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| US10854397B2 |
Electric machine, motor vehicle with electric machine, and method for operating an electric machine
An electric machine, to a motor vehicle with such an electric machine, and to a method for operating such an electric machine. The electric machine includes at least one sliding contact which is formed by a slip ring connected to a rotor and by at least one brush and via which an operating current flows during an operation of the electric machine. A control unit is configured to control the operation of the electric machine. The control unit is configured to verify a predetermined operating criterion of the electric machine and, if said operating criterion is met, to inject a cleaning current according to a predetermined scheme, which then flows independently of the operating current via the sliding contact and cleans said sliding contact in order to maintain or improve a current transfer capability of the sliding contact. |
| US10854396B2 |
Packaging material for electrochemical cells
A packaging material for electrochemical cells, which has insulating properties sufficient for preventing a short circuit, while exhibiting excellent electrolyte solution resistance and water vapor barrier properties. A packaging material for electrochemical cells is obtained by sequentially laminating a metal layer, an adhesive resin layer and a thermally adhesive resin layer in this order, wherein: a base coating layer is provided between the metal layer and the adhesive resin layer; and the base coating layer contains at least a zirconium oxide (A) having an average particle diameter within the range of from 1 nm to 500 nm (inclusive), one or more phosphorus-containing compounds (B) selected from the group of phosphorus compounds having 4 or more phosphonic groups in each molecule, and an acid-modified polyolefin resin (C). |
| US10854394B2 |
Stretchable capacitor electrode-conductor structure
A stretchable capacitor electrode-conductor structure includes a capacitor electrode and a conductor structure forming an integrated molding. The capacitor electrode includes a plurality of carbon nanotube layers, and an active substance layer is located between adjacent carbon nanotube layers. Both the carbon nanotube layer and the conductor structure include a plurality of super-aligned carbon nanotube films. A surface of the stretchable capacitor electrode-conductor structure comprises a plurality of wrinkles. A stretchable supercapacitor including the stretchable capacitor electrode-conductor structure is also provided. |
| US10854392B2 |
Multi-layer ceramic electronic component, multi-layer ceramic electronic component mounting substrate, multi-layer ceramic electronic component package, and method of producing a multi-layer ceramic electronic component
A multi-layer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including internal electrodes laminated in a first direction, a first main surface including a first flat region facing in the first direction, and a second main surface including a second flat region facing in the first direction; and a pair of external electrodes connected to the internal electrodes and facing each other in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a dimension of the ceramic body in the first direction being 1.1 times or more and 1.6 times or less a dimension of the ceramic body in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, the first flat region being formed at a center portion of the first main surface in the second direction, the second flat region being formed at a center portion of the second main surface in the third direction. |
| US10854390B2 |
Electronic component with interposer
The present technology provides an electronic component with an interposer, including an electronic component and an interposer. An adhesive section is disposed in an opposing space between a main body of the electronic component and a substrate. When a direction in which first and second external electrodes of the electronic component face each other is a first direction, a direction orthogonal to the first direction is a second direction, and a direction in which the electronic component and the interposer face each other is a third direction, the adhesive section includes a plurality of unitary adhesive sections separated from each other, and the unitary adhesive sections are disposed in a two-dimensional array such that the number of unitary adhesive sections arrayed along the second direction is smaller on opposing sides in the first direction than at a center. |
| US10854381B2 |
Device and method for connecting sheet metal parts to form lamination stacks
A device and a method for connecting sheet metal parts to form lamination stacks are demonstrated, in which sheet metal parts are stamped out of an electrical steel strip by means of at least one stamping stage, which has a die and a cutting edge that cooperates with the die, and the stamped-out sheet metal parts are stacked and at least integrally joined to form a plurality of lamination stacks; at least between a first sheet metal part of the stacked sheet metal parts and the subsequent second sheet metal part of the stacked sheet metal parts, a separating element is provided in order to facilitate the separation of the integrally joined sheet metal parts in lamination stacks. In order to improve the reproducibility of the method, when applying the separating element, it is proposed that after the first sheet metal part is stamped out and before the second sheet metal part is stamped out, the separating element which, in accordance with the die geometry, is smaller or of the same size is conveyed to the die, is inserted into said die, and is thus provided to the first sheet metal part. |
| US10854373B2 |
Inductor device
An inductor device includes a resin film, a first base conductor layer formed on one surface of the resin film and having a first pad, a second base conductor layer formed on the other surface of the resin film and having a second pad, a through-hole penetrating from the first pad to the second pad, a through conductor filled in the through-hole and provided to connect the first pad and the second pad each other, a first insulating layer formed on the one surface of the resin film and having an opening arranged on the first base conductor layer, and a first conductor part formed on the first base conductor layer in the opening of the first insulating layer. A first conductor pattern layer includes the first base conductor layer and the first conductor part. The first conductor pattern layer has a convex sectional shape. |
| US10854371B2 |
Coil element
A coil element includes a core member, a plate portion connected to one end of the columnar portion, a coil conductor wire, and a terminal electrode. The core member has a flat-shaped connection end portion provided in each of both end portions of the coil portion. The plate portion has a principal surface, a first surface connected to the principal surface, and a second surface connected to the principal surface and the first surface. The terminal electrode has an electrode layer and a joint layer. The electrode layer is formed on either the first surface or the second surface of the plate portion. The joint layer includes a cavity portion locally provided between the connection end portion and the electrode layer and joins the connection end portion and the electrode layer to each other. |
| US10854368B2 |
Electrical equipment with rupture oil deflector
An electrical equipment is provided that prevents uncontrolled explosions that may occur due to arc faults in the tank. During an overpressure condition caused by an arc fault, the top of the tank ruptures along a weakened region. Cooling oil that escapes during a rupture is redirected by a deflector to prevent the oil from spraying outward from the tank. |
| US10854366B2 |
Magnetic assembly structure and assembling/disassembling method using the magnetic assembly structure
A magnetic assembly structure has a main body and an inserting component. A first receiving slot of the main body receives a first magnetic component, and a second receiving slot of the main body penetrates a main body surface to form a main body opening on the main body surface. An engagement slot of the main body is disposed between the first receiving slot and the second receiving slot, communicated with the second receiving slot, and has a contacting surface being away from the main body surface with a distance. The receiving slot of the inserting component receives a second magnetic component. The inserting component is inserted into the second receiving slot via the main body opening, and the second magnetic component moves into the engagement slot. The magnetic assembly is assembled with a less force, has higher safety, and is hard to be disassembled without allowance or explanations. |
| US10854365B2 |
Soft magnetic alloy and magnetic device
Provided is a soft magnetic alloy including Fe, as a main component, and including B. Among 80000 pieces of a grid having 1 nm×1 nm×1 nm in a continuous measurement range of the soft magnetic alloy, 4000 pieces of the grid from lower Fe content shows B content variation (σB) of 2.8 or more, and an amorphization ratio X of the soft magnetic alloy of 85% or more. |
| US10854362B2 |
Guide-connected contactor and portable electronic device comprising same
Provided are a guide-connected contactor and a portable electronic device comprising same. A guide-connected contactor, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises: an elastic conductor which comes in contact with a circuit board of an electronic device or a bracket connected to the circuit board; a functional element which is connected to the elastic conductor and has a first electrode and a second electrode on the upper surface and the lower surface, respectively; and a guide which is plate-shaped, has the functional element connected thereto, and is connected to a groove portion provided on a conductive case of the electronic device. |
| US10854361B2 |
Thermistor element and manufacturing method therefor
A thermistor element includes an element body made of ceramic and including first and second end surfaces opposite to each other and a peripheral surface located between the first end surface and the second end surface, first and second external electrodes respectively covering the first and second end surfaces and portion of the peripheral surface adjacent to the respective first and second end surfaces. The first and second external electrodes include electrode layers including an underlayer and a metal plating layer, the underlayer of the first external electrode includes, adjacent to or in a vicinity of the second external electrode, two second external electrode side corner portions that are thin and adjacent to each other, and the underlayer of the second external electrode includes, adjacent to or in a vicinity of the first external electrode, two first external electrode side corner portions that are thin and adjacent to each other. |
| US10854358B2 |
Wire harness manufacturing method and wire harness manufacturing device
A wire harness manufacturing method includes manufacturing a standard-size electric wire in which a terminal-equipped electric wire which is connected to a terminal is manufactured in lot units for each type, clamping the terminal-equipped electric wire to a pair of electric wire clips, dispensing a plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires respectively clamped by the electric wire clamps to electric wire holders, storing the plurality of the terminal-equipped electric wires temporarily in the electric wire holders, locking the both end portions of the terminal-equipped electric wire to an electric wire clip tool respectively and aggregating an electric wire group configuring a wire harness at the electric wire clip tool to form a harness set, and detaching the end portions of the terminal-equipped electric wire from the harness set and inserting the terminal connected and fixed into a terminal accommodating chamber of a connector housing. |
| US10854357B2 |
Coating material for forming conductive release layer, method for producing same, conductive release film, and method for producing same
Provided is a coating material for forming a conductive release layer capable of forming a conductive release layer having high adhesion to a film base material, suppressing deterioration in conductivity over time in the air, and having a sufficient releasing property. The coating material for forming a conductive release layer of the present invention contains a conductive composite including a π-conjugated conductive polymer and a polyanion, an epoxy compound having an epoxy group, a curable silicone, a polyester resin, and an organic solvent. |
| US10854356B2 |
Fire resistant cable with ceramifiable layer
A fire resistant cable comprising: a conducting element (2; 21); a layer, surrounding the conducting element, made of a ceramifiable composition comprising: —a thermoplastic polymer mixture comprising: (a) a copolymer of ethylene with a C4-C12 alpha-olefin, having a density of from 0.860 to 0.910 g/cm3, a melt flow index not higher than 3 g/10 min and a melting point of 105° C. at most; (b) an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer of ethylene with a C4-C12 alpha-olefin, having a density of from 0.900 to 0.985 g/cm3, a melt flow index not higher than 5 g/10 min and a melting point of at least 110° C.; and (c) a polyethylene grafted with an ethylenically unsaturated monomer; —at least 25 wt % of silica; —a fluxing agent selected from alkaline metal oxides or precursors thereof; —an inorganic hydroxide compound selected from magnesium hydroxide, aluminium hydroxide and mixtures thereof; —a stabilizing agent comprising a hydrated magnesium silicate in an amount of at least 5 wt %; weight percentages being based on the total weight of the ceramifiable composition. Upon exposure to elevated temperatures such as those encountered in case of fire, the ceramifiable composition is transformed into a ceramic material capable of protecting the conducting element from fire and mechanical stresses. The fire resistant cable of the present invention can continue operating under fire conditions for a certain period of time. |
| US10854355B2 |
Method of making a stretchable conductor
A stretchable conductor includes a substrate with a first major surface and an elongate wire, wherein the substrate is an elastomeric material, the elongate wire is on the first major surface of the substrate, the wire includes a first end and a second end, and further includes at least one arcuate region between the first end and the second end. At least one portion of the arcuate region of the wire in the region has a first surface area portion embedded in the surface of the substrate and a second surface area portion unembedded on the substrate and exposed in an amount sufficient to render at least an area of the substrate in the region electrically conductive. The unembedded second surface portion of the arcuate region may lie above or below a plane of the substrate. Additionally, different methods of preparing said stretchable conductor are disclosed. Composite articles including said stretchable conductor in durable electrical contact with a conductive fabric are also disclosed. |
| US10854354B2 |
Downhole cables and methods of making the same
A method and method of using a cable that includes a cable core. The cable core has an inner armor wire layer disposed thereabout. The inner armor wire layer has an outer armor wire layer disposed thereabout. The inner armor wire layer and outer armor wire layer have torque removed therefrom during manufacturing. |
| US10854353B2 |
Cable with terminal formed therein and wire harness
A terminal-equipped electrical wire that includes a terminal fitting; an electrical wire that includes a conductor surrounded by an insulation covering and is electrically connected to the terminal fitting in an electrical connection; and a resin cover that is made of a resin material and covers the electrical connection, wherein the resin cover is in contact with the terminal fitting and the insulation covering, a tensile shear adhesion strength between the resin cover and the terminal fitting is 1.0 MPa or higher, and a tensile shear adhesion strength between the resin cover and the insulation covering is 0.5 MPa or higher. |
| US10854347B2 |
System and method for harvesting of activated irradiation targets from a nuclear reactor and radionuclide generation system
A method for harvesting activated irradiation targets from an instrumentation tube system of a nuclear reactor comprises: Coupling the instrumentation tube system to a discharge tube having an apex, exit port and lock element between the apex and exit port; Passing the activated irradiation targets from the instrumentation tube system into the discharge tube and blocking movement of said targets out of the discharge tube using the lock element; Separating a predefined quantity of the targets from another quantity of targets in the discharge tube by passing the predefined quantity of targets over the apex, retaining the remainder in the discharge tube by means of the apex; Coupling the exit port to a storage container and releasing the lock element to pass via gravity the predefined quantity of targets into the storage container. Systems for generating radionuclides and harvesting activated irradiation targets adapted to the above method are also provided. |
| US10854346B2 |
Fuel basket for spent nuclear fuel and container implementing the same
An apparatus for supporting spent nuclear fuel. The apparatus may include a basket apparatus that is designed to be inserted into a cavity of a container or cask. The basket apparatus may be formed by arranging a plurality of slotted plates in an intersecting manner. The slotted plates may form fuel cells for storing fuel assemblies with spent nuclear fuel rods therein and flux trap spaces between adjacent ones of the fuel cells. Furthermore, the apparatus may include reinforcement members positioned in the flux traps to increase the structural strength of the basket apparatus. |
| US10854341B2 |
Low power pressure tube nuclear reactor
A low-power nuclear reactor includes a housing and a reflector forming a reactor core. The core includes inner and outer primary tubes therein, arranged together as bayonet tubes and intended for circulating a coolant, and secondary tubes, accommodating elements of a control and protection system. The reactor further includes an intake chamber for coolant of a primary loop, and a discharge chamber for coolant of the primary loop, separated by a partition. The outer primary tubes are secured on the intake chamber's bottom, and the inner primary tubes are secured on the partition. Fuel assemblies are mounted in the inner primary tubes on suspensions, which are mounted on the discharge chamber's upper portion. The secondary tubes are sealed off from the intake and discharge chambers for the coolant of the primary loop, and an inter-tube space of the core is filled with a medium or material transparent to neutrons. |
| US10854337B2 |
Database management and graphical user interfaces for measurements collected by analyzing blood
Methods and devices include database management and graphical user interfaces for measurements collected by analyzing blood. |
| US10854336B1 |
Methods and systems for customizing informed advisor pairings
A system for customizing informed advisor pairings, the system including a computing device. The computing device is configured to identify a user feature wherein the user feature contains a user biological extraction. The computing device is configured to generate using element training data and using a first machine-learning algorithm a first machine-learning model that outputs advisor elements. The computing device receives an informed advisor element relating to an informed advisor. The computing device determines using output advisor elements whether an informed advisor is compatible for a user. |
| US10854333B2 |
Method and system for setting time blocks
A method and system for setting time blocks of a repeating time period is disclosed. The method and system may be a part of a healthcare management software system. |
| US10854331B2 |
Processing a query using transformed raw data
A transformation on raw data is applied to produce transformed data, where the transformation includes at least one selected from among a summary of the raw data or a transform of the raw data between different domains. In response to a query to access data, the query is processed using the transformed data. |
| US10854327B2 |
Diagnostic imaging system
This diagnostic imaging system is configured to create report data including a diagnostic image and an analysis result as image data and create sample data including a sampling position and an analysis result as document data. |
| US10854321B2 |
System and method for electronic communication
A system for enabling management and sharing of health records of a first user with a second user, wherein system includes a health record upload module that enables uploading of the health record onto a central repository, and a health record sharing module that enables the first user to select the second user from a list of a plurality of users and share the uploaded health record with the second user. The system is further configured with an interface that enables the first user to post any a combination of a comment, an image, a discussion topic, an update, a message, and a reply message. |
| US10854319B2 |
Systems and methods for visualizing clinical trial site performance
Systems and methods for visualizing clinical trial site performance, or other multi-dimensional (or multi-parameter) datasets. |
| US10854314B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for analysis of genetic material
A representation of a nucleic acid sequence encodes a particular gene having at least one intron. An intron signature value corresponding to the at least one intron is determined based on a first computational function applied to at least one portion of the representation of the nucleic acid sequence corresponding to the at least one intron. A protein signature value is determined, being based on a second computational function applied to a representation of a protein. In a database, an association is formed between the intron and protein signature values. This process is repeated for each of a plurality of nucleic acid sequences. Nucleic acid sequences in the database are ordered based on a sort of corresponding intron signature values. An ordering determined by the sort is used to determine or confirm a role or function of a portion of a given nucleic acid sequence. |
| US10854312B2 |
Selective peptide antagonists
Methods and compositions related to the selective, specific disruption of multiple ligand-receptor signaling interactions, such as ligand-receptor interactions implicated in disease, are disclosed. These interactions may involve multiple cytokines in a single receptor family or multiple ligand receptor interactions from at least two distinct ligand-receptor families. The compositions may comprise polypeptides having composite sequences that comprise sequence fragments of two or more ligand binding sites. The methods and compositions may involve sequence fragments of two or more ligand binding sites that are arranged to conserve the secondary structure of each of the ligands from which the sequence fragments were taken. |
| US10854309B2 |
Memory system and operating method thereof
A memory system and an operating method thereof are provided. The memory system includes a storage device including a mode register suitable for activating or inactivating an auto mode and a memory suitable for storing data, and a storage device controller controlling the mode register to enter a test mode, after inactivating the auto mode, during a test operation of the storage device, and controlling the mode register to activate the auto mode again when the test operation of the storage device is completed. |
| US10854304B1 |
Apparatus and methods for seeding operations concurrently with data line set operations
Methods of operating a memory, and memory configured to perform similar methods, might include performing a sense operation on a particular memory cell of a first string of series-connected memory cells selectively connected to a first data line, applying a first voltage level to the access line for a second memory cell of the first string, applying a second voltage level higher than the first voltage level to the access line for the particular memory cell, applying a third voltage level to the first data line concurrently with applying the first voltage level and concurrently with applying the second voltage level, and applying a fourth voltage level higher than the third voltage level to a second data line selectively connected to a second string of series-connected memory cells concurrently with applying the third voltage level to the first data line. |
| US10854302B2 |
Memory system and memory control method
A memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory having a plurality of memory cells and a memory controller for controlling the nonvolatile memory. The plurality of memory cells is divided into different groups, and each group is assigned a threshold read count value from a predetermined range of read count values. The memory controller includes a counter which tracks a read count for each group, a determination circuit configured to compare the read count for each group tracked by the counter to the assigned threshold read count value for the group, and a nonvolatile memory read/write circuit configured to read data from the group when the determination circuit indicates the read count for the group has reached the assigned threshold read count value. |
| US10854301B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for reducing read disturb
Apparatuses and methods for reducing read disturb are described herein. An example apparatus may include a first memory subblock including a first select gate drain (SGD) switch and a first select gate source (SGS) switch, a second memory subblock including a second SGD switch and a second SGS switch, and an access line associated with the first and second memory subblocks. The apparatus may include a control unit configured to enable the first and second SGD switches and the first and second SGS switches during a first portion of a read operation and to provide a first voltage on the access line during the first portion. The control unit may be configured to disable the first SGD switch and the first SGS switches during a second portion of the read operation and to provide a second voltage on the access line during the second portion. |
| US10854297B1 |
Operating method of a low current electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) array
An operating method of low current electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) array is provided. The EEPROM array comprises a plurality of bit line groups, word lines, common source lines, and sub-memory arrays. A first memory cell of each sub-memory array is connected with one bit line of a first bit line group, a first common source line, and a first word line. A second memory cell of each sub-memory array is connected with the other bit line of the first bit line group, the first common source line, and a second word line. The first and second memory cells are symmetrically arranged at two opposite sides of the first common source line. By employing the proposed specific operation and bias conditions of the present invention, rapidly bytes programming and erasing functions with low current, low voltage and low cost goals are accomplished. |
| US10854296B2 |
Semiconductor device and programming method of the semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes strings each having a plurality of memory cells. The strings are coupled between a common source line and a bit line. A method of operating the semiconductor device includes applying a pre-program voltage to a selected word line coupled to a selected memory cell and to an unselected word line coupled to an unselected memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell among the plurality of memory cells. The method further includes applying a first program voltage to the selected word line. |
| US10854293B2 |
Segmented memory operation
Methods of operating a memory include activating a respective memory cell of each string of series-connected memory cells of a plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells, selectively activating a target memory cell of a selected string of series-connected memory cells of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells depending upon its data state, and deactivating a respective memory cell of each string of series-connected memory cells of a first subset of the plurality of strings of series-connected memory cells. |
| US10854289B2 |
Resistive memory device providing reference calibration, and operating method thereof
A resistive memory device configured to calibrate a reference resistor includes a calibration resistor circuit including a calibration resistor, a first reference resistor, a first sense amplifier configured to compare input currents, a first switch set including a plurality of switches, and a controller configured to control the first switch set to allow the first sense amplifier to compare a first reference current passing through the first reference resistor with a first read current passing through a first memory cell during a read operation and compare the first reference current with a first calibration current passing through the calibration resistor during a calibrate operation. A path of the first reference current during the read operation is different from a path of the first reference current during the calibrate operation. |
| US10854283B2 |
Memory device with enhanced access capability and associated method
A memory array includes a first memory cell and a second memory cell. Each of the first and the second memory cells includes a data storage element having a first terminal and a second terminal, a first access transistor coupled to the first terminal of the data storage element, and a second access transistor coupled to the second terminal of the data storage element. The memory array also includes a first word line and a second word line coupled to the first access transistor and the second access transistor, respectively, of the first memory cell, wherein the first word line and the second word line are operated independently during a read operation and activated at the same time during a write operation. The memory array further includes a first bit line coupled to the first access transistor of the first memory cell, a second bit line coupled to the second access transistor of the first memory cell, a third bit line coupled to the first access transistor of the second memory cell, and a first sense amplifier coupled to the first bit line and the third bit line. |
| US10854275B2 |
Memory device and operation method thereof
An operation method of a memory device which includes a plurality of memory cells connected to a plurality of word lines includes receiving a first activate command from an external device, receiving at least one operation command from the external device after the first activate command is received, receiving a precharge command after receiving the at least one operation command, and receiving a second activate command from the external device after the precharge command is received. When the at least one operation command does not include a write command, the second activate command is received after a first precharge reference time elapses from a time at which the precharge command is received. When the at least one operation command includes the write command, the second activate command is received after a second precharge reference time elapses from the time at which the precharge command is received. |
| US10854274B1 |
Apparatuses and methods for dynamic timing of row pull down operations
Apparatuses, systems and methods for dynamic timing of row pull-down operations are described herein. When a word line is accessed, the row decoder may drive that word line to an active voltage, and then to an intermediate voltage. The row decoder may maintain that word line at the intermediate voltage until another word line in the same group of word lines as the accessed word line receives an access command, at which point the first word line is driven to an inactive voltage. For example, if the word lines are grouped by bank, then after an access to a first word line, the first word line may be maintained at the intermediate voltage until a second wordline in the same bank as the first word line is accessed. This may help to mitigate the effect on other nearby word lines of driving a word line to the inactive voltage. |
| US10854269B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for compute components formed over an array of memory cells
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to compute components formed over an array of storage elements. An example apparatus comprises a base substrate material and an array of memory cells formed over the base substrate material. The array can include a plurality of access transistors comprising a first semiconductor material. A compute component can be formed over and coupled to the array. The compute component can include a plurality of compute transistors comprising a second semiconductor material. The second semiconductor material can have a higher concentration of doping ions than the first semiconductor material. |
| US10854268B2 |
Memory plate segmentation to reduce operating power
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. An electronic memory device may include a plurality of plate portions separated by a plurality of segmentation lines, which may be oriented in a plane parallel to rows of a memory array or columns of the memory array, or both. The segmented plate may be employed instead of a single plate for the array. The one or more plate portions may be energized during access operations of a ferroelectric cell in order to create a voltage different across the cell or to facilitate changing the charge of the cell. Each of the plate portions may include one or more memory cells. The memory cells on a plate portion may be read from or written to after the plate portion is activated by a plate driver. |
| US10854257B2 |
Electric field switchable magnetic devices
A magnetic device may include a layer stack. The layer stack may include a first ferromagnetic layer; a non-magnetic spacer layer on the first ferromagnetic layer, where the non-magnetic spacer layer comprises at least one of Ru, Ir, Ta, Cr, W, Mo, Re, Hf, Zr, or V; a second ferromagnetic layer on the non-magnetic spacer layer; and an oxide layer on the second ferromagnetic layer. The magnetic device also may include a voltage source configured to apply a bias voltage across the layer stack to cause switching of a magnetic orientation of the second ferromagnetic layer without application of an external magnetic field or a current. A thickness and composition of the non-magnetic spacer layer may be selected to enable a switching direction of the magnetic orientation of the second ferromagnetic layer to be controlled by a sign of the bias voltage. |
| US10854250B2 |
Memory device including a circuit for detecting word line defect and operating method thereof
A memory device comprises a memory cell array including a first memory cell disposed on a substrate and a second memory cell above the first memory cell; a first word line connected to the first memory cell and a second word line connected to the second memory cell, the second word line disposed above the first word line; and a word line defect detection circuit configured to monitor a number of pulses of a pumping clock signal while applying a first voltage to the first word line to detect a defect of the first word line. The voltage generator is configured to apply a second voltage different from the first voltage to the second word line for programming the second memory cell when the number of pulses of the pumping clock signal is smaller than a reference value. |
| US10854249B2 |
Data and clock synchronization and variation compensation apparatus and method
An apparatus is provided for mitigating uncertainties in process, voltage, random, and systematic variations between first and second dies. The first die comprises a clock compensator to adjust one or more signal characteristics of an input clock, and to provide first and second clocks; a data transmitter to sample data with a version of the first clock and to transmit the sampled data to a data receiver of the second die, wherein the data receiver is to receive the sampled data and generate a received data; and a clock transmitter to transmit the second clock to a clock receiver of the second die, wherein the clock receiver is to generate a third clock, wherein a phase of the third clock is adjusted to generate a fourth clock, wherein a delayed version of the fourth clock is received by a sampler coupled to the data receiver to sample the received data. |
| US10854248B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes an input/output (I/O) line drive control circuit and a data I/O circuit. The I/O line drive control circuit is configured to generate drive control pulses having a generation sequence, wherein the generation sequence of the drive control pulses are controlled based on a command pulse and address latch signals, and wherein the address latch signals are set based on when the command pulse is generated to perform a read operation or a write operation. The command pulse is generated to perform a read operation or a write operation. The data I/O circuit controls data I/O operations of a plurality of bank groups based on the drive control pulses. |
| US10854241B2 |
Generation of media diff files
A method is disclosed in which first payload data included in a first file container and second payload data included in a second file container are determined. The first payload data is decoded to determine first un-encoded data representing first content, and the second payload data is decoded to determine second un-encoded data representing second content. At least one difference is determined between the first un-encoded data and the second un-encoded data, and third un-encoded data corresponding to the at least one difference is determined. The third un-encoded data is encoded to generate third payload data representing third content, and a third file container is generated that includes the third payload data. |
| US10854238B2 |
Magnetic disk device and linearity error correction method
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a disk including a recording region including servo sectors, a head configured to write data to the disk and read data from the disk, and a controller configured to demodulate a plurality of pieces of demodulation data from servo data read from servo sectors, divide the demodulation data into a plurality of pieces of division data corresponding to division regions, perform linearity correction corresponding to a plurality of pieces of division data in each of the division regions. |
| US10854228B2 |
Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer
The magnetic tape includes a magnetic layer including ferromagnetic powder, non-magnetic powder, and a binding agent and a back coating layer including non-magnetic powder and a binding agent, in which the ferromagnetic powder is ferromagnetic hexagonal ferrite powder, a center line average surface roughness measured regarding a surface of the magnetic layer is equal to or smaller than 1.8 nm, an intensity ratio of a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (110) plane with respect to a peak intensity of a diffraction peak of a (114) plane of a hexagonal ferrite crystal structure obtained by an X-ray diffraction analysis of the magnetic layer by using an In-Plane method is 0.5 to 4.0, a vertical squareness ratio of the magnetic tape is 0.65 to 1.00, and a contact angle with respect to 1-bromonaphthalene measured regarding a surface of the back coating layer is 15.0° to 30.0°. |
| US10854224B1 |
Differential recessed topography of a media-facing surface
An apparatus comprising a slider is configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording. The slider comprises a media-facing surface. One or more reader elements are positioned in a reader region of the slider, and the one or more reader elements have an average first elevation at the media-facing surface. One or more writer elements are positioned in a writer region of the slider, and the one or more writer elements have an average second elevation at the media-facing surface. The average second elevation is less than the average first elevation. |
| US10854223B2 |
Method of producing a magnetic structure
A device and to a method of producing a device, wherein the method includes, inter alia, providing a substrate and generating at least two mutually spaced-apart cavities within the substrate. In accordance with the invention, each cavity has a depth of at least 50 μm. The cavities are filled up with magnetic particles, wherein the magnetic particles enter into contact with one another at points of contact, and wherein cavities are formed between the points of contact. At least some of the magnetic particles are connected to one another at their points of contact, specifically by coating the magnetic particles, wherein the cavities are at least partly penetrated by the layer produced in the coating process, so that the connected magnetic particles form a magnetic porous structure. |
| US10854222B2 |
Magnetic recording and reproducing device having a magnetic recording head including a magnetic flux control layer between a main magnetic pole and an auxiliary magnetic pole
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device includes a magnetic flux control layer provided between a main magnetic pole and an auxiliary magnetic pole, and a protective layer provided on an ABS of the auxiliary magnetic pole. The magnetic flux control layer includes an adjustment layer formed of a magnetic material including one of Fe, Co or Ni and is provided between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, and generates a spin torque and inverts a direction of magnetization in the adjustment layer, when current is supplied. A voltage Vb applied to the magnetic flux control layer is lower than a voltage Vba represented by an expression (1), Vba=Vb0−a×1/log(t)×log(RH)×log(PO2). |
| US10854219B2 |
Voice interaction apparatus and voice interaction method
A voice interaction apparatus acquires a speech signal indicative of a speech sound, identifies a series of pitches of the speech sound from the speech signal, and causes a reproduction device to reproduce a response voice of pitches controlled in accordance with the lowest pitch of the pitches identified during a tailing section proximate to an end point within the speech sound. |
| US10854208B2 |
Apparatus and method realizing improved concepts for TCX LTP
An apparatus for decoding an encoded audio signal to obtain a reconstructed audio signal is provided. The apparatus includes a receiving interface, a delay buffer and a sample processor for processing the selected audio signal samples to obtain reconstructed audio signal samples of the reconstructed audio signal. The sample selector is configured to select, if a current frame is received by the receiving interface and if the current frame being received by the receiving interface is not corrupted, the plurality of selected audio signal samples from the audio signal samples being stored in the delay buffer depending on a pitch lag information being included by the current frame. |
| US10854206B1 |
Identifying users through conversations for assistant systems
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a client system a user request from a first user, determining a necessity for resolving the first user to a known entity to execute one or more tasks associated with the user request based on privacy restrictions associated with the user request, determining a set of candidate entities for the first user based on one or more machine-learning models, each candidate entity being associated with a respective confidence score greater than a threshold score, sending instructions for prompting the first user to select a candidate entity from the set of candidate entities, resolving the first user to a selected candidate entity responsive to receiving a selection from the first user, and executing the one or more tasks associated with the user request based on a user profile associated with the selected candidate entity. |
| US10854203B2 |
Personal information assistant computing system
A personal information assistant computing system may include a user computing device having a processor and a non-transitory memory device storing instructions. The personal information assistant may receive a user accessible input as a natural language communication from the user, which may be analyzed by a personal information assistant to determine a task to be performed by the virtual information assistant. The personal information assistant may be personalized to the user using encrypted user information. The personal information assistant communicates with a remote computing system in performance of a computer-assisted task, wherein the first personal information assistant interacts as a proxy for the user in response to at least one response received from the remote computing system. The personal information assistant may communicate the results of the task to the user via a user information screen and/or an audio device. |
| US10854201B2 |
Voice control for a vehicle
The disclosure relates to a human-machine interface (HMI) for a vehicle having a microphone for registering a command word spoken by a driver or further occupant of the vehicle and a control unit, which has a speech recognition module for recognizing multiple specific command words. |
| US10854199B2 |
Communications with trigger phrases
In one example of the disclosure, microphone data indicative of a user spoken phrase is captured utilizing a microphone. The microphone data is analyzed to detect a trigger phrase. A wakeup event is performed responsive to the detection of the trigger phrase. At least a portion of the microphone data is sent to the computing device for the computing device to send to a server system. |
| US10854195B2 |
Dialogue processing apparatus, a vehicle having same, and a dialogue processing method
A dialogue processing apparatus and method monitor an intensity of an acoustic signal that is input in real time and determine that speech recognition has started, when the intensity of the input acoustic signal is equal to or greater than a reference value, allowing a user to start speech recognition by an utterance without an additional trigger. A vehicle can include the apparatus and method. The apparatus includes: a monitor to compare an input signal level with a reference level in real time and to determine that speech is input when the input signal level is greater than the reference level; a speech recognizer to output a text utterance by performing speech recognition on the input signal when it is determined that the speech is input; a natural language processor to extract a domain and a keyword based on the utterance; and a dialogue manager to determine whether a previous context is maintained based on the domain and the keyword. |
| US10854188B2 |
Synthesized voice selection for computational agents
An example method includes receiving, by a computational assistant executing at one or more processors, a representation of an utterance spoken at a computing device; selecting, based on the utterance, an agent from a plurality of agents, wherein the plurality of agents includes one or more first party agents and a plurality of third-party agents; responsive to determining that the selected agent comprises a first party agent, selecting a reserved voice from a plurality of voices; and outputting synthesized audio data using the selected voice to satisfy the utterance. |
| US10854187B2 |
Active noise control system and on-vehicle audio system
Audio (noise source) is output as a cancellation sound through a variable filter and a first filter, and transmitted to the second filter. A subtractor subtracts an output of a second filter from an output of a microphone, and an adaptive algorithm execution unit updates a transfer function of the variable filter so that the subtracted result becomes zero (0). A transfer function A for the first filter is a transfer function which can cancel noise at a position of a user's ear by setting, as the cancellation sound, a sound obtained by applying the transfer function A to audio at the time of learning, and a transfer function B for the second filter is a transfer function which can eliminate, for the cancellation sound, a difference between a sound obtained by applying the transfer function B to audio and the output of the microphone. |
| US10854184B2 |
Friction damped insert for highly stressed engineering components
A friction damped insert for highly stressed engineering components is disclosed. The disclosed inventive concept provides a method and system for increasing the damping capacity of an engineering system by adding a non-flat solid, highly damped insert to a system component that contributes most to the system's dynamic response. The insert can either be embedded into a system component during casting or be fastened to the system component outer surface. The insert is made of the single layer of flexible material by forming it into a rigid elongated body. The layer of material can be turned over on itself without folding to create a cylinder or can be folded over a number of times to create a prismatic bar. The layer of material may be shaped into a corrugated panel. The layer of flexible material may have a number of relatively small openings or perforations with a uniform spatial distribution. |
| US10854180B2 |
Method of and system for controlling the qualities of musical energy embodied in and expressed by digital music to be automatically composed and generated by an automated music composition and generation engine
An automated music composition and generation system and process for producing one or more pieces of digital music, by providing a set of musical energy (ME) quality control parameters to an automated music composition and generation engine, applying certain of the selected musical energy quality control parameters as markers to specific spots along the timeline of a selected media object or event marker by the system user during a scoring process, and providing the selected set of musical energy quality control parameters to drive the automated music composition and generation engine to automatically compose and generate one or more pieces of digital music with control over the specified qualities of musical energy embodied in and expressed by the piece of digital music to composed and generated by the automated music composition and generation engine. |
| US10854173B2 |
Systems and methods for interactive control of window/level parameters of multi-image displays
A technology enables interactive control of simultaneously displayed multiple images with high dynamic ranges, which software automation processes are programmed to reduce the complexity in managing and viewing the post window/level adjustment of the multiple images. An image control engine provides several synchronous functional capabilities, which comprises an input module, a blending factor synchronization module, a window/level synchronization module, a display module, and an image storage. For window/level adjustment of the images in blended views, the blending factor synchronization module automatically links the activation of a window/level control of one image with a transparency blending factor that affects both images. For synchronization of window/level adjustments of two or more images, a window/level synchronization module is configured to automatically change window/level parameters of all remaining images when the user makes an adjustment to a window/level control of one image such that all images with updated window/level parameters are displayed simultaneously. |
| US10854167B2 |
Display device and method for controlling the same
A display device includes a display panel, a frame memory, a display control circuit that performs a predetermined process on a first video signal using the frame memory and outputs an obtained second video signal, and a panel drive circuit that drives the display panel based on the second video signal. The display control circuit checks whether the frame memory is normal or abnormal, by storing partial video data included in the first video signal, writing to the frame memory, video data obtained by replacing the partial video data with first test data, and comparing with the first test data, second test data included in the video data read from the frame memory. |
| US10854166B2 |
Multiplexer and method for driving the same
A multiplexer is provided herein. The multiplexer has a plurality of first driving units and a plurality of second driving units. Each of the first driving units has a first data voltage input terminal, and each of the second driving units has a second data voltage input terminal. The first data voltage input terminal and the second data voltage input terminal are configured to receive pixel voltage signals with different polarities. In the first driving unit, a voltage difference between a gate and a drain of a transistor is controlled by a first reset signal, wherein the transistor of the first driving unit is coupled to the first data voltage input terminal and a first data line. In the second driving unit, a voltage difference between a gate and a drain of a transistor is controlled by a second reset signal, wherein the transistor of the second driving unit is coupled to the second data voltage input terminal and a second data line. |
| US10854162B2 |
Gamma voltage regulation circuit, and display device
The present application discloses a gamma voltage regulation circuit, and a display device. The circuit includes: a gamma voltage input port and a gamma voltage output port; a switching controlling circuit, configured to generate a first control signal or a second control signal according to a timing sequence control signal received; a gamma voltage output circuit, configured to switch on when receiving the first switching signal and to output a first gamma voltage input from the gamma voltage input port to the gamma voltage output port; a gamma voltage processing circuit, configured to convert the first gamma voltage input from the gamma voltage input port to a second gamma voltage when receiving the second control signal and then to output the second gamma voltage to the gamma voltage output port. |
| US10854161B2 |
Display device and method of detecting defect of the same
A display device includes a display panel divided into a first display area and a second display area in a first direction, a first data driver which provides a first data signal to the first display area through data lines arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, a second data driver which provides a second data signal to the second display area through the data lines arranged in the second direction, a gate driver which provides a gate signal to the display panel through gate lines arranged in the first direction, a timing controller which generates control signals that control the first data driver, the second data driver, and the gate driver, and a defect detector which controls to display a defect detecting image and a reference image on the first display area and the second display area alternately based on an enable signal. |
| US10854154B2 |
Driving method for image display apparatus
A method of driving an image display apparatus which includes an image display panel having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a two-dimensional matrix and each configured from a first subpixel for displaying a first primary color, a second subpixel for displaying a second primary color, a third subpixel for displaying a third primary color and a fourth subpixel for displaying a fourth color, and a signal processing section. The signal processing section is capable of calculating a first subpixel output signal, a second subpixel output signal, a third subpixel output signal, and a fourth subpixel output signal. The method includes a step of calculating a maximum value (Vmax(S)) of brightness, a saturation (S) and brightness (V(S)), and determining the expansion coefficient (α0). |
| US10854152B2 |
Display driver, display controller, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus for reducing memory size of a memory thereof
A display driver includes a processing circuit that performs gray level gamma conversion processing on display data, a memory that stores correspondence information, and a drive circuit. The memory stores lower n bits of m-bit output gray level data in an output gray level group, the processing circuit generates output gray level data corresponding to the m-bit input gray level data based on lower n-bit data, and the drive circuit outputs a drive voltage based on the output gray level data. |
| US10854148B2 |
Method and system of controlling backlight driving
The present disclosure proposes a method and a system of controlling backlight driving. The method includes receiving an initial-pulse-width modulating signal and outputting a corresponding pulse-width modulating signal according to the initial-pulse-width modulating signal. The pulse-width modulating signal is used to control a corresponding LED string to illuminate. A cycle of each of the pulse-width modulating signals is the same with a predetermined phase difference. |
| US10854147B2 |
Visual effect provision method and electronic device using the same
A visual effect provision method and an electronic device using the same. The electronic device includes a display, a bezel bordering at least one side of the display, a light emitting module including multiple light sources, a light diffusing module arranged above the light emitting module to cover the light emitting module, a memory, and a processor configured to control to display an execution screen of an application on the display, determine attribute information on light to be emitted by the light emitting module based on the execution screen of the application, and emit the light by means of the light emitting module based on the attribute information on the light. |
| US10854141B2 |
Pixel array, driving method and organic light emitting display panel
A pixel array, a driving method and an organic light emitting display panel are provided. The pixel array includes pixel driving circuits arranged in N rows and M columns. The pixel driving circuit in the Nth row includes: a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a seventh transistor, and a first capacitor. A first electrode of the second transistor is connected to a data signal voltage via the first transistor and is connected to a first power voltage via the fourth transistor. A second electrode of the second transistor is connected to a light emitting element via the fifth transistor. A gate electrode and the second electrode of the second transistor are connected via the third transistor. The gate electrode of the second transistor is also connected to the seventh transistor. |
| US10854140B2 |
Display device
Disclosed is a display device including: a driving transistor, a first switching transistor, and a pixel transistor each having a gate and a pair of terminals; a storage capacitor having a pair of terminals; and a light-emitting element having an input terminal and an output terminal. One terminal of the driving transistor is electrically connected to one terminal of the pixel transistor. The other terminal of the driving transistor is electrically connected to one terminal of the first switching transistor and the input terminal of the light-emitting element. The other terminal of the first switching transistor is electrically connected to the gate of the driving transistor and one terminal of the capacitor. The one terminal of the capacitor overlaps with an active region of the driving transistor. |
| US10854135B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel having a display area and pixels at the display area, a power supply configured to supply a first power source voltage to the pixels through a first power line extending to the display area, and to supply a second power source voltage lower than the first power source voltage to the pixels through a second power line including first and second side power lines extending in first and second peripheral areas located at first and second sides of the display area of the display panel, a sensor configured to detect first and second detection values corresponding to currents of the first and second side power lines, and a controller configured to control an operation of the power supply, based on a difference between the first detection value and the second detection value. |
| US10854128B2 |
Display panel having virtual driving units and display device
The present disclosure provides a display panel including: gate lines; data lines insulated from and intersecting with gate lines; pixel units; first and second clock signal lines; first and second power signal lines; gate driving units; and virtual driving units. Each gate driving unit has an output terminal electrically connected to gate lines, a first clock signal input terminal electrically connected to first clock signal line, and a second clock signal input terminal electrically connected to second clock signal line. Each virtual driving unit has an output terminal insulated from gate lines, a first clock signal input terminal insulated from first and second clock signal lines, and a second clock signal input terminal insulated from first and second clock signal lines. At least one virtual driving unit is disposed within the rounded angle region and located between two gate driving units. |
| US10854124B2 |
Display panel and display device including the same
A display panel has a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The display area has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and includes: a hollow area having first and second edges; and first to fourth display areas. The display panel includes: a driving chip arranged in the non-display area close to the first side; first data lines arranged in the first display area; second data lines arranged in the second display area; third data lines arranged in the third display area; and fourth data lines arranged in the fourth display area. The first edge is close to the driving chip and the second edge is away from the driving chip, and each second signal line is connected to at least two third data lines through a signal switching circuit. |
| US10854123B2 |
Organic light emitting diode display device
Disclosed herein is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device capable of improving image sticking improvement capability by expanding an image shift orbit or changing the shape of an image shift orbit using a maximum shift range. An image processor of an OLED display device independently determines a pixel shift amount in a horizontal direction and a pixel shift amount in a vertical direction in consideration of a maximum shift range in each of the horizontal and vertical directions, simultaneously applies the determined pixel shift amounts in the horizontal and vertical directions to shift a source image, and outputs the shifted image. |
| US10854115B1 |
Collectable card mounting device and methods of using
A collectable card mounting device may include a rear wall, a pair of opposed arcuate side walls extending in a forward and outward direction from the rear wall and having a retaining lip for engaging a front surface of the collectable card. The side walls may further include a respective collectable card support member extending from each side wall at an angle. The mounting device may display a collectable on both vertical and horizontal surfaces. The arcuate side walls may define front and rear support ridges that support the device in a portrait orientation at a desirable viewing angle on a horizontal surface. A cover sheet may be dimensioned to extend beyond the width of the rear wall and support the device in a landscape orientation at a desirable viewing angle on a horizontal surface. The mounting device configuration provides an aesthetically desirable display of the collectable with only minimal visibility of the mounting device components and which may include a floating effect on a wall. |
| US10854114B2 |
Cyphertext management method, cyphertext management apparatus, and program
By introducing inequality to the information dispersal/sharing storage method, a ciphertext management method or the like is provided to support novel ciphertext data management. After the ciphertext and key data are each divided, pairs of the divided ciphertext and key data are generated. Specifically, they are one-to-one paired as with conventional techniques. Furthermore, additional one-to-many pairs are generated. The generated one-to-one pairs provide equality as with conventional techniques. When the number of the one-to-one pairs of the divided ciphertext and key data that can be used is equal to or greater than a threshold number, both the ciphertext data and the key data can be reconstructed, and accordingly, the secret data can be decoded. In contrast, even when the one-to-many pairs that can be used is equal to or greater than a threshold number, the ciphertext data and/or the key data cannot be reconstructed. This provides inequality. |
| US10854113B2 |
Solid freeform fabrication object, internal organ model, and method of manufacturing the same
A solid freeform fabrication object includes a hydrogel including a polymer, water, and a coloring material inclusion substance. |
| US10854112B2 |
Portable laparoscopic trainer
A portable surgical training device is provided. The trainer includes a top cover spaced apart from a base to form a simulated body cavity for locating model organs that are substantially obscured from the field of view of the user. The top cover includes a video display, fixed insertion ports and interchangeable inserts containing simulated tissue layers. The training device has open sides for demonstrating and training lateral surgical techniques including a simulated or live tissue colon attached to a support leg for simulating transanal minimally invasive surgery. A training endoscope with an adjustable focal length for use with the trainer and, in particular, with optical trocars is disclosed. The surgical trainer can be angled and is well suited for training laparoscopic surgery techniques and demonstrating surgical instruments. |
| US10854110B2 |
Automated real time interpreter service
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods that aid users with hearing and/or speech impediments to have a conversation with a remote phone number without human assistance. In one aspect, an application residing on a user's device, such as a smartphone, tablet computer, laptop, etc., may be used to initiate a phone call to a recipient. Upon initiating the phone call locally, a service residing on the server may receive a request to initiate a connection to the recipient. Once the recipient answers, the user may converse with the recipient by providing text input to their local app. The text input may be transmitted to the service. The service may use a text to speech converter to translate the received text to speech that can be delivered to the recipient. |
| US10854104B2 |
System for movement skill analysis and skill augmentation and cueing
A cue processor uses one or more sensors to obtain motion data for a user performing a physical task in an environment. A cueing law is based on a model determined from the motion data, for example a movement and skill model where the collected motion data are parsed into one or more movement units used to accomplish a range of outcomes. The cue processor generates a movement phase estimation to predict a movement phase and associated movement feature, and applies the cueing law to generate a cue signal. The cue signal is communicated to the user as a visual, audio or haptic stimulus, selected to target the feature for the user to achieve or improve a desired outcome. |
| US10854096B1 |
Three-dimensional representations of objects detected by an unmanned aerial vehicle
Described are systems, methods, and apparatus for detecting objects within a distance of an aerial vehicle, and developing a three-dimensional model or representation of those objects. Rather than attempting to use stereo imagery to determine distances and/or depth of objects, the described implementations utilize range-gating, or time-gating, and the known position of the aerial vehicle to develop a three-dimensional representation of objects. For example, when the aerial vehicle is at a first position it may use range-gating to detect an object at a defined distance from the vehicle. The aerial vehicle may then alter its position and use range-gating to detect an object that is the defined distance from the vehicle at the new position. This may be done at several different positions and the resulting information and aerial vehicle position information combined to form a three-dimensional representation of those objects. |
| US10854093B2 |
System and method for enhancing operator situational awareness of traffic diversion patterns and adapting thereto
A system and methods for enhancing operator situational awareness are disclosed. For example, one method includes monitoring a plurality of radio transmissions associated with a plurality of vehicles in a first traffic flow pattern, monitoring a second traffic flow pattern in a vicinity of a vehicle of the plurality of vehicles, monitoring at least one weather value for a destination site for the plurality of vehicles, proposing a destination approach for the vehicle in response to the monitoring, evaluating an impact of the proposed destination approach on an existing travel path for the vehicle, and generating a second travel path for the vehicle in response to the evaluating. |
| US10854089B2 |
Method for forming and for coordinating at least one group of vehicles
A method for forming and coordinating a group of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles includes a potential platoon vehicle transmitting a coupling inquiry for coupling to a vehicle present in its surroundings to form or modify a vehicle group, establishing or ascertaining a platoon coordination vehicle, which checks whether a conflict exists, and, after the conflict has been resolved or in the absence of the conflict, forming or modifying the group of vehicles. |
| US10854077B2 |
Parking management system and parking management method
A technique for managing parking of vehicles at a lower cost is disclosed. A parking management system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes: a storage unit that stores user information; a reading unit that reads identification information of a parking space from a code associated with the parking space, and a transmission unit that transmits, to the server device, parking position information which includes the stored user information and the read identification information. The server device includes: a receiving unit that receives the parking position information from the terminal device; and an identifying unit that identifies a position where a vehicle is parked and a user of the parked vehicle, based on the received parking position information. |
| US10854075B2 |
Systems and methods for determining road usage by a transport vehicle
The network system triggers registration of the start of a transport journey in response to a communication of a transport user device and a transport provider device with each other, performs a continuous coordinated proximity monitoring to verify the identity of a transport user and a transport provider vehicle, and triggers registration of the end of the transport journey through communication of the transport user device and the transport provider device with each other. |
| US10854070B2 |
Configuring communications for a load control system
A load control system may include multiple control devices that may send load control messages to load control devices for controlling an amount of power provided electrical loads. To prevent collision of the load control messages, the load control messages may be transmitted using different wireless communication channels. Each wireless communication channel may be assigned to a load control group that may include control devices and load control devices capable of communicating with one another on the assigned channel. A control device may send load control messages to a load control device within a transmission frame allocated for transmitting load control messages. The transmission frame may include equal sub-frames and load control messages may be sent at a random time within each sub-frame. Control devices may detect a status event within a sampling interval to offset transmissions from multiple control devices based on detection of the same event. |
| US10854069B2 |
Reduced false alarm security system
Embodiments of a central security monitoring device for reducing incidences of false alarms in a security system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is described, comprising receiving an alarm signal from an occupancy sensor via a receiver, receiving a second alarm signal from a barrier alarm device after receiving the alarm signal, determining, by a processor, an elapsed time from when the alarm signal from the occupancy sensor was received to when the second alarm signal from the barrier alarm device was received, transmitting, by the processor via a network interface, a message to a personal communication device indicating that a false alarm has occurred when the elapsed time is less than the predetermined time. |
| US10854065B1 |
Fan filter replacement mechanism
An electronic device including a housing configured to house one or more electronic components, an air filter, a fan disposed within the housing, and an air pressure sensor disposed within the housing is disclosed. The air filter is disposed within an air inlet defined by the housing. The fan is configured to cause air to enter the housing via the air inlet such that the air flows through the air filter and within the housing. The air pressure sensor generates data used to determine air pressure values within the housing that are based at least in part on the air flowing through the air filter and within the housing. Based on the determined air pressure values from the air pressure sensor, a status of the air filter can be determined, and an indication that the air filter is in need of replacement can be generated and transmitted to a user. |
| US10854061B2 |
Systems and methods for adaptive monitoring of a shipping container for an environmental anomaly
An adaptive method and system for monitoring a shipping container for an environmental anomaly uses sensor-based ID nodes within the container and a command node. Sensors on each ID node generate sensor data about an environmental condition proximate the ID node as disposed within the container. Each ID node periodically broadcasts the sensor data. The command node monitors a first group of sensor data from the ID nodes over a first time period to detect an initial environmental threshold condition related to the container, then monitors a subsequent group of sensor data over a second time period under a modified monitoring parameter to detect a secondary environmental threshold condition related to the container as the anomaly. In response to detecting the secondary condition, the command node generates an alert notification and transmits the alert notification to an external transceiver to initiate a mediation response related to the anomaly. |
| US10854058B2 |
Emergency alert system
The present invention relates to an emergency alert system that triggers a distress event that is automatically managed by a community security system. The emergency alert system is activated through users' mobile devices and initiates communication with the community security system. Management by the community security system includes receiving the GPS location of the mobile device, recording a continuous stream of audio and video from the panic user's mobile application, notifying potential responders or groups of responders in the vicinity of the panic alert and, among other things, activating localized visual and audible deterrents present in surrounding private security systems, intelligently directing community CCTV cameras to record the distress event and issuing notifications to the closest community members for immediate responses, as well as other responders or group notification members. |
| US10854056B2 |
Information processing system, method and computer readable medium for determining whether moving bodies appearing in first and second videos are the same or not
A similarity computation unit (130) derives a first probability P indicating that a first moving body appearing in the first video is the same as a second moving body appearing in the second video on the basis of similarity of feature value of the moving bodies. A non-appearance probability computation unit (140) derives a second probability Q indicating that the first moving body is not the same as the second moving body on the basis of an elapsed time after the first moving body exits from the first video. A person determination unit (150) determines whether the first moving body is the same as the second moving body by comparing the probability P and Q. |
| US10854051B2 |
Systems and methods for transient processing of an audio signal for enhanced haptic experience
Systems and methods for generating a haptic output from an audio signal having a continuous stream of sampled digital audio data are provided. A haptic processing system receives the digital audio data, analyses the digital audio data for processing and extracts haptic signals for generating a haptic effect through an actuator. The method includes passing the digital audio signal on through dynamic processor(s), adjusting the dynamic range of the digital audio signal, extracting the signal envelope of the audio data, synthesising low-frequency signals from the extracted signal envelope, and enhancing the low-frequency content using a resonator. The haptic output is generated by mixing the digital audio signal with outputs from the different modules of the haptic processing system. An analytics module monitors, controls and adjusts the processing of the digital audio signal at the noise gate module, the compressor module and the envelope module to enhance the haptic output. |
| US10854049B2 |
Hardened remote point of sale terminal
Disclosed are various embodiments for improvements in point of sale terminals and payment processing at remote event spaces. The system and apparatuses disclosed herein facilitate the transaction processing of credit cards and other payment vehicles in often remote locations where network connections may be intermittent and suffer from frequent disconnects or interruptions of service. The embodiments disclosed are hardened against the elements that occur in remote environments along with adaptations to improve functionality accordingly. The system and apparatuses are further equipped to facilitate the event environment and are adapted to execute instructions to facilitate the financial transactions. |
| US10854047B1 |
Card-based game system and associated method of play
A card-based game system, and associated method of play, includes a package, and a first set of cards and a second set of cards contained in the package. The first set of cards are prize cards having prize indicia indicating a prize award assigned to the prize card, the prize indicia covered by a removable covering. The second set of cards are command cards, each command card having instructions to players to perform an act that results in a gain or loss of a prize card. A sufficient number of the prize cards and command cards are provided for play of a game wherein a plurality of the prize cards are distributed to each player and a plurality of the prize cards remain as common cards. Upon completion of the game, each player removes the covering on their prize cards to reveal the prize award assigned to the prize card. |
| US10854043B2 |
Device and process for providing mobile gamification
A wireless device to provide mobile gamification services includes a transceiver configured to transmit data, an application to remotely connect via a network to a mobile website, to download a game from the mobile website to the wireless device, to execute the game locally on the wireless device, to execute the game via the mobile website, to redeem game rewards associated with wireless services, and to select the game rewards associated with the wireless services, a processor to control the transceiver and execute the application, a display to display the game and the game rewards, and a computer readable medium to store the application and user preferences associated with the game and with the wireless services. |
| US10854041B2 |
Fraud detection system in a casino
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud. |
| US10854040B1 |
Gaming system and method providing expanding symbols
A gaming system and method provide a game that can increase the quantity of a displayed predetermined symbol based on a suitable game event. In some implementations, the suitable game event can be a non-winning event associated with a displayed predetermined symbol. Increasing the quantity of a displayed predetermined symbol provides additional ways for a player to obtain winning symbol combinations and awards. |
| US10854039B2 |
Method and system for a gaming system user interface
A gaming machine includes a base, a columnar pedestal extending vertically from the base, and a button deck adjustably coupled to the pedestal. The button deck includes an upper surface including a transparent touchscreen element, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and a button deck body extending therebetween. At least one of the lower surface and the body include one or more transparent display elements, the one or more transparent display elements are configured to generate images of gaming machine control actuators viewable on the upper surface. The transparent touchscreen element is configured to receive touches and gestures indicating control inputs. The gaming machine also includes a player tracking card reader positioned within the button deck and accessible through a slot in a front edge of the button deck, the player tracking card reader communicatively coupled to a player tracking display area of the gaming machine. |
| US10854038B2 |
Electronic gaming device with call tower functionality
Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, and a call tower including a first plate, a second plate, a third plate, and a call tower display screen and/or a plurality of external lights located at an outer area of a front surface of the gaming device, forming a u-shape with a left side, a right side, and a bottom each comprising a light column. The gaming device includes a processor which presents a game via the display. |
| US10854037B2 |
Vertical roulette mechanism
A single player vertical roulette mechanism is directed that includes a stand, a wheel and a motor. The wheel is configured to be mounted to the stand and rotate relative to the stand. The wheel includes a plurality of numbers corresponding to a roulette wheel. The motor is affixed to the stand and configured to rotate the wheel. A roulette ball is also fixedly mounted to the stand. A plurality of lights are fixedly mounted to the stand between the stand and the wheel. The plurality of lights illuminate the wheel so the numbers are visible to a player of the vertical roulette mechanism. A seat for a single player may also be connected to the stand enabling the roulette mechanism to be substituted for a traditional slot machine cabinet. |
| US10854034B2 |
Food/beverage vending machine with adjustable delivery delays
A method and system for encouraging the selection of healthy products with a vending machine are provided. The method includes providing a vending machine that displays an inventory of products. Each product of the inventory of products includes a dispensing countdown time displayed on the vending machine. The method also includes receiving a first customer selection of a first product from the inventory of products, where the first product has a first dispensing countdown time. Additionally, the method includes actuating a countdown timer to count down to zero seconds from the first dispensing countdown time. The method also includes dispensing the first product once the countdown timer reaches zero seconds. The first product is only dispensed if a customer does not select a second product having a second dispensing countdown time before the first dispensing countdown time counts down to zero seconds. |
| US10854020B2 |
Transponder module for determination of a crossing time in a measuring system
A transponder module of a system for measurement of a race time includes a time base in a microcontroller, which is activated upon receipt of a low-frequency electromagnetic field signal from a transmission antenna of a measuring system which is disposed at the level of a line of passage. The microcontroller, once woken up, is capable of measuring several successive intensities of the captured electromagnetic field in order to reconstruct a curve of the electromagnetic field and to determine a crossing time on the line of passage of the transponder module with the activated time base thereof in order to transmit, to a decoder unit of the measuring system, a signal of the result of the time of crossing determined by the microcontroller. |
| US10854017B2 |
Three-dimensional virtual image display method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium
A three-dimensional virtual image display method is provided for a terminal. The method includes obtaining a first model map and a second model map of a three-dimensional virtual image, and determining a target region of the three-dimensional virtual image. The three-dimensional virtual image comprises a first model and a second model, and the target region is a joining region of the first model and the second model. The method also includes setting brightness of each pixel point in the target region in a shader to be a same value, the shader being configured to set illumination environmental data of each pixel point in the three-dimensional virtual image and the illumination environmental data at least comprising the brightness; and rendering the first model map and the second model map through the shader, so that a brightness of each pixel point in the target region displayed after rendering is equal. |
| US10854012B1 |
Concealing loss of distributed simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) data in edge cloud architectures
Embodiments of systems and methods for concealing loss of Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) data in edge cloud architectures are described. In some embodiments, a method may include: receiving SLAM data usable to produce a first map of a physical space for a first HMD; in response to a portion of the SLAM data being lost or corrupt, retrieving a first landmark detected in previous SLAM data with a first confidence value; receiving, from a second IHS coupled to a second HMD, a second landmark usable to produce a second map for the second HMD, where the second landmark has a second confidence value; in response to the first and second landmarks overlapping, selecting one of the first or second landmark with greatest confidence value; and producing the first map using the selected landmark. |
| US10854008B2 |
Synchronized, interactive augmented reality displays for multifunction devices
A device can receive live video of a real-world, physical environment on a touch sensitive surface. One or more objects can be identified in the live video. An information layer can be generated related to the objects. In some implementations, the information layer can include annotations made by a user through the touch sensitive surface. The information layer and live video can be combined in a display of the device. Data can be received from one or more onboard sensors indicating that the device is in motion. The sensor data can be used to synchronize the live video and the information layer as the perspective of video camera view changes due to the motion. The live video and information layer can be shared with other devices over a communication link. |
| US10854007B2 |
Space models for mixed reality
Embodiments relate to supplementing a mixed reality system with information from a space model. The space model is a hierarchical or tree model of a physical space, where nodes represent physical places in the physical space and a parent-child relationship between nodes in the tree indicates a physical containment relationship for physical places represented by the nodes. The space model models containment relationships (e.g., building-floor-room) and does not necessarily include a two or three dimensional map of the physical place. Some of the nodes of the space model include representations of sensors and store measures therefrom. The mixed reality system includes a three-dimensional model possibly modeling part of the physical space. The mixed reality system renders views of the three-dimensional model according to the sensor measures stored in the representations. |
| US10854005B2 |
Visualization of ultrasound images in physical space
Systems and methods of real-time augmented visualization of anatomical features are disclosed herein. The systems and methods can use concurrently collected and/or preexisting data regarding an anatomical structure to present an image of the anatomical structure to an operator in virtual space as overlayed in real space. The systems and methods can include acquiring image data from an anatomical structure of a subject. Visual image data of the subject can then be received, including non-rigid deformation of the subject. The device pose of the ultrasound device in real space can be determined using device pose data. Image pose of the image data can then be determined in virtual space. Then, a perspective pose of the image of at least a portion of the anatomical structure in virtual space can be mapped to the subject in real space. |
| US10854004B2 |
Multi-device mapping and collaboration in augmented-reality environments
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving first information from a sensor associated with a first computing device, wherein the first information comprises information associated with first images captured at the first sensor; receiving second information from a second computing device, wherein the second information comprises information associated with second images captured at a sensor associated with the second computing device; identifying first points within the first images; identifying second points within the second images; and relocalizing the first and second computing devices within a shared augmented-reality environment by defining coordinate spaces based on the images and combining the coordinate spaces based on identified shared points. |
| US10854002B2 |
Interactive vehicle window system including augmented reality overlays
A device may identify first content to be provided for display via a window system of a vehicle. The device may provide, for display via the window system of the vehicle, information associated with the first content as a first augmented reality overlay based on identifying the first content. The device may receive information associated with a user interaction with the window system of the vehicle based on providing, for display via the window system of the vehicle, the information associated with the first content as the first augmented reality overlay. The device may identify second content based on the information associated with the user interaction with the window system of the vehicle. The device may provide, for display via the window system of the vehicle, information associated with the second content based on identifying the second content. |
| US10854001B2 |
Tangible object virtualization station
A tangible object virtualization station including a base capable of stably resting on a surface and a head component unit connected to the base. The head component unit extends upwardly from the base. At an end of the head component opposite the base, the head component comprises a camera situated to capture a downward view of the surface proximate the base, a lighting array that directs light downward toward the surface proximate the base. The tangible object virtualization station further comprises a display interface included in the base. The display interface is configured to hold a display device in an upright position and connect the display device to the camera and the lighting array. |
| US10853998B2 |
Serialising a representation of a three dimensional object
In an example, a method includes receiving, at a processor, data representing at least part of an object to be manufactured in a layer-by-layer manufacturing process. A serialised octree representation of at least part of the object may be generated from the data. In the serialised octree representation, nodes are ordered such that (i) a node representing a volume which includes a layer of the object to be generated earlier in an intended order of object generation precedes a node representing a volume which consists of layer(s) of the object to be generated subsequently; (ii) nodes representing a volume which includes a given layer of the object are ordered based on a level of the nodes within the octree representation, wherein parent nodes appear before descendent nodes; and (iii) nodes representing a volume which includes a given layer of the object and being of the same level within the octree representation are ordered according to a location encoding pattern. |
| US10853996B2 |
Efficient generation of terrain openness
Efficiently generating terrain openness involves a digital elevation model comprising a texture representing a first geographic area and at least part of a plurality of mipmap levels representing geographic areas bordering the first geographic area. The texture and mipmap levels include pixels encoding elevation values for locations of geographic areas. For each pixel of the texture, derivatives are determined, as well as an openness factor based at least in part on the elevations at one or more pixels of the mipmap levels. The derivatives and openness factor are added to the texture. A hill shading factor is determined for each pixel based at least in part on the derivatives. An electronic map of the first geographic area is rendered using the openness and hill shading factors of each pixel of the texture. The rendering is sent for display. |
| US10853985B2 |
Method and system for generating a 360-degree presentation of an object
Methods and systems for generating an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of an object are disclosed. The methods and systems obtain data describing the object, where the data includes information about a number of images of the object, as well as additional information about the object. The images are automatically obtained and rearranged into at least one sequence of images substantially evenly distributed around 360 degrees. It is determined whether to add hotspot(s) to image(s), and if hotspot(s) are to be added, the hotspot(s) are automatically added to the image(s). The ordered images of the sequence(s) are then merged into an interactive rotatable 360-degree presentation of the object. |
| US10853983B2 |
Suggestions to enrich digital artwork
In implementations of suggestions to enrich digital artwork, a suggestion system identifies a first object in the digital artwork and suggests a second object for addition to the digital artwork based on the second object having a co-occurrence relationship with the first object. The co-occurrence relationship is based on the first object and the second object appearing together in an image of an image set. A user may select the second object to add to the artwork or the user may be inspired by the second object to enrich the digital artwork. |
| US10853975B2 |
Hybrid projection-based point cloud texture coding
An apparatus receives a video which includes at least one three-dimensional (3D) object in a 3D physical space. A 3D geometrical representation of a point cloud is generated based on the video. The 3D geometrical representation of the point cloud includes a first set of points associated with geometrical information and texture information corresponding to the at least one 3D object. A plurality of two-dimensional (2D) projections are generated from the 3D geometrical representation of the point cloud. A second set of points that are occluded in the first set of points is detected, corresponding to the plurality of 2D projections. The plurality of 2D projections and the second set of points are distinctly encoded, and the remaining points, other than the detected second set of points, in the first set of points are discarded for efficient compression of the 3D geometrical representation of the point cloud. |
| US10853971B2 |
Method for determining the exposure time for a 3D recording
A method for determining an exposure, in particular an exposure time, for a recording in a method for determining the 3D coordinates of an object is provided, in which a pattern is projected onto the object and the light reflected by the object is recorded. To improve such a method, a recording of the object is produced with a predetermined exposure, in particular exposure time. A mask image of this recording is produced, in which mask image the regions of the object lying within the measurement volume are depicted. The exposure, in particular the exposure time, for the recording is determined depending on the predetermined exposure, in particular exposure time, depending on the mean greyscale value in the regions, lying within the measurement volume, of the recording with a predetermined exposure and depending on an ideal greyscale value. |
| US10853969B2 |
Method and system for detecting obstructive object at projected locations within images
A method for supporting image processing for a movable object includes acquiring one or more images captured by an imaging device borne by the movable object. The imaging device is at least partially blocked by an obstructive object attached to the movable object. The method further includes applying a template to the one or more images to obtain one or more projected locations of the obstructive object within the one or more images and detecting at least portion of the obstructive object at the one or more projected locations within the one or more images. |
| US10853967B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining pupil position
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for determining a pupil position. The method includes that: at least one first parameter of a pupil in an image, an initial edge region of the pupil and at least one second parameter of at least one light spot in the image are acquired; the initial edge region is corrected according to the at least one first parameter and the at least one second parameter to obtain a first edge region; a pupil edge region is determined according to an edge section in the first edge region, and the edge section is a region formed by a point set meeting a first preset condition in the first edge region; and fitting processing is performed on the pupil edge region to obtain a position of the pupil. |
| US10853966B2 |
Virtual space moving apparatus and method
Provided are virtual space moving apparatus and method. A virtual space moving apparatus includes a 3D camera to capture real space; a display; and a processor to display a virtual space, implement a virtual object corresponding to an actual object in an actual space, and display virtual object at a specific position in virtual space, set a first detection area adjacent to an initial position of actual object and a second detection area spaced from initial position of actual object and surrounding first detection area, when actual object is moved by a first distance in first detection area outwards from initial position, move virtual object by first virtual movement distance, and when actual object is moved by first distance in second detection area outwards from a boundary between first detection area and second detection area, move virtual object by a second virtual movement distance greater than first virtual movement distance. |
| US10853961B1 |
Image driver that samples high-resolution image data
Techniques are disclosed for generating a low-dimensional representation of an image. An image driver receives an image captured by a camera. The image includes features based on pixel values in the image, and each feature describes the image in one or more image regions. The image driver generates, for each of the plurality of features, a feature vector that includes values for that feature corresponding to at least one of the image regions. Each value indicates a degree that the feature is present in the image region. The image driver generates a sample vector from each of the feature vectors. The sample vector includes each of the values included in the generated feature vectors. |
| US10853957B2 |
Real-time key view extraction for continuous 3D reconstruction
A method for forming a subset having a number of member 3D contour images, the method executed at least in part on a computer, selects a first 3D contour image as a member image, obtains a candidate 3D contour image, computes an overlap between the candidate 3D contour image and the first 3D contour image, and adds the candidate 3D contour image to the subset according to the overlap computation. |
| US10853954B1 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method and storage media
The image processing apparatus includes: an input unit configured to receive input of a plurality of images; an alignment unit configured to select each of the plurality of images one by one as a base image, and aligns the base image and each of comparison images; a selection unit configured to select the comparison image to be combined with the base image from among the comparison images aligned with the base image for each of the base images, calculate a common region in which images included in the combination can be commonly drawn, and select the combination in which the ratio of the common region to the base image satisfies a predetermined condition; a determination unit configured to determine the combination that maximizes the number of comparison images from the selected combination; and an output unit configured to output an image group corresponding to the determined combination. |
| US10853951B2 |
Methods and apparatus to generate temporal representations for action recognition systems
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to generate temporal representations for action recognition systems are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an optical flow computer to compute a first optical flow based on first and second video frames separated by a first amount of time and compute a second optical flow based on third and fourth video frames separated by a second amount of time, the second amount of time different than the first amount of time, and an aggregator to combine the first optical flow and the second optical flow to form an image representing action in a video. |
| US10853950B2 |
Moving object detection apparatus, moving object detection method and program
There is provided a moving object detection technique capable of improving accuracy of detecting a moving object from video photographed by a moving camera. A moving object detection apparatus 10A according to an aspect of the present disclosure is provided with: a receiving portion 11 that receives video taken by an image capturing apparatus provided in a mobile body; a first calculation portion 13 that calculates first moving-object scores based on a motion of one or more pixels of image included in the video; a second calculation portion 15 that calculates second moving-object scores based on a background model and the image, wherein the background model is updated based on the image and the motions of the pixels; and a detection portion 16 that detects a moving object from the image based on the first scores and the second scores. |
| US10853949B2 |
Image processing device
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a technology which adaptively switches video analysis methods according to a congestion situation within a video, and which carries out a suitable video analysis by a limited computational volume. Provided is an image processing device 100, wherein a congestion estimation unit 102 estimates a congestion situation within a video which is acquired from an image input unit 101. A control unit 103 switches methods for video analysis according to the congestion situation. In a situation of low congestion, an image analysis unit for use in normal situations 105 carries out the video analysis by a basic method. In a situation of high congestion, an image analysis unit for use in congested situations 106 carries out a high-precision video analysis, such as an analysis which spans a plurality of frames. |
| US10853941B2 |
Registration method and system for non-rigid multi-modal medical image
The present invention discloses a registration method and system for a non-rigid multi-modal medical image. The registration method comprises: obtaining local descriptors of a reference image according to Zernike moments of order 0 and repetition 0 and Zernike moments of order 1 and repetition 1 of the reference image; obtaining local descriptors of a floating image according to Zernike moments of order 0 and repetition 0 and Zernike moments of order 1 and repetition 1 of the floating image; and finally obtaining a registration image according to the local descriptors of the reference image and the floating image. In the present, by using self-similarity of the multi-modal medical image and adopting the Zernike moment based local descriptor, the non-rigid multi-modal medical image registration is thus converted into the non-rigid mono-modal medical image registration, thereby greatly improving its accuracy and robustness. |
| US10853940B2 |
Manipulation of a respiratory model via adjustment of parameters associated with model images
A method and apparatus for manipulation of a respiratory model via adjustment of parameters associated with model images is described. A subset of the images that are used with the model that is associated with the position and motion of a targeted region of the patient to receive radiation treatment may be identified. The subset of images may be sorted. A graphical user interface (GUI) that identifies two or more of the images of the sorted subset may be provided. A selection associated with one of the images of the sorted subset may be received by the GUI. Furthermore, a new model to identify the targeted region based on the selection that is associated with one of the two or more images may be generated. |
| US10853939B2 |
System and method for diagnosis and assessment of disc derangement disorders
A method and system for assessing disc derangement disorders (DDD) in patients comprises an image scanning module, a DDD screening system and a diagnosis and assessment module. The DDD screening system is in communication with the image scanning module via a network. The DDD screening system includes an application server residing on a computer having a processor installed with a disc derangement disorders (DDD) screening application and coupled with a memory unit integrated with a central database. The DDD screening application provides a set of statistical probability data of the at least one image utilizing a normalized measurement of at least one image to a diagnosis and assessment module. The diagnosis and assessment module generates a report that allows the DDD system to evaluate the presence or absence of DDD based on the statistical probabilities. |
| US10853938B2 |
Enhanced platen for pharmaceutical compounding
A system for preparing and administering a prescribed fluidic pharmaceutical compound, such as a chemotherapy compound, includes a scale having a platen. The scale is in communication with a user display for displaying an output of the scale. An image capture device having a field of view for capturing at least one image of an object placed on the platen is provided in communication with the user display for displaying the captured image. The platen may include a visual identifier for identifying a portion of the field of view of the image capture device. The platen may also include a tackifier or absorbent material. The platen may be formed of a light-transmissible material. |
| US10853936B2 |
Failed vehicle estimation system, failed vehicle estimation method and computer-readable non-transitory storage medium
A failed vehicle estimation system includes an processor configured to: store vehicle information including vehicle ID information and positional information of the vehicles and failure information of a failed vehicle or at least one image obtained by imaging an outside of the vehicles with a camera mounted in each of the vehicles, the failure information being obtained from at least one specific image; specify at least one specific vehicle existing on a periphery of a mounting position of a specific camera having captured the at least one specific image from which the failure information of the failed vehicle is obtained; estimate the failed vehicle from among the at least one specific vehicle; and notify a terminal apparatus associated with the failed vehicle of information relating to a vehicle failure. |
| US10853931B2 |
System and method for structural inspection and construction estimation using an unmanned aerial vehicle
An automated image capturing and processing system and method may allow a field user to operate a UAV via a mobile computing device to capture images of a structure area of interest (AOI). The mobile computing device receives user and/or third party data and creates UAV control data and a flight plan. The mobile computing device executes a flight plan by issuing commands to the UAV's flight and camera controller that allows for complete coverage of the structure AOI.After data acquisition, the mobile computing device then transmits the UAV output data to a server for further processing. At the server, the UAV output data can be used for a three-dimensional reconstruction process. The server then generates a vector model from the images that precisely represents the dimensions of the structure. The server can then generate a report for inspection and construction estimation. |
| US10853930B2 |
Monitoring of objects based on frequency spectrum of motion and frequency filtering
The complex motion associated with machines is a result of the superposition of various frequencies from the multiple component or elements inherent to the design of the machine. These motions can be captured remotely using position sensitive detectors which respond to specific wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum. Present embodiments include but are not limited to a video camera which is able to capture and record video data of an entire machine without contacting the machine, to visually study complex motions which vary both in time and spatially at different locations on the machine, wherein filters applied to the motion present in the video recording are used to identify frequencies of importance and to visualize their impact on the operation of the machine. |
| US10853921B2 |
Method and apparatus for image sharpening using edge-preserving filters
A method and an apparatus are provided for sharpening an image, by an image processor of an electronic device. An input image is received. Low pass filtering is applied to the input image to generate a first image and a second image. A kernel size of first image and the second image are different. Edge preserving filtering is applied to the input image to generate a third image and a fourth image. A kernel size of the third image and the fourth image are different. The first image is subtracted from the third image to obtain a first resulting image. The first image has a larger kernel size than the third image. The second image from the fourth image to obtain a second resulting image. The second image has a larger kernel size than the fourth image. The first resultant image, the second resultant image, and the input image are summed to generate a sharpened image. |
| US10853919B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program
An image processing apparatus having a memory for holding an image aims to improve an image processing speed.The image processing apparatus includes a writing unit, a reading unit, and a reduction unit. The writing unit writes a predetermined number of pieces of pixel data arranged in a predetermined direction in image data in which the pixel data is arranged in a two-dimensional lattice pattern to be distributed over the plurality of memories. The reading unit reads a predetermined number of pieces of pixel data from the plurality of memories. The reduction unit executes processing of smoothing in a predetermined direction onto the read pixel data. |
| US10853912B2 |
Method and apparatus for complete size adaptation of object to be displayed
A method and an apparatus for a complete size adaptation of an object to be displayed are provided. The method includes obtaining elements and description information of the elements included in an object to be displayed, the description information of the elements including information of parent-child relationships among the elements and rules for adaptation into display areas of different sizes based on the parent-child relationships; determining sizes and positions of the elements that are included in the object to displayed and are adapted to a current display area based on the elements and the description information of the elements that are obtained and size information of the current display area; and displaying the elements included in the object to be displayed in the current display area using the sizes and the positions that are determined. |
| US10853909B2 |
Image processing apparatus
The present invention relates to an image processing apparatus which determines an order for calculating output image pixels that maximally reuses data in a local memory for computing all relevant output image pixels. Thus, the same set of data is re-used until it is no longer necessary. Output image pixel locations are browsed to determine pixel values in an order imposed by available input data, rather than in an order imposed by pixel positions in the output image. Consequently, the amount of storage required for local memory as well as the number of input image read requests and data read from memory containing the input image is minimized. |
| US10853907B2 |
Fast GPU context switch
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve task switching operations in a graphics processing unit (GPU) are described. As disclosed herein, the clock rate (and voltages) of a GPU's operating environment may be altered so that a low priority task may be rapidly run to a task switch boundary (or completion) so that a higher priority task may begin execution. In some embodiments, only the GPU's operating clock (and voltage) is increased during the task switch operation. In other embodiments, the clock rate (voltages) of supporting components may also be increased. For example, the operating clock for the GPU's supporting memory, memory controller or memory fabric may also be increased. Once the lower priority task has been swapped out, one or more of the clocks (and voltages) increased during the switch operation could be subsequently decreased, though not necessarily to their pre-switch rates. |
| US10853906B2 |
Compute optimizations for low precision machine learning operations
One embodiment provides an accelerator module comprising a memory stack including multiple memory dies; a graphics processing unit (GPU) coupled with the memory stack via one or more memory controllers, the GPU including a plurality of multiprocessors having a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) architecture, the multiprocessors to execute at least one single instruction. The at least one single instruction is to cause at least a portion of the GPU to perform a floating point operation on input having differing precisions. The floating point operation is a two-dimensional matrix multiply and accumulate operation. |
| US10853904B2 |
Hierarchical register file at a graphics processing unit
A processor employs a hierarchical register file for a graphics processing unit (GPU). A top level of the hierarchical register file is stored at a local memory of the GPU (e.g., a memory on the same integrated circuit die as the GPU). Lower levels of the hierarchical register file are stored at a different, larger memory, such as a remote memory located on a different die than the GPU. A register file control module monitors the status of in-flight wavefronts at the GPU, and in particular whether each in-flight wavefront is active, predicted to be become active, or inactive. The register file control module places execution data for active and predicted-active wavefronts in the top level of the hierarchical register file and places execution data for inactive wavefronts at lower levels of the hierarchical register file. |
| US10853903B1 |
Detection of encoded signals and icons
The present disclosure relates to signal decoding and icon (e.g., a logo, shape, icon, etc.) detection. In some implementations, a first response is provided upon signal decoding but no icon detection within first captured image data, and a second response is provided upon signal decoding and icon detection within the first captured image data. Other aspects, combinations and implementations are described as well. |
| US10853902B2 |
Agents and systems for right's management
An information system is provided that enables stakeholders to define a secure data object that sets permissions, rules, and rights for an asset. The secure data object may be communicated to entities, such as computer hosts or hardware agents, and the entities are enable to act within the permissions, rules, and rights to conduct transactions and gather information as agents of the stakeholders. The secure data object may be received into a hardware agent attached to an asset, and the agent may have sufficient permission to monitor environmental conditions, adjust pricing, consummate a transaction, or communicate a report. |
| US10853899B2 |
Methods and systems for inventory yield management
In some embodiments, an interactive user interface is provided for an inventory yield management system having access to an inventory database and a class database. The system comprises at least one processor to implement a single interactive user interface comprising a first user interface element configured to present a first user interface view to receive a selection of data stored in the inventory database; a second user interface element configured to present a second user interface view to receive a selection of data for creating a configurable class pass for one or more classes stored in the class database; and a channel indicator for associating a configured class pass with a channel of classes. |
| US10853895B1 |
Information display and analysis system, computer implemented method, and non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium
Information analysis and display systems and methods include receiving first financial information regarding a user, and calculating a target home price based on the received financial information. A user interface display is generated that displays the target home price, and modifications to the target home price from the user are received via the user interface. Homes for sale are evaluated based on the target price. |
| US10853894B2 |
Updating execution of tasks of an agricultural prescription
A method begins by a computing device allocating a plurality of tasks of an agricultural prescription for a farming geographic area to a fleet of farming equipment. While executing tasks of the plurality of tasks, the method continues with at least some of the fleet of farming equipment collecting task execution data. Based on the task execution data, the method continues with the computing device updating at least one of the agricultural prescription, the plurality of tasks, and the allocation of at least one task of the plurality of tasks. |
| US10853892B2 |
Social networking relationships processing method, system, and storage medium
A social networking relationships processing method includes: accessing a first forward-relationships set corresponding to a user identification of a first user in multiple data centers; obtaining an inverted-reverse-relationships set corresponding to the user identification of the first user; determining whether a difference between the first forward-relationships set of the first user and the inverted-reverse-relationship set corresponding to the user identification exists; in response to determining that the difference between the forward-relationships set and the inverted-reverse-relationships set exits, identifying a second user that causes the difference; respectively accessing first relationship information of the first user and second relationship information of the second user stored in associated data centers; and updating at least one of the first forward-relationships set of the first user or a second reverse-relationships set of the second user according to the relationship information of the first user and the second user from the associated data centers. |
| US10853891B2 |
System and methods for electronic commerce using personal and business networks
Electronic commerce over a publicly accessible computer network such as the Internet is facilitated and leveraged by a computer system that forms a community of computer user parties based on personal and business connections of the parties involved. Personal connections are created between users by invitation and mutual acceptance. Business connections are created between users when a transaction takes place between those users. Users search to perform any one or more of a variety of actions such as to purchase products, browse departments and categories for purchasing products, or explore the connections between the parties involved to find items to buy. Different groupings of the parties involved may be the users themselves and other buyers/sellers in the business network, the users themselves and their friends in the personal networks, or some combination of buyers/sellers and friends from each of the types of networks. A computer or server at a site in the network implements an architecture whereby various pages viewed by a user have links to enable them to find products. |
| US10853888B2 |
Computing validation and error discovery in computers executing a multi-level tax data validation engine
A computer-method for improving operation of a computer by validating incoming data provided to a tax evaluation software program. The computer-implemented method includes selecting a gate at which the data is to be validated. Selecting is performed from among a plurality of gates. Each of the plurality of gates comprises a corresponding pre-selected organization of validation rules which at least specifies a corresponding level of validation. The gate has a particular organization of validation rules at a particular level of validation. The computer-implemented method also includes validating the data at the gate. The computer-implemented method also includes performing machine learning analysis on the operation of validating the data to determine an applicability of other rules in other gates. The computer-implemented method also includes, responsive to detecting a failure in validation of the data at the gate, generating, and displaying on a display device, a cause for the failure. |
| US10853886B1 |
Systems and methods for a virtual cash register
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for detecting, capturing, and tracking financial transactions are provided. A method of detecting, capturing, and tracking includes registering, by a user device, a virtual cash register with the user device, wherein the registration includes associating the virtual cash register with a financial account; detecting, by the virtual cash register via the user device, a potential financial transaction using at least one of paper and coin currency; extracting, by the virtual cash register via the user device, financial transaction data regarding the potential financial transaction; generating, by the virtual cash register, a report regarding the financial transaction data; and providing, by the virtual cash register, the report to a predefined location. |
| US10853883B2 |
Cybersecurity profile generated using a simulation engine
A system for generating a cybersecurity profile, wherein a time series data retrieval and storage server retrieves information from a prospective client, and information previously gathered, and stored, from a plurality of sources; a directed computational graph analysis module performs graph analysis on the data from the time series data retrieval and storage server; and an automated planning service module performs predictive simulation analysis on data received from the directed computational graph. |
| US10853882B1 |
Method and system for analyzing liability after a vehicle crash using video taken from the scene of the crash
A method and system may analyze the liability of drivers involved in a vehicle crash based on video image data of the vehicle crash. When a vehicle crash occurs, several image capturing devices may transmit sets of video images captured within a predetermined threshold distance and time of the scene of the vehicle crash. The sets of video images may be combined, aggregated, and/or assembled chronologically and spatially to form a compilation which may depict the sequence of events leading up to, during, and immediately after the vehicle crash. Based on the compilation, percentages of fault may be allocated to each of the drivers involved in the vehicle crash and the amount of liability may be assessed for each of the drivers. |
| US10853880B2 |
Trade exchange system and method
A trade exchange system and method provide transparency and accountability for each idea producer and each follower of each idea producer with respect to trades executed based on a trade idea circulated by the idea producer. The trade exchange system and method may use application-programming interfaces (APIs) to gather data from a brokerage entity in order to verify the trades executed in response to the trade idea by the idea producer and the follower. |
| US10853871B2 |
System and method for adding items to an electronic order
A system includes a database having a plurality of purchasable items. The system also includes an order server programmed to display a website including the purchasable items to a customer via a customer device and allow the customer to select the purchasable items for purchase. The selected items are added to an online order, and a request to complete the order is received from the customer device. A selection of a pick-up time for the customer to retrieve the order at a store is received. The online order and the selected pick-up time are transmitted to an order assembly server. The order assembly server is configured to begin assembling the selected purchasable items for pick-up at the store, receive a selection of an additional purchasable item to add to the selected pick-up time, and assemble the order and the additional purchasable item for pick-up at the selected pickup time. |
| US10853867B1 |
Recommendation engine using action node mapping
Described herein are a system and methods for providing action recommendations to a user that are likely to result in performance of a high-value action. In some embodiments, the user is compared to one or more other users in order to identify high-value actions for that user. Once at least one high-value action has been identified, a sequence of actions may be generated to include that high-value action using prediction model data that includes probability information. The sequence of actions is then assessed to determine a gateway action within the sequence of actions that is likely to be performed by the user and has a high likelihood of resulting in subsequent performance of the high-value action. The gateway action may then be presented to the user. |
| US10853862B2 |
In-vehicle vending inventory tracking
In one embodiment, a method includes initiating a vending session using an in-vehicle vending apparatus to provide a user access to one or more items, the vending session being initiated by determining that the user is associated with a ride. The method also includes determining that the vending session has ended, which may be determined by determining that the in-vehicle vending apparatus is closed, and determining the one or more items that were taken by the user. The method also includes identifying one or more items taken from the in-vehicle vending apparatus during the vending session based on sensor data from the in-vehicle apparatus. The method also includes sending a confirmation of the one or more items taken to the user. |
| US10853861B2 |
Trusted fulfillment agent network
A system and method for a trusted fulfillment agent network system is described. A network of trusted fulfillment agents is generated for a seller in an online marketplace. A transaction between a buyer and the seller corresponding to a listing of the seller in the online marketplace is accessed. A request is generated to the network of trusted fulfillment agents of the seller to fulfill a shipment of an item from the listing to the buyer on behalf of the seller. |
| US10853859B2 |
Data processing systems and methods for operationalizing privacy compliance and assessing the risk of various respective privacy campaigns
Data processing systems and methods for retrieving data regarding a plurality of data privacy campaigns and for using that data to assess a relative risk associated with the data privacy campaign. In various embodiments, the system may be adapted to: (1) display one or more visual summaries of one or more data flow diagrams that visually depicts key features of the data flow, such as whether data is confidential and/or encrypted; (2) allow for multiple users to be assigned responsibility for populating different respective questions that are required to define the data flow; (3) automatically assess and display a relative risk associated with each campaign; and (4) automatically set, monitor, and facilitate the timely completion of an audit schedule for each campaign. |
| US10853858B2 |
Systems and methods for optimizing normalization of product attributes for a webpage of an online retailer
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving a plurality of normalization rules, using the plurality of normalization rules and a multi-class classification algorithm to train a classification model for one or more product attributes of a plurality of products, determining additional normalization rules for transforming additional structured values to additional final normalized values based on a classification of un-normalized additional raw source values with the classification model, validating the additional normalization rules, and adding the additional normalization rules to the classification model if the additional normalization rules are validated. |
| US10853857B2 |
Multi-language multi-platform e-commerce management system
A computerized system for sale of products having non pre-catalogued parameters in a multi-lingual environment wherein a buyer and a seller communicate in different languages, the system including a non pre-catalogued parameter database, a listing engine operative to prompt in a first language a listing seller to enter multiple non pre-catalogued parameters relating to a product being listed and to store the non pre-catalogued parameters in the non pre-catalogued parameter database and a non pre-catalogued multiple language parameter description engine which is operative to provide human-readable descriptions of the non pre-catalogued parameters in at least one language other than the first language. |
| US10853855B2 |
Systems and methods for automatic and transparent client authentication and online transaction verification
Systems and methods are described for providing fraud deterrents, detection and prevention during e-commerce, e-transactions, digital rights management and access control. Fraud deterrent levels may be automatically selected by a requesting transaction approval entity server (and can be related to level of risk, or security, related to fraud) or may be selected by a consumer. These deterrent levels can determine the manner in which the transaction occurs as well as the types of information that must be provided and validated for successful approval of the transaction. The client can associate their credit card with a specific device, an e-identity, such as an instant messaging identity, and the e-identity is contacted as a part of finalizing a payment transaction so that a client response of ‘approve’ or ‘reject’ can be obtained. The anti-fraud technology also provides for management and storage of historical transaction information. Entity-to-client communication occurs according to merchant permission parameters which are defined by the client and which enable messages sent by the entity to be automatically allowed, rejected, and managed in other ways as well. |
| US10853853B1 |
Systems and methods for loan origination and servicing based on a recurring deposit of funds
Customers of a financial institution may apply for a line of credit for use with, e.g., a web-based bill pay service. The credit line may be determined using an average value of the customer's previously direct-deposited paychecks and an analysis of the customer's spending behavior using the web-based bill pay service. In some implementations, the financial institution may aggregate data points associated with the customer to make a determination of an amount, an interest rate, and a term of the line of credit. The line of credit may be used to pay bills from a financial services institution and unrelated third-party billers with which the customer has a payment history, as well as provide for cash for use by the customer. |
| US10853852B2 |
System and method for providing listing assistance
In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing listing assistance to a user for generating an item listing is provided. In example embodiments, user input is received from a device of the user. Information regarding item listings that correspond to the user input is accessed. Statistic data is generated using the accessed information. The statistic data is provided for display to the device of the user for generating the item listing. |
| US10853850B1 |
Automatically inserting an identifier into an item record using a web interface in embedded code on a website associated with a nonprofit entity, and generating, using the identifier, an impact statement communicating a value in charitable goods and/or charitable services
A system and method of processing, within a single procedure, cash equivalents and fix assets from any disposition class. The method includes identifying the benefactor and asset to be donation. Once identified, the asset is classified into one of three disposition classes. The disposition classes are used to determine the value for valuing. Once the value is determined, an impact statement is generated. Depending on the disposition class, the item is either converted to funds directly or through an intermediary. Once the item is converted to funds, the funds are transferred to the identified benefactor. |
| US10853849B2 |
Method and system for service enablement
One embodiment described herein can provide a system for enabling a service over a computer network. During operation, the system receives, from a first client device, an object-distribution request. In response to the request, the system generates an object package containing a number of objects based on the request and obtains at least one challenge associated with the object package and a predetermined response corresponding to the challenge. The system then presents the challenge to a user of a second client device and receives a response to the challenge from the second client device. In response to the received response to the challenge meeting one or more of predetermined criteria, the system causes the object package to be distributed to the second client device over the computer network. |
| US10853847B2 |
Methods and systems for near real-time lookalike audience expansion in ads targeting
A signature matrix is used to test each online event for inclusion of a user in a pre-generated lookalike audience. Locality Sensitive Hashing is used to compile the signature matrix to dramatically reduce memory storage requirements and processing time for each received online event. A technique of producing incremental signature matrices between generation of the full signature matrix helps to enable near-real time performance in processing each received event to see if a user associated with that event should be added to one of the lookalike audiences pre-generated by advertiser. |
| US10853841B2 |
Adaptive video advertising using EAS pedestals or similar structure
Adaptive system for communicating with a customer in a retail store environment includes a sensor disposed at a sensor location in a retail environment. The sensor location is selected so that the sensor captures information that facilitates identification of at least one trait associated with a customer located proximate to the sensor location. A processing system is configured to use the information to determine the at least one trait. Thereafter, in response to such determination, the processing system selectively determines a message or content selection to be displayed to the customer based at least in part on the at least one trait that has been identified. |
| US10853837B2 |
Integrated testing, targeting and measuring of web site components
Systems and methods for editing, testing, and measuring electronic content components are provided. An exemplary method receives an indication of a campaign including instances of a component and targeting rules, the component having events or properties mapped to data elements to be tracked by an analytics service. The component comprises a template for the instances for use in electronic content. The method displays a user interface (UI) including the instances. The UI is configured to receive modifications to the instances, rules, and component. The method provides campaign data including the instances and targeting rules, and the electronic content including the component. The content is configured to send analytics data for exposed events or properties of the component to the analytics service during use of the content. Another embodiment uploads at least a portion of the content to a test environment, and pushes modifications to campaign data to the test environment. |
| US10853833B2 |
System and method for special event high volume commerce experience and deals management
An information handling system includes a first processor that provides a shopping system and a second processor that provides a purchasing system. The shopping system includes a deal page that displays a coupon associated with a product and that receives a request to purchase the product from a purchaser, wherein the coupon provides a deal to the purchaser for the purchase of the product, and wherein the coupon is provided based upon a limit, and a coupon allocator that allocates the coupon to the purchaser in response to the request, and in further response to a first determination that the limit is not exceeded. The purchasing system includes a purchase page that displays a purchase of the product by the purchaser in response to the request, and a coupon redeemer that redeems the coupon for the product in response to a second determination that the limit is not exceeded. |
| US10853822B1 |
Targeted, competitive offers while browsing
Systems/methods for sending offers to a user viewing a web page. A third-party offer engine proxy server is interposed between the user computing device and a destination web server to which the user is browsing. The offer engine proxy receives a first message comprising browsing information from the user computing device and sends the first message to the destination web server. The offer engine proxy receives a resulting web page from the destination web server. The offer engine proxy determines at least one topic of the browsing information. The offer engine proxy determines an offer to be sent to the user based on the at least one browsing information topic. The offer engine proxy modifies the resulting web page to include an offer to be sent to the user. The offer engine proxy sends a second message including the modified webpage and the offer to the user computing device. |
| US10853821B2 |
Realtime land use rights management
Land use rights management where land use rights are represented as bounded space, and portions of rights are represented as portions of whole rights. The portions are specifically designated subspaces within the bounded space. Tracking land use rights conveyance with the representations includes tracking conveyances as subdivisions of whole or partial subspaces within the bounded space, each subspace also bounded. The management system can compute subdivisions with set operations on the subspaces and bounded space. |
| US10853814B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring attendance of persons via payment networks
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring attendance of people at organizer events, via payment networks, based on authorization messages generated in connection with such attendance. One exemplary method includes identifying an authorization message as an attendance message based on a program code included in the authorization message, where the authorization message further includes an organizer identifier indicative of an organizer associated with a location of the attendance. The method also includes identifying a person associated with the attendance based on the authorization message, and appending an attendance entry to an attendance profile associated with the person, based on the authorization message, whereby an incentive associated with the attendance of the person at the organizer is able to be allocated. |
| US10853812B2 |
Blockchain transaction safety
A method includes acquiring blockchain data that includes transactions between a plurality of blockchain addresses. The method includes labeling a set of the blockchain addresses as fraudulent and generating a graph data structure based on the blockchain data. The method includes calculating a set of scoring features for each blockchain address, where each set of scoring features includes a graph-based scoring feature. Calculating the graph-based scoring feature includes calculating a number of transactions associated with the blockchain address in the graph data structure. The method includes generating a scoring model using sets of scoring features for the blockchain addresses that are labeled as fraudulent and generating a trust score for each blockchain address using the scoring features and the scoring model. The trust score indicates a likelihood that the blockchain address is involved in fraudulent activity. Additionally, the method includes sending a requested trust score to a requesting device. |
| US10853806B2 |
Method and apparatus of obtaining location information
A method and an apparatus of obtaining location information are disclosed. According to the disclosed method, a server obtains transaction data uploaded by a terminal, determines a transaction device identifier and transaction address information included in the transaction data, and determines and stores location information of a transaction device corresponding to the transaction device identifier based on the transaction address information. Using the above method, the server is able to automatically record the location information of the transaction device through the transaction data uploaded by the terminal, without the need of manually recording the location information of the transaction device, thereby effectively enhancing the efficiency of obtaining the location information of the transaction device. |
| US10853804B1 |
Dynamic transaction token/dynamic pricing based on conditions of order
A computer-implemented method includes receiving an order for a good or service. The order includes a plurality of order conditions. A plurality of limited-use payment tokens are provisioned. Each of the limited use payment tokens are structured to expire according to one of the plurality of order conditions. An indication of completion of the order is received upon completion of the order. An indication of conditions of the completed order is also received. It is determined whether each of the limited-use payment tokens are expired, based on the conditions of the completed order. A payment is transmitted to a recipient. The payment corresponds to at least one of the non-expired limited-use payment tokens. |
| US10853800B1 |
Document generation with dynamic watermarking
Techniques are described for generating and presenting a digital document for a transfer. A check service may generate the digital document based on provided check data. The digital document may be stored on a user device and presented to a recipient, for example through the display of the user device. The digital document may also be provided to the recipient in an email or other type of communication. The check service may generate a digital watermark to include on the digital document. The watermark may be unique to the particular document, and may be algorithmically generated based on data that is associated with the particular document, such as a serial identifier, a transaction identifier, an amount, a user identifier of the sender, etc. The digital watermark may be regenerated when the recipient presents the document for payment, to confirm document validity. |
| US10853798B1 |
Secure wallet-to-wallet transactions
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for secure mobile wallet transactions. A computing device on which a mobile wallet operates may receive payment credentials from other devices using near field communication (NFC) path and/or wallet-to-wallet (W2W) communication paths. The computing device may initiate an NFC mode in response to user selection or the identification of a nearby NFC-enabled device. The computing device may send the received payment credentials to a wallet service provider associated with the mobile wallet using W2W communication. The computing device may send approvals or denials of the transaction to the other device. |
| US10853796B1 |
Automated application workflows based on signal detection
Techniques are described for automatically presenting workflow(s) in an application based at least partly on detected signal(s). A radio-frequency signal may be emitted from a transceiver included in, attached to, or otherwise associated with a payment card. The signal may be received by a transceiver of a user device when the card is in proximity to the device and, in response, an application may launch a workflow including one or more pages of content in the application. The launched workflow may include functionality for activating a payment card, based on a determination that the card is not yet activated. The launched workflow may also include functionality for viewing account information, based on a determination that the card is already activated. |
| US10853795B1 |
Secure authentication based on identity data stored in a contactless card
Systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and computer-readable media for secure authentication based on identity data stored in a contactless card associated with an account. An application may receive an indication specifying to perform an operation. The application may receive encrypted data from the card, the encrypted data based on a cryptographic algorithm, a customer identifier, and a private key. The application may receive an indication that the authentication server verified the encrypted data based on the private key for the card. The application may determine a type of data required to authorize the operation. The application may receive data comprising passport data or driver license data from the card. The application may determine that the data satisfies a rule for authorizing the operation and authorize performance of the operation based on the authentication server verifying the encrypted data and the data satisfying the at least one rule. |
| US10853794B2 |
System and method for generation of virtual account-linked card
Embodiments of systems and methods for generating virtual account-linked cards are described. A virtual account-linked card may be generated in response to a determination that a physical account-linked card has been forgotten at a card reader and ingested by the card reader. A virtual account-linked card may be restricted such that it can only be used to execute a transaction with authorized transaction partners identified in a database. |
| US10853787B1 |
Universal fare payment and collection system
A universal fare payment and collection system configured to allow users to purchase tickets and/or passes for a plurality of public transport authorities using a single account or device. The system is configured to detect a first ticketing technology of a first nearby transportation system, configure the traveler's electronic device for authorizing at least one of a ticket and a pass via the first ticketing technology, detect a second ticketing technology of a second nearby transportation system, the second ticketing technology being different from the first ticketing technology, and configure the traveler's electronic device for authorizing at least one of a ticket and a pass via the second ticketing technology. |
| US10853784B2 |
Real-time determination of resource availability for usage
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing a real-time determination of resource availability for usage via an interactive forecast interface with incorporated dashboard. In this way, the invention provides a real-time overlay forecast interface on a mobile device. The system gains access to one or more resources of a user and compiles the resources into an interactive forecast interface for visualization, manipulation, and mock manipulation of resources. The invention converts resource data extracted from the sources of the resource into a textual format encrypted for secure implementation and use into the interactive forecast interface. |
| US10853782B2 |
System and method for vending device inventory management
A system and method for vending device inventory management is disclosed. The system and method may enable receiving vending data from a processing unit retrofitted with a vending machine controller (VMC) of a vending device. The vending data may be associated with one of a cash transaction or a cashless transaction. The system and method may enable analysing the vending data. The system and method may enable updating an inventory associated with the vending device and recommending a product or combination of products for refilling of the vending device based upon analysis of the vending data. The system and method may enable generating an updated planogram based on the updated inventory. The system and method may further enable displaying an updated planogram along with the product or combination of products recommended on a user device for enabling the user to refill the one or more products in the vending device. |
| US10853779B1 |
System and method for mobile pay
Provided herein is a computer-implemented method for settling an outstanding invoice issued by a payee, including the steps of capturing a digital image of an invoice issued by a payee to a payor, processing the digital image to identify invoice data and a network location associated with the payee, automatically establishing communication with the network location identified in the digital image, and automatically inputting payment information into one or more fields of the webpage at the network location. |
| US10853776B1 |
Third party check-in associations with cloud wallet
A cloud wallet system may receive an indication from a third party system that a user has checked-in at a merchant. The cloud wallet system then determines whether the merchant has an account with the cloud wallet system so that a point-of-sale (POS) purchase can be processed via the user check-in. If the merchant has an account with the cloud wallet system, a user profile corresponding to the user is sent to the merchant and a point-of-sale transaction based on a third party user check-in may be processed by the merchant through the cloud wallet system. |
| US10853774B2 |
Data transfer control based on connected device usage analysis
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for implementing a data transfer control based on information received from connected devices. In one instance, operations include loading an expected usage amount for a group of connected devices. Signals representing actual usage amounts associated with the group are received from at least device in the group. The actual usage amounts can be compared to the expected usage amount. An authorization of at least one payment-related action associated with the at least one group of connected devices is automatically transmitted to a payment system in response to determining that the usage amount is less than or equal to the expected amount, and at least one instruction to perform a corrective action associated with the group is automatically transmitted to at least one connected device of the group in response to determining that the actual amount exceeds the expected amount. |
| US10853772B2 |
Method and system for exchange of value or tokens between blockchain networks
A blockchain value transfer method comprising receiving from a client a transfer request to transfer value in a form of at least one of a cryptocurrency and a token, determining if the transfer request is intra-chain or inter-chain, intra-chain defining a combined sending and receiving blockchain network and inter-chain defining a sending blockchain network and a receiving blockchain network, transmitting to the client a response to the transfer request, the response comprising a raw transaction, receiving from the client a response to the raw transaction wherein a private key of a user is used to sign the raw transaction, defining a signed transaction, verifying a signature of the signed transaction and broadcasting the signed transaction to the combined sending and receiving blockchain network if the transaction request is intra-chain or to each of the sending blockchain network and the receiving blockchain network if the transaction request is inter-chain. |
| US10853770B2 |
Aircraft maintenance program bridging systems and methods
An aircraft maintenance bridging system and method are configured to determine at least one transition option that transitions one or more aircraft from a current maintenance program schedule to a new maintenance program schedule. The aircraft maintenance bridging method includes analyzing the current maintenance program schedule and the new maintenance program schedule with a maintenance bridging determination control unit, and determining the transition option(s), using the maintenance bridging determination control unit, for the aircraft based on analyzing the current maintenance program schedule and the new maintenance program schedule. |
| US10853765B1 |
Vehicle interface
One or more embodiments of techniques or systems for intelligent data presentation are provided herein. Data can be presented on similar devices having different characteristics in different manners. For example, data may be rendered in a first manner on a first device having one monitor, the same data may be rendered in a second manner on a second device having two displays or a different display size. Financial information, sales data, banking information, etc. may be presented in a variety of ways based on capabilities or properties of a device accessing the information or data. Similarly, renderings may be selected based on interaction capabilities or interaction options a user may have with different renderings or presentations. In other embodiments, user interaction with an automated teller machine (ATM), call center, vehicle, or other interface can be based on device properties or device capabilities. |
| US10853758B2 |
Micro-taggant based agricultural product tracking system for licensed agricultural products and industries
Systems and methods for providing a micro-taggant based agricultural product tracking system enabled by micro-taggants for agricultural products and industries which identifies, tracks and/or controls a broad variety of agricultural products that are produced, distributed and sold to consumers (e.g., through the supply chain from “seed-to-sale”). Advantageously, the micro-taggant based agricultural product tracking system of the present disclosure enables all participants in one or more agricultural industries, including government regulators, law enforcement officials, producers and licensees, to benefit from vastly improved agricultural product identification and tracking capacity which ultimately results in reducing diversion of agricultural products to the black market and increasing state revenue receipts. |
| US10853755B2 |
Interactive transport services provided by unmanned aerial vehicles
Embodiments relate to a client-facing application for interacting with a transport service that transports items via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An example graphic interface may allow a user to order items to specific delivery areas associated with their larger delivery location, and may dynamically provide status updates and other functionality during the process of fulfilling a UAV transport request. |
| US10853754B2 |
System and method for managing supply chains across separate organizations
A system and method of managing supply chains across separate organizations. The organizations that supply items to an organization and the organizations that use items supplied by that organization are defined in a consumer/producer hierarchy of three or more layers. Organizations at the first layer supply items to one or more organizations at the second layer while organizations at the second layer supply items to one or more organizations at the third layer, wherein each item may include a product or a service. A supply chain database is created and each organization is given access only to supply chain information within that organization's supply chain. The supply chain database includes an entry for each item supplied by one organization to another organization, wherein the entry includes item attributes, including an indication of the item supplied, a primary location where the item comes from, and disaster recovery parameters including an alternate location and a recovery time associated with bringing the alternate location online. |
| US10853752B2 |
Pole network
An apparatus comprising a pole having an interior; the interior comprising plural regions for electronics components, a first aperture proximate one of the regions, the regions comprising a core region, a utility region, a core region, and a sub-core region, and an individuated region access feature having a first position and a second position, wherein the electronics of a region are alternately accessible at the first position of the feature and inaccessible at the second position of the feature. Exemplary contemplated embodiments comprise alternative and alternately combinable access features such as a sliding plate, conduits which have a first position in one region of the pole and a second position in a different region of the pole, and a battery tray that maintains access to a workman as it is loaded with batteries. |
| US10853749B2 |
Method and system for minimizing time-variant energy demand and consumption of built environment
A computer-implemented method and system is provided. The system manipulates load curves corresponding to time-variant energy demand and consumption of a built environment. The system analyzes a first, second, third, fourth and a fifth set of data. The first set of data is associated with energy consuming devices. The second set of data is associated with an occupancy behavior of users. The third set of data is associated with energy storage and supply means. The fourth set of data is associated with environmental sensors. The fifth set of data is associated with energy pricing models. The system executes control routines for controlling peak loading conditions associated with the built environment. The system manipulates an optimized operating state of the energy consuming devices. The system integrates the energy storage and supply means for optimal reduction of the peak level of energy demand concentrated over the limited period of time. |
| US10853746B2 |
Systems and methods for scheduling work items
Disclosed herein is a computer implemented scheduling method. The method comprises processing project data to determine one or more team-specific scheduling solutions for work items, each team specific scheduling solution for the work item defining a particular team and one or more iterations of that particular team in which the work item can be completed; identifying from the one or more team-specific scheduling solutions an optimal scheduling solution for the work item, the optimal scheduling solution being selected based at least in part on the number of iterations defined by each of the one or more team-specific scheduling solutions; and scheduling the work item according to the optimal scheduling solution identified for the work item. |
| US10853745B2 |
Computation of optimal inventory targets in bill-of-materials in a multi-echelon supply chain
A system and method is disclosed for computing optimal inventory targets in bill of materials in a multi-echelon supply chain. The system includes one or more memory units and on or more processing units collectively configured to determine a delay time from at least one second plan level node in an at least second indenture plan level to at least one first plan level node in a first indenture plan level. The one or more memory units and on or more processing units is further collectively configured to determine a delay time from the at least one first plan level node in the first indenture plan level to a finished good. |
| US10853742B2 |
Method of selecting a contract for a booking using a logistics management system (LMS)
A logistics management system (LMS) may include receiving, at a server, a reservation request from a requestor for a booking on an air carrier's cargo hold for a designated route; receiving, at a server, a selected agreement for assignment to the booking corresponding to a campaign; assigning, by the server, the terms of the selected agreement to the booking according to the campaign; and generating, by the server, a price quote for the requested booking based, at least in part, upon the terms of the selected agreement. |
| US10853740B2 |
Natural language interface to interactive, operating-system shell and techniques for creating training data for the same
Systems and methods for creating training data for a software application that executes automated tasks such as operating system shell. One example provides a system that comprises at least one electronic processor configured to access a file repository that contains programming files. The electronic processor is also configured to extract data from documentation associated with at least one of the programming files to generate extracted data, extract attributes associated with at least one of the programming files to generate extracted attributes, convert the extracted data and the extracted attributes to training data, and store the training data in a training data repository. The electronic processor is also configured to update the documentation and attributes in the programming files (for example, by providing a user interface to allow a user to do so or in another fashion). |
| US10853739B2 |
Machine learning models for evaluating entities in a high-volume computer network
In an example, a machine learning algorithm is used to train an entity risk evaluation model to output an entity risk score based on transaction data in a computer network. Entity risk scores for various entities may be stored in a database, and retrieved and displayed upon user interaction with one or more reports involving corresponding entities. |
| US10853738B1 |
Inference circuit for improving online learning
Described is an inference circuit for pattern recognition for use within convolutional neural nets for online learning using K-means clustering. The inference circuit includes a set of templates, each template having a template data memory. The inference circuit also include at least one match element, the match element being operable for receiving an input data pattern and determining a degree of match between the input data pattern and a template. A best match logic circuit is included for selecting a template in the set of templates that best matches the input data pattern, said template being a best match template. Finally, an updated is included for probabilistically modifying the template data memories based on the best match template. |
| US10853736B2 |
Preventing notification blindness
A method can include determining, based on learned parameter values, an intrinsic interest and an affinity for the user to be influenced to visit the website, determining, using the learned parameter values, intrinsic interest, and affinity for the user to be influenced to visit the website, a first probability indicating a likelihood that the user will, in response to viewing a badge notification, turn off notifications or delete an app and a second probability indicating a likelihood that the user will, in response to viewing the badge notification on the app, visit a website, in response to determining the second probability is greater than a threshold larger than the first probability, causing the app to include the badge notification when displayed on the user device. |
| US10853732B2 |
Constructing new formulas through auto replacing functions
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for automatically constructing a new formula based upon an existing formula. Various methods are employed to analyze an existing formula in order to determine an intent. Once the intent is determined, a new formula may be constructed that satisfies the intent of the existing formula. Further aspects relate to validating the new formula to ensure it produces the same result as the existing formula which it is intended to replace. Various user interface elements are also disclosed which may be employed to provide the newly constructed formulas to users of an application. The various aspects to disclosed herein may be performed by an application, such as a spreadsheet application, performed in real-time, or provided as a remote service. |
| US10853730B2 |
Systems and methods for generating a brand Bayesian hierarchical model with a category Bayesian hierarchical model
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media that may be used to generate a category Bayesian hierarchical model. One method includes receiving a brand data set for each of a plurality of brands within a category, each brand data set comprising content input for a particular brand of the plurality of brands for a plurality of media channels at a plurality of times and a response for the particular brand of the plurality of brands at the plurality of times. The method includes determining a plurality of informative priors by generating a category Bayesian hierarchical model based on the plurality of brand data sets and a plurality of weak priors. The method further includes generating a brand Bayesian hierarchical model that models response for the particular brand for each of the plurality of media channels based on the brand data set for the particular brand and the plurality of informative priors. |
| US10853728B1 |
Automated data ingestion using an autoencoder
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products to generate, by a computing model, a transformed dataset based on a first dataset comprising numeric values, the computing model to convert the numeric values from a first format to a second format, generate a training dataset comprising the first dataset as an input dataset and the transformed dataset as an output dataset, train an autoencoder comprising a latent vector to transform the input dataset from the first format to the second format, determine, by a statistical model based on an output of the trained autoencoder and the input dataset, an accuracy of the trained autoencoder, and determine that the accuracy of the trained autoencoder exceeds a threshold accuracy. |
| US10853727B2 |
Machine learning system
A machine learning system using a neural network to output an output value corresponding to values of operating parameters of the machine. When the value of an operating parameter of a machine is outside a preset range, the number of nodes of the hidden layer one layer before the output layer of the neural network is increased and training data obtained by actual measurement for a newly acquired value of an operating parameter of the machine is used to learn the weights of the neural network so that the difference between the output value changing in accordance with the values of the operating parameters of the machine and training data corresponding to the values of the operating parameters of the machine becomes smaller. |
| US10853726B2 |
Neural architecture search for dense image prediction tasks
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining neural network architectures. One of the methods includes obtaining training data for a dense image prediction task; and determining an architecture for a neural network configured to perform the dense image prediction task, comprising: searching a space of candidate architectures to identify one or more best performing architectures using the training data, wherein each candidate architecture in the space of candidate architectures comprises (i) the same first neural network backbone that is configured to receive an input image and to process the input image to generate a plurality of feature maps and (ii) a different dense prediction cell configured to process the plurality of feature maps and to generate an output for the dense image prediction task; and determining the architecture for the neural network based on the best performing candidate architectures. |
| US10853724B2 |
Symbolic priors for recurrent neural network based semantic parsing
Methods, systems, and devices for semantic parsing. In an example embodiment, a method for semantic parsing can include steps, operations, or instructions such as obtaining a data pair for learning, the data pair comprising logical form data and natural utterance data; acquiring grammar for targeted logical forms among the logical form data of the data pair; modeling data comprising other available prior knowledge utilizing WFSA (Weighted Finite State Automata); combining with the targeted logical forms with the data modeled comprising the other available prior knowledge to form a background; and exploiting the background on the data pair. Note that we do not “learn” the background, but “learn” the background-RNN (Recurrent Neural Network). |
| US10853723B2 |
Neural network training method and apparatus, and data processing apparatus
A neural network training method based on training data, includes receiving training data including sequential data, and selecting a reference hidden node from hidden nodes in a neural network. The method further includes training the neural network based on remaining hidden nodes obtained by excluding the reference hidden node from the hidden nodes, and based on the training data, the remaining hidden nodes being connected with hidden nodes in a different time interval, and a connection between the reference hidden node and the hidden nodes in the different time interval being ignored. |
| US10853721B2 |
Multiplier accumulator, network unit, and network apparatus
According to an embodiment, a multiplier accumulator includes a controller, a high-order multiplier, a high-order accumulator, a low-order multiplier, and an output unit. The controller is configured to designate each digit within a range of the most significant digit in a coefficient for an input value to a stop digit as a target digit. The high-order multiplier is configured to calculate a high-order multiplication value by multiplying the input value, and a value and a weight of the target digit. The high-order accumulator is configured to calculate a high-order accumulation value by accumulatively adding the high-order multiplication values for input values. The low-order multiplier is configured to calculate a low-order multiplication value by multiplying an input value and a value of a digit smaller than the stop digit. The output unit is configured to output a value determined based on whether the high-order accumulation value exceeds a boundary value. |
| US10853718B2 |
Predicting time-to-finish of a workflow using deep neural network with biangular activation functions
Techniques are provided for predicting a time-to-finish of at least one workflow in a shared computing environment using a deep neural network with a biangular activation function. An exemplary method comprises: obtaining a specification of an executing workflow of multiple concurrent workflows in a shared computing environment, wherein the specification comprises states of past executions of the executing workflow; obtaining a trained deep neural network, wherein the trained deep neural network is trained to predict one or more future states of the executing workflow using the states of past executions and wherein the trained deep neural network employs a biangular activation function comprising multiple parameters that define a position and a slope associated with two angles of the biangular activation function for a range of input values; and estimating, using the at least one trained deep neural network, a time-to-finish of the executing workflow of the multiple concurrent workflows. |
| US10853711B2 |
Dispensing process
A method is described in which printing instructions representing printing content to be printed by a printing system are received, the printing system comprising a dispenser to dispense printing material. Whether to perform a first mapping process or a second mapping process is then selected. The first mapping process comprises mapping an indicator to a first dispensing process to dispense printing material from the dispenser to produce content according to a content characteristic of the printing content at a given location, and the second mapping process comprises mapping the indicator to a second dispensing process to dispense printing material to produce content according to the content characteristic at the given location. The first dispensing process is different than the second dispensing process. The indicator represents the content characteristic. The method also comprises performing the selected mapping process. |
| US10853710B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for rendering a document
A method of rendering a document described in a page description language, is disclosed. The document comprising a plurality of images is received. An intermediate graphical representation of the document is formed based on image metadata for the images, the intermediate graphical representation being subdivided into a plurality of tiles. Image data of one of the images is received to render the intermediate graphical representation. A tile of the intermediate graphical representation touched by the received image is identified, in response to receiving the image data. The identified tile is marked for rendering based on a number of the received images for the identified tile compared to a determined number of images contributing to the identified tile, the number of images contributing to the tile being determined using image metadata of the images. The document is rendered using the marked tile. |
| US10853702B2 |
Method and apparatus for checkout based on image identification technique of convolutional neural network
A method includes acquiring a plurality of pictures of a single item to be classified placed on a checkout counter, the plurality of pictures corresponding to a plurality of shooting angles one to one, performing an object detection in each of the pictures to obtain a rectangular area image, the rectangular area image being an image corresponding to a rectangular area containing the item, obtaining a plurality of primary classification results correspondingly, according to the plurality of rectangular area images and a pre-trained first-level classification model, and obtaining a first-level classification result of the plurality of pictures according to the plurality of primary classification results and a pre-trained first-level linear regression model, using the first-level classification result as a first classification result and performing checkout according to the first classification result. |
| US10853700B2 |
Custom auto tagging of multiple objects
There is described a computing device and method in a digital medium environment for custom auto tagging of multiple objects. The computing device includes an object detection network and multiple image classification networks. An image is received at the object detection network and includes multiple visual objects. First feature maps are applied to the image at the object detection network and generate object regions associated with the visual objects. The object regions are assigned to the multiple image classification networks, and each image classification network is assigned to a particular object region. The second feature maps are applied to each object region at each image classification network, and each image classification network outputs one or more classes associated with a visual object corresponding to each object region. |
| US10853698B2 |
System and method of using multi-frame image features for object detection
A method, a system, and a computer readable recording medium are disclosed for performing object recognition. The method includes receiving image data from an image; performing a multilayer feature extraction on the image data; generating current feature maps from the multilayer feature extraction; generating a region of proposal network map from at least the current feature maps, the region of proposal network map having one or more regions of interest; inputting previously generated feature maps and the current feature maps into a classifier with the region of proposed network map; and classifying the one or more regions of interest in the region of proposal network map. |
| US10853697B2 |
System and method for monitoring online retail platform using artificial intelligence and fixing malfunction
A method and system for monitoring an e-commerce platform using artificial intelligence and fixing malfunctions on the e-commerce platform. The method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a feedback submitted by a user through the e-commerce platform; generating a vector based on content of the feedback, context of the feedback and profile of the user using AI processors; and classifying the vector to determine function corresponding to the feedback and status of the function using AI classifiers. The content includes text, voice, image and video; the context includes time, location and submission channel of the feedback; the profile includes attributes, history and preference of the user. Dimensions of the vector respectively corresponding to the text, voice, image, video, time, location, submission channel, attributes, history, and preference of the user. |
| US10853696B1 |
Evaluation of content items against policies regulating content presentation by an online system using machine learning
An online system uses a model to detect violations of policies enforced by the online system for content uploaded to the online system by users for viewing by other users. The online system trains the model in multiple stages. To train the model, the online system obtains a set of training content items, with each content item of the set labeled with both a policy violated by the content item and a source of the content item, which acts as a proxy for a sub-category identifying a way in which the content item violated the policy. In the first stage, the online system trains the model using the set of training content items. In a second stage, the model of trained to predict policy violations from content items that are not labeled with a source. For example, the second stage is performed by freezing earlier layers in the model. |
| US10853694B2 |
Processing input data in a convolutional neural network
A method of processing input data using a computing system. The method comprises obtaining association data which relates a kernel in a convolutional neural network to one or more known data patterns; conducting analysis of input data for the convolutional neural network to identify whether a region of input data corresponds to at least one of the one or more known data patterns; and determining whether to process the region of input data with the kernel in the convolutional neural network based on the analysis and the association data. |
| US10853693B2 |
Software logistic for learning applications
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for concurrent production use of an application and training of a modified application. Actions include receiving a change request that provides at least one application change for an application executed by a production system, retrieving, from the production system, a portion of production data associated to the at least one application change, executing training of a model of the application using the one or more production data to generate a trained model of the application, testing the trained model of the application to generate test results, extending the change request by adding the trained model, and providing, by the production system, the extended change request to deploy the at least one application change and the trained model to the production system. |
| US10853692B2 |
Vicinity supervising device and method for supervising vicinity of vehicle
A vicinity supervising device includes an image capturing unit that captures a plurality of images in which an object is simultaneously captured from different locations; a matching processing unit that calculates a parallax point and a reliability point, the parallax point being the number of pixel regions from which a parallax is calculated among a plurality of pixel regions divided by the plurality of images, and the reliability point being the number of pixel regions having high recognition reliability among the plurality of pixel regions; and an evaluation unit that evaluates, based on the parallax point and the reliability point, an imaging environment where the plurality of images are captured. |
| US10853691B1 |
Neural network architecture
A method includes processing an input image using convolution layers to define image features and processing the image features to define feature statistics. Processing the image features includes applying an activation function in a feature dimension of the image features. The method also includes processing the feature statistics using fully connected layers to produce a binary output regarding a characteristic of the input image. |
| US10853682B2 |
Method for processing an image showing a structured document comprising a visual inspection zone from an automatic reading zone or of barcode type
A method for processing an acquired image (IA) showing a structured personal document (D) including a visual inspection zone (VIZ). The method includes determination of a first character string from an automatic reading zone or of barcode type (MRZ) of predetermined format, the first character string representing personalised information specific to the owner of the document (D), generation from the first character string of an intermediate image (IS) showing a second character string representing the same personalised information, detection in the acquired image of a third character string in the visual inspection zone (VIZ), representing the same personalised information, the detection comprising an overall comparison of the intermediate image (IS) with the acquired image, location in the visual inspection zone (VIZ) of a region of interest containing the third character string. |
| US10853676B1 |
Validating identity and/or location from video and/or audio
An electronic computing device includes a processing unit and system memory. The system memory includes instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, cause the electronic computing device to: receive a communication containing audio data; automatically identify one or more sounds in the audio data of the communication that can be correlated with a geographical location; use the identification of the one or more sounds to identify the geographical location for the audio data; and verify an identity of an individual using the geographic location from the audio data. |
| US10853674B2 |
Vehicle systems and methods for determining a gaze target based on a virtual eye position
Vehicle systems and methods for determining a target position that a user is gesturing towards are disclosed. In one embodiment, a vehicle includes a user detection system configured to output a gesture signal in response to a hand of the user performing at least one gesture to indicate a target position, a user gaze monitoring system configured to output an eye location signal, one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory memory modules communicatively coupled to the one or more processors. The memory modules store machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to determine a point located on the hand of the user based at least in part on the gesture signal from the user detection system. The processors are also caused to determine an actual eye position of the user based on the eye location signal from the user gaze monitoring system. |
| US10853668B1 |
3D position estimation of objects from a monocular camera using a set of known 3D points on an underlying surface
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for determining a location of an object within an environment. An example method may include determining a three-dimensional (3D) location of a plurality of reference points in an environment, receiving a two-dimensional (2D) image of a portion of the environment that contains an object, selecting certain reference points from the plurality of reference points that form a polygon when projected into the 2D image that contains at least a portion of the object, determining an intersection point of a ray directed toward the object and a 3D polygon formed by the selected reference points, and based on the intersection point of the ray directed toward the object and the 3D polygon formed by the selected reference points, determining a 3D location of the object in the environment. |
| US10853666B2 |
Target object estimating apparatus
A target object estimating apparatus comprises parallax information calculating means for calculating parallax information including a parallax between corresponding pixels of taken images taken at a same computation timing, road surface region detecting means for detecting a road surface region in the taken image based on the parallax information, road surface region determining means for determining whether or not each pixel in the taken image corresponds to the road surface region, transition information calculating means for calculating transition information including a change amount of a position of each pixel, using temporally sequential taken images, and estimated value calculating means for estimating a position and a speed of a target object by calculating, based on the parallax/transition information, estimated values of the position and the speed of each pixel. The estimated value calculating means does not calculate the estimated values for a pixel determined to correspond to the road surface region. |
| US10853665B2 |
Method and device to generate virtual lane
A virtual lane generating method and device is provided. The virtual lane generating method includes determining validity of lane detection information extracted from an image in front a vehicle, and generating a virtual lane based on an object included in the image, in response to a determination that the lane detection information is not valid. |
| US10853663B1 |
Action detection during image tracking
A system includes a sensor, a weight sensor, and a tracking subsystem. The tracking subsystem receives an image feed of top-view images generated by the sensor and weight measurements from the weight sensor. The tracking subsystem detects an event associated with an item being removed from a rack in which the weight sensor is installed. The tracking subsystem determines that a first person or a second person may be associated with the event. In response to determining that the first or second person may be associated with the event, buffer frames are stored of top-view images generated by the sensor during a time period associated with the event. The tracking subsystem then determines, using at least one of the stored buffer frames and a first action-detection algorithm, whether an action associated with the event was performed by the first person or the second person. |
| US10853658B2 |
Image-based detection of offside in gameplay
An electronic device is provided for image-based detection of offside in gameplay. The electronic device estimates positions of each player-object of a first team and a second team in a current image and further estimates displacement and velocity values of a soccer-object. The electronic device detects a pass state of the soccer-object based on the displacement and the velocity values. The electronic device determines a set of passive offside positions of a set of player-objects of the first team based on the estimated positions of the each player-object of the first team. The electronic device further detects an active offside state of at least one player-object in the set of player-objects, based on a first distance between the soccer-object and each of the set of player-objects, and transmits a notification to a referee of the gameplay, in real-time or near real time, based on the detected active offside state. |
| US10853657B2 |
Object region identifying apparatus, object region identifying method, and computer program product
An object region identifying apparatus according to an embodiment identifies to which one of a plurality of predetermined object classes each pixel of an image belongs to label the pixel with an object type. The object region identifying apparatus includes following units. A base cost calculating unit calculates base costs of the respective object classes in each of the pixels. A transition cost estimating unit estimates a transition cost accrued when a transition between the object classes occurs between adjacent pixels in the image. A cumulative cost calculating unit calculates cumulative costs of the respective object classes in each of the pixels by accumulating the base cost and the transition cost for the respective object classes along a scanning direction set on the image. A class determining unit determines the object class of each of the pixels based on the corresponding cumulative cost. |
| US10853656B2 |
Surveillance system with activity recognition
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided for activity recognition in a surveillance system. The method includes receiving a plurality of unlabeled videos from one or more cameras. The method also includes classifying an activity in each of the plurality of unlabeled videos. The method additionally includes controlling an operation of a processor-based machine to react in accordance with the activity. |
| US10853651B2 |
Virtual reality interaction method, apparatus and system
A virtual reality interaction method includes: rendering content including an object; tracking the object in the content; and performing gesture tracking for supporting gesture control on the object; wherein an application programing interface API framework is provided to allow a user to define at least one of the content, the tracking module and the interactivity module. |
| US10853649B2 |
Context-aware hazard detection using world-facing cameras in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (xR) applications
Systems and methods for alerting a user to safety hazards in real-world while the user is wearing a Head-Mounted Display (HMD). In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive an image during execution of a xR application displayed to a user wearing a Head-Mounted Display (HMD) coupled to the IHS; detect an object in the image; associate the object with a landmark selected among a plurality of landmarks usable by the xR application to determine a position of the HMD; and provide to the user, via the HMD, a safety instruction related to the object in response to a distance between the HMD and the selected landmark meeting a distance threshold. |
| US10853646B1 |
Generating and utilizing spatial affordances for an object in robotics applications
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating spatial affordances for an object, in an environment of a robot, and utilizing the generated spatial affordances in one or more robotics applications directed to the object. Various implementations relate to applying vision data as input to a trained machine learning model, processing the vision data using the trained machine learning model to generate output defining one or more spatial affordances for an object captured by the vision data, and controlling one or more actuators of a robot based on the generated output. Various implementations additionally or alternatively relate to training such a machine learning model. |
| US10853639B2 |
Data extraction from form images
An image processing system accesses an image of a completed form document. The image of the form document includes one or more features, such as form text, at particular locations within the image. The image processing system accesses a template of the form document and computes a rotation and zoom of the image of the form document relative to the template of the form document based on the locations of the features within the image of the form document relative to the locations of the corresponding features within the template of the form document. The image processing system performs a rotation operation and a zoom operation on the image of the form document, and extracts data entered into fields of the modified image of the form document. The extracted data can be then accessed or stored for subsequent use. |
| US10853638B2 |
System and method for extracting structured information from image documents
A system and method for extracting structured information from image documents is disclosed. An input image document is obtained, and the input image document may be analyzed to determine a skeletal layout of information included in the input image document. A measure of similarity between the determined skeletal layout and each of the document templates may be determined. A document template may be selected as a matched template, based on the determined measure of similarity. Box areas from the input image document may be cropped out, and optical character recognition (OCR) may be performed on the box areas. Obtained recognized text may be automatically processed using directed search to correct errors made by the OCR. Statistical language modeling may be used to classify the input image document into a classification category, and the classified input image document may be processed according to the classification category. |
| US10853635B2 |
Automated systems and methods for monitoring and mapping insects in orchards
Disclosed is an automated tap and detection system (ATDS) for monitoring insects on vegetation. The ATDS can automatically agitate vegetation and collect deposits released from the vegetation in response to the agitation. Images of the deposits can be collected and analyzed using machine learning models to determine a type of deposit (e.g., insect) collected and a number of deposits collected. |
| US10853634B2 |
Methods and systems for updating a database based on object recognition
The systems and methods discussed herein provide for a method that includes receiving, by a device, a first image of a plurality of individuals. The method further includes identifying, by the device from a database comprising images of individuals, a plurality of individuals within the first image. The method further includes for each identified individual within the first image, by the device, identified individual with a first value. The method further includes, generating, by the device to a second device, a record comprising identifications of each identified individual within the first image and the first value. |
| US10853629B2 |
Method for identifying a user entering an autonomous vehicle
One variation of a method for identifying a user entering an autonomous vehicle includes: receiving a ride request from the user, the ride request specifying a pickup location; at the autonomous vehicle, autonomously navigating to the pickup location, scanning a field near the autonomous vehicle for a human approaching the autonomous vehicle, and, in response to detecting the human proximal the autonomous vehicle, recording an image of the human; detecting a face of the human in the image; accessing a faceprint characterizing facial features of the user; and, in response to the face of the human detected in the image exhibiting features represented in the faceprint, identifying the human as the user and triggering a door of the autonomous vehicle to unlock for the user. |
| US10853625B2 |
Facial signature methods, systems and software
Methods, systems and computer program products (“software”) enable a virtual three-dimensional visual experience (referred to herein as “V3D”) in videoconferencing and other applications; the capturing, processing and displaying of images and image streams; and generation of a facial signature based on images of a given human user's or subject's face, or lace and head, for accurate, reliable identification or authentication of a human user or subject, in a secure, difficult to forge manner. |
| US10853624B2 |
Apparatus and method
An apparatus has a circuitry which detects a first biometric feature of a user; detects a second biometric feature of the user, wherein the second biometric feature is detected based on image data representing the second biometric feature, and wherein the second biometric feature differs from the first biometric feature; and estimates an illumination indication for the second biometric feature, based on the image data. |
| US10853623B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating information
A method and an apparatus for generating information are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a to-be-detected image and facial region information used to indicate a facial region in the to-be-detected image and obtained by previously performing face detection on the to-be-detected image; extracting a facial image from the to-be-detected image based on the facial region information; inputting the facial image into a pre-trained convolutional neural network to obtain image feature information, the convolutional neural network being used to extract an image feature; analyzing the image feature information to determine a probability of each pixel point included in the facial image belonging to a category indicated by each category identifier in a preset category identifier set; and generating information for indicating the category to which the each pixel point belongs based on the probability. This embodiment implements generation of information full of pertinence. |
| US10853622B2 |
Driver monitoring device
A driver monitoring device 1 comprises an imaging device 2 capturing an image of a face of a driver of a vehicle to generate an image, a face detecting part 31 detecting the face from the image, a face orientation estimating part 32 estimating a face orientation of the driver, and a cause judging part 33 judging a cause for the face not being detected. The face detecting part detects the face by extracting feature points of the face from the image. When the detection state of the face changes from “detected” to “not detected”, the cause judging part judges that the cause is an eating or drinking action of the driver if in a predetermined number of images until the detection state changes from “detected” to “not detected”, the face orientation is a front and the feature points at a lower region of the face are not extracted. |
| US10853621B2 |
Dermal image information processing device, dermal image information processing method, and program
A dermal image information processing device includes a memory; and a hardware component that reads data from the memory and performs: acquiring dermal image information showing ridge lines in a papillary layer; detecting an singular region caused by a surgical operation in the dermal image; determining a type of the surgical operation that is a cause of generation of the singular region; generating a repaired image showing ridge lines in a papillary layer prior to the surgical operation, based on the type of the surgical operation; and collating the repaired image with a pre-registered dermal image. |
| US10853610B2 |
Combined two-dimensional code, electronic certificate carrier, and generation and reading apparatus and method
There is provided a combined two-dimensional code generating apparatus, comprising: a two-dimensional code information generating module (1), a key information generating module (3), an abstract computing module (4), a two-dimensional code coding module (5), a two-dimensional code image generating module (6), and a dot matrix image generating module (7), wherein: the two-dimensional code information generating module is configured for generating data information to be coded into the two-dimensional code; the key information generating module is configured for generating a key for computing an abstract; the abstract computing module is configured for computing, using a Hash algorithm, the data information of the two-dimensional code and the abstract of the key; the two-dimensional code coding module is configured for combining the abstract information and the data information of the two-dimensional code into coding data of the two-dimensional code; the two-dimensional code image generating module is configured for coding the coding data of the two-dimensional code into the two-dimensional code to generate a two-dimensional code image. The dot matrix image generating module is configured for generating a corresponding dot matrix based on the key information, wherein the dot matrix is positioned by a positioning image of the two-dimensional code and generated outside or inside the two-dimensional code image, the bit error rate caused by the dot matrix being smaller than the error correction rate of the two-dimensional code. |
| US10853609B2 |
Hybrid two-dimensional barcode reader
A hybrid two-dimensional barcode reader decodes control features of the hybrid-two-dimensional barcode image, the control features corresponding to control features of a first formatting standard. The hybrid two-dimensional barcode reader extracts a data sequence from a data portion of the hybrid two-dimensional barcode image based on the decoded control features and a second data format different from a first data format of the first formatting standard to recover the first data set. The hybrid two-dimensional barcode reader may decode a second data set from the data portion of the two-dimensional barcode in the data encoding format of the first formatting standard. The hybrid two-dimensional barcode reader may also constellation decode the first data set. |
| US10853608B2 |
Barcode-reading accessory for interacting with a touch interface on a mobile device
The present disclosure relates to a barcode-reading system that includes a mobile device accessory attached to a mobile device. The mobile device accessory includes a button assembly having an outer button and dielectric material. When an input object (e.g., a finger) comes into contact with the button assembly, the dielectric material comes into contact with a touch interface (e.g., a button or touchscreen) and causes the mobile device to detect a touch input. In particular, the dielectric material of the button assembly may activate a capacitive property of a button or touchscreen to enable the mobile device to detect the touch input. |
| US10853606B2 |
Encoded surfaces that are read by three-dimensional radar imaging systems
The invention relates to encoded surfaces that are read by a three-dimensional radar imaging system. The reader scans different zones in a pre-determined area of the encoded surface, each of said zones comprising projections or indentations, similar to Braille. The image obtained can be used to estimate the position of the camera relative to the known pattern. The relative movement between the reader and the encoded surface allows other areas of the surface to be scanned and, in this way, the sensor can decode a message etched along the path followed by the imaging sensor. |
| US10853604B2 |
Attachment for a mobile device for reading barcodes and capturing non-barcode images
An attachment for a mobile device includes an attachment feature securable to the mobile device. The attachment also includes a first set of imaging optics that receives, from within a first field of view, first light defining a first portion of image data captured by an image sensing system of the mobile device. The first portion of the image data includes a barcode image. The first field of view is centered on a first optical pathway. The attachment also includes a second set of imaging optics that receives, from within a second field of view, second light defining a second portion of the image data. The second portion of the image data includes a non-barcode image. The second field of view is centered on a second optical pathway nonparallel to the first optical pathway. |
| US10853594B2 |
Lockout tagout system and method
A manually operated disconnect maintains a machine/process in a de-energized state. The disconnect employs a sensor that automatically detects, via wireless communication, a lock affixed to the disconnect that locks the disconnect in an open state. Processing circuitry coupled to the sensor determines lockout tagout data, such as identification of a user associated with the lock, a time of application of the lock, and data identifying and/or locating the disconnect or a machine/process to which the disconnect provides power when in a closed state. Memory circuitry coupled to the processing circuitry stores the lockout tagout data, and holds it available for user review, transmission, analysis, reporting, and so forth. |
| US10853593B2 |
Integrated circuits and methods for protocol detection and decoding in near field communications
A method for decoding a data stream carried by a modulated signal includes receiving the modulated signal. The modulated signal is modulated according to a protocol belonging to a group of protocols including at least three protocols. The method further includes extracting a clock signal from the received modulated signal, detecting the protocol, and decoding the data stream according to the detected protocol using the extracted clock signal. |
| US10853589B2 |
Language translation with head-worn computing
Aspects of the present invention relate to language translation systems for head-worn computers. |
| US10853587B2 |
Information terminal
An information terminal with low power consumption is provided. The information terminal includes a liquid crystal element, a light-emitting element, a first transistor, and a touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a photodiode, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor has a function of controlling a current flowing through the light-emitting element. The photodiode is electrically connected to a gate of the third transistor through the second transistor. A gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to the gate of the third transistor through at least one transistor. |
| US10853586B2 |
Method and apparatus for lightweight multilingual natural language realizer
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to be embodied as a natural language realizer in the form of a lightweight multilingual realizer. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises generating syntactically correct natural language. The method of this embodiment may also include at a syntax processor, propagating features among a group of words, and adding closed class function words and morphological inflections. |
| US10853583B1 |
Applied artificial intelligence technology for selective control over narrative generation from visualizations of data
To provide users with more flexibility for controlling narrative generation from visualizations of data, the inventors disclose how selective control can be provided over various aspects of the narrative generation process, such as selectively enabled and disabled narrative analytics for analyzing visualization data. For example, narrative analytics relating to segment analysis and trendline analysis with respect to line charts can be selectively enabled and disabled as part of the narrative generation process. |
| US10853582B2 |
Conversational agent
A method, system, and computer program product provide a conversation agent to process natural language queries expressed by a user and perform commands according to the derived intention of the user. A natural language processing (NLP) engine derives intent using conditional random fields to identify a domain and at least one task embodied in the query. The NLP may further identify one or more subdomains, and one or more entities related to the identified command. A template system creates a data structure for information relevant to the derived intent and passes a template to a services manager for interfacing with one or more services capable of accomplishing the task. A dialogue manager may elicit more entities from the user if required by the services manager and otherwise engage in conversation with the user. In one embodiment, the conversational agent allows a user to engage in multiple conversations simultaneously. |
| US10853581B2 |
Enabling rhetorical analysis via the use of communicative discourse trees
Systems, devices, and methods of the present invention calculate a rhetorical relationship between one or more sentences. In an example, a computer-implemented method accesses a sentence comprising a plurality of fragments. At least one fragment includes a verb and a words. Each word includes a role of the words within the fragment. Each fragment is an elementary discourse unit. The method generates a discourse tree that represents rhetorical relationships between the sentence fragments. The discourse tree includes nodes including nonterminal and terminal nodes, each nonterminal node representing a rhetorical relationship between two of the sentence fragments, and each terminal node of the nodes of the discourse tree is associated with one of the sentence fragments. The method matches each fragment that has a verb to a verb signature, thereby creating communicative discourse tree. |
| US10853580B1 |
Generation of text classifier training data
A method includes receiving input designating a term of interest in a document of a document corpus and determining a target context embedding representing a target word group that includes the term of interest and context words located in the document proximate to the term of interest. The method also includes identifying, from among the document corpus, a first candidate word group that is semantically similar to the target word group and a second candidate word group that is semantically dissimilar to the target word group. The method further includes receiving user input identifying at least a portion of the first candidate word group as associated with a first label and identifying at least a portion of the second candidate word group as not associated with the first label. The method also includes generating labeled training data based on the user input to train a text classifier. |
| US10853577B2 |
Response recommendation system
A data processing system analyzes a corpus of conversation data received at an interactive conversation service to train a response recommendation model. The response recommendation model generates response vectors based on custom responses and using the trained model and generates a context vector based on received input at the interactive conversation service. The context vector is compared to the set of response vectors to identify a set of recommended responses, which are recommended to an agent conversing with a user using the interactive conversation service. |
| US10853576B2 |
Efficient and accurate named entity recognition method and apparatus
A method for recognizing and extracting named entities in a natural language input text processing comprising: performing, by a compressed named entities recognition (NER)-model-based named entity recognizer, a first stage NER on the input text to generate a first stage determination of whether at least one named entity exists in the input text; if the first stage NER determines no named entity exists in the input text, performing, by a rule based named entity recognizer, a second stage NER on the input text to generate a second stage NER result; if the first stage NER determines at least one named entity exists in the input text, generating, by the compressed NER-model-based named entity recognizer, a first stage NER result; and integrating, by a NER result integrator, the first stage NER result and the second stage NER result to generate a final NER result. |
| US10853573B2 |
Calculating structural differences from binary differences in publish subscribe system
A method for more efficient structural parsing of binary representations of text based objects within a data distribution system. Clients subscribe to a topic maintained by the data distribution system server that publishers can publish to. Clients receive an original binary representation of a text based object describing the state of the topic to which the client is subscribed. In response to the state of the topic changing at the data distribution system server, clients receive a binary delta representing the change of the state of the topic. Based on the received binary representation and the binary delta, clients calculate an updated binary representation of the text based object. Using the original binary representation, the updated binary representation, and the binary delta, the client generates a structural delta representing the structural differences between data structures of the original text based object and data structures of the updated text based object. |
| US10853571B2 |
Identifying information assignment system, identifying information assignment method, and program therefor
An identifying information assignment system includes: a generating portion configured to generate, for a learning result obtained by attaining a predetermined capability through a predetermined learning process by machine learning, identifying information for identifying the predetermined learning process; and an assignment portion configured to assign the generated identifying information to the learning result. |
| US10853566B2 |
Systems and methods for automatically creating tables using auto-generated templates
Systems and methods are provided for creating tables using auto-generated templates. Reports including lines of text to be extracted into tables are received. An auto define input is received to auto-generate the tables corresponding to the reports. Groups of lines are identified from among the lines of text in the reports. A detail group and relevant groups are selected and identified from among the groups of lines. A final detail group is created by merging the detail group with at least a portion of the relevant groups. Append groups are identified from among the groups of lines not included in the final detail group. Templates corresponding to the final detail group and the append groups are generated. Text is extracted from the reports based on the templates. Tables are generated using the text extracted from the reports, by assigning the text from the text fragments to entries in the tables. |
| US10853564B2 |
Operation for copied content
A human-computer interaction method is applied to an electronic device, and includes: obtaining content copied by a user on a first page, and determining a category to which the content belongs; obtaining a category of a second page; matching the category of the content against the category of the second page; and if a matching result is not empty, displaying at least one operation option on the second page, where the at least one operation option has a function of performing an operation for the content on the second page, so that the electronic device directly performs the function after the user selects the operation option. In the method, a category of copied text content is extracted and is matched against a category of a keyword, and a matched group is used as a prompt operation. The prompt operation is displayed in a form of a dialog box, to prompt a next action that may be performed by a user, so that complexity of user operations is reduced, and accuracy of pasting text information is improved. |
| US10853559B2 |
Symmetric text replacement
Systems, methods, and devices of various embodiments may receive first and second text strings for performing a symmetric text replacement. An original recitation of the first or second text strings may be located, wherein at least one intervening other text string is disposed between the first and second text strings. Each original recitation of the first text string may be replaced with a substituted recitation of the second text string in response to determining the located original recitation of the first and second text strings matches the first text string. Similarly, each original recitation of the second text string may be replaced with a substituted recitation of the first text string in response to determining the located original recitation of the first and second text strings matches the second text string. |
| US10853558B2 |
Transforming digital text content using expressions
Techniques for transforming digital text content using expressions are described. According to various implementations, a text editor system determines that digital text content of a digital document is modified via application of a particular style that differs from other digital text content of the digital document. The text editor system identifies a pattern characteristic to the modified digital text content, and generates a digital expression that identifies the pattern, and generates a style expression that combines the digital expression with a digital style that represents style attributes descriptive of the style modification applied to the modified text content. The text editor system applies the style expression to search digital text content, identify matching digital text content that matches the digital expression, and transform the matching digital text content by applying the digital style to modify the matching digital text content. |
| US10853556B2 |
System and method for converting paper forms to an electronic format
A system and method for creating and managing electronic forms is described. The system includes a processor configured to receive an image of a form and receive, via a network interface, form template information specifying at least a first input field. The form template information includes a first input field type selection and first field location information for the first input field. The first input field type is selected from a plurality of input field types and the first field location information is defined relative to the image. The processor stores the form template information within a memory. The electronic form is configured to be rendered by superimposing a representation of the first input field over the image of the form. |
| US10853553B1 |
Vias with multiconnection via structures
Improving an initial via in a circuit comprises: obtaining layout information associated with an initial via structure in a circuit, the initial via comprising an initial lower metal enclosure and an initial upper metal enclosure connected by an initial cut; determining layout information associated with a multiconnection via structure comprising a plurality of sibling vias having at least one additional upper metal enclosure and at least one additional lower metal enclosure; updating the layout information associated with the initial via with the layout information associated with the multiconnection via structure; and outputting the updated layout information. The plurality of sibling vias are connected by a plurality of corresponding sibling cuts, and the multiconnection via structure has lower resistance than the initial via structure. In some embodiments, the multiconnection via is efficiently represented in using a master template. |
| US10853548B1 |
Reconfiguration of hardware components of an integrated circuit
In some embodiments, a client device may obtain an external signal. The hardware components of an integrated circuit of the client device may be reconfigured from a first configuration to a second configuration based on information in the external signal such that one or more portions of the integrated circuit that was previously inaccessible is now accessible and an application may access the one or more portions of the integrated circuit. Further, in response to a trigger, the components of the integrated circuit may reconfigure from the second configuration to the first configuration such that the one or more portions of the integrated circuit is inaccessible. |
| US10853546B1 |
Method and system for sequential equivalence checking
A method for sequential equivalence checking (SEC) of two representations of an electronic design includes selecting by a processor a plurality of cutpoints in the two representations of the electronic design, rendering the two representations of the electronic design abstracted; executing by the processor an assume-guarantee (AG) proof on the two abstracted representations of the electronic design; identifying by the processor a failed assertion indicating non-equivalence of a signal pair relating to one of the cutpoints; and performing by the processor a simulation on the two representations of the electronic design by successively inputting input stimuli of a trace corresponding to the failed assertion in a sequential order in which the input stimuli appear in the trace at inputs of the two representations of the electronic design to identify whether there is one or a plurality of additional non-equivalent signal pairs relating to other cutpoints of said plurality of cutpoints. |
| US10853542B1 |
Fuse-based logic repair
A method for repairing logic design includes inserting primary logic gates in a primary logic design path of a logic chip. The method also includes inserting alternative logic gates in an alternate logic design path of the logic chip. The alternate logic design path and the primary logic design path are coupled to multiple fuses. The potentially defective design is repaired by selecting between the alternate logic design path and the primary logic design path with the fuses when the logic design is defective. |
| US10853532B2 |
Graphical modeling for accessing dynamic system states across different components
A method may include causing a first model to be executed. The causing the first model to be executed may be performed by a device. The method may further include causing a second model to be executed to simulate a functionality of the first model. The causing the second model to be executed may be performed by the device. The method may further include interacting with a model element, of the second model, associated with implicitly accessing information regarding a state of the first model. The state may be a representation of the first model at a particular simulation time-step. The interacting with the model may be performed by the device. The method may further include accessing, by the model element, information associated with the state of the first model. The accessing the information may be performed by the device. |
| US10853528B2 |
Optimizing the design of physical structures/objects
In one aspect, a computer-assisted method for the optimization of the design of physical bodies, such as land, air and sea vehicles and robots and/or parts thereof, is provided comprising the steps of: representing the design to be optimized as a mesh, generating update signals to optimize the mesh representation, applying an optimization algorithm until a stop criterion has been reached, and outputting a signal representing the optimized design. |
| US10853518B2 |
Systems and methods for providing secure access to data using encrypted codes
The present invention relates to directly and securely transferring encrypted medical data between parties, wherein a sender generates an encrypted access code. The access code is provided to a recipient who can then view the medical data without requiring cloud and virtual private network infrastructures, and which eliminate the need for medical data to be stored on physical media and physically carried to a recipient's location. The invention empowers patients to view, share, and manage their medical data, and facilitates the preservation of the continuum of care. |
| US10853510B2 |
Association of address with cloud services account
Some embodiments provide a method for an electronic device. The method receives, through a communication address, an invitation to access a shared data asset via a cloud services platform. When the communication address is not associated with any account on the cloud services platform, the method identifies whether the device is associated with a cloud services account. When the device is associated with a cloud services account, the method prompts for input of a password for the cloud services account in order for the communication address to be associated with the cloud services account and for access to be enabled to the shared data asset. |
| US10853509B2 |
Error detection of data leakage in a data processing system
A system for detecting data leakage is disclosed. The system intercepts web traffic data, de-duplicates the web traffic data, and extracts data elements from the web traffic data. The system further groups the data elements into multiple clusters based on data types associated with the data elements. The system then identifies data elements in a cluster that were previously sent to a user and identifies allowed data elements from an allow table that are supposed to be sent to the user. The system determines whether there is a data leakage by determining whether the identified data elements in the cluster comprises at least one data element that is not in the identified allowed data elements in the allow table. |
| US10853506B2 |
Systems and methods for preventing leakage of protected document data
Systems and methods for preventing leakage of protected data to unsecured applications and documents may include determining that a first document is a protected document in a managed application, detecting a request to copy protected data from the first document to a system clipboard accessible by unprotected documents, redirecting the protected data to a secure clipboard, determining that a second document is an unprotected document, detecting a request to paste the protected data into the second document, and refraining from pasting the protected data into the second document. The secure clipboard may be implemented by a data leakage prevention (DLP) client. It may be separate from the system clipboard and inaccessible by unprotected documents. Dynamic-link library injection and API hooking may allow the DLP client to intercept clipboard related function calls made by managed applications into the operating system and to transparently change the behavior of the managed application. |
| US10853505B2 |
Data policies for online services
An online service may maintain or create data for a user, and a user may be allowed to exert control over how the data are used. In one example, there may be several categories of data, and the user may be able to specify who may use the data, and the purpose for which the data may be used. Additionally, a user may be able to see how many of his “friends” (or other contacts) have extended trust to a particular entity, which may aid the user in making a decision about whether to extend trust to that entity. User interfaces may be provided to allow users to specify how their data are to be used. |
| US10853504B1 |
Secure public key acceleration
In an embodiment, a system is provided in which the private key is managed in hardware and is not visible to software. The system may provide hardware support for public key generation, digital signature generation, encryption/decryption, and large random prime number generation without revealing the private key to software. The private key may thus be more secure than software-based versions. In an embodiment, the private key and the hardware that has access to the private key may be integrated onto the same semiconductor substrate as an integrated circuit (e.g. a system on a chip (SOC)). The private key may not be available outside of the integrated circuit, and thus a nefarious third party faces high hurdles in attempting to obtain the private key. |
| US10853502B1 |
Systems and methods for reducing computational difficulty of cryptographic operations
Computing equipment may perform format-preserving encryption and decryption by partitioning an input string into first and second portions. The computing equipment may combine the first portion with the second portion after the second portion has been passed through a pseudorandom function using a format-preserving combination operation that requires inputs having a similar domain size. A data size adjustment engine may adjust the domain size of the output of the pseudorandom function to be similar to the domain size of the first string. In order to mitigate undesirable data overflows, the output of the pseudorandom function may be partitioned into a number of computationally simpler terms each having a modulo factor and a pre-computed constant value. The computing equipment may pre-compute the constant values in advance, thereby reducing the computational complexity required for performing the size adjustment operations without generating undesirable data overflows. |
| US10853499B2 |
Key threat prediction
In one example embodiment, a network-connected device provides or obtains one or more computer network communications protected by a key. The network-connected device determines a count of the one or more computer network communications according to one or more properties of the one or more computer network communications. Based on the count of the one or more computer network communications, the network-connected device computes an information entropy of the key. Based on the information entropy of the key, the network-connected device dynamically generates a predicted threat level of the key. |
| US10853497B2 |
Method and system for providing an update of code on a memory-constrained device
A method for providing a code update on a memory-constrained device includes: determining, by a verifying entity, a minimum necessary compressed code space (MNCCS) of the code update; dividing, by the verifying entity, the code update into N chunks; encrypting, by the verifying entity, the N chunks, wherein encrypting the N chunks includes outputting at least one intermediate ciphertext block of each encrypted chunk, wherein the at least one intermediate ciphertext block of each encrypted chunk is permuted and permutation reference information is generated by the verifying entity; and sending, by the verifying entity, the encrypted chunks, the at least one intermediate ciphertext block of each encrypted chunk, and the permutation reference information to the memory-constrained device. |
| US10853494B2 |
Binding a trusted virtual machine to a trusted host computer
An example method of authenticating software executing in a computer system includes verifying first software executing on the computer system, the software including a hypervisor, verifying second software executing in a virtual machine (VM) managed by the hypervisor, generating a binding key having public and private portions, signing an object to identifies the VM using the private portion of the binding key, and verifying a signature of the object using a public portion of the binding key. |
| US10853493B2 |
Enhanced vector-based identification of circuit trojans
A system and method for detecting Trojans and other intermittent severe defects in a digital circuit design. A simulation of the digital circuit design results in a value change dump file, which is compiled to form a value change summary file containing counts of the numbers of value changes for the signals in the digital circuit design. A discriminative neural network analyzes the value change summary file to determine whether an intermittent severe defect is present. A corpus of digital circuit designs, with and without intermittent severe defects, is used to train the discriminative neural network. The training process may involve dimensionality reduction of the data, enlargement of the data set, and data compression using an autoencoder. |
| US10853489B2 |
Data-driven identification of malicious files using machine learning and an ensemble of malware detection procedures
Techniques are provided for data-driven ensemble-based malware detection. An exemplary method comprises obtaining a file; extracting metadata from the file; obtaining a plurality of malware detection procedures; selecting a subset of the plurality of malware detection procedures to apply to the file utilizing a likelihood that each of the plurality of malware detection procedures will result in a malware detection for the file based on the extracted metadata; applying the selected subset of the malware detection procedures to the file; and processing results of the subset of malware detection procedures using a machine learning model to determine a probability of the file being malware. |
| US10853481B1 |
Runtime management of application components
Techniques are described for runtime checking of function metadata prior to execution of a function in an environment. An application may include any appropriate number of components at one or more levels in a hierarchical arrangement, and each component may be packaged with metadata that describes the component. A function, or any component, may be packaged with metadata that includes term(s) governing the usage of the function. The term(s) may be checked, at runtime, during execution of the application to determine whether the function is to be executed. A function may also be hashed at runtime for verification of function version. Function(s) may be individually and independently executed as containerized nano functions within the environment. |
| US10853480B2 |
Stack pivot exploit detection and mitigation
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for detecting and mitigating stack pivoting exploits. In aspects, various “checkpoints” may be identified in software code. At each checkpoint, the current stack pointer, stack base, and stack limit for each mode of execution may be obtained. The current stack pointer for each mode of execution may be evaluated to determine whether the stack pointer falls within a stack range between the stack base and the stack limit of the respective mode of execution. When the stack pointer is determined to be outside of the expected stack range, a stack pivot exploit is detected and one or more remedial actions may be automatically performed. |
| US10853473B2 |
Enforcing trusted application settings for shared code libraries
Access to a shared library API is restricted for a customer application by a security system. A profile for each of a plurality of trusted applications is generated and stored in a security database. When a customer application attempts to access the shared library API, the customer application is verified by extracting a customer application profile for the customer application, comparing the customer application profile with each stored trusted application profile, and verifying that the customer application can access the shared library API based on the comparison. Based on the verification, the customer application may be allowed to or access to the shared library API or may be prevented from accessing the shared library API. |
| US10853464B2 |
Detection of replay attack
In order to detect a replay attack in a speaker recognition system, at least one feature is identified in a detected magnetic field. It is then determined whether the at least one identified feature of the detected magnetic field is indicative of playback of speech through a loudspeaker. If so, it is determined that a replay attack may have taken place. |
| US10853462B2 |
Authorizing file access with user I/O and hardware usage patterns
An apparatus for authorizing file access events includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code is executable by the processor to record hardware usage patterns prior to a file access event of a file, and correlate the hardware usage patterns with file access events targeting the file. The code is also executable to receive a file access event targeting the file, compare a hardware usage pattern preceding the received file access event targeting the file to the hardware usage patterns correlated with file access events targeting the file, and authorize the received file access event in response to the hardware usage pattern preceding the received file access event targeting the file matching a hardware usage pattern correlated to a file access event targeting the file. |
| US10853461B2 |
Turing test decoder
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for decoding Turing tests. One of the methods includes managing a database that stores data of each of a plurality of aggregation accounts; sending, for a particular account identified by one of the aggregation accounts and to a server, a request for access to account data for the particular account; receiving, from the server, data that includes a login credentials field and a Turing test challenge; extracting the Turing test challenge; providing, to an external system that is a different system from the server, the Turing test challenge; receiving, from the external system, a response to the Turing test challenge; providing, to the server, the response to the Turing test challenge; providing, to the server, the login credentials for the particular account; and receiving, from the server, account data for the particular account. |
| US10853460B2 |
Modular data center
Provided is a modular datacenter having a moveable rack assembly configured to selectively provide access to rack-mounted computing devices, with access barriers selectively providing access to rack-mounted computing devices within an exposed rack or portion of a rack or device mounted thereon, safety interlocks controlling when the rack assembly moves, and space-efficient thermal management systems. |
| US10853456B1 |
Authenticating media data based on steganographic and blockchain techniques
Methods, systems, and devices that support determining whether media data has been altered are described. Captured media data may be segmented into one or more subsets, and cryptographic representations (e.g., hashes) based on the subsets may be written to an immutable ledger, possibly along with metadata and other related data. A block of a blockchain may be created for each entry in the immutable ledger. A set of media data may be validated, if a corresponding immutable ledger exists, based on segmenting the set of media data into one or more subsets in accordance with the segmenting upon capture, creating candidate cryptographic representations (e.g., hashes) based on the subsets, and comparing the candidate cryptographic representations with contents of the corresponding immutable ledger. |
| US10853449B1 |
Report formatting for automated or assisted analysis of medical imaging data and medical diagnosis
Methods and systems for medical diagnosis by machine learning are disclosed. Imaging data obtained from different medical techniques can be used as a training set for a machine learning method, to allow diagnosis of medical conditions in a faster a more efficient manner. A three-dimensional convolutional neural network can be employed to interpret volumetric data available from multiple scans of a patient. |
| US10853448B1 |
Hiding latency of multiplier-accumulator using partial results
Computational apparatus includes a memory, which is configured to contain multiple matrices of input data values. An array of processing elements is configured to perform multiplications of respective first and second input operands and to accumulate products of the multiplication to generate respective output values. Data access logic is configured to select from the memory a plurality of mutually-disjoint first matrices and a second matrix, and to distribute to the processing elements the input data values in a sequence that is interleaved among the first matrices, along with corresponding input data values from the second matrix, so as to cause the processing elements to compute, in the interleaved sequence, respective convolutions of each of the first matrices with the second matrix. |
| US10853446B2 |
Methods and systems for complexity reduction in discrete Fourier transform computations
In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method of discrete Fourier transform (DPT), FFT, or DCT computations on a system comprising a processor is described herein. In one example, the method includes receiving, with the processor, input complex samples from memory of the system, determining input vectors based on the received input complex samples, determining a DFT radix p of p macro blocks based on the input vectors, determining p independent DFT-L vectors based on the p macro blocks with L being based on p, and generating p DFT-N output vectors without reordering or shuffling output data based on the p independent DFT-L vectors. |
| US10853440B2 |
Displaying an object having a link to a database record in response to a user selection of a highlighted reference
A method for enhanced web browsing includes displaying additional information associated with potential leads referenced within the web content of web page. The method generally includes receiving, by an executable application associated with a web browser on a computer system, contents of a web page to be displayed by the web browser and parsing the content to identify one or more references to at least one potential lead, such as a business entity. The executable application then determines whether the at least one potential lead is associated with a record stored in a database, and displays the contents of the web page on the browser with the references highlighted and linked to the corresponding record in the database. Upon selecting the highlighted reference, an object comprising the information from the record in the database is displayed in the web browser. |
| US10853438B1 |
History state management
A system for saving the state history of a web browser includes an interface and a processor. The interface is to receive an instruction to begin. The processor is to provide a display window code. The display window code causes retention of a display window state history. The display window state history comprises a display window state for each display window in a set of one or more display windows previously or currently displayed. The display window state comprises a composite state for a set of the one or more window modules. |
| US10853435B2 |
Systems and methods for aligning event data
System and methods for aligning event data recorded by recording devices. Recording devices create, transmit, and store alignment data. Alignment data created by a recording device is stored in the memory of the recording device with a time that is maintained by the recording device and that is relative to the time of event data recorded by the recording device that creates the alignment data.Recording devices further receive and store transmitted alignment data. Alignment data received by a recording device is stored in the memory of the recording device with a time that is maintained by the receiving recording device and that is relative to the time of event data recorded by the recording device that creates alignment data.Stored alignment data may be used to align the playback of event data of devices that have the same alignment data. |
| US10853434B2 |
User interface for presenting search results
A search interface allows the selection between multiple presentation modes, including a default mode, a dense mode, a table mode, a command line mode and a research mode. In the research mode, two scrollable regions may be displayed side-by-side. In the first scrollable region, search results may be presented. In the second scrollable region, an aggregation of content extracted from documents associated with the search results may be presented. Selection of a search result may cause the presentation of a portion of the content aggregation in the second scrollable region with the content associated with the selected search result. Scrolling of the second scrollable region allows for a seamless transition from viewing the contents from one document to the contents of the next document associated with the search results. |
| US10853433B2 |
Method and device for generating briefing
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for generating a briefing, the method includes: determining a target news category of a user according to historical accessing data of the user; matching the target news category with a preset event map, to obtain a plurality of pieces of news related to the target news category; extracting a news abstract from each news, to obtain a plurality of news abstracts; selecting a part of news abstracts from the plurality of news abstracts, and generating the briefing based on the part of news abstracts. |
| US10853432B2 |
Methods and systems for generating search results and recommendations based on multi-sourced two-way correspondence and relative entity prominence
The present disclosure is directed to generating search results, recommendations, and/or the like. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive data describing one or more aspects of entities of different types; determine, based at least in part on the aspect(s) of the entities, one or more additional aspects of the entities; determine, based at least in part on the additional aspect(s) of the entities, a metric indicating an extent to which the entities correspond to one another; generate, based on the metric, one or more search results, recommendations, and/or the like; and communicate, to a computing device (e.g., for display, and/or the like), data indicating the search result(s), recommendation(s), and/or the like. |
| US10853429B2 |
Identifying domain-specific accounts
A method of identifying domain-specific accounts is provided. A method may include identifying a plurality of candidate accounts based on a plurality of seed accounts. The method may further include identifying a subset of candidate accounts of the plurality of candidate accounts based on one more account statistics. Further, the method may include clustering each candidate account of the subset of candidate accounts into either a non-domain-specific cluster or a domain-specific cluster based on a plurality of account statistics. The method may also include updating, at least one of the plurality of candidate accounts and the plurality of seed accounts based on at least one of the non-domain-specific cluster and the domain-specific cluster. |
| US10853428B2 |
Computing a ranked feature list for content distribution in a first categorization stage and second ranking stage via machine learning
An online system identifies seed users with a high value score to a third party system. The online system identifies features of each of the seed users. A weight for each of the identified features is identified. The identified features are divided into a plurality of buckets, each bucket indicating a property associated with one or more of the identified features. Each bucket is ranked according to the weights of the identified features in each bucket. The online system identifies an additional user that has a threshold measure of similarity the seed users. The online system transmits a content item to the additional user for presentation. Additionally, the online system transmits one or more third party-presentable factors based on the bucket having the highest rank to the third party system, the third party-presentable factors indicating a reason as to why the additional user was presented with the content item. |
| US10853422B2 |
Private information retrieval with probabilistic batch codes
Systems, methods, and computer-executable instructions for reducing amortized computational costs for a query that includes receiving at least two indexes for elements stored in an n-element database. The n-element database is encoded into at least three buckets. Each element is stored within at least two buckets. Each bucket stores a proper subset of the n-elements. For each of the two indexes, a bucket is determined to retrieve the element at the index. The determined buckets are queried to retrieve the elements. The elements at the indexes are retrieved based on the querying the determined buckets. |
| US10853421B2 |
Segmented sentence recognition method and device for human-machine intelligent question answer system
Disclosed are a segmented sentence recognition method and device for a human-machine intelligent question-answer system. One particular embodiment of the method includes: receiving a current sentence input by a user; inputting the current sentence into a pre-trained segmented sentence recognition model to obtain a first probability of the current sentence being a complete sentence, wherein the segmented sentence recognition model is used for determining the first probability according to a probability corresponding to a Chinese language model of the current sentence and a probability corresponding to a recurrent neural network language model; and if the first probability is greater than a pre-set first threshold value, determining the current sentence to be a complete sentence. In the embodiment, a Chinese language model and a recurrent neural network language model are merged to obtain a segmented sentence recognition model for determining a probability of a current sentence being a complete sentence. |
| US10853419B2 |
Database with time-dependent graph index
Data is received that characterizes a data structure comprising a plurality of hierarchical nodes in which dependencies amongst a portion of the nodes are time-dependent. Based on the received data, a graph index is generated for a database that specifies, for each node, all corresponding direct and indirect successor nodes and associated validity time windows. Subsequently, the database receives queries that specify, in a single database protocol command, a request for time-dependent hierarchical information of a node. The database then provides results responsive to the queries (if any). Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described. |
| US10853418B1 |
Computer-based systems and methods configured to utilize automating deployment of predictive models for machine learning tasks
A method includes obtaining feature generation code from, which is configured to determine features relating to input data. The method further includes obtaining data grouping code, which is configured to generate training data by determining a plurality of data groupings for the features relating to the input data. The method further includes obtaining modeling code, which is derived at least in part by applying one or more machine learning algorithms to the training data. The method further includes applying a model wrapper code to the feature generation code, the data grouping code, and the modeling code to generate a model wrapper and deploying the model wrapper such that the model wrapper may receive a first application programming interface (API) call including an input data value, determine a score relating to the input data value, and send a second API call including the score in response to the first API call. |
| US10853414B2 |
Computer-implemented method for providing content in accordance with emotional state that user is to reach
A computer-implemented method receives, from a user device, user ID information, a target emotional state value, and target time information, acquires personal physiological rhythm data of a user including a plurality of emotional state values from a data storage, acquires present time information, determines a present emotional state value from the plurality of emotional state values, calculates a difference value between the present emotional state value and the target emotional state value, estimates a spontaneous variation of an emotional state value based on the physiological rhythm data, compensates the difference value by the spontaneous variation, selects a content that is expected to cause the emotional state value of the user to change by the compensated difference value, and provides the selected content to the user device. |
| US10853412B2 |
Scenario-based sound effect control method and electronic device
Disclosed are a scenario-based sound effect control method and an electronic device. The method comprises: after being turned on, an electronic device enables a service having an interception function; the electronic device intercepts, by using the service having the interception function, whether there is a newly created audio decoder and/or video decoder in the electronic device; if determining that there is the newly created audio decoder and the video decoder in the electronic device, the electronic device determines that a current scenario is a video playing application scenario; the electronic device obtains a scenario-based sound effect corresponding to the video playing application scenario, and sets a current sound effect of the electronic device as the scenario-based sound effect. |
| US10853408B2 |
Method for providing graphic effect corresponding to configuration information of object and electronic device thereof
The present disclosure relates to a device and method for providing a graphic effect corresponding to configuration information of an object displayed on a display of an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display, a memory, and at least one processor coupled to the memory. The at least one processor is configured to control the display to display an image, detect at least one object from the image, and control the display to display detection information corresponding to the at least one object based on configuration information of the at least one object. |
| US10853401B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for classification and tagging of textual data
Provided herein are systems, methods and computer readable media for classification and tagging of textual data. An example method may include accessing a corpus comprising a plurality of documents, each document having one or more labels indicative of services offered by a merchant, generating a query based on extracted features and the documents, generating a precision score for at least a portion of the generated query and selecting a subset of the generated queries based on an assigned precision score satisfying a precision score threshold, the selected subset of the generated queries configured to provide an indication of one or more labels to be applied to machine readable text. A second example method, utilized for tagging machine readable text with unknown labels, may include assigning a label to textual portions of the machine readable text based on results of the application of the queries. |
| US10853400B2 |
Data processing device, data processing method, and computer program product
A data processing device according to an embodiment includes a sub-vector group generating unit, a codebook generating unit, and a converting unit. The sub-vector group generating unit generates, from a feature vector set of N number of D-dimensional feature vectors, M number of sub-vector groups (where M |
| US10853388B2 |
Rebuilding data in a dispersed storage network
A method for execution by a rebuilding module includes detecting that less than a pillar width number of encoded data slices of a common revision are retrievable from a set of storage units. A decode threshold number of encoded data slices are retrieved and decoded to reproduce a data segment. The data segment is encoded to produce at least one encoded data slice and storage of the at least one encoded data slice in the set of storage units is facilitated in accordance with the common revision when determining to rebuild the at least one encoded data slice. The data segment is encoded to reproduce the set of encoded data slices and storage of the reproduced set of encoded data slices is facilitated in the set of storage units in accordance with a new revision when determining to not rebuild the at least one encoded data slice. |
| US10853384B2 |
System and method for multi-modal audio mining of telephone conversations
A system and method for the automated monitoring of inmate telephone calls as well as multi-modal search, retrieval and playback capabilities for said calls. A general term for such capabilities is multi-modal audio mining. The invention is designed to provide an efficient means for organizations such as correctional facilities to identify and monitor the contents of telephone conversations and to provide evidence of possible inappropriate conduct and/or criminal activity of inmates by analyzing monitored telephone conversations for events, including, but not limited to, the addition of third parties, the discussion of particular topics, and the mention of certain entities. |
| US10853383B2 |
Interactive parallel coordinates visualizations
Disclosed are a system and a method for providing user-interactive parallel coordinates charts. In an embodiment, a machine data search and analysis system retrieves search results including a plurality of events, each of the events containing time-stamped data in response to a search query. The system identifies a plurality of characteristics from the data corresponding to the events. The system causes display of a multiple-dimensional chart (e.g., a parallel coordinates chart) depicting the data corresponding to the events. The multiple-dimensional chart includes a plurality of axes. Each of the axes corresponds to one of the identified characteristics. The multiple-dimensional chart further includes a plurality of poly lines representing the events. Each of the poly lines includes a plurality of vertices on the axes. |
| US10853380B1 |
Framework for displaying interactive visualizations of event data
Disclosed is a framework for generating for display an interactive visualization of event data based on a static visualization library. In an embodiment, event data is received based on a user search query. A computer system implementing a visualization framework accesses a visualization library that includes instructions for rendering a static visualization based on input data. The computer system then processes the received event data with the visualization library to generate an interactive visualization of the received event data and causes display of the interactive visualization, the interactive visualization being dynamically modifiable in response to a user input. |
| US10853379B2 |
Method and apparatus for quickly evaluating entities
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for evaluating entities for a target user, the method comprising obtaining, at a server computer, entity data from a plurality of data sources. The entity data is then stored in an entity database. The method further comprises merging the entity data from the plurality of data sources, mapping the entity data to a corresponding entity, and differentiating the entity. Then a relevance is determined associated with the entity data and data source. The method further comprises generating a set of entity evaluations to the target user using the relevance, determining a set of one or more entities relevant to the primary user based on the entity data, user data, and the relevance, with an initial order of relevance, and displaying, on a user device, the set of relevant entities to the target user in the order of relevance. |
| US10853377B2 |
Sequential data assimilation to improve agricultural modeling
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method of assimilation of soil moisture data is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, by a processor, a digital data model related to soil moisture with a plurality of parameters for a given geographical location. The method also comprises identifying a time-based or event-based trigger for a first of the plurality of parameters. The method further comprises receiving, by the processor, a plurality of values for the plurality of parameters measured from soil samples for a series of time points. Finally, the method comprises applying sequential data assimilation through the series of time points as soon as the plurality of measured values are received for each of the series of time points, by executing an optimization method to optimize values of the plurality of parameters with respect to the plurality of measured values for each of the time points, thereby obtaining a plurality of optimized values for the plurality of parameters for each of the time points, when the time-based or event-based trigger is satisfied for one of the series of time points, reducing the search space associated with the first parameter in executing the optimization method. |
| US10853376B2 |
Collaborative dataset consolidation via distributed computer networks
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to provide an interface between repositories of disparate datasets and computing machine-based entities that seek access to the datasets, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform that facilitates consolidation of one or more datasets, whereby a collaborative data layer and associated logic facilitate, for example, efficient access to, and implementation of, collaborative datasets. In some examples, a method may include receiving data representing a query into a collaborative dataset consolidation system, identifying datasets relevant to the query, generating one or more queries to access disparate data repositories, and retrieving data representing query results. In some cases, one or more queries are applied (e.g., as a federated query) to atomized datasets stored in one or more atomized data stores, at least two of which may be different. |
| US10853371B2 |
Efficient evaluation of query expressions including grouping clauses
Techniques related to efficient evaluation of query expressions including grouping clauses are disclosed. Computing device(s) perform a method for aggregating a measure column vector (MCV) according to a plurality of grouping column vectors (GCVs). The MCV and each of the plurality of GCVs may be encoded. The method includes determining a plurality of actual grouping keys (AGKs) and generating a dense identifier (DI) mapping that maps the plurality of AGKs to a plurality of DIs. Each AGK occurs in the plurality of GCVs. Each DI corresponds to a respective workspace. Aggregating the MCV involves aggregating, in each workspace, one or more codes of the MCV that correspond to an AGK mapped to a DI corresponding to the workspace. For a first row of the MCV and the plurality of GCVs, aggregating the one or more codes includes generating a particular grouping key based on codes in the plurality of GCVs. |
| US10853370B2 |
Devices and/or methods to provide a query response based on ephemeral data
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide a query response. A value of a time-to-live (TTL) for data associated with a computation unit may be determined, wherein the computation unit may disallow access to the data when the TTL is expired. Additionally, a determination may be made whether the data associated with the computation unit satisfies a query. Also, a query response may be generated including the data associated with the computation unit that satisfies the query. In one example, a context for the data associated with the computation unit may be determined, wherein the computation unit may disallow access to the data based on the context. Data may be represented as a network of computation units which may provide data with a TTL that is contextual, which may be handled in a massively distributed fashion. |
| US10853368B2 |
Distinct value estimation for query planning
The problem of distinct value estimation has many applications, but is particularly important in the field of database technology where such information is utilized by query planners to generate and optimize query plans. Introduced is a novel technique for estimating the number of distinct values in a given dataset without scanning all of the values in the dataset. In an example embodiment, the introduced technique includes gathering multiple intermediate probabilistic estimates based on varying samples of the dataset, 2) plotting the multiple intermediate probabilistic estimates against indications of sample size, 3) fitting a function to the plotted data points, and 4) determining an overall distinct value estimate by extrapolating the objective function to an estimated or known total number of values in the dataset. |
| US10853367B1 |
Dynamic prioritization of attributes to determine search space size of each term, then index on those sizes as attributes
A method and system provides efficient data searches. The method and system include receiving search request data that requests a search to be made and identifying multiple search terms or clauses in the search request data. The method and system includes determining an expected cost in resources for searching each search term. The method and system then searches for each search term in order from least resource intensive to most resource intensive, with each search after the first search being performed only among the results of the previously searched term(s). |
| US10853365B2 |
Database management system, computer, and database management method
As an I/O method of issuing an I/O request, there are a synchronous I/O method, in which a task is in a waiting state until an I/O response to the I/O request is returned and an asynchronous I/O method, in which another task can be executed before an I/O response to the I/O request is returned. When issuing an I/O request in execution of a task, a DBMS selects any one of the synchronous I/O method and the asynchronous I/O method, based on an I/O response speed of an I/O destination storage device and issues an I/O request according to the selected I/O method. |
| US10853364B2 |
Direct table association in in-memory databases
To address the issue of latency in relational database systems, a computerized database management system comprising a database server, a processor, and associated random access memory is provided. The processor may configure an in-memory database in the random access memory to have tables, each containing a plurality of cells associated memory addresses, establish a direct table association between an origin cell and a target cell within the tables, receive a request to perform a join database operation of a first table including the origin cell on a second table including the target cell, dereference the direct table association for the origin cell to obtain a value of the target cell stored at the memory address for the target cell, execute the join database operation to produce a joined table including the value, and store the joined table at a new location in the random access memory. |
| US10853360B2 |
Searchable index
Systems and techniques are disclosed for generating entries for a searchable index based on rules generated by one or more machine-learned models. The index entries can include one or more tokens correlated with an outcome and an outcome probability. A subset of tokens can be identified based on the characteristics of an event. The index may be searched for outcomes and their respective probabilities that correspond to tokens that are similar to or match the subset of tokens based on the event. |
| US10853359B1 |
Data log stream processing using probabilistic data structures
A computing resource monitoring service receives a request to obtain data for various computing resources. The service obtains, from the various computing resources, one or more data log streams that include the requested data. The service utilizes the one or more data log streams to generate a probabilistic data structure that can be used to indicate that data log streams have been processed. If the one or more data log streams are not completely processed prior to the end of an allotted time period for processing of the request, the service generates a token that specifies partially processed data log streams and the probabilistic data structure. The token can be used to enable resumption of processing of the request. |
| US10853357B2 |
Extensible automatic query language generator for semantic data
Systems and methods for querying a semantic data set are described. The semantic data set is defined by an ontology that represents a graphical relationship among data included in the semantic data set. One method includes receiving one or more keywords associated with a search operation from a user, and identifying a node associated with each of the one or more keywords. The method includes, for each identified node, tracing a path from the identified node to a root represented in the graphical relationship of the ontology, the path including one or more vertices, and identifying a lowest common ancestor of each of the vertices included in the paths for each identified node. The method includes constructing a subgraph connecting each identified node to the lowest common ancestor, and traversing the subgraph to generate a query in the query language executable against the semantic data set. |
| US10853356B1 |
Persistent metadata catalog
A metadata catalog may store metadata about data sources. The metadata may define table, column, partition and/or data formats, as well as title information, textual descriptions, modification information, data schemas and access information, such as location and connection information. A metadata catalog service may provide a shared, persistent, central repository for the metadata. The metadata of the catalog may be published via multiple access mechanisms and programmatically obtained and processed by other programs via the metadata catalog service. Metadata consumers may utilize the metadata catalog service to perform various metadata tasks, such as metadata retrieval, creation, addition, modification and/or deletion. The metadata catalog service may be directly integrated into existing data analytic tools as a persistent and durable metadata store allowing users to utilize the broad set of data processing tools. |
| US10853354B2 |
Method of generating globally verifiable unique identifiers using a scalable interlinked blockchain structure
This disclosure describes systems and methods for employing interlinking multiple independent and separately-scalable blockchains to create globally verifiable unique identifiers. The disclosed systems and methods facilitate the creation of the globally verifiable unique identifiers to a level of scalability unattainable without employing the underlying two-dimensional blockchain structure, metadata, and cryptographic information stored on the blockchain. Moreover, the system avoids collisions and name conflicts among the globally verifiable unique identifiers, supports post-creation verification of the globally verifiable unique identifiers, and provides a variety of ancillary functions using the globally verifiable unique identifiers. |
| US10853353B2 |
Blockchain-enabled datasets shared across different database systems
A system for integrating blockchain-enabled shared datasets across databases having varying formats and structures is disclosed. The system may include various entity systems in communication via a peer-to-peer network. A first entity system may receive a dataset update request to update the shared dataset. The first entity system may broadcast the dataset update request across the network, and one or more entity systems connected to the network may consent to the dataset update request. The consenting entity systems may broadcast the consented dataset update request to the other entity systems connected to the network. Each entity system may update its local copy of the shared dataset with the consented dataset update request. Each entity system may comprise a mapping module configured to reformat the consented dataset update request into a format that can be stored in a local data structure. |
| US10853348B2 |
Multi-user search system with methodology for personalized search query autocomplete
A multi-user search system with methodology for personalized search query autocomplete. In one embodiment, for example, a computer-implemented method includes: receiving a search query having an incomplete token; generating an index key that is composed of both (a) an identifier of a document namespace that a user account associated with the search query is authorized to access, and (b) the incomplete token; accessing an index dictionary with the index key to identify a plurality of index tokens, each index token of the plurality of index tokens having the identifier of the document namespace as part of the index token and having the incomplete token as a token portion of the index token or as a prefix of the token portion of the index token; iterating over the plurality of index tokens until a stop condition is reached; and returning an answer to the search query based on the iterating. |
| US10853343B2 |
Runtime data persistency for in-memory database systems
Systems, apparatus, techniques, articles, and methods include a unified table container for storing data and metadata in pages organized in one or more page chains. A determination is made as to whether the query includes a data definition statement. In response to determining that the query includes a data definition statement, in-memory runtime data is persisted to a persistent volume that is configured to be accessed by the database system. The in-memory runtime data includes one or more first data fields and one or more second data fields that are different from the one or more first data fields. Furthermore, the unified table container includes a persistent runtime data descriptor that is associated with the one or more first data fields and persists the first one or more first data fields when persisting the in-memory runtime data. |
| US10853340B2 |
Static sorted index replication
Static sorted index replication is described. A method may include receiving data to store in a memory tree of a replica in a partitioned distributed data store. The method may also include storing the received data in the respective memory tree of one of a plurality of replicas. The method may further include storing the received data sequentially in a static sorted index. |
| US10853339B2 |
Peer to peer ownership negotiation
A method of negotiating memory record ownership between network nodes, comprising: storing in a memory of a first network node a subset of a plurality of memory records and one of a plurality of file system segments of a file system mapping the memory records; receiving a request from a second network node to access a memory record of the memory records subset; identifying the memory record by using the file system segment; deciding, by a placement algorithm, whether to relocate the memory record, from the memory records subset to a second subset of the plurality of memory records stored in a memory of the second network node; when a relocation is not decided, providing remote access of the memory record via a network to the second network node; and when a relocation is decided, relocating the memory record via the network for management by the second network node. |
| US10853337B2 |
Lifecycle transition validation for storage objects
Methods and apparatus for lifecycle support for storage objects are disclosed. A storage medium stores program instructions that when executed on a processor implement a storage lifecycle manager of a multi-tenant storage service. The lifecycle manager determines a lifecycle policy to be implemented for a storage object. The policy indicates lifecycle transitions of the object, including a transition from a first service level to a second service level. The first service level and the second service level may each specify a maximum number of versions of the storage object. The lifecycle manager initiates modification operations corresponding to the storage object's data in accordance with the lifecycle policy, and verifies that the modification operations succeeded. The lifecycle manager provides, in response to a query, an indication of a current service level of the storage object. |
| US10853334B2 |
Technologies for providing service isolation, scalability, and proactive tenant migration in multi-tenant ecosystems
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for performance monitoring and tenant migration in multi-tenant and/or cloud computing ecosystems are described. Embodiments may include technologies for scaling multi-tenant systems based on input load characteristics, proactive monitoring and tenant migration in multi-tenant environments, and service isolation in a multi-tenant environments. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10853333B2 |
System and method for developing and implementing a migration plan for migrating a file system
A computer system implements a file system migration by determining a destination namespace of a destination file system based at least in part on a namespace of a source file system. At least a portion of the destination namespace includes an organization that is altered as compared to a corresponding portion of the source namespace. |
| US10853329B2 |
Distributed file system
A distributed file system for devices is described. In an embodiment, each data element stored on one of the devices has an associated location and availability attribute. The location attribute is stored co-located with the data element. The availability attribute and a copy of the location attribute are stored by a metadata service. When a client on a device needs to access a data element, it sends a request to the metadata service to find the location of the data element. If the data element is available, this information is provided to the client and this may involve waking a dormant device which holds the data element. Where the data element is not available, read only access may be granted to a cached copy of the data element. Where replication is used and one of the devices holding a replica is unavailable, the system may use write off-loading. |
| US10853326B2 |
Sharing collections with external teams
The disclosed technology provides for sharing of collections between teams from external entities. The present technology allows administrators of an entity to manage what teams from their entity can be exposed outside of the entity and to manage how their entity is viewed by external partners. Sharing between teams provides benefits of easier sharing whereby it is not necessary to share a collection individually with all users of a team. It also provides a more logical sharing paradigm where collaboration is otherwise thought of between two partner entities and not specific employees of those entities. Sharing between teams allows an administrator to manage the user accounts associated with the team so that as team members come and go, all current team members will have access to projects in which the team is involved. Additionally, established teams can be configured to enjoy the full collaborative benefits of the content management system. |
| US10853324B2 |
Generating a data stream with a predictable change rate
Generating a data stream with a predictable change rate is disclosed, including: receiving a change rate parameter; and using the change rate parameter to provide a modified data stream that differs from a corresponding unmodified non-deduplicatable data stream by an amount determined based at least in part on the change rate parameter, including by: modifying at least a portion of a plurality of data blocks associated with the non-deduplicatable data stream to obtain a corresponding portion of the modified data stream, wherein a data block of the plurality of data blocks is associated with a block size that is based on a segmenting attribute associated with a storage destination. |
| US10853320B1 |
Scavenging directories for free space
A technique for managing storage of directories in a file system performs a testing operation on a file-system block of a directory file. The testing operation determines whether the file-system block contains any directory element that identifies a currently-present content object in the directory. In response to the testing operation determining that the file-system block contains no directory element that identifies any currently-present content object, the file system performs a hole-punching operation on the file-system block, removing the block from the directory file and freeing the block for other use. |
| US10853315B1 |
Multi-tier storage system configured for efficient management of small files associated with Internet of Things
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a multi-tier storage system having at least a front-end storage tier, a back-end storage tier and a data mover module configured to control movement of data between the storage tiers. The multi-tier storage system is configured to receive a plurality of files, such as relatively small size files containing data from respective Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The front-end storage tier comprises a file system and at least one key-value store. The multi-tier storage system is configured to combine multiple ones of the received files written to at least one specified directory of the file system into an object for storage in association with a key in the key-value store. The object comprises multiple sub-keys identifying respective ones of the multiple files within the object. The data mover module may be configured to copy the object from the key-value store to the directory. |
| US10853314B1 |
Overlay snaps
An overlay snap is generated by generating a snapshot of a logical storage volume, writing a data stream to the overlay snap, generating pointers indicating locations of new data written to the overlay snap, and generating null pointers for locations that do not have new data written to the overlay snap. The overlay snap comprises the pointers and the null pointers. The overlay snap may be applied to a volume to generate a current snapshot of the volume. The overlay snap may be used maintain write order fidelity during continuous data replication by creating a copy of a snapshot on a target storage device and writing new data to an overlay snap on the target storage device. |
| US10853313B2 |
Creation and implementation of designated time points in a version expiration environment
In one example, a method includes defining one or more curtains, each of which corresponds to a respective one or more designated points in time, using a calendar that is common to all of the curtains, defining one or more backup policies, defining, for each of the one or more backup policies, a respective set of one or more rules, associating each of the one or more backup policies with a respective curtain, and applying, to a backup version whose currency span includes one of the curtains, one of the backup policies that is associated with that curtain. |
| US10853308B1 |
Method and apparatus for direct memory access transfers
A circuit for memory access includes a memory access control circuit. The memory access controller is coupled to a memory and configured to perform data transfers to retrieve data from the memory. The memory access control circuit includes a timing control circuit and a transfer control circuit. The timing control circuit is configured to determine first timing information based on a timing requirement for transmitting a first data stream to a first network; and determine a first fetch time for retrieving the first data stream from the memory based on the first timing information. The transfer control circuit is configured to retrieve the first data stream from the memory based on the first fetch time. |
| US10853301B2 |
Data statistics for wearable device
A method and an apparatus for integrating data from multiple wearable devices is provided. The method includes receiving, by a processor from a wearable device, physiological indicator data associated with a statistical item being collected for a user and a timestamp associated with the physiological indicator data, in which the statistical item is collected by the wearable device, and determining, for the user, fused physiological indicator data associated with the statistical item based on, for each of the multiple wearable devices, a priority level, the physiological indicator data, and the timestamp associated with the physiological indicator data, in which the multiple wearable devices comprise the wearable device and at least another wearable device associated with the user. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to store instructions which when executed by the processor become operational with the processor to implement the method. |
| US10853292B2 |
Operation of a switch in linear mode
A computing device includes a switch that operates in a linear mode according to a threshold based on a detection of an increase of current drawn by a device that is connected to the switch. The linear mode delivers a constant amount of current to the device. The switch, upon reaching the threshold, exits the linear mode and operates in a non-linear mode to communicate power to the device. |
| US10853291B2 |
Information scheme
An example system includes a universal serial bus receptacle, a hub controller coupled to the receptacle, and a monitor scalar coupled to the hub controller. In that example, the hub controller may receive an information scheme from a device and determine a display arrangement for data of the device. In that example, the monitor scalar causes a screen to display data of the device and a power consumption level. |
| US10853290B2 |
Routing of messages
A method to provide transfer of data without the use of a network from an application program to an embedded device. A routing service establishes a communication channel without the use of a local area network. The routing service then manages the control of this communication channel for the transfer of data and closes the channel in an appropriate period. |
| US10853289B2 |
System, apparatus and method for hardware-based bi-directional communication via reliable high performance half-duplex link
In one embodiment, a host controller includes: a first credit tracker comprising at least one credit counter to maintain credit information for a first device; and a first credit handler to send a command code having a first predetermined value to indicate a credit request to request credit information from the first device, where the first credit tracker is to update the at least one credit counter based on receipt of an in-band interrupt from the first device having the credit information. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10853282B2 |
Arbitrating portions of transactions over virtual channels associated with an interconnect
Arbitrating among portions of multiple transactions and transmitting a winning portion over one of a multiplicity of virtual channels associated with an interconnect on a clock cycle-by-clock cycle basis. By repeatedly performing the above each clock cycle, winning portions are interleaved and transmitted over the multiplicity of virtual channels over multiple clock cycles respectively. |
| US10853279B2 |
System and method for accessing a shared resource
The invention relates to a system for accessing a shared resource belonging to a hardware platform comprising a plurality of master processing units, each master processing unit being able to exploit a shared resource during an execution of a process, each shared resource having an associated maximum bandwidth. For at least one shared resource, the system includes a counter of a number of data transfers between said master processing unit and said shared resource, and a comparator suitable for comparing the number of transfers to a bandwidth limit, which is a fraction of said maximum bandwidth, associated with said shared resource, and a pacing unit suitable for resetting each counter after a time period of predetermined duration has elapsed. The access system is suitable for commanding, once said number of transfers associated with a master processing unit has reached said bandwidth limit, a suspension of the exploitation of said shared resource by said master processing unit, and a resumption of the exploitation once each counter has been reset. |
| US10853274B2 |
Primary data storage system with data tiering
The invention is directed to a primary data storage system for use in a computer network in which a network allows user computers to transfer data to/from the primary data storage system. In one embodiment, the primary data storage system implements a tiering strategy to move data between stores with different characteristics so as to match the characteristics of the data to the characteristics of one of the stores. |
| US10853270B2 |
Cryptographic pointer address encoding
A computing device includes technologies for securing indirect addresses (e.g., pointers) that are used by a processor to perform memory access (e.g., read/write/execute) operations. The computing device encodes the indirect address using metadata and a cryptographic algorithm. The metadata may be stored in an unused portion of the indirect address. |
| US10853269B2 |
Methods, apparatus, and systems for secure demand paging and other paging operations for processor devices
A secure demand paging system including a secure internal memory, an external non-volatile memory having encrypted and integrity-protected code pages, an external volatile memory for swap pages and a processor coupled to said secure internal memory and to said external non-volatile memory and operable to decrypt and verify the integrity of the code pages thereby to transfer code pages to said secure internal memory directly from said external non-volatile memory bypassing said external volatile memory in respect of the code pages, and to swap out and swap in the swap pages between secure internal memory and said external volatile memory bypassing said external non-volatile memory in respect of the swap pages for said external volatile memory. |
| US10853268B2 |
Parity generating information processing system
An information processing system including a processor, a memory, and a plurality of drives, wherein when a write request of new data is received, the processor stores the new data in the memory, transmits a response for the write request to a transmission source of the write request, reads old data updated by the new data from a first drive of the plurality of drives and old parity related to the old data from a second drive of the plurality of drives according to transmission of the response, store the old data and the old parity in the memory, generates new parity related to the new data from the new data, the old data, and the old parity stored in the memory, and stores the new data in the first drive to store the new parity in the second drive. |
| US10853264B2 |
Virtual memory system
A virtual memory system includes a virtual memory engine coupled to a plurality of physical memory devices and a virtual memory database. During an initialization process, virtual memory engine uses a first unique global identifier to create virtual memory in the virtual memory database by mapping a continuous virtual memory address range to non-continuous physical memory device address ranges that are provided across the plurality of physical memory devices. During the initialization process, or subsequently during runtime, the virtual memory engine uses a second global unique identifier to define a virtual memory device namespace in the virtual memory that includes a first continuous subset of the continuous virtual member address range. During runtime, the virtual memory engine then provides read and write block mode access to the plurality of physical memory devices via the virtual memory device namespace defined in the virtual memory database. |
| US10853262B2 |
Memory address translation using stored key entries
Memory address translation apparatus comprises page table access circuitry to access a page table to retrieve translation data; a translation data buffer to store one or more instances of the translation data, comprising: an array of storage locations arranged in rows and columns; a row buffer comprising a plurality of entries and comparison circuitry responsive to a key value dependent upon at least the initial memory address, to compare the key value with information stored in each of at least one key entry and an associated value entry for storing at least a representation of a corresponding output memory address, and to identify which of the at least one key entry, if any, is a matching key entry storing information matching the key value; and output circuitry to output, when there is a matching key entry, at least the representation of the output memory address. |
| US10853256B2 |
Cache operation in an apparatus supporting both physical and virtual address mapping
Apparatuses and methods of operating apparatus are disclosed. A processing element performs data processing operations with respect to data items stored in data storage. In a first mode the processing element references the data items using physical addresses and in a second mode the processing element references the data items using virtual addresses. A data access request handling unit receives data access requests issued by the processing element and cache stores cache lines of temporary copies of the data items retrieved from the data storage, wherein a cache line in which a data item is stored in the cache is selected in dependence on an address index portion. The data access request handling unit is responsive to a data access request for the data item from the processing element in the second mode to determine an index matching condition to be true when the address index portion of the physical address of the data item matches the address index portion of the virtual address of the data item and, when the index matching condition is false, to prevent allocation of the data item into the cache. |
| US10853246B2 |
Increasing performance of write throughput using machine learning
Techniques for processing data may include: determining a first amount denoting an amount of write pending data stored in cache to be redirected through storage class memory (SCM) when destaging cached write pending data from the cache; performing first processing that destages write pending data from the cache, the first processing including: selecting, in accordance with the first amount, a first portion of write pending data that is destaged from the cache and stored in the SCM and a second portion of write pending data that is destaged directly from the cache and stored on one or more physical storage devices providing back-end non-volatile physical storage; and subsequent to storing the first portion of write pending data to the SCM, transferring the first portion of write pending data from the SCM to the one or more physical storage devices providing back-end non-volatile physical storage. |
| US10853243B2 |
Aggressive data deduplication using lazy garbage collection
A method for extending data lifetime for reference in deduplication is provided. The method includes determining that a quantity of user data has at least a threshold amount of data that is re-created in a storage system. The method includes protecting at least portions of the quantity of user data from erasure by garbage collection in the storage system during a predetermined time interval, wherein the protected at least portions are available for data deduplication of further user data in the storage system during the predetermined time interval. |
| US10853241B2 |
Data storing method and data storing apparatus for reducing power consumption in sudden power-off
Disclosed is a data storing method performed by a controller. The method includes storing an attribute value of first data to be written to a nonvolatile memory device in a command queue, determining whether the first data is garbage collection data on the basis of the attribute value when a power interruption occurs, and writing the first data to the nonvolatile memory device according to a result of the determination of whether the first data is garbage collection data or not. |
| US10853237B2 |
Write cache system and method for data chunk bypass and acknowledgment of write of data chunk
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a first computing device, a first data chunk sent from a second computing device. It may be determined that the first data chunk includes a first type of data. The first data chunk may be stored to a cache operatively coupled to the first computing device based upon, at least in part, determining that the first data chunk includes the first type of data, wherein the cache may include a first storage device type. An acknowledgement of a successful write of the first data chunk to the second computing device may be sent based upon, at least in part, a successful storing of the first data chunk to the cache operatively coupled to the first computing device. |
| US10853235B2 |
Memory controller and memory system having the same
A memory controller for use in a memory system includes: a central processing unit configured to generate commands in response to a request received from a host; and a queue controller configured to queue the commands in order of similar operation times. |
| US10853234B2 |
Memory controller
A memory controller controls first and second memory, and includes a control unit. In response to a first write command from a host, which designates a logical address for first data to be written to the first memory, the control unit determines whether mapping of the logical address is presently being managed in a first mode with a first cluster size or a second mode with a second cluster size that is smaller than the first cluster size, changes first mapping data for the logical address stored in a first table in the second memory, from the first cluster size to the second cluster size, if the mapping of the logical address is being managed in the first mode and the first mapping data can be compressed at a ratio lower than a first compression ratio, and writes the first data to a physical address of the first memory. |
| US10853228B2 |
Testing an application in a production infrastructure temporarily provided by a cloud computing environment
A device receives test parameters associated with testing an application that utilizes source data, and causes source containers, for the source data, to be temporarily created in a cloud computing environment, based on the test parameters. The device provides the source data to the source containers in the cloud computing environment, and causes other containers, for the application, to be temporarily created in the cloud computing environment, based on the test parameters. The device creates a file for testing the application with the source containers and the other containers, based on the test parameters, and causes the application to be executed with the source containers and the other containers, based on the file. The device receives results associated with executing the application with the source containers and the other containers. |
| US10853226B2 |
Method of, and apparatus for, testing computer hardware and software
A method for defining an automated test is configured to test a system under test. The system under test includes a plurality of operational states, at least one operational state having executable actions associated therewith operable to execute predetermined operations and/or transition the system under test between operational states. The method includes a) defining an executable model of the system under test including a plurality of model states; and b) defining one or more selectable model actions, each model action representative of one or more executable actions on the system under test and configured such that one or more preconditions are assignable thereto. Each model action is configured to be available to be selected unless any preconditions assigned to the respective model action are not satisfied. The model is configured such that a test program is operable to select a sequence of available model actions to define an automated test. |
| US10853225B2 |
Control method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for generating data body adjusted to second program by converting data type of parameter of first program
A control method includes: executing a receiving process that includes receiving designation, the designation indicating a program, a data kind and a data type; executing a identifying process that includes identifying a data type associated with the designated program and data kind by referring to a storage unit, the storage unit being configured to store information associating a data type of a target data of processing to be executed by a program with the program and a data kind of the data; executing a generating process that includes generating information associating the identified data type with the designated program and data type. |
| US10853224B2 |
Indexing and searching a time-travel trace for arbitrary length/arbitrary alignment values
Indexing and searching a bit-accurate trace for arbitrary length/arbitrary alignment values in traced thread(s). Indexing includes, while replaying a plurality of trace segments, identifying a set of n-grams for each trace segment that exist in processor data influx(es) and/or store(s) to a processor cache that resulted from replay of the trace segment. An index data structure, which associates each identified n-gram with trace location(s) at or in which the n-gram was found, is then generated. The index data structure thus associates unique n-grams with prior execution time(s) at or during which the traced thread(s) read or wrote the n-gram. Searching an indexed trace includes identifying n-grams in a query and using the index data structure to determine trace location(s) where these n-grams were seen during indexing. A query response is generated after using trace replay to locate particular execution time(s) and memory location(s) at which the n-grams occurred. |
| US10853223B2 |
Simulation of transactions
Simulation processing is performed on a host apparatus in respective time periods to simulate operation of simulated agents of a target apparatus. During each time period, the simulation processing exclusively simulates operation of a single simulated agent. When the target program code processed in a current time period allocated for simulation of a given simulated agent includes a transaction start instruction representing a start of a transaction comprising instructions executed between the transaction start instruction and a transaction end instruction for which effects of the instructions of the transaction are to be committed when the transaction end instruction is reached in the absence of the transaction being aborted, it is detected whether the current time period ends before the transaction end instruction of the transaction is reached, and if so the transaction is aborted. This enables a correct transaction behaviour to be simulated without requiring memory conflict checking. |
| US10853222B2 |
Apparatus and method for detecting poor component life zones in a datacenter
An information handling system determines zones within a datacenter that exhibit poor component life. Components of the information handling system are organized into zones, and provide error indications and have error thresholds and warranty durations. A component life manager receives the error indications, fits the error indications to curves, determines end of life estimates based upon the curves and the error thresholds, determines end of life dates based upon the end of life estimates and dates that the first error indication is received, determines losses of life based on the end of life estimates and the warranty durations, determines component life scores based upon the losses of life and the warranty durations, determines zone life scores based upon an average of the component life scores, determines a datacenter life score based upon an average of the component life scores, and provides an indication when a zone life score is below the datacenter life score by more than a threshold. |
| US10853221B2 |
Performance evaluation and comparison of storage systems
Described embodiments provide storage system evaluation and comparison processes. An aspect includes sampling data points for a workload running on system over a sampling period. The data points indicate a performance metric with respect to operational characteristics of the system. An aspect further includes subtracting a system specification value from each of the averaged sampled data points, thereby producing deviation values reflecting a deviation of the sampled data points from the system specification value. An aspect also includes averaging the sampled data points, calculating a standard deviation of the averaged sampled data points, and dividing the variance value by the standard deviation, thereby producing a modified performance value that accounts for a deviation in the operational characteristics of the system over the sampling period. |
| US10853217B2 |
Performance engineering platform using probes and searchable tags
A performance engineering platform using one or more probes and one or more searchable tags is described. In an embodiment, a set of attributes of a system to be monitored are determined. Based on the attributes of the system, one or more probes that include functionality to detect data from the system are identified. Data is detected from the system using at least one of the probes. In an embodiment, one or more reports are obtained. The reports are based on data detected by a set of probes. An association between a particular searchable tag and one of the set of probes is received. Responsive to receiving the association between the particular searchable tag and the probe, report values, associated with a subset of the data detected by the probe, are identified. Further, the report values are tagged with the particular searchable tag. |
| US10853216B2 |
Mechanism for facilitating write tracking for following data eye movements across changing thermal conditions in memory systems
A mechanism is described for facilitating write tracking for following data eye movements across changing thermal conditions in memory systems according to one embodiment of the invention. A method of embodiments of the invention includes monitoring movements of a valid data eye associated with a memory device of a plurality of memory devices of a memory system at a computing system. The monitoring may include initiating write commands during one or more refresh periods associated with the valid data eye. The method may include determining drifting in the movement of the data eye, and correcting the drifting based on adjusting one or more existing phase interpolator values associated with the movements of the data eye. |
| US10853203B2 |
Storage aggregate restoration
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for controlling restoration of a storage aggregate. For example, a local storage device, located at a first storage site, and a remote storage device, located at a second storage site, may be assigned to a first storage aggregate. Responsive to a disaster of the first storage site, a gate may be created for the local storage device. The gate may block automated reconstruction and/or automated synchronization that may otherwise occur with respect to the local storage device. Until the local storage device is restored, the remote storage device may be used to service I/O requests that were otherwise directed to the local storage device. Responsive to receiving a user restoration command, the gate may be removed from the local storage device. Synchronization between the local storage device and the remote storage device may then be facilitated. |
| US10853202B2 |
Method, device and computer readable medium for data synchronization
Techniques perform data synchronization. The techniques involve: in response to writing of data to a source storage array, determining whether a transmission link between the source storage array and a destination storage array is disconnected, the data being to be synchronized to the destination storage array; in response to determining that the transmission link is disconnected, accumulating in the source storage array the data written to the source storage array; in response to detecting that the transmission link is recovered, creating a snapshot for a storage unit associated with the data in the destination storage array; and in response to crashing of the source storage array during resynchronization of the data accumulated in the source storage array to the storage unit, restoring the storage unit in the destination storage array using the snapshot. Therefore, the storage space for the snapshot is greatly saved while disaster recovery is ensured. |
| US10853197B2 |
Data recovery with authenticity
Example implementations relate to data recovery. An example controller can deliver file contents to a user, validate the file contents in real-time during the delivery, and in response to a determination that a portion of the file contents is broken, use the validated file contents to recover the broken portion of the file contents. The example controller can also deliver the recovered portion of the file contents to the user. |
| US10853195B2 |
Granular restoration of virtual machine application data
Systems and method that restore application data stored by a virtual machine database for an application (e.g., SQL, Sharepoint, Exchange, and so on) running on the virtual machine are described. The systems and methods create an integrated snapshot of the application data stored in the virtual machine database, by creating a secondary copy of the application data stored in the virtual machine database, performing, via a virtual server agent (VSA), a software snapshot of the virtual machine, and performing, via the virtual server agent, a hardware snapshot of the software snapshot of the virtual machine. |
| US10853182B1 |
Scalable log-based secondary indexes for non-relational databases
In response to determining that a secondary index is to be created for a particular table of a non-relational database service, a service component verifies that automated transmission of change records of the table to a log-structured journal has been configured. A given change record comprises a before-image and an after-image associated with a committed database write, and is assigned a unique sequence number. A change record propagator for the secondary index examines change records stored in the journal, and transmits selected change records to an index storage node. The index storage node builds the secondary index using the selected change records. |
| US10853181B1 |
Backing up volumes using fragment files
In one aspect, a method includes determining a number of data streams to assign to a volume, assigning a fragment file for each data stream, sending fragment files to a backup storage device, synthesizing the fragment files to form an image file for the volume at the backup device, sending new fragment files with changes to the volume to the backup device and synthesizing the new fragment files with the corresponding image file to form a new image file for the volume. |
| US10853177B2 |
Performant process for salvaging renderable content from digital data sources
Salvaging renderable content includes providing a set of salvaging instructions including a digital pattern associated with digital content to be salvaged, and a predetermined minimum threshold of usefulness of the digital content. A digital data source includes digital content to be salvaged. The digital content is simultaneously read by reviewing the multiple types of digital content independently of one another using separate software salvaging modules to review each specific type of digital content. The digital content is filtered by identifying potentially recoverable digital content. The digital pattern is compared to the filtered digital content to indicate matches between the filtered digital content and the digital pattern. The digital content is reassembled and/or repaired. The matched digital content is validated by determining whether the salvaged digital content is in a form that meets the predetermined minimum threshold of usefulness. The validated digital content is displayed/rendered. |
| US10853176B2 |
Single snapshot for multiple agents
A data storage system according to certain aspects can share a single snapshot for multiple applications and/or agents. For example, the data storage system can receive snapshot commands from multiple applications and/or agents, and can group them for a single snapshot (e.g., based on time of receipt of the snapshot commands). Data associated with the multiple applications and/or agents may reside on a single LUN or volume. The data storage system can take a single snapshot of the LUN or volume, and generate metadata regarding which portion of the snapshot is related to which application. The single snapshot can be stored in one or more secondary storage devices. The single snapshot may be partitioned into portions relating to different applications and stored separately. |
| US10853175B1 |
Storage unit (SU) operative to service urgent read requests
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations and functions. The computing device determine status of a set of memory devices of one or more sets of storage units (SUs) that distributedly store a set of encoded data slices (EDSs) within the DSN. The computing device detects one or more memory devices thereof that are failing and determines a number of available EDSs. When an insufficient number of EDSs are available, the computing device issues urgent read slice request(s) to recover additional available EDS(s) and facilitate temporary storage thereof within the DSN. |
| US10853167B2 |
Memory apparatus having hierarchical error correction code layer
The invention provides a memory apparatus including a memory cell array and a hierarchical error correction code (ECC) layer. The hierarchical ECC layer, includes N layers of ECC coder-decoder, wherein the hierarchical ECC layer enables one of the N layers to operate an encoding or decoding operation on processed data, and the hierarchical ECC layer enables another one of the N layers merely when the error bit number of the processed data reaches to N−1 pre-set error correction number(s), and N is a positive integer larger than 1. |
| US10853162B2 |
Monitoring, diagnosing, and repairing a management database in a data storage management system
A lightweight always-on monitoring, collecting, diagnosing, and correcting utility operates in an enhanced storage manager that manages a data storage management system. The always-on utility provides a comprehensive and pro-active approach, which is intended to reduce, if not altogether eliminate, the need for after-the-fact diagnostics. The always-on utility also enforces so-called best practices and other heuristics, which include pro-actively activating certain database settings that are not enabled by default; manipulating certain aspects of the database to improve performance; and reporting aspects that are outside best-practice parameters to the trouble report system so that system administrators and/or developers may intervene before a catastrophic failure occurs. In some cases, the best-practice parameters represent heuristics designed by the present inventors to improve the performance and general health of the management database. |
| US10853159B1 |
Analysis system and method
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a tagged telemetry data portion concerning a storage system. The tagged telemetry data is processed via one or more heath check microservices to generate one or more tagged health packets. The one or more tagged health packets are processed via one or more health awareness microservices to generate one or more health awareness results. |
| US10853157B2 |
Compact binary event log generation
Logging includes: obtaining an event designating message (EDM) comprising: a set of keys, or a type of designation corresponding to the set of keys, or both; looking up a set of values associated with the set of keys in a key-value store storing a plurality of keys and their corresponding values; constructing an event using the set of keys and values corresponding to the set of keys; and outputting the constructed event. |
| US10853154B2 |
Orchestration of a sequence of computations by external systems
A method is provided for orchestrating a workflow. In some embodiments, the method includes executing a workflow including a first controller that includes a first callout function and a first callback function and corresponds to a first microservice. Execution of the workflow includes execution of the first callout function that causes invocation of the first call to the first microservice. The method further includes receiving a notification of an execution state from the first microservice and transmitting the execution state to the first callback function. The method also includes in response to transmitting the execution state to the first callback function, receiving a function output based on the execution state from the first callback function. The method further includes determining, based on the function output, whether to execute a subsequent controller. The method also includes in response to a determination to execute the subsequent controller, executing the subsequent controller. |
| US10853152B2 |
Touch application programming interfaces
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for touch input systems in computing environments are provided herein. In one example, an interaction service positioned logically between an operating system and an application is provided. The interaction service directs a processing system to receive a call from the application referencing an interaction class to attach to an object in a user interface used for the application, wherein the interaction class comprises a set of declarative statements. The interaction class attaches to the object in the user interface. A user input is then identified to the operating system associated with the object. In response to the user input, the interaction service determines which one of the declarative statements corresponds to the user input. The one of the declarative statements is then executed to call corresponding native code that performs an action with respect to the object. |
| US10853150B1 |
Generating application programming interface knowledge graphs
A method may include obtaining first API documentation associated with a first API and second API documentation associated with a second API. The method may include mining the first API documentation to extract a first plurality of semantic triples and mining the second API documentation to extract a second plurality of semantic triples. The method may include selecting a first subset of semantic triples from the first plurality of semantic triples and a second subset of semantic triples from the second plurality of semantic triples. The method may include generating a first ontology based on the first API documentation and the first subset of semantic triples. The method may include generating a second ontology. The method may include correlating the first ontology with the second ontology. The method may include generating a knowledge graph of the first API and the second API. |
| US10853146B1 |
Efficient data forwarding in a networked device
A method of stateful load balancing, performed by a storage system is provided. The method includes obtaining a request identifier for a request received by the storage system through a network and calculating a version identifier for provider selection, based on the request identifier. The method includes determining a provider for the request, based on the request identifier and the version identifier, and sending the request to one of a plurality of nodes of the storage system as the determined provider. |
| US10853145B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An information processing apparatus configured to execute a wireless communication with a terminal device, the information processing apparatus includes a memory, a first processor coupled to the memory and configured to execute an calculation processing for the wireless communication, and a second processor configured to obtain schedule information indicating schedule of the wireless communication, identify, based on the schedule information, an amount of calculation resource to be used for the calculation processing, and allocate, based on the schedule information, the identified amount of the calculation resource to the calculation processing for the wireless communication with the terminal device. |
| US10853138B2 |
Scheduling resource usage
Methods of scheduling usage of a resource between multiple resource users and corresponding schedulers are disclosed. The scheduling is performed by initially allocating a per-round usage allowance to each resource user of the multiple resource users and then determining a usage schedule for the resource in a sequence of rounds. At each round the determining comprises, for each resource user, when there are unscheduled usage requests for the resource user, scheduling a portion of the unscheduled usage requests which does not exceed the per-round usage allowance for the resource user, wherein the portion is scheduled for resource usage in association with the current round. Further, at each round, when there exists a remainder of the unscheduled usage requests which exceeds the per-round usage allowance for the resource user, the remainder is scheduled in association with a later round, wherein a number of rounds offset from the current round to the later round is calculated in dependence on a specified maximum request latency for the resource user. Minimum bandwidth and maximum latency requirements for each user are thus supported. |
| US10853134B2 |
Software defined multi-domain creation and isolation for a heterogeneous System-on-Chip
Multi-domain creation and isolation within a heterogeneous System-on-Chip (SoC) may include receiving a hardware description file specifying a plurality of processors and a plurality of hardware resources available within a heterogeneous SoC and creating, using computer hardware, a plurality of domains for the heterogeneous SoC, wherein each domain includes a processor selected from the plurality of processors and a hardware resource selected from the plurality of hardware resources. The method may include assigning, using the computer hardware, an operating system to each domain and generating, using the computer hardware, a platform that is configured to implement the plurality of domains within the heterogeneous SoC. |
| US10853132B2 |
Memory-based software barriers
A mechanism is described for facilitating memory-based software barriers to emulate hardware barriers at graphics processors in computing devices. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes facilitating converting thread scheduling at a processor from hardware barriers to software barriers, where the software barriers emulate the hardware barriers. |
| US10853127B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining virtual machine migration
Embodiments of this application provide a method and an apparatus for determining virtual machine VM migration. The method includes: after a VM is migrated, sending a gratuitous ARP packet or a RARP packet to an in-migration VTEP device; obtaining, by the VTEP device, a MAC address of the VM, searching an ARP cache table based on the MAC address, and obtaining an IP address of the VM; and constructing an ARP unicast request packet by using the IP address as a destination IP address, and if the VTEP device receives an ARP response packet sent by the VM for the ARP unicast request packet, determining that the VM is migrated. |
| US10853126B2 |
Reprogramming network infrastructure in response to VM mobility
The disclosure provides an approach for dynamically reprogramming network and network infrastructure in response to VM mobility. The approach provides a hypervisor layer that can observe changes in VM-host relationships and reprogram the associated network and network infrastructure to maintain network communication. The hypervisor layer notifies an elastic network interface of a new IP address to include within its whitelist in response to VM migration to that elastic network interface. |
| US10853125B2 |
Resource efficient acceleration of datastream analytics processing using an analytics accelerator
An offload engine may attempt to offload, on behalf of applications, data operations to be performed on a datastream. The offload engine may intercept one or more data operations, such as may be part of a collections API, performed by an application. The data operations and the datastream may be specified and/or provided by the application and, in response, the offload engine may be configured to execute (or attempt to execute) the data operations on the datastream using an analytics accelerating co-processor rather than using a general purpose CPU core. The offload engine may determine whether or not to offload the data operations to the analytics accelerating co-processor. If the offload is unsuccessful or if the offload engine determines that the data operations are not suitable for offloading, the offload engine may then cause the data operations to be performed using general purpose CPU cores on the system. |
| US10853119B2 |
GiantVM for resource aggregation
Described herein is a method for resource aggregation (many-to-one virtualization), comprising: virtualizing CPU by QEMU in a distributed way; organizing a plurality of memories scattered over different machines as pages to providing consistent memory view for guest OS; and performing time synchronization between different machines. |
| US10853116B2 |
Machine learning prediction of virtual computing instance transfer performance
The disclosure provides an approach for preventing the failure of virtual computing instance transfers across data centers. In one embodiment, a flow control module collects performance information primarily from components in a local site, as opposed to components in a remote site, during the transfer of a virtual machine (VM) from the local site to the remote site. The performance information that is collected may include various performance metrics, each of which is considered a feature. The flow control module performs feature preparation by normalizing feature data and imputing missing feature data, if any. The flow control module then inputs the prepared feature data into machine learning model(s) which have been trained to predict whether a VM transfer will succeed or fail, given the input feature data. If the prediction is that the VM transfer will fail, then remediation actions may be taken, such as slowing down the VM transfer. |
| US10853110B2 |
Constructor accessibility checks for deserialization
Techniques for performing constructor accessibility checks during deserialization are disclosed. A system receives a command that requires deserializing a serialized object of a target type. The system determines an ancestor type of the target type. Without calling any constructors and regardless of whether the ancestor type is serializable, the system determines whether a constructor of the ancestor type is accessible to the target type. The system deserializes the serialized object only after determining that the constructor of the ancestor type is accessible to the target type. |
| US10853109B2 |
Application deployment using reduced overhead bytecode
A system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, and a recorder. The recorder is configured to obtain a proxy for each respective real object. Each respective real object is related to a respective service. The recorder is also configured to record a sequence of each invocation on each respective proxy and generate an intermediate representation of an application that is configured to invoke the sequence of each invocation on each real object associated with each respective proxy. |
| US10853106B2 |
Computer architecture for emulating digital delay nodes in a correlithm object processing system
A device that includes an input interface that receives a correlithm object at a first time. The device further includes a memory operable to store the received correlithm object and a plurality of correlithm object values. The device further includes a processor operable to determine a Hamming distance between the correlithm object received at the input interface and each of the correlithm object values stored in the memory. The process is further operable to store the correlithm object received at the input interface in the memory if any of the determined Hamming distances are within a predetermined threshold and an output interface communicates the correlithm object at a second time later than the first time. |
| US10853100B1 |
Systems and methods for creating learning-based personalized user interfaces
Systems and methods for creating learning-based personalized user interfaces for software applications are described. Exemplary embodiments provide for collecting usage data and applying machine learning techniques to identify and prioritize certain commands and options in the personalized user interface. The usage data can include Usage patterns, usage sequences, and the usage of certain commands and options in connection with, or following, certain other commands and options may also be identified, and the personalization-based prioritization can include, for example, the contents, position, and quantities of the commands and options within the interface. |
| US10853098B2 |
Interface processing method, electronic device, and graphical user interface
An interface processing method, an electronic device, and a graphical user interface are provided. The method includes: displaying, by the electronic device, a basic function interface that includes a first-type application interface element, where the basic function interface is corresponding to a simple operating system; when the electronic device establishes a connection to the server, receiving, by the electronic device, a second-type application interface element that is of a complete operating system and that is sent by a server; and displaying, by the electronic device, a system function interface that includes the second-type application interface element according to the second-type application interface element received by the electronic device, where the system function interface is corresponding to the complete operating system. |
| US10853096B2 |
Container-based language runtime loading an isolated method
Embodiments include a code loader method for loading attributes corresponding to an isolated method by a container-based language runtime. The attributes are received by the container-based language runtime without any specified container for storage of the isolated method attributes. The attributes received as parameters of code loader method and include instructions, live objects, and parameter types corresponding to the isolated method. The container-based language runtime selects a first-order container for storing the attributes of the isolated method. |
| US10853095B2 |
Integrated mainframe distributed orchestration tool
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for an integrated mainframe distributed orchestration tool. The present invention is configured to receive an indication that one or more source code modules have been uploaded to a source code repository, wherein receiving the indication automatically triggers a compile operation on an automation server; initiate the compile operation on the automation server, wherein the compile operation comprises transforming the one or more source code modules into one or more standalone software artifacts executable on a mainframe data processor, thereby providing a landing zone for the mainframe data processor; initiate a compile operation of the one or more standalone software artifacts on the mainframe data processor to generate an executable build; and export the executable build to one or more repositories. |
| US10853094B2 |
Dynamically downloadable distributed data deduplication library
In a distributed data processing and deduplication system comprising a plurality of clients and servers, a traditional client library on each client is replaced by a small kernel library and a separate client library which may be either on the client or on a separate server. The kernel library receives an initialization API call from an application on the client, determines the appropriate version of the client library for that application, and directs the initialization call to that client library. The client library returns to the kernel library a list of function pointers to code that implements functions called by the application, and dynamically redirects function API calls from the application to the code. By storing the client library at one central location and updating that one version for changes to hardware and software, multiple client systems may be updated automatically upon initialization to use the new version of the client library. |
| US10853092B2 |
Method and device for sound effect processing
A method and device for sound effect processing, and a non-transitory storage medium. The method includes the following actions. A task manager is traversed to determine whether a sound effect service process for a sound effect service exists. Responsive to determining that the sound effect service process exists, whether the sound effect service process is a system process of a system, is determined. When the sound effect service process is not a system process of the system, the sound effect service process is set to be a system process of the system. |
| US10853091B2 |
Cloud to on-premises windows registry settings
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for stateless modification of operating system registry data across network boundaries. The system includes a processor coupled to memory and configured to execute instructions to receive, within a first network, a request to apply a modification to an operating system registry of a second device within a second network different from the first network. The processor queues data describing the requested modification, receives a polling request from the second device, and transmits, to the second device responsive to the polling request, the queued data describing the requested modification for the second device to apply to the operating system registry of the second device. For example, the requested modification may be to create a key, to create a value, to delete a key, or to delete a value. |
| US10853090B2 |
Integrity verification of an entity
Examples relate to integrity reports. In an implementation, an entity for executing a function is launched, the entity operating one or more files for executing the function. In response to the entity being launched, an entity image integrity report is generated comprising, for one or more files operated by the entity, a reference to the file measurement in a first integrity report the first integrity report containing measurements of a plurality of files operable in one or more entities. Alternatively, in response to the entity being launched, an entity integrity report is generated comprising a file measurement for each of the files operated by the entity. |
| US10853081B2 |
Processor and pipelining method
A processor is disclosed that performs pipelining which processes a plurality of threads and executes instructions in concurrent processing, the instructions corresponding to thread numbers of the threads and including a branch instruction. The processor may include a pipeline processor, which includes a fetch part that fetches the instruction of the thread having an execution right, and a computation execution part that executes the instruction fetched by the fetch part. The processor may include a branch controller that determines whether to drop an instruction subsequent to the branch instruction within the pipeline processor based on the thread number of the thread where the branch instruction is executed and on the thread number of the subsequent instruction. |
| US10853079B2 |
Dependency-based streamlined processing
A method and computer program product for performing a plurality of processing operations. A plurality of processor nodes each include one or more operational instances. Each processor node includes criteria for generating its operational instances. The processor nodes are linked together in a directed acyclic processing graph in which dependent nodes use data from the operational instances of upstream nodes to perform a node-specific set of processing operations. Dependency relationships between the processor nodes are defined on an operational instance basis, where operational instances in dependent processor nodes identify data associated with, or generated by, specific upstream operational instances that is used to perform the node-specific set of operations for that dependent operational instance. The processing graph may also include connectors nodes defining instance-level dependency relationships between processor nodes. |
| US10853078B2 |
Method and apparatus for supporting speculative memory optimizations
A processor includes a store buffer to store store instructions to be processed to store data in main memory, a load buffer to store load instructions to be processed to load data from main memory, and a loop invariant code motion (LICM) protection structure coupled to the store buffer and the load buffer. The LPT tracks information to compare an address of a store or snoop microoperation with entries in the LICM and re-loads a load microoperation of a matching entry. |
| US10853077B2 |
Handling Instruction Data and Shared resources in a Processor Having an Architecture Including a Pre-Execution Pipeline and a Resource and a Resource Tracker Circuit Based on Credit Availability
The method can be performed in a processor integrated circuit having an instruction decoder and a plurality of shared resources, a resource tracker circuit having a plurality of credit units associated with corresponding ones of the shared resources in a manner to be updatable based on availability of the shared resources, and a resource matcher connected to receive a resource requirement signal from the decoder and connected to receive a resource availability signal from the resource tracker. The method can include performing a determination of whether or not the resource requirement signal matches the resource availability signal, and, upon a positive determination, dispatching corresponding instruction data, updating the status of a corresponding one or more of the credit units, and preventing the resource matcher from performing a subsequent determination for a given period of time after the positive determination. |
| US10853070B1 |
Processor suspension buffer and instruction queue
A processor includes a processing engine, an address queue, an address generation unit, and logic circuitry. The processing engine is configured to process instructions that access data in an external memory. The address generation unit is configured to generate respective addresses for the instructions to be processed by the processing engine, to provide the addresses to the processing engine, and to write the addresses to the address queue. The logic circuitry is configured to access the external memory on behalf of the processing engine while compensating for variations in access latency to the external memory, by reading the addresses from the address queue, and executing the instructions in the external memory in accordance with the addresses read from the address queue. |
| US10853068B2 |
Method for operating a digital computer to reduce the computational complexity associated with dot products between large vectors
The present invention includes a method for operating a data processing system to compute an approximation to a scalar product between first and second vectors in which each vector is characterized by N components. The method includes replacing the first vector by a third vector that is a pyramid integer vector characterized by N components and an integer K equal to the sum of the absolute values of the N components, and computing a scalar product of the third vector with the second vector to provide the approximation to the scalar product between the first and second vectors. Computing the scalar product of the second and third vectors can be carried out by K additions followed by one floating point multiply. |
| US10853065B2 |
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add
Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for chained fused multiply add. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a decoder to decode a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, a first source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands of a first type that have packed data elements of a first size, a second source field representing a plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and a field for a memory location that stores a scalar value. A register file having a plurality of packed data registers includes registers for the plurality of packed data source operands that have packed data elements of a first size, the source operands that have packed data elements of a second size, and the destination operand. Execution circuitry executes the decoded single instruction to perform iterations of packed fused multiply accumulate operations by multiplying packed data elements of the sources of the first type by sub-elements of the scalar value, and adding results of these multiplications to an initial value in a first iteration and a result from a previous iteration in subsequent iterations. |
| US10853063B2 |
Commit history linearization
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for linearizing the commit history of a code base. One of the methods includes receiving a request to attribute source code contributions to a particular snapshot in a project having a revision graph with multiple branches. Source code contributions occurring in each non-merge commit on a single path through the revision graph are attributed to a responsible developer entity of the non-merge commit. Each merge commit is processed on the single path including identifying contributions introduced by the merge commit, identifying one or more respective responsible developer entities for the contributions occurring in the one or more feature branch snapshots from one or more feature branches, and attributing source code contributions occurring in the one or more feature branch snapshots from the one or more feature branches to the identified one or more respective responsible developer entities. |
| US10853062B1 |
Hyperpiler
A method for an uncontrolled modeling language to be hyperpiled into a general purpose language is disclosed herein. The method overcomes previous limitations by allowing for a modeling language that is syntactically simple, while conceptually unlimited, while offloading the burdens of minutia and control structure to the hyperpiler. |
| US10853061B2 |
Developer tools for a communication platform
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for electronically retrieving documentation in a group-based communication platform interface. An example method includes receiving a documentation request command indicative of a request for group-based communication platform documentation, wherein the documentation request command comprises electronic information indicative of a requested API method name. The example method further includes retrieving a group-based communication platform API specification comprising a set of group-based communication platform documentation information associated with a set of group-based communication platform documentation API method names. The example method further includes generating a documentation response message based on a determination indicative of whether the requested API method name corresponds to any group-based communication platform documentation API method name in the set of group-based communication platform documentation API method names. Subsequently, the example method includes generating an ephemeral documentation message based on the documentation response message. |
| US10853052B1 |
Peripheral device firmware update using rest over IPMI interface firmware shell utility
Technologies are described herein for a representational state transfer (“REST” or “RESTful”) over IPMI interface for firmware to BMC communication and applications thereof. These applications include, but are not limited to, remote firmware configuration, firmware updates, peripheral device firmware updates, provision of management information such as system inventory data, cloning and batch migration of firmware configuration settings, and firmware integrity monitoring. This functionality can be provided in a way that enables communication between BMCs and firmware to utilize modern manageability interfaces while maintaining backward compatibility with previous IPMI implementations. |
| US10853049B2 |
Methods for enabling a computer to migrate microservices and to perform microservice templating
Enabling migration of code in a service oriented architecture executed in a distributed computing environment. A migration definition for generating migrations is received, the migration definition exposing a tangible set of matchers and filters configured to locate code constructs and codebase settings of the code to be migrated. The code to be migrated is user defined. A deterministic script is scaffolded from the tangible set of matchers and filters to find instances of code to update or settings to update within the distributed environment. The instances of the code settings are updated, whereby the code in the service oriented architecture is migrated. |
| US10853047B2 |
Method for virtualizing software applications
A method for virtualizing of software applications. The method comprises initializing a virtual environment created by a virtual engine executed over a computer; creating a new data file; launching an installation process of a software application to be virtualized, wherein the installation process runs in the virtual environment; during the installation process, capturing data writes to a file system of the computer's operating system; and saving the data writes to the new data file. |
| US10853042B2 |
Interactive code optimizer
Methods and devices for generating program code representations may include receiving program code or edited program code for an application executing on the computer device. The methods and devices may include receiving an identification of a selected pipeline from a plurality of pipelines that defines a plurality of passes of actions to execute on the program code or the edited program code to optimize the program code or the edited program code. The methods and devices may include running the selected pipeline and generate optimizer output with a program code representation of the program code. |
| US10853040B2 |
Address space splitting for legacy application compatibility
Systems and devices for coordinating heterogeneous processes of a software application to comply with multiple address spaces or other computing system constraints are disclosed. In an example, operations for coordinating data processing among multiple processes of a software application include: executing a first process of the software application, as the first process operates with a first capability that is limited to an operational constraint of the computing system; initiating a second process of the software application, as the second process is initiated as a child of the first process, and as the second process operates with a second capability that exceeds the operational constraint of the computing system; communicating data from the first process of the software application to the second process; and receiving data from the second process of the software application, in response to the data being processed by the data analysis operations of the second process. |
| US10853039B2 |
Optimization application
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by one or more interfaces, an optimization application, a request for an optimization, one or more policies required to implement the optimization, and data required to implement the optimization. The method also includes converting, by one or more processors and the optimization application, the one or more policies into optimization constraints and objective functions. The method further includes determining, by one or more processors and the optimization application, a solution to the optimization based on the optimization constraints, the objective functions, and the data. |
| US10853036B2 |
Modulo hardware generator
A method of generating a hardware design to calculate a modulo value for any input value in a target input range with respect to a constant value d using one or more range reduction stages. The hardware design is generated through an iterative process that selects the optimum component for mapping successively increasing input ranges to the target output range until a component is selected that maps the target input range to the target output range. Each iteration includes generating hardware design components for mapping the input range to the target output range using each of a plurality of modulo preserving range reduction methods, synthesizing the generated hardware design components, and selecting one of the generated hardware design components based on the results of the synthesis. |
| US10853033B1 |
Effectively fusing database tables
The present disclosure relates to fuse multiple database tables together. The fields of the database tables may be normalized using semantic fields. Under a first approach, database tables are deduplicated by consolidating redundant records. This may be done by performing pairwise comparisons to identify related pairs of records and then clustering the related pairs of records. Then, the deduplicated database tables are merged by performing another pairwise comparison. Under a second approach, the database tables may be concatenated. Thereafter, records are subject to pairwise comparisons and then clustered to create a merged database table. |
| US10853032B1 |
Curating audio and IR commands through machine learning
Techniques for curating audio and IR commands using machine learning may be provided. For example, the system can receive an audio stream that includes a plurality of audio segments provided by a particular user (e.g., as determined through acoustic fingerprinting) and the system can store the audio stream and/or segments in the user's profile. The system can also store a command associated with the audio segment(s). When a portion of the audio is provided in conjunction with a same command over a threshold number of repetitions, the next time that that audio segment is received, the system may provide the command that corresponds with that audio segment to an output device to cause an operation of the output device. |
| US10853027B2 |
Calibration of a playback device based on an estimated frequency response
An example playback device is configured to receive a first stream of audio comprising source audio content to be played back by the playback device and record, via one or more microphones of the playback device, an audio signal output by the playback device based on the playback device playing the source audio content. The playback device is also configured to determine a transfer function between a frequency-domain representation of the first stream of audio and a frequency-domain representation of the recorded audio signal, and then determine an estimated frequency response of the playback device based on a difference between (i) the transfer function and (ii) a self-response of the playback device, where the self-response of the playback device is stored in a memory of the playback device. Based on the estimated frequency response, the playback device is configured to determine an acoustic calibration adjustment and implement the acoustic calibration adjustment. |
| US10853026B2 |
Method and apparatus for streaming audio by using wireless link
An electronic device may include a processor, a communication module to establish a wireless link with an output device, and a transmit buffer in which an audio packet to be transmitted to the output device through the wireless link is stored. The processor may be configured to control the communication module to transmit an audio packet, which is encoded at a first bit rate, stored in the transmit buffer to the output device, to store, in the transmit buffer, an audio packet, which is encoded at a second bit rate lower than the first bit rate, when a state of the transmit buffer fails to satisfy a threshold condition, and to control the communication module to transmit the audio packet encoded at the second bit rate to the output device. |
| US10853025B2 |
Sharing of custom audio processing parameters
Personal audio systems and methods are disclosed. The personal audio system includes a processor configured to generate a processed ambient audio stream by processing the ambient audio stream in accordance with a selected set of processing parameters selected from the plurality of processing parameter sets stored in the memory, a communications interface configured to receive a new set of processing parameters, selected by someone other than the user, and a controller configured to instruct the processor to begin generating the processed ambient audio stream by using the new set of processing parameters. |
| US10853024B2 |
Method for providing information mapped between a plurality of inputs and electronic device for supporting the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a microphone, a touch screen display, a processor, and memory. The memory stores instructions, when executed, causing the at least one processor to: output a screen where a specified application is executed, the screen including a first interface configured to support recording a voice input through the at least one microphone and a second interface configured to receive content input of a user, on the touch screen display; pairing and storing in the memory each one of a plurality of recorded voice inputs to the first interface with a corresponding one of a plurality of content inputs to the second interface, thereby forming a voice-content pair, wherein the voice input and content input of each voice-content pair are contemporaneously recorded and received; receive a user input based on a keyword for specified content; select at least one recorded voice-content pair in response to the user input; convert recorded voice inputs of the at least one voice-content pair into text data; and output the converted text data on the touch screen display. |
| US10853023B2 |
Networked playback device
An example playback device includes a first interface for receiving a first audio signal from a first audio source; a second interface for receiving a second audio signal from a second audio source; and a processor configured to: cause the playback device to playback the second audio signal; determine that the first audio signal is present at the first interface; in response to determining that the first audio signal is present at the first interface, (i) cease playback of the second audio signal being played by the playback device and (ii) cause the playback device to playback the first audio signal; receive an instruction to stop the playback device from playing the first audio signal while the first audio signal is still present at the first interface; and arm the playback device such that a subsequent presence of the first audio signal at the first interface causes the playback device to play the first audio signal. |
| US10853020B2 |
Image sharing method, information processing device, and information processing system
An image sharing method for sharing an image between a first information processing device and a second information processing device includes: when a first drawing is executed on a shared layer shared with the second information processing device, causing the first information processing device to transmit a first object generated by the first drawing to the second information processing device; when a second drawing is executed on an unshared layer not shared with the second information processing device, causing the first information processing device not to transmit a second object generated by the second drawing to the second information processing device; and causing the first information processing device to variably control one of a size and a position within the screen of the unshared layer, or both of the size and the position within the screen of the unshared layer. |
| US10853016B2 |
Desktop application manager: card dragging of dual screen cards
Methods and devices for selecting a card from an application stack, wherein the card represents a corresponding application that a user would like to make active or bring focus to. The selecting includes one or more of a dragging and a tapping action, with these actions being triggers for transitioning the device to an optional drag state or tapped state, respectively. Transitioning through this state executes the activating of a corresponding application or other action on the device to facilitate window/application/desktop management. The selecting further allows a user to specify which a touch screen (or portion hereof) on which a particular application should be launched. |
| US10853015B2 |
Electronic device and control method therefor
An electronic device is disclosed. An electronic device according to one embodiment can comprise: a first display for displaying first content; a second display sliding on the first display and displaying second content; and a processor configured to display at least one piece of content related to the first content and the second content on the first display and the second display according to the overlapping of the first display and the second display according to the sliding. |
| US10853012B2 |
Image forming apparatus performing wireless LAN communication through access point, control method therefor, and storage medium storing control program therefor
An image forming apparatus that is capable of communicatively connecting to a suitable access point corresponding to a role of a wireless LAN. The image forming apparatus communicates by the wireless LAN through an access point. A role setting unit makes a user set a role of the wireless LAN in the image forming apparatus. A control unit controls a setting of the access point corresponding to the role of the wireless LAN. The control unit makes the user reset the access point in a case where the role of the wireless LAN has been changed. The role of the wireless LAN shows whether the wireless LAN is used as a main line or a subline. |
| US10853010B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
A tilt-corrected document image is obtained by performing image analysis processing on a scan image to detect a document area and performing extraction and tilt correction of a document image based on the detected document area. A repeat target area is set based on the obtained tilt-corrected document image. The number of repetitions in repeatedly laying out the repeat target area for each of a plurality of candidate sheet sizes is calculated, and a list screen showing the calculated numbers of repetitions for the respective plurality of candidate sheet sizes is displayed. A repeat layout-processed output image is generated by repeatedly laying out an image of the repeat target area within a sheet size specified by a user, and print processing is made executable. |
| US10853003B2 |
Method of managing print jobs based on job identification of the print jobs in printing system and apparatus for performing the same
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for performing print jobs in a printing system including a host device and a printing device. The method of performing print jobs in a printing system including a host device and a printing device includes: requesting printing while transmitting print data and identifications (IDs) corresponding to one or more print jobs, included in a job list, to the printing device; if an identification (ID) corresponding to at least one completed print job is received from the printing device, updating the job list by deleting a print job corresponding to the received ID from the job list; if an error has occurred in the printing system, determining whether the error has been resolved; and if it is determined that the error has been resolved, resuming printing. |
| US10853001B1 |
Methods and systems for automatically selecting one or more files for printing based on user's choices
A method of selecting a file for printing is disclosed. The method includes receiving a selection of a folder, the folder includes a plurality of files and at least one file to be printed. A pre-defined option is displayed to select the at least one file for printing based on a choice of the user. Upon selection, one or more choice options are displayed. The user provides one or more choice inputs corresponding to the choice options. Then, the choice inputs provided by the user are received. One or more files are automatically identified and automatically selected based on the choice inputs by searching in the plurality of files. The one or more automatically selected files along with other non-selected files present in the folder are displayed. The user is prompted to confirm the automatically selected files for printing. Upon confirmation, the automatically selected files are sent for printing. |
| US10852996B2 |
System and method for provisioning slave storage including copying a master reference to slave storage and updating a slave reference
A slave storage is provisioned using metadata of a master B-tree and updates to references (e.g., offsets) pertaining to data operations of the master B-tree. Master-slave pairs can be used to provide data redundancy, and a master copy can include the master B-tree with references to corresponding data. When provisioning a slave copy, the master sends a B-tree copy to the slave, which stores the slave B-tree copy, allocates the necessary space on local storage, and updates respective offsets of the slave B-tree copy to point to the local storage. Data from the master can then be transferred to the slave and stored according to a note and commit process that ensures operational sequence of the data. Operations received to the master during the process can be committed to the slave copy until the slave is consistent with the master and able to take over as master in the event of a failure. |
| US10852994B2 |
Metadata compaction
Techniques are provided for compacting indirect blocks. For example, an object is represented as a structure comprising data blocks within which data of the object is stored and indirect blocks comprising block numbers of where the data blocks are located in storage. Block numbers within a set of indirect blocks are compacted into a compacted indirect block comprising a base block number, a count of additional block numbers after the base block number in the compacted indirect block, and a pattern of the block numbers in the compacted indirect block. The compacted indirect block is stored into memory for processing access operations to the object. Storing compacted indirect blocks into memory allows for more block numbers to be stored within memory. |
| US10852989B1 |
Method and system for offloading a continuous health-check and reconstruction of data in a data cluster
A method for managing data includes obtaining, by a storage controller, data from a host, applying an erasure coding procedure to the data to obtain a plurality of data chunks and at least one parity chunk, deduplicating the plurality of data chunks to obtain a plurality of deduplicated data chunks, generating storage metadata associated with the plurality of data chunks and the at least one parity chunk, storing, across a plurality of persistent storage devices, the plurality of deduplicated data chunks and the at least one parity chunk, wherein the plurality of persistent storage devices is operatively connected to the storage controller and a second storage controller, storing the storage metadata in the storage controller, and sending a copy of the storage metadata to the second storage controller. |
| US10852987B2 |
Method to support hash based xcopy synchronous replication
In one aspect, support for hash based xcopy replication for synchronous replication is provided. An aspect includes determining, in response to an xcopy command, whether a source logical unit (LU) and a target LU are in active synchronous replication to the same target site. Upon determining that the LUs are in active synchronous replication, increasing a count of a hash handle list, obtaining a unique full hash digest, and sending the digest with volume replication pairing identifier, offset, and length to the target. Upon receiving a request from the source, searching, by the target, for local hash handles of the digest; and upon determining the local hash handles exist in the digest, incrementing, the reference counter handle list, and sending corresponding hash handles from the source site to the target. |
| US10852986B1 |
Creating virtual machine snapshots without interfering with active user sessions
Systems and methods for creating virtual machine snapshots. An example method comprises: receiving a request to create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on a host computer system; protecting from modification a plurality of virtual memory pages of the virtual machine; responsive to detecting an attempt to modify a virtual memory page of the plurality of memory pages, copying the virtual memory page to a queue residing in a random access memory (RAM) of the host computer system; making the virtual memory page writable; retrieving the virtual memory page from the queue; writing the virtual memory page to a disk of the host computer system; and responsive to exhausting the queue, completing creation of the snapshot of the virtual machine. |
| US10852985B2 |
Persistent hole reservation
Techniques are provided for persistent hole reservation. For example, hole reservation flags of operations targeting a first storage object of a first node are replicated into replication operations targeting a second storage object of a second node during a transition operation to transition the first storage object and the second storage object from an asynchronous replication state to a synchronous replication state. In another example, the second storage object is grown to a size of a replication punch hole operation that failed due to targeting a file block number greater than an end of size of the second storage object. |
| US10852984B2 |
Mirror vote synchronization
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for mirror vote synchronization. For example, a first storage device is located at a first storage site, and a second storage device is located at a second storage site. The second storage device is configured according to a data mirroring configuration where data from the first storage device is mirrored to the second storage device. Mirror vote metadata is generated based upon an up-to-date state of the data mirroring configuration. The mirror vote metadata indicates whether the first storage device and/or the second storage device are up-to-date or not. The mirror vote metadata may be replicated between the first storage site and the second storage site. If the first storage site fails, then the second storage site may provide switchover operation using the second storage device based upon the mirror vote metadata. |
| US10852982B2 |
Method, system, and computer program product for managing storage system
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to a method, system and computer program product for managing a storage system. Specifically, in one implementation of the present disclosure there is provided a method for managing a storage system. The method comprises: dividing a source device among a plurality of storage devices in the storage system into a plurality of extents; copying data in the plurality of extents to a destination device; determining the state of an extent among the plurality of extents on the basis whether data in the extent among the plurality of extents has been copied to the destination device; and managing an access request to the extent on the basis of the state of the extent. In other implementations of the present disclosure, there is provided a corresponding system and computer program product. |
| US10852981B2 |
System for migrating virtual tape volumes between filesystems
A virtual tape engine migrates a virtual tape volume between filesystems. A source virtual tape volume is copied into the virtual tape engine, and a target virtual tape volume is generated. Data associated with the source virtual tape volume may be modified to generate the target virtual tape volume. For example, compression or encryption state may be modified. Migration may be triggered automatically in accordance with a migration policy. The source virtual tape volume remains accessible during migration. |
| US10852980B1 |
Data migration techniques
Techniques for performing data migration may include: receiving host information regarding hosts registered on a source data storage system; issuing registration commands from a host to a target data storage system; determining, at the target data storage system in accordance with the registration commands, a host registration table including a corresponding entry for the host, the corresponding entry denoting a host name for the host and initiators of the host that sent the registration commands; and determining a masking view for the host on the target data storage system, the masking view including an initiator group of the initiators of the host that sent the registration commands to the target data storage system, wherein the masking view is used by the target data storage system to determine whether to service received I/O operations. |
| US10852971B2 |
Memory controller and memory system having the same
There are provided a memory controller and a memory system having the same. The memory controller includes: a control processor configured to set groups of memory blocks among memory blocks in a memory device to respective super blocks based on reference values, and store and execute firmware blocks respectively allocated to the super blocks; and a buffer memory configured to store information regarding the super blocks set by the control processor. |
| US10852970B2 |
Storage control apparatus, control method thereof, storage medium, and information processing apparatus
A storage control apparatus can be connected to a higher level apparatus and a plurality of storage devices, and receives, from the higher level apparatus, a request to write into one of the plurality of storage devices. Here, if a storage device, among the plurality of storage devices, that has been specified as the access destination for the write request is not yet active, the storage control apparatus suspends the data involved in the write request, and writes the suspended data involved in the write request into the storage device once the storage device specified as the access destination is in a ready state. |
| US10852969B2 |
Memory systems having semiconductor memory modules therein that support page fault processing
Memory systems include a first semiconductor memory module and a processor. The processor is configured to access the first semiconductor memory module by units of a page, and further configured to respond to an occurrence of a page fault in a specific page, which is associated with a virtual address corresponding to an access target, by adjusting a number of pages and allocating pages in the first semiconductor memory module corresponding to the adjusted number of the pages, which are associated with the virtual address. |
| US10852963B1 |
Uneven distributed storage across a mesh fabric storage system
An uneven distributed storage across a mesh fabric storage system may include receiving storage operations from one or more client devices and/or applications contemporaneously with receiving availability messaging from a set of multiple storage devices that may be of the same or different types. One or more of the storage operations may be assigned to a storage device that has signaled its readiness to perform the one or more storage operations via an issued availability message. Each storage device may thereby perform a subset of the collective set of storage operations with the uneven distribution allocating load that is directly commensurate with the performance of each storage device. Stored data may be moved between storage devices using a similar availability-driven methodology so as to reallocate capacity usage while still providing the fastest storage performance associated with all storage devices writing the data as it is generated. |
| US10852953B2 |
Dynamic temperature compensation in a memory component
A dynamic temperature compensation trim for use in temperature compensating a memory operation on a memory call of a memory component. The dynamic temperature compensation trim is based on a temperature of the memory component and based on in-service data for the memory operation on the memory cell. A register for the memory operation is modified based on the dynamic temperature compensation trim. |
| US10852950B2 |
Computer system, memory management method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A computer system, operated on a system platform, includes memories and a controller circuit. The memories include a first memory and a second memory, in which the first memory include s a first storage space and a second storage space, and a size of a total storage space of the second memory is the same as a size of the first storage space. The memories are coupled in parallel with the controller circuit, and the controller circuit assigns at least one first data zone to the first storage space and the second memory based on a kernel of the system platform, and assigns a second data zone to the second storage space. A data access frequency of the second data zone is lower than a data access frequency of the at least one first data zone. |
| US10852949B2 |
Predictive data pre-fetching in a data storage device
A data storage system having non-volatile media, a buffer memory, a processing device, and a data pre-fetcher. The data pre-fetcher receives commands to be executed in the data storage system, provides the commands as input to a predictive model, obtains at least one command identified for pre-fetching, as output from the predictive model having the commands as input. Prior to the command being executed in the data storage device, the data pre-fetcher retrieves, from the non-volatile memory, at least a portion of data to be used in execution of the command; and stores the portion of data in the buffer memory. The retrieving and storing the portion of the data can be performed concurrently with the execution of many commands before the execution of the command, to reduce the latency impact of the command on other commands that are executed concurrently with the execution of the command. |
| US10852941B2 |
Interface graphic displaying on a user terminal having a touch screen with curved edge portions
A graphic display method and apparatus are provided. In the graphic display method, a terminal may detect a touch operation on a screen when there is a to-be-processed event (S101); obtain touch point coordinates of the touch operation (S102); display, in a position indicated by the touch point coordinates, a touch graphic used to indicate the touch operation (S103), and display, on the screen based on the touch point coordinates, an operation indication graphic corresponding to the to-be-processed event (S104). The touch graphic and the operation indication graphic are displayed on the screen to enable a user to see a current to-be-processed event in a more intuitive and vivid manner, thereby reducing a misoperation rate of a touch operation and improving operation experience of the user. |
| US10852938B2 |
System and method for mixed content digital ink interactivity
A system, method and computer program product for use in providing interactive ink from handwriting input to a computing device are provided. The computing device is connected to an input device in the form of an input surface. A user is able to provide input by applying pressure to or gesturing above the input surface using either his or her finger or an instrument such as a stylus or pen. The present system and method monitors the input strokes. The computing device further has a processor and an ink management system for recognizing the handwriting input under control of the processor. The ink management system is configured to cause display of, on a display interface of a computing device, first digital ink in accordance with first handwriting input, allocate references to ink elements of the first digital ink, define boundaries of the first digital ink associated with the allocated references, cause placement of an editing position at a defined boundary in response to an editing gesture, cause display of, on the display interface of the computing device, first typeset ink in accordance with first typeset input at the editing position. |
| US10852937B2 |
Calibrated finger-mapped gesture systems
A finger-mapped gesture system is a user interface method and apparatus for rapid data input on a touch-sensitive surface. The user gestures by holding the hand stationary relative to the surface and moving the fingers primarily by extension and flexion on the surface. Each finger gestures on a gesturing area instead of selecting among keys. Individual gestures are constructed from finger actions that each independently parameterize the gesture. In combination, the particular fingers gesturing and the parameters that the fingers gesture indicate the input that the user intends. On devices that do not directly identify fingers, fingers are identified via a finger map that, after calibration to a person's hand, associates each finger with a gesturing area. Gestures are otherwise independent of where they are performed, freeing users from having to look at their fingers to target visual elements. The system is optimized for rapid character data entry. |
| US10852930B2 |
Control method, storage medium, and information providing method
Using a memory that manages a user log including at least a cooking time and a food to be cooked with a cooking device used by each user in a plurality of users, a recommended cooking time corresponding to a first user's food to be cooked included in recommended cooking times for respective foods calculated based on cooking times with the cooking devices is acquired from a server, a user interface that prompts the first user to select one of candidates of cooking times including at least the recommended cooking times is displayed on a display, and in response to detecting that a cooking time is selected by performing an input operation on the user interface, a setting command to set the selected cooking time is output to the first cooking device. |
| US10852926B2 |
Filter of data presentations via user-generated links
A database system may include a data storage configured to store one or more data sets and a processor coupled to the data storage. The processor may receive a query for first data included in the one or more data sets and access the data storage to obtain the first data based on the query. The processor may transmit the first data to a user system. The processor may receive an indication of a filter request to filter the first data based on a characteristic. The processor may identify linked data within second data based on the characteristic, the linked data linked to a portion of the first data associated with the filter request. The processor may access the data storage to obtain the linked data and transmit the linked data to the user system, to enable updating of a data presentation to display the linked data. |
| US10852923B2 |
Customized interactive computing environment
A customized interactive computing environment may allow for a customized interactive user experience. The interactive computing environment may be defined by session parameters to customize a session of the interactive computing environment. The session parameters may include customized interactive user objectives that may be defined by a user. Each objective may be defined with a number of points awarded to a user for completing the objective. Real-time interactive user data may be received from user devices for completion of the custom objectives. Custom profile information may be defined by a user to customize user interfaces provided to users that log into a session of the interactive computing environment. Data analysis about the session and/or the defined objectives may be generated and displayed to users to indicate progress or other data about the session. |
| US10852921B2 |
Method of gathering, storing, and distributing user defined geographic location identities
A system and method facilitated on the Internet wherein users connected to the Internet via a system comprised of, a computer driven mobile GPS and/or AGPS enabled device, or, a stationary or portable computing device capable of connecting to the Internet, a corresponding mobile application and/or website portal with user account access, and an Application Programming Interface (API) for the user to interact with a user centric secure online database, engage with a method of constructing, saving, and sharing user defined specific geographic point location identity data sets or files exclusively that is not designed as a social interaction community involving tracking or proximity sensing of the user device. A system and method that is designed and intended for the purposes of constructing, saving, modifying, and sharing user defined geographic location identity data sets or files exclusively and absent requirements of engaging in actively tracking user devices. |
| US10852915B1 |
User interfaces for sharing content with other electronic devices
In some embodiments, an electronic device presents an option that is selectable to share content with a second electronic device towards which the first electronic device is oriented. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents an indication to change the orientation of the electronic device when the orientation of the electronic device is outside of a range of orientations in which circuitry that identifies another electronic device with which to share content is able to function with desired reliability. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents a sharing user interface within an action user interface of an application. In some embodiments, an electronic device presents one or more options for changing one or more settings associated with an item of content before sharing the content. |
| US10852908B2 |
Method and system for controlling a display screen based upon a prediction of compliance of a service request with a service level agreement (SLA)
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with controlling a display screen with graphical objects in a computing system are described. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a service request, identifying attributes of the service request, and using the attributes to retrieve from a probability data structure data records. Service criteria for processing the service request are identified, and a probability that the service request will transition to a target state in compliance with the service criteria is calculated based upon the retrieved probabilities. A display screen is controlled based upon a prediction of whether that the service request will transition to a target state in compliance with the service criteria. |
| US10852903B2 |
Optimizing transportation networks through dynamic user interfaces
The present disclosure relates to providing a dynamic graphical user interface for efficiently presenting users with relevant ride information throughout the fulfilment of a ride request. In some embodiments, the system detects a trigger event during a ride, and based on detecting the trigger event, the system expands or collapses an information portion within a graphical user interface. When in a collapsed state, for example, the information portion of the graphical user interfaces includes a first set of content. Upon detecting a trigger event, the system dynamically expands the information portion to provide a second set of content that includes information associated with the detected trigger. |
| US10852899B2 |
Non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and terminal device
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a control program that causes a terminal device to execute a process, the terminal device being coupled to an information processing device, the process including displaying an operation screen of the information processing device on a display, determining, when an operation on the displayed operation screen is detected, whether an elapsed time after a timing of a previous operation of the operation screen has exceeded a reference time, transmitting operation information corresponding to the detected operation to the information processing device when it is determined that the elapsed time has not exceeded the reference, and when it is determined that the elapsed time has exceeded the reference, displaying, on the display, a screen that requests an input of identification information that identifies an operation-target information processing device without executing the transmitting. |
| US10852898B2 |
System for interactive help
Method and system for the provision of interactive assistance over a network for a user to complete a desired computing task on a user computing device. Task-guides are generated on task-guide generators operating on author user devices. Each task-guide includes a sequence of processes, each process including an action for the user to perform in association with a graphical user interface (GUI) object displayed on the user computing device. The process obtains information about the GUI object using at least one data-gathering technique. An administrator operating on a server computing device receives a task-assistance request from a task-guide executor operating on an end user device, and sends back at least one suitable task-guide over the network. The task-guide executor executes the task-guide on the end user device, displaying a sequence of instructions for the end user to follow in order to complete the desired computing task. |
| US10852897B2 |
Touch panel and touch display device
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch panel and a touch display panel, wherein touch electrodes including bodies and wings are arranged so as to interlock with each other to thus reduce a difference in sensing sensitivity depending on position and a movement direction, thereby improving uniformity of touch sensing. In addition, the body and wing of the touch electrode can be arranged so as to be varied in length/width depending on the position thereof, so that the boundary area between the touch electrodes is increased, thereby improving the intensity of a touch-sensing signal, and so that sensing time is reduced, thereby enhancing the performance of touch sensing. |
| US10852896B2 |
Touch panel used as touch sensor to increase touch detection sensitivity, including conductive member and conductive sheet
A touch panel has a first electrode layer positioned on a first surface of a transparent insulating member and a second electrode layer positioned on a second surface of the transparent insulating member. The first electrode layer is provided with a plurality of first strip electrodes having a bent shape, and the second electrode layer is provided with a plurality of second strip electrodes having a bent shape. There is at least one combination of the first strip electrode and the second strip electrode satisfying an electrode width W1 of the first strip electrode |
| US10852890B2 |
Touch panel and manufacturing method thereof
A touch panel includes a substrate, a touch sensing electrode, a peripheral conductive trace, a protective layer, and a conductive layer. The substrate has a display area and a peripheral area. The touch sensing electrode is disposed in the display area. The peripheral conductive trace is disposed in the peripheral area. The touch sensing electrode is electrically connected to the peripheral conductive trace. The touch sensing electrode and the peripheral conductive trace at least include metal nanowires. The protective layer is disposed on the touch sensing electrode, and the conductive layer is disposed on the peripheral conductive trace. |
| US10852889B2 |
Display panel, mobile terminal and driving method
Provided are display panel, mobile terminal and a driving method for reducing the width of the border and increasing the touch sensitivity of the special-shaped area. The display panel is divided into a display area and a non-display area, the display area includes a first area and a second area, the first area is a convex area extending from a side of the second area and protruding away from the side of the second area; the display panel includes first touch electrodes placed in the first area and second touch electrodes placed in the second area, the first touch electrode is one of an self-capacitance touch electrode and an mutual capacitive touch electrode while the second touch electrode is the other one of the self-capacitance touch electrode and the mutual capacitive touch electrode. The display panel above is suitable for the mobile terminal. |
| US10852885B2 |
Touch controller, touch display system and method for synchronizing touch display
The present disclosure provides a touch controller, which includes, a monitoring circuit, configured to configured to detect a sensing signal generated via a touch sensor when a display panel is driven, and obtain at least one synchronizing signal according to the sensing signal; and a touch detecting circuit, configured to output a touch driving signal to the touch sensor according to the synchronizing signal. The touch controller provided by the present disclosure reduces the signal interference between the touch controller and the display driving circuit by using a touch sensor to obtain the synchronizing signal from the display panel. |
| US10852881B2 |
Electronic apparatus, control method of electronic apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium
An electronic apparatus includes: a touch detector; and a control unit: (1) to execute a first function in response to movement by a predetermined distance in a first direction and to update the reference position when a detected touch position has moved in the first direction, (2) to execute a second function in response to movement by the predetermined distance in a second direction and to update the reference position when the detected touch position has moved in the second direction and the detected touch position after the movement is in the first region, and (3) not to execute the second function and not to update the reference position even if a movement distance reaches the predetermined distance when the detected touch position has moved in the second direction and the detected touch position after the movement is in the second region. |
| US10852871B1 |
Touch panel and LED display
A touch panel and an LED display screen comprises at least one touch-sensing layer, at least one pixel lamp spacer layer and at least one dielectric substrate layer, sequentially laminated. The touch-sensing layer includes a plurality of sensing units arranged at intervals and at least one grounding unit, wherein the sensing unit is not in contact with the ground unit; the ground unit is independently arranged or connected to any number of other ground units; the sensing unit is configured to sense a touch-control signal. The ground unit is configured to be grounded. A plurality of through-holes arranged at intervals are provided on the pixel lamp spacer layer, the through-hole is provided below the gap of the touch-sensing layer, and the through-holes are configured for receiving LED pixel lamps. The dielectric substrate layer is provided with several via holes. |
| US10852866B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel and an infrared sensing module. The display panel includes an active region in which a pixel that emits light based on a data signal is disposed. The infrared sensing module transmits a first infrared light that passes through the active region and receives a second infrared light that passes through the active region to recognize an object. The wavelength of the first infrared light may have a wavelength greater than a predetermined value so that a luminance of light emitted by the pixel is not affected by operation of the infrared sensing module. |
| US10852865B2 |
In-cell touch type display device
An in-cell touch type display device includes a touch electrode that is in a display panel and arranged at each touch block, a sensing line that is connected to the touch electrode, and transfers a common voltage during a display period, and at least one dummy line that is connected to the touch electrode, and has a resistance less than that of the touch electrode. |
| US10852860B2 |
Touch sensor having enhanced durability and optical characteristics and method of manufacturing the same
The present invention relates to a touch sensor having enhanced durability and optical characteristics and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes: supplying a touch sensor to an annealing chamber, the touch sensor including a base film and a touch sensor layer formed on the base film; and performing an annealing process on the touch sensor in the annealing chamber, wherein a thickness of a transparent electrode unit constituting the touch sensor layer ranges from about 35 nm to about 150 nm. According to the present invention, by optimizing the thickness and annealing conditions of the transparent electrode unit that affect the durability and optical characteristics of the touch sensor, flexibility and durability of the touch sensor can be simultaneously enhanced while minimizing degradation of the optical characteristics of the touch sensor. |
| US10852858B2 |
Cover device, and electronic device and method for identifying cover device
An electronic device and method for identifying a detached cover device and a cover device therefor are provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a wireless communication circuit disposed within the housing, a touch screen display exposed to the exterior, and a processor disposed within the housing and electrically connected to the wireless communication circuit and the touch screen display. The processor may be configured to sense mounting of the cover device on the touch screen display, identify a conductor pattern of the mounted cover device by scanning the touch screen display on which the cover device is mounted, and identify the mounted cover device on the basis of the identified conductor pattern. |
| US10852856B2 |
Computer input apparatus and input method thereof
A computer input apparatus is used for making a host computer execute a start event according to an instruction of a mobile device. The computer input apparatus includes a mouse pad and an input device. The mouse pad includes a transmission section and an indication section. When the transmission section receives an indication signal from the mobile device, the indication section outputs a sensory signal sensible for humans. The input device has an actuation section. When the input device receives the actuation signal corresponding to the indication signal, the actuation section outputs a start signal to the host computer. Thereby, the host computer executes a start event according to the start signal. |
| US10852854B2 |
Control system and device for use in controlling operation of an electrical appliance
A control system for use in controlling operation of an electrical appliance, the system including: a processor module disposed inside of a housing of the electrical appliance, the processor module including at least one contactless-type sensor operably-connected with the processor module; an input control module including: an attachment element configured for releasably attaching the input control module to an outer surface of the housing; and at least one sensor-readable element configured for contactless-interaction with the contactless-type sensor. |
| US10852853B2 |
Information handling system touch device with visually interactive region
A totem object placed on a touchscreen display provides inputs based upon touches made at the touchscreen display, such as with the rotational orientation or linear location of the totem object relative to a user interface presented outside the totem object. A visual access from the touchscreen display through the totem object passes a visual image from the touchscreen display for presentation at the totem object upper surface, such a numerical value of an input made by totem object position on the touchscreen display. |
| US10852852B2 |
System and method for bidirectional communication between stylus and stylus sensor controller
A method is provided to interface an active stylus with a sensor controller, wherein the sensor controller is coupled to a sensor configured to receive input from the active stylus. In the method the sensor controller caches stylus capability information of the active stylus. The stylus capability information includes setting information for inking used by an application program executed to display input from the active stylus on the sensor. The active stylus generates a hash value of the stylus capability information and transmits the hash value to the sensor controller when the active stylus enters a sensing zone of the sensor controller. |
| US10852847B2 |
Controller tracking for multiple degrees of freedom
A method for controller tracking with multiple degrees of freedom includes generating depth data at an electronic device based on a local environment proximate the electronic device. A set of positional data is generated for at least one spatial feature associated with a controller based on a pose of the electronic device, as determined using the depth data, relative to the at least one spatial feature associated with the controller. A set of rotational data is received that represents three degrees-of-freedom (3DoF) orientation of the controller within the local environment, and a six degrees-of-freedom (6DoF) position of the controller within the local environment is tracked based on the set of positional data and the set of rotational data. |
| US10852846B2 |
Electronic device for use in motion detection and method for obtaining resultant deviation thereof
An electronic device utilizing a nine-axis motion sensor module, capable of accurately outputting a resultant deviation including deviation angles in a 3D reference frame is provided. The present invention provides a novel comparison and compensation to accurately obtain a resultant deviation including deviation angles of the electronic device under the presence of external and/or internal interferences including the ones caused by undesirable electromagnetic fields and the ones associated with undesirable external forces and axial accelerations. The output of the nine-axis motion sensor module of the present invention including a rotation sensor, an accelerometer and a magnetometer can be advantageously obtained and compensated with a comparison comparing different states of the motion sensor module such that an updated state associated with the output and the resultant deviation angles of the nine-axis motion sensor module are preferably obtained in an absolute manner with the undesirable external interferences being effectively excluded. |
| US10852840B2 |
Method and system for hand pose detection
A method for hand pose identification in an automated system includes providing depth map data of a hand of a user to a first neural network trained to classify features corresponding to a joint angle of a wrist in the hand to generate a first plurality of activation features and performing a first search in a predetermined plurality of activation features stored in a database in the memory to identify a first plurality of hand pose parameters for the wrist associated with predetermined activation features in the database that are nearest neighbors to the first plurality of activation features. The method further includes generating a hand pose model corresponding to the hand of the user based on the first plurality of hand pose parameters and performing an operation in the automated system in response to input from the user based on the hand pose model. |
| US10852839B1 |
Artificial reality systems with detachable personal assistant for gating user interface elements
An artificial reality system is described that renders, presents, and controls user interface elements within an artificial reality environment, and performs actions in response to one or more detected gestures of the user. The artificial reality system includes an image capture device, a head-mounted display (HMD), a user interface (UI) engine, and a rendering engine. The head-mounted display (HMD) outputs artificial reality content, the artificial reality content including a display element that appears superimposed on and attached to an arm. The gesture detector identifies, from the image data, a gesture that includes a gripping motion of a hand with respect to the display element. The UI engine is configured to, in response to the identification of the gesture, (i) update the display element to appear detached from and separate from the arm, and (ii) generate a UI element that appears detached from the arm. |
| US10852838B2 |
Methods and systems for creating virtual and augmented reality
Configurations are disclosed for presenting virtual reality and augmented reality experiences to users. The system may comprise an image capturing device to capture one or more images, the one or more images corresponding to a field of the view of a user of a head-mounted augmented reality device, and a processor communicatively coupled to the image capturing device to extract a set of map points from the set of images, to identify a set of sparse points and a set of dense points from the extracted set of map points, and to perform a normalization on the set of map points. |
| US10852835B2 |
Systems, apparatuses and methods for controlling prosthetic devices by gestures and other modalities
Systems and methods for manual gesture recognition to control prosthetic devices. Low encumbrance systems utilizing glove-based recognition to control prosthetic devices. Prosthetic control systems and methods are also provided utilizing elements for application on the user's fingernails. |
| US10852834B2 |
Haptic signalizing device
A haptic signalizing device includes a number of piezoelectric elements arranged below a device surface such that mechanical deformations caused by the converse piezoelectric effect in the at least one piezoelectric element make the device surface to move such that the device surface follows the piezoelectric element. A driving circuit causes the converse the piezoelectric effect on the at least one piezoelectric element by generating an alternating electric field over the piezoelectric element in a bipolar fashion. The piezoelectric element is arranged i) to locally move the device surface inwards when the mechanical deformation in the piezoelectric element is a deflection directed away from the device surface, and ii) to locally move the device surface outwards when the mechanical deformation in the piezoelectric element is a deflection that is directed towards the device surface. |
| US10852833B2 |
Global and local haptic system and mobile devices including the same
A mobile device includes a chassis including a back panel and sidewalls. The device also includes a display panel connected to the chassis opposite the back panel. The device further includes an actuator assembly including a first actuator and a second actuator stacked on the first actuator, the first actuator being rigidly coupled to the back panel and being configured to vibrate in a plane of the back panel, and the second actuator being rigidly coupled to the display panel and configured to apply a force to the display panel out of a plane of the display panel. The device also includes an electronic control module in communication with the actuator assembly, the electronic control module being programmed to independently activate the first actuator and second actuator to generate a haptic vibration in the chassis and a haptic vibration in the display panel, respectively. |