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| US10826080B2 |
Fuel cell comprising a membrane/electrode assembly provided with a capacitive layer
A fuel cell including: a membrane/electrode assembly including a proton exchange membrane and including an anode in contact with the membrane, the membrane/electrode assembly including a first active zone covered by the anode, and a first linking zone not covered by the anode; flow guiding plates between which the membrane/electrode assembly is arranged, the flow guiding plates being traversed by at least one first flow collector in communication with the anode, the first linking zone arranged between the first flow collector and the first active zone. The membrane/electrode assembly further includes a first capacitive layer including a mixture of carbon including a BET specific surface area at least equal to 200 m2/g and of a proton-conducting material, arranged on the first linking zone. |
| US10826076B1 |
Patterned electrode catalyst
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a patterned electrode comprising regions of catalyst and segregating regions that separate the regions of catalyst. The segregating regions may be regions of non-catalytic material. The catalyst regions may correspond to the channels of a flow field. The electrode provides improved fuel cell performance, particularly at high current densities. The electrode may be for all suitable applications, such as in a membrane electrode assembly and/or a fuel cell. Also disclosed is a method for making the patterned electrode. The method may comprise using masks to apply the catalyst and non-catalyst material to a substrate. |
| US10826075B2 |
Membrane electrode assembly of electrochemical device, membrane electrode assembly of fuel cell, fuel cell, membrane electrode assembly of electrochemical hydrogen pump, electrochemical hydrogen pump, membrane electrode assembly of hydrogen sensor, and hydrogen sensor
A membrane electrode assembly of an electrochemical device includes a proton conductive solid electrolyte membrane and an electrode including Ni and an electrolyte material which contains as a primary component, at least one of a first compound having a composition represented by BaZr1-x1M1x1O3 (M1 represents at least one element selected from trivalent elements each having an ion radius of more than 0.720 A° to less than 0.880 A°, and 0 |
| US10826064B2 |
Cathode active material for lithium secondary battery, method for producing same, and lithium secondary battery comprising same
The present disclosure relates to a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method for preparing same, and a lithium secondary battery comprising same, the cathode active material comprising a lithium-nickel compound oxide, wherein a c-axis lattice parameter of a unit lattice of the lithium-nickel compound oxide satisfies Formula 1: 14.1720 ÅA≤c≤14.1750 ÅA [Formula 1] |
| US10826063B2 |
Lithium secondary battery
The present invention may improve the lifetime characteristics of a lithium secondary battery, and particularly, may provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution or cathode including a phosphate-based compound which may exhibit stable and excellent lifetime characteristics at high temperature and high voltage regardless of the moisture content or the presence of a pressing process of the electrode. |
| US10826058B2 |
Positive electrode for rechargeable lithium battery and rechargeable lithium battery including the same
The present invention relates to a positive electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The positive electrode includes: a current collector; and a positive electrode active material positioned on at least one surface of the active material layer current collector. The positive electrode active material layer includes a small particle size active material having an average particle diameter D50 of 2 μm to 4 μm and a first coating layer positioned at a surface thereof, and a large particle size active material having an average particle diameter D50 of 17 μm to 21 μm and a second coating layer positioned at the surface thereof. |
| US10826057B2 |
Mixed positive electrode active material, positive electrode comprising same, and secondary battery
Provided is a mixed positive electrode active material comprising a large-grain positive electrode active material with an average diameter of 10 μm or greater and a small-grain positive electrode active material with an average diameter of 5 μm or smaller, in which the large-grain positive electrode active material and the small-grain positive electrode active material are coated with different materials between a lithium boron oxide-based composition and metal oxide, respectively. |
| US10826056B2 |
Electrode sheet used in nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery and nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery
An electrode sheet including a multi-walled carbon nanotube including plural graphene layers, each of which has a trioxotriangulene derivative of formula (1) dispersed therein, where X's are hydrogen, a halogen, or a monovalent organic group, and may be the same as or different from each other. |
| US10826055B2 |
Electrode manufacturing apparatus
A turnover apparatus includes a first turnover portion, a second turnover portion, and a third turnover portion each including a convexly curved outer surface. An electrode foil is turned over as the electrode foil is transported along the outer surface of each of the first turnover portion, the second turnover portion, and the third turnover portion in this order. The first turnover portion, the second turnover portion, and the third turnover portion are integrally fixed. Each of the outer surfaces of the first turnover portion, the second turnover portion, and the third turnover portion defines a part of each side of a virtual triangle. |
| US10826050B1 |
Methods of preparing a safety battery
The present invention relates, in part, to methods of preparing a safety battery. Methods can include dispensing a safety ink formulation between the two poles of a battery. Upon exposure to moisture, the formulation provides an electrical connection between two poles, thus minimizing electrical discharge and/or reducing the formation of electrochemically generated ions at the pole(s). |
| US10826049B2 |
Electrode tab, electrode assembly and battery
According to embodiments of the present application, an electrode tab is provided comprising a substrate, a protective layer located outside the substrate, wherein the protective layer includes a first non-metallic element and a first metal element and the atomic ratio between the first non-metallic element and the first metal element is in the range of 10% to 30%. The embodiments of the present application further provide an electrode assembly and a battery. The object of the present application is to provide an electrode tab, an electrode assembly and a battery so as to at least achieve the improvement of electrolyte resistance under the immersion of electrolyte. |
| US10826046B2 |
Bus bar and power storage module
A bus bar includes a metal plate material. A plate face of the metal plate material includes a recessed portion. An inner wall of the recessed portion includes a first light-receiving face that is inclined relative to the plate face so as to receive a laser light beam L1 extending in a direction perpendicular to the plate face, and a second light-receiving face for receiving the laser light beam L1 that has reflected off the first light-receiving face. |
| US10826045B2 |
Battery wiring module
A battery wiring module that can improve workability when covers are to be opened. A cover includes a cover body portion coupled to a housing so as to be pivotable between a closed position and an open position, and a cover lock portion locked to a housing lock portion when the cover body portion is at the closed position. The housing lock portion includes an elastic piece located so as to face an outer surface of a fourth wall portion of the wiring housing portion, and is elastically deformable in a direction away from and a direction toward the fourth wall portion, and a lock protrusion that protrudes from the elastic piece in the direction toward the fourth wall portion. The cover lock portion is locked to the lock protrusion in the state of being inserted between the fourth wall portion and the elastic piece. |
| US10826044B2 |
Conductive module
The housing member includes a housing body that houses first and second conductive members, a lid body that closes an opening of a second housing chamber of the second conductive member in the housing body, a hinge body as a living hinge therebetween, and a holding mechanism that holds the lid body in the housing body at a closing position, the holding mechanism includes a first engagement holder having an inserted portion, and a second engagement holder having a claw portion. |
| US10826039B2 |
Electrode assembly including electrode and separator partially bonded to each other
An electrode assembly for a secondary battery having reduced internal resistance while adhesion between a separator and an electrode is maintained and having improved electrolyte impregnation the electrode assembly including a separator having a processed area having undergone a corona discharging process and a non-processed area. |
| US10826038B2 |
Secondary battery, battery pack, and electric vehicle
A secondary battery includes: a cathode and an anode opposed to each other with a separator in between; an electrolyte layer provided between the anode and the separator; and an adhesion layer provided between the anode and the electrolyte layer, wherein the anode includes an active material and a first polymer compound, the electrolyte layer includes an electrolytic solution and a second polymer compound, the adhesion layer includes a third polymer compound, the first polymer compound includes a polar group, the second polymer compound includes a polymer chain, and the third polymer compound includes a polar group and a polymer chain same as the polymer chain of the second polymer compound. |
| US10826032B2 |
Battery pack
A battery pack includes: at least one battery module; a housing; and attachment members. The at least one battery module is housed in the housing. The attachment members are coupled to the housing, and attachable to a vehicle body. The housing is positioned under a floor of a vehicle. Each of the attachment members extends from a side of the housing to another side along a lower surface of the housing. Lower surfaces of the attachment members are coupled to a plate member. A lower portion of the battery pack has a double-bottomed part formed by the plate member and a bottom surface of the housing. |
| US10826029B2 |
Energy storage device
An energy storage device includes: an electrode assembly; a case accommodating the electrode assembly; a lid plate structure including a lid plate of the case, a current collector electrically connected to a tab provided at the electrode assembly, and an insulating member disposed between the lid plate and the current collector; and a first spacer disposed between an end provided with the tab of the electrode assembly and the lid plate and having a locked portion locked to part of the lid structure. |
| US10826028B2 |
Manufacture method of flexible display panel
The present invention provides a manufacture method of a flexible display panel, and after forming grooves on the rigid substrate, and forming the flexible supporting bases in the grooves, and manufacturing the display element layer on the flexible supporting bases and the rigid substrate, the flexible display mother board is obtained. Then, the normal knife flywheel is used to cut the flexible display mother board along the edges of the grooves to obtain the flexible substrate units. After stripping the rigid substrates in the flexible substrate units with laser, the flexible display substrates are obtained. The method saves the purchase cost of the laser cutting apparatus, and thus to reduce the manufacture cost of the flexible display substrate, and meanwhile, to raise the cutting yield of cutting the flexible display mother board with the normal knife flywheel for promoting the usage lifetime of the knife flywheel. |
| US10826026B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A method for manufacturing a display device including forming a lower electrode on a substrate; depositing a first insulation layer thereon; forming a semiconductor layer that overlaps the lower electrode thereon; depositing a second insulation layer thereon; forming a gate electrode and an etching prevention layer that overlap the semiconductor layer thereon; depositing a third insulation layer thereon; forming a first conductor that overlaps the gate electrode thereon; depositing a fourth insulation layer thereon; forming a photosensitive film patterns thereon by depositing a photosensitive film and exposing and developing the photosensitive film such that portions of the photosensitive film are removed in a first area, a second area, and a third area; etching the third insulation layer using the patterns as an etching mask; etching the etching prevention layer by using the patterns as an etching mask; and etching the first insulation layer using the patterns as an etching mask. |
| US10826021B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device including a plurality of unit regions each including a light emitting area and a transmissive area
An organic electroluminescence device according to one aspect of the disclosure includes a base material including a recessed portion on an upper face, and a light emitting element including a reflective layer, a filling layer having optical transparency, a first electrode having optical transparency, an organic layer including at least a light emitting layer, and a second electrode having optical transparency. The reflective layer is disposed at least on a surface of the recessed portion. The filling layer is disposed at an inside of the recessed portion with the reflective layer interposed between the recessed portion and the filling layer. The first electrode is disposed at least on an upper-layer side of the filling layer. The organic layer is disposed on an upper layer of the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on an upper-layer side of the organic layer. The organic electroluminescence device includes a display region that is divided into a plurality of unit regions. The plurality of unit regions each having the light emitting element has a light emitting area and a transmissive area that are partitioned. |
| US10826018B2 |
Package structure including package layers and manufacturing method thereof and display panel
A package structure and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided, and the package structure comprises a package stack disposed on a substrate; and an additional layer disposed on the package stack. The package structure provided by the present disclosure results in saving of one deposition process and one mask process, thereby the manufacturing process is simplified. Moreover, a narrow bezel may be realized. |
| US10826017B2 |
Packaging assembly and preparation method thereof, and display device
The present disclosure provides a packaging assembly and a preparation method thereof, and a display device. The packaging assembly may include at least one of packaging unit; the at least one of packaging unit including a first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer, and an organic layer sequentially stacked, wherein a material of the first inorganic layer and a material of the second inorganic layer are different. Holes inside the layers may be reduced, and a density of the layers may be increased. An effect of blocking the water vapor may be higher than that of a single layer, and a packaging effect may be better. |
| US10826016B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode package, display panel and method for manufacturing the same
The present disclosure discloses an organic light-emitting diode package, a display panel and a method for manufacturing the same. The method may include: providing a substrate comprising a baseplate, a pixel-defining layer disposed on the baseplate and a light-emitting layer disposed in an opening of the pixel-defining layer, wherein the light-emitting layer comprises an organic light-emitting diode; forming a first inorganic layer on the substrate; preparing an ultraviolet absorbing layer on the first inorganic layer; and forming a planarization layer and a second inorganic layer in sequence on the ultraviolet absorbing layer. The implementation of the present disclosure may effectively reduce the damage from external ultraviolet light to the organic light-emitting diode. |
| US10826015B2 |
Organic light emitting display panel and organic light emitting display device
An OLED panel and an OLED device are provided. The OLED panel includes a display area and a non-display area around the display area; a substrate, a driving device layer and a light emitting device layer arranged in the display area, and the driving device layer includes multiple thin film transistors, the light emitting device layer includes multiple organic light emitting diodes, and an encapsulation layer covering the light emitting device layer. The non-display area includes an electrostatic discharge portion, the electrostatic discharge portion is made of a transparent conductive thin film and is located on a side of the encapsulation layer facing away from the substrate. The non-display area includes at least one blocking portion, the blocking portion is arranged around the display area, and is located between the substrate and the encapsulation layer. |
| US10826014B2 |
Curved-surface display screen and method for assembling the same
A method for assembling a curved-surface display screen includes: attaching a flexible display panel to a flexible glass to form an integral body; and mounting the integral body into a frame. The frame surrounds a periphery of the integral body, and a perimeter of the frame is less than that of the integral body. |
| US10826012B2 |
Light-emitting display device and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure provides a light-emitting display device including a lower substrate, a transistor, a planarization layer, a sacrificial layer, an isolation layer, a lower electrode layer, an organic emission layer and an upper electrode layer. The isolation layer is positioned on the sacrificial layer, and exposes part of the planarization layer through an opening that extends through the isolation layer and the sacrificial layer. The planarization layer includes a first contact hole positioned in the opening, and the lower electrode layer is electrically connected to one electrode of the transistor through the first contact hole. |
| US10826009B2 |
Quantum dot light-emitting diode and display apparatus thereof
A quantum dot light-emitting diode and a display apparatus comprising the quantum dot light-emitting diode are provided. The quantum dot light-emitting diode comprises an anode, a hole injecting layer, a hole transporting layer, a quantum dot light-emitting layer, an electron transporting layer and a cathode from bottom to top, wherein the materials of the quantum dot light-emitting layer contain quantum dots and CuSCN nano-particles. By blending quantum dots and CuSCN nano-particles into a membrane to prepare a quantum dot light-emitting layer, a hole trap state on the surface of the quantum dots is passivated, and the transporting effect of a hole is improved, so that the injection of holes in the quantum dot light-emitting diode and that of electrons achieve balance, and thus the light-emitting efficiency and stability are improved. |
| US10826008B2 |
Display device
A display device according to the present invention includes a substrate, and a plurality of pixels arranged in the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element, a first transistor, a second transistor, a first insulation layer and a second insulation layer, the first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer, the second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer, the first insulation layer is arranged across the plurality of pixels between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, the second insulation layer is arranged between the first insulation layer and the second semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer is arranged on the substrate side sandwiching the first insulation layer with respect to the second semiconductor layer, the first insulation layer includes a silicon oxide layer; and the second insulation layer includes an aluminum oxide layer. |
| US10826003B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a substrate including a bending area located between a first area and a second area and bent in the bending area; a display unit arranged over an upper surface of the substrate and located in the first area; a protection film located over a lower surface of the substrate and including a protection film base and a viscous layer; and a bending protection layer including a first bending protection layer and a second bending protection layer and corresponding to the bending area, wherein the protection film is located over the lower surface of the substrate and has an opening corresponding to the bending area or at least a part of the first area, and wherein the first bending protection layer is arranged over at least a part of a boundary of the opening or over an outside of the boundary of the opening, and at least a part of the second bending protection layer is arranged over an inside of the boundary of the opening. |
| US10826002B2 |
Display device
A display device including: a plurality of unit portions repeatedly arranged in a first direction and a second direction, wherein the second direction is different from the first direction; a plurality of display units respectively arranged above the plurality of unit portions; and a plurality of encapsulation layers respectively encapsulating the plurality of display units, wherein each of the plurality of unit portions includes an island where a display unit and an encapsulation layer are located, and at least one connection unit connected to the island, and islands of two unit portions adjacent to each other are spaced apart from each other, and connection units of the two unit portions adjacent to each other are connected to each other. |
| US10826001B2 |
OLED array substrate and display apparatus
An Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) array substrate and a display apparatus. The OLED array substrate includes a base substrate, a pixel driving circuit and an OLED display element layer which are arranged on the base substrate. The OLED array substrate further includes a solar cell, the solar cell is arranged on a side of the pixel driving circuit which faces an incident ambient light, the solar cell and the pixel driving circuit are insulated from each other, and the solar cell and the OLED display element layer are insulated from each other. |
| US10825997B2 |
Organic electroluminescent materials and devices
This invention discloses heteroleptic iridium complexes containing two tridentate ligands with three five- and one six-cyclometalated rings, showing desired device performance properties. |
| US10825993B2 |
Organic light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic layer between the first and second electrodes and including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer comprises a first host represented by Formula 1 and a second host represented by Formula 2: |
| US10825991B2 |
Composition and light emitting device using the same
A composition is provided containing a phosphorescent compound and a polymer compound having a constitutional unit represented by the formula (Y): ArY1 (Y) wherein ArY1 represents an arylene group, a divalent heterocyclic group or the like; and at least one constitutional unit selected from the constitutional units represented by the formulas (Ia) to (Id): wherein m represents an integer of 0 to 4, n represents an integer of 0 to 3, RT1 represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a monovalent heterocyclic group or the like, Rx represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a monovalent heterocyclic group or the like, Ar represents an aromatic hydrocarbon group or a heterocyclic group, nA and nB represent an integer of 0 to 3, and LA and LB represent an alkylene group, a cycloalkylene group, an arylene group or a divalent heterocyclic group. |
| US10825990B2 |
Image sensor and methods of fabricating and measuring image sensor
A method of measuring an image sensor is disclosed. The method includes connecting a measurement unit to an image sensor, producing an electric current, which sequentially flows through a second connection line, second lower electrodes, an upper electrode, first lower electrodes, and a first connection line of the image sensor, using the measurement unit, and measuring an alignment state of the lower electrodes, the photoelectric conversion layer, and the upper electrode. |
| US10825988B2 |
Light-emitting material and display apparatus
A light-emitting material, a method for producing the light-emitting material and a display apparatus are provided. An average particle size of the light-emitting material is 0.1 μm to 30 μm, and an average distance between outermost quantum dots of a particle of the light-emitting material and a surface of the particle of the light-emitting material is 0.5 nm to 25 nm, or a minimum distance between the outermost quantum dots of a particle of the light-emitting material and the surface of the particle of the light-emitting material is 0.1 nm to 20 nm. |
| US10825986B2 |
Semiconductor devices including a stacked cell structure
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure of cell structures, an electrode structure, and a heating electrode. Each cell structure includes a capping layer, a selection layer, a buffer layer, a variable resistance layer, and a upper electrode layer sequentially stacked. The electrode structure is in an opening passing through the stacked structure, is electrically isolated from the buffer layer, the variable resistance layer, and the upper electrode layer, and is electrically connected to the selection layer. The heating electrode is between the variable resistance layer and the upper electrode layer and operates to transfer heat to the variable resistance layer. |
| US10825985B2 |
Magnetoresistance effect element
A magnetoresistance effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a second ferromagnetic layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is interposed between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer. The tunnel barrier layer is a stacked body including one or more first oxide layers having a spinel structure and one or more second oxide layers having a spinel structure with a composition which is different from a composition of the first oxide layer. |
| US10825979B2 |
Piezoelectric element, piezoelectric actuator, piezoelectric motor, robot, electronic component transporting apparatus, and printer
A piezoelectric element includes: a substrate; a first electrode which is disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric body layer which is disposed on the first electrode, which has a plurality of layers configured to contain a piezoelectric body material, and in which the total thickness of the plurality of layers is within a range of 1.6 μm to 10 μm; and an intermediate layer which is disposed on an interlayer of the piezoelectric body layer, and which is configured to contain titanium. |
| US10825972B2 |
Semiconductor light-emitting apparatus having light reflection adjusting member of gray resin and its manufacturing method
A semiconductor light-emitting apparatus is constructed by a wiring substrate, at least one semiconductor light-emitting element provided on the wiring substrate, at least one wavelength-converting member provided on the semiconductor light-emitting element, and a light reflection adjusting member directly covering a sidewall of the semiconductor light-emitting element and a sidewall of the wavelength-converting member. The light reflection adjusting member is formed of gray resin including light reflecting fillers and light absorbing fillers for visible light. |
| US10825968B2 |
Method for manufacturing light-emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device includes applying a light-guiding member to a light-emitting element. A light-transmissive member is mounted on the light-guiding member, and the light-guiding member is cured. A width of the light-transmissive member is narrowed. Lateral surfaces of the light-transmissive member and lateral surfaces of the light-guiding member are covered. |
| US10825967B2 |
Light emitting device, method of manufacturing covering member, and method of manufacturing light emitting device
A method of manufacturing a covering member includes: providing a first light-reflective member comprising a through-hole, the through-hole having first and second openings; arranging a light-transmissive resin containing a wavelength-conversion material within the through-hole; distributing the wavelength-conversion material predominantly on a side of the first opening of the through-hole within the light-transmissive resin; and after the step of distributing the wavelength-conversion material, removing a portion of the light-transmissive resin from a side of the second opening of the through-hole. |
| US10825962B2 |
Thin film light emitting diode
A light emitting device can include a light emitting structure including a p-GaN based semiconductor layer, an active layer having multiple quantum wells, and an n-GaN based semiconductor layer; a p-electrode and an n-electrode electrically connecting with the light emitting structure, respectively, wherein the n-electrode has a plurality of layers; a first passivation layer including a first portion contacting a portion of the n-electrode, a second portion vertically overlapped with the p-electrode, and a third portion that extends outside of outermost side surfaces of the light emitting structure; a phosphor layer disposed on a top surface of the light emitting structure; and a second passivation layer including a first portion disposed between the phosphor layer and the top surface of the light emitting structure, and a second portion disposed on the outermost side surfaces of the light emitting structure, in which the phosphor layer includes a pattern to bond a wire with a p-pad on a portion of the p-electrode, the second portion of the second passivation layer extends toward the third portion of the first passivation and contacts the third portion of the first passivation layer, and the first passivation layer includes an opening on the n-GaN based semiconductor layer such that the opening accommodates at least a portion of the n-electrode. |
| US10825958B2 |
Electro-optic device with mounted printed circuit board
An electro-optic device is provided having a first transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first transparent electrode on the second surface of the first substrate; a second transparent substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a second transparent electrode on the first surface of the second substrate, wherein the second substrate is positioned in spaced relation to the first substrate, wherein an extended portion of the first substrate extends beyond an edge of the second substrate; an electro-optic medium disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the electro-optic medium is electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode; and a printed circuit board mounted directly to the extended portion of the first substrate, the printed circuit board having a first electrical contact electrically coupled to the first electrode. |
| US10825956B2 |
Light-emitting device
A light-emitting device comprises a semiconductor layer; a pad electrode comprising a periphery disposed on the semiconductor layer; a finger electrode connected to the pad electrode, wherein the finger electrode comprises a first portion extended from the periphery of the pad electrode and a second portion connected to the first portion; and a plurality of first current blocking regions formed on the semiconductor layer, separated from the pad electrode and formed under the finger electrode, wherein one of the plurality of first current blocking regions is most close to the pad electrode and is separated from the pad electrode by a first distance, adjacent two of others of the plurality of first current blocking regions are separated from each other by a second distance, and the first distance is longer than the second distance. |
| US10825955B2 |
Method for manufacturing light-emitting element
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes: a preparation process including preparing a semiconductor stacked body that includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and a light-emitting layer, the first semiconductor layer including a semiconductor of a first conductivity type, the second semiconductor layer including a semiconductor of a second conductivity type; a first layer formation process including forming a first layer on the first semiconductor layer, the first layer being made of an insulating material; a removal process including removing a portion of the first semiconductor layer and a portion of the first layer; a processing process including introducing oxygen into a portion of the first semiconductor layer that includes a first surface formed in the removal process, the introducing being performed by, after the removal process, processing the semiconductor stacked body in an atmosphere including oxygen. |
| US10825954B2 |
Porous-silicon light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof
A light-emitting device may include a semiconductor body having a first conductivity type, with a front side and a back side. The light-emitting device may also include a porous-silicon region which extends in the semiconductor body at the front side, and a cathode region in direct lateral contact with the porous-silicon region. The light-emitting device may further include a barrier region of electrically insulating material, which extends in direct contact with the cathode region at the bottom side of the cathode region so that, in use, an electric current flows in the semiconductor body through lateral portions of the cathode region. |
| US10825951B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, a light emitting element including: a first contact electrode connected to the first electrode, a first semiconductor layer on the first contact electrode, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer on the active layer, and a second contact electrode on the second semiconductor layer, a second electrode on the light emitting element, and a color conversion layer on the light emitting element and the second electrode, wherein an upper surface of the second contact electrode has a concavo-convex pattern. |
| US10825949B2 |
Method of manufacturing light emitting device
Provided is a method of manufacturing a light emitting device, comprising: preparing a base body having a concave portion; disposing a light emitting element at the bottom of the concave portion; disposing a first resin containing first phosphor particles having an average particle size of 10 μm or more and 30 μm or less and a first filler having an average particle size of 5 μm or more and 20 μm or less to cover the light emitting element; centrifugally precipitating the first phosphor particles and the first filler toward the base body; temporarily curing the first resin; disposing a second resin containing second phosphor particles and a second filler having an average particle size of 5 nm or more and 100 nm or less on the first resin temporarily cured; centrifugally precipitating the second phosphor particles and the second filler toward the first resin; and curing the first and second resins. |
| US10825948B1 |
Diffusion bond of metallic layers in multijunction solar cells
A solar cell comprising an epitaxial sequence of layers of semiconductor material forming a solar cell deposited using an MOCVD reactor; a metal layer disposed on top of the sequence of layers of semiconductor material, the metal layer including a top surface layer composed of gold or silver; a polymer film; depositing a first metallic adhesion layer disposed on the polymer film that has a coefficient of thermal expansion substantially different from that of the top surface layer on one surface of the polymer film; a second metallic adhesion layer deposited over the first metallic adhesion layer and having a different composition from the first metallic adhesion layer and having no chemical elements in common; and the second metallic adhesion layer of the polymer film being permanently bonded to the metal layer of the sequence of layers of semiconductor material by a thermocompressive diffusion bonding technique. |
| US10825943B2 |
Concentrating solar power generation module, concentrating solar power generation panel, and concentrating solar power generation device
A concentrator photovoltaic module including: a concentrating portion formed by arranging a plurality of lens elements each configured to concentrate sunlight; and a housing configured to accommodate a plurality of power generating elements disposed at positions respectively corresponding to the lens elements, wherein the housing includes: a frame body formed from resin; and a bottom plate formed from metal, the bottom plate being mounted to the frame body and having the power generating elements mounted thereto, and the frame body includes: a frame body portion forming an outer frame; and a liner portion extending along an upper surface of the bottom plate at an inner side of the frame body portion, the liner portion having both end portions thereof formed integrally with the frame body portion. |
| US10825942B2 |
Solar cell hermetic package structure
A solar cell hermetic package structure includes a lower-cover plate, a conductive layer, a photovoltaic layer, a lower-electrode lead, an upper-electrode lead, an upper-cover plate, a border and dividers. The conductive layer and the photovoltaic layer are orderly arranged on one side of the lower-cover plate. The upper-electrode lead and the lower-electrode lead are arranged on the lower-cover plate and electrically connected to the photovoltaic layer and the conductive layer. The border is arranged on corresponding side edges of the lower-cover plate and the upper-cover plate. After the upper-cover plate and the lower-cover plate are combined, the photovoltaic layer is arranged in a hermetic package structure between the upper-cover plate and the lower-cover plate. A hermetic area accommodating the photovoltaic layer is formed by the border. The dividers are arranged in gaps of photovoltaic components and used as supports between the upper-cover plate and the lower-cover plate. |
| US10825938B2 |
Solar cell module
A solar cell module is disclosed. The solar cell module includes a plurality of solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate, in which a p-n junction is formed, and a plurality of first and second electrodes which are formed on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate and are separated from each other, a plurality of interconnectors which are connected to the first electrodes or the second electrodes included in each solar cell and connect the plurality of solar cells in series, and a conductive adhesive attaching the interconnectors to the first electrodes or the second electrodes. The conductive adhesive includes the same material or the same metal-based material as a metal material included in at least one of the interconnectors or the first and second electrodes. |
| US10825937B2 |
Protective circuit for a photovoltaic (PV) module, method for operating the protective circuit, and photovoltaic (PV) system having such a protective circuit
The disclosure relates to a protective circuit for a photovoltaic (PV) module that includes an input having two input terminals for connecting the PV module, an output having two output terminals for connecting further PV modules of a series circuit comprising PV modules, a first switch for connecting one of the input terminals to one of the output terminals, and a controller configured to control the first switch, wherein the protective circuit further includes a series circuit including a first diode and an energy store, wherein the series circuit is arranged in parallel with the input of the protective circuit. The protective circuit also includes a second diode, which connects an output terminal of the protective circuit to a midpoint of the series circuit including the first diode and the energy store, and wherein a series circuit including the second diode and the energy store is connected in parallel with the first switch. The disclosure also relates to a method for operating a protective circuit according to the disclosure, and to a photovoltaic (PV) system including a series circuit comprising PV modules. |
| US10825935B2 |
Trench MOS-type Schottky diode
A trench MOS-type Schottky diode includes a first semiconductor layer including a Ga2O3-based single crystal, a second semiconductor layer that is a layer laminated on the first semiconductor layer and that includes a Ga2O3-based single crystal and a trench opened on a surface thereof opposite to the first semiconductor layer, an anode electrode formed on the surface of the second semiconductor layer opposite to the first semiconductor layer, a cathode electrode formed on a surface of the first semiconductor layer opposite to the second semiconductor layer, an insulating film covering the inner surface of the trench of the second semiconductor layer, and a trench MOS gate that is embedded in the trench of the second semiconductor layer so as to be covered with the insulating film and is in contact with the anode electrode. |
| US10825933B2 |
Gate-all-around structure and manufacturing method for the same
Present disclosure provides gate-all-around structure including a semiconductor fin having a top surface, a first nanowire over the top surface, a first space between the top surface and the first nanowire, an Nth nanowire and an (N+1)th nanowire over the first nanowire, and a second space between the Nth nanowire and the (N+1)th nanowire. The first space is greater than the second space. Present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the gate-all-around structure described herein. |
| US10825932B2 |
Thin film transistor having light shielding structure
Provided is a thin film transistor including a substrate, a first spacer on the substrate, a second spacer on the first spacer, a light shield layer intervened between the first spacer and the second spacer, a semiconductor layer on the second spacer, and a gate electrode on the semiconductor layer, wherein the light shield layer includes a plurality of inclined surfaces against a top surface of the substrate. |
| US10825927B2 |
LDMOS device having hot carrier suppression
A first diffusion region of a first conductivity type and a second diffusion region of a second conductivity type are formed next to each other in a semiconductor substrate. Drain and source contact regions of the first conductivity type are formed in the first and second diffusion region, respectively. A trench insulating region is formed in the first diffusion region between the drain and source contact regions. A third diffusion region of the second conductivity type is formed next to a side wall of the trench insulating region on the source contact region side in the first diffusion region between the source contact region and the trench insulating region. A gate electrode is formed on the semiconductor substrate through a gate insulating film to cover an area from an end portion of the source contact region to at least a part of a top surface of the trench insulating region. |
| US10825924B2 |
Semiconductor device with selectively etched surface passivation
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate configured to include a channel, a gate supported by the semiconductor substrate to control current flow through the channel, a first dielectric layer supported by the semiconductor substrate and including an opening in which the gate is disposed, and a second dielectric layer disposed between the first dielectric layer and a surface of the semiconductor substrate in a first area over the channel. The gate may be configured to include a lateral overhang that is separated from an upper surface of the first dielectric layer. |
| US10825923B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device is provided comprising a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and a dummy trench portion having a main body portion and one or more branch portions, the main body portion formed in a front surface of the semiconductor substrate and extending in a predetermined extending direction, the branch portions extending from the main body portion in directions different from the extending direction. The semiconductor substrate has an emitter region of first conductivity type and a base region of a second conductivity type which are provided sequentially from the front surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and the dummy trench portion has a dummy trench which penetrates the emitter region and the base region from the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a dummy insulating portion which is provided within the dummy trench. |
| US10825922B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device comprises: an extrinsic base region; a first dielectric spacer on at least a part of a sidewall of the extrinsic base region adjacent to an emitter window region; an intrinsic base region; a base link region coupling the intrinsic base region and the extrinsic base region; a collector region underlying the intrinsic base region and having a periphery underlying the base link region; and a second dielectric spacer, separating the base link region from at least the periphery of the collector region; wherein said second dielectric spacer extends laterally beyond said first dielectric spacer to underlie said emitter window region. |
| US10825920B2 |
Energy-filtered cold electron devices and methods
Energy-filtered cold electron devices use electron energy littering through discrete energy levels of quantum wells or quantum dots that are formed through band bending of tunneling barrier conduction band. These devices can obtain low effective electron temperatures of less than or equal to 45K at room temperature, steep electrical current turn-on/turn-off capabilities with a steepness of less than or equal to 10 mV/decade at room temperature, subthreshold swings of less than or equal to 10 mV/decade at room temperature, and/or supply voltages of less than or equal to 0.1 V. |
| US10825919B2 |
Methods of fabricating semiconductor devices having gate-all-around structure with inner spacer last process
A method of fabricating semiconductor devices is provided. The method includes forming a fin structure on a substrate, in which the fin structure includes a fin stack of alternating first and second semiconductor layers and forming recesses in the fin stack at source and drain regions. The method also includes etching the second semiconductor layers to form recessed second semiconductor layers, and forming third semiconductor layers on sidewalls of the recessed second semiconductor layers. The method further includes epitaxially growing source and drain structures in the recesses, removing the recessed second semiconductor layers to form spaces between the first semiconductor layers, and oxidizing the third semiconductor layers to form inner spacers. In addition, the method includes forming a gate structure to fill the spaces and to surround the first semiconductor layers. |
| US10825900B2 |
Semiconductor switch device and method having at least two contacts located on either the source region or the drain region
A semiconductor switch device and a method of making the same. The device includes a semiconductor substrate having a major surface. The device also includes a first semiconductor region located in the substrate beneath the major surface. The device includes an elongate gate located on the major surface. The device also includes a source region and a drain region located in the first semiconductor region adjacent respective first and second elongate edges of the gate. The device also includes electrical contacts for the source and drain regions. The contacts include at least two contacts located on either the source region or the drain region, which are spaced apart along a direction substantially parallel the elongate edges of the gate. The device further includes an isolation region located between the at least two contacts. The isolation region extends through the source/drain region from the major surface to the first semiconductor region. |
| US10825897B2 |
Formation of enhanced faceted raised source/drain EPI material for transistor devices
One illustrative method disclosed herein may include forming a first straight sidewall spacer adjacent a gate structure of a transistor, forming a recessed layer of sacrificial material adjacent the first straight sidewall spacer and forming a second straight sidewall spacer on a portion of the outer surface of the first straight sidewall spacer and above the recessed layer of sacrificial material. The method may also include removing the recessed layer of sacrificial material so as to expose a first vertical portion of the outer surface of the first straight sidewall spacer and forming an epi material on and above the substrate, wherein an edge of the epi material engages the first straight sidewall spacer. |
| US10825896B2 |
Silicon carbide-based transistor and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed is a transistor including a substrate, first and second type wells in contact with each other on the substrate; and a breakdown voltage improving region including vertical high concentration doped regions according to first and second types vertically in contact from upper surfaces of the first and second type wells to an upper surface of the substrate in a portion where the first and second type wells are in contact with each other. |
| US10825894B2 |
MIM capacitor and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are MIM capacitor and method of manufacturing the same. The MIM capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a first spacer. The first electrode and the third electrode are electrically connected to each other. The first insulating layer is between the first electrode and the second electrode. The second insulating layer is between the second electrode and the third electrode. The first spacer is located between a sidewall of the first electrode and the first insulating layer. |
| US10825884B2 |
Display panel and display device having anode not overlapping with gate lines and/or light-emitting control signal lines
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base substrate; a plurality of gate lines extending in a row direction and a plurality of data lines extending in a column direction arranged on the base substrate, and the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines intersect in an insulation manner to define a plurality of pixel circuit regions including a plurality of pixel circuits; a plurality of sub-pixel regions arranged on the base substrate, and each of the plurality of sub-pixel regions includes a light-emitting element, a corresponding one of the plurality of pixel circuits provides a driving signal to the light-emitting element, and the light-emitting element includes an anode, a light-emitting layer and a cathode which are sequentially stacked at a side of the base substrate; and a plurality of light-emitting control signal lines arranged on the base substrate. |
| US10825880B2 |
Display device with a storage capacitor including multiple dielectric constant layers
A display device includes: a substrate; a semiconductor on the substrate and including a driving channel; a first insulating layer on the semiconductor; a driving gate electrode on the first insulating layer and overlapping the driving channel; a second insulating layer on the driving gate electrode and the first insulating layer and including first and second dielectric constant layers, the second dielectric constant layer having a dielectric constant that is greater than that of the first dielectric constant layer; a storage electrode on the second insulating layer; a passivation layer covering the storage electrode and the second insulating layer; a pixel electrode on the passivation layer; an emission member on the pixel electrode; and a common electrode on the emission member, wherein the storage electrode overlaps the driving gate electrode, and wherein the storage electrode, the driving gate electrode and the second insulating layer therebetween form a storage capacitor. |
| US10825875B2 |
OLED display panel and display device
An OLED display panel and a display device are disclosed. The OLED display panel includes a light shielding layer, a planarization layer, and an anode layer which are arranged on a substrate in this order. The anode layer includes a plurality of sub-electrodes independently disposed. The OLED display panel includes a display area including a fingerprint imaging area and a non-imaging area. The OLED display panel further includes a light blocking portion on a side of the planarization layer away from the substrate. An orthographic projection of the light blocking portion on the substrate is within an orthographic projection of a gap between two sub-electrodes on the substrate which lies in the non-imaging area. |
| US10825873B2 |
Organic light emitting display having touch sensor and method of fabricating the same
Disclosed are an organic light emitting display having a touch sensor, which may achieve process simplification and cost reduction, and a method of fabricating the same. The organic light emitting display includes a compensation film having a flat surface and formed to cover dams forming a boundary with an organic encapsulation layer and the compensation film has a planarized surface between a region above the dams and a boundary region between the dams and the organic encapsulation layer (144) and may prevent cut and short-circuit of routing lines cutting across the same. Further, touch sensors are disposed on an encapsulation unit including the organic encapsulation layer and thus a separate attachment process is not required, thereby simplifying the overall process and reducing manufacturing costs of the organic light emitting display. |
| US10825871B2 |
Organic light-emitting display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; a pixel electrode over the substrate; a pixel-defining layer including an opening that exposes at least a portion of the pixel electrode; an intermediate layer, which is over the portion of the pixel electrode exposed by the opening and includes an organic emission layer; a counter electrode over the intermediate layer; and an encapsulating structure, which is over the counter electrode and includes at least one inorganic layer and at least one organic layer, and the at least one organic layer includes quantum dots and is in the opening. |
| US10825868B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor device and method of fabricating same
In one aspect, a method for manufacturing a three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor device is disclosed. It includes providing a vertical stack of alternating layers of a first layer type and a second layer type, and providing a first trench and a second trench adjacent the vertical stack. The first trench and the second trench can define a fin. The method further can include recessing the first layer type to form recesses extending into the fin, providing a first electrode in individual ones of the recesses, and providing a second electrode in the first trench and the second trench. The method further can include providing, for individual ones of the recesses, a lateral stack including a memory element, a middle electrode, and a selector element. The lateral stack can extend between the first electrode and the second electrode, thereby forming a memory device. |
| US10825866B2 |
Memory device
A memory device is described. A first conductive layer extends in a first direction. A second conductive layer extends in the first direction. A third conductive layer extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A first oxide region is disposed between the first conductive layer and the third conductive layer and between the second conductive layer and the third conductive layer. A semiconductor region is disposed between the first conductive layer and the first oxide region and between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. A second distance between the semiconductor region, which is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer, and the third conductive layer, is longer than a first distance between the semiconductor region, which is disposed between the first conductive layer and the first oxide region, and the third conductive layer. |
| US10825863B2 |
Deck-to-deck reset current offset suppression for three-dimensional (3D) memory
A three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes multiple decks of memory cells. Each deck includes layers of material, including a layer of storage material (e.g., a phase change material). Each deck also includes an interlayer between the phase change material and conductive access lines. The interlayer can include, for example, one or more of tungsten, carbon, silicon, silicon oxide, silicon nitride, aluminum oxide, hafnium oxide, and titanium silicon nitride. In one such example, the interlayer includes tungsten silicon nitride (WSiN). The interlayers of different decks have different properties, such as different thicknesses or resistivities, to reduce or eliminate the deck-to-deck reset current offset. |
| US10825862B2 |
Variable resistance memory device
A variable resistance memory device includes: a substrate including a peripheral region and a core region, the core region including a far region spaced apart from the peripheral region and a near region between the far region and the peripheral region; first conductive lines disposed on the substrate and extending in a first direction; second conductive lines disposed on the first conductive lines and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and memory cells disposed between the first and second conductive lines on the core region. The memory cells include a near memory cell disposed on the near region, and a far memory cell disposed on the far region, wherein a resistance or threshold voltage of the near memory cell, controlling connection of each of the memory cells to a corresponding one of the second conductive lines, is different from that of the far memory cell. |
| US10825856B2 |
Quantum dot digital radiographic detection system
A digital quantum dot radiographic detection system described herein includes: a scintillation subsystem 202 and a semiconductor light detection subsystem 200, 200′ (including a plurality of quantum dot image sensors 200a, 200b). In a first preferred digital quantum dot radiographic detection system, the plurality of quantum dot image sensors 200 is in substantially direct contact with the scintillation subsystem 202. In a second preferred digital quantum dot radiographic detection system, the scintillation subsystem has a plurality of discrete scintillation packets 212a, 212b, at least one of the discrete scintillation packets communicating with at least one of the quantum dot image sensors. The quantum dot image sensors 200 may be associated with semiconductor substrate 210 made from materials such as silicon (and variations thereof) or graphene. |
| US10825853B2 |
Semiconductor image sensor device with deep trench isolations and method for manufacturing the same
A semiconductor image sensor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a radiation-sensing region, and a first isolation structure. The radiation-sensing region is in the semiconductor substrate. The first isolation structure is in the semiconductor substrate and adjacent to the radiation-sensing region. The first isolation structure includes a bottom isolation portion in the semiconductor substrate, an upper isolation portion in the semiconductor substrate, and a diffusion barrier layer surrounding a sidewall of the upper isolation portion. |
| US10825852B2 |
Solid state imaging device
According to one embodiment, an edge of the second opening is recessed further than an edge of the first opening away from a center of the first opening. The recess has an opening and a concave surface and is disposed in a region inward from the edge of the second opening. The opening has a circular configuration. The concave surface has a curvature. |
| US10825850B2 |
Imaging element, imaging device, and manufacturing apparatus and method
The present technology relates to an imaging element, an imaging device, and a manufacturing apparatus and a method that facilitate electric charge transfer. An imaging element of the present technology includes a vertical transistor that has a potential with a gradient in at least part of a charge transfer channel that transfers electric charge of a photoelectric conversion unit. Also, an imaging device of the present technology includes: an imaging element including a vertical transistor that has a potential with a gradient in at least part of a charge transfer channel that transfers electric charge of a photoelectric conversion unit; and an image processing unit that performs image processing on captured image data obtained by the imaging element. Further, a manufacturing apparatus of the present technology includes a vertical transistor manufacturing unit that manufactures a vertical transistor having a potential with a gradient in at least part of a charge transfer channel that transfers electric charge of a photoelectric conversion unit. The present technology can be applied to imaging elements, imaging devices, and manufacturing apparatuses and methods, for example. |
| US10825849B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device
A solid-state image pickup device 1 according to the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate 2 on which a pixel 20 composed of a photodiode 3 and a transistor is formed. The transistor comprising the pixel 20 is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, a pn junction portion formed between high concentration regions of the photodiode 3 is provided within the semiconductor substrate 2 and a part of the pn junction portion of the photodiode 3 is extended to a lower portion of the transistor formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate 2. According to the present invention, there is provided a solid-state image pickup device in which a pixel size can be microminiaturized without lowering a saturated electric charge amount (Qs) and sensitivity. |
| US10825845B2 |
Display panel having a plurality of spacers
A display panel including a first substrate, an active element layer, a pixel electrode layer, an auxiliary conductive layer, a first spacer and a second spacer is provided. The active element layer is disposed on the first substrate. The pixel electrode layer is disposed on the first substrate and electrically connected with the active element layer. The auxiliary conductive layer is disposed on the active element layer. The first spacer is disposed on the auxiliary conductive layer. The first spacer overlaps the auxiliary conductive layer in a normal projection direction. The second spacer is disposed on the active element layer. The second spacer does not overlap the auxiliary conductive layer in the normal projection direction. A distance between an apex of the first spacer and the first substrate is longer than a distance between an apex of the second spacer and the first substrate. |
| US10825844B2 |
Thin film transistor array substrate minimizing unwanted reflection of external light and method of manufacturing the same
A transistor array substrate includes a substrate (having a first trench), a gate electrode (in the first trench), an insulating film, a gate line, a data line, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The insulating film includes second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth trenches. The gate line is in the second trench and is not parallel to the data line. The data line includes a first section and a second section that are separated by the gate line and respectively in the third and fourth trenches. The source electrode and the drain electrode are respectively in the fifth and sixth trenches. The source electrode is electrically connected to the data line. The gate electrode is electrically connected to the gate line. |
| US10825840B2 |
Thin-film transistor panel
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a thin-film transistor (TFT) panel structured to prevent the deterioration of image quality due to the luminance change of backlight. According to an embodiment, the TFT panel includes: an insulating substrate; a first gate line and a first data line which are formed on the insulating substrate to be insulated from each other and cross each other; a first subpixel electrode which is formed on the insulating substrate and connected to the first gate line and the first data line by a first TFT; a second subpixel electrode which is formed on the insulating substrate and separated from the first subpixel electrode; a connecting electrode which is directly connected to any one of the first and second subpixel electrodes and capacitively coupled to the other one of the first and second subpixel electrodes; a semiconductor pattern which is formed between the connecting electrode and the insulating substrate; and a light-shielding pattern which is formed between the semiconductor pattern and the insulating substrate, is overlapped by the connecting electrode, and blocks light. |
| US10825838B2 |
Array substrate and its manufacturing method and display device
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display. By forming a source pattern layer on the base substrate in the present disclosure, the source pattern layer crossing the gate pattern layer maybe mutually insulated from the gate pattern layer through the insulating buffer layer, thus eliminating the dielectric layer in the prior art which is formed to insulate the source pattern layer and the gate pattern layer, further simplifying the structure of the array substrate, and reducing the process steps and process costs. |
| US10825832B2 |
Semiconductor device including gates
A semiconductor device includes first gate electrodes including a first lower electrode, a first upper electrode disposed above the first lower electrode and including a first pad region, and one or more first intermediate electrodes disposed between the first lower electrode and the first upper electrode. Second gate electrodes include a second lower electrode, a second upper electrode disposed above the second lower electrode, and one or more second intermediate electrodes disposed between the second lower electrode and the second upper electrode. The second gate electrodes are sequentially stacked above the first upper electrode, while exposing the first pad region. The first lower electrode extends by a first length, further than the first upper electrode, in a first direction. The second lower electrode extends by a second length, different from the first length, further than the second upper electrode, in the first direction. |
| US10825829B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes wirings arranged in parallel along a first direction, the wirings including first and second wirings that are adjacent and a third wiring adjacent to the second wiring, a first pillar between the first and second wirings and a second pillar between the second and third wirings, the first and second pillars each extending in a second direction crossing the first direction toward the semiconductor substrate, and first and second bit lines connected to the first and second pillars, respectively. A first voltage is applied to the second wiring during a program operation on a first memory cell at an intersection of the second wiring and the first pillar, and a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the second wiring during a program operation on a second memory cell at an intersection of the second wiring and the second pillar. |
| US10825826B2 |
Three-dimensional memory device having bonding structures connected to bit lines and methods of making the same
Three-dimensional memory devices in the form of a memory die includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate, and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack, in which each of the memory stack structures includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel contacting an inner sidewall of the memory film. Bit lines are electrically connected to an end portion of a respective one of the vertical semiconductor channels. Bump connection via structures contact a top surface of a respective one of the bit lines, in which each of the bump connection via structures has a greater lateral dimension along a lengthwise direction of the bit lines than along a widthwise direction of the bit lines. Metallic bump structures of another semiconductor die contact respective ones of the bump connection via structures to make respective electrical connections between the two dies. |
| US10825825B2 |
Flash memory structure
Semiconductor structures are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and a first gate electrode formed over the substrate. The semiconductor structure further includes a dielectric layer formed on a sidewall of the first gate electrode and a second gate electrode formed over the substrate and separated from the first gate electrode by the dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a contact formed over the second gate electrode. In addition, the contact has a first extending portion and a second extending portion extending along opposite sidewalls of the second gate electrode. |
| US10825823B1 |
Semiconductor memory device including decoupling capacitor array arranged overlying one-time programmable device
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a substrate, a main device, a one-time-programmable (OTP) device and a decoupling capacitor array. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The main device is in the first region, the OTP device and the decoupling capacitor array are in the second region, and the decoupling capacitor array overlies the OTP device. |
| US10825816B2 |
Recessed access devices and DRAM constructions
A recessed access device comprises a conductive gate in a trench in semiconductor material. A gate insulator is along sidewalls and a base of the trench between the conductive gate and the semiconductor material. A pair of source/drain regions is in upper portions of the semiconductor material on opposing sides of the trench. A channel region is in the semiconductor material below the pair of source/drain regions along the trench sidewalls and around the trench base. At least some of the channel region comprises GaP. |
| US10825815B2 |
Memory arrays
A memory array comprises vertically-alternating tiers of insulative material and memory cells. The memory cells individually comprise a transistor and a capacitor. One of (a) a channel region of e transistor, or (b) a pair of electrodes of the capacitor, is directly above the other of (a) and (b). Additional embodiments and aspects are disclosed. |
| US10825811B2 |
Gate cut first isolation formation with contact forming process mask protection
A method, FET structure and gate cut structure are disclosed. The method forms a gate cut opening in a dummy gate in a gate material layer, the gate cut opening extending into a space separating a semiconductor structures on a substrate under the gate material layer. A source/drain region is formed on the semiconductor structure(s), and a gate cut isolation is formed in the gate cut opening. The gate cut isolation may include an oxide body. During forming of a contact, a mask has a portion covering an upper end of the gate cut isolation to protect it. The gate cut structure includes a gate cut isolation including a nitride liner contacting the end of the first metal gate conductor and the end of the second metal gate conductor, and an oxide body inside the nitride liner. |
| US10825810B2 |
Semicondcutor device including a semiconductor extension layer between active regions
A semiconductor device includes a first active region and a second active region, which are disposed in a semiconductor substrate and have side surfaces facing each other, an isolation pattern disposed between the first and second active regions, a semiconductor extension layer disposed between the first and second active regions, a first source/drain semiconductor layer disposed on the first active region, and a second source/drain semiconductor layer disposed on the second active region. The facing side surfaces of the first and second active regions are closer to the semiconductor extension layer than the isolation pattern. |
| US10825803B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes a substrate, light emitting elements, light transmissive members, an underfill, and a cover member. The light emitting elements are mounted on the substrate. The light transmissive members are each disposed on an upper surface of each of the light emitting elements. The underfill covers an upper surface of the substrate, lateral surfaces of the light emitting elements, and lateral surfaces of the light transmissive members between the light transmissive members. The cover member covers an upper surface of the underfill and has a hardness greater than a hardness of the underfill. |
| US10825802B2 |
Light emitting device
A light emitting device includes: a substrate including a base member including an upper surface, a lower surface and one or more lateral surfaces, and defining a recess that is opened at the upper surface and the lateral surfaces and surrounds an outer perimeter of the upper surface; a first light emitting element; a second light emitting element; a light guide member covering the first and the second light emitting elements and the upper surface of the base member; and a first reflective member having a closed-ring shape surrounding the upper surface of the base member and the light guide member, a portion of the first reflective member being located in the recess. At least one of the lateral surfaces of the base member and corresponding at least one of one or more outer lateral surfaces of the first reflective member are in the same plane. |
| US10825799B2 |
Semiconductor structure
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor unit, one or more bonding structures, and at least one supporter. The semiconductor unit includes at least one via. The one or more bonding structures are disposed over the semiconductor unit and electrically connected to the at least one via. The at least one supporter is disposed over the semiconductor unit. The at least one supporter is a metal block or a polymer block spaced apart from the one or more bonding structures. |
| US10825795B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming an adhesive film on a surface of a semiconductor chip, mounting the semiconductor chip on a substrate such that the adhesive film contacts an upper surface of the substrate, and bonding the semiconductor chip and the substrate curing the adhesive film by simultaneously performing a thermo-compression process and an ultraviolet irradiation process on the adhesive film disposed between the substrate and the semiconductor chip. |
| US10825793B2 |
Method for permanently bonding wafers
This invention relates to a method for bonding of a first contact surface of a first substrate to a second contact surface of a second substrate with the following steps, especially the following sequence: forming a reservoir in a surface layer on the first contact surface, the first surface layer consisting at least largely of a native oxide material, at least partial filling of the reservoir with a first educt or a first group of educts, the first contact surface making contact with the second contact surface for formation of a prebond connection, forming a permanent bond between the first and second contact surface, at least partially strengthened by the reaction of the first educt with a second educt contained in a reaction layer of the second substrate. |
| US10825790B2 |
Protective film for semiconductors, semiconductor device, and composite sheet
[Object] To provide a semiconductor protective film capable of suppressing a warpage of a semiconductor chip without impairing productivity and reliability, a semiconductor device including this, and a composite sheet.[Solving Means] A semiconductor protective film 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a protective layer 11 formed of a non-conductive inorganic material and an adhesive layer 12 provided on one surface of the protective layer 11. The protective layer 11 includes at least a vitreous material and is typically formed of plate glass. Accordingly, a warpage of a semiconductor element as a protection target can be suppressed effectively. |
| US10825788B2 |
Method for manufacturing compliant bump
Provided is a method of manufacturing compliant bumps, the method including preparing an electronic device including at least one conductive pad, forming an elastic resin layer on the electronic device, forming a photoresist layer on the elastic resin layer, forming a first photoresist pattern on a region spaced apart from a region where the conductive pad is located, forming a second photoresist pattern having a lower cross-sectional area greater than an upper cross-sectional area, forming an elastic resin pattern having a lower cross-sectional area greater than an upper cross-sectional area, on a region spaced apart from a region where the conductive pad is located, and forming a conductive wiring pattern covering at least a part of the elastic resin pattern and extending to the conductive pad. |
| US10825782B2 |
Semiconductor packages and associated methods with solder mask opening(s) for in-package ground and conformal coating contact
Semiconductor devices with a conformal coating in contact with a ground plane at a bottom side of the semiconductor devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor die coupled to a first surface of a package substrate. The semiconductor device can also include a molded material covering at least a portion of the package substrate and the semiconductor die. The semiconductor device can also include a ground plane in the package substrate and exposed through an opening in a second surface of the package substrate opposite the first surface. The semiconductor device can also include a conformal coating coupled to the ground plane through the opening that can shield the semiconductor device from electromagnetic interference. |
| US10825780B2 |
Semiconductor device with electromagnetic interference protection and method of manufacture
A method includes forming a first semiconductor device, wherein the first semiconductor device includes a top surface and a bottom surface, and wherein the first semiconductor device includes a metal layer having an exposed first surface. The method also includes forming a Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) layer over the top surface and sidewalls of the first semiconductor device, wherein the EMI layer electrically contacts the exposed first surface of the metal layer. The method also includes forming a molding compound over the EMI layer. |
| US10825774B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a first substrate, a second substrate provided on the first substrate, a semiconductor chip provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, solder structures extending between the first substrate and the second substrate and spaced apart from the semiconductor chip, and bumps provided between the semiconductor chip and the second substrate. The solder structures electrically connect the first substrate and the second substrate. |
| US10825771B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film provided on the semiconductor substrate, a first element disposed at least in a lower layer portion of the insulating film, a second element disposed at least in the lower layer portion of the insulating film, and a hydrogen barrier member provided on the semiconductor substrate. The hydrogen barrier member is made from a material transmitting hydrogen less easily than does a material of the insulating film. The hydrogen barrier member and the semiconductor substrate surround the second element. The hydrogen barrier member does not surround the first element. |
| US10825765B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate; a first dielectric layer disposed over the substrate; a conductive member surrounded by the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer disposed over the substrate, the first dielectric layer and the conductive member; a capacitor disposed over the conductive member and the second dielectric layer; a third dielectric layer disposed over the second dielectric layer and the capacitor; a conductive via disposed over and contacted with the conductive member, and extended through the second dielectric layer, the capacitor and the third dielectric layer; a conductive pad disposed over and contacted with the conductive via; a fourth dielectric layer disposed over the third dielectric layer and surrounding the conductive pad; and a conductive bump disposed over and electrically connected to the conductive pad, wherein the third dielectric layer includes an oxide layer and a nitride layer. |
| US10825764B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of forming micro interconnect structures
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor die and second semiconductor die with a conductive layer formed over the first semiconductor die and second semiconductor die. The second semiconductor die is disposed adjacent to the first semiconductor die with a side surface and the conductive layer of the first semiconductor die contacting a side surface and the conductive layer of the second semiconductor die. An interconnect, such as a conductive material, is formed across a junction between the conductive layers of the first and second semiconductor die. The conductive layer may extend down the side surface of the first semiconductor die and further down the side surface of the second semiconductor die. An extension of the side surface of the first semiconductor die can interlock with a recess of the side surface of the second semiconductor die. The conductive layer extends over the extension and into the recess. |
| US10825762B2 |
Methods of processing semiconductor devices
Methods of processing a semiconductor device include providing a patterned mask over a major surface of a substrate and comprising at least one opening exposing a conductive structure, and depositing particles of material by direct material deposition adjacent and in contact with an edge wall of the mask adjacent the at least one opening to form a supplemental mask over the major surface of the substrate. Other methods of processing semiconductor devices include depositing particles of material by direct material deposition adjacent a conductive structure at an intersection of the conductive structure and a surface of a substrate. |
| US10825755B2 |
Method of forming a packaged semiconductor device having enhanced wettable flank and structure
A packaged electronic device includes a substrate having a lead. The lead includes an outward facing side surface having a first height, and an inward facing side surface having a second height that is less than the first height. An electronic device is electrically connected to the lead. A package body encapsulates the electronic device and portions of the lead. The outward facing side surface is exposed through a side surface of the package body, and the inward facing side surface is encapsulated by the package body. A conductive layer is disposed on the outward facing side surface to provide the packaged electronic device with an enhanced wettable flank. In one embodiment, the electronic device is electrically connected to a thick terminal portion having the outward facing side surface. In another embodiment, the electronic device is electrically connected to a thin terminal portion having the inward facing side surface. |
| US10825753B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacture
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device including first and second semiconductor dies arranged on respective and first and second carriers, the first and second semiconductor dies each comprising a first contact and a second contact arranged on a top major surface of the respective semiconductor dies and a third contact arranged on a bottom major surface the respective semiconductor dies; first and second die connection portions, arranged on the respective first and second carriers, connected to the third contacts of the respective first and second semiconductor dies; and a first contact connection member, extending from the first contact of the first semiconductor die to the die connection portion of second carrier, electrical connection of the first contact of the first semiconductor die to the third contact of the second semiconductor die. |
| US10825749B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel comprises a back plate and a cover plate which are oppositely arranged, and at least a portion of a side formed by the back plate and the cover plate is attached with a protective film to seal a corresponding portion of a gap between the back plate and the cover plate. |
| US10825746B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
The present invention includes: a plurality of semiconductor modules on a metal base (conductor base); a first insulating bus bar and a second insulating bus bar connecting the semiconductor modules; a box-like insulating resin frame around the semiconductor modules; a first insulating layer that seals the semiconductor modules, the first insulating layer having an upper surface at a position that is lower than upper ends of terminals extending from an insulating circuit substrate of the semiconductor module inside the insulating resin frame; and second insulating layers on the first insulating layer inside the insulating resin frame, the upper ends of the terminals being buried inside the second insulating layers. Interfaces formed by the first insulating layer, second insulating layers, and sidewall parts (third insulating layer) of the insulating resin frame are arranged between the terminals and ground positions formed at the lower ends of the sidewall parts. |
| US10825744B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A method includes forming a transistor over a substrate; forming a conductive structure over the substrate, such that a first end of the conductive structure is electrically coupled to a gate of the transistor, and a second end of the conductive structure is electrically coupled to the substrate; applying biases to the gate of the transistor and source/drain structures of the transistor; determining whether the first end and the second end of the conductive structure are electrically connected; generating, based on the determination, a first result indicating that the first end and the second end of the conductive structure are electrically connected; and qualifying the conductive structure as an antenna in response to the first result. |
| US10825737B2 |
Prevention of contact bottom void in semiconductor fabrication
A method for semiconductor fabrication includes providing a device structure having an isolation structure, a fin adjacent the isolation structure, gate structures over the fin and the isolation structure, one or more dielectric layers over the isolation structure and the fin and between the gate structures, a first contact hole over the fin, and a second contact hole over the isolation structure. The method further includes depositing a protection layer and treating it with a plasma so that the protection layer in the first contact hole and the protection layer in the second contact hole have different etch selectivity in an etching process; and etching the protection layer to etch through the protection layer on the bottom surface of the first contact hole without etching through the protection layer on the bottom surface of the second contact hole. |
| US10825733B2 |
Reusable wide bandgap semiconductor substrate
Multiple wide bandgap semiconductor wafers, each having active circuitry and an epitaxially formed backside drain contact layer, may be constructed from a single bulk semiconductor substrate by: forming foundational layers on the top of the bulk substrate via epitaxy; forming active circuitry atop the foundational layers; laser treating the backside of the bulk substrate to create a cleave line in one of the foundational layers; and exfoliating a semiconductor wafer from the bulk substrate, where the exfoliated semiconductor wafer contains the active circuits and at least a portion of the foundational layers. Wafers containing the foundational layers without complete active devices may be produced in a similar manner. The foundational layers may comprise a drain contact layer and a drift layer, and may additionally include a buffer layer between the drain contact layer and the drift layer. |
| US10825731B2 |
Methods of aligning a semiconductor wafer for singulation
Implementations of a method for aligning a semiconductor wafer for singulation may include: providing a semiconductor wafer having a first side and a second side. The first side of the wafer may include a plurality of die and the plurality of die may be separated by streets. The semiconductor wafer may include an edge ring around a perimeter of the wafer on the second side of the wafer. The wafer may also include a metal layer on the second side of the wafer. The metal layer may substantially cover the edge ring. The method may include grinding the edge ring to create an edge exclusion area and aligning the semiconductor wafer with a saw using a camera positioned in the edge exclusion area on the second side of the wafer. Aligning the wafer may include using three or more alignment features included in the edge exclusion area. |
| US10825723B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for making the same
In a method of making a semiconductor device, the method includes: forming a first conductive layer over a substrate; forming an insulating layer on the first conductive layer; forming a via through the insulating layer to expose the first conductive layer; forming a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) over a bottom of the via; forming a barrier layer at a sidewall of the via; removing the SAM over the bottom of the via; and forming a second conductive layer over the barrier layer and the bottom of the via such that the first conductive layer is electrically connected to the second conductive layer without the barrier layer between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer at the bottom of the via. |
| US10825722B1 |
Method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes forming a precursor structure on a substrate. The precursor structure includes a first conductive structure, a first spacer layer, and a spacer oxide layer sequentially on the substrate. The spacer oxide layer exposes a top surface of the first spacer layer. The spacer oxide layer is then recessed. A second spacer layer is formed to cover the spacer oxide layer and the first spacer layer. A portion of the second spacer layer and a portion of the spacer oxide layer are then etched to expose the lateral portion of the first spacer layer. The remaining spacer oxide layer is etched to form an air gap between the first spacer layer and the second spacer layer. A third spacer layer is formed on the lateral portion of the first spacer layer to seal the air gap. |
| US10825720B2 |
Single trench damascene interconnect using TiN HMO
Techniques for single trench damascene interconnect formation using TiN HMO are provided. In one aspect, a method for forming interconnects on a substrate includes: forming an underlayer on the substrate; forming a hardmask on the underlayer; patterning trenches in the hardmask that extend down to the underlayer; forming the interconnects in the trenches; removing the hardmask; and burying the interconnects in an ILD. The trenches can be patterned in the hardmask using a process such as sidewall image transfer. An interconnect structure is also provided. |
| US10825718B2 |
Method of preparing an isolation region in a high resistivity silicon-on-insulator substrate
A multilayer composite structure and a method of preparing a multilayer composite structure are provided. The multilayer composite structure comprises a semiconductor handle substrate having a minimum bulk region resistivity of at least about 500 ohm-cm and an isolation region that impedes the transfer of charge carriers along the surface of the handle substrate and reduces parasitic coupling between RF devices. |
| US10825716B2 |
Method for manufacturing a semiconductor device
An embodiment of a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: providing a monocrystalline semiconductor substrate having a first side; forming a plurality of recess structures in the semiconductor substrate at the first side; filling the recess structures with a dielectric material to form dielectric islands in the recess structures; forming a semiconductor layer on the first side of the semiconductor substrate to cover the dielectric islands; and subjecting the semiconductor layer to heat treatment and recrystallizing the semiconductor layer to form a recrystallized semiconductor layer, so that a crystal structure of the recrystallized semiconductor layer adapts to a crystal structure of the semiconductor substrate, and so that the semiconductor substrate and the semiconductor layer together form a compound wafer with the dielectric islands at least partially buried in the semiconductor material of the compound wafer. |
| US10825704B1 |
Chip transferring machine
A chip transferring machine includes a chip carrier, a chip transferring module, and a chip carrier substrate. The chip carrier carries a plurality of chips. The chip transferring module includes at least one conveyor belt having an adhesive surface. The chip carrier substrate carries the plurality of chips. The chip carrier, the chip transferring module, and the chip carrier substrate are disposed on a same production line, and the chip carrier and the chip carrier substrate are disposed under or above the adhesive surface of the conveyor belt. |
| US10825698B2 |
Substrate drying apparatus, facility of manufacturing semiconductor device, and method of drying substrate
Disclosed are a substrate drying apparatus, a facility of manufacturing a semiconductor device, and a method of drying a substrate. The substrate drying apparatus includes a chamber that is configured to dry a substrate at a first temperature, a first reservoir that is configured to store a first supercritical fluid at a second temperature that is less than the first temperature, a second reservoir that is configured to store a second supercritical fluid at a third temperature that is greater than the first temperature, and a supply unit connected between the chamber and the first reservoir and/or second reservoir. The supply unit is configured to supply the chamber with the first supercritical fluid and second supercritical fluid. |
| US10825696B2 |
Cross-wafer RDLs in constructed wafers
A method includes placing a plurality of package components over a carrier, encapsulating the plurality of package components in an encapsulant, forming a light-sensitive dielectric layer over the plurality of package components and the encapsulant, exposing the light-sensitive dielectric layer using a lithography mask, and developing the light-sensitive dielectric layer to form a plurality of openings. Conductive features of the plurality of package components are exposed through the plurality of openings. The method further includes forming redistribution lines extending into the openings. One of the redistribution lines has a length greater than about 26 mm. The redistribution lines, the plurality of package components, the encapsulant in combination form a reconstructed wafer. |
| US10825695B2 |
Method of manufacturing light emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes mounting an element set on a support substrate. The element set includes an element substrate and a plurality of light emitting elements on the element substrate. Each of the light emitting elements includes a semiconductor layered body having a surface and a pair of electrodes formed on the semiconductor layered body surface. A light reflecting member is provided between the element set and the support substrate. The element substrate is removed from the plurality of light emitting elements. |
| US10825692B2 |
Semiconductor chip gettering
Various semiconductor chips with gettering regions and methods of making the same are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus is provided that includes a semiconductor chip that has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side has a plurality of laser ablation craters. Each of the ablation craters has a bottom. A gettering region is in the semiconductor chip beneath the laser ablation craters. The gettering region includes plural structural defects. At least some of the structural defects emanate from at least some of the bottoms of the laser ablation craters. |
| US10825688B2 |
Method for etching copper layer
A method MT in an embodiment is a method for etching an etching target layer EL which is included in a wafer W and contains copper. The wafer W includes the etching target layer EL, and a mask MK provided on the etching target layer EL. In the method MT, the etching target layer EL is etched by repeatedly executing a sequence SQ including a first step of generating a plasma of a first gas in a processing container 12 of a plasma processing apparatus 10 in which the wafer W is accommodated, a second step of generating a plasma of a second gas in the processing container 12, and a third step of generating a plasma of a third gas in the processing container 12. The first gas contains a hydrocarbon gas, the second gas contains either a rare gas or a mixed gas of a rare gas and hydrogen gas, and the third gas contains hydrogen gas. |
| US10825684B2 |
Material composition and methods thereof
Provided is a material composition and method for that includes providing a substrate and forming a resist layer over the substrate. In various embodiments, the resist layer includes a multi-metal complex including an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) absorption element and a bridging element. By way of example, the EUV absorption element includes a first metal type and the bridging element includes a second metal type. In some embodiments, an exposure process is performed to the resist layer. After performing the exposure process, the exposed resist layer is developed to form a patterned resist layer. |
| US10825682B2 |
Method for producing a pillar structure in a semiconductor layer
A method for producing a pillar structure in a semiconductor layer, the method including providing a structure including, on a main surface, a semiconductor layer. A patterned hard mask layer stack is provided on the semiconductor layer that includes a first layer in contact with the semiconductor layer and a second layer overlying and in contact with the first layer. The semiconductor layer is etched using the patterned hard mask layer stack as a mask. The etching includes subjecting the structure to a first plasma thereby removing a first part of the semiconductor layer and at least a part of the second layer while preserving the first layer thereby, producing a first part of the pillar structure, thereafter; and subjecting the structure to a second plasma thereby removing a second part of the semiconductor layer thereby, producing a second part of the pillar structure. |
| US10825681B2 |
3D CTF integration using hybrid charge trap layer of sin and self aligned SiGe nanodot
Provided are an improved memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the memory device may include a vertical stack of alternating oxide layer and nitride layer, the vertical stack having a channel region formed therethrough, a plurality of nanostructures selectively formed on nitride layer of the vertical stack, and a gate oxide layer disposed on exposed surfaces of the channel region, the gate oxide layer encapsulating the plurality of nanostructures formed on the nitride layer. The nanostructures may be a group IV semiconductor compound such as silicon germanium (SiGe). |
| US10825679B2 |
Selective growth of SIO2 on dielectric surfaces in the presence of copper
Methods and apparatuses for selectively depositing silicon oxide on surfaces relative to a metal-containing surface such as copper are provided. Methods involve exposing a substrate having hydroxyl-terminated or dielectric surfaces and copper surfaces to a copper-blocking reagent such as an alkyl thiol to selectively adsorb to the copper surface, exposing the substrate to a silicon-containing precursor for depositing silicon oxide, exposing the substrate to a weak oxidant gas and igniting a plasma, or water vapor without plasma, to convert the adsorb silicon-containing precursor to form silicon oxide. Some methods also involve exposing the substrate to a reducing agent to reduce any oxidized copper from exposure to the weak oxidant gas. |
| US10825677B2 |
Mass spectrometry with increased duty cycle
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising: applying voltages to a mass filter or ion trap such that it is capable of transmitting or ejecting ions having mass to charge ratios within separate first and second mass to charge ratio windows; varying said voltages with time such that the first and second windows are moved simultaneously across different ranges of mass to charge ratio; detecting ions transmitted or ejected in the windows, or ions derived therefrom, with an ion detector; and deconvolving the resulting ion signal, wherein said deconvolving comprises: a) modelling an ion signal expected to be detected at the detector; b) comparing the model signal to the ion signal from the detector; and c) determining if the model signal matches the ion signal from the detector. |
| US10825675B2 |
Apparatus and method for generating chemical signatures using differential desorption
The present invention is directed to a method and device to generate a chemical signature for a mixture of analytes. The present invention involves using a SPME surface to one or both absorb and adsorb the mixture of analytes. In an embodiment of the invention, the surface is then exposed to different temperature ionizing species chosen with appropriate spatial resolution to desorb a chemical signature for the mixture of analytes. |
| US10825674B2 |
Apparatus and method for mass spectrometry, and method for analyzing semiconductor wafer
An apparatus for mass spectrometry includes a plate on which a semiconductor wafer including an organic matter is disposed. A hybrid provider provides a ZnO-graphene hybrid to a predetermined region on the semiconductor wafer. A mass analyzer detects the organic matter in the predetermined region using laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry (LDI-MS). |
| US10825673B2 |
Apparatus and method for reducing matrix effects
In an embodiment of the present ambient ionization experiment, the abundance of background chemicals relative to ions of interest is decreased by reducing the overall abundance of background chemicals introduced into the ionizing region. In an embodiment of the present invention, the reduction of unwanted background chemicals in the ionization region can be effected by limiting the area which the sample volume is deposited. In an embodiment of the present invention, the reduction of unwanted background chemicals in the ionization region can be effected by decreasing the duration of time that the sample is exposed to the atmospheric pressure ionization source. In an embodiment of the present invention, the reduction of unwanted background chemicals in the ionization region can be effected by limiting the sample volume. In an embodiment of the present invention dilution of the sample with water can be used to reduce the contribution of the background chemicals. In an embodiment of the present ambient ionization experiment, an ion intensifier is used to suppress ionization of background chemicals to permit more efficient ionization and detection of the molecules of interest. |
| US10825670B2 |
Signal processing method and system based on time-of-flight mass spectrometry and electronic apparatus
The invention provides signal processing method and system and an electronic apparatus for analysis of time-of-flight mass spectra. The method includes digitalizing an analog signal output from an ion detector to acquire complete raw time-of-flight spectra or each effective part in the raw time-of-flight spectra for a plurality of times; if the complete raw time-of-flight spectra are acquired, extracting the effective parts of each raw time-of-flight spectrum; applying a one-dimensional wavelet transform to each effective part to map to each frequency band or scale; determining positions and intensities of each spectral peak in each raw time-of-flight spectrum by detecting the maxima of an obtained wavelet coefficient distribution, and saving said peak position and intensity as characteristic data of each spectral peak; accumulating the characteristic data obtained by processing each raw time-of-flight spectrum and stacking the data to form spectral peak intensity/time-of-flight histogram. |
| US10825668B2 |
Library search tolerant to isotopes
One or more known compounds of a sample are ionized using an ion source, producing an ion beam of precursor ions. A tandem mass spectrometer receives the ion beam from the ion source, selects one or more precursor ions from the ion beam using a precursor ion mass selection window, fragments precursor ions within the precursor ion mass selection window, and mass analyzes the resulting product ions, producing an unknown product ion mass spectrum. A library product ion mass spectrum for a known compound is retrieved from a memory. Each peak of the unknown spectrum is analyzed for a potential non-halogen isotopic peak using a processor, and if a potential non-halogen isotopic peak is found, it is removed if it does not have a corresponding peak in the library spectrum. |
| US10825660B2 |
Electrostatic chuck and plasma processing apparatus
An electrostatic chuck of an embodiment includes a base, a dielectric layer, and a chuck main body. The dielectric layer is provided on the base, and is fixed to the base. The chuck main body is mounted on the dielectric layer. The chuck main body has a ceramic main body, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The ceramic main body has a substrate mounting region. The first electrode is provided in the substrate mounting region. The second electrode and the third electrode form a bipolar electrode. The second electrode and the third electrode are provided in the ceramic main body, and are provided between the first electrode and the dielectric layer. |
| US10825656B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling directionality of ions in an edge region by using an electrode within a coupling ring
Systems and methods for controlling directionality of ion flux at an edge region within a plasma chamber are described. One of the systems includes a radio frequency (RF) generator that is configured to generate an RF signal, an impedance matching circuit coupled to the RF generator for receiving the RF signal to generate a modified RF signal, and a plasma chamber. The plasma chamber includes an edge ring and a coupling ring located below the edge ring and coupled to the first impedance matching circuit to receive the modified RF signal. The coupling ring includes an electrode that generates a capacitance between the electrode and the edge ring to control the directionality of the ion flux upon receiving the modified RF signal. |
| US10825655B1 |
Separate plasma source coil and method of controlling the same
Provided is a separate plasma source coil and a method of controlling the same. The separate plasma source coil includes a center coil group disposed around a coil center and including one or more linear center coils, and an edge coil group disposed around the center coil group and including one or more linear edge coils. |
| US10825652B2 |
Ion beam etch without need for wafer tilt or rotation
Various embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for etching feature on a substrate. In a number of embodiments, no substrate rotation or tilting is used. While conventional etching processes rely on substrate rotation to even out the distribution of ions over the substrate surface, various embodiments herein achieve this purpose by moving the ion beams relative to the ion source. Movement of the ion beams can be achieved in a number of ways including electrostatic techniques, mechanical techniques, magnetic techniques, and combinations thereof. |
| US10825651B2 |
Automated TEM sample preparation
Techniques are described that facilitate automated extraction of lamellae and attaching the lamellae to sample grids for viewing on transmission electron microscopes. Some embodiments of the invention involve the use of machine vision to determine the positions of the lamella, the probe, and/or the TEM grid to guide the attachment of the probe to the lamella and the attachment of the lamella to the TEM grid. Techniques that facilitate the use of machine vision include shaping a probe tip so that its position can be readily recognized by image recognition software. Image subtraction techniques can be used to determine the position of the lamellae attached to the probe for moving the lamella to the TEM grid for attachment. In some embodiments, reference structures are milled on the probe or on the lamella to facilitate image recognition. |
| US10825650B2 |
Machine learning on wafer defect review
This disclosure is directed to solutions of detecting and classifying wafer defects using machine learning techniques. The solutions take only one coarse resolution digital microscope image of a target wafer, and use machine learning techniques to process the coarse SEM image to review and classify a defect on the target wafer. Because only one coarse SEM image of the wafer is needed, the defect review and classification throughput and efficiency are improved. Further, the techniques are not distractive and may be integrated with other defect detecting and classification techniques. |
| US10825635B2 |
Electron emitter for an x-ray tube
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards an electron emitter for an x-ray tube. The electron emitter comprises an electrically conductive substrate and a nanostructure material. The nanostructure material is comprised on at least a portion of the electrically conductive substrate. The nanostructure material is made of oxides, nitrides, silicides, selenides or tellurides. Such an electron emitter may be used for hybrid emission, such as Schottky emission or field emission. |
| US10825633B2 |
Circuit board arrangement having electrical leads for holding an electrical fuse
The invention relates to a circuit board arrangement for electrical separation of leads, comprising a fuse board configured to hold an electrical fuse, wherein the fuse board has electrical leads and openings formed between adjacent electrical leads; and comprising an insulating member configured to receive the fuse board, wherein the insulating member has separators, wherein the separators are configured to insert into the openings and electrically separate the leads. |
| US10825630B2 |
Integrated mounting post and heat sink for contactor arrangement in power distribution system
A contactor post for an electrical contactor may comprise a body comprising an electrically and thermally conductive material, and a heat sink shunt extending from the body and comprising the electrically and thermally conductive material, wherein the body and the heat sink shunt are comprised of a single piece of the electrically and thermally conductive material. |
| US10825628B2 |
Electromagnetically actuated microelectromechanical switch
An microelectromechanical switch uses electrostatic attraction to draw a beam toward a contact and electromagnetic repulsion to disengage and repel the beam from the contact. The electrostatic attraction is generated by a gate electrode. The electromagnetic repulsion is generated between the beam and a magnetic coil positioned on the same side of the beam as the contact. The magnetic coil produces a magnetic field, which induces a current in the beam that repels the magnetic coil. The gate electrode and the magnetic coil may be co-planar or in different planes. A circuit may also operate a coil-shaped structure act as the gate electrode and the magnetic coil, depending on the configuration. |
| US10825626B2 |
Fault tolerant solenoid actuation and monitoring
According to one or more aspects, a health sense system for a pulse width modulation (PWM) device associated with a magnetic coil is provided, and includes a health sense circuit, a health logic circuit, and a counter circuit. The health sense circuit measures one or more current measurements at a low voltage side of the pulse width modulation device. The health logic circuit determines a health bit indicative of a health score for the magnetic coil of the pulse width modulation device based on one or more of the current measurements. The counter circuit generates a feedback command for the pulse width modulation device based on the health bit. |
| US10825625B1 |
Kinetic actuator for vacuum interrupter
An actuator for circuit interrupter has a stationary magnetic boss, a movable magnetic armature and a drive rod. The drive rod is aligned on an axis of the circuit interrupter. The drive rod has two stable positions, circuit interrupter closed and circuit interrupter open. The drive rod has a surface that the armature contacts to move the drive rod from the circuit interrupter closed position to the circuit interrupter open position. In the circuit interrupter closed position, the armature and the surface are separated by a pre-travel distance. The armature is to move towards the stationary magnetic boss and contact the surface, to initiate a circuit interrupter disconnecting motion of the drive rod with a transfer of momentum to the drive rod. |
| US10825620B2 |
Light guiding substrate for a keyboard
An illuminated keyboard includes a light guiding substrate, a support plate, a plurality of keycaps, and a plurality of liftable connecting member. The light guiding substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The upper surface includes a plurality of assembly areas, each of the assembly areas has an assembly structure. The support plate is above the light guiding substrate, and the support plate has a top surface and a bottom surface. The support plate is provided with a plurality of first penetrated portions, each of the first penetrated portions corresponds to the corresponding assembly area, and each of the assembly structures passes through the corresponding first penetrated portion. The keycaps are above the support plate and corresponding to the assembly areas. Each of the liftable connecting members is connected to the corresponding keycap and the assembly structure of the corresponding assembly area. |
| US10825618B2 |
Power switch module
A power switch module including a switch element, an electromagnetic relay (EMR) and a switching circuit is provided. A first terminal of the switch element is grounded. A control terminal of the switch element receives a driving signal. First control terminals of the switching circuit and the EMR are coupled to a DC power. Second control terminals of the switching circuit and the EMR are coupled to a second terminal of the switch element. Power input terminals of the switching circuit and the EMR are coupled to each other and coupled to an input terminal of the power switch module. Power output terminals of the switching circuit and the EMR are coupled to each other and coupled to an output terminal of the power switch module. The switching circuit is configured to prevent an arc phenomenon caused on the EMR when the EMR is turned on or turned off. |
| US10825617B2 |
Electric closing element
An electric closer comprising a first connection lug, a second connection lug electrically insulated from the first connection lug, the first and second connection lugs each having at least one recess in a contact region disposed within a guide housing, an actuator for driving a contact element, the contact element being disposed in a guide housing between the actuator and the contact region of the connection lugs, and by the actuator from an open position, in which the connecting lugs are insulated from one another into a closed position, in which the connecting lugs are electrically connected to one another via the contact element, is displaceable, wherein in the closed position the contact element is accommodated in the recesses of the connecting lugs and wherein the contact element is guided in the displacement direction simultaneously in the respective recesses of the two connecting lugs during the displacement of the two connecting lugs. |
| US10825613B2 |
Use of etch resist masked anode frame for facilitation of laser cutting, particle and leakage current reduction
The present invention is directed to a method of etching anode foil in a non-uniform manner which minimizes thermal oxidation during foil cutting. Having less oxide improves the ability to cut through aluminum anodes with lower energy rates. In aluminum foils, it has been found that a masking step before etching reduces conversion of boehmite aluminum oxide to alpha-phase corundum during laser cutting of anodes, which increases edge quality and productivity. Additionally, the non-etched anode frame allows for less surface area to form during the aging process. As a result, the leakage current is reduced by the proportion of edge to anode surface area, and the aging process will be faster, leading to higher productivity. |
| US10825612B2 |
Tunable coplanar capacitor with vertical tuning and lateral RF path and methods for manufacturing thereof
A tunable capacitor that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include: a substrate; a first dielectric layer over the substrate; a plurality of bias lines encapsulated between the substrate and the tunable dielectric layer; a first metal layer over the tunable dielectric layer (wherein the first metal layer has a plurality of first gaps); an upper bias layer over the first metal layer (herein each of a plurality of portions of the upper bias layer extend through a respective one of the plurality of first gaps to come into contact with the first dielectric layer, and wherein at least a second gap is disposed in the upper bias layer); and a second metal layer (wherein a portion of the second metal layer extends through the second gap to come into contact with the first metal layer). Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10825611B1 |
Multilayer electronic component and mounting structure thereof
To improve a mounting reliability while maintaining a thickness of the external electrode at a side face of a multilayer electronic component thin. The multilayer electronic component includes ceramic body in which ceramic layers and an external electrode formed to an end face of the ceramic body. The upper electrode layer includes an element having higher standard electrode potential than Cu. The external electrode includes an external electrode end part and an external electrode extension part which is integrally formed with the external electrode end part. 1.20≤t2/t1≤4.50 is satisfied in which t1 is a total thickness of a thickness of the intermediate electrode layer thickness and t2 is a length from an end of the base electrode layer to an end of the upper electrode layer along the first axis of the external electrode extension part connected by the conductive adhesive. |
| US10825608B2 |
Manufacture method of magnetic coil in wireless charging system
A method for manufacturing a magnetic coil in a wireless charging system is disclosed. The coil may comprise a wire with a rectangular cross section. The method may include feeding a wire into a routing device which includes three winding wheels; routing the wire into a magnetic coil by changing positions of the winding wheels; and assembling the magnetic coil by pressing and attaching the magnetic coil to a coil holder. |
| US10825602B2 |
Stacked coil for wireless charging structure on InFO package
A structure includes a first encapsulating layer, and a first coil in the first encapsulating layer. A top surface of the first encapsulating layer is coplanar with a top surface of the first coil, and a bottom surface of the first encapsulating layer is coplanar with a bottom surface of the first coil. A second encapsulating layer is over the first encapsulating layer. A conductive via is in the second encapsulating layer, and the first conductive via is electrically coupled to the first coil. A third encapsulating layer is over the second encapsulating layer. A second coil is in the third encapsulating layer. A top surface of the third encapsulating layer is coplanar with a top surface of the second coil, and a bottom surface of the third encapsulating layer is coplanar with a bottom surface of the second coil. |
| US10825601B2 |
Coil component and electronic device
In an exemplary embodiment, a coil component includes: an element body part 10 that contains magnetic metal grains and nonmagnetic materials and has insulation property; and a coil 30 embedded in the element body part 10 and formed by a winding conductor. The element body part 10 has a main part 11 and a low magnetic permeability part 50 whose relative permeability is lower than that of the main part 11; the coil 30 has a first surface 36 and a second surface 38 respectively representing surfaces positioned on opposite sides in the direction of the coil axis and intersecting the coil axis; and the low magnetic permeability part 50 is provided between a first plane 37 flush with the first surface 36, and a second plane 39 flush with the second surface 38, in a manner away from the first plane 37 and the second plane 39. |
| US10825598B2 |
Planar magnetic element
A planar magnetic element includes a pair of cores, a first winding layer disposed between the pair of cores and including a first winding coupled between a first terminal and a second terminal, and a plurality of second winding layers disposed between the pair of cores and including second windings coupled between a third terminal and a fourth terminal, wherein the first winding layer may be disposed between the plurality of second winding layers. |
| US10825596B2 |
Laminated electronic component
A laminated electronic component includes an element body and a pair of conductors. The element body is formed by laminating a plurality of element-body layers in a first direction. The pair of conductors is formed by laminating a plurality of conductor layers in the first direction. The pair of conductors is provided to the element body in such a way as to be separated from each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. At a cross section orthogonal to the first direction, the pair of conductors has an uneven portion and the element body has an uneven portion engaged with the uneven portion of the pair of conductors. |
| US10825584B2 |
Downhole logging cables with core conductor and optical units
A downhole logging cable includes a core conductor unit and a core optical unit. The core conductor unit may include a conductor and a jacket which surrounds and contacts the conductor. At least one metal tube may surround the core conductor unit and core optical unit, such that the core conductor unit and core optical unit are disposed in an interior of the at least one metal tube. A filler may be provided in the interior surrounding the core conductor unit and core optical unit. |
| US10825579B2 |
Shielding layer and a cable provides with the shielding layer
A cable includes a plurality of wires, an wrapping tape covering the outside of the wires, a shielding layer coated on the outside of the wrapping tape and an insulating cover coated on the outside of the shielding layer, the shielding layer includes a plurality of conductors, wherein the shielding layer includes fibers mixed with the conductors. |
| US10825577B2 |
Communication cable having single twisted pair of insulated wires
A communication cable that has a reduced diameter while ensuring a required magnitude of characteristic impedance. The communication cable contains a twisted pair that contains a pair of insulated wires, twisted with each other and a sheath covering the twisted pair. Each of the insulated wires, contains a conductor that has a tensile strength of 400 MPa or higher and an insulation coating that covers the conductor. The sheath is made of an insulating material having a dielectric tangent of 0.0001 or higher. The communication cable 1 has a characteristic impedance of 100±10 Ω. |
| US10825574B2 |
Method for manufacturing ionic conductor
The present invention provides a manufacturing method suitable for manufacturing, in large amounts, an ionic conductor that is superior in terms of various properties such as ion conductivity. According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is a method for manufacturing an ionic conductor, said method including: mixing, using a solvent, LiBH4 and a lithium halide represented by formula (1), LiX (1) (in formula (1), X represents one selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms); and removing the solvent at 60-280° C. Ionic conductors obtained with this manufacturing method can be used as, for example, solid electrolytes for all-solid-state batteries. |
| US10825571B2 |
Nuclear reactor support and seismic restraint with core retention cooling features
A nuclear island includes a nuclear reactor, a lateral seismic restraint, and a reactor core retention cooling system. The lateral seismic restraint includes a vertically oriented pin attached to one of the bottom of the lower vessel head and the floor underneath the nuclear reactor, and a mating pin socket is attached to the other of the bottom of the lower vessel head and the floor. The reactor core retention cooling system includes one or more baffles, optionally thermally insulating material, disposed alongside the exterior surface of a lower portion of the reactor pressure vessel including at least the lower vessel head. A plenum is defined between the one or more baffles and the exterior surface of a lower portion of the reactor pressure vessel. The one or more baffles may define a lower plenum inlet surrounding the lateral seismic restraint. |
| US10825570B2 |
Clinical content-driven architecture systems and methods of use
Certain examples provide methods, systems and apparatus of content-driven clinical information management. An example method includes facilitating authoring of content and combination of the content into a content-based application, wherein content represents a parameterization of instructions to instruct the content-based application how to operate, the content formulated according to one or more detailed clinical models. The example method includes packaging and deploying the content-based application using a processor to one or more targets for installation. The example method includes facilitating installation of the packaged content-based application at the one or more targets. The example method includes managing the content-based application remotely from the one or more targets. In the example method, content is to be created, stored, deployed, and retrieved independently of the creation and deployment of the content-based application consuming data based on the content. |
| US10825569B2 |
Universal non-invasive blood glucose estimation method based on time series analysis
The present invention discloses a universal non-invasive blood glucose estimation method based on time series analysis, which comprises 5 steps, i.e., data input and preprocessing, features screening, establishment of single-feature model based on time series analysis, multi-feature fusion, and non-invasive blood glucose estimation. During non-invasive blood glucose estimation, new non-invasive test data is inputted, and the blood glucose estimation series is calculated using related feature information obtained through modeling, single-feature model, and multi-feature fusion model. The estimation method provided in the present invention is easy to execute, and can overcome the delay between changes of physiological parameters of human body and changes of blood glucose, and thereby can obtain more accurate non-invasive blood glucose test results. The estimation method is universal and is applicable to different non-invasive blood glucose monitoring methods. |
| US10825567B1 |
Apparatus and method for informed personal well-being decision making
An apparatus and method for informed personal-well-being decision making that provides a user with alerts and information, focused on health and wellness, on items they choose for possible consumption. Some embodiments include optical, sonic, smell and other sensors, communications with databases that identify ingredients and effects on health and well-being, as well as user inputs. From user input, GPS, local conditions and alerts, some embodiments determine information specific to the user and their environment. By using established, and creating new, databases, some embodiments compile, compare, transmit and store data on various consumables. Some embodiments provide access to information on the companies, manufacturers, and various other components in an item's trip from dirt to table. Some embodiments establish methods and procedures to ascertain both the point-of-origin and where the consumable has traveled. Some embodiments provide a score for the specified consumable to show the quality of health provided by the consumable. |
| US10825562B2 |
Medical image display apparatus
According to one embodiment, a medical image display apparatus comprising a memory and processing circuitry. The memory configured to store a task management table associating a processing task executed for a medical image with state information representing whether or not the processing task has been executed. The processing circuitry configured to extract, from the task management table, state information that is associated with a processing task for a medical image requested to be displayed, and display, based on the extracted state information, information indicative of whether or not a processing task has been executed for the requested medical image. |
| US10825560B1 |
Infusion monitoring device and patient compliance system
An infusion monitoring device (IMD) for facilitating infusion pump medication treatment compliance. The IMD having at least one sensor to monitor data on a tube extending from an infusion pump. The IMD may be part of a compliance system. The IMD able to collect data and communicate data to a network for remote compliance analysis. The system provides compliance feedback to support the patient and improve compliance with the treatment process. |
| US10825559B1 |
Interiorly positioned machine-readable data labels for prescription compliance
A system of validating self-administration of prescription medication by a patient wherein the prescription medication is administered over a series of timed dosages. A machine-readable optical code label such as a QR Code is affixed to an interior surface of a prescription medication container containing the prescribed medication such as the interior of the bottle cap. The container must be open to electronically read the optical code label. The label contains data associated with the prescription medication and is read by a software application installed on a smartphone. The software receives the label-embedded data and a timestamp to validate the patient is self-administering the prescription medication consistent with the series of timed dosages. An alert notification is automatically generated to a healthcare administrator responsive to a deviation in the series of timed dosages. |
| US10825558B2 |
Method for improving healthcare
Systems, methods and tools for improving healthcare communication between physicians and patients by utilizing audio recordings systems capable of collecting voice data of patient conversations with healthcare providers. The communication system converts the recorded voice data into text using voice to text conversion software, analyzes the voice data using a natural language processor to parse for key words and phrases relating to the patient's health and concerns. Voice data may be additionally analyzed by cognitive analysis systems and machine learning algorithms designed to identify the sentiment that the patient is portraying while discussing the patient's concerns about health-related experiences or symptoms and cross-referenced with social media and other external websites or applications, confirming a patient's sentiment or providing additional key words and phrases unraised by the patient when communicating with the physician. |
| US10825553B2 |
Methods for genome assembly and haplotype phasing
The disclosure provides methods to assemble genomes of eukaryotic or prokaryotic organisms. The disclosure further provides methods for haplotype phasing and meta-genomics assemblies. |
| US10825549B2 |
Device and method of using rodent vocalizations for automatic classification of animal behavior
The field of this invention is classifying animal behaviors. In particular the fields of this invention include using animals in vivariums, such as rodents, particularly mice. Ultrasonic vocalizations of mice in a vivarium are compared to a predetermined set of positive phenotypes and to a predetermined set of negative phenotypes. The output of those comparisons are then compared to determine a metric of distance to classify vocalizations as closer to or more distant from elements of the positive or negative sets. |
| US10825538B2 |
Shift register unit, driving method thereof and gate driving circuit
A shift register unit, a driving method and a gate driving circuit are provided. The shift register unit includes a pull-up node control circuit, a pull-down node control circuit, a capacitor circuit, an output circuit and a noise reduction adjustment circuit. The noise reduction adjustment circuit is connected to a pull-down node and a first level input end, and configured to reduce an increasing rate of a potential at the pull-down node within a noise reduction time period of a maintenance phase, and reduce a decreasing rate of the potential at the pull-down node within a non-noise-reduction time period of the maintenance phase. |
| US10825535B1 |
Intra-code word wear leveling techniques
Methods, systems, and devices for spare substitution in a memory system are described. memory device identifying a rotation index that indicates a first assignment of logical channel to physical channels for code words stored in a memory medium. The memory device may use a pointer to indicate one or more code word addresses that are to be rotated and update a value of the pointer associated with a range for the rotation index based on a condition being satisfied. The memory device may rotate a first code word according to a first assignment of the rotation index, where the rotating may occur at an address of the memory medium corresponding to the updated value of the pointer. Additionally, the memory device may execute access operations on the memory medium that include multiplexing multiple logical channels to multiple physical channels based on the rotation index and the pointer. |
| US10825532B2 |
Method of erasing data in nonvolatile memory device, nonvolatile memory device performing the same and memory system including the same
A method of operating a memory device includes performing a data read operation on at least one victim sub-block within a memory block containing a plurality of sub-blocks therein, in response to an erase command directed to a selected sub-block within the plurality of sub-blocks. Next, a soft program operation is performed on the at least one victim sub-block. This soft programming operation is then followed by an operation to erase the selected sub-block within the plurality of sub-blocks. This operation to erase the selected sub-block may include providing an erase voltage to a bulk region of a substrate on which the memory block extends, and the at least one victim sub-block may be disposed between the selected sub-block and the substrate. |
| US10825531B1 |
Semiconductor memory device including page buffers
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array; and a page buffer circuit coupled to the memory cell array through a plurality of bit lines which extend in a second direction intersecting with a first direction. The page buffer circuit includes a plurality of bit line select transistors coupled to the plurality of bit lines; a plurality of latches coupled to the plurality of bit line select transistors, respectively; and a plurality of erase bias pass transistors coupled to the plurality of bit lines, and configured to transfer an erase voltage to the bit lines. The plurality of erase bias pass transistors and the plurality of bit line select transistors are disposed in different regions, and are not adjacent to each other. |
| US10825527B2 |
Memory device and operating method of the memory device
There are provided a memory device and an operating method thereof. While memory cells connected to a selected word line are being programmed, the memory device applies bit line voltages set to be different from each other depending on separation distances of channel structures from an edge of the selected word line to bit lines connected to the channel structures. |
| US10825525B2 |
Programming non-volatile electronic memory device with NAND architecture
A non-volatile electronic memory device is integrated on a semiconductor and is of the Flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture including at least one memory matrix divided into physical sectors, intended as smallest erasable units, and organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines of memory cells. At least one row or word line of a given physical sector is electrically connected to at least one row or word line of an adjacent physical sector to form a single logic sector being erasable, with the source terminals of the corresponding cells of the pair of connected rows referring to a same selection line of a source line. |
| US10825523B2 |
Multi-decks memory device including inter-deck switches
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods of forming such apparatuses. One of the apparatus includes first memory cells located in different levels in a first portion of the apparatus, second memory cells located in different levels in a second portion of the apparatus, a switch located in a third portion of the apparatus between the first and second portions, first and second control gates to access the first and second memory cells, an additional control gate located between the first and second control gates to control the switch, a first conductive structure having a thickness and extending perpendicular to the levels in the first portion of the apparatus, a first dielectric structure between the first conductive structure and charge-storage portions of the first memory cells, a second dielectric structure having a second thickness between the second conductive structure and a sidewall of the additional control gate, the second thickness being greater than the first thickness. |
| US10825520B2 |
Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile functionality and method of operating
Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells each having a floating body for storing, reading and writing data as volatile memory. The device includes a floating gate or trapping layer for storing data as non-volatile memory, the device operating as volatile memory when power is applied to the device, and the device storing data from the volatile memory as non-volatile memory when power to the device is interrupted. |
| US10825516B2 |
Resistive change element cells sharing selection devices
Resistive change element cells sharing a selection device and resistive change element arrays including a plurality of resistive change element cells and a plurality of selection devices arranged in a group of at least two resistive change element cells sharing one selection device configuration are disclosed. According to some aspects of the present disclosure a group of resistive change element cells can be arranged on one level above a selection device. According to some aspects of the present disclosure a group of resistive change element cells can be arranged on multiple levels above a selection device. |
| US10825506B2 |
Systems and methods for improving output signal quality in memory devices
A semiconductor device may include a plurality of memory banks and an output buffer that may couple to the plurality of memory banks. The output buffer may produce a data voltage signal representative of data to be read from at least one of the plurality of memory banks to a controller. The semiconductor device may also include a plurality of switches that may couple a voltage source to the output buffer, a first pull-down switch that may drive the output buffer to a low voltage reference level to correct its drive strength. The device also includes a second pull-down switch that may couple the output buffer to the low voltage reference level. The plurality of switches, the first pull-down switch, and the second pull-down switch may each provide the data voltage signal to the output buffer. |
| US10825505B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for staggered timing of targeted refresh operations
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for staggering the timing of targeted refresh operations. Memory dies may need to periodically perform refresh operations, which may be auto-refresh operations or targeted refresh operations. Targeted refresh operations may draw less current than auto-refresh operations. When dies are collected into a group (e.g., a memory stack, a memory module) the timing of targeted refresh operations may be staggered between the different dies to help reduce the peak current drawn. The targeted refresh operations may be staggered such that, when a maximum number of the dies are performing a refresh operation, at least one of the dies performs a targeted refresh operation instead of an auto-refresh operation. |
| US10825504B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device according to an aspect of the present invention has: a plurality of memory cells MC; a plurality of word lines WL each coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of memory cells MC; and a control circuit that intermittently monitors accesses to the plurality of word lines WL, stores/erases some captured row-addresses in a first number of registers, and detects, by comparison with stored addresses, in response to a first number of accesses to one of the word lines WL in a first period of time. According to the present invention, access histories can be precisely analyzed by a small-scale circuit configuration, and measures against, for example, the Row Hammer problem, etc. can be taken. |
| US10825502B2 |
Memory system for removing memory cell fault and method thereof
A memory system includes: a memory device that includes a plurality of ranks; and a memory controller suitable for deciding a plurality of refresh cycles for respective combinations of the plurality of ranks and at least one program executed onto the memory device based on a performance diagnosis result of each of the ranks when the program is executed, and controlling a refresh operation to be performed onto the ranks based on the decided refresh cycles. |
| US10825498B2 |
Magnetic random access memory structure and manufacturing method of the same
The present disclosure provides a magnetic random access memory structure, including an array region, and a logic region adjacent to the array region. The logic region includes a bottom electrode via, a magnetic tunneling junction layer over the bottom electrode via, a top electrode over the MTJ, a conformable oxide layer over the MTJ and the top electrode, and a silicon oxide layer over the conformable oxide layer. The conformable oxide layer and the silicon oxide layer extend from the array region to the logic region. |
| US10825494B2 |
DFE conditioning for write operations of a memory device
Methods and devices include an input buffer configured to receive data. Decision feedback equalizer (DFE) circuitry includes a DFE configured to interpret levels of the data from the input buffer and a DFE buffer that stores previous values to control the DFE based on the previous values. Moreover, the DFE circuitry also includes reset circuitry configured to reset the DFE buffer to an initial state. Furthermore, the DFE circuitry includes suppression circuitry configured to suppress resets using the reset circuitry for an interval between write operations to the memory device. |
| US10825489B2 |
Latching sense amplifier
A latching sense amplifier includes an input stage and an output stage. The output stage is coupled to the input stage. The output stage includes a first output node, a second output node, a pull-up circuit, and a pull-down circuit. The pull-up circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a latch circuit. The first transistor is configured to pull up the first output node. The second transistor is configured to pull up the second output node. The latch circuit is configured to control the first transistor and the second transistor. The pull-down circuit includes a latch circuit configured to pull-down the first output node based on a voltage of the second output node. |
| US10825487B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for generating a voltage in a memory
Apparatuses and methods for generating a voltage are described. An example apparatus includes first, second, and third bias circuits configured to provide first, second, and third bias signals, respectively. The example apparatus further includes a voltage output circuit configured to receive the first, second, and third bias signals. The voltage output circuit includes an output circuit and a current circuit. The output circuit includes an output node, a first node, and an input circuit configured to receive the first bias signal. The output circuit is configured to provide an output voltage at the output node having a magnitude based on the magnitude of the first bias signal. The current circuit includes a first transistor configured to receive the second bias signal and further includes a second transistor configured to receive the third bias signal. The first transistor and second transistor are coupled in parallel and to the first node. |
| US10825486B2 |
High performance method for reduction of memory power consumption employing RAM retention mode control with low latency and maximum granularity
A power control system, method, and architecture are disclosed for a multi-bank memory which provides independent, concurrent memory access to at least one memory block in each memory bank by using observation circuits to monitor bus masters connected over bus master interface signals to an interconnect for memory access requests to the multi-bank memory and to provide notifications to a power control circuitry that a valid memory access request was issued by a bus master over the bus master interface, where the power control circuitry processes the notifications received from each observation circuit and generates therefrom power control signals that are provided directly to each memory block and to bypass the interconnect, thereby separately controlling a power state for each memory block with power-up control signals that arrive at each memory block at or before a memory access request sent over the interconnect. |
| US10825484B2 |
Integrated assemblies which include non-conductive-semiconductor-material and conductive-semiconductor-material, and methods of forming integrated assemblies
A method of forming an integrated assembly includes providing a construction having laterally-spaced digit-line-contact-regions and having intervening regions between the laterally-spaced digit-line-contact-regions; forming an expanse of non-conductive-semiconductor-material which extends across the digit-line-contact-regions and the intervening regions; a lower surface of the non-conductive-semiconductor-material being vertically-spaced from upper surfaces of the digit-line-contact-regions; forming openings extending through the non-conductive-semiconductor-material to the digit-line-contact-regions; forming conductive-semiconductor-material-interconnects within the openings and coupled with the digit-line-contact-regions, upper surfaces of the conductive-semiconductor-material-interconnects being beneath the lower surface of the non-conductive-semiconductor-material; and forming metal-containing-digit-lines over the non-conductive-semiconductor-material. |
| US10825483B2 |
Heat sinking enclosure for disk array
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an enclosure for a disk array. The enclosure comprises a chassis for receiving the disk array. Each disk in the disk array is enclosed by a frame. The enclosure also comprises a heat sink including a plurality of metal bars arranged on a bottom face of the chassis. Each of the plurality of metal bars is adapted to contact a respective disk through a notch in the frame of the respective disk, to position the respective disk and to transfer heat generated by the respective disk to the chassis. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the metal bars may be used not only for reliable positioning of the disks, but also for improving thermal dissipation performance. |
| US10825478B1 |
Magnetic recording apparatus and method of controlling magnetic head thereof
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording apparatus measures and stores recording signal quality of a disk at an initial stage, inspects the recording signal quality before data is recorded, determines whether or not the recording signal quality obtained in the inspection satisfies a standard when compared to the stored recording signal quality at the initial stage, adjusts, based on a result of the determination, light irradiation power of a light irradiation element so as to satisfy the standard, determines a read offset amount based on a result of the adjustment, and performs control so that a position of a read head is shifted based on the determined read offset amount. |
| US10825462B1 |
Optimizing call quality using vocal frequency fingerprints to filter voice calls
Methods and systems are provided for optimizing call quality and improving network efficiency by reducing bandwidth requirements at the individual-voice-call level. Embodiments provided herein build vocal fingerprints that correspond to the frequency range of the human voice, as well as the frequency range of the voice of individual users. The vocal fingerprints are used minimize and reduce the transmission of background noise and ambient sound captured using HD voice while retaining the frequency range of a user's voice in HD voice. This filtered HD voice frequency range is then transmitted to recipients over the network. The reduced frequency range lowers bandwidth usage and conserves network resources, all while optimizing the call quality for individual users. |
| US10825461B2 |
Audio encoder for encoding an audio signal, method for encoding an audio signal and computer program under consideration of a detected peak spectral region in an upper frequency band
An audio encoder for encoding an audio signal having a lower frequency band and an upper frequency band includes: a detector for detecting a peak spectral region in the upper frequency band of the audio signal; a shaper for shaping the lower frequency band using shaping information for the lower band and for shaping the upper frequency band using at least a portion of the shaping information for the lower band, wherein the shaper is configured to additionally attenuate spectral values in the detected peak spectral region in the upper frequency band; and a quantizer and coder stage for quantizing a shaped lower frequency band and a shaped upper frequency band and for entropy coding quantized spectral values from the shaped lower frequency band and the shaped upper frequency band. |
| US10825455B2 |
Voice dialogue apparatus, voice dialogue method, and non-transitory computer readable media
A voice dialogue apparatus analyzes an acquired user's voice, generates a parrot-like response sentence and outputs the generated parrot-like response sentence. The voice dialogue apparatus includes storage means for storing the user's past voice, average calculation means for calculating an average value of voice sentence lengths each indicating a length of the user's voice based on the user's past voice, candidate generation means for combining a dependency word, which establishes a dependency relation with a noun included in the acquired user's voice, with the noun to generate a plurality of response sentence candidates, and repetition generation means for selecting, in association with the average value of the voice sentence lengths, one response sentence candidate from among the plurality of response sentence candidates and using the selected response sentence candidate as it is or processing the selected response sentence candidate to generate the parrot-like response sentence. |
| US10825454B1 |
Naming devices via voice commands
Techniques for naming devices via voice commands are described herein. For instance, a user may issue a voice command to a voice-controlled device stating, “you are the kitchen device”. Thereafter, the device may respond to voice commands directed, by name, to this device. For instance, the user may issue a voice command requesting to “play music on my kitchen device”. Given that the user has configured the device to respond to this name, the device may respond to the command by outputting the requested music. |
| US10825451B1 |
Wakeword detection
Techniques for implementing multiple wakeword detectors on a single device are described. A digital signal processor (DSP) of the device may initially include an untrained wakeword detection component. The wakeword detection component of the DSP may be trained by engaging a user to speak particular utterances. Once a companion application is configured to implement a wakeword detection component, the companion application's wakeword detection component may be trained specific to the user of the device. Once the companion application's wakeword detection component is trained, the DSP wakeword detection component may be deactivated or its accuracy adjusted. |
| US10825443B2 |
Method and system for implementing a modal processor
The implementation of modal processors, which involve the parallel combination resonant filters, may be costly for applications such as artificial reverberation that can require thousands of modes. In one embodiment, the input signal is decomposed into a plurality of subbands, the outputs of which are downsampled. In each downsampled band, resonant filters are applied at the downsampled sampling rate, and their output is upsampled and filtered to form the band output. |
| US10825441B2 |
Steerable acoustic resonating transducer systems and methods
The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with acoustic transmitters, receivers, and antennas. Specifically, the present disclosure provides a transducer system for transmitting and receiving acoustic energy according to a determined acoustic emission/reception pattern. In various embodiments, an acoustic transducer system may include an array of sub-wavelength transducer elements each configured with an electromagnetic resonance at one of a plurality of electromagnetic frequencies. Each sub-wavelength transducer element may generate an acoustic emission in response to the electromagnetic resonance. A beam-forming controller may cause electromagnetic energy to be transmitted at select electromagnetic frequencies to cause a select subset of the sub-wavelength transducer elements to generate acoustic emissions according to a selectable acoustic transmission pattern. A common port may facilitate electromagnetic communication with each of the sub-wavelength transducer elements. |
| US10825440B2 |
System and method for calibrating and testing an active noise cancellation (ANC) system
A method for calibrating an ANC-enabled portable audio device having microphones plays continuously a calibration sound by a calibrated speaker of a test station separate from the device. For each microphone of all the microphones, a microphone calibration value is computed using a comparison of a predetermined level and a measured level of an audio signal transduced by the microphone in response to the continuously-played calibration sound. The calibration is done without using a microphone of the test station. A processing element of the device may be programmed to make the comparison and computation. The processing element also causes a speaker of the device to generate a second calibration sound, measures a second level while the computed calibration value is applied to one of microphones (e.g., error microphone), and computes a calibration value for the device speaker using a comparison of a predetermined level and the second level. |
| US10825438B2 |
Electronic musical instrument, musical sound generating method of electronic musical instrument, and storage medium
An electronic musical instrument includes: a memory that stores, before performance of a musical piece on the electronic musical instrument by a performer begins, pitch variation data that represents differences between fundamental tone frequencies of notes in a melody of the musical piece and fundamental tone frequencies of notes in prescribed singing voice waveform data; and a sound source that outputs a pitch-adjusted carrier signal to be received by a waveform synthesizing device that generates synthesized waveform data based on the pitch-adjusted carrier signal, the pitch-adjusted carrier signal being generated on the basis of the pitch variation data acquired from the memory and performance instruction pitch data that represent pitches specified by the performer during the performance of the musical piece on the electronic musical instrument, the pitch-adjusted carrier signal being generated even when the performer does not sing after performance of the musical piece begins. |
| US10825436B2 |
Methods and systems for synchronizing MIDI file with external information
A method relating to synchronize MIDI file with video includes acquiring a video and a MIDI file, and identifying timing of a video frame. The method also includes converting timing into tick information and editing a tick of the MIDI file. The method further includes detecting the MIDI file corresponding to the video frame, and playing a musical instrument based on the MIDI file corresponding to the video. |
| US10825431B2 |
Instrument speaker art
The present invention is a display for storing and displaying a musical instrument, displaying a decorative surface and playing amplified audio. The invention enables the instrument and other audio equipment to be displayed out of the way while being easily accessed. Some of the best embodiments will use a decorative surface to compliment the instrument within the display. Notably, the display can be configured to play amplified sound from an amplified instrument such as a guitar. |
| US10825429B2 |
Insertable percussion system
A drumming system includes a percussion instrument and an inserting/retracting mechanism operably connected to the first percussion instrument and configured to move the first percussion instrument along an arch relative to a second percussion instrument from a retracted position to an inserted position and from the inserted position to the retracted position. |
| US10825428B2 |
Musical instrument and method of making same
A valved wind instrument including a tubular body having a tuning section, a lead pipe connected to a first end of the tuning section and a bell pipe connected to a second end of the tuning section, said tubular body being configured to allow a vibrating column of air to pass therethrough; wherein the tuning section includes an air inlet port for receiving air flow from the lead pipe at the first end, an air outlet port for delivering said air flow to the bell tube at the second end, a plurality of user operable valves; wherein each valve of said plurality of valves is in fluid communication with an adjacent valve by a first tubular portion so as to provide fluid communication between the inlet port and the outlet port, and wherein each valve of said plurality of valves is user moveable between a first position and a second position and each so as to increase the air pathway length between the inlet port and the outlet port by way of a second tubular portion; and wherein each second tubular portions is coplanar with each other, and wherein the second tubular portions are integrally formed from a polymeric material within the tuning section, wherein the tuning section is provided by molded first and second body member that are bonded together and sealingly engaged along a plane parallel to the longitudinal axes of the second tubular portions. |
| US10825427B2 |
Hammer assembly and keyboard instrument
A hammer assembly includes: a weight; and a pivot member including a first weight supporter configured to support the weight in a first direction, a second weight supporter configured to support the weight in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a coupling portion configured to couple the first weight supporter and the second weight supporter to each other. A distance from the first weight supporter to the weight and a distance from the second weight supporter to the weight increase with decrease in distance to the coupling portion in at least a portion of a region of the weight. |
| US10825416B2 |
Interface system and display device including the same
An interface system may include a transmitter and a receiver, which are coupled to each other through transmission lines, wherein the transmitter includes a transmission controller configured to transmit a reset signal to the receiver, wherein the receiver includes a reset unit configured to reset input common mode voltages of the transmission lines, based on the reset signal, and wherein the transmission lines include a first transmission line for transmitting a signal having a first phase, and a second transmission line for transmitting a signal having a second phase that is different from the first phase. |
| US10825414B2 |
Scanning signal line drive circuit, display device provided with same, and drive method for scanning signal line
An active-matrix display device has a gate driver for driving a plurality of gate bus lines of a display portion in accordance with a multi-phase gate clock signal. The gate driver includes first and second gate drivers disposed to opposite sides of the display portion. Each of the first and second gate drivers includes a plurality of buffer circuits connected to the gate bus lines and a plurality of bistable circuits cascaded together so as to constitute a shift register. Each bistable circuit controls two buffer circuits. The bistable circuits are disposed in an interlaced arrangement between the first and second gate drivers. Each of the two buffer circuits controlled by each bistable circuit includes a boost capacitor, and one of the two buffer circuits includes a transistor for isolating a boost effect. |
| US10825413B2 |
Shift register circuit, gate driving circuit and method for driving the same, and display apparatus
A shift register circuit, a gate driving circuit and a method for driving the same, and a display apparatus are disclosed. The shift register circuit includes: an input circuit configured to receive an input signal and output the input signal to a pull-up node; an output circuit configured to receive a clock signal and provide an output signal at a signal output terminal based on the clock signal under control of a level at the pull-up node; a pull-down circuit configured to pull down a level at the signal output terminal under control of a level at a pull-down node; and at least one of a feedback circuit or a pull-down control circuit, wherein the feedback circuit is electrically coupled to the pull-up node, and is configured to output a first feedback signal based on the level at the pull-up node; and the pull-down control circuit is electrically coupled to the pull-up node and the pull-down node, and is configured to receive a second feedback signal and control the level at the pull-down node under control of the level at the pull-up node and the second feedback signal. |
| US10825412B2 |
Liquid crystal panel including GOA circuit and driving method thereof
There is provided a liquid crystal panel including a GOA circuit and a driving method thereof. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of cascaded single-stage GOA circuit units, and each single-stage GOA circuit unit includes a first pull-down maintaining circuit unit and a second pull-down maintaining circuit unit. A first control terminal of the first pull-down maintaining circuit unit is input with a first clock signal, a second control terminal of the second pull-down maintaining circuit unit is input with a second clock signal, and the pull-down circuit unit is input with a scan driving signal of a GOA circuit unit of next second stage. The first clock signal and the second clock signal are input alternately to the pull-up circuit units and the pull-down circuit units in GOA circuit units of adjacent stages. The first clock signal and the second clock signal have the same long period. |
| US10825406B2 |
LCD display backlight control system
A backlight control system is provided. A modulation value register is included in memory of the system. A display backlight is included in the system, the display backlight including a light emitting diode (LED) light source configured to illuminate a liquid crystal display (LCD). Processing circuitry included in the system is configured to execute a clock timer and a temporal dither pattern generator. The temporal dither pattern generator is configured to receive a modulation value from the modulation value register, and apply a temporal dither according to a signal from the clock timer to the modulation value to generate a dithered modulation value. A modulator executed by the processing circuitry is configured to receive the dithered modulation value and modulate a power signal according to the dithered modulation value to drive the display backlight. |
| US10825405B2 |
Electro-optic displays
A thin film transistor (TFT) backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes. Each of the plurality of electrodes is coupled to circuitry comprising: a first thin film transistor (TFT) coupled to the electrode for transmitting waveforms to the electrode, and a second TFT coupled to the electrode for discharging remnant charges from the electrode, wherein the second TFT is activated subsequent to the first TFT being deactivated. |
| US10825403B2 |
Light emission control device, electronic device, and light emission control method
The present invention relates to a light emitting device and achieves either a high luminance with low power consumption or an increased image quality of a moving image according to the usage of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first light emitting device and a second light emitting device, and a control device includes a light emission control section configured to control light emission of the first light emitting device and light emission of the second light emitting device according to a usage of the electronic device such that a relation between luminance of the first light emitting device and luminance of the second light emitting device satisfies a predetermined condition. |
| US10825401B2 |
Method and device for compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of display device, and display device
A method, device of compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of a display device, and a display device are provided, wherein the method includes the steps as follows: receiving an inputted image, looking-up each of pixel driving signals of the inputted image and obtaining a first driving signal and a second driving signal corresponded to each of pixels within two adjacent frames of the image individually, computing a mean value of the first driving signals and a mean value of the second driving signals individually, computing a mean value of the first the second driving signals in the same frame of the image individually, computing a brightness compensation signal required in a backlight module of a backlight region based on the computed mean values and a predetermined standard brightness signal; and compensating viewing angle chromatic aberration of post frames of the image based on the brightness compensation signal. |
| US10825400B2 |
Mura compensation method for display panel and display panel
A mura compensation method for display panel is disclosed, including: storing a specific grayscale compensation data table in a timing controller, in which the specific grayscale compensation data table is used for performing grayscale compensation to a fixed mura area in the display panel; obtaining a current grayscale of the display panel; based on the specific grayscale compensation data table, performing grayscale compensation to the current grayscale of a pixel in the fixed mura area of the display panel. |
| US10825397B2 |
Shift register unit, shift register circuit, driving method therefor, and display panel
The present disclosure relates to a shift register unit. The shift register unit includes a first input circuit configured to transmit a first voltage signal to a pull-up node, a pull-up circuit configured to transmit a first clock signal to a signal output terminal, a first pull-down control circuit configured to transmit a second clock signal to a pull-down node, a second pull-down control circuit configured to transmit a second voltage signal to the pull-down node, a pull-up control circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the pull-up node, a pull-down circuit configured to transmit the second voltage signal to the signal output terminal, and a holding circuit configured to maintain the pull-up node at a low level and/or maintain the pull-down node at a high level under control of a second input. |
| US10825396B2 |
Pixel driving circuit and method for controlling the same, display driving circuit and method for controlling the same, and display panel
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and method thereof, a display driving circuit and method thereof, and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes: a first pixel driving sub-circuit configured to provide a driving signal to a driving signal output terminal in a first period and perform threshold voltage compensation on a second pixel driving sub-circuit in a second period under control of signals at a first scanning signal terminal, a first control signal terminal, and a first data signal terminal; and the second pixel driving sub-circuit configured to provide a driving signal to the driving signal output terminal in the second period and perform threshold voltage compensation on the first pixel driving sub-circuit in the first period under control of signals at a second scanning signal terminal, a second control signal terminal, and a second data signal terminal. |
| US10825395B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device, circuit and method for detecting driving current thereof
Disclosed are a circuit and a method for detecting a driving current of an organic light emitting diode display device, and an organic light emitting diode display device, the method includes: after detecting for a predetermined time period, obtaining an output voltage of the integrating circuit, and comparing the output voltage with at least one reference voltage; in the case that the output voltage and the reference voltage satisfy a predetermined condition, adjusting capacitance of a capacitor of the integrating circuit. |
| US10825394B2 |
Display device
A display device is described comprising sub-pixels that include: a first driving transistor and a second driving transistor, each of which control a current flowing from a first electrode to a second electrode in accordance with a data voltage applied to a gate electrode; a light emitting element connected to the second electrodes of the first driving transistor and the second driving transistor; and a first contact hole and a second contact hole which are disposed in the gate electrode, wherein the gate electrode includes a first gate electrode overlapping the first driving transistor in a thickness direction and a second gate electrode overlapping the second driving transistor in the thickness direction, and the first contact hole is located in the first gate electrode, the second contact hole is located in the second gate electrode, and the first contact hole and the second contact hole overlap each other. |
| US10825391B2 |
Pixel of organic light emitting display device and organic light emitting display device having the same
A pixel of an organic light emitting display device and an organic light emitting display device having the same includes an organic light emitting diode, a first switching transistor configured to transfer a data signal, a storage capacitor configured to store the data signal, a driving transistor configured to generate a driving current of the organic light emitting diode, a first initialization transistor and a second initialization transistor configured to simultaneously provide an initialization signal to the organic light emitting diode and the driving transistor, a second switching transistor configured to be turned on in response to a second scan signal and transfer the data signal or the initialization signal, a first emission control transistor configured to transfer a high power voltage to the driving transistor, and a second emission control transistor configured to transfer the driving current to the organic light emitting diode. |
| US10825390B2 |
Display panel including drive circuit and image display device using the same
A display panel including a drive circuit and an image display device using the same are disclosed. The display panel provided with a drive circuit includes a substrate, a plurality of clock lines and a link line, a plurality of switching elements, a plurality of insulation layers, and an image display surface. The clock lines and link line are formed in a link line unit on the substrate. The switching elements are formed in a gate drive circuit region on the substrate. The insulation layers include the plurality of clock lines, the link line, and the plurality of switching elements. The image display surface includes a plurality of sub-pixels formed over the entire surface of the plurality of insulation layers such that an image is displayed thereon. |
| US10825387B2 |
Pixel driving circuit and display apparatus
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit and a display apparatus. The circuit includes a reset module, a compensation module, and a light-emitting module. The reset module receives a first control signal and transmits a reset voltage to the compensation module and the light-emitting module according to the first control signal for resetting the compensation module and the light-emitting module. The compensation module receives a second control signal and write data signal according to the second control signal for compensating a threshold voltage. The light-emitting module receives a third control signal and a fourth control signal for emitting light according to the thud and fourth control signals. |
| US10825385B2 |
Active sensing and compensation for display panel hysteresis
An apparatus receives current image frame data and data relating to at least one previous image frame for an electronic display. One or more parameters related to hysteresis of transistors in the electronic display are sensed. A correlation device, such as a look-up table, receives the sensed parameter or parameters and the data relating to one or more image frames, and uses this information, at least in part, to output an appropriate compensation signal for the current image frame data. The compensated current image frame data may then be supplied to the electronic display to reduce or eliminate the effects of hysteresis on the displayed image. |
| US10825383B2 |
Display device
A display device including a first substrate, pixel structures, a second substrate, first signal lines, and second signal lines is provided. The pixel structures are disposed on a first surface of the first substrate. Each of the pixel structures includes a switch element and a pixel electrode. The switch element has a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second terminal of the switch element. The second substrate is disposed under a second surface of the first substrate. The first signal lines and the second signal lines are disposed on the second substrate. The first terminals and the control terminals of the switch elements of the pixel structures are respectively electrically connected to the first signal lines and the second signal lines, wherein the first signal lines are substantially parallel to the second signal lines. |
| US10825382B2 |
Display apparatus and method of driving the same
A display apparatus includes a display panel and a power voltage generator. The display panel includes pixel circuits including a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element. The power voltage generator applies a high power voltage to first electrodes of the first light emitting element and the second light emitting element, a first low power voltage to a second electrode of the first light emitting element and a second low power voltage to a second electrode of the second light emitting element. The high power voltage has high level, the first low power voltage has low level and the second low power voltage has high level during an emission duration of a first frame. The high power voltage has the high level, the first low power voltage has high level and the second low power voltage has low level during an emission duration of a second frame. |
| US10825379B2 |
Light adjustment device, method of preparing the same, and display device
A light adjustment device, a method of preparing the same, and a display device are provided, the light adjustment device includes: light-absorption portions spaced apart from one another, with first gaps each functioning as light ray passages and between each two adjacent light-absorption portions of the light-absorption portions, respectively; first electrodes being transparent and between each two adjacent light-absorption portions of the light-absorption portions respectively and at least partially located on both sides of each of the light ray passages; at least one second electrode being also transparent, each being in a respective one of the first gaps respectively, with second gaps each being between each second electrode and a respective adjacent one of the first electrodes; and transflective portions being electrically polarized and in the second gaps respectively, comprising light-transmitting portions and light-reflecting portions, the light-reflecting portions being steerable to be turned under an electric field force. |
| US10825376B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device and driving method thereof are disclosed. The display device includes a pixel emitting light at a luminance corresponding to an output grayscale value and a color shifter for converting an input grayscale value into the output grayscale value based on output color gamut information. The color shifter includes an offset storage unit storing reference color gamut information and offset information; and a color gamut determination unit that determines the output color gamut information using the reference color gamut information and the offset information when the color shift level corresponds to a value between the reference level and the shift levels, and determines tire output color gamut information using second offset information in which the offset information is inverted and the reference color gamut information when the color shift level is not between the reference level and the shift levels. |
| US10825373B1 |
Gate select signal with reduced interference
A processing system for a display device comprises a display driver configured to generate a gate select signal and output the gate select signal to gate select control circuitry to be driven on gate lines for display updating. The gate select signal comprises a transition from a first voltage to a second voltage, a transition from the second voltage to a third voltage, and a transition from the third voltage to the first voltage. The second voltage is greater than the first voltage and the second voltage is maintained for a first period. The third voltage is greater than the second voltage and the third voltage is maintained for a second period. The gate select signal is driven by the gate select control circuitry on gate lines of the display device to select one or more subpixels of the display device for display updating. |
| US10825365B2 |
Safety sign with extension arm
An extension arm connected to a panel of a safety sign is moveable between a first position extending laterally of the panel a distance at least equal to the maximum width of the panel and a second position. In one embodiment the arm is an assembly held to a handhold of the safety sign. In some embodiments the arm is hinged for folding in the manner of a carpenter's rule. In some embodiments the arm is rotatable between an operative laterally extending, generally horizontal, position and a stowed position. In other embodiments, an A-frame safety sign has a removable arm attached to it, the removable arm when attached being movable to a position extending outward a distance at least equal to the maximum width of the panel. |
| US10825362B2 |
Elliptical corrugated signage
A corrugated display sign with a main body having an inner surface and an outer surface, with the body including a first portion and a second portion. The sign further includes at least one or more formers, and in some embodiments two or more formers, secured to the first portion of the inner surface of the main body, with the formers each including a tab section that secures the former to the main body, a front body portion with a wing portion, and a back body portion with a wing portion. Further, the second portion of the main body is folded around the first portion and the formers, so as to create an elongated elliptical shape for the sign. The display sign is capable of being erected from a knockdown configuration to an erected configuration by folding the former body portions and the wing, and folding the second portion of the main body around the first portion and the formers. |
| US10825360B2 |
Reconstitution of post mortem circulation, specialized methods and procedures
A system for and method of reconstituting post mortem circulation is provided. Certain methods include simulating natural clotting cascades at wound sites while preventing clotting in reservoirs and within the cadaver. Clot prevention in the reservoir and the cadaver are accomplished with an anticoagulant and a dispersant, respectively. Simulation of clotting at the wound site is accomplished by diluting cadaver fluid with reservoir fluid, thereby diluting the dispersant. The cadaver fluid contains excess calcium for resisting the anticoagulant of the reservoir fluid. Certain methods of the present invention also include reanimating a heart, attaching foreign cadaveric circulatory branches to other cadaveric tissue, enabling mobile cadaveric perfusion, and utilizing a water bath with gravity-feed perfusion. |
| US10825355B2 |
Toothbrush orientation system
A system for determining the orientation of a toothbrush (4), the system comprising an orientation sensor (27) configured for attachment to a toothbrush (4) and one or more processors (29) configured to receive orientation information from the orientation sensor (27). The one or more processors (29) are further configured to determine whether the sensor (27) is in a first orientation (41) or a second orientation (33). The first orientation (41) corresponds to use of the toothbrush (4) on a surface of teeth on the left (42) of a user's mouth. The second orientation (33) corresponds to use of the toothbrush (4) on a surface of teeth on the right (40) of a user's mouth. |
| US10825354B2 |
Performance coaching method and apparatus
An apparatus for coaching improvements for a performer during a performance activity based on observed actual performance in comparison to a possible performance, with sensors measuring performance criteria. A microprocessor computer creates respective pseudo-measurements relevant to the performance activity based on the measurements, which are normalized and evaluated as to proximity to a possible performance value. A display presents the measured actual performance in relation to the possible performance, so the performer may change actions and observe on the display the effect of the change. A method of coaching performer during a performance activity is disclosed. |
| US10825350B2 |
Virtual reality driver training and assessment system
A virtual reality (VR) based driving simulation system and method provides hazard perception training and testing. Some embodiments use a personal computing device (e.g., smartphone), a head-mounted VR headset, and a Bluetooth-connected push button keypad or other user input device. An immersive, 3D simulator enables users to experience and learn from hazardous scenarios without risking injury. Performance by a user in perceiving a hazard is compiled as a metric in a user profile stored on a server, and continued training and testing can be conducted with updated scenarios supplied by the server in accordance with the metric associated with a user. |
| US10825346B2 |
Systems and methods for adaptive property analysis via autonomous vehicles
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assessment and reporting system may conduct micro scans of a wide variety of property types. Scan data from any of a wide variety of sensor types may be compared with profile data using computer vision techniques to identify characteristics, defects, damage, construction materials, and the like. A hierarchal structure of the scan data may reduce the size of data sets used for property identification. For example, identifying a material type of a property may reduce or eliminate the need to compare scan data with specific data profiles for defects not related to the identified material type. Similarly, identifying a particular characteristic of a property may narrow down the data sets of possible material types. A rule set evaluator may evaluate matched profile data to determine adaptive actions to modify the navigation or scanning process of the UAV. |
| US10825345B2 |
Devices, methods and systems for close proximity identification of unmanned aerial systems
Embodiments described herein include an electronic beacon system mounted to an unmanned aerial system (UAS) broadcasting identification and sensor data including a UAS identification code, global positioning system data and other telemetry information. In certain embodiments, identification and global positioning system data of the unmanned aerial system is transmitted to and displayed upon a mobile handheld device. Other embodiments include using the identification data to ascertain the identity of the owner/operator of an unmanned aerial system. Related systems, hardware, firmware, and software are disclosed. |
| US10825341B1 |
Generating emergency vehicle warnings
The present disclosure generally relates to generating emergency vehicle warnings, alternate vehicle routing recommendations and/or insurance-related data based upon emergency vehicle warning data. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to generating data representative of emergency vehicle warnings and/or alternate routing based upon real-time information related to an emergency vehicle. The information related to the emergency vehicle may include emergency vehicle origination location data, emergency vehicle current location data, emergency vehicle route data, and/or emergency vehicle destination location data. An emergency vehicle warning and/or alternate vehicle routing for non-emergency response vehicles may be generated based further on information related to a non-emergency vehicle. In one aspect, an emergency vehicle may wirelessly communicate with the non-emergency vehicle and/or an insurance provider remote server. The insurance provider may adjust auto insurance for insurers having vehicles with the vehicle safety functionality discussed herein to reflect lower risk and provide insurance savings to customers. |
| US10825332B2 |
Home smart listening device linking to transport vehicle
A smart listening device comprises an audio detector responsive to speech and ambient sounds to provide digital audio signals. A distributed controller is coupled to the audio detector to execute responsive actions in response to the digital audio signals. A communications circuit establishes a first communication link with a backend. A vehicle database identifies at least one user transport vehicle and at least one responsive action corresponding to the user vehicle. The distributed controller has a monitoring mode for detecting preconfigured alerting events and has an alert/response mode for executing responsive actions associated with the detected alerting events. The communications circuit establishes a second communication link with the user vehicle when an executed responsive action is associated with a detected alerting event corresponding to the user vehicle in order to initiate the responsive action. |
| US10825331B2 |
Antitheft device and antitheft system
There is provided an antitheft device and an antitheft system capable of reliably detecting theft via a simple installation method. The antitheft device includes a receiver 12 that receives a radio wave of a predetermined frequency, and a microcomputer (controller) 18 that determines whether or not the antitheft device is located at a position where it is impossible to detect a radio wave of a predetermined frequency by the receiver 12. The microcomputer (controller) 18 performs an alarming operation, upon determining that the antitheft device is located at a position where it is impossible to detect a monitoring radio wave WW of a predetermined frequency by the receiver 12. Accordingly, it suffices to attach the antitheft device 10 to a managed object MO such as a commercial item being monitored, and therefore it is not necessary to extend a cable from a sensor part attached to the commercial item. |
| US10825330B1 |
Notification system for mobile devices
A method for sensory alert notification comprises retrieving an uncharacterized event record associated with a first user and a second user. The method comprises characterizing the uncharacterized event record by assigning a value to the uncharacterized event record based on an event impact value that characterizes an impact of the uncharacterized event record, a first user identifier, and a second user identifier. The method comprises generating a notification record comprising the characterized event record and a notification urgency value and generating a sensory alert notification, comprising one or more of a repeat and intensity rate of vibrating pulses, a repeat and a pitch rate of beeps of sound, and a repeat rate and a color of blinks of light, based on the notification record. The method further comprises transmitting the sensory alert notification to a mobile computing device of the second user. |
| US10825329B2 |
Identifying data of a person using of a personal emergency device
In this disclosure, a person may be identified by: (i) receiving a first message comprising an ID of a first device and a hardware ID of a personal emergency device; (ii) linking the personal emergency device with personal data of the person, the personal data being associated with the ID of the first device; and (ii) receiving a second message from a mobile device comprising the hardware ID of the personal emergency device. In response to receiving the second message, and/or receiving a subsequent message received via the mobile device and comprising the hardware ID of the personal emergency device, a message is transmitted to a monitoring station based on the prior association of the personal data with the hardware ID of the personal emergency device. The message includes the personal data or an identifier for identifying said personal data. |
| US10825325B2 |
Gun proximity electronic tether and alert
A method for maintaining possession of a firearm includes the steps of transmitting a signal between a first transceiver coupled to a firearm and a second transceiver of a secondary carry implement. The secondary carry implement has an alert component. The alert component is activated when a predetermined proximity between the firearm and the secondary carry component is exceeded. The predetermined proximity is inferred from signal strength from the first transceiver that is detected by the second transceiver. |
| US10825324B2 |
System and method for locating, finding and anti-theft protecting an object of interest
A system for locating and anti-theft protecting an object of interest; said system comprising: (a) at least short-distance communication handheld device; (b) at least one radio-frequency transceiver arrangement placeable in or attachable on said object interest; said radio-frequency transceiver comprising: (i) an electric battery; (ii) a transceiver connectable to said short-distance communication hand-held device; (iii) at least one acceleration sensor of acceleration applied to said object of interest; (iv) a warning indicator; (v) a microcontroller configured for activating said warning indicator in response to pairing said transceiver with said short-distance wireless communication handheld device. |
| US10825320B1 |
Sensor data to identify catastrophe areas
A computer-implemented method for generating an automated response to a catastrophic event, that includes (1) analyzing a sample set of data generated in association with a catastrophic event to determine a threshold pattern; (2) receiving, with customer permission or affirmative consent, home sensor data from a smart home controller via wireless communication or data transmission, the home sensor data including data regarding at least one of (i) structural status; (ii) wind speed; (iii) availability of electricity; (iv) presence of water; (v) temperature; (vi) pressure; and/or (vii) presence of pollutants in the air and/or water; (3) determining, based upon or from computer analysis of the home sensor data, whether the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern; and (4) automatically generating a response if the home sensor data indicates a match to the threshold pattern. As a result, catastrophic events and responses thereto may be improved through usage of a remote network of home sensors. |
| US10825318B1 |
Sensing peripheral heuristic evidence, reinforcement, and engagement system
Systems and methods for identifying a condition associated with an individual in a home environment are provided. Sensors associated with the home environment detect data, which is captured and analyzed by a local or remote processor to identify the condition. In some instances, the sensors are configured to capture data indicative of electricity use by devices associated with the home environment, including, e.g., which devices are using electricity, what date/time electricity is used by each device, how long each device uses electricity, and/or the power source for the electricity used by each device. The processor analyzes the captured data to identify any abnormalities or anomalies, and, based upon any identified abnormalities or anomalies, the processor determines a condition (e.g., a medical condition) associated with an individual in the home environment. The processor generates and transmits a notification indicating the condition associated with the individual to a caregiver of the individual. |
| US10825315B2 |
Fall detection and reporting technology
Fall detection and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense, in a room of a building, activity associated with a patient falling is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the room based on the monitoring. An image of the room is captured with a camera positioned to include the patient within a field of view of the camera and the captured image of the room is analyzed to detect a state of the patient at a time of capturing the image. A potential fall event for the patient is determined based on the detected state of the patient and a message indicating the potential fall event for the patient is sent based on the determination of the potential fall event for the patient. Techniques are also described for fall detection and reporting using an on-body sensing device. |
| US10825313B2 |
Hazard detector with optical status indicator
A life safety device including a housing, a detector associated with the housing for detecting one or more conditions, and an actuatable mechanism coupled to the housing. The actuatable mechanism is movable in response to a force to engage a switch. The actuatable mechanism includes a light assembly operable in response to detection of at least one of the one or more conditions by the detector. |
| US10825311B2 |
Smart personal protective equipment
A lock-out, tag-out system for use with an appliance having a door includes a lock for controlling opening of the door. The lock has a locked state and an unlocked state. A controller is communicatively coupled to the lock. An automatic identification and data capture system includes a tag and a reader. The reader is communicatively coupled to the controller. When the reader receives a signal from the tag indicating the presence of the tag within an opening envelope, the reader communicates with the controller to transmit a signal to the lock to change the state of the lock from the locked state to the unlocked state. The tag is located on or in the personal protective equipment item. The system may include a second tag on the appliance, the signal of which is attenuated by a user's body and compared to the signal from the first tag to determine whether protective equipment is worn. |
| US10825309B2 |
Theft sensing system for fusion splicer device and fusion splicer device
Disclosed is a theft sensing system for sensing a theft of a fusion splicer by using an information terminal. The system includes a wireless communication unit that enables the fusion splicer to perform wireless communication with the information terminal, an authentication processing unit that performs an authentication process such that the fusion splicer and the information terminal are wirelessly connected to each other, an acquisition unit that acquires wireless situation data between the fusion splicer and the information terminal which are wirelessly connected to each other, a decision unit that decides whether the fusion splicer moves in a direction away from the information terminal based on a change in the wireless situation data acquired by the acquisition unit, and a notification unit that performs a predetermined notification process in the information terminal when the decision unit decides that the fusion splicer moves in the direction away from the information terminal. |
| US10825308B2 |
Cashier assist automated payment system
An automated payment system is disclosed. The automated payment system comprises a housing, a door coupled to the housing, wherein the door covers a side of the housing when in a closed position, a payment apparatus within an interior of the housing, the payment apparatus fixedly coupled to an extendable base, wherein the extendable base is slidably coupled to the housing and configured to extend out from within the housing and through the side when the door is in an open position, and a handle coupled to the door, the handle operable, when the door is in the open position, to contact the ground to provide additional support for the weight of the payment apparatus. |
| US10825304B1 |
Blackjack-based wagering game systems and methods
Systems and methods for providing, conducting and modifying Blackjack involving standard playing cards in which players form two player hands to compete against two dealer hands that are set according to a preset house way. |
| US10825297B2 |
Gaming systems and methods for offering a player multiple games
A gaming system may comprise a processor, a gaming machine in electronic communication with the processor, and a memory device in electronic communication with the processor with a first game and a second game stored thereon. The first game may have a first return percentage and the second game may have a second return percentage, wherein the first return percentage and the second return percentage are different. A player may elect to play the first game or the second game by selecting a first game selection device or a second game selection device, respectively, with a goal of figuring out which game has the higher return percentage. |
| US10825295B2 |
Management of electronic gaming and betting transactions using a distributed multi-ledger gambling architecture
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to relate to creation and management of a transactional ledger through an electronic gaming application/service. Various embodiments relate generally to gaming systems based on a distributed multi-ledger gaming architecture. In accordance with various embodiments, a transparent technology platform can be used to provide a secure ledger system for recording money transfer, play action, bets, analytics, gaming statistics (e.g., payouts, skill levels, etc.), and the like. In some examples, gaming systems can directly interact with the distributed multi-ledger architecture for secure and transparent transactions which can also be accessed by auditors, tax authorities, partners, and/or other entities. Some examples may use private and/or public blockchains as part of the distributed multi-ledger gaming architecture. For instance, multiple distributed network nodes may be utilized to manage creation of transaction records. |
| US10825289B2 |
Controlling audio content layers played on a bank of electronic gaming machines
A system comprising a communication interface, a processing circuit, and a memory device that stores machine readable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to identify audio content that comprises multiple audio content layers. Each audio content layer of the plurality of audio content layers being playable to generate a portion of sound that is generated when playing the audio content. The processing circuit determines a quantity of active electronic gaming machines (“EGMs”) in a bank of EGMs, determines a portion of the audio content layers based on the quantity of active EGMs, and generates audio instructions for an active EGM in the bank of EGMs. The audio instructions can indicate that the portion of the audio content layers are selectable to be played by the active EGM. The processing circuit transmits, via the communication interface, the audio instructions to the active EGM. |
| US10825285B2 |
Gaming system and method providing a slot game including a symbol generator modification event
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a slot game including a symbol generator modification event. In various embodiments, the gaming system is configured to provide a slot game, each play of which employs a subset of a plurality of symbol generators. If a symbol generator modification event occurs in association with a first play that employs a first subset of the symbol generators, the gaming system removes one of the symbol generators from the first subset and adds another one of the plurality of symbol generators to the first subset to form a second subset, and employs the second subset for a second play. The gaming system removes and adds the symbol generators to form the second subset such that the average expected payback percentage of the second play is greater than the average expected payback percentage of the first play. |
| US10825283B2 |
Article dispensing apparatus
There is disclosed an article dispensing apparatus (10) comprising: an endless conveyor (18) having a plurality of moveable compartments (24) each defined by a pair of adjacent dividers (22) coupled to the conveyor (18), at least a part of each divider (22) being pivotable between at least a closed position in which it cooperates with an adjacent divider (22) to restrict access to the compartment (24) defined therebetween, and an open position in which it is spaced from the said adjacent divider (22) for dispensing an article received in the said compartment (24); and a guide arrangement (34) capable of causing pivoting movement of each divider (22) between at least the closed position and the open positions. |
| US10825279B2 |
Item validation and image evaluation system with feedback loop
Systems for item validation and image evaluation are provided. In some examples, a system may receive an instrument and associated data. The instrument may be received and at least one of a bill pay profile and a user profile may be retrieved. The bill pay profile and user profile may each include a plurality of previously processed instruments that have been determined to be valid and/or authentic. The instrument may be compared to the plurality of previously processed instruments to determine whether one or more elements of the instrument being evaluated match one or more corresponding elements of the plurality of previously processed instruments. Matching or non-matching elements may be identified. In some examples, one or more user interfaces may be generated displaying the instruments and including any highlighting or enhancements identifying matching or non-matching elements. |
| US10825275B2 |
Blockchain-controlled and location-validated locking systems and methods
Blockchain-controlled and location-validated locking systems and methods are described. A method includes maintaining state information for a lock, where the first state of the lock corresponds to an open state and the second to a locked state. The method further includes receiving a current location of a device associated with a person, authorized to change a state of the lock, attempting to change a state of the lock and a current location of the lock. The method further includes receiving a digital signature from the device. The method further includes automatically transmitting a control signal to the lock to change the state of the lock only when the current location of the person is determined to be the same as the current location of the lock and a valid proof of work is performed by a miner associated with a blockchain configured to manage transactions corresponding to the lock. |
| US10825271B2 |
Recording device and recording method
To provide a recording device capable of acquiring information on behavior of a moving body with high accuracy by using a simple configuration. Provided is the recording device including: a sensing unit configured to output data obtained through sensing; a reception unit configured to receive a wireless signal from a signal transmission device provided in a moving body; a recording control unit configured to control start and stop of recording of the data output from the sensing unit, in response to the wireless signal received by the reception unit from the signal transmission device; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the data recorded under the control of the recoding control unit, to an external device. |
| US10825270B2 |
Vehicular personnel accountability and safety system
A system and method for monitoring fleets of vehicles and vehicle operators is disclosed. A vehicle is installed with device(s) collecting positional data such as vehicle movement and orientation with respect to other vehicles and road hazards. In addition, the vehicle operator is fitted with wearable device(s) collecting biometric data (e.g., heart rate). These devices are in communication with each other, as well as a hard drive on the vehicle (e.g., a black-box) and a wireless monitoring station located at a distance. In an embodiment, the device(s) are connected to the braking system of the truck to allow emergency braking in the event of a loss of control on the part of the vehicle or consciousness on the part of the driver. In a further embodiment, this control may also be asserted by the land-based monitoring system. |
| US10825268B2 |
Method and system for displaying and using PID graph indicators
An example method includes receiving, at a computing system, parameters from a vehicle, wherein the parameters correspond to a set of associated parameter identifiers (PIDs), and determining, by the computing system, one or more thresholds for one or more PIDs of the set of associated PIDs. The example method additionally includes determining, by the computing system, one or more indicators displayable on a first graph of parameters corresponding to a first PID of the set of associated PIDs. For instance, at least one indicator of the one or more indicators represents a parameter corresponding to a second PID of the set of associated PIDs breaching a threshold associated with the second PID. The example method further includes displaying, by the computing system on a graphical user interface, the first graph of parameters corresponding to the first PID and the one or more indicators on the first graph. |
| US10825266B2 |
Wireless ECU configuration updating
Systems, apparatuses, and methods disclosed provide for wirelessly updating engine control unit (ECU) configuration. The method includes determining parameters to be changed on an engine control unit of an equipment, generating a write package including the parameters to be changed, and transmitting the write package to the equipment over the air through a cloud connected application system. |
| US10825262B2 |
Systems and methods for bearing health monitoring in power plants
Embodiments of the disclosure can relate to bearing health monitoring in power plants. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for bearing health monitoring in power plants can include receiving operational data associated with a power plant component. The method may further include receiving training data from one or more power plants. The method may further include determining a signature associated with an anomaly event of the power plant component, based at least in part on the operational data and the training data. The anomaly event of the power plant component may include a wiping of a bearing or a scoring of a bearing. The method can further include generating (1) an alert indicative of the anomaly event or (2) an alert to modify an inspection interval for the power plant component, based at least in part on a comparison of the signature with a threshold signature. The method can further include generating a repair or inspection recommendation for the power plant component, based at least in part on the comparison. |
| US10825260B2 |
Virtual try-on systems and methods for spectacles
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for virtual try-on of items such as spectacles. A virtual try-on interface may be implemented at a server or at a user device, and may use collision detection between three-dimensional models of the spectacles and of a user's face and head to determine the correct size and position of the spectacles for virtual try-on. With the determined size and position, a virtual representation of the spectacles is superimposed on an image of the user. |
| US10825258B1 |
Systems and methods for graph-based design of augmented-reality effects
In one embodiment, a method includes by a computing device, displaying a user interface for designing augmented-reality effects. The method includes receiving user input through the user interface. The method includes displaying a graph generated based on the user input. The graph may include multiple nodes and one or more edges. The nodes may include a detector node and a filter node connected by one or more edges. The method includes detecting, in accordance with an object type specified by the detector node, one or more object instances of the object type appearing in a scene. The method includes selecting, in accordance with at least one criterion specified by the filter node, at least one of the one or more detected object instances that satisfies the criterion. The method includes rendering an augmented-reality effect based on at least the selected object instance. |
| US10825253B2 |
Generating augmented reality objects on real-world surfaces using a digital writing device
The present disclosure includes systems, methods, computer readable media, and devices that can generate accurate augmented reality objects based on tracking a writing device in relation to a real-world surface. In particular, the systems and methods described herein can detect an initial location of a writing device, and further track movement of the writing device on a real-world surface based on one or more sensory inputs. For example, disclosed systems and methods can generate an augmented reality object based on pressure detected at a tip of a writing device, based on orientation of the writing device, based on motion detector elements of the writing device (e.g., reflective materials, emitters, or object tracking shapes), and/or optical sensors. The systems and methods further render augmented reality objects within an augmented reality environment that appear on the real-world surface based on tracking the movement of the writing device. |
| US10825251B2 |
Systems and methods for providing medical information and for performing a medically-related process using augmented reality technology
An apparatus for use in a medical process that involves a particle accelerator, includes: a processing unit configured to obtain medical information, obtain a viewing direction of a user of the apparatus, and process the medical information based on the viewing direction of the user of the apparatus to create a graphical representation of the medical information for presentation to the user of the apparatus; and a screen for displaying the graphical representation. |
| US10825249B2 |
Method and device for blurring a virtual object in a video
In order to blur a virtual object in a video in real time as the video is acquired by a device capturing a real scene, a salient idea is used which estimates an apparent motion vector between two successive images, being captured at two successive device poses, in which the apparent motion vector estimation is based on a motion of the device. The successive images are then filtered based on the estimated apparent motion vector. |
| US10825241B2 |
Using a one-dimensional ray sensor to map an environment
A wearable device is configured with a one-dimensional depth sensor (e.g., a LIDAR system) that scans a physical environment, in which the wearable device and depth sensor generate a point cloud structure using scanned points of the physical environment to develop blueprints for a negative space of the environment. The negative space includes permanent structures (e.g., walls and floors), in which the blueprints distinguish permanent structures from temporary objects. The depth sensor is affixed in a static position on the wearable device and passively scans a room according to the gaze direction of the user. Over a period of days, weeks, months, or years the blueprint continues to supplement the point cloud structure and update points therein. Thus, as the user continues to navigate the physical environment, over time, the point cloud data structure develops an accurate blueprint of the environment. |
| US10825240B2 |
Automatic magnetometer calibration for mobile devices
A method that includes monitoring, by a processor of a mobile device, a stream of magnetic field measurements generated by a first sensor as the mobile device is manipulated by a user, with each magnetic field measurement representing an orientation of the mobile device relative to a reference frame. The method also includes a processor that determines a point on the surface of a magnetometer calibration sphere associated with the orientation of the mobile device, and storing the magnetic field measurement to a corresponding data bin, each data bin associated with the corresponding point on the surface of the sphere. The method continues with when the processor determining that the number of data bins containing magnetic field measurements exceeds a specified threshold, the processor triggers a magnetometer calibration process for an attached magnetometer. |
| US10825238B2 |
Visual edge rendering using geometry shader clipping
A three-dimensional (3D) object is configured for presentation on a display screen. Object data representing a model of a 3D object is received at a graphics processing unit. The object data includes a plurality of interrelated polygons. Coordinates for one or more clipping boundaries are also received at the graphics processing unit. The clipping boundaries definer a presentation region that overlaps at least in part with visible portions of the display screen. Using a geometry shader, per-polygon clipping is performed on each polygon of the object data that intersects with at least one clipping boundary. Only portions of the 3D object that lie within the presentation region are then presented on the display screen. |
| US10825237B2 |
Extended reality virtual assistant
Methods, devices, and apparatuses are provided to facilitate a positioning of an item of virtual content in an extended reality environment. For example, a first user may access the extended reality environment through a display of a mobile device, and in some examples, the methods may determine positions and orientations of the first user and a second user within the extended reality environment. The methods may also determine a position for placement of the item of virtual content in the extended reality environment based on the determined positions and orientations of the first user and the second user, and perform operations that insert the item of virtual content into the extended reality environment at the determined placement position. |
| US10825230B2 |
Watertight ray triangle intersection
A hardware-based traversal coprocessor provides acceleration of tree traversal operations searching for intersections between primitives represented in a tree data structure and a ray. The primitives may include triangles used in generating a virtual scene. The hardware-based traversal coprocessor is configured to properly handle numerically challenging computations at or near edges and/or vertices of primitives and/or ensure that a single intersection is reported when a ray intersects a surface formed by primitives at or near edges and/or vertices of the primitives. |
| US10825229B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating projection-based frame with 360-degree image content represented by triangular projection faces assembled in triangle-based projection layout
A projection-based frame is generated according to an omnidirectional video frame and a triangle-based projection layout. The projection-based frame has a 360-degree image content represented by triangular projection faces assembled in the triangle-based projection layout. A 360-degree image content of a viewing sphere is mapped onto the triangular projection faces via a triangle-based projection of the viewing sphere. One side of a first triangular projection face has contact with one side of a second triangular projection face, one side of a third triangular projection face has contact with another side of the second triangular projection face. One image content continuity boundary exists between one side of the first triangular projection face and one side of the second triangular projection face, and another image content continuity boundary exists between one side of the third triangular projection face and another side of the second triangular projection face. |
| US10825223B2 |
Mixed reality animation
A mixed reality system including a display and camera is configured to receive video of a physical scene from the camera and construct a 3D model of the physical scene based on the video. Spatial sensing provides pose (position and orientation) updates corresponding to a physical pose of the display. First user inputs allow a user to define an input path. The input path may be displayed as a graphic path or line. The input path is mapped to a 3D path in the 3D model. Second user inputs define animation features in association with the 3D path. Animation features include an object (e.g., a character), animation commands, etc. The animation commands may be manually mapped to points on the 3D path and executed during an animation of the object guided by the 3D path. |
| US10825222B1 |
Facial recognition method for video conference and server using the method
A facial recognition method for video conferencing requiring a reduced bandwidth and transmitting video and audio frames synchronously first determines whether a 3D body model of a first user at a local end has been currently retrieved or is otherwise retrievable from a historical database. Multiple audio frames of first user are collected and audio frequency at a specific range are filtered out. An envelope curve of the first audio frames and multiple attacking time periods and multiple releasing time periods of the envelope curve is calculated and correlated with lip movements of first user. Information packets of same and head-rotating and limb-swinging images of the first user are transmitted to a remote second user so that the 3D body model can simulate and show lip shapes and other movement of the first user. |
| US10825219B2 |
Segmentation guided image generation with adversarial networks
Embodiments provide methods and systems for image generation through use of adversarial networks. An embodiment trains an image generator comprising (i) a generator implemented with a first neural network configured to generate a fake image based on a target segmentation, (ii) a discriminator implemented with a second neural network configured to distinguish a real image from a fake image and output a discrimination result as a function thereof and (iii) a segmentor implemented with a third neural network configured to generate a segmentation from the fake image. The training includes (i) operating the generator to output the fake image to the discriminator and the segmentor and (ii) iteratively operating the generator, discriminator, and segmentor during a training period, whereby the discriminator and generator train in an adversarial relationship with each other and the generator and segmentor train in a collaborative relationship with each other. |
| US10825217B2 |
Image bounding shape using 3D environment representation
A computing system is provided, including one or more optical sensors, a display, one or more user input devices, and a processor. The processor may receive optical data of a physical environment. Based on the optical data, the processor may generate a three-dimensional representation of the physical environment. For at least one target region of the physical environment, the processor may generate a three-dimensional bounding volume surrounding the target region based on a depth profile measured by the one or more optical sensors and/or estimated by the processor. The processor may generate a two-dimensional bounding shape at least in part by projecting the three-dimensional bounding volume onto an imaging surface of an optical sensor. The processor may output an image of the physical environment and the two-dimensional bounding shape for display. The processor may receive a user input and modify the two-dimensional bounding shape based on the user input. |
| US10825216B2 |
Apparatus for reading value measured with analog measuring tool
An apparatus reads a value measured with an analog measuring tool. The apparatus includes an imaging unit for obtaining a captured image of the analog measuring tool that is indicating a measured value, a retaining unit for retaining a 3D model of the analog measuring tool, a matching unit for specifying a 3D model matching the captured image, a guidance unit for outputting guidance information for correcting orientation of the analog measuring tool based on the matched 3D model, a reading unit for reading the measured value from the captured image to generate a measurement result, and an output unit for outputting the measurement result. |
| US10825215B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating an output image from a volume data set
A method and an apparatus for generating an output image from a volume data set that includes a plurality of voxels are provided. In the method, a rendered 2D image is generated from the volume data set by volume rendering. In order to generate an output image with adjusted brightness, which makes a manual readjustment of the brightness superfluous, an adjustment factor is determined based on a brightness value of pixels in the rendered 2D image. By multiplying a respective voxel brightness value of the voxels in the volume data set by the adjustment factor, a brightness-adjusted volume data set is generated. By volume rendering from the brightness-adjusted volume data set, the brightness-adjusted output image is generated. |
| US10825214B2 |
Priority based automatic placement of labels on charts
Priority based automatic placement of labels on charts is provided. Display of data labels on a chart in a legible manner such that the data labels do not overlap and are placed in areas that may be more relevant to a user. In some examples, data associated with the chart may be prioritized for labeling (for example, prioritizing maximum, minimum, high rate of change, etc.), data labels may be disabled or hidden for low priority data points, overlapping of data labels may be avoided, and labeling may be automatically adjusted based on scaling and/or rescaling of the chart (for example, higher number of labels for bigger chart display). |
| US10825211B2 |
Information processing device, display method, and program storage medium for monitoring object movement
To display with a display mode with which an analyst may easily ascertain actions (movements) of objects being monitored, provided is an information processing device, including a sensing and a display control unit. The sensing unit classifies, based on information relating to movements of objects being monitored, a plurality of objects into set movement paths. The display control unit controls a display such that the movements of the objects are displayed in a display screen of the display with an arrow in each set movement path. The axis of the arrow which is displayed in the display has a thickness according to the number of objects which are classified in the corresponding movement path, has a shape according to the trace of the objects which are classified in the corresponding movement path, and furthermore, the direction indicated by the arrow represents the direction of progress of the objects. |
| US10825210B2 |
Method and apparatus for projection domain truncation correction in computed-tomography (CT)
An apparatus and method are provided for computed tomography (CT) imaging to reduce truncation artifacts due to a part of an imaged object being outside the scanner field of view (FOV) for at least some views of a CT scan. After initial determining extrapolation widths to extend the projection data to fill a truncation region, the extrapolation widths are combined into a padding map and smoothed to improve uniformity and remove jagged edges. Then a hybrid material model fits the measured projection data nearest the truncation region to extrapolate projection data filling the truncation region. Smoothing the padding map is improved by the insight that in general smaller extrapolation widths are more accurate and trustworthy. Further, practical applications often include multiple inhomogeneous materials. Thus, the hybrid material model provides a better approximation than single material models, and more accurate fitting is achieved. |
| US10825203B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for performing artificial intelligence encoding and artificial intelligence decoding on image
Provided is an artificial intelligence (AI) decoding apparatus includes: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, the processor is configured to: obtain AI data related to AI down-scaling an original image to a first image; obtain image data corresponding to an encoding result on the first image; obtain a second image corresponding to the first image by performing a decoding on the image data; obtain deep neural network (DNN) setting information among a plurality of DNN setting information from the AI data; and obtain, by an up-scaling DNN, a third image by performing the AI up-scaling on the second image, the up-scaling DNN being configured with the obtained DNN setting information, wherein the plurality of DNN setting information comprises a parameter used in the up-scaling DNN, the parameter being obtained through joint training of the up-scaling DNN and a down-scaling DNN, and wherein the down-scaling DNN is used to obtain the first image from the original image. |
| US10825201B2 |
Deep direct localization from ground imagery and location readings
In one embodiment, a method includes training an image localization model for determining an adjusted location reading for a vehicle based on its location reading and the associated image. The method further includes updating a location associated with the vehicle using the adjusted location reading. The training of the image localization model includes generating feature representations of a number of training images, and learning a relationship between the feature representations and differentials between a number of raw location readings and their respective reference location readings. |
| US10825200B2 |
Texture based pixel count determination
Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed to determine a pixel count of an object of interest in a multidimensional digital environment, based on the texture of the multidimensional object considered as an object of interest. In one embodiment, a first pass in a rendering pipeline is performed to render the objects of interest. Depth information of each pixel of the objects of interest is determined. A second pass in the rendering pipeline is performed that renders the entire scene. Each object of interest is rendered in a first predetermined color and a second depth information of each pixel within the scene is determined. The first and second depth information for each pixel is compared. When the depth information is different, the pixel is rendered with a second predetermined color. A total number of pixels having the first predetermined color is determined as a pixel count of the object of interest. |
| US10825196B2 |
Object orientation detection system
A face orientation system of a ride that includes one or more sensors and a controller. The controller receives ride cart data from the one or more sensors indicative of a presence and position of the ride cart on the ride, determines ride cart orientation based on the ride cart data, receives position data of a guest from the one or more sensors indicative of a position of a body, a face, or a combination thereof, of the guest, determines face orientation, face rotation, or a combination thereof, of the guest based on the ride cart orientation and position data, and transmits data indicative of the determined face orientation, face rotation, or a combination thereof to a downstream controller for subsequent control based upon the determined face orientation, face rotation, or the combination thereof. |
| US10825193B2 |
Position detecting apparatus and computer-readable recording medium
Provided is an environment for providing information for supporting adjustment of the respective parts for positioning. A position detecting apparatus includes: an image processing unit that detects, through image processing, a position of a feature portion from image data imaged and acquired when the feature portion of an object is positioned at the respective target positions by a moving mechanism; a position storage unit that stores the detected positions detected at the target positions in association with the respective target positions; and a display data generation unit that generates data for displaying information related to the detected positions on a display unit. The display data generation unit generates data for displaying the respective target positions and the respective detected positions, which are stored in association with the target positions, in the same coordinate space. |
| US10825192B2 |
Log scaling system and related methods
An automated log scaling system and associated methods are disclosed. In the system and methods, one or more imagers may capture depictions of respective first ends and/or second ends of a plurality of logs, and use the captured depictions to scale the plurality of logs. A diameter value for each end of the log may be determined using the captured depictions. Relative location values for each captured end may be determined and used to form a length of each log. Information captured in the images is used to identify the type of tree or species of tree for each log. At least one of the diameter values may be multiplied by the determined log length, and the resulting product value may be compared to values in a log scaling chart to determine a value for the log. The value of multiple logs may be used to form a load of logs for distribution. |
| US10825188B1 |
Detector-tracker architecture
A machine-learning (ML) architecture may comprise a first ML model and/or an optical flow model that receive, as input, a first image and a second image. The first ML model may output a first feature map corresponding to the first image and a second feature map corresponding to the second image. The optical flow model may output an estimated optical flow. A deformation component may modify the second feature map, as a deformed feature map, based at least in part on the estimated optical flow. The deformed feature map and the first feature map may be concatenated together as a concatenated feature map, which may be provided to a second ML model. The second ML model may be trained to output an output ROI and/or a track in association with an object represented in the first image. |
| US10825182B1 |
System and method of crater detection and registration using marked point processes, multiple birth and death methods and region-based analysis
The present invention relates to a novel method and system for crater detection in planetary data based on marked point processes (MPP), effective for various object detection tasks in Earth observation, and for planetary image registration. The resulting spatial features are exploited for registration, together with fitness functions based on the MPP energy, on the mean directed Hausdorff distance, and on the mutual information. Two different methods—one based on birth-death processes and region-of-interest analysis, and the other based on graph cuts and decimated wavelets—are included within the present framework. Experimental results confirmed the effectiveness of the present invention in terms of crater detection performance and sub-pixel registration accuracy. |
| US10825181B2 |
Image segmentation with touch interaction
In one embodiment, a method includes detecting one or more objects in an image, generating at least one mask for each of the detected objects, wherein each of the masks is defined by a perimeter, classifying the detected objects, receiving gesture input in relation to the image, determining whether one or more locations associated with the gesture input correlate with any of the masks, and providing feedback regarding the image in response to the gesture input. Each of the masks may include data identifying the corresponding detected object, and the perimeter of each mask may correspond to a perimeter of the corresponding detected object. The perimeter of the corresponding detected object may separate the detected object from one or more portions of the image that are distinct from the detected object. |
| US10825180B2 |
System and method for computer aided diagnosis
The present disclosure relates to a method for training a classifier. The method includes: acquiring an original image; determining a candidate target by segmenting the original image based on at least two segmentation models; determining a universal set of features by extracting features from the candidate target; determining a reference subset of features by selecting features from the universal set of features; and determining a classifier by performing classifier training based on the reference subset of features. |
| US10825179B2 |
Method for establishing biomimetic nerve graft model for nerve fascicles of extremities
The present invention provides a method for establishing a biomimetic nerve graft model for nerve fascicles of the extremities, which comprises the steps of: establishing a database of fascicles structures from nerve fascicles of the extremities with an imaging technique; obtaining information of a defective nerve trunk to be repaired of the extremities; and matching and fitting the information of the defective nerve trunk to be repaired of the extremities with/to the data in the database of fascicles structures, to establish a biomimetic nerve graft model that conforms to the characteristics of fascicles microstructure for nerve fascicles of the defective nerve trunk. In the present invention, the imaging technique and clinical data are fully utilized, to establish a biomimetic nerve graft model conforming to the characteristics of fascicles microstructure for varying types of detects, thus providing more accurate model information for repair of nerve trunk defects in the extremities. |
| US10825173B2 |
Automatically linking a description of pathology in a medical image report to an image
Methods and systems for automatically linking entries in a medical image report to an image of a medical image study. One method includes identifying a description of pathology in text included in the medical image report using natural language processing and applying a model to select for the medical image report at least one modality and at least one image included in the at least one medical image study generated by the at least one modality. The method also includes creating a data link between the description of pathology and the at least one image included in the at least one medical image study generated by the at least one modality, and automatically inserting the data link into the medical image report, the data link being selectable to display the at least one image included in the at least one image generated by the at least one modality. |
| US10825171B2 |
Method and system for visualizing a medical image data set
In a method and computer for visualizing a medical image data set, in particular a magnetic resonance image data set, the medical imaging data set is provided to the computer which determines a first subset of the medical image data set related to a first parameter and a second subset of the medical image data set related to a second parameter. A first color is assigned to the first subset and a second color is assigned to the second subset. The first subset is transferred to a display in a first color presentation using the first color and the second subset is transferred in a second color presentation using the second color. The first color presentation and the second color presentation are combined for visualizing the medical imaging data set. |
| US10825169B2 |
Method and apparatus for functional magnetic resonance imaging
An ICA to identify a large number of candidate correlation patterns is carried out based on a time series of image data. The large number of candidate correlation patterns includes a large number of neurophysical events, as well as false patterns owing to noise. The neurophysical events as well as the false patterns are then separated, for example on the basis of a metric, which indicates an intensity of the candidate correlation patterns in a section of the brain, or by a computer-implemented classifier. Techniques of this kind can be used in conjunction with functional magnetic resonance imaging. |
| US10825168B2 |
Automated organ risk segmentation machine learning methods and systems
Certain examples provide an image data processing system including an anatomy detector to detect an anatomy in an image and to remove items not included in the anatomy from the image. The example system includes a bounding box generator to generate a bounding box around a region of interest in the anatomy. The example system includes a voxel-level segmenter to classify image data within the bounding box at the voxel level to identify an object in the region of interest. The example system includes an output imager to output an indication of the object identified in the region of interest segmented in the image. |
| US10825166B2 |
System, method and computer program product for security analysis of jewelry items
Method, system and computer program product for verification of jewelry items through comparison of images captured at different time intervals. The captured images show the images of gem holders which enable one or more gemstones to be held on the jewelry item. The images are stored in a database and compared to verify a change in the settings of the gem holders. A change in the metal part or the gemstones is detected based on the change in the settings of the gem holders and/or the difference of images. The valuation of the jewelry is determined to be changed on the basis of change in the metal part or the gemstones. The invention further allows displaying, evaluating, comparing and selling the jewelry item through an online commerce platform connected to the database. |
| US10825161B1 |
System and method for analyzing an integrity of a roof covering
Methods and systems for analyzing an integrity of a roof covering are presented. One or more roof sections of a structure may be identified with one or more processors. An airflow may then be directed over one or more shingles or other discontinuous roof covering materials of the roof section by an airflow unit. A respective lift for each of the shingles may then be observed by an imaging unit. An adhesion score may then be determined for each of the one or more shingles using the one or more processors. This adhesion score may be based on the respective lift. An overall roof integrity rating may then be generated by the one or more processors, based on the one or more adhesion scores. The overall roof integrity rating may then be provided by the one or more processors to a user of a computing device. |
| US10825153B2 |
Image processing apparatus, display apparatus, and image processing method
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: an image data acquisition section configured to acquire data of an image; a luminance conversion section configured to convert a luminance range composing a pixel value of the image so as to correspond to the luminance range capable of an output as a display image; and an output section configured to output the data of the image in which a luminance after the conversion is defined as the pixel value. The luminance conversion section acquires information regarding a linear luminance range capable of an output in the luminance that is proportional to a setting luminance in a display and determines a conversion rule at least on a basis of the information. |
| US10825148B2 |
Boundary-aware object removal and content fill
Systems and methods for removing objects from images are disclosed. An image processing application identifies a boundary of each object of a set of objects in an image. In some cases, the identification uses deep learning. The image processing application identifies a completed boundary for each object of the set of objects by providing the object to a trained model. The image processing application determines a set of masks. Each mask corresponds to an object of the set of objects and represents a region of the image defined by an intersection of the boundary of the object and the boundary of a target object to be removed from the image. The image processing application updates each mask by separately performing content filling on the corresponding region. The image processing application creates an output image by merging each of the updated masks with portions of the image. |
| US10825144B2 |
Image processing apparatus and image processing method
An image processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to obtain an image in which a subject is captured, calculate a modified luminance value of a first pixel included in the image by using a luminance value of the first pixel, luminance values of a plurality of pixels located in a surrounding region of the first pixel, and information indicating illumination intensity at each of the plurality of pixels; and correct the image in accordance with the modified luminance value of the first pixel. |
| US10825138B2 |
Super resolution using fidelity transfer
Systems and methods for developing improved-fidelity visual data using fidelity data and using a hierarchical algorithm are provided. An example method includes receiving at least a plurality of neighbouring sections of visual data, selecting a plurality of input sections from the received plurality of neighbouring sections of visual data, extracting features from the plurality of input sections of visual data, and producing the improved-fidelity visual data by applying the fidelity data to the extracted features. |
| US10825135B2 |
Method and device for determining a transition between two display images, and vehicle
In a method for determining a transition between two display images, a two-dimensional initial image is mapped by first and second mapping functions respectively onto first and second mapped images, and the first and second mapped images are mapped respectively onto a first display image. The initial image is mapped by an interpolating mapping function onto an interpolating mapped image in the model space, wherein the interpolating mapped image is determined by interpolation of the first and second mapped images as a function of an interpolation parameter. The initial image, mapped by the interpolating mapping function onto the interpolating mapped image, is mapped onto an interpolating display image which transitions from the first display image to the second display image through variation of the interpolation parameter. |
| US10825134B2 |
System and method for scaling content across multiple form factors
Active Design maintains overall active and inactive space of a display by scaling active display components on a screen according to active and inactive blocks. By scaling the blocks relative to the screen size and maximizing active display components for ‘best-fit’ within the scaled blocks, a predictable scaling system is created that can deliver a more consistent experience for users across multiple form-factors. Active Design allows designers to use a single base display resolution for an entire class of form-factors and uses grid blocks to arrange elements. |
| US10825133B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing image
Provided is an image processing method including: acquiring images captured in at least two directions; generating a projection image by projecting the images onto a polyhedron; moving a location of at least one pixel among pixels in the projection image to reshape the projection image into a rectangular image; and processing the rectangular image. |
| US10825130B2 |
Method and apparatus for displaying picture content in application, and storage medium
The present disclosure describes a method, an apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for displaying pictures in an application. The method includes obtaining original picture information and performing an indexing operation on the original picture information to obtain an indexed object. The method also includes performing a de-indexing operation on the indexed object, and establishing a bitmap object of an index color format according to a color table and a pixel buffer in the indexed object. The method further includes displaying the picture in the application by using the bitmap object. By using the present disclosure, a memory occupation rate in an electronic device can be effectively reduced, thereby solving the existing problem and improving the functionality and stability of the application in the electronic device. |
| US10825128B2 |
Data processing systems
A data processing system comprises processing circuitry arranged to generate data to form an output array of data, processing circuitry arranged to store the generated data in an output buffer 15 by writing compressed blocks of data representing particular regions of the output array of data to the output buffer, processing circuitry 14 arranged to read a compressed block of data representing a particular region of the array of data from the output buffer, processing circuitry 16 arranged to acquire meta-data from the compressed block of data, and processing circuitry 21 arranged to process the block of data. The acquired meta-data is used to affect the processing of the block of data. |
| US10825127B2 |
Dynamic precision management for integer deep learning primitives
One embodiment provides for a graphics processing unit to perform computations associated with a neural network, the graphics processing unit comprising compute unit including a hardware logic unit having dynamic precision fixed-point logic, the compute unit to receive a set of dynamic fixed-point tensors, compute, via the dynamic precision fixed-point logic, a right-shift value using an absolute maximum value within the set of dynamic fixed-point tensors and a dynamic range of the set of dynamic fixed-point tensors, right-shift data values within the set of dynamic fixed-point tensors based on the right-shift value, increment a shared exponent associated with the set of dynamic fixed-point tensors based on the right-shift value, perform a compute operation on the set of dynamic fixed-point tensors, and generate an output tensor via the compute operation on the set of dynamic fixed-point tensors. |
| US10825124B2 |
Watermark image processing method and apparatus, device and computer readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides a watermark image processing method and apparatus, a device and a computer readable storage medium. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, it is feasible to obtain at least one similar image approximate to the watermark image according to the watermark image including the watermark, and obtain a replaceable image of each similar image of said at least one similar image in the watermark area, according to a watermark area where the watermark is located in the watermark image so that it is possible to obtain a carrier image not including the watermark, according to the watermark image and the replaceable image of said each similar image in the watermark area. Since the replaceable image of the similar image in the watermark area is employed to obtain the carrier image not including the watermark, the valid content in the watermark image covered by the watermark is restored and thereby the reliability of the image is improved. |
| US10825123B2 |
Watermarked enabled scanning
A scanner camera having a filter for filtering out a predefined wavelength is provided. The predefined wavelength associated with product packaging watermarks that is read by the scanner camera using the filter. |
| US10825121B2 |
System and method for authenticating ride-share requests
This disclosure describes a method and device for processing ride-sharing requests. The method and device process ride requests received from a first mobile device and generate a first hash corresponding to the ride request. The disclosure also describes a method and device for processing ride sharing responses. The method and device receives a ride request from a rider account, transmits a ride response to the rider account, compares a first location to a current location, determines that a difference between the first location and the current location is less than a threshold value, conducts a visual analysis of one or more persons proximate to the current location, requests that the rider audibly identify themselves, and determines, based at least in part on the audible identification and visual identification, that the rider is associated with the rider account. |
| US10825118B2 |
Property management system
A computerized property management system enables users to input a service request by placing a problem-type icon on a floor plan and designating a priority or urgency for the service request. The user can select a problem type note and/or input text describing the problem. Additionally, the user can add photographs, voice notes or video. After the service request is submitted, a contractor is notified of the request by email or text, which includes a link to the service request page with the information entered by the user. After the service request task is completed, the contractor can add notes describing what was fixed and indicating that the task has been completed. Subsequently, an email or other communication may be sent to the property manager and the requestor to indicate that the task has been completed. |
| US10825112B2 |
Method of predicting distribution network operation reliability
A method of predicting the operation reliability of a distribution network, the method being based on an ARIMA model. By establishing an ARIMA model predict a user monthly power outage count; convert a non-smooth element outage count time series to a smooth time series; perform regression on only lagged values of a dependent variable, and on current values and lagged values of a stochastic error term, so as to establish a user monthly power outage count model; according to a prediction result sample an outage point, and at the same time, taking into account a real time load operating state, establish a failure mode effects table based on TLOC criteria and PLOC criteria; and calculate a system recovery time for each instance of device outage, and finally obtain a whole-year reliability index. |
| US10825108B1 |
System, method, and computer program for dynamically reconciling a distributor invoice with a retailer receiving invoice for products sold under multiple UPCs and in multiple quantity units
The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for dynamically reconciling a retailer receiving invoice with a distributor invoice for products sold and invoiced under multiple UPC codes and in multiple units of quantity. A retailer receiving invoice is matched to to a distributor invoice. For each line item in both invoices, the UPC, quantity, and unit-price are normalized. Invoiced UPCs are normalized to a hierarchy level in a product family a master product database. Also, invoiced unit prices are compared to upper and lower price limits for invoiced UPCs to determine whether an invoiced UPC correlates to an invoiced unit price. Quantity and unit-price are normalized by converting price-correlated units to base-level units in a product hierarchy. Normalized UPCs, quantities, and unit price are compared to match line items across invoices and discover any discrepancies. Credits are matched to discrepancies. |
| US10825107B2 |
Materiality determination and indication system
Provided are systems and methods for determining a materiality threshold of a local data value for a group data value. In one example, a method includes receiving a group data file and a local data file, identifying a local data value from the local data file and a corresponding confidential group data value from the group data file, determining whether an error or an omission in combining the local data value with the confidential group data value impacts a materiality threshold of the confidential group data value, and generating and displaying a materiality indicator that visually indicates whether the local data value is going to impact a materiality threshold of the confidential group data value. According to various aspects, a user can quickly identify whether a coding process is doing to affect a materiality of a data value from a larger group. |
| US10825105B2 |
Data object matching based on hierarchies for software applications
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program generates a set of documents. The program further loads data associated with each data object in a set of data objects in a document in the set of documents. The program also receives a record from a first user. The record includes a set of items. For each item in the set of items, the program further determines one or more data objects in the set of data objects based on a hierarchy of users by performing a search on the set of documents and associating the item with the one or more data objects in the set of data objects. The program also provides to a second user information for a subset of the set of data objects associated with the second user. |
| US10825103B1 |
Detecting transportation company trips in a vehicle based upon on-board audio signals
The systems and methods may transmit a plurality of locationing pulse requests from a mobile device in a vehicle to an audio system of the vehicle during a period of operation of the vehicle. The audio system may have an array of speakers disposed inside the vehicle, and the locationing pulse requests may include a request to emit a locationing pulse from the array of speakers. The systems and methods may further receive the locationing pulse at a microphone of the mobile device; and determine, based upon receiving the locationing pulse, that the vehicle was in service of a TNC company, or otherwise operating as a TNC vehicle, during the period of operation based upon passengers entering and leaving the vehicle during the period of operation. Insurance covering the operation of the vehicle for TNC use may be verified, and/or alternatively, offered to facilitate insuring TNC vehicle operation. |
| US10825101B1 |
Life insurance clearinghouse
One or more devices in a life insurance clearinghouse system may be configured to store and maintain life insurance customer data and policy data in one or more life insurance databases. A life insurance clearinghouse may store, for example, customer information, policy types and terms, and coverage amounts for life insurance policies associated with multiple different life insurance providers. Various systems and devices, such as insurance provider computer hardware memory and processor systems, insurance clearinghouse computer memory and processor devices, and customer terminals, may retrieve life insurance customer data and/or policy data associated with multiple different life insurance providers, from one or more databases in a life insurance clearinghouse. The retrieved life insurance customer data and/or policy data may be analyzed and used in various life insurance determinations and functions, such as processing a life insurance application or a requested change to the coverage amount or terms of an existing policy, or determining maximum combined coverage amounts for customers. |
| US10825100B1 |
System and method for analyzing a survivability of a structure based on proximate objects
A computer-implemented method for analyzing a survivability of a structure is presented. A distance extending radially from the structure defining an area surrounding the structure may be determined. The area surrounding the structure may be scanned to identify surrounding objects. The area surrounding the structure may then be segmented to create a plurality of area segments. A density of surrounding objects in each of the plurality of area segments may be determined. A risk score for each of the plurality of area segments may then be determined based on the density of surrounding objects in each of the plurality of area segments. An overall wind exposure risk value may be provided for further use. |
| US10825099B2 |
Dynamic dashboards system and method
According to some embodiments, account information may be received in connection with a potential insurance policy. A premium indication portal processor may receive, from a risk score model application, an account score matrix for the potential insurance policy, including grade values comparing the account information with other insured policies in a risk database, along with a benchmark premium value calibrated to a target return on equity based on the account information and information in the risk database. The account score matrix may be displayed on an underwriter device, and guide indication adjustments may be received from the underwriter device for the potential insurance policy. The premium indication portal processor may then automatically calculate an adjusted premium value calibrated to the target return on equity based at least in part on the guide indication adjustments. |
| US10825097B1 |
Systems and methods for utilizing machine-assisted vehicle inspection to identify insurance buildup or fraud
A remotely-controlled (RC) and/or autonomously operated inspection device, such as a ground vehicle or drone, may capture one or more sets of imaging data indicative of at least a portion of an automotive vehicle, such as all or a portion of the undercarriage. The one or more sets of imaging data may be analyzed based upon data indicative of at least one of vehicle damage or a vehicle defect being shown in the one or more sets of imaging data. Based upon the analyzing of the one or more sets of imaging data, damage to the vehicle or a defect of the vehicle may be identified. The identified damage or defect may be compared to a claimed damage or defect to determine whether the claimed damage or defect occurred. |
| US10825094B2 |
Parsing databases to generate customized recommendations for home assessment
Disclosed herein is a customized recommendation system for home assessment, in which the system comprises one or more databases, a first computing device, and a server computer comprising hardware, including a processor and memory. The server computer may receive a request for information on a home of the user from the first computing device. The server computer may identify publicly available information for the home and customer information comprising information about one or more features of the home and materials used in the home by parsing the one or more databases. By further analyzing the customer information and the publicly available information, the server computer may determine one or more tips for the home and generate a customized recommendation for the user including the one or more tips for the home. The server computer may then transmit the customized recommendation to the first computing device associated with the user. |
| US10825090B2 |
Rarity trading legacy protection and digital convergence platform
A trading platform network for rarities is provided. The network includes at least one raritymine, an online merchandising convergence, and input from a robo-rarity trading data stream. According to this aspect, rarityminers are enabled to view virtual three-dimensional depictions of rarity assets contained in the at least one raritymine and buy and sell raritybits. A rarities trading exchange toolkit which includes the trading platform network and a rarity system is also provided. |
| US10825089B2 |
Error detection and recovery in an electronic trading system
A system for error detection in a trading network comprises a memory operable to store a plurality of trader profiles, wherein a particular trader profile is associated with a particular trader. The particular trader profile comprises first contact data associated with a first client device and second contact data associated with a second client device. The memory is further operable to store at least one trading order associated with the particular trader. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to detect an alert associated with the first client device. In conjunction with detecting the alert, the processor is operable to determine a current status of the at least one trading order and to generate a status message regarding the determined status. The processor is further operable to transmit the status message to the second client device, wherein the transmission is based at least in part on the second contact data. |
| US10825088B2 |
Contract generation method and apparatus, server and storage medium
A contract generation method, comprising: acquiring order information, and acquiring a contract template corresponding to the order information; acquiring a filling domain identifier in the contract template, and acquiring a type identifier of service data corresponding to the filling domain identifier according to the correlation between a pre-set filling domain identifier and a type identifier of service data; extracting, from the order information, service data corresponding to the type identifier of service data; according to the number of characters comprised in the service data and the size of a filling domain corresponding to the filling domain identifier, determining a sub-filling area, in the corresponding filling domain of the service data; and filling the service data into the corresponding sub-filling area in the contract template according to a pre-set character adjustment rule so as to generate a corresponding first contract file. |
| US10825087B2 |
Systems and methods for performing a purchase transaction using rewards points
A system and method for performing a purchase transaction using rewards points by receiving a purchase request using a financial account with associated account information, determining based on the account information that the financial account is associated with a rewards program with rewards points, and providing the option to pay for the purchase using the financial account or at least a portion of the rewards points. The purchase may be paid for using rewards points from multiple rewards programs and/or multiple financial accounts. |
| US10825086B2 |
Computerized method and system for scale trading
Disclosed embodiments include computer-implemented methods and systems that permit a market participant to automatically scale a block order into relatively smaller, incrementally priced scale trade component orders based on scale order parameters (such as price and size) provided by the market participant. The scale orders may continue automatically, without the need for further intervention from the market participant, until the total number of shares specified by the market participant is accumulated or sold. Some embodiments also permit the marker participant to automatically submit opposite-side profit-taking component orders against the market participant's original scale order components. The profit-taking orders can be automatically created and submitted when the original scale order component has executed. |
| US10825085B2 |
Interest gauge based auction
Information about participants in an auction are received and analyzed along with information about products to be auctioned and other information to generate an interest gauge. The interest gauge may reflect the interest of a buyer, a seller, an auction house or any other entity in the auctioning event. Based on the interest gauge, the operations of the auction can be augmented and/or modified to be optimal in view of revenue generation, products moved, and a balance between the two. For instance, the buyer interest gauge could be used to create packages of items to be auctioned in a combinatorial auction. |
| US10825084B1 |
Method to optimize revenue using a bid reservation system
A method for evaluating bids for the purchase of inventory items to optimize bid-generated revenue. The method comprises receiving a bid for an inventory item, the bid comprising a bid price, a specific inventory item that is to be purchased, and a number of inventory items to be purchased. The bid is input into a machine learning algorithm as are features associated with the inventory item and information associated with the bid. The machine learning algorithm analyzes the bid and generates an output to accept or decline the bid. Responsive to that output the bidder is advised whether the bid was accepted or declined. |
| US10825082B2 |
Apparatus and method for recycling mobile phones
A recycling kiosk for recycling and financial remuneration for submission of a mobile telephone is disclosed herein. The recycling kiosk includes an inspection area with a plurality of white walls in order to perform a visual analysis of the mobile telephone for determination of a value of the mobile telephone. The visual analysis inspects the LCD screen of the mobile phone to determine if the LCD screen is damaged. The recycling kiosk also includes a processor, a display and a user interface. |
| US10825077B2 |
Automatic resupply of consumable commodities
Methods and systems for facilitating initiation of resupply orders for consumable commodities include using a stand-alone electronic or audio-generating device incorporated into retail product packaging. The stand-alone device is equipped with a rudimentary processor or logic circuit, a memory, and a wireless transmitter. A simple user interface/activation device such as a push button or membrane switch is coupled to the logic circuit or processor. The stand-alone device is incorporated into or with product packaging, and may be configured with a resupply code at or after a point of sale. A user may activate the user interface of the device when the product needs resupplying, causing the resupply code to be transmitted to an access point or terminal that initiates a reorder sequence for the product. |
| US10825073B1 |
Systems and methods for casual spending recommendations to modify customer spending
A system for providing spending recommendations to a user. The system may include at least one memory unit storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving first user shopping data based on a plurality of user shopping purchases over a first time period; determining, based on a statistical model, at least one of a temporal or a geographic trigger of the user shopping purchases; displaying a message to the user indicating the trigger; adding a rule to the statistical model based on user input; and displaying a f personalized spending recommendation, based on the rule. |
| US10825066B2 |
System and method for distributed, secure computing system
A method for injecting data into a secure distributed computing system includes obtaining characteristics of an object via a secure operable connection from a smart silo. The method further includes verifying an identity of the smart silo based on credentials included in a message from the smart silo received via the secure operable connection. The method further includes making a determination that the characteristics match a trigger condition of a smart contract. The method further includes executing the smart contract in response to the determination. |
| US10825060B2 |
Systems and methods for providing targeted content across user channels
A method of providing targeted content across user channels includes receiving a plurality of device activity events on a user device, storing the received plurality of device activity events, creating an audience population based on the stored device activity events, determining links for additional secondary user devices based on the user device, creating a cross-channel advertising campaign targeting the determined audience population, and running the cross-channel advertising campaign based on the device activity and the determined additional secondary user devices. |
| US10825059B2 |
Facilitating highly targeted advertising to identified audience members across social media channels
The disclosed subject matter is directed to systems, computer-implemented methods, apparatus and/or computer program products that facilitate highly targeted advertising to identified audience members across social media channels. In one embodiment, a method is provided that comprises extracting, by a system comprising a processor, target audience information from one or more non-social media data sources based on one or more target audience criteria, the target audience information identifying individuals included in the target audience group. The method further comprises matching, by the system, the individuals with their respective social media profiles at the one or more social media systems based on the target audience information, and facilitating, by the system, directing the targeted advertisements to the individuals via their respective social media profiles. |
| US10825056B1 |
Client-side video advertisement replacement using automatic content recognition
Systems and method for advertisement replacement are disclosed. A server may receive a server feed, generate a plurality of server fingerprints for a respective plurality of segments of the server feed, receive a synchronization message comprising a client fingerprint and a client time, match the client fingerprint with one of the plurality of server fingerprints, and send a synchronization response indicative of a server time associated with the one of the plurality of server fingerprints. |
| US10825046B2 |
Predictive recommendation system
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for a predictive recommendation system based on an analysis of previous consumer behavior. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving data representing a user, the data including user identification and historical data; receiving a set of promotions recommended for the user; assigning the user to a consumer lifecycle model state based in part on the historical data and the user identification; selecting a ranking algorithm associated with the consumer lifecycle model state; and ranking the received set of promotions based on a predicted promotion relevance value associated with each promotion, the predicted promotion value being calculated using the ranking algorithm. |
| US10825042B1 |
Systems and methods for providing optimized leading messages
Systems, apparatus, methods, and computer program products are provided for optimized and effective leading messages, which may be an email subject that may provoke a consumer to access the body portion of an email message. A system may include circuitry configured to programmatically determine a predicted access rate for a leading message when the leading message is provided as a portion of a promotional message. Circuitry may be configured to track historical data indicating the access rates of leading messages and/or leading message terms. The circuitry may be configured to leverage the historical data to determine predicted access rates for leading messages, such as based at least in part on historical access rates associated with one or more leading message terms of the leading message. |
| US10825033B2 |
Systems and methods for using a graphical user interface to predict market success
Systems and methods having a graphic user interface for market research surveys are provided that allow users to participate in a combined prediction market and market research environment virtually without being presented directly with a stock market environment. The systems and methods of the present invention use prediction markets to automatically transform the user-provided inputs and/or selections from market research surveys, and automatically generate data that represents the likelihood of success of a product and/or service in the marketplace or commercial markets. |
| US10825032B2 |
Service design and order fulfillment system with action
A system that provides a fulfillment action (or “action”) is provided. The system defines an action specification including a pattern of a structured request to perform work on a subject. The system further defines data for the action specification, where the data includes an action code template that references action codes, and a parameter list template that references parameters. The system further defines the subject for the action specification, where the subject includes a subject template that references entity specifications. The system further defines a target for the action specification, where the target includes a target template that references resource specifications. The system further generates an instance of the action based on the action specification, where the pattern of the structured request to perform work is transformed into process logic configured to perform the work on the subject. |
| US10825027B2 |
Fraudulent activity detection at a barcode scanner by verifying visual signatures
System and method for detecting a fraudulent activity at a barcode scanner is disclosed. The method issues an alert when the fraudulent activity is confirmed by comparing the visual signature of the item being transacted over the checkout terminal to the model visual signature. The model visual signature is obtained by averaging the collection of visual signature of the item gathered over a period of time. A human validation via a remote processor is employed to confirm the fraudulent activity verified by a computer. |
| US10825026B2 |
Payment card transaction authorization system and process
Embodiments of the present invention can simplify the use of payment cards by capturing or generating an electronic image of a customer's payment card at the time of requesting a payment card transaction, and processing the electronic image to automatically determine required payment card information, including the payment card number, account name, and expiry date printed or otherwise represented on the payment card. |
| US10825024B1 |
Systems, devices, and methods for DLT-based data management platforms and data products
The various embodiments described herein relate to systems, methods, and devices associated with distributed ledger systems (e.g., distributed ledger technology implemented on a decentralized network) that can be used to handle and manage the distribution and access of data in a manner that preserves the benefits of distributed ledger technology while enabling the private sharing of data. More specifically, the distributed ledger systems contemplated herein involve distributed ledger technology (DLT)-based data management platforms that can be implemented on nodes of a data management network. |
| US10825020B1 |
Buyer routing arrangements and methods for disparate network systems
Electronic transaction data sets are processed for a multitude of disparate transactions using a plurality of autonomous networks. Circuitry receives and processes electronic transaction data to identify a user via information provided in the transaction data, and uses the identification to access profile information for selecting one of a plurality of networks. In this context, a user can be identified using one of a plurality of identification approaches (e.g., different account IDs), and such identification can be used for retrieving and using electronic profile data to select a transaction network for the user, which may be completely independent from the identification. Data is accordingly configured so that the selected network can receive and process the data, such as by configuring the data into a network-specific format and/or communicating the data using network-specific protocols. The configured data is transmitted to the selected network. |
| US10825018B2 |
Adding card to mobile wallet using NFC
A user enables a communication, such as through a tap, between an NFC-enabled payment or funding card and a mobile device. Card information, such as the card number, type, and expiration date, are read by the mobile device. The user is then authenticated through the user device, such as by entering a CVV code, a PIN for the card, a cardholder name, and/or a billing address for the card. If confirmed, the card is added to the user's mobile/cloud wallet. |
| US10825016B2 |
Electronic bearer bond online transaction and card system and method thereof
An electronic transaction system, comprising bearer bond means for providing an online electronic bearer bond having a monetary value, transaction means for performing monetary transactions with said bearer bond means, and network means for providing user access to said bearer bond means and said transaction means. A method and system of an electronic transaction is provided where the method includes issuing information of a card having a monetary value and applying the monetary value of the card towards a payment for a transaction. |
| US10825008B2 |
Serialization and database methods for tubulars and oilfield equipment
Methods and apparatus identify downhole equipment and correlate input data with the equipment to improve planning and/or inventory operations. For some embodiments, oilfield equipment or tubular goods such as drill pipe include a shaped recess along an outer circumference for receiving a tag cartridge by shrink fitting. Once tagged, detector system configurations at pipe yards may facilitate logging the presence and location of each drill pipe and correlating specific data, such as inspection data, to each drill pipe. Further, this correlation populates a database utilized to achieve other business functions such as forecasting number of additional drill pipe needed to purchase, invoicing customers according to actual tracked wear/use of the drill pipe being returned, and providing well or job specific drill string population using known history pipe joints. |
| US10825007B2 |
Remote transaction processing of at a transaction server
A method and system for receiving digital artifacts from a management server. The method includes sending a request for a digital artifact from a mobile application to the management server for display within a specific mobile application generated screen, receiving the digital artifact from the management server, and displaying the digital artifact with the specific mobile application generated screen. |
| US10825005B1 |
Banking system for carrying out a sought transaction/sought product associated with a transaction/product parameter using a mobile device
An automated banking machine is operable responsive at least in part to read user data to cause financial transfers. The machine is associated with at least one wireless interface and at least one controller. The controller is operable to cause the wireless interface to receive at least one wireless communication from a nearby user mobile device, which communication indicates a sought transaction function (such as the provision of cash) and a sought transaction parameter associated with the sought transaction function (such as a transaction fee below a threshold). The at least one controller is operative to make a transaction availability determination concerning whether the sought transaction function is available in accordance with the sought transaction parameter. If the sought transaction function with the associated parameter is determined to be available, the at least one controller wirelessly communicates the availability to the mobile device. |
| US10825004B1 |
Banking system using a wearable device for delivering virtual currency
An automated banking machine includes at least one reader that is operative to read indicia from data bearing items that is usable to identify financial accounts. The machine further includes at least one input device, a cash dispenser and a controller. The controller is operative to cause a determination that the read indicia corresponds to a user financial account upon which a transaction is authorized to be conducted through the machine. Responsive at least in part to the determination and at least one transaction selection input corresponding to a dispense of at least one virtual item of value, the controller is operative to cause the user to be provided with a virtual item of value having no physical constituents, but that is perceivable visually through at least one display of a wearable device worn by the user, which wearable device enables the user to visually perceive simultaneously physical surroundings in a direct field of view of the user and visual outputs through at least one display of the wearable device. The wearable device is also operative to enable the user to visually and audibly perceive a service representative. |
| US10824998B2 |
System and method for payment platform self-certification for processing financial transactions with payment networks
Payment platforms such as point of sale terminals can send test transactions to an acquirer processor certification and analytics system for certification of the payment platform's readiness to perform financial transaction processing with payment networks. A payment platform sends a test transaction to an acquirer processor and receives a unique request identifier. The request identifier and a test identifier associated with the test transaction are sent to an analytics engine that retrieves data associated with the test transaction from the acquirer processor, and expected values based on the test identifier. The analytics engine performs a comparison and determines a certification result for the payment platform based on the comparison. Based on certification results, authorization or licenses can be granted to payment platforms to use payment networks of the acquirer processor. |
| US10824996B1 |
Appointment scheduling service
An online scheduling service subsystem may create a first account with first account data associated with a first entity, create a first listing with first listing data associated with a first construct, create a second account with second account data associated with a second entity, create a second listing with second listing data associated with a second construct, create a third account with third account data associated with a third entity, receive a request from the third account to schedule a showing including a first appointment for the third entity and the first entity at the first construct and a second appointment for the third entity and the second entity at the second construct, and, in response to receiving the request, generate a schedule for the showing based on the first account data, the second account data, the third account data, the first listing data, and the second listing data. |
| US10824991B2 |
Order filling system
Systems, methods, and machine-executable coded instruction sets for the fully- and/or partly automated handling of goods are disclosed. In particular, the disclosure provides improvements in the handling of goods in fulfillment of orders for items of mixed sizes, weights, and other dimensions. |
| US10824989B2 |
Power harvesting inventory management system with identity verification
An inventory management system includes a beacon or button connected to a warehouse server. The beacon buttons are placed in or near a product storage area with a number of products. The beacon has a controller and a transceiver to communicate with a server. There is a user input on the front of the beacon and several sensors able to detect a user identity and interaction with the products. When the user input is triggered, the beacon sends a message to the warehouse server including a user identity and other sensor data. Additionally, the beacon includes an energy harvester configured to power the beacon from ambient or user provided energy. |
| US10824986B2 |
Auto-suggesting IT asset groups using clustering techniques
An information technology (IT) asset management system provides for logically grouping IT assets and performing actions on the logical groups. Cluster analysis techniques are used to analyze the configuration data corresponding to IT assets in the IT asset management system, generating proposed logical groups from the clusters determined by the cluster analysis techniques. A system administrator may be allowed to accept or reject the proposed logical groups. |
| US10824985B2 |
Interactive mobile pick-up unit notification
Techniques for providing details associated with an item for acquisition from a pick-up unit are described herein. In particular implementations, a service provider may determine whether a mobile device is within a predetermined distance from the pick-up unit. In some implementations, a companion application may allow a user of the mobile device to cause a sensory function at the pick-up unit when the mobile device is within the predetermined distance. For instance, the user may use the companion application to cause the pick-up unit to produce light, sounds, smoke, bubbles, among other operations. |
| US10824983B1 |
Systems and methods for tracking-based transactions
Methods and systems of completing tracking-based transactions are disclosed. A financial institution computing system includes a customer database retrievably storing information relating to a plurality of financial accounts, a tag database retrievably storing information relating to a plurality of tags, a network interface circuit, and a transaction circuit. The transaction circuit receives a transaction request with at least one tag relating to an order of goods from a seller computing system. A transaction schedule is generated based on the transaction request and customer information in the customer database, and is stored in the tag database. The transaction circuit receives tag data corresponding to physical movement of the order of goods and performs at least one transaction pursuant to the transaction schedule based on received tag data. |
| US10824982B1 |
Systems and methods for shipment consolidation
Systems and methods which provide for intelligent and/or optimized use of shipping services through facilitating consolidation of shipped items with respect to one or more leg of shipments are described. Embodiments provide a shipping consolidation management system operable to analyze various shipping parameters and identify situations in which consolidation of shipped items with respect to one or more legs of a shipment may be desired. Shipping consolidation management systems may provide operation to identify situations appropriate for forming consolidated shipments associated with a single shipper and/or a plurality of shippers. A shipping consolidation management system of embodiments operates to print consolidated shipment documentation for use with respect to the consolidated shipment. Embodiments may utilize various different shipping service providers and/or shipping services with respect to legs of shipments having a consolidated shipment, such as may include traditional shipping service providers and/or service providers not traditionally considered as shipping service providers. |
| US10824979B1 |
Systems and methods for optimizing performance metrics for contact centers
In one embodiment, one or more performance metrics for communication queues are monitored. The performance metrics may include metrics such as wait time, abandonment rate, and customer survey scores. Communications are retrieved from the queues and provided to agents based on rules associated with each queue. When a monitored performance metric for a queue falls below a threshold, the system determines one or more attributes of the rule associated with the queue that could be changed or removed to improve the performance metric. The determined attributes may be made based on the number of agents that will be available to handle communications from the queue after the attributes are changed, and historical performance metric data collected about the queue and agents that handled communications for the queue. The proposed changes to the rule may be presented to an administrator who may either accept or reject the proposed changes. |
| US10824978B1 |
Systems and methods for optimizing performance metrics for contact centers
In one embodiment, one or more performance metrics for communication queues are monitored. The performance metrics may include metrics such as wait time, abandonment rate, and customer survey scores. Communications are retrieved from the queues and provided to agents based on rules associated with each queue. When a monitored performance metric for a queue falls below a threshold, the system determines one or more attributes of the rule associated with the queue that could be changed or removed to improve the performance metric. The determined attributes may be made based on the number of agents that will be available to handle communications from the queue after the attributes are changed, and historical performance metric data collected about the queue and agents that handled communications for the queue. The proposed changes to the rule may be presented to an administrator who may either accept or reject the proposed changes. |
| US10824974B2 |
Automatic subject matter expert profile generator and scorer
In an approach for dynamically determining a suitable SME for a particular critical situation, a processor receives an initial problem statement. A processor constructs a collaboration channel associated with the initial problem statement. A processor identifies an SME based on a rating that associates the SME with the initial problem statement. A processor sends an invitation to the SME to join the collaboration channel. |
| US10824972B2 |
Skilled based, staffing system coordinated with communication based, project management application
This dynamically active, skills collaboration system provides a comprehensive, skills-oriented posting and matching environment, an action-oriented engagement framework and an interactive project platform that supports virtual 24×7 connectivity from anywhere in the world with operational audit support. |
| US10824970B1 |
Materials handling facility pick rate allocation
A pick rate planning system is utilized to determine pick rates needed for the picking of items in a materials handling facility. Critical pull times (“CPTs”) are determined which indicate times by which items must be picked from inventory. A picking capacity of the materials handling facility is determined and pick rates are allocated as corresponding to regions of the picking capacity that are associated with the CPTs. As part of the allocating of the pick rates, regions of the picking capacity may have portions that result in a level filling of the picking capacity that minimizes spikes and other undesirable fluctuations. |
| US10824969B2 |
System and method for locate request entry configured for defining multiple excavation sites as part of a single locate request
A system and method for identifying multiple excavation sites and generating multiple locate requests from a single locate request session comprising an electronic interactive interface for defining a geographic area, wherein the geographic area defined represents an area for evaluation of the presence or absence of one or more underground facilities, an auto-populating interactive smart map, a rules engine for determining a number of tickets per area defined, and a database and/or electronic storage of one or more underground facilities. |
| US10824967B1 |
Systems and methods for dynamic business decision making
A system comprises one or more modules to access a business rule, deconstruct the business rule into a condition and an associated action, determine a set of questions relevant to the condition, place the set of questions into a question queue, order the question queue, and present the question queue to a user. A system comprises one or more modules to determine a subject of the request received from a user, use the subject to obtain a set of relevant questions, examiner each question and determine whether an answer to a current question is available in a storage area, and present the current question when the answer is not available. A system comprises one or more modules to access a decision tree, determine a current node, determine an estimated number of nodes between the current node and a leaf node, and present a representation using the estimated number of nodes. |
| US10824966B2 |
Receiving a request to reserve a service
Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: receiving a request to reserve a service that is provided by a restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at least one of: (i) preparing a consumable good that is consumed at the restaurant's location; (ii) preparing a consumable good that is received at the restaurant's location; or (iii) preparing a consumable good that is delivered to a location external to the restaurant's location. The methods and system also include comparing the particular time requested with a schedule associated with the restaurant. The schedule comprises a list of times that are available for reservation. The methods and system also include determining an availability of the request to reserve; and outputting an indicia that the request to reserve the service has been accepted or denied. |
| US10824963B2 |
Alarm handling system and method in plant process automation
An alarm handling system in plant process automation with a data processing device includes: at least one interface for accessing and/or processing one or more process signals and for determining corresponding process variables; an alarm configuration device for accessing and/or providing alarm configuration information including at least one setpoint for one or more determined process variables; and a prediction device for determining and processing a current rate of change of at least one process variable to predict how long it will take and/or a period until and/or predict at which date and/or time a provided setpoint and/or threshold is reached and/or crossed, and/or for determining whether and/or when at least one of the monitored and/or determined process variable values will cross the respective setpoint. |
| US10824959B1 |
Explainers for machine learning classifiers
A transformed data set corresponding to a machine learning classifier's training data set is generated. Each transformed record contains a modified version of a corresponding training record, as well as the prediction made for the training record by the classifier. A set of explanatory rules is minded from the transformed data set, with each rule indicating a relationship between the prediction and one or more features corresponding to the training records. From among the rule set, a particular matching rule is selected to provide an easy-to-understand explanation for a prediction made by the classifier for an observation record which is not part of the training set. |
| US10824958B2 |
Localized learning from a global model
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a global model for a particular activity, the global model derived based on input data representing multiple observations associated with the particular activity performed by a collection of users; determining, using the global model, expected data representing an expected observation associated with the particular activity performed by a particular user; receiving, by a computing device operated by the particular user, particular data representing an actual observation associated with the particular activity performed by the particular user; determining, by the computing device and using (i) the expected data and (ii) the particular data, residual data of the particular user; and deriving a local model of the particular user based on the residual data. |
| US10824955B2 |
Adaptive window size segmentation for activity recognition
A computer-implemented method, computerized apparatus and computer program product for activity recognition using adaptive window size segmentation of sensor data stream. A data stream generated by one or more sensors is obtained. A frequency analysis of the data in a first segment of the data stream is performed. A size of a second segment is determined based on the frequency analysis. Activity recognition is performed for the second segment by extracting one or more features of the data therein and applying a machine learning process on the extracted features to obtain a classification of the data into an activity class. |
| US10824946B2 |
Training neural networks using posterior sharpening
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a neural network. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining data specifying, for each of the network parameters, current values of a respective set of distribution parameters that define a posterior distribution over possible values for the network parameter. A respective current training value for each of the network parameters is determined from a respective temporary gradient value for the network parameter. The current values of the respective sets of distribution parameters for the network parameters are updated in accordance with the respective current training values for the network parameters. The trained values of the network parameters are determined based on the updated current values of the respective sets of distribution parameters. |
| US10824934B2 |
Methods and apparatus for matrix processing in a convolutional neural network
Described examples include an integrated circuit including a vector multiply unit including a plurality of multiply/accumulate nodes, in which the vector multiply unit is operable to provide an output from the multiply/accumulate nodes, a first data feeder operable to provide first data to the vector multiply unit in vector format, and a second data feeder operable to provide second data to the vector multiply unit in vector format. |
| US10824932B2 |
Context-aware digital personal assistant supporting multiple accounts
Techniques are described herein that are capable of implementing a context-aware digital personal assistant (DPA) that supports multiple accounts and/or facilitating interaction among digital personal assistants. For example, a user may be signed-in with accounts of a DPA. Content from content streams associated with the respective accounts may be selectively combined based on at least the user's context. In another example, users who are signed-in with accounts of a DPA may share a user experience provided by the DPA. Content from content streams associated with the respective accounts may be selectively combined based on at least one or more of the users' context. In yet another example, a first DPA associated with a first user may be caused to perform an operation on behalf of a second DPA associated with a second user or to delegate the operation to the second DPA. |
| US10824928B2 |
System and method for trasmitting financial information via color matrix code
An apparatus may include a memory to store instructions; and processing circuitry, coupled with the memory, operable to execute the instructions. When executed, the instructions may cause the processing circuitry to identify a matrix code; read a first layer of the matrix code, the first layer comprising a first account identifier associated with an account, wherein the first layer corresponds to a first color channel; and read a second layer of the matrix code, the second layer comprising a set of account data, associated with the account, wherein the second layer corresponds to a second color channel, different than the first color channel. |
| US10824927B1 |
Systems, methods and computer readable medium for management of data buffers using functional paradigm
A computer-implemented method, data processing system and computer readable medium manages processing of data entries in a data buffer. Data entries are stored in a data buffer. A representation of a two-directional matrix is annotated to mark the data arrivals as a plurality of entries. In addition, the two-directional matrix is annotated to define a valid processing period for the data entries. The data entries in the data buffer are processed by removing the data entries from the data buffer, marked for processing in the two-dimensional matrix during the valid processing period, by annotating the matrix, labeled as ACS, to define the number of available entries as a cumulative sum along the columns, A-X, such that ACS=cumsum(A-X), where ‘cumsum’ is the cumulative column-sum. Finally, the data entries from the data buffer are processed to determine the entries removed from the data buffer as defined by the row-sum of X. The technique has application for implementing a buffer management system for tax loss carry forward calculations. |
| US10824924B2 |
Electronic label, electronic label system and data processing method
The present disclosure relates to an electronic label, an electronic label system and a data processing method. The electronic label includes an electronic label body and a proximity sensing module. The proximity sensing module is disposed in the electronic label body and configured to detect whether there is a human body within a certain range from the electronic label. In response, the proximity sensing module is configured to generate a corresponding detection signal when a human body is detected. The detection signal is used to obtain a duration of stay of the human body before the electronic label. |
| US10824921B2 |
Position calibration for intelligent assistant computing device
A first intelligent assistant computing device configured to receive and respond to natural language inputs provided by human users syncs to a reference clock of a wireless computer network. The first intelligent assistant computing device receives a communication sent by a second intelligent assistant computing device indicating a signal emission time at which the second intelligent assistant computing device emitted a position calibration signal. The first intelligent assistant computing device records a signal detection time at which the position calibration signal was detected. Based on a difference between 1) the signal emission time and the signal detection time, and 2) a known propagation speed of the position calibration signal, a distance between the first and second intelligent assistant computing devices is calculated. |
| US10824920B2 |
Method and apparatus for recognizing video fine granularity, computer device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for recognizing video fine granularity, a computer device and a storage medium, wherein the method comprises: performing sampling processing for video to be recognized to obtain n frames of images, n being a positive integer larger than one; respectively obtaining a feature graph of each frame of image, and determining a summary feature according to respective feature graphs; determining a fine granularity recognition result of a target in the video according to the summary feature. The solution of the present disclosure may be applied to enhance the accuracy of recognition result. |
| US10824913B1 |
Training machine learning models for physical agents and robotic controls with simulations
Techniques for performing image-augmentation based simulations on are described. An exemplary embodiment of such performances includes for each tuple of timestamped image and movement data, generating a next image using an image generation neural network based on the timestamped image and movement data, the image being input into the image generation neural network as a non-rendered image, and generating a reward using a reward generating neural network based on the timestamped image and movement data. |
| US10824912B2 |
Methods and apparatus to adapt medical image interfaces based on learning
Methods and apparatus to adapt medical imaging interfaces based on learning are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a use monitor to monitor, in a first session, user actions and medical content data pertaining to operation of a clinical image display, a learning device including a processor to implement a learning network to develop a model for a subsequent session based on the user actions in relationship to a context of the medical content data. The model developed by defining contextual patterns of the user actions based on the context and the medical content data. The learning device is to update, prior to or during a second session subsequent the first session, a user interface based on the model. |
| US10824911B2 |
Combining independent solutions to an image or video processing task
An algorithm for performing an image or video processing task is generated that may be used to combine a plurality of different independent solutions to the image or video processing task in an optimized manner. A plurality of base algorithms may be applied to a training set of images or video and a first generation of different combining algorithms may be applied to combine the respective solutions from each of the respective base algorithms into respective combined solutions. The respective combined solutions may be evaluated to generate respective fitness scores representing measures of how well the plurality of different combining algorithms each perform the image or video processing task. The algorithms may be iteratively updated to generate an optimized combining algorithm that may be applied to an input image or video. |
| US10824903B2 |
Deep multi-scale video prediction
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of input frames of a video sequence associated with a time t, predicting, using a convolutional network, one or more future frames of the video sequence from the plurality of input frames, wherein the convolutional network is trained with randomly selected temporal sequences of a n×m grid of pixels from the plurality of input frames exhibiting a threshold of optical flow. In addition, the training may comprise randomly selecting temporal sequences of a n×m grid of pixels from the plurality of input frames exhibiting a threshold of optical flow. |
| US10824901B2 |
Image processing of face sets utilizing an image recognition method
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image processing method. The method includes: acquiring a first face set by performing face recognition on a first image set according to a first recognition model; in response to detecting a connection to a network, receiving a second face set sent by a server, the second face set being acquired by the server through face recognition on images in a second image set according to a second recognition model, a recognition precision of the first recognition module being lower than a recognition precision of the second recognition model; performing image matching on the images in the first image set and the images in the second image set; processing the first face set according to the second face set and a result of the image matching; and classifying the first image set according to the processed first face set. |
| US10824900B2 |
Information processing device and recognition support method
In order to acquire recognition environment information impacting the recognition accuracy of a recognition engine, an information processing device 100 comprises a detection unit 101 and an environment acquisition unit 102. The detection unit 101 detects a marker, which has been disposed within a recognition target zone for the purpose of acquiring information, from an image captured by means of an imaging device which captures images of objects located within the recognition target zone. The environment acquisition unit 102 acquires the recognition environment information based on image information of the detected marker. The recognition environment information is information representing the way in which a recognition target object is reproduced in an image captured by the imaging device when said imaging device captures an image of the recognition target object located within the recognition target zone. |
| US10824899B2 |
Structural clustering and alignment of OCR results
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to create a text stream from raw OCR outputs. The raw OCR output comprises a plurality of bounding boxes, each bounding box defining a region containing text which has been recognized by the OCR system. A weight matrix is calculated that comprises a weight for each pair of bounding boxes. The weight representing the probability that a pair of bounding boxes belongs to the same cluster. The bounding boxes are then clustered along the weights. The resulting clusters are first ordered using an ordering criteria. The bounding boxes within each cluster are then ordered according to a second ordering criteria. The ordered clusters and bounding boxes are then arranged into a text stream. |
| US10824897B1 |
Detecting an identity of a brand and/or an obfuscated identity of the brand within an image based on embeddings corresponding to regions of interest within the image
An online system receives an image associated with a set of pixel values and provides the set of pixel values to a deep learning or machine-learned model that is trained to assign a set of regions of interest within the image to one or more classes. The model is structured to identify the set of regions of interest based on the pixel values, in which each region of interest is associated with an embedding corresponding to a vector representation of the region of interest. The online system compares each embedding to a database of embeddings associated with multiple labeled images, in which the labels indicate an identity of a brand and/or an obfuscated identity of the brand. The online system then determines whether the identity of the brand and/or the obfuscated identity of the brand is/are detected within each region of interest based on the comparison. |
| US10824894B2 |
Document content identification utilizing the font
Information determination and decisioning systems that allow for the classification, identification, and decisioning of personally identifiable information (hereinafter “PII”) that is located within documents. Text within a document may be identified as PII text and/or non-PII text, and PII indicators may be associated with the font of the text in order to define and be able to track the PII text within the document. The PII indicators may provide different information about the PII text, such as indicating that the text includes PII, the PII type associated with the text, the locations in which the text constitutes PII. The PII indicators may be stored within the font information of the font, such as through data stored by the font and/or the data used to create the font (e.g., vector images that define the font curves, the dot matrices that define the font, the stroke paths that define the font, etc.). |
| US10824891B2 |
Recognizing biological feature
A method of recognizing a biological feature is provided. In an example, the method includes: first biological feature data is obtained; a first recognition operation is performed according to the first biological feature data and biological feature template data to obtain a first recognition result; when the first recognition result indicates a match failure, second biological feature data is obtained; and a re-recognition operation is performed according to the second biological feature data and the biological feature template data to obtain a second recognition result. The second biological feature data and the first biological feature data are collected by a same biological feature collector at different moments in a same biological feature recognition process. |
| US10824890B2 |
Living body detecting method and apparatus, device and storage medium
The present disclosure provides a living body detecting method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method comprises: obtaining user pictures collected by a fixed-focal-length camera at a fixed position, the user pictures being full-length or half-length pictures; determining whether the user is a living body according to a clarity degree of collected user pictures and whether there is a rim. The solution of the present disclosure can be applied to simplify user's operations and improve accuracy of detection results. |
| US10824882B1 |
Systems and methods for improving vehicle parking skills
Exemplary embodiments described in this disclosure are generally directed to systems and methods for improving vehicle parking skills. In an exemplary implementation, one or more cameras that are mounted in a vehicle may be used to capture a set of images when the vehicle is parked in a parking spot. The images may include a portion of the vehicle, a portion of another vehicle parked in an adjacent parking spot, an object located outside the parking spot, and/or one or more lines that delineate the parking spot. The images may be processed by a computer to determine distance parameters between the vehicle and items such as the other vehicle, the object located outside the parking spot, and/or the lines of the parking spot. A parking skills grade may then be assigned by the computer, to a driver of the vehicle, based on the distance parameters. |
| US10824879B2 |
Method, device, and computer program for detecting an object
A method for detecting an object with the aid of a system, the system having a plurality of modules connected in series one after the other, at least one connection between a predefinable module and its immediately following module being implemented in each case with the aid of a filter and storage module connected in series, the first module of the modules connected in series being connected to an acquisition unit, and the last module of the modules connected in series being connected to a detection module. The method includes temporal filtering. |
| US10824878B2 |
Method and arrangement for receiving data about site traffic derived from imaging processing
Monitoring technique includes identifying objects in images and associating color characteristics with each identified object. When the color characteristics of an object in one image are above a color resemblance threshold to the color characteristics of an object in another image, the object in both images is considered the same. Otherwise, the respective object in both images are considered to be different. Data about time that each image including an identified object was obtained and location of each object when each image including an identified object was obtained is derived. An information conveyance system is activated to convey the time and location-related data about identified objects relative to defined areas of the site or movement of the identified objects or people into, between or out of the defined areas of the site or a communication resulting from such data satisfying one or more conditions. |
| US10824876B2 |
Pilotless flying object detection system and pilotless flying object detection method
In an object, for example, a pilotless flying object detection system, an omnidirectional camera as a first camera images a monitoring area. A microphone array acquires audio of the monitoring area. A monitoring apparatus uses the audio data acquired by the microphone array to detect a pilotless flying object which appears in the monitoring area. A signal processor in the monitoring apparatus superimposes a discrimination mark, obtained by converting the pilotless flying object into visual information, on image data of the monitoring area when displaying the image data of the monitoring area captured by the omnidirectional camera on a monitor. |
| US10824873B2 |
Information processing apparatus, control method, and program
A product registration apparatus (20) includes a comparison unit (22) and a registration unit (24). The comparison unit (22) compares a first frame and a second frame of a video. The second frame is generated at a time later than the first frame. The comparison unit (22) determines a product that is not included in the first frame but included in the second frame. Then, the registration unit (24) registers the determined product (product that is not included in the first frame but included in the second frame) as a payment target. |
| US10824869B2 |
Clickless identification and online posting
Provided are systems, devices, and methods for clickless identification of an object and clickless posting of an online listing corresponding to the identified object. In one example, a method may include one or more of identifying an object included in image data obtained via a clickless image identification process, wherein the identifying is performed while the image data is being captured by an image capturing component associated with a mobile device, predicting one or more attributes of the identified object based on previous data of similar objects posted on a web resource, and displaying an identifier of the identified object and the one or more predicted attributes of the identified object on a screen of the mobile device while the clickless image identification process is occurring. |
| US10824865B2 |
Methods and systems for controlling external devices using a wearable apparatus
A wearable apparatus is provided for capturing and processing images from an environment of a user. In one implementation, a system for controlling one or more controllable devices includes a transceiver and at least one processing device. The processing device is programmed to obtain one or more images captured by an image sensor included in a wearable apparatus, analyze the one or more images to identify a controllable device in an environment of a user of the wearable apparatus, analyze the one or more images to detect a visual trigger associated with the controllable device and, based on the detection of the visual trigger, transmit, via the transceiver, a command. The command may be configured to change at least one aspect of the controllable device. |
| US10824862B2 |
Three-dimensional object detection for autonomous robotic systems using image proposals
Provided herein are methods and systems for implementing three-dimensional perception in an autonomous robotic system comprising an end-to-end neural network architecture that directly consumes large-scale raw sparse point cloud data and performs such tasks as object localization, boundary estimation, object classification, and segmentation of individual shapes or fused complete point cloud shapes. |
| US10824860B2 |
Mirror assembly incorporating a scanning apparatus
A scanning apparatus for a vehicle comprises a display housing comprising a display device forming a display plane and a support housing in supportive connection with the display housing. The support housing is in connection with a connection surface of a portion of the vehicle and forms an interior cavity extending substantially perpendicular from the connection surface. A first PCB is disposed in the interior cavity, wherein the first PCB comprises a plurality of planar faces terminating at a plurality of edges. The planar faces extend substantially perpendicular to the connection surface. |
| US10824856B2 |
Item validation and image evaluation system
Systems for item validation and image evaluation are provided. In some examples, a system may receive an instrument and associated data. The instrument may be received and a user profile may be retrieved. The user profile may include a plurality of previously processed instruments that have been determined to be valid and/or authentic. The instrument may be compared to the plurality of previously processed instruments to determine whether one or more elements of the instrument being evaluated match one or more corresponding elements of the plurality of previously processed instruments. Matching or non-matching elements may be identified. In some examples, one or more user interfaces may be generated displaying the instruments and including any highlighting or enhancements identifying matching or non-matching elements. |
| US10824854B2 |
Systems and methods for extracting data from an image
Embodiments of the present disclosure pertain to systems and method for extracting data from an image. In one embodiment, a method of extracting data from an image comprises receiving, from an optical character recognition (OCR) system, OCR text in response to sending an image to the OCR system. The OCR text comprises a plurality of lines of text. Each line of text is classified as either a line item or not a line item using a machine learning algorithm, and a plurality of data fields are extracted from each line of text classified as a line item. |
| US10824850B2 |
Body information analysis apparatus capable of indicating shading-areas
A body information analysis apparatus capable of indicating shading-areas includes: an image capturing module (12) for capturing an external image; a processor (10) electrically connected to the imager capturing module (12), stored multiple face types and multiple indicating processes respectively corresponding to each of the face types, wherein the processor (10) determines a face type of a face when the face is recognized in the external image, and executes one of the multiple indicating processes corresponding to the determined face type, so as to indicate shading-areas on the face; a mirror screen (11) for reflecting the face of a user; and, a display module (111) electrically connected to the processor (10) and arranged inside the mirror screen (11), for displaying the indicated shading-areas and the displayed shading-areas are overlapped with the face. |
| US10824847B2 |
Generating virtually stained images of unstained samples
Systems and methods for generating virtually stained images of unstained samples are provided. According to an aspect of the invention, a method includes accessing an image training dataset including a plurality of image pairs. Each image pair includes a first image of an unstained first tissue sample, and a second image acquired when the first tissue sample is stained. The method also includes accessing a set of parameters for an artificial neural network, wherein the set of parameters includes weights associated with artificial neurons within the artificial neural network; training the artificial neural network by using the image training dataset and the set of parameters to adjust the weights; accessing a third image of a second tissue sample that is unstained; using the trained artificial neural network to generate a virtually stained image of the second tissue sample from the third image; and outputting the virtually stained image. |
| US10824842B2 |
Multi-factor signature authentication
Method and apparatus are provided for authenticating a user. The method includes detecting a path of a finger movement of the user across a sensing surface, collecting a plurality of fingerprint images of the finger along the path of the finger movement, collecting a plurality of time stamps corresponding to the plurality of fingerprint images at different locations along the path, comparing the path of the finger movement to a previously enrolled path of finger movement using the plurality of fingerprint images and the plurality of time stamps corresponding to the plurality of fingerprint images collected, and authenticating the user based on the comparison. |
| US10824840B2 |
Electronic device supporting fingerprint verification and method for operating the same
An electronic device is provided that includes a display. The electronic device also includes a fingerprint sensor disposed under one or more pixels. The fingerprint sensor is adapted to acquire image information corresponding to a fingerprint of an external object that is in proximity to or in contact with the display based on at least a light radiated from at least one pixel and reflected by the external object. The electronic device also includes a rear panel disposed under the display. The rear panel includes an aperture corresponding to a disposition of the fingerprint sensor. The electronic device further includes a bracket disposed under the rear panel to support the display, and including a sensor seating area in which the fingerprint sensor is disposed. The fingerprint sensor is affixed to the sensor seating area. An air gap is formed between the display and the fingerprint sensor. |
| US10824839B2 |
Display panel and display device including fingerprint recognition region having improved light transmittance
A display panel including a display region, repeating units are provided in the fingerprint recognition region of the display region, each repeating unit includes pixel units, and each pixel unit includes sets of sub-pixels; first and second signal lines are provided in the fingerprint recognition region, each set of sub-pixels is connected to one first signal line and one second signal line; for two adjacent sets of sub-pixels in one pixel unit, a spacing between the first signal line corresponding to one of the two adjacent sets of sub-pixels and the second signal line corresponding to the other is smaller than a spacing between the first signal line corresponding to a set of first sub-pixels and the second signal line corresponding to a set of second sub-pixels; the set of first sub-pixels and the set of second sub-pixels are closest to each other in two adjacent pixel units. |
| US10824838B2 |
Under-screen optical fingerprint sensor based on lens-pinhole imaging with an off-axis pinhole
An optical fingerprint sensor module includes a light source configured to provide illumination light directed toward a finger, a portion of the illumination light is scattered or reflected off of the finger, thereby generating signal light. The optical fingerprint sensor module further includes a photodiode array having a surface, a lens having an optical axis that forms an angle with respect to a normal of the surface of the photodiode array that is between 45 degrees and 135 degrees, a member defining a pinhole that is positioned off of the optical axis of the lens. The lens and pinhole are configured to focus the signal light onto the surface of the photodiode array. The optical fingerprint sensor module further includes electronic circuitries configured to process electrical signals generated by the photodiode array to produce an image of a fingerprint pattern of the finger. |
| US10824836B2 |
Fingerprint sensing module
A fingerprint sensing module includes a fingerprint sensing pixel array, a plurality of column circuitries and a constant current circuit. The fingerprint sensing pixel array includes a plurality of sensing pixels in an array arrangement. Each column circuitry is electrically coupled to a row of the sensing pixels via a corresponding row signal line. The constant current circuit generates a bias voltage to the column circuitries according to a reference current. In response to the bias voltage level, a row output current provided by each column circuitry and flowing through each row of the sensing pixels is equal to or close to the reference current. Since the row output current coincides with the reference current, the row output current is not adversely affected by the external factors. |
| US10824833B2 |
Optical polling platform detection system
A method and system for an optical polling platform is provided. An optical polling server system receives an image of one or more augmented reality (AR) tag markers associated with a poll. Each AR tag marker is encoded with data, which includes at least a user identifier and a polling option. The system processes the image to identify the one or more AR tag markers in the captured image and detects edges in the image by traversing vertically along image columns. The system identifies potential AR tag markers from final edges based on contrast in pixels of the detected first set of edges and associated neighboring pixels. The AR tag markers are identified from the identified potential AR tag markers by sampling bit areas. Further, the system decodes the one or more AR tag markers to determine user identifier and polling option selected by the user identifier. |
| US10824832B2 |
Barcode tag detection in side view sample tube images for laboratory automation
Barcode tag conditions on sample tubes are detected utilizing side view images of sample tubes for streamlining handling in clinical laboratory automation systems. The condition of the tags may be classified into classes, each divided into a list of additional subcategories that cover individual characteristics of the tag quality. According to an embodiment, a tube characterization station (TCS) is utilized to obtain the side view images. The TCS enables the simultaneous or near-simultaneous collection of three images for each tube, resulting in a 360 degree side view for each tube. The method is based on a supervised scene understanding concept, resulting in an explanation of each pixel into its semantic meaning. Two parallel low-level cues for condition recognition, in combination with a tube model extraction cue, may be utilized. The semantic scene information is then integrated into a mid-level representation for final decision making into one of the condition classes. |
| US10824825B2 |
Methods for organizing the disinfection of one or more items contaminated with biological agents
The invention provides method for organizing the disinfection of one or more items contaminated with biological agent(s) comprising (a) attaching a radio-frequency ID (RFID) tag to an item(s) to be disinfected; exposing the item(s) of (a) to a disinfecting means for a period sufficient to disinfect the item; and (c) obtaining a signal from the tagged item when disinfection is complete thereby organizing the disinfection of one or more items. |
| US10824815B2 |
Document classification using attention networks
A system comprising at least one hardware processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon program instructions, the program instructions executable by the at least one hardware processor to: receive, as input, a plurality of electronic documents, apply a trained machine learning classifier to automatically classify at least some of said plurality of electronic documents, wherein said machine learning classifier comprises two or more attention layers, and wherein at least one of the attention layers comprises an adjustable parameter which controls a distribution of attention weights assigned by said attention layer. |
| US10824813B2 |
Pivoting from a graph of semantic similarity of documents to a derivative graph of relationships between entities mentioned in the documents
Provided is a process including: sampling of nodes of a first graph; and forming a second graph comprising nodes, each of which corresponds to at least one entity mentioned in unstructured text documents. Forming the second graph comprises, for each pair of the nodes of the second graph, setting a relationship between the pair, the pair comprising (i) a first node corresponding to a first entity and (ii) a second node corresponding to a second entity, by: identifying, in the first graph, a node corresponding to an unstructured text document in which the first entity is mentioned; and setting the relationship between the pair based on a determination of whether or which of the sampled nodes comprises a node satisfying a set of criteria, the criteria comprising (i) having a relationship with the identified node and (ii) corresponding to an unstructured text document in which the second entity is mentioned. |
| US10824810B2 |
System and method for identifying correlated operator action events based on text analytics of operator actions
A method includes obtaining, from an event log, first text of an alarm associated with an industrial process in a process control system, and processing the first text to obtain first key terms. The method also includes obtaining, from the event log, second text of an operator response, and processing the second text to obtain second key terms. The method further includes filtering and segmenting at least one of the first key terms and the second key terms. The method also includes performing text matching on the first key terms and the second key terms to identify a correlation between the first text and the second text. In addition, the method includes storing the first text, the second text, and the correlation between the first text and the second text in a data store. |
| US10824809B2 |
Method for identifying non-exactly matching text
A computer-implemented method for matching user inputted text to stored text. The user inputted text is compared to each of the text strings stored in a database using a Levenshtein distance algorithm. For each comparison, the Levenshtein distance is analyzed to determine exact matches, non-matches, and probable matches. Probable matches are further analyzed using a keyboard distance algorithm to differentiate between matches and non-matches. |
| US10824808B2 |
Robust key value extraction
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for robust key value extraction. In an embodiment, one or more hierarchical concepts units (HCUs) may be configured to extract key value and hierarchical information from text inputs. The HCUs may use a convolutional neural network, a recurrent neural network, and feature selectors to analyze the text inputs using machine learning techniques to extract the key value and hierarchical information. Multiple HCUs may be used together and configured to identify different categories of hierarchical information. While multiple HCUs may be used, each may use a skip connection to transmit extracted information to a feature concatenation layer. This allows an HCU to directly send a concept that has been identified as important to the feature concatenation layer and bypass other HCUs. |
| US10824806B2 |
Counterintuitive recommendations based upon temporary conditions
A system and method for providing counter intuitive recommendations to a user. A user profile is obtained for the user. A determination is made that a trigger condition has occurred for the user. The duration of the trigger condition is also determined. The trigger condition is associated with the user's profile. A request for a recommendation is received, and a list of recommendations is obtained. The recommendations are compared against the trigger condition to determine if the recommendation is compatible with the trigger condition. Those recommendations determined not to be compatible with the trigger condition are removed from the set of recommendations. |
| US10824804B2 |
Method and system for expansion to everyday language by using word vectorization technique based on social network content
Provided is a method and system for expanding to an everyday language using a word vectorization technique based on social network content. A content providing method includes collecting social network content on the Internet; expanding corresponding content information to a word set of words included in the social network content with respect to target content that is to be serviced to a client; and providing the target content to the client with respect to user information associated with the client using the word set. |
| US10824800B2 |
System and method for designing and editing computerized electronic data-entry forms
A method of updating a declarative description of a form in which the declarative description includes a hierarchy of declarations of form elements. The form is displayed by rendering each of the form elements based on the declarative description. The position of each rendered form element relative to the other rendered form elements is based on the position of the declaration of that form element in the hierarchy. An indication of a further element to add to the form and a location where that element is to be inserted into the form are received. The form is updated by inserting a declaration of the further element into the description at a position in the hierarchy determined based on the position, and the updated form displayed. |
| US10824799B2 |
Summary data autofill
Technologies are described herein for summary data autofill. A device executes an application program configured to receive data input. The application program may determine a portion of the data may be aggregated or conducive to being summarized. Upon the detection of a user input of additional data into a document having data contained therein, the application program may display a suggested complete summary of the data. An input may be received to accept the suggested complete summary, whereby the manner in which the suggested complete summary is displayed may be changed to indicate the acceptance of the suggested complete summary. A confidence level that the suggested complete summary is a correct summary of the data may be determined. The confidence level may be adjusted based on further input of data or additional data. |
| US10824798B2 |
Data collection for a new conversational dialogue system
A data collection system is based on a general set of dialogue acts which are derived from a database schema. Crowd workers perform two types of tasks: (i) identification of sensical dialogue paths and (ii) performing context-dependent paraphrasing of these dialogue paths into real dialogues. The end output of the system is a set of training examples of real dialogues which have been annotated with their logical forms. This data can be used to train all three components of the dialogue system: (i) the semantic parser for understanding context-dependent utterances, (ii) the dialogue policy for generating new dialogue acts given the current state, and (iii) the generation system for both deciding what to say and how to render it in natural language. |
| US10824795B2 |
Indoor positioning and recording system
An indoor recording and positioning system for use in construction projects, as well as in a host of related industries and governmental activities, which system provides for immediate and complete retrieval of construction documents, such as floorplans, blueprints, and other specifications and requirements, keyed to and calibrated by the position of the user at the construction site, and allows for the efficient and timely completion of punch lists, reports, and the like. |
| US10824794B2 |
Process for creating a fixed length representation of a variable length input
A computer system identifies that a first portion of markup language, extracted from a markup language document of a website, corresponds to a first actionable element, wherein the first portion of markup language is a variable length representation. In response to identifying that the first portion of markup language corresponds to the first actionable element, the computer system utilizes a recurrent neural network (RNN) encoder to create a first code representation that corresponds to the first portion of markup language. The computer system identifies a first additional information that corresponds to one or more pre-defined goals. The computer system creates a final fixed length markup language representation that includes the first code representation and the first additional information. The computer system inputs the final fixed length markup language representation into a model. |
| US10824792B2 |
Systems and methods for providing call context to content providers
The present disclosure is directed to providing call context to content providers. A tracker receives a selection of a content item associated with a keyword. The tracker stores, in an impression data structure, tracking data including the keyword. The tracker maps the selected content item to a first virtual number and generates a link there between. The tracker receives a call from a client device to initiate a first communication channel via the first virtual number. The tracker performs a lookup in a database using the first virtual number to identify a second virtual number corresponding to the content provider and to identify the tracking data. The tracker establishes, via the second virtual number, a second communication channel between the client device and a content provider device. The tracker provides the tracking data to the content provider via the second communication channel. |
| US10824787B2 |
Authoring through crowdsourcing based suggestions
Technologies are generally provided for enabling authors to create and/or modify content such as content itself, style, format based options for creating a document or similar content by determining authors' intent and providing suggestions associated with content actions based on collected crowdsourcing data. Author intent and suggestions may be determined from a variety of crowdsourcing information associated with one or more attributes of the author, the content, and the environment in which the content is being created/modified. |
| US10824783B2 |
Approach for logic signal grouping and RTL generation using XML
Systems and methods for generating an RTL description based on logical signal groupings are described. Logical interfaces are declared in a compressed form, and logical signal grouping is defined in a markup document. The definitions from the markup document are used by expansion scripts to populate RTL modules and encapsulate block connectivity and functionality. Multiple interfaces can be created instantly, and interface definitions for common interfaces may be easily re-defined. Default values may be assigned to module outputs for testing purposes, allowing for multi-module simulations where certain modules are shelled-out. |
| US10824780B2 |
Method of topology optimization for flexible hinge
A design method of topology optimization for flexible hinge is disclosed in the invention, comprising following steps: step 1: establishing a design model of topology optimization for flexible hinge, setting an outline of flexible hinge with a typical notch as a shape of design domain and defining a rigid region (non-design domain); step 2: establishing a finite element model of topology optimization for flexible hinge; step 3: establishing a mathematical model of topology optimization problem for flexible hinge based on the finite element model; step 4: calculating a sensitivity of topology optimization problem for flexible hinge; step 5: employing an optimization algorithm to solve the topology optimization problem for flexible hinge, updating a design variable and obtaining a final topology result graph; step 6: according to the final topology result graph obtained by the topology optimization, extracting its outline and obtaining a novel flexible hinge by appropriate modification. Using the method of topology optimization, the invention designs the flexible hinge on a concept level. The novel flexible hinge can be designed with a more complex structure and more excellent performances, having a larger flexibility, a higher precision and a smaller maximum stress. |
| US10824779B2 |
Controlling and adjusting ply shapes of laminated composite structures for performance and manufacturing considerations
A system comprises a model generation system and an analyzer. The model generation system is configured to modify a model of a laminated composite structure to meet a user defined objective and to meet at least one of user defined performance constraints or user defined manufacturing constraints by changing at least one ply characteristic of at least one ply of the model while maintaining ply boundary geometry constraints for each ply of the model. The ply boundary geometry constraints of the model generation system include a number of defined ply boundary geometries each described by a respective mathematical function. The analyzer is configured to return objective values or constraint function values for at least one ply of the model. |
| US10824774B2 |
Methods and apparatus for healthcare facility optimization
Methods and apparatus for improving the provision of healthcare via automated determination of a location of persons and equipment relative to each other and to conditions quantified via automated sensors. The present invention provides apparatus and methods for wireless designation of a position of health care providers and equipment relative to each other based upon wireless communications amongst multiple wireless transceivers combined with ongoing monitoring of conditions present in a healthcare facility. A user interface may provide a pictorial view of positions of all or some the healthcare providers and equipment and condition quantifying sensors. |
| US10824771B2 |
Robot for data logging pertaining to tampering protection and physical handling of portable server seriously massive storage system
A robot for data logging is described as a module of a portable data transfer system for use in physically transferring very big amounts of data in secure, fast and cheap way. The data logger logs and optionally analyzes sensory and operation data by statistically correlating and combining data, events, and control data from a variety of system modules, user actions, and sensors used to track system transit, handling, operation, and events. The data logger allows forensic analysis and comparison against a mission description to identify system location, transit path, mishandling, tampering, security breaches and problems arising from environmental conditions, design problems, etc. As a result, persons or events causing problems can be identified, retrained, and rectified, and system debugging can solve problems with error in hardware and software. Furthermore, decision and actions can be taken by the robot or by remote control to protect stored data from unauthorized access from third parties, such actions can include destruction of operating keys repository, electrical destruction of storage modules, system shutdown etc. |
| US10824769B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for protecting sensitive data
Methods that can protect sensitive data are provided. One method includes determining, by a processor, whether a user is focusing on an obscured set of sensitive data displayed on a computing device, clarifying the obscurity of a portion of the displayed set of sensitive data in response to determining that the user focusing on the portion of the displayed set of sensitive data, and maintaining the obscurity of one or more other portions of the displayed set of sensitive data in response to determining that the user not focusing on the one or more other portions of the displayed set of sensitive data. Apparatus and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods are also provided. |
| US10824766B2 |
Technologies for authenticated USB device policy enforcement
Technologies for USB device policy enforcement include a computing device having a USB controller and secure enclave support. On boot, a firmware enclave randomly generates a binding identity and then securely provisions the binding identity to the USB controller. The firmware enclave also seals the binding identity to a policy enforcement enclave. At runtime, the policy enforcement enclave unseals the binding identity and includes the binding identity in a policy enforcement command sent to the USB controller. The USB controller verifies that the binding identity included in the command matches the binding identity that was previously provisioned. If the binding identities are successfully verified, the USB controller enforces the command. The USB controller may block data transfers or device configuration changes for one or more specified devices. Each of the firmware enclave and the policy enforcement enclave are trusted execution environments. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10824765B2 |
Electronic control units for vehicles
An electronic control unit for a vehicle, the electronic control unit comprising a processor comprising: a processor core; storage, the storage storing data comprising instructions for the processor core; a tamper-resistant hardware security module which is coupled to the storage for reading and writing; and an external interface; the electronic control unit further comprising further storage connected to the processor through the external interface and containing further data; in which the hardware security module is arranged to cause a determination whether the data in the storage has been tampered with and, on a determination that the data has been tampered with, to cause the further data to be loaded into the storage from the further storage over the external interface. Other apparatus and methods for improving the security of electronic control circuits are disclosed. |
| US10824764B2 |
Apparatus for autonomous security and functional safety of clock and voltages
An apparatus is provided for autonomous security and functional safety (FUSA) of clock and voltages. The apparatus may include: a multiplexer having a first input communicatively coupled to a pin to receive a first clock external to a die, and a second input coupled to an output of a divider; an oscillator to provide a second clock; and a counter coupled to an output of the multiplexer and the oscillator, wherein the counter is to operate with the second clock and is to determine a frequency of the first clock. The apparatus may further include a voltage monitor circuitry for monitoring voltage(s) for FUSA, a reference generator for FUSA, a duty cycle monitor for FUSA, a frequency degradation monitor for FUSA, and a phase error degradation monitor for FUSA. |
| US10824763B2 |
Integrity of communications between blockchain networks and external data sources
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for retrieval of data from external data sources for processing within a blockchain network. One of the methods includes receiving a request for data from a data source, the request including plaintext data and encrypted data, the encrypted data including access data and a hash of the plaintext data; transmitting the request to one relay system component external to the blockchain network; receiving a result from the relay system component that is digitally signed using a private key of the relay system component; verifying an integrity of the result based on a public key of the relay system component; and transmitting the result to a user computing device in response to verifying the integrity of the result. |
| US10824761B2 |
Digital pattern prognostics
Systems and techniques for facilitating digital data prognostics are presented. A system can processes a corpus of stored data, generate respective digital signatures representing respective subsets of the corpus of the stored data, and tag the respective digital signatures with tags corresponding to extrinsic events. The digital signatures can be stored and indexed in a digital signature library. The system can also compare a new digital signature to learned digital signatures in order to identify one or more matches, and prognose an upcoming event associated with the new digital signature based on the matches and generated inferences for the learned digital signatures. |
| US10824759B1 |
Systems and methods for verifying agent sales data via blockchain
Methods and systems for processing a blockchain comprising a plurality of immutable sales records corresponding to sales made by agents of an entity are provided. According to certain aspects, a transaction request indicating a sale made by an agent of the entity may be received at a first node. A block including a sales record indicating the sale made by the agent may be added to a blockchain and transmitted to another node for validation. The first node may add the block to a copy of the blockchain, where the block may be identified by a hash value that references a previous block in the blockchain that includes at least one additional sales record. |
| US10824758B2 |
System and method for managing enterprise data
A system for managing personal data stored by an enterprise includes an interface, a permissions database, a processor, and non-transitory computer readable media. The interface is configured to receive a request to access at least some of the personal data, the request defining a purpose for the request. The permissions database that stores a plurality of records that define permissions associated with the personal data. The non-transitory computer readable media in communication with the processor that stores instruction code which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to locate, within one or more disparate source databases within the enterprise, personal data associated with one or more individuals. For each individual, the processor generates a record in the permissions database that relates the individual to: a) attributes of the personal data; b) legal grounds information that defines process rights; c) one or more purposes for which the personal data may be used; and d) constraint information that defines limitations on the individual to modify or delete the personal data. The processor selects one or more records associated with a purpose that matches the purpose of the request. The processor retrieves personal data associated with attributes of the one or more records from the one or more disparate source databases. The processor then communicates, via the interface, the retrieved personal data to a requestor associated with the request. |
| US10824755B2 |
Edit distance computation on encrypted data
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at a third-party storage provider and from a data owner, a plurality of encrypted documents, wherein each of the plurality of encrypted documents is encrypted by the data owner using at least one encryption key; receiving, from a query user, an encrypted query, wherein the query is encrypted using the at least one encryption key; computing an edit distance value between the encrypted query and at least a portion of the plurality of encrypted documents, wherein the computing comprises communicating with an entity to work together to compute the edit distance value; the communicating comprising (i) providing, from the third-party storage provider to the entity, an encrypted function of an edit distance matrix and (ii) receiving an encrypted edit distance value computed by the entity from the encrypted function; and returning the encrypted edit distance value to the query user. |
| US10824754B2 |
Vertically integrated access control system for identifying and remediating flagged combinations of capabilities resulting from user entitlements to computing resources
A vertically integrated access control system may store in a database data records corresponding to the interfaces, access control rules, and computing resources of an information system, as well as data records for entity capabilities. Data records for related interfaces, access control rules, computing resources, and entity capabilities may be linked. Using the database, the system may determine the entity capabilities that can be performed based on an existing user entitlement. If the entity capabilities include a flagged combination of entity capabilities, the system may perform an information security action to remediate the flagged combination. The system may use the database to form vertically integrated access units. The vertically integrated access units may be used to form user entitlements. The system may continuously monitor whether any proposed configurations would create a flagged combination of entity capabilities, and if so take an action to prevent such flagged combination. |
| US10824752B2 |
Utilizing heuristic and machine learning models to generate a mandatory access control policy for an application
A device processes, with a model, an application to identify a set of file paths with process identifiers. The device identifies patterns associated with the set of file paths with process identifiers, and determines positions of random elements in each file path of the set of file paths with process identifiers. The device processes the patterns and the positions of the random elements to train a machine learning model, and utilizes the machine learning model to generate a first set of rules to identify files required for execution of the application, and a second set of rules to identify files not required for execution of the application. The device generates a mandatory access control policy based on the first set of rules and the second set of rules, and provides the mandatory access control policy to be implemented by an operating system of a client device. |
| US10824751B1 |
Zoned data storage and control security system
The invention relates generally to improved secure data storage that utilizes zoned data storage and control and/or integration of discrete data for masking the stored data. The data may be divided and stored in different zoned databases and assigned different access rights in order to separate data that is part of a larger combination of data into smaller data portions, which makes it difficult for unauthorized use of such data. Additionally, or alternatively, data that is stored within a database may be combined with other discrete data (e.g., unrelated real data) in order to mask the data being stored. As such, the masked data is more secure and less storage spaces is required due to the utilization of real data for masking. When an unauthorized requestor of the stored data is identified deterrence actions may be taken to reduce the unauthorized user's ability to access the desired data. |
| US10824749B2 |
Automatic graph-based detection of unlikely file possession
Systems and techniques for an automatic graph-based detection of unlikely file possession are described herein. In an example, a system for detecting unauthorized file possession is adapted to generate a networked computing environment graph for files and the devices which store the files. The detection system may be further adapted to identify a file in question and a device in question that is in possession of the file in question. The detection system may be further adapted to generate a set of connection paths from the device in question to the file in question based upon the edges of the graph. The detection system may be further adapted to determine the device in question should not have possession of the file in question based on a set of metrics derived from the connection paths. The detection system may be further adapted to generate an alert based on the determination. |
| US10824748B2 |
Method and system for low overhead control/status handshake for remote shared file server
A method and system for providing a plurality of host systems shared access to data files from a file server. The method includes monitoring a control file for updates, the control file located within a corresponding host directory located within the file server; receiving a request for access to a data file stored on the file server, the access request being written to the control file, the access request including a requested data file operation; performing the requested data file operation in response to the control file being updated with the access request; creating a status file in the host directory in which the requested data file operation was performed upon completion of the requested data file operation; writing status data in the status file, the status data including a result of the performance of the requested data file operation; and allowing access to the host directory in which the requested data file operation was performed in response to the status data being written to the status file. |
| US10824743B2 |
System and method for autonomous or remote controlled destruction of stored information or components
A system and method are provided for the destruction of electronically stored information and/or components that incorporated sensitive technology or that contain sensitive information upon the occurrence of one or more predetermined events. The system and method of the present invention is particularly suited for the safeguarding of electronically stored information and/or classified technology in systems deployed in an operational environment. The system and method of the present invention be incorporated into drones, full size aircraft, any type of vehicle, mines, missiles, torpedos, bombs, phones, cameras, robots, satellites or other spacecraft, computers, hard drives, thumb drives, switches, routers, bugs, brief cases, safes, and generally any device that utilizes components on which sensitive data is stored or components that utilize technology that should only be accessed by authorized personnel. |
| US10824740B2 |
Decentralized policy publish and query system for multi-cloud computing environment
A given policy file is obtained at a publishing node of a decentralized system of nodes, wherein the given policy file defines a policy that applies to at least a subset of nodes in the decentralized system of nodes. The given policy file is sent to a decentralized storage network for storage therein. Storage metadata is received from the decentralized storage network, wherein the storage metadata represents address information associated with storage of the given policy file in the decentralized storage network. The publishing node generates policy file retrieval metadata based on the storage metadata received from the decentralized storage system. The policy file retrieval metadata is sent to a blockchain network for storage therein. One or more querying nodes of the decentralized system of nodes access the blockchain network to obtain the policy file retrieval metadata in order to then retrieve the policy file from the decentralized storage network. |
| US10824739B2 |
Secure data aggregation in databases using static shifting and shifted bucketization
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for secure data aggregation in databases. An embodiment operates by identifying a value column and a group column of a plurality of columns of a dataset. Two distinct group values of the group column are identified. An offset value corresponding to the first group value is determined. One or more of the plurality of records including the first group value are identified. A value of the value column of each of the identified one or more plurality of records is encoded with the offset value. Values of the encoded value column are encrypted. The encrypted values are uploaded to a server. |
| US10824738B2 |
Privacy-preserving analysis system for secure multiparty computing
A privacy-preserving analysis system that provides functionality to analyze disparate data sets (and identify correlations) while making individual re-identification prohibitively difficult (even through repeated analysis). The system creates a large proxy data set by oversampling the underlying data and randomly masking a predictable number of fields in the proxy data sets to create sufficient uncertainty in the analysis results. The system may also use a distributed encryption process, secure communications, and secure multiparty computing to prevent personally-identifying information in remotely-stored underlying data from being determined. In the distributed encryption process, each of a plurality of distributed computing devices may be configured to encrypt personally-identifying information using an identical process (and identical encryption keys). |
| US10824735B2 |
Vehicle security network device and method for controlling same
A vehicle security network design device may comprise: a level assigning unit for assigning an automobile safety integrity level (ASIL) which provides a risk management standard for each of a plurality of functional elements in a vehicle that is at least temporarily implemented by a processor; a calculation unit for calculating device's controllability with respect to each of the plurality of functional elements on the basis of a connection structure between the plurality of functional elements and a difference value of the ASIL; and a management unit for generating a risk analysis model of a plurality of functional elements. |
| US10824733B2 |
Extension component for authenticating game data
Disclosed are methods, apparatus and systems, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for authenticating data for playing a game of chance on a gaming machine. A motherboard is provided in the gaming machine. A peripheral component is in communication with the motherboard over a bus. The peripheral component has access to authentication code in a memory. An authentication instruction message is received over the bus. Responsive to receiving the authentication instruction message, the authentication code is executed on a processor to perform an authentication process on the data. A signal is output, indicating whether the authentication process is successful in authenticating the data. In one implementation, the signal enables play of the game of chance on the gaming machine when the authentication process is successful, and disables play of the game of chance when the authentication process is unsuccessful. |
| US10824730B2 |
Continuous database security and compliance
A method implemented by a security system for selectively triggering different ones of a plurality of database assessment scans for a database The method includes monitoring for occurrences of a first class of database operations that have been determined to require only rerunning subsets of the plurality of database assessment scans to determine whether results of the plurality of database assessment scan shave changed, responsive to detecting an occurrence of one or more database operations of the first class, selecting one or more of the subsets to be rerun based on which of the database operations of the first class occurred, and triggering performance of only the selected one or more of the subsets to determine whether the results of the plurality of database assessment scans have changed. |
| US10824729B2 |
Compliance management in a local network
A local environment verification method, performed by a server of a computer network, includes injecting, into a linear communication orbit, a bundle of information items regarding deployment of a respective local environment verification framework at each of a first subset of nodes in the computer network. The bundle of information items is distributed to a respective node of the first subset of nodes through the linear communication orbit, and used to establish the respective local environment verification framework at the respective node of the first subset of nodes. The respective node of the first subset of nodes is configured to perform a set of local environment verifications using the respective local environment verification framework. The method further includes injecting, into the linear communication orbit, a query message to collect respective local results of the set of local environment verifications from the first subset of nodes. |
| US10824727B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting and addressing remote access malware
Systems and methods to detect remote access malware activities, via: detecting, in a computing device, first input events in an operating system of the computing device; detecting, in the computing device, second input events received in an application running in the computing device; detecting, in the computing device, a mismatch between the first input events detected in the operating system and the second input events received in the application running in the computing device; and in response to the mismatch being detected, generating an alert indicating a threat of the application being attached by remote access malware. |
| US10824726B1 |
Container anomaly detection using container profiles
Methods, apparatus and computer program products are provided for detection of anomalies in containers using corresponding container profiles. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining at least one container and a corresponding container profile from a container registry, wherein the container profile characterizes an expected normal operation of an application executing in the container; comparing a behavior of the application executing in the container to the expected normal operation in the corresponding container profile to determine if the container exhibits anomalous behavior; and providing a notification of the anomalous behavior when the container exhibits the anomalous behavior. The container profile is obtained, for example, by monitoring a behavior of (i) a plurality of versions of the at least one container, and/or (ii) the at least one application executing in the at least one container on a plurality of different container host devices. |
| US10824724B2 |
Detecting runtime tampering of UEFI images in an information handling system
A method, an information handling system (IHS) and a detection system for detecting runtime tampering of unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) images in an IHS. The method includes retrieving, via a board management controller (BMC) from a first memory device, a first UEFI driver associated with a first component of the IHS. The method also includes generating a first hash of the first UEFI driver and retrieving, from a second memory device, a second hash associated with an initial first UEFI driver of the first component of the IHS. The method further includes determining if the first hash and the second hash match, and in response to the first hash and the second hash not matching, generating an error message that indicates detection of runtime tampering with the first UEFI driver and storing the error message to an error log. |
| US10824719B1 |
Anti-malware computer systems and method
A method of preventing execution of malware programming in a computing environment, by modifying the portion(s) of computer file names and/or headers and/or file content recognized by the computer for executing said programming. Accordingly, the computer will not recognize the malware file (having standard executable program files) as an executable file, so that the malware program will never be activated. |
| US10824718B2 |
Shuffling mechanism for shuffling an order of data blocks in a data processing system
A method is provided for shuffling an order of a plurality of data blocks. In the method, a random number is generated, the random number corresponding to an index for a data block of the plurality of data blocks, where each data block of the plurality of data blocks has an index that uniquely identifies each data block of the plurality of data blocks. The increment function with a parameter is applied to the random number to generate a new index, the new index corresponds to a data block of the plurality of data blocks. The data block corresponding to the new index is selected as the next data block of a reordering of the plurality of data blocks. The method is iterated until the reordering of the plurality of data blocks is complete. |
| US10824716B2 |
Executing native-code applications in a browser
Techniques for leveraging legacy code to deploy native-code desktop applications over a network (e.g., the Web) are described herein. These techniques include executing an application written in native code within a memory region that hardware of a computing device enforces. For instance, page-protection hardware (e.g., a memory management unit) or segmentation hardware may protect this region of memory in which the application executes. The techniques may also provide a narrow system call interface out of this memory region by dynamically enforcing system calls made by the application. Furthermore, these techniques may enable a browser of the computing device to function as an operating system for the native-code application. These techniques thus allow for execution of native-code applications on a browser of a computing device and, hence, over the Web in a resource-efficient manner and without sacrificing security of the computing device. |
| US10824715B2 |
Systems and methods involving aspects of hardware virtualization such as separation kernel hypervisors, hypervisors, hypervisor guest context, hypervisor context, anti-fingerprinting, and/or other features
Systems, methods, computer readable media and articles of manufacture consistent with innovations herein are directed to computer virtualization, computer security and/or hypervisor fingerprinting. According to some illustrative implementations, innovations herein may utilize and/or involve a separation kernel hypervisor which may include the use of a guest operating system virtual machine protection domain, a virtualization assistance layer, and/or a CPU ID instruction handler (which may be proximate in temporal and/or spatial locality to malicious code, but isolated from it). The CPU ID instruction handler may perform processing, inter alia, to return configurable values different from the actual values for the physical hardware. The virtualization assistance layer may further contain virtual devices, which when probed by guest operating system code, return the same values as their physical counterparts. In addition, the virtualization assistance layer may vary its internal I/O and memory addresses in a configurable manner. |
| US10824714B2 |
Method and system for securing user access, data at rest, and sensitive transactions using biometrics for mobile devices with protected local templates
Biometric data are obtained from biometric sensors on a stand-alone computing device, which may contain an ASIC, connected to or incorporated within it. The computing device and ASIC, in combination or individually, capture biometric samples, extract biometric features and match them to one or more locally stored, encrypted templates. The biometric matching may be enhanced by the use of an entered PIN. The biometric templates and other sensitive data at rest are encrypted using hardware elements of the computing device and ASIC, and/or a PIN hash. A stored obfuscated Password is de-obfuscated and may be released to the authentication mechanism in response to successfully decrypted templates and matching biometric samples. A different de-obfuscated password may be released to authenticate the user to a remote or local computer and to encrypt data in transit. This eliminates the need for the user to remember and enter complex passwords on the device. |
| US10824713B2 |
Spatiotemporal authentication
A system and method of authentication is provided that uses the spatiotemporal context of a user which has been measured using third party monitoring systems. Spatiotemporal data obtained from third party systems such as CCTV networks, microphone networks, UAV networks, CAV networks, ATM networks or the like is used to determine a unique spatiotemporal fingerprint for an individual. That is, the unique identifier is not derived from a device carried by the individual. This fingerprint can then be used to verify a user and detect abnormal and unexpected behaviour. |
| US10824712B2 |
Method of authenticating device using photographed image and system therefor
Disclosed herein are an authentication method between two devices, an authentication system, and an authentication device capable of performing the authentication method. More particularly, the present invention relates to an authentication method, authentication system and authentication device, wherein a specific device for authentication photographs a photo or image of a device to be connected (hereinafter referred to as a “target device”) and is connected to the target device through the medium of the photographed image of the device. |
| US10824711B2 |
Secure industrial control system
A secure industrial control system is disclosed herein. The industrial control system includes a plurality of industrial elements (e.g., modules, cables) which are provisioned during manufacture with their own unique security credentials. A key management entity of the secure industrial control system monitors and manages the security credentials of the industrial elements starting from the time they are manufactured up to and during their implementation within the industrial control system for promoting security of the industrial control system. An authentication process, based upon the security credentials, for authenticating the industrial elements being implemented in the industrial control system is performed for promoting security of the industrial control system. In one or more implementations, all industrial elements of the secure industrial control system are provisioned with the security credentials for providing security at multiple (e.g., all) levels of the system. |
| US10824710B2 |
Method and device for authenticating application that requests access to memory
The present application provides a method for authenticating an application that requests access to a memory, comprising: acquiring an authentication request provided by the application; acquiring a characteristic instruction provided by the application in response to the authentication request; acquiring an instruction pointer corresponding to the characteristic instruction; acquiring from the memory characteristic information of the application which is pre-stored in the memory based on the instruction pointer; and comparing the acquired characteristic information with authentication information corresponding to the application, so as to determine whether the authentication of the application is successful. |
| US10824707B2 |
Method and device for providing security content
A method, performed by a device, of providing security content includes receiving a touch and drag input indicating that a user drags a visual representation of a first application displayed on a touch screen of the device to a fingerprint recognition area while the user touches the visual representation of the first application with a finger; performing authentication on a fingerprint of the finger detected on the touch screen using a fingerprint sensor included in the fingerprint recognition area; and when the performing authentication on the fingerprint is successful, displaying the security content associated with the first application on an execution window of the first application. |
| US10824706B2 |
Portable electronic device for authenticating user and system and method associated therewith
The present disclosure relates to a portable electronic device for authenticating a user through a management device and a system and method associated therewith. The portable electronic device includes a collector, an authentication information generator and a communication interface. The collector is configured to collect biometric data of a user. The authentication information generator is configured to generate authentication information according to whether the portable electronic device is within an area pre-set by the management device and based on the biometric data collected by the collector in real time. The communication interface is configured to send the generated authentication information to the management device so as to authenticate whether the user is a registered user of the management device. By collecting relevant data in a distributed manner during the user authentication process, user authentication efficiency is improved, and risk of damage to data collection equipment is reduced. |
| US10824705B2 |
Authentication techniques in response to attempts to access sensitive information
The present disclosure describes techniques for changing a required authentication type based on a request for a particular type of information. For example, consider a situation where a user has asked a virtual assistant “who owns this device?” By default, the device may allow biometric authentication to unlock. In response to identification of the owner by the virtual assistant, however, the device may require one or more other types of authentication (e.g., manual entry of a passcode) to unlock the device. In various embodiments, the disclosed techniques may increase the security of the device by making it more difficult for malicious entities to obtain the sensitive information or to access device functionality once the sensitive information has been disclosed. In various embodiments, this may prevent or reduce unauthorized access to the device. |
| US10824695B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining a similarity parameter for an original protocol with a reference protocol for medical imaging
In a method and a medical imaging apparatus for determining a similarity parameter for an original protocol with a reference protocol, wherein the original protocol has control parameters for controlling a medical imaging apparatus and is compatible with an original configuration of the medical imaging apparatus, and the reference protocol has control parameters for controlling a medical imaging apparatus and is compatible with a new configuration, the similarity parameter is determined by a comparative analysis for the original protocol with the reference protocol. |
| US10824694B1 |
Distributable feature analysis in model training system
A computing system defines transformed variable values for training a machine learning model. A data description is determined for each variable of a plurality of variables from observation vectors. A number of rare-levels is determined for any variable of the plurality of variables that has a nominal variable type. Bins that describe a cumulative distribution function are defined for each variable based on the data description determined for each variable and based on the number of rare-levels determined for any variable of the plurality of variables identified as the nominal variable type. A transformed value is determined for each variable and for each observation vector of the observation vectors using the bins defined for a respective variable of the plurality of variables. Each determined transformed value is written to a transformed dataset with a respective observation vector of the observation vectors. |
| US10824688B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for generation of local content corpus
Various methods for generating a content corpus populated with content related to a particular geographic area are provided herein. One example method comprises, for each document in an initial local content corpus, applying a first set of heuristic filters to the raw content of each document, identifying at least a second term, applying a second set of heuristic filters to the raw content of each document, the second set of heuristic filters associated with the second term, iteratively performing the identification of additional terms and application of an additional set of heuristic filters associated with the additional terms until each identifiable term is extracted, determining a level on a geographic containment hierarchy indicative of a location to which each document from the set of documents is local, and for each place in a gazette, and for each document, determining a set of points in polygons indicative of its locality. |
| US10824684B2 |
Techniques for anonymized searching of medical providers
A server may maintain information about entities such as medical entities. A user device can send search queries to the server to obtain information about a particular medical entity. Using techniques described herein, the server and/or the user device may maintain information relating to the particular medical entity in a manner that a relationship between the particular medical entity and the user device can be obfuscated from the server. By doing so, privacy of a user of the user device can be protected. |
| US10824680B2 |
Panoptic visualization document access control
A panoptic visualization system includes an enforcer and a layout engine coupled thereto. The enforcer is configured to identify a restricted document component of a panoptic visualization document collection having a plurality of document components each of which includes respective media content and has associated metadata providing information about the respective document component. The associated metadata for the document components may further include information identifying links between the respective document components. The layout engine is configured to generate a layout of panoptically-arranged visual representations of the document components according to the document components and associated metadata. For the restricted document component, the layout engine is configured to generate the layout according to the associated metadata for the restricted document component, but the generated layout includes a visual representation of the restriction in place of the restricted document component. And the layout engine is configured to communicate the layout. |
| US10824679B2 |
Intelligent customer services based on a vector propagation on a click graph model
A query is received from a user at a data service engine. The query includes a string of characters. A number of candidate topics are identified by the data service engine based on the query. A similarity score is determined between the query and each of the plurality of candidate topics based on a Vector Propagation On a Click Graph (VPCG) model trained based on user click data. A number of candidate topics are ranked based on the similarity scores. One or more topics are selected from the ranked candidate topics. The selected topics are outputted via a user interface (UI). |
| US10824677B2 |
Method and system for providing query suggestions
Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions. In one example, a search query is received from a user. At least one rewritten search query is generated by replacing at least some text in the search query with a synonym of the at least some text. The synonym of the at least some text is obtained based on a plurality of previously submitted search queries. A plurality of query suggestions is obtained based on the search query and the at least one rewritten search query. At least a portion of the plurality of query suggestions is provided to the user. |
| US10824669B2 |
Sticker recommendation method and apparatus, server cluster, and storage medium
A sticker recommendation method and apparatus, a server cluster, and a storage medium are disclosed. The sticker recommendation method includes obtaining a use record of each group of stickers used by a user, each group of stickers corresponding to at least one image style obtaining an uncorrected recommendation index of a specified sticker, and obtaining an image style of the specified sticker, correcting the uncorrected recommendation index according to the use record, the image style of each group of stickers, and the image style of the specified sticker, and recommending the specified sticker to the user when the corrected recommendation index satisfies a recommendation condition. Accordingly, the sticker recommended to the user is a sticker obtained by comprehensively considering a preference of the user for the image style of the sticker, thereby improving a sticker recommendation effect. |
| US10824667B2 |
Systems and methods for recommending media assets based on objects captured in visual assets
Systems and methods are disclosed for recommending media assets based on objects captured in visual assets. A location of a visual asset is determined, where the location is associated with the visual asset. A location score is determined based on one or more of: a user travel score, a user travel frequency score, and a popularity score. A determination is made whether the location score exceeds a threshold. Responsive to a determination that the location score exceeds the threshold, the system detects an object within the visual asset and generates a recommendation of a media asset that is associated with the object. |
| US10824666B2 |
Automated routing and display of community photographs in digital picture frames
A method for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer and can capture gesture-based feedback. The displayed photos are automatically shown and/or changed according to the detected viewers. The photos can be filtered and cropped at the receiver side. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires. |
| US10824662B2 |
Methods and system for iteratively aligning data sources
According to some aspects, a method for aligning a first data source and a second data source during a plurality of iterations comprising a current iteration and a previous iteration is provided. The method comprises generating at least one property alignment hypothesis between at least one first property of the first data source and at least one second property of the second data source; generating a plurality of instance alignment hypotheses between a respective first plurality of instances of the first data source and a respective second plurality of instances of the second data source; and verifying at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or at least one of the plurality of instance alignment hypotheses. Generating the at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or generating the plurality of instance alignment hypotheses is based, at least in part, on at least one property alignment hypothesis and/or at least one instance alignment hypothesis verified during the previous iteration. |
| US10824660B2 |
Segmenting topical discussion themes from user-generated posts
Techniques are provided for detecting new topics and themes and assigning new posts to existing topic and/or theme clusters in online community discussions. A post posted to an online community is received and a post feature vector representative of the post is created. The post is compared to a plurality of centroid feature vectors, each centroid feature vector being representative of a respective post cluster and associated with a theme. Upon determining that similarity between the post feature vector and one of a plurality of centroid feature vectors satisfies a minimum similarity threshold, the post is assigned to the post cluster of which the centroid feature vector is representative. Upon determining that similarity between the post feature vector and any of the plurality of centroid feature vectors is below the minimum similarity threshold, a new theme cluster is created and the post is assigned to the new theme cluster. |
| US10824659B2 |
Predicting the temporal stability of answers in a deep question answering system
The temporal stability of an answer from a deep question answering system is predicted using a natural language classifier. A training corpus is divided into time-ordered slices having uniform granularity. A series of candidate answers to a training question is generated based on the slices, and a temporal profile for the series is identified by associating candidate answers with respective temporal intervals. The temporal profile is translated to a temporal stability value (representing a time period) using a temporal stability model. The classifier is trained using such training questions correlated with respective temporal stability values. Thereafter, when a user submits a natural language query to the deep question answering system, the query is also applied to the classifier which determines its temporal stability. The temporal stability is presented to the user with the answer to give a sense of how long the answer can be deemed reliable. |
| US10824658B2 |
Implicit dialog approach for creating conversational access to web content
A method, apparatus and computer program product for creating a dialog system for web content is described. Knowledge is extracted from a target web application for the dialog system. The knowledge includes an organizational structure of the target web application and domain knowledge pertinent to the target web application. A deep learning process associates the domain knowledge with the organization structure of the target application. A plurality of knowledge sources of different respective types are created from the domain knowledge and the organizational structure. Each of the knowledge sources is used for providing answers to user queries to the dialog system. As part of the invention, a semantic matcher is provided to select among the answers provided by the plurality of knowledge sources for a best answer to a user query. |
| US10824657B2 |
Search document information storage device
To provide a system capable of appropriately proposing a search term candidate for each page of a document. Provided is a search document information storage device comprising: a vocabulary extraction means 3; a keyword storage means 5; a keyword extraction means 7; a topic term storage means 9; a topic term extraction means 11; a search term candidate extraction means 13; a search term candidate display means 17; a search term input means 19; and a document search information storage means 21. |
| US10824652B2 |
Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network
Identifying content in an incoming message on a social network includes categorizing a sender-recipient relationship between a sender and a recipient of an incoming message in an activity stream in a display. |
| US10824651B2 |
System and method for storing and retrieving channel data
In one embodiment, a method includes, for each of a plurality of channels at a well site, converting channel data from a source data format to a common data format in real-time as the channel data is generated. The common data format includes a plurality of elements organized into a plurality of sets. Each element includes a minimum collection of fields. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of channels, storing the converted channel data in a data store as part of the at least one element. |
| US10824650B2 |
Discovery of database and related services
A computing system includes a database and a discovery application. The discovery application obtains credentials for accessing a server hosting a software bus application which connects a plurality of applications within a managed network. The discovery application selects, based on a pattern corresponding to the software bus application, one or more files to access, transmits, to the server, instructions to access the one or more files, and receives therefrom data identifying a plurality of attributes of the software bus application. Based on this data, the discovery application transmits, to the server, instructions to identify communicative connections established between the plurality of software applications by way of the software bus application and receives therefrom data identifying the communicative connections. Based on (i) the plurality of attributes and (ii) the communicative connections, the discovery application generates a mapping that represents the communicative connections and stores the mapping in the database. |
| US10824647B2 |
Real-time prediction and explanation of sequences of abnormal events
Implementations are directed to providing a semantic sequence based on a sequence associated with the event, and context data provided from a knowledge graph, receiving a set of cases associated with at least one entity included in the event, the set of cases including previous instances of events, and actions performed to resolve the previous instances of events, defining a sub-set of cases from the set of cases based on the context data, for each case of the sub-set of cases, determining a similarity score, each similarity score representing a degree of similarity between the event, and a case of the sub-set of cases, determining an explanation based on features of cases in the sub-set of cases based on the context data, and providing one or more actions based on actions of cases in the sub-set of cases. |
| US10824642B2 |
Data synchronization architecture
Systems and methods for a data synchronization architecture to synchronize provide a forward synchronization of data from a helper instance to a customer facing instance and reverse synchronization of customer configuration data changes to the helper instance are disclosed. Helper instances may be configured to provide an upgrade or maintenance path for a customer facing instance. Helper instances may be a different version and have a different schema than the primary customer facing instance. Database triggers and business rules may be used to manipulate data calculated or discovered by a helper instance prior to synchronization to the primary instance. Database triggers and business rules may fire in the primary instance after each synchronization to perform necessary recalculations or adjust data associations based on data provided from the helper instance. Helper instances may queue data over time and then perform a synchronization of data from the queue. |
| US10824639B2 |
Smart elastic scaling based on application scenarios
Technologies are provided for scaling applications via application scenarios. Portions of application resource content stored in a database are associated with application scenarios. The portions of the resource content associated with an application scenario are replicated to one or more computing nodes associated with the application scenario. Requests associated with the application scenario are transmitted to the one or more one or more computing nodes, where they are processed using the replicated portions of the resource content associated with the application scenario. |
| US10824637B2 |
Matching subsets of tabular data arrangements to subsets of graphical data arrangements at ingestion into data driven collaborative datasets
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to interface among repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities configured to access datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform to identify and match equivalent subsets of data between an ingested dataset, such as in a tabular data arrangement, and one or more graph-based data arrangements, according to at least some examples. For example, a method may include identifying a tabular data arrangement including a subset of data as a column, computing a compressed data representation for a column of data, correlating a compressed data representation to a reference compressed data representations, detecting a link between a column of data associated with a correlated compressed data representation to a dataset stored in a graph data arrangement, and forming an expanded tabular data arrangement. |
| US10824636B2 |
Mechanisms for querying disparate data storage systems
Computer implemented techniques for storage management include receiving a query from an application within an application level, which is received as a standard syntax wrapped query language query, with the standard syntax wrapped query having as a parameter, an identifier to a specific object, determining a platform type on which the received query is executable and translating the standard syntax wrapped query language query into the determined native query language used by the determined data storage platform type. |
| US10824635B2 |
System for dynamic intelligent code change implementation
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for data transformation prediction and code change analysis. The present invention is configured to electronically receive one or more data transformation protocols; electronically extract data from a first source system based on at least receiving the one or more data transformation protocols; determine the one or more target systems associated with the data transformation request; extract a source code associated with each of the one or more target applications; transform the source code associated with each of the one or more target applications based on at least the one or more data transformation protocols; and implement the one or more changes to the one or more target systems based on at least transforming the source code associated with each of the one or more target applications. |
| US10824628B2 |
Method, terminal device and storage medium for mining entity description tag
The present disclosure provides a method, a terminal device and a storage medium for mining an entity description tag. The method includes: acquiring a group of one or more core words corresponding to each field and a first syntax dependent template corresponding to each core word; performing a matching on each data in a first data source by using the first syntax dependent template to determine a first description tag set in each field; performing a recognition on each data in a second data source to determine an entity set; determining a second description tag set based on a matching degree between each description tag in the description tag set of each field and each data in the second data source; and determining an entity description tag set based on a correlation between each entity in the entity set and each description tag in the second descriptive tag set. |
| US10824627B2 |
Method and system for determining rank positions of non-native items by a ranking system
A method and server for determining rank positions of non-native items by a ranking system is provided. Native items are rankable by the ranking system and non-native items are non-rankable thereby. The method comprises acquiring user interactions associated with items. Each item is associated with a visual position on a SERP such that the native items and the non-native item are arranged in a visual 2-D arrangement having rows, each row has at least two horizontally-arranged items. The method comprises generating a usefulness score for each non-native item by analyzing user interactions associated with (i) the non-native item, (ii) items being horizontally-arranged after the non-native item and (iii) with items being vertically-arranged after the non-native item. The method comprises training the ranking system to predict a predicted usefulness score. The method also comprises determining an optimal ranked position for a non-native item by the ranking system during an in-use phase. |
| US10824623B2 |
Efficient time-range queries on databases in distributed computing systems
The present disclosure relates to querying data cores for data items that correspond to a specified time range. Probabilistic data structures corresponding to associated data cores are used to filter the plurality of data cores to identify a subset of data cores that contain data items corresponding to the specified time range. Only the subset of the plurality of data cores determined to contain relevant data items are searched. |
| US10824621B2 |
Open query language
The disclosure includes a system and method for generating a platform independent response to an input query. A query parsing application receives an input query from a user, generates an intermediate query token from the input query, converts the intermediate query token to a destination specific query, receives a response to the destination specific query, and formats the response to the destination specific query to generate a platform independent response to the input query. |