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| US10930442B2 |
Light-transmitting electrode having carbon nanotube film, solar cell, method for producing light-transmitting electrode having carbon nanotube film, and method for manufacturing solar cell
The present invention provides a light-transmitting electrode which has high electrical conductivity and high electron blocking performance. The present invention also provides a solar cell which is capable of achieving high energy conversion efficiency at low cost. The present invention provides a method for producing a light-transmitting electrode that has a light-transmitting substrate, a carbon nanotube film which is formed directly or indirectly on the light-transmitting substrate, and a metal oxide film which is formed directly on the carbon nanotube film. This production method includes vapor depositing the metal oxide film, which contains oxygen and a metal element belonging to the group 4, 5 or 6 of the periodic table, on one surface or both surfaces of the carbon nanotube film. The present invention provides a light-transmitting electrode which includes a light-transmitting substrate and a conductive carbon nanotube film that is formed directly or indirectly on the light-transmitting substrate. |
| US10930441B2 |
Nitrogen-doping porous graphene material in supercapacitor and production method thereof
In this patent, a high energy and power density supercapacitor was invented. A coin cell with supercapacitor includes a spring lamination, a working electrode, a counter electrode, a separator, and an Organic electrolyte. The working and counter electrodes were Activated carbon/N-doping porous graphene/binder coated on Aluminum substrate. The separator was from Nippon Kodoshi Corporation. The Organic electrolyte was 1M TEABF4/PC. The method of producing N-doping porous graphene included the following steps: Step 1: Graphite oxide (GO) was transferred into the furnace. Step 2: Inject 50 c.c./min gas flow of Nitrous oxides for one hour. Step 3: Intensify 40 Celsius degrees/min to 900 Celsius degrees and after holding for one hour, lower the temperature naturally to the room temperature, it can be prepared into N-doping porous graphene. In this patent, the capacitance of the supercapacitor is 122 F/g and the power density is 31 kW/Kg. |
| US10930440B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked to be alternately exposed to one side surface and the other side surface with the dielectric layer disposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the ceramic body to be connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively, in which the ceramic body includes an area of overlap in a thickness direction of the first and second internal electrodes, margin region, and/or cover region, and the margin region in the width direction and/or the cover region includes a phosphoric acid-based second phase. |
| US10930439B2 |
Multilayer capacitor including liquid pocket
A multilayer capacitor includes a body in which a plurality of internal electrodes are stacked, including a ceramic sintered body; and external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the body and electrically connected to the internal electrodes. The ceramic sintered body includes a liquid pocket. |
| US10930435B2 |
Multilayer element and LC filter
A multilayer element includes a multilayer body defined by stacking base layers, inductor electrodes, a capacitor electrode on an outer portion, and outer terminals. Inductors are defined using the inductor electrodes. The inductors are connected between the outer terminals, and the inductors are connected to the capacitor electrode. The multilayer element may be easily used to make an LC filter by placing a metal shield opposite a capacitor electrode to define a capacitance between the capacitor electrode and the metal shield. |
| US10930434B2 |
Multi-layered ceramic electronic component
A multi-layered ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes opposing each other with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes arranged outside of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer comprises a dielectric ceramic composition containing: a base material represented by (Ba1-xCax)TiO3 (0 |
| US10930430B2 |
Coil assembly
A coil assembly for generating or for receiving alternating magnetic fields comprises at least one primary coil having at least one winding and comprises at least one secondary coil provided for a selective influencing of the resonance behavior of the coil assembly and having at least one winding, wherein the primary coil has a main conductor and a shielding conductor at least sectionally surrounding the main conductor. The shielding conductor is electrically conductively connected to the main conductor and has at least one section that is electrically interrupted. |
| US10930427B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes: a body; a coil part including a coil pattern embedded in the body and having at least one turn winding around on one direction; first and second external electrodes disposed on a surface of the body and connected to the coil part; and a shielding via having a permeability higher than that of the body and extending along the one direction in the body. |
| US10930420B2 |
Coil component
A coil component includes a magnetic body part and a coil part. The magnetic body part has first and second magnetic layers stacked together alternately in one axis direction, and cover parts covering the first and second magnetic layers from the one axis direction. The coil part has conductor patterns provided on the second magnetic layers. The magnetic body part includes: oblate soft magnetic grain-containing layers extending over the entire range of the magnetic body part in the direction perpendicular to the one axis direction, exposed in the direction perpendicular to the one axis direction, and formed by oblate soft magnetic grains whose thickness direction is oriented in the one axis direction; and spherical grain-containing layers adjoining the oblate soft magnetic grain-containing layers in the one axis direction, and formed by insulative spherical grains. |
| US10930419B2 |
Inductor
An inductor includes a substrate as a base material, a core portion, a coil portion, an insulating portion formed between conductors of the coil portion, and a terminal portion connecting the core portion and the coil portion to the outside. A main direction of a magnetic field that is generated in accordance with current flowing through the coil portion extends in a planar direction of the substrate. In at least a portion of the coil portion, both width and thickness of a rectangular cross-sectional area of the coil portion are larger than the width of the insulating portion. |
| US10930418B2 |
Magnetic shielding unit for magnetic security transmission, module comprising same, and portable device comprising same
Disclosed is a magnetic field shielding unit for magnetic security transmission. The magnetic field shielding unit for magnetic security transmission includes a magnetic shielding layer formed of fragments of ferrite containing magnesium oxide (MgO) shredded to improve flexibility of the magnetic field shielding unit. The ferrite containing magnesium oxide has a real part (μ′) of the complex permeability of 650 or more at a frequency of 100 kHz. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent influence of a magnetic field on components of a mobile terminal device or a body of a user who uses the same, and to further increase the characteristics of the combined antennas even if the magnetic field shielding unit is combined with various kinds and purposes of antennas having various structures, shapes, sizes and intrinsic characteristics (inductance, resistivity, etc.). |
| US10930417B2 |
Rapid consolidation method for preparing bulk metastable iron-rich materials
Interstitially modified compounds of rare earth element-containing, iron-rich compounds may be synthesized with a ThMn12 tetragonal crystal structure such that the compounds have useful permanent magnet properties. It is difficult to consolidate particles of the compounds into a bulk shape without altering the composition and magnetic properties of the metastable material. A combination of thermal analysis and crystal structure analysis of each compound may be used to establish heating and consolidation parameters for sintering of the particles into useful magnet shapes. |
| US10930416B2 |
Coaxial cable and medical cable
A coaxial cable includes a central conductor, a plurality of insulating twisted threads or insulation strings wound therearound, each insulating twisted thread including a plurality of insulating strings twisted together, a cover layer provided around the insulating twisted threads or the insulation strings to form a gap to the insulating twisted threads or the insulation strings, and an outer conductor and a jacket provided on the outer periphery of the cover layer. |
| US10930415B2 |
Data cable for areas at risk of explosion
The invention relates to a data cable. One embodiment of the data cable has at least one pair of wires and a cable sheath surrounding the at least one pair of wires. The at least one pair of wires has two wires twisted together in the longitudinal direction of the data cable. Cavities between the at least one pair of wires and the cable sheath are at least partially filled with a filler. The filler has a viscosity which is such that it adheres in the data cable in such a way as to remain in the data cable at least nearly completely when there is a specified pressure difference between one end of the data cable and the other end of the data cable. |
| US10930414B2 |
Method for extracting crosslinking by-products from a crosslinked electrically insulating system of a power cable and related power cable
An energy cable comprises at least one cable core comprising an electric conductor, a crosslinked electrically insulating layer, and particles of a zeolite system comprising at least a first zeolite and a second zeolite placed in the cable core. A method for extracting crosslinking by-products from a cross-linked electrically insulating layer of an energy cable core comprises manufacturing the energy cable core comprising particles of the above-said zeolite system, heating the energy cable core up to a temperature causing migration of the crosslinking by-products from the crosslinked electrically insulating layer, and placing a metal screen around the energy cable core. |
| US10930409B2 |
Resin compositions comprising sorbic esters
Resin composition comprising a) the reaction product of a1) one or more epoxy compounds having at least 2 epoxy groups, and a2) sorbic acid as component A; b) a solvent containing vinyl groups as component B; characterized in that a bisphenol F diglycidyl ether or an epoxy novolac is used as epoxy compound a1) in component A. |
| US10930407B2 |
Productions of radioisotopes
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and structures for the production of radioisotopes from the thermal neutron irradiation of selected natural isotopes. The methods, structures and operations are applicable to the production of any radioisotope that may be produced from neutron irradiation. |
| US10930405B2 |
Mixture for anti-radiation pozzolon-polymeric cementitious material
An anti-radiation concrete comprising a geopolymer is described. In an implementation, the anti-radiation concrete comprises a mixture of at least two aqueous alkaline activators, fine aggregate, and coarse aggregate from high density metal-containing rocks. |
| US10930404B2 |
Nuclear reactor core loading and operation strategies
Cores include different types of control cells in different numbers and positions. A periphery of the core just inside the perimeter may have higher reactivity fuel in outer control cells, and lower reactivity cells may be placed in an inner core inside the inner ring. Cores can include about half fresh fuel positioned in higher proportions in the inner ring and away from inner control cells. Cores are compatible with multiple core control cell setups, including BWRs, ESBWRs, ABWRs, etc. Cores can be loaded during conventional outages. Cores can be operated with control elements in only the inner ring control cells for reactivity adjustment. Control elements in outer control cells need be moved only at sequence exchanges. Near end of cycle, reactivity in the core may be controlled with inner control cells alone, and control elements in outer control cells can be fully withdrawn. |
| US10930399B2 |
System and method to produce and validate weighted relations between drug and adverse drug reactions
A processor is to monitor social media for links between a drug and an adverse drug reaction (ADR), and to extract a relation between the drug and the ADR using named entity recognition to provide a weighted social media relation between the drug and the ADR. The weighted social media relation is based on a confidence of a link between the drug and the ADR. A domain knowledge of ontologies of drug names and/or ADRs is used to refine the weighted social media relation and to quantify the weighted social media relation by using drugs and ADR links extracted from research publications and/or from clinical trial reports, to provide a research weight for the weighted social media relation; and/or by using a search engine to search the Internet for the drug and the ADR, where a number of hits quantifies an internet weight for the weighted social media relation. |
| US10930396B2 |
Similar case search apparatus, method for operating similar case search apparatus, and similar case search system
A weighting processing unit performs a weighting process for an individual lesion similarity which is a similarity between a target lesion and a case lesion of the same type, using a first weighting coefficient corresponding to the degree of contribution of each type of lesion to the specification of a disease name, to calculate a processed individual lesion similarity corresponding to a first purpose of specifying the disease name. In addition, the weighting processing unit performs the weighting process for the individual lesion similarity, using a second weighting coefficient corresponding to the degree of contribution of each type of lesion to the specification of a severity, to calculate a processed individual lesion similarity corresponding to a second purpose of specifying the severity. A total similarity between a target image and a case image is calculated for each purpose on the basis of the processed individual lesion similarities. |
| US10930395B2 |
System for surgical decisions using deep learning
A method and system of training a computer learning model to improve medical care. The method and system may include training a computer learning model to obtain a predictive model that can identify success rates, potential complications, anesthesia time, and predicted life expectancy. The method and system can include inputting physiological data to generate and/or remove one or more predictive models. |
| US10930394B2 |
Lifestyle management supporting apparatus and lifestyle management supporting method
A lifestyle management supporting apparatus: acquires lifestyle-related information related to the lifestyle of a subject person; determines a psychological state index value which indicates a level of self-efficacy for the lifestyle improvement, based on the lifestyle-related information; determines a behavioral state index value which indicates a level of behavioral achievement for the lifestyle improvement, based on the lifestyle-related information; determines a type of the subject person by using a classification by axes of indexes including the psychological state index and the behavioral state index; and provides control unit providing support information conforming to the type of the subject person. |
| US10930392B2 |
System and method for processing ECG recordings from multiple patients for clinician overreading
A method for processing ECG records from multiple patients for clinician overreading includes identifying an unread group of current ECG records from multiple patients awaiting clinician overreading. Each ECG record in the ungroup includes at least a current ECG data, a current waveform measurement, a current interpretative statement, and a serial comparison statement. A set of prioritization rules is applied with a processor to prioritize the current ECG records in the unread group into a prioritized order for clinician overreading based on at least one of the current waveform measurements, the current interpretive statements, and the serial comparison statements. The current ECG records are then presented in the prioritized order for clinician overreading. |
| US10930391B2 |
Device for reducing fraud, waste, and abuse in the ordering and performance of medical testing and methods for using the same
Provided is a lab clearinghouse device configured to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the ordering and performance of medical testing. The lab clearinghouse device is configured to communicate with a plurality of medical laboratories, medical providers, and lab payers to efficiently and effectively reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in the ordering and performance of medical testing. |
| US10930388B2 |
Physician efficiency analysis system
Provided are mechanisms and processes for a physician efficiency management system. According to various examples, the system includes a location sensor that gathers logged medical examination times and logged examination duration times for appointments within a selected time frame. The system also includes a medical schedule processor that compares the logged medical examination times and logged examination duration times to corresponding scheduled appointment times and allotted examination times to determine which of the appointments were behind schedule or overran their allotted duration. The medical schedule processor then generates an efficiency report that includes statistics reflecting the number of appointments that were behind schedule or overran their allotted durations for the selected time frame, and amounts that late appointments ran behind schedule and amounts that appointments overran their allotted times. |
| US10930386B2 |
Automated normality scoring of echocardiograms
Mechanisms are provided for evaluating the normality of a medical condition of a patient based on a medical image. A medical image segmentation receives a medical image and segments the medical image to generate an extracted contour representing an anatomical feature. The medical image segmentation engine correlates the extracted contour with a template shape corresponding to the anatomical feature. A feature extraction engine extracts one or more features from a region of the medical image corresponding to the template shape. A normality classification engine performs a normality classification operation on the extracted one or more features to generate a normality score for the medical image and outputs the normality score to a computing device. |
| US10930385B2 |
Report generation support apparatus and report reading apparatus
The object of the present invention is to provide a report generation support apparatus and a report reading apparatus which are able to easily generate a diagnostic report. The report generation support apparatus of the embodiments comprises a display, a specifying part, and a generator. The display configures to display a diagnostic report and a first medical image. The specifying part configures to specify a predetermined region or a predetermined position in the first medical image displayed on the display. The generator configures to generate a second medical image, based on the predetermined region or position specified by the specifying part, as well as the first medical image. |
| US10930383B2 |
Connected sensor substrate for blister packs
A blister pack for dispensing medication comprises a substantially flat backing, a plurality of blisters formed on the backing, first and second sets of conductive traces applied to the backing, a plurality of breakable resistive traces applied to the backing, and a controller adapted to detect breakage of the resistive traces under the blisters by measuring the voltage across each of either the first set of conductive traces or the second set of conductive traces. The blisters are arranged in a grid comprising rows of blisters and columns of blisters. Each of the first set of conductive traces is associated with one of the rows of blisters. Each of the second set of conductive traces is associated with one of the columns of blisters. For each blister, one or more of the resistive traces are applied to the backing under the blister to form a subcircuit, and the subcircuit connects one of the first set of conductive traces with one of the second set of conductive traces. |
| US10930381B2 |
Microfluidic testing system for mobile veterinary applications
A method for generating a treatment plan in response to medical test results is provided. The method comprises requesting point-of-care (POC) services from a mobile POC unit, receiving at a server confirmation of delivery of POC services to a patient, receiving at the server one or more test results as a result of operation of a medical testing device used in the POC services, wherein the one or more test results includes a determination of the efficacy and dosage level of a medication, generating at the server an updated digital patient record reflecting the one or more test results, and transmitting by the server to a medical entity a treatment plan based on the efficacy and dosage level determined for the medication, wherein the treatment plan is a dosage regimen for the medication. |
| US10930379B2 |
System for mapping findings to pertinent echocardiogram loops
Echocardiogram reporting uses a list of standard echocardiogram findings (20) and a standard echocardiogram finding-relevant echocardiogram view lookup table (22). An echocardiogram reporting workstation (10) comprises a display component (12) and at least one user input component (14, 16, 18), and performs an echocardiogram examination reporting method including: interfacing with a user to enable the user to enter a current report (30) on a current echocardiogram examination of a cardiac subject; detecting a current finding value for a standard echocardiogram finding in the current report; and detecting a prior finding value for the echocardiogram finding in a prior report (36) on a prior echocardiogram examination of the cardiac subject. If a change between the current finding value and the prior finding value satisfies a significance criterion (44), a relevant change panel (52) simultaneously displays current and prior echocardiogram loops for a relevant echocardiogram view relevant to the echocardiogram finding. |
| US10930373B2 |
Methods and systems for knowledge discovery using biological data
A system for analyzing biological data, comprising: a storage configured to store a plurality of data files containing biological data obtained from a plurality of devices; a server configured to: host a plurality of applications, each configured to be implemented on the server and to provide analysis, manipulation, comparison, visualization, or a combination thereof, of the biological data included in the data files, wherein the plurality of applications allow a user to analyze different data files related to the same sample and compare the results of the analysis. |
| US10930369B1 |
Systems and methods for identifying nucleotide sequence matches
Systems and methods automatically identify a set of read sequences in one or more larger nucleotide sequences within a set of comparing sequences as a template. The sequences of each set are divided into smaller mer sequences and sorted to arrange the mer sequences in order, and the sets of mers originating from the read sequence set and the comparing sequence set are compared pairwise to determine matching regions between the sequences of the read sequence set and the sequences of the comparing set. The sorting of the sequence sets prior to the pairwise comparison reduces the amount of volatile memory required to assemble the read sequence set and also reduces the overall time to identify matches of the read sequence set in one or more larger nucleotide sequence databases. |
| US10930358B2 |
Memory system and method of operating the same
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. The memory system may include a memory device including memory cells, each having any one of an erased state or one of a plurality of programmed states, and a memory controller configured to estimate an optimal read voltage associated with at least one of the erased state or one of the programmed states based on a threshold voltage distribution corresponding to at least one of the programmed states. The memory controller may include a threshold voltage distribution checker configured to check a first threshold voltage distribution corresponding to a first programmed state, among the programmed states, and determine an average threshold voltage of the first threshold voltage distribution, and an optimal read voltage estimator configured to estimate a second optimal read voltage corresponding to a second side of the first threshold voltage distribution. |
| US10930355B2 |
Row dependent sensing in nonvolatile memory
A methodology and structure for accounting for fabrication difference in memory holes is described. Increasing the distance of the memory holes from the sources of etchant or other fabrication material results in different characteristics of the memory from the outer memory holes to the inner memory holes. These difference can be accounted for by grouping the memory holes and altering the parameters of the program or verify operations based on the groupings. The bitline voltage for the inner grouping can be less than the bitline voltage for the outer groupings. The sense timing can be greater for the outer groupings relative to the inner groupings. This can result in voltage threshold for the inner groupings and outer groupings overlying each other to improve memory performance. |
| US10930353B1 |
Non-volatile memory device and operating method of the same
Provided are a non-volatile memory device and an operating method thereof. The non-volatile memory device includes a memory cell array having a vertically stacked structure, a bit line for applying a programming voltage to the memory cell array, and a control logic. The memory cell array includes memory cells that each include a corresponding portion of a semiconductor layer and a corresponding portion of a resistance layer. The memory cells include a non-selected memory cell, a compensation memory cell, and a selected memory cell. The control logic is configured to apply an adjusted program voltage to the selected memory cell, based on applying a first voltage to the compensation memory cell, a second voltage to the selected memory cell, and a third voltage to the non-selected memory cell. The adjusted program voltage may be dropped compared to the programming voltage due to the compensation memory cell. |
| US10930350B2 |
Memory device for updating micro-code, memory system including the memory device, and method for operating the memory device
Provided herein may be a memory device which is capable of easily performing an update operation of a micro-code stored in the memory device. The memory device may include a first CAM block and a second CAM block, in which a micro-code is stored; and a control logic configured to control the first and second CAM blocks such that the stored micro-code is updated with a new micro-code in a micro-code update operation. |
| US10930348B1 |
Content addressable memory-encoded crossbar array in dot product engines
A reprogrammable dot product engine ternary content addressable memory (DPE-TCAM) is provided. The DPE-TCAM comprises a TCAM crossbar array comprising a plurality of match lines and a plurality of search lines. Each search line and match line are coupled together by a memory cell. A plurality of search line drivers are configured to apply a voltage signal to the search lines representing bits of a search word. Current sensing circuitry is coupled to the output of the plurality of match lines and configured to sense a current on the match lines, the sensed current indicating whether the search word and a stored word matched and, if not, the degree of mismatch between the two words. |
| US10930345B1 |
Voltage profile for reduction of read disturb in memory cells
An integrated circuit memory device having: a memory cell; a current sensor connected to the memory cell; a voltage driver connected to the memory cell; and a bleed circuit connected to the voltage driver. During an operation to read the memory cell, the voltage driver drives a voltage applied on the memory cell. The bleed circuit is activated to reduce the voltage during a time period in which the current sensor operates to determine whether or not at least a predetermined level of current is presented in the memory cell. |
| US10930344B2 |
RRAM circuit and method
A memory circuit includes a bias voltage generator, a drive circuit, and a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) device. The bias voltage generator includes a first current path configured to receive a first current from a current source, and output a bias voltage based on a voltage difference generated from conduction of the first current in the first current path. The drive circuit is configured to receive the bias voltage and output a drive voltage having a voltage level based on the bias voltage, and the RRAM device is configured to conduct a second current responsive to the drive voltage. |
| US10930342B2 |
Method and apparatus for vitamin D enhancement in mushrooms
An apparatus and method for increasing Vitamin D content in mushrooms is disclosed. A mushroom slurry of comminuted or pulverized mushrooms or mushroom parts and liquid, such as water, is passed under a UV light source. The slurry may be conveyed to the UV light source by a vibrating conveyor. After UV light exposure, the treated slurry may be dried and ground into a powder, or the treated slurry may be filtered and the insoluble portion may be dried and ground into a powder. The irradiated mushroom powder has a mass fraction of Vitamin D2 of at least 2500 IU/gram of powder, and more preferably at least 20,000 IU/gram of powder. Irradiated mushroom powder may be incorporated into consumable food product for humans or animals, and/or may be incorporated into topical preparations for cosmetic use. |
| US10930341B1 |
Processing array device that performs one cycle full adder operation and bit line read/write logic features
A processing array that performs one cycle full adder operations. The processing array may have different bit line read/write logic that permits different operations to be performed. |
| US10930340B2 |
Semiconductor storage circuit, semiconductor storage apparatus, and data detection method
A semiconductor storage circuit has: a plurality of first memory cells and a first precharge transistor connected to a first local read bit line; and a plurality of second memory cells and a second precharge transistor connected to a second local read bit line. A signal responsive to signals output to the first and second local read bit lines is output to a global read bit line via a gate circuit and an output circuit. A first transistor having a gate connected to the output of the gate circuit is provided between the first and second local read bit lines. |
| US10930338B2 |
Semiconductor device having PDA function
A method for writing a mode register in a semiconductor device, the method includes receiving a mode register command and a mode signal; generating a first mode register setting signal; delaying the first mode register setting signal in a first latency shifter to provide a second mode register setting signal; receiving a data signal in synchronization with the second mode register setting signal; and writing the mode signal to the mode register only if the received data signal has a first logic level. |
| US10930333B2 |
Embedded ferroelectric memory cell
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a memory structure. The memory structure has a source region and a drain region disposed within a substrate. A select gate disposed over the substrate between the source region and the drain region. A ferroelectric random access memory (FeRAM) device is disposed over the substrate between the select gate and the source region. The FeRAM device includes a ferroelectric material arranged between the substrate and a conductive electrode. |
| US10930331B2 |
Semiconductor device and operating method of a semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a memory string coupled between a source line and a bit line and including a plurality of memory cells, a plurality of word lines, a peripheral circuit configured to apply a program voltage to a word line, apply a first pass voltage to a word line coupled to a first memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell, and apply a second pass voltage to a second memory cell adjacent to the selected memory cell, and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit so that the first pass voltage has a higher voltage level than the second pass voltage when a program target level of the selected memory cell is lower than a first threshold value, and the first pass voltage has a lower voltage level than the second pass voltage when the program target level is higher than a second threshold value. |
| US10930326B2 |
Sensing architecture
Devices and methods for a sensing scheme are described. A device may include a memory array and a column select line configured to couple with a single page of a set of pages within the memory array when the single page is selected during an access operation. The column select line may be isolated from other pages (e.g., unselected pages) of the set. The device may include a set of sense component groups coupled with the single page. Each sense component group of the set may be configured to access one or more memory cells of the single page using the column select line. The device may include a decoding component configured to couple a sense component group of the set with an I/O line of an I/O channel. The device may communicate information with the I/O line during the access operation. |
| US10930325B2 |
Two-stage gated-diode sense amplifier
A two-stage gated-diode sense amplifier includes a first transistor connected to an input node, a second transistor connected to a boost node, the input node and a setting line, a first inverter including a third transistor connected to a power supply voltage (VDD), a first output corresponding to the first inverter and the setting line, and a fourth transistor connected to ground, the first output and the setting line, a fifth transistor connected to the first output, the first transistor and the boost node, and a second associated with a second output corresponding to the second inverter, the second inverter including a sixth transistor connected to VDD, the second output and the first output, and a seventh transistor connected to ground, the second output and the first output. |
| US10930324B2 |
Self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance
Methods, systems, and devices for self-referencing sensing schemes with coupling capacitance are described. A sense component of a memory device may include a capacitive coupling between two nodes of the sense component. The capacitive coupling may, in some examples, be provided by a capacitive element of the sense component or an intrinsic capacitance between features of the sense component. An example of a method employing such a sense component for detecting a logic state stored by a memory cell may include generating a first sense signal at one of the nodes while the node is coupled with the memory cell, and generating a second sense signal at the other of the nodes while the other node is coupled with the memory cell. The sense signals may be based at least in part on the capacitive coupling between the two nodes. |
| US10930322B2 |
Regulator and memory device having the same
A regulator having improved voltage control capability may include a comparator, an output voltage generator, a voltage divider, and an output voltage controller. The comparator generates a comparison voltage by comparing a reference voltage with a feedback voltage. The output voltage generator generates an output voltage by using a power supply voltage, based on the comparison voltage. The voltage divider may include a first resistor and a second resistor, which generate the feedback voltage by dividing the output voltage. The output voltage controller adjusts a resistance value of at least one of the first resistor and the second resistor, based on a result of comparing the output voltage with a target voltage. |
| US10930321B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for mixed charge pumps with voltage regulator circuits
Apparatuses and methods for mixed charge pumps with voltage regulator circuits is disclosed. An example apparatus comprises a first charge pump circuit configured to provide a first voltage, a second charge pump circuit configured to provide a second voltage, a plurality of coupling circuits configured to voltage couple and current couple the first voltage and the second voltage to a common node to provide a regulated voltage, and a feedback circuit configured to regulate the first voltage and the second voltage based on the regulated voltage. |
| US10930315B2 |
Error correction for storage devices
A method for performing error recovery for data stored on a track of a storage device, in which the method includes: receiving a request to read the data from the storage device, identifying a plurality of sectors of the track to be read in response to the request, reading the data from the plurality of sectors of the track and parity data, based on the data read from the plurality of sectors, determining whether any of the plurality of sectors corresponds to a failed sector, and recovering a portion of the data from the failed sector using the parity data and portions of the data stored in remaining ones of the plurality of sectors. |
| US10930310B1 |
Data storage device sorting access commands based on peak current for multiple actuators
A data storage device comprising a first actuator configured to actuate a first head over a first disk surface, and a second actuator configured to actuate a second head over a second disk surface. A plurality of access commands are received from a host, and a cost metric is computed for executing a seek to execute each access command of the plurality of access commands, wherein the cost metric is based on an access latency of the seek, a power consumption of the seek, and an estimated combined current draw of the first and second actuators during the seek. The access commands are sorted into an execution order based on the cost metrics computed for the access commands. |
| US10930309B1 |
Tape-creep detection via trajectory and distortion angles
A tape drive may calculate the slopes for three successive timing-based-servo marks in a timing-based-servo group. The timing-based-servo marks may be arranged in a one or more M-patterns. The three successive timing-based-servo marks may be across the one or more M-patterns. The tape drive may perform a parabolic fit of a gradient of the slopes. The tape drive may determine whether the gradient is demonstrative of tape-creep. |
| US10930308B2 |
Slide actuator
A slide actuator includes a fixed member, a movable member capable of reciprocating in a predetermined direction with respect to the fixed member, a plurality of balls interposed between the fixed member and the movable member and configured to movably support the movable member, a retainer interposed between the respective balls and configured to keep an interval between the respective balls constant and reciprocate in a predetermined stroke range, a wall portion of the fixed member provided in a moving direction of the retainer, and a retainer spring configured to couple the wall portion and the retainer. The retainer spring is disposed to suppress displacement of the retainer in the moving direction. A spring constant of the retainer spring is set to a value for causing sliding friction in the balls and pushing back the retainer in a range in which the retainer moves beyond the predetermined stroke range. |
| US10930298B2 |
Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) audio signal processing for speech de-reverberation
Audio signal processing for adaptive de-reverberation uses a least mean squares (LMS) filter that has improved convergence over conventional LMS filters, making embodiments practical for reducing the effects of reverberation for use in many portable and embedded devices, such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, and hearing aids, for applications such as speech recognition and audio communication in general. The LMS filter employs a frequency-dependent adaptive step size to speed up the convergence of the predictive filter process, requiring fewer computational steps compared to a conventional LMS filter applied to the same inputs. The improved convergence is achieved at low memory consumption cost. Controlling the updates of the prediction filter in a high non-stationary condition of the acoustic channel improves the performance under such conditions. The techniques are suitable for single or multiple channels and are applicable to microphone array processing. |
| US10930297B2 |
Acoustic echo canceling
Canceling acoustic echoes includes picking up with a microphone sound generated by a sound source and transferred from the sound source to the microphone via an unknown transfer path having an unknown transfer function, and providing an electrical microphone signal therefrom. It further includes approximating the unknown transfer function with an estimated transfer function of an adaptive filter and filtering an electrical signal representative of the sound generated by the sound source with the estimated transfer function to provide an estimated signal therefrom, the adaptive filter having an adaptive adaptation step size. It further includes filtering a difference signal, which is the difference between the microphone signal and the estimated signal, with a post filter transfer function of an adaptive post filter. The post filter transfer function is the difference between one and the adaptive adaptation step size, and the adaptive post filter is configured to have a minimum damping, the minimum damping being limited to a minimum threshold. |
| US10930296B2 |
Pitch correction of multiple vocal performances
In some examples, a system includes a first portable computing device that audibly renders a backing track, captures and pitch corrects a vocal performance of a first user, and transmits the first user's pitch corrected vocal performance. The system may also include a second portable computing device including a data communications interface that receives the first user's pitch corrected vocal performance, an audio transducer that audibly renders a mix of the backing track and the first user's pitch corrected vocal performance, a display for concurrent presentation of lyrics temporally synchronized with a vocal score and the backing track, a microphone interface that captures a vocal performance of a second user, and pitch correction code executable on the second portable computing device to pitch correct the second user's vocal performance in accord with the vocal score to produce a composite multi-vocal performance. |
| US10930288B2 |
Mobile device for speech input and text delivery
Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for facilitating dictation. Speech input may be provided to an audio input device of a computing device. A speech recognition engine at the computing device may obtain text corresponding to the speech input. The computing device may transmit the text to a remotely-located storage device. A login webpage that includes a session identifier may be accessed from a target computing device also located remotely relative to the storage device. The session identifier may be transmitted to the storage device and, in response, a text display webpage may be received at the target computing device. The text display webpage may include the speech-derived text and may be configured to automatically copy the text to a copy buffer of the target computing device. The speech-derived text may also be provided to native applications at target computing devices or NLU engines for natural language processing. |
| US10930286B2 |
Method and system for muting classified information from an audio
This disclosure relates generally to a method and system for muting of classified information from an audio using a fuzzy approach. The method comprises converting the received audio signal into text using a speech recognition engine to identify a plurality of classified words from the text to obtain a first set of parameters. Further, a plurality of subwords associated with each classified word are identified to obtain a second set of parameters associated with each subword of corresponding classified word. A relative score is computed for each subword associated with the classified word based on a plurality of similar pairs for the corresponding classified word. A fuzzy muting function is generated using the first set of parameters, the second set of parameters and the relative score associated with each subword. The plurality of subwords associated with each classified word is muted in accordance with the generated fuzzy muting function. |
| US10930285B1 |
Selecting a response in a multi-turn interaction between a user and a conversational bot
A method to select a response in a multi-turn conversation between a user and a conversational bot. The conversation is composed of a set of events, wherein an event is a linear sequence of observations that are user speech or physical actions. Queries are processed against a set of conversations that are organized as a set of inter-related data tables, with events and observations stored in distinct tables. As the multi-turn conversation proceeds, a data model comprising an observation history, together with a hierarchy of events determined to represent the conversation up to at least one turn, is persisted. When a new input (speech or physical action) is received, it is classified using a statistical model to generate a result. The result is then mapped to an observation in the data model. Using the mapped observation, a look-up is performed into the data tables to retrieve a possible response. |
| US10930282B2 |
Competing devices responding to voice triggers
At a first electronic device with a display and a microphone: sampling audio input using the first microphone; in accordance with the sampling of audio input using the first microphone, sending stop instructions to a second electronic device with a second microphone, the second electronic device external to the first electronic device, wherein the second electronic device is configured to respond to audio input received using the second microphone, and wherein the stop instructions instruct the second electronic device to forgo responding to audio input received using the second microphone, wherein responding to audio input received using the second microphone comprises providing perceptible output. |
| US10930281B2 |
Method, apparatus and system for testing intelligent voice device
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, apparatus and system for testing an intelligent voice device. A specific implementation of the method includes: acquiring test data, the test data comprising: to-be-executed field control data and to-be-played voice data; sending, based on the to-be-executed field control data, a first motion instruction to the omnidirectional mobile mechanism connected to the intelligent voice device and/or the voice playing device; sending a playing instruction, in response to determining that a relative pose of the intelligent voice device and the voice playing device is the target relative pose; receiving predefined device information, associated with the voice recognition, of the intelligent voice device; and generating a test result based on the device information. |
| US10930278B2 |
Trigger sound detection in ambient audio to provide related functionality on a user interface
Systems are provided to facilitate continuous detection of words, names, phrases, or other sounds of interest and, responsive to such detection, provide a related user experience. The user experience can include providing links to media, web searches, translation services, journaling applications, or other resources based on detected ambient speech or other sounds. To preserve the privacy of those using and/or proximate to such systems, the system refrains from transmitting any information related to the detected sound unless the system receives permission from a user. Such permission can include the user interacting with a provided web search link, media link, or other user interface element. |
| US10930277B2 |
Configuration of voice controlled assistant
A voice interaction architecture has a hands-free, electronic voice controlled assistant that permits users to verbally request information from cloud services. Since the assistant relies primarily, if not exclusively, on voice interactions, configuring the assistant for the first time may pose a challenge, particularly to a novice user who is unfamiliar with network settings (such as wife access keys). The architecture supports several approaches to configuring the voice controlled assistant that may be accomplished without much or any user input, thereby promoting a positive out-of-box experience for the user. More particularly, these approaches involve use of audible or optical signals to configure the voice controlled assistant. |
| US10930275B2 |
Natural language input disambiguation for spatialized regions
A computing system is provided. The computing system includes a processor of a display device configured to execute one or more programs. The processor is configured to receive a command from a user by way of natural language input. The processor is configured to identity a set of candidate objects within or adjacent a user's field of view having associated spatialized regions on which the command can be executed, the set of candidate objects identified at least partially by using a machine learning model. The processor is configured to use visual or audio indicators associated with the candidate objects and query the user for disambiguation input. The processor is configured to receive the disambiguation input from the user that selects a target object, executing the command on the target object. The processor is configured to train the machine learning model using the disambiguation input and data about the spatialized regions. |
| US10930274B2 |
Personalized pronunciation hints based on user speech
In an approach to analyzing a sound file, determining the language of the sound file and the display, creating a pronunciation map between the languages, generating a set of pronunciation hints based on the pronunciation map, and displaying the set of pronunciation hints, one or more computer processors identify a word from one or more words in a sound file. The one or more computer processors determine a dialect of spoken language for the word. The one or more computer processors determine a different language to display the word. The one or more computer processors retrieve one or more phonological rules based on the determined spoken language of the word and the determined different language to display the word. The one or more computer processors create a pronunciation map based on the retrieved phonological rules of the word. |
| US10930273B2 |
Information agent architecture in a scalable multi-service virtual assistant platform
The present invention is an action agent architecture in a scalable multi-service virtual assistant platform that can construct a fluid and dynamic dialogue by assembling responses to end user utterances from two kinds of agents, information agents and action agents. The virtual assistant platform comprises a plurality of action agents to perform two or more actions in response to parsed user input, contextual data, and/or an information value obtained from an information agent. The plurality of action agents are interrelated via at least one follow-up connection which interrelates any two of the action agents such that a second action agent follows-up with a second action after a first action agent completes a first action based on a trigger condition. The second action agent utilizes at least one information value set by the first action agent or a system state change triggered by the first action agent. |
| US10930266B2 |
Methods and devices for selectively ignoring captured audio data
Systems and methods for selectively ignoring an occurrence of a wakeword within audio input data is provided herein. In some embodiments, a wakeword may be detected to have been uttered by an individual within a modified time window, which may account for hardware delays and echoing offsets. The detected wakeword that occurs during this modified time window may, in some embodiments, correspond to a word included within audio that is outputted by a voice activated electronic device. This may cause the voice activated electronic device to activate itself, stopping the audio from being outputted. By identifying when these occurrences of the wakeword within outputted audio are going to happen, the voice activated electronic device may selectively determine when to ignore the wakeword, and furthermore, when not to ignore the wakeword. |
| US10930264B2 |
Voice quality preference learning device, voice quality preference learning method, and computer program product
A voice quality preference learning device according to an embodiment includes a storage, a user interface system, and a learning processor. The storage stores a plurality of acoustic models. The user interface system receives an operation input indicating a voice quality preference of a user for voice quality. The learning processor learns a preference model corresponding to the voice quality preference of the user based at least in part on the operation input, the operation input associated with a voice quality space, wherein the voice quality space is obtained by dimensionally reducing the plurality of acoustic models. |
| US10930263B1 |
Automatic voice dubbing for media content localization
This disclosure describes techniques for replicating characteristics of an actor or actresses voice across different languages. The disclosed techniques have the practical application of enabling automatic generation of dubbed video content for multiple languages, with particular speakers in each dubbing having the same voice characteristics as the corresponding speakers in the original version of the video content. |
| US10930260B2 |
Engine order and road noise control
Exemplary engine order and road noise control systems and methods include directly picking up road noise from a structural element of a vehicle to generate a first sense signal representative of the road noise, detecting harmonics of an engine of the vehicle to generate a second sense signal representative of the engine harmonics, and combining the first sense signal and the second sense signal to provide a combination signal representing the combination of the first sense signal and the second sense signal. The systems and methods further include broadband active noise control filtering to generate a filtered combination signal, and converting the filtered combination signal from the active noise control filtering into anti-noise and radiating the anti-noise to a listening position in an interior of the vehicle. The filtered combination signal is configured so that the anti-noise reduces the road noise and engine sound at the listening position. |
| US10930258B2 |
Electronic percussion instrument and detection method using the same
Provided is an electronic percussion instrument that can facilitate determination of contact of a detection target conductor with a head. An electronic percussion instrument includes: a tubular body portion with an end surface in an axial direction open; a head that covers the open end surface in the axial direction of the body portion and has a front surface adapted to be hit; and a capacitive sensor that has an electrode disposed on a rear surface side of the head, in which the head includes an electrically isolated conductive head, and no conductor connected to a reference potential point is provided between the front surface of the head and the electrode. In this manner, it is possible to facilitate determination of contact of the detection target conductor with the head. |
| US10930248B2 |
Display method and display system for reducing a double image effect
A display method includes changing a first transmission rate of a panel data clock signal to a second transmission rate, changing a first vertical synchronization period of a vertical synchronization signal to a second vertical synchronization period including a vertical pixel active synchronization interval and a blank interval according to at least the second transmission rate of the panel data clock signal, and merely enabling a backlight device during a time interval of any length within the blank interval. The second transmission rate is greater than the first transmission rate. The second vertical synchronization period is greater than the first vertical synchronization period. |
| US10930246B2 |
Display device for adjusting color temperature of image and display method for the same
A display device includes a display, a sensor module which senses a color temperature of light incident to the sensor module from an outside of the display device, and a processor electrically connected to the display and the sensor module. The processor operates in a first mode or a second mode or is turned off, depending on a user input, outputs a moving picture to the display in the first mode, outputs a still image to the display if detecting a user, turns off the display if failing to detect the user, in the second mode, adjusts a color temperature of the still image based on the color temperature sensed by using the sensor module in outputting the still image, and outputs the still image having the adjusted color temperature to the display. |
| US10930242B2 |
Display apparatus, operation assist system and operation assist method
A display apparatus is provided with an interface, a storage device, an antenna and a processing device. The interface connects to a given network. The storage device stores data to be used to perform a communication with an external host controller via the network. The antenna performs a near field communication with an external terminal. The processing device transmits the data to the terminal in response to a request from the terminal and stores other data received from the terminal in response to another request from the terminal in the storage device. |
| US10930240B2 |
Display panel driving method and driving device
A display panel driving method, a driving device, and display device. The driving method includes steps of: performing a display, turning on first switch transistor and second switch transistor under control of first scanning line, and turning off third switch transistor under control of the second switch line, and inputting a data signal from data line to first pixel electrode and second pixel electrode through the first switch transistor and the second switch transistor and driving the pixel structure where the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are located to display, and turning the third switch transistor under control of second scanning line and turning off the first switch transistor and the second switch transistor under control of the first scanning line to establish a preset voltage difference between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode. |
| US10930237B2 |
Display device and operating method thereof
A display device that achieves both high-accuracy sensing by a touch sensor unit and smooth input using the touch sensor unit is provided. The display device includes a display unit and the touch sensor unit. The touch sensor unit performs touch sensing operation at a different timing from display image rewriting by the display unit, whereby the high-accuracy sensing can be achieved. The display unit has a function of rewriting a display image only in a region that needs to be rewritten. In the case where the entire display region is not necessarily rewritten, the time for the sensing operation by the touch sensor unit can be lengthened, whereby the smooth input can be achieved. |
| US10930235B2 |
Driving method and device of display panel, and display device
Disclosed a driving method and a device of display panel, as well as a display panel, taking a time duration of scanning at least three adjacent columns of pixel unit as a driving period, the common electrodes of even rows of sub-pixels and odd rows of sub-pixels in adjacent rows of pixel units are driven by a preset voltage in the current driving period, and when the first preset voltage and the second preset voltage meet preset conditions, the preset sub-pixels in the pixel units are driven according to a preset data driving signal input by a data driving circuit. |
| US10930233B1 |
Display panel, display device and compensation method for display device
Provided are a display panel, a display device and a compensation method for the display device. The display panel includes an organic light-emitting diode display panel and a liquid crystal display panel, where the organic light-emitting diode display panel in a first display region is configured as a backlight for the liquid crystal display panel. The organic light-emitting diode display panel includes a first array substrate and an organic light-emitting function film. The first array substrate includes a first pixel driving circuit, where the first pixel driving circuit includes a first A-type pixel driving circuit and a first B-type pixel driving circuit, and a density of the first A-type pixel driving circuit is less than a density of the first B-type pixel driving circuit. |
| US10930232B2 |
Method for color shift compensation based on abnormal image detection
The present application discloses a method for color shift compensation based on an abnormal image detection and a display device, including storing inputted n numbers of sub-pixel values in a row storage space; judging every spaced two of the sub-pixel values whether are the same or not; initiating a color shift compensation if the spaced two of the sub-pixel values being different; judging every adjacent two of the sub-pixel values whether are different if every spaced two of the sub-pixel values are the same; judging every one of the sub-pixel values in a current row storage space whether is different from a sub-pixel value in a previous row storage space corresponding to the sub-pixel value in the current row storage space; doing not initiate a color shift compensation if every one of the sub-pixel values in the current row storage space is different from that in the previous row. |
| US10930230B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a first display panel disposed closer to an observer and a second display panel disposed farther from the observer than the first display panel. An image display region of the second display panel is larger than an image display region of the first display panel. |
| US10930229B2 |
Liquid crystal display device capable of compensating low color shift of viewing angle
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of liquid crystal pixels, wherein the liquid crystal panel is configured to display a same picture in two adjacent frames; a driving module disposed on the non-display area, wherein the driving module is used to respectively provide each liquid crystal pixel with a same polarity pixel voltage of different levels in the two adjacent frames so as to deflect liquid crystal molecules of each liquid crystal pixel, and in each frame of the two adjacent frames, the level of the pixel voltage of each liquid crystal pixel is different from the level of the pixel voltage of the adjacent liquid crystal pixels in front, back, left or right. |
| US10930227B1 |
Display panel with inactive region used in a head mounted display
An electronic display includes a display panel that operates in a single display mode to provide a single display, or a dual display mode to provide two displays separated by an inactive region. The electronic display includes the display panel and a panel driver. The display panel includes a left pixel region, a right pixel region, and a middle pixel region between the left and right pixel regions. In the single display mode of the electronic display, the panel driver provides first gate signals generated from first input data to the left, right, and middle pixel regions. In a dual display mode, the panel driver provides second gate signals generated from second input data to the left and right pixel regions. The first input data has a first resolution that is larger than a second resolution of the second input data. |
| US10930224B2 |
Method of eliminating black border of display device, display device and detecting device
The present disclosure provides a method of eliminating a black border of a display device, a display device and a detecting device. The display device includes a cover plate and a display panel, which are configured in a stack; the cover plate includes a light transmissive region and a non-light transmissive region located around the light transmissive region. The display panel includes a display area corresponding to the light transmissive region. The display area includes a first sub-display area and a second sub-display area around the first sub-display area. A size of the display area is greater than a size of the light transmissive region of the cover plate and pixels of the second sub-display area on at least one side are configured to display the same color as the color of the non-light transmissive area. |
| US10930220B2 |
Gate driver and display device including the same
There are provided a gate driver and a display device including the same. The gate driver includes: a first scan driver; a first sensing driver; a first scan clock line; and a first sensing clock line. The first scan clock line includes a first scan clock main line extending in one direction, and a first scan clock connection line connected to the first scan clock main line and the first scan driver. The first sensing clock line includes a first sensing clock main line extending in one direction, and a first sensing clock connection line connected to the first sensing clock main line and the first sensing driver. The first scan clock main line is closer to each of the first scan driver and the first sensing driver than the first sensing clock main line. |
| US10930219B2 |
Foveated display
An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have displays. The display may have regions of lower (L) and higher (M, H) resolution to reduce data bandwidth and power consumption for the display while preserving satisfactory image quality. Data lines may be shared by lower and higher resolution portions of a display or different portions of a display with different resolutions may be supplied with different numbers of data lines. Data line length may be varied in transition regions between lower resolution and higher resolution portions of a display to reduce visible discontinuities between the lower and higher resolution portions. The lower and higher resolution portions of the display may be dynamically adjusted using dynamically adjustable gate driver circuitry and dynamically adjustable data line driver circuitry. |
| US10930211B2 |
Luminance control circuit and display device having the same
A luminance control circuit of a display device includes a target luminance gain calculator calculating a target luminance gain based on an average luminance of a first image signal when the first image signal is determined to be a still image, an output luminance gain calculator calculating an output luminance gain based on a previous output luminance gain of a previous frame and the target luminance gain of a present frame, and a luminance scaler outputting a second image signal obtained by changing a luminance of the first image signal based on the output luminance gain. |
| US10930210B2 |
Organic light-emitting diode display capable of reducing kickback effect
An OLED display includes a plurality of pixel lines each connected to a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixel lines including at least two adjacent pixel lines, each pixel including a driving TFT, a first switching TFT, a second switching TFT, and an emission control TFT connected to the driving TFT. The OLED display also includes a first scan driver controlling the first switching TFTs for the two pixel lines. The OLED display also includes a second scan driver controlling the second switching TFTs for the two pixel lines. The OLED display also includes a third scan driver configured so that all of the emission control TFTs for the two pixel lines are turned on in a programming period, maintain a turn-on state for a portion of an emission period, and can adjust an on-time duty of the emission period after the portion of time. |
| US10930208B2 |
Luminance control unit and display device including the same
A luminance control unit includes: a driving power voltage setting unit configured to determine a driving power voltage to be provided to a display panel, the driving power voltage corresponding to a target brightness, based on a plurality of driving power voltages respectively corresponding to a plurality of reference brightnesses of the display panel; and a gamma voltage setting unit configured to determine a target luminance corresponding to the target brightness, based on a plurality of target luminances respectively corresponding to the plurality of reference brightnesses, and to set gamma voltages for implementing the target luminance, wherein the driving power voltage and the gamma voltages are differently set with respect to the same reference brightness according to an ambient illumination intensity of the display panel. |
| US10930207B2 |
Display controller and corresponding display device
The disclosure discloses a display controller and a display device, and relates to the field of display technology. The display device includes a display panel and a display controller, and the display controller includes a display driver, data storage, mode trigger and mode controller. The output terminal of the mode trigger is connected to the input terminal of the mode controller, the output terminal of the mode controller is connected to the control terminal of a signal switcher and the control terminal of the display driver, the output terminal of the signal switcher is connected to a normal display signal terminal and a standby display signal terminal connected to the data storage, and the normal display signal terminal and the standby display signal terminal are connected to the input terminal of the display driver. The display device provided by the disclosure may be used for standby display. |
| US10930206B2 |
Electroluminescent display panel, driving method thereof, driving device and display device
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electroluminescent display panel, a driving method thereof, a driving device and a display device. In response to a detected temperature of the electroluminescent display panel is within an operating temperature range and is higher than a first standard temperature, a driving voltage of the electroluminescent display panel is adjusted to a first driving voltage lower than a standard driving voltage; and in response to the detected temperature of the electroluminescent display panel is within the operating temperature range and is lower than a second standard temperature, the driving voltage of the electroluminescent display panel is adjusted to a second driving voltage higher than the standard driving voltage. The first standard temperature is higher than or equal to the second standard temperature. |
| US10930201B1 |
Micro light emitting diode testing
Methods and systems for testing a display having an array of microdrivers arranged in multiple of rows and columns including setting a testing mode of a microdriver of the array of microdrivers using multiple pins of the microdriver that are used in scanning or operation modes of the microdriver. The microdriver is configured to light one or more connected micro light emitting diode pixels coupled to the microdriver during the testing mode. Testing also includes operating the microdriver in the testing mode and determining functionality of the one or more connected micro light emitting diode pixels or the microdriver based on the testing mode. |
| US10930199B2 |
Display device including timing controller and source driving circuit and method of driving the same
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a timing controller which receives an image signal and a control signal and outputs transmission data, and a plurality of source driving circuits, each providing a data signal to a corresponding pixel among the plurality of pixels in response to the transmission data. Each of the source driving circuits applies a state information signal corresponding to an operation state to the timing controller, and the timing controller determines the operation state of the source driving circuits based on the state information signal, compresses the image signal when a source driving circuit of the source driving circuits is in an abnormal state to generate the transmission data, and applies the transmission data to a source driving circuit of the source driving circuits in a normal state. |
| US10930192B2 |
Gate driver on array circuit and display panel
A GOA circuit and a display panel. By using a first control clock and a third control clock in a forward and reverse scanning module to control a first node, the GOA circuit is able to avoid leakage of the first node during operation and improve the reliability of GOA circuit. |
| US10930191B2 |
Display driving circuit and driving method therefor, display device
A display driving circuit includes a control sub-circuit and a gate drive sub-circuit connected to the control sub-circuit. The control sub-circuit is configured to: receive an effective display data enable signal; determine whether the effective display data enable signal is lost; and control each stage of shift register in the gate drive sub-circuit to output a disabling signal via an output terminal of the shift register in response to determining that the effective display data enable signal is lost. |
| US10930189B2 |
Shift register unit, method for driving the same, gate driving circuit and display device
A shift register unit, a method for driving the same, a gate driving circuit, and a display device are provided. The shift register unit includes a driving circuit, a storage capacitor circuit, an output circuit, and a reset circuit. Under the control of the start end, the driving circuit controls whether the pull-up node is connected to the set signal input end and control whether the pull-down node is connected to the first level input end. Under the control of the reset end, the reset circuit controls whether the pull-up node is connected to the first level input end, and controls whether the pull-down node is connected to the second level input end. |
| US10930187B1 |
Waveguide display with two-dimensional scanner
A waveguide display includes a light source, a conditioning lens assembly, a scanning mirror assembly, and a controller. The light source includes a plurality of source elements that are configured to emit image light in accordance with scanning instructions. The conditioning lens assembly transmits conditioned light based in part on the image light. The scanning mirror assembly scans the conditioned image light to particular locations as scanned image light in accordance with scanning instructions. The output waveguide includes an input area and an output area, receives the scanned image light emitted from the scanning mirror assembly at the input area, and outputs the expanded image light from a portion of the output area based in part on a direction of the expanded light output from the scanning mirror assembly. The controller generates the scanning instructions and provides the scanning instructions to the light source and the scanning mirror assembly. |
| US10930184B1 |
Display panel uniformity calibration system
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include a display calibration apparatus. The display calibration apparatus may include a lens and an actively-cooled electromagnetic radiation detector configured to detect electromagnetic radiation emitted from various pixels of an electronic display panel under test. The electromagnetic radiation may travel through the lens prior to reaching the detector. The display calibration apparatus may also include a special-purpose computing device configured to: analyze the detected electromagnetic radiation from the pixels of the electronic display panel and generate calibration data for the electronic display panel using a specified calibration algorithm. As such, the electronic display panel may operate using the generated calibration data. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10930182B2 |
Modular universal lightweight banner display system for an unmanned aerial vehicle and method of using same
A modular universal lightweight unmanned aerial vehicle banner display system includes a carrying case to house the components of the system and can easily accommodate additional elements. The system includes a plurality of tow scaffolds that form a fixed and rigid scaffolding configuration to be coupled to the banner. The system includes a variety of flexible rigging elements, such as nylon lines, configured to form a harness configuration to couple the tow scaffold configuration of one or a collection of assembled tow scaffolds to the unmanned aerial vehicle in single line or double line harness configurations. The system is applicable for a large variety of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones and a large variety of banners. |
| US10930180B2 |
Color wheel and apparatus for viewing and adjusting color schemes
A color wheel having a plurality of pieces is disclosed. Selected brick pieces may be stacked upon each other side-by-side and a viewing apparatus laid upon the stacked brick pieces. The viewing apparatus may have a viewing window which can be adjusted in order to adjust the percentage of each of the brick pieces being viewed through the viewing window of the viewing apparatus to provide for a more accurate perception of how the selected colored pieces will be perceived when implemented in a brick building. |
| US10930178B2 |
Label, device, system and method for sorting bolts
A system for sorting hardware pieces having first and second characteristics. The system comprises: a chart displaying first values associated with the first characteristic, each first value associated to a unique first graphical combination comprising a first-characteristic background motif and a first-characteristic indicium overlaid thereon; and second values associated with the second characteristic, each second value associated to a unique second graphical combination comprising a second-characteristic background motif and a second-characteristic indicium overlaid thereon; an identification label indicative of the first and second characteristics and comprising: a first section covered with a first graphical composition comprising the first graphical combination; and a second section covered with a second graphical composition comprising the second graphical combination; and a container affixed with the identification label for containing the hardware piece corresponding to the first and second characteristics. |
| US10930177B2 |
Interactive globe
An interactive globe device may include a base, a spherical globe rotatable around an axle mounted to the base, and a stylus for selecting locations on the spherical globe. The base may include an integrated display, and control buttons for switching the operating mode of the interactive globe device. The spherical globe may have dot patterns printed on its surface, and the stylus may include an optical sensor configured to detect the dot patterns on the spherical globe as locations being selected by the user. The interactive globe device may also include a processor to dynamically adjust mapping of the dot patterns into different regions based on the operating mode of the interactive globe device, determine which of the regions for the operating mode corresponds to a dot pattern detected by the stylus, and render interactive content on the integrated display based on the determined region. |
| US10930171B2 |
Information processing device, method, and storage medium
According to one embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and a hardware processor in communication with the memory. The hardware processor is configured to acquire a first motion data indicating a motion of a first operator, acquire a second motion data indicating a motion of a second operator, compare the first motion data and the second motion data, determine a similarity of the first motion data and the second motion data, and present to the first operator instruction data indicating an improvement point relating to a motion at a time of performing a predetermined operation in accordance with a determination result. |
| US10930164B2 |
Aircraft flight envelope protection and recovery autopilot
Systems and vehicle are provided. A vehicle system for a vehicle includes: a trajectory selection module configured to select a potential vehicle path relative to a current vehicle movement condition; a trajectory movement condition module configured to estimate a modeled movement condition of the vehicle along the potential vehicle path; a limit comparison module configured to determine whether the modeled movement condition violates vehicle limits; and a violation indicator module configured to generate an indication of impending violation. |
| US10930161B2 |
Flight time comparator system and method
A system and method operating on a computer system connected to one or more internal and external databases for statistical analysis of externally collected data of aircraft movements (AM Data) to develop business intelligence to understand, forecast and/or confirm aircraft transactions, market activity, usage patterns, industry trends, development of new business, products and procedures as well as verify the accuracy of invoices, flight records, flight/duty logs, flight time invoiced, airport enplanements/usage, geographic/in-state usage, regulatory/operational compliance and aircraft records when compared with AM Data combined with computed flight times. |
| US10930154B2 |
Driving support system, driving support apparatus, and driving support method
A driving support system includes a driving support apparatus that receives a information related to a predetermined spot, determines whether or not the predetermined spot is present ahead in a subject vehicle lane in which a subject vehicle is present based on this information, causes an in-car instrument to perform a predetermined operation based on a relative distance between an object present in an adjacent lane and the subject vehicle when the predetermined spot is not present ahead in the subject vehicle lane, and restrains the in-car instrument from performing the predetermined operation when the predetermined spot is present ahead in the subject vehicle lane. |
| US10930149B1 |
Parking information aggregation platform
This document describes systems and techniques that may be used to aggregate information about open parking spots from various different parking providers or organizations. |
| US10930147B2 |
Electronic apparatus, roadside unit, and transport system
An electronic apparatus comprises a communication unit and at least one processor. The communication unit wirelessly communicates with a roadside unit and a vehicle. When receiving through the communication unit a reception signal transmitted from the roadside unit, the at least one processor determines whether to restrain transmission of a transmission signal through the communication unit, based on the reception signal. |
| US10930140B1 |
Methods and apparatus for detecting false alarms
Methods and apparatus for detecting false alarms are disclosed. An indication may be received that a sensor device has changed state. Data indicative of movement of the sensor device may also be received. Based on the received data indicative of movement of the sensor device, it may be determined whether the movement of the sensor device is abnormal. Based on the changed state of the sensor device and based on determining that the movement of the sensor device is abnormal, an indication of a false alarm may be caused to be output. |
| US10930137B2 |
Event alarm device and event alarm system
An event alarm device includes a sensor, a notification unit, a MESH communication unit, an NB-IoT communication unit, and an MCU. The NB-IoT communication unit is configured to upload the data measured by the sensor. The MCU is configured to detect a specific event according to the data measured by the sensor. When detecting the specific event, the MCU is configured to instruct the notification unit to emit an on-site alarm, instruct the NB-IoT communication unit to send a first warning signal, and instruct the MESH communication unit to send a second warning signal. |
| US10930135B2 |
Apparatus and methods for hygiene monitoring in restaurants and grocery superstores
This disclosure describes methods and apparatus for hygiene monitoring in chain restaurants and grocery superstores. Four sub-systems are introduced to take care of different aspects of hygiene in restaurants. One sub-system uses contactless and in-contact temperature sensors installed on appliances to constantly monitor the temperature of working appliances to be in pre-defined range and use an Internet of Things gateways to transmit the data to remote control unit. The system generate an alert or report if the temperature of the appliances falls beyond the predefined range for more than a specific period of time. Another sub-system use a combination of temperature, humidity, UV and gas detectors to monitor the environment to be unsuitable for growth of fungus and bacteria and alert in case of exposure to harmful material and sun radiation. This sub-system also use an Internet of Things gateways to transmit the data to remote control unit. The third sub-system use a combination of radio frequency tags attached to the staff, RF tag readers and infrared/proximity/motion/microphone/touch sensors installed over the faucet and dispenser to monitor if the staff wash their hands properly after going to the restroom. The forth sub-system automatically generate food expiring label for opened cans and food container based on RF tag worn by the staff. The system generate and print the label whenever the staff gesture their RF tags in front of them and potentially scan the container bar code or select it from a drop-down menu on its touch screen. The last sub-system can also monitor the inventory of opened cans of food in the refrigerator and provide a report or alert when they the time gets close to expiration date. |
| US10930132B1 |
Disaster detection system
A disaster detection system may include a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving data from a plurality of geographically distributed personal electronic devices; determining, based on the data received from the personal electronic devices, that a disaster has occurred; and sending information pertaining to the disaster to one or more of the personal electronic devices. |
| US10930130B2 |
Methods for monitoring security
Methods are disclosed that, in some aspects, provide detecting an alarm event, determining whether the alarm event is a deviation from predefined criteria, and transmitting an alert notification to users of the security system if the alarm event is a deviation from the predefined criteria. The predefined criteria may relate to the location or type of one or more sensors of the security system, the location of users of the security system, the time of day, activities within the premises, and/or behavioral patterns of the users learned by the security system. Information transmitted in the alert notification may relate to the location of one or more users of the security system, the data recorded by one or more sensors of the security system, the state of alert of the security system, and/or confidential information required to terminate the alarm event. |
| US10930128B2 |
System configured for spoofing avoidance
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a wireless identification fraud avoidance system and methods for use thereof. In one implementation, the system may include at least one transmitter configured to transmit a first signal to a plurality of identification tags and to cause the identification tags to transmit a second signal. The system may also include a first, proximate receiver configured to receive the second signal from the identification tags. The system may also include a second, more distant receiver configured to receive a third signal from a tag outside a transmission range of the at least one transmitter. The system may also include at least one processor configured to generate a potential fraud alert when the second receiver receives the third signal. |
| US10930122B1 |
Methods and apparatus for detecting faults in a siren-based alert system
Methods for detecting faults in a siren-based alert system include receiving, by a siren device from a central siren controller, an activation command. The activation command identifies a neighbor siren device that is to be activated. Audible alerts output by the neighbor siren device include a unique identifying characteristic associated with the neighbor siren device. The method includes determining that the unique identifying characteristic is not detectable by the siren device and, in response, taking corrective action. The corrective action includes the siren device sending a siren fault notification to the central siren controller indicating a failure to detect the unique identifying characteristic and may also include modifying the audible alert output by the siren device to compensate for the faulty siren device. The siren device may send a siren fault notification to the central siren controller if an unexpected audible alert, such as a potential false alarm, is detected. |
| US10930118B2 |
System for prizing remote users using teams including real life sports personalities
Systems, methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a system for electronic game play involves the use of the system wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized. |
| US10930116B2 |
Multi-bin lottery ticket dispenser with floating circuit board configuration
A lottery ticket dispenser array includes a plurality of separate bins, each bin having a housing with a back side. A circuit board fixed to the back side of the housing to supply power and control functions to the bin. The circuit boards of adjacent bins are rigidly interconnected via complimentary electronic connectors. At each bin, the circuit board is mounted to the back side of the housing with a defined relative degree of movement between the circuit board and the housing in at least a first direction. The rigidly interconnected circuit boards define a rigid structure and one or more of the bins are movable relative to the rigid structure such that the array absorbs misalignment, movement, and size variations between the bins without disconnection of the electronic connectors between the bins. |
| US10930108B2 |
Gaming device having an additional symbol award within a play matrix
A game comprising: a plurality of reels, each of the reels comprising a plurality of symbol positions; a plurality of symbols, at least one of the plurality of symbols located in at least one of the plurality of symbol positions; a visible matrix comprising a plurality of matrix positions; a plurality of matrix positions designated as capture positions; a set of program instructions executable to implement: accepting a wager; receiving an instruction to initiate play of the game; determining a game outcome including a stop position for each of the plurality of reels; displaying a portion of the reels based on each reel's stop position in the visible matrix; determining whether to issue an award based on the symbols in the capture positions; and issuing an award if the program instructions so designate. |
| US10930107B2 |
Vending mechanism
A system and method of vending product items may include storing product items within a product storage area. A product item may be released from the product storage area. The product item may be hoisted over at least a portion of the product storage area. The hoisted product item may be presented to a user. In one embodiment, the product storage area may be positioned within a vending machine, and the vending machine may be mobile. The vending machine may also be self-propelled. In an embodiment, the vending machine may be moved via a controller being used by an operator. Alternatively, the vending machine may be moved autonomously. |
| US10930106B2 |
Coin placement unit for cash processing machine and self-checkout device including the same
A coin placement unit is equipped with: a coin spread portion having two perpendicular wall surfaces and a recessed surface comprising a gutter-shaped recessed portion extending in the direction orthogonal to the perpendicular wall surfaces between the two perpendicular wall surfaces; a coin slot portion having a coin slot; and a ridge line portion provided between the coin spread portion and the coin slot portion so as to partition the coin spread portion and the coin slot portion. The coin spread portion, the ridge line portion, and the coin slot portion have the same width and are continuous in the direction toward a depth side. |
| US10930103B2 |
Automated entry
A method for providing automated entry to a property includes placing a short-range wireless enabled lock box or a short-range wireless enabled automated door lock at or near a property. An automated entry application receives registration information from a visitor who desires to use the automated system for visiting properties. The automated entry application allows the visitor to schedule an automated showing of the property at a visitor selected time and date. A central property application enables the visitor to unlock the short-range wireless enabled lock box or the short-range wireless enabled automated door lock at the visitor selected time and date. The short-range wireless enabled device obtains an identifying number of the short-range wireless enabled lock box or the short-range wireless enabled automated door lock. The short-range wireless enabled device sends a wireless signal to the short-range wireless enabled lock box or the short-range wireless enabled automated door lock to unlock the short-range wireless enabled lock box or the short-range wireless enabled automated door lock. |
| US10930102B2 |
Method for employing a RFID walk-through gate
A method includes constructing a WTG structure including a first wall and a second wall, the first and second walls defining a walk though pass way between an entrance and an exit, positioning at least one sensor at the entrance and the exit of a cavity defined by the walk though pass way, positioning at least one first antenna facing toward an inside region of the WTG structure, positioning at least one second antenna facing away from the inside region of the WTG structure, connecting an RFID reader to the at least one first and second antennas, and, judging, via a judgement module, if an RFID tag is located inside or outside the walk though gate structure. |
| US10930099B2 |
Electronic cam lock for cabinet doors, drawers and other applications
A cam lock for cabinets, drawers, drug cabinets, credenzas, sliding doors, lockers, mail boxes and other door type applications is compact in size, fits an existing cam lock opening and provides electronic access via a keypad or other electronic access. Using batteries, such as AAA size batteries or smaller, the lock has electronics that release a lock turn knob or handle when the correct code is entered. Preferably a set of electronic contacts is included at an accessible position on the lock housing to allow both master access and power jumping with a common manager's implement, for situations of lost codes and/or battery failure. In a particular embodiment the lock is long, narrow and low in profile so as to fit on the margin of a steel or wood file cabinet, compatible with the cam lock opening already provided. The locks, NFC-enabled, can be used in securing delivery boxes to enable delivery access, when authorized. |
| US10930098B2 |
Object display frame, data processing method, device, equipment and system
Provided are a display frame for displaying objects, and an object processing method, device, apparatus, and system. The display frame includes: a lock assembly configured to lock an object on the display frame, the locked object being touchable by a user; a graphic code scanner configured to scan a graphic code to perform resource transfer for the locked object; a circuit configured to send the scanned graphic code to a server for performing identity verification on the user, and when the identity verification succeeds, initiate the resource transfer for the locked object, wherein the circuit is configured to send to the lock assembly an unlocking signal for controlling opening of the lock assembly when the resource transfer has been successfully performed, and in response to the unlocking signal, the lock assembly is configured to be opened to disengage the object locked from the display frame. |
| US10930097B2 |
Lockset with integrated wireless signals analysis feature and method
A wireless lockset with integrated wireless signals analysis and method is described herein. The analysis integrated into the wireless lockset allows remote monitoring of a building or dwelling. A user can track and be notified of the state of occupancy of a dwelling based upon when specific un-associated devices that are within range of the lockset. |
| US10930095B2 |
Method and device for monitoring construction or mining vehicle activities
A method for monitoring activities of a construction or mining vehicle. Signals from at least one acceleration sensor, accelerometer (2), and/or at least one angular rate sensor, gyro (4), are processed on a computing platform (3) which is programmed to determine the activity state of the vehicle based on signals received. A device arranged to perform the method may also include a device (7) for storing or communicating the result of the determination of the computing platform (3). |
| US10930092B2 |
Systems and methods for querying fleet information stored in a distributed data center
This disclosure relates to a distributed data center that includes resources carried by a fleet of vehicles. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicles and/or the surroundings of the vehicles. The system includes a remote computing server configured to obtain executable code from a user, and subsequently transmit the executable code to individual vehicles in the fleet. Individual vehicles locally execute the executable code to produce local results, and subsequently transfer the results to the remote computing server for presentation to the user. |
| US10930091B1 |
Method and system for utilizing vehicle odometer values and dynamic compliance
A system and method vehicle dynamic compliance and utilizing multiple vehicle odometer values is disclosed herein. The system comprises a vehicle (210) comprising an on-board computer (232) with a memory (231) having a vehicle identification number (233), a connector plug (235), and an motorized engine (234), a connected vehicle device (130) comprising a processor, a WiFi radio, a BLUETOOTH radio, a memory, and a connector for mating with the connector plug of the vehicle (210), and a mobile device (110) comprising a graphical user interface (335), a processor (310), a WiFi radio (307), a BLUETOOTH radio (306), and a cellular network interface (308). |
| US10930084B2 |
Electronic device including display unit and method of operating the same
An electronic device includes a display configured to display a three-dimensional image, a camera configured to photograph a real image, and a controller configured to generate an image signal based on the real image and augmented reality (AR) image data and to provide the image signal to the display, the controller including a multi-view image generator configured to convert the AR image data into multi-view AR images, a graphics processor configured to compose each of the multi-view AR images with the real image to generate multi-view composition images, and a processor configured to control a multi-view virtual camera and the graphics processor, to convert the multi-view composition images into the image signal, and to provide the image signal to the display. |
| US10930077B1 |
Systems and methods for rendering augmented reality mapping data
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include determining a local position and a local orientation of a local device in an environment and receiving, by the local device and from a mapping system, object data for objects within the environment. The object data may include position data and orientation data for the objects and relationship data between the objects. The method may also include deriving, based on the object data received from the mapping system, and the local position and orientation of the local device, a contextual rendering of the objects that provides contextual data that modifies a user's view of the environment. The method may include displaying, using the local device, the contextual rendering of at least one of the plurality of objects to modify the user's view of the environment. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US10930065B2 |
Three-dimensional modeling with two dimensional data
Implementations are described herein for three-dimensional (“3D”) modeling of objects that target specific features of interest of the objects, and ignore other features of less interest. In various implementations, a plurality of two-dimensional (“2D”) images may be received from a 2D vision sensor. The plurality of 2D images may capture an object having multiple classes of features. Data corresponding to a first set of the multiple classes of features may be filtered from the plurality of 2D images to generate a plurality of filtered 2D images in which a second set of features of the multiple classes of features is captured. 2D-3D processing, such as structure from motion (“SFM”) processing, may be performed on the 2D filtered images to generate a 3D representation of the object that includes the second set of one or more features. |
| US10930064B2 |
Imaging reconstruction system and method
The disclosure is directed to a method for generating a three dimensional (3D) volume including a treatment target including receiving a plurality of two dimensional (2D) input images of a patient, determining a metal artifact in each of the plurality of 2D input images, removing the metal artifacts from the plurality of 2D input images based on the determination of the metal artifact, and replacing metal artifacts with alternative pixel data to generate a plurality of filtered 2D images. A 3D volume is generated from the plurality of filtered 2D images. The plurality of 2D input images including a treatment target. |
| US10930061B2 |
Three-dimensional image processing to locate nanoparticles in biological and nonbiological media
Disclosed are various embodiments for methods and systems for three-dimensional imaging of subject particles in media through use of dark-field microscopy. Some examples, among others, include a method for obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) volume image of a sample, a method for determining a 3D location of at least one subject particle within a sample, a method for determining at least one spatial correlation between a location of at least one subject particle and a location of at least one cell structure within a cell and/or other similar biological or nonbiological structure, a method of displaying a location of at least one subject particle, method for increasing the dynamic range of a 3D image acquired from samples containing weak and strong sources of light, and method for sharpening a 3D image in a vertical direction. |
| US10930053B2 |
System for fast reflections in augmented reality
The present disclosure describes a system for fast generation of ray traced reflections of virtually augmented objects into a real-world image. The system utilizes a standard raster graphics pipeline. |
| US10930042B2 |
Artificially tiltable image display
A computer-implemented method of creating an artificially tiltable image display from an image containing Z distance values, the method comprising: separating the image into a plurality of layers using the Z distance values; expanding the plurality of layers by a factor dependent on the Z distance values, a layer closer to a viewer being enlarged by a larger factor than a layer further from a viewer, to create information in the layer further from a viewer that is occluded by the layer closer to a viewer; and responsive to a request to tilt the image display, moving the plurality of layers relative to each other so as to display the occluded information. |
| US10930039B2 |
Systems and methods for personalized banner generation and display
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for personalized banner generation and display is provided. For example, an image comprising a product object depicting a product is identified. A background of the image is identified and removed. Features of the product object are evaluated to determine a product type of the product. A new background is selected based upon the product type. A banner comprising the new background and the product object positioned over the new background at a position within the banner is generated. The banner is rendered on a display of a computing device through a user interface. |
| US10930038B2 |
Dynamic location based digital element
A digital element located within a region near a device is identified. The digital element is located at a dynamically updated location. It is determined that the digital element is to be rendered. A representation of the digital element is generated in a rendered view of at least a portion of the region. Content of the digital element is provided upon receiving an indication that the digital element has been selected. |
| US10930037B2 |
Image processing device for displaying object detected from input picture image
An image processing device including an object detection unit for detecting one or more images of objects from an input picture image, on the basis of a model pattern of the object, and a detection result display unit for graphically superimposing and displaying a detection result. The detection result display unit includes a first frame for displaying the entire input picture image and a second frame for listing and displaying one or more partial picture images each including an image detected. In the input picture image displayed in the first frame, a detection result is superimposed and displayed on all the detected images, and in the partial picture image displayed in the second frame, a detection result of an image corresponding to each partial picture image is superimposed and displayed. |
| US10930034B2 |
Automated event correlation in a managed historian system
Automated correlation of process attribute value changes with events related to the changes. A managed historian utilizes a namespace property to correlate process tag values with corresponding events. The managed historian generates and provides to remote user devices a graphical user interface that includes a plot of data values of the process tag and a visual icon representing the event overlaid atop the plot of data values. |
| US10930022B2 |
Motion adaptive rendering using variable rate shading
Motion adaptive shading increases rendering performance for real-time animation in graphics systems while maintaining dynamic image quality. Each frame of an animation is statically displayed within a refresh interval, while a viewer's eyes move continuously relative to the image when actively tracking a moving object being displayed. As a result, a statically displayed frame is essentially smeared across the viewer's continuously moving retina over the lifetime of the frame, causing a perception of blur referred to as an eye-tracking motion blur effect. A region of an image depicting a moving object may be rendered at a lower shading rate because eye-tracking motion blur will substantially mask any blur introduced by reducing the shading rate. Reducing an average shading rate for rendering frames reduces computational effort per frame and may advantageously allow a rendering system to operate at a higher frame rate to provide a smoother, clearer visual experience. |
| US10930019B2 |
Encoding and decoding visual information
A method and computer software for creating an encoded image and which can optionally include a method for decoding the encoded image. The encoded image is preferably formed from at least one symmetric image but can be formed from a plurality of symmetric images. Embodiments of the present invention can be performed with physical paper and writing utensils or can be performed via computer software. Embodiments of the present invention can be used for art authentication based on results obtained by decoding an image. In one embodiment, one or more encoded image elements can be revealed simultaneously. Optionally, however, encoded image elements can be caused to be revealed in a series that gives a sense of motion in a manner similar to that of motion picture animation. |
| US10930016B2 |
Image synthesizing method
An image synthesizing method includes capturing a first image using a reference small aperture size; capturing a second image using a reference large aperture size; obtaining one or more reference color weights according to a corresponding pixel of the first image and adjacent pixels of the corresponding pixel of the first image and a corresponding pixel of the second image; obtaining an associated distance by looking up an association table according to the one or more reference color weights; obtaining one or more associated color weights by looking up the association table according to the associated distance and an expected aperture; and obtaining a color value of a corresponding pixel of a synthesized image, by applying weighting to the corresponding pixel of the first image and the adjacent pixels of the corresponding pixel of the first image with the one or more associated color weights. |
| US10930014B2 |
Target, method, and system for camera calibration
The present disclosure relates to a target, a method, and a system for calibrating a camera. One example embodiment includes a target. The target includes a first pattern of fiducial markers. The target also includes a second pattern of fiducial markers. The first pattern of fiducial markers is a scaled version of the second pattern of fiducial markers, such that a calibration image captured of the target simulates multiple images of a single pattern captured at multiple calibration perspectives. |
| US10930008B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program for deriving a position orientation of an image pickup apparatus using features detected from an image
An image obtaining unit that obtains an image picked up by an image pickup apparatus, a first detection unit that detects a first feature from the image, a second detection unit that detects a second feature different from the first feature from the image by using a method different from a method of the first detection unit, a first position orientation derivation unit that derives a position orientation of the image pickup apparatus as a first position orientation on the basis of the first feature detected from the image, a second position orientation derivation unit that derives a position orientation of the image pickup apparatus as a second position orientation on the basis of the second feature detected from the image, and a decision unit that decides the position orientation of the image pickup apparatus on the basis of the first position orientation and the second position orientation are provided. |
| US10930007B2 |
System and method for medical device tracking
A system (100) for tracking the position and orientation (i.e., the pose) of a medical imaging device (210) is described. The system determines in real time the pose of an imaging medical device based on a combination of image data and sensor data obtained from an imaging medical device and tracking sensors (210) associated with the device. Pose is determined based on a calculated tracking pose change and a calculated image pose change and a determined reliability of the calculated tracking pose change and the calculated image pose change. |
| US10930006B2 |
Other vehicle position estimation apparatus
An other vehicle position estimation apparatus for estimating the position of another vehicle on the road using a particle filtering process includes an other vehicle map matcher and a particle number controller. The other vehicle map matcher includes an updater for updating the position of a particle distributed on a map, a likelihood calculator for calculating the likelihood of the particle position, and a position estimator configured to estimate the position of the other vehicle based on the position of the particle. The particle number controller determines a number of particles to distribute based on at least one of (i) a relative positional relationship between a subject vehicle and the other vehicle, (ii) an actual vehicle speed of the other vehicle, (iii) a distribution state of the particles, and (iv) a relationship between the position of the other vehicle and the road. |
| US10930004B2 |
Trailer angle detection system for vehicle
A method of detecting a trailer angle of a trailer being towed by a vehicle includes capturing frames of image data via a camera of the vehicle while the vehicle is towing a trailer, and, via processing by an image processor of frames of captured image data while the vehicle is towing the trailer, determining presence of the trailer being towed by the vehicle, and determining feature vectors of the trailer being towed by the vehicle. The feature vectors of the trailer are determined by determining features that have similar angular changes between a current frame of captured image data and a previous frame of captured image data. The angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle is determined responsive to tracking of determined feature vectors of the trailer present in the field of view of the camera over multiple frames of captured image data. |
| US10930003B2 |
Control apparatus, imaging apparatus, control method, and storage medium
A control apparatus includes a processor is configured to function as an information acquisition unit configured to acquire object size information from image data by a first method and a second method in continuous imaging, and an imaging control unit configured to perform an exposure while performing follow-up drive of an optical system so as to reduce a difference between the object size information and target size information. |
| US10930002B2 |
System and method of applying an arbitrary angle to reformat medical images
In accordance with the teachings described herein, systems and methods are provided for generating a seed plan for use in radiation therapy. The system includes an image database, the image database comprising image slices and a seed template database comprising seed templates. A contour engine is configured to generate target contour data to identify one or more objects within each image slice. A reslicer engine is configured to rotate the contoured image about an angle of rotation to produce a resliced contoured image, such that the resliced contoured image is resampled at an angle perpendicular to the angle of rotation and intersecting an isocenter. The system also includes a seed grid engine configured to generate a seed grid perpendicular to the angle of rotation. |
| US10930000B2 |
Method and system for detecting and tracking objects using characteristic points
A method includes obtaining a disparity map based on stereoscopic image frames captured by stereoscopic cameras borne on a movable platform, determining a plurality of continuous regions in the disparity map that each includes a plurality of elements having disparity values within a predefined range, identifying a continuous sub-region including one or more elements having a highest disparity value among the elements within each continuous region as an object, and determining a distance between the object and the movable platform using at least the highest disparity value. |
| US10929999B2 |
Obstacle avoidance during target tracking
A method for controlling a movable object includes obtaining current location information of an obstacle while the movable object tracks a target, and determining whether a location of the obstacle corresponds to a reactive region relative to the movable object based on the current location information of the obstacle. In response to determining that the location of the obstacle corresponds to the reactive region, one or more movement characteristics of the movable object is adjusted in a reactive manner to prevent the movable object from colliding with the obstacle. In response to determining that the location of the obstacle does not correspond to the reactive region, the one or more movement characteristics of the movable object is adjusted in a proactive manner to maintain a distance between the movable object and the obstacle to be larger than a predefined distance. |
| US10929998B2 |
Method and apparatus for estimating disparity
A disparity estimation method performed by a processor includes extracting a first image patch comprising a reference pixel from a first image, extracting a second image patch comprising a target pixel corresponding to the reference pixel from a second image, and estimating a residual of an initial disparity between the reference pixel and the target pixel from the first image patch and the second image patch using a residual model, the residual being an estimated difference between the initial disparity and an actual disparity between the reference pixel and the target pixel. |
| US10929996B2 |
Image depth prediction neural networks
A system includes an image depth prediction neural network implemented by one or more computers. The image depth prediction neural network is a recurrent neural network that is configured to receive a sequence of images and, for each image in the sequence: process the image in accordance with a current internal state of the recurrent neural network to (i) update the current internal state and (ii) generate a depth output that characterizes a predicted depth of a future image in the sequence. |
| US10929989B2 |
Determining a transformation between coordinate frames of sets of image data
The disclosure relates to a method of determining a transformation between coordinate frames of sets of image data. The method includes receiving a model of a structure extracted from first source image data, the first source image data being generated according to a first imaging modality and having a first data format, wherein the model has a second data format, different from the first data format. The method also includes determining, using an intelligent agent, a transformation between coordinate frames of the model and first target image data, the first target image data being generated according to a second imaging modality different to the first imaging modality. |
| US10929986B2 |
Techniques for using a simple neural network model and standard camera for image detection in autonomous driving
An advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) and corresponding method for a vehicle utilize a camera system configured to capture an image and a controller configured to receive the captured image, detect an object in the captured image using a simple neural network model, track the detected object using a tracking technique to obtain a tracked position, project a trajectory of the detected object using a trajectory projection technique to obtain a predicted position, determine a most likely position of the detected object based on at least one of the tracked and predicted positions, generate a two-dimensional (2D) birdview projection illustrating the detected object according to its determined most likely position, and control at least one ADAS feature of the vehicle using the generated 2D birdview projection. |
| US10929985B2 |
System and methods for tracking motion of biological cells
According to some aspects, an information processing device is provided. The information processing device includes circuitry configured to dispose a plurality of tracking points within a first region of a first image and set a second region of a second image based on estimated positions of the plurality of tracking points in the second image. The estimated positions are determined by comparing the first image and the second image. The circuitry is further configured to re-dispose the plurality of tracking points within the second region of the second image. |
| US10929982B2 |
Face pose correction based on depth information
Some implementations can include a computer-implemented method, computer readable medium, and/or system for pose correction of video images captured by a mobile device. |
| US10929981B1 |
Gross tumor volume segmentation method and computer device
In a GTV segmentation method, a PET-CT image pair and an RTCT image of a human body are obtained. A PET image in the PET-CT image pair is aligned to the RTCT image to obtain an aligned PET image. A first PSNN performs a first GTV segmentation on the RTCT image to obtain a first segmentation image. The RTCT image and the aligned PET image are concatenated into a first concatenated image. A second PSNN performs a second GTV segmentation on the first concatenated image to obtain a second segmentation image. The RTCT image, the first segmentation image, and the second segmentation image are concatenated into a second concatenated image. A third PSNN performs a third GTV segmentation on the second concatenated image to obtain an object segmentation image. |
| US10929976B2 |
Method and apparatus for assessing image registration
A method and apparatus for assessing image registration. The method comprises obtaining image datasets for the first and second medical images and registration data representing the registration from the first medical image to the second medical image, collating use-case information for the image registration, deriving a set of at least one measurement and assessment criteria therefor based at least partly on the collated use-case information, performing the at least one measurement on at least one of the obtained image datasets and the obtained registration data to derive at least one measurement value, applying the assessment criteria for the at least one measurement to the at least one measurement value to derive at least one assessment result, and outputting an indication of the at least one assessment result. |
| US10929971B2 |
Representation-based hybrid model
The disclosure describes a method by a controller that includes: executing a model of a material based on a geometric template of the material defined by geometric parameters and at least one geometric constraint of the material; determining a value of an objective function based on differences between a three-dimensional representation of the material based on measurements of the material and the model of the material based on the geometric template of the material; and determining updated values of the geometric parameters of the geometric template. The method further includes iterating the executing the model of the material, the determining the value of the objective function, and the determining the updated values of the geometric parameters until a parameter associated with the objective function satisfies a criterion and, outputting the updated values of the geometric parameters associated with the objective function that satisfies the criterion. |
| US10929967B2 |
Method and device for image processing
Method for processing of a grey scale image, in particular a dim grey scale image, comprising the following steps: a) receiving an initial grey scale image, said initial grey scale image having a plurality of pixels at an initial resolution, b) calculating parameters characterizing the luminance (gain, median_grey, var_grey) and the noise level (X, noise_estimate, radius_spatial_summation, grid_size, threshold_var) of the initial grey scale image of step a), c) creating a basic intermediate image, d) creating an averaged intermediate image, and e) creating an enhanced grey scale image by interpolation of pixels based on the averaged receptors (greyAvg) of the averaged intermediate image of step d). |
| US10929965B2 |
Histogram statistics circuit and multimedia processing system
A histogram statistics circuit and a multimedia processing system, where the multimedia processing system includes a memory, a histogram statistics circuit, and a processor. The memory is configured to store multimedia data. The histogram statistics circuit is configured to obtain the multimedia data from the memory and perform histogram statistics on the multimedia data, to generate a statistical result. The processor is configured to process the multimedia data based on the statistical result and a histogram application algorithm. |
| US10929963B2 |
OCT image processing
An apparatus for rendering optical coherence tomography, OCT, retinal image data, acquired by an OCT scanner scanning a retina of an eye over a range of scan locations, wherein each scan location is associated with a respective coordinate in a first coordinate system, and each pixel of the rendered OCT retinal image data is associated with a respective coordinate in a second coordinate system different from the first coordinate system. The apparatus comprises a communication module arranged to receive the OCT retinal image data, and a coordinate-determining module arranged to determine values of coordinates in the second coordinate system of pixels in the received OCT retinal image using a transformation from coordinates in the first to second coordinate system. The apparatus further comprises an interpolation module arranged to interpolate between values of pixels at the determined values to calculate values of the pixels of the rendered OCT retinal image data. |
| US10929961B2 |
Electronic device and method for correcting images using external electronic device
An electronic device for image correction and a method therefore are provided. The electronic device includes a camera, a memory, a communication circuit, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to obtain a raw image of an external object using the camera, determine whether correction of the raw image is necessary, when the correction of the raw image is determined not to be necessary, store an image corresponding to the raw image in the memory, and when the correction of the raw image is determined to be necessary, transmit the raw image to an external electronic device via the communication circuit so as to enable the external electronic device to generate a corrected image of the raw image, and store the corrected image in the memory. |
| US10929959B2 |
Image processing apparatus, imaging apparatus, and image processing method
Provided are an apparatus and a method for executing image quality enhancement processing on a fluorescence image. A fluorescence image and a visible light image are input and the image feature amount is extracted, so as to execute pixel value correction processing on the fluorescence image on the basis of a correction parameter determined in accordance with the feature amount. The correction parameter used for pixel value correction is determined by the correction parameter calculation unit on the basis of the feature amount. The image correction unit executes pixel value correction processing that applies the correction parameter determined by the correction parameter calculation unit. For example, blur mode information is obtained as a feature amount from a fluorescence image, and the image correction unit executes pixel value correction processing on the fluorescence image so as to reduce blur of the fluorescence image. |
| US10929956B2 |
Machine-learned depth dealiasing
Techniques for de-aliasing depth ambiguities included within infrared phase depth images are described herein. An illuminator emits reference light towards a target object. Some of this light is reflected back and detected. A phase image is generated based on phase differences between the reference light and the reflected light. The phase differences represent changes in depth within overlapping sinusoidal periods of the reference and reflected light. The phase image also includes ambiguities because multiple different depths within the phase image share the same phase difference value, even though these depths actually correspond to different real-world depths. The phase image is fed as input to a machine learning (“ML”) component, which is configured to de-alias the ambiguities by determining, for each pixel in the phase image, a corresponding de-aliasing interval. A depth map is generated based on the phase image and any de-aliasing intervals generated by the ML component. |
| US10929955B2 |
Scene-based nonuniformity correction using a convolutional recurrent neural network
A method and apparatus for correcting nonuniformity noise in thermal images. The method comprises receiving a current image being part of a stream of thermal images; concatenating the current image from the stream of thermal images with hidden state images; processing, by a first convolutional neural network, the concatenated image to extract a number of feature channels; generating based on the feature channels at least a first multiplicative mask; processing, by a second convolutional neural network, a masked concatenated image to compute a weighting parameter, wherein the masked concatenated image is resulted by applying the first multiplicative mask on the concatenated image; and simulating, using the weighting parameter, an infinite impulse response (IIR)-style updating scheme to estimate the nonuniformity noise in the current image. |
| US10929954B2 |
Methods and apparatus for inline chromatic aberration correction
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for display processing. The device can receive a first image including a plurality of first pixels. Each of the first pixels can include a first red, green, blue (RGB) color value. The device can also determine an RGB adjustment value based on a lens correction value. Additionally, the device can determine a second RGB color value for each first pixel based on the determined RGB adjustment value. The device can also generate a second image including a plurality of second pixels, where each of the second pixels includes a determined second RGB color value. Moreover, the device can separate at least one of a red color value, green color value, or blue color value of the RGB color value and adjust at least one of a red color value or a blue color value based on the lens correction value. |
| US10929952B2 |
Image upscaling
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for upscaling an image. One of the methods includes upscaling a low resolution image, creating first pixel subsets of the first upscaled image, creating second pixel subsets of a high resolution image, determining, for each subset in the pixel subsets, a value of a property of the pixel subset, determining, for each subset in the pixel subsets, a group of subsets to which the corresponding pixel subset belongs using the value of the property, and determining, for each of the groups of subsets, a filter to apply to each of the first pixel subsets that correspond to the pixel subsets in the group to create a final pixel subset that approximates the corresponding second pixel subset using the first pixel subset, a combination of all of the final pixel subsets representing a second upscaled image. |
| US10929949B2 |
Accessing a memory configured to store an image data cube
A device for accessing memory configured to store an image data cube, wherein the memory has memory banks, and each memory bank has memory rows and memory columns. The device includes an input configured to receive a memory access request having a logical start address, which specifies a logical bank, a logical row, and a logical column, and a burst size; and a memory address generator configured to generate physical memory addresses based on the logical start address and the burst size, wherein any consecutive logical start addresses mapped to different memory rows are mapped to different memory banks. |
| US10929947B2 |
Contextual configuration adjuster for graphics
An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed. |
| US10929944B2 |
Low power and low latency GPU coprocessor for persistent computing
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for implementing a graphics processing unit (GPU) coprocessor are disclosed. The GPU coprocessor includes a SIMD unit with the ability to self-schedule sub-wave procedures based on input data flow events. A host processor sends messages targeting the GPU coprocessor to a queue. In response to detecting a first message in the queue, the GPU coprocessor schedules a first sub-task for execution. The GPU coprocessor includes an inter-lane crossbar and intra-lane biased indexing mechanism for a vector general purpose register (VGPR) file. The VGPR file is split into two files. The first VGPR file is a larger register file with one read port and one write port. The second VGPR file is a smaller register file with multiple read ports and one write port. The second VGPR introduces the ability to co-issue more than one instruction per clock cycle. |
| US10929943B2 |
Detecting conflicts between multiple different encoded signals within imagery
Various image processing arrangements are detailed for detecting mis-marking of product packaging artwork with two conflicting steganographically-encoded product identifiers. Some embodiments concern detection in a pre-press or test-print quality assurance stage. Others concern detection post-press. All help serve to assure accurate product identification by point of sale scanners. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed. |
| US10929940B1 |
Controlled-environment facility message response system
A resident of a controlled-environment facility is provided with a messaging service that includes a capability that provides a message recipient with reply message capabilities. A visitation request system receives requests for communication sessions between residents and non-residents. The visitation system initiates a request for a communication session on behalf of the requesting party and determines that the responding party has not accepted the communication session request. Since the request has not been accepted, a messaging service provides the requesting with an interface for recording a message for delivery to the responding party. If the requesting party records a message, the responding party is notified of the recorded message. Once the responding party plays the recorded message, the responding party is provided an option to record a reply message for delivery to the requesting party. The requesting party is notified of the reply message from the responding party. |
| US10929934B1 |
Roof inspection systems and methods
Disclosed are computer implemented systems and methods for in situ inspection of a roof of a policy holder's dwelling. The inspection system establishes a baseline condition at a first point in time for the roof by scanning using one or more sensors to collect baseline condition data. The roof is scanned at a point in time subsequent to the first point in time to establish a present condition using the one or more sensors to collect present condition data. The baseline condition data and the present condition data are transmitted to a computing device which compares the baseline condition data with the present condition data to determine anomalies indicative of roof damage or deterioration and/or to determine repair needs for the roof. |
| US10929925B1 |
System and methods for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting
Systems and methods are provided for credit dispute processing, resolution, and reporting. Credit dispute resolution requests may be received, processed, and sent to a credit bureau for submission to creditors. Status of credit dispute resolutions may be reported to consumers. If a creditor's response time is longer than its average response time or if a creditor does not respond to a credit dispute resolution request within a regulatory response period, alerts and reports may be sent to consumers to provide consumers with further options. |
| US10929923B1 |
Security scoring
Session management, security scoring, and friction management are provided herein. Sessions may be monitored for commonalities or other attributes or aspects and closed, terminated, or a freeze placed on additional sessions from being initiated. A security score may be provided which is indicative of how secure a user is with respect to one or more ways the user interacts with a resource. One or more suggested actions or score improvement strategies may be suggested to facilitate improvement of a security score for a user. The security score may be used to affect business decisions made by an institution or financial entity. |
| US10929921B1 |
Instant matching of data for accounting based on email and bank scraping
A method comprising receiving real time data associated with a transaction, accessing, from an online bank account after receiving the real time data, processed data associated with the transaction, matching the real time data with the processed data, and displaying an alert when the processed data and the real time data are inconsistent. |
| US10929919B1 |
Seamless user retail experience based on location
Techniques for providing a seamless user experience across electronic and physical retail stores of a retailer include storing, locally with a session corresponding to a user's visit to the retailer's electronic store, indications of items that were viewed and/or focused on by the user at the electronic store. At least some of said indications may be transferred to a centralized data storage of the retailer for persistence after the session is terminated. Subsequently, an electronic device operated by the user may determine its location and determine, based on its location, a particular physical retail store of the retailer. Via communications with one or more retailer servers, items that were recently viewed by the user at the electronic store may be identified, and indications thereof may be presented on the display of the electronic device in conjunction with information corresponding to the recently viewed items at the particular physical store. |
| US10929917B2 |
Accessing chat sessions via chat bots for cart generation
A method for accessing communication in chat sessions for cart generation is discussed. The method includes accessing, via a chat bot, a chat text in a chat session by a chat application instance to another chat application instance. The method includes determining intent for purchasing a product from a merchant based on an analysis of the chat text. In response to determining the intent, the method determines a locator for an online store of the merchant from the chat text. The method includes accessing, using the locator, the online store to determine product features of the product. Based on the product features and the chat text, a cart is generated for an order of the product for the online store. The method provides, via the chat bot, an indication of the cart to the chat session to obtain, from the first chat application instance, authorization to order the cart. |
| US10929916B2 |
Persona based food recommendation systems and methods
The present disclosure relates systems and methods for food recommendations. More particularly, it teaches a systems and methods that can provide personalized menu item recommendations through a nutrient-focused machine learning model for nearby restaurants in near real-time, in order to assist in the selection of dishes that match a user's persona. Using these systems and methods enable a user to see a personalized prediction score of how much the system predicts that a particular user would like a particular dish. |
| US10929913B2 |
Systems, methods, and computer program products for intelligently processing and manipulating a subject image according to consumer data
A system, method and computer program product are provided for processing a subject image, consumer data, and product images to generate product recommendations. Subject images may be provided by consumers and may include products they wish to buy, and/or images of themselves to be utilized as an avatar. The subject image, and other images provided by other consumers may be processed to determine image characteristics, and correlations with consumer data including preferences, demographics, style preferences, physical characteristics, and/or the like. Trends, styles, and preferences may be intelligently learned such that relevant products are provided to a consumer. The subject image may be manipulated, such as by dressing an avatar in a recommended clothing article, and/or the like. |
| US10929910B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing a marketplace for distributors and businesses
A method and apparatus is provided for displaying data related to a transaction of one or more products from one or more sellers by a buyer. The method includes receiving identifying criteria from the buyer and determining one or more products corresponding to the identifying criteria. The method further includes determining one or more sellers of the one or more products. The method further includes presenting the one or more sellers for each of the one or more products on a display, where the one or more sellers are presented in an order according to criteria. The method further includes presenting an order history of the buyer from the one or more sellers for each product on the display. Additionally, the method further includes presenting a total price of a particular quantity for each product on the display. |
| US10929907B1 |
Automation platform for the internet of things
Providing an automation platform for the Internet-of-Things (IoT) includes receiving a request to access a marketplace to build a desired mashup of IoT-enabled Nodes for the automation platform, where the marketplace allows a search for and purchase of the IoT-enabled nodes, where a node is network-enabled device, sensor, or service, and where the automation platform allows performing automated tasks using the IoT-enabled nodes based on events for triggering evaluation, statuses for use in conditional statements, and actions for when a set of conditions are satisfied. A search term is received for the desired mashup and a presentation of a list of automation platform blueprints, nodes, services, and end points that match the search term is initiated. An end point is selected from the initiated presentation and a node builder tool is accessed that permits systematic configuration of a node for the selected end point for compatibility with the automation platform. |
| US10929902B2 |
Augmented reality systems for facilitating a purchasing process at a merchant location
A method of facilitating an augmented reality experience to purchase an item at a merchant location may be provided. The method may include storing profile data, receiving location data and environmental data from a computing device associated with the stored profile data. Upon determining that the user device has entered a predefined merchant location, the method may include initiating a sequence of augmented reality modes including at least a first augmented reality mode associated with the selection of an item and a second augmented reality mode associated with the payment of the item. The user device may display virtual content in association with each mode, and upon detecting predetermined user inputs such as gestures, fixed gazes, or moving through thresholds, the system may enable the selection and payment of one or more items by sending a purchase request to a merchant terminal. |
| US10929897B2 |
Prompting a user for feedback based on user experience
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for prompting a user for feedback based on user experience. The technique includes detecting, via a processor, that a first application event has occurred and updating a score based on a first value assigned to the first application event. The technique further includes determining that the score exceeds a first threshold, and, in response, outputting a first prompt for display. |
| US10929895B2 |
Generic message injection system
Systems and related methods providing for dynamic message creation are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured receive generic configuration data that references work chunks for message generation and time data indicating a message send time. The work chunks may include references to message data, but not the actual message data. Based on the time data, the work chunks may be placed in a message queue. Circuitry may also be configured to retrieve a work chunk from the message queue and to generate one or more messages based on the retrieved work chunk. The references to message data in the work chunk may be used to retrieve the message data at the time of message generation. |
| US10929892B2 |
Marketing to consumers using data obtained from abandoned GPS searches
Users that abandon GPS searches on GPS enabled devices before arriving at the search location are lost to business entities. The system uses the data obtained from abandoned GPS searches to identify these lost users. Sometimes a unique script embedded in the GPS application loaded onto the user's GPS enabled device scrapes the data from the GPS search and from user entries on the GPS enabled device. The system uses the obtained data to market or remarket to the lost consumers by sending personalized messages via a preferred communication medium. |
| US10929882B2 |
List-based coupon system and methods
A list-based coupon system that enables users to create a list of items to obtain, purchase or locate within a store or other geographic area, and provides users with coupons under a variety of different conditions. |
| US10929881B1 |
Pre-feature promotion system
A promotion offering system and method is disclosed. The promotion offering system and method selects consumers for a test promotion that has one or more attributes, and is configured to generate test data for multiple consumer groupings. The promotion offering system and method may use the test data in analyzing whether to send a promotion to a consumer. For example, the promotion offering system and method may use one algorithm to generate a list of ranked promotions, and may use the test data in order to adjust the list of ranked promotions (such as replacing a highest ranked promotion with another promotion). |
| US10929878B2 |
Targeted content identification and tracing
A method of identifying targeted content includes deploying a plurality of internet bots configured to interact with content sources using predetermined patterns and profiles, wherein each individual internet bot of the plurality of internet bots includes at least one characteristic that is unique relative to the rest of the plurality of internet bots, collecting cause and effect data related to cause and effect of user interactions with content sources, receiving the cause and effect data collected by the plurality of internet bots, correlating user interactions with content sources using the cause and effect data collected by the plurality of internet bots, and identifying, how content is targeted to users by content sources from the correlating. |
| US10929877B2 |
Media playback ping
Server side content impression progression tracking is performed using ping triggers and pings. A server generates ping triggers for content based on an impression list from a configuration provided by the content originator. The server sets different times at which the ping triggers are to fire during content playback. When media playback on a client reaches a time set for a ping trigger, the ping trigger causes the client to return a ping to the server to indicate that playback has reached the designated time. In this manner, the pings granularly track content viewership on different clients, wherein the granular tracking measures not only whether content was viewed or not, but also how much of the content was viewed. Subsequent content to a particular client can be customized based on preferences derived from pings tracked from the particular client. |
| US10929873B2 |
Power buy system
The Power Buy System includes a computer based platform wherein sellers and buyers log into a website having a pre-configured Power Deal listing on an item. The pre-configured Power Deal listing may set forth one or more tier pricing based on quantity. The pre-configured Power Deal or the new Power Deal may be activated upon commitment from a first buyer. The buyer is provided tools to encourage other social media contacts to purchase an item in order to aggregate a larger buyer collective and sellers are allowed to offer a lower price than what is stated in the buy now price to further encourage additional buyers participation so that more items may be sold. |
| US10929872B2 |
Augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals
One embodiment provides a method for augmenting missing values in historical or market data for deals. The method comprises receiving information relating to a set of deals. For any service included in one or more deals of the set of deals but not included in one or more other deals of the set of deals, the method further comprises augmenting, for any or all of the one or more other deals that does not include the service, one or more missing values for the service with one or more recommended values based on a recommendation algorithm. The service may be at any service level of a hierarchy of services. |
| US10929870B1 |
Advertisement impression verification using blockchain
Advertising impressions are collected and a block in a block chain is created for each impression or a set of impressions. Each block includes a hash of a preceding block in the block chain. The block chain may be traversed to analyze advertising impressions and determine their effectiveness. Advertising content may include embedded code that invokes transmission of a notification to a server. The server creates a block in response to the notification that includes data such as the advertising content (or a reference to it), attributes of a target consumer, information regarding an advertising campaign, and/or other data describing the advertising impression. |
| US10929869B2 |
System and method for the presentation of advertisements
A system and method for the presentation of advertisements is present. According to one embodiment, a number of impressions of an advertisement message are presented over a computer network such as the Internet to a variety of viewer computers. Depending on the actions taken by the viewers (e.g., whether the Viewer selects the advertising message and accesses a web-link to the advertiser's web-site), bonus exposure (e.g., an additional number of impressions provided to the viewers) of the advertising message is given. |
| US10929865B2 |
Dynamic incentive generator
Embodiments provide dynamic consumer incentive generation by generating a combination discount offer that provides a total discount value to a customer in response to verifying that the customer executes a commercial activity at each of different (first and second) ones of a discount grouping plurality of businesses, in response to determining that it is probable as a function of historic purchasing data that the customer will purchase an item from the first business when they make a purchase from the second business; and allocating different portions of the total discount value as costs to the first and second businesses that have different values determined as a function of a difference between a first probability that the customer will purchase an item from the first business and a second probability that the customer will purchase an item from the second business. |
| US10929847B1 |
Pay-by-name payment check-in with a payment card
A technique for providing a pay-by-name payment experience is disclosed. A point-of-sale (POS) system at a store receives information identifying an account with a central server from a payment card using a short-range wireless technology. In response to that, it obtains information regarding the account, including a person's name associated with the account, using the received information. It also accepts a name from a specific consumer in the vicinity. At this point, it determines whether the name accepted from the specific consumer and the name associated with the account are identical. If it determines that the two names are identical, it checks-in the consumer to the store. |
| US10929845B2 |
Method and apparatus for consensus verification
A method for consensus verification implementable by a first blockchain node in a consensus network may comprise: receiving a transaction request from a client, and performing a first security verification on the transaction request; in response to determining that the transaction request passes the first security verification, storing the transaction request, and broadcasting the transaction request to each of second blockchain nodes in the consensus network, causing the each second blockchain node to store the transaction request in response to the second blockchain node determining that the transaction request passes a second security verification; performing pre-processing on at least one stored transaction request in response to determining that a preset condition is satisfied, to obtain and store a pre-processed block; and broadcasting the obtained pre-processed block to the second blockchain nodes, causing the second blockchain nodes to perform consensus verification on the obtained pre-processed block. |
| US10929843B2 |
Storage of credential service provider data in a security domain of a secure element
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for efficiently storing credential service provider data in a security domain of a secure element of an electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, an electronic device may include a secure element that, inter alia, receives credential service provider data from a secure element vendor subsystem, and that encrypts a key of the secure element with the received credential service provider data. The electronic device may also include a communications component that transmits the encrypted key to a credential service provider. Additional embodiments are also provided. |
| US10929840B1 |
Purchase incentive data structures for mobile wallet applications
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for utilizing purchase incentives in an electronic mobile wallet application. The mobile wallet application may receive a committable coupon data structure comprising terms data describing a purchase incentive and cryptographic verification data. The mobile wallet application may send a request to tokenize the committable coupon data structure to an element management system. The request may include an indication of a payment element associated with the mobile wallet application. The mobile wallet application may receive, from the element management system, a tokenized coupon data structure that comprises at least a portion of the committable coupon data structure and credential data for the payment element. |
| US10929838B2 |
Card not present transaction system and method for operating card not present transaction system to simplify hardware required at client sites
A card not present (CNP) transaction system includes a transaction control device for scanning a barcode to obtain transaction information and an address of a middleware and to send a connection message to the address of the middleware according to the transaction information, the middleware for establishing a connection with a transaction control device according to the connection message received, to obtain a transaction token and a transaction amount from the transaction control device through the connection and to send a transaction message according to the transaction token and the transaction amount, and an acquirer server for receiving the transaction message to establish a connection with the middleware and to generate a transaction confirmation message to the middleware according to the transaction message after verifying the transaction token. |
| US10929834B2 |
Smart box and method of use thereof
This disclosure relates to a smart box and method of use thereof. The smart box can comprise a box, a radio-frequency identification (RFID) reader, an access control system, and a smart box control system. The box can be capable of housing a plurality of purchasable products. The RFID reader can be capable of reading a plurality of RFID tags. The smart box control system can comprise a smart box memory and a smart box processor. The smart box memory can comprise a smart box application. The smart box processor can, according to instructions from the smart box application, grant access to a buyer upon the buyer supplying an access key to the access control system, can maintain contact with each of the plurality of RFID tags within the box and can direct a purchasable product of the plurality of purchasable products to be billed to a user account. |
| US10929831B2 |
Sequential selection presentation
Sequential selections are presented by receiving an input on an active portion of a display of the computing device. While the input is received, a plurality of selections are sequentially displayed on the display. An indication is received that the input on the active portion of the display of the computing device has changed. In response to receiving the indication that the input has changed, the computing device stops presenting the plurality of selections and determines which selection of the plurality of selections was presented on the display when the input changed. The determined selection is then displayed. |
| US10929827B2 |
Basic input/output system (BIOS) and unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI) one-time boot
A Basic Input/Output System (BIOS)/Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) on a Self-Service Terminal (SST) loads ATM resources into volatile memory of the SST during a boot of the SST in a predefined order. Each time, during an SST boot, where the order is attempting to be changed; a credential is required to change the predefined order and the credential has to be authenticated before the predefined order is changed during the SST boot. |
| US10929821B2 |
Method of managing payment independent digitized transaction receipts between a buyer and multiple sellers
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for generating, securely storing, retrieving, and processing sales receipts for the purchase of goods and services using any convenient method of payment, with all buyer purchases being linked to their receipt account, that is independent of the seller's account or the payment account, providing both physical and electronic receipts with any receipt being readily identifiable by a purchaser, seller, credit card issuer, employer, financial institution, or other party or entity having a need to access the receipt and information included on it, and having a new taxonomy to characterize attributes of vendor independent and payment independent purchase receipts and employs and an analytics capability useful by buyers, sellers, and third parties. |
| US10929818B2 |
Wearable sensor-based automatic scheduling device and method
The present invention relates to a wearable sensor-based automatic scheduling device and method. The wearable sensor-based automatic scheduling device includes: a typical schedule setting part that sets a typical schedule received from the user and specifying a specific event; an atypical schedule inferring part that infers an atypical schedule by analyzing the user's current location and the user's behavioral patterns occurring over a specific period of time in the past; and a schedule determining part that determines the schedule from this point on based on the typical schedule and the atypical schedule. Accordingly, the present invention may provide a technology that can predict the user's expected schedule in real time by taking into account both a typical schedule recorded in a scheduler and an atypical schedule mapped out based on daily behavioral patterns. |
| US10929815B2 |
Adaptive and reusable processing of retroactive sequences for automated predictions
Systems and methods for predicting the outcome of a business entity are presented. In embodiments, a system may receive explicit data reporting or indicating activities of a business entity, and other data from which information regarding the activities or level of operations of the entity may be inferred. Using one or more data processors, the system may generate inferred data regarding the business entity from a selected portion of the other data, and use at least some of the explicit data and the inferred data to determine which one of a series of defined sequential active states of development the entity currently is in. The system may further, using the result of the determination as the current state of the business, predict a final stage of the business entity, and a probability of evolving to that final stage from the current state. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed. |
| US10929814B2 |
In-context display of out-of-context contact activity
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for enhancing the awareness of the activity of others in a collaboration group. In an implementation, a contact that identifies a person is displayed in a user interface to an application. A determination is made whether the person is in a collaboration group with a user of the application. If so, a further determination is made whether that person is presently active in a content item in a context other than the present context of the user. When such conditions are satisfied, an indication is surfaced in the user interface that the person is active in the content item. |
| US10929801B1 |
System and method for automated batch inbound transportation appointment setting for retailer distribution centers
A computerized system and method for scheduling shipping deliveries to one or more retailer locations autonomously, where the system receives a set of data and selects a relevant portion of the set of data that corresponds to the data required by a retailer interface associated with each of the one or more retailer locations, the retailer interfaces having a set of data fields that each require a particular piece of information associated with the shipping delivery. The system and method of the present invention determines a series of mouse clicks and keystrokes necessary to navigate and complete the retailer interface, then uses the determined series of mouse clicks and keystrokes to autonomously schedule shipping deliveries by supplying the relevant portion of the data set to the appropriate data fields on the retailer interface. |
| US10929795B1 |
Scheduling agents using skill group weights
Agents are grouped into skill groups based on the skills of each agent. Simulation are performed for a contact center with multiple queues, where agents from the skill groups are assigned to the queues based on the skills of the skill groups and the skills of the queues. After running the simulations, for each skill group and for each interval, the time each agent spent working using each associated skill is determined, and an average time for each skill is calculated for each interval. The average times are used to create a skill group weight for the skill group for each interval. Later, when the schedule engine is determining an agent placement for one or more intervals, the skill group weights for the intervals are used to calculate a score for the queues based on different agent placements. The placement with the best score (e.g., lowest) is implemented. |
| US10929794B2 |
Dispensing system
Methods, systems and apparatus for determining and coordinating dispenser product depletion dates. |
| US10929792B2 |
Hybrid cloud operation planning and optimization
Resource usage is monitored for a hybrid cloud computing environment having on-premises computing resources and off-premises computing resources, for at least a first time period. For the time period, the amount of the on-premises computing resources and off-premises computing resources are related to the demand for computing services from the environment. Future demand for computing services from the environment is dynamically predicted based on the relating step and a learned function of the demand and/or a projection of future business growth for a business utilizing the on-premises and off-premises computing resources. Based on the predicted future demand, the amount of the on-premises computing resources is dynamically optimized for a future time period, so as to minimize costs for the future time period; and new amounts of on-premises computing resources and off-premises computing resources are provisioned for the future time period, in accordance with the optimizing step. |
| US10929790B2 |
Dynamic agent management for multiple queues
An example system for dynamic agent management involving multiple queues is presented. The system may include a remote network management platform that manages a network by way of a computational instance. A first group and a second group of agents may be assigned to address work items in a first queue in the computational instance. The second group may also be assigned to address and prioritize work items in a second queue in the computational instance. A computing device within the computational instance may assign a work item originating from a client device in the managed network into the first queue according to routing rules. The assignment may cause a timer to record a duration that the work item is in the first queue. The computing device may assign one of the second group of agents to address the work item based on the duration exceeding a pre-determined value. |
| US10929789B2 |
Information processing method, information processing system, and recording medium storing program
An information processing method enhancing running efficiency of a passenger transportation vehicle is provided. The information processing method includes acquiring first stop position information indicating a first desired stop position of a first user riding a vehicle and tolerable range information indicating a gap range from the first desired stop position, which the first user tolerates, acquiring second stop position information indicating a second desired stop position of a second user riding the vehicle, deciding the second route based on the first stop position information, tolerable range information, and second stop position information, transmitting an inquiry of whether the second route is approved to an apparatus controlled by the first user, or assigning a benefit or the cost to the first user in a case of receiving a response indicating that the second route is approved or not approved from the apparatus. |
| US10929773B2 |
Dynamic message categorization for optimized message targeting
An automated dynamic message categorization system is provided and includes first, second and third processing units. The first processing unit is configured to generate a user interface (UI) and to present the UI to a user. The second processing unit is configured to pull information from a first textual element which has been entered into the UI, to identify second textual elements that are relevant to the first textual element based on the pulled information and to extract textual element identifiers from the second textual elements. The third processing unit is configured to generate, for each extracted textual element identifier, a confidence score describing a degree of correlation between each extracted textual element identifier and the first textual element. The first processing unit is further configured to present to the user each extracted textual element identifier with a corresponding confidence score as a selectable option via the UI. |
| US10929769B2 |
Electronic circuit for control or coupling of single charges or spins and methods therefor
A quantum dot structure having a split-gate geometry is provided. The quantum dot is configured for incorporation into a quantum dot array of a quantum processing unit. A gap between a reservoir accumulation gate and a quantum dot accumulation gate provides a tunnel barrier between an electric charge reservoir and a quantum dot well. An electrical potential applied to the gates defines a tunnel barrier height, width and charge tunneling rate between the well and the reservoir without relying on any barrier gate to control the charge tunneling rate. |
| US10929768B2 |
Probabilistic efficient storage algorithm for time-domain spectrum measurements
Methods include compressing a plurality of time domain samples with a processor and memory by providing the plurality time domain samples and a plurality of power bins, identifying an activity window corresponding to a sequence of the time domain samples that are above a selected power threshold, determining a power average for the activity window, assigning the power average to one of the power bins having a range that includes the power average, and storing the assigned power bin and number of time domain samples of the activity window. Related decompression methods that can estimate a radio frequency power over time from the compressed power window data, as well as systems employing compression and/or decompression methods are also disclosed. Selected examples employ Gaussian mixture models and Bayesian responsibility functions. |
| US10929764B2 |
Boolean satisfiability
An apparatus includes a state machine engine. The state machine engine may also include an automaton, whereby the automaton is configured to analyze data from a beginning of an input data stream until a point when an end of data signal is seen. The automaton may further be configured to report an event representative of a satisfaction of a Boolean clause of a conjunctive normal form (CNF) Boolean expression representative of a Boolean Satisfiability problem (SAT) by a portion of the input data stream. |
| US10929763B2 |
Recommender system for heterogeneous log pattern editing operation
A heterogeneous log pattern editing recommendation system and computer-implemented method are provided. The system has a processor configured to identify, from heterogeneous logs, patterns including variable fields and constant fields. The processor is also configured to extract a category feature, a cardinality feature, and a before-after n-gram feature by tokenizing the variable fields in the identified patterns. The processor is additionally configured to generate target similarity scores between target fields to be potentially edited and other fields from among the variable fields in the heterogeneous logs using pattern editing operations based on the extracted category feature, the extracted cardinality feature, and the extracted before-after n-gram feature. The processor is further configured to recommend, to a user, log pattern edits for at least one of the target fields based on the target similarity scores between the target fields in the heterogeneous logs. |
| US10929760B1 |
Architecture for table-based mathematical operations for inference acceleration in machine learning
A processing unit to support inference acceleration for machine learning (ML) comprises an inline post processing unit configured to accept and maintain one or more lookup tables for performing each of one or more non-linear mathematical operations. The inline post processing unit is further configured to accept data from a set of registers maintaining output from a processing block instead of streaming the data from an on-chip memory (OCM), perform the one or more non-linear mathematical operations on elements of the data from the processing block via their corresponding lookup tables, and stream post processing result of the one or more non-linear mathematical operations back to the OCM after the one or more non-linear mathematical operations are complete. |
| US10929755B2 |
Optimization processing for neural network model
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for optimization processing of neural network models. The method includes the following: determining one or more target layers of the neural network model based on the number of neurons at each layer of the neural network model; for each of the one or more target layers, adding a virtual layer between the target layer and a preceding layer of the target layer, where neurons at the virtual layer are separately connected to neurons at the target layer and neurons at the preceding layer of the target layer, and addition of the virtual layer reduces the number of connections between the target layer and the preceding layer of the target layer; and training the neural network model after having added the virtual layers, to obtain an optimized neural network model. |
| US10929753B1 |
System and method for generating a probability value for an event
A method and system for generating a probability value for an event. The system includes a source for generating a plurality of digital input signals, a processor connected to the source to receive the plurality of digital input signals from the source, and a display connected to the processor for displaying a final output. Preferably, the method further includes validating the probability value. |
| US10929752B2 |
Automated control of display devices
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing images or video using computer vision. Data comprising real time or near real time information or historical information is retrieved that is associated with a sporting event at a physical location. A time segment is identified of a display device at the physical location for acquisition. The display device is configurable to present visual sponsorship data during the time segment for an assigned sponsor. It is determined that one or more rules are satisfied by the data. An indication is transmitted that the first rule is satisfied to a computing device of a sponsor. A bid or valuation is generated based at least on the first rule being satisfied. A request to acquire the time segment is received from the computing device of the sponsor, and the display device at the physical location is caused to present visual sponsorship data for the sponsor during the time segment. |
| US10929747B2 |
Dual deterministic and stochastic neurosynaptic core circuit
One embodiment provides a system comprising a memory device for maintaining deterministic neural data relating to a digital neuron and a logic circuit for deterministic neural computation and stochastic neural computation. Deterministic neural computation comprises processing a neuronal state of the neuron based on the deterministic neural data maintained. Stochastic neural computation comprises generating stochastic neural data relating to the neuron and processing the neuronal state of the neuron based on the stochastic neural data generated. |
| US10929743B2 |
Learning to schedule control fragments for physics-based character simulation and robots using deep Q-learning
The disclosure provides an approach for learning to schedule control fragments for physics-based virtual character simulations and physical robot control. Given precomputed tracking controllers, a simulation application segments the controllers into control fragments and learns a scheduler that selects control fragments at runtime to accomplish a task. In one embodiment, each scheduler may be modeled with a Q-network that maps a high-level representation of the state of the simulation to a control fragment for execution. In such a case, the deep Q-learning algorithm applied to learn the Q-network schedulers may be adapted to use a reward function that prefers the original controller sequence and an exploration strategy that gives more chance to in-sequence control fragments than to out-of-sequence control fragments. Such a modified Q-learning algorithm learns schedulers that are capable of following the original controller sequence most of the time while selecting out-of-sequence control fragments when necessary. |
| US10929736B2 |
Electronic device including a component powered by internal electromagnetic coupling
Disclosed is an electronic device including: a body; a module enclosed in the body; a microcircuit and a direct current source, both forming part of the body; and an electronic component forming part of the module and accessible from the exterior, the electronic component being electrically connected to the microcircuit and having to be supplied with direct current from the direct current source. The body includes a first antenna connected to the direct current source via an oscillator and the module includes a second antenna connected to the electronic component via a rectifier circuit, the first and second antennas being electromagnetically coupled, providing a wireless radio frequency power supply to the electronic component of the module from the direct current source of the body. |
| US10929728B2 |
Printing non-user patterns with a print job
The systems and methods presented here completely separate a non-user pattern from the user jobs being printed. In fact, depending on the number of images in the job and the number of patterns provided by the manufacturer or press operator, the patterns may appear on different images of the job each time the job is printed. This is because the image marks are generated and processed according to the configuration of ROUS, independent of the user jobs being printed. |
| US10929725B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing information
A method and apparatus for processing information are provided. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring image information containing text information, the text information comprising printed characters and non-printed characters; recognizing the text information is the image information to generate display data, the display data comprising a recognition result of the text information; and feeding back the display data to a user. This embodiment helps to reduce the limitations on the acquisition method and the contents of image information, and may enrich the feedback method and the contents of the text information therein. |
| US10929723B2 |
Information presenting apparatus, information presenting method and program
An object of the present invention is to provide an information presenting apparatus, method, and a program capable of promoting a user to variously use images according to a category to which an image owned by a user belongs.The category classifying unit classifies images uploaded from the first user terminal and the second user terminal to the SNS server by machine learning into any one of defined categories such as “nature field”, “art field”, “wedding field”, “snap field” and the like. The category determining unit determines the category of the trigger image identified by the trigger image identification information. The recommended information extracting unit extracts images (recommended images) belonging to the same category as the category determined by the category determining unit. The recommended information presenting unit presents the recommended image and/or recommended image related information extracted by the recommended information extracting unit, to the first user terminal as recommended information. |
| US10929716B2 |
System and method for label-free identification and classification of biological samples
A system and method of analyzing a biological sample using an imaging system are disclosed. An image acquisition module instructs the imaging system to obtain a label free image of a training biological sample and in response receives a first training image. The image acquisition module also instructs the imaging system to cause the training biological sample to fluoresce and obtain an image of the training biological sample undergoing fluorescence, and in response receives a second training image. An analysis module analyzing the second training image to generate a plurality of training cell characteristics, wherein each of the plurality training cell characteristics is associated with one of a plurality of training cells that comprise the training biological sample. A training module trains a machine learning system using the first training image and the plurality of training cell characteristics to develop a trained machine learning system such that when the trained machine learning system is operated with the first training image as an input, the trained machine learning system generates a plurality of predicted cell characteristics that correspond to the plurality of training cell characteristics. |
| US10929713B2 |
Semantic visual landmarks for navigation
Techniques are disclosed for improving navigation accuracy for a mobile platform. In one example, a navigation system comprises an image sensor that generates a plurality of images, each image comprising one or more features. A computation engine executing on one or more processors of the navigation system processes each image of the plurality of images to determine a semantic class of each feature of the one or more features of the image. The computation engine determines, for each feature of the one or more features of each image and based on the semantic class of the feature, whether to include the feature as a constraint in a navigation inference engine. The computation engine generates, based at least on features of the one or more features included as constraints in the navigation inference engine, navigation information. The computation engine outputs the navigation information to improve navigation accuracy for the mobile platform. |
| US10929712B2 |
Embedded variable line patterns for images
In some implementations, a system is capable of generating identifications that include distinctive line patterns corresponding to different portions of secure customer information. Data indicating an input image, and a dithering matrix representing a two-dimensional array of pixel values is obtained. Pixel values of pixels included in the input image are transformed using the dithering matrix. For each pixel within the input image, the transformation includes identifying a particular pixel value within the dithering matrix that represents a particular pixel within the input image, and adjusting an intensity value of the particular pixel based on attributes of the dithering matrix. A transformed image is generated based on the transformation and then provided for output. |
| US10929711B1 |
Time of flight data segmentation
Techniques are discussed for segmenting sensor data captured by a sensor to remove a ground surface from the sensor data. A first technique includes capturing sensor data represented as multichannel image and segmenting the image according to image processing techniques. The ground surface can be removed from the sensor data, and a subset of the sensor data can be associated with a voxel space. A second technique includes capturing sensor data and unprojecting the sensor data to generate three dimensional data, which can be associated with a voxel space. Ground plane data associated with a location can be accessed or determined and voxel data that is within a threshold height of the ground plane data can be removed from the voxel space. Clustering techniques can determine objects represented in the data, and a vehicle can be controlled based on the objects. |
| US10929707B2 |
Computation of audience metrics focalized on displayed content
A system and method for analyzing behavior in a video is described. The method includes extracting a plurality of salient fragments of a video; associating a time anchor with a presentation of a first media content to a human subject; generating a focalized visualization, based on the time anchor, from one or more of the plurality of salient fragments of the video; tagging the human subject in the focalized visualization with a unique identifier; and analyzing behavior of the human subject, using the focalized visualization, to generate a behavior score associated with the unique identifier and the first media content. |
| US10929706B2 |
Image processing device and projection system
An image processing device extracts, for a target area that has sites having different flexibilities and where markers corresponding to the respective flexibilities are put on the sites, marking positions where the markers are put according to each type of the markers from each of a first image to be projected and being an image of the target area captured in advance and a second image being an image of the target area captured before projection of the first image; executes, based on the extracted marking positions according to each type of the markers, image processing to align the marking positions of the markers contained in the first image with the marking positions of the markers contained in the second image by a processing method corresponding to the types of the markers; and generates, based on the processed first image, a projection image to be projected onto the target area. |
| US10929705B2 |
Image cataloger based on gridded color histogram analysis
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for cataloging images based on a gridded color histogram analysis. The computer accesses an image gallery specified by a user, wherein the image gallery is at least one of an image gallery stored on a user computing device, an image gallery stored on a user account at a third-party image storage, or an image gallery searched on the web. The computer receives a request to search the image gallery specified by the user. The computer performs a search of the image gallery, wherein the search is using a color based histogram algorithm based on a user input. The computer transmits a cataloged and sorted image gallery to the user computing device to be displayed. |
| US10929703B2 |
Method apparatus and program product for enabling two or more electronic devices to perform operations based on a common subject
Respective actions are taken by two electronic devices based upon information captured by cameras of the devices. An image of a subject is captured with a first camera equipped in the first electronic device with a second camera equipped in the second electronic device. Form feature information of the subject is then recognized from the captured images. The first electronic device performs a first operation and the second electronic device performs a second operation responsive to recognizing the form feature of the subject. |
| US10929702B2 |
Automatic image feature removal
Apparatus and methods are described including receiving, via a computer processor, at least one image of a portion of a subject's body. One or more features that are present within the image of the portion of the subject's body, and that were artificially added to the image subsequent to acquisition of the image, are identified. In response thereto, an output is generated on an output device. |
| US10929686B2 |
Image processing apparatus and method and storage medium storing instructions
The present invention discloses an image processing apparatus and method and storage medium storing instructions. The image processing apparatus comprises a unit for acquiring a current video frame and a scene model based on an input video, a unit for updating visual element models in said scene model, which match with the visual elements in said current video frame, based on the visual elements in said current video frame, and a unit for updating visual element models in said scene model, which do not match with the visual elements in said current video frame, based on the visual elements in said current video frame and in the previous video frames thereof. According to the present disclosure, the whole scene model can vary immediately following the variation in the environment illumination. |
| US10929685B2 |
Analysis of operator behavior focalized on machine events
A system and method for analyzing behavior in a video is described. The method includes extracting a plurality of salient fragments of a video; associating a time anchor with an occurrence of a first machine event of a machine operated by a human subject; generating a focalized visualization, based on the time anchor, from one or more of the plurality of salient fragments of the video; tagging the human subject in the focalized visualization with a unique identifier; and analyzing behavior of the human subject, using the focalized visualization, to generate a behavior score associated with the unique identifier and the first machine event. |
| US10929684B2 |
Intelligently generating digital note compilations from digital video
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for intelligently merging handwritten content and digital audio from a digital video based on monitored presentation flow. In particular, the disclosed systems can apply an edge detection algorithm to intelligently detect distinct sections of the digital video and locations of handwritten content entered onto a writing surface over time. Moreover, the disclosed systems can generate a transcription of handwritten content utilizing digital audio. For instance, the disclosed systems can utilize an audio text transcript as input to an optical character recognition algorithm and auto-correct text utilizing the audio text transcript. Further, the disclosed systems can analyze short form text from handwritten script and generate long form text from audio text transcripts. The disclosed systems can accurately, efficiently, and flexibly generate digital summaries that reflect diagrams, handwritten text transcriptions, and audio text transcripts over different presentation time periods. |
| US10929683B2 |
Video processing method, apparatus and device
A video processing method, apparatus and device. The method includes: acquiring a video to be processed; performing audio processing on a plurality of frames of audios in the video to obtain a first processing result corresponding to each frame of audio; performing image processing on a plurality of frames of images in the video to obtain a second processing result corresponding to each frame of image; determining an entity in the video according to the first processing result and the second processing result; acquiring association information of the entity according to index information of the entity; generating first text information used for describing each frame of image, according to the second processing result corresponding to each frame of image and association information of the entity; and generating a first type of target article according to the plurality of frames of images and first text information of each frame of image. |
| US10929676B2 |
Video recognition using multiple modalities
Implementations described herein discloses a multi-modality video recognition system. Specifically, the multi-modality video recognition system is configured to train a plurality of classifier networks, each of the classifier network trained with a different one of the plurality of video streams, wherein each of the plurality of different classifier networks includes multiple intermediate layers, determine correlation matrices of related intermediate layers of each of the plurality of the different classifier networks, and align the correlation matrices of the related intermediate layers of each of the plurality of the different classifier networks. |
| US10929671B2 |
Systems and methods for image-feature-based recognition
Methods and systems are described herein that allow a user to capture a single image snapshot from video, print, or the world around him or her, and obtain additional information relating to the media itself or items of interest displayed in the snapshot. A fingerprint of the snapshot is used as a query and transmitted to the server. Image Feature-Based Recognition, as described herein, uses a feature index to identify a smaller set of candidate matches from a larger database of images based on the fingerprint. Novel methods and systems using a distance metric and a radical hash table design exploit probabilistic effects and allow distinct image features to be preferred over redundant ones, allowing only the more distinctive data points to remain resident within the index, yielding a lean index that can be quickly used in the identification process. |
| US10929670B1 |
Marker-to-model location pairing and registration for augmented reality applications
A method for providing just-in-time access to data for calibrating an augmented reality (AR) device relative to an operation environment and then using the calibration data to register virtual content generated by the AR device with a scene being viewed by a user in the operation environment. An AR device is calibrated by pairing marker identifiers of 2-D markers affixed to objects in a physical environment with 3-D locations of those objects specified in a virtual environment containing 3-D model of those objects and then a marker-to-model location pairing list is generated. The pairing list is used to align displayed virtual 3-D content with an object appearing in the visualized physical environment. A location correction is computed at run-time based on a current AR device-to-marker offset computed from an image of the 2-D marker and the 3-D location of the object retrieved from the pairing list. |
| US10929669B2 |
Systems and methods for processing colon images and videos
There is provided a method of generating instructions for presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) for dynamically tracking at least one polyp in a plurality of endoscopic images of a colon of a patient, comprising: iterating for the plurality of endoscopic images: tracking a location of a region depicting at least one polyp within the respective endoscopic image relative to at least one previous endoscopic image, when the location of the region is external to the respective endoscopic image: computing a vector from within the respective endoscopic image to the location of the region external to the respective endoscopic image, creating an augmented endoscopic image by augmenting the respective endoscopic image with an indication of the vector, and generating instructions for presenting the augmented endoscopic image within the GUI. |
| US10929666B2 |
System and method for providing augmented reality interactions over printed media
The present document describes a system and method for providing augmented reality interactions with printed media, whereby a user looking at a printed media (physical or electronic) with their portable computing device may view augmented reality interactions on their portable device to enrich the media being viewed. The method includes recognizing pages and using interaction capabilities offered atop the page once recognized. The system is also configured to perform an image recognition process which allows for a very quick detection of a preregistered image from the database which matches the image of the page viewed by the user in order to extract the assets associated with the prestored image and send them to the portable device for display. |
| US10929665B2 |
System and method for providing dominant scene classification by semantic segmentation
A method for computing a dominant class of a scene includes: receiving an input image of a scene; generating a segmentation map of the input image, the segmentation map including a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels being labeled with a corresponding class of a plurality of classes; computing a plurality of area ratios based on the segmentation map, each of the area ratios corresponding to a different class of the plurality of classes of the segmentation map; applying inference to generate a plurality of ranked labels based on the area ratios; and outputting a detected dominant class of the scene based on the plurality of ranked labels. |
| US10929663B2 |
Ponding water detection on satellite imagery
A system for identifying ponding water located on a field from image data is described. In an approach, an image of an agricultural field is analyzed using a classifier that has been trained based on the spectral bands of labeled image pixels to identify a probability for each pixel within the image that the pixel corresponds to water. A flow simulation is performed to determine regions of the field that are likely to pool water after rainfall based on precipitation data, elevation data, and soil property data of the field. A graph of vertices representing the pixels and edges representing connections between neighboring pixels is generated. The probability of each pixel within the graph being ponding water is set based on the probability pixel being water, the likelihood that water will pool in the area represented by the pixel, the probability of neighboring pixels being ponding water, and a cropland mask that identifies which pixels correspond to cropland. A class for each pixel is then determined that maximizes the joint probability over the graph. |
| US10929658B2 |
Active stereo with adaptive support weights from a separate image
Systems and methods for stereo matching based upon active illumination using a patch in a non-actively illuminated image to obtain weights that are used in patch similarity determinations in actively illuminated stereo images is provided. To correlate pixels in actively illuminated stereo images, adaptive support weights computations are used to determine similarity of patches corresponding to the pixels. In order to obtain adaptive support weights for the adaptive support weights computations, weights are obtained by processing a non-actively illuminated (“clean”) image. |
| US10929645B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium
In an image processing apparatus, a face detection unit detects a face area from an input image, and an image processing unit extracts a high luminance area from the face area to generate a correction amount of the high luminance area and corrects the high luminance area using the correction amount. Then, in a case where a plurality of face areas is detected, the image processing unit adjusts the correction amount based on feature information of the plurality of face areas. |
| US10929640B2 |
Flat panel display with optical image sensor embedded therein
The present disclosure relates to a flat panel display with an optical image sensor embedded therein. The flat panel display includes a directional light unit. The directional light unit comprises a cover substrate with a surface area corresponding to the length and width; a first low refractive index layer attached to the lower surface of the cover substrate; a light-exiting element disposed to correspond to the display area, on the lower surface of the first low refractive index layer; a light-entering element disposed outside the display area at one side of the light-exiting element, on the lower surface of the first low refractive index layer; a second low refractive index layer disposed on the lower surfaces of the light-exiting element and light-entering element and attached to the upper surface of the display panel; and a light source disposed to face the light-entering element. |
| US10929638B2 |
Display panel, method for driving the same, and display device
The disclosure discloses a display panel, a method for driving the same, and a display device, where the display panel includes a plurality of detection circuits arranged in an array, each detection circuit includes a control component, and a plurality of photosensitive recognition components arranged in an array; the control component is configured to obtain electric signals provided by the plurality of photosensitive recognition components, to process and then output, in a process of recognizing a fingerprint, the electric signals provided by the plurality of photosensitive recognition components separately, and to superimpose, in a process of detecting a touch, the electric signals provided by the plurality of photosensitive recognition components, and to process and output an electric signal resulting from the superimposition. |
| US10929628B2 |
QR code positioning method and apparatus
Implementations of the present application provide a QR code positioning method and apparatus. Based on a predetermined pixel detection rule, centers of candidate position detection patterns in the QR code image are determined from a QR code image that includes first-type pixels and second-type pixels. The predetermined pixel detection rule includes that a consecutive arrangement ratio of the first-type pixels, the second-type pixels, and the first-type pixels satisfies a predetermined ratio. The candidate position detection patterns are identified based on the centers of the candidate position detection patterns. A set of patterns that satisfies a QR code image positioning rule are determined from the candidate position detection patterns. The set of patterns are used as position detection patterns of the QR code image. |
| US10929627B2 |
Training system for use with janitorial and cleaning products
A system and method for training in the cleaning of a room. The system includes a room having a plurality of locations to be cleaned; a plurality of optical tags, each of the optical tags positionable to be located at one of the locations to be cleaned and containing codes that link to a website having information about one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products and the use thereof at the one of the locations to be cleaned; and a reader operable by a user and configured to scan the codes of the optical tags and display to the user the room and selectively the information from the website about the one or more pre-selected janitorial and cleaning products and the use thereof at the locations to be cleaned. |
| US10929622B1 |
Passive call button and systems and methods associated therewith
Systems and methods for detecting an event within a monitored area are provided. A transmitter emits an RF interrogation signal into the monitored area. An RF target positioned within the monitored area reflects the interrogation signal as a target signal when the interrogation signal impinges on the RF target. The RF target has a switch actuatable by a user between a switch-state in which the RF target operates in a first reflective state, and a switch-state in which the RF target operates in a second reflective state. A receiver receives the target signal from the RF target. Based on the target signal received by the receiver, a processor can detect an indication of the reflective state in which the RF target is operating. The processor triggers an action in response to the indication of the reflective state in which the RF target is operating. |
| US10929618B2 |
Translation device and translation method
A translation device is configured to translate from a first language into a second language and includes a first language acquisition unit, a polyseme processor, and a first language output unit. The first language acquisition unit acquires a sentence in the first language. The polyseme processor determines whether or not a word in the second language for a word in the first language included in the sentence is a polyseme, and acquires a plurality of candidate meanings for the word in the second language when the word in the second language is determined as a polyseme. The first language output unit outputs the plurality of candidate meanings. |
| US10929614B2 |
Automated contextual dialog generation for cognitive conversation
Systems and method for automated contextual dialog generation for cognitive conversations include embedding a natural language sentence input by a user into a corresponding sentence vector using a sentence embedder. A context array is generated using a contextual sentence embedder to embed the sentence vector and previous sentence vectors of a conversation history into a context array. Response words are predicted from the sentence vector by performing sequence-to-sequence dialog prediction with a dialog prediction network. Context of the input sentence is quantified by extracting context features from the context array using a situation quantification network. A response dialog is generated in natural language to display to a user, the response dialog responding to the input sentence with a response generator by determining a dialog state including the response words and the quantified context and optimizing the response dialog with reinforcement learning corresponding to the dialog state. |
| US10929612B2 |
Neural network memory computing system and method
Provided are a neural network memory computing system and method. The neural network memory computing system includes a first processor configured to learn a sense-making process on the basis of sense-making multimodal training data stored in a database, receive multiple modalities, and output a sense-making result on the basis of results of the learning, and a second processor configured to generate a sense-making training set for the first processor to increase knowledge for learning a sense-making process and provide the generated sense-making training set to the first processor. |
| US10929608B2 |
Information transmission device and non-transitory computer readable medium
An information transmission device includes: a determining unit that determines a situation of an interlocutor who interacts with a user; and a transmission unit that transmits, to the user, information to be provided according to the situation of the interlocutor determined by the determining unit. In a further modification of the invention, the determining unit may determine a situation related to a body or conversation of the interlocutor as the situation of the interlocutor. |
| US10929604B2 |
System and method for analyzing items and creating a data structure using lexicon analysis and filtering process
The present invention is a method or system of analyzing items to create a data structure using lexicon analysis and filtering process. The present invention drives the analysis without a user being required to provide search terms and Boolean queries. Further, the present invention merges the use of unstructured data and structured data using a lexicon as a focus. Structured data is mapped to lexicon terms through one analysis process, while unstructured data is mapped to lexicon terms through a separate analysis process. In some disclosed embodiments, the mapping process uses a tuple structure of the source data to match with lexicon terms. The result is an analysis that merges the two different sets of data, which enables a user to navigate through the items using lexicons. Analysis results are displayed simultaneously in a tabular view, geospatial view, and lexicon histogram. |
| US10929601B1 |
Question answering for a multi-modal system
Techniques for determining an answer that relates to a user question when a system is unable to determine an exact answer to the user question are described. When the system receives a user question, the system may parse the user question to determine the words making up the question. The system may then process the words against an indexed dictionary of words to piece the words of the question together to from interpretations of the different possible relationships that may exist between the words. The system may attempt to determine an exact answer to the user question using the indexed words. If the system determines an exact answer, the system may output the answer to the querying user. If the system is unable to determine an exact answer, the system may navigate through a ontology of relationships within a knowledge base to determine an answer that is related to the user question but that may not directly answer the user question. |
| US10929594B2 |
Automated testing materials in electronic document publishing
A testing materials production system generates a testing document associated with an electronic foundation document. The testing materials production system automatically generates the testing document by populating regions of a template with testing elements extracted from the electronic document. User customizations of the testing document are received, and the testing document is published to an extended catalog database associated with the electronic document. Regions of the testing document may be delivered in association with the electronic document to designated recipients via browser applications executing on computing devices of the recipients. |
| US10929587B2 |
Chip design method of optimizing circuit performance according to change in PVT operation conditions
A method of designing a chip having an integrated circuit is provided. The method includes obtaining delta cell delays and delta net delays according to a process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) corner change with respect to a plurality of cells and a plurality of nets forming the integrated circuit; analyzing sensitivity with respect to a delay according to the PVT corner change of a plurality of paths in the integrated circuit, by using the delta cell delays and the delta net delays; determining N-number of sensitivity-critical paths among the plurality of paths based on a result of the analysis, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 0; and performing an engineering change order (ECO) based on a result of the determination. |
| US10929583B2 |
Clock verification
Methods and systems for verifying a derived clock using assertion-based verification. The method comprises counting the number of full or half cycles of a fast clock that occur between the rising edge and the falling edge of a slow clock (i.e. during the ON phase of the slow clock); counting the number of full or half cycles of the fast clock that occur between the falling edge and the rising edge of the slow clock (i.e. during the OFF phase of the slow clock); and verifying the counts using assertion-based verification. |
| US10929578B2 |
Minimizing uncertainty envelopes in trajectories of evolving ensemble members
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for minimizing uncertainty envelopes in trajectories of evolving ensemble members. The mechanism generates a trajectory forecast of each member object of an ensemble based on an initial state-space and a model for predicting trajectories of the member objects to generate a plurality of trajectory forecasts. Each of the plurality of trajectory forecasts has an individual uncertainty envelope. The mechanism applies a classification algorithm on the plurality of trajectory forecasts to identify at least one group of member objects having similar trajectory forecasts, generates a reduced ensemble of member objects including the identified group of member objects, and reconfigures the state-space and the model for predicting trajectories. The mechanism generates an updated trajectory forecast of each member object of the reduced ensemble based on the reconfigured state-space and the reconfigured model for predicting trajectories of the member objects. |
| US10929577B2 |
Autonomous development of two-phase cooling architecture
Techniques for autonomously modeling a two-phase cooling architecture are provided. In one example, a computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, a reduced physics model based on a profile of a heat source and a parameter of a cooling structure. The reduced physics model can provide an output. Also, the computer-implemented method can comprise generating, by the system, a full physics model based on the output. The computer-implemented method can further comprise combining, by the system, the reduced physics model and the full physics model to define an architecture that achieves a flow distribution of a coolant. |
| US10929576B2 |
Method for estimating the thermodynamic properties of a quantum Ising model with transverse field
A method for estimating a thermodynamic property of a quantum Ising model with transverse field is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining an indication of a thermodynamic property to approximate for the quantum Ising model with transverse field; obtaining data representative of the quantum Ising model with transverse field; setting the quantum Ising model with transverse field using the obtained data representative of the quantum Ising model with transverse field on a quantum Ising model sampling device, the quantum Ising model sampling device being operatively coupled to a processing device and to a quantum Ising model sampling device control system; performing a plurality of measurements of the quantum Ising model with transverse field in a measurement axis using the quantum Ising model sampling device, each measurement providing a corresponding measured configuration; generating an effective classical Ising model corresponding to the quantum Ising model with transverse field; generating a plurality of effective configurations of the effective classical Ising model, each effective configuration comprising a set of more than one of the measured configurations; generating an approximation of the thermodynamic property of the effective classical Ising model using the generated plurality of effective configurations of the effective classical Ising model to approximate the thermodynamic property of the quantum Ising model with transverse field; and providing the approximation of the thermodynamic property. |
| US10929572B2 |
Secure data storage device with security function implemented in a data security bridge
A storage device includes: a controller; a storage medium coupled to the controller; and a data security bridge comprising a security module and a key management module; wherein the security module is configured to perform data encryption and/or data decryption; and wherein the key management module is configured to obtain a first security key stored in the storage device, obtain a second security key received by the storage device, and perform a user authentication based on the first security key and the second security key. |
| US10929571B2 |
FPGA hardware-based secure computing method and apparatus
An FPGA hardware device obtains encrypted data of each participant of a secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device stores at least one first key, where the at least one first key is at least one first key of all participants in the secure computing system or at least one first key of a predetermined number of trusted managers in the secure computing system, where the FPGA hardware device includes an FPGA chip. The FPGA hardware device decrypts the encrypted data of each participant by using a working key of each participant, to obtain plaintext data of each participant, where the working key of each participant is obtained based on a corresponding first key of the at least one first key. The FPGA hardware device performs computing based on the plaintext data of each participant to obtain a computing result. The FPGA hardware device outputs the computing result. |
| US10929569B2 |
Method and system for storage-based intrusion detection and recovery
An intrusion detection and recovery system includes a copying module that creates a point-in-time copy of a storage level logical unit, the point-in-time copy including a volume copy of the storage level logical unit and a signature of the storage level logical unit, a comparison module that compares at least a portion of the point-in-time copy with a previous copy of the storage level logical unit, a judging module that, based on results of the comparison module, judges if a modification has occurred. A signature of the point-in-time copy is compared with a signature of the previous copy to detect a sign of an intrusion. |
| US10929568B2 |
Application control
A method for controlling application operations on data elements includes identifying an activity by an instance of an application running on a host to perform an operation associated with a data element. The method further includes obtaining an application label which includes information regarding the instance of the application, and obtaining a data element label which includes information regarding the data element. Then, based on a combined analysis of the data element label and the application label, an operational policy governing the operation of the instance of the application with respect to the data element is determined. A control action is applied to the operation, according to the operational policy, so as to control the operation by the instance of the application with respect to the data element. |
| US10929565B2 |
Integrated circuit device, information processing apparatus, memory management method for information storage device, mobile terminal apparatus, semiconductor integrated circuit device, and communication method using mobile terminal apparatus
A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled. |
| US10929560B2 |
Identifying personally identifiable information in machine-generated data
Implementations include receiving a user provided example value of personally identifiable information (PII). Occurrences of the received example value are automatically identified in a dataset of events, wherein each occurrence is identified in a portion of raw machine data of a respective event of the events. For each occurrence of the identified occurrences, an extraction rule is generated, which defines a pattern of the occurrence of the example value and is executable to identify PII values in portions of raw machine data of the events using the pattern. Values of the PII are identified in a set of events using a set of extraction rules comprising the extraction rule of a plurality of the occurrences. |
| US10929558B2 |
Data secruity enhancement by model training
Encrypted user data are received at a service device from at least one user equipment, and the user data is encrypted in a trusted zone of the at least one user equipment. The encrypted user data then be decrypted in a trust zone of the service device by a first central processing unit (CPU) to obtain decrypted user data. A model is trained by using the decrypted user data to determine a training intermediate value and a training effective representative value, and a determination is made whether the training effective representative value satisfies a specified condition is determined. If so, the trained model is generated based on a model parameter. Otherwise, a model parameter is iterately adjusted and the model is iteratively trained based on an adjusted model parameter until the trained effective representative value satisfies the specified condition. |
| US10929556B1 |
Discrete data masking security system
The invention relates generally to improved secure data storage that utilizes zoned data storage and control and/or integration of discrete data for masking the stored data. The data may be divided and stored in different zoned databases and assigned different access rights in order to separate data that is part of a larger combination of data into smaller data portions, which makes it difficult for unauthorized use of such data. Additionally, or alternatively, data that is stored within a database may be combined with other discrete data (e.g., unrelated real data) in order to mask the data being stored. As such, the masked data is more secure and less storage spaces is required due to the utilization of real data for masking. When an unauthorized requestor of the stored data is identified deterrence actions may be taken to reduce the unauthorized user's ability to access the desired data. |
| US10929555B2 |
Systems and methods for securing data
Some embodiments of the present invention include an apparatus for securing data and include a processor, and one or more stored sequences of instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to set a data download threshold, encrypt data to be downloaded by a user based on detecting size of the data violating the download threshold such that the user receives encrypted downloaded data, and manage a decryption key used to decrypt the encrypted downloaded data. The decryption key may be deconstructed into “N” key fragments and may be reconstructed using “K” key fragments where “N” is equal to “2K−1”. |
| US10929542B2 |
Software policy engine in virtual environment
Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums for detection of policy violations in an unmodified binary in a virtual environment include receiving the unmodified binary in an executable and linkable format (ELF). The unmodified binary is executed, via an emulator, within the virtual environment. The executing includes determining, by an instruction set emulator, a symbol that is referenced during the executing of the unmodified binary. The symbol, a current state, and a global state is sent to a software policy engine. The software policy engine determines an assertion associated with the symbol. The assertion verifies a policy is enforced. A previous state is updated based on the symbol. The assertion is executed based on the current state, the previous state, and the global state. The assertion is determined to have failed based on the executing the assertion. A warning is logged indicating the failed assertion. |
| US10929540B2 |
Trusted updates
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and a memory; a whitelist; an updater, the updater being an executable object authorized to modify files within the whitelist and to launch one or more child processes; and instructions encoded within the memory to provide a system management agent to: maintain a chain of trust between the one or more child processes and the updater, wherein the one or more child processes inherit whitelist permissions associated with the updater; and track the chain of trust across a system reboot, including granting a child process the chain of trust after a reboot only if the child process has associated with it a valid certificate. |
| US10929536B2 |
Detecting malware based on address ranges
Techniques are disclosed relating to detecting potential malware. A computer system may access process information identifying a set of software modules stored in a memory space allocated for a computer process. The computer system may determine address ranges that are respectively associated with a software module and define a segment in the memory space where program instructions are stored corresponding to that software module. The computer system may access thread information specifying, for each of a set of threads, a start address that identifies a location from which an initial program instruction is to be retrieved to begin execution of that thread. The computer system may make a determination that a thread is associated with a start address identifying a location outside of all address ranges, but within the memory space. Based on the determination, the computer system may classify the thread as being associated with malicious activity. |
| US10929535B2 |
Controlled introduction of uncertainty in system operating parameters
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for mitigating or eliminating the effectiveness of a side channel attack, such as a Meltdown or Spectre type attack by selectively introducing a variable, but controlled, quantity of uncertainty into the externally accessible system parameters visible and useful to the attacker. The systems and methods described herein provide perturbation circuitry that includes perturbation selector circuitry and perturbation block circuitry. The perturbation selector circuitry detects a potential attack by monitoring the performance/timing data generated by the processor. Upon detecting an attack, the perturbation selector circuitry determines a variable quantity of uncertainty to introduce to the externally accessible system data. The perturbation block circuitry adds the determined uncertainty into the externally accessible system data. The added uncertainty may be based on the frequency or interval of the event occurrences indicative of an attack. |
| US10929529B2 |
Cyber physical attack detection
A cyber-security threat detection system and method stores physical data measurements from a cyber-physical system and extracts synchronized measurement vectors synchronized to one or more timing pulses. The system and method synthesize data integrity attacks in response to the physical data measurements and applies alternating parameterized linear and non-linear operations in response to the synthesized data integrity attacks. The synthesis renders optimized model parameters used to detect multiple cyber-attacks. |
| US10929520B2 |
Secure read-only connection to peripheral device
Information handling systems may be equipped with interfaces to facilitate connection with peripheral devices to serve a variety of functions. A peripheral device may be configured with read-only configuration data when coupled to an information handling system, and the peripheral device allowed to operate in read-only mode. The configuration data may be transmitted as configuration channel (CC) sideband of the interface, such as a USB Type-C interface. If the peripheral device cannot be configured in read-only mode, the information handling system may prevent access to the peripheral device to maintain security policies and prevent data leakage. |
| US10929518B2 |
Information processing apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
The present invention provides an information processing apparatus that stores digital certificates. The information processing apparatus selects a digital certificate among the digital certificates stored in the storing unit in accordance with an instruction of a user, obtains an expiration date of the selected digital certificate and revocation information on the selected digital certificate. The information processing apparatus determines validity of the selected digital certificate on a basis of the obtained expiration date and the obtained revocation information and sets the digital certificate determined to be valid as a digital certificate for communication. |
| US10929516B2 |
Dynamic grip signature for personal authentication
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for a biometric authentication system. In one aspect, a method includes, a vibrating component of a mobile device is vibrated; a vibration signal of the mobile device is detected as a user grips the mobile device; a dynamic grip signature is determined for the user based on the detected vibration signal; and the user is authenticated based on a comparison of the dynamic grip signature to an initial grip template. |
| US10929511B2 |
Systems and methods for protecting sensitive information
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can detect an event relating to a copy of a content item. A determination can be made that the content item is associated with sensitive information. The copy of the content item can be modified. |
| US10929506B1 |
Computerized estimation of minimum number of sonic sources using antichain length
A computerized machine (a) determines temporal and spatial statistical characterizations for each one of plural sonic events, (b) classifies certain pairings among the sonic events as comparable, and (c) estimates a minimum number of sonic sources, some of which are in motion, that could have generated the sonic events. Sonic event times and positions can be characterized by corresponding temporal and spatial confidence intervals. A pairing of sonic events is classified as comparable only when that pairing meets one or more preselected constraints, some of which depend on the temporal and spatial statistical characterizations. The estimated minimum number of sonic sources is equal to the number of sonic events in a longest antichain within a chronological ordering of the set of sonic events. An antichain comprises a subset of the sonic events for which no pairing of sonic events of that subset is a comparable pairing. |
| US10929502B2 |
Matrix triangulation apparatus, matrix triangulation method, and program
In a process of taking a first square matrix formed from elements of a finite field as input and obtaining at least some of entries of a second square matrix which includes an upper triangular portion resulting from triangulation of the first square matrix, product-sum operation is performed on entries as operands at multiple positions in a matrix which is based on the first square matrix to obtain a product-sum operation result corresponding to an entry at a different position than the operands, and reduction of the product-sum operation result is performed. |
| US10929498B2 |
Identifying and storing relevant user content in a collection accessible to user in website subscribed to service
A method, system and computer program product for maintaining a collection service for websites. A user preference for content desired to be viewed by the user subscribed to the collection service is acquired. Content may then be searched and reviewed both within and outside a website subscribed to the service by the collection service to identify the content of interest to the user using an artificial intelligence system based on the acquired user preference and a rule set. The artificial intelligence system is a learning system that learns the content of interest to the user based on the user's actions. The identified content of interest is then presented to the user in a container within the website subscribed to the service, where the container is a “reusable construct” in that it may appear to the user within any subscribed website. |
| US10929494B2 |
Systems and methods for tagging objects for augmented reality
There is provided a method of creating an augmented reality image, comprising: capturing by an imaging sensor of a mobile device, a two dimensional (2D) image of a three dimensional scene (3D) comprising objects and pixel neighborhoods, selecting with a graphical user interface (GUI) presented on a display of the mobile device, pixel(s) of the 2D image corresponding to a certain object, computing a 3D geo-location of the certain object corresponding to the selected pixel(s) of the 2D image, wherein the 3D geo-location includes an altitude relative to sea level, and wherein the 3D geo-location is geographically distinct and spaced apart from a location of the imaging sensor outputted by a location sensor, and creating a tag for the selected pixel(s) of the certain object of the 2D image according to the computed 3D geo-location within a virtual grid, wherein the tag maps to media-object(s) correspond with real world coordinates. |
| US10929491B2 |
Social sharing path user interface insights
A method for generating a sentiment map user interface is presented. The method may include collecting a plurality of content data, whereby the plurality of content data includes an original message and at least one response. The method may include collecting a plurality content path data. The method may include determining a plurality of user sentiment data based on the collected plurality of content data. The method may include generating the sentiment map user interface based on the determined plurality of user sentiment data and the collected plurality of content path data, whereby the generated sentiment map user interface includes a plurality of user icons indicating a user sentiment, and whereby the plurality of user icons are positioned within the generated sentiment map user interface based on the collected plurality of content path data. The method may include presenting the generated sentiment map user interface to a user. |
| US10929489B2 |
Modifying messages to be more discoverable on a social network
A method, system and computer program product for improving the discoverability of messages on a social network. The creation of a proposed message that requests a response from a target audience is detected. The social network is then searched to identify search terms and posts related to the proposed message. Upon identifying the search terms, the search terms are ranked in order of usage among the identified posts. A list of identified search terms in order of rank is then presented to the user to modify the proposed message. The proposed message is modified using a search term selected by the user from the list of search terms. The modified message is then posted on the social network. In this manner, the message created by the user has been modified to improve the discoverability of the message on the social network and to increase responses from an appropriate target audience. |
| US10929487B1 |
Customization of search results for search queries received from third party sites
A third party website provides a search interface to a general search engine. A site profile of the third party website describes various topics, keywords, or domains that are potentially relevant or of interest to users who access the third party website. The topics are associated with a topical directory, with domains associated with each topic; the domains in a given topic are given various weightings. When a search is submitted to the general search engine from the third party website via the search interface, the general search engine uses the site profile to customize the search results. The search results are customized by weighting the ranking of documents from websites associated with the topics in the site profile. The site profile can be manually or automatically constructed. |
| US10929484B2 |
System and method of integrating data
A data set integration system receives a data set that includes a user identifier and a message type code. The integration system selects a terminal profile from a profile database. The selected terminal profile is associated with the user identifier and includes a tracking identifier. The integration system locates the tracking identifier in the selected terminal profile. The integration system selects an object profile from a data repository. The selected object profile is associated with the located tracking identifier and includes the located tracking identifier and an associated counter. The integration system updates the counter in the selected object profile in accordance with a value of the message type code. |
| US10929482B2 |
Unified publication search and consumption interface
A user device sends a search query for an item to a first data store associated with a first entity, wherein the item comprises at least one of an electronic version or a physical version, determines a format to be used by search queries to the second data store and generates a first modified search query for the second data store that is different than the search query and corresponds to the format. The user device sends the first modified search query to the second data store, receives item search results from the first data store and item search results from the second data store, the item search results indicating at least one of: the electronic version is available from an electronic location, the physical version is available at a physical location, or the physical location at which the physical version is available, and causes presentation of at least a portion of the item search results from the first data store together with at least a portion of the item search results from the second data store. |
| US10929473B2 |
Integrated index blocks and searching in blockchain systems
Systems and methods for indexing blockchain data in a blockchain system so that search may proceed more quickly, efficiently, and reliably in all of the blockchain peers. These systems and methods receive a set of transactions from one or more transaction blocks of a blockchain, wherein the transactions in the set have been validated by one or more peer systems of the blockchain. The systems and methods further generate an index to one or more fields of one or more transactions in the set of transactions of the transaction block generate an index representative of at least one field in the set of transactions of the transaction block and provide the generated index for validation by a peer system of the blockchain. After receiving verification from at least a threshold number of peer systems that the generated index has been validated by the peer system, these systems and methods store the generated index as an index block in the block chain. |
| US10929472B2 |
Methods, devices and non-transitory computer-readable medium for parameter optimization
A parameter optimization method includes: a parameter search is performed on an input parameter, an output response value and a target value through a plurality of optimization schemes to search for a plurality of candidate recommended parameters. Each optimization scheme is assigned to a weight value according to user historical decision information. At least one recommended parameter is selected from the candidate recommended parameters according to the weight values. An user interface is provided for a user to input a decision instruction. A new input parameter is selected from the at least one recommended parameter according to the decision instruction; the new input parameter is inputted into the target system; and a new output response value is evaluated whether meets a specification condition. The user historical decision information is updated based on the decision instruction to adjust the weight values. |
| US10929471B2 |
Sequential pattern mining
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for sequential pattern mining is provided. The present invention may include receiving a data mining parameter. The present invention may also include computing a plurality of frequent sequences without temporal annotations based on the received parameters. The present invention may then include extracting a subsequence with temporal annotations for each frequent sequence based on the computed plurality of frequent sequences. The present invention may further include clustering a plurality of temporal intervals using a time window based on the extracted subsequence. The present invention may also include producing an output based on the cluster of plurality of temporal intervals. |
| US10929469B2 |
Content subject suggestions
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for auto-generating subject suggestions are provided. For example, a set of n-grams are generated from text within an email body of an email being composed by a user and/or from descriptive information of attachments to the email. Features of the set of n-grams are identified, such as a date feature, a proper noun feature, an activity feature, a number of words feature, etc. Classifiers are used to assign probabilities to the n-grams based upon the features. A probability may specify a strength of an n-gram in relation to a user preference of the user for an email subject derived from the n-gram. In this way, an email subject suggestion is generated based upon a target n-gram with a probability exceeding a threshold. The email subject suggestion is provided to the user, such as during email composition or during sending of the email. |
| US10929468B2 |
Interaction control method, interaction control apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An interaction control method performed by a computer includes: executing a selection process that includes selecting any of one or more of interaction blocks generated by decomposing content into interaction units, and outputting the selected interaction block; executing a determination process that includes determining a reaction of a user to the outputted interaction block; and executing a response process that includes selecting a next action of the determined reaction based on a result of the determination process. |
| US10929467B2 |
Method for custom-tagging and recognizing recycled data
The present invention is a method for providing camouflaged, customized, synthetic data events and data points masquerading as true data events or data points, and for subsequent detection of such camouflaged data. Synthetic data as used herein is capable of iterative regeneration to provide customized identifiers for distribution to specific purchasers of data. The relationship between a particular data feed with a particular synthetic identifier and the identity of the user to which it was sent would be stored in the original data collector's centralized server for later reference. |
| US10929465B2 |
Method and apparatus for processing requests for thumbnail images in a video surveillance system
In a video surveillance system comprising a plurality of recording servers, each storing video data received from at least one video surveillance camera, a method of processing requests for thumbnail images comprises receiving a thumbnail request to a main queue 200. The thumbnail request includes information indicating a specific video camera and a specific recording server. The thumbnail request is allocated to a recording server queue 250 corresponding to the specific recording server. It is determined whether an idle resource processor 260 associated with the recording server queue is available to process the thumbnail request. If no idle resource processor is available, then it is determined how many resource processors are associated with the recording server queue and, if this is less than a maximum number, a new resource processor is initiated for processing the thumbnail request and the new resource processor is put into an idle state after processing the thumbnail request. |
| US10929461B2 |
Automatic detection and transfer of relevant image data to content collections
This application is directed to a method for automatically identifying and transferring relevant image data implemented at a server with a processor and memory including one or programs executable by the processor. The server obtains content items from a personal content collection of a user, analyzes the content items to identify attributes associated with the images, generates rule sets based on the identified attributes, applies the generated rule sets to a plurality of unclassified images, identifies a first set of one or more of the unclassified images, associates each image of the first set with the content items and stores the first set in the personal content collection. A second set of unclassified images is placed in a candidate list to be periodically, without user intervention, monitored and updated for storing in the personal content collection. The generated rule sets are updated after images are stored in the content collection. |
| US10929456B2 |
Indexing refined output of artificial intelligence models
The improved exercise of artificial intelligence by systematically refining and semantically indexing the output from AI models, so that the semantic index is highly relevant. To do this, the computing system obtains results of an input data set being applied to an AI model. The computing system then determines a refinement to apply to the obtained results. This determination may be based on one or more characteristics of the AI model and/or input data set. The determination may also be based on hints associated with that AI model, and/or learned behavior regarding how that AI model is typically used. The obtained results are then refined using the determined refinement. It is then this more relevant refined results that are semantically indexed to generate the semantic index. Thus, the semantic index represents, the more useful output from an AI model, which is semantically exposed so as to provide meaning. |
| US10929454B2 |
System and method for organizing notes
The present invention is directed to a system and method for organizing notes. The invention includes a main list to take notes. The main list having multiple subjective headers and a note can be taken below a header subjectively related to the note. Each header is further associated with a sub-list and the notes from the main list can be moved to the sub-list based on delimiters separating the notes. |
| US10929453B2 |
Verifying textual claims with a document corpus
A system verifies textual claims using a document corpus. The system includes a memory for storing program code and a processor device for running the code to retrieve documents from the corpus based on Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) similarity to a set of textual claims. The processor extracts named entities and capitalized phrases from the textual claims. The processor retrieves documents from the corpus with titles matching any of the extracted named entities and capitalized phrases. The processor extracts premise sentences from the retrieved documents. The processor classifies the premise sentences together with sources of the premises sentences against the textual claims to obtain classifications from among possible classifications including a supported, an unverified, or a contradicted classification. The processor aggregates the classifications over the premise sentences to selectively output, for each textual claim, an overall decision of the supported classification, the unverified classification, or the contradicted classification. |
| US10929446B2 |
Document search apparatus and method
According to one embodiment, a document search apparatus includes the following elements. The query word extraction unit extracts, from an input sentence, a word for use in a search as a query word. The intention estimation unit estimates a search intention based on the input sentence. The query generator acquires, from a search expression list, a search expression corresponding to the estimated search intention, acquires, from an additional query word list, an additional query word corresponding to a set of the acquired search expression and the extracted query word, and generates a query based on the extracted query word, the acquired additional query word, and the acquired search expression. The search unit searches for a document that matches the query. |
| US10929445B2 |
Distributed search framework with virtual indexing
A distributed search framework with virtual indexing is disclosed. According to some embodiments, a virtual index that includes a first physical index is created, where the first physical index includes a first number of shards. A request to index a document is received. In response to the request, whether the first physical index has reached a capacity threshold is determined. In response to determining that the first physical index has reached the capacity threshold, a second physical index is automatically created and added to the virtual index, where the second physical index includes a second number of shards. The document is added into the second physical index. |
| US10929438B2 |
Identifying high value segments in categorical data
Systems and techniques for identifying segments in categorical data include receiving multiple transaction ID (TID) lists with univariate values that satisfy a thresholding metric with each TID list representing an occurrence of a single attribute in a set of transactions. The TID lists are stored with the univariate values that satisfy the thresholding metric in a data structure. In a loop, candidate itemsets to form from combinations of TID lists are determined using only the combinations of TID lists that satisfy categorical constraints. In the loop, for the candidate itemsets that satisfy categorical constraints, both the thresholding metric and a similarity metric are applied to the candidate itemsets. Final itemsets are formed from only the candidate itemsets that satisfy both the thresholding metric and the similarity metric. |
| US10929434B2 |
Data warehouse single-row operation optimization
An approach for optimizing single-row operations in a data warehouse. Single-row operations are determined based on receiving database operations. Extends identifiers are received based on the single-row operations. Single-row usage statistics are maintained for extends identifiers based on single-row operations. A logical sequence of the extends identifiers in extends lists stores are sorted based on single-row usage statistics and the logical sequence is maintained based on determining further single-row operations. |
| US10929433B2 |
Querying a database with morphology criterion
The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method for querying a database. The database comprises 3D modeled objects that each represent a mechanical part. The database further comprises, for each 3D modeled object, a respective morphology signature. The method comprising: providing a query that includes a morphology criterion; returning, as results of the query, respective 3D modeled objects of the database, a respective 3D modeled object being returned based on an extent to which the respective 3D modeled object has a morphology signature that respects the morphology criterion. Such a method improves the field of searching mechanical parts in a database. |
| US10929432B2 |
System and method for intelligent data-load balancing for backups
A method for backing up databases includes generating a Database-Host Mapping (DHM) associated with a backup request in response to receiving the backup request, performing a database redistribution analysis based on the DHM and a preferred server order list (PSOL) to generate a Host-Database Mapping (HDM), and initiating a backup of a plurality of databases using the plurality of hosts specified in the HDM. |
| US10929431B2 |
Collision handling during an asynchronous replication
Methods and systems for collision handling during an asynchronous replication are provided. A system includes a cache memory system comprising a number of cache memory pages. A collision detector detects when a host is attempting to overwrite a cache memory page that has not been completely replicated. A revision page tagger copies the cache memory page to a free page and tags the copied page as protected. |
| US10929424B1 |
Cloud replication based on adaptive quality of service
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to perform cloud replication based on adaptive Quality of Service. A replication stream is monitored over a period of time. The replication stream includes write operations issued by an application, and is associated with preset parameters. Replication parameters applicable to the replication stream are determined. The replication parameters are configured to be used in a replication operation. The preset parameters and the replication parameters are stored. |
| US10929423B1 |
System and method for efficient episodic replication of data to cloud storage
In one example, a method managing data includes transmitting backup format information to a storage platform, breaking data targeted for backup into data pieces, computing a unique fingerprint for each of the data pieces, and transmitting metadata concerning the data pieces to the storage platform, where the metadata includes the fingerprints. The method further includes receiving from the storage platform a list of any new fingerprints that do not correspond to any of the data pieces, and grouping data pieces together to form a jumbo data piece, where the data pieces that form the jumbo data piece are data pieces to which the new fingerprints correspond. |
| US10929420B2 |
Structured report data from a medical text report
Structured report data is generated from a medical text report. A medical text report including one or more natural language statements is acquired. A computer implemented text analysis process analyses the medical text report to determine, for each natural language statement, one or more labels for the natural language statement. Structured report data including the determined one or more labels each in association with natural language data from the natural language statement to which the label corresponds is generated. The computer implemented text analysis process includes, for each natural language statement: determining, for each of the one or more words of the natural language statement, and, using word embeddings, a vector representing the word; and determining, based on the determined one or more vectors, and using a text classification model, the one or more labels associated with the natural language statement. |
| US10929419B2 |
Object storage backed file system
To leverage the attributes of object storage for applications/systems created to interface with a network files system, an object storage backed file system can accept the defined file system commands from the applications/systems and transform the file system commands into requests that target object storage. The file system is “backed” by object storage because attributes and content of file system entities are stored in objects. For instance, content data and metadata of a file are stored in objects in object storage. This object storage backed file system can be considered a bridge between a client perceived hierarchical file system namespace and a flat namespace of an object storage. |
| US10929415B1 |
Isolated execution environment system monitoring
Systems and methods are described to determine relationships between one or more components of an isolated execution environment system based on data obtained from a data intake and query system. Based on the determined relationships, an interactive visualization is generated that indicates the hierarchical relationship of the components. In some cases, to illustrate the relationship between components of the isolated execution environment system, the visualization can include one or more display objects displayed in a subordinate or superior relationship to other display objects. In certain cases, based on an interaction with a display object, the system can generate a query and/or display additional information and/or visualizations based on the results of the query. |
| US10929410B2 |
User interface methods and systems for selecting and presenting content based on user relationships
A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. |
| US10929408B2 |
Generating and routing notifications of extracted email content
In various example embodiments, a system and method for generating and routing notifications of content extracted from emails are presented. A member's interest in a specific email among a set of emails are determined based on a relevance score. Content from the specific email are extracted, the content being identified as primary information and secondary information. A notification is generated comprising of the vital content extracted from the specific email. Presentation of the primary information is caused, the primary information being associated with the notification according to a ranked order, the ranked order being based on the relevance score. In response to a member action, presentation of the secondary information is caused, the secondary information being associated with the notification. |
| US10929406B2 |
Systems and methods for a self-services data file configuration with various data sources
A system for generating and delivering custom data sets in a big data environment may receive a preselected schema that identifies a plurality of columns from a plurality of data sources for inclusion in an output data file. The system reads data from the data sources to generate a data file containing a big data table. The system monitors the plurality of data sources to detect that the data sources have been ingested into a data storage system. The data file is read and a column is filtered from the data file to generate the output data file in response to the preselected schema excluding the column. The output data file is transferred to a client device. |
| US10929400B2 |
Self-optimizing value range synopsis in analytical databases
A method, a computer program product and a computer system are provided. Attribute value information contains at least a minimum value representing a smallest value of a first attribute and a maximum value representing a largest value of the first attribute, thereby defining a first range of values of the first attribute. A received query against a data table requests one or more values of at least the first attribute that are covered by the first range of values. The attribute value information may be used for selecting a data block of the data table as a candidate potentially including at least part of the requested one or more values and scanning the data block. In response to determining that the data block does not include the one or more requested values, the attribute value information may be updated accordingly. |
| US10929399B2 |
Database system testing using robustness maps
Computer-implemented systems and associated operating methods take measurements and landmarks associated with robustness maps and perform tests evaluating the robustness of a database engine's operator implementations and/or query components. The illustrative computer-implemented system comprises logic that receives one or more robustness maps of measured database system performance acquired during database execution in a predetermined range of runtime conditions and uses information from the robustness map or maps to perform regression testing wherein landmarks in the robustness maps are operated upon as a robustness bugs describing conditions under which a predetermined implementation of a database operator or query component degrades in a manner different from a predetermined expected manner. |
| US10929397B2 |
Forecasting query access plan obsolescence
A query is received. Based on statistics for a database, a first query access plan is generated for executing the query on the database. A first result set for the query is obtained by implementing the first query access plan on the database. Based on at least one trend in the statistics, a target time after which implementing the first query access plan will fail a set of criteria is forecasted. In response to the forecasting and based on the statistics, a replacement query access plan is generated prior to the target time. After the target time, a second result set for the query is obtained by implementing the replacement query access plan rather than the first query access plan. |
| US10929394B2 |
Persistent query dispatch and execution architecture
Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for persistent query connection architecture. |
| US10929393B2 |
Replica database query routing for database environments
Systems and methods for improving database system performance are described. In one embodiment, a database system includes a master database, a replica database, a shared memory, and a multiplexer coupled to the master database, replica database, and shared memory. The multiplexer is configured to receive a request from a client computing system which includes a database query. Based on a lookup in the shared memory, the multiplexer determines that the database query can be satisfied by the replica database. In response, the database query is routed to the replica database for execution. |
| US10929392B1 |
Artificial intelligence system for automated generation of realistic question and answer pairs
Generally described, one or more aspects of the present application correspond to machine learning techniques for generating realistic question-answer (QA) pairs for populating an initial community ask feature of electronic store item detail pages. The machine learning model can use a shared encoder to generate an embedding of a seed sentence from existing description of an item, and then pass that embedding to a question decoder to generate a question. The embedding of the seed sentence can be combined with a state representation of the question and provided to an answer decoder, which can generate an answer to the generated question. This can help overcome the cold start problem, where customers are less likely to ask questions about items that have no existing QA set. This can also help surface relevant information about items in a concise QA format that is easy for customers to find and read. |
| US10929391B2 |
System and method for identifying availability of media items
A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for identifying availability of media items is presented. A search query is received from a client device of a user. Instances of media items that satisfy the search query and that are available on content sources accessible to the client device of the user are identified. Aggregate information for the media items is determined based on the instances of the media items. The aggregate information for the media items is transmitted to the client device. |
| US10929389B2 |
Data provenance using distributed ledgers
Data provenance techniques are provided using distributed ledgers. An exemplary method comprises obtaining an indication of a data operation that operates on a data item, wherein the data operation comprises an operation type; creating an operation transaction in a first data ledger for the data operation, wherein the operation transaction comprises an identifier of the operation type, an identifier of an operator entity that performs the data operation; an identifier of the data item, and a timestamp of the data operation; and maintaining a provenance graph comprising a provenance graph transaction for a plurality of data operations in the first data ledger and/or a second data ledger, wherein a given provenance graph transaction comprises an identifier of source data items used to create the data item associated with the given provenance graph transaction and sources of the source data items, wherein the first data ledger and/or the second data ledger are used to determine an origin and/or recipients of one or more data items. |
| US10929388B1 |
Distributed multi-version partitioned mapreduce for a data fabric
A system for performing a computation includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication of the computation. The processor is configured to determine whether the computation is with respect to a computation version number. In response to a determination that the computation is with respect to a computation version number: 1) determine whether the system has been updated to at least the computation version number; and 2) in response to a determination that the system has been updated to at least the computation version number: a) determine a set of data values for the computation associated with the computation version number; b) perform a partition reduce operation on the set of data values to determine a partition result; and c) provide the partition result. |
| US10929381B2 |
Bulk validation of spatial topology data
Aspects described herein are concerned with automatically validating spatial features of a spatial dataset. One solution is built upon a database server which performs a decomposition of the features' geometries into line segments, after which, sets of line segments are compared to detect errors in the dataset. The decomposition of features geometries into line segments results in a reduction of processing time with a simultaneous increase of precision. The method not only generates new intermediate database structures for detection of topological errors but is also complemented by a clearance process that can lead to the automatic repair of topological errors. The clearance process identifies topological errors and provides modifications to the previously identified line segments such that a modified set of line segments overcomes the conditions that led to the error state. The changes to the data set can be applied automatically after displaying them as an overlay for a predefined amount of time. |
| US10929378B1 |
Cross-application query analysis to produce database recommendations
Instances of client applications running independently on different devices are monitored to generate metadata records that are stored in cloud storage. Metadata records in cloud storage that have an aspect in common are grouped and used for comparative analysis. For example, metadata records for instances of the same client application, database, query or database structure may be grouped. Reports may be generated based on the analysis. The reports may indicate comparative performance, irregular activity, patch version and configurations associated with performance degradation, and recommended actions to improve performance. |
| US10929377B2 |
Management of long-running locks and transactions on database tables
Release and re-acquisition of each of a first shared lock on an outer database ownership table and a second shared lock on an inner database ownership table is alternated by a messaging engine processor that executes a messaging engine to permit database maintenance operations to be performed while maintaining the ownership of the database. At least one period of inactivity of both the outer database ownership table and the inner database ownership table is provided that allows at least one database tool to execute to perform at least one database maintenance task during the execution of the messaging engine. |
| US10929376B2 |
Performing transactions in distributed transactional memory systems
In various examples, there is provided methods performed by nodes in a cluster of nodes for performing transactions comprising one or more read operations and/or one or more write operations. The node comprises a local clock which is synchronized with a master clock and maintains a measure of uncertainty indicating current minimum and maximum values of the master clock. The method to perform transactions involving read operations generates a read timestamp representing a point in time which is earlier than a current minimum value of the master clock. The method then reads the objects and determines, for each of them, whether a timestamp associated with that object is later than the read timestamp. If so, an error handling procedure is performed for that object. |
| US10929366B1 |
Systems and methods for ingesting relational data into a delimited column qualifier NOSQL database
Methods and systems for ingesting data stored in a relational database into a non-relational delimited column qualifier NoSQL database are provided. According to certain aspects, an ingestion server may receive a request to transform the data stored in the relational database into a delimited column qualifier format. The ingestion server may then identify and query a reference table that defines the delimited column qualifier format. In accordance with the reference table, the ingestion server may transform the data into the delimited column qualifier format. Subsequently, the ingestion server may store the transformed data in the delimited column qualifier NoSQL database. By storing data in the column qualifier database, fewer computer resources are used to store and access the same data that is stored in the relational database. Accordingly, all the transformed data is stored in a single delimited CQ row. |
| US10929364B2 |
Assisted problem identification in a computing system
A method, system and computer program product for providing support for identification of the problem root cause in a computing system. Knowledge base mapping monitoring programs with respective to one or more technical problem definitions and a predefined system configuration are provided. The technical problems are defined using a predefined data structure. An inquiry relating to the computing system is received from a requester. The inquiry indicates a technical problem statement of the computing system. The received inquiry is parsed for constructing a problem description in accordance with the predefined data structure. A set of monitoring programs of the knowledge base may be identified using the problem description. Using software and/or hardware configuration data of the computing system, the set of monitoring programs may be instantiated in a monitor system. The instantiated programs may be provided to the requester as support for identification of the problem root cause. |
| US10929363B2 |
Assisted problem identification in a computing system
A method, system and computer program product for providing support for identification of the problem root cause in a computing system. Knowledge base mapping monitoring programs with respective to one or more technical problem definitions and a predefined system configuration are provided. The technical problems are defined using a predefined data structure. An inquiry relating to the computing system is received from a requester. The inquiry indicates a technical problem statement of the computing system. The received inquiry is parsed for constructing a problem description in accordance with the predefined data structure. A set of monitoring programs of the knowledge base may be identified using the problem description. Using software and/or hardware configuration data of the computing system, the set of monitoring programs may be instantiated in a monitor system. The instantiated programs may be provided to the requester as support for identification of the problem root cause. |
| US10929360B2 |
Filtered partition maintenance operations
A database engine performs row filtering operations concurrently with performing database object partition maintenance operations. The filtering operations do not incur the high processing costs of database delete or purge operations that would incur per row costs for logging, locking, etc. The partitioning and filtering operations are specified in multiple clauses of a single database language statement. The clauses of the statement are executed concurrently. A method implementation receives a database language statement that comprises a partitioning operation specification as well as a filtering operation specification that includes a logical predicate for determining whether or not to filter-out predicate-matching entries when forming the resulting partitioned target database object. While processing the partitioning operations, the method discards entries taken from the source database object whenever the entry corresponds to the logical predicate. The target database object contains some entries that derive from the source, but does not contain the discarded entries. |
| US10929359B2 |
Dynamically reorganizing a dataset using online migration while allowing concurrent user access to data in the dataset
An embodiment includes initiating a migration of data rows in a source dataset in a source storage device to a target dataset in a target storage device. A block size defined for the target dataset equals a block size defined for the source dataset, and the migration is to be performed according to a native sequence of the data rows. The embodiment includes receiving, during the migration, a user request for access to a first data row in the source dataset, determining that the first data row was migrated to a first target block in the target dataset, and responding to the user request using the first data row in the first target block. In specific embodiments, a capacity of the target dataset is greater than a capacity of the source dataset. In other embodiments, a capacity of the target dataset is less than a capacity of the source dataset. |
| US10929356B2 |
Detection of hidden data co-occurrence relationships
Hidden data co-occurrence relationships may be detected by a computer-implemented method, including monitoring data processing events on one or more server computers, gathering co-occurrences between a plurality of the data processing events, and generating one or more lineages between a plurality of directories associated with the plurality of the data processing events based on the gathered co-occurrences. |
| US10929351B2 |
Determining document libraries to sync to a local computing device
Systems and methods for determining a document library to sync to a local computing device. In one example, the method includes determining, with an electronic processor, one or more document libraries associated with a user; determining, with the electronic processor, a heuristic for each of the one or more document libraries; and determining, with the electronic processor, a subset of the one or more document libraries to sync to a local computing device associated with the user, wherein the subset is determined based upon the heuristic. |
| US10929349B2 |
Technologies for integrating cloud content items across platforms
Systems and methods for integrating cloud-based and cloud-backed content items with a content management system are provided. In some examples, a method can include receiving a request to access a canonical content item stored at a content management system, the canonical content item representing a cloud-based content item or a cloud-backed content item having features designed for access through a native online application associated with a cloud content provider; in response to the canonical content item being invoked, sending, from a local application to the cloud content provider, a request for the features of the content item; receiving, at the local application and from the cloud content provider, metadata for enabling the features of the content item; and based on the metadata, providing, on the local application, the features and a content of the content item as part of a rendered instance of the canonical content item. |
| US10929345B2 |
System and method of performing similarity search queries in a network
In a distributed system, each of N machines receives a similarity search query through a linear communication orbit. The similarity search query includes token identifiers corresponding to tokens in a target document. Each machine, in response, identifies files that meet predefined similarity criteria with respect to the target document. Subsequent to receiving the similarity search query, the machine generates a first report, including a count of files stored at the machine that meet the predefined similarity criteria with respect to the target document, and/or information identifying a set of files that meet the predefined similarity criteria with respect to the target document; and sends the first report to a server through the linear communication orbit. The server produces a merged report presenting information with respect to files at a set of machines, including the N machines, that meet the predefined similarity criteria with respect to the target document. |
| US10929344B2 |
Trusted file indirection
Methods and systems for performing file transfers across different domains hosted by a virtualization server are described herein. A trusted domain (Dom 0) may indicate that one or more files, directories, and/or volumes are available to a second domain (guest domain) by updating share information stored in a key value store. The guest domain may enumerate the shared files to appear as if within its own file system structure. The guest domain intercepts calls to its file system, determines whether the requested data is actually stored in its own file system or in trusted domain, and proxies the file system call to the trusted domain when the requested data is shared by the trusted domain. Key value store information and shared data information and contents may be communicated using one or more memories shared between the trusted domain and guest domain. |
| US10929342B2 |
Techniques for limiting the maximum storage consumed by a file system without shrinking an underlying volume
Techniques for limiting storage consumed by a file system without shrinking a volume upon which the file system is deployed. The techniques are employed in a clustered environment including multiple NAS nodes, each having access to block storage including multiple storage devices. By deploying the file system on a volume of a NAS node within the clustered environment, setting the value of the FS user size to be equal to the FS volume size, and if, at a later time, it is desired to reduce the file system size, setting the value of the FS user size to a lesser value than the FS volume size, IO requests received at the NAS node can be satisfied within the logical limit of the lesser value of the FS user size without shrinking the local volume, allowing the file system size to be reduced without requiring close coordination with the block storage. |
| US10929341B2 |
Iterative object scanning for information lifecycle management
To effectively implement ILM policies and account for unreliability in a geographically distributed large-scale storage system, “scanners” and “ILM rules appliers” can be deployed on nodes throughout the storage system for large scale ILM implementation. Each scanner is programmed to deterministically self-assign a region of object namespace and scan that region of object namespace. To “scan” a region, a scanner accesses metadata of each object that has an identifier within the scanner's region and inserts the object metadata into one of a set of queues for ILM evaluation. An ILM rules applier dequeues object metadata for evaluation against ILM rules and determines whether an ILM task is to be performed for ILM rule compliance. |
| US10929338B2 |
Maintaining access control lists in non-identity-preserving replicated data repositories
Managing access control lists (ACLs) across replicated data repositories can include selecting, from a first data processing system, a controlled object and an ACL object bound to the controlled object, wherein the first data processing system is associated with a first user identity space, and creating, using a processor, a replicated version of the controlled object within a second data processing system associated with a second user identity space, wherein the second user identity space is different from the first user identity space. Managing ACLs further includes, creating, using the processor, a replicated version of the ACL object within the second data processing system and substituting, within the replicated version of the ACL object, an identity from the first user identity space with a selected identity from the second user identity space. |
| US10929337B2 |
Distributed error and anomaly communication architecture for analog and mixed-signal systems
Methods, systems and apparatuses may provide for technology that detects, by a first monitor in a first domain of a system, a presence of a first anomaly in the first domain and encodes, by the first monitor, the presence of the first anomaly and a weight of the first anomaly into a multi-level data structure. In one example, the technology also sends, by the first monitor, the multi-level data structure to a second monitor in a second domain of the system, wherein the second domain is located at a different hierarchical level in the system than the first domain. |
| US10929335B2 |
Generating segmented notifications in a virtual space
A system and method for facilitating segmented notifications relating to a virtual space are disclosed. Such notifications may be segmented for different user segments within the virtual space. In some examples, the segmentation of the notification may be at least in part with respect to contents included in notification for different user segments. The content segmentation may be with respect to a communication style, pattern, format, a language expressed in, one or more culture references used and/or any other aspects related to contents that may be included in notifications for the different user segments. In some examples, the notifications may include incentive offers and may be segmented with respect to parameters of the incentive offers for presentation to the different user segments. In some implementations, transmission frequencies for transmitting notifications to the different user segments may be determined. |
| US10929333B2 |
Serial peripheral interface master
A Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) master (110) and method therein for transferring data to a peripheral device in a data communication and processing system (100) are disclosed. The SPI master (110) comprises a memory (111) comprising a list of packets, each packet comprises data associated with a time parameter indicating at which time the data is to be transferred to the peripheral device. The time parameter is configurable. The SPI master further comprises a serial transmit and receive unit (112) to transfer the data in the list at a time according to the time parameter associated with the data. |
| US10929331B1 |
Layered boundary interconnect
Examples described herein generally relate to a layered boundary interconnect in an integrated circuit (IC) and methods for operating such IC. In an example, an IC includes a programmable logic region, a plurality of input/output circuits, a plurality of hard block circuits, and a programmable native transmission network. The programmable native transmission network is connected to and between the plurality of input/output circuits and the plurality of hard block circuits. The plurality of hard block circuits is connected to and between the programmable native transmission network and the programmable logic region. |
| US10929330B2 |
External resource discovery and coordination in a data center
Examples may include chipsets, processor circuits, and a system including chipsets and processor circuits. The chipsets and processor circuits can be coupled together via side band interconnect. The chipsets and processor circuits can be coupled together dynamically, during runtime using the side band interconnects. A chipset can send control signals for other chipsets and/or receive control signals from processor circuits via the side band links to dynamically coordinate the chipsets and processor circuits into systems. |
| US10929327B1 |
Expansion device housing multiple components
An expansion device is disclosed for including a plurality of modular devices within a pre-defined volume, such as the drive bay of a computing device. The expansion device may include a standardized bus connection and circuitry connecting to a controller chip, circuitry electrically coupling the controller chip to a plurality of modular devices, and a housing that houses the controller chip, connecting circuitry, and modular devices and that fits within the pre-defined volume. |
| US10929325B2 |
PCIE lane aggregation over a high speed link
A method of operating a computer network system configured with disaggregated inputs/outputs. This system can be configured in a leaf-spine architecture and include a router coupled to a network source, a plurality of core switches coupled to the router, a plurality of aggregator switches coupled to each of the plurality of core switches, and a plurality of rack modules coupled to each of the plurality of aggregator switches. Each of rack modules can include an I/O appliance with a downstream aggregator module, a plurality of server devices each with PCIe interfaces, and an upstream aggregator module that aggregates each of the PCIe interfaces. A high-speed link can be configured between the downstream and upstream aggregator modules via aggregation of many serial lanes to provide reliable high speed bit stream transport over long distances, which allows for better utilization of resources and scalability of memory capacity independent of the server count. |
| US10929322B2 |
Prioritized arbitration using fixed priority arbiter
An arbiter may include a plurality of cells, mapping logic, a fixed priority arbiter, and unmapping logic. Each cell may be associated with a corresponding client and configured to store a priority for the corresponding client. The mapping logic may be connected to the plurality of cells to order requests received from the clients according to the priorities stored in the cells. The fixed priority arbiter may receive the ordered requests and generate a grant for a winning request of the requests. The unmapping logic may use the stored priorities to yield the grant back to the winning client that sent the winning request. |
| US10929320B1 |
Control circuit for dynamic bifurcation control
A system and method for generating a control bifurcation signal in accordance with the Open Compute Project (OCP) Specification. An OCP device is provided that has a bifurcation function with an input to activate a bus bifurcation function. An input/output control circuit having an output coupled to a bifurcation control line coupled to the OCP device is provided. The input/output control circuit is operable to provide a bifurcation control signal to the OCP device over the bifurcation control line during an auxiliary power phase transition period of powering-on the OCP device. |
| US10929308B2 |
Performing maintenance operations
There is provided an apparatus that includes an input port to receive, from a requester, any one of: a lookup operation comprising an input address, and a maintenance operation. Maintenance queue circuitry stores a maintenance queue of at least one maintenance operation and address storage stores a translation between the input address and an output address in an output address space. In response to receiving the input address, the output address is provided in dependence on the maintenance queue. In response to storing the maintenance operation, the maintenance queue circuitry causes an acknowledgement to be sent to the requester. By providing a separate maintenance queue for performing the maintenance operation, there is no need for a requester to be blocked while maintenance is performed. |
| US10929307B2 |
Memory tagging for sensitive data redaction in memory dump
Examples of techniques for memory tagging for sensitive data redaction in a memory dump are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a first call to a memory tagging application programming interface (API) from an application, wherein the first call designates a virtual memory page belonging to the application as containing sensitive data. Another aspect includes, based on the first call to the memory tagging API, tagging a physical memory page corresponding to the virtual memory page as sensitive. |
| US10929299B2 |
Storage system, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
A storage system includes a storage device, and a processor configured to store first data in the storage device, receive second data, specify a first data size in accordance with a second data size of the second data, divide the first data into a plurality of first blocks each having the specified first data size, divide the second data into a plurality of second blocks each having the specified first data size, and store, in the storage device, data included in a block of the plurality of second blocks, while data included in another block of the plurality of second blocks is not stored in the storage device, wherein the data of the block is not identical to data of any of the plurality of first blocks, and the data of the another block is identical to data of any of the plurality of first blocks. |
| US10929296B2 |
Zero latency prefetching in caches
This invention involves a cache system in a digital data processing apparatus including: a central processing unit core; a level one instruction cache; and a level two cache. The cache lines in the second level cache are twice the size of the cache lines in the first level instruction cache. The central processing unit core requests additional program instructions when needed via a request address. Upon a miss in the level one instruction cache that causes a hit in the upper half of a level two cache line, the level two cache supplies the upper half level cache line to the level one instruction cache. On a following level two cache memory cycle, the level two cache supplies the lower half of the cache line to the level one instruction cache. This cache technique thus prefetches the lower half level two cache line employing fewer resources than an ordinary prefetch. |
| US10929294B2 |
Using caching techniques to improve graph embedding performance
In an embedding caching system, embeddings generated from previous problems are re-used to improve performance on future problems. A data structure stores problems and their corresponding embeddings. When computing future embeddings, this data structure can be queried to determine whether an embedding has already been computed for a problem with the same structure. If it has, the embedding can be retrieved from the data structure, saving the time and computational expense of generating a new embedding. In one variation, the query is not based on exact matches. If a new problem is similar in structure to previous problems, those embeddings may be used to accelerate the generating of an embedding for the new problem, even if they cannot be used directly to embed the new problem. |
| US10929291B2 |
Memory controlling device and computing device including the same
A memory controlling device of a computing device including a CPU, a memory, and a flash-based storage device is provided. The memory controlling device includes an address manager and an interface. The address manager aggregates a memory space of the memory and a storage space of the storage device into an expanded memory space, and handles a memory request for the expanded memory space from the CPU by using the memory space of the memory as a cache for the storage space of the storage device. The interface is used to access the memory and the storage device. |
| US10929286B2 |
Arbitrated management of a shared non-volatile memory resource
Apparatus and method for managing shared resources in a data storage device such as a solid-state drive (SSD). In some embodiments, a non-volatile memory (NVM) has a population of semiconductor memory dies to which are connected a number of parallel channel. A controller circuit apportions the semiconductor memory dies into a plurality of die sets each configured to store user data blocks associated with a different user during hot data transfers responsive to a sequence of host access commands. A shared resource is available for use by each of the die sets to support background data transfers not associated with the host access commands, such as a RAID buffer. The controller circuit arbitrates the use of the shared resource by each of the die sets in turn to sequentially perform the background data transfers to maintain a selected level of deterministic performance of the hot data transfers. |
| US10929283B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for transferring data
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to shifting data. An example apparatus comprises a cache coupled to an array of memory cells and a controller. The controller is configured to perform a first operation beginning at a first address to transfer data from the array of memory cells to the cache, and perform a second operation concurrently with the first operation, the second operation beginning at a second address. |
| US10929280B2 |
Scheduling tests of software for a cloud computing environment
A device receives, from a user device, a request to perform a test of software on a test device. The test device includes a device that simulates a device provided in a cloud computing environment, and the software includes software to be implemented in the cloud computing environment. The device determines whether the test device includes available resources to perform the test, and causes the request and the software to be provided to the test device when the test device includes the available resources to perform the test. The available resources are utilized to perform the test of the software and to generate results based on performance of the test. The device receives, from the test device, the results that include information indicating whether the software passed or failed the test. The device provides the results to the user device. |
| US10929279B2 |
Systems and method for automated testing framework for service portal catalog
Techniques for designing tests of a service catalog without having to write and/or edit the underlying scripts are disclosed. A library of tests step templates is populated and provided to a user. The tests step templates in the library may be selected by the user and edited to fill in specific parameters that specify the actions to be taken during execution of the test step. The test step may then be combined with other test steps to form a test. In some embodiments, the library may include test templates made up of frequently used sequences of individual test steps. Once a test has been designed, the test may be run, either manually triggered by a user or according to a schedule. The system may then run through the steps of the test, as specified by the user, by running the underlying scripts. As the test is run, results are generated. |
| US10929278B2 |
Intelligent services for application dependency discovery, reporting, and management tool
Techniques for monitoring operating statuses of an application and its dependencies are provided. A monitoring application may collect and report the operating status of the monitored application and each dependency. Through use of existing monitoring interfaces, the monitoring application can collect operating status without requiring modification of the underlying monitored application or dependencies. The monitoring application may determine a problem service that is a root cause of an unhealthy state of the monitored application. Dependency analyzer and discovery crawler techniques may automatically configure and update the monitoring application. Machine learning techniques may be used to determine patterns of performance based on system state information associated with performance events and provide health reports relative to a baseline status of the monitored application. Also provided are techniques for testing a response of the monitored application through modifications to API calls. Such tests may be used to train the machine learning model. |
| US10929276B2 |
Simulation computing services for testing application functionalities
There are provided systems and methods for simulation computing services for testing application functionalities. During application development and testing a simulation service framework may be widely accessible from a service provider or other online platform that allows an application developer to test application functionalities in different environments and based on different runtime conditions. The framework may implement one or more simulation services that are generated and provided to simulate data service calls, responses, and data processing results that may be performed when an application interacts with a real online service (e.g., database, other application, or other online service that provides some data and/or data processing to an application). Application code in the application's dependencies may be changes to perform the call to the simulation service. This service may then return some result that is expected based on the service's simulated data. |
| US10929266B1 |
Real-time visual playback with synchronous textual analysis log display and event/time indexing
In one embodiment, a method for detecting one or more behaviors by software under test that indicate a presence of malware is described. First, an analysis of operations conducted by the software being processed by a virtual machine is performed. The analysis includes monitoring one or more behaviors conducted by the software during processing within the virtual machine. Next, a video corresponding to at least the one or more monitored behaviors, which are conducted by the software during processing of the software within the virtual machine, is generated. Also, text information associated with each of the one or more monitored behaviors is generated, where the text information being displayed on an electronic device contemporaneously with the video corresponding to the one or more monitored behaviors. |
| US10929261B1 |
Device diagnosis
A technology is described for a device diagnosis station. The device diagnosis station may be configured to identify an electronic device physically connected to the device diagnosis station, evaluate an operational state of the electronic device by executing testing instructions configured to test the functionality of the electronic device and collect operational state information for the electronic device. The device diagnosis station may be configured to determine the operational state of the electronic device and execute recovery instructions to restore the electronic device to an improved state when a recoverable error is detected. The device diagnosis station may be configured to initiate a device return procedure for the electronic device when a non-recoverable error state is detected. |
| US10929260B2 |
Traffic capture and debugging tools for identifying root causes of device failure during automated testing
A method for diagnosing a root cause of failure using automated test equipment is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring data traffic associated with testing a device under test (DUT) in the automated test equipment using a plurality capture modules, wherein the plurality of capture modules are programmed onto a programmable logic device, wherein the programmable logic device is controlled by a system controller and is operable to generate commands and data to test the DUT, wherein the plurality of capture modules are operable to selectively capture the data traffic to be monitored, and wherein the data traffic monitored comprises a flow of traffic between the DUT and the system controller. The method further comprises saving results associated with the monitoring in respective memories associated with each of the plurality of capture modules. Further, the method comprises transmitting the results upon request to an application program executing on the system controller. |
| US10929255B2 |
Reducing the size of fault domains
A separate family space is provisioned as a separate fault domain for each production device in a storage system. The space provisioned for each family has contiguous logical block addresses that do not overlap with the address space of any other family. Snaps and clones in a first family space are used for fault recovery without interrupting IOs to a second family space. If the first family space points to the same virtual block as other families as a result of deduplication then the virtual block is un-deduped. For example, another instance of the virtual block may be created and pointers updated such that only the first family space points to one of the virtual block instances. |
| US10929249B2 |
Optimized data corruption source and timeline analysis
A method for analyzing data corruption is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes identifying a data set containing corrupted data. The method identifies a specific location within the data set containing the corrupted data and analyzes the specific location to determine if the corrupted data is contained therein. The method repeatedly performs the following until the corrupted data is no longer found within the specific location: revert to a previous version of the specific location by removing an incremental update to the specific location, and analyze the previous version of the specific location to determine if it contains the corrupted data. When a previous version of the specific location is found that no longer contains the corrupted data, the method determines a timestamp associated with the previous version and provides the timestamp to a user. A corresponding system and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US10929247B2 |
Automatic creation of application-centric extended metadata for a storage appliance
Embodiments are directed to a system and method of providing consistent metadata to storage appliance objects in a network, by: obtaining environmental information that is available to deduplication backup program accessing the storage appliance objects, the environmental information comprising application name, client name, and client IP address; identifying file systems objects created by the deduplication backup program; and using a client-side generic network mount for the deduplication backup system to automatically create extended metadata for each of the identified DDR filesystem objects created through the deduplication backup program. |
| US10929246B2 |
Backup capability for object store used as primary storage
A method computer program product and computer system for generating a backup of a primary object in an object store system. The object store system comprising: a proxy layer comprising: a plurality of proxy nodes; a backup module; and a ring; a storage layer in communication with the plurality of proxy nodes and the backup module through the ring, the storage layer comprising a plurality of storage nodes, with each storage node having a plurality of servers for managing accounts, a plurality of containers, at least one backup container, and objects stored within the containers and the at least one backup container; and a backup database in communication with the backup module for storing associations between versions of backup copies of the primary objects, the primary copies of objects, the containers, and the at least one backup container. |
| US10929244B2 |
Optimized backup of clusters with multiple proxy servers
Systems and methods for backing up and restoring virtual machines in a cluster environment. Proxy nodes in the cluster are configured with agents. The agents are configured to perform backup operations and restore operations for virtual machines operating in the cluster. During a backup operation or during a restore operation, a load associated with the backup/restore operation is distributed across at least some of the proxy nodes. The proxy nodes can backup/restore virtual machines on any of the nodes in the cluster. |
| US10929242B2 |
File corruption recovery in concurrent data protection
An incremental backup system that performs the following (not necessarily in the following order): (i) making a plurality of time-ordered journal entries; (ii) determining that a corruption condition exists; (iii) responsive to a corruption condition, constructing a first incremental mirror data set that reflects a backup data set and all journal entries up to a first corrupted journal entry which is the earliest in time journal entry, of the plurality of journal entries, that is a corrupted journal entry; (iv) responsive to a corruption condition, constructing a second incremental mirror data set that reflects the backup data set and all journal entries up to the first corrupted journal entry; and (v) checking for corruption in the first and second incremental mirror data sets to determine the latest uncorrupted version of the data set. |
| US10929236B2 |
Memory system, method of operating the same, and data processing system including the same
A data processing system may include a host and a memory system, the memory system may include a volatile recovery selection register and a nonvolatile memory device, wherein the memory system checks, after being reset, a value of the recovery selection register and determines whether to perform a recovery operation on the nonvolatile memory device, and when a reset is requested from the host, the memory system sets the value of the recovery selection register and resets the nonvolatile memory device, and the host may read set first data from the memory system through a first booting operation that starts during a power-on operation, may request a reset to the memory system, and may read set second data form the memory system through a second booting operation that starts after the reset of the memory system. |
| US10929235B2 |
Application high availability via crash-consistent asynchronous replication of persistent data
Techniques for achieving application high availability via crash-consistent asynchronous replication of persistent data are provided. In one set of embodiments, an application running on a computer system can, during runtime of the application: write persistent data to a local nonvolatile data store of the computer system, write one or more log entries comprising the persistent data to a local log region of the computer system, and asynchronously copy the one or more log entries to one or more remote destinations. Then, upon detecting a failure that prevents the application from continuing execution, the computer system can copy the local log region or a remaining portion thereof to the one or more remote destinations, where the copying is performed while the computer system runs on battery power and where the application is restarted on another computer system using a persistent state derived from the copied log entries. |
| US10929234B2 |
Application fault tolerance via battery-backed replication of volatile state
Techniques for implementing application fault tolerance via battery-backed replication of volatile state are provided. In one set of embodiments, a primary host system can detect a failure that causes an application of the primary host system to stop running. In response to detecting the failure, the primary host system can replicate volatile state that is used by the application to a secondary host system, where the secondary host system maintains a copy of the application, and where execution of the application is failed over to the copy on the secondary host system using the replicated volatile state. |
| US10929232B2 |
Delayed error processing
A computing apparatus, including: a hardware platform including a processor and memory; and a system management interrupt (SMI) handler; first logic configured to provide a first container and a second container via the hardware platform; and second logic configured to: detect an uncorrectable error in the first container; responsive to the detecting, generate a degraded system state; provide a degraded state message to the SMI handler; instruct the second container to seek a recoverable state; determine that the second container has entered a recoverable state; and initiate a recovery operation. |
| US10929228B2 |
Overwriting data objects in a dispersed storage network
A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) processing unit includes determining to determine to overwrite an original data object stored in a plurality of storage units with an updated data object. Validation level data can be determined, where the validation level data indicates a data object overwrite level, a data region overwrite level, or a data segment overwrite level. Checksum metadata associated with the original data object can be retrieved in response to determining to overwrite an original data object. Overwriting of a subset of data regions or data segments of the original data object can be foregone in response to generating validation data that indicates their checksums in the checksum metadata compare favorably to corresponding overwrite checksum values. |
| US10929224B2 |
Partial XOR protection
A system and method for applying a first level of protection to data in a memory module include identifying a weak wordline from at least one of a plurality of blocks of the memory module. Each of the plurality of blocks includes a plurality of wordlines. The system and method also include determining that the weak wordline is to receive the first level of protection and applying the first level of protection to the weak wordline. |
| US10929221B2 |
Multi-tier detection and decoding in flash memories utilizing data from additional pages or wordlines
Methods, systems, and machine-readable storage medium for multi- tier data recovery utilizing a series of progressively more complex detection and decoding modes based on data from additional pages or wordlines. In one aspect, read data is obtained from at least one cell comprising a given page of a flash memory, and reliability values are generated for the cell from the read data. The reliability values are utilized to decode the read data for the given page. If the decoding of the read data fails, a series of successive decoding steps is performed, with each successive decoding step utilizing additional read data to generate reliability values for the decoding. In one example, reads of one or more additional pages in the same wordline are performed. In a second example, several read retries (soft reads) of the same wordline are performed. In a third example, one or more additional neighboring wordlines are read. |
| US10929216B2 |
Application crash analysis techniques when memory dump and debug symbols are not co-located
Distributed architectures that can generate a crash report without concurrent access to debug symbols and a memory dump. Besides grabbing generic information from a memory dump, which most debuggers provide (e.g., call stack traces for all threads), developer-provided scripts can grab application-specific details such as tables of open protocol client connections and so-forth. This extraction can take place at a customer site where a crash occurred and can proceed without the use of debug symbols. The extraction can generate a crash report which can be sent back from the field. Once in the hands of engineering (e.g., at a provider site where debug symbols are extant but the memory dump is not), debug symbols can then be used in an annotation phase to fill in missing details (e.g. the precise source files and line numbers corresponding to call stack traces) without access to the original crash dump. |
| US10929214B2 |
Eventual consistency intent cleanup in a dispersed storage network
A method for execution by a dispersed storage (DS) cleanup unit includes determining a dead session of a DSN. A subset of a plurality of eventual consistency intent names is generated by identifying eventual consistency intent names that include a session identifier corresponding to the dead session in a prefix of the eventual consistency intent names, where the subset of the plurality of eventual consistency intent names corresponds to all eventual consistency intents of the dead session. A subset of storage units responsible for storing the all eventual consistency intents of the dead session is determined based on the prefix of the eventual consistency intent names in the subset. All eventual consistency intents of the dead session are retrieved from the subset of storage units, and execution of eventual consistency updates indicated in the all eventual consistency intents of the dead session is facilitated. |
| US10929213B2 |
Residue prediction of packed data
In an approach for protecting recoding logic in a computing environment, a processor obtains an operand of an instruction in a first data format. A processor converts the operand from the first data format to a second data format. A processor generates a predicted residue of the operand in the second data format, wherein generating the predicted residue of the operand in the second data format comprises: generating a residue of the operand from the first data format. |
| US10929209B2 |
Safe, secure, virtualized, domain specific hardware accelerator
This disclosure relates to various implementations an embedded computing system. The embedded computing system comprises a hardware accelerator (HWA) thread user and a second HWA thread user that creates and sends out message requests. The HWA thread user and the second HWA thread user is communication with a microcontroller (MCU) subsystem. The embedded computing system also comprises a first inter-processor communication (IPC) interface between the HWA thread user and the MCU subsystem and a second IPC interface between the second HWA thread user and the MCU subsystem, where the first IPC interface is isolated from the second IPC interface. The MCU subsystem is also in communication with a first domain specific HWA and a second domain specific HWA. |
| US10929207B2 |
Notification control device, notification control method, and storage medium
A notification control device includes a surrounding situation determination unit that determines a situation around a user, an impact detection unit that detects an impact on an electronic device possessed by the user, a drop determination unit that determines whether or not the impact occurs by drop of the electronic device, a notification method selection unit that selects a notification method in accordance with the situation around the user in a case where the impact occurs by the drop, and a notification control unit that controls a notification unit configured to notify the user of information such that the notification is performed by the notification method selected by the notification method selection unit. |
| US10929206B2 |
System and method for outward communication in a computational storage device
A method of facilitating communication from an embedded computer in a computational storage device to a host or an external device includes receiving a message from an embedded user process for transmission to a user process running at either the host or the external device, determining that a destination address of the message corresponds to the host or the external device, in response to the determination, forwarding the message to an embedded relay process associated with the host or the external device, instructing a storage controller of the computational storage device about the message to be delivered, notifying a host relay process at the host of a presence of the message, receiving a send message request from the host in response to the notification, and in response to receiving the send message request, transmitting the message to the host. |
| US10929202B2 |
Cloud service notifications
Techniques are disclosed for providing notifications to a user. A user can configure the types of notifications they would like to receive. The notifications are generated according to messages that are generated in response to changes to activities in an integration flow. Types of notifications can include error notifications, system notifications and status notifications. The notification can be provided to the user via an electronic communication. |
| US10929201B2 |
Method and system for implementing generation locks
A system and method for implementing a generation lock for protecting a data structure is provide. The systems and methods synchronizes read and write transactions for a protected data structure in a multitasking environment and provides low latency and improved scalability. For example, a system and method for implementing a generation lock for protecting a data structure may be provided. The generation lock provides an improved mechanism for restricting access to a data structure that is typically read more often than written. Specifically, the generation lock provides a method for reading and writing to a protected data structures that has a low average latency as compared to traditional read/write semaphores. The generation lock also provides a mechanism in which the system is scalable, meaning that the addition of additional processor cores is capable of increasing the performance, e.g., rate of executing requests, of the system, and is not or is not substantially rate limited by a shared resource. |
| US10929198B2 |
Blockchain-based resource allocation method and apparatus
Implementations of the present application provide a blockchain-based resource allocation method. A target transaction is obtained, by a first node device in a blockchain network, from a distributed database of the blockchain network. The blockchain network comprises a target user device of a target user and the first node device. The target transaction comprises service behavior data of the target user, and the service behavior data of the target user is generated by the target user device by using a target service. A smart contract corresponding to an allocation of a resource is invoked comprising: executing a resource allocation logic that is stored in the smart contract and that is related to the service behavior data of the target user, and performing the allocation of the resource to the target user. |
| US10929197B2 |
Method and apparatus for load estimation
A disclosed load estimation method includes: collecting run information of a processor being executing a predetermined program; specifying execution status of the processor based on the collected run information; and estimating a load of the predetermined program based on a result of comparison between the execution status of the processor and execution characteristics of the processor. Each of the execution characteristics is stored in association with a load level of the predetermined program. |
| US10929194B2 |
Workload partitioning procedure for null message-based PDES
An embodiment of the invention includes applying a first partition to a plurality of LPs, wherein a particular LP is assigned to a first set of LPs. A second partition is applied to the LPs, wherein the particular LP is assigned to an LP set different from the first set. For both the first and second partitions, lookahead values and transit times are determined for each of the LPs and related links. For the first partition, a first system progression rate is computed using a specified function with the lookahead values and transit times determined for the first partition. For the second partition, a second system progression rate is computed using the specified function with the lookahead values and transit times determined for the second partition. The first and second system progression rates are compared to determine which is the lowest. |
| US10929190B2 |
Heterogeneous resource reservation
A heterogeneous resource reservation (HRR) manager configured to classify historical application requests from a past time interval for a first workload to generate labeled historical application requests. The HRR manager further configured to generate a forecast based on the labeled historical application requests and for predicting future application requests for the first workload for a future time interval and calculate a joint plan based on the forecast. The joint plan including a set of virtual resources, a set of billing contracts, and a set of load balancer weights. The HRR manager further configured to implement the joint plan for a distributed computing workload during the future time interval. |
| US10929187B2 |
Processing system and heterogeneous processor acceleration method
A processing system includes a core, at least one accelerator function unit (AFU) and an accelerator interface. The core is utilized to develop at least one task. The AFU is utilized to execute the task. The accelerator interface is arranged between the core and the AFU to receive an accelerator interface instruction transmitted by the processing core and instruct the AFU to execute the task according to the accelerator interface instruction. |
| US10929186B2 |
Control token and hierarchical dynamic control
The present approach relates to systems and methods for facilitating an interrupt or change in automated tasks in progress, and using a control token (e.g., flag) to modify the progress of the automated task. In contrast to current automated tasks that may not be modified once the request for the automated task has been sent, the presently disclosed techniques allow for controlling and/or changing an automated task by using the control token and an associated status in conjunction with logical checkpoints defined for a thread at which the thread can be paused and the status changed. |
| US10929182B2 |
Systems and methods for scheduling a set of non-preemptive tasks in a multi-robot environment
System and method is provided for scheduling of a set of non-preemptive tasks by partitioning, the set of non-preemptive tasks either as a set of schedulable tasks or as a set of non-schedulable tasks; sorting, by a scheduling technique, the set of non-preemptive tasks partitioned; determining, by the scheduling technique, a possibility of execution of each of the set of schedulable tasks; and scheduling the set of schedulable tasks and the set of non-schedulable tasks upon determining the possibility of execution of each of the set of schedulable tasks. |
| US10929178B1 |
Scheduling threads based on mask assignments for activities
In an embodiment, an operating system for a computer system assigns each independently-schedulable code sequence to an activity. An activity may thus be associated with a group of related code sequences, such as threads that communicate with each other (whether or not they are part of the same program). When a code sequence is ready to be scheduled and it is not part of the current activity, it may preempt the current activity if the activity for the code sequence is not enabled and is not masked by the enabled activities. Each activity may define which other activities it masks. A flexible scheduling scheme may be devised based on the mask assignments for each activity. |
| US10929177B2 |
Managing resources for multiple trial distributed processing tasks
A computer-implemented method of managing resources for multiple trial distributed processing tasks is presented. The method includes estimating an expected time needed to process each of a set of mask patterns which can be independently processed. The method further includes allocating each of the set of mask patterns to a set of processing cores in accordance with the expected time, and processing the mask patterns in accordance with the allocation, when the computer in invoked to estimate, allocate, and process. |
| US10929175B2 |
Service chaining hardware accelerators within a data stream processing integrated circuit
This disclosure describes techniques that include establishing a service chain of operations that are performed on a network packet as a sequence of operations. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes storing, by a data processing unit integrated circuit, a plurality of work unit frames in a work unit stack representing a plurality of service chain operations, including a first service chain operation, a second service chain operation, and a third service chain operation; executing, by the data processing unit integrated circuit, the first service chain operation, wherein executing the first service chain operation generates operation data; determining, by the data processing unit integrated circuit and based on the operation data, whether to perform the second service chain operation; and executing, by the data processing unit integrated circuit, the third service chain operation after skipping the second service chain operation. |
| US10929173B2 |
Design-time information based on run-time artifacts in a distributed computing cluster
Techniques are disclosed for inferring design-time information based on run-time artifacts generated by services operating in a distributed computing cluster. In an embodiment, a metadata system extracts metadata including run-time artifacts generated by services in a distributed computing cluster while processing a workflow including multiple jobs. The extracted metadata is processed to identify entities and entity relationships which can then be used to generate lineage information. Using the lineage information, the metadata system can infer design-time information associated with the workflow. The inferred design-time information can then be utilized to, for example, recreate the workflow, recreate previous versions of the workflow, optimize the workflow, etc. |
| US10929171B2 |
Distributed forwarding for performing service chain operations
Some embodiments provide novel methods for performing services for machines operating in one or more datacenters. For instance, for a group of related guest machines (e.g., a group of tenant machines), some embodiments define two different forwarding planes: (1) a guest forwarding plane and (2) a service forwarding plane. The guest forwarding plane connects to the machines in the group and performs L2 and/or L3 forwarding for these machines. The service forwarding plane (1) connects to the service nodes that perform services on data messages sent to and from these machines, and (2) forwards these data messages to the service nodes. In some embodiments, the guest machines do not connect directly with the service forwarding plane. For instance, in some embodiments, each forwarding plane connects to a machine or service node through a port that receives data messages from, or supplies data messages to, the machine or service node. In such embodiments, the service forwarding plane does not have a port that directly receives data messages from, or supplies data messages to, any guest machine. Instead, in some such embodiments, data associated with a guest machine is routed to a port proxy module executing on the same host computer, and this other module has a service plane port. This port proxy module in some embodiments indirectly can connect more than one guest machine on the same host to the service plane (i.e., can serve as the port proxy module for more than one guest machine on the same host). |
| US10929168B2 |
Enhanced data storage and versioning of virtual nodes in a data processing environment
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of virtual nodes in a computing environment. In one example, a method includes identifying a transition event for a first version of a virtual node executing on a first host, identifying a second host to support a second version of the virtual node, and initiating execution of the second version of the virtual node on the second host. In some implementations, the virtual node comprises a non-persistent portion on the executing host and a persistent portion on a second storage element. |
| US10929164B2 |
Enhancing ability of a hypervisor to detect an instruction that causes execution to transition from a virtual machine to the hypervisor
Systems and methods for enabling a hypervisor to more efficiently determine the instruction executed by the virtual machine that causes a transition event. An example method may comprise: determining, by a processing device executing a hypervisor, a data storage location of a particular instruction of a guest operating system; detecting, by the hypervisor, a transition event between a virtual machine executing the guest operating system and the hypervisor, wherein the virtual machine comprises a virtual processor; comparing, by the hypervisor, an instruction pointer of the virtual processor and the data storage location of the particular instruction to determine a cause of the transition event; and executing, by the hypervisor, an operation corresponding to the cause of the transition event. |
| US10929163B2 |
Method and system for dynamically monitoring performance of a multi-component computing environment via user-selectable nodes
The disclosed embodiments relate to a system for monitoring a virtual-machine environment. During operation, the system identifies a parent and a set of two or more child components that are related to the parent component in the virtual-machine environment. Next, the system determines a performance metric for each child component in the set of two or more child components. The system then determines a child-component performance state for each child component in the set of two or more child components based on the performance metric for the child component and a child-component state criterion. Finally, the system determines a parent state for the parent component based on the child-component performance state for each child component in the set of two or more child components and a parent-component state criterion, wherein the parent-component state criterion includes a threshold percentage or number of child components that have a specified state. |
| US10929162B2 |
Virtual machine container for applications
A computer implemented method manages execution of applications within a memory space of a multi-tenant virtual machine (MVM). The method includes instantiating a container for an application. The container has a thin client and a name space that is part of a memory space of the MVM. Threads of the application are moved from the MVM to the container. The threads are executed using the thin client in the name space of the container. |
| US10929158B2 |
Computer architecture for emulating a link node in a correlithm object processing system
A device configured to link correlithm objects in a correlithm object processing system, includes a link node and a memory. The link node receives a first string correlithm object comprising a first plurality of sub-string correlithm objects and a second string correlithm object comprising a second plurality of sub-string correlithm objects. Each of the second plurality of sub-string correlithm objects are unrelated to each of the first plurality of sub-string correlithm objects in n-dimensional space. The memory is communicatively coupled to the link node and stores a node table that associates at least one of the first plurality of sub-string correlithm objects with at least one of the second plurality of sub-string correlithm objects. |
| US10929155B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for building and rendering a message user interface in a group-based communication system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for building an rendering a message user interface (UI) within a group-based communication interface of a group-based communication system, where the message UI is rendered to a client device based on a customizable block configuration and on customizable block data that is received from an external application. |
| US10929150B2 |
Optical line terminal and method for upgrading primary device and secondary device of optical line terminal
An optical line terminal and a method for upgrading a primary device and a secondary device of the optical line terminal are provided. The secondary device receives a stepwise reset notification sent by the primary device; the secondary device resets a control chip according to the received stepwise reset notification, and sends a request message to the primary device after the control chip is reset, where the request message is used to request the primary device to deliver new configuration data; the secondary device obtains the new configuration data delivered by the primary device; and the secondary device restores data of the control chip by using the new configuration data delivered by the primary device. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, only the control chip of the secondary device needs to be reset and upgraded, and other hardware structures of the secondary device do not need to be reset. |
| US10929147B1 |
Management of a stateless device environment
A computing environment includes multiple client devices that may each be configured to serve a particular function within the computing environment. The client devices are each coupled to a client management server that communicates with and manages functions of the client devices. When a client device first boots, the client management server communicates with the client device over a network in order to provision the client device with an enrollment image. Using the enrollment image, a client device can become enrolled with the client management server. Once enrolled, the client management server can provision the client device with a functional operating system image. The functional operating system image can support device applications that require a restricted number of runtime states within the client device. A new functional operating system image is downloaded from the client management server and installed on the client device each time the device is rebooted. |
| US10929144B2 |
Speculatively releasing store data before store instruction completion in a processor
A computer system, processor, and method for processing information is disclosed that includes determining whether an instruction is a designated instruction, determining whether an instruction following the designated instruction is a subsequent store instruction, speculatively releasing the subsequent store instruction while the designated instruction is pending and before the subsequent store instruction is complete. Preferably, in response to determining that an instruction is the designated instruction, initiating or advancing a speculative tail pointer in an instruction completion table (ICT) to look through the instructions in the ICT following the designated instruction. |
| US10929143B2 |
Method and apparatus for efficient matrix alignment in a systolic array
An apparatus and method for efficient matrix alignment in a systolic array. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a first set of physical tile registers to store first matrix data in rows or columns; a second set of physical tile registers to store second matrix data in rows or columns; a decoder to decode a matrix instruction identifying a first input matrix, a first offset, a second input matrix, and a second offset; and execution circuitry, responsive to the matrix instruction, to read a subset of rows or columns from the first set of physical tile registers in accordance with the first offset, spanning multiple physical tile registers from the first set if indicated by the first offset to generate a first input matrix and the execution circuitry to read a subset of rows or columns from the second set of physical tile registers in accordance with the second offset, spanning multiple physical tile registers from the second set if indicated by the second offset to generate a second input matrix; and the execution circuitry to perform an arithmetic operation with the first and second input matrices in accordance with an opcode of the matrix instruction. |
| US10929136B2 |
Accurate early branch prediction using multiple predictors having different accuracy and latency in high-performance microprocessors
Branch prediction techniques are described that can improve the performance of pipelined microprocessors. A microprocessor with a hierarchical branch prediction structure is presented. The hierarchy of branch predictors includes: a multi-cycle predictor that provides very accurate branch predictions, but with a latency of multiple cycles; a small and simple branch predictor that can provide branch predictions for a sub-set of instructions with zero-cycle latency; and a fast, intermediate level branch predictor that provides relatively accurate branch prediction, while still having a low, but non-zero instruction prediction latency of only one cycle, for example. To improve operation, the higher accuracy, higher latency branch direction predictor and the fast, lower latency branch direction predictor can share a common target predictor. |
| US10929127B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses utilizing an elastic floating-point number
Systems, apparatuses, and methods utilizing an elastic floating-point encoding format are described. In particular, at least one operand of an instruction is to store, or stores, data in the elastic floating-point encoding format. In some implementations, the floating-point encoding format includes a sign bit, a self-identifying field, a mantissa, and a non-overlapping exponent range. |
| US10929126B2 |
Intercepting and replaying interactions with transactional and database environments
Methods, systems and computer program products for replaying arguments of a module in real-time is provided. Input includes indicator of the original execution environment, a location of load libraries having a plurality of callback modules, and a location of previously recorded data. A mapping table that corresponds to the execution environment is loaded into system memory. Batch execution of an application starts. Environmental calls to the application are intercepted. The transaction id and arguments are identified and previously recorded data that corresponds to the transaction id is loaded into system memory. The arguments to the call are populated with data from the corresponding record in the recorded data. Based on there being a corresponding callback module for the transaction, invoking the callback module and augmenting or replacing the arguments to the call with data in the callback module. |
| US10929123B2 |
Assembling data deltas in controllers and managing interdependencies between software versions in controllers using tool chain
Disclosed embodiments relate to perform operations for receiving and integrating a delta file in a vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in the vehicle, a delta file, the delta file comprising a plurality of deltas corresponding to a software update for software on the ECU and startup code for executing the delta file in the ECU; executing the delta file, based on the startup code, in the ECU; and updating memory addresses in the ECU to correspond to the plurality of deltas from the delta file. |
| US10929117B2 |
Container image building using shared resources
Container image building using shared resources is disclosed. A first instruction file that contains a first plurality of instruction keywords is read. Based on the first plurality of instruction keywords, a first plurality of files from a shared location is copied to a first consolidated location. Based on the first plurality of instruction keywords, a first container command file that references at least some of the first plurality of files on the first consolidated location is generated, the first container command file including commands that comply with a container builder syntax. |
| US10929116B2 |
Generation of dynamic software models using input mapping with feature definitions
A system and method for facilitating construction of and/or adaptation of a dynamic software model. One embodiment provides for generating software models by mapping user selections to one or more model features as specified by feature definitions. An initial software model is used to obtain the user selections. Artifacts are associated with the business planning model according to the selections by mapping the selections to model features according to previously determined feature definitions. |
| US10929115B2 |
Distribution and execution of instructions in a distributed computing environment
Methods and apparatus for distribution and execution of instructions in a distributed computing environment are disclosed. An example method includes requesting, by executing an instruction with a processor within a deployment environment, a package supporting execution of a second instruction from a management endpoint, loading, by executing an instruction with the processor, a first component of the package in a command cache, the first component including a third instruction to implement a plugin framework, causing, by executing an instruction with the processor, a second component of the package to be stored in an instruction cache, the instruction cache located outside the deployment environment, the second component including a fourth instruction, and executing the first component from the command cache. |
| US10929113B2 |
Transformation of inter-organization process for execution via blockchain
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a plurality of state representations of a plurality of off-chain systems for performing a multi-party process via a blockchain, wherein each state representation identifies send and receive events of a respective off-chain system, removing one or more events from a state representation of an off-chain system to generate a reduced state representation, generating executable chaincode for the blockchain based on the plurality of state representations including the reduced state representation, and storing the generated chaincode via a blockchain node of the blockchain. |
| US10929112B1 |
Conversion of remote application dialogs to native mobile controls
A processing device of a remote server computing system receives an input metadata representation of an input action from a mobile device communicatively coupled to the remote server computing system. The input action comprises a selection of one of a plurality of control options associated with at least one control from a mobile user interface presented by the mobile device, wherein the mobile user interface is generated from a display metadata representation of the plurality of control options and the at least one control from a stationary user interface generated by an application running on the remote server computing system. The processing device converts the input metadata representation to a stationary format used by the application running on the remote server computing system and executes a command corresponding to the input action in the application running on the remote server computing system. |
| US10929100B2 |
Mitigating causality discrepancies caused by stale versioning
Implementations are provided herein for causally ordering events within a distributed file system. Each node within the distributed file system, when processing an event, can collect object/version pairs associated with event (e.g., an object identifier and an object version number of the object at the time of the event). Object/version pairs can be identified and labeled as reliable or unreliable based on the operation performed on the inode as a part of the event. Relationships between events can be established when two events modify the same object and one event has a lower revision number. If the two object/revision pairs are in a relationship, an unreliable relationship can be deemed a weak edge and a reliable relationship can be deemed a strong edge. Using the strong and weak edges associated with object/revision pairs, a causal order of events can be generated. |
| US10929099B2 |
Spatialized virtual personal assistant
Various implementations include wearable audio devices having a spatialized virtual personal assistant (VPA). In other implementations, a method of controlling a wearable audio device having a spatialized VPA is disclosed. Other implementations include a method of generating a spatialized VPA in a wearable audio device. |
| US10929093B2 |
Audio data buffering
A method of buffering audio data in an audio playback system that is adapted to receive and playback separate, discrete audio files from one or more audio sources, where the audio files comprise audio data, and where the audio playback system comprises a master device that receives audio files from a source, buffers the received audio data, and distributes the buffered audio data to one or more active slave audio playback devices. The master device requests a first audio file from an audio source, receives the first audio file, buffers audio data from the first audio file, and sends buffered audio data from the first audio file to one or more active slave audio playback devices. During playback of the audio data from the first audio file, the master device requests a second audio file from an audio source, receives the second audio file, buffers audio data from the second audio file, and sends buffered audio data from the second audio file to one or more active slave audio playback devices. |
| US10929092B1 |
Music network for collaborative sequential musical production
The present invention is a method and a computer program for allowing individual artists to produce a latency corrected collaborative audio work by providing a first artist the opportunity to create a base track which may then be accessed by additional artists who can add audio tracks which harmonize with the base track. Artists may add synchronized tracks to the base track at any time from a remote location thereby allowing artists in different geographical locations to produce a collaborative work of art simultaneously or over an extended time period. The present invention includes a novel method for latency correction, which corrects for delays caused by various types of user equipment, and ensures each track is properly synchronized with the others. The present invention also includes a novel interface where a slot machine or slider user interface allows for ease of use from a browser. |
| US10929091B2 |
Methods and electronic devices for dynamic control of playlists
This disclosure concerns the playback of audio content, e.g. in the form of music. More particularly, the disclosure concerns the playback of streamed audio. In one example embodiment, there is a method of operating an electronic device for dynamically controlling a playlist including one or several audio items. A request to adjust an energy level (e.g. a tempo) associated with the playlist is received. In response to receiving this request, the playlist is adjusted in accordance with the requested energy level (e.g., the tempo). |
| US10929088B2 |
Active area of interest tracking in a multiuser digital whiteboard session
Presented herein are systems and methods that allow for dynamic tracking of changes made by an interacting participant. The non-interacting participants follow the changes made by the interacting participant but maintain the ability to take control of their viewport. The systems and methods introduce the concept of an area of interest (AOI), which is a region of the canvas that contains changes or modifications. The AOI relies on a notion of an active user. An active user is a participant that performs an action on the whiteboard. In order for the other participants to view and be aware of changes made to the whiteboard by the active user, the viewport of each device is automatically mapped to contain the AOI. |
| US10929085B2 |
Electronic apparatus for controlling display of virtual input interface in environment of a plurality of output screens and operating method thereof
An electronic device and an operating method of the electronic device are provided. The method includes determining a display scheme of a virtual input interface as a first display scheme, based on context information of the electronic device, in response to a change of context of the electronic device detected while the virtual input interface is displayed based on the first display scheme, changing the display scheme of the virtual input interface from the first display scheme to a second display scheme which is different from the first display scheme, and displaying the virtual input interface based on the second display scheme. |
| US10929084B2 |
Display device and display system including same
A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a network interface unit for connecting the display unit to a terminal; a decoder for decoding encoded data received from the terminal; a display unit; and a control unit for receiving, from the terminal, the encoded data comprising a plurality of integrally encoded content images, performing control such that the decoder decodes the encoded data, extracting each of the plurality of content images from decoded data generated as a result of the decoding, and performing control such that the display unit displays each of the extracted images. |
| US10929082B2 |
Communication between display and device utilizing a communication and display protocol
A system is disclosed. The system includes one or more devices, wherein the one or more devices include communication functions and at least one application contained therein. The system also includes one or more displays. The one or more displays do not have any application programs contained therein. The one or more displays and the one or more devices communicate via a communication and display protocol. |
| US10929081B1 |
Context management for multiple devices
The present technology provides a system that enables a user to communicate with one of multiple devices in a network based on context information from another device in the network. The system includes a context manager configured to (1) receive context information from the multiple devices; (2) identify a subject-of-interest based on a user input; (3) determine a set of relevant context information based on the subject-of-interest and the received context information; and (4) transmitting the set of relevant context information to a target device to perform a task associated with the subject-of-interest. The context information managed by the present technology enables a user to conveniently interact with the multiple devices in the network without requiring the user to provide details of his/her instructions. |
| US10929079B2 |
Video display method, electronic device and computer program product
A video display method includes: allocating a native window to each guest operating system; receiving a request for establishing a physical contiguous memory PCM sub-region corresponding to a new window from the guest operating system; allocating a PCM sub-region to the guest operating system, returning a descriptor of the PCM sub-region to the guest operating system, the descriptor being used for instructing a corresponding hardware codec design to write display data into the PCM sub-region; receiving a display request from the guest operating system; and rendering and displaying the native window corresponding to the guest operating system based on the display request and the data in the PCM sub-region. |
| US10929078B2 |
Electronic apparatus for generating screen image to be displayed by display apparatus and control method thereof
An electronic apparatus includes a communicator, an image capturer configured to acquire a capture image of a display apparatus including a screen, and a processor configured to identify a screen area of the screen, within the capture image. The processor is further configured to sample a plurality of patch images, each of which having a predetermined unit size, from a background area outside the screen area within the capture image, generate a screen image to be displayed on the screen, based on the plurality of patch images, and control the communicator to transmit the screen image to the display apparatus. |
| US10929077B2 |
Secure deleting of image data stored at printing apparatus based on a deleting request from a terminal apparatus
A printing system includes a terminal apparatus and a printing apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes: a first inputting section; and a processor configured to: transmit a print request for printing an object image indicated by object data to the printing apparatus; receive first input authentication information inputted by a user; and transmit the first input authentication information to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes: a second inputting section; a printing section; a processor configured to: receive the print request; store the object data and associated authentication information included in the print request while associating with each other in a first memory; receive the first input authentication information; determine whether the first input authentication information matches the associated authentication information; receive input of second input authentication information from the user; and determine whether the second input authentication information matches the associated authentication information. |
| US10929069B2 |
Addressing page-correlated read issues using intra-block parity
A method for intra-block recovery of an Erasure Code protected memory page stripe may be provided. The method comprises providing a data storage device comprising a plurality of EC protected memory page stripes, each of which comprising a plurality of memory pages, wherein corresponding memory pages of the plurality of the page stripes are organized as a plurality of blocks comprising each the corresponding pages, each memory page comprising a plurality of non-volatile memory cells, and wherein each page stripe comprises at least one stripe parity page, grouping memory pages of a block into at least one window, each window comprising a plurality of memory pages of the block, and maintaining at least one parity page for each window of the block, such that a page read failure is recoverable even if multiple memory pages per page stripe experience a read failure concurrently. |
| US10929064B2 |
Methods of operating mixed device type memory modules, and processors and systems configured for operating the same
An operational method of a memory module is provided. The method includes receiving, from an external of the memory module, a first command and a first address in synchronization with clock signals. Status information is output through a signal line, when first data corresponding the first address is available in a data buffer in response to the first command. A second command in synchronization with the clock signals after the transmitting the status information is received from the external of the memory module, a second command. In response to the second command, the first data being available in the data buffer is output through data lines. |
| US10929061B2 |
Memory system and memory control method
According to one embodiment, a memory system is configured to include a nonvolatile memory and a controller circuit. The controller circuit is electrically connected to the nonvolatile memory. The controller circuit executes a first process and a second process. The first process manages a history of accesses to first storage areas of the nonvolatile memory. The second process manages a progress of accesses to all storage areas of the first storage areas within a first time limit, based on the history of the accesses. |
| US10929053B2 |
Safe destructive actions on drives
A method for reservations in a storage system, is provided. The method includes determining status of all storage devices expected to be in the storage system, receiving a request for a reservation of a storage device, and determining a type of service to be performed on the storage device. The method includes determining whether the type of service is in a first class of services or a second class of services and granting or denying the reservation based on the type of service, wherein a reservation to perform a service in the first class of services is granted as a result of determining all the storage devices expected are online and wherein a reservation to perform a service in the second class of services is granted as a result of determining a sufficient subset of all the storage devices expected are online to perform reading and writing with redundancy. |
| US10929048B2 |
Dynamic multiple proxy deployment
Dynamically generating proxy virtual machines (VMs) in a virtual center (vCenter) serving a backup server, by deploying a source proxy VM by passing network data to the vCenter, passing a set of internet protocol (IP) addresses and network configuration information to the vCenter to be used by the dynamically generated proxy VMs, receiving an indication from the backup server that new proxy VMs are required, and performing, in the vCenter, an instant clone operation to spawn one or more new proxy VMs. The method may further comprise passing the IP address and network configuration information for the new proxy VMs to the backup server for registration within the backup server, and using the new proxy VMs for backup operations of the backup server. |
| US10929047B2 |
Storage system with snapshot generation and/or preservation control responsive to monitored replication data
A storage system in one embodiment comprises a plurality of storage devices and a storage controller. The storage system is configured to participate as a target storage system in a replication process with a source storage system. In conjunction with the replication process, the target storage system is configured to receive from the source storage system replication data for at least one storage volume subject to replication from the source storage system to the target storage system, to generate a first snapshot for the storage volume, to monitor additional replication data received from the source storage system for the storage volume after generation of the first snapshot, and responsive to the monitored additional replication data satisfying one or more specified conditions, to perform at least one of the following operations: (i) generating a subsequent snapshot for the storage volume; and (ii) marking the first snapshot with a priority indicator. |
| US10929042B2 |
Data storage system, process, and computer program for de-duplication of distributed data in a scalable cluster system
A data de-duplication in a distributed storage of data objects in a cluster system, in which plural data objects are distributed across a group of node apparatuses and stored in units of data blocks. Each metadata structure including a root metadata node and one or more direct metadata nodes, and optionally including one or more indirect metadata nodes; and a metadata object is stored for managing de-duplicated data blocks based on a metadata structure of the metadata object wherein at least one direct metadata node of the metadata structure of the metadata object includes a block reference pointing to a de-duplicated data block being associated with two or more data objects. Preferably, each of the metadata structures of the two or more data objects being associated with the de-duplicated data block includes a respective direct metadata node including an object reference to the metadata structure of the metadata object. |
| US10929040B1 |
RAID 1—half compressed data storage
In a half-compressed RAID 1 system a first copy of a data set is maintained in an uncompressed state and a second copy of the data set is maintained in a compressed state, where corresponding compressed and uncompressed blocks are stored on different physical devices. The result is RAID 1 reliability with storage space consumption similar to RAID 5-3+1. Compression striping in which the compressed and uncompressed data is distributed across two or more storage devices can be used to reduce data access response time. Further, delayed compression can be used to reduce the time required to perform WRITE ops. Compression may also be performed based on resource availability or storage tier hierarchy. |
| US10929036B2 |
Optimizing static object allocation in garbage collected programming languages
A binary that is stored in a portion of runtime memory subject to garbage collection is analyzed. An amount of memory in a portion of runtime memory not subject to garbage collection is allocated for a binary copy based on the analysis. The binary is copied to the allocated portion of runtime memory not subject to garbage collection. |
| US10929035B2 |
Memory management via dynamic tiering pools
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product (computer-readable storage medium) embodiments for implementing memory management via dynamic tiering pools. An embodiment operates by initializing a first memory pool of a first tier, and invoking first and second function calls to allocate memory to the first memory pool. Responsive to these function calls, an OS may allocate differently-sized memory elements for attachment to the first memory pool, from a memory free store managed by the OS. A second memory pool, of a second tier, may be further initialized, and a third function call may be invoked, to allocate memory to the second memory pool. Here, in response to the third function call, the first memory pool may reallocate the second memory element from the first memory pool for attachment to the second memory pool. |
| US10929034B2 |
Allocation of task control blocks in a storage controller for staging and destaging based on storage rank response time
Stage task control blocks (TCB) are allocated for performing staging operations in a storage controller controlling one or more storage ranks. Destage TCBs are allocated for performing destaging operations in the storage controller. The storage controller adjusts how many stage TCBs and destage TCBs are to be allocated based on response times of the one or more storage ranks. |
| US10929031B2 |
Maximizing data reduction in a partially encrypted volume
A method of data reduction in a partially encrypted volume includes receiving data to be stored on a storage array, decrypting the data using a first encryption key to generate first decrypted data, and decrypting the data using a second encryption key to generate second decrypted data. The method further includes comparing, by a storage array controller, a first compressibility value of the first decrypted data to a second compressibility value of the second decrypted data. The method further includes storing the first decrypted data if the first compressibility value is greater than or equal to the second compressibility value. The method further includes storing the second decrypted data if the second compressibility value is greater than the first compressibility value. |
| US10929029B2 |
Memory controller and method for accessing memory modules and processing sub-modules
A memory controller and a method for accessing a memory module are provided. The memory controller is coupled between the memory module and a host controller to control the access of the host controller to the memory module. The memory controller comprises: a central buffer coupled to the host controller for receiving a data access command from the host controller, and coupled to the memory module for providing a modified data access command to the memory module; wherein the central buffer comprises an access command processing module, for processing the data access command to generate the modified data access command; and a data buffer coupled to the central buffer for receiving the modified data access command from the central buffer, and coupled between the host controller and the memory module for exchanging data between the host controller and the memory module under the control of the modified data access command. |
| US10929028B2 |
Control device for dynamically allocating storage space and data storage device including the control device
A control device for controlling a memory device to process requests from a plurality of hosts may include a request controller configured to manage a set representing storage space allocated to each of the plurality of the hosts; and a set controller configured to monitor requests from the plurality of hosts and to adjust size of the set, wherein, when the request is a write request from a host among the plurality of hosts, the request controller selects a target physical address among physical addresses included in the set allocated to the host, the target physical address indicating where the request is to be processed. |
| US10929025B2 |
Data storage system with I/O determinism latency optimization
In a data storage system, latency optimization can be practiced by logging a plurality of data accesses to a memory in a register with each data access of the plurality of data accesses corresponding with a command generated by a host connected to the memory. The register may be analyzed with a system module to predict a command execution latency value for the plurality of data accesses that can be used to generate a deterministic data access sequence with the system module. A queue of data accesses can then be reorganized from a first sequence to the deterministic data access sequence to reduce command execution latency variability during a deterministic window selected by the host. |
| US10929018B2 |
Layered clustered scale-out storage system
A mega cluster storage system includes clusters of multiple storage modules. Each module is able to access a portion of the data within the mega cluster and serves as a proxy in order for another storage module to access the remaining portion of the data. A cluster is assigned to a unique cluster volume and all the data within the cluster volume is accessible by all of the modules within the cluster. Each host connection to the mega cluster is associated with a particular cluster volume. A module that receives a host I/O request determines whether the I/O request should be satisfied by a module within its own cluster or be satisfied by a module within a different cluster. The module may forward the I/O request to a module within a different cluster as indicated by a distribution data structure that is allocated and stored within each storage module. |
| US10929016B1 |
Touch calibration at keyboard location
An information handling system touchscreen display detects touches at a touch detection surface as inputs to the information handling system based in part upon periodical calibrations performed by a touch controller. An embedded controller detects placement of a keyboard on the touchscreen display and in response commands the touch controller to cease the periodic calibrations for at least the portion of the touchscreen display on which the keyboard is placed. For instance, the embedded controller interfaces with a Hall sensor disposed under the touchscreen display that detects a magnet integrated in the keyboard. At removal of the keyboard, the embedded controller commands the touch controller to perform a calibration to update touch detection. |
| US10929015B2 |
Touch detection method and apparatus, touch device, computer device and readable medium
The present disclosure provides a touch detection method for a touch splicing screen, including: obtaining the following parameters: sizes of each of the display units in a row direction and in a column direction, a width of each of the first splicing intervals, a width of each of the second splicing intervals, and physical position information of a touch point; determining whether the touch point is within an area of the splicing intervals according to the parameters; and calculating, when the touch point is beyond the area of the splicing intervals, a position of a pixel unit corresponding to the touch point according to a resolution of the touch splicing screen, a row number and a column number in an arrangement of the display units, and the parameters. |
| US10929014B2 |
Character correction method and apparatus, device, and storage medium
The application provides a character correction method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, where the method including: obtaining position information of a click operation of a user on a terminal screen, and obtaining feature information of the click operation; determining distance information between the position information and each key on the terminal screen; determining transition probability information from a character indicated by a history click operation to a character corresponding to each key; determining a character prediction result according to the feature information, the distance information and the transition probability information, where the character prediction result comprises a probability score that the character indicated by the click operation belongs to the character corresponding to each key; and determining the character with a highest probability score as a correction character corresponding to the click operation. |
| US10929009B2 |
Electronic device for outputting graphic indication
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a touch screen display that includes a first edge and a second edge, a microphone, at least one speaker, a wireless communication circuit, a memory, and a processor operably connected with the touch screen display, the microphone, the at least one speaker, the wireless communication circuit, and the memory. The processor is configured to output a home screen including a plurality of application icons in a matrix pattern. The processor is configured receive an input from the first edge to the second edge. The processor is configured output a user interface on the touch screen display that includes a button that allows user to call a first operation and a plurality of cards. To call the first operation the processor is configured to receive a user input, transmit data and receive a response, and perform a task. |
| US10929008B2 |
Touch-based interactive learning environment
In an example method, a device presents a user interface on a touch sensitive surface of the device. The user interface includes a first portion for displaying a sequence of code and a second portion for displaying suggested segments of code. The device receives one or more character inputs in the first portion of the user interface, and determines, based on the one or more character inputs, one or more suggested segments of code. The device presents the one or more suggested segments of code in the second portion of the user interface, and receives a touch input selecting a particular suggested segment of code. The device inserts the selected suggested segment of code into the first portion of the user interface. |
| US10929006B2 |
User interface for recommended alternative search queries
Alternative search queries are provided by: determining alternative search paths for terms in a current search query; receiving a user selection of one or more terms in the current search query; providing a graphical display of one or more alternative search paths for the selected terms; receiving a user selection of at least a portion of one of the alternative searchpaths to be a new search query; and displaying search results for the new search query. The new search query may then become the current search query, and the determining of the alternative search paths, the receiving of the user selection of the one or more terms in the current search query, and the providing of the graphical display of alternative search paths for the selected terms are performed for the new search query as the current search query. |
| US10929005B2 |
Electronic device, wearable device, and method of controlling displayed object in electronic device
Disclosed are an electronic device and a method of controlling a displayed object by an electronic device. The electronic device includes a display, a communication unit, and a processor executing instructions to implement the method. The method includes when detecting communication with an external electronic device, displaying one or more windows corresponding to one more applications, displaying selection of a window of the one or more windows responsive to a first input received from the external electronic device, when a first window of the one or more windows is selected, displaying a first user interface for controlling a first application displayed within the first window and when a second input is received from the external electronic device while the first window remains selected, and displaying scrolling of displayed content of the first application within the first window, while maintaining the first user interface on the first window. |
| US10929004B2 |
Diagrams for structured data
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may have computer-executable instructions stored thereon that are executable by a processor device to perform or control performance of various operations. The operations may include displaying a graphical diagram of multiple nodes and their relationships based on structured data about the nodes and their relationships. The operations may also include receiving input effective to specify a filter parameter. The operations may also include analyzing the nodes displayed in the graphical diagram to identify a first subset of the nodes that satisfy the filter parameter and a second subset of the nodes that fail to satisfy the filter parameter. The operations may also include altering the graphical diagram in accordance with the filter parameter. |
| US10929003B1 |
Cross-platform drag and drop user experience
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for assisting with cross-platform drag and drop functionality are provided. A mirroring application that mirrors a UI of a second device and partially overlaps a UI of a first device may be surfaced on the UI of the first device. A drag-initiating input of an object of the second device may be received. A drag input dragging the object over a boundary of the mirroring application may be received. A UI element corresponding to the object may be surfaced over the boundary. The object may be sent by the second device to the first device. A drop input may be received over a construct of the first computing device. The object may be translated to a format compatible with the construct, and the object may be saved to a location of the first device corresponding to the construct. |
| US10929002B2 |
Electronic device for controlling a plurality of applications
An electronic device includes a cover glass, a back cover facing the cover glass, a display including a rigid area exposed through the cover glass, in which a first application is output, and a ductile area extending from the rigid area, and a processor electrically connected to the display. When at least a portion of the ductile area is exposed, the processor may output the first application in a first area which is a portion of the rigid area and the ductile area and a second application in a second area which is a remaining portion of the rigid area. |
| US10928996B2 |
Systems, devices and methods for electronic determination and communication of location information
A texting or messaging application may automatically insert relevant address or location information into the message as the user is typing the message, or shortly thereafter. A menu of selectable addresses or place names may also be presented to the user for insertion into the message as the user is typing the message. Such insertion may be based on a place name typed by the user or a type or category of place typed by the user in the message. Such relevant location information may instead be inserted automatically by the system on the recipient's device when the recipient receives the message. The system may also automatically generate and send a selectable calendar item including the address, date and time and attendees, based on information extracted from the message and previous relevant messages, as the message is being typed or upon sending the message. |
| US10928995B2 |
Systems and methods for UV packing
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for UV packing. The system includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to processors. The non-transitory computer-readable medium stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processors to perform a number of operations. One operation is to present a packing map using a graphical user interface including a selection tool. Another operation is to present a first set of one or more target objects using the graphical user interface. Individual ones of the first set include one or more features. One operation is to receive a first user input. Another operation is to, based on the first user input and the one or more features corresponding to the individual ones of the first set, pack the first set into a packing map. |
| US10928994B2 |
Processing objects on touch screen devices
A computer-implemented method for processing objects on touch screen devices is proposed. According to the method, one or more grid sizes is determined, wherein the one or more grid sizes comprise one or more text grid sizes. The one or more text grid sizes are determined by at least one of character, word, sentence, and section. Based on the one or more grid sizes, the one or more objects on the touch screen could be divided into one or more grids. The objects on the screen could be selected discontinuously by selecting grids on the screen. |
| US10928993B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating workspace views
In some embodiments, a multifunction device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface creates a plurality of workspace views. A respective workspace view is configured to contain content assigned by a user to the respective workspace view. The content includes application windows. The device displays a first workspace view in the plurality of workspace views on the display without displaying other workspace views in the plurality of workspace views and detects a first multifinger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the first multifinger gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the device replaces display of the first workspace view with concurrent display of the plurality of workspace views. |
| US10928988B2 |
Method and system for providing information based on context, and computer-readable recording medium thereof
A method and system for providing information that enables easier and quicker access to an item related to a context of a device, and a computer-readable recording medium thereof are provided. The method includes detecting a context of a device, and displaying at least one virtual space corresponding to the detected context on a screen of the device. The virtual space is a Graphic User Interface (GUI) that is configured to register the detected context and information related to at least one item. |
| US10928987B2 |
Presenting, at a graphical user interface (GUI), a constellation view of communications associated with node groups in a network
Techniques for presenting, at a graphical user interface (GUI), a constellation view of communications associated with node groups of a network disclosed. A GUI presents icons arranged on concentric rings. Icons on one ring represent device groups. Icons on another ring represent address groups. Icons on another ring represent intranet groups. Each icon is selectable to request information about the communications of the corresponding node group. Connections are drawn between the selected icon and other icons to represent the communications. Each connection is selectable to request additional information regarding the communication. |
| US10928985B2 |
User terminal device and displaying method thereof
A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area. |
| US10928983B2 |
Mobile user interface for contextual browsing while playing digital content
System and methods of presenting multiple contexts, while presenting digital content, such as a digital video. A user interface (UI) comprising a media player portion, and a context portion is provided on a screen of a mobile device. The digital content is presented in the media player portion of the UI. The digital video corresponds to a first plurality of context items, wherein a first context item of the first plurality of context items is associated with a first list of videos, a second context item of the first plurality of context items is associated with a second list of videos, the first list of videos includes a first plurality of additional videos, and the second list of videos includes a second plurality of additional videos. The digital video is played in the media player portion while at least the first context item and the second context item are presented in the context portion of the UI, wherein selecting the first context item causes presentation of at least a subset of the first list of videos, and wherein selecting the second context item causes presentation of at least a subset of the second list of videos. |
| US10928982B2 |
Automatic grouping of user interface elements into components
Techniques are disclosed relating to grouping user interface elements into components. The disclosed techniques may include, for example, determining, based on hierarchical user interface code, a plurality of visible elements of a graphical user interface. In addition, the disclosed techniques include determining coordinates for bounding boxes for ones of the plurality of visible elements and determining depths within the hierarchical user interface code for the plurality of visible elements. The disclosed techniques include generating groupings for the plurality of visible elements using unsupervised clustering and the determined coordinates and depths and storing information specifying the generated groupings. |
| US10928977B2 |
Mobile terminal and method of controlling medical apparatus by using the mobile terminal
A mobile terminal including a touch screen and a method of controlling a medical apparatus by using the mobile terminal are provided. The method may include displaying, in response to determining that at least one medical apparatus is within a certain range from the mobile terminal based on location information of the at least one medical apparatus, at least one piece of identification information that corresponds to the at least one medical apparatus, detecting a user input for selecting first identification information from the at least one piece of identification information, and displaying, in response to a user input, a user interface for controlling a first medical apparatus that corresponds to the first identification information, on the touch screen. |
| US10928974B1 |
System and method for facilitating user interaction with a three-dimensional virtual environment in response to user input into a control device having a graphical interface
The methods, systems, techniques, and components described herein may facilitate user interactions with virtual objects in a three-dimensional virtual environment using user input into a graphical interface of a control device that is coupled to a display that may display the three-dimensional virtual environment. The control device may be configured to display a 3D representation of a virtual object having a non-virtual reality representation of the virtual object. The graphical interface of the control device may receive selection information that corresponds to a user selection of the 3D representation of the virtual object. Transformation parameters that provide a basis for rendering a three-dimensional representation of a virtual object in the three-dimensional virtual environment may be obtained to define a transformation of the 3D representation of the virtual object. The transformation parameters may be applied to compose a 3D representation of a virtual object that represents the virtual object in the three-dimensional virtual environment. |
| US10928972B2 |
Hierarchical, zoomable presentations of media sets
Media sets may be presented as a media presentation (e.g., a slideshow or a thumbnail set), but many such presentations exhaust the attention of a user, particularly for large media sets. Instead, ratings may be identified that represents the relevance or interest of respective media objects of the media set to the user. These ratings may be identified explicitly by the user or automatically detected (e.g., by assessing image quality or monitoring user interactions with respective media objects). A zoomable media presentation of the media set may first present only media objects having a high rating, and upon zooming in near a media object, may insert, near the zoomed media object, one or more media objects associated with the zoomed media object and having a lower rating. This presentation therefore hierarchically organizes the media set, and utilizes zoom operations as a “drill-down” metaphor within the hierarchy of the media set. |
| US10928971B2 |
Device and method of displaying windows by using work group
An electronic apparatus, computer-readable recording medium, and method of providing a plurality of work group objects are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of work group objects respectively representing a plurality of work groups, providing a plurality of window objects in response to a selection of a work group object and representing a plurality of windows, providing a window in response to a selection of a window object, and providing an object representing windows corresponding to all of the window objects associated with one of the work groups. |
| US10928970B2 |
User-interface for developing applications that apply machine learning
The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems and/or devices used to visualize data. In one aspect, a method is performed by a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes (1) receiving a request from a user to visualize data, the data stored in a graph dataflow processing system, and (2) in response to the request, invoking an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for display to the user, the GUI including a first set of visualization data corresponding to a first subset of the data. |
| US10928968B2 |
Detecting mechanical interactions
A detection element (104) is energised. The detection element is substantially non-conductive without an application of pressure and becomes increasingly conductive in response to pressure application. A processor (101) is interrupted from a low-power dissipation state in response to a first detectable application of pressure by the detection-element. The processor is then configured to monitor further pressure applied to the same detection element. |
| US10928964B2 |
Display device having a substantially transparent region in a touch pad
Disclosed is a display device having touch sensors which may improve visibility. In the display device, the touch sensors having a multilayer structure including a blackened layer are arranged on an encapsulation assembly arranged to cover light emitting elements, and touch pads having a multilayer structure including a partially transparent conductive layer are arranged on a region of a substrate exposed by the encapsulation assembly. Therefore, the blackened layer may prevent reflection of external light and thus visibility may be improved, and the partially transparent conductive layer may lower sheet resistance of the touch pads and thus contact resistance between the touch pads and a driver integrated circuit may be reduced. |
| US10928960B1 |
System and method to track movement of an interactive figurine on a touch screen interface
A system and method to track movement of an interactive figurine on a touch screen interface are disclosed. The system includes a first set of conductive pads and a second set of non-conductive pads, a centre pad located at the bottom surface of the interactive figurine which is elevated relative to the first set of conductive pads and the second set of non-conductive pads at a pre-defined height, a switch housed on the interactive figurine to actuate the centre pad to enable a touch interaction of the centre pad with the touch screen interface, processors operatively coupled to the interactive figurine. Furthermore, the processors include an interactive figurine detection module to determine the pre-defined angle between the first set of conductive pads to identify the interactive figurine, an interactive figurine tracking module to track at least one movement of the interactive figurine on the touch screen interface. |
| US10928959B2 |
Touch screen and manufacturing method thereof, and touch display device
A touch screen and a manufacturing method thereof, and a touch display device are provided. The touch screen includes a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of first touch lines, the plurality of touch electrodes extending in a same direction, each of the plurality of touch electrodes including a mesh structure formed by a plurality of metal lines, and the touch electrode including a first end and extending from the first end, each of the plurality of first touch lines being located between two adjacent touch electrodes and electrically connected with one of the two adjacent touch electrodes, and the first touch line being electrically connected with the first end of the touch electrode. |
| US10928958B2 |
Interactive environment with three-dimensional scanning
An interactive environment image may be projected onto one or more surfaces, and interaction with the projected environment image may be detected within a three-dimensional space over the one or more surfaces. The interactive environment image may be a three dimensional image, or it may be two dimensional. An image is projected onto a surface to provide a visual representation of a virtual space including one or more of the virtual objects, which may be spatially positioned. User interaction with the projected visualized representation of the virtual space may be detected and, in response to user interaction, the projected visualized representation may be changed. |
| US10928951B2 |
Touch panel having high resistance to static electricity
A touch panel includes two ground wires. One end portion (an end portion X1) of one of the two ground wires and one end portion (an end portion Y1) of the other of the two ground wires form a gap. When the touch panel is viewed from front, the following condition as an example is satisfied: a line segment Z1 intersects at least one of the two ground wires. The line segment Z1 is a line segment which connects any one point P1 on a first line segment and any one point Q1 on a second line segment, the first line segment connecting a site of the end portion X1 and a site of the end portion Y1 which are located on two sides of an outer gate of the gap, the second line segment connecting a site of the end portion X1 and a site of the end portion Y1. |
| US10928949B2 |
Display control and touch detection device, semiconductor integrated circuit
A display control and touch detection device is capable of controlling display and non-display terms in start timing depending on a result of touch detection, and includes a nonvolatile memory and a control logic which selectively uses data stored in the memory according to a display mode. The control logic changes the display and non-display terms in start timing in display frame periods, whereby the phenomenon of appearance of an undesired brightness difference at a fixed location in a display frame with no display, and the phenomenon of occurrence of flicker owing to the undesired brightness difference can be suppressed. Based on the result of touch detection, the control logic changes the way to use data which decide start timings of display and no display. The start timings of display and non-display terms in a display frame period can be changed depending on the result of touch detection readily. |
| US10928946B2 |
Touchscreen stylus and display module interface
A touchscreen stylus, including a tip, including: a force sensing module to identify an analog force signal of the touchscreen stylus with respect to a touchscreen; a tilt sensing module to identify an analog tilt signal of the touchscreen stylus with respect to the touchscreen; a body, including: a mixer computing module to combine the analog force signal and the analog tilt signal to generate a combined analog signal; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to convert the combined analog signal to a combined digital signal; and a communications module to transmit the combined digital signal. |
| US10928943B2 |
Touch display device
A touch display device is provided, which includes a substrate, multiple touch electrodes arranged in an array on the substrate, and multiple touch lines on the substrate. The touch lines are arranged in a layer different from a layer in which the touch electrodes are positioned. The touch electrodes are arranged corresponding to the touch lines respectively. Each touch line is arranged parallel to a column direction of the touch electrodes. Each touch line includes a signal transmission portion. One end of the signal transmission portion of each touch line is connected to a corresponding one of the touch electrodes, another end of the signal transmission portion of each touch line is extended in a same direction to outside an area where the touch electrodes are positioned. Such configuration reduces a risk of short-circuiting between the touch lines and data lines in the same layer to ensure good production yields. |
| US10928942B2 |
Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, display panel and display device
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of gate lines on the base substrate, a film structure on a side of the plurality of gate lines away from the base substrate, and a plurality of conductive lines on a side of the film structure away from the base substrate. In the display substrate, an orthographic projection of each gate line on the base substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of a corresponding conductive line on the base substrate, and a signal transmitted on each conductive line is inverted from a signal transmitted on a corresponding gate line. |
| US10928937B2 |
Touch panel and sheet of touch sensors
A touch panel includes: a substrate, peripheral wires, marks, first coverings, and second coverings. The peripheral wires are disposed on the substrate, and each of the peripheral wires has a sidewall and a top surface. The marks are disposed on the substrate, and each of the marks has a sidewall and a top surface. The first coverings cover the top surfaces of the peripheral wires, and the second coverings cover the top surfaces of the marks, wherein the first coverings and the second coverings include metal nanowires. Furthermore, a sheet of touch sensors is provided. |
| US10928933B1 |
Mouse device
A mouse device includes a casing, a switch, a button, a travel distance adjustment and a knob structure. The button is exposed to a top side of the casing. A first end of the travel distance adjustment assembly is contacted with the button. A second end of the travel distance adjustment assembly includes an internal thread structure. The internal thread structure of the travel distance adjustment assembly is engaged with an external thread structure of the knob structure. While an operating part of the knob structure is rotated, the knob structure is not moved and the travel distance adjustment assembly is moved upwardly relative to the knob structure to push the force-exerted part upwardly. Consequently, a triggering speed of the switch is increased. |
| US10928930B2 |
Transparent display device and control method using the same
A transparent display device and a control method using the same are provided. The transparent display device includes a transparent display, a plurality of identification sensors, a scene sensor, and a controller. The identification sensors are configured to sense a user located at a first side of the transparent display to generate a plurality of identification data. The scene sensor is configured to sense scene information located at a second side. The controller obtains a user distance between the user and the transparent display, selects corresponding identification data generated by at least one of or multiple of the identification sensors according to the user distance, determines a location and a gaze direction of the user and a target object in the scene information according to the selected corresponding identification data, and presents target object information corresponding to the target object in the transparent display. |
| US10928928B2 |
Control panels and methods of controlling
A control panel for controlling a device comprises a scanning device being a plane surface scanner configured for scanning instantaneously an image of a surface of interest. It also comprises a front panel with a front side surface facing the user and a back side surface facing the scanning device and thus being scanable and at least one controller element mounted in the front panel and having contrast markings at the back side facing the scanner device with respect to a color of other portions of the back side of the front panel so that a state of the at least one controller is recognizable from an optical image of the back side of the front panel. |
| US10928926B2 |
Software-independent shortcuts
Provided is a method and system for defining shortcuts that can be used across multiple different software tools. In one example, the method may include detecting a key press, via a keyboard, associated with a command, identifying an application-independent shortcut corresponding to the key press, translating the application-independent shortcut into an application-specific shortcut for performing the command within the application, based on a translation database, and transmitting the application-specific shortcut to the application in response to the detected key press. |
| US10928924B2 |
Typing feedback derived from sensor information
An embodiment provides a method, including: operating a sensor of an information handling device to capture location information of a user; determining, using a processor to analyze the location information, a position of a finger of a user relative to a keyboard location; determining, using the processor, a difference between an expected location for the finger and the position of the finger of the user relative to the keyboard location; and offering, using the processor, feedback regarding the difference determined. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US10928921B2 |
Gesture based user interface
A gesture based user interface includes a movement monitor configured to monitor a user's hand and to provide a signal based on movements of the hand. A processor is configured to provide at least one interface state in which a cursor is confined to movement within a single dimension region responsive to the signal from the movement monitor, and to actuate different commands responsive to the signal from the movement monitor and the location of the cursor in the single dimension region. |
| US10928915B2 |
Distributed storytelling environment
A method, computer-readable medium, and system are disclosed for an interactive storytelling environment. The method comprises identifying a plurality of storytelling devices available to participate in a storytelling experience, including a first storytelling device at a first physical location and a second storytelling device at a remote second physical location. The method further comprises receiving, based on user input during playback of a story, an instruction to perform a first action of a predetermined plurality of actions using the second storytelling device, the user input indicating a user interaction with a depiction of the second storytelling device at the first physical location. The method further comprises performing, based on timing information included in the received instruction, the first action using the second storytelling device such that performing the first action is at least partly synchronized with performance of an animation sequence of the depicted second storytelling device. |
| US10928909B2 |
Tactile sensation presenting device for presenting warm/cold information and vibration information
A tactile sensation presenting device includes: a warmth/coldness presenting element configured to present warm/cold information to a presentation area; a vibrating element configured to present vibration information; and a frame made of a thermally insulating material and having an opening portion. In the tactile sensation presenting device, with respect to the warmth/coldness presenting element, at least part of the presentation area is exposed from the opening portion of the frame such that an operating part is able to contact the presentation area and surroundings of the exposed area are covered by the frame. In the tactile sensation presenting device, the vibration information, which is presented by the vibrating element, is transmitted to the warmth/coldness presenting element, and a tactile sensation, which includes the warm/cold information and the vibration information, is presented to the presentation area. |
| US10928903B2 |
Method and apparatus for display control using eye tracking
The present disclosure discloses a display control method and control apparatus using eye tracking. The display control method includes matching the image on which the user's face is displayed with the image on which its gaze is displayed, respectively, detecting the gaze information of the user by using the matched image with respect to the input of the user's face image, and controlling a display by manipulating a control element related to the gaze information among the control elements included in display information. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to control the display by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), a Deep Learning-based gaze mapping technology, and a 5G network without complicated calculation for a gaze angle. |
| US10928901B2 |
Calibration method for three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality and apparatus thereof
A calibration method for a three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality and an apparatus thereof are provided. The calibration method includes determining a first conversion parameter representing a relationship between a coordinate system of an eye-tracking camera and a coordinate system of a calibration camera by capturing a physical pattern using the eye-tracking camera and the calibration camera, and determining a second conversion parameter representing a relationship between a coordinate system of a virtual screen and the coordinate system of the calibration camera and a size parameter representing a size of the virtual screen by capturing a virtual pattern displayed on the virtual screen using the calibration camera. |
| US10928898B2 |
Augmented reality safety
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to augmented reality (AR) safety enhancement. In embodiments, an eye-gaze time indicating a period in which a user using an AR application is viewing a screen of a mobile device running the AR application can be determined. The eye-gaze time can then be compared to an eye-gaze threshold. In response to a determination that the eye-gaze time exceeds the eye-gaze threshold, an alert can be issued to the mobile device running the AR application. In embodiments, a set of proximity data can be received. The set of proximity data can be analyzed to determine a number of nearby devices. A determination can be made whether the number of nearby devices exceeds a safety threshold. When a determination is made that the number of nearby devices exceeds the safety threshold, an alert can be issued to a device having a running AR application. |