a first electrode disposed to cover the concave portion, a bank including a first part on the first electrode and overlapping a part of the flat portion of the concave portion, a second part extending from the first part and overlapping an inclined portion of the concave portion, and a third part extending from the second part and disposed on the side portion, an organic layer overlapping the concave portion, and a second electrode on the organic layer and the bank. A width of the first part of the bank is wider than a width of the second part of the bank. Thus, it is possible to provide a display device with enhanced light extraction efficiency.
US10763316B2	Organic light emitting diode display device An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate including a red pixel region, a green pixel region, and a blue pixel region; a driving thin film transistor and a light emitting diode which are in each of the red pixel region, the green pixel region, and the blue pixel region; and a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) layer having an infrared radiation (IR) wavelength in a transmission direction of light emitted from the light emitting diode, wherein the IR wavelength is in a range of 800 nm to 1,100 nm, and the CLC layer has a reflection wavelength of 400 nm to 700 nm at a viewing angle of 40° to 60°.
US10763306B2	Resistive memory and method for fabricating the same and applications thereof A resistive memory includes a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer, an insulating layer and a metal electrode layer. The semiconductor substrate has a top surface and a recess extending downwards into the semiconductor substrate from the top surface. The dielectric layer is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and has a first through-hole aligning the recess. The insulating layer is disposed in the first through-hole and the recess. The metal electrode layer is disposed on the insulating layer by which the metal electrode layer is isolated from the semiconductor substrate.
US10763305B2	Semiconductor structure with data storage structure A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a gate structure formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a first source/drain structure and a second source/drain structure formed in the substrate adjacent to the gate structure. The semiconductor structure further includes an interlayer dielectric layer formed over the substrate to cover the gate structure, the first source/drain structure, and the second source/drain structure. The semiconductor structure further includes a first conductive structure formed in the interlayer dielectric layer over the first source/drain structure. The semiconductor structure further includes a second conductive structure formed in the interlayer dielectric layer over the second source/drain structure. In addition, the first conductive structure is in direct contact with the first source/drain structure, and the second conductive structure is not in direct contact with the second source/drain structure.
US10763304B2	Semiconductor structure and method of forming the same The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including a memory region and a logic region adjacent to the memory region. The memory region includes a first Nth metal line, a first stop layer being disposed over a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) over the first Nth metal line, and a first (N+1)th metal via being disposed over the MTJ and surrounded by the first stop layer, the first (N+1)th metal via having a first height. The logic region includes a second Nth metal line, a second stop layer being disposed over an (N+1)th metal line, and a second (N+1)th metal via over the (N+1)th metal line and having a second height. N is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and the first height is greater than the second height. A method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure is also disclosed.
US10763303B2	Micro light emission element and image display device Provided is a micro light emission element including a compound semiconductor in which an N-side layer, a light emission layer, and a P-side layer are laminated sequentially from a side of a light emitting surface, in which an N-electrode coupled to the N-side layer and a P-electrode coupled to the P-side layer are disposed on another surface opposite to the light emitting surface, the P-electrode is disposed on the light emission layer, the N-electrode is disposed in an isolation region which is a boundary region of the micro light emission element and isolates the light emission layer from a light emission layer of another micro light emission element, a surface of the N-electrode on a side of the other surface and a surface of the P-electrode on the side of the other surface are flush with each other, and the N-electrode and the P-electrode are both formed of a single interconnection layer.
US10763301B2	Display device A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a light-transmitting substrate having one surface, a pad formed on the one surface, and an electrode layer formed on the one surface, electrically connected to the pad, and having a mesh shape. The electrode layer includes a first region adjacent to the pad and spaced apart from the pad, and a second region connecting the pad to the first region. A density of the mesh shape of the second region is higher than a density of the mesh shape of the first region.
US10763297B1	Optical sensor An optical sensor is provided. The optical sensor includes a substrate, a transistor, a dielectric layer, a first electrode, a photodiode, a second electrode and a gap. The transistor is disposed over the substrate. The dielectric layer is disposed over the transistor. The first electrode is disposed over the dielectric layer and includes a U-shaped portion electrically connected to the transistor. The second electrode is disposed over the first electrode, and the photodiode is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The gap is surrounded by the U-shaped portion of the first electrode and is sealed by the first electrode or the second electrode.
US10763294B2	Image sensor chips having sub-chips An image sensor chip may include a first sub-chip, a second sub-chip on the first sub-chip, and an interconnector between the first and second sub-chips. The first sub-chip may include a first substrate, a bottom electrode on a first region of the first substrate, and a first capacitor on the bottom electrode. The first capacitor may include a plurality of first electrodes vertically extending from a top surface of the bottom electrode, a second electrode on the first electrodes, and a first dielectric layer between the second electrode and the first electrodes. The second sub-chip may include a pixel array configured to convert incident light into an electrical signal. The pixel array may be electrically connected through the interconnector to the first capacitor.
US10763291B2	Solid-state image sensor and method of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing a solid-state image sensor, includes forming a first isolation region of a first conductivity type in a semiconductor layer having first and second surfaces, the forming the first isolation region including first implantation for implanting ions into the semiconductor layer through the first surface, forming charge accumulation regions of a second conductivity type in the semiconductor layer, performing first annealing, forming an interconnection on a side of the first surface of the semiconductor layer after the first annealing, and forming a second isolation region of the first conductivity type in the semiconductor layer, the forming the second isolation region including second implantation for implanting ions into the semiconductor layer through the second surface. The first and second isolation regions are arranged between the adjacent charge accumulation regions.
US10763290B2	Lidar scanning system Embodiments include a LIDAR scanning system. A laser is configured to emit pulses of light. A transmit reconfigurable-metasurface is configured to reflect an incident pulse of light as an illumination beam pointing at a field of view. This pointing is responsive to a first holographic beam steering pattern implemented in the transmit reconfigurable-metasurface. A receive reconfigurable-metasurface is configured to reflect a return of the illumination beam to an optical detector. This pointing is responsive to a second holographic beam steering pattern implemented in the receiving reconfigurable-metasurface. An optical detector includes an array of detector pixels. Each detector pixel includes (i) a photodetector configured to detect light in the return of the illumination beam and (ii) a timing circuit configured to determine a time of flight of the detected light. The optical detector is also configured to output a detection signal indicative of the detected light and the time of flight.
US10763285B2	Image generation devices and image processing systems for converting resolutions of image data captured by image sensors mounted on movable-body apparatuses An image generation device includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver receives travel information about the travel state of a movable-body apparatus. The controller selects, based on the travel information, a first partial region from an entirety of a plurality of pixels of an image sensor or an entirety of image data captured by the image sensor, and generates image data in which a region other than the first partial region has a resolution lower than the resolution of the first partial region. The image sensor is to be mounted to the movable-body apparatus and is configured to capture an area in a traveling direction of the movable-body apparatus.
US10763278B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate having a cell array region and a contact region, a stack structure including a plurality of gate electrodes on the cell array region and the contact region, a plurality of cell vertical channel structures extending through the stack structure on the cell array region, and a contact structure disposed beside of the stack structure on a top surface of the substrate and disposed along a line extending from the cell array region toward the contact region. The height of the contact structure on the cell array region is different from the height of the contact structure on the contact region.
US10763277B2	Semiconductor memory device According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of first interconnect layers, first and second memory pillars, and a plurality of first plugs. The plurality of first interconnect layers include a first array region where the first memory pillar penetrates the plurality of first interconnect layers, a second array region where the second memory pillar penetrates the plurality of first interconnect layers, and a coupling region where a plurality of coupling parts respectively coupled to the plurality of first plugs are formed. Along a first direction parallel to the semiconductor substrate, the first array region, the coupling region, and the second array region are arranged in order.
US10763272B2	Semiconductor memory device A semiconductor memory device includes two first electrode films, a first column and a second insulating film. The two first electrode films extend in a first direction and are separated from each other in a second direction. The first column is provided between the two first electrode films and has a plurality of first members and a plurality of insulating members. Each of the first members and each of the insulating members are arranged alternately in the first direction. One of the plurality of first members has a semiconductor pillar, a second electrode film and a first insulating film provided between the semiconductor pillar and the second electrode film. The semiconductor pillar, the first insulating film and the second electrode film are arranged in the second direction. The second insulating film is provided between the first column and one of the two first electrode films.
US10763271B2	Three-dimensional memory device containing aluminum-silicon word lines and methods of manufacturing the same A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack. Each of the memory stack structures comprises a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel contacting an inner sidewall of the memory film. The electrically conductive layers include aluminum and silicon and provide low resistance electrically conductive paths as word lines of the three-dimensional memory device. The aluminum-based electrically conductive layers can provide low resistivity, low mechanical stress, and thermal stability for use as high performance word lines.
US10763270B2	Method for forming an integrated circuit and an integrated circuit A method for forming an integrated circuit (IC) and an IC are disclosed. The method for forming the IC includes: forming an isolation structure separating a memory semiconductor region from a logic semiconductor region; forming a memory cell structure on the memory semiconductor region; forming a memory capping layer covering the memory cell structure and the logic semiconductor region; performing a first etch into the memory capping layer to remove the memory capping layer from the logic semiconductor region, and to define a slanted, logic-facing sidewall on the isolation structure; forming a logic device structure on the logic semiconductor region; and performing a second etch into the memory capping layer to remove the memory capping layer from the memory semiconductor, while leaving a dummy segment of the memory capping layer that defines the logic-facing sidewall.
US10763269B2	Anti-fuse cell and chip having anti-fuse cells An anti-fuse cell includes a control device and an anti-fuse element is introduced. The control device includes a source node, a drain node and a gate node, wherein the gate node is electrically coupled to a word line and the drain node is electrically coupled to a bit line. The anti-fuse element includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The second conductive layer of the anti-fuse element is physically stacked upon a conductive layer and electrically connected to the source node of the control device, and first conductive layer is electrically coupled to a program line through a via. An anti-fuse cell having multiple anti-fuse elements and a chip having a plurality of anti-fuse cells are also introduced.
US10763267B2	Memory structure with multi-cell poly pitch Various implementations described herein refer to an integrated circuit having a memory structure with a two-bitcell layout and a four cell poly pitch. The two-bitcell layout includes a first bitcell and a second bitcell with structural contours that are joined together in a coupling arrangement. The first bitcell and the second bitcell have multiple transistors that are arranged to store data during write operations and allow access of data during read operations.
US10763266B2	Method for manufacturing static random access memory device In a method of manufacturing an SRAM device, an insulating layer is formed over a substrate. First dummy patterns are formed over the insulating layer. Sidewall spacer layers, as second dummy patterns, are formed on sidewalls of the first dummy patterns. The first dummy patterns are removed, thereby leaving the second dummy patterns over the insulating layer. After removing the first dummy patterns, the second dummy patterns are divided. A mask layer is formed over the insulating layer and between the divided second dummy patterns. After forming the mask layer, the divided second dummy patterns are removed, thereby forming a hard mask layer having openings that correspond to the patterned second dummy patterns. The insulating layer is formed by using the hard mask layer as an etching mask, thereby forming via openings in the insulating layer. A conductive material is filled in the via openings, thereby forming contact bars.
US10763264B2	Method for forming dynamic random access memory structure The present invention provides a method for forming a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) structure, the method including: firstly, a substrate is provided, a cell region and a peripheral region are defined on the substrate, a plurality of buried word lines is then formed in the cell region of the substrate, next, a shallow trench isolation structure is formed in the peripheral region adjacent to the cell region, wherein a concave top surface is formed on the shallow trench isolation structure, afterwards, a first dummy bit line gate is formed within the shallow trench isolation structure of the peripheral area, and a second dummy bit line gate is formed in the cell region and adjacent to the first dummy bit line gate, wherein a top surface of the first dummy bit line gate is lower than a top surface of the second dummy bit line gate.
US10763261B2	Semiconductor memory device comprising memory cell over driver The memory capacity of a DRAM is enhanced. A semiconductor memory device includes a driver circuit including part of a single crystal semiconductor substrate, a multilayer wiring layer provided over the driver circuit, and a memory cell array layer provided over the multilayer wiring layer. That is, the memory cell array overlaps with the driver circuit. Accordingly, the integration degree of the semiconductor memory device can be increased as compared to the case where a driver circuit and a memory cell array are provided in the same plane of a substrate containing a singe crystal semiconductor material.
US10763260B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a memory region, a plurality of bit lines in the memory region, a first low-k dielectric layer on each sidewall of each bit line, a plurality of storage node regions between the bit lines, and a second low-k dielectric layer surrounding each storage node region.
US10763259B2	Semiconductor device manufacturing method A semiconductor device manufacturing method is presented. The manufacturing method includes providing a semiconductor structure, comprising: a substrate, a plurality of semiconductor fins comprising a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin on the substrate, a plurality of trenches surrounding the semiconductor fins, and a first insulation layer filling the trenches; conducting a first doping process in the first semiconductor fin to form a first anti-punch-through region therein; removing at least a portion of the first insulation layer from the trenches; forming a second insulation layer filling a portion of the trenches not filled by the first insulation layer; and conducting a second doping process in the second semiconductor fin to form a second anti-punch-through region therein. This inventive concept reduces the chance of a dopant in the first doping process diffusing into the second semiconductor fin.
US10763257B2	S-contact for SOI Systems, methods, and apparatus for an improved protection from charge injection into layers of a device using resistive structures are described. Such resistive structures, named s-contacts, can be made using simpler fabrication methods and less fabrication steps. In a case of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistors (FETs), s-contacts can be made with direct connection, or resistive connection, to all regions of the transistors, including the source region, the drain region and the gate.
US10763254B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region, and a second region, a first gate structure and a second gate structure on the substrate of the first region, a third gate structure and a fourth gate structure on the substrate of the second region, a first interlayer insulating film on the substrate of the first region and including a first lower interlayer insulating film and a first upper interlayer insulating film, a second interlayer insulating film on the substrate of the second region and including a second lower interlayer insulating film and a second upper interlayer insulating film, a first contact between the first gate structure and the second gate structure and within the first interlayer insulating film, and a second contact formed between the third gate structure and the fourth gate structure and within the second interlayer insulating film.
US10763251B2	ESD network comprising variable impedance discharge path A semiconductor device has a protected line connected to a ground line by a triggered clamp. A variable shunt, which includes a depletion mode JFET, is connected between the protected line and the ground line, in parallel with the triggered clamp. The depletion mode JFET is formed in a substrate of the semiconductor device. The channel of the depletion mode JFET provides a resistive path for the variable shunt when the semiconductor device is unpowered, to dissipate charge from the powered line after an ESD event. When the semiconductor device is operated, that is, powered up, the gate of the depletion mode JFET may be biased to turn off the channel, and so reduce impairment of operation of the semiconductor device.
US10763250B2	Silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) based ESD protection device The SCR-based ESD device has a 4-layered PNPN structure (NPN and PNP junction transistors) disposed in SOI having first and second device wells (N-well and P-well) abut forming a NP junction near a midline. First and second contact regions disposed in device wells are coupled to high and low power sources (I/O pad and ground). Internal isolation regions (shallower STI) extending partially not touching the bottom of surface substrate separate the first and second contact regions. A vertical gate is disposed over the NP junction or over a shallower STI which overlaps the junction and separate the second contact regions in x-direction. One or more horizontal gates separate the second contact regions in y-direction and guide the device wells underneath the shallower STI to outer edges to connect with the first contact regions for body contacts. A process for forming the device is also disclosed and is compatible with CMOS processes.
US10763246B2	Device including a semiconductor chip monolithically integrated with a driver circuit in a semiconductor material A device includes a driver circuit, a first semiconductor chip monolithically integrated with the driver circuit in a first semiconductor material, and a second semiconductor chip integrated in a second semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material is a compound semiconductor.
US10763245B2	Optoelectronic component with a first potting material covering parts of a first optoelectronic semiconductor chip and a second potting material covering the first potting material An optoelectronic component includes a carrier, wherein a first optoelectronic semiconductor chip and a second optoelectronic semiconductor chip are arranged above a top side of the carrier, the optoelectronic semiconductor chips each include a top side, an underside situated opposite the top side, and side faces extending between the top side and the underside, the undersides of the optoelectronic semiconductor chips face the top side of the carrier, a first potting material is arranged above the top side of the carrier, the first potting material covering parts of the side faces of the first optoelectronic semiconductor chip, and a second potting material is arranged above the top side of the carrier, and the second potting material covering the first potting material.
US10763244B2	Power module having power device connected between heat sink and drive unit The present disclosure relates to power modules. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a power unit and/or a drive unit for driving the power unit, along with methods for producing a power module. For example, a power module may include: a power unit including a heat sink; a power device disposed on the heat sink; an insulating layer covering the heat sink and the power device; and a drive unit for driving the power unit, the drive unit comprising a contact element corresponding to the contact area of the power unit. An underside of the power unit is defined by an underside of the heat sink. A top side of the power unit is defined by a contact area thermally and/or electrically coupled to the power device and a surface of the insulating layer surrounding the contact area. The contact element may be disposed abutting the contact area of the power unit for making electrical and/or thermal contact with the power device.
US10763243B2	Substrate bonding apparatus A substrate bonding apparatus and a method of bonding substrates, the apparatus including an upper chuck securing a first substrate onto a lower surface thereof such that the first substrate is downwardly deformed into a concave surface profile; a lower chuck arranged under the upper chuck and securing a second substrate onto an upper surface thereof such that the second substrate is upwardly deformed into a convex surface profile; and a chuck controller controlling the upper chuck and the lower chuck to secure the first substrate and the second substrate, respectively, and generating a shape parameter for changing a shape of the second substrate to the convex surface profile from a flat surface profile.
US10763242B2	Semiconductor package and method of manufacturing the same A semiconductor package includes a first layer of one or more first semiconductor chips each having a first surface at which one or more first pads are exposed, a second layer of one or more second semiconductor chips disposed over the first layer and each having a second surface at which one or more second pads are exposed, and a first redistribution layer between the first layer and the second layer and electrically connected to the one or more first pads. The first layer may include one or more first TPVs extending through a substrate (panel) of the first layer and electrically connected to the first redistribution layer.
US10763240B2	Semiconductor device comprising signal terminals extending from encapsulant A semiconductor device may include a first semiconductor chip, a second semiconductor chip, an encapsulant encapsulating the first and second semiconductor chips, a first signal terminal extending over inside and outside of the encapsulant and connected to the first semiconductor chip inside the encapsulant, and a second signal terminal extending over the inside and the outside of the encapsulant and connected to the second semiconductor chip inside the encapsulant. The first and second signal terminals may protrude from the encapsulant in a same direction. The first signal terminal may include, inside the encapsulant, a section where the first signal terminal extends farther away from the second signal terminal along a direction toward the first semiconductor chip. The second signal terminal may include, inside the encapsulant, a section where the second signal terminal extends farther away from the first signal terminal along a direction toward the second semiconductor chip.
US10763235B2	Batch bonding apparatus and bonding method A batch bonding apparatus and bonding method. The bonding apparatus comprises: a chip supply unit (10) for providing a chip (60) to be bonded; a substrate supply unit (20) for providing a substrate; a transfer unit (40) for transferring the chip (60) between the chip supply unit (10) and the substrate supply unit (20); and a pickup unit (30) disposed above the chip supply unit (10), for picking up the chip (60) from the chip supply unit (10) and uploading the chip (60) to the transfer unit (40) after flipping a marked surface of the chip (60) in a required direction. In the present invention pickup of each chip is completed individually, but transfer processes and bonding processes can be carried out for multiple chips at the same time, greatly increasing yield.
US10763234B2	Semiconductor device structure having semiconductor die bonded to redistribution layer via electrical pad with barrier layer A wiring structure includes a redistribution layer and an electrical pad. The redistribution layer includes a passivation layer and a metal layer. The metal layer is embedded in the passivation layer, and the passivation layer defines an opening to expose a portion of the metal layer. The electrical pad is disposed in the opening of the passivation layer and on the metal layer. The electrical pad includes a seed layer, a conductive layer, a barrier layer and an anti-oxidation layer.
US10763233B2	Apparatus and method for reducing volume of resource allocation information message in a broadband wireless communication system An apparatus and method for reducing the volume of a resource allocation information message in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting a message including information indicating a periodicity of an uplink control channel for an initial network entry; and receiving an uplink signal for the initial network entry through the uplink control channel.
US10763230B2	Integrated circuit backside metallization A method for backside metallization includes inkjet printing a pattern of nanosilver conductive ink on a first surface of a silicon wafer. The silicon wafer includes a plurality of dies. The pattern includes a clearance area along a scribe line between the dies. A laser is focused, through a second surface of the wafer, at a point between the first surface of the silicon wafer and the second surface of the silicon wafer. The second surface is opposite the first surface. The dies are separated along the scribe line.
US10763225B2	Antenna module An antenna module includes a fan-out semiconductor package including an IC, an encapsulant encapsulating at least a portion of the IC, a core member having a first side surface facing the IC or the encapsulant, and a connection member including at least one wiring layer electrically connected to the IC and the core member and at least one insulating layer; and an antenna package including a plurality of first directional antenna members configured to transmit or receive a first RF signal. The fan-out semiconductor package further includes at least one second directional antenna member disposed on a second side surface of the core member opposing the first side surface of the core member, stood up from a position electrically connected to at least one wiring layer, and configured to transmit or receive a second RF signal.
US10763221B2	HV converter with reduced EMI A high voltage (HV) converter implemented on a printed circuit board (PCB) includes a double diffused metal oxide semiconductor (DMOS) package comprising a lead frame and a main DMOS chip. The lead frame includes a gate section electrically connected to a gate electrode of the main DMOS chip, a source section electrically connected to a source electrode of the main DMOS chip and a drain section electrically connected to a drain electrode of the main DMOS chip. The PCB layout includes a large area source copper pad attached to and overlapping the source section of the DMOS package to facilitate cooling and a small area drain copper pad attached to and overlapping the drain section of the DMOS package to reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise.
US10763216B2	Multi-chip package and method of providing die-to-die interconnects in same A multi-chip package includes a substrate (110) having a first side (111), an opposing second side (112), and a third side (213) that extends from the first side to the second side, a first die (120) attached to the first side of the substrate and a second die (130) attached to the first side of the substrate, and a bridge (140) adjacent to the third side of the substrate and attached to the first die and to the second die. No portion of the substrate is underneath the bridge. The bridge creates a connection between the first die and the second die. Alternatively, the bridge may be disposed in a cavity (615, 915) in the substrate or between the substrate and a die layer (750). The bridge may constitute an active die and may be attached to the substrate using wirebonds (241, 841, 1141, 1541).
US10763214B2	Semiconductor device Performance of a semiconductor device is improved. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip and a chip component that are electrically connected to each other via a wiring substrate. The semiconductor chip includes an input/output circuit and an electrode pad electrically connected to the input/output circuit and transmitting the signal. The chip component includes a plurality of types of passive elements and includes an equalizer circuit for correcting signal waveforms of the signal, and electrodes electrically connected to the equalizer circuit. The path length from the signal electrode of the semiconductor chip to the electrode of the chip component is 1/16 or more and 3.5/16 or less with respect to the wavelength of the signal.
US10763213B2	Integrated circuit having a hidden shared contact An integrated circuit includes a substrate and an interconnect. A substrate zone is delineated by an insulating zone. A polysilicon region extends on the insulating zone and includes a strip part. An isolating region is situated between the substrate and the interconnect and covers the substrate zone and the polysilicon region. A first electrically conductive pad passes through the isolating region and has a first end in electrical contact with both the strip part and the substrate zone. A second end of the electrically conductive pad is in electrical contact with the interconnect. A second electrically conductive pad also passes through the isolating region to make electrical contact with another region. The first and second electrically conductive pads have equal or substantially equal cross sectional sizes, within a tolerance.
US10763212B1	Semiconductor structure A semiconductor structure includes a substrate including a surface, a first doped region and a second doped region, wherein the first doped region and the second doped region are disposed under the surface; a gate structure disposed between the first doped region and the second doped region; a capacitor disposed over and electrically connected to the first doped region; and a bit line disposed over and electrically connected to the second doped region, wherein the bit line includes a conductive portion and an insulating portion surrounding the conductive portion, and the insulating portion includes ferroelectric material.
US10763210B2	Circular ring shaped antifuse device An antifuse structure having enhanced programming efficiency is provided in which there is limited contact between the antifuse material and top and bottom electrodes. The antifuse material has a circular ring shape (i.e., donate shape having a hole in the middle (center) thereof) in which a dielectric material structure composed of a dielectric material having a dielectric constant of great than 4.0 is contained in the hole of the circular ring shaped antifuse material. The antifuse material is composed of a dielectric material having a lower dielectric breakdown strength as compared to the dielectric material structure.
US10763207B2	Interconnects having long grains and methods of manufacturing the same A method of manufacturing metallic interconnects for an integrated circuit includes forming an interconnect layout including at least one line including a non-diffusing material, forming a diffusing barrier layer on the line, forming an opening extending completely through the diffusing barrier layer and exposing a portion of the line, depositing a diffusing layer on the diffusing barrier layer such that a portion of the diffusing layer contacts the portion of the line, and thermally reacting the diffusing layer to form the metallic interconnects. Thermally reacting the diffusing layer chemically diffuses a material of the diffusing layer into the at least one line and causes at least one crystalline grain to grow along a length of the at least one line from at least one nucleation site defined at an interface between the portions of the diffusing layer and the line.
US10763206B2	Method of fabricating integrated fan-out packages A stacked via structure including a first dielectric layer, a first conductive via, a first redistribution wiring, a second dielectric layer and a second conductive via is provided. The first dielectric layer includes a first via opening. The first conductive via is in the first via opening. A first level height offset is between a top surface of the first conductive via and a top surface of the first dielectric layer. The first redistribution wiring covers the top surface of the first conductive via and the top surface of the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is disposed on the first dielectric layer and the first redistribution wiring. The second dielectric layer includes a second via opening. The second conductive via is in the second via opening. The second conductive via is electrically connected to the first redistribution wiring through the second via opening of the second dielectric layer.
US10763202B2	Multi-row wiring member for semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same A multi-row wiring member configured of a plurality of wiring members arrayed in a matrix includes a resin layer, a first plating layer forming internal terminals, a plating layer forming wiring portions and a second plating layer forming external terminals. The first plating layer is formed in the resin layer with lower faces thereof uncovered in a bottom surface of the resin layer. The plating layer forming wiring portions is formed on the first plating layer in the resin layer. The second plating layer is formed in the resin layer on partial areas within areas of the plating layer forming wiring portions, with upper faces thereof being uncovered on a top-surface side of the resin layer. On a bottom-surface side of the resin layer, a metal frame is formed at a margin around an aggregate of individual wiring members arrayed in the matrix.
US10763192B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices and corresponding semiconductor device A method of attaching a semiconductor die or chip onto a support member such as a leadframe comprises: applying onto the support member at least one stretch of ribbon electrical bonding material and coupling the ribbon material to the support member, arranging at least one semiconductor die onto the ribbon material with the ribbon material between the support member and the semiconductor die, coupling the semiconductor die to the ribbon material.
US10763191B1	Dual in-line memory module (DIMM) Edgewater Spring (EWS) multi point contact cooling jacket Systems and apparatus are provided for thermal cooling of integrated circuits, such as dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs). The apparatus includes a plurality of rows pieces that include individual leaf springs. Each of the leaf springs can exert compression to support thermal contact and a stable coupling with a received DIMM. The plurality of row pieces can be assembled to form a single structure, having a space to receive an individual DIMM for insertion. Further, each of the leaf springs are structured to allow a portion of its surface, having a conductive material disposed thereon, to support transfer of heat away from the DIMM at a point of thermal contact. The apparatus can be coupled to a printed circuit assembly (PCA) having additional cooling mechanisms installed thereon, in a manner that allows the additional cooling mechanisms to be integrated with the apparatus and provide increased thermal cooling for the DIMMs.
US10763190B2	Power semiconductor module, power conversion device using same, and method for manufacturing power conversion device Provided is a compact power conversion device which is excellent in liquid tightness and has high reliability of a terminal connection portion. A power conversion device according to the present invention includes: a case that houses a power semiconductor; a flow path forming body that forms a flow path with an outer surface of the case; a first fixing material in contact with a refrigerant flowing in the flow path; and a second fixing material that is in contact with the first fixing material and the flow path forming body and covers a direction of displacement of the case of the first fixing material caused by water pressure.
US10763188B2	Integrated heat spreader having electromagnetically-formed features Integrated heat spreaders having electromagnetically-formed features, and semiconductor packages incorporating such integrated heat spreaders, are described. In an example, an integrated heat spreader includes a top plate flattened using an electromagnetic forming process. Methods of manufacturing integrated heat spreaders having electromagnetically-formed features are also described.
US10763184B2	Power module substrate, power module, and method for manufacturing power module substrate A power module substrate or the like including an insulating substrate with an upper surface and a lower surface, a metal plate with an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface facing and being bonded to the upper surface of the insulating substrate, and a first electroplating layer that partly covers the central portion of the upper surface of the metal plate. The first electroplating layer includes at least a silver layer, and the grain size of silver in the silver layer is more than or equal to the grain size of a metal in an upper surface portion of the metal plate.
US10763183B2	Semiconductor device A case (6) surrounds a semiconductor chip (5). A case electrode (7) is attached to an upper face of the case (6). A wire (8) is connected to the semiconductor chip (5) and the case electrode (7). A first holding portion (10) presses down the case electrode (7) on the upper face of the case (6) outside a joint portion where the wire (8) is bonded to the case electrode (7). A second holding portion (11) presses down the case electrode (7) on the upper face of the case (6) inside the joint portion. A recess (12) is formed on the upper face of the case (6). The case electrode (7) is bent such as to fit into the recess (12). The second holding portion (11) is disposed inside the recess (12).
US10763181B2	Semiconductor device and repair operation method thereof A semiconductor device includes a plurality of first signal lines and a plurality of second signal lines which are alternately arranged adjacent to each other, wherein the first signal lines and the second signal lines comprise a plurality of main signal lines and at least one spare signal line, a first signal transmitter suitable for transmitting signals through the main signal lines of the first signal lines, and shifting a signal transmission path to adjacent signal lines among the main signal lines and the spare signal line of the first signal lines, based on repair information, and a second signal transmitter suitable for transmitting signals through the main signal lines of the second signal lines, and shifting a signal transmission path to adjacent signal lines among the main signal lines and the spare signal line of the second signal lines, based on the repair information.
US10763176B2	Transistor with a gate structure comprising a tapered upper surface One illustrative device disclosed includes a gate structure and a sidewall spacer positioned adjacent the gate structure, the sidewall spacer having an upper surface, wherein an upper portion of the gate structure is positioned above a level of the upper surface of the sidewall spacer. In this illustrative example, the device also includes a tapered upper surface on the upper portion of the gate structure and a gate cap, the gate cap being positioned above the tapered upper surface of the gate structure and above the upper surface of the sidewall spacer.
US10763172B2	Method of processing wafer A method of processing a wafer having a face side where devices are formed in respective areas demarcated by a grid of projected dicing lines includes a groove forming step, a protective film sticking step, a protective-member-combined wafer forming step, a grinding step, a tape bonding step, a holding step, a peeling step, and a die-attach film dividing step.
US10763165B2	Conductive powder formation method, device for forming conductive powder, and method of forming semiconductor device A method of forming a conductive powder includes reducing, by a reduction reaction, a conductive powder precursor gas using a plasma. Reducing the conductive powder precursor gas forms the conductive powder. The method further includes filtering the conductive powder based on particle size. The method further includes dispersing a portion of the conductive powder having a particle size below a threshold value in a fluid.
US10763164B2	Package structure with inductor and method of forming thereof A package structure includes a first redistribution layer, a molding material, a semiconductor device and an inductor. The molding material is located on the first redistribution layer. The semiconductor device is molded in the molding material. The inductor penetrates through the molding material and electrically connected to the semiconductor device.
US10763158B2	Method for forming lead wires in hybrid-bonded semiconductor devices Embodiments of hybrid-bonded semiconductor structures and methods for forming a hybrid-bonded semiconductor structure are disclosed. The method can include providing a substrate and forming a base dielectric layer on the substrate. The method also includes forming first and second conductive structures in the base dielectric layer and disposing an alternating dielectric layer stack. Disposing alternating dielectric layer stack includes disposing a first dielectric layer on the base dielectric layer and the first and second conductive structures and sequentially disposing second, third, and fourth dielectric layers. The method further includes planarizing the disposed alternating dielectric layer stack and etching the alternating dielectric layer stack to form first and second openings using preset etching rates for each of the first, second, third, and fourth dielectric layers. The etching continues until at least portions of the first and second conductive structures are exposed. The method also includes forming conductive material in the first and second openings to form lead wires.
US10763153B2	Holding apparatus There is provided a holding apparatus which is capable of rotatably holding, while cooling to a cryogenic temperature, a to-be-processed object in a vacuum chamber. A holding apparatus for rotatably holding, while cooling, a to-be-processed object in a vacuum chamber Vc, has a stage on which the to-be-processed object is placed, a rotary drive device for rotatably supporting the stage, and a cooling device for cooling the stage. Provided that a stage surface side on which the to-be-processed object is placed is defined as an upside, the rotary drive device has: a tubular rotary shaft body which is mounted on a wall surface of the vacuum chamber, in a penetrating manner, through a first vacuum seal; a connection member for connecting an upper end part of the rotary shaft body and a lower surface of the stage in a manner to define a space below the stage; and a driving motor for driving to rotate the rotary shaft body.
US10763150B2	System for coupling a voltage to spatially segmented portions of the wafer with variable voltage The present disclosure generally relates to plasma assisted or plasma enhanced processing chambers. More specifically, embodiments herein relate to electrostatic chucking (ESC) substrate supports configured to provide independent pulses of direct-current (“DC”) voltage through a switching system to electrodes disposed in the ESC substrate support. In some embodiments, the switching system can independently alter the frequency and duty cycle of the pulsed DC voltage that is coupled to each electrode. In some embodiments, during processing of the substrate, the process rate, such as etch rate or deposition rate, can be controlled independently in regions of the substrate because the process rate is a function of the frequency and duty cycle of the pulsed DC voltage. The processing uniformity of the process performed on the substrate is improved.
US10763148B2	Semiconductor defects inspection apparatus A semiconductor defects inspection apparatus for inspection of bubble defects of an object is provided. The semiconductor defects inspection apparatus includes a carrier, an optical system, an infrared image capturing device, and a processing unit. The carrier is adapted for bearing the object. The optical system provides an illumination beam to the object to produce an image beam. The infrared image capturing device is disposed on a transmission path of the image beam. The infrared image capturing device is adapted for receiving the image beam to be transformed into an image information. The processing unit is electrically connected to the infrared image capturing device and adapted for analyzing the object according to the image information.
US10763146B2	Recipe optimization based zonal analysis Metrology methods and modules are provided, which comprise carrying out recipe setup procedure(s) and/or metrology measurement(s) using zonal analysis with respect to respective setup parameter(s) and/or metrology metric(s). The zonal analysis comprises relating to spatially variable values of the setup parameter(s) and/or metrology metric(s) across one or more wafers in one or more lots. Wafer zones may be discrete or spatially continuous, and be used to weight one or more parameter(s) and/or metric(s) during any of the stages of the respective setup and measurement processes.
US10763144B2	Adaptable-modular optical sensor based process control system, and method of operation thereof A method of operating a process control system and a process control system are provided by the disclosure. In one embodiment, the process control system includes: (1) an optical sensor configured to monitor a production process within a process chamber and generate optical data therefrom, (2) an operational controller configured to perform critical functions to determine processing conditions of the production process from the optical data, wherein the critical functions are directed by critical function controls, (3) an adaptable management controller configured to provide the critical function controls to the operational controller, wherein the adaptable management controller is hierarchically isolated from the operational controller during the critical functions.
US10763143B2	Processing tool having a monitoring device Embodiments include systems, devices, and methods for monitoring etch or deposition rates, or controlling an operation of a wafer fabrication process. In an embodiment, a processing tool includes a processing chamber having a liner wall around a chamber volume, and a monitoring device having a sensor exposed to the chamber volume through a hole in the liner wall. The sensor is capable of measuring, in real-time, material deposition and removal rates occurring within the chamber volume during the wafer fabrication process. The monitoring device can be moved relative to the hole in the liner wall to selectively expose either the sensor or a blank area to the chamber volume through the hole. Accordingly, the wafer fabrication process being performed in the chamber volume may be monitored by the sensor, and the sensor may be sealed off from the chamber volume during an in-situ chamber cleaning process. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10763140B2	Semiconductor processing station A semiconductor processing station including a central transfer chamber, a load lock chamber disposed adjacent to the central transfer chamber, and a cooling stage disposed adjacent to the load lock chamber and the central transfer chamber is provided. The load lock chamber is adapted to contain a wafer carrier including a plurality of wafers. The central transfer chamber communicates between the cooling stage and the load lock chamber to transfer a wafer of the plurality of wafers between the cooling stage and the load lock chamber.
US10763139B2	Vacuum transfer module and substrate processing apparatus A vacuum transfer module, to which a load-lock module and a plurality of processing modules for processing substrate in a vacuum atmosphere are connected, has therein a substrate transfer unit for transferring the substrate between the load-lock module and the plurality of processing modules. The vacuum transfer module includes: a housing in which a vacuum atmosphere is generated; and a plurality of adaptor attaching portions to which one of a first adaptor for connecting the load-lock module and a second adaptor for connecting the plurality of processing modules is attached, provided at a sidewall of the housing. The adaptor attaching portions are common for the first adaptor and the second adaptor.
US10763137B2	Substrate processing apparatus and method of manufacturing semiconductor device For enhancing productivity, an apparatus comprises a vertical type process furnace configured to simultaneously process N substrates (1
US10763131B2	Semiconductor device with a multi-layered encapsulant and associated systems, devices, and methods A semiconductor device includes a substrate including traces, wherein the traces protrude above a top surface of the substrate; a prefill material over the substrate and between the traces, wherein the prefill material directly contacts peripheral surfaces of the traces; a die attached over the substrate; and a wafer-level underfill between the prefill material and the die.
US10763129B2	System and method for laser assisted bonding of an electronic device A system and method for laser assisted bonding of semiconductor die. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods that enhance or control laser irradiation of a semiconductor die, for example spatially and/or temporally, to improve bonding of the semiconductor die to a substrate.
US10763120B2	Colloidal silica growth inhibitor and associated method and system A technique to inhibit the growth of colloidal silica deposits on surfaces treated in phosphoric acid is described. In one embodiment, the disclosed techniques include the use of a colloidal silica growth inhibitor as an additive to a phosphoric acid solution utilized for a silicon nitride etch. In some embodiments, the additive may have chemistry that may contain strong anionic groups. A method and apparatus is provided that monitors the silica concentration and/or the colloidal silica growth inhibitor concentration in the phosphoric acid solution during processing and adjusts the amount of those components as needed. Techniques are provided for a method and apparatus to control the additive concentration to be used as well as the silica concentration in the phosphoric acid solution. The techniques described herein provide a high selectivity etch of silicon nitride towards silicon dioxide without the growth of colloidal silica deposits on the exposed surfaces.
US10763115B2	Substrate treatment method for semiconductor device fabrication A method of removing an oxide layer is provided. A metal layer is deposited over an oxide layer formed at a top surface of a germanium substrate. A metal oxide layer is deposited over the metal layer. The metal oxide layer includes a same metal material as the metal layer. The metal layer and the oxide layer are reacted and combined with the metal oxide layer to form a dielectric layer during an anneal process. During the anneal process, the oxide layer is reacted with the metal layer and removed.
US10763111B2	Polyhedron of which upper width is narrower than lower width, manufacturing method therefor, and photoelectric conversion device comprising same Provided are a polyhedron of which the upper width is narrower than the lower width, a manufacturing method therefor, and a photoelectric conversion device comprising the same. The photoelectric conversion device comprises: a substrate; a polyhedron disposed on the substrate and of which the upper width is narrower than the lower width; and a semiconductor layer disposed on the polyhedron. The photoelectric conversion device to which the polyhedron, of which the upper width is narrower than the lower width, is applied can have improved photoelectric conversion efficiency due to structural characteristics of the polyhedron.
US10763110B2	Method and system for forming doped regions by diffusion gallium nitride materials A method of forming doped regions by diffusion in gallium nitride materials includes providing a substrate structure including a gallium nitride layer and forming a mask on the gallium nitride layer. The mask exposes one or more portions of a top surface of the gallium nitride layer. The method also includes depositing a magnesium-containing gallium nitride layer on the one or more portions of the top surface of the gallium nitride layer and concurrently with depositing the magnesium-containing gallium nitride layer, forming one or more magnesium-doped regions in the gallium nitride layer by diffusing magnesium into the gallium nitride layer through the one or more portions. The magnesium-containing gallium nitride layer provides a source of magnesium dopants. The method further includes removing the magnesium-containing gallium nitride layer and removing the mask.
US10763107B2	Methods of encapsulation Methods and apparatuses suitable for encapsulation layers for memory devices at temperatures less than about 300° C. are provided herein. Methods involve introducing a reactive species by pulsing plasma while exposing a substrate to deposition reactants, and post-treating deposited encapsulation films to densify and reduce hydrogen content. Post-treatment methods include periodic exposure to inert plasma without reactants and exposure to ultraviolet radiation at a substrate temperature less than about 300° C.
US10763104B2	Method of forming differential etch stop layer using directional plasma to activate surface on device structure Methods of forming a differential layer, such as a Contact Etch Stop Layer (CESL), in a semiconductor device are described herein, along with structures formed by the methods. In an embodiment, a structure includes an active area on a substrate, a gate structure over the active area, a gate spacer along a sidewall of the gate structure, and a differential etch stop layer. The differential etch stop layer has a first portion along a sidewall of the gate spacer and has a second portion over an upper surface of the source/drain region. A first thickness of the first portion is in a direction perpendicular to the sidewall of the gate spacer, and a second thickness of the second portion is in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the source/drain region. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
US10763103B2	Boron-containing compounds, compositions, and methods for the deposition of a boron containing films Described herein are boron-containing precursor compounds, and compositions and methods comprising same, for forming boron-containing films. In one aspect, the film is deposited from at least one precursor having the following Formula I or II described herein.
US10763102B2	Transferable silica bilayer film The present invention inter alia relates to a supported silica bilayer (SiO2 bilayer) film. In the supported silica bilayer film, the silica bilayer film consists of two atomic layers of corner-sharing SiO4 tetrahedra, forms in itself a chemically saturated structure and contains pores. The silica bilayer film has a first (1) and a second side (2) and is supported on the first side (1) by a removable polymer film. The invention further relates to a process for producing the supported silica bilayer film, a process for transferring a silica bilayer film, a free-standing silica bilayer film, a stack comprising a plurality of silica bilayer films, a filed-effect transistor having a gate oxide comprising the silica bilayer film or a stack thereof and the use of a silica bilayer film.
US10763100B2	Method for manufacturing restored substrate and method for manufacturing light emitting element A method for manufacturing a restored substrate includes: removing a nitride semiconductor layer from a stacked-layer in which the nitride semiconductor layer has been laminated on a substrate; oxidizing material adhering to the substrate to produce an oxide deposit after the removing of the nitride semiconductor layer from the stacked-layer; and removing the oxide deposit from the substrate. A method for manufacturing a light emitting element includes stacking nitride semiconductor layers including an active layer on the restored substrate obtained by the above method.
US10763095B2	Ionizer and mass spectrometer system In the mass spectrometer system, a tip portion of a cylindrical portion (891) of a capillary (89) is coated with a coating material (892), the tip portion being an injection part for injecting a sample solution to an ionization section. Therefore, it is possible to suppress, by the coating material (892), the deformation of the capillary (89) when the sample solution is injected. In addition, it is possible to suppress the corrosion and the deformation of the capillary (89) by the coating material (892). As a result, the stability of the analysis operation in mass spectrometer system (1) can be improved.
US10763094B2	Analyzing apparatus For every acquisition of a set of mass spectrum data, a mass calibrator (determines the amount of mass discrepancy using the appearance position of a peak originating from an internal standard substance having a known m/z value, and performs a process for correcting the mass discrepancy. A mass calibration information collector (collects the amount of mass discrepancy or mass correction quantity for each set of mass spectrum data. After the completion of the measurement, a three-dimensional display information creator creates a three-dimensional graph showing the large number of collected mass correction quantities plotted in a three-dimensional space in which the retention time in a primary column and the retention time in a secondary column in a comprehensive two-dimensional LC unit are represented by two mutually orthogonal axes while the mass correction quantity is represented by the axis orthogonal to those two axes.
US10763089B2	Wastage determination method and plasma processing apparatus There is provision of a method of determining wastage including: processing a substrate using a plasma generated by multiple gases including fluorine gas; obtaining light emission intensity of each gas of the multiple gases including fluorine gas from the plasma, by an optical emission spectrometer (OES); and calculating a wastage rate of a particular expendable part from the obtained light emission intensity of each gas of the multiple gases including fluorine gas, with reference to a storage section storing a wastage rate of the particular expendable part in association with the light emission intensity of each gas of the multiple gases including fluorine gas.
US10763087B2	Plasma processing apparatus A plasma processing apparatus includes a stage including a lower electrode in an inner space of a chamber main body. An upper electrode is provided above the stage. A first radio frequency power supply is electrically connected to the upper electrode through a power feed conductor. A second radio frequency power supply is electrically connected to a lower electrode. A ground conductor extends above the chamber main body to cover the upper electrode. The ground conductor provides an external space at the outside thereof on the side of the inner space. the third portion, the external space being provided on the second portion and above the inner space. The external space is spaced upward from the upper electrode and is shielded from the upper electrode by the ground conductor. An electromagnet is disposed in the external space.
US10763083B2	High energy atomic layer etching Methods and apparatus for performing high energy atomic layer etching are provided herein. Methods include providing a substrate having a material to be etched, exposing a surface of the material to a modification gas to modify the surface and form a modified surface, and exposing the modified surface to an energetic particle to preferentially remove the modified surface relative to an underlying unmodified surface where the energetic particle has an ion energy sufficient to overcome an average surface binding energy of the underlying unmodified surface. The energy of the energetic particle used is very high; in some cases, the power applied to a bias used when exposing the modified surface to the energetic particle is at least 150 eV.
US10763080B2	Simple and environment-friendly production equipment for carbon nanomaterials A simple and environment-friendly production equipment for carbon nano-materials includes a power source and an AC/DC rectifier. A vacuum device for producing the carbon nano-materials is connected with two output ends of the AC/DC rectifier. An alternate current is generated by the power source and then is rectified into a direct-current power supply through the AC/DC rectifier to provide a power supply for a first graphite rod and a second graphite rod in the same direction, so as to generate a high-voltage electric arc at a junction of the first graphite rod and the second graphite rod, and plasma ionization is conducted on substances on the two graphite rods through the high-voltage electric arc, so that carbon atoms in the two graphite rods are decomposed, and carbon nano-materials are separated out and collected into a collector through a cover.
US10763077B2	Charged particle beam apparatus and image acquisition method A charged particle beam apparatus acquires a scanned image by scanning a sample with a charged particle beam and detecting charged particles emitted from the sample. The charged particle beam apparatus includes: a plurality of detection units that detect charged particles emitted from the sample; and an image processing unit that generates the scanned image based on a plurality of detection signals outputted from the plurality of the detection units. The image processing unit performs a process of calculating a tilt direction of a sample surface and a tilt angle of the sample surface based on the plurality of the detection signals for an irradiation position of the charged particle beam; and a process of determining a color of a pixel of the scanned image according to the calculated tilt direction and the calculated tilt angle.
US10763076B2	Method for operating a particle beam generator for a particle beam device and particle beam device comprising a particle beam generator A method for operating a particle beam generator for a particle beam device, and a particle beam device for carrying out this method, are provided. An extractor voltage may be set to an extractor value using a first variable voltage supply unit. An emission current of the particle beam generator may be measured. When the emission current of the particle beam generator decreases, a suppressor voltage applied to a suppressor electrode may be adjusted using a second variable voltage supply unit such that a specific emission current of the particle beam generator is reached or maintained. When the emission current of the particle beam generator increases, the extractor voltage applied to the extractor electrode may be adjusted using the first variable voltage supply unit such that the specific emission current of the particle beam generator is reached or maintained.
US10763074B2	Charged particle beam apparatus, observation method using charged particle beam apparatus, and program A charged particle beam apparatus includes: an optical system that irradiates a sample mounted on a sample stage with a charged particle beam; at least one detector that detects a signal generated from the sample; an imaging device that acquires an observation image; a mechanism for changing observation positions in the sample which has at least one of a stage that moves the sample stage and a deflector that changes the charged particle beam's irradiation position; a display unit that displays an operation screen provided with an observation image displaying portion that displays the observation image and an observation position displaying portion that displays an observation position of the observation image; and a controller that controls display processing of the operation screen. The controller superimposes and displays on the observation position displaying portion a plurality of observation position images at different magnifications, based on the observation images' magnifications and coordinates.
US10763071B2	Compact high energy ion implantation system An apparatus may include an ion source, arranged to generate an ion beam at a first ion energy. The apparatus may further include a DC accelerator column, disposed downstream of the ion source, and arranged to accelerate the ion beam to a second ion energy, the second ion energy being greater than the first ion energy. The apparatus may include a linear accelerator, disposed downstream of the DC accelerator column, the linear accelerator arranged to accelerate the ion beam to a third ion energy, greater than the second ion energy.
US10763060B2	Mechanical cut-off apparatus for a high-voltage or very high-voltage electric circuit with splitting device A mechanical breaker apparatus for breaking an electric circuit comprises two electrodes that are movable relative to each other, and including an electric arc splitter device having a multitude of distinct conductive elements that are spaced apart and electrically insulated relative to one another. The splitter device has a first portion and a second portion that are movable relative to each other between: an electrical contact position; and a spaced-apart position of the two portions. The splitter device has at least one series of the distinct conductive elements that, in an electrically closed position of the electrodes of the mechanical apparatus, are arranged along the continuous electrically-conductive path for the nominal electric current through the apparatus as defined by the two portions of the splitter device in the electrical contact position.
US10763057B2	Waterproof keyboard structure and assembly method thereof A waterproof keyboard structure and an assembly method thereof are provided. The waterproof keyboard structure includes a keyboard module, and a keyboard frame framing on the keyboard module, wherein an elastic waterproof layer is formed by means of double injection or insert molding on the keyboard frame. The keyboard module is defined with a key surface, and an assembly surface arranged opposite to the key surface. The elastic waterproof layer is clad on the key surface, and the keyboard module with the assembly surface facing a seat is assembled together with the keyboard frame in an accommodating space, thereby having the elastic waterproof layer closely fit with the seat to form a waterproof ring.
US10763053B2	Switch device A switch device includes an operation switch including a switch knob formed integrally with a recess configured to allow a finger to be inserted. The operation switch includes a detector configured to detect a change in a physical amount caused by operation of the switch knob.
US10763035B2	Common mode filter A common mode filter includes a drum core that includes a first flange, a second flange and a winding core; a first winding wire wound around the winding core from a first winding start position to a first winding end position; and a second winding wire wound around the winding core from a second winding start position to a second winding end position. The first winding start position and the second winding start position are arranged at an equal distance from the first flange and arranged symmetrically to each other with respect to a center of the winding core. The first winding end position and the second winding end position are arranged at an equal distance from the second flange and arranged symmetrically to each other with respect to the center of the winding core.
US10763032B2	Thin film-type inductor A thin film-type inductor includes a body and a first external electrode and a second external electrode, each disposed on an external surface of the body. The body includes a support member, a first coil, a second coil, a magnetic material surrounding the support member. The first coil is disposed on an upper surface of the support member, and the second coil is disposed on a lower surface of the support member. The support member includes through-hole and a via electrode therein. A portion of one of an upper surface and a lower surface of the via electrode opposes the magnetic material.
US10763030B2	Transformer and transformer core A unique transformer includes a first yoke formed of laminations oriented parallel to a first plane; a second yoke formed of laminations oriented parallel to the first plane; and a center leg formed of laminations oriented parallel to a second plane oriented at a non-zero angle relative to the first plane. The center leg includes a first end. The first yoke and the second yoke are in contact with the center leg at the first end. The transformer includes a coil disposed about the center leg, and a butt joint between the center leg and at least one of the first yoke and the second yoke.
US10763029B2	Losses reduction for electrical power distribution A transformer apparatus that may be applied as a distribution circuit adaptor (DCA) inserted into a branch supply circuit to reduce losses in a power distribution network. More particularly, implementations of the present disclosure provide a high-efficiency 2-phase dry type transformer apparatus with a removable core, as well as integrated instrumentation and thermal self-management.
US10763027B2	Method to optimize operation of a transformer cooling system, the corresponding system and a method to determine the VFD capacity The present application discloses a method to optimize operation of a transformer cooling system, the corresponding cooling system, and a method to determine the capacity of Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) that are used in the transformer cooling system. The method comprises: preprocessing the initial data input by user; collecting the on-line data, and calculating the optimized control command to meet the requirement of the transformer loss, top-oil temperature variation and noise; and executing the control actions by controlling a controllable switch and/or sending a control command to a VFD. Compared with the existing prior arts, the proposed solutions are much more intuitive and practical in the field of the cooling system.
US10763026B2	Device There is provided a device that includes a core, a first winding portion that turns around an outer circumference of the core, a plurality of sub-substrates each having a pattern of a second winding turning around the outer circumference of the core, and a main substrate on which a plurality of sub-substrates are mounted.
US10763025B2	Surface-mount inductor A surface-mount inductor includes an element assembly having a core, a coil, and a magnetic material; and a pair of external terminals disposed on a mounting surface of the element assembly. The core has a base portion and a columnar portion on an upper surface of the base portion. The coil is disposed on the base portion, and has a wound portion on the columnar portion, and a pair of extended portions extended from the wound portion toward a side surface of the base portion. The magnetic material includes the coil and covers at least a part of the core. The external terminals are disposed on the mounting surface of the element assembly and connected to the extended portions. The surface-mount inductor has, on a surface at a mounting surface side of the wound portion, a curved portion that is curved toward a side opposite to the mounting surface.
US10763023B2	Tuning systems, devices, and methods Systems and implementations for inductance tuning systems that are configured to operate in a wide range of frequencies are provided herein. The subject matter described herein can in some embodiments include an inductance tuning system including at least one inductor connected to a first terminal, the at least one inductor comprising of a plurality of inductive elements that are substantially magnetically coupled to each other, wherein spacing between the inductive elements are substantially less than diameters of the windings. At least one capacitor can be connected between one or more of the plurality of inductive elements and a second terminal.
US10763021B1	Method of changing a property of a polar liquid For changing a property of a polar liquid, a transducer including a solenoidal coil is disposed at least partially within the liquid, which is prevented from penetrating the interior of the coil. An alternating electrical current applied to the coil produces a magnetic field about the coil. The current has a frequency and an amplitude such that the magnetic field has an effect on the liquid changing a property of the liquid at a distance of at least 5 meters from the transducer, wherein the property is gas exchange rate, surface tension, viscosity, freezing point, or partial vapor pressure. A system may include two transducers, wherein the electrical currents are offset in phase or frequency for controlling the effect.
US10763019B2	Soft magnetic material, core, and inductor A soft magnetic material comprising a soft magnetic metal powder and a resin, wherein the soft magnetic metal powder is constituted from a particle group α and group β, when IA is a peak intensity of the particle group α, IB is a peak intensity of the particle group β, and IC is a minimum intensity present between the particle group α and group β, then an intensity ratio IC/IA satisfies 0.10 or less and an intensity ratio IA/IB satisfies 1.2 or more and 3.0 or less, the particle group α having a maximum peak intensity in a size distribution of the soft magnetic metal powder, the particle group β having an peak intensity which is the second largest to the particle group α, and a peak particle size PA of the particle group α is larger than a peak particle size PB of the particle group β.
US10763014B2	Method for producing an electrical conductor A method for producing an electrical conductor may include cutting an electrically conductive round wire composed of copper to a predefined desired length and plastically forming the round wire, in at least one forming section, into a predefined desired shape.
US10763009B2	Method of manufacturing electrical cable, and resulting product, with reduced required installation pulling force Disclosed are cable types, including a type THHN cable, the cable types having a reduced surface coefficient of friction, and the method of manufacture thereof, in which the central conductor core and insulating layer are surrounded by a material containing nylon or thermosetting resin. A silicone based pulling lubricant for said cable, or alternatively, erucamide or stearyl erucamide for small cable gauge wire, is incorporated, by alternate methods, with the resin material from which the outer sheath is extruded, and is effective to reduce the required pulling force between the formed cable and a conduit during installation.
US10763004B2	Conductive polymeric material A melt-processable conductive material including a first continuous phase, a second continuous phase and a non-continuous phase. The first continuous phase includes a first polymer, the second continuous phase includes a second polymer, and the non-continuous phase includes a third polymer. The second continuous phase is co-continuous with the first continuous phase and the non-continuous phase is substantially contained within the first continuous phase. A plurality of conductive particles is distributed in the first polymer or at a boundary between the first continuous phase and the second continuous phase. The conductive particles form a conductive network.
US10763003B2	Method for manufacturing a charge dissipative surface layer A method of manufacturing a charge dissipative surface layer on a member made from or consisting of a dielectric polymeric material or polymer-based composite which is intended to be used in space and other extreme environments, the member having at least one surface, in particular two opposing surfaces, each of the surfaces having a flat or a three-dimensional shape. The method includes carbonizing the at least one surface of the member in a vacuum environment through ion bombardment with simultaneous surface renewal in a dynamic way, by bombardment of the at least one surface with an ion beam formed in a gaseous linear high-current technological ion beam source of rare gas and added predetermined amount of a carbonaceous gas in the same ion beam gas admixture in order to achieve a treated carbonized surface layer with a uniform surface resistivity in a charge-dissipative range.
US10762996B2	Apparatus for use in the inspection of a top grid guide of boiling water reactor An apparatus for performing an inspection on the beams of the top guide of a BWR includes a housing, an alignment assembly, and an inspection system. The housing is receivable atop the upper edges of a first pair of beams adjacent a receptacle of the top guide. The reception of the housing atop the upper edges of the first pair of beams is facilitated by the alignment assembly which includes a plurality of legs that are simultaneously moved between a retracted position wherein one or more of the legs is disengaged from the beams within the receptacle and an extended position wherein all of the legs are engaged with the beams of the top guide within the receptacle. The inspection system includes a pair of inspection elements that are translated above a second pair of beams that are adjacent the receptacle and that do not have the housing received thereon.
US10762989B1	Systems and methods for generating automated graphical user interfaces for real-time facility capacity management Computer-implemented systems and methods are provided for generating an automatically updating graphical user interface for capacity management data. In some embodiments, a system is disclosed, comprising at least one processor configured to receive a bed assignment request. The bed assignment request may include an individual identifier and a bed identifier. The one or more processors may receive, based on a query made in response to the received bed assignment request, attribute data corresponding to the identifier. The one or more processors may also format information from the attribute data, and provide instructions for generating and updating a graphical user interface.
US10762983B2	Selecting alternate results for integrated data capture Systems, methods, computer-readable media, and graphical user interfaces for selecting alternate results for integrated data capture are provided. Integrated data capture workflows are initiated from within an electronic medical record (EMR). Data is gathered from the EMR to make available to a case report form. Case report forms are populated with the most recently collected values of data. Indicators are displayed if alternate results for items are available. Selections of indicators are received and closed menus of alternate results for the items are presented.
US10762980B2	Computer-implemented methods of determining protein viscosity Provided herein are high-throughput methods for identifying a candidate antibody based on viscosity of the candiate antibody.
US10762978B2	Post-packaging environment recovery of graphics on-die memory Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a redundant portion of a packaged on-die memory and detects, during a field test of the packaged on-die memory, one or more failed cells in the packaged on-die memory. Additionally, one or more memory cells in the redundant portion may be substituted for the one or more failed memory cells.
US10762977B1	Memory storage device and memory testing method thereof A memory storage device and a memory testing method for testing a memory array of the memory storage device are provided. The memory testing method includes the following steps: writing first data into a plurality of first segments of the memory array, and writing second data to a second segment of the memory array; obtaining third data by reading the plurality of first segments, and obtaining fourth data by reading the second segment; converting the fourth data to fifth data, wherein the fifth data is the same as check data obtained by encoding the first data by using an encoding circuit corresponding to a decoding circuit of the memory storage device.
US10762975B2	Shift register circuit, driving method thereof, and display device A shift register circuit including: a first switching unit, a second switching unit, a third switching unit, a fourth switching unit, a fifth switching unit, a sixth switching unit, a seventh switching unit, and an eighth switching unit.
US10762974B2	One check fail byte (CFBYTE) scheme Various embodiments, disclosed herein, can include apparatus and methods to perform a one check failure byte (CFBYTE) scheme in programming of a memory device. In programming memory cells in which each memory cell can store multiple bits, the multiple bits being a n-tuple of bits of a set of n-tuples of bits with each n-tuple of the set associated with a level of a set of levels of threshold voltages for the memory cells. Verification of a program algorithm can be structured based on a programming algorithm that proceeds in a progressive manner by placing a threshold voltage of one level/distribution at a time. The routine of this progression can be used to perform just one failure byte check for that specific target distribution only, thus eliminating the need to check failure byte for all subsequent target distribution during every stage of program algorithm. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10762971B2	Responding to power loss Apparatus including an array of volatile memory cells and a differential storage device configured to receive information indicative of a data value stored in a particular memory cell of the array of volatile memory cells and having a first non-volatile memory cell connected between a first isolation gate and a voltage node configured to receive a first voltage level and a second non-volatile memory cell connected between a second isolation gate and the voltage node, wherein a gate of the second non-volatile memory cell is connected to a gate of the first non-volatile memory cell. The apparatus further logic responsive to an indication of a loss of power to the apparatus and the information indicative of the data value stored in the particular memory cell.
US10762968B2	Dynamic user-selectable trim profile in a memory component A memory component includes a memory configured to store an updatable trim profile that is user-modifiable. The updatable trim profile includes address information corresponding to a trim register to be modified, command information corresponding to an action to be performed, and data corresponding to the action to be performed. A processing device that is coupled to the memory component is configured to receive an instruction to modify the trim register, read contents of the updatable trim profile, and modify the trim register based on the address information, the action to be performed on the trim register, and the data.
US10762967B2	Recovering from failure in programming a nonvolatile memory A controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to communicate with a nonvolatile memory including multiple memory cells organized in multiple memory blocks that each includes multiple Word Lines (WLs). The processor is configured to store first data in one or more WLs of a memory block, the first data occupies less than a maximal number of WLs available in the memory block, to calculate redundancy data over the first data and store the redundancy data in a dedicated memory, to program second data to a selected WL of the memory block that was not programmed with the first data, to check a programming status resulting from the programming of the selected WL, and in response to identifying that programming the second data to the selected WL has corrupted at least part of the first data, to recover the first data using the redundancy data.
US10762966B2	Memory arrays and methods of forming the same A device having at least one memory cell over a substrate is provided. The at least one memory cell includes a source region and a drain region in the substrate, and a first gate and a second gate over the substrate. The first and second gates are arranged between the source region and the drain region. The first and second gate are separated by an intergate dielectric. The first gate is configured as a select gate and erase gate of the at least one memory cell, and the second gate is configured as a storage gate of the at least one memory cell. The second gate comprises a floating gate and a control gate over the floating gate. The device further includes source/drain (S/D) contacts extending from the source region and the drain region. The source region and the drain region are coupled to either one of a source line (SL) or a bit line (BL) through the S/D contacts.
US10762964B2	Methods and apparatuses including a string of memory cells having a first select transistor coupled to a second select transistor Generally discussed herein are apparatuses and methods. One such apparatus includes a data line, a first memory cell and a first select transistor. The first transistor has a gate and is coupled between the data line and the first memory cell. The apparatus can include a second memory cell and a second select transistor having a gate. The apparatus can include a third select transistor having a gate. The second select transistor is coupled between the second memory cell and the third select transistor. The third select transistor is coupled between the second select transistor and a source. The apparatus can include a drive transistor coupled to both the gate of the first select transistor and the gate of the second select transistor or the gate of the third select transistor.
US10762955B2	Memory system A memory system includes a storage device and a controller. The storage device includes a first string including a first memory cell transistor and a second memory cell transistor connected in series to each other, and a first select transistor, a second string including a third memory cell transistor and a second select transistor, a gate of the second select transistor being independent from a gate of the first select transistor. The controller configured to perform first writing to cause a threshold voltage of the first memory cell transistor to be lower than a first target threshold voltage, perform second writing to cause a threshold voltage of the second memory cell transistor to be higher than a second target threshold voltage after the first writing, perform third writing to cause a threshold voltage of the first memory cell transistor to be higher than the first target threshold voltage after the second writing, and perform fourth writing on the third memory cell transistor after the third writing.
US10762953B2	Memory array with reduced circuitry A memory array is described herein that includes a static random-access memory (SRAM) array to store data. The memory array also includes a bit circuit to retrieve the data from the SRAM array, the bit circuit to be operated with a clock signal that oscillates between a low state and an intermediate state, wherein the intermediate state is between the low state and a high state. Furthermore, the memory array includes a sense amplifier to amplify an output signal from the bit circuit indicating a value of the stored data, wherein the sense amplifier does not include a cross coupled positive field-effect transistor.
US10762952B2	Memory circuit configuration A circuit includes a first cell in a first row of a memory array, a second cell in a second row of the memory array, and a data line perpendicular to the first row and the second row, intersecting each of the first cell and the second cell, and electrically coupled with each of the first cell and the second cell. The circuit is configured to simultaneously transfer data from the first cell and the second cell to the data line in a read operation on the first row.
US10762945B2	Memory device and refresh method for PSRAM A memory device is provided. The memory device includes a pseudo static random access memory (PSRAM), a word line (WL) arbitrator and a refresh controller. The WL arbitrator receives a WL signal and segments the WL signal according to a burst length setting value, to obtain a segmented WL signal. In a synchronous mode, the refresh controller provides a first refresh trigger signal corresponding to the WL signal to refresh the PSRAM. In a smart refresh mode, the refresh controller provides a second refresh trigger signal corresponding to the segmented WL signal to refresh the PSRAM.
US10762944B2	Single plate configuration and memory array operation Methods, systems, and devices for a single plate configuration and memory array operation are described. A non-volatile memory array may utilize a single plate to cover a subset of the array. One or more memory cells of the subset may be selected by operating the plate and an access line of an unselected memory cell at a fixed voltage. A second voltage may be applied to an access line of the selected cell, and subsequently reduced to perform an access operation. Removing the applied voltage may allow for the memory cell to undergo a recovery period prior to a subsequent access operation.
US10762940B2	Narrow etched gaps or features in multi-period thin-film structures Multi-period thin-film structures exhibiting giant magnetoresistance (GMR) are described. Techniques are also described by which narrow spacing and/or feature size may be achieved for such structures and other thin-film structures having an arbitrary number of periods.
US10762938B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device includes a first cell array and a second cell array, a first main word line disposed over the first cell array, a second main word line disposed over the second cell array, and a row decoder block disposed between the first cell array and the second cell array, and configured to include a common signal line that is commonly coupled to the first main word line and the second main word line such that a main word line control signal is simultaneously supplied to the first main word line and the second main word line.
US10762934B2	Leakage pathway prevention in a memory storage device The present disclosure describes various exemplary memory storage devices that can be programmed to write electronic data into one or more memory cells in a write mode of operation and/or to read the electronic data from the one or more memory cells in a read mode of operation. The various exemplary memory storage devices can select various control lines to read the electronic data from the one or more memory cells onto data lines and/or to write the electronic data from these data lines into the one or more memory cells. In some situations, these data lines are charged, also referred to as pre-charged, to a first logical value, such as a logical one, before the various exemplary memory storage devices write the electronic data into the one or more memory cells. During this pre-charging of these data lines, the various exemplary memory storage devices electrically isolate these data lines from specialized circuitry within these exemplary memory storage devices. This specialized circuitry, also referred to as a write driver, writes the electronic data onto these data lines for storage in the one or more memory cells during the write mode of operation.
US10762932B2	Memory device and operating method of memory device A memory device includes a memory cell array that includes memory cells, a row decoder that is connected to the memory cell array through word lines, a column decoder that is connected to the memory cell array through bit lines and source lines, a write driver that transfers a write voltage to a bit line, which is selected by the column decoder, from among the bit lines by using a gate voltage in a write operation, and control logic that generates the gate voltage. The gate voltage is higher than the write voltage.
US10762931B2	Memory power management A memory device includes an array of memory cells, such as SRAM cells, and a plurality of peripheral circuits operably coupled to the memory array. A power control circuit is configured to individually control an application of power to each of the plurality of peripheral circuits and the array of memory cells.
US10762923B2	Head support mechanism for a magnetic disk drive with a slider that has a head element A head support mechanism is provided with: a slider with a head element; a slider support plate; a load beam that holds the slider support plate; a fulcrum protrusion that is provided around a front end part of the load beam which supports the slider support plate; drive means that is configured to pivotally move the slider support plate centering on the fulcrum protrusion; and a drive means support portion that is provided to overlap and support the drive means. The drive means support portion has a narrow part and at least one wide part provided on a front end part side and a rear end part side of the load beam with respect to the narrow part. The drive means support portion is disposed at a position overlapping the fulcrum protrusion in a projection plane in a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the slider.
US10762921B1	Disk device According to one embodiment, a disk device includes a first actuator assembly and a second actuator assembly which are respectively supported by a first bearing unit and a second bearing unit to be rotatable about a support shaft. The first bearing unit includes a first sleeve and a ball bearing. The second bearing unit includes a second sleeve and a ball bearing. The first sleeve includes a first end surface opposed to the second sleeve and an annular first step projecting from the first end surface, and the second sleeve includes a second end surface opposed to the first step with a gap and an annular second step projecting from the second end surface. The second step is opposed to the first step and the first end surface with a gap.
US10762919B1	Magnetic recording write head with write pole having a tapered trailing end section with negative magnetic anisotropy A perpendicular magnetic recording write head includes a main portion formed of conventional high-moment magnetic materials, and a beveled or tapered trailing portion formed of a Co/Fe multilayer with negative magnetic anisotropy (negative anisotropy constant or —Ku). The Co/Fe multilayer tapered trailing portion has a high saturation magnetization (Ms) and thus functions as part of the write pole to direct the flux perpendicularly to the recording layer. Also, the —Ku Co/Fe multilayer tapered trailing portion has its hard axis oriented substantially orthogonal to the layer thickness and thus substantially prevents flux leakage into the write gap. The —Ku Co/Fe multilayer may also be formed on the sides of the write pole in the cross-track direction to prevent flux leakage into the side gaps.
US10762914B2	Adaptive multichannel dereverberation for automatic speech recognition Utilizing an adaptive multichannel technique to mitigate reverberation present in received audio signals, prior to providing corresponding audio data to one or more additional component(s), such as automatic speech recognition (ASR) components. Implementations disclosed herein are “adaptive”, in that they utilize a filter, in the reverberation mitigation, that is online, causal and varies depending on characteristics of the input. Implementations disclosed herein are “multichannel”, in that a corresponding audio signal is received from each of multiple audio transducers (also referred to herein as “microphones”) of a client device, and the multiple audio signals (e.g., frequency domain representations thereof) are utilized in updating of the filter—and dereverberation occurs for audio data corresponding to each of the audio signals (e.g., frequency domain representations thereof) prior to the audio data being provided to ASR component(s) and/or other component(s).
US10762913B2	Image-based techniques for audio content A method includes receiving, at a device from a first media device, audio data and image information. The audio information indicates vibrations of an object caused by sound in a vicinity of the object. The method includes generating, at the device, an audio signal based on the audio data. The method includes transmitting the audio signal from the device to a second media device conditioned upon a quality of the audio signal satisfying a threshold. Conditioned upon the quality of the audio signal failing to satisfy the threshold, the method further includes generating audio information based on the vibrations, generating audio content associated with the first media device from the audio information, and transmitting the audio content from the device to the second media device.
US10762906B2	Automatically identifying speakers in real-time through media processing with dialog understanding supported by AI techniques Automatically identifying speakers in real-time through media processing with dialog understanding. A plurality of audio streams may be received, an audio stream representing a speech of a participant speaking during an online meeting. A voice characteristic of a voice corresponding to the speech of the participant in the audio stream may be determined. The plurality of audio streams may be converted into text and a natural language processing may be performed to determine content context of the dialog. The natural language processing infers a name to associate with the voice in the audio stream based on the determined content context. A data structure linking the name with the voice may be created and stored in a knowledge base. A user interface associated with the online meeting application is triggered to present the name or identity of the speaker.
US10762897B2	Method and display device for recognizing voice A method and display device for recognizing voice is provided. A method of recognizing voice by a display device for performing an operation according to a control command of a remote control device includes: receiving an audio signal including user voice transmitted from the remote control device, extracting a signal characteristic of the received audio signal, identifying a noise type related to the extracted signal characteristic with reference to signal characteristics for each of a plurality of pre-stored noise types, and outputting guide information corresponding to the identified noise type. Accordingly, the display device provides uttered voice input guidance appropriate for voice recognition to a user so as to enhance voice recognition performance with respect to uttered voice.
US10762894B2	Convolutional neural networks Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for keyword spotting. One of the methods includes training, by a keyword detection system, a convolutional neural network for keyword detection by providing a two-dimensional set of input values to the convolutional neural network, the input values including a first dimension in time and a second dimension in frequency, and performing convolutional multiplication on the two-dimensional set of input values for a filter using a frequency stride greater than one to generate a feature map.
US10762892B2	Rapid deployment of dialogue system A method for a dialogue system includes establishing a dialogue session between an application executing on a server and a remote machine. The dialogue session includes one or more utterances received from a user at the remote machine. A natural language processing machine identifies a request associated with a computer-readable representation of an utterance. A dialogue expansion machine generates a plurality of alternative actions for responding to the request. A previously-trained machine learning confidence model assesses a confidence score for each alternative. If a highest confidence score for a top alternative does not satisfy a threshold, the plurality of alternatives including the top alternative are transmitted to a remote machine (which may be the same remote machine or a different remote machine) for review by a human reviewer. After the dialogue system and/or the human reviewer select an alternative, computer-readable instructions defining the selected alternative are executed.
US10762888B2	Sound absorbing fabric with improved thermal insulation and method of manufacturing the same Disclosed are a sound absorbing fabric with improved thermal insulation, and a method of manufacturing the same, wherein an inorganic aerogel powder and a thermosetting binder resin are impregnated into a non-woven fabric made of a heat-resistant fiber, wherein the inorganic aerogel powder has a surface modified by a surfactant to be uniformly mixed with and dispersed in a binder resin, thereby forming the sufficient number of micro cavities inside the non-woven fabric and increasing dispersibility of the inorganic aerogel powder, and thus heat resistance, sound absorbing and sound insulating properties, and thermal insulation properties can be significantly improved.
US10762883B2	Drumstick A drumstick including a first portion having a tip for striking a percussion instrument and a second portion separate from and mounted to the first portion. The second portion defines a space to house one or more functional components of the drumstick, and the second portion includes a substantially tubular outer wall defining the space therein.
US10762872B2	Client-server visualization system with hybrid data processing The invention comprises a system of client-server visualization with hybrid data processing, having a server digital data processor, that allows for server side rendering and processing image data, and client digital data processors simultaneously connected to the server, which receives messages from the clients, creates rendered images of data sets or other data processing results and sends those rendered images and results to the clients for display or further processing. Performing certain image rendering operations on either the server or the client according to which is better suited for the tasks requested by the user at any point in time, and possibly adjusting this division of work dynamically, improves rendering speed and application responsiveness on the clients.
US10762868B2	Memory-in-pixel circuit and driving method thereof, liquid crystal display panel and wearable device A memory-in-pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a liquid crystal display panel and a wearable device are disclosed. The memory-in-pixel circuit includes a latch circuit, a switch circuit and a selection circuit, all transistors included in the latch circuit are first type transistors, and the latch circuit is configured to latch a data voltage and generate a first latch signal and a second latch signal; the switch circuit is configured to provide the data voltage to the latch circuit when the switch circuit is turned on; the selection circuit is configured to apply the first selection signal or the second selection signal to a pixel under control of the first latch signal and the second latch signal, and to continue to apply the first selection signal or the second selection signal to the pixel when the switch circuit is turned off to achieve automatic update of the pixel.
US10762862B2	Display panel and display apparatus The present application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a substrate, an electrostatic discharge circuit disposed on the substrate and including a voltage gate high terminal (VGH terminal), a voltage gate low terminal (VGL terminal), an electrostatic input end and a common voltage terminal (VCOM terminal) coupled to components of the display panel, a first discharge unit and a second discharge unit, where the first discharge unit includes a first P-type thin film transistor and a second P-type thin film transistor, a gate of the first P-type thin film transistor is connected to a drain of the first P-type thin film transistor, and a gate and a drain of the first P-type thin film transistor are also connected to the VGH terminal, a source of the first P-type thin film transistor is connected to the electrostatic input end, a gate of the second P-type thin film transistor is connected to a drain of the second P-type thin film transistor, and a gate and a drain of the second P-type thin film transistor are also connected to the source of the first P-type thin film transistor, a source of the second P-type thin film transistor is connected to the VGL terminal, an input end of the second discharge unit is connected to the electrostatic input end, and an output end of the second discharge unit is connected to the VCOM terminal.
US10762861B2	Liquid crystal device, method for driving liquid crystal device, and electronic apparatus In a liquid crystal device, a plurality of pixel electrodes are provided in a pixel region E, in a first substrate. The first substrate is provided with a first electrode interposed between the pixel region and a sealing material in a plan view, and a second electrode interposed between the first electrode and the sealing material in a plan view. Of the plurality of pixel electrodes, a first signal of a first phase is supplied to a first pixel electrode that is adjacent to the first electrode, a second signal of a second phase having a phase delay with respect to the first signal is applied to the first electrode, and a third signal of a third phase having a phase delay with respect to the second signal is applied to a second electrode.
US10762858B2	Display device and driving method of display device A display device includes a display panel including: a plurality of pixels; and a signal controller which generates, on a frame-by-frame basis, a display signal based on an input image signal and a control signal from an outside. The signal controller includes a memory which stores a preset image signal, a receiver which receives the control signal, a clock signal modulator which generates an internal clock signal having a first frequency during a blank period, which is determined based on the control signal in a frame period, and a data processor which reads the preset image signal from the memory in response to the internal clock signal for an image processing.
US10762857B2	Electrophoretic display with passive matrix pixels An electrophoretic display including a passive matrix formed of row and column electrodes with an electrophoretic medium including two types of differently-colored charged particles disposed between the row and column electrodes. When the device is driven to a first color state by providing a voltage differential of 15V, the color state is stable for voltage differentials between 15V and −5V. The display switches to the second color state when a voltage differential of −15V is provided.
US10762856B2	Current protection systems and methods for electronic device displays Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices with displays. A display may include an array of display pixels and control circuitry for operating the display. The control circuitry may determine, based on pixel values for a row of display pixels, that a current in common supply voltage circuitry for the display pixels will exceed a threshold, if the row of display pixels is operated using the pixel values. The control circuitry may modify the pixel values for the row of display pixels to reduce the current in the common supply voltage circuitry and/or prevent the current in the common supply voltage circuitry from exceeding the threshold.
US10762855B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes displaying each picture with two frame images in sequence; drive voltages of adjacent two sub-pixels on each frame image including a high drive voltage and a low drive voltage, and the drive voltages of each sub-pixel in the first frame image and in the second frame image including a high drive voltage and a low drive voltage; determining backlight brightness adjusting signals of each backlight sub-area according to the drive voltages of a first frame image area and a second frame image area corresponding to each backlight sub-area; the backlight brightness adjusting signals being in groups; and performing independent brightness adjustment on a backlight source of the sub-pixels of various colors in corresponding backlight sub-areas in respective frame images of a next picture according to the backlight brightness adjusting signal of each backlight sub-area.
US10762853B2	Gate driving circuit and electroluminescent display using the same An organic light emitting display comprises pixels connected to gate lines, and a gate driving circuit to supply a gate signal to at least one gate line, and having stages connected to each other in a cascading way. A nth (n is a positive integer) stage of the gate driving circuit includes a Q1 node charging unit to charge a Q1 node to a turn-on voltage using first and second clock signals in reverse-phase, and a pull-up transistor to apply the turn-on voltage to an output terminal in response to a Q1 node voltage. The Q1 node charging unit includes a first charging unit to charge the Q1 node voltage to the turn-on voltage using the second clock signal; and a second charging unit to charge a Q2 node, coupled to the Q1 node, using the first clock signal in a section where the Q1 node has the turn-on voltage.
US10762851B2	Timing controller and display device including the same A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver configured to supply a scan signal to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of scan lines based on a scan start signal; an emission driver configured to supply an emission control signal to the plurality of pixels through a plurality of emission control lines based on an emission control start signal; and a timing controller configure to control an interval between a plurality of gate-on periods of the scan start signal within a gate-off period of the emission control start signal based on a dimming level.
US10762842B2	Controller, display device and method for controlling to reduce degradation of image quality with use The present embodiments may provide a display device that includes a display panel; a data driver configured to include a plurality of driver Integrated Circuits (ICs) configured to supply a data signal to the display panel and to be present on the display panel, and to have a first characteristic and a second characteristic corresponding to variation between at least two driver ICs among the plurality of driver ICs; and a controller configured to supply a first voltage and a second voltage to the data driver, to identify change values of the first characteristic and the second characteristic corresponding to the first voltage and the second voltage, and to change the first characteristic and the second characteristic corresponding to the change values, and may provide a method for operating the same.
US10762841B2	Pixel circuit, driving method thereof and display device The disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device. The pixel circuit includes a first through six thin film transistors, a light-emitting diode and a storage capacitor. A gate of the first thin film transistor is separately connected to a source of the second thin film transistor, a source of the third thin film transistor and one end of the storage capacitor. The other end of the storage capacitor is separately connected to a drain of the fourth thin film transistor and a source of the fifth thin film transistor. A source of the first thin film transistor is connected to a first power source. A drain of the first thin film transistor is separately connected to a drain of the second thin film transistor and a source of the sixth thin film transistor.
US10762838B2	Display device A display device with a substrate including an active area having a plurality of pixels, and an inactive area adjacent to the active area; a plurality of power lines in the active area, connected to the plurality of pixels; a first power link line in the inactive area configured to receive power voltage and transmit the power voltage to the plurality of power lines; and a first hole disposed in the first power link line.
US10762835B2	Display device and driving method thereof The present disclosure a display device includes: a display panel including subpixels displaying an image; and a life controller controlling at least any one of a compensation rate and a delay rate of the subpixels on the basis of usage data obtained by calculating usage of the display panel and life data of the subpixels.
US10762833B2	Display panel and driving method therefor, and display apparatus The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and provides a display panel and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: an ultrasonic echo acquisition circuit and a light emitting circuit. The acquisition circuit includes a first circuit and an ultrasonic wave receiving sensor, wherein the first circuit has a first node coupled to the ultrasonic wave receiving sensor, a second node and a third node coupled to a scan signal terminal, a fourth node and a fifth node coupled to a control signal terminal, and a sixth node being an output terminal. The light emitting circuit includes a second circuit and a light emitting diode.
US10762831B2	Flexible electroluminescent display for use with electronic gaming systems An electroluminescent display includes a flexible display material shaped to cover a designated portion of an electronic gaming system. In various embodiments, the flexible display material includes an appliable backing configured to be removably applied to the designated portion of the electronic gaming system, a graphics layer including a plurality of graphics regions, each graphics region of the plurality of graphics regions having an associated shape, and a plurality of electroluminescent (EL) display elements disposed between the appliable backing and the graphics layer, each EL display element of the plurality of EL display elements shaped to correspond to a shape of one of the plurality of graphics regions, the plurality of EL display elements configured to back-illuminate the plurality of graphics regions.
US10762830B2	Display apparatus, method, and storage medium A display apparatus includes a light source, a light amount control unit configured to control an amount of light emitted from the light source, an image processing unit configured to control a signal level of the image signal, and a control unit configured to control the light amount control unit and the image processing unit based on the image signal. The control unit performs control such that, when the image signal changes, the signal level of the image signal controlled by the image processing unit becomes a signal level corresponding to the changed image signal more quickly than the light amount controlled by the light amount control unit reaches a light amount corresponding to the changed image signal.
US10762825B2	Gamma correction circuit and gamma correction method Disclosed is a gamma correction circuit and method capable of minimizing power consumption by adding third and fourth input amplifiers receiving reference voltages which are identical to voltages to first and second input amplifiers, respectively, and deactivating the first and second input amplifiers during an always on display (AOD) mode. The gamma correction circuit includes a first input amplifier configured to output a maximum voltage when active, a second input amplifier configured to output a minimum voltage when active, a third input amplifier configured to output a highest gamma voltage in response to the first reference voltage, and a fourth input amplifier configured to output a lowest gamma voltage in response to the second reference voltage. The first and second input amplifiers are deactivated when the display driving device operates in the AOD mode.
US10762822B2	Pixel array and display device A pixel array is implemented in a display device. The display device includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines. The pixel array includes a first sub pixel row, a second sub pixel row, and a third sub pixel row. The first sub pixel row includes a first sub pixel, a second sub pixel, and a third sub pixel. The second sub pixel row includes a fourth sub pixel, a fifth sub pixel, and a sixth sub pixel. The third sub pixel row includes a seventh sub pixel, an eighth sub pixel, and a ninth sub pixel. The seventh sub pixel is electrically coupled to a first data line. The first sub pixel, the fourth sub pixel, and the fifth sub pixel are electrically coupled to a second data line. The second sub pixel, the third sub pixel, and the eighth sub pixel are electrically coupled to a third data line. The sixth sub pixel and the ninth sub pixel are electrically coupled to a fourth data line.
US10762818B2	Display device and display method thereof A display device includes a display panel, a micro lens array, a driving system, a controller, and a signal processor. The controller is configured to set at least one preset path within one frame. The driving system is configured to drive, according to the preset path, the display panel and/or the micro lens array to move along respective preset path(s), and to control the display panel and/or the micro lens array that move along the preset path to stop moving at the stopping positions. The signal processor is configured to, in response to stopping of the display panel and/or the micro lens array at the corresponding stopping positions, provide display sub-images to the display panel according to the at least one preset path and one frame of display image.
US10762817B2	Gate driving circuit, driving method and display device The present disclosure provides a gate driving circuit, a driving method, and a display device. The gate driving circuit includes cascaded multistage gate driving units and a reset adjustment unit. Each stage of the gate driving units includes a pull-up module, a first output module, a second output module, and a reset module. The reset adjustment unit is used for, under the control of a first and a second control signal, inputting the reset signal of the reset terminal of a former stage gate driving unit to the reset module of a latter stage gate driving unit, and inputting the reset signal of the reset terminal of the latter stage gate driving unit to the reset module of the former stage gate driving unit.
US10762816B2	Display device and driving method thereof A display device may include a timing controller, a data driver and a plurality of pixels. The timing controller supplies a clock training pattern over a data/clock signal line in a first time period, and supplies pixel/control data over the data/clock signal line in a second time period. The data driver generates a clock signal, using the clock training pattern, in the first period, and generate a plurality of data voltages based on the plurality of pixel data, using the clock signal, in the second period. The plurality of pixels receive the plurality of data voltages and emit corresponding light. During the second period, the data driver outputs a feedback signal to the timing controller indicating that the locking of the clock signal has failed. The timing controller re-supplies the clock training pattern in response to the feedback signal.
US10762807B2	Circumferential laser dynamic display device The invention discloses a circumferential laser dynamic display device, including an inner frame, having an inner frame pattern with multiframe microstructures made on surface; a sheet metal part, at least provided with first and second through holes, wherein the inner frame pattern is directly irradiated by a first beam of laser through the first through hole and by a second beam of laser through the second through hole; and a rotating shaft, with one end fixedly connected with a driving shaft, and the other end rotatably connected with the inner frame pattern. The rotating shaft can drive the inner frame pattern to do translational movement when rotating; wherein the translational movement of the inner frame enables the inner frame pattern to do circumferential movement relative to laser. The dynamic display device disclosed by the invention has simple structure, reasonable design and low production cost, and achieves circumferential dynamic image display.
US10762806B2	Display device The present disclosure provides a display device including a light source, a substrate on the light source, a first transflective layer on the substrate, a partition layer on the first transflective layer, a first light converting layer, and a second converting layer. The first transflective layer includes at least one hole, and the partition layer includes a first opening, a second opening, and a third opening overlapped with the hole. The first light converting layer is disposed in the first opening, and the second light converting layer is disposed in the second opening.
US10762801B2	Functional device, in particular a robot, for educational use with modules that can be combined together A robot device having modules that can be combined together to produce alternative devices useful for educational purposes. The robot device includes one or more frame bodies and one or more motorized joints connected to the frame bodies and in communication with a central control unit. Each motorized joint includes a fixed portion and a movable portion. Through a combination of frame bodies and motorized joints modules, alternative motorized devices can be generated.
US10762799B1	Make-up assisting method implemented by make-up assisting device A make-up assisting method implemented by a make-up assisting device is disclosed, wherein the make-up assisting device (1) has a reflecting mirror (11), an image capturing unit (13) and a display unit (12) arranged behind the reflecting mirror (11). The make-up assisting method includes steps of: reflecting user's face image (110) through the reflecting mirror (11) and controlling the image capturing unit (13) to execute an image recording procedure toward the user when the make-up assisting device (1) enters a make-up assisting mode; obtaining video content information (162) corresponding to user's current make-up procedure; displaying the video content information (162) on a first assisting interface (121) of the display unit (12), wherein the first assisting interface (121) does not overlap with the face image; and, terminating the image recording procedure to generate a recorded video (163) when the make-up procedure is completed.
US10762795B2	Unmanned aerial vehicle privacy controls Disclosed in this specification are methods, systems and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on non-transitory computer storage media for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight operation and privacy controls. Based on geofence types, and UAV distance from a geofence, sensors and other devices connected to a UAV are conditionally operational. Image data collected during a UAV flight may be obfuscated by the UAV while in flight, or via a post-flight process using log data generated by the UAV.
US10762791B2	Systems and methods for managing communications between vehicles Systems and methods for increasing the efficiency of vehicle platooning systems are described. In one aspect, drivers are more likely to enjoy a system if it begins platooning as desired and does not accidently end platoons. When a certain amount of data packets sent between vehicles are dropped, systems typically will either not engage in a platoon or end a current platoon. When a platoon has a very small gap between vehicles, the platoon should end—or not start, when a certain amount of packets are dropped. However, if a gap is large enough to provide a driver with more time to react, a system may accept a greater amount of dropped packets before it refuses to start a platoon or causes the end of a platoon.
US10762789B1	System for identifying high risk parking lots Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying high risk parking lots. High risk parking lots may be, for example, parking lots that pose a higher than average risk of collisions and/or theft. Auto insurance claim data may be analyzed to identify hazardous areas. A virtual navigation of roads within the hazardous area may be identified. Public parking lots within the virtual navigation map may be defined, with each public parking lot determined as either in a hazardous area or not. A vehicle may be determined to be approaching or parking in a parking lot in a hazardous area, and a nearby public parking lot not associated with the hazardous area may be selected instead. A route from a current position to the nearby public parking lot may be generated, and the vehicle may be routed to the nearby public parking lot. As a result, collisions and thefts may be reduced.
US10762781B2	Driving support device and driving support method A driving support device includes: an intersection information acquiring unit 3 to obtain signal light information about traffic signals installed at one or more intersections ahead of a road along which the vehicle is traveling and to obtain distances to the intersections; a vehicle state detector 4 to detect a position and speed of travel of the vehicle; a signal passableness deciding unit 5 to decide a passable or impassable state of the traffic signals by the vehicle from the signal light information, the distances to the intersections, and the position and speed of travel of the vehicle; and a display controller 7 to display the passable or impassable state of the traffic signals decided by the signal passableness deciding unit 5 by changes of color on the map.
US10762779B1	Emergency vehicle alert device The emergency vehicle alert device is a traffic control signal. The emergency vehicle alert device comprises an emergency vehicle beacon and a civilian receiver. The emergency vehicle beacon mounts in the emergency vehicle. The civilian receiver mounts in the civilian vehicle. The emergency beacon transmits a radio signal communicating GPS coordinates when operating in an emergency mode. The civilian receiver receives the transmitted radio signal and calculates the distance and direction of the emergency vehicle from the civilian vehicle.
US10762776B2	Method, apparatus, and computer program product for determining vehicle lane speed patterns based on received probe data A method is provided to generate vehicle lane speed patterns. A method may include: receiving probe data from a plurality of probes, where the probe data includes probe data point location and heading; matching probe data points to a road segment to generate map-matched probe data points; analyzing the probe data relative to the road segment to establish a multi-modal distribution of probe data representing a distance of the probe data points from a pre-defined reference position of the road segment; matching the analyzed probe data points to individual lanes of the road segment, where peaks in the established multi-modal distribution are associated with individual lanes; and generating a vehicle lane speed pattern for each lane of the road segment based on a speed associated with probe data that is map-matched to the individual lanes.
US10762775B2	Vehicle terminal device and control method thereof A vehicle terminal device is provided. The vehicle terminal device includes a first communicator configured to communicate with an apparatus included in the vehicle using a first wireless communication, a second communicator configured to communicate with an apparatus outside the vehicle using a second wireless communication, a detector configured to detect state information of the vehicle, and a controller configured to control the second communicator to broadcast an accident alert message for alerting of an accident involving the vehicle to at least one of an apparatus included in an adjacent vehicle or a traffic management device in response to a determination of the accident based on the state information of the vehicle detected through the detector, and control the second communicator to transmit at least one of information received from the apparatus included in the vehicle through the first communicator or the state information of the vehicle detected through the detector, to an external server.
US10762773B1	Systems and methods for building and using a false alarm predicting model to determine whether to alert a user and/or relevant authorities about an alarm signal from a security system Systems and methods for building and using a false alarm predicting model to determine whether to alert a user and/or relevant authorities about an alarm signal from a security system are provided. Such systems and methods can include a learning module receiving the alarm signal and additional information associated with the alarm signal, using the false alarm predicting model to process a combination of the alarm signal and the additional information to determine whether the combination represents a false alarm or a valid alarm, and transmitting a status signal indicative of whether the combination represents the false alarm or the valid alarm to an automated dispatcher module, and the automated dispatcher module using the status signal to automatically determine whether to alert the user and/or the relevant authorities about the alarm signal.
US10762767B2	Communicating with law enforcement agencies using client devices that are associated with audio/video recording and communication devices Communicating with law enforcement agencies using client devices that are associated with audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices are provided. In one embodiments, a method for a client device for preventing redundant calls to an emergency call center is provided, the method comprising: receiving, at the client device, a notification, along with video footage associated with the notification, about an event generated by an A/V recording and communication device, the video footage captured by a camera of the A/V recording and communication device; receiving a request for contacting the emergency call center; informing one or more backend devices, in communication with the client device and a home security monitoring center that monitors a security system, of the received request to suppress a potential redundant call to the emergency call center from the home security monitoring center; and contacting the emergency call center.
US10762766B2	Alarm system with door lock A building alarm system and automated door lock arranged to place the alarm system in an armed state when a door lock fails to engage to lock an associated door in a closed position. Activation of a single button by a user or use of specific code by a user to gain access to a building can cause the alarm system to automatically rearm and for door locks at the building to be locked after entry by the user. A first responder code can be used by first responder personnel to gain access to a building after an alarm system indicates an alarm state, e.g., that corresponds to an emergency condition.
US10762765B1	System and method for record management Various embodiments include a system that can comprise one or more processing modules and/or one or more non-transitory memory storage modules storing computing instructions on the one or more processing modules. The computing instructions can be configured to perform the acts of accessing a user history of a user in a first database, wherein the user history can comprise a first set of records describing a first set of physical items, wherein the first set of records can comprise a first distinct record describing a first distinct physical item, and/or wherein the first set of physical items can comprise the first distinct physical item; querying a physical item database for a second distinct record, wherein the physical item database can comprise the second distinct record, and wherein the second distinct record can describe a location of the first distinct physical item; receiving a first physical proximity indication that the user is within a first predefined physical proximity to the location of the first distinct physical item; in response to receiving the first physical proximity notification, automatically notifying the user that the user is within the first predefined physical proximity to the location of the first distinct physical item; receiving a first removal indication that the user has removed the first distinct physical item from the location of the first distinct physical item; and/or in response to receiving the first removal indication, automatically removing the first distinct record from the user history. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US10762763B2	System and method for collecting medical waste that monitors the waste for objects that may have been inadvertently discarded A mobile cart that holds a bag for receiving solid waste generated during a medical or surgical procedure. The cart includes a sensor that monitors whether or not an object containing metal is placed in the bag. A processor monitors the signal output by the sensor. If the sensor signal indicates that an object with a minimal amount of metal is placed in the bag, the processor momentarily asserts an audible alarm and continuously asserts a light alarm. The light alarm remains asserted until turned off. If, while the light alarm is on, the sensor signal indicates a second object with the minimal amount of waste is placed in the container, the processor again momentarily asserts the audible alarm. This provides notice that it may be necessary to investigate the contents of the bag to determine if not one but two or more objects were inadvertently discarded.
US10762760B2	Child car seat with an integrated anti-overheating safety system The child car seat with the integrated overheating protection for children provides a solution for the problem of overheating children, which may occur if the child is forgotten in a car, where the sun and other external influences may cause the child to overheat. The child car seat with the integrated overheating protection for children has an integrated temperature sensor, which, at elevated temperatures inside the car, and adjustable through the temperature button, triggers an audible alarm warning, which transmits sound or recorded messages stored in the processor. A certain amount of time after the elevated temperatures have been detected by the temperature sensor, the processor opens a valve, which begins to controllably release water from the water storage container and so begins the cooling-off phase of the child. After the system of the child car seat with the integrated overheating protection for children has been activated, we can dry the seat and refill it with water through the valve so it is ready to be used again.
US10762756B2	Multi-direction multi-range gate microwave intrusion detection device and method thereof The present disclosure provides microwave intrusion detecting device with multi-direction and multi-range fence which detects human or vehicle intrusions within altering range by transmitting microwave signals and receiving echo signals. It includes pair of detecting units, a signal unit, a processor, a control interface, an alarm unit, a storage unit, a communication unit, and a power supply unit. The pair of detection units are physically composed back-to-back which can form a long-distance electronic fence. The second detection unit can be separated from a main body to adjust the antenna coverage angle to adapt to environment or obstacles. The signal unit generates the frequency modulated continuous wave signal to the two detecting units respectively. The processor can set thresholds segments to from passing gates in microwave intrusion detecting device and can generate an alarm unit message.
US10762752B1	Tactile notifications for electronic devices An electronic device may provide tactile outputs at a tactile output region of the electronic device. The tactile output region of the electronic device may be a surface of an input structure or a surface of an enclosure of the device. Tactile outputs may provide a sustained, physically-based notification of a particular item of interest. The tactile output may alter a physical characteristic of the tactile output region, such as the shape, texture, or density of a portion of the electronic device, in one or more tactile output regions. Furthermore, the tactile notification may provide a notification that is less intrusive and more tunable to user preferences than conventional notifications. The tactile output may be static in that the tactile notification is not transitory and remains throughout the duration of the tactile output. The tactile notification may be dynamic in that it includes motion.
US10762751B2	Output devices for fabric-based electronic equipment A fabric-based electronic device may include an electronic device housing coupled to fabric. Control circuitry may be mounted in the electronic device housing and may control the movement of an output device in the fabric that provides tactile output to a user. For example, the output device may include a wire enclosed within a flexible tube. The flexible tube may be intertwined with fibers in the fabric. The wire may include a kink or other irregularity that presses against the inner surface of the flexible tube. When the wire is rotated or moved into an appropriate position, the kink may press against the inner surface of the tube, which in turn forms a protrusion on the fabric. The protrusion may press against the user's body and may therefore be used to obtain the attention of a user that is wearing or holding the fabric-based electronic device.
US10762749B2	Applications for gaming devices in a networked environment A method comprises receiving a request from a gaming device to initiate a session of game play comprising a plurality of game plays to be played, and transmitting to the gaming device an amount of credit required to initiate a first game play of the session on the gaming device.
US10762748B2	Amusement devices and games involving head to head play Various methods and apparatus related to gaming are described. Some embodiments relate to a multi-tiered game involving multiple participants. Some embodiments relate to players establishing gaming elements based on desired criteria. Other embodiments are described.
US10762747B2	Gaming system and method providing a keno game including bonus tiles The present disclosure is directed to a gaming system and method providing a keno game including bonus tiles. The method includes, in response to a determination that a quantity of bonus draws for a first keno board is greater than zero bonus draw, causing a display device to display at least one bonus tile with the first keno board, for each bonus tile displayed with the first keno board, adding a bonus keno number to the set of different keno numbers, selecting a quantity of keno numbers from the set of different keno numbers based on in part the quantity of bonus draws, adding the selected keno numbers to a gaming system keno number set, and determining any bonus awards based on a comparison of the keno numbers included in the gaming system keno number set and the bonus keno numbers that map to any of the displayed bonus tiles.
US10762746B2	Systems for resource management gambling hybrid gaming A resource management entertainment game including a mobile device, a player acquires and consumes resources to achieve a goal. An entertainment system engine of the gambling hybrid game provides player selection of wager denomination, the resource management entertainment game and determines when an interaction with a game element occurs in the game. A game world engine of the gambling hybrid game determines when a gambling event in a gambling game is to be provided based upon the interaction with game element in the resource management entertainment game. The game world engine then requests that a real world engine of the gambling hybrid game resolve the gambling event in the gambling game. The real world engine resolves the gambling event and associated wagers on the outcome of the gambling event.
US10762744B2	Automated money laundering detection, notification, and reporting techniques implemented at casino gaming networks Various aspects described or referenced herein are directed to different methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing automated money laundering detection, notification, and reporting techniques implemented at casino gaming networks.
US10762742B2	System and method for modifying gaming establishment mobile device application The present disclosure relates generally to a system that enables a mobile device running a mobile device application to communicate with different gaming establishment components and modify the mobile device application functionality and/or the mobile device application appearance based on different data received from different gaming establishment components.
US10762741B2	Information processing device, storage medium, and game control method A process of randomly determining symbols to be rearranged within a display frame for each of the first video reel and the second video reel in the slot game, a process of displaying an image for rearranging symbols of the second video reel in the display frame after rearranging the symbols of the first video reel in the display frame based on the random determination, and a process changing a symbol of the first video reel at a position where the special symbol is rearranged to a corresponding symbol of a function that is more advantageous than the symbol of the first video reel in the symbol correspondence table and outputting the result of the slot game are performed.
US10762740B2	Lot-to-lot roulette combination In various embodiments a single reel on a gaming device contains multiple symbols.
US10762735B2	Systems and methods for actuating an electronic lock upon payment for delivery services A system and computer-implemented method includes the operation of transmitting, via a payment-on-delivery device, a request message to a consumer computing device. The request message includes a request as to whether a consumer wishes to allow a package carrier to actuate an electronic lock. An indication that the package carrier may actuate the electronic lock is received by the payment-on-delivery device, which in response, presents a message to the package carrier asking whether the package carrier wishes to actuate the electronic lock. The package carrier selects to actuate the electronic lock and is presented with an access code for actuating the electronic lock.
US10762734B2	Automatically generating a commercial driver logbook based on vehicular data Systems and methods for automatically generating a commercial driver logbook based on vehicular data is disclosed herein. An example system includes a processor; and memory, the processor being configured to execute instructions stored in memory to perform a first type of authentication of a user based on an identifier received from a mobile device, unlock a door of a vehicle when the first type of authentication is complete, perform a second type of authentication of the user that is based on verification of a code transmitted to the user in response to completion of the first type of authentication, allow a key on event for the vehicle when both the first type of authentication and the second type of authentication are complete, and automatically generating a commercial driver logbook based on real-time drive time data collected from the vehicle.
US10762732B2	Cryptographic key management via a computer server Some embodiments include a computer server. The computer server can be configured to: add a security system associated with a user account; provision one or more communication devices associated with the security system; configure a cryptographic key to associate at least a communication device amongst the communication devices with the security system; configure an access control file that is cryptographically signed by the computer server and encrypted with the cryptographic key associated with the security system, wherein the access control file contains permissions of the communication devices to the security system; and provide a data payload including the access control file to a first communication device of the communication devices.
US10762728B2	Electronic control unit An in-vehicle electronic control unit disposed in a vehicle is equipped with (i) a fault-diagnosis function for diagnosing a fault of a component in the vehicle and (ii) a deterioration detector function for detecting a degree of deterioration of the component in the vehicle, which includes a deterioration information memory for memorizing deterioration information regarding a deterioration of each of the vehicle components, a deterioration checker for detecting whether the degree of deterioration has reached a check value for each of the vehicle components, and a recorder for recording the deterioration information of the component in the deterioration information memory when the degree of deterioration of the component has reached the check value. Thereby, the deterioration information of the component is storable at a component-worn timing when the degree of deterioration/wear of the subject component rises to a certain level.
US10762727B2	Estimation of aerial vehicle state A system for estimating aerial vehicle status includes an aerial vehicle, a computing device, and a wireless communication link that communicatively couples the aerial vehicle and the computing device. The aerial vehicle includes a sensor that outputs telemetry data. The computing device includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to retrieve the telemetry data from the sensor via the wireless communication link, execute an estimation algorithm based at least in part on the telemetry data, and determine a state of the aerial vehicle based on a result of the estimation algorithm.
US10762726B2	Hybrid-electric propulsion system for an aircraft A computer-implemented method of assessing a health of a gas turbine engine of a hybrid-electric propulsion system for an aircraft includes receiving, by one or more computing devices, data indicative of an amount of electrical power provided to, or extracted from, an electric machine. The method also includes receiving, by the one or more computing devices, data indicative of an operating parameter of the hybrid-electric propulsion system. The method also includes assessing, by the one or more computing devices, a health of the gas turbine engine based at least in part on the received data indicative of the amount of electrical power provided to, or extracted from, the electric machine and the received data indicative of the operating parameter of the hybrid electric propulsion system. The method also includes providing, by the one or more computing devices, information to a user indicative of the health of the gas turbine engine.
US10762723B1	Systems and methods for dynamically controlling parking rates at a parking facility System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to controlling a parking facility. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a parking facility control system is disclosed. The method includes selecting a pricing model, from a set of models based, at least partially, on historical data that indicates past parking rates and past usage levels of the parking facility. The method includes determining, periodically, a dynamic parking rate according to the pricing model. The method includes, in response to receiving a parking request for a vehicle, determining a current parking rate for the vehicle according to at least the dynamic parking rate and attributes of the parking request that indicate at least a parking duration that the vehicle is estimated to be parked at the parking facility. The method includes transmitting a parking notification to the vehicle, the parking notification indicating a parking space and the current parking rate.
US10762717B2	Blend shape system with dynamic partitioning A method and system that dynamically partitions a 3-D model into multiple regions. The method determines the vertices to be included in each region according to values assigned to an appropriate color channel for each vertex. After partitioning the 3-D model into different regions, the method allows a user to assign different weights to each region to specify a contribution by a driving shape for deforming that region. Dynamic partitioning may be used on multiple color channels to partition the three dimensional model into more than two regions.
US10762715B2	Information processing apparatus An information processing apparatus that constructs a virtual space by acquiring a plurality of images obtained by observing, at different times, a reality space in which one or more subjects are present, and arranging a plurality of unit volume elements at positions determined depending on a subject captured in each image of the plurality of images.
US10762712B2	Apparatus and method for supporting interactive augmented reality functionalities Augmented reality (AR) telepresence systems and methods are disclosed for obtaining a 3D model of a physical location from a 3D-capture system comprising one or more 3D depth sensors disposed throughout the physical location, generating a truncated 3D model of the physical location, the truncated 3D model corresponding to the intersection of the generated 3D model and a field of view of a user terminal camera at the physical location, and transmitting the truncated 3D model to a remote location.
US10762706B2	Image management device, image management method, image management program, and presentation system An image acquiring unit acquires an image of a sheet on which a medium that presents an identification image, including identification information is to be placed, the sheet including a user image that is presented by a user. A first identification-information acquiring unit acquires the identification information from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. An image extracting unit extracts the user image from the image acquired by the image acquiring unit. A second identification-information acquiring unit acquires the identification information from the medium alone. A first storage unit stores the user image in association with the identification information. A managing unit acquires, from the first storage unit, a user image such that the identification information associated with the user image matches the identification information acquired by the second identification-information acquiring unit, among the user images that are stored in the first storage unit.
US10762704B2	Method for establishing a deformable 3D model of an element, and associated system A method is provided for generating a three-dimensional morphable model of an element from an initial database of examples of such elements providing data allowing, for each of the elements of the initial database, a three-dimensional meshed surface based on points and on a triangular network connecting the points to be determined.
US10762701B2	Finite element modeling of anatomical structure A system and method is provided for generating a finite element (FE) model of an anatomical structure based on a fitted model (340) of the anatomical structure and association data. A segmentation model (310) may be provided for segmenting the anatomical structure. Association data may be obtained which associates a segmentation model part (315) of the segmentation model (310) with a mesh property, the segmentation model part (315) representing a pre-determined anatomical region of interest. The segmentation model may be applied to a medical image (320) of a subject, thereby obtaining a fitted model (340) providing a segmentation of the anatomical structure (330). The finite element model (350) may then be generated based on the fitted model (340) and the association data, said generating comprising meshing a finite element model part of the finite element model in accordance with the mesh property, the finite element model part corresponding with the pre-determined anatomical region of interest. Advantageously, this may result in an efficient generation of the FE model needing fewer manual iterations and/or alterations in the model or in the mesh.
US10762698B2	Automated spatial indexing of images based on floorplan features A spatial indexing system receives a sequence of images depicting an environment, such as a floor of a construction site, and performs a spatial indexing process to automatically identify the spatial locations at which each of the images were captured. The spatial indexing system also generates an immersive model of the environment and provides a visualization interface that allows a user to view each of the images at its corresponding location within the model.
US10762691B2	Techniques for compensating variable display device latency in image display Examples described herein generally relate to displaying an image on a display device where a motion during a latency between a first time associated with activating a first portion of the display device and a second time associated with activating a second portion of the display device is predicted. At least a second portion of an image, to be displayed at the second time, is distorted based at least in part on a function of the motion and the latency to compensate for the latency. A first portion of the image is displayed at the first time by activating the first portion of the display device. The second portion of the image, as distorted, is displayed at the second time by activating the second portion of the display device.
US10762686B2	Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer Apparatus and method for a hierarchical beam tracer. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a beam generator to generate beam data associated with a beam projected into a graphics scene; a bounding volume hierarchy (BVH) generator to generate BVH data comprising a plurality of hierarchically arranged BVH nodes; a hierarchical beam-based traversal unit to determine whether the beam intersects a current BVH node and, if so, to responsively subdivide the beam into N child beams to test against the current BVH node and/or to traverse further down the BVH hierarchy to select a new BVH node, wherein the hierarchical beam-based traversal unit is to iteratively subdivide successive intersecting child beams and/or to continue to traverse down the BVH hierarchy until a leaf node is reached with which at least one final child beam is determined to intersect; the hierarchical beam-based traversal unit to generate a plurality of rays within the final child beam; and intersection hardware logic to perform intersection testing for any rays intersecting the leaf node, the intersection testing to determine intersections between the rays intersecting the leaf node and primitives bounded by the leaf node.
US10762683B2	Animation sequence associated with feedback user-interface element In one embodiment, a content item and a feedback user-interface (UI) element associated with the content item may be displayed on a user device. The feedback UI element enables a user to provide feedback with respect to the content item. In response to a user interaction with the feedback UI element, an animation sequence featuring the feedback UI element is displayed on the user device.
US10762681B2	Map generation system and method for generating an accurate building shadow A map generation system, method and computer program product are provided to generate a shadow layer from a raster image that accurately represents the shadows of one or more buildings. In the context of a map generation system, the map generation system extracts pixel values from a raster image of one or more buildings and processes the pixel values so as to retain pixel values within a predefined range while eliminating other pixel values. The pixel values that are retained represent a shadow. The map generation system also modifies the a representation of the shadow by modifying the pixel values of respective pixels so as to have a shape corresponding to the shape of the one or more buildings. The map generation system causes presentation or storage of the building layer representing the one or more buildings and a shadow layer representing the shadow.
US10762680B1	Generating deterministic digital image matching patches utilizing a parallel wavefront search approach and hashed random number The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating deterministic enhanced digital images based on parallel determinations of pixel group offsets arranged in pixel waves. For example, the disclosed systems can utilize a parallel wave analysis to propagate through pixel groups in a pixel wave of a target region within a digital image to determine matching patch offsets for the pixel groups. The disclosed systems can further utilize the matching patch offsets to generate a deterministic enhanced digital image by filling or replacing pixels of the target region with matching pixels indicated by the matching patch offsets.
US10762678B2	Representing an immersive content feed using extended reality based on relevancy A device may generate, based on receiving feeder content, a structured format of the feeder content. The device may generate, based on the structured format of the feeder content, one or more semantic mappings for the feeder content. The device may generate, based on the one or more semantic mappings for the feeder content, an electronic storyboard of the feeder content. The device may generate an extended reality rendered content feed based on the electronic storyboard of the feeder content. The device may provide the extended reality rendered content feed to an extended reality device.
US10762677B2	Display apparatus, display control apparatus, and vehicle The present invention provides a display apparatus that provides, to a driver of a vehicle, an image showing vehicle information related to the vehicle by superimposing the image on a foreground of the vehicle, the apparatus including an obtainment unit configured to obtain information related to a driving state of the driver, and a control unit configured to control a display mode of the image based on the information obtained by the obtainment unit.
US10762676B2	Proactive creation of personalized products A method for proactively creating an image product includes capturing an image of an object in a first environment by a device, storing a library of personalized products each characterized by a product type, automatically recognizing the object in the image as having a product type associated with the library of personalized products, automatically creating a design for the personalized product of the product type using personalized content, automatically displaying the design of the personalized product of the product type incorporating the selected photo in the first environment on the device, and manufacturing a physical product based on the design of the personalized product.
US10762672B2	Device and method for reconstructing an X-ray computed tomography image The present invention relates to a device for reconstructing an X-ray tomography image, the device comprising a reconstruction module, which is configured to utilize an ordered subset maximum likelihood optimization with a diagonal paraboloid approximation of a cost function for the reconstructing of the X-ray tomography image; and a calculation module, which is configured to calculate a pre-computable denominator term for the cost function for a plurality of subsets of projection data based on a distribution of diagonal denominator terms over the plurality of the subsets of the projection data.
US10762669B2	Colorization of vector images Systems and techniques are described for colorizing vector images. Color raster images that correspond to the vector images are used to perform a color mapping to colorize the vector images. The vector images are represented using non-overlapping planar arrangements of faces of the vector images, so that the color mapping may be performed with respect to the faces. The faces may be processed in parallel, to further facilitate a speed and scalability of the describes processes and results.
US10762667B2	Method and apparatus for compression of point cloud data A method for point cloud coding (200 or 300) or decoding (400 or 500) includes identifying (201) a plurality of quantized points in 3D space, defining (202), a sequence order of the quantized points in 3D space, and identifying (203) differential vector patterns in the sequence order of quantized points in 3D space. The method further includes identifying (204) Morton Index Differences in the sequence order of quantized points in 3d space, coding (205) the one or more quantized points in 3D space using differential vector patterns in a first plurality of codewords, coding (206) the one or more quantized points in 3D space using the Morton index differences in a second plurality of codewords, combining (207) the first and second plurality of codewords into a third plurality of codewords, and coding (208) the third plurality of codewords using an entropy coding scheme into a bitstream.
US10762661B2	Imaging device, imaging method and storage medium An object is to easily and appropriately identify the orientation of imaging means at the time of image capturing. A control section of an imaging device or an image processing device acquires an image captured by an imaging section and performs image recognition processing of recognizing a photographic subject corresponding to a first orientation such as a horizontal imaging orientation or a vertical imaging orientation in the image so as to judge whether a predetermined photographic subject is present in the image. Then, based on the judgment result, the control section identifies whether the orientation of the imaging device or the imaging section at the time of image capturing is the first orientation or a second orientation.
US10762660B2	Methods and systems for detecting and assigning attributes to objects of interest in geospatial imagery Exemplary systems and methods perform post-processing operations on computer vision model detections of objects of interest in geospatial imagery to detect and assign attributes to the detected objects of interest. For example, an exemplary post-processing system correlates multiple detections, made by a computer vision model, of an object of interest depicted within a set of images of a geospatial location, determines, based on the correlated detections, an attribute of the object of interest depicted within the set of images of the geospatial location, and selects the attribute for inclusion in a dataset for the object of interest. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US10762653B2	Generation apparatus of virtual viewpoint image, generation method, and storage medium A virtual viewpoint image generation apparatus including: a first generation unit configured to generate, based on a plurality of captured images obtained by a plurality of first cameras, a first virtual viewpoint image in accordance with a position and direction of a virtual viewpoint; a determination unit configured to determine, in accordance with evaluation results of the first virtual viewpoint image, whether or not to generate a second virtual viewpoint image whose image quality is higher than that of the first virtual viewpoint image based on one or a plurality of captured images obtained by one or a plurality of second cameras; and a second generation unit configured to generate the second virtual viewpoint image whose image quality is higher than that of the first virtual viewpoint image in accordance with determination by the determination unit.
US10762651B2	Real time calibration for time-of-flight depth measurement A method for determining a distance to a target object includes transmitting light pulses to illuminate the target object and sensing, in a first region of a light-sensitive pixel array, light provided from an optical feedback device that receives a portion of the transmitted light pulses. The feedback optical device includes a preset reference depth. The method includes calibrating time-of-flight (TOF) depth measurement reference information based on the sensed light in the first region of the pixel array. The method further includes sensing, in a second region of the light-sensitive pixel array, light reflected from the target object from the transmitted light pulses. The distance of the target object is determined based on the sensed reflected light and the calibrated TOF measurement reference information.
US10762650B1	System and method for estimating depth using a monocular camera A system for estimating depth using a monocular camera may include one or more processors, a monocular camera, and a memory device. The monocular camera and the memory device may be operably connected to the one or more processors. The memory device may include an image capture, an encoder-decoder module, a semantic information generating module, and a depth map generating module. The modules may configure the one or more processors to executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to obtain a captured image from the monocular camera, generate a synthesized image based on the captured image wherein the style transfer module was trained using a generative adversarial network, generate, a feature map based on the synthesized image, generate semantic information based on the feature map, and generate a depth map based on the feature map and the semantic information.
US10762649B2	Methods and systems for providing selective disparity refinement Embodiments herein provide methods and systems for providing selective disparity refinement. The embodiments include detecting objects of interest of type similar to a type of a point of interest in an image. Disparity values may be determined for the point of interest and the objects of interest in the captured image. Objects of interest may be selected with disparity values within a disparity value threshold range, wherein the disparity value threshold range is based on disparity value of the point of interest. The embodiments include performing a redistribution of disparity values of objects in the image with disparity values not within the disparity value threshold range. The embodiments include assigning a disparity value to the selected objects of interest based on the disparity value of the point of interest, to achieve selective disparity refinement.
US10762646B2	Neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, multi-camera locating, and multi-camera event stitching for audio/video recording and communication devices The present embodiments relate to improvements to audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices, including improved approaches to using a neighborhood alert mode for triggering multi-device recording, to a multi-camera motion tracking process, and to a multi-camera event stitching process to create a series of “storyboard” images for activity taking place across the fields of view of multiple cameras, within a predetermined time period, for the A/V recording and communication devices.
US10762643B2	Method for evaluating image data of a vehicle camera A method and a device for evaluating image data of a vehicle camera, involves: a) recording a first image by the vehicle camera, b) recording a subsequent second image by the vehicle camera, c) extracting multiple correspondent features in the first and second images, d) assuming a motion of the vehicle camera (motion hypothesis) between the recordings of the first image and the second image, e) determining a reprojection error of an extracted feature, which indicates the difference between the flow measured from the feature extracted in the first and second images and the flow calculated from the motion hypothesis, and f) establishing outliers, wherein an extracted feature is established as an outlier if the reprojection error of this feature reaches or exceeds a threshold, wherein the threshold is not constant within an iteration that includes at least steps b) to g). This offers an improved detection and removal of outliers to estimate the motion of the vehicle camera.
US10762642B2	Systems and methods for indicating user performance in launching a basketball toward a basketball hoop Methods and apparatus for determining a trajectory of a axisymmetric object in 3-D physical space using a digital camera which records 2-D image data are described. In particular, based upon i) a characteristic length of the axisymmetric object, ii) a physical position of the camera determined from sensors associated with the camera (e.g., accelerometers) and iii) captured 2-D digital images from the camera including a time at which each image is generated relative to one another, a position, a velocity vector and an acceleration vector can be determined in three dimensional physical space for axisymmetric object objects as a function of time. In one embodiment, the method and apparatus can be applied to determine the trajectories of objects in games which utilize axisymmetric object objects, such as basketball, baseball, bowling, golf, soccer, rugby or football.
US10762641B2	Interaction recognition and analysis system An object tracking system is disclosed. The system comprises an appliance comprising at least one operating volume and an access region through which the operating volume is accessed. The system further comprises at least one imager and a controller. The controller is operable to detect at least one part of a person's body in the access region based on the image data and identify the object in connection with the part of the person's body. Based on the detection of the object in connection with the person's body, the controller is configured to identify the object. An action is determined for the object based on one or more characteristics of the physical object indicated in the image data.
US10762628B2	Statistical mapping in an optoacoustic imaging system Electromagnetic energy is deposited into a volume, an acoustic return signal from energy deposited in the volume is measured, and a parametric map that estimates values of at least one parameter as spatially represented in the volume is computed. A reference level of a region of interest is determined, and upper and lower color map limits are specified, with at least one of them being determined in relation to the reference level. The parametric map is then rendered in the palette of a color map by mapping the estimated values of the parametric map onto the color map according to the color map limits. Two wavelengths of energy can be applied to the volume, and the parametric map computation can be adapted by applying an implicit or explicit model of, or theoretical basis for, distribution of electromagnetic energy fluence within the volume pertaining to the two wavelengths. The actual electromagnetic energy fluence caused by each wavelength has a propensity, due to variability within the volume, to differ from the modeled or theoretical electromagnetic energy fluence.
US10762619B2	Imaging support device and imaging support method An imaging support device (10) includes an imaging point specification unit (22) that specifies an imaging point of a structure on the basis of drawing information, an imaging planning unit (24) that generates imaging plan information including at least one of imaging position information or imaging range information of an imaging device at each imaging of the structure on the basis of the specified imaging point and image quality information, an actual imaging information-acquisition unit (28) that acquires actual imaging information including at least one of actual imaging position information or actual imaging range information of the imaging device at each imaging of the structure, and an imaging support information-generation unit (30) that combines the imaging plan information and the actual imaging information with the drawing information and allows a display unit (13) to display combined information.
US10762616B2	Method and system of analytics system balancing lead time and accuracy of edge analytics modules Systems and methods described herein are directed to changing models and analytics algorithms on an edge node from a core server, which can be useful in situations such as optimized factories when the edge node is physically close to data sources such as within a factory plant. The core server or cloud runs analytics algorithms and models concurrently with data received from edge nodes, and replaces the edge node with more accurate analytics algorithms and models as applicable.
US10762615B2	Method and system for servicing an object A method for servicing an object via a mobile platform includes maintaining a distance between the mobile platform and the object and performing a task for the object while maintaining the distance.
US10762611B2	Scaled two-band histogram process for image enhancement A method of image enhancement includes constructing an input histogram corresponding to an input image received at a focal plane array. The method includes performing histogram equalization on a first band of the input histogram starting from a zero value and ending at a division value representing a pixel bin value where a predetermined fraction of the input histogram by pixel hound is reached to produce a first portion of an equalization curve. The method includes performing histogram equalization on a second band of the input histogram starting from the division value and ending at a pixel bin value where all of the input histogram by pixel count is reached to produce a second portion of the equalization curve. The method includes applying the equalization curve to the input image to produce a corresponding enhanced image.
US10762603B2	System and method for image denoising Systems and methods for image noise reduction are provided. The methods may include obtaining first image data, determining a restriction or a gradient of the first image data, determining a regularization parameter for the first image data based on the restriction or the gradient, generating second image data based on the regularization parameter and the first image data, and generating a regularized image based on the second image data.
US10762602B2	Methods and apparatus to enable parallel processing when solving linear equations in a computer vision processing system Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to prepare a set of equations for a successive over relaxation processor are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an identifier to identify a set of equations that corresponds to pixels of an input image. Example apparatus also include a partitioner to divide the set of equations into partitions that contain mutually independent subsets of the equations and a collector to collect the subsets of the set of equations into groups, based on the partitions, to be solved in parallel by the successive over relaxation processor.
US10762598B2	Mixed reality system with color virtual content warping and method of generating virtual content using same A computer implemented method for warping multi-field color virtual content for sequential projection includes obtaining first and second color fields having different first and second colors. The method also includes determining a first time for projection of a warped first color field. The method further includes determining a second time for projection of a warped second color field. Moreover, the method includes predicting a first pose at the first time and predicting a second pose at the second time. In addition, the method includes generating the warped first color field by warping the first color field based on the first pose. The method also includes generating the warped second color field by warping the second color field based on the second pose.
US10762597B2	Generation apparatus, generation method, reproduction apparatus, and reproduction method There is provided a generation apparatus, a generation method, a reproduction apparatus, and a reproduction method by which a display image generated by use of an omnidirectional image is made approximately uniform in image quality in all visual line directions. A down-conversion part down-converts an omnidirectional image. A perspective projection part generates multiple images by projecting on multiple two-dimensional planes the omnidirectional image mapped onto a 3D model. This disclosure may be applied, for example, to generation apparatuses that generate an omnidirectional image from captured images in six directions so as to generate low- and high-resolution streams of the omnidirectional image.
US10762595B2	Designated region projection printing of spatial pattern for 3D object on flat sheet in determined orientation A system determines an object-design for a three-dimensional model of an object. The object-design may exhibit a design continuity. The system breaks the object-design in to spatial patterns corresponding to the discrete surfaces making up the outward surface of the object. The system then generates flattened patterns by projecting the spatial patterns into a two-dimensional plane. The system prints the flattened patterns on to designated regions of material sheets in an orientation that preserves the design continuity of the object-design. The regions may be extracted from the sheets and then joined at their edges to form a cover for object that exhibits the continuity of the object design.
US10762594B2	Optimized memory access for reconstructing a three dimensional shape of an object by visual hull An apparatus reconstructs a three dimensional shape of an object from a plurality of images captured from different viewpoints by visual hull. The apparatus stores, into a first memory provided for the apparatus, silhouette image data of the object extracted from the plurality of images, and determines a group of a plurality of epipolar lines having inclinations within a predetermined range in images designated as reference views among the plurality of images, based on positions of neighboring silhouette pixels in an image designated as a target view among the plurality of images. The apparatus further determines, based on the determined group and a capacity of a cache provided for the apparatus, a cache area to be used in a search for a line segment indicating a range where the object exists in each of the plurality of epipolar lines in the group.
US10762593B2	Unified memory systems and methods The present invention facilitates efficient and effective utilization of unified virtual addresses across multiple components. In one exemplary implementation, an address allocation process comprises: establishing space for managed pointers across a plurality of memories, including allocating one of the managed pointers with a first portion of memory associated with a first one of a plurality of processors; and performing a process of automatically managing accesses to the managed pointers across the plurality of processors and corresponding memories. The automated management can include ensuring consistent information associated with the managed pointers is copied from the first portion of memory to a second portion of memory associated with a second one of the plurality of processors based upon initiation of an accesses to the managed pointers from the second one of the plurality of processors.
US10762579B2	Stored balance with multi-channel withdrawal access A stored balance with multi-channel withdrawal access is described. In an example, a server of a payment processing service can determine a stored balance based on funds received from point-of-sale (POS) transactions processed via the payment processing service on behalf of a merchant. The stored balance can be maintained in a ledger of the payment processing service. The server can associate the stored balance with a payment instrument of the merchant. The stored balance can be accessible via the payment instrument substantially immediately after funding of a transaction at the POS and via (i) an instant deposit to a linked bank account of the merchant and (ii) a scheduled deposit to the linked bank account, wherein the instant deposit is available substantially immediately after funding of the transaction and the scheduled deposit is made at a prearranged time after the funding of the transaction.
US10762571B2	Use of drones to assist with insurance, financial and underwriting related activities An unmanned insurance drone can include a drone body and a sensor unit disposed on the drone body to collect sensor data. An on-board data processor converts the sensor data into insurance related information, and a wireless communication unit in communication with the data processor to transmit the insurance related information. In another example, the data processor may not be on the drone but remotely located. The location can be with the pilot or a control collection location. If the insurance related information is separate from the drone, than the wireless communication unit can transmit the raw sensor data to the processor.
US10762570B2	System and method for using a first electronic representation of contract terms for generating a second electronic representation of the contract terms Systems and methods are provided in which contract terms from a first electronic representation of a contract are used to form at least a part of a second electronic representation of the contract. For instance, the first electronic representation of a contract may be formed for use with a first software application, such as an adjudication application, and such first electronic representation of the contract is used by a system to form at least part of a second electronic representation of the contract, wherein such second electronic representation is used by a second software application, such as a contract management application. Disparate applications often utilize different representations of contract terms, and certain embodiments enable a second electronic representation to be formed by the system at least in part from a first electronic representation so that the different electronic representations are consistent as to the overlapping contract terms included therein.
US10762568B2	Computing architecture for managed-account transactions An improved computing architecture for managed-account transactions is presented. In accordance with embodiments, responsive to receiving a request to allocate funds of a client amongst different investment strategies, a computing system may determine based on percentages to be invested indicated by the strategies and an allocation of the funds amongst the strategies indicated by the request, a number of units of the asset to purchase for the client. A memory of the computing system may comprise a client object associated with the client and comprising an account object having a sleeve object for each of the investment strategies. And for each of the units, the computing system may instantiate, in the client object, an object comprising a variable for storing a basis for the unit and may instantiate, in a sleeve object for the investment strategy for which the asset is to be purchased, an object representing the unit.
US10762561B2	Systems and methods for improving computation efficiency in the detection of fraud indicators for loans Certain embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods for increasing efficiency in the detection of identity-based fraud indicators associated with a loan application. A method is provided that includes receiving applicant data associated with a loan application having a plurality of applicants. The application data includes at least a name, a social security number, and a street address for each of the plurality of applicants. The method includes querying one or more databases with the applicant data; receiving a plurality of independent information in response to the querying; determining a validity indication of the applicant data; creating disambiguated applicant records; determining relationships among the disambiguated applicant records; scoring at least one parameter of the applicant data; determining one or more indicators of fraud based on the scoring; and outputting, for display, one or more indicators of fraud.
US10762559B2	Management of payroll lending within an enterprise system A method and apparatus for facilitating access to credit scores in an enterprise system. A request that includes a context resource identifier may be received at a proxy server from a client. The proxy server controls access to a resource associated with an interface that is referenced by the context resource identifier using a profile that is dynamically built for a user of the client based on a plurality of resource profiles received from a plurality of interfaces in communication with the proxy server. The proxy server sends a response generated by the resource to the client. The response includes a credit score for an entity that is based on a current financial state of the entity. Controlling access to the resource based on the context resource identifier and the profile for the user increases a speed of access to the resource in the enterprise system.
US10762558B1	System, method, and computer program for authorizing a payment using gesture data A system, method, and computer program product include authorizing a payment using gesture data. In use, a request for a payment is received over a network from a payment provider. Additionally, gesture data is generated in response to the receipt of the request for the payment. Furthermore, the gesture data is transmitted to the payment provider over the network, for authorizing the payment.
US10762552B2	Retail subscription in internet of things environment A system and method for item replenishment comprise a subscription device that associates tags with items, a tag tracking device for collecting data on the tags associated with the items, and a management system that monitors changes in use of the items, including analyzing use patterns to determine when the items should be replenished, replaced, or upgraded.
US10762546B1	Configuring food-related information search and retrieval based on a predictive quality indicator The disclosed technologies can compute predictive reorder scores and measures of the quality of food products and food providers using objectively verifiable data, including reorder data, and use these predictive quality measures to create new functionality in an information search and retrieval system and/or a product ordering system.
US10762544B2	Issue resolution utilizing feature mapping A method for providing a resolution to an open issue is described. The method includes utilizing structured corresponding learning to determine pivots from a database having historical data records to determine data records having similar open issues and providing their resolution. The method further includes providing a recommended resolution for the open issue based on the historical data records.
US10762541B2	Devices and methods for information processing and access control A user information storage unit stores user information associating, for each user, an electronic mail address and at least one location information piece of the user with each other. A registration unit generates a code for each user using the location information and electronic mail address according to a predetermined rule. An invoice information storage unit stores invoice information including the electronic mail address of a first user included in the user information. When receiving an access request for accessing invoice information from a second user whose user information is stored in the user information storage unit, the registration unit determines whether the first code of the first user matches the second code of the second user, and if the first and second codes match, grants the second user access rights to access invoice information generated by the first user and stored in the invoice information storage unit.
US10762540B1	Systems and methods for automated trade-in with limited human interaction Aspects described herein may facilitate an automated trade-in of a vehicle with limited human interaction. A server may receive a request to begin a value determination of a vehicle associated with the user. The server may receive first data comprising: vehicle-specific identifying information, and multimedia content showing a first aspect of the vehicle. The user may be directed to place the vehicle within a predetermined staging area. The server may receive, from one or more image sensors associated with the staging area, second data comprising multimedia content showing a second aspect of the vehicle. The server may create a feature vector comprising the first data and the second data. The feature vector may be inputted into a machine learning algorithm corresponding to the vehicle-specific identifying information of the vehicle. Based on the machine learning algorithm, the server may determine a value of the vehicle.
US10762539B2	Resource estimation for queries in large-scale distributed database system Disclosed are systems and methods for managing queries on on-line advertisement data. The system includes a query engine device for receiving queries from and outputting query results to query client devices and a training engine for generating and adjusting a model for predicting an estimation of resource usage for execution of each received query based on each query's corresponding feature vector having values pertaining to the query and a system status. The query engine device is further configured to provide the estimation of resource usage for each query to the corresponding query client device and, in response, receive input from such corresponding query client device and specifying whether to proceed with the corresponding query. A database system receives input from each query's corresponding query client device as to whether to proceed with the query and, in response, initiates or inhibits execution of such query with respect to a database storage system.
US10762534B1	Motion data based consumer interfaces Systems, apparatus, methods, and non-transitory media for consumer interfaces that are responsive to motion data are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a system with one or more servers. The one or more servers may be configured to generate a consumer interface including a representation of an object that is responsive to the motion data generated by a motion sensor of a consumer device. The consumer interface may be provided to the consumer device to create the motion data and determine a motion data score. The motion data score may be used to determine promotion data parameters that define the terms of offered promotions. Promotion data parameters may be determined based on motion data performance in combination with consumer account data for programmatic relevance determination. Furthermore, the motion data received from the consumer device may be used to determine consumer account data or profile data.
US10762532B2	Proximity detection, virtual detection, or location based triggering of the exchange of value and information A system, methods, and apparatuses are provided for valuation and exchange of stored value assets, information of value, and the transfer of value to or among individuals. The exchanged assets may be of a similar nature, e.g., music files exchanged for other music files, and exchange or trade of information such as rewards value or a restaurant coupon. The exchanged assets may also be other dissimilar assets exchanged between individuals and/or entities. The exchange may be initiated in numerous ways such as after completing a review, exchanging or trading a gift card, a prepaid card, a reward card, a coupon, a ticket, a pass, and/or the like when in proximity to a specific location or a location of some type or category, and/or exchanging or trading of other assets between individuals based on one or more constraints such as time, location, need, desire for the assets, and/or proximity.
US10762530B1	Platform for location and time based advertising Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, and computer-readable media for: registering mobile asset; registering content associated with the mobile asset; tracking a location of the mobile asset, the mobile asset being associated with the content to be transmitted to at least one device in proximity to the mobile asset as the mobile asset propagates through the space; receiving a specification of at least one rule for transmitting the content, the at least one rule comprises at least one of the following: at least one element of profile data corresponding to the at least one device, and at least one action; receiving an indication that the at least one device is in proximity to the location of the mobile asset; determining whether the at least one rule is met; and transmitting the content associated with the mobile asset to the at least one device.
US10762528B1	Platform for location and time based advertising Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide methods, systems, and computer-readable media configured to perform at least the following functions: specifying an advertising asset; receiving media content to be associated with the advertising asset; specifying at least one condition for transmitting the media content, wherein specifying the at least one condition comprises specifying at least one of the following: a first condition associated with at least one element of profile data corresponding with a device configured to receive the media content, a second condition associated with at least one action performed by the device, and a third condition associated with a device location; receiving a content captured by the device; detecting the advertising asset with the captured content; determining whether the at least one condition for transmitting the media content has been met; and transmitting the media content.
US10762526B1	Platform for location and time based advertising Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide methods, systems, and computer-readable media configured to perform at least the following functions: specifying an advertising asset; receiving media content to be associated with the advertising asset; specifying at least one condition for transmitting the media content, wherein specifying the at least one condition comprises specifying at least one of the following: a first condition associated with at least one element of profile data corresponding with a device configured to receive the media content, a second condition associated with at least one action performed by the device, and a third condition associated with a device location; receiving a content captured by the device; detecting the advertising asset with the captured content; determining whether the at least one condition for transmitting the media content has been met; and transmitting the media content.
US10762525B2	Method and system for presenting a promotional offer based on detected data A method and system for presenting a promotional offer based on detected data. Data that is generated by at least one device detecting one or more physical actions performed by a person is obtained. The device is located in a same physical environment as the person. The data is analyzed to determine that a probability of an undesired action, by the person, is above a threshold value. Responsive to determining that the probability of the undesired action is above the threshold value, a promotional offer is presented to the person. The promotional offer lowers the probability of the undesired action by the person.
US10762516B2	Trusted platform and integrated BOP applications for networking BOP components Embodiments are directed to a trusted platform powered by a client-side company application that implements a Business Organizing Principle (“BOP”) for a company and distributed immutable ledger, which provides the company with secure transactions and transaction data.The application's Business Organizing Principle identifies the business components for a company (e.g., HR, marketing, suppliers, etc.) which the application identifies as core, medium-core, and non-core. The application can then suggest and link the business to other businesses on the network based on matching BOP components. The platform's scoring engine uses the ledger's trusted transactions to generate a BOP network score and “local score” to augment traditional thereby creating a quickly developed trusted ecosystem for horizontal B2B integration between not just businesses, but business components.
US10762511B1	Systems and methods for automatically determining recalled products from unstructured recall data Systems and methods for automatically determining recalled products from unstructured recall data. In exemplary embodiments, fuzzy logic is used to determine recalled products from unstructured recall data. In exemplary embodiments, natural language algorithms with an embedded data grammar dictionary are used to extract item identifiers and manufacturer name from unstructured recall data.
US10762508B2	Detecting fraudulent mobile payments A method for processing an attempted payment made using a mobile device includes receiving information about the attempted payment, receiving data indicative of a behavior of a user of the mobile device at the time of the attempted payment, computing a likelihood that the attempted payment is fraudulent, based on a comparison of the behavior of the user to an historical behavior pattern of the user, and sending an instruction indicating how to proceed with the attempted payment, based on the likelihood.
US10762507B2	Mobile terminal and controlling method thereof The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof, suitable for making offline payment conveniently without a complicated procedure according to a use mode of the mobile terminal. The present invention includes a touchscreen, a fingerprint sensing unit, a wireless communication unit, and a controller configured to, if sensing a first fingerprint input through the fingerprint sensing unit, control a different function to be executed according to a use mode of the mobile terminal at a timing of sensing the first fingerprint input.
US10762505B1	Authentication transaction Various examples are directed to systems and methods for authentication transactions. A mobile computing device may send to a financial institution system, an access request message. The mobile computing device may receive from a second server system, a transaction request message requesting authorization for a transaction on an account associated with the mobile computing device, the transaction request including a transaction amount. The mobile computing device may prompt a user of the mobile computing device to authorize the transaction. The mobile computing device may receive, from the financial institution system, summary data describing the transaction amount.
US10762503B2	Method, device and system for online payment Methods and devices for online payments are disclosed. Prior to accepting payment account information from a user for the payment transaction, a client terminal sends an interface listing command to a transaction server, requesting the transaction server to identify one or more acceptable input interfaces for receiving the payment account information. The transaction server responds to the interface listing command by a payment input instruction. The client terminal uses the payment input instructions to generate a payment information interface to present the one or more acceptable input interfaces for user selection. The user can choose how to input the payment information that best conforms to the user's expectations for security and convenience. The current method, device and system provide additional flexibility, improve efficiency, and facilitate online payment.
US10762498B2	Method and system for secure transactions on a social network platform This application discloses a method for implementing a secure transaction via a social network platform. A server receives a product purchase request from a client device, and the product purchase request includes product information, product server information and a user account identifier of the social network platform. The transaction server authenticates the product purchase request, and forwards the product purchase request of the corresponding product to the product server in an encrypted format. After receiving a confirmation message from the product server, the transaction server initiates a payment transaction between the user account and the product server. Further, after completing the payment transaction, the transaction server sends a payment completion message to the client device and the product server, respectively.
US10762491B2	Systems and methods for communicating with a magnetic reader head A device and method for waveform transmission of transaction card data to a merchant point-of-sale device are provided. The device includes a memory device for storing data, a processor, and a transmitter. The device is programmed to receive transaction card data that mimics data stored within a magnetic stripe associated with a transaction card, convert the transaction card data to a first data file for storage within the memory device, transmit the first data file to the transmitter, and transmit a first waveform from the transmitter to the POS device, wherein the first waveform includes changes in a magnetic field that represent the transaction card data.
US10762490B2	Methods, systems, and products for charging batteries Methods, systems, and products charge a battery in a vehicle. A charging station and the vehicle negotiate charging parameters. When the vehicle receives electrical power from the charging station, the vehicle checks the electrical power for the parameters. Should the electrical power fail to exhibit the parameters, charging is terminated.
US10762485B1	System and method for self-checkout, scan portal, and pay station environments A checkout system includes a checkout station having a housing, a customer interface and a customer unloading station. A point-of-sale system has a microprocessor and memory operatively associated with one another to identify products being purchased, payments tendered therefor and to store transaction information locally at the checkout station or remotely from the checkout station. The microprocessor has programming configured to allow an item to be scanned by a product identification scanner, and an attendant command module.
US10762482B2	Centralized restaurant management Described herein is a centralized order computing system that is configured to receive orders from a plurality of sources. The plurality of sources can include delivery applications, remote customer computing devices, and/or service computing devices associated with a merchant. The centralized order computing system may be configured to receive a plurality of orders from the plurality of sources, send the plurality of orders to a kitchen computing system associated with the merchant, receive a notification of order completion, and process the order.
US10762480B2	Reprogrammable point-of-sale transaction flows Integrating payment processing functionality into a third-party application via software development kit (SDK) instructions is described. In an example, a payment card reader can include reader instructions executable on the payment card reader to configure the payment card reader to read payment card data from a payment card and transmit the payment card data to a mobile device for processing by SDK instructions on the mobile device. The SDK instructions can be executable on the mobile device to configure the mobile device to process the payment card data from the payment card reader. The SDK instructions, which can be provided by a payment processor, can be configured to be integrated into a third-party payment application on the mobile device, wherein the third-party payment application is provided by an entity distinct from the payment processor.
US10762479B2	Method and system for processing blockchain-based real-time transaction A blockchain-based method is described which is related to transferring electronic currency from a payer to a payee. In some embodiments, a first process, a second process and a third process are performed. The first process includes receiving a processing request for a target transaction from a terminal of a payer, and transferring the processing request to a first blockchain node among a plurality of blockchain nodes. When a verification result indicates that the target transaction is valid, the method proceeds to performing the second and third processes. The second process includes transferring electronic currency from an electronic wallet of the payer to an electronic wallet of the payee. The third process includes recording data for the target transaction in a new block, and spreading the new block over the blockchain network. In some embodiments, the second process and the third process are performed in parallel.
US10762477B2	Secure real-time processing of payment transactions A method including receiving, at a first system from a first entity, a request comprising a merchant identifier. The method also includes determining, at the first system, using the merchant account database, first information comprising an account identifier of a second account of the merchant maintained by a second financial institution. The method additionally includes sending the first information from the first system to the first financial institution. The method further includes receiving, at the first system from the first financial institution, payment information regarding a deposit to be made in the second account from the first account to pay the merchant for one or more items to be purchased from the merchant by the consumer for the payment amount. The method additionally includes sending, from the first system to the second financial institution, the payment information such that the second financial institution, upon receiving the payment information, notifies the merchant to satisfy an expectation of the merchant for payment from the consumer. Other embodiments are provided.
US10762476B2	Wind farm supervision monitoring system A wind farm supervision monitoring system includes: a data collection unit configured to collect data about a status monitoring of each wind turbine from at least one site server; an abnormality status detection unit configured to detect an abnormality status of each wind turbine based on the collected data about the status monitoring and issue an alarm; a wind data management unit configured to early detect a fault of each wind turbine and or monitor performance of each wind turbine based on the data about the status monitoring or the data about the abnormality status; and a supervision unit configured to manage a turbine operation status and operation and maintenance of each wind turbine and provide information for establishing an operation and maintenance plan for the detected abnormality status of the wind turbine.
US10762471B1	Automating management of integrated workflows based on disparate subsidiary data sources Methods, systems, and computer-readable media described herein may include: obtaining first data from a first datastore managed by a first entity, the first data comprising a first status of a first task of a first subsidiary workflow that is part of an integrated workflow; integrating the first data into a second datastore managed by a second entity that manages the integrated workflow, with an integration layer; generating a graphical user interface to present an interactive graphical object that displays the integrated first data and the integrated workflow to a user; receiving one or more updates from the user to the integrated first data, where the one or more updates are based on one or more graphical user interactions with the integrated first data; identifying a change to a portion of the first data; and writing the change in the first datastore using the integration layer interface.
US10762465B2	Node-enabled management of delivery of a shipped item using elements of a wireless node network Methods and systems for managing a delivery of an item being shipped are described using a wireless node network having at least an ID node related to the item being shipped, a mobile user access device operative to function as a master node, and a server. The mobile user access device adapted to function as a master node in the network receives shipping information from the server. The shipping information is related to the item being shipped and an identification of the ID node. The mobile user access device then detects a signal broadcast from the ID node as the ID node comes within a communication range of the device. The ID node and mobile user access device are then associated to acknowledge the delivery of the item. Thereafter, the mobile user access device operating as the master node notifies the server about the acknowledged delivery.
US10762462B1	Sensor-based customer arrival detection Upon receiving an indication that a customer is initiating travel to a merchant location to pick up one or more items, sensor data may be obtained by, and received from, a customer device of the customer. After the customer has arrived at the merchant location, the customer may be greeted or otherwise interacted with and a corresponding interaction time may be determined. The service provider may identify one or more stop events based on the sensor data, where a stop event indicates that a customer stopped while in transit to the merchant location. A most recent stop event prior to the interaction time may constitute the customer arriving/stopping at the merchant location, and a corresponding arrival time may be estimated. A wait time of the customer may be determined based on a difference between the interaction time and the arrival time.
US10762460B2	Predictive alerts for individual risk of injury with ameliorative actions Methods and systems for predicting injury risk include generating state sequences that precede a hazard event based on information regarding a user's state. A cognitive suite of workplace hygiene and injury predictors (WHIP) is generated based on the state sequences using a processor, wherein the cognitive WHIP predicts a degree of risk correlated with each particular user state sequence. A risk heat map of a workplace is generated based on the cognitive WHIP that encodes regions of greater and lesser risk. An ameliorative action is triggered when a user moves into an area of high risk based on the heat map.
US10762457B2	Simultaneous operations coordination and planning system A networked system shares operational information (tasks, positions, times, etc.) between dissimilar operators performing dissimilar operations in a same marine field. The shared information include associations (linkages and conflicts) that allows each operator to optimize its operations and complete tasks in a more efficient manner. As part of this system, a planning tool having a graphical user interface can be used to visualize plans at an operator (and nearby operators). Changes made to plans by one operator are shared with other operators via the system and illustrated in the interface at the other operators, thereby allowing the other operators to make their own respective operational changes in response.
US10762454B2	Demand response management system A demand response management system which may be implemented with demand response logic. The system may be used by utilities, independent system operators, intermediaries and others to manage operations of demand response programs relative to customers, clients, participants, and users of outputs from the utilities, independent system operators, and the like. Demand response logic of the demand response management system may provide demand signal propagation and generation from demand response events.
US10762453B2	Methods and systems for monitoring a charging pattern to identify a customer Systems and methods for monitoring a charging pattern to identify a customer. The system includes a memory that stores instructions for executing processes for monitoring a charging pattern to identify a customer. The system also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to: monitor charging patterns of each user of a plurality of users of a shared vehicle to determine a preferred charging mode for each user; generate a user profile for each user of the plurality of users, the user profile indicating preferences for each respective user; identify a user operating the vehicle; transmit, to a third party vendor, a request for a resource based on the user profile of the user operating the vehicle; and transmit a charging schedule to the vehicle after receiving a response to the request for the resource.
US10762452B2	System and method for designing and executing control loops in a cloud environment A system for designing and executing control loops in a cloud environment includes a control platform implemented in the cloud environment having a data collection, analytics and events module, a policy module and an application controller module. The system includes a business process management application coupled to the control platform having a control loop designer module for designing a control loop template and a workflow engine for distributing the control loop template. The business process management application is coupled to the data collection analytics and events module of the control platform as well as the policy module in the application controller module to control platform. The control loop is activated by the control platform.
US10762451B2	System and method for managing product usage from dispensers A system and method are provided for improving product usage prior to refill of product dispensers in service areas that include a plurality of such dispensers. Via a sensor configured with each of the product dispensers and a control system in communication with the sensors, a product level or amount condition of product in each dispenser is detected. Based on the information from the sensors, a visual or audio message is generated and transmitted to the patron that encourages the patron to use a first product dispenser that has a greater product fill amount as compared to a second product dispenser in the same or a different service area.
US10762449B2	Real-time determination of a service cost This disclosure describes, in part, systems and techniques for retrieving complex data from multiple data sources corresponding to a current cost of consumable materials and a current cost of labor used to provide a service. Once retrieved, the system may determine a total current cost of the consumable materials and a total current cost of the labor. Furthermore, the system may use the total current cost of the consumable materials and the total current cost of the labor to determine an overall current cost of the service. The system may simultaneously provide an overall current cost of multiple services.
US10762447B2	Vehicle selection for on-demand transportation services An on-demand transportation management service can perform a selection process between a set of safety-driven autonomous vehicles (SDAVs), fully autonomous vehicles (FAVs), and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) to service transport requests based on a variety of selection parameters.
US10762445B2	System and method for clinical intelligent agents implementing an integrated intelligent monitoring and notification system A method includes: receiving, at a clinical intelligent agent, patient specific data comprising a room location of a patient within a healthcare facility and information regarding the condition of the patient in the room; comparing, using a monitor of the clinical intelligent agent, patient specific data with historical reference data to detect clinical patterns; producing, using an alerting agent of the clinical intelligent agent, one or more alerts when a processor identifies a clinical pattern indicating an alert situation; sending, using the alerting agent, the one or more alerts to a patient screen located in the room occupied by the patient; scoring, using the clinical intelligent agent, the one or more alerts; and prioritizing, using the clinical intelligent agent, care provider tasks displayed on the patient screen based on the score of the one or more alerts. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10762442B2	Machine learning system for assessing heart valves and surrounding cardiovascular tracts A machine learning system for evaluating at least one characteristic of a heart valve, an inflow tract, an outflow tract or a combination thereof may include a training mode and a production mode. The training mode may be configured to train a computer and construct a transformation function to predict an unknown anatomical characteristic and/or an unknown physiological characteristic of a heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract, using a known anatomical characteristic and/or a known physiological characteristic the heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract. The production mode may be configured to use the transformation function to predict the unknown anatomical characteristic and/or the unknown physiological characteristic of the heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract, based on the known anatomical characteristic and/or the known physiological characteristic of the heart valve, inflow tract and/or outflow tract.
US10762436B2	Systems and methods for recommending pages Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a respective embedding for each entity in a set of entities that are accessible through the social networking system, wherein each embedding is learned based at least in part on one or more sessions of connections formed between users and entities of the social networking system. One or more candidate entities that are related to a first entity can be determined based at least in part on the respective embeddings for the candidate entities and the first entity. At least a first candidate entity from the one or more candidate entities can be provided as a recommendation to a user that formed a connection with the first entity.
US10762435B2	Systems and techniques for utilizing resource aware queues and/or service sharing in a multi-server environment Systems and techniques for servicing requests in an environment having multiple application servers each having one or more queues to store indications of requests to be serviced by the application servers. A utilization level is determined for a first application server of the multiple application servers. The utilization level is compared to a pre-selected utilization threshold level. The system determines whether to service requests allocated to other application servers in response to the comparing. At least one request allocated to a second application server for servicing.
US10762431B2	Low probability transitions and boundary crossing into disallowed states for a more optimal solution Artificial intelligence (AI) techniques that map disallowed states and enable access to those states under certain conditions through a search algorithm are disclosed. In other words, scenario boundaries may be crossed by jumping from one scenario that is less desirable or even has no solution to another scenario that is more desirable.
US10762421B2	Whitened neural network layers Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using a neural network system that includes a whitened neural network layer. One of the methods includes receiving an input activation generated by a layer before the whitened neural network layer in the sequence; processing the received activation in accordance with a set of whitening parameters to generate a whitened activation; processing the whitened activation in accordance with a set of layer parameters to generate an output activation; and providing the output activation as input to a neural network layer after the whitened neural network layer in the sequence.
US10762419B2	Digitial STDP synapse and LIF neuron-based neuromorphic system Described is a neuromorphic system implemented in hardware that implements neuron membrane potential update based on the leaky integrate and fire (LIF) model. The system further models synapse weights update based on the spike time-dependent plasticity (STDP) model. The system includes an artificial neural network in which the update scheme of neuron membrane potential and synapse weight are effectively defined and implemented.
US10762418B2	Control wavelet for accelerated deep learning Techniques in advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements performs flow based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element has a compute element and a routing element. Each compute element has memory. Each router enables communication via wavelets with nearest neighbors in a 2D mesh. A compute element receives a wavelet. If a control specifier of the wavelet is a first value, then instructions are read from the memory of the compute element in accordance with an index specifier of the wavelet. If the control specifier is a second value, then instructions are read from the memory of the compute element in accordance with a virtual channel specifier of the wavelet. Then the compute element initiates execution of the instructions.
US10762417B2	Efficient connectionist temporal classification for binary classification A classification system and method for training a neural network includes receiving a stream of segmented, labeled training data having a sequence of frames, computing a stream of input features data for the sequence of frames, and generating neural network outputs for the sequence of frames in a forward pass through the training data and in accordance weights and biases. The weights and biases are updated in a backward pass through the training data, including determining Region of Target (ROT) information from the segmented, labeled training data, computing modified forward and backward variables based on the neural network outputs and the ROT information, deriving a signal error for each frame within the sequence of frames based on the modified forward and backward variables, and updating the weights and biases based on the derived signal error. An adaptive learning module is provided to improve a convergence rate of the neural network.
US10762413B2	Booster antenna configurations and methods A booster antenna (BA) for a smart card comprises a card antenna (CA) component extending around a periphery of a card body (CB), a coupler coil (CC) component at a location for an antenna module (AM), and an extension antenna (EA) component contributing to the inductance of the booster antenna (BA). At least a portion of the coupler coil (CC) component may have a sense which is opposite to a sense of at least a portion of the card antenna (CA) component. At least a portion of one of the components may be interleaved with (i) a portion of another component, or (ii) another portion of the same component. A capacitive extension (CE) may extend from at least one of the card antenna (CA), coupler coil (CC) and extension antenna (EA) components.
US10762412B2	DI capacitive embedded metal card A transaction card having a metal layer, an opening in the metal layer for a transponder chip, and at least one discontinuity extending from an origin on the card periphery to a terminus in the opening. The card has a greater flex resistance than a card having a comparative discontinuity with the terminus and the origin the same distance from a line defined by a first long side of the card periphery in an absence of one or more strengthening features. Strengthening features include a discontinuity wherein one of the terminus or the origin are located relatively closer to the first long side of the card periphery than the other, a plurality of discontinuities wherein fewer than all extend from the card periphery to the opening, a self-supporting, non-metal layer disposed on at least one surface of the card, or one or more ceramic reinforcing tabs surrounding the opening.
US10762410B2	Method and a system for monitoring a quantity related to an asset A method for automatically electronically associating vessel identity information of a vessel with an unassociated telemetric device, the unassociated telemetric device comprising a processor and being configured to detect and transmit quantity or usage data and being configured with a location sensing device, wherein the unassociated telemetric device is configured to communicate with a remote server, the method comprising the steps of: the remote server receiving the vessel identity information comprising a deployment location for the unassociated telemetric device; the unassociated telemetric device operating in accordance with an automatic action rule; in response to the unassociated telemetric device operating in accordance with the automatic action rule, the processor receiving location information of the unassociated telemetric device from the location sensing device; the unassociated telemetric device transmitting the location information; the remote server receiving the location information; the remote server correlating the location information with the vessel identity information when resolving that the location information represents that the unassociated telemetric device is within a proximity to the deployment location, and the remote server automatically electronically associating the unassociated telemetric device with the vessel identity information, resulting in the unassociated telemetric device becoming an associated telemetric device, so that when the associated telemetric device generates quantity or usage information, the quantity or usage information transmitted by the associated telemetric device is applied to a data store of the remote server related to the vessel identity information.
US10762409B2	Industrial electronic badge An electronic badge comprises a housing having a form factor of a mobile device, a processor, and memory coupled to the processor and including an observation and feedback application. Further, the electronic badge comprises a first transceiver that communicates on a first personal-area network, a second transceiver that communicates on a second personal-area network, and a third transceiver that communicates on a local area network. An information feedback device is controlled by the processor to activate to provide information to the user that feedback has been either given or received, wherein the information feedback device is operated by the processor in response to the processor executing the observation and feedback application, and in response to the processor interacting with at least one of the first transceiver, the second transceiver, and the third transceiver.
US10762407B2	Component incorporating 3-D identification code A component incorporating a 3-D identification code includes: a component body having an interior bounded by an exterior surface; and an identification code formed as a part of at least one of the interior and the exterior surface, the identification code including a plurality of cells arranged in a three-dimensional space, wherein each of the cells is configured to encode more than two possible values.
US10762404B1	Automated name calling system An automated name calling system and method including an RFID assembly, a camera assembly, and podium assembly is disclosed herein. The RFID assembly includes RFID tags that may be mounted to clothing accessories such as wristbands, buttons, and the like. The RFID assembly further includes an RFID reader that is mounted to either clothing articles such as gloves or is mounted to be stationary. In the event of a graduation ceremony a student receives an RFID tag provided by the school's faculty. As the student begins walking to have their name called, the camera assembly will automatically take pictures of the student as they walk for graduation. Before a student walks the stage, the student will pass an RFID reader that will automatically display the students name to the podium assembly. Additionally, the podium assembly includes a headset that provides a user the pronunciation of a student's name.
US10762401B2	Image processing apparatus controlling the order of storing decompressed data, and method thereof A method for generating bitmap image data of a page includes acquiring print data of a page including compressed images, and performing rendering of bands included in the page based on the print data to generate the bitmap image data. The performing of the rendering performs rendering at least two of the bands concurrently. The performing of the rendering includes decompressing the compressed images, and using the decompressed images for corresponding bands of the bands to generate the bitmap image data. The decompressing decompresses, into a same memory area in a decompression buffer, at least two compressed images used for different bands, so that one of the two compressed images is decompressed into the same memory area and another of the two compressed images is decompressed, after rendering of a last band for which the one of the two compressed images is lastly used is finished, into the same memory area.
US10762393B2	Learning method and learning device for learning automatic labeling device capable of auto-labeling image of base vehicle using images of nearby vehicles, and testing method and testing device using the same A method for learning an automatic labeling device for auto-labeling a base image of a base vehicle using sub-images of nearby vehicles is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device inputting the base image and the sub-images into previous trained dense correspondence networks to generate dense correspondences; and into encoders to output convolution feature maps, inputting the convolution feature maps into decoders to output deconvolution feature maps; with an integer k from 1 to n, generating a k-th adjusted deconvolution feature map by translating coordinates of a (k+1)-th deconvolution feature map using a k-th dense correspondence; generating a concatenated feature map by concatenating the 1-st deconvolution feature map and the adjusted deconvolution feature maps; and inputting the concatenated feature map into a masking layer to output a semantic segmentation image and instructing a 1-st loss layer to calculate 1-st losses and updating decoder weights and encoder weights.
US10762391B2	Learning device, learning method, and storage medium According to one embodiment, a learning device includes an acquirer, a generator, a first identifier, an extractor, a second identifier, and a learning-processor. The acquirer acquires real data. The generator generates pseudo data of the real data using a first neural network. The first identifier identifies whether input data is the real data or the pseudo data. The extractor extracts features of data from the input data. The second identifier identifies whether the features extracted by the extractor are features of the real data or features of the pseudo data. The learning-processor learns the first neural network such that the pseudo data and the real data are not discriminated on the basis of an identification result of each identifier.
US10762390B2	Computer-based visualization of machine-learning models and behavior Machine-learning models and behavior can be visualized. For example, a machine-learning model can be taught using a teaching dataset. A test input can then be provided to the machine-learning model to determine a baseline confidence-score of the machine-learning model. Next, weights for elements in the teaching dataset can be determined. An analysis dataset can be generated that includes a subset of the elements that have corresponding weights above a predefined threshold. For each overlapping element in both the analysis dataset and the test input, (i) a modified version of the test input can be generated that excludes the overlapping element, and (ii) the modified version of the test input can be provided to the machine-learning model to determine an effect of the overlapping element on the baseline confidence-score. A graphical user interface can be generated that visually depicts the test input and various elements' effects on the baseline confidence-score.
US10762389B2	Methods and systems of segmentation of a document Systems and methods are disclosed to receive an image depicting at least a part of a document and identify a plurality of partition points dividing the image into potential segments; generate a linear partition graph (LPG) comprising a plurality of vertices using the plurality of partition points and a plurality of arcs connecting the plurality of vertices; identify a path of the LPG having a value of a quality metric above a threshold value, wherein the path is selected from a plurality of paths of the LPG and comprises one or more arcs and the value of the quality metric is derived using a neural network classifying each of a plurality of pixels of the image; and generate one or more blocks of the image wherein each of the one or more blocks corresponds to an arc of the identified path and represents a portion of the image associated with a type of an object.
US10762388B2	Lighting plan generator A lighting plan generator configured to generate a lighting plan comprising a map of locations of a plurality of light units located on a ceiling of an interior space, the lighting plan generator being configured to generate the lighting plan from overlapping images captured by a mobile device from different locations as the mobile device moves through the interior space. The lighting plan generator comprises: an input configured to receive at least two images, the at least two images comprising at least partially overlapping areas; an image rectifier (160) configured to rectify the at least two images; an image data combiner (406) configured to combine data from the rectified at least two images, wherein a lighting plan (413, 415) is generated from the combined data from the rectified at least two images.
US10762386B2	Method of determining a similarity transformation between first and second coordinates of 3D features The invention is related to a method of determining a similarity transformation between first coordinates and second coordinates of 3D features, comprising providing a first plurality of 3D features having first coordinates in a first coordinate system which is associated with a first geometrical model of a first real object, wherein the first plurality of 3D features describes physical 3D features of the first real object, providing a second coordinate system, providing image information associated with a plurality of images captured by at least one camera, for each respective 3D feature of at least part of the first plurality of 3D features, wherein the respective 3D feature is captured by at least two of the plurality of images, determining camera poses of the at least one camera in the second coordinate system while the at least two of the plurality of images are captured, determining for the respective 3D feature a second coordinate in the second coordinate system according to the at least two of the plurality of images and the camera poses, and the method further comprising determining a similarity transformation between the first coordinates and the second coordinates of the at least part of the first plurality of 3D features, wherein the similarity transformation includes at least one translation, at least one rotation, at least one scale and/or their combinations in 3D space.
US10762382B2	Image recognition based on augmented reality A method includes: receiving, at a server and from an augmented reality device, user information of a user using the augmented reality device; generating, by the server, a picture feature sample sub-library corresponding to the user information, including screening out, from a preset picture feature sample library, picture feature samples associated with the user information; and providing, to the augmented reality device, the picture feature sample sub-library, wherein the picture feature sample sub-library can be configured to be used by the augmented reality device to perform, during image scanning of an offline environment of the user, image recognition of images scanned from the offline environment by comparing the scanned images to picture features in the picture feature sample sub-library.
US10762378B2	Photo analytics calibration A system for routing a food product using an image of the food product, according to one embodiment, includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the processor to receive an image of a food product, receive an environmental condition on or near the food product. evaluate the food product using the image and the environmental condition and determine a delivery destination for the food product based at least in part on the evaluation of the food product.
US10762377B2	Floating form processing based on topological structures of documents A method processes scanned floating forms by comparing topological structures of an empty form and a corresponding filled form. The topological structure of each form includes vertical and horizontal ordered sequences of text phrases in the form, which describe directional relationships among text phrases but not their distances. A partial structure alignment method is used in the comparison, where insertions of text in the topological structure of the filled form relative to that of the empty form is not penalized, but deletions and substitutions are penalized. Based on this comparison, some text phrases in the filled form are matched to the those in the empty form, and unmatched text in the filled form is deemed user-filled data. The method further associates user-filled data with fields of the form based on a settings file of the empty form.
US10762371B1	Object detection techniques using colorspace conversions Techniques, devices, and systems to improve detection and security of a displayed image on a screen of a computer device, such as a device, including detection of an object in an environment, where the object has an inverse-colorspace relationship in relation to the colorspace of the environment. A system includes: a first camera device configured to determine a first underlying colorspace corresponding to an environment, a second camera device configured to determine a second underlying colorspace corresponding to either i) an actual change in the environment or ii) a predicted change in the environment, and a computer device configured to determine an inverse colorspace of at least one of i) the first underlying colorspace or ii) the second underlying colorspace and configured to detect an object in the environment based on the inverse colorspace determination.
US10762368B2	Facial recognition-based authentication Facial recognition-based authentication comprises obtaining a first image of a target object, updating projection information associated with a display by a display device, obtaining a second image of the target object, the second image being an image of the target object after the projection information is updated, obtaining an image difference data based at least in part on the first image and the second image, and determining whether the target object is a virtual object based at least in part on the image difference data.
US10762366B2	Finger vein identification method and device A finger vein identification method and device used for effectively extracting finger vein identification characteristics to conduct finger vein identification. The method of the embodiments of the present teachings comprises: collecting a finger vein image, employing a line fitting method to extract a region of interest in the finger vein image, conducting geometric normalization and grayscale normalization processing of the region of interest to obtain a processed region, determining finger vein blood vessel lines in the processed region to obtain a finger vein blood vessel image, and conducting finger vein identification based on the finger vein blood vessel image.
US10762360B2	Automatically detecting unmapped drivable road surfaces for autonomous vehicles Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting unmapped drivable road surfaces. In one instance, sensor data captured by a sensor of an autonomous vehicle may be projected onto a grid having a plurality of cells. The plurality of cells may be classified by generating a label for each of the plurality of cells. Each label may identifies whether or not a corresponding cell contains a drivable surface. Ones of the plurality of cells may be clustered based on the labels to form a cluster of cells. An area of the cluster of cells may be compared to a map. Whether the area of the cluster of cells is an unmapped drivable road surface may be determined based on the comparison.
US10762359B2	Computer aided traffic enforcement using dense correspondence estimation with multi-level metric learning and hierarchical matching Systems and methods for detecting traffic scenarios include an image capturing device which captures two or more images of an area of a traffic environment with each image having a different view of vehicles and a road in the traffic environment. A hierarchical feature extractor concurrently extracts features at multiple neural network layers from each of the images, with the features including geometric features and semantic features, and for estimating correspondences between semantic features for each of the images and refining the estimated correspondences with correspondences between the geometric features of each of the images to generate refined correspondence estimates. A traffic localization module uses the refined correspondence estimates to determine locations of vehicles in the environment in three dimensions to automatically determine a traffic scenario according to the locations of vehicles. A notification device generates a notification of the traffic scenario.
US10762358B2	Rear camera lane detection A method for determining lane information includes receiving perception data from at least two sensors, the at least two sensors including a rear facing camera of a vehicle. The method includes determining, based on the perception data, a number of lanes on a roadway within a field of view captured by the perception data using a neural network. The method includes providing an indication of the number of lanes to an automated driving system or driving assistance system.
US10762356B2	Method and system for generating an output with respect to a group of individuals There is provided a computer-implemented method for generating an output with respect to a group of individuals. The method includes: identifying the group of individuals amongst a plurality of individuals in an area being monitored by one or more sensors; determining, for each individual in the group of individuals, one or more individual-based features associated with the individual based on sensing data obtained from the one or more sensors; determining a group characteristic information associated with the group of individuals based on the one or more individual-based features determined for each individual in the group; and generating the output based on the group characteristic information determined for the group of individuals. There is also provide a corresponding system for generating an output with respect to a group of individuals.
US10762352B2	Method and system for the automatic identification of fuzzy copies of video content There is disclosed a method to automatically identify fuzzy video content copies, which is performed on a computer device that has access to a previously generated database of original video content. The method comprises: receiving identifiers for video content; extracting each Nth frame from the video stream of received video content to obtain a sequence of frames, where N>1; identifying the sequence of scenes by comparing at least fragments of adjacent frames; creating a vector of the sequence of scenes of the received video content; comparing the vector of the sequence of scenes of received video content with the vector of the sequence of scenes of at least one template of original video content from a previously generated database of original video content; identifying a fuzzy copy of original video content when the sequence of scenes of original video content and scenes of received video content coincide to an extent that exceeds a predefined threshold.
US10762349B2	System for generating 3D images for image recognition based positioning A method positioning user equipment including a camera for acquiring digital images, including: defining a three-dimensional model of an environment through points defined by a set of coordinates and a color information; the user equipment acquiring a query image by capturing, by the camera, a portion of the environment; estimating an initial camera parameters configuration of the camera; evaluating a similarity between the query image and an initial three-dimensional image obtained from the three-dimensional model of the environment as seen by a virtual camera having the initial camera parameters configuration; modifying a camera parameters configuration of the virtual camera to increase similarity between the initial three-dimensional image and the query image up to a predetermined value; and generating an additional three-dimensional image based on the three-dimensional model of the environment, obtained from the three-dimensional model of the environment as seen by a modified virtual camera having the modified camera parameters configuration.
US10762345B2	Method and device for acquiring text data from trademark image, computer device and storage medium The present disclosure provides a method and for acquiring text data of a trademark image, a computer device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes the followings. A trademark database including one or more mappings among trademark feature information, trademark description information and trademark text information is established. A to-be-processed image including image description information is acquired. Trademark feature information corresponding to the to-be-processed image is determined. The trademark text information corresponding to the trademark feature information as the text data of the trademark image corresponding to the to-be-processed image according to the one or more mappings in the trademark database when the trademark description information corresponding to the trademark feature information corresponding to the to-be-processed image is contained in the image description information corresponding to the to-be-processed image.
US10762343B2	Form type learning system and image processing apparatus To accurately classify a form without using form layout information, the image processing apparatus utilizes a classifier that accepts a filled-in form whose image has been reduced into a specific size as an input and specifies the form type of the filled-in form. Machine learning has been performed to the classifier by a form type learning system and the form type learning system reduces an image of a filled-in form as an original document image, adds a noise to the original document image, which has not been reduced or has been reduced, to generate multiple images for machine learning, associates the form type of the original document image with the multiple images for machine learning as a label, and performs machine learning of the classifier using the multiple images for machine learning and the label as training data.
US10762341B2	Medical tracking system comprising multi-functional sensor device The present invention relates to a medical tracking system comprising at least one sensor device which can be positioned in a fixed position relative to a target, the sensor device comprising a marker device and a marker device detector, the marker device detector being capable of obtaining information for determining a relative position between the marker device detector and another marker device, the system further comprising a control unit configured to process a medical navigation workflow and to select the function of the sensor device as either acting as a marker device detector or as a marker device in a step of the medical navigation workflow.
US10762332B2	Image optimization during facial recognition Described is a technique for optimization an image for facial detection. More specifically, described is a process of predicting the location of a face within an image and adjusting image settings based on at least a portion of the predicted location of the face. An image may be adjusted based on the characteristics of a metering region, which may be selected prior to performing facial detection. For example, the metering region may be a specified shape with dimensions equal to a certain percentage of the input image and placed at a specified location. The result of using such a metering region is that the image adjustments may be based on a portion of the face, and therefore, may be optimized for facial detection.
US10762325B2	Pressure detection and measurement with a fingerprint sensor A circuit, system, and method for measuring or detecting pressure or force of a fingerprint on an array of electrodes is described. Pressure or force may be measured or detected using a processed image of the fingerprint, or by measurement of capacitance of deformed variable capacitors.
US10762322B2	Fingerprint sensor including a substrate defining a ledge with contact points for incorporation into a smartcard A fingerprint sensor for incorporation into a smart card includes sensor electrodes for detecting fingerprint features of a finger placed on a contact surface, the sensor electrodes being disposed above a substrate layer that comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a ledge where an edge of the first portion extends beyond an edge of the second portion. Contact points disposed on the ledge connect the fingerprint sensor to electrical conductors of an intermediate layer of a multi-layer smartcard. The fingerprint sensor is disposed within a cavity formed in a body of the smartcard, and the contact points disposed on the ledge are set at a depth corresponding to the thickness of an outer layer covering the electrical conductors of the intermediate layer of the smartcard.
US10762321B2	Fingerprint recognition unit circuit, control method therefor, and fingerprint recognition apparatus A fingerprint recognition unit circuit is provided, including a read line, a signal scanning terminal, a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a third power supply terminal, a first signal terminal, a second signal terminal, an exploring electrode, an output unit, a threshold compensation unit and a resetting unit. A method for controlling a fingerprint recognition unit circuit is applied to the fingerprint recognition unit circuit. A fingerprint recognition apparatus includes a glass substrate and the fingerprint recognition unit circuit.
US10762317B2	Quick response (QR) code deformation Examples of techniques for quick response (QR) code deformation are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a first QR code, wherein the first QR code is scannable by a QR code scanner at a first range of angles. Another aspect includes determining a scanner angle, the scanner angle being outside of the first range of angles. Another aspect includes generating a second QR code based on the first QR code and the scanner angle, wherein the second QR code comprises a deformed QR code that is scannable by the QR code scanner at a second range of angles that is distinct from the first range of angles.
US10762315B2	Lighting control system using barcode information Disclosed is a lighting control system for directing a show. The system includes at least: a master device; and a plurality of slave devices that receive lighting control signals from the master device. The light control signals correspond to seats of a plurality of audiences in an auditorium. The plurality of slave devices receive position information indicating specific positions at which the plurality of slave devices emit a light, light-emitting status information including preset information to classify the plurality of slave devices into a plurality of groups, and group identification number information. The plurality of slave devices are grouped in accordance with received information. The master device controls the grouped plurality of slave devices to emit a light per group basis by broadcasting the lighting control signals including group light-emitting pattern information for each of the plurality of groups of the plurality of slave devices.
US10762314B2	Anti-counterfeiting barcode reader and associated methods A code reader may include a light source configured to illuminate a machine-readable indicia representative of a standard code associated with an item. An image sensor may be configured to receive an image of the machine readable indicia. An illumination source may be configured to illuminate an anti-counterfeiting key that, when illuminated by the illumination source, reflects the illumination from the illumination source to be incident on the image sensor. A processing unit may be in electrical communication with the image sensor, and may be configured to decode the standard code of the machine-readable indicia and check validity of the reflected illumination from the anti-counterfeiting key.
US10762312B2	Operations of mobile RFID readers in a venue having fixed RFID readers The present disclosure generally relates to the field of asset tracking via RFID. In an embodiment, the present disclosure describes a system that selectively deactivates at least some of the plurality of fixed RFID readers that are disposed within a venue based on a location determination of an active mobile RFID reader.
US10762311B2	Method for RFID tag authentication A method is provided for authenticating a device in a system having a blockchain. The method includes executing a one-side authentication of the device. The results of the one-side authentication are submitted to the blockchain at a first blockchain node of a plurality of blockchain nodes. The one-side authentication is later verified at a second blockchain node of the plurality of blockchain nodes. The device may be a tag in a radio frequency identification (RFID) system.
US10762308B1	Method and system for wireless identification of samples in cryogenic liquid storage A system for wireless identification of samples in a tank holding cryogenic liquid in cryogenic liquid storage comprises wireless tags adapted to be connected to a container of the sample in the cryogenic liquid. The wireless tags have an identification associated to the sample in the container. A wireless reader is adapted to be located outside of the tank and operable to obtain and output the identification of the at least one wireless tag via wireless communication and through the cryogenic liquid. A method of wireless identification of samples in cryogenic liquid storage is also provided.
US10762306B2	Computing system with a cross-locale natural language searching mechanism and method of operation thereof A computing system comprising: a control unit configured to: receive an input request for a point of interest; determine a first linguistic context for the input request based on one or more input request characteristics, a user profile, a location, and a first connotation database; translate the input request to a second linguistic context based on a translation flag and a second connotation database, wherein the second connotation database is mapped to the first connotation database; and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to display a translation result for the input request based on the first linguistic context or the second linguistic context.
US10762302B2	Translation method and apparatus, and translation system A translation method includes: selecting a source word from a source sentence; generating mapping information including location information of the selected source word mapped to the selected source word in the source sentence; and correcting a target word, which is generated by translating the source sentence, based on location information of a feature value of the target word and the mapping information.
US10762301B1	Methods and systems for generating linguistic rules The present disclosure provides methods and systems for generating linguistic rules. The system may comprise: an electronic display with a graphical user interface comprising: (i) one or more interactive elements for receiving an user input indicating one or more edits to a rule, and (ii) a result visualization region for dynamically displaying a result of the rule in response to receiving the one or more edits, wherein the result of the rule comprises an indicator indicating the validity of the rule; and one or more computer processors that are programmed to: (i) generate the result of the rule by processing the rule with the one or more edits against a set of examples; and (ii) configure the graphical user interface to display the result in a user-selected format.
US10762299B1	Conversational understanding Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, mediums, and systems for managing a conversation. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented input interface is provided to receive an input comprising information in natural language. A dialog manager is configured to determine an intent of the input, determine information to fulfill the intent, and identify one or both of information available to the dialog manager or information that is unavailable to the dialog manager. A conversational understanding document documents the intent and the identified information. An output interface forwards the conversational understanding document towards a task completion handler separate and distinct from the dialog manager. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10762298B2	Method and device for automatic data correction using context and semantic aware learning techniques A method and device for automatic data correction using context and semantic aware learning techniques is disclosed. The method includes extracting data within a document as machine readable text in a predefined format. The method further includes encoding each word of each line in the machine readable text to a multi-dimension word vector. The method includes generating a context word vector for each word in each line based on multi-dimension vectors associated with words succeeding and preceding the word in a line comprising the word. The method further includes decoding the context word vector associated with each word in each line to generate a corrected context word vector for each word. The method includes validating the corrected context word vector associated with each word in each line.
US10762297B2	Semantic hierarchical grouping of text fragments Embodiments for semantic hierarchical grouping of short text fragments by a processor. Sub-terms are extracted from a plurality of input text fragments according to a lexical sub-term hierarchy. Each of the sub-terms in the lexical sub-term hierarchy are matched with concepts based on an ontology of concepts representing a domain knowledge. The input text fragments are automatically grouped into a hierarchy of concepts based on the matching and a semantical relationship between each concept and matching sub-term.
US10762296B2	Risk address identification method and apparatus, and electronic device Embodiments of the specification disclose a risk address identification method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The risk address identification method includes: acquiring an address word sequence corresponding to an input address; determining an address word in the address word sequence, the determined address word matching a risk word corresponding to a risk address; generating an observation sequence corresponding to the address word sequence according to the determined address word; processing the observation sequence using a hidden Markov model obtained based on semantics learning before and after address words, to obtain a decision vector, wherein the decision vector represents probabilities of the risk address being matched by address words contained in the address word sequence; and identifying whether the input address is a risk address by making a classification decision on the decision vector.
US10762295B2	Apparatus and method for providing sentence based on user input Disclosed are an apparatus and/or method for providing a sentence based on a user input. When a sentence corresponding to a shorthand word input from a user is generated and provided to the user, a sentence most suitable for a current context is provided to the user by further considering context information. At least a portion of the method for providing a sentence based on a user input may be performed using a rule-based model and/or an artificial intelligence model learned according to at least one of neural network or deep learning algorithms. The rule-based model and/or artificial intelligence model may provide a sentence most suitable for a current context to the user by using the input shorthand word and the context information as input values.
US10762291B2	Automatic translation of spreadsheets into scripts Systems and methods are provided for automatically translating one or more electronic spreadsheets into scripts. One or more electronic spreadsheets containing data arrays and formula arrays may be accessed. The electronic spreadsheet(s) may implement various logic using the data arrays and the formula arrays. The range(s) of the formula arrays may be determined. The range(s) of the data arrays may be determined based on the range(s) of the formula arrays. Conversion ranges may be determined based on the range(s) of formula arrays and the range(s) of data arrays. One or more dependencies between the conversion ranges may be determined and used to generate source code modeling the logic implemented by the electronic spreadsheet(s).
US10762290B2	Data grid components A data grid software component has data cells with a style that may be template-based or individual. A data cell may include a software component to show and interact with a bitmap, a graph, a chart, streaming graphics, or streaming bitmaps. The data grid may have footers, headers, and corner cells each capable of holding another software component to show and interact with several data forms. A header, a footer, and a corner cell can each have a style that is template-based or individual. Headers and footers may have multiple levels. Header parts and footer parts at different levels may have a style that is template-based or individual.
US10762288B2	Adaptive modification of content presented in electronic forms Systems and methods are provided for intelligently adapting content presented in electronic forms. In some embodiments, a processor provides access to multiple instances of a first version of an electronic form by multiple clients based on determining that insufficient data exists in a data source for a category of information. The first version of the form can include content for soliciting data associated with the category of information. The processor can receive responsive electronic communications in response to providing access to the first version of the form. The processor can provide access to multiple instances of a second version of the electronic form by multiple clients based on determining from the received responses whether sufficient data exists for the category of information. The second version of the electronic form can omit or replace the content for soliciting data associated with the category of information.
US10762286B2	Automated electronic form generation Methods and systems for automated electronic form generation are provided. According to one embodiment, a computing device includes a screen. The computing device is configured to display on the screen a single active text entry field through which all information relating to an electronic form to be generated and that is communicated to a remote server is input by an authoring user. The computing device is further configured to display on the screen a preview of the form generated by the remote server based on the information, which includes a text-based description. The preview of the form allows the authoring user to test the functionality of the form by supporting interaction with functional form elements of the form. The preview is displayed on the screen concurrently with the text entry field and updated in real-time or near real-time responsive to changes to the description by the authoring user.
US10762285B2	Methods and systems for generating electronic forms In a method for generating an electronic form, programmer input in a programming language is received, the programmer input including specification data corresponding to an electronic form to be generated. The programmer input is evaluated to generate an electronic form object that includes one or more user-interface mechanisms for receiving the user input, including evaluating the specification data to generate code in the electronic form object, the generated code capable of being processed by an application to render the electronic form on or via a user interface device such that the electronic form serially prompts the user over time for multiple user inputs. The electronic form object is stored in a memory of or communicatively coupled to the one or more computers.
US10762277B2	Optimization schemes for controlling user interfaces through gesture or touch A web application provides a custom selection for editing text on a gesture or touch screen. The application replaces native browser handles with selection handles to provide consistent user interface experience across platforms. The application also provides a scheme for semantic interpretation of browser gesture or touch events. The application standardizes browser events into a consistent stream of semantic events that are compatible with a plurality of devices and browsers. The application also provides a gesture or touch optimized user interface in the browser. The application determines gesture or touch input and optimizes the user interface according to the type of input.
US10762268B2	Apparatus and method for testing a circuit The invention refers to an apparatus for testing a circuit, including: an interrupter configured for interrupting based on a circuit model describing at least a part of the circuit a connection between two components of the circuit, wherein the circuit model describes the two components connected by the connection, an inserter configured for inserting based on the circuit model a test element model into the interrupted connection, and an evaluator configured for evaluating based on the circuit model and the test element model a response of the circuit model to the inserted test element model. The invention also refers to a corresponding method.
US10762267B2	System and method for electrical behavior modeling in a 3D virtual fabrication environment Modeling of electrical behavior during the virtual fabrication of a semiconductor device structure is discussed. Electrical behavior occurring in a designated region of a semiconductor device structure may be determined during the virtual fabrication process. For example, resistance or capacitance values may be determined within a modeling domain of interest.
US10762265B1	Heterogeneous instantiation of high-level language callable library for hardware core Using a high-level language (HLL) callable library for multiple instances of a core includes detecting, using computer hardware, a reference to an HLL library for a core within an HLL application, determining, using the computer hardware, a plurality of instances of the core by detecting function calls within the HLL application correlated to each of the plurality of instances of the core, and generating, using the computer hardware, interface code within the HLL application for each of the plurality of instances of the core using the HLL library. An executable version of the HLL application is generated, using the computer hardware, wherein the interface code for each of the plurality of instances of the core is bound to the respective instance of the core. The function calls can specify different parameterization files corresponding to the plurality of instances of the core.
US10762264B2	High-level synthesis device, high-level synthesis method, and program recording medium Provided is for reducing access latency. A high-level synthesis device includes feature quantity obtaining unit and implementation determination unit. Feature quantity obtaining unit obtains an access feature quantity including a feature quantity relating to communication between a plurality of modules by analyzing an access pattern in communication between the plurality of modules. Implementation determination unit determines an implementation method for communicating between the plurality of modules based on the obtained access feature quantity.
US10762263B1	Searching for values of a bus in digital waveform data A method includes inputting to a computer processor a search value. Bit values of bit element signals of a bus at a current time are determined time-ordered value pairs of timestamps and associated bit values of the bit element signals. Whether the bit values at the current time match values of corresponding bits of the search value is determined from the time-ordered value pairs. Data indicative of the current time and bit values of the bit element signals is output if the bit values at the current time match the search value. If any of the bit values at the current time do not match the search value, the current time is advanced to a later time indicated by a time-ordered value pair not matched to the search value and having a latest timestamp of the bit element signals that do not match corresponding bits of the search value.
US10762258B2	Parallel solution for fully-coupled fully-implicit wellbore modeling in reservoir simulation Computer processing time and results are improved in fully-coupled fully-implicit well-reservoir simulation system using Jacobian matrix methodology. Approximate inverse preconditioners are provided which treat a well influence matrix at comparable accuracy and robustness to those for the grid-to-grid flow terms of system matrix. The methodology is highly parallelizable and the data processing can be performed faster, as fewer solver iterations are required to converge to the same acceptable tolerances.
US10762254B2	Simulating multi-dimensional flow with coupled one-dimensional flow paths An illustrative formation flow simulation method includes: measuring horizontal and vertical permeability of at least one bed in a formation penetrated by a vertical borehole; representing the borehole as a linear, discretized borehole flow path; representing the formation as a plurality of horizontal layers, each layer of the plurality of horizontal layers being represented as a linear, discretized layer flow path; constructing a current state vector having values of flow parameters for the discretized borehole flow path and each of the discretized layer flow paths; constructing a solution matrix embodying a set of flow equations that relate the current state vector to a subsequent state vector, the flow equations employing the measured horizontal permeability for flow along the discretized layer flow path for each layer and employing the measured vertical permeability for cross-flow to or from each layer, wherein the solution matrix, current state vector, and subsequent state vector form a linear system of equations; solving the linear system of equations to derive the subsequent state vector from the current state vector; and storing the subsequent state vector on a non-transitory information storage medium.
US10762252B2	Temperature coupling algorithm for hybrid thermal lattice boltzmann method A method includes simulating, in a lattice velocity set, transport of particles in a volume of fluid, with the transport causing collision among the particles; and generating a distribution function for transport of the particles, wherein the distribution function comprises a thermodynamic step and a particle collision step, and wherein the thermodynamic step is substantially independent of and separate from the particle collision step.
US10762250B2	Interpreter framework for a computer file A method for an interpreter framework is described. The method includes an interpreter module of a computing system receiving a first data file that includes multiple data sections. The interpreter module identifies each of the data sections of the first data file. Each data section includes data representing a real-world entity. For each respective data section of the first data file, the interpreter module parses information about the real-world entity represented by the data included in the data section. The interpreter module generates a second data file based on the parsed information for each of the data sections. The second data file includes encoded data for rendering a digital geographic structure using information about the real-world entity.
US10762247B2	System and method of producing a multi component product There is provided a method of regulating the formulation of a multi-component product comprising a product attribute profile, the method comprising providing a first and second component of the product, each component having a component attribute profile; supplying to a product formulation zone the first component and the second component in a desired ratio and combining the first and second components together to provide the product or a precursor thereof to yield a target product attribute profile; responsive to a change or predicted change in at least one component attribute profile, supplying information concerning the attribute change to a data processing apparatus and calculating with respect to that change an adjustment in the ratio to reduce the deviation of one or more attributes of the product attribute profile from the target product attribute profile. A production system is also provided.
US10762242B2	Electronic apparatus and method of operating the same A method and system for operating an electronic apparatus includes: implementing, by a first processor, a main process of the electronic apparatus; receiving a user input for controlling an operation of at least one element (e.g., camera, memory, microphone, or the like) configured to perform at least one function; and in response to a received user input, controlling power of the at least one element by using at least a second processor separate from the first processor.
US10762240B2	Anonymizing a file for diagnosis Apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are provided for anonymizing a data set having an index component and a data component. In certain embodiments, the apparatuses, methods and computer program products make a copy of the data set, removes personal information from the data component, modifies an index component key value with a random value, modifies a data component key value with the same random value, and maintains a data set structure of the index component and the data component.
US10762235B2	Methods, systems, and media for storing and retrieving data from distributed vaults Methods, systems, and media for storing and retrieving data from distributed vaults are provided. In some embodiments, a method for storing and retrieving data from distributed vaults is provided, the method comprising: generating, by a first user device, a plurality of pieces of a data item, wherein a count N of the plurality of pieces equals a count of vault devices in a group of vault devices, wherein the data item can be reconstructed from a subset of the plurality of pieces, and wherein the data item corresponds to a key to access secure content; for each piece of the data item, transmitting the piece of the data item to a unique vault device; requesting, by a second user device, the subset of the plurality of pieces; generating the data item using the subset of the plurality of pieces; and using the data item to access the secure content.
US10762234B2	Data processing in a hybrid cluster environment A hybrid cluster environment with a public cloud cluster having nodes storing data and a plurality of private clusters is provided, wherein each of the plurality of private clusters has nodes storing data. Registration data that indicates a customer identifier, a new private cluster, and a file transfer server is received. The new private cluster is added to the plurality of private clusters in the hybrid cluster environment. Input to design a job to process data in the hybrid cluster environment is received. It is determined that the job is to be deployed to the new private cluster. The job is deployed to the new private cluster using the file transfer server, wherein the job is executed at the new private cluster. Job status information and one or more job logs are received with the file transfer server.
US10762230B2	Systems and methods for facilitating access to private files using a cloud storage system A method for providing access to objects associated with a particular client in a cloud storage system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of establishing a connection with a user, providing a client namespace associated with the client to the user, where the client namespace represents objects stored on the cloud storage system and objects stored on a private storage system apart from the cloud storage system, receiving a request from the user to access an object stored on the private storage system, and providing information to the user to facilitate access to the object stored on the private storage system by said user. Other systems and methods are also disclosed. Important advantages of the present invention are facilitated by separating the logic for user access (control plane) from the actual storage (Storage plane). Private file system access can still be managed from the cloud, while keeping the client data private.
US10762220B2	Access control tool An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor. The memory stores security restrictions. The processor detects that a user attempted to access a third-party application that does not use the stored security restrictions and communicates the stored security restrictions to the third-party application. The processor also receives a message indicating that the third-party application registered the security restrictions, determines, based on the stored security restrictions, that the user should be granted access to the third-party application, and in response to the determination that the user should be granted access to the third-party application, redirects the user to the third-party application.
US10762219B2	Automatic permissions for virtual objects Optimizations are provided to control access to virtual content included within a three-dimensional (3D) mesh. Specifically, after the 3D mesh is accessed, then objects represented by the 3D mesh are segmented so that they are distinguishable from one another. Once segmented, then a permissions is assigned to each object or even to groups of objects. For instance, all of the objects that are associated with a particular sub-space (e.g., a bedroom or a living room) may be assigned the same permissions. By assigning permissions to objects, it is possible to control which requesting entities will have access to the objects as well as how much access each of those requesting entities is afforded.
US10762218B2	Network buildout for cloud computing environments with data control policies Network buildout of cloud computing environments subject to different data control policies is performed in a manner that ensures compliance with the data control policies. A buildout service is located in a remote cloud computing environment separate from the cloud computing environments at which buildout is being performed. The buildout service implements workflows to manage different aspects of network buildout in the cloud computing environments. The buildout service does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environments, including access control data, such that the buildout service cannot directly interact with network devices. The buildout service issues requests for device configuration to hardware proxies in the cloud computing environments. In response to the requests, the hardware proxies obtain access control data to access and configure the network devices.
US10762213B2	Database system threat detection A method and system for improving memory storage and threat detection is provided. The method includes requesting and authorizing permission for executing analysis code for determining if a service device is in compliance with general data protection regulations. In response, executable code is uploaded to the database hardware controller and a first database and a second database is analyzed with respect to patterns associated with the general data protection regulations. Associated results code is generated and transmitted the service device. The results code is executed with respect to the first database and the second database resulting in a storage space increase in the first database and the second database thereby improving operational functions of the first database and the second database.
US10762210B2	Firmware protection and validation A system for firmware protection and validation includes: a memory device, including firmware; a chipset, a microprocessor; a secure logic device in electrical communication with the chipset and the memory device; and a power on reset circuit in communication with the secure logic device, wherein, when the secure logic device receives a reset signal from the power on reset circuit, the secure logic device applies a hold signal to the chipset, when the hold signal is applied to the chipset, the power on reset circuit de-asserts the reset signal, when the reset signal is de-asserted, the secure logic device validates the content of the firmware in the memory device, and further wherein, when the content of the firmware is validated by the secure logic device, the secure logic device de-asserts the hold signal applied to the chipset.
US10762207B2	Method and device for scanning virus The present application discloses a method and a device for scanning virus. The method for scanning virus comprises: ascertaining first scanning items in a client based on a determination to perform an intelligent scan; scanning the first scanning items at a first scanning speed; and scanning second scanning items in the client at a second scanning speed based on the client satisfying a first switching condition, the second scanning items are all remaining items except the first scanning items in the client, wherein the first scanning speed is higher than the second scanning speed. According to the scheme of the present application, adverse effects of virus scanning on a user's normal operation on and use of the client can be reduced.
US10762204B2	Managing containerized applications A method of managing access to a plurality of applications capable of executing within a container provisioned on a computing device. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, at a first communications interface of the container, a first communication for execution by a first application in the plurality of applications capable of executing within the container, wherein the communication is received from an on-device process via a first communication pathway using an inter-process communication (IPC) framework provided by an operating system executing on the computing device; sending, from the first communications interface of the container, the communication to a second communications interface of the first application via a second communication pathway provided by the container, wherein the second communication pathway bypasses the IPC framework; receiving, at the first communications interface of the container, a response to the first communication from the second communications interface of the first application via the second communication pathway; and sending, the response from the first communications interface of the container to the on-device process via the first communication pathway.
US10762202B2	Securely and efficiently providing user notifications about security actions A security agent executing in kernel mode may receive a request from the anti-malware component executing with low privileges in user mode, and, in response, the security agent may perform a security action with respect to a malicious file detected on the computing device. The security agent may then assist the anti-malware component in providing a user notification about the security action by obtaining, on behalf of the anti-malware component, a user token associated with the user session in which the malicious file was detected. The anti-malware component can use the obtained user token to request a pointer to a Component Object Model (COM) interface for outputting the notification in context of the appropriate user session, which allows for securely and efficiently providing the user notification.
US10762199B2	Compiler assisted protection against arbitrary code execution A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. A processor receives an executable file for execution by an operating system, where the executable file includes a plurality of sections in a first order. A processor determines a second order that indicates a loading order for the plurality of sections, where the second order is distinct from the first order. A processor loads the plurality of sections of the executable file into a plurality of locations in memory of a device based on the second order. A processor resolves one or more memory references for the plurality of sections based on the plurality of locations in memory. A processor executes the plurality of sections of the executable file in the plurality of locations in memory.
US10762194B2	Program file classification method, program file classification apparatus, and program file classification system A program file classification method, a program file classification apparatus, and a program file classification system, where the system sets an agent program in a client and a sandbox server to obtain behavior information corresponding to at least two behaviors executed by a program file at runtime. Each piece of behavior information includes a behavior identifier and a path related during execution of a corresponding behavior. A classification server performs normalization process on the path in each piece of behavior information, where the normalization process reduces path diversity, generates a feature vector according to at least two pieces of behavior information obtained after the path normalization process, and determines, according to the feature vector, a category to which the program file belongs. Because normalization process is performed on the path, randomness of a path obtained after the normalization process is reduced.
US10762184B2	Authentication device and authentication method An authentication device that authenticates a user using person specifiable information includes a first storage unit configured to store person specifiable information specifying a registered user, a second storage unit configured to store association information in which the registered user is associated with a predetermined terminal possessed by the registered user, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire person specifiable information from an authentication target user, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information, a user specifying unit configured to specify a user associated with the terminal transmitting the identification information based on the association information and the identification information, and an authentication processing unit configured to authenticate the authentication target user by executing a comparison process between the person specifiable information of the authentication target user and the person specifiable information of the registered user in an order that is set based on the specified user.
US10762179B2	System and method for watermarking software Systems, methods, and storage media implemented by a computer for enabling tracking of software are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive marking input code corresponding to a computer program; identify locations of the marking input code that can be modified in ways that preserve functionality of the computer program; choose at least one code transformation with associated intrinsic constants; derive derived constants from the specific intrinsic constants; apply the at least one chosen code transformation, including injecting the derived constants into the marking input code; saving the results of the above steps on computer readable media as marked code; and save metadata including a list of the derived constants on computer readable media in a file that is separate from the marked code.
US10762177B2	Method for preventing an unauthorized operation of a motor vehicle A method for preventing an unauthorized operation of a vehicle, and an electronic hardware security module for implementing the method are provided. A vehicle immobilizer software is used therein, which is at least partially stored in the electronic hardware security module.
US10762168B2	Report viewer using radiological descriptors A method and a report viewer for viewing a structured report, such as medical report describing radiological images using descriptors selected from a predefined list of descriptors, includes the acts of opening the medical report; and in response to the opening act, searching for a further report related to the descriptors of the medical report, and highlighting words and/or sentences in the further report that match keywords derived from the descriptors. The medical report and the further report may be displayed simultaneously with the words and/or sentences being highlighted. The further report may include an unstructured text report, and the method further includes mapping the descriptors to findings in the text report and highlighting the findings.
US10762164B2	Vector and matrix computing device A computing device and related products are provided. The computing device is configured to perform machine learning calculations. The computing device includes an operation unit, a controller unit, and a storage unit. The storage unit includes a data input/output (I/O) unit, a register, and a cache. Technical solution provided by the present disclosure has advantages of fast calculation speed and energy saving.
US10762163B2	Probabilistic matrix factorization for automated machine learning In embodiments of probabilistic matrix factorization for automated machine learning, a computing system memory maintains different workflows that each include preprocessing steps for a machine learning model, the machine learning model, and one or more parameters for the machine learning model. The computing system memory additionally maintains different data sets, upon which the different workflows can be trained and tested. A matrix is generated from the different workflows and different data sets, where cells of the matrix are populated with performance metrics that each indicate a measure of performance for a workflow applied to a data set. A low-rank decomposition of the matrix with populated performance metrics is then determined. Based on the low-rank decomposition, an optimum workflow for a new data set can be determined. The optimum workflow can be one of the different workflows or a hybrid of at least two of the different workflows.
US10762162B2	Apparatus and method of low complexity optimization solver for path smoothing with constraint variation An apparatus and method of low complexity optimization solver for path smoothing with constraint variation are herein disclosed. According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an L1 central processing unit (CPU) configured to transform an L1 trend filtering problem to a primal-dual linear programming (LP) optimization problem pair; and an L1 arithmetic logic unit (ALU) connected to the L1 CPU and configured to solve a primal problem of the primal-dual LP optimization problem pair with an extended full tableau simplex method.
US10762161B2	Intelligent humanoid interactive content recommender Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for interactive content recommendation. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a request for content by a user, determining a user intent based on the received request, providing to the user a first attribute responsive to the user intent, receiving a first attribute value responsive to the first attribute, providing a second attribute, and receiving a second attribute value responsive to the second attribute. A particular content vector including a first content attribute and a second content attribute for a particular content item is identified where the first content attribute and the second content attribute sufficiently match the first attribute value and the second attribute value. The particular content item is provided as a suggested content item, and, responsive to a user selection of the particular content item, provided for presentation on the user device.
US10762159B2	Method and system for increasing page loading rate A method and system for increasing a page loading rate, the method comprising: a Content Delivery Network receiving a page framework request sent by a browser, and launching a page framework request to a server; the server rendering a page framework on the basis of the page framework request, and sending the page framework to the browser by the Content Delivery Network; the browser parsing the page framework to obtain a page module identifier, and launching a page module request including the page module identifier to the server by the Content Delivery Network; the server rendering a page module on the basis of the page framework module request, and sending the page module to the Content Delivery Network; and the Content Delivery Network populating the page module into the page framework to form a page on the basis of the page module identifier, and sending the page to the browser.
US10762158B2	Capturing and managing knowledge from social networking interactions Presenting a marking element in a social networking interaction where the marking element includes a question specifier and an answer specifier, creating a knowledge element in response to a user activating the marking element on the social networking interaction or a portion thereof, and presenting a knowledge element indicator in the social networking interaction.
US10762156B2	Suppressing duplicate listings on multiple search engine web sites from a single source system triggered by a user A source system receives, from at least one of the user associated with an entity or the human operator associated with the source system, an indication to suppress all listings associated with the entity on one or more provider systems, wherein the indication comprises identification data of the entity and an indication that the identification data of the entity is no longer valid. The source system retrieves, from a database associated with the source system, a list of one or more provider systems associated with the source system and having at least one listing corresponding to the entity. For each provider system in the list of one or more provider systems: the source system searches the provider system for listings having identification data matching the identification data of the entity. The source system receives, from the provider system, one or more matching listings having identification data matching the identification data of the entity, wherein each listing of one or more matching listings has a corresponding provider-supplied external identifier assigned by the provider system. The source system transmits, to the provider system, a request to suppress the one or more matching listings, the request to suppress the one or more matching listings comprising a list of the one or more corresponding provider-supplied external identifiers.
US10762151B2	Method and device for recommending content to browser of terminal device and method and device for displaying content on browser of terminal device The present disclosure discloses a method and a device for recommending content to a browser of a terminal device and a method and a device for displaying recommended content on a browser of a terminal device. The method for recommending content to a browser of a terminal device includes: recommending content to a browser of a terminal device, where the content includes a first quantity X of popular content of a geographical area to which the terminal device currently belongs, a second quantity Y of content related to a historical user behavior of a user of the browser of the terminal device, and a third quantity Z of content related to a user numerical score of the browser of the terminal device. According to the present disclosure, content matching a browsing interest and habit of a user may be provided, to obtain a relatively high user click-through rate and desirable browsing experience.
US10762149B2	System and method for inducing user activity via enhanced web content A system and method for inducing user activity via enhanced web content. The method includes receiving data respective of interactions of a user with web content displayed on a user device during at least one electronic transaction, wherein the web content is associated with at least a product; determining, based on the received data, a user impression; generating a user profile including at least the determined user impression; determining at least one content modification parameter respective of the generated user profile; determining at least one criterion respective of the at least one content modification parameter; and causing a display of enhanced content based on the at least one content modification parameter, when the at least one criterion is met.
US10762148B1	Dissemination of information updates across devices A system, method, and computer media are provided for combining and transmitting information to a device and via a channel of a user. The method comprises receiving a plurality of news elements, which are stored in a database. A relevance score is determined of the news elements in the news element database for a plurality of user elements stored in a user portfolio in the memory of the processing system. News elements are selected from the database based on the relevance score. The method further comprises determining at least one of an active device and an active channel of the user, reformatting the selected news elements into story components based on the determined device and channel into story components, and transmitting the story components to the active device and via the active channel of the user.
US10762143B2	Extension of third party application functionality for intent determination Intent determination as a service (IaaS) is disclosed. A third party application may be provided access to an IaaS service. The third party application and the IaaS system may exchange or be provided registration data and information that allow configuration of data and interfaces used in provision of IaaS to the third party application. A query received as input at the third party application may be sent to the IaaS system and the intent of a query may be determined and indicated in a query response sent back to the third party application. A third party application may also interface with a device client application integrated into the operating system of a device as part of accessing an IaaS system. Use of IaaS for queries associated with or relevant to third party applications may extend the capabilities of the third party applications and device client applications.
US10762142B2	User-defined automated document feature extraction and optimization Provided herein are systems and methods for user-defined automated document feature modeling, extraction and optimization. In the present disclosure, an end user of an automated document review system can customize and create new extractor taggers within data models applicable to a set of focus documents. The user-defined edits to the extractor taggers can be further tested in a staging environment, and tested against a ground truth set of documents, before being widely applied to other relevant documents.
US10762141B2	Using on-line and off-line projections to control information delivery to mobile devices A system for processing information requests associated with mobile devices comprises an information server configured to build a search query for an information request based on the location features and other data therein and to search an information database for matching information documents. The matching information documents including information documents having different types of performance measure, including a first document using an impression-based performance measure, a second document using a click/call-based performance measure and a third document using an off-line site-visit-based performance measure. The information server is further configured rank the matching documents based on their respective performance measures and to select a matching document based on their respective rankings. The information server is further configured to generate a projected probability of an off-line site visit in response to the second document being selected to fulfill the each request and impressed on an associated mobile device, and to adjust a budget of the second document based on the projected probability.
US10762140B2	Identifying content in a content management system relevant to content of a published electronic document A computer system receives a published electronic document from a first source. The computer system analyzes structure and content of the published electronic document to extract information. Such extracted information can include keywords, based on content, and information indicative of relative importance of those keywords, based on structure. The computer system generates queries based on the extracted information to query a content management system of a second source of published electronic documents. The results can indicate whether the content management has content available corresponding to the query, and whether the content is published in electronic documents available from the second source. The computer system can process these results received from queries, using the relative importance of the extracted information, to communicate information indicative of content available in the content management system and relevant to the published document and not yet published in electronic documents available from the second source.
US10762136B2	Tag-based, user directed media recommendations A tag-based, user-directed media recommendation scheme is described herein. For example described herein is a recommender system (and method implemented by the recommender system) comprising: a recommendation engine configured to generate a recommendations list which includes a current set of recommendations for a user of a client device; and, a tag engine configured to: (1) receive the recommendations list; (2) obtain information about representative items associated with the user of the client device; (3) correlate the recommendations with tags; (4) correlate the representative items with the tags, (5) sort the tags into a tag list; and (6) provide the recommendations list and the tag list to the client device. The representative items include at least one of following: (1) an item previously purchased by the user; (2) an item previously watched by the user; (3) an item previously placed on a wish-list by the user; and (4) an item recommended by the recommendation engine for the user. Further described herein, are the client device and method implemented by the client device.
US10762132B2	System for referring to and/or embedding posts, videos or digital media within another post, video, digital data or digital media within 2D, 3D, 360 degree or spherical applications whereby to reach convergence or grouping There is disclosed herein a system of managing posts for interacting with web based digital video. The system comprises a user interface application operating on one or more user devices which are operative to view web based digital video, the user interface application creating posts that refer to digital media items, digital media items comprising images, video, 3d images, 3d video, 360-degree images, 360-degree video, geocoded images, geocoded video or spherical digital images and spherical digital video. A database system stores user created posts. The created posts are clustered or grouped to reach convergence. A programmed processing system is in operative communication with user devices and the database system for creating and managing embedded data in user created posts and one or more select locations in select web based digital video, wherein users interacting with the user interface application can access user created posts.
US10762131B2	System for identifying media content A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a process that identifies identified media content sources based on a consumption pattern. The identified media content sources include alternative media content items and second metadata associated with the items. A match is determined between first metadata associated with media content requested for presentation at a media device and the second metadata. Matched alternative media content items are identified based on the match, and media content previously consumed by the media device is determined. A tout message is constructed identifying alternative media content items that do not include the media content previously consumed by the media device. A selectable command is provided within in the tout message associated with the alternative media content items. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10762129B2	Webpage media playback Examples described herein involve facilitating playback of media content via a webpage. An example implementation involves a computing device: identifying one or more playback zones including at least one respective playback device; transmitting, via a web browser, a webpage request; receiving a webpage that includes a link to a media item; modifying the received webpage to include a representation associated with the link; causing, via the web browser, display of the modified webpage; responsive to a selection of the representation, causing display of the option; and responsive to a selection of the option, causing display of a list of the one or more playback zones, wherein at least one playback zone of the one or more playback zones is selectable to cause the media item to be added to the playback queue associated with the at least one playback zone.
US10762125B2	Sorting images based on learned actions A device may capture one or more images. The device may automatically sort the one or more images into a save category and a delete category. The device may predict an action of a user towards the one or more images in the save category. The device may rank the one or more images in the save category based on the predicted action of the user. The device may display a first image to the user. The first image may have a highest rank among the one or more images in the save category.
US10762123B2	Systems and methods for searching for a media asset Systems and methods for searching for a media asset are described. In some aspects, the system includes control circuitry that receives a first search query from a user. The control circuitry identifies media assets related to the first search query from a content database. The control circuitry receives a second search query following the first search query. The control circuitry determines whether a media asset from the media assets is related to the second search query. In response to determining that less than a threshold number of media assets from the media assets are related to the second search query, the control circuitry transmits an instruction requesting the user to repeat the second search query. The control circuitry receives a third search query related to the first search query. The control circuitry determines a media asset from the media assets that is related to the third search query.
US10762120B1	Digital content compilation Through use of crowd sourced information, media files may be transformed into or used to create product files that are derived from the media files. A product file may be generated using feedback from the crowd sourced information received from an electronic device. The crowd sourced information may indicate one or more portions of the media file to exclude from the product file to create a consolidated product file. In some embodiments, the crowd sourced information may indicate supplemental material and/or portions of other media files that may be included in the product file.
US10762115B2	Automated response system using smart data Aspects of the disclosure relate to analyzing smart data using an automated response system. A computing platform may receive, from a user device, user feedback information comprising user feedback corresponding to an enterprise organization. Thereafter, the computing platform may identify, based on the user feedback information, identification information comprising a sender of the user feedback and an issue corresponding to the user feedback. Then, the computing platform may retrieve, from a hierarchical rules server and based on the identification information, hierarchy information comprising a hierarchy ranking of a plurality of automated responses. Subsequently, the computing platform may determine, based on analyzing the hierarchy information and the user feedback, an automated response from the plurality of automated responses. Next, the computing platform may generate one or more commands directing an external response server to execute the automated response. Then, the computing platform may transmit the one or more commands.
US10762111B2	Automatic feature learning from a relational database for predictive modelling Embodiments for automatic feature learning for predictive modelling in a computing environment by a processor. A first table and a second table are joined based on an edge between the first table and the second table defined by an entity graph thereby creating a resulting joined table that is connected by a column of data. The resulting joined table is used as an input into one or more neural network operations that transform the resulting joined table to one or more features to predict a target variable.
US10762110B2	Method and system for real-time, false positive resistant, load independent and self-learning anomaly detection of measured transaction execution parameters like response times A combined transaction execution monitoring, transaction classification and transaction execution performance anomaly detection system is disclosed. The system receives and analyzes transaction tracing data which may be provided by monitoring agents deployed to transaction executing entities like processes. In a first classification stage, parameters are extracted from received transaction tracing data, and the transaction tracing data is tagged with the extracted classification data. A subsequent measure extraction stage analyzes the classified transaction tracing data and creates corresponding measurements which are tagged with the transaction classifier. A following statistical analysis process maintains statistical data describing the long term statistical behavior of classified measures as a baseline, and also calculates corresponding statistical data describing the current statistical behavior of the classified measures. The statistical analysis process detects and notifies significant deviations between the statistical distribution of baseline and current measure data. A subsequent anomaly alerting and visualization stage processes those notifications.
US10762109B2	Asynchronous deletion in non-relational databases Methods, systems, and devices for asynchronous deletion at a non-relational database are described. The non-relational database may store a set of data object associations. The non-relational database may receive a read request indicating a first data object identifier. Based on the first data object identifier indicated in the read request, the non-relational database may identify a second data object identifier according to a first data object association of the stored set of data object associations that is indexed in the non-relational database with the first data object identifier. The non-relational database may determine that a last data entry that is indexed in the non-relational database with the identified second data object identifier and is associated with the first data object identifier has been deleted from the non-relational database. The non-relational database may delete the first data object association from the non-relational database.
US10762108B2	Query dispatching system and method Dispatching a database request. A database request is received. Latency times are determined for databases managed by the DBMS, the latency times being estimates of the times to complete replications from the other databases of all unreplicated data changes in the other databases. For each database, a capture velocity and an apply are determined, which are a number of data changes applied to the database that can be identified or applied in a predefined time interval. For each database, an estimated time to complete the database request is determined. The database request is dispatched to the database having an estimated minimum time of execution of the database request, wherein the time of execution is function of the estimated time for the database to complete the database request, the latency time of the database, and the capture and apply velocities of the database.
US10762099B2	Syntactical transformation of database interaction statements A computer-implemented method includes identifying a primary database interaction statement and determining one or more intermediate database interaction statements based on the primary database interaction statement. The computer-implemented further includes determining, for each of the one or more intermediate database interaction statements, an intermediate statement transformation indicator. The computer-implemented method further includes determining one or more transformed database interaction statements based on each intermediate statement transformation indicator. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US10762098B2	Utilizing database tables for dashboard management A method and system is provided to populate a customized pull down menu with table driven sort options in a graphical user interface for displaying a data report. A computer builds a table of sortable fields for a dashboard report, and displays in the dashboard report filters in the table that apply to the sortable fields. The computer receives from the user a selection of at least one sortable field from the sortable fields from a pull down menu, and at least one flag is set for inclusion in the dashboard report, wherein the at least one set flag define a sort order for an element of the data report. A generated SQL statement is modified to sort the element according to the at least one set flag. The element is sorted according to the modified SQL statement.
US10762091B2	Interactive feedback for changes in search relevancy parameters Techniques are disclosed relating to providing interactive feedback based on changes in search parameters. A computing system may receive user input specifying adjustment of a relevancy parameter from a first value to a modified value. The relevancy parameter may be usable to determine ordering of results for search queries. In response to the input, the system may cause information to be displayed that indicates a value of a search metric, and the value may be based on one or more prior search queries using the adjusted relevancy parameter. The system may additionally or alternatively cause first and second sets of ordered search results to be displayed, where the first set is based on the first value of the relevancy parameter and the second set is based on the modified value of the relevancy parameter.
US10762088B2	Automated database manager Automated database managers identify each of a plurality of different constraints that are each individually active for a data operation on a data value of a table data field of a relational database for a data operation. A database manager processor selects an untested one of the plurality of constraints as a selected constraint, and tests a field data value of the table data field for a defined condition of the selected constraint. In response to the test of the field data value meeting the defined condition of the selected constraint, the processor performs the data operation on the data value of the table data field, without testing any other untested ones of the plurality of different constraints.
US10762087B2	Database search The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for database search, by grouping data entries based on join conditions between the data entries as set in search conditions; and executing the search based on the grouping of the data entries, and can efficiently and effectively resolve the issues that are common to the existing MapReduce query processing systems, thereby being particularly suitable for big dataset analytics in a large cluster system.
US10762086B2	Tracking query execution status for selectively routing queries Query execution status may be tracked to selectively route queries to resources for execution. The completion of queries executing at computing resources obtained from a pool of computing resources configured to execute queries may be detected. Instead of returning the computing resources to the pool, the computing resources may be identified as available in resource management data. When another query is received, the resource management data may be evaluated to select an available computing resource. The query may then be routed to the selected computing resource for execution.
US10762083B2	Entity- and string-based search using a dynamic knowledge graph Techniques for performing a database search using a rewritten and annotated query are disclosed herein. In example embodiments, a profile lexicon is generated from a set of raw user profiles. A click-through lexicon is generated from a raw query log. A machine-learning model is trained for entity prediction using selected data. Query tagger data is generated using the profile lexicon, the click-through lexicon, and the machine-learning model. A raw query is received. The raw query is rewritten as an annotated query based on the generated query tagger data. A search of a database is performed using the annotated query. Results of the search are returned in response to the receiving of the raw query for presentation in a user interface.
US10762079B2	System and method for managing a blockchain cloud service In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for implementing a distributed ledger a blockchain cloud service. The blockchain cloud service can include nodes of the distributed ledger and a management console component. The management console component can include a web application running in a script runtime environment, a plurality of backend of APIs for communicating with various nodes of the blockchain cloud service, and a plurality of client APIs configured to be invoked by a client application. The plurality of client APIs uses one or more of the plurality of backend APIs in provisioning the distributed ledger as a blockchain cloud service, and in managing the managing the blockchain cloud service.
US10762077B2	System and method for generating aggregate data A system is provided for updating an aggregate value used to generate a display on a client device. The system can include a server device including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to: generate the aggregate value based on a set of records stored in a database; generate a metadata record that includes values based on the set of records used to generate the aggregate value; identify a change to the set of records; determine whether the change will affect a validity of the aggregate value; generate an updated aggregate value based on the change and a metadata record; update the metadata record to include values based on the change; and communicate the updated aggregate value to the client device.

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