US09185835B2
Techniques or processes for providing markings on products are disclosed. The markings provided on products can be textual and/or graphic. The techniques or processes can provide high resolution markings on surfaces that are flat or curved. In one embodiment, the products have housings and the markings are to be provided on the housings. For example, the housing for a particular product can include an outer housing surface and the markings can be provided on the outer housing surface.
US09185833B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus allowing for an adjustable face plate. The apparatus comprises a face plate, an adjustment device affixed to the face plate, wherein the adjustment device includes a plurality of ridges formed thereon to define a plurality of gaps, and wherein the adjustment device is capable of rotating about an axis, and a clamp affixed to an electronic device chassis, having a first arm contacting the adjustment device in a first gap of the plurality of gaps and allowing for rotation of the adjustment device about the axis from the first gap to a second gap of the plurality of gaps.
US09185826B2
Provided is a use of a vegetable oil high in monounsaturates as dielectric and heat-transfer fluid in a device for the generation, storage, conversion and/or distribution of electrical energy.
US09185822B2
In general, the disclosure is directed to sealed enclosures and devices that include enclosures for protecting enclosed heat sensitive components from the heat generated by enclosed heat producing components. Heat producing components within the enclosure may be placed to achieve uniform distribution of heat produced by the heat producing components, to optimize the dissipation of heat from the heat producing components to the enclosure, and to minimize the heat experienced by the heat sensitive components. The exterior of the enclosure may be designed to increase thermal dissipation and to protect against thermal radiation.
US09185819B2
An electronic enclosure includes a first electronic module, a second electronic module, a third electronic module and a handle. The first electronic module is physically connected to the second electronic module and the third electronic module is physically connected to the second electronic module. The second electronic module vertically disengages from the first electronic module and the third electronic module horizontally disengages from the second electronic module. The handle forces sequenced orthogonal disconnection of the electronic modules such that the third electronic module horizontally disengages from the second electronic module prior to the second electronic module vertically disengages from the first electronic module.
US09185810B2
The invention is a method of making a flexible electrode array, comprising a silicone containing body, a metal trace layer and an electrode pad on the surface, including the steps of irradiating a surface area of a molded silicone containing layer yielding traces with the light beam from a pulsed ultraviolet laser source; immersing said irradiated molded silicone layer for inducing the deposit of metal ions to form metal traces; applying a silicone containing layer on the silicone containing layer and the metal traces; irradiating the surface for drilling holes in the molded silicone containing layer; and immersing the irradiated molded silicone layer for inducing the deposit of metal ions to form metal electrode pads.
US09185808B2
The invention discloses a printed circuit board compensation processing method for fabricating a BGA despite a small distance between a line and a pad of the BGA. The method includes compensating a pad and/or a line under a predetermined condition, and removing a portion of the pad facing the line by a second predetermined width when the shortest distance between the compensated line and pad is smaller than a first predetermined distance. The invention further discloses a device for performing the method and a PCB fabricated using the method.
US09185806B2
A printed wiring board includes an interlayer resin insulation layer, a pad structure formed on the interlayer resin insulation layer and positioned to mount a semiconductor device, and a solder-resist layer formed on the interlayer resin insulation layer and having an opening portion exposing a portion of the pad structure from the solder-resist layer. The opening portion of the solder-resist layer has a bottom surface such that the bottom surface of the opening portion is exposing an upper surface and a portion of a side surface of the pad structure.
US09185802B2
A method of manufacturing a flexible printed circuit board that includes a component mounting section having lands, a plurality of flexible cable sections having wirings and extending in different directions from the component mounting section, and a connection section having terminals connected with the land through the wiring, the method including manufacturing partial FPCs in a sheet in a unit of a partial FPC that includes a partial component mounting section that is a part of the component mounting section, a cable section extending from the partial component mounting section, and a connection section disposed in the cable section, cutting out the partial FPC from the sheet, performing an alignment using alignment targets of the partial FPC and a support plate so that the partial component mounting sections of respective partial FPCs configure the component mounting section, and fixing the partial FPCs onto the support plate.
US09185800B2
The disclosure relates to blended thermoplastic compositions, and in one aspect to blended thermoplastic compositions comprising a polycarbonate polymer and a high rubber graft acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene polymer blend, a styrene-acrylonitrile copolymer, and a laser direct structuring additive. These blended thermoplastic compositions are capable of being used in a laser direct structuring process. The present invention also relates to methods of manufacturing these compositions and articles that include these compositions.
US09185794B1
A printed circuit board (PCB) defines a first outer surface and a second outer surface that is opposite the first outer surface. The first outer surface of the PCB defines a recess. The PCB includes a signal layer between the first outer surface and the second surface with a first portion exposed within the recess and a second portion exposed within the recess. A component is disposed within the recess and connected to the first portion and the second portion of the signal layer such that an entirety of the component is within the recess and below the first surface.
US09185778B2
A lighting arrangement for presentation of a first object is disclosed. The arrangement comprises an accent lighting assembly and a decoration lighting assembly. The accent lighting assembly is arranged to provide illumination of the first object, has at least one accent light characteristic, and comprises at least one accent light generating device. The decoration lighting assembly is arranged to provide background lighting of the first object, has at least one decoration light characteristic, and comprises at least one decoration light generating device. The arrangement also comprises at least one sensor, arranged to detect a distance between the sensor and a second object and to generate a signal value representing the distance, and a controller arranged to receive the signal value from the at least one sensor and to adapt the accent light characteristic and the decoration light characteristic based on the signal value. Corresponding use, method and computer program product are also disclosed.
US09185776B2
A user-actuated lighting effect device includes a housing, a light-generating lamp coupled to the housing, a power source, and a control circuit. The control circuit includes a user-actuated switch operably coupling the lamp and the power source. The lamp creates a lighting effect on or near the user when the first switch is on. The housing can be mounted in a use orientation on a pedal board. The lamp can create an upwardly directed lighting effect. An operational mode can be selected using a lighting mode switch.
US09185771B2
Provided are a light emitting device and an organic EL element driving method wherein a light emission quality can be maintained by a self-repair without degrading the uniformity of light emission. A light emitting device is characterized in that the light emitting device comprises: a plurality of organic EL elements each of which is supplied with a current, thereby emitting a light; a constant current circuit that supplies a current to each of the organic EL elements; a reverse bias voltage circuit that applies a reverse bias voltage to each of the organic EL elements; and a switch circuit that connects the plurality of organic EL elements in series with the constant current circuit during light emission and that connects the plurality of organic EL elements in parallel with the reverse bias voltage circuit during application of the reverse bias voltage.
US09185764B2
A driver arrangement comprises a current regulator (12), to which at least one light-emitting diode (15, 42) can be connected, and a driver circuit (13) that is coupled to the current regulator (12) and features a measurement input (20) for receiving a measurement signal (SM) that is dependent on the operation of the at least one light-emitting diode (15, 42). The driver circuit (13) is designed for adjusting the current level of the current regulator current (IS) of the current regulator (12) in dependence on the measurement signal (SM) such that a light quantity (SL) emitted by the at least one light emitting diode (15, 42) has a constant brightness value.
US09185762B2
Some aspects of the present disclosure provide system and method of operation of a driving circuit for a light emitting element in a Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera. A DC-DC converter is configured to emit a constant current, and is coupled in parallel to a first modulation switch configured to connect the driving circuit to ground. The first modulation switch is further configured to alternate connections between the current source and ground at a frequency in a desired range of operation to produce an AC current. In some embodiments, an RC circuit element is coupled to an output electrode of the light emitting element and configured to apply a reverse bias to decrease turn-off time of the light emitting element. In some embodiments, a second modulation switch is coupled to the output electrode and configured to apply the reverse bias across the light emitting element. Other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09185750B2
A device for moving electrode columns of electric arc melting furnaces, characterised by consisting essentially of a lever the central fulcrum of which is connected to the hook of the overhead crane by an articulated ring, on one side a coupling mechanism being inserted into a tube and intended for coupling to the electrode column, while on the other side a counterweight of predetermined weight balances the device during its movement.
US09185749B2
An apparatus for heating a workpiece, particularly a roller bearing, having low power consumption, rapid heating and low weight, includes a truncated conical contact surface for horizontal workpiece bearing, a single-layer solenoid coil underneath the contact surface, following the contact surface shape relative to its covered surface and gradient, resulting in magnetic lines of force concentrated in an internal workpiece area and a driver resonant circuit producing an alternating magnetic field in the solenoid coil. The workpiece is inductively heated quickly without requiring pushing onto a magnet yoke, because of its horizontal bearing. The planar configuration of the solenoid coil, following the contact surface shape, causes operation of the driver resonant circuit at high frequency, resulting in low power consumption. The profile of lines of force causes the magnetic field to directly enter areas to be heated on an upper workpiece surface, ensuring homogeneous workpiece heating.
US09185747B2
In a wireless communication device for performing plural wireless communications with different standards using the same frequency band, degradation of communication quality and communication speed due to communication interference is prevented, while drop in throughput and occurrence of frame loss are prevented. A first wireless communication section first performs wireless communication using a first frequency band and a second wireless communication section performs second wireless communication using a second frequency band with which at least a part of the first frequency band overlaps. The first wireless communication section analyzes a communication status signal which represents a signal pattern corresponding to communication status of the second wireless communication and then determines whether it is synchronous communication, and if it is, the first wireless communication section transmits/receives data in a non-communication period when communication in the synchronous communication is not performed, in synchronization with timing of the synchronous communication.
US09185745B2
Embodiments of the invention provide signaling mechanisms for wireless networks composed of a large number of stations. An example method embodiment comprises: determining, by a wireless relay device, a first time window allocated for a first network, allowing first maximum transmit power for packet transmissions; and determining, by the wireless relay device, a second time window allocated for a second network, wherein the second time window is allowed for transmissions also within the first network, but only with second maximum transmit power that is lower than the first maximum transmit power.
US09185737B2
A method and a user equipment for controlling multiple communication systems to implement communication are disclosed. The method includes: when a long term evolution LTE system module in a UE is about to enter a discontinuous reception DRX sleep state or to temporarily stop data transmission, sending, by the LTE system module, first indication information to another system module in the UE, where the first indication information is used for indicating, to the other system module, that the LTE system module enters the DRX sleep state and at least part of time during which the LTE system module is in the DRX sleep state, or the first indication information is used for indicating that the other system module is capable of performing data transmission and time during which the other system module is capable of performing data transmission.
US09185736B2
A discontinuous reception method in a wireless communication system includes the following steps: in case of a continuous carrier aggregation, setting a common On Duration timer and/or a common Discontinuous Reception inactivity timer for a primary cell and each secondary cell; and in case of a discontinuous carrier aggregation, setting an independent On Duration timers and/or an independent Discontinuous Reception inactivity timers for the primary cell and each secondary cells. The discontinuous reception method realizes discontinuous reception of the carrier aggregation, thus saving power consumption of a mobile station.
US09185732B1
A first wireless device including a receiver configured to receive a beacon transmitted by a second wireless device, where the beacon includes a service set identifier, and where the service set identifier is encoded to include a capability of the second wireless device; and a transmitter configured to transmit, to a server, the service set identifier received from the second wireless device, where the service set identifier is decodable by the server to retrieve the capability of the second wireless device from the service set identifier. The receiver is further configured to receive, from the server, the capability of the second wireless device subsequent to the server having decoded the service set identifier.
US09185730B2
Aspects disclosed herein relate to enabling fallback to a second data service based on whether one or more fallback conditions are present before or during establishing a data context with a first data service. In one example, a UE may be configured to determine whether one or more fallback conditions are present before or during establishing a data session with a first data service. The UE may be further configured to prohibit further attempts to establish a data context to access the first data service based on the determination of the presence of at least one of the one or more fallback conditions. Some aspects disclosed herein relate to enabling fallback to a HRPD data service based on whether one or more fallback conditions are present before or during establishing a data context with an eHRPD data service.
US09185728B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the invention relates to a method for configuring a component carrier at a base station in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of determining whether initial access is permitted to a user equipment with respect to a downlink component carrier; and transmitting a synchronization channel signal and a broadcast channel signal to at least one user equipment via the downlink component carrier, wherein the initial access permission is applied to said at least one user equipment by modifying at least one of the synchronization channel signal and the broadcast channel signal.
US09185721B2
A method for use of a RA preamble with multiple available RACH resources is described. The method includes allocating resources including a plurality of RACH resources for a UE. Information that indicates a dedicated preamble and the allocated resources is sent to the UE. The UE receives the information. A response including the dedicated preamble is generated at the UE. The method also includes the UE sending the response over at least two of the allocated resources. In response to receiving at least one response, a message is transmitted to the UE. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
US09185718B2
Systems and methodologies are described herein that facilitate a centralized structure for managing multi-radio coexistence for a mobile device and/or other suitable device(s). As described herein, a control plane coexistence manager (CxM) entity and/or a data plane CxM entity can be implemented to directly interact with a set of associated transceivers (e.g., radios, etc.) in order to manage conflicts between events corresponding to the transceivers. Further, CxM operation can be divided between the control and data planes such that the control plane handles configuration and long-term operations such as radio registration, sleep mode management, long-term event resolution, interaction with upper layers, etc., while the data plane handles short-term operations with respect to radio event management based on incoming notifications or event requests. For instance, the data plane can evaluate a set of requested events, select event(s) to be executed, and provide responses to the associated transceivers relating to the selection(s).
US09185711B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided that include selecting resources for assigning to a device to mitigate relay self-interference when also communicating with a base station. The resources can be selected based on one or more factors, such as based on resources that are negotiated with the base station, or based on resources indicated as not desired for allocation from the base station, etc. In other examples, reference signals and control data can be communicated such as to mitigate relay self-interference as well.
US09185709B2
An LTE wireless communication system includes an LTE base station, and mobile wireless communications devices. Each mobile wireless communications device exchanges video data with another mobile wireless communications device via the LTE base station and by sending at least one of a PTV request and an RTV request to the LTE base station. The LTE base station is configured, when network traffic is below a threshold value, to allocate bandwidth for a PTV connection between a given mobile wireless communications device and a given other mobile wireless communications device, and, when the network traffic exceeds the threshold value, to allocate bandwidth for an RTV connection between the given mobile wireless communications device and the given other mobile wireless communications device.
US09185702B2
A radio communication device which manages a network defines a predetermined transmission frame cycle, allocates in the frame specific access slots as timing with which the individual radio communication devices in the network concerned receive a transmission, puts the information of the allocation in a beacon signal, and transmits the signal. Each radio communication device performs receiving operation at access slots specific to the device itself defined by the beacon signal. When information transmission is made between arbitrary communication devices in the network, access slots for the device which is to receive the information are used.
US09185699B2
According to one embodiment, a method of allocating a radio resource for a relay station includes: transmitting configuration information through a higher layer signal, the configuration information including information regarding an OFDM symbol at which a relay zone begins; allocating the relay zone to the relay station in a subframe based on the configuration information; and transmitting a relay control channel to the relay station in the relay zone. The subframe includes OFDM symbols in a time domain and subcarriers in a frequency domain. The relay zone includes a subset of the OFDM symbols in the time domain and a portion of the subcarriers in the frequency domain. The configuration information indicates an OFDM symbol from among a second OFDM symbol, a third OFDM symbol and a fourth OFDM symbol. The relay control channel is transmitted from the fourth OFDM symbol of the subframe.
US09185694B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises: a step in which a relay node receives a relay physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) including indication information relating to at least one piece of information about a second antenna port and a second scramble ID from a base station by using information about a first antenna port and a first scramble ID; and a step in which the relay node receives a downlink data channel from the base station, wherein the downlink data channel comprises a first downlink data channel region assigned to a portion of a resource block pair to which the relay physical downlink control channel is assigned, and a second downlink data channel region assigned to the other portion of the resource block pair to which the relay physical downlink control channel is assigned, wherein the first downlink data channel region is received using the first antenna and the first scramble ID, and the second downlink data channel region is received using the indication information.
US09185692B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for retrieving transmit opportunity control in reverse direction grant, so that a conflict occurring between a case where an RD Initiator continues sending another frame to an RD Responder after retrieving TXOP control and a case where a terminal other than the RD Initiator sends a block acknowledgement to the RD Responder can be avoided. The method provided in the embodiments of the present invention includes: when an RD Initiator fails to correctly demodulate a frame sent by an RD Responder, retrieving, by the RD Initiator, TXOP control by using a PIFS if it is impossible for the RD Responder to enable an MU-MIMO mode, and retrieving, by the RD Initiator, the TXOP control by using a duration if it is possible for the RD Responder to enable the MU-MIMO mode, where the duration is longer than the PIFS.
US09185684B2
Using non-uniform frequency bands for coexistence among multiple wireless communication technologies
Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer-readable media comprise: a first transceiver comprising a controller configured to select one of a plurality of frequency regions, wherein bandwidths of the frequency regions are non-uniform, and wherein the first transceiver is configured to transceive, according to a first protocol, first wireless signals in the one of the plurality of frequency regions selected by the controller; an arbiter configured to select one or more frequency channels based on the one of the plurality of the frequency regions selected by the controller; and a second transceiver configured to transceive, according to a second protocol, second wireless signals only in the one or more frequency channels selected by the arbiter.
US09185678B2
A system and method uses a communication request and/or historical data collected by one or more devices to identify whether to fulfill the request using ad hoc networking or access points. If an access point is determined to be used, the system and method attempts to identify those access points that can best fulfill the request and then attempts to use such access points to fulfill the request.
US09185663B2
In a mobile communication system comprising a base station (100) and a plurality of mobile stations (200) and operating closed loop transmitter power control, power control commands for transmission on an uplink are derived from measurements made on received downlink signals comprising nonpredetermined data values. Optionally the non-predetermined data values may comprise power control commands for uplink transmit power control.
US09185657B1
The communication device comprising a power-off notification implementer, a power-off location notifying implementer, a header displaying implementer, a footer displaying implementer, a zone leaving notifying implementer, a zone entering notifying implementer, and a camera.
US09185651B2
The present invention provides a variety of methods for an M2M terminal reporting a power outage when an abnormal power outage occurs, and apparatuses for supporting same. A method for performing a random access procedure for reporting the abnormal power outage in the wireless access system supporting an M2M environment, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: an M2M device receiving a message comprising an abnormal power outage ranging backoff starting parameter and an abnormal power outage ranging backoff ending parameter, which are used for reporting the abnormal power outage; entering an idle mode; and performing the random access procedure for reporting the abnormal power outage using the abnormal power outage ranging backoff starting parameter and/or the abnormal power outage ranging backoff ending parameter, when the abnormal power outage occurs in the idle mode.
US09185649B2
Apparatus and methods for optimizing data transmission include receiving an indicator indicating the availability of a first communication channel, the first communication channel having a higher data rate than a second communication channel. Aspects can include determining whether the first communication channel is available to transmit data based on the indicator, and transmitting the data via the first communication channel, upon determining that the first communication channel is available. Additionally, aspects include entering a sleep state, upon determining that the first communication channel is not available, and determining whether the first communication channel has become available during a subsequent awake period. Entering a sleep state and determining whether the first communication channel has become available during a subsequent awake period may occur until the first communication channel becomes available or until an expiration of a timer. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09185640B2
Instead of performing a complete frequency scan and a subsequent cell scan on detected candidate frequencies, according to the method for searching for a PLMN as disclosed herein, the frequency scan is interrupted for performing an immediate cell scan based on inspection results for a specific candidate frequency obtained during the frequency scan. During the cell scan, the bandwidth among other parameters of the cell may be detected. Based on the detected bandwidth, certain candidate frequencies falling into the detected bandwidth can be skipped when resuming the frequency scan.
US09185630B2
The invention relates to a relay node capable of managing the establishment of a fixed number of connections to detected neighboring relay nodes in order to form an ad hoc network with wide coverage. The relay node comprises a means for classifying the neighboring relay nodes according to a parameter, a means for selecting a fixed number of first classified neighboring relay nodes and means for establishing connections between the selected neighboring relay nodes and said relay node. The relay node also comprises a means for upgrading, before the selection of the fixed number of first neighboring relay nodes, the neighboring relay nodes determined as being non-accessible or accessible with upgrading in the ad hoc network from said relay node to make them able to be selected.
US09185628B2
A method and system for providing a second line service (“SLS”) feature to a subscriber using a telecommunications device (“TD”) which includes receiving at a switch on the network of the subscriber's primary service provider a communication made up of a trigger and a directory number. When the communication is received at the primary service provider's switch, the switch parses the communication and detects the trigger. Once the switch has received the communication, the switch additionally transmits a query message to a SLS platform that manages the SLS feature. As a result of the switch's query message transmission, the switch receives a reply to the query message from the SLS platform. Based at least in part on the reply to the query message, the switch can route the communication such that the switch connects one or multiple voice channel circuit between the subscriber's TD and the terminating TD.
US09185623B2
Efficient cell reselection taking the continuity of MBMS service into consideration is enabled. A communication system includes a base station apparatus managing a cell capable of providing a multimedia broadcast multicast service, and a mobile station apparatus belonging to a group of access-restricted cells, and the mobile station apparatus selects the access-restricted cell from the serving cell capable of providing the multimedia broadcast multicast service. The base station apparatus periodically transmits multimedia broadcast multicast service information to the mobile station apparatus (S101), and the mobile station apparatus is able to continue the multimedia broadcast multicast service being received from the cell capable of providing the multimedia broadcast multicast service by selecting the access-restricted cell and when a reception quality of the access-restricted cell satisfies cell reselection criteria, selects the access-restricted cell (S105).
US09185618B1
A system and method for providing a seamless transition between access points for mobile devices. The method comprises associating a unique identifier for a plurality of mobile stations with a unique identifier for a first network in an acknowledgment table, then, upon receiving a frame from a mobile station, acknowledging the reception of the frame if the frame includes the unique identifier for the mobile station and the unique identifier for the network. The transfer of operation between access points is effectuated through the use of control circuitry which transfers portions of the contents of the acknowledgement table between various access points. This has the effect that the mobile stations does not sense a change in access points and thus the roaming from a first access point to a second access point is seamless.
US09185614B2
Methods and apparatus for computing measurement metrics in a wireless communications network are provided. One example method generally includes obtaining a channel impulse response (CIR) from one or more reference signals (RSs) transmitted from one or more antennas of a base station (BS); calculating an absolute square per element of the CIR to generate channel energy response (CER) elements; calculating a threshold value based on a noise variance estimated from a portion of the CER elements; selecting CER elements that exceed the threshold value; and computing a reference signal received power (RSRP) value based on the selected CER elements.
US09185611B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for obtaining a secondary timing advance. The method includes: after a secondary cell activation command is received or after a secondary cell is activated, if a secondary time alignment timer TAT of the secondary cell does not run, initiating, by a terminal, a random access procedure; and obtaining, by the terminal, the secondary TA according to a TA received in the random access procedure. With the method and the device for obtaining a timing advance according to embodiments of the present invention, a terminal initiates a random access procedure to obtain a secondary timing advance after the terminal receives a secondary cell activation command sent by a base station or after a secondary cell is activated, thereby saving signaling overhead and system resources.
US09185601B2
Switching between and/or combining various multi-transceiver wireless communication techniques based on a determined characteristic of a network or a wireless link is described herein. As an example, a characteristic such as signal to noise ratio (SNR), multi-path scattering, available bandwidth, or the like, can be determined. The characteristic can then be compared with suitable thresholds for various multi-transceiver communication techniques, such as MIMO, multi-channel concatenation, channel diversity, and so on. Based on a comparison of the characteristic and the thresholds, a suitable multi-transceiver technique can be selected and implemented for the wireless link Accordingly, a network can provide increased data rates and/or channel quality from a multi-transceiver technique that is most suited to prevailing conditions of the wireless network/link.
US09185600B2
The number of directional antennas and associated radios needed to ensure a nomadic wireless mesh network (NWMN) remains operational in the event of node or link failures, while minimizing delay and other unwanted effects, may be determined using novel methods and devices. Such a determination may reduce the number of antennas and radios a service or network provider normally uses, thus reducing its costs.
US09185586B2
A method for verifying compliance of a communication device with one or more requirement specifications is disclosed. The method comprises establishing a link between a test system and the communication device, wherein the establishing comprises configuring one or more bearers and one or more control channels; closing a test loop comprising the test system and the communication device, wherein the closing comprises activating a test loop function of the communication device; sending data in a downlink of the test loop from the test system to the communication device; receiving the data at the communication device; transferring at least some of the data to an uplink transmission arrangement of the communication device after a specific event has occurred; and verifying, at the test system, transmission in an uplink of the test loop from the communication device to the test system. Corresponding test system and test loop function arrangement are also disclosed.
US09185583B2
A method includes receiving a data packet from a data interface and comparing an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the data interface to a destination IP address associated with the packet. Further, the method includes dropping the data packet when the IP address of the data interface does not match the destination IP address.
US09185576B2
The embodiments herein relate to a method in a network node (103), a network node (103), a method in a user equipment (105) and a user equipment for handling base sequences in a communications network (100). The network node (103) is configured to communicate with a first user equipment (105). The network node (103) comprises information about a default base sequence and an alternative base sequence. The network node (103) determines (405, 505, 901), for the first user equipment (105), that the alternative base sequence should replace the default base sequence. The network node (103) sends (406, 506, 902) information about the determined alternative base sequence to the first user equipment (105).
US09185571B2
A method, an apparatus, a computer program product, and other embodiments are provided, which involve receiving a signal on a communications channel, correlating the received signal and a reference signal, and determining, on the basis of a result of the correlation, whether the reference signal can be employed on the communications channel. Additional aspects may provide improvements so that a simultaneous use of reference signals on the same communications channel may be detected. Further aspects may enable the performance of channel estimations on the basis of reference signals to be kept high even in networks where the distance between neighboring base stations employing the same reference signal is short and/or if the number of available reference signals is limited.
US09185569B2
Compensation is provided for foreign interference within a cell. Uplink (UL) noise on an UL channel to a first base station (BS) device is detected. Whether the UL noise includes interference is determined. Interference can include any device other than a mobile device configured to communicate with a BS device associated with a cell. The first service area of the BS device can be modified, e.g., scaled based on determining that the UL noise includes interference. Scaling can include reducing the first service area to a second service area that does not include an imbalance region in the first service area caused by the foreign interference. Scaling can be effected by reducing the amount of downlink power from the first BS device, or by adjusting a re-selection parameter associated with reducing the range of the BS device.
US09185567B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, a device, and a system for sharing transmission bandwidth between different systems, and belong to the communications field. When a first communications system and one or more other communications systems share transmission bandwidth, the method includes: comparing, by a first network element in the first communications system, the sum of rates at which a service is sent to a second network element in the first communications system with bandwidth preconfigured for the second network element; adjusting, by the first network element based on a comparison result, a transmission priority of the service sent to the second network element; and adjusting, by the first network element based on transmission congestion status of the first communications system, sending bandwidth for transmitting the service to the second network element.
US09185565B2
A method, device, and system that use narrowband channels to provide higher re-use without multiplying the operator spectrum requirement. If a communication system supports variable carrier bandwidth channels, the narrow channel capacity can be divided among adjacent cells to provide higher re-use.
US09185563B2
An unauthorized use preventing device includes: a first measuring unit that measures a global position thereof and outputs the global position as first position information; and a first transmission unit that wirelessly transmits the first position information to an outside. The security section includes: a second measuring unit that measures a global position thereof and outputs the global position as second position information; a first receiving unit that receives the first position information; a position comparison unit that determines whether an inter-instrument distance calculated based on the first and second position information is less than a threshold distance or equal to or more than the threshold distance, and outputs a result of the determination as a position comparison result signal; and a logical product calculation unit that calculates and outputs a logical product of the position comparison result signal and a power supply turning-on signal.
US09185554B2
Systems and methods for managing applications on an appliance are provided. A server is in communication with appliances. The server is also coupled to databases which include appliance information, as well as application data. A user may authenticate using the appliance. A set of permissions may be associated with the user. The server then supervises information exchanged between the appliance and the server, as well as application functionality upon the appliance, by supplementing the applications downloaded to the appliance with supplemental code, referred to hereafter as an AppGuard. The AppGuard is tailored, using information related to the appliance, to the appliance type in order to ensure proper functionality. The AppGuard is executed upon installation, and collects device information for validation. After validation, the application may be run. Additionally, management of the applications may include augmenting, deleting, disabling or authorizing the application.
US09185547B2
A system and method for receiving a call in a wireless terminal having a single Radio Frequency (RF) unit and at least two Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards, wherein the system includes: the wireless terminal for informing a user of occurrence of an incoming call through a second SIM card for which an incoming call forwarding is pre-registered while performing a call through a first SIM card; a Base Station (BS) related to the first SIM card for informing the wireless terminal of the occurrence of the incoming call through the second SIM card, in response to a paging request for the second SIM card that is received from a BS related to the second SIM card; and the BS related to the second SIM card for requesting the BS related to the first SIM card for paging to the second SIM card if a call request to the second SIM card for which the incoming call forwarding is registered is received.
US09185546B2
A mobile communication method according to the present invention includes a step A in which, in location registration processing of a mobile station, an switch of a first communication scheme and an switch of a second communication scheme send a subscriber information server first information used to determine whether or not all coverage areas have a same capability of providing a telephony service by packet switching; and a step B in which, when a status inquiry request made upon receipt of a terminating-call signal destined for the mobile station is received from an application server, the subscriber information server determines based on the first information whether or not to make an inquiry at the switch of the first communication scheme or the switch of the second communication scheme about whether or not provision of the telephony service by packet switching is possible in an area where the mobile station is located.
US09185543B2
Management services are provided during local breakout at a femto access point (FAP). In an aspect, the FAP facilitates policy management and employs a policy component to perform an analysis and enforce a set of policies for dynamically selecting an optimal route for traffic received at the FAP based on a decision-making process. Typically, the set of policies can specify different routes based on various factors, such as, but not limited to, type of traffic, current and/or future network resource availability, current time, day and/or date, location of the FAP, location of a UE sending/receiving the traffic, a lowest cost route, and/or route based on cost-benefit, etc. Further, a monitoring component is employed to observe the route employed by that traffic, which can be utilized by various services, such as, billing, Quality of Service, security management, address management, failure management and/or provisioning.
US09185516B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for providing radio frequency interference (RFI) awareness assistance data to global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers are described. In some embodiments, a first method includes receiving at a location server RFI situational information. The first method further includes maintaining at least one time and location dependent database of an RFI situation. The first method further includes sending at least one assistance data message to at least one receiver including the RFI situational information. In another embodiment, a second method includes receiving RFI awareness assistance data from a location server. The second method further includes adapting a position location measurement according to the received RFI awareness assistance data. The second method further includes calculating a location of the receiver based at least in part on the adapted position location measurement.
US09185515B2
An exemplary embodiment provides a non-transitory storage medium. The non-transitory storage medium causes the computer of an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with another information processing apparatus to function as a data reception unit configured to receive application data which can be made use of by an application program from another information processing apparatus, a data determination unit configured to determine whether the received application data is data made use of by a first application program executed by the information processing apparatus, and a data conversion unit configured to convert the received application data to application data made use of by the first application program executed by the information processing apparatus when the data determination unit determines that the received application data is not data made use of by the first application program executed by the information processing apparatus.
US09185510B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing the roaming preferences of a mobile subscriber. The method includes sending a preferred network roaming list to a mobile subscriber device. The method further includes sending a triggering message for terminating a PDP context link involving the mobile subscriber device and for activating the preferred network roaming list on the mobile subscriber device.
US09185508B2
A process and system for generating three dimensional sound conferencing includes generating a virtual map with a plurality of positions, each participant selecting one of the positions, determining a direction from each position to each other position on the map, determining a distance from each position to each other position on the map, receiving sound from each participant, mixing the received sound, transforming the mixed sound into binaural audio, and directing the binaural audio sound to each participant via a speaker associated with the virtual position of the speaking participant. The result is a clarified sound that gives to the listening participant a sense of where the speaking participant is positioned relative to the listening participant.
US09185505B2
A method provides a long term feedback path estimate of a listening device. The method comprises a) providing an estimate of the current feedback path; b) providing a number of detectors of parameters or properties of the acoustic environment of the listening device and/or of a signal of the listening device, each detector providing one or more detector signals; c) providing a criterion for deciding whether an estimate of the current feedback path is reliable based on said detector signals; d) storing said estimate of the current feedback path, if said criterion IS fulfilled and neglecting said estimate of the current feedback path, if said criterion is NOT fulfilled; e) providing a long term estimate of the feedback path based on said stored estimate(s) of the current feedback path.
US09185500B2
This application relates to a system for compression and mixing for hearing assistance devices by application of compression to individual sound sources before applying a head-related transfer function (HRTF) to prevent compression and cross modulation of interaural-level-difference (ILD) cues for localization, according to one example. Variations of the present system use coordinated compression to left and right individual source signals after application of HRTFs.
US09185497B2
A method of processing a sound segment is used in a hearing aid. If the sound segment is a high-frequency type, the high-frequency portion of the sound segment will be processed with a frequency lowering process. If the sound segment is a mixed-frequency type (between high-frequency and low-frequency), the energy of at least some portion of the high-frequency portion of the sound segment will be decreased and then processed with a frequency lowering process.
US09185494B2
An inner magnet type microspeaker including a suspension is provided which can maximize the size of a magnet. The inner magnet type microspeaker includes: a frame; a yoke installed inside of the frame and including a bottom surface and sidewalls bent upward from the bottom surface; a magnet bonded to an inside of the yoke; a voice coil located in a gap portion between the sidewalls of the yoke and the magnet; a diaphragm that vibrates by the voice coil; and a suspension where the voice coil is attached, and which guides vibrations of the diaphragm and the voice coil and includes a ring-shaped inner peripheral portion and an outer peripheral portion that surrounds the inner peripheral portion, spaced a predetermined distance apart from the inner peripheral portion, with one end and the other end being connected to the inner peripheral portion.
US09185493B2
Systems and methods thereof for obtaining metrics and an accurate threshold to prevent loudspeaker overheating, based on autocorrelation and cross-correlation of band-pass filtered current and voltage measurements are disclosed. The methods invented are based on instantaneous voltage and current measurements. The invention does not require a DC or pilot signal to be added to the audio signal in order to do perform the measurement, and it is not disturbed by capacitive or inductive components in the complex impedance of the voice coil.
US09185488B2
Detection from sensors may be used to configure or modify the configuration of audio directional processing to improve user safety and/or communication by processing at least one control parameter dependent on at least one sensor input parameter, processing at least one audio signal dependent on the processed at least one control parameter, and outputting the processed at least one audio signal.
US09185487B2
Systems and methods for noise suppression using noise subtraction processing are provided. The noise subtraction processing comprises receiving at least a primary and a secondary acoustic signal. A desired signal component may be calculated and subtracted from the secondary acoustic signal to obtain a noise component signal. A determination may be made of a reference energy ratio and a prediction energy ratio. A determination may be made as to whether to adjust the noise component signal based partially on the reference energy ratio and partially on the prediction energy ratio. The noise component signal may be adjusted or frozen based on the determination. The noise component signal may then be removed from the primary acoustic signal to generate a noise subtracted signal which may be outputted.
US09185485B2
Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals.
US09185474B2
At least one of a first device, a second device, and a relay device compensates for wavelength dispersion in a first optical wavelength path. The first or second device changes a wavelength dispersion compensation amount at the first or second device so that wavelength dispersion in a second optical wavelength path is compensated. The relay device changes a wavelength dispersion compensation amount at the relay device so that a total amount of wavelength dispersion of the signal light compensated in the first optical wavelength path does not change substantially with the change in the wavelength dispersion compensation amount at the first or second device. The first optical wavelength path is switched to the second optical wavelength path after the wavelength dispersion compensation amount at the first or second device is changed to a value that can compensate for the wavelength dispersion in the second optical wavelength path.
US09185471B2
A gateway includes a network interface and an apparatus for detecting predetermined tones The apparatus includes an input to receive a signal transmitted over the network interface, a frequency divider to divide the signal into two different components, each component being associated with a different frequency sub band, wherein each frequency sub band is selected to include a predetermined frequency of a predetermined tone, a frequency discriminator to determine frequencies of tones in the components, and a decision logic block to provide an indication that a first predetermined tone has been detected when a first determined frequency of a first tone in a first component corresponds to a first predetermined frequency of the first tone.
US09185459B1
Storage management technology, in which a system determines a first amount of storage space on a downloader device of a user that is available for download of new content made available on channels subscribed to by the user. The system also determines a second amount of storage space needed to download new content that has been made available on channels subscribed to by the user. The system further compares the second amount of storage space to the first amount of storage space and determines whether the second amount of storage space exceeds the first amount of storage space. Based on a determination that the second amount of storage space exceeds the first amount of storage space, the system controls downloading of the new content to the downloader device and deletion of previously-stored content on the downloader device based on a content allocation policy.
US09185453B2
A digital television (DTV) receiver for processing a DTV signal, the DTV receiver includes a receiver to receive a digital television signal including a plurality of extended text table (ETT) instances that appear in transport stream packets with common PID values, the ETT instances having common table ID values, each ETT instance comprising a section header and a message body, the section header containing a table identification (ID) extension field that serves to establish uniqueness of each ETT instance, the message body containing an extended text message (ETM) which provides detailed descriptions of a virtual channel or an event associated with each ETT instance, wherein the section header further contains a current next indicator field and a section length field indicating a section length, a demodulator to demodulate the digital television signal and an identifier to identify at least one pertinent ETT instance from the plurality of ETT instances.
US09185451B2
Detailed herein is a technology which, among other things, allows for storage and playback of interactive user elements in a television stream. In one approach to this technology, a content data stream, including a television program and a user experience element, is received. This content data stream is transformed, and the transformed data stream is examined, to identify which packets are associated with the user experience element. Those packets are then passed to a handler appropriate for the user experience element.
US09185442B2
A data communication architecture delivers a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architecture employs channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architecture communicates content according to an initial bonding configuration. The communication architecture may adjust the bonding configuration to adapt to bonding environment changes affecting the communication capabilities or requirements associated with transmitting the content.
US09185441B2
Apparatus and methods in the field of bi-directional (or interactive) networks. In some embodiments, bi-directional networks which provide, include, and/or enable point-of-purchase options (e.g., to or within displays or plays of media such as movies, television, and/or video). In some embodiments, bi-directional networks which permit or allow product placements to be directly monetized. In some embodiments, bi-directional or interactive networks which provide and/or include selectively visible advertising. In some embodiments, bi-directional or interactive networks which provide or include selectively visible advertising or point of purchase opportunities which are uniquely associated, affiliated, or connected to a consumer interest. In still other embodiments, methods and/or apparatus for increasing advertising and/or product placement effectiveness and/or for apportioning profits related to commercialization of advertised goods and/or services.
US09185434B2
A system includes plural TVs, with a master TV accepting user input to establish TV settings. The system also includes a server accessing the TV settings from the master TV to send the settings to at least some of the other plural TVs over a network to establish respective TV settings on the other TVs.
US09185432B2
In a method for encoding a 3D signal comprising layered-depth images, the viewing area of further layers are (background layers) made to differ in size and/or shape from the viewing area of a reference view (foreground layers) and the 3D image signal is provided this with appropriate scaling data expressing the relation between the reference view viewing area and the one or more further layer's viewing area.
US09185430B2
An exemplary deblocking filtering method includes checking if at least one of two adjacent blocks is an intra-coded block and accordingly generating a checking result; and applying a deblocking filtering scheme with a clipping range to the two adjacent blocks by a deblocking filtering circuit as long as the checking result indicates that at least one of the two adjacent blocks is the intra-coded block.
US09185429B1
Systems, apparatuses and methods for encoding and decoding a video stream having a plurality of frames are disclosed. When encoding, for example, blocks are selected in spiral fashion until contiguous blocks of at least a central section of the frame are selected. The selected blocks are encoded in an order in which they were selected. A first level of error protection is applied to encoded blocks within the central section. A second, different level of error protection is applied to encoded blocks outside the central section. By using a spiral scan and selective error protection, blocks most likely to have information of interest to a viewer are identified and can be encoded and error-protected to provide better image quality in the area of interest when decoded.
US09185428B2
In one embodiment, a method determines a scaled motion vector for a first block. A motion vector for a second block is determined where the motion vector is on a non-uniform motion vector grid. The method then maps the motion vector for the second block to a higher accuracy uniform motion vector grid that is of a higher accuracy than the non-uniform motion vector grid and scales the motion vector for the second block on the higher accuracy motion vector grid. The scaled motion vector is mapped on the higher accuracy motion vector grid to the non-uniform motion vector grid. The scaled motion vector on the non-uniform motion vector grid is associated with the first block for a temporal prediction process.
US09185426B2
A video receiver is operable to receive three-dimensional (3D) video bitstreams from a video transmitter. The received 3D video bitstreams comprises a plurality of video frames and corresponding coding information. The coding information, for example, block motion vectors, block coding modes, quantization levels, and/or quantized residual data, is extracted for performing frame-rate up-conversion on the received plurality of video frames. The coding information is generated at the video transmitter via entropy decoding on a compressed 3D video from a video feed from, for example, an IP TV network. When an uncompressed 3D video is received, the video receiver is operable to perform frame-rate up-conversion on the received uncompressed 3D video using extracted block motion vectors and associated confidence-consistence measure. When a compressed 3D video is received, the video receiver is configured to perform video decompression on the received compressed 3D video prior to the frame-rate up-conversion.
US09185425B2
A method and apparatus are provided for predicting a movement vector of a current image partition in relation to a movement vector of a reference partition having the same form as the current image partition and belonging to a reference image (IN-1) which is different from the current image and has been pre-cut, following encoding and subsequent decoding, into a plurality of n partitions. One such method includes, when the reference partition covers a set of k reference partitions from among the plurality of n reference image partitions, with k≦n, determining the movement vector of the current image partition from a function of at least one reference movement vector belonging to a set of k reference movement vectors associated respectively with k covered reference partitions.
US09185424B2
Techniques described in this disclosure may implement a bit budget-based scheme that indicates the available bit budget for a current image data block to achieve the target compression. The techniques may continuously update the bit budget after the compression of the current image data block to determine the bit budget for the next image data block.
US09185419B2
A method of coding a sequence of images comprises at least one image comprising an image region of interest.The coding method comprises the following steps implemented for said at least one image of said sequence of images: determining (S10 to S23) an image portion comprising the image region of interest on the basis of a rate-distortion criterion representing a compromise between the compression efficiency the distortion of the image portion and the compression efficiency the distortion of the whole of said at least one image; and coding (S24) said at least one image on the basis of the determined image portion.
US09185406B2
An image decoding device for increasing decoding efficiency and reducing the number of memory accesses includes a division unit dividing a picture into first and second coded image data; and first and second decoding units decoding, in parallel, the first and second coded image data and storing decoding results into a frame storage unit. The first and second decoding units decode the first and second coded image data using second and first decoding result information, respectively, and store the resulting first and second decoding result information into an information storage unit. When decoding a target macroblock, each of the first and second decoding units performs image processing on the corresponding second or first decoding result information indicating part of the decoded macroblock included in the macroblock line adjacent to the macroblock line including the target macroblock, and the target macroblock.
US09185404B2
In general, techniques are described for performing transform dependent de-blocking filtering, which may be implemented by a video encoding device. The video encoding device may apply a transform to a video data block to generate a block of transform coefficients, apply a quantization parameter to quantize the transform coefficients and reconstruct the block of video data from the quantized transform coefficients. The video encoding device may further determine at least one offset used in controlling de-blocking filtering based on the size of the applied transform, and perform de-blocking filtering on the reconstructed block of video data based on the determined offset. Additionally, the video encoder may specify a flag in a picture parameter set (PPS) that indicates whether the offset is specified in one or both of the PPS and a header of an independently decodable unit.
US09185403B2
The present invention provides a method, apparatus and system for visually comparing a video file against its source as the video file is being re-encoded, for example, into another video format. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a video frame and a corresponding re-encoded video frame are placed into a single wide (combined) video frame to display each image, for example, side-by-side in the same frame. By synchronizing the source video frames with the re-encoded video frames and displaying them on the same wide video frame, differences caused by, for example, the encoding process may be visually determined as the video is being re-encoded into a desired, second video format.
US09185395B2
A method for automatically adjusting an autostereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) display device is provided. The method includes steps of: displaying an autostereoscopic 3D frame by the autostereoscopic 3D display device; capturing a left-eye frame and a right-eye frame of the autostereoscopic 3D frame by two image capturing devices located at a left-eye position and a right-eye position, respectively; selecting multiple sampling points from the left-eye and right-eye frames; and analyzing the number of the sampling points satisfying a predetermined condition to determine a display angle.
US09185394B2
The present invention provides a 3D data analysis apparatus and a 3D data analysis method.A 3D data analysis apparatus including a data storage unit that stores measurement data of microparticles, an input unit that selects three kinds of variables independent of the measurement data, a data processing unit that calculates positions and graphics in a coordinate space with the three kinds of variables being coordinate axes and creates a 3D stereoscopic image that represents a characteristic distribution of the microparticles, and a display unit that displays the 3D stereoscopic image, and the 3D data analysis apparatus variably sets a separate area in the coordinate space on the basis of an input signal from the input unit and displays the area in the 3D stereoscopic image.
US09185393B2
An image capturing device in one aspect of the present invention includes: an imaging device; a lens optical system including a focus lens; a driving section for driving one of the imaging device and the focus lens; a displacement control section for controlling displacement of the imaging device or the focus lens to be driven based on a predetermined displacement pattern; a diaphragm having an aperture having a size which can be changed and being provided in the lens optical system; an aperture control section for controlling the size of the aperture of the diaphragm; a synchronizing section for controlling the displacement control section and the aperture control section based on exposure timing; and an image capturing parameter determining section for determining the exposure time, the size of the diaphragm aperture, and the displacement pattern, wherein: the predetermined displacement pattern includes a first-type displacement pattern and a second-type displacement pattern by which the imaging device or the focus lens is displaced over different ranges between a first focus position and a second focus position in an image capturing scene; the first-type displacement pattern and the second-type displacement pattern are repeated alternately; and the aperture control section controls the diaphragm so as to have a first aperture and a second aperture having a different size from that of the first aperture in the first-type displacement pattern and the second-type displacement pattern based on timing from the synchronizing section.
US09185386B2
Provided is a video processing device that quickly identifies a distribution mode of a stream of display data, e.g., subtitles, and reproduces the data according to the distribution mode. The video processing device receives a transport stream including additional information and a data stream of display data to be displayed along with a 3D video, the additional information indicating whether the transport stream further includes left-view and right-view data streams generated from left-view and right-view data used for displaying the display data; determines whether the transport stream includes the left-view and the right-view data streams based on the additional information; and reproduces the left-view and the right-view data from the left-view and the right-view data streams when the transport stream includes the left-view and the right-view data streams, and reproduces alternative left-view and right-view data when the transport stream does not include the left-view and the right-view data streams.
US09185382B2
A stereo image processor (1) performs image matching, in an image matching section (6), on partial images of the same object included in a base image and a comparative image respectively and detects pixel-precision partial displacement between the base image and the comparative image based on a result of the image matching. Next, in an inverted phase filter processing section (9) in a second matching section (8), pixel values from the comparative image are filtered with an inverted phase filter using, as a filter coefficient, pixel values from the base image with the order thereof reversed, given the partial images of the same object that have minimum pixel-precision partial displacement. Then, in a peak detecting section (10), a peak position where an output value of the filtering with the inverted phase filter is maximum is detected and sub-pixel-precision partial displacement between the base image and the comparative image is detected based on the peak position. In this way, there is provided a stereo image processor that has improved accuracy of disparity calculation and analytical resolution and that requires less computation for disparity calculation and is capable of fast processing.
US09185373B2
A device for projecting images from a video generating device such as a computer, television receiver, or similar device onto a screen or other surface is described in this invention. The device uses a rotating disk containing numerous lenses to direct a light beam from a laser or other light source towards the screen. In one embodiment, a pulsed laser light from red, green, and blue lasers are combined into a single light pulse that is transmitted through the rotating disk that transmit each light pulse to a specific location on the screen.
US09185368B2
Provided is an image processing device including a selection section configured to select, from a plurality of transform units with different sizes, a transform unit used for inverse orthogonal transformation of image data to be decoded, a generation section configured to generate, from a first quantization matrix corresponding to a transform unit for a first size, a second quantization matrix corresponding to a transform unit for a second size from a first quantization matrix corresponding to a transform unit for a first size, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize transform coefficient data for the image data using the second quantization matrix generated by the generation section when the selection section selects the transform unit for the second size.
US09185359B1
A status of each camera in a plurality of facilities is requested and is stored in memory. Cameras in different facilities are grouped and for each group, a measure of a quantity of cameras in the group that are not operational is determined based on the status stored for each camera. A user interface is generated that recommends moving all cameras in a group to a new location in each respective facility if the measure of the quantity of cameras that are not operational in the group exceeds a threshold.
US09185352B1
Systems and methods described relate to a user to providing input to a computing device using eye tracking from a mobile position. A scene camera is mounted to the user so that the system collects image information related to where the user is looking. An indication is provided on a monitor of the computing device, or other field of view, to signify the presence and location of an identifying region of the monitor or field of view. An eye camera mounted to the user collects image information of the user's eye relating to a direction of gaze of the eye. When the direction of gaze of the user's tracked eye intersects the identifying region of the monitor or field of view, suitable eye tracking methods for controlling a computing device may be used to send instructions to the computing device.
US09185350B2
A file of menu data is transmitted from a providing apparatus to a storing apparatus via a transfer apparatus. The transfer apparatus acquires a list of files stored in the storing apparatus and transmits the list to the providing apparatus. The providing apparatus, based on the list, selects content to be stored in the storing apparatus.
US09185347B2
A method for communication includes establishing communication links over a packet network between a server and plurality of client computers that are to participate in a video teleconference. The server receives from the client computers uplink audio packets and uplink video packets, which respectively contain audio and video data captured by each of the client computers. The server mixes the audio data from the uplink audio packets so as to create respective streams of mixed audio data for transmission to the client computers and transmits to the client computers downlink audio packets containing the respective streams of mixed audio data. The server relays the video data to the client computers in downlink video packets. The client computers receive and synchronize the video data with the mixed audio data.
US09185340B2
A display apparatus and associated method are provided. The display apparatus receives a display frame having an output width-height ratio, and outputs an image frame according to a screen width-height ratio. The output width-height ratio is different from the screen width-height ratio. The display method includes obtaining an image region and a subtitle region from the display frame, generating a subtitle according to the subtitle region, generating the image frame according to the image region, and displaying the image frame and the subtitle.
US09185337B2
A device includes a photographing unit, an image processing unit, a buffer, a storage unit, and a digital signal processor. The buffer stores index information to be assigned to at least one image signal obtained by the photographing unit, file name and storage path information to be provided to the at least one image signal when the at least one image signal is stored in the storage unit. The digital signal processor displays the most recently stored image signal when a display input instruction to display a currently captured image is received, searches the storage unit when an input instruction to display previously-captured images is additionally received, if a corresponding image file is found in the storage unit, displays the found image file, and if the corresponding image file is not found in the storage unit, displays an image signal stored in the buffer using the index information.
US09185332B2
Systems and methods for a video scan are provided. The scan may be dynamically interactive and a function of characteristics of the programs in the scan (e.g., commercial breaks or the end of a program approaching) The scan may simultaneously display multiple scan windows for a plurality of programs, for example in a scan wizard. The scan wizard allows the user to simultaneously view a scan window and an information panel, select criteria for the scan from a criteria panel, and control the scan using a scan control panel. The scan may allow the user to record a program displayed in the scan without interrupting the scan (e.g., by using an additional tuner). The scan may display, within the scan interface, trick-play functions for appropriate scanned programs (e.g., recorded, cached and on-demand programs). The user may select and perform trick-play functions for a scanned program without exiting the scan mode.
US09185331B2
Content receivers may simultaneously record multiple instances of content for multiple programming channels based on content provider instructions. Systems and methods utilize the content receivers to record these multiple instances from at least a single transponder. In some instances, multiple transponders may have a common control word so that content carried on each such transponder may be simultaneously received, decoded and recorded. Further, a single demodulator may be associated with multiple tuners, so that the single demodulator processes all content received from transponders with common control words and/or other encryption mechanisms.
US09185328B2
Provided are a device and method for providing a three-dimensional PIP image, for combining and outputting a main image with a PIP image. A device for providing a three-dimensional PIP image according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a main three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional or three-dimensional PIP image from a broadcast signal, external device, or recording medium; a PIP-combining unit for combining the main image and the PIP image; and a three-dimensional formatter for formatting the combined image of the main image and the PIP image into a format that can be stereoscopically displayed. Accordingly, an image may be provided with a main three-dimensional image and a two-dimensional PIP image or a main three-dimensional image and a three-dimensional PIP image which are overlaid.
US09185325B2
An intelligent television can provide various interfaces for providing video-on-demand (VOD). The user interfaces include unique visual representations and organizations that allow the user to utilize the intelligent television more easily and more effectively. Particularly, the user interfaces pertain to the display of VOD content and better organizations thereof. Further, the user interfaces provide unique process of transitioning between the VOD content.
US09185312B2
An image pickup system includes: an image sensor that performs a rolling-shutter image pickup operation; a generator; an adding section that adds image pickup signals from an image pickup signal in a predetermined frame to an image pickup signal in an Nth frame, with the predetermined frame being set as a first frame; a light source; a signal output section that outputs a signal representing either a timing of start of readout of a first line in the predetermined frame or a timing of completion of readout of a last line in a frame immediately before the predetermined frame; and a light source control section that starts light emission after an input of the signal and terminates light emission in a period after completion of readout of a first line in an N-1th frame until before a start of a first line in the Nth frame.
US09185297B2
An image capture system including a camera body and lens unit, a shake detection unit configured to detect a shake, an image stabilization unit arranged in the lens unit to correct a blur of the object image, a correction amount detection unit configured to detect a correction amount of the image stabilization unit, a distortion correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a distortion correction amount of an image, a motion vector detection unit arranged in the camera body to detect a motion vector from the image captured by the image sensor, and a signal processing unit configured to correct the image based on the motion vector and an output from the distortion correction amount calculation unit.
US09185290B1
A system for capturing aerial images, the system comprising at least one steerable camera module, the steerable camera module comprising a camera and a beam-steering mechanism in the optical path of the camera module whereby the pointing direction of the camera is time-multiplexed to provide a wider effective field of view, the beam-steering mechanism comprising a steerable mirror tilted with respect to an optical axis of the camera module, the steerable mirror adapted to spin about the optical axis to effect beam steering.
US09185287B2
One embodiment of an apparatus includes a reference position receiving unit configured to receive intermediate or end panorama reference position information input by a user, and a control unit configured to control an imaging device to begin generating a plurality of images to be used to generate a panoramic image based on the intermediate or end panorama reference position information input by the user after the reference position receiving unit receives the intermediate or end panorama reference position information.
US09185280B2
A camera module according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure includes a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) mounted with an image sensor, a base arranged at an upper surface of the PCB, a lens holder arranged at an upper surface of the base to support plural sheets of lenses, a shield can configured to protect the lens holder by being coupled to the upper surface of the base to expose a lateral surface of the base, and a conductive layer formed at the exposed lateral surface of the base.
US09185262B2
An image reading device includes a light source, an imaging element and a control unit. The light source irradiates light on a document. The irradiated light of the light source reflected by the document is incident on the imaging element. The control unit is configured to, if the document is an ordinary document having no light-emitting screen, set a light amount of the irradiated light of the light source at a predetermined reference value and is configured to, if the document is a special document having a light-emitting screen, reduce the light amount of the irradiated light of the light source to become lower than the reference value.
US09185257B2
In an information processing apparatus, if a setting content of a preset second setting item of a plurality of setting items included in pre-registration information selected by a selection portion is outside a range of use authority, a change portion changes the setting content of the second setting item to a content within the range of the use authority. In addition, a sequential display portion sequentially displays a setting screen for setting the setting content of the second setting item, in accordance with a setting operation on the setting screen. Furthermore, a second display control portion displays an authentication screen if the setting content of the second setting item is set on the setting screen so as to be outside the range of the use authority.
US09185255B2
Provided is an image reading device including a platen that supports an original document on which an image is recorded, a reading unit that is opposed to the original document with the platen interposed therebetween, and includes a reading member which reads the image on the original document extending in a first direction, and a supporting member that supports the reading member, is movable along a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and is movably supported such that the reading member reads the image on the original document in the first and second directions, a guiding member that extends in the second direction and guides the supporting member when the supporting member is moved in the second direction, and a moving member that is disposed to be separated from the guiding member in the first direction and moves the supporting member along the second direction.
US09185242B2
An image reading apparatus requests an external apparatus to transmit a reading instruction. When reading the document according to the reading instruction transmitted from the external apparatus in response to the request, if a reading method for reading the document placed on a document positioning plate without conveying the document is used, the image reading apparatus displays, every time one page of the document is read, a confirmation screen for allowing a user to confirm whether to end reading the document irrespective of whether a format of a single-page file is specified or where a format of a multi-page file is specified as a format of a file to be generated from the read document.
US09185233B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and software are disclosed for providing a phone or other audio communication device with a fixed-path acoustic echo cancellation feature that compensates for a fixed-path acoustic coupling caused by transmission of sound from one or more speakers to one or more microphones through, for instance, the phone body itself.
US09185232B2
A system for providing and managing IP telephone calls establishes separate and distinct call legs between IP-capable appliances and routers and between routers, and creates calls, changes calls, and manages telephony functions by joining and disjoining calls legs. In some instances one or more call legs disjoined from an active call are maintained as established to be joined later to other call legs to create other active calls. By managing EP calls as separate and distinct legs functions of intelligent, connection-oriented telephony networks may be simulated in IP telephony systems. The management is provided by software running on processors coupled to routers in the IP network.
US09185220B2
A distributed method of delivering events to agent devices. A first software module generates an event, e.g., a screen pop event or a ringing event, for delivery to a second module responsible for an agent device. A third module, which may be the same module as the first module, evaluates a hash function to determine an identifier for the second module from an identifier for the agent device. The first module delivers the event to the second module, which responds to the event, e.g., by causing an agent device to generate a ringing alert or to display a screen pop.
US09185219B2
A call handling platform receives a call placed by a caller, collects data points based on the caller's interaction with an interactive voice response module, and computes an experience score for the caller using the data points. The call handling platform compares the experience score to a predetermined first threshold that indicates a first level of caller satisfaction. The call handling platform determines whether an option is enabled for recording screen captures of a display screen coupled to a machine used by a human agent. Upon determining that the caller has a lower level of satisfaction than the first level of satisfaction, the call handling platform routes the call to a human agent. Based on determining that the option for recording screen captures is enabled, the call handling platform initiates recording of screen captures of a display screen coupled to a machine used by the human agent.
US09185215B2
Techniques are described for performing actions for users based at least in part on spoken information, such as spoken voice-based information received from the users during telephone calls. The described techniques include categorizing spoken information obtained from a user in one or more ways, and performing actions on behalf of the user related to the categorized information. For example, in some situations, spoken information obtained from a user is analyzed to identify one or more spoken information items (e.g., words, phrases, sentences, etc.) supplied by the user, and to generate corresponding textual representations (e.g., via automated speech-to-text techniques). One or more actions may then be taken regarding the identified information items, including to categorize the items by adding textual representations of the spoken information items to one or more of multiple predefined lists or other collections of information that are specific to or otherwise available to the user.
US09185211B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for enabling a first user at a first communication device to communicate with a far-end user at a second communication device via a relay service providing translation services for the first user. The communication system may be operable in a plurality of modes, including a tone mode in which an audible tone conveying a message may be transmitted to the second communication device regardless of a format of the character data generated by the first communication device. A text mode may include sending a text signal corresponding to the message being displayed at the relay service regardless of the format of the character data. Switching modes may be responsive to a determination that the far-end user is a live person. Related methods of operating the communication system are also disclosed.
US09185206B2
A method and system for collecting and verifying the location information of a calling party and a device of the calling party is provided. More specifically, a method and system is provided for determining whether the identity of the calling party can be confirmed, via evaluating location information, with an acceptable degree of certainty. The location information may be provided by the calling party or obtained from various sources over a digital communication channel. Some of the provided location information which can be accidentally or intentionally altered is identified and evaluated to determine its accuracy as part of the verification process of the caller's identity.
US09185205B2
A system and method for enabling a telephone number to be called in an anonymous manner by associating an identifier with the telephone number and providing for calling the number via the identifier. In one embodiment, the telephone call, including communication of the telephone number is performed using encryption. The identifier may be an email address or user identifier. Other users may call the telephone number via a website that operates as a virtual payphone, using software downloaded to a computer or other communication device, or by calling a voice portal, for example.
US09185204B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses of using a novel transmit signal that can be used to improve performance of various loop diagnostic features of SELT. In embodiments, a novel transmit signal uses a wide contiguous band of tones that includes frequencies in both upstream and downstream bands. In these and other embodiments of the invention, the SELT transmit signal is designed such that any crosstalk noise in adjacent lines appears as a burst of noise that falls within the limits of the FEC settings of the system such that it can be fully corrected without harming the performance of modems connected on the adjacent lines.
US09185200B2
A mobile computing device that includes an image sensor may be used to detect the result of a biomolecular assay. The biomolecular assay may be performed in an optical assay medium that provides an optical output in response to light from a light source, with the optical output indicating result. A wavelength-dispersive element may be used to disperse the optical output into spatially-separated wavelength components. The mobile computing device may be positioned relative to the wavelength-dispersive element such that different wavelength components are received at different locations on the image sensor. With the mobile computing device positioned in this way, the image sensor may be used to obtain one or more images that include the separated wavelength components of the optical output. A wavelength spectrum of the optical output may be determined from the one or more images, and the result may be determined from the wavelength spectrum.
US09185198B2
Provided is a mobile information device which can prevent erroneous inputs in situations where conventional mobile information devices cannot prevent erroneous inputs. Two proximity sensors 110 are provided on a front surface 102 of a mobile information device 100. The two proximity sensors 110 are separated from one another by a distance equivalent to at least one key 105, and are each adjacent to at least one of the keys 105. The mobile information device 100 blocks execution of processing in response to key operations when both of the proximity sensors 110 detect a state of proximity of a sensing target, such as a human body. As a result, erroneous inputs on the keys 105 caused by contact with hands or face can be prevented.
US09185195B2
A spring structure includes a support body, a first support rod, a second support rod, a first spring, a second spring, a first mounting member, and a second mounting member used for connecting to a lower shell of the slide phone. An installation hole running through the support body is disposed on the support body. One end of the first support rod is connected to the first mounting member and the other end is inserted in the installation hole of the support body. The first support rod may move along the installation hole and is sleeved with the first spring. One end of the second support rod is connected to the second mounting member and the other end is inserted in the installation hole of the support body.
US09185191B2
A unified network architecture based on a medium access control (MAC) abstraction sub-layer for converging a plurality of communication standards is disclosed. The unified network architecture in a control plane comprises a first unified terminal device comprising a unified management entity in the MAC abstraction sub-layer, for mapping a unified parameter from an upper layer to a first MAC type parameter for a configuration of a first MAC type of a MAC layer complied with a first communication standard of the plurality of communication standards, and a service management entity service access point, hereafter called SME SAP, arranged between the MAC abstraction sub-layer and a service management entity (SME) of the MAC layer, wherein the unified management entity communicates with the SME via the SME SAP for setting the first MAC type parameter into the first MAC type of the MAC layer.
US09185186B2
A method of implementing a Content-Centric Network (CCN) using an Internet Protocol (IP)-based network, and a gateway that may implement such a method, are provided. A method of implementing a CCN using an IP-based network may involve: determining an application protocol and a packet type corresponding to the application protocol of an IP-based network, the application protocol being included in an IP packet of an IP-based network, and generating a content name corresponding to the IP packet, based on the application protocol and the packet type.
US09185185B2
A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second devices communicating with each other through the network. A front-end device is provided within the network that communicates data traffic with the first device. A back-end device is also implemented within the network and communicates data traffic with the second device. A communication channel couples the front-end device and the back-end device. Data traffic may be encoded into a different type or protocol for transport through the communication channel by the front-end device and back-end device. The front-end device and back-end device exchange quality of service information and may alter characteristics of the data traffic through the communication channel according to the quality of service information.
US09185184B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request at a communication broker for a communication session to involve a first endpoint and a second endpoint, where the communication broker includes a processor and a memory element. The method may also include evaluating first calendar information for a first end user associated with the first endpoint and second calendar information for a second end user associated with the second endpoint. The method may also include reconciling the first calendar information with the second calendar information to provide a time slot for the communication session. Additionally, the method may include mapping first end user data to a first identity associated with the first end user, where the second endpoint is shown the first identity, and where the first end user data associated with the first endpoint is hidden from being shown to the second endpoint.
US09185182B2
A mobile communication device (1) sends an HTTP request for a Web resource over a mobile network (3) to a Web server (2). The USER AGENT string of the HTTP request is used by the Web server (2) to retrieve properties of the mobile communication device (1) from device properties stored in a device property store (4). The device properties are referenced by nodes of a tree of sample USER AGENT strings for sample mobile communication devices.
US09185177B2
A customizable mechanism is provided for determining and reporting the overall reachability of a user based on the current statuses of a variety of network elements associated with the user, such as devices or applications that a user may use to communicate with others. The system can evaluate customizable reachability rules to determine an overall reachability status for the user. The system provides for distribution of reachability status and presence statuses of network elements to authorized subscribers.
US09185176B2
First ticket information describing a locate operation to be performed is electronically received, including image information and/or geospatial metadata relating to a dig area and/or a work site. Field information relating to the locate operation as at least partially performed and/or environmental information relating to the dig area and/or the work site is electronically received and processed to provide a quality assessment of the locate operation.
US09185173B2
It is described a concept for a service composition which can be carried out in a telecommunication network (100). The described service composition is optimized in view of a composite service execution in a mobile network device (110) having limited resources. According to the described concept, at least one code required for executing the composite service is downloaded from a code storage node (130) to a composition execution agent (112) in response to receiving a corresponding instruction from a service composition node (120), that the service should be composed and/or executed. The actual code to be executed within the network device (110) is selected in response to receiving a service composition command from the service composition node (120). The code selection may take into account local constraints available for the network device (110).
US09185170B1
In general, techniques are described for delegating responsibility for performing a connectivity protocol from one or more endpoint devices to network infrastructure situated along a network forwarding path connecting the endpoint devices. In some examples, an intermediate network device includes a connectivity protocol module of control unit that operates a connectivity protocol session on behalf of a server, wherein the server exchanges application data with the client using an application-layer communication session with the client. The connectivity protocol module monitors connectivity for the application-layer communication session with the connectivity protocol session by exchanging connectivity protocol messages for the connectivity protocol session with the client to determine a connectivity status for the communication session. The connectivity protocol module updates the server with the connectivity status for the communication session by sending a summary report message that includes the connectivity status for the communication session to the server.
US09185166B2
According to one embodiment, a data center fabric network system includes a controller, a plurality of switches connected to the controller via a plurality of communication links, a source device connected to at least a first switch of the plurality of switches, a destination device connected to at least a second switch of the plurality of switches, and wherein the controller is adapted for: creating a topology of the data center fabric network system, determining paths between the plurality of switches, calculating one or more disjoint multi-paths from the source device to the destination device based on the topology, and writing the one or more disjoint multi-paths into a forwarding table of at least one of: the source device, the first switch, and a nearest shared switch to the source device.
US09185164B1
A content management system synchronizes content items across client computing systems connected by a network. Each client device has a storage allocation for synchronized shared content items. If the storage allocation for shared content items on a client device is exceeded by the request to add or edit a content item such that it is enlarged, or open a large content item remote to the client device, a client application or the host of content management system selects content items to remove from residence on the client device but keep remotely on content management system. Upon removal of the selected content items, the client application creates shadow items, representing the content item but only containing the metadata of the content item. This creates sufficient space for the initial request to be completed while maintaining user access to all synchronized shared content items. The processes of replacing content items with shadow items may be completed while the client device is idle.
US09185154B2
Systems and techniques for capturing audio and delivering the audio in digital streaming media formats are disclosed. Several aspects of the systems and techniques operate in a cloud computing environment where computational power is allocated, utilized, and paid for entirely on demand. The systems and techniques enable a call to be made directly from a virtual machine out to a Public Switch Telephone Network (PSTN) via a common Session Interface Protocol (SIP) to PSTN Breakout service, and the audio to be delivered onward to one or more Content Delivery Network (CDN). An audio call capture interface is also provided to initiate and manage the digital streaming media formats.
US09185146B2
A system 100 includes a first service providing part 110 for providing a first service, and a second service providing part 120 for providing a second service. The first service providing part 110 transmits a first individual ID that is associated with a common ID included in an ID information provision request and that is for identifying a user in the first service, to a user terminal. The second service providing part 120 receives a service ID for identifying the first service, the first individual ID and the common ID from the user terminal, and transmits the service ID and first individual ID having been received with the common ID associated with a second individual ID that is included in an ID information acquisition request and that is for identifying a user in the second service, to a user terminal.
US09185145B2
The present invention describes a method and apparatus for the implementation of a real-time, sharable web browsing experience on a guest device, utilizing the transfer of URL and form data information. The present invention further describes a method for joining a synchronized browsing session administered by a synchronization server, comprising activating a hyperlink associated with the synchronized browsing session, sending a request to join the synchronized browsing session to the synchronization server in response to the activation of the hyperlink, and joining the synchronized browsing session. The present invention further describes a method for implementing a synchronized browsing session, comprising receiving information related to a shared web browsing interaction performed by a host device from a synchronization server, and performing the shared web browsing interaction based on the information received from the synchronization server.
US09185143B2
The present embodiments disclose a method and a service server for correlative processing of service information. The method includes receiving the service information; obtaining a correlative relation among information of each service; and performing a correlative processing on the service information according to the correlative relation. A correlative processing may be performed on the service messages of various applications based on IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) architecture, thereby the user experience of the service may be improved, and the service performance may be enhanced.
US09185136B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for identifying security risks, arising from credentials existing on machines in the networks that enable access to other machines on the networks. Account credentials indications are retrieved from machines in the network, which indicate that credentials for accounts are stored on those machines. Access rights for accounts are collected, describing the access and operation permissions of these accounts on machines in the networks. A correlation is then performed to identify machines that can be accessed by employing credentials of accounts retrieved from other machines in the network.
US09185133B2
The invention provides methods, devices (102, 110, 124, 136) and communication systems (100) for establishing end-to-end secure connections and for securely communicating data packets. Such a communication system (100) comprises a first device (124, 136), an intermediate device (110) and a second device (102). The first device (124, 136) communications via a first network (120), which is based on a first transport protocol and a first transport security protocol with the intermediate device (110). The second device (102) communications via a second network, which is based on a second transport protocol and a second transport security protocol with the intermediate device (110). The intermediate device (110) modifies packets received via first network to packets suitable for communication via the second network, and vice versa. The first device (124, 136) is able to reconstruct a header of a received packet as if the packet was sent via the second network (108) and its transport and security protocols. Further, the first device (124) is able to verify, on basis of the reconstructed header, verification fields which are generated on basis of the second transport security protocol.
US09185118B1
A method and apparatus for detecting violations of data loss prevention (DLP) policies based on reputation scores. The DLP agent monitors outbound data transfers performed by a computing system. The DLP agent classifies the outbound data transfers based on data types. The DLP agent determines reputations source for the outbound data transfers to a destination entity based on the classifying and the destination entity, the first outbound data transfer being a first data type and the second outbound data transfer being a second data type. The DLP agent compares the first reputation score and the second reputation score against a reputation threshold to detect violations of a DLP policy. At least one of remedial operations or reporting operations is performed in response to the detected violations.
US09185107B2
A password security system, hosted by a server, whose method of operation may include receiving a client hash value from a client where the client hash value is computed by hashing a password to generate a first hash value, and hashing the first hash value combined with a user input of an answer to a challenge to generate the client hash value. A server hash value is computed using password data for the user that is stored in a data store coupled to the server and a server-side answer that is stored in the data store. A determination is made whether the server hash value matches the client hash value and data access is granted to the user in view of a determination that the server hash value matches the client hash value, and data access is denied to the user in view of a determination that the server hash value does not match the client hash value.
US09185099B2
Securely authorizing access to remote resources may be provided. A method may include receiving a request to determine whether a user device is authorized to access at least one resource hosted by a resource server, determining whether the user device is authorized to access the at least one resource based at least in part on whether the user device has been issued a management identifier, providing a response indicating that the user device is authorized to access the at least one resource in response to a determination that the user device is authorized to access the at least one resource hosted by the resource server, and providing a response indicating that the user device is not authorized to access the at least one resource in response to a determination that the user device is not authorized to access the at least one resource.
US09185086B1
A SDE system and a computer program product for secure data communication are provided herein. In one embodiment, the SDE system includes: (1) a processor and (2) a SDE client configured to determine if a document is a secure data document and if not, determine if a user is authorized to create secure data having a predetermined extension by verifying authentication code associated with the user, wherein the authentication code is based on an email address and a user defined identifier associated with the user. If authorized, the SDE client configured to employ a plurality of converters to create a secure data document and direct an electronic mail system to send the secure data document to recipients of a recipients email list provided by the user, wherein the secure data document includes a predetermined extension.
US09185084B1
The present invention relates generally to a system and method of maintaining private communications using coded messages using an application program configured for activating privacy controls for intercepting electronic transmissions, e.g. text messages, for controlling how they are displayed upon receipt of a selection of a coded icon corresponding to a decoded message, wherein the application program converts the selected coded icon into the decoded message that is converted into cryptic text for display while the text message is being created for transmission, thereby maintaining the privacy of the communications. The cryptic text is again converted into the decoded message for transmission such that the recipient receives the message in decoded format. If the recipient's communication device is configured with the application program, upon receipt of the decoded message it is intercepted and will be displayed as cryptic text until read or reviewed by the intended recipient.
US09185068B2
In a communication arrangement in accordance with the invention, a server is employed to collect and organize information for mobile device users according to the user profiles, e.g., personal profile, business profile, vacation profile, etc., which reflect different user personae. Moreover, with the server, incoming messages for the user are organized and stored according to the source of the messages and the user criteria established in the user profiles. Further, information in a mobile device may be organized using electronic information cards, referred to as “E-cards,” which facilitate, among others, transfer of information from the mobile device to the server, or other mobile devices to conduct various commercial and data transactions.
US09185064B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing an extensible email having rich, interactive browser capabilities. The system includes a service provider for receiving extensible emails from a third party platform and presenting the emails to a user's computing device. The extensible email includes URL metadata which allows a mail user agent to fetch and run code from a third party server in order to generate the extensible email. A secure sandbox ensures that the third party code does no damage to the service provider system or the user's computing system.
US09185063B1
Mechanism of interactively sharing, synchronization and control of information among users with different electronic contact types, using internet network based communication between a client application on the mobile electronic device and a server device, are described. As an example, a host can send invitation for a calendar event to other users whose contact type may be email address, phone number, a social media account with a single client application on the mobile device. Mechanism for the synchronization also allow for calendar event information on different client devices to be automatically synchronized. Identifiers may be automatically used by a synchronization mechanism implemented by a service. Identifiers may include user identifier, event identifier, information context identifier, device identifier or other identifiers. Messages, data structures and protocols between client devices and server to create, update, delete and respond to information data more specifically related to a calendar event are described. A mechanism to establish a direct communication link for exchanging instant messages among participants of an information context related to a calendar event using client device, server service and identifiers is also described.
US09185059B1
Generally described, the present application corresponds to the management of journaling messages in a messaging environment. A set of electronic messaging clients can be associated with a designated journaling destination that may be different from a default journaling destination associated with each individual messaging client. Additionally, the messaging environment can alternate between multiple designated journaling destinations to increase the mail load that a single journal destination can manage. The messaging environment can evaluate journaling criteria to select alternate designated journaling destinations from a set of available alternate journaling destinations.
US09185058B2
An exemplary method of providing network address translation (NAT) for GPRS tunneling protocol user plane (or GTP-U) traffic on a data center server supporting multiple radio bearers in a mobile network is disclosed. The method includes: receiving packets from a source node via a GTP-U tunnel; filtering ingress GTP-U packets from other types of packets; forwarding a respective ingress GTP-U packet with a public destination IP address to a first queue if a destination IP address matches a defined GTP-U public IP address for the destination node; extracting one or more ingress GTP-U packets and forwarding the packets to a user-land operating system process for inspection; performing NAT of the destination IP address; placing ingress GTP-U packets that have an internal IP address that identifies with a particular radio bearer into a second queue; and forwarding the ingress GTP-U packets via a radio bearer within a network for processing.
US09185053B2
An apparatus includes at least one processing unit configured to execute a virtual network appliance and a virtual machine. The virtual network appliance includes a virtual NIC driver configured to transfer packets to and from a physical port of the apparatus. The virtual network appliance also includes an internal network interface configured to transfer the packets to and from the virtual machine through a hypervisor. The virtual network appliance further includes an aggregator configured to transfer the packets between the virtual NIC driver and the internal network interface.
US09185052B1
A switching device comprises a plurality of switch cores, each switch core having a plurality of ports associated with the switch core. A first switch core is configured to perform ingress processing of a data frame. The data frame is then directed to a second switch core that is configured to perform egress processing of the data frame.
US09185051B2
A method for supporting communications includes establishing a packet-based audio communication link with a remote device and informing a local computing device of the audio communication link. A message requesting identification of enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device is received from the local computing device and tunneled in the audio communication link to the remote device. A tunneled response in the audio communication link is received from the remote device and forwarded to the local computing device. The response identifies the enhanced media capabilities associated with the remote device.
US09185049B2
Techniques for simplifying stacking trunk creation and management are provided. In one embodiment, a switch in a stacking system can receive first and second control packets from one or more other switches in the stacking system, where the first and second control packets are received on first and second stacking ports of the switch respectively. The switch can then determine, based on the first and second control packets, whether the first and second stacking ports can be configured as a single stacking trunk.
US09185043B2
A computer data transmission system is provided with proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control over a data transmission rate so as to maximize use of available bandwidth of a datagram-based network. A data channel and a separate feedback channel are established between the sender and receiver units of the system. The sender unit coupled to the data and feedback channels sends datagrams over the data channel to the receiver continuously until a source of data is exhausted or paused by the receiver unit. The receiver unit sends acknowledgment messages over the feedback channel to the sender unit at predetermined intervals. A PID controller in the sender unit uses the information provided in the acknowledgment messages to track unsuccessfully transmitted datagrams and to adapt the data transmission rate to any changing network transfer conditions. In particular, the rate of datagram loss may be used as a PID process variable to control an inter-datagram delay of the sender. There may also be absolute speed and transmission rate acceleration/deceleration limits constraining the PID control. PID control may also be adapted for data compression control, datagram block sizes, and degree of redundancy in the datagrams sent.
US09185040B2
A flow label negotiation method is disclosed. The method in the embodiments of the present invention includes: constructing an RSVP-TE path message, where the path message includes a first FL capability flag bit; marking a local FL transmit and receive capability in the first FL capability flag bit; sending the path message to an egress node through a load distribution node; receiving an RSVP-TE resv message which is sent by the egress node through the load distribution node, where the resv message includes a second FL capability flag bit; and obtaining, from the second FL capability flag bit, an FL transmit and receive capability of the egress node, and completing FL negotiation. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention further provide a related device and a system for implementation of the method.
US09185033B2
In an example embodiment, a method for selecting a communication path is provided. The method may comprise receiving data encapsulated in a transport protocol. In addition, a classification type and exit path information associated with the classification type may be received. The data is associated with the classification type and then is encapsulated in Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) based on the exit path information. This exit path information is associated with the classification type that is associated with the data.
US09185029B2
An apparatus and method for processing a path management packet is provided, the method including determining whether a router for processing a received path management packet is a storing node, and when the router is determined to be a storing node, controlling the path management packet to be stored in a routing table, or when the router is determined to be a non-storing node, failing to store the path management packet in the routing table and controlling the path management packet to be transmitted to a subsequent node.
US09185028B2
When receiving a hello packet, a node registers information on a control header of the hello packet in a work table. The information on the control header of the hello packet includes a plurality of sets of an address, a destination, and ΣPav of a node. The node stores information, in which a set of an address, a destination, and ΣPav of the own node from the own node to the destination is added to the information on the control header, in the control header of the hello packet and transmits the hello packet. These processes are performed by each node included in an ad-hoc network.
US09185027B2
The invention is a routing algorithm characteristic that minimizes the weight, meaning that the probability that a node is disconnected from the controller in case of a failure in the network is minimized. The first algorithm used in the invention is an approximation algorithm for finding the controller routing tree that provides maximum resilience in the network. The algorithm is referred to herein as the Maximum Resilience (MR) algorithm. The heuristic MR algorithm selects a shortest-path tree as a starting point and modifies the tree in order to improve resilience. The output of the MR algorithm is not necessarily a shortest-path tree, but provides more resilience compared to the initial tree. The RASP algorithm provides a shortest-path tree with improved network resilience compared to other possible shortest-path trees.
US09185022B2
In one embodiment, a device (e.g., a path computation element, PCE) monitors a tunnel set-up failure rate within a computer network, and determines whether to adjust an accuracy of routing information based on the tunnel set-up failure rate. For instance, the tunnel set-up failure rate being above a first threshold indicates a need for greater accuracy. In response to the tunnel set-up failure rate being above the first threshold, the device may then instruct one or more routers to shorten their routing update interval in the computer network.
US09185012B2
Systems and method for the management and processing of resource requests by a service provider, such as a content delivery network (“CDN”) service provider, on behalf of a content provider are provided. The CDN service provider can measure the performance associated with the delivery of resources to a requesting client computing devices from various computing devices associated with the CDN service provider. In one embodiment, the CDN service provider can utilize commands responsive to an initial request for a resource that causes the requesting client computing device to transmit one or more supplemental resource requests. Information associated with the processing of the sequence of resource requests can be used to measure CDN service provider latencies.
US09185010B2
A communication equipment notifies a server equipment of a communication port to which a communication cable is connected. If another communication port as a connection partner of the notified communication port is not yet connected to the communication cable, the server equipment transmits a first notification instruction to another communication equipment having the said another communication port. The said another communication equipment indicates, in a viewable manner, a communication port corresponding to the first notification instruction as a communication port to which the communication cable is required to be connected.
US09185009B2
Techniques for determining status aware media play are described. When current user behavior with respect to a media segment deviates from baseline user behavior, the media segment is tagged in memory, and a determination is made as to whether playback functionality with respect to the tagged media segment should be adjusted.
US09185005B2
Technologies are generally described for determining a quality-of-experience (QoE) of a network communication. In some examples, a process for determining a QoE metric for a network communication includes receiving a media signal from the network communication. The process may also include extracting an experience indicator from the media signal, wherein the experience indicator corresponds to a participant's subjective usage experience associated with a service quality of the network communication, and determining the QoE metric for the network communication based on the experience indicator and a quality-of-service (QoS) metric for the network communication.
US09185004B2
A gateway device configured to receive IP video content may select and use transmission methods that maintain a certain quality of service for delivering the content. A transmission method may be selected based on a network to which the client device is connected. The gateway device may select a network through which the content is to be delivered depending on a variety of factors including bandwidth availability, client compatibility, quality of service provided and the like. A gateway device may further be configured to convert multicast transmissions to unicast, to provide dynamic storage of content for pre-positioning and other purposes and/or to provide other functions.
US09185000B2
A load management method for controlling a plurality of distributed community loads with a plurality of controllers. The controllers are connectable to a network and the distributed community loads are connectable to a power grid. The loads are controllable by a corresponding one of the controllers according to a local need and a power grid supply or a community need of the loads. A network node device adapted to communicate with other node devices of a same community within an overlay network topology system. The system has a plurality of node devices organized in a number of hierarchically linked rings. The plurality of node devices of a same ring is interconnected in groups of node devices. One of the node devices is a parent node for linking the node devices of a first ring to node devices of a second ring at another hierarchy by being a parent node to both first and second rings.
US09184990B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect a plurality of User Interface (UI) device configurations, receive a request from a computing device to download one or more of the plurality of UI device configurations, and transmit to the computing device the one or more UI device configurations requested to configure one or more UI devices of the computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09184969B2
Preamble for use within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. A selected preamble type is employed for use in generating a signal to be transmitted from one communication device to at least one other communication device. Depending upon a desired operational mode, as few as one preamble type, or two or more preamble types may be associated with a given operational mode. When operating in accordance with a given operational mode, a preamble type is selected from available preamble types of an operational mode. A preferred implementation may include two respective preamble types such that one preamble type is used for single user (SU) operation with transmit beamforming weights applied at the beginning of the packet or for open loop SU transmissions only, while the other preamble type, having an multiple user (MU) characteristic, is used for both SU beamforming and MU operations.
US09184966B2
A method of processing data of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, a transmitter and a receiver processing the OFDM symbol are provided. The method performed by the transmitter includes: mapping first data and second data to an OFDM symbol and transmitting a frame including the OFDM symbol. The mapping includes additionally mapping at least a portion of the second data to cells of the OFDM symbol which remain after the first data and the second data are mapped to the OFDM symbol.
US09184965B1
A method and a highway addressable remote transducer (HART) soft modem device for modulating and demodulating analog signals with HART messages are provided. A phase coherent frequency shift keying (FSK) modulator modulates and transmits analog signals with HART messages, and a phase coherent FSK demodulator receives and demodulates the analog signals with the HART messages. The FSK modulator is a digital modulator that outputs 1 or 0 for transmission. With oversampling and low pass filtering, the digital modulation results in low jitter and good signal to noise ratio. The FSK demodulator applies a fast energy detect algorithm and dynamically reduces or increases a clock speed of a central processing unit (CPU) of the HART soft modem device for reducing power consumption of the CPU. Furthermore, the HART soft modem device uses direct memory access (DMA) to further reduce the power consumption, thereby reducing the overall power consumption by around 50%.
US09184955B2
A method for signal processing is provided. The method includes: obtaining a predistortion signal for compensating nonlinear distortion generated by a transmission path; adding the predistortion signal to the transmission path to compensate the nonlinear distortion; and outputting the nonlinear distortion compensated signal by the transmission path. With the above method, the nonlinear distortion of the transmission path can be compensated without modifying a current transmission path, thereby enhancing transmission performance of a transmitter by using a simple structure.
US09184951B2
Processing data presented in the form of a vector representation involves representing direction of the vector with incremental accuracy by using a set of vector codebooks of decreasing dimensions per accuracy increment.
US09184950B2
Processing data presented in the form of a vector representation involves representing direction of the vector with incremental accuracy by using a set of vector codebooks of decreasing dimensions per accuracy increment.
US09184939B2
A mobile telephone terminal provides a user with a selectable option to transfer a telephone call to an instant messaging session and to transfer an instant messaging session to a telephone call. A presence attribute indicator for a first party is displayed with an entry associated with the telephone number of the first party. A user has a selectable option for initiating instant messaging with the party. The mobile telephone provides a customized menu of selectable options for initiating communication. The menu is dependent upon received presence attribute information. A calendar application can store the content of an instant messaging dialog in an appointment record. When an application accesses a stored telephone number of a party the stored instant messaging address of that party is automatically accessed and when the application accesses a stored instant messaging address of a party, the stored telephone number of that party is automatically accessed.
US09184933B2
A communication management apparatus includes a token-circulation-order-information storing unit that stores token circulation order, a token-frame processing unit that determines whether transmission right acquiring apparatus information of the token frame indicates the own apparatus and transmits a token frame in which first transmission right acquisition determination information indicating a sequence number of a communication apparatus that can acquire a transmission right in the token circulation order, second transmission right acquisition determination information indicating the number of frames that can be transmitted during one token frame circulation, and transmission right acquiring apparatus information indicating the next transmission destination of the token frame after the own apparatus acquired from the token circulation order are set, and a data-frame-communication processing unit that transmits and receives the data frame, thereby to reduce time required until a communication node that acquired the token frame transmits data.
US09184924B2
A PCRF node (120) for a communications system, equipped with an interface (Gx) towards a PCEF node (130), in the system. The PCRF node (120) is arranged to use said interface to provide the PCEF node (130) with new or updated PCC rules for a User Equipment. The PCRF node (120) is also equipped with an interface (Sy) towards an OCS node (115), and is arranged to as a result of a trigger signal, request a credit indication for the new or updated PCC rules for the User Equipment from the OCS node (115) over the interface to the OCS node (115), to receive a credit indication for the new or updated PCC rules for the User Equipment from the OCS node (115) over the interface (Sy) to the OCS node, and to provide said credit information to the PCEF node (130). An OCS node (115) is also disclosed.
US09184922B2
A PoE relay system includes a networking cable, a PoE power injector and a PoE access bridge device. The PoE power injector is coupled to a PoE powering apparatus to receive network data and network power, and to a power supply to receive DC power, and gathers the network data, the network power and the DC power in a gathered signal group. The PoE access bridge device is coupled to the electronic product, receives the gathered signal group, receives the DC power from the gathered signal group for operation, and separates the network data and the network power from each other, and outputs the network power to the electronic product.
US09184915B2
Strong authentication tokens for generating dynamic security values having an acoustical input interface for acoustically receiving input data are disclosed. The tokens may also include an optical interface for receiving input data and may have a selection mechanism to select either the acoustical or the optical input interface to receive data. A communication interface may be provided to communicate with a removable security device such as a smart card and the token may be adapted to generate dynamic security values in cooperation with the removable security device. The acoustic signal received by the token may comprise a plurality of modulated carrier frequencies whereby each carrier frequency has been modulated with a data signal representing the full input data such that the input data are redundantly emitted over more than one modulated carrier frequency.
US09184908B2
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for reducing jitter in a periodic signal. The apparatus comprises: a frequency discriminator configured to receive the periodic signal and feedback of an output signal of the apparatus and calculate an estimate value for a length of a current period of the periodic signal; a phase discriminator configured to receive the periodic signal and determine an adjustment factor for the length of the current period of an input signal according to the input signal in a previous period of the periodic signal and the output signal in the previous period of the apparatus; and an adjustor configured to determine the period length of the output signal in the current period according to the estimate value for the length of the current period and the adjustment factor for the length of the current period.
US09184902B2
A communications apparatus used in a wireless full duplex system is disclosed. The communications apparatus includes a receiver chain connected to an antenna and an interference cancelling chain. One or more cancellation signals generated by the interference cancelling chain are fed back to the receiver chain prior to the first baseband amplifier which uses the first automatic gain control and the second automatic gain controller. Other methods and systems also are disclosed.
US09184899B2
In a Time Division Duplex (TDD) system, downlink and uplink communications share the same bandwidth but occupy different subframes. When the downlink has more subframes than the uplink, special treatment on user equipment (UE) ACK/NACK feedback is needed. One uplink may need to ACK multiple downlink subframes. A downlink association without unnecessary ACK/NACK resources sets accounts for subframes for which ACK feedback is not desired. Examples of such subframes include: a blank subframe; an almost blank subframe where only a cell specific Reference Signal (RS) is transmitted; a Time Division Multiplex (TDM) partition in which an evolved NodeB (eNB) only transmits a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) or a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) indicating Semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) at certain downlink subframes; a Downlink Pilot Timeslot (DwPTS) with a certain special subframe configuration where an eNB does not send the PDSCH and the UE is not in SPS active mode in the DwPTS; and a Multi-Media Broadcast over a Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) subframe when the UE is not in SPS active mode in the MBSFN subframe.
US09184898B2
A wireless communication terminal that communicates on a plurality of sub-carriers divided into a plurality of frequency bands, wherein each frequency band includes at least one sub-carrier. The terminal measures a channel quality indicator (CQI) for a plurality of frequency bands, identifies a subset of frequency bands for which the channel quality indicator has been measured based on a subset criterion, and transmits a report identifying a subset of frequency bands for which a channel quality indicator has been measured or frequency bands not in the subset. In some embodiments, the report also includes a subset CQI value associated with at least the subset of frequency bands identified.
US09184884B2
Embodiments are provided for a cloud-based reliable media ingestion and transcoding. The embodiments comprise an improved backup mechanism where each worker node, such as a virtual machine, physical machine, workstation, or server, in a cloud or Internet environment handles one streamed media/video channel transcoding and another streamed media/video channel ingestion backup. To reduce ingestion storage demands, the ingestion backup storage is based on a pre-determined relatively short-term sliding window. When an ingestion and transcoding worker node fails, a new worker node is brought up to take over from the failed worker node the live transcoding task of a first channel and the ingestion backup task of a second channel. Additionally, the new worker node retrieves backup data for the first channel from a third worker node and a central media storage to ensure seamlessly uninterrupted live ingestion and transcoding of the first channel, and continues the ingestion backup task of the second channel.
US09184883B2
A method for allocating resource to ACK (Acknowledgment)/NACK (Negative-ACK) transmission in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving scheduling information included in a plurality of downlink control channels and data included in a plurality of downlink data channels, over multiple downlink component carriers from a base station, determining ACK/NACK responses corresponding to the data, and allocating resource to the ACK/NACK responses based on the scheduling information corresponding to each of the plurality of downlink control channels and downlink component carrier-dependent offset values.
US09184879B1
An optimal maximum likelihood signal detection method and apparatus for a MIMO system are disclosed. An embodiment of the invention can provide an optimal signal detection method for a multiple-input multiple-output system that includes: determining the smallest metric of the final layer expanded from the candidate symbols of the i-th detection layer as the optimal threshold of the i-th detection layer; and selecting surviving candidate symbols from among the candidate symbols of the i-th detection layer by using the optimal threshold.
US09184878B2
Presented herein are non-disruptive noise estimation techniques that utilize a correlation between attributes of a received signal and the noise to generate estimated noise values for symbols of the signal. More specifically, a digital signal comprising symbols transmitted over a telecommunications network is received. For each of a plurality of the symbols, an estimated noise value associated with the respective symbol is generated through a correlation of a log-likelihood ratio (LLR) value to predetermined noise values. The estimated noise values for the plurality of symbols are used to generate noise information representing time and frequency characteristics of noise in the telecommunications network.
US09184875B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for receiving an encoded data packet, one or more activation commands, and a communication identifier, decoding the received data packet, validating the decoded received data packet, and executing one or more routines associated with the respective one or more activation commands.
US09184872B2
A particular overall architecture for transmission over a bonded channel system consisting of two interconnected MoCA (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) 2.0 SoCs (Systems on a Chip) and a method and apparatus for the case of a “bonded” channel network. With a bonded channel network, the data is divided into two segments, the first of which is transported over a primary channel and the second of which is transported over a secondary channel.
US09184858B2
Wireless microphones are used in a plurality of applications, such as concerts, discussions, theater performances, operas, etc. The wireless microphones are normally connected to a transmitter which transmits the audio signals captured by the microphone to a base station via a transmitting frequency. The invention relates to a microphone system (1) having a base station (3) and having a microphone module (2) wherein the base station (3) is designed to wirelessly receive audio information and/or test information transmitted from the microphone module (2) on an operating frequency, wherein the base station (3) has a receiving analysis module (14) and/or is coupled thereto, which is designed to analyze the reception quality of the audio information and/or the test information on a plurality of possible transmitting frequencies, wherein the receiving analysis module (4) is designed to select the operating frequency from the plurality of possible transmitting frequencies.
US09184854B2
An optical communication system includes a digital signal processer coupled to the coherent receiver, said coherent receiver including a nonlinearity compensation module for compensating for nonlinear effects in fiber in the optical link for increasing capacity or transmission distance of the fiber, the nonlinearity compensation module includes a spectral slicing of the signal into bands, computing nonlinear interaction between the bands with parameters opposite to those of the fiber to reverse the non-linear effects in the fiber, and only certain nonlinear interactions between bands are considered thereby reducing complexity of the nonlinearity compensation.
US09184846B2
In an embodiment, a pluggable optical host and network I/O optoelectronic module (hereinafter “module”) includes a first optical-electrical-optical (OEO) converter and a second OEO converter. The first OEO converter is configured to convert N inbound optical signals to M inbound optical signals and includes N network-side optical receivers, first signal processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the N network-side optical receivers, and M host-side optical receivers communicatively coupled to the first signal processing circuitry. The second OEO converter is configured to convert M outbound optical signals to N outbound optical signals and includes M host-side optical receivers, second signal processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the M host-side optical receivers, and N network-side optical receivers communicatively coupled to the second signal processing circuitry.
US09184843B2
Components, systems, and methods for determining propagation delay of communications in distributed antenna systems are disclosed. The propagation delay of communications signals distributed in the distributed antenna systems is determined. If desired, the propagation delay(s) can be determined on a per remote antenna unit basis for the distributed antenna systems. The propagation delay(s) can provided by the distributed antenna systems to a network or other system to be taken into consideration for communications services or operations that are based on communications signal delay. As another non-limiting example, propagation delay can be determined and controlled for each remote antenna unit to be uniquely distinguish the remote antenna units. In this manner, the location of a client device communicating with a remote antenna unit can be determined within the communication range of the remote antenna unit.
US09184839B1
The present disclosure describes techniques for identity-based RF circuitry compensation. In some aspects data from a wireless device is received via radio frequency circuitry, the data including an identifier that uniquely identifies the wireless device. Impairments of the radio frequency circuitry are estimated based on the received data and then the estimated impairments are associated with the identifier of the wireless device. In response to subsequently receiving data that includes the identifier, the radio frequency circuitry is compensated using the estimated impairments.
US09184833B2
A method for testing the operation of an optical fiber cable in a communication network using an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) instrument includes receiving a range of identifiers of fiber sets to be tested. Identifiers of a first fiber set are displayed. The first fiber set is included in the range and constitutes a next fiber set to be tested. A determination is made whether the first fiber set is connected to the OTDR instrument. In response to determining that the first fiber set is connected to the OTDR instrument, a test of the first fiber set is performed using the OTDR instrument. Identifiers of a second fiber set are displayed. The second fiber set is included in the range and constitutes a next fiber set to be tested.
US09184832B2
Concept for transmitting payload data from a transmitter to a receiver via a communication channel within a time interval, wherein channel-coded data packets are generated from the payload data, wherein each of the channel-coded data packets has packet core data corresponding to a packet identification of the respective channel-coded data packet, and wherein the packet core data is coded with a channel code of higher redundancy than the payload data. The channel-coded data packets are sent without any return channel to the receiver, which decodes packet core data of a first received channel-coded data packet of the time interval. If error-free decoding of the first channel-coded data packet fails, packet core data of at least one second received channel-coded data packet of the time interval are decoded to determine a suitable further channel-coded data packet for combination with the first channel-coded data packet to acquire, on account of the combination, an increased code gain for decoding of the payload data.
US09184829B2
Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an allocation of capacity between forward and return traffic; and a satellite including: pathways; at least one LNA, an output of which is for coupling to a pathway and to amplify uplink beam signals in accordance with the allocation; and at least one HPA, an input of which is for coupling to the pathway and to amplify downlink beam signals in accordance with the allocation, and wherein the frame definition specifies at least one pathway as a forward pathway for at least one timeslot and as a return pathway for at least one other timeslot in the frame.
US09184824B1
A first amplifier is configured to provide a first variable gain. A selecting module is configured to (i) connect a first antenna to the first amplifier when a selection signal is in a first state, and (ii) connect a second antenna to the first amplifier when the selection signal is in a second state. A second amplifier is in communication with an output of the first amplifier and is configured to provide a second variable gain. An automatic gain control (AGC) module is configured to control each of the first and second variable gains. An antenna selection module is configured to selectively change the selection signal in response to the first variable gain or the second variable gain after a preamble of a data packet and before a payload of the data packet.
US09184817B2
The present invention proposes a technical solution of codebook design which is suitable for antennas configured in a uniform circular array. Respective codewords in the designed codebooks have constant modulus, respective columns being orthogonal to each other and nested property. Based on the designed codebook, the invention further provides a method of determining a codeword in a base station of a MIMO communication system, the base station being configured with Nt antennas in a uniform circular array, wherein the method comprises the steps of receiving codeword index information from a user equipment; and determining a target codeword corresponding to the codeword index information from a set of codebooks according to the codeword index information,wherein the set of codebooks comprises Nt codebooks corresponding respectively to respective ranks and the Nt codebooks are determined based upon a codebook of rank 1 and a Nt×Nt Hadamard matrix, the first column of the Hadamard matrix is all 1 or all −1. As compared with the existing Rel-10 codebook, the codebooks designed according to the invention can reduce a feedback overhead and improve the average spectrum efficiency of a cell and spectrum efficiency of a user at the edge of the cell.
US09184811B2
The present invention is directed to preventing the load to be required for blind detection in a mobile station apparatus (UE) from increasing and switching between SU-MIMO and MU-MIMO dynamically, even in the event the system bandwidth is expanded. The present invention has a DCI format selection section (209) that selects identification information which identifies between a DCI format for SU-MIMO and a DCI format for MU-MIMO, a control signal generation section (210) that generates control signals including the identification information and including the DCI format for SU-MIMO or MU-MIMO, having the same number of bits, and a transmission section that transmits the control signals to a mobile station apparatus.
US09184809B2
The number of training signals for channel estimation is reduced. A wireless communication method includes: a step of reading, by an access point apparatus, stored training weights for a station which performs channel estimation; a step of generating, by the access point apparatus, a weight training symbol by multiplying the training weights by a training symbol and transmitting the generated weight training symbol; a step of estimating, by a station apparatus, weight channel information from the received weight training symbol; a step of transmitting, by the station apparatus, the weight channel information to the access point apparatus; a step of calculating, by the access point apparatus, transmission weights using the received weight channel information and the stored training weights; a step of transmitting, by the access point apparatus, a data signal in accordance with the transmission weights; and a step of calculating and storing, by the access point apparatus, new training weights using the weight channel information and the stored training weights.
US09184806B2
A method for performing hierarchical beamforming in a wireless access system and a device therefor are disclosed. Particularly, the method comprises: an initial step for allowing a base station to transmit a plurality of first beams, to which different steering vectors are applied, to a terminal through corresponding reference signals, and a repetition step for allowing the base station to transmit a plurality of second beams, to which different steering vectors are applied, to the terminal through corresponding reference signals by considering feedback information that contains an index of one or more beams received from the terminal, wherein the repetition step can be repeated up to a predetermined number of times.
US09184804B2
Method and apparatus for implementing signal quality metrics and antenna diversity switching control
A method for detecting the digital quality of a radio signal includes: receiving a radio signal including a digital portion modulated by a series of symbols each including a plurality of samples; computing correlation points between endpoint samples in cyclic prefix regions of adjacent symbols; and using the correlation points to produce a digital signal quality metric. Receivers that implement the method are also provided.
US09184802B2
The present specification discloses as one embodiment a power receiver for transmitting a message by using a power transmission signal. The power receiver comprises: a power reception portion for receiving the wireless power signal that is formed by a power transmitter; a demodulation portion for demodulating the received wireless power signal; a modulation portion for modulating the received wireless power signal; and a control portion for decoding a first packet from the wireless power signal that is demodulated by means of the demodulation portion, for determining whether a second packet that does not collide with the first packet which has been decoded can be transmitted, and for modulating the received wireless power signal so as to comprise the second packet by controlling the modulation portion, when transmission is possible according to the result of the determination.
US09184795B2
Data is communicated between a digital power transmitter and one or more digital power receivers over a transmission line comprising positive and negative conductors. If the transmitter is sending data to the receiver, a first transmitter electrical switch is selectively operated to increase electrical charge in the transmission-line capacitance. If the receiver is sending data to the transmitter, a first receiver electrical switch is selectively operated to increase electrical charge in the transmission-line capacitance.
US09184794B1
A PLC network system and method operative with OFDM for generating MIMO frames with suitable preamble portions configured to provide backward compatibility with legacy PLC devices and facilitate different receiver tasks such as frame detection and symbol timing, channel estimation and automatic gain control (AGC), including robust preamble detection in the presence of impulsive noise and frequency-selective channels of the PLC network. A MIMO PLC transmitter device may selectively vary amounts of cyclic shift (CS) for different transmit phases based on whether an initial CS vector elicits an ACK signal back from a PLC receiver within a timeout period.
US09184792B2
In a charging communication system in which a charging control device performs communication between an electric vehicle and a charging equipment, the electric vehicle is equipped with a first communication device and a second communication device both configured to communicate with the charging equipment by using the same signal line in the charging cable; and a signal line connection device configured to switch connection/disconnection between the second communication device and the signal line. The charging control device, which controls a battery on the electric vehicle, calculates an amount of change in a signal line voltage between before and after the signal line connection device connects the second communication device to the signal line, and the charging control device causes, when the amount of change does not fall within a predetermined allowable range, the signal line connection device to disconnect the second communication device from the signal line.
US09184790B2
There is provided an incoherent UWB-IR communication method by which erroneous demodulation is difficult to occur even in a multipath environment. Thus, the present invention includes an incoherent wireless communication method including a first step of modulating transmission data, a second step of converting the modulated transmission data into pulses and converting the pulses received from the external into reception data, and a third step of demodulating the reception data, wherein the pulses used in the second step includes a plurality of pulse sequences and the plurality of pulse sequences is such that the peaks of cross-correlation values are lower than the peaks of autocorrelation values.
US09184789B2
A communication apparatus includes: a pulse generation unit configured to alternately generate a positive pulse and a negative pulse indicating presence or absence of a pulse in accordance with a value of a data signal; a band-pass filter configured to filter the pulse generated by the pulse generator; and a transmission amplifier configured to amplify a signal filtered by the band-pass filter, and to output the signal as a transmission signal.
US09184784B2
A method includes receiving an input signal and predistorting a baseband representation of the input signal at a carrier frequency and at one or more harmonic frequencies. The method also includes generating an output signal based on the predistorted baseband representation of the input signal, and transmitting the output signal to a power amplifier. Predistorting the baseband representation of the input signal at the carrier frequency could occur in parallel with predistorting the baseband representation of the input signal at the one or more harmonic frequencies.
US09184783B2
A communication system includes an antenna. A signal transmission and reception unit for cellular CDMA communication and a signal transmission and reception unit for PCS COMA communication are coupled to the antenna.
US09184771B2
A method and apparatus for digital down conversion and demodulation of a radio frequency (RF) signal are disclosed. A sampling frequency for sampling the RF signal is chosen, based on a bandwidth and a safety margin, so that a bandwidth of the sampled signal falls substantially within a predetermined frequency zone. The sampled signal may be digitally demodulated at a demodulation frequency selected to be substantially equal to a baseband alias of a carrier frequency of the signal.
US09184767B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for error correcting code (ECC) decoding. A score module is configured to assign a score to a variable node of low density parity check (LDPC) code decoder. The LDPC code decoder may include a plurality of variable nodes associated with a plurality of check nodes. The plurality of variable nodes may correspond to bits of a received code word. The score for the variable node may be based on a count of unsatisfied check nodes associated with the variable node. A variable node update module is configured to update the variable node based on the score. A check node update module is configured to update one or more of the check nodes based on the updated variable node.
US09184762B2
A system can include a signal image correlator receives a discrete frequency domain representation of a signal tone in an interleaved analog-to-digital (IADC) signal and an image of the signal tone in the discrete frequency domain representation of the IADC signal and determines a correlation between the signal tone and the image of the signal tone, a power of the signal tone and a power of the image of the signal tone. The system can also include a frequency domain estimator that determines an instantaneous frequency domain mismatch profile estimate based on the correlation between the signal tone and the image of the signal tone. The system can further include an averaging filter that averages the instantaneous frequency domain mismatch profile estimate over time to provide a frequency domain mismatch profile estimate.
US09184761B2
A method, comprising: selecting three Two-Tuples before and three after a selected synchronous ADC conversion point; calculating the coefficients of a third order polynomial based on the value of the previous time asynchronous sample, the time difference between the asynchronous samples surrounding the selected sample, and the five linear slopes of the line segments between the three points before and the points after the selected synchronous sample point, including the slope of the selected point; evaluating the third order polynomial at the synchronous time instant; generating the synchronous ADC value based on this calculation; and using the ADC value as the desired voltage level of the synchronous sample, wherein the synchronous ADC value is generated based on this calculation.
US09184755B2
A semiconductor device according to an aspect of the invention relates to an AD converter that converts a signal level of an analog signal into a digital value by using a comparator, and determines an amount of adjustment of an offset voltage of the comparator based on an offset determination result of the comparator obtained immediately after a least significant bit (LSB) of a digital value output as a conversion result is converted.
US09184754B2
An analog-to-digital converting device includes: an integrator arranged to generate an integrating signal according to an analog input signal and a first analog feedback signal; a low-pass filter arranged to generate a first filtered signal according to the integrating signal; an analog-to-digital converter arranged to generate a digital output signal according to the first filtered signal; and a first digital-to-analog converter arranged to generate the first analog feedback signal according to the digital output signal.
US09184753B2
A double data rate (DDR) counter includes a first control block suitable for toggling a counter clock according to a count mode signal and a previous state value of a sampling block; a second control block suitable for determining whether to toggle a clock signal inputted to a counting block corresponding to an (LSB+1) bit or higher; a third control block suitable for determining an enable period of the counting block; the sampling block suitable for sampling a state of the clock signal and outputting an LSB value, when an input signal transits; and the counting block suitable for performing counting according to output signals of the second and third control blocks and outputting a counter output signal having the (LSB+1) bit or higher.
US09184751B2
Methods, systems and devices related to authentication of chips using physical physical unclonable functions (PUFs) are disclosed. In accordance one such method, a test voltage is applied to a PUF system including a first subset of PUF elements that are arranged in series and a second subset of PUF elements that are arranged in series, where the first subset of PUF elements is arranged in parallel with respect to the second subset of PUF elements. In addition, the PUF system is measured to obtain at least one differential of states between the first subset of PUF elements and the second subset of PUF elements. Further, the method includes outputting an authentication sequence for the circuit that is based on the one or more differentials of states.
US09184748B2
An embodiment of a buffer for a transmission line, a circuit including such a buffer, a high-speed data link, and a low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) system.
US09184744B2
A gate signal is generated by summation of multiple signal profiles. The gate signal is applied to a switching device to switch the switching device between an off state and an on state. While the gate signal is applied to the switching device, at least an n-th order derivative of a load signal of the switching device is detected, with n being an integer which is equal to or larger than 2. Depending on the detected n-th order derivative, one or more of the signal profiles are adapted.
US09184734B1
A voltage or current controlled current-feedback operational-amplifier based multivibrator provides oscillation based on two current feedback operational amplifiers, three resistors and one grounded capacitor. The multivibrator can achieve almost constant frequency of oscillation and its duty cycle can be adjusted by a control voltage or a control current. The multivibrator can be used for generating pulse-width modulated signals.
US09184728B2
An elastic-wave filter device includes a reception filter section including a longitudinally coupled resonator-type elastic-wave filter section that has a balanced-to-unbalanced conversion function and has improved common-mode isolation characteristics. Among IDT electrodes of a filter section, each of the other comb-shaped electrode of a first IDT electrode including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes, one of which is connected to a first balanced-signal terminal, and the other comb-shaped electrode of a second IDT electrode including a pair of comb-shaped electrodes, one of which is connected to a second balanced-signal terminal, is connected to one of ground electrodes that are provided on a piezoelectric substrate. Inductors are provided on the piezoelectric substrate, and each inductor is connected between the other comb-shaped electrode of one of the first and second IDT electrodes and one of the ground electrodes.
US09184725B2
An acoustic wave device includes: a substrate; a lower electrode formed on the substrate; at least two piezoelectric films formed on the lower electrode; an insulating film located between the at least two piezoelectric films; and an upper electrode formed on the at least two piezoelectric films, wherein an outer periphery of an uppermost piezoelectric film out of the at least two piezoelectric films in a region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other is positioned further in than an outer periphery of the upper electrode.
US09184722B2
An impedance matching network includes a first terminal, a second terminal, and a reference potential terminal. The impedance matching network further includes a first shunt branch between the first terminal and the reference potential terminal, the first shunt branch including a capacitive element. The impedance matching network also includes a second shunt branch between the second terminal and the reference potential terminal, the second shunt branch including an inductive element. Furthermore, the impedance matching network includes a transmission line transformer with a first inductor path and a second inductor path, wherein the first inductor path connects the first terminal and the second terminal. An alternative impedance matching network includes a transformer and an adaptive matching network. The transformer is configured to transform an impedance connected to a first port so that a corresponding transformed impedance lies within a confined impedance region in a complex impedance plane.
US09184719B2
Examples disclose a method of transmitting audio data to a wireless device and receiving frequency coefficients associated with the audio data from the device. Further, examples disclose analyzing the frequency coefficients to identify a change between the transmitted audio data and the received frequency coefficients. Additionally, examples also disclose adjusting a second audio data based on the identified change.
US09184706B2
Since a high-frequency signal that is output from a high-frequency oscillator circuit section is detected in a detector circuit and a bias of a negative voltage is supplied from a bias circuit section to the high-frequency amplifier circuit section with a detection voltage that is detected, a negative power supply circuit such as a DC/DC converter or a peripheral circuit is not required, and since a negative bias voltage can be supplied to a high-frequency amplifier circuit, downsizing can be achieved with a low cost.
US09184700B2
According to one embodiment, a digital amplitude modulator includes a power supply unit, a measurement unit, a calculation unit, and a power controller. The power supply unit supplies a power supply voltage to a plurality of power amplifiers. The measurement unit measures the output power and reflection coefficient of a synthesizer. The calculation unit calculates loss power occurring in each power amplifier in an ON state, and reflected power consumed by each power amplifier in the ON state. The power controller controls all the power amplifiers to be in an OFF state, and performs a normal operation, and controls the input voltage of the power supply unit or ON/OFF of the plurality of power amplifiers.
US09184678B2
The present invention relates to a starting device for a single-phase induction motor, comprising a stator (M) with an running winding (B1) and a starting winding (B2), a starting device (28) connecting the starting winding (B2) to a source (F) of alternate voltage supply, when in a closed state, the start switch (S1) being carried to an open position when the start of the motor is ended, the starting device (28) comprising: a start switch (S1), an electronic signal-processing device (30) receiving current signals originating from a current sensor (RS) flowing through the start switch (S1) and receiving voltage signals from a current zero-crossing sensor SV, wherein the control unit (30) instructs the closing and opening of the start switch (S1) in accordance with the interpretation of the signals by voltage and current zero-crossing sensors, and time sensors.
US09184671B2
A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes first and second transistor columns which each include a NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor which are connected in series between a first power wire and a second power wire. Further, a gate of the PMOS transistor of one transistor column is connected to a wire which connects the NMOS transistor and the PMOS transistor of the other transistor column. Furthermore, an AC signal obtained by superimposing a signal on a bias voltage which is a voltage lower than that of the gate of the PMOS transistor included in the same transistor column is supplied to the gate of the NMOS transistor included in the transistor column.
US09184668B2
A switched mode power converter having a feedback mechanism by which a coded train of pulses with well defined integrity is generated on a secondary side of the power converter and transmitted to a dedicated control signal winding on the primary side for decoding and application to regulate the power converter output. The control signal winding enables separation of control signal transmission and power transmission resulting in improved processing of the control signal by a primary side controller. The pulse train is modulated by a secondary side controller, transmitted across a transformer and received by the control signal winding, and supplied to the primary side controller. Coded information is included in the coded pulse train by modulating pulses of the pulse train.
US09184653B2
A short-circuit sense circuit and a power supply according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention use an auxiliary voltage, which is a both-end voltage of an auxiliary coil coupled with a predetermined turn ratio to a secondary side coil coupled to an output voltage. After termination of a start-up period, the short-circuit sense circuit samples a sense voltage, which is a voltage of a node between a first sense resistor and a second sense resistor coupled in series to both ends of the auxiliary coils and determines whether a short-circuit occurs according to a short-circuit sense signal that depends on a result of comparison between the sampled voltage and a predetermined reference voltage.
US09184647B2
An electrical power generator that increases both power generation efficiency and electrical power density. The generator includes: a plurality of disk surfaces; a plurality of stationary supports; and a rotating shaft affixed to each of the disk surfaces. Each disk surface is coupled to an array of magnets arranged as matching magnetic pairs on two adjacent disk surfaces so as to create a plurality of magnetic fields between the matching magnetic pairs. Each stationary support sustains an array of electromagnetic coils. Each coil is disposed in-between each of the matching magnetic pairs. Each rotating shaft rotates each of the matching magnetic pairs around the generator coils such that a time varying magnetic flux is provided and electrical power is generated in each of the generator coils.
US09184645B2
The invention relates to an electric machine, comprising a stator (2), a rotor (3), a split cage (4), which separates a wet region (5) from a dry region (6), control electronics (9) and an interconnection element (7, 8), which produces an electrical contact between the stator (2) and the control electronics (9), wherein the rotor (3) is arranged in the wet region (5), wherein the interconnection element (7, 8) is surrounded at least partially by an insulating element (10), and wherein the insulating element (10) divides the dry region (6) into a first subregion (60), in which the stator (2) is arranged, and a second subregion (61), in which the control electronics (9) are arranged.
US09184642B2
A system for harvesting energy including: an electrical machine including a first and a second structure, movable with respect to each other; a counterweight coupled to the second structure; a power transfer structure, electrically connected between the first structure and the load; an angular position sensor which provides a position signal ({right arrow over (ε)}(t)) indicating the angular position of the counterweight; and an accelerometer which provides an acceleration signal ({right arrow over (a)}(t)) indicating an acceleration which affects the first structure. The system for harvesting energy further comprising a control unit, which includes: a first stage which generates a limit position signal ({right arrow over (ε)}lim(t)) indicating an angular instability region (R-I); and a second stage which controls the power transfer structure based on the position signal and on the limit position signal, so as to modulate the transfer of electrical power to the load so as to prevent the counterweight from entering into the angular instability region.
US09184641B2
An eccentrically rotating apparatus has a rotating table 5, a bearing board 4 and a support board 2 spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction and having a common axis C arranged on a base plate 1. The rotating table 5 has a support pole 6 and a weight 7. The support board 2 has a support tip 2a connected to the bearing board 4 with a predetermined space apart and movably arranged on the base plate 1. The apparatus includes a sensor 11 for detecting a position of the weight 7 and a driving unit 9 activated by detected signals from the sensor 11. The rotating table 5 is eccentrically rotated such that the driving unit 9 pushes up the support board 2 at a time when the sensor 11 detects the weight 7.
US09184640B2
A motor controller and a production method thereof are provided to be capable of lowering the stress applied to joint parts of terminals and a board as much as possible, even if a thermal load or external force is applied to the connector, and in addition, capable of achieving a sufficient coupling strength when arranged in proximity to the electric motor. In the motor controller, there are provided: a first securing section (56a) and a second securing section (56b) configured to secure a connector (50) to the case (20) at an outer circumference of a connector housing (53) of the connector (50); and a positioning section (58) configured to position the connector (50) to the case (20), when the connector (50) is inserted into the connector receiving depression section (22a).
US09184638B2
A stator structure and a stator manufacturing method which are configured so that the stress occurring in resin-molded sections or insulators of the stator can be reduced. The structure of the stator is provided with coils formed by winding conductors, and also with stator cores provided with teeth to which the coils are mounted through the insulators. The coils mounted to the insulators are resin-molded and integrated with the insulators. Spaces which continue in the radial direction of the stator cores are formed between the insulators and end surface of the stator cores in the axial direction thereof. The insulators and the side surfaces of the teeth of the stator cores are adhered or welded (fusion bonded) to each other.
US09184634B2
Disclosed are a wireless power transmitter and a wireless power transmission method thereof. The wireless power transmitter, which wirelessly transmits power to a wireless power receiver, includes a power source to generate AC power, a transmission coil receiving power from the power source to generate a magnetic field, a transmission resonance coil coupled with the transmission coil to transmit power generated by the magnetic field to the wireless power receiver using resonance, and a detector detecting an existence state of the wireless power receiver by detecting power transmitted through the transmission resonance coil.
US09184632B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power transfer. A power transmitting device is attached to an existing furniture item or is embedded in a host furnishing. The power transmitting device includes a transmit antenna to wirelessly transfer power to a receive antenna by generating a near field radiation within a coupling-mode region. An amplifier applies a driving signal to the transmit antenna. A presence detector detects a presence of a receiver device within the coupling-mode region. The presence detector may also detect a human presence. An enclosed furnishing detector detects when the furnishing item is in a closed state. A power output may be adjusted in response to the closed state, the presence of a receiver device, and the presence of a human.
US09184631B2
A photovoltaic power generation system is disclosed, which can allow a user to easily acquire information on a photovoltaic inverter, easily control the photovoltaic inverter, and save electric charges.
US09184627B2
A charging system may include a switching device to receive an output voltage from an alternative power source and to provide an output voltage of the charging system, and an algorithm device to provide a control signal to the switching device based on a sensed power from the power source and a sensed output voltage from the charging system.
US09184611B2
A system and method for determining the health of a battery. A primary coil may be positioned along a first portion of a battery and a secondary coil may be positioned along a second portion of the battery. The primary coil may then be excited with a signal, and an electromagnetic field induced in the secondary coil by the excited primary coil may be measured. A state of health of the battery may thus correlate to the measured electromagnetic field during operation of the battery. This state of health may be determined as a function of electrolyte stratification, current profile, electrode structure, electrode surface degradation, and combinations thereof.
US09184603B2
A microprocessor controlled multi chemistry battery charging system and method for recharging primary and secondary batteries are disclosed. The charger has multiple battery holder bays with different recess levels to accept up to four batteries of different sizes and different chemistry types particularly Primary Alkaline, Primary Titanium, Rechargeable Alkaline Manganese (RAM), NiCd and NiMH batteries. The microprocessor controlled electronic circuit automatically identifies the type of battery to be charged by monitoring and comparing voltage responses over preset time by supplying constant charging current. Depending upon the type of battery, the charger controls suitable charging current or current pulses at different frequencies till battery voltage reaches preset maximum reference voltage or battery voltage remains relatively constant below preset maximum reference voltage over preset time period. The charger has built in safety protections, battery tester function, audio visual arrangements to display status, a variable DC output port and USB ports.
US09184601B2
According to an embodiment, a charge-discharge control device includes a receiving unit, a selecting unit, and a group controller. The receiving unit receives feasibility information. The selecting unit selects, of electric power devices that send the feasibility information indicating disallowance of simultaneously belonging to a plurality of charging groups, one electric power device as a representative device of the charging group to which belongs that electric power device; and selects, of electric power devices that send the feasibility information indicating disallowance of simultaneously belonging to a plurality of discharging groups, one electric power device as a representative device of the discharging group to which belongs that electric power device. Via the selected representative device, the group controller controls the other electric power devices belonging to the charging group or the discharging group to which belongs the selected representative device.
US09184600B2
A method for balancing a battery (C) comprising a plurality of branches (Ba, Bb, . . . , Bn) in parallel, each branch comprising at least two electrochemical cells in series (E1a, E2a, E3a, E1b, E2b, E3b), with an activatable electrical energy discharge or transfer device (Rb) being connected across the terminals of each electrochemical cell, comprises activating the electrical energy discharge or transfer devices connected across the terminals of the cells of the branch that includes the electrochemical cell having the lowest voltage, with the exception of the electrical energy discharge or transfer device associated with the electrochemical cell having the lowest voltage, and simultaneously deactivating the electrical energy discharge or transfer devices connected across the terminals of the cells of the branch or branches that do not include the electrochemical cell with the lowest voltage.
US09184597B2
Three power supply devices 31 are connected in series via a transmission and receiving coupler 32 to the feeder 12, a short-circuit switch 38 that short-circuits both ends of each transmission coupler 32B is provided, a circuit including three receiving couplers 32A and the feeder 12 is set to a series resonant circuit at a predetermined frequency f, impedance of a circuit including each transmission coupler 32B, and a line connecting the power supply device 31 and the transmission coupler 32B is set to capacitive reactance at the predetermined frequency f, and an voltage to be output to the circuit including the line is controlled while a current flowing through the feeder 12 is being fed back to output a constant current of the predetermined frequency f to the feeder.
US09184594B2
A photovoltaic system includes: a photovoltaic generator comprising strings that each includes one or more photovoltaic cells; a power converter; switches; and a controller. The power converter is configured to convert direct current (DC) power provided by the photovoltaic generator into alternating current (AC) power, and to output the AC power. Each switch is associated with one of the strings and is configured to connect the associated string to the power converter when set to a first setting, such that power generated by the first string can flow to the power converter. Each switch is also configured to disconnect the string from the power converter when set to a second setting. The controller is configured to control the power provided by the photovoltaic generator by selectively connecting the strings of the photovoltaic generator to the power converter by controlling the settings of the switches.
US09184588B2
A power delivery system is disclosed for an isolated measurement system in which a power transmitter and power receiver are provided at powered and unpowered sides of an isolation barrier, respectively. The power transmitter and power receiver may be coupled by an isolator. The power transmitter may deliver power to the power receiver to power components on the unpowered side of the isolation barrier. The system may include a controller provided in the powered side to generate a clock signal defining timing of a predetermined operation of the measurement system and to generate a disabling signal to the power transmitter controller synchronously with the timing of the predetermined operation.
US09184586B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a low-power, area efficient ESD protection device that provides ESD protection to an ESD susceptible circuit. The ESD protection device has a trigger circuit with a resistor. The resistor has a first terminal connected to the first external pin and a second terminal connected directly to a gate of a SiGe based PMOS shunt transistor. The trigger circuit generates a trigger signal that drives the gate of the PMOS device to shunt power away from the ESD susceptible circuit when an ESD event is present. The SiGe based PMOS shunt transistor has a lower gate leakage than a conventional NMOS shunt transistors, thereby providing for an ESD circuit with a low leakage current at small gate lengths.
US09184583B2
An electric vehicle includes an inverter unit and an ECU. The inverter unit or the ECU includes a magnetic force estimator that estimates a magnetic force of a permanent magnet structure associated with a motor rotor of a motor unit. The inverter unit or the ECU may also include a determiner for the estimated magnetic force and an abnormalities-responsive motor drive limiter. The estimator is configured to estimate, according to a predefined rule, the magnetic force, based on at least two detection signals selected from a group consisting of a detection signal indicating a rotational frequency of the motor unit, a detection signal indicating a motor voltage of the motor unit and a detection signal indicating a motor current of the motor unit.
US09184580B2
An arrester includes a switch and a lightning detection breaker connected to the switch. The lightning detection breaker includes a metal conducting terminal electrically connected to an earth return, a DC power supply terminal, a ground terminal and an output terminal. When the power supply is under a lightning strike, a potential difference of both the DC power supply terminal and the ground terminal of the lightning detection breaker will go up to several thousands of volts. However, a voltage of the metal conducting terminal will not go up because the metal conducting terminal is electrically connected to the earth return. The switch will automatically become open circuit by the lightning detection breaker, and therefore an electronic device connected to the arrester is protected from damage done by the lightning.
US09184577B2
An electrical device includes a board; a cable including one end portion electrically connected to the board; a component fixing device for fixing a component through which the cable passes; and a fixing portion for fixing the component fixing device. The component fixing device includes a holding portion for holding the component and a fixed portion fixed to the fixing portion. Further, the holding portion includes a hook claw disposed at a distal end portion thereof, a hole portion for receiving a base portion of the hook claw and engaging with the distal end portion, an attaching portion for attaching the component, a first movement restriction member for restricting a movement of the component in a direction that the cable extends, and a second movement restriction member for restricting a movement of the component in a direction perpendicular to the direction that the cable extends.
US09184573B1
An enclosure and enclosure locking system for an enclosure having an opening with a door or access panel utilizes first and second side mounting brackets that are each coupled to opposite portions of the enclosure. First and second locking strap members overlie the door or access panel when the door or access panel is in the closed position when in a locked condition. A staple assembly is used for receiving a shackle or lock pin of a pad lock and also for coupling the strap members together and locking the locking system 30 in a locked condition.
US09184570B2
A spark plug has a center electrode and an earth electrode. The center electrode is faced to the earth electrode so that a spark discharging gap is formed between the center electrode and the earth electrode. An electrode chip is formed on at least one of the center electrode and the earth electrode. The electrode chip has a composition containing 40 to 60 mol % of aluminum and iridium as a remainder thereof. In the composition of the electrode chip, it is possible to replace part of the iridium with 1 to 20 mol % of at least one metal selected from nickel, iron, cobalt, platinum and rhodium.
US09184569B2
The invention relates to a spark gap having a plurality of individual spark gaps connected in series and present in a stacked arrangement, spaced apart from each other by insulating spacers (5) and nearly free of secondary current under typical operating conditions, wherein the individual spark gaps comprise electrodes (4) and outer connection electrodes are provided, and further having control elements for influencing the voltage distribution across the stacked arrangement and/or designed as an ignition aid. According to the invention, a mechanically pretensioned insulating element (8) can be inserted or pivoted between two adjacent electrodes (4) of the individual spark gaps, in order to interrupt the main current path of the spark gap in case of fault or overload.
US09184561B2
A method to control a wavelength tunable laser diode (tunable LD) is disclosed. The tunable LD includes a SG-DFB region and a CSG-DBR region to tune the emission wavelength thereof. The CSG-DBR region includes three segments, where the refractive indices of respective segments are variable by heaters provided therein. When the electrical power supplied to two segments is optionally selected, the power supplied to the rest segment is corrected by an offset from a value reflecting physical dimensions of the heaters. The offset is determined such that the tunable LD shows the best side mode suppression ratio (SMSR).
US09184558B2
An optical semiconductor device, includes: a plurality of first diffraction grating layers disposed at a spacing from each other along first direction above first semiconductor layer, length of a lower surface of each of a plurality of first diffraction gratings along first direction being longer than a length of an upper surface of first diffraction grating; second diffraction grating layer disposed along first direction above first semiconductor layer, first and second diffraction grating layers being alternately disposed at a spacing from each other, a length of an upper surface of second diffraction grating layer along first direction being longer than the length of a lower surface of second diffraction layer; a diffraction grating including first and second diffraction grating layers; a second semiconductor layer disposed between first and second diffraction grating layers and under second diffraction grating layer; and third semiconductor layer disposed on first and second diffraction grating layers.
US09184557B2
Provided is an optical module in which a temperature of a semiconductor element to be subjected to temperature control is controlled to fall within a desired operating temperature range regardless of whether an environmental temperature is outside or inside the operating temperature range of the semiconductor element, and which is stably operated with low power consumption. A control section 30 determines, based on the environmental temperature having a temperature range of from a first temperature to a second temperature, a target temperature from a predetermined operating temperature range of from a third temperature to a fourth temperature. The control unit 30, an ATC circuit 34, a TEC control IC 12, and a TEC 24 control the temperature of a laser module 20 to become the target temperature. The first temperature is lower than the third temperature, and the second temperature is higher than the fourth temperature.
US09184553B2
The invention relates to a novel type of gate-tunable photonics and plasmonics which utilizes doped large-scale graphene coupled with ferroelectric material. The graphene-ferroelectric hybrid structure paves the way for the realization of ultra-fast, low power consumption and multi-wavelength operation saturable absorbers for applications in ultra-fast laser systems and novel types of plasmonics for applications in infrared detection, single-photon quantum devices and ultrasensitive detectors.
US09184540B2
A metal part for an electric connecting device for connecting at least one stripped conductor end has a base limb, a contact limb that is substantially perpendicular relative to said base limb, and at least one lateral wall. The contact limb together with a clamping limb of a clamping spring forms a spring clamp terminal for an electric conductor to be connected. The metal part requires only a small amount of material in that the contact limb is bent away from the base limb, and the lateral wall is bent away from the contact limb, wherein the bending edge between the contact limb and the base limb runs perpendicular relative to the longitudinal extension of the contact limb and the base limb, while the bending edge between the contact limb and the lateral wall runs parallel relative to the longitudinal extension of the contact limb.
US09184534B1
An over-mold strain relief for an electrical connector-cable combination is provided and includes an electrical connector assembly having an electrical connector including an electrical connector base and an electrical cable, wherein the electrical cable includes a minimum bend radius and is connected to the electrical connector proximate the connector base. An over-mold material is also provided and is associated with the electrical connector assembly to cover a portion of the electrical connector and the electrical cable, wherein the over-mold material forms a strain relief portion having a strain relief portion length that covers the cable, wherein the strain relief portion includes a plurality of slots which are distributed along the strain relief portion length and wherein the strain relief portion length is within the range of between about 30% to about 60% of the minimum bend radius of the cable.
US09184532B2
A socket comprising a body having an opening in which a contact-holder is housed, a cover articulated to the body and movable between a closed position in which it closes said opening and an open position in which it is raised from said opening, a yoke articulated to the body and movable between a lowered position and a raised position, the yoke having two arms which, in the lowered position, are intended to cooperate with a shoulder of a plug to retain the plug inserted into the socket, and a latch member articulated to the yoke and movable with respect to the yoke between a locked position and an unlocked position, the latch member having at least one pawl which, in the locked position, engages a corresponding seat of the body and which, in the unlocked position, is disengaged from said seat, and a cover-lock element articulated to the body and movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, wherein the latch member has at least one cam portion that cooperates with the cover-lock element for moving the cover-lock element from the engaged position to the disengaged position when the latch member moves from the locked position to the unlocked position.
US09184528B2
An electronic component socket includes a shield plate set forming an opening portion, a movement member including a conductive member having a contact portion capable of contacting an electrode terminal of an electronic component, an elastic member which is electrically connectable to a wiring substrate, and includes a biasing portion having a biasing force and a base portion fixing the biasing portion. The movement member is disposed to move vertically above the elastic member in the opening portion, and the biasing portion elastically contacts the movement member. The shield plate set includes a protrusion protruding in the opening portion, the movement member includes a concave portion which engages with the protrusion, the conductive member includes an inclined surface portion which extends so as to be inclined on an opposite side of the concave portion, and the biasing portion of the elastic member elastically contacts the inclined surface portion.
US09184526B2
A method for manufacturing a terminal that has electrical connection with a component by pinching and holding the component using a pinching part provided in a part of each of two arms. The method includes a first process of forming a first gap G1 between the two pinching parts, and a second process of plastically deforming a part of the arms so as to make the gap between the pinching parts to be a second gap G2 smaller than the first gap G1.
US09184525B1
A contact retention assembly is for electrically connecting an electrical apparatus to an electrical bus member. The contact retention assembly includes a bus stab, a spring member and a terminal contact. The bus stab includes first and second opposing sides, and at least one protrusion extending outwardly from a corresponding one of the first side and second sides. The spring member includes first and second opposing legs, an intermediate portion, and a number of openings. The terminal contact is electrically connected to the electrical apparatus, and is disposed between the bus stab and the spring member. The first and second legs of the spring member are biased toward one another to mechanically couple and electrically connect the terminal contact to the bus stab. The protrusion is disposed in a corresponding one of the openings of the spring member to retain the spring member on the bus stab.
US09184516B2
A grounding member (20) is formed with a receiving hole (23), and a ground terminal fitting (10) is formed with a cantilevered lock (13) including a step (13B). The lock (13) is locked to the receiving hole (23) with the step (13B) contact with a stopper (24) of the receiving hole (23). In tightening a first bolt (51) at a first mounting hole (151) and a first female screw hole (51), a rotational force in a direction to bring the step (13B) into contact with the stopper (24) is applied to a terminal main body (11). Butting portions (14) protrude from side edges (13D) of the lock (13) and prevent following rotation of the terminal main body (11) by contacting receiving surfaces (25) when the first bolt (51) is tightened.
US09184514B2
A wiring structure improvement of an insulation piercing connector for electrical connection after plural signal lines (40) being inserted includes a connector body (1), plural terminals (2) disposed in the connector body (1), and a rotary cable coupler (3). The connector body (1) has a wiring end (11). Each of the terminals (2) has a terminal body (20) and a piercing member (21) formed at one end of the terminal body (20) and disposed at the wiring end (11). The rotary cable coupler (3) is sleeved around the wiring end (11) and has plural plug holes (30) corresponding to the piercing members (21). Thus, when the rotary cable coupler (3) is rotated, the signal lines (40) are pushed by the plug holes (30) towards the piercing members (21) correspondingly such that the piercing members (21) pierce the signal lines (40) for the electrical connection.
US09184513B2
A male terminal (90) is inserted into a tubular main body (11) and a resilient contact piece (13) separate from the main body (11) is deflectably arranged in the main body (11). The main body (11) includes crimping pieces (27) to be crimped and fixed to crimping regions (33) of the resilient contact piece (13). Protrusions (28, 36) which bite into mating sides at the time of crimping are provided on crimping surfaces (38, 39) along which the crimping pieces (27) and the crimping regions (33) are crimped to each other.
US09184504B2
A dual-frequency patch antenna includes a ground plane, an inside radiator, and an outside radiator. The inside radiator is configured as a region with a periphery, along which is a series of first protrusions separated by first grooves. The outside radiator is configured as a ring with an outer periphery and an inner periphery, along which is a series of second protrusions separated by second grooves. A set of conducting elements electrically connect the series of second protrusions with the ground plane. The inside radiator and the outside radiator can be fabricated on a dielectric substrate separated from the ground plane by a dielectric solid or air. The inside radiator and the outside radiator can be disposed on the same surface or on different surfaces of the dielectric substrate, with specific geometries of the first protrusions and first grooves relative to the second protrusions and second grooves.
US09184502B2
A touch sensor with a transparent conductive layer and a metalized border area at least partially bordering the transparent conductive layer and forming a far-field antenna.
US09184497B2
A lighting device, such as a replacement lighting device, comprising a light source (LS), e.g. LEDs, for producing light along an optical axis (OA). A heat sink (HS) made of a material with an electrical resistivity being less than 0.01 Ωm, e.g. a metallic heat sink being a part of the housing, transports heat away from the light source (LS). A Radio Frequency (RF) communication circuit (CC) connected to an antenna (A) serves to enable RF signal communication, e.g. to control the device via a remote control. Metallic components, including the heat sink (HS), having an extension larger than 1/10 of a wavelength of the RF signal are arranged below a virtual plane (VP) drawn orthogonal to the optical axis (OA) and going through the antenna (A). Hereby a compact device can be obtained, and still a satisfying RF radiation pattern can be obtained. The antenna can be a wire antenna or a PCB antenna, e.g. a PIFA or a IFA type antenna. In a special embodiment the antenna is formed on a ring-shaped PCB with a central hole allowing passage of light from the light source. Preferably, the antenna is positioned at least 2 mm in front of the heat sink (HS).
US09184495B2
A vehicular antenna apparatus includes a substrate, a circuit portion, a case, and a heat transfer path. The substrate has an antenna portion. The circuit portion is mounted on the substrate and configures at least a part of a wireless communication circuit electrically coupled with the antenna portion. The case is made of resin material and configures a protruded portion of an outer surface of a vehicle. The substrate and the circuit portion are arranged in the case. The heat transfer path is arranged between the circuit portion and the case, and has a thermal conductivity higher than air. The circuit portion is electrically coupled with the antenna portion by a solid phase diffusion bonding.
US09184493B2
According to embodiments described in the specification, a method and mobile electronic device are provided for tuning an antenna. The mobile electronic device comprises an electrical ground member supporting at least one antenna; a housing containing the electrical ground member and having a conductive ring defining the perimeter of the housing; and a conductive tuning member disposed between the conductive ring and the electrical ground member, for transforming an impedance between the electrical ground member and the conductive ring; wherein the conductive tuning member is connected to the conductive ring by a first short, and to the electrical ground member by a second short.
US09184492B2
According to one embodiment, a radio device includes: a mounting board having a conductive plane; a semiconductor package mounted on the mounting board and having a interposer having a conductive plane, a semiconductor chip mounted on one surface of the interposer, and an antenna having a conductive element formed on the one surface and connected to the semiconductor chip; and a plurality of connection portions connecting the mounting board and the interposer. A first electrical length of the first connection portion which is nearest the conductive element among the plurality of connection portions or a second electrical length of the first connection portion including a conductive plane of the mounting board or interposer connected to the first connection portion is less than ½ wavelength of the operating frequency of the antenna.
US09184487B2
A resonator structure for a wireless power transfer system Includes resonators, which are to transfer wireless power, and a dielectric substance, which includes at least one exposure region formed on the dielectric substance to fix the resonators in a covered shape and to selectively expose parts of the resonators.
US09184480B2
A circulator for a waveguide is provided. The circulator comprises a waveguide housing including a central cavity, and a ferrite element disposed in the central cavity of the waveguide housing, with the ferrite element including a first surface and an opposing second surface. The circulator also comprises a pair of asymmetric dielectric spacers including a first dielectric spacer located on the first surface of the ferrite element, and a second dielectric spacer located on the second surface of the ferrite element.
US09184469B2
A battery comprises a carrier foil, with solid state battery elements spaced along the foil and mounted on opposite sides of the foil in pairs, with the battery elements of a pair mounted at the same position along the foil. The carrier foil is folded to define a meander pattern with battery element pairs that are adjacent each other along the foil arranged back to back.
US09184468B2
Provided are electrochemical cells and electrolytes used to build such cells. The electrolytes include imide salts and/or methide salts as well as fluorinated solvents capable of maintaining single phase solutions at between about −30° C. to about 80° C. The fluorinated solvents, such as fluorinated carbonates, fluorinated esters, and fluorinated esters, are less flammable than their non-fluorinated counterparts and improve safety characteristics of cells containing these solvents. The amount of fluorinated solvents in electrolytes may be between about 30% and 80% by weight not accounting weight of the salts. Linear and cyclic imide salts, such as LiN(SO2CF2CF3)2, and LiN(SO2CF3)2, as well as methide salts, such as LiC(SO2CF3)3 and LiC(SO2CF2CF3)3, may be used in these electrolytes. Fluorinated alkyl groups enhance solubility of these salts in the fluorinated solvents. In some embodiments, the electrolyte may also include a flame retardant, such as a phosphazene, and/or one or more ionic liquids.
US09184453B2
A fuel cell including a stack of electrochemical cells and end plates applying a tightening strain onto the electrochemical cells, a thermal management system formed by a heat transfer fluid flow circuit in the stack, and a heat transfer fluid flow circuit external to the stack. The heat transfer flow circuit and the external circuit are connected in one of the end plates. The external circuit includes a first subcircuit including a heat exchanger and a second subcircuit directly connected to the inlet of the internal circuit. A thermostatic valve Is integrated in the end plate to control the heat transfer fluid flow in one and/or the other of the subcircuits as a function of temperature of the fluid at the outlet of the internal circuit.
US09184448B2
Provided is a method of producing an aluminum structure using a porous resin molded body having a three-dimensional network structure, with which it is possible to form an aluminum structure having a low oxide content in the surface of aluminum (i.e., having an oxide film with a small thickness), and in particular, it is possible to obtain an aluminum porous body that has a large area. The method includes a step of preparing an aluminum-coated resin molded body in which an aluminum layer is formed, directly or with another layer therebetween, on a surface of a resin molded body composed of urethane, and a heat treatment step in which the aluminum-coated resin molded body is subjected to heat treatment at a temperature equal to or higher than 270° C. and lower than 660° C. to decompose the resin molded body.
US09184446B2
A lithium ion secondary battery provided by the present invention has a positive electrode having a current collector and a positive electrode composite layer provided on the current collector. The current collector contains a metal element A as a main component thereof. The positive electrode composite layer contains a two-phase compound containing lithium as a positive electrode active material. The positive electrode composite layer also contains as an additive a compound having a metal element B, in a composition thereof, that has a higher ionization tendency than the metal element A.
US09184444B2
The present invention provides cathodes, methods of making cathodes, and electrochemical cells (e.g., batteries) that employ these cathodes having improved properties over traditional cathodes, methods, or electrochemical cells.
US09184438B2
A process for etching silicon to form silicon pillars on the etched surfaces, includes treating silicon with an etching solution that includes 5 to 10M HF 0.01 to 0.1M Ag+ ions and 0.02 to 0.2M NO3− ions. Further, NO3− ions in the form of alkali metal, nitric acid or ammonium nitrate salt is added to maintain the concentration of nitrate ions within the above range. The etched silicon is separated from the solution. The process provides pillars, especially for use as the active anode material in lithium ion batteries. The process is advantageous because it uses an etching bath containing only a small number of ingredients whose concentration needs to be controlled and it can be less expensive to operate than previous processes.
US09184433B2
A battery includes a battery body and at least one terminal protruding from an outside surface of the battery body. The terminal is electrically conductively connected to one of the battery poles. The battery further includes at least one electrically conductive bending lug, which is electrically conductive, connected via the terminal to the battery pole. The bending lug has a length that is greater than a distance of the longitudinal axis of the terminal from the point of penetration through the outside surface up to a lateral edge of the outside surface.
US09184429B2
A microporous membrane winding includes a microporous membrane wound around a core. The core has an outer diameter of 5 inches or greater, and has an outer surface with a surface roughness of 3.0 μm or less. A microporous membrane that is excellent in thickness uniformity and is favorably used as a separator for a lithium-ion secondary battery can be obtained from the microporous membrane winding.
US09184417B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the substrate and including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode; an organic light emitting device including a pixel electrode that contacts at least one of the source electrode or the drain electrode of the TFT, an interlayer including a light emitting layer, and a counter electrode facing the pixel electrode, the pixel electrode, the interlayer, and the counter electrode being stacked; and a cathode contact part including a first contact layer and a second contact layer, the first contact layer being at a same layer as the active layer and being doped with ion impurities, the second contact layer including a same material as the source electrode and the drain electrode and coupling the first contact layer and the counter electrode to each other.
US09184415B2
It is an object to propose a display device in which reflection of external light on a reflective polarizing plate is prevented and also extraction efficiency of light from a light-emitting layer is improved. If the display device has a light-emitting layer provided over a reflective electrode, a transparent electrode provided over the light-emitting layer, a transparent substrate provided over the transparent electrode, a reflective polarizing plate provided over the transparent substrate, a quarter wave plate provided over the reflective polarizing plate, and a polarizing plate provided over the quarter wave plate, reflection of an outside image can be suppressed, and light emitted in the light-emitting layer can be extracted efficiently.
US09184405B2
An organic light emitting display device includes first and second electrodes facing each other on a substrate, at least one emission layer formed between the first and second electrodes, a hole transport layer formed between the first electrode and the emission layer, and an electron transport layer formed between the second electrode and the emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a first emission mixed layer formed on the hole transport layer, the first emission mixed layer including a first hole-type host and a first phosphorescent dopant, and a second emission mixed layer formed between the first emission mixed layer and the electron transport layer, the second emission mixed layer including a first electron-type host and a second phosphorescent dopant.
US09184404B2
A white light-emitting organic electroluminescent element includes at least four kinds of light-emitting dopants with different emission peak wavelengths which are present between a cathode and an anode. The four kinds of light-emitting dopants include a light-emitting dopant “A”, a light-emitting dopant “B”, a light-emitting dopant “C”, and a light-emitting dopant “D” having their own peak wavelengths which are longer in this order. The white light-emitting organic electroluminescent element has an emission spectrum which satisfies relations of: (first average luminance for an angle in a range of 50° to 70°/first front luminance)>(second average luminance for an angle in a range of 50° to 70°/second front luminance); and (third average luminance for an angle in a range of 50° to 70°/third front luminance)>(fourth average luminance for an angle in a range of 50° to 70°/fourth front luminance).
US09184390B2
The present invention provides, among other things, a copolymer comprising at least one donor monomer and at least one acceptor monomer. The polymer may optionally further comprise at least one additional comonomer. The polymers are useful as a charge-transport, semiconducting, electrochemical conducting, photoconducting, or light emitting material. Microelectronic devices comprising such polymers (e.g., as a heterojunction therein) are also described.
US09184376B2
A magnetic memory device may include a substrate and a magnetic tunnel junction memory element on the substrate. The magnetic tunnel junction memory element may include a reference magnetic layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a free magnetic layer. The reference magnetic layer may include a first pinned layer, an exchange coupling layer, and a second pinned layer. The exchange coupling layer may be between the first and second pinned layers, and the second pinned layer may include a ferromagnetic layer and a non-magnetic layer. The second pinned layer may be between the first pinned layer and the tunnel barrier layer, and the tunnel barrier layer may be between the reference magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer.
US09184371B2
Provided is a piezoelectric thin film including a non-lead-containing (that is, lead-free) ferroelectric material and having high piezoelectric performance comparable to that of PZT, and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric thin film. The piezoelectric film according to the present invention comprises a laminate structure. The laminate structure comprises an electric film and a (1-x)(Na,Bi)TiO3-xBaTiO3 film. x represents a value of not less than 0.03 and not more than 0.15. The (1-x)(Na,Bi)TiO3-xBaTiO3 film has a (110) surface orientation only. The (1-x)(Na,Bi)TiO3-xBaTiO3 film has an orthorhombic crystal structure only.
US09184360B2
A light-emitting device of the invention includes a base, at least one light-emitting element, a wavelength transferring cover and a heat-conducting structure. The light-emitting element is disposed on the base and electrically connected to the base. The wavelength transferring cover is disposed on the base and covers the light-emitting element. The heat-conducting structure is disposed on the base and directly contacts the wavelength transferring cover.
US09184357B2
A method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes forming a multilayer body including a light emitting layer so that a first surface thereof is adjacent to a first surface side of a translucent substrate. A dielectric film on a second surface side opposite to the first surface of the multilayer body is formed having first and second openings on a p-side electrode and an n-side electrode. A seed metal on the dielectric film and an exposed surface of the first and second openings form a p-side metal interconnect layer and an n-side metal interconnect layer separating the seed metal into a p-side seed metal and an n-side seed metal by removing a part of the seed metal. A resin is formed in a space from which the seed metal is removed.
US09184356B2
A light emitting diode includes: a substrate of front and back main surfaces; a V-shaped groove, which has a reflecting surface, formed over front surface of the conductive substrate; a light-emitting epitaxial layer, the margin of which has its vertical projection between the bottom and the inner margin of the V-shaped groove, formed over the substrate, so that light emitted from the light-emitting epitaxial layer margin is incident to the mirror surface of the V-shaped groove and emits outwards. This structure can effectively improve extraction efficiency of device and control path of light at peripheral region of the light-emitting epitaxial layer.
US09184343B2
A nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device may include a substrate including a plurality of light emitting nanostructures comprising nanocores including a first conductivity type semiconductor, active layers and second conductivity type semiconductor layers sequentially formed on the nanocores. The light emitting region may include a first region and a second region. The interval between the light emitting nanostructures disposed in the first region may be different than the interval between the light emitting nanostructures disposed in the second region. The first region may be closer to a non-light emitting region than the second region and may have a smaller interval between the light emitting nanostructures than that of the second region. Systems implementing such a nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device and methods of manufacture are also disclosed.
US09184342B1
A light-emitting diode (LED) includes a first type semiconductor layer, a second type semiconductor layer, an active layer, a dielectric layer and an electrode. The active layer disposed between the first type semiconductor layer and the second type semiconductor layer. The active layer has at least one threading dislocation therein. The dielectric layer is disposed on the second type semiconductor layer. The dielectric layer has at least one first opening therein to expose a part of the second type semiconductor layer. The vertical projection of the threading dislocation on the dielectric layer is separated from the first opening. The electrode partially disposed on the dielectric layer and electrically coupled with the exposed part of the second type semiconductor layer through the opening.
US09184341B2
Preferred embodiment flexible and on wafer hybrid plasma semiconductor devices have at least one active solid state semiconductor region; and a plasma generated in proximity to the active solid state semiconductor region(s). A preferred device is a hybrid plasma semiconductor device having base, emitting and microcavity collector regions formed on a single side of a device layer. Visible or ultraviolet light is emitted during operation by plasma collectors in the array. In preferred embodiments, individual PBJTs in the array serve as sub-pixels of a full-color display.
US09184338B2
The method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to the present invention includes: a step of forming a semiconductor laminate on a growth substrate with a lift-off layer therebetween; a step of providing grooves in a grid pattern in the semiconductor laminate, thereby forming a plurality of semiconductor structures each having a nearly quadrangular transverse cross-sectional shape; a step of forming a conductive support body; and a step of removing the lift-off layer using a chemical lift-off process, in which step, in supplying an etchant to the grooves via through-holes provided in a portion above the grooves, the lift-off layer is etched from only one side surface of each semiconductor structure.
US09184336B2
Various embodiments of light emitting devices with built-in chromaticity conversion and associated methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a light emitting device includes forming a first semiconductor material, an active region, and a second semiconductor material on a substrate material in sequence, the active region being configured to produce a first emission. A conversion material is then formed on the second semiconductor material. The conversion material has a crystalline structure and is configured to produce a second emission. The method further includes adjusting a characteristic of the conversion material such that a combination of the first and second emission has a chromaticity at least approximating a target chromaticity of the light emitting device.
US09184334B2
A light emitting diode (LED) structure comprises a first dopant region, a dielectric layer on top of the first dopant region, a bond pad layer on top of a first portion the dielectric layer, and an LED layer having a first LED region and a second LED region. The bond pad layer is electrically connected to the first dopant region. The first LED region is electrically connected to the bond pad layer.
US09184331B2
A method for reducing the tilt of an optical unit during manufacture of an image sensor includes the steps of: providing a semimanufacture of the image sensor, carrying out a preheating process, carrying out an adhesive application process, carrying out an optical unit mounting process, and carrying out a packaging process. Due to the preheating process, the semimanufacture will be subjected to a stabilized process environment during the adhesive application process and the optical unit mounting process, so as for the optical unit to remain highly flat once attached to the semimanufacture. The method reduces the chances of tilt and crack of the optical unit and thereby contributes to a high yield rate.
US09184329B2
A photoelectric conversion device is disclosed. The photoelectric conversion device includes an electrode layer and a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is located on the electrode layer and contains a group I-III-VI compound. In the semiconductor layer, an atomic ratio of a group I-B element to a group III-B element decreases from one principal surface side of the semiconductor layer on the electrode layer side to a central portion in a thickness direction and increases from the central portion to another principal surface side on a side opposite to the electrode layer.
US09184328B1
A solar energy enclosure unit having a housing defining a central cavity in which there is located a turntable upon which is mounted a solar panel; the turntable and solar panel rotated at low revolutions per minute by an associated electric motor, the enclosure having a convex transparent dome covering the solar panel, the transparent convex dome having prismatic facets formed thereon for magnifying, concentrating, and focusing solar rays onto the solar panel regardless of the position of the sun, in the sky, relative to the housing.
US09184323B2
Methods of and apparatuses for making a photovoltaic cell are provided. The photovoltaic cell is able to have a substrate made of a composite material. The composite material is able to be formed by mixing a binder and a physical property enhancing material to form a mixer. The binder is able to be pitch, such as mesophase pitch. The physical property enhancing material is able to be fiber glass. The substrate of the photovoltaic cell is able to be flexible, such that the photovoltaic cell is able to be applied on various surfaces.
US09184311B2
A cloud tracking system for photovoltaic power plant is disclosed. The cloud tracking system for photovoltaic power plant can include plurality of cloud shadow sensors positioned on the perimeter of the photovoltaic power plant.
US09184309B2
A solar module comprising a sheet; a plurality of solar cells electrically connected in series between first and second conductor lines, and arranged on a first side of the sheet, wherein the first and second conductor lines each extend along a length on the sheet; a first conductor lead in electrical connection with the first conductor line and a second conductor lead in electrical connection with the second conductor line; and a through-hole in the sheet through which the first conductor lead extends to a second side of the sheet and a further through-hole through which the second conductor lead extends to the second side of the sheet.
US09184302B2
Provided is a three dimensional semiconductor device. The device may include mold layers vertically and sequentially stacked, a conductive pattern between the stacked mold layers, a plugging pattern vertically penetrating the stacked mold layers, an intermediate pattern between the conductive pattern and the plugging pattern, and protective layer patterns between the mold layers and the plugging pattern, wherein the protective layer patterns are separated by the intermediate pattern.
US09184299B2
An intrinsic or substantially intrinsic semiconductor, which has been subjected to a step of dehydration or dehydrogenation and a step of adding oxygen so that the carrier concentration is less than 1×1012/cm3 is used for an oxide semiconductor layer of an insulated gate transistor, in which a channel region is formed. The length of the channel formed in the oxide semiconductor layer is set to 0.2 μm to 3.0 μm inclusive and the thicknesses of the oxide semiconductor layer and the gate insulating layer are set to 15 nm to 30 nm inclusive and 20 nm to 50 nm inclusive, respectively, or 15 nm to 100 nm inclusive and 10 nm to 20 nm inclusive, respectively. Consequently, a short-channel effect can be suppressed, and the amount of change in threshold voltage can be less than 0.5 V in the range of the above channel lengths.
US09184295B2
A method for manufacturing a suspended membrane in a single-crystal semiconductor substrate, including the steps of: forming in the substrate an insulating ring delimiting an active area, removing material from the active area, successively forming in the active area a first and a second layers, the second layer being a single-crystal semiconductor layer, etching a portion of the internal periphery of said ring down to a depth greater than the thickness of the second layer, removing the first layer so that the second layer formed a suspended membrane anchored in the insulating ring.
US09184287B2
A native p-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) device that exhibits a low threshold voltage and a high drive current over a varying range of short channel lengths and a method for fabricating the same is discussed in the present disclosure. The source and drain regions of the native PMOS device, each include a strained region, a heavily doped raised region, and a lightly doped region. The gate region includes a stacked layer of a gate oxide having a high-k dielectric material, a metal, and a contact metal. The high drive current of the native PMOS device is primarily influenced by the increased carrier mobility due to the strained regions, the lower drain resistance due to the raised regions, and the higher gate capacitance due to the high-k gate oxide of the native PMOS device.
US09184283B2
A method of forming a device is presented. The method includes providing a substrate having a device region which includes a source region, a gate and a drain region defined thereon. The method also includes implanting the gate. The gate comprises one or more doped portions with different dopant concentrations. A source and a drain are formed in the source region and drain region. The drain is separated from the gate on a second side of the gate and the source is adjacent to a first side of the gate.
US09184282B2
Embodiments for the present disclosure include a semiconductor device, an ultra-high voltage (UHV) laterally-diffused metal-oxide-semiconductor (LDMOS) transistor, and methods of forming the same. An embodiment includes a first well region of a first conductivity type in a top surface of a substrate, and a second well region of a second conductivity type in the top surface of the substrate. The second well region laterally separated from the first well region by a portion of the substrate. The embodiment further includes a third region of the second conductivity type in the first well region, and a first field oxide region in the first well region, a second field oxide region in the second well region, the second field oxide region having a second bottom surface, and the first field oxide region having a first bottom surface lower than the second bottom surface and on and directly contacting the third region.
US09184280B2
A semiconductor device may include a substrate having a drift region doped to a first conduction type. A trench may be etched into an upper surface of the substrate. A gate may be arranged along side walls of the trench. A gate oxide layer may be between the side walls of the trench and gate and between a bottom surface of the trench and gate. A first source region of the first conduction type may be on the upper surface of the substrate. A second source region of the first conduction type may be on the bottom surface of the trench. A first well region may be between the first source region and drift region, and a second well region may be between the second source region and drift region, the first and second well regions being doped to a second conduction type (electrically opposite to the first conduction type).
US09184277B2
A super junction semiconductor device may include one or more doped zones in a cell area. A drift layer is provided between a doped layer of a first conductivity type and the one or more doped zones. The drift layer includes first regions of the first conductivity type and second regions of a second conductivity type, which is the opposite of the first conductivity type. In an edge area that surrounds the cell area, the first regions may include first portions separating the second regions in a first direction and second portions separating the second regions in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second portions are arranged such that a longest second region in the edge area is at most half as long as a dimension of the edge area parallel to the longest second region.
US09184267B1
A power semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a first electrode, a conductive layer, at least one electrical connecting element, a plurality of doped semiconductor layers, an insulating layer, and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed on a surface of the substrate. The conductive layer is formed on another surface of the substrate. The electrical connecting element is formed through the substrate and electrically connects the first electrode and the conductive layer. The doped semiconductor layers are stacked on the conductive layer. The upper most semiconductor layer comprises two doped sub-regions. The insulating layer is formed on the plurality of doped semiconductor layers. The second electrode is formed on the insulating layer and at least extends on an area between the doped sub-regions.
US09184251B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a plurality of transistors arranged on the substrate in an array. The transistor includes a first electrode, a plurality of second electrodes, and a gate electrode. The second electrodes are arranged around the first electrode. The gate electrode is located between the first electrode and the second electrodes. The first electrode is a circle or polygon. The gate electrode is around the first electrode, and an edge of the gate electrode facing the first electrode has a shape corresponding to that of the first electrode.
US09184235B2
Described is a method for producing a semiconductor device (100), in which at least one column-shaped or wall-shaped semiconductor device (10, 20) extending in a main direction (z) is formed on a substrate (30), wherein at least two sections (11, 13, 21, 23) of a first crystal type and one section (12, 22) of a second crystal type therebetween are formed in an active region (40), each section with a respective predetermined height (h1, h2), wherein the first and second crystal types have different lattice constants and each of the sections of the first crystal type has a lattice strain which depends on the lattice constants in the section of the second crystal type. According to the invention, at least a height (h2) of the section (12, 22) of the second crystal type and a lateral thickness (D) of the active region (40) is formed perpendicular to the main direction, in such a manner that the lattice strain in one of the sections (11) of the first crystal type also depends on the lattice constants in the other section (13) of the first crystal type. A semiconductor device (100) is also described, having at least one column-shaped or wall-shaped semiconductor element (10, 20) on a substrate (30), which can be produced in particular by means of the stated method.
US09184233B2
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate of a first semiconductor material; shallow trench isolation (STI) features formed in the semiconductor substrate; and a fin-like active region of a second semiconductor material epitaxy grown on the semiconductor substrate. The first semiconductor material has a first lattice constant and the second semiconductor material has a second lattice constant different from the first lattice constant. The fin-like active region further includes fluorine species.
US09184229B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device, includes: a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type; a second semiconductor region provided on the first semiconductor region, an impurity concentration of the second semiconductor region being lower than an impurity concentration of the first semiconductor region; a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided on the second semiconductor region; and a fourth semiconductor region provided on the third semiconductor region or in a portion of the third semiconductor region. A lattice strain of the fourth semiconductor region is greater than a lattice strain of the third semiconductor region.
US09184223B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, a signal transmission line, a pad and a buffer. The pixels display an image. The signal transmission line is electrically connected to at least one of the pixels to transmit a signal. The pad is electrically connected to the signal transmission line. The pad has greater width than the signal transmission line. The buffer is disposed between the signal transmission line and the pad. A first end of the buffer adjacent to the pad is wider than a second end of the buffer adjacent to the signal transmission line.
US09184220B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the substrate and including an active layer, a gate electrode overlapping a gate region of the active layer, a source electrode overlapping a source region of the active layer, and a drain electrode overlapping a drain region of the active layer; a first electrode electrically connected to one of the source electrode or the drain electrode; a first dummy conductive pattern overlapping a dummy region of the active layer between the gate region and one of the source region or the drain region corresponding to the one of the source electrode or the drain electrode; an intermediate layer on the first electrode and comprising at least an organic emission layer; and a second electrode on the intermediate layer.
US09184218B2
A semiconductor memory device includes pillars extending upright on a substrate in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, a stack disposed on the substrate and constituted by a first interlayer insulating layer, a first conductive layer, a second interlayer insulating layer, and a second conductive layer, a variable resistance layer interposed between the pillars and the first conductive layer, and an insulating layer interposed between the first pillars and the second conductive layer.
US09184216B2
A variable resistance memory device includes a plurality of cell gate electrodes extending in a first direction, wherein the plurality of cell gate electrodes are stacked in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. A gate insulating layer surrounds each cell gate electrode of the plurality of cell gate electrodes and a cell drain region is formed on two sides of the each cell gate electrode of the plurality of cell gate electrodes. A channel layer extends in the second direction along the stack of the plurality of cell gate electrodes, and a variable resistance layer contacting the channel layer.
US09184210B2
A light-emitting device capable of displaying an image using image signals having different polarities is provided. The light-emitting device includes a first circuit holding a first image signal having a first polarity, a second circuit holding a second image signal having a second polarity different from the first polarity and converting the second polarity of the held second image signal into the first polarity, and a light-emitting element whose luminance is sequentially determined in response to the first image signal held in the first circuit and the second image signal whose polarity is converted into the first polarity in the second circuit.
US09184196B2
A color filter array of a color imaging element includes a basic array pattern P of 4×4 pixels in which RGB filters corresponding to red (R), green (G) and blue (B) are arrayed, this basic array pattern P is repeatedly disposed in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, a G filter is disposed in each pixel line in four directions of horizontality, verticality, oblique upper right and oblique lower right, and R and B filters are disposed in each pixel line in the horizontal direction and vertical direction of the color filter array. Moreover, the color filter array includes consecutive first filters of two or more pixels in four directions of horizontality, verticality, oblique upper right and oblique lower right.
US09184195B2
According to a color imaging element and an imaging device of the present invention, it is possible to simplify processing in a subsequent stage compared to the case of a random array, improve reproduction precision of de-mosaic processing in a high frequency range, facilitate de-mosaic processing as a result of increase in types of peripheral colors, discern a direction with high correlation between a horizontal direction and a vertical direction, and suppress aliasing upon de-mosaic processing.
US09184178B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of insulating layers vertically stacked on the substrate, a plurality of channels arranged in vertical openings formed through at least some of the plurality of insulating layers, and a plurality of portions alternatingly positioned with the plurality of insulating layers in the vertical direction. At least some of the portions are adjacent corresponding channels of the plurality of channels. Each of the portions includes a conductive barrier pattern formed on an inner wall of the portion, a filling layer pattern positioned in the portion on the conductive barrier pattern, and a gate electrode positioned in a remaining area of the portion not occupied by the conductive barrier or filling layer pattern.
US09184167B2
Memory cell support lattices and methods of forming the same are described herein. As an example, a method of forming a memory cell support lattice includes forming a mask on a number of capacitor elements in an array, such that a space between vertically and horizontally adjacent capacitor elements is fully covered and a space between diagonally adjacent capacitor elements is partially covered and forming a support lattice in a support material by etching the support material to remove portions of the support material below the openings in the mask.
US09184166B2
The instant disclosure relates to a semiconductor device which includes a semiconductor substrate, at least one patterned reinforcing layer, a plurality of lower electrodes, and a supporting layer. The at least one patterned reinforcing layer is arranged above the semiconductor substrate, wherein the at least one patterned reinforcing layer has a plurality of reinforcing structures configured to define a plurality of alignment apertures. The lower electrodes are arranged on the semiconductor substrate, wherein N of the lower electrodes pass through each of the alignment apertures, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. The supporting layer is arranged above the at least one patterned reinforcing layer and between the lower electrodes.
US09184165B2
One-transistor (1T) volatile memory devices and manufacturing methods thereof are provided. The device includes a substrate having top and bottom surfaces and an isolation buffer layer disposed below the top substrate surface. The isolation buffer layer is an amorphized portion of the substrate. An area of the substrate between the isolation buffer layer and the top substrate surface serves as a body region of a transistor. The device also includes a transistor disposed over the substrate. The transistor includes a gate disposed on the top substrate surface, and first and second diffusion regions disposed in the body region adjacent to first and second sides of the gate.
US09184158B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a diode-built-in insulated-gate bipolar transistor having an insulated-gate bipolar transistor and a diode, which are disposed in the substrate, wherein the insulated-gate bipolar transistor includes a gate, and is driven with a driving signal input into the gate; and a feedback unit for detecting current passing through the diode. The driving signal is input from an external unit into the feedback unit. The feedback unit passes the driving signal to the gate of the insulated-gate bipolar transistor when the feedback unit detects no current through the diode, and the feedback unit stops passing the driving signal to the gate of the insulated-gate bipolar transistor when the feedback unit detects the current through the diode.
US09184146B2
A semiconductor package includes a chip, a sealing body covering the chip, and a plurality of external connection terminals connected to the chip. The external connection terminals expose from a surface of the sealing body and are arranged in a grid on the surface of the sealing body. In the grid on the surface of the sealing body, each external connection terminal is adjacent to an area vacant of an other external connection terminal in at least one direction of eight directions from each external connection terminal, the eight directions including first linear directions along a row of the grid, second linear directions along a row of the grid perpendicular to the first linear directions, and four diagonal directions defined between the first linear directions and the second linear directions.
US09184144B2
Pillars having a directed compliance geometry are arranged to couple a semiconductor die to a substrate. The direction of maximum compliance of each pillar may be aligned with the direction of maximum stress caused by unequal thermal expansion and contraction of the semiconductor die and substrate. Pillars may be designed and constructed with various shapes having particular compliance characteristics and particular directions of maximum compliance. The shape and orientation of the pillars may be selected as a function of their location on a die to accommodate the direction and magnitude of stress at their location. A method includes fabricating pillars with particular shapes by patterning to increase surface of materials upon which the pillar is plated or deposited.
US09184142B2
To provide a semiconductor device having suspension leads with less distortion. In QFN having a plurality of external terminal portions at the periphery of the bottom surface of a sealing body, a plurality of leads is linked to a plurality of long suspension leads of the QFN at an intermediate portion thereof or at between the intermediate portion and a position near the die pad. These long suspension leads are each supported by these leads, making it possible to suppress distortion of each of the suspension leads in a wire bonding step or molding step in the fabrication of the QFN.
US09184133B2
A graphene wiring of an embodiment includes graphene, first conductive layers, second conductive layers, and a third conductive layer. The first conductive layers are connected to first sides of the graphene opposite to each other in a longitudinal direction of the wiring. The second conductive layers are connected to second sides of the graphene opposite to each other in a widthwise direction of the wiring. The third conductive layer is connected to a top surface of the graphene. The first and second conductive layers are connected to each other.
US09184127B2
A semiconductor package having a metal frame includes a frame-shaped conductive member which has an opening portion, mounted on a substrate, and a semiconductor element disposed within the opening. A ring-shaped wiring pattern is provided on a portion of the substrate outwards from the opening portion of the conductive member. The electrostatic coupling capacity of the ring-shaped wiring pattern and the conductive member is not less than the electrostatic coupling capacity of a semiconductor metal wiring layer and the conductive member. The ring-shaped wiring pattern and the ground wiring of the semiconductor metal wiring layer are electrically connected.
US09184124B2
A surface mount packaging structure that yields improved thermo-mechanical reliability and more robust second-level package interconnections is disclosed. The surface mount packaging structure includes a sub-module having a dielectric layer, semiconductor devices attached to the dielectric layer, a first level metal interconnect structure electrically coupled to the semiconductor devices, and a second level I/O connection electrically coupled to the first level interconnect and formed on the dielectric layer on a side opposite the semiconductor devices, with the second level I/O connection configured to connect the sub-module to an external circuit. The semiconductor devices of the sub-module are attached to the first surface of a multi-layer substrate structure, with a dielectric material positioned between the dielectric layer and the multi-layer substrate structure to fill in gaps in the surface-mount structure and provide additional structural integrity thereto.
US09184119B2
A lead frame device may include an integral die pad member, two separate finger members, a central body portion, each of the finger members have a top and a bottom surface connected by a peripheral edge surface. The lead frame also has a first ear portion, and a second ear portion, each has an ear top surface and an ear bottom surface coplanar with the top surface and bottom surface of the central body portion. The lead frame also has a first longitudinally extending groove and second longitudinally extending groove separate the first ear portion and the second ear portion from the central portion. The first ear portion and the second ear portion each have an abutment surface.
US09184116B2
A method of manufacturing a resin-encapsulated semiconductor device capable of supporting finer pitches comprises forming a metal plating layer on an inner lead and an outer lead of a lead. A semiconductor chip is mounted on a die pad, and an electrode on a surface of the semiconductor chip is electrically connected to the inner lead via a thin metal wire. The semiconductor chip, the thin metal wire and the inner lead are encapsulated by an encapsulation resin so that the outer lead extends beyond the encapsulation resin and is exposed. Resin burrs formed during resin encapsulation are removed by a defocused laser, and any metal adhered on the lead is lifted off.
US09184114B2
A lead carrier provides support for an integrated circuit chip and associated leads during manufacture as packages containing such chips. The lead carrier includes a temporary support member with multiple package sites. Each package site includes a plurality of terminal pads surrounding a die attach region. The pads are formed of sintered electrically conductive material. A chip is placed at the die attach region and wire bonds extend from the chip to the terminal pads. The pads, chip and wire bonds are all encapsulated within a mold compound. The temporary support member can be peeled away and then the individual package sites can be isolated from each other to provide completed packages including multiple surface mount joints for mounting within an electronic system board. Edges of the pads are contoured to cause the pads to engage with the mold compound to securely hold the pads within the package.
US09184112B1
A chip fabricated from a semiconductor material is disclosed. The chip may include active devices located below a first depth from a chip back side and a structure configured to remove heat from the chip. The structure may include microvias electrically insulated from the active devices and having a second depth, less than the first depth, from the back side towards the active devices. Each microvia may also have a fill material having a thermal conductivity greater than a semiconductor thermal conductivity. The structure may also include thermally conductive material regions on the back side of the chip in contact with sets of microvias. The structure may also include through-silicon vias electrically connected to the active devices, and extending from the back side to an active device side of the chip and configured to remove heat from the active devices to the back side of the chip.
US09184110B2
Roughly described, an integrated circuit device has a conductor extending entirely through the substrate, connected on one end to the substrate topside surface and on the other end to the substrate backside surface. In various embodiments the conductor is insulated from all RDL conductors on the backside of the substrate, and/or is insulated from all conductors and device features on any below-adjacent chip in a 3D integrated circuit structure. Methods of fabrication are also described.
US09184107B2
A semiconductor package with reduced warpage problem is provided, including: a circuit board, having opposing first and second surfaces; a semiconductor chip, formed over a center portion of the first surface of the circuit board, having a first cross sectional dimension; a spacer, formed over a center portion of the semiconductor chip, having a second cross sectional dimension less than that of the first cross sectional dimension; an encapsulant layer, formed over the circuit board, covering the semiconductor chip and surrounding the spacer; a heat spreading layer, formed over the encapsulant layer and the spacer; and a plurality of solder balls, formed over the second surface of the circuit board, wherein a ratio between the first cross sectional dimension and the second cross sectional dimension is about 1:2-1:6.
US09184089B2
Embodiments of a mechanism for forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure filled with a flowable dielectric layer are provided. The mechanism involves using one or more low-temperature thermal anneal processes with oxygen sources and one or more microwave anneals to convert a flowable dielectric material to silicon oxide. The low-temperature thermal anneal processes with oxygen sources and the microwave anneals are performed at temperatures below the ranges that could cause significant dopant diffusion, which help dopant profile control for advanced manufacturing technologies. In some embodiments, an implant to generate passages in the upper portion of the flowable dielectric layer is also used in the mechanism.
US09184086B2
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device include forming a field trench in a silicon substrate, forming a first oxide layer in the field trench, forming a first thinned oxide layer by partially removing a surface of the first oxide layer, and forming a first nitride layer on the first thinned oxide layer.
US09184083B2
A hybrid laminated body is provided that includes a light-transmitting support, a latent release layer disposed upon the light-transmitting support, a joining layer disposed upon the latent release layer, and a polyamide thermoplastic priming layer disposed upon the joining layer. The hybrid laminated body can further include a substrate to be processed such as, for example, a silicon wafer to be ground. Also provided is a method for manufacturing the provided laminated body.
US09184077B2
Embodiments of mechanisms of a wafer pod including a wafer positioning mechanism are provided. The wafer positioning mechanism includes a base including a blocking portion, and a linking bar pivoted on the base and including a resilient portion. The wafer positioning mechanism also includes a pushing element pivoted on the linking shaft. Further, when the pushing element is at a retaining position, the resilient portion abuts against the blocking portion, and a force generated by the linking bar is applied to the pushing element.
US09184076B2
A first and second guide block pieces retain a plurality of electronic components in an electronic component retention space formed and fixed on a shuttle plate by using a position determination hole formed in advance in accordance with a distance between a pair of opposing corners of a bottom surface of an electronic component, and by emitting light ranging from one end portion to the other end portion of the shuttle plate along an upper surface of a plurality of electronic components interposed and retained between the electronic component interposing-and-retaining portions along longitudinal directions of the first and second guide block pieces, an optical sensor detects that the emitted light is blocked by an irregularly inclined electronic component.
US09184074B2
A method for processing a substrate in a plasma processing chamber is provided. The substrate is disposed above a chuck and surrounded by a first edge ring. The first edge ring is electrically isolated from the chuck. The method includes providing a second edge ring. The second edge ring is disposed below an edge of the substrate. The method also includes providing a coupling ring. The coupling ring is configured to facilitate RF coupling from an ESC (electrostatic chuck) assembly to the first edge ring, thereby causing the first edge ring to have an edge ring potential during substrate processing and causing the RF coupling to be maximized at the first edge ring and minimized at the second edge ring during the substrate processing. The method also includes providing an insulator ring, wherein the second edge ring is disposed above the insulator ring.
US09184073B2
A substrate processing apparatus is disclosed. The substrate processing apparatus includes: a first process unit including a plurality of first process stations configured to perform a first process in a first atmosphere; a second process unit including a plurality of second process stations configured to perform a second process in a second atmosphere different from the first atmosphere; and a transformation unit between the first process unit and the second process unit. The first process unit, the transformation unit, and the second process unit are arranged in a line. The transformation unit includes a plurality of transformation stations configured to transform an atmosphere between the first atmosphere and the second atmosphere. Thus, the efficiency of processing a substrate can be improved, and the area or length in which the substrate processing apparatus is installed can be reduced.
US09184058B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming patterns. A first mask is formed over a material. The first mask has features extending therein and defines a first pattern. The first pattern has a first level of uniformity across a distribution of the features. A brush layer is formed across the first mask and within the features to narrow the features and create a second mask from the first mask. The second mask has a second level of uniformity across the narrowed features which is greater than the first level of uniformity. A pattern is transferred from the second mask into the material.
US09184056B2
A MOSFET includes a semiconductor substrate having a trench formed in a main surface, a gate oxide film, a gate electrode, and a source interconnection. A semiconductor substrate includes an n-type drift layer and a p-type body layer. The trench is formed to penetrate the body layer and to reach the drift layer. The trench includes an outer peripheral trench arranged to surround an active region when viewed two-dimensionally. On the main surface opposite to the active region when viewed from the outer peripheral trench, a potential fixing region where the body layer is exposed is formed. The source interconnection is arranged to lie over the active region when viewed two-dimensionally. The potential fixing region is electrically connected to the source interconnection.
US09184048B2
A cellular electrophysiology sensor is adapted to measure an electrical change of a test cell. A chip for the sensor includes a diaphragm, and a thermally-oxidized film mainly containing silicon dioxide on the diaphragm. The diaphragm includes a silicon layer and a silicon dioxide layer on an upper surface of the silicon layer. A through-hole passing through the silicon layer and the silicon dioxide layer is formed. The through-hole has an opening which opens at the silicon dioxide layer and is adapted to capture the test cell. The thermally-oxidized film is provided on an inner wall surface of the through-hole, and unified with the silicon dioxide layer at the opening of the through-hole. This cellular electrophysiology sensor chip can stably capture the test cell and provides a gigaseal stably even if test cells have different properties.
US09184045B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing a plasma enhanced ALD (PEALD) process that provides for improved step coverage. The process introduces a precursor gas into a processing chamber comprising a semiconductor workpiece. The first gas is ionized to from a plurality of ionized precursor molecules. A bias voltage is subsequently applied to the workpiece. The bias voltage attracts the ionized precursor molecules to the workpiece, so as to provide anisotropic coverage of the workpiece with the precursor gas. A reactant gas is introduced into the processing chamber. A plasma is subsequently ignited from the reactant gas, causing the reactant gas to react with the ionized precursor molecules that have been deposited onto the substrate to form a deposited layer on the workpiece.
US09184043B2
The embodiments provide apparatus and methods for removal of etch byproducts, dielectric films and metal films near the substrate bevel edge, and chamber interior to avoid the accumulation of polymer byproduct and deposited films and to improve process yield. In an exemplary embodiment, a plasma processing chamber configured to clean a bevel edge of a substrate is provided. The plasma processing chamber includes a substrate support configured to receive the substrate. The plasma processing chamber also includes a bottom edge electrode surrounding the substrate support. The bottom edge electrode and the substrate support are electrically isolated from one another by a bottom dielectric ring. A surface of the bottom edge electrode facing the substrate is covered by a bottom thin dielectric layer. The plasma processing chamber further includes a top edge electrode surrounding a top insulator plate opposing the substrate support. The top edge electrode is electrically grounded. A surface of the top edge electrode facing the substrate is covered by a top thin dielectric layer. The top edge electrode and the bottom edge electrode oppose one another and are configured to generate a cleaning plasma to clean the bevel edge of the substrate.
US09184023B2
A transmission electron microscope micro-grid includes a support ring and a sheet-shaped carbon nanotube structure. The support ring has a through hole defined therein. The sheet-shaped carbon nanotube structure has a peripheral edge secured on the support ring and a central area suspended above the through hole. The sheet-shaped carbon nanotube structure includes at least one linear carbon nanotube structure or at least one carbon nanotube film.
US09184016B2
A field emission cathode device includes a cathode electrode. An electron emitter is electrically connected to the cathode electrode, wherein the electron emitter includes a number of sub-electron emitters. An electron extracting electrode is spaced from the cathode electrode by a dielectric layer, wherein the electron extracting electrode defines a through-hole. The distances between an end of each of the sub-electron emitters away from the cathode electrode and a sidewall of the through-hole are substantially equal.
US09184015B2
A method of fabricating a cathodic portion of a field emission display includes the steps of producing an array of substantially parallel carbon nanotubes attached at one end to a substantially planar substrate. Then, embedding the nanotubes in a polymer matrix that extends to a plane of attachment of the nanotubes to the planar substrate, wherein the polymer matrix allows an end of the nanotubes distal from the ends attached to the planar substrate, uncovered by the polymer matrix in order to allow electrical contact with each other and with an attached conductor. Next, detaching the array from the planar substrate, thus producing a surface having the formerly attached ends of the nanotubes substantially in a plane, and then attaching the conductor to the array of nanotube ends, uncovered by the polymer matrix and distal to the plane.
US09184014B2
An electrical operator for a circuit breaker includes a carriage moving assembly and a solenoid having a reciprocating plunger. The plunger is configured to engage with the carriage moving assembly in response to a pulsating current.
US09184012B2
A fuse formed as part of an integrated circuit has cavities disposed to the sides of the fuse to provide more reliable operation with less chance of re-connection. A method of providing the fuse is also described.
US09184008B2
A relay for a defibrillator, including a support base on which a coil and a contacting unit having a contact assembly are mounted. The contacting unit can be actuated by an armature and at least one additional mechanical connecting link as a result of the electrical excitation of the coil. The contact assembly has contacts supported on contact carriers. The contacts can be connected to each other by activating the coil. In order to optimize the contacting, at least one connecting link can be designed as a rotating lever coupled to the armature, which rotating lever is pivotably coupled to a contact carrier, and another contact carrier is pivotably coupled to an additional rotating lever or directly to the armature, wherein both contact carriers having the contacts to be contacted are moved towards each other during contacting.
US09184005B2
To provide a power supply relay controller and an electric power steering apparatus capable of appropriately preventing contact failure of relays. When abnormal conduction between relay contacts occurs, a power supply relay circuit is opened and closed while a predetermined potential difference is applied between the relay contacts. At this time, an operation for turning on the relay contacts is performed while the charge of an electrolytic capacitor by a precharge circuit is limited. In this way, an ice layer between the relay contacts is removed by thermal energy of an arc that is generated between the contacts by a potential difference between the relay contacts.
US09184001B2
A keyboard includes a main board and at least one key structure positioned on the main board. The key structure includes a key switch and a key cap. The key cap is combined with the key switch. The key switch includes a key base and a shaft movably positioned on the key base. The keycap includes a main body and a cushion member. The main body is positioned on the shaft of the key switch. The main body is spaced apart from the contact surface of the key base. The main body is moved forward and backward relative to the key base with movement of the shaft. The cushion member is positioned at one side of the main body facing the contact surface. While the main body is moved to the contact surface, the cushion member abuts on the contact surface, so as to avoid the main body from hitting the key base directly, and hence minimizing the noise that is produced by the moving parts.
US09183998B2
An on-load tap changer is provided having a vacuum interrupter actuatable by a shaft. A movable shuttle is connected to an impact mass by springs such that the impact mass tends to follow the shuttle when the shuttle moves. A pawl assembly is operable to hold and then release the impact mass when the shuttle starts moving. The holding of the impact mass when the shuttle starts to move causes the springs to store both a compression force and a tension force, which are released when the impact mass is released.
US09183997B2
A switch has a housing and an actuating element retained on a travel path in the housing. A restoring member (4) provides a restoring force urging the actuator to an off position at one end of the travel path. A resistance generator provides a resistance force which opposes the restoring force when the actuator is in a fully actuated position to reduce the holding force require to keep the actuating element in the fully actuated position.
US09183988B2
A chip component is provided with a block including a dielectric, input and output terminals, which are the first and second terminals that are provided on the surface of the block, an adjustment terminal that is a third terminal that includes an internal electrode extended into the block and that is provided on the surface of the block, and at least two inter-terminal circuits that are provided in the block and that are connected between at least two sets of two terminals of the first, second, and third terminals.
US09183980B2
An arrangement for reducing a DC field component in the core of a transformer includes a compensation winding magnetically coupled to the core of the transformer, and a DC generator arranged in series with the compensation winding and with a reactance dipole. The reactance dipole is formed from a parallel circuit of an inductance and a capacitor to feed into the compensation winding a compensating current opposite in sense to the DC field component in the core. The inductance is formed from magnetically coupled first and second windings having N1 and N2 turns respectively, such that N2/N1<1. The first winding is connected on one end to the DC generator and on the other end to the compensation winding. The second winding is connected in parallel with the capacitor. The magnetic coupling of the first and second windings is established via a soft magnetic core having an air gap.
US09183975B2
The linear bearing (3) comprises a plurality of concentrically arranged springs (2), each spring (2) being designed as a plate spring with a fixing part (2a) and a bore (2c) arranged in the center (Z). Each spring (2) also has a spring arm (2b) which emerges from the fixing part (2a) and ends in an end section (2g). The end section (2g) has the bore (2c), and the bore (2c) is concentric to the fixing part (2a). Each spring (2) has a direction of movement (B) which runs perpendicular to the fixing part (2a), and the springs (2) are arranged one behind the other in the direction of movement (B). The spring arm (2b) has a spring arm section (2ba) which runs concentrically with the bore (2c) and which extends along an angular range (γ) between 100° and 270°, preferably along an angular range (γ) between 180° and 300°. The fixing part (2a) is at least partly annular, and the spring arm section (2ba) has, in a radial direction with respect to the bore (2c), a width (2k) which is at least five times greater than the thickness (2i) of the spring arm (2b). The width (2k) of the spring arm section (2ba) is designed such that the spring arm section extends relative to the annular fixing part (2a) and the end portion (2g) while forming a lateral gap (2d).
US09183974B1
A bobbin apparatus and associated magnetic component is configured to reduce gap losses associated with a core air gap in a bobbin-wound magnetic component such as an inductor or transformer. The bobbin includes a step structure protruding from the winding surface between bobbin ends. The step is operable to provide spacing between the conductive windings disposed on the bobbin and the core air gap inside the bobbin axial passage. The spacing reduces stray flux interactions with the conductive winding, thereby reducing gap losses and preventing undesirable heating of the winding and core. Additional winding configurations and methods for use with the bobbin apparatus are also provided.
US09183970B2
In a coated high-temperature superconducting wire 1 in which a superconducting yttrium-based wire (high-temperature superconducting wire) 2 having a rectangular cross section is coated by an insulating layer 6, the insulating layer 6 is an electrodeposited film made of block copolymerized polyimide which contains siloxane bonds in a polyimide main chain and which has molecules with anionic groups. A coil formed from the superconducting yttrium-based wire 2 is impregnated with epoxy resin, and the epoxy resin is cured. The coil is configured such that the epoxy resin is completely separated from the superconducting yttrium-based wire 2 by the insulating layer 6.
US09183968B1
Fusing nanowire inks are described that can also comprise a hydrophilic polymer binder, such as a cellulose based binder. The fusing nanowire inks can be deposited onto a substrate surface and dried to drive the fusing process. Transparent conductive films can be formed with desirable properties.
US09183966B2
A composite resin material particle is produced by a method including the steps of: forming a mixed slurry containing a resin material particle and carbon nanotubes; supplying the mixed slurry to a pressure vessel, followed by supplying carbon dioxide with stirring an inside of the pressure vessel; holding the inside of the pressure vessel at a temperature and at a pressure which allow the carbon dioxide to be maintained in a subcritical or supercritical state; and transferring the carbon dioxide to the outside of the pressure vessel.
US09183962B2
A scintillation device includes a ceramic scintillator body that includes a polycrystalline ceramic scintillating material comprising gadolinium. The polycrystalline ceramic scintillating material is characterized by a pyrochlore crystallographic structure. A method of producing a ceramic scintillator body includes preparing a precursor solution including a rare earth element precursor, a hafnium precursor, and an activator (Ac) precursor. The method also includes obtaining a precipitate from the solution and calcining the precipitate to produce a polycrystalline ceramic scintillating material including the rare earth element, hafnium, and the activator, and having a pyrochlore titrating the precursor solution into the precipitant solution structure.
US09183959B2
Provided is an isotope delivery system and a method for irradiating a target and delivering the target to an extraction point. The isotope delivery system may include a cable including at least one target for irradiation, a drive system configured for moving the cable, and a first guide configured to guide the cable for insertion and extraction from a nuclear reactor. The method for irradiating a target and delivering a target may include pushing a cable with an attached target through a first guide and into a nuclear reactor using a drive system, irradiating the target in the nuclear reactor, pulling the cable with the attached irradiated target towards the drive system, pushing the cable with the irradiated target towards a loading/unloading area using the drive system, and placing the irradiated target into a transfer cask, wherein the cable is pulled and pushed by the drive system.
US09183957B2
The present invention is directed to interlocking building block with continuously curved surface profiles suitable for general wall construction, and, when using desireably dense materials, particularly suitable for constructing walls capable of significantly blocking electromagnetic radiation, such as photon, gamma, and neutron radiation.
US09183950B2
A memory card includes a memory cell, a connector, a controller, and firmware. The memory cell can switch between a plurality of states. The connector can be connected to an external device and exchange signals including commands and data with the external device. The controller exchanges signals with the connector, analyzes a received signal, and accesses the memory cell to record, retrieve or modify data based on the analysis result. The firmware is located within the controller, controls the operation of the controller, and can be set to a test mode or a user mode. When the firmware receives a test command from the external device and the firmware is set to the test mode, the firmware performs a defect test on the memory cell and transmits the result of the defect test to the external device through the connector.
US09183948B2
Methods, apparatuses, and integrated circuits for measuring leakage current are disclosed. In one such example method, a word line is charged to a first voltage, and a measurement node is charged to a second voltage, the second voltage being less than the first voltage. The measurement node is proportionally coupled to the word line. A voltage on the measurement node is compared with a reference voltage. A signal is generated, the signal being indicative of the comparison. Whether a leakage current of the word line is acceptable or not can be determined based on the signal.
US09183947B1
A circuit comprises a memory cell, a first circuit, and a second circuit. The memory cell has a first control line and a second control line. The first control line carries a first control signal. The second control line carries a second control signal. The first circuit is coupled with the first control line, the second control line, and a node. The second circuit is coupled to the node and is configured to receive a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The first circuit and the second circuit, based on the first control signal, the second control signal, the first clock signal and the second clock signal, are configured to generate a node signal on the node. A logical value of the node signal indicates a write disturb condition of the memory cell.
US09183946B2
A method of storing data in a nonvolatile memory device comprises performing a program operation on target memory cells among multiple memory cells, performing a first verify operation to determine whether the target memory cells are in a program pass state or a program fail state, and as a consequence of determining that the target memory cells are in the program pass state, performing a second verify operation to determine whether the target memory cells exhibit a program error symptom.
US09183945B2
In a nonvolatile NAND memory array, a NAND block may be falsely determined to be in an erased condition because of the effect of unwritten cells prior to the erase operation. Such cells may be programmed with dummy data prior to erase, or parameters used for a verify operation may be modified to compensate for such cells. Read operations may be similarly modified to compensate for unwritten cells.
US09183944B2
A method of writing data in a non-volatile memory device includes receiving a program command and a first row address corresponding to a first word line; performing a first partial programming operation with respect to first memory cells coupled to the first word line; performing a second partial programming operation with respect to second memory cells coupled to a second word line adjacent to the first word line; performing a first verification operation by verifying the first partial programming operation; and selectively performing a first additional programming operation with respect to the first memory cells depending on a result of the first verification operation.
US09183942B2
A read module reads memory cells along a first word line by applying a plurality of threshold voltages to the first word line; generates first information about a first memory cell located along the first word line and a first bit line indicating a location of a threshold voltage distribution of the first memory cell relative to the plurality of threshold voltages; reads a second memory cell located along the first word line, a second word line near the first word line, or a second bit line near the first bit line; and generates second information about the second memory cell indicating a state of the second memory cell causing interference to the first memory cell. A compensation module compensates for the interference by assigning one or more of a log-likelihood ratio and a hard decision to the first memory cells based on the first information and the second information.
US09183931B2
Memory systems can include a memory device having an array of nonvolatile memory cells therein, which is electrically coupled to a plurality of bit lines and a plurality of word lines. The nonvolatile memory cells may include respective nonvolatile resistive devices electrically coupled in series with corresponding cell transistors. A controller is also provided, which may be coupled to the memory device. The controller can be configured to drive the memory device with signals that support dual programming of: (i) the nonvolatile resistive devices; and (ii) interface states within the cell transistors, during operations to write data into the memory device.
US09183918B2
A stacked semiconductor apparatus includes a plurality of chips which are stacked one upon the other. One chip of the plurality of chips may be configured to generate a plurality of refresh period signals for performing refresh operations within the plurality of chips, and may be configured to transmit the plurality of refresh period signals to the plurality of chips excluding the one chip. The plurality of chips may respectively receive refresh period signals allocated to them according to chip ID signals, and may perform the refresh operations.
US09183915B2
A workpiece-holding unit for installation on machining centers for connecting rods, comprising a crosspiece which is adapted to be rotatably supported about its axis in front of a machining head of the machining center and has internal, hydraulic longitudinal ducts which communicate with respective hydraulic outlets on the main faces of the crosspiece and are connected to hydraulic feed means. Several workpiece-holding tools are installable on the main faces of the crosspiece and are provided with positioning mechanisms and locking mechanisms for at least one connecting rod, which are hydraulically operated via respective hydraulic lines leading at positions aligned to said hydraulic outlets.
US09183909B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes: a power supply unit; a memory cell array powered on or off by the power supply unit; and a read unit for reading data recorded on the memory cell array, wherein the data recorded on the memory cell array is not read in response to a control signal, when the memory cell array is powered on or off.
US09183905B2
According to an embodiment, a load adjusting circuit adjusts the load of an inverter circuit based on a threshold voltage of a first conductive type transistor provided on the inverter circuit, and a driving force adjusting circuit adjusts the driving force of the inverter circuit based on the threshold voltage of the first conductive type transistor.
US09183904B2
Apparatuses, memories, and methods for facilitating splitting of internal commands using a shared signal path are described. In an example shared signal path, a command circuit is configured to receive a command and an indicator signal. A lockout circuit is coupled to the command circuit and configured to give precedence to a chosen command type by masking the indicator signal. In another example, a counter circuit is coupled to the lockout circuit and configured to force the lockout circuit to sample the indicator signal at regular intervals.
US09183896B1
A deep sleep wakeup signal is received at a first memory bank. A first gated memory array supply voltage is increased in response to the receiving the deep sleep wakeup signal at the first memory bank. The first memory array supply voltage is applied to a first memory array. The deep sleep wakeup signal is forwarded to a second memory bank in response to determining the first gated memory array supply voltage has reached a specified voltage.
US09183895B2
A memory comprising a word line having a word line voltage, a charge pump coupled to the word line, and a dynamic feedback control circuit coupled to the charge pump. The dynamic feedback control circuit is configured to boost the word line voltage to a predetermined voltage value greater than a target threshold voltage, change a clock frequency of a clock signal supplied to the charge pump from a non-zero frequency to a zero frequency if the word line voltage is above the predetermined voltage value, and change the clock frequency from the zero frequency to the non-zero frequency if the word line voltage is below the target threshold voltage.
US09183886B2
Several data streams contain video, audio and/or other data. Some of the data streams are pre-recorded in a multiplex on a storage medium while other data streams are located out of the data stream multiplex on the storage medium. The data streams are synchronized using a navigation file (List_of_PlayItems), which comprises descriptors (PlayItems, SubPlayItems) pointing to parts of said data streams, wherein said descriptors define the arrangement in time for said data streams by means of data sub stream paths.
US09183876B1
A motor includes a rotor hub with a first horizontal surface, a cylindrical surface, a second horizontal surface, and a projecting portion. The first horizontal surface is located above the sleeve. The cylindrical surface extends downward from the first horizontal surface. The second horizontal surface is located above a stator. The projecting portion projects downward from the second horizontal surface, and surrounds the sleeve or the holding portion. The cylindrical surface and an outer circumferential surface of the sleeve together define a tapered gap therebetween where the radial distance therebetween decreases with increasing height. The holding portion, the projecting portion, and coils are located radially in this order, and at least portions thereof are positioned to radially overlap with one another.
US09183859B1
The present disclosure generally relates to a HAMR head and techniques and apparatus for HAMR writer pole length characterization. One or more bits may be magnetically written on a disk using a leading edge of the writer pole at a first polarity. The disk may be moved under a body of the writer pole to magnetically write the one or more bits in the disk at a second polarity that is opposite to the first polarity to generate a feedback pulse having a signal amplitude. The signal amplitude of the feedback pulse may be measured as a function of writing frequency. A first effective length of the writer pole may be determined based on the measurements.
US09183839B2
An apparatus for providing a set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels on the basis of a two-channel microphone signal has a signal analyzer and a spatial side information generator. The signal analyzer is configured to obtain a component energy information and a direction information on the basis of the two-channel microphone signal, such that the component energy information describes estimates of energies of a direct sound component of the two-channel microphone signal and of a diffuse sound component of the two-channel microphone signal, and such that the directional information describes an estimate of a direction from which the direct sound component of the two-channel microphone signal originates. The spatial side information generator is configured to map the component energy information and the direction information onto a spatial cue information describing the set of spatial cues associated with an upmix audio signal having more than two channels.
US09183838B2
A method for increasing the fidelity of digitally encoded audio, for transmitting and receiving a signal comprising digitally encoded packets, and for preserving the power of a signal in transmission including the steps of interleaving the signal, frequency conversion, and polynomial interpolation. The method may also include the step of folding or unfolding the signal. The method may also include the step of detecting missing or damaged elements.
US09183836B2
A computer-implemented method, system and/or program product update voice prints over time. A receiving computer receives an initial voice print. A determining period of time is calculated for that initial voice print. This determining period of time is a length of time during which an expected degree of change in subsequent voice prints, in comparison to the initial voice print and according to a speaker's subsequent age, is predicted to occur. A new voice print is received after the determining period of time has passed, and the new voice print is compared with the initial voice print. In response to a change to the new voice print falling within the expected degree of change in comparison to the initial voice print, a voice print store is updated with the new voice print.
US09183831B2
A digital work of literature is vocalized using enhanced text-to-speech (TTS) controls by analyzing a digital work of literature using natural language processing to identify speaking character voice characteristics associated with context of each quote as extracted from the first work of literature; converting the character voice characteristics to audio metadata to control text-to-speech audio synthesis for each quote; transforming the audio metadata into text-to-speech engine commands, each quote being associated with audio synthesis control parameters for the TTS in the context of each the quotes in the work of literature; and inputting the commands to a text-to-speech engine to cause vocalization of the work of literature according to the words of each quote, character voice characteristics of corresponding to each quote, and context corresponding to each quote.
US09183817B2
Disclosed herein is a reed affixing device for a wind instrument. The device includes a puller means disposed on an upper portion of the mouthpiece in a longitudinal direction thereof and having a puller, with hollow portions formed in the puller in the longitudinal direction of the mouthpiece. A string-shaped cord passes through the hollow portions in the form of a unidirectional spiral from a side of the puller to wind around the reed and the mouthpiece at several times, and is secured to first and last hollow portions formed, respectively, in both ends of the puller. An affixing means is fastened to a side of the puller means to secure the reed to the mouthpiece. A pair of sound adjusting members is provided on opposite sides of the reed to be in close contact with the cord that is wound several times, thus adjusting a tone of sound.
US09183809B2
A display panel apparatus includes a display panel and a timing controller, and a data driver. The display panel includes a first subpixel and a second subpixel. The timing controller is configured to receive a first subpixel data for the first subpixel and a second subpixel data for the second subpixel. When the second subpixel is determined to be defective, the timing controller generates a compensated grayscale of the second subpixel data. The data driver is configured to apply a precharge voltage to the second subpixel and a charging voltage to second subpixel through a data line, wherein the precharge voltage is based on a grayscale of the first subpixel data and the charging voltage is based on the compensated grayscale of the second subpixel data.
US09183804B2
A display comprises independently addressable pixels, a pixel comprising first and second electrodes (12a,12b) disposed on a first substrate and spaced apart from one another. A counter electrode (22) is provided on a second substrate, with an electro-optical material provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. A controller, in use, applies a first voltage to the first electrode of the pixel, a second voltage different to the first voltage to the second electrode of the pixel, and a third voltage to the counter electrode of the pixel to define in the pixel at least one of a first region (18a), a second region (18c) and a third region (18b). The first, second and third voltages are selected such that an area of the first region, second region and third region or each of the first, second region and third region defined in the pixel produces a desired greyscale level for the pixel.
US09183797B2
Disclosed is a display device that (i) converts an input image formed of R, G, and B into a converted image formed of R, G, B, and W to display the converted image and that (ii) compresses the luminance of an input image for the subsequent frame on the basis of an adjustment value C which is corrected in correspondence with the number of, among all pixels in a converted image for the current frame, pixels in a state of luminance saturation and that then converts the input image into a converted image, the display device including a luminance oscillation detecting section (10) for detecting, while input images identical to each other are being inputted each as the above input image, whether converted images corresponding to the respective input images have an oscillating luminance, the display device, in the case where the luminance oscillation detecting section (10) has detected that the converted images have an oscillating luminance, stopping correction of the adjustment value C to fix the adjustment value C to a certain value, thereby preventing the converted images from having an oscillating luminance as a result of oscillation of the adjustment value C.
US09183796B2
Provide a set of first RGB (red, green, blue) brightness levels of a set of pixels in a display panel. Generate a set of saturation levels according to the set of first RGB brightness levels. Generate a set of mapping ratios according to the set of saturation levels and the set of first RGB brightness levels. Generate a set of second RGB brightness levels according to the set of first RGB brightness levels and a minimum mapping ratio of the set of mapping ratios. Generate a set of RGBW (red, green, blue, white) brightness levels according to the set of second RGB brightness levels and a set of brightness levels of white sub-pixels of the set of RGBW brightness levels. And convert the set of RGBW brightness levels to generate a set of RGBW gray levels of the set of pixels.
US09183792B2
A display apparatus comprises pixels (18) associated with intersections of select electrodes (17) and data electrodes (11) and having a bistable operation. A select driver (16) supplies select voltages (VG) to the select electrodes (17) to select a group of pixels (18). A data driver (10) supplies data voltages (VD) to the data electrodes (11) to supply the data voltages (VD) to the group of pixels (18) being selected. A common driver (25) supplies a backplane voltage (VB) to a common electrode (6) common for the group of pixels (18). A controller (15) controls the select driver (16), the data driver (10) and the common driver (25), in the order mentioned: (a) to change the select voltage (VG) to its on-level (on) at which the group of pixels (18) are selected, after the backplane voltage (VB) and the data voltage (VD) for the group of pixels (18) have a same first non-zero level (+15V), or before the backplane voltage (VB) and the data voltage (VD) for the group of pixels (18) are simultaneously changed to the same first non-zero level (+15V), (b) to change the data voltages (VD) in accordance with display data (13) defining an optical state of the individual pixels (18) of the group of pixels (18), (c) to change the select voltage (VG) to its off-level (off) at which the group of pixels (18) are not selected, (d) to change the select voltage (VG) to its on-level (on), after the backplane voltage (VB) and the data voltage (VD) for the group of pixels (18) have a same second non-zero level (−15V), or before the backplane voltage (VB) and the data voltage (VD) for the group of pixels (18) are simultaneously changed to the same second non-zero level (−15V), and (e) to change the data voltages (VD) in accordance with the display data (13).
US09183790B2
A liquid crystal display device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel screen divided into a plurality of areas; a plurality of backlight sources to selectively irradiate light respectively to the divided areas of the screen; and a controller to obtain at least one intermediate brightness value associated with data for at least one of the divided areas and to control a brightness of at least one of the backlight sources corresponding to the at least one divided area according to the at least one intermediate brightness value.
US09183788B2
A backlight driving circuit includes a constant current driving chip, a power module, and a light emitting diode (LED) lightbar coupled with the power module. The constant current driving chip includes a control module that controls switching frequency of the power module, and an adjusting module that adjusts duty cycle of effective current flowing through the LED lightbar. The control module includes a frequency pin used to set the switching frequency of the power module. An external pulse-width modulation (PWM) dimming signal is sent to the adjusting module of the constant current driving chip. The backlight driving circuit further includes a detection module that detects duty cycle of the PWM dimming signal, and a monitor module coupled with the detection module of the backlight driving circuit.
US09183783B2
Provided is an organic EL display device including an array of pixel circuits 10 each having: organic EL element 32; storage capacity 33 that holds a voltage corresponding to an image signal; drive transistor 34 that applies a current corresponding to the voltage of storage capacity 33 to the organic EL element 32; and current switch 35 that either connects or disconnects the drive transistor 34 with the organic EL element 32. The organic EL display device also includes an inter-pixel switch 15 that connects or disconnects a node between organic EL element 32(p, j) and current switch 35(p, j) in one pixel circuit 10(p, j) out of the pair of the pixel circuits 10 that are adjacent to each other, and a node between organic EL element 32(p+1, j) and current switch 35(p+1, j) in the other pixel circuit 10(p+1, j) out of the pair of the pixel circuits 10.
US09183775B2
A normal video data acquisition section acquires, as normal video data, a plurality of pieces of video data respectively assigned to a plurality of light sources in normal display from an input video signal A computing section performs a predetermined computation on the plurality of pieces of video data included in the normal video data to generate auxiliary video data used in place of the normal video data in auxiliary display. A selection section performs, in accordance with an instruction from a control section, a selection process for providing any one of the normal video data and the auxiliary video data to a modulation driving section.
US09183770B2
The present specification relates to a foldable display device and a method of controlling therefor, and more particularly, to a method of configuring illuminance of a display screen according to an illuminance value detected based on a folding angle between a first body and a second body of the foldable display device.
US09183769B2
The present invention adds a feature to the autograph ball in which the sports figure of interest adds a recorded message in addition to his or her autograph to the ball—for instance, personalizing the autograph ball; or simply recording a standard message such as “This is Ted Williams, the greatest hitter ever!” for posterity. In one embodiment, a ball shaped device is provided. The ball comprises an inner core that contains a recording means, a playback means, and advantageously, a switch that prevents erasure of the recorded message. The outer surface of the ball comprises a surface area suitable for placement of an autograph. With the ball of this invention, the sports fan is provided with not only the desired autograph, but also the recorded voice of the sports figure in question.
US09183760B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for recognizing sign language using an electromyogram sensor and a gyro sensor. The method includes the steps of (a) receiving a gyro measurement signal and an electromyogram measurement signal from the gyro sensor and the electromyogram sensor which are attached to the body of a subject, (b) determining to which of groups clustered with similar fingerspelling motions the gyro measurement signal belongs, (c) acquiring a Gaussian model for the electromyogram measurement signal, and (d) comparing the acquired Gaussian model with Gaussian candidate models for candidate fingerspelling motions which belong to the group determined in step (b), and recognizing the candidate fingerspelling motion corresponding to the Gaussian candidate model that is most similar to the acquired Gaussian model as the fingerspelling motion of the subject.
US09183757B2
A dieting support system includes a function that detects a component of biogas and that measures concentration of the biogas, a function that accumulates and analyzes the measured result, and a function that determines suitable timing for taking a meal or suitable timing for doing exercise, depending on the analyzed result.
US09183754B2
A music score display device displays a music score representing a predetermined piece of music at a display, and stores a playing result for each measure of the music score in a memory when the piece is played. On the basis of the playing results of the measures stored in the memory, the music score display device generates graph images representing the playing results of the measures, and displays the generated graph images of the measures, superposed on images of the corresponding measures of the music score displayed at the display, such that the images of the measures are visible.
US09183749B2
A camera vision system for a vehicle includes a rear backup video camera at a rear portion of the vehicle. A display device includes a video screen operable to display video images captured by the camera for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. Video images captured by the camera are displayed by the display device when the vehicle transmission is shifted into reverse gear. An overlay is displayed with captured video images to assist the driver during the rear backup maneuver. A control includes an image processor that image processes captured video images in order to detect objects that are within the rearward field of view of the camera. The vehicle is further equipped with a sensor system selected from the group consisting of (i) a radar sensor system and (ii) an ultrasonic sensor system, and the sensor system monitors a region external to the vehicle.
US09183746B2
When performing video-based speed enforcement a main camera and a secondary RGB traffic camera are employed to provide improved accuracy of speed measurement and improved evidentiary photo quality compared to single camera approaches. The RGB traffic camera provides sparse secondary video data at a lower cost than a conventional stereo camera. The sparse stereo processing is performed using the main camera data and the sparse RGB camera data to estimate a height of one or more tracked vehicle features, which in turn is used to improve speed estimate accuracy. By using secondary video, spatio-temporally sparse stereo processing is enabled specifically for estimating the height of a vehicle feature above the road surface.
US09183739B2
The present invention provides an integrated system of full optical complete bridge safety monitoring with speech warming for smart phones. The Integrated system of full optical complete bridge safety monitoring includes a stabilizing device, optical sensing device and communication device. The basic structure involves cable and optical fiber connecting two ends and joined by heat shrink tubes. A measuring segment is located between two heat shrink tubes. The stabilizing device provides a pre-determined tensile strength to the measuring segment. The optical fiber sensing device detects a response via a Fiber Bragg grating in the optical fiber's measuring segment. When the measuring segment receives a response, it changes from first phase to second phase and creates a signal change from the reflected signals. Signal processing device converts the signal changes to physical parameters. The communication device sends warning signals to users. Warning signals are sent to users' smart phones, to proactively inform the bridge's safety status with speeches.
US09183737B1
A testing device is provided that may be attachable and detachable from a smoke detector. The testing device may have a rod that pushes a testing button on the smoke detector. The testing device may have a light detector which will actuate the rod to push the testing button if the light from an appropriate remote control or other light source is directed onto it, in order to verify that the smoke detector is operating properly without manually pushing the testing button. The testing device may store a unique identifier (ID) and generate and transmit data pertaining to results of the testing of the smoke detector.
US09183735B1
In one embodiment, the method of these teachings includes the steps of utilizing a remote server to manage security alerts, utilizing the remote server to administer security system updates and utilizing the remote server to configure the security system.
US09183734B2
A computer-implemented system and method for providing multi-locational curbside valet parking service is provided. A multiplicity of motor vehicle parking spaces are managed by a server. A plurality of smart parking devices and vehicle occupancy sensors are interfaced with the server. Use of a plurality of the parking spaces is reserved for a valet service. A reservation request for the use of the plurality of the parking spaces is accepted for use by the valet service for a period of time. Occupancy of the reserved parking spaces by a motor vehicle is sensed through the vehicle occupancy sensor. A valet drop-off location of at least one of the parking spaces that is reserved for the use of the valet service and is not occupied by a motor vehicle is identified. The valet drop-off location and a location of a lock box are provided to the motorist through a user interface.
US09183731B1
A wireless emergency detection and alert system includes a primary wireless emergency communication device having an emergency detection and alert application to determine the presence of an emergency condition, based on information received indicating an emergency condition from a sensor associated with the primary wireless emergency communication device, and to execute at least one of a visual or sensual alarm of the at least one detected emergency condition by the primary wireless emergency communication device and to wirelessly transmit an alert signal and an alert message of the detected emergency condition to at least one secondary communication device, the alert message including at least to one of an SMS message, a text type message or a voicemail. The primary wireless emergency communication device also generates an audible alert, a visual alert, or a tactile alert, an alert message or combination thereof, in response to the detection of an emergency condition.
US09183725B2
A method for monitoring at least one parameter of a battery. The method has a step of providing, in which a visual damage signal is provided on an outer surface of the battery when the at least one parameter of the battery is outside a tolerance range.
US09183713B2
A perimeter security system includes a barrier and a series of sensors. The sensors are connected together via connection cables that include pin-type engagement structure for connection with the sensors. The sensors may include a graduated sensory alert that changes as a person or object approaches. The pin-type connection arrangement includes a receiver having a passage for receiving an insert. The insert and a first end of the cable have matching cross-sections that enable the cable to be inserted within the receiver in a single orientation. A series of pins extend from the cable, and a pin contact arrangement is associated with the receiver. The insert may be one of at least a pair of differently configured inserts, each of which has a cross-section that matches only one end of the cable. Each insert includes an end wall, which includes a series of openings through which the pins extend.
US09183709B2
A wearable device may include an inward-facing surface, an outward-facing surface, and a plurality of light emitting elements disposed on the inward-facing surface. A worn-status module of the wearable device may detect a worn-status of the wearable device and set the notification mode to a light notification mode when the worn-status indicates the wearable device is not being worn. A message module of the wearable module may receive a message. A notification module of the wearable device may, based on the receipt of the message and the worn-status of the wearable device, control the plurality of light emitting elements.
US09183707B2
A gaming machine that includes a game of chance operable upon a wager by a player, a display, and a plurality of reels associated with the game of chance, wherein each of the plurality of reels include a defined plurality of positions to generate a symbol on the display. The gaming machine further including a processor programmed to provide the game of chance on the gaming machine, determine that at least two symbols generated on one of the plurality of reels are a designated symbol, and based on the determining, lock a position of the one of the plurality of reels for at least one additional generation of symbols on the other of the plurality of reels.
US09183698B2
A gaming machine of the present invention includes: a light application device configured to apply visible light representing visual information which enables recognition of information related to games on a reel band, The or each of one or more reels has a mirror layer which reflects the visible light from the light application device. The light application device is disposed in an area outside the window frame of the display window so that the visible light is applied to the reel, on the side of the reel band, and is used as a front light device that emits visible light which is not representing the visual information.
US09183696B2
A merchandiser and a method of controlling a game thereof are disclosed. The merchandiser includes prize cartridges that have transparent partitions among which prizes are contained, drive parts that move the respective prize cartridges, a gaming device that executes a game provided for each of identification numbers of the prize cartridges, and a controller that controls the drive part so that the prize of the prize cartridge is dropped to a prize discharge part according to a result of playing the game. Thereby, since a designated prize can be acquired according to the result of playing a game, an interest in the game can be increased.
US09183691B2
A banknote pay-in/pay-out device and a banknote processing machine having a simpler pay-in/pay-out port section mechanism than hitherto. During paying in, out of banknotes inserted into a pay-in/pay-out port section, a pay-in reject banknote that has been determined to be unsuitable for paying in is conveyed to a sorting conveyance path, and temporarily retained in the sorting conveyance path. So doing enables, for example, the pay-in reject banknote to be temporarily retained in the sorting conveyance path until, for example, pay-in counting processing has been completed, with the pay-in reject banknote being replaced in the pay-in/pay-out port section to be returned to a user after the pay-in counting processing has been completed, without providing a partitioning plate to the pay-in/pay-out port section as hitherto.
US09183686B2
A method and system for detecting an object transiting an interrogation zone of an electronic article surveillance (“EAS”) system and determining whether the object is a person entering or exiting the facility in order to increment a corresponding counter. A first zone detector detects motion in a first zone. The first zone detector can be a first passive infrared (“PIR”) detector. A second zone detector detects motion in a second zone different from the first zone. The second zone detector can be a second PIR detector. A processor is in communication with the first and second zone detectors in which the processor receives data from the first and second zone detectors to determine whether to increment a count value based at least in part on the received data.
US09183684B2
In a remote control device for a vehicle including: a portable transmitter configured to repeatedly transmit a signal for giving an instruction to activate an activation device mounted in a vehicle, in response to an operation of a manipulator which is performed continuously for a predetermined time or more; and a vehicle-side receiver provided in the vehicle to activate the activation device based on the signal transmitted from the portable transmitter, the portable transmitter transmits a first signal including a data frame having at least an ID code, a function code determining an action of the activation device, and a first error detection code and then repeatedly transmits a second signal, and a data frame of the second signal having the same function code as that of the first signal and a second error detection code generated based on the function code and the data frame of the first signal.
US09183683B2
A system and method for accessing secured resources using a portable device. When a user with such a portable device is within close proximity to a locked door or other secured resource, a verification process can be automatically initiated on the device. The user verification could utilize all the input and sensor methods on the device. Once the identification process has successfully completed, an access code can be transmitted to the locked door or device via wired or wireless network. This allows for reduced electronics required at these locked doors and allows for more dynamic security measures.
US09183682B2
A vehicular diagnostic tool configured to interface with a plurality of vehicular computing systems that each utilize a different communications protocol. The tool includes a transceiver that itself includes a voltage threshold controller and a current threshold controller. Also, a method of using a single vehicular diagnostic tool to communicate with a plurality of vehicular computing systems that each utilize a different communications protocol.
US09183679B2
Data transfer systems for vehicle event recorders are provided as: a vehicle event recorder, a vehicle event recorder resident memory, and upload module in conjunction with, a communication port suitable for coupling with, a portable memory device, a server computer datastore, a server download module in conjunction with, a similar cooperating communications port. The portable memory device is arranged to operably couple with the communications ports of both the vehicle event recorder and the server computer and to be repeatedly moved between the two. The upload/download modules are arranged to transfer data to/from the portable memory in an orderly fashion in which no files are removed from the vehicle event recorder resident memory without first having been successfully transferred to the server computer datastore.
US09183675B2
Disclosed is a method for augmented reality. A real world image including a marker is generated, the marker is detected from the real world image, an object image corresponding to the detected marker is combined with the real world image, and the combined image is displayed.
US09183668B2
Aspects comprise systems implementing 3-D graphics processing functionality in a multiprocessing system. Control flow structures are used in scheduling instances of computation in the multiprocessing system, where different points in the control flow structure serve as points where deferral of some instances of computation can be performed in favor of scheduling other instances of computation. In some examples, the control flow structure identifies particular tasks, such as intersection testing of a particular portion of an acceleration structure, and a particular element of shading code. In some examples, the aspects are used in 3-D graphics processing systems that can perform ray tracing based rendering.
US09183667B2
In one embodiment, a method comprising grouping by a processor primitives that comprise a scene into plural clusters, each cluster comprising a subset of the primitives that are proximal to each other relative to the other of the primitives; and allocating an equal size memory block for each respective cluster for the plural clusters, wherein all the plural clusters comprise one scene representation, wherein each cluster can contain up to M primitives, where M is an integer number.
US09183660B2
A system includes a computing device that includes a memory for storing instructions. The computing device also includes a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform a method that includes combining, in a nonlinear manner, a first set of vertex displacements that represent the difference between a first animated expression and a neutral animated expression with a second set of vertex displacements that represent the difference between a second animated expression and the neutral animated expression. The number of vertices associated with the first set of vertex displacements of the first animated expression is equivalent to the number of vertices associated with the second set of vertex displacements of the second animated expression.
US09183659B2
Search-based matching for multiple parameter sets in computer animation is disclosed. The search-based matching method can include receiving a selection of a first set of joint parameters in a first model to match to a second set of joint parameters in a second model, currently in operation, for an appendage of a computer-generated object. The method can also adjust the selected first set of joint parameters to match the second set of joint parameters. The method can further compare the adjusted first set of joint parameters to the second set of joint parameters. Based on the comparison, the method can switch from the second model to the first model and replace the second set of joint parameters with the adjusted first set of joint parameters. The method can then output the replacement first set of joint parameters for rendering the appendage of the object.
US09183657B2
A system and method may be provided to access images through a camera service, where the images are generated by a non-sensor image source, such as a composition manager. The system may include the camera service and the non-sensor image source. The non-sensor image source may generate a processed image from a source other than a sensor. The camera service may provide the processed image generated by the non-sensor image source to an image consuming application.
US09183655B2
A method includes displaying a second electronic screen overlay on a display, in response to an initial selection of one of provided polysemous symbols, the second electronic screen overlay being the electronic screen overlay associated with the selected polysemous symbol; storing, in the memory, a plurality of visual scenes, each respective one of the plurality of visual scenes being stored in association with at least two symbol sequences beginning with the initially selected polysemous symbol; and displaying one of the plurality of visual scenes on the display, in response to selection of one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay, the displayed visual scene being stored in the memory in association with at least two symbol sequences including, in sequence, the initially selected polysemous symbol and the selected one of the symbols on the displayed second electronic screen overlay.
US09183654B2
The present invention relates to a system, method, and apparatus that include a novel connection between a 3D raytracing application and an editing application to allow live editing of an image representing the lighting of a 3D model. Further embodiments include a novel pin control in the editing application that allows pin control of lighting of a specific portion of the lighting image and 3D model to adjust the intensity, color, and blur of the environment within a given region. The pins can also be used to copy regions of data from the lighting image to new locations. The pins can be placed either directly by clicking in the lighting image or by clicking on the 3D model in the raytracing application to indicate where the illumination should fall or reflect.
US09183651B2
Methods, systems, and computer-storage media for target independent rasterization of an image. The target is the memory allocated for a rendered image within a graphics pipeline. Embodiments of the present invention allow the rasterization process's sampling rate to be specified independently from the memory allocated for the rendered image. Embodiments of the present invention also allow the rasterization process to be executed at a rate that does not correspond to the memory allocated for the rendered target.
US09183645B2
A method of repeatedly rendering to a page a group of objects represented by edges, by identifying a first occurrence of the group in a display list by an identifier, associating the identifier with a display list representation of the group, using the identifier to determine locations on the page where the group is to be repeated, determining if the display list representation of the group is to be used to repeat the group at the locations, repeating in the display list the occurrence of the display list representation of the group, the repeated display list representations comprising (a) transformations of the starting locations of the edges making up the group, shared by each of the repeated edges, and (b) fill and level information accessed by reference associated with each of the edges.
US09183637B2
An image processing apparatus, including a filtering unit that performs filtering on an image using a second order partial differential and calculates a Hessian matrix and an evaluation unit that discriminates a structure included in the image using eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hessian matrix, in which the filtering unit includes a correction unit that performs filtering on the image using a first order partial differential of a function representing a hollow sphere having the same radius as the radius of the solid sphere and obtains first order partial differential vectors, and carries out correction to cancel out one of response waveforms of the function representing the solid sphere in each direction, the response waveforms appearing at two positions symmetrically separated with respect to the center of the solid sphere, using values obtained by projecting the first order partial differential vectors onto directions of the eigenvectors.
US09183625B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for processing a radiograph which is capable of precisely detecting a region of interest. The apparatus includes: an inputter that outputs an input image obtained by irradiating radioactive rays; and a line detector that performs a Hough transform on the input image, senses at least one edge line based on the Hough-transformed input image, performs a Radon transform in a region in which the at least one edge line is sensed, and obtains an edge line of the at least one edge line as a first collimation line one based on a result of the Radon transform.
US09183622B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus and a computer program which detects a defect such as a scum at high speed and with high precision. In order to accomplish the above-described object, the present invention proposes an image processing apparatus and a computer program which acquires image data, and detects edge branch points from this image data. Here, at each of the edge branch points, an edge associated therewith branches off in at least three or more directions. According to this configuration, it becomes possible to detect a defect such as a scum without utilizing the reference-pattern image. As a consequence, it becomes possible to detect the scum at high speed and with high precision.
US09183617B2
Embodiments provide a method for processing a digital picture, wherein the digital picture comprises a plurality of pixels. The method comprises dividing the digital picture into a plurality of blocks, each block comprising a plurality of pixels. The method further comprises determining a type of block for each block. The method further comprises associating each block with a filtering mode of a plurality of different filtering modes according to the type determined for the block. The method further comprises filtering each block using the associated filtering mode associated with the block.
US09183616B2
A method and system for enhancing image resolution using optical image translation, including: receiving multiple dissimilar low-resolution images generated by a time varying linear phase mask (LPM); receiving a direction vector for each of the multiple dissimilar low-resolution images; interleaving the received multiple dissimilar low-resolution images using the received direction vectors to form an intermediate high-resolution image; computing a likelihood of pixel motion in the intermediate high-resolution image; compensating for pixel motion in the intermediate high-resolution image; and generating a final high-resolution image.
US09183615B2
A display device includes a driver connected to a display panel and transmitting scan signals or data signals to the display panel, a frame memory connected to the driver, storing image data and transmitting at least some of the image data to the driver, and a controller connected to the driver and the frame memory, generating a control signal and transmitting the control signal to the driver or the frame memory, wherein each of the sub-fields includes an address period in which the scan signals are transmitted to the respective pixel rows, the controller transmits the control signal to the driver to transmit the scan signals to the pixel rows during a current frame such that the scan signals corresponding to the current frame are transmitted after, among the image data corresponding to the current frame, the image data corresponding to the pixel rows are stored in the frame memory.
US09183608B2
Techniques are described that can delay or even prevent use of memory to store triangles associated with tiles as well as processing resources associated with vertex shading and binning triangles. The techniques can also provide better load balancing among a set of cores, and hence provide better performance. A bounding volume is generated to represent a geometry group. Culling takes place to determine whether a geometry group is to have triangles rendered. Vertex shading and association of triangles with tiles can be performed across multiple cores in parallel. Processing resources are allocated for rasterizing tiles that have been vertex shaded and binned triangles over tiles that have yet to be vertex shaded and binned triangles. Rasterization of triangles of different tiles can be performed by multiple cores in parallel.
US09183600B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to technology prediction. A technical dictionary of technical terms is constructed based on a collection of documents. The technical terms are partitioned into equivalence classes. A table is generated that correlates technical terms across equivalence classes based on temporal co-occurrence of the technical terms across the equivalence classes. For a given technical term the table is accessed to determine a first set of technical terms that correlate to the given technical term. The table is accessed again to determine a second set of technical terms that correlate to the first set of technical terms. It is predicted that the second set of technical terms will correlate to the given technical term in the future.
US09183596B2
A system and method for managing access rights to a project team area for a community development asset. The system includes an asset consumption dependency generator and a behavior pattern activity analyzer. The asset consumption dependency generator identifies a member of a project team area for a community development asset. The project team area defines access rights of individuals to the community development asset. The behavior pattern activity analyzer identifies a user within a collaborative development network associated with the identified member of the project team area. The behavior pattern activity analyzer also grants an access right to the identified user to access the community development asset based on a social map dependency between the identified user and the identified member.
US09183592B2
According to some embodiments, a system may categorize a first set of user goals as basic expenses and a second set of user goals as optional expenses. Icons associated with the basic expenses may be graphically displayed in a first screen area, and icons associated with the optional expenses may be graphically displayed in a second screen area. An indication that a selected icon is to be associated with one of the first or second areas may be received from a remote user. Based on the received indication, a user goal associated with the selected icon may be re-categorized (e.g., as a basic or optional expense).
US09183585B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing and managing a music service. According to certain aspects, the systems and methods present an interface to a user that indicates an additional user of the music service and allows the user to select certain properties or attributes associated with a desired playlist. The systems and methods identify a music profile of the additional user and detect an input selection to generate the playlist. In aspects, the systems and methods identify songs based on the music profile of the additional user and optionally a music profile of the user, as well as the properties or attributes selected by the user, and provides the playlist to the user that includes the identified songs.
US09183578B1
Techniques for facilitating one or more operating modes for monitoring of an intelligent home system are disclosed. The techniques facilitate detecting an adverse condition in a building, generating an alert based on the detection, sending a notification about the alert to a user (e.g., to a mobile device), awaiting a user response, and determining whether to send the alert to a central monitoring system to facilitate notification of an appropriate responder for the adverse condition. Determining whether to send the alert to the central monitoring system may be based on an affirmative command from the user or a failure to receive any command from the user. The user may be billed for the service of notifying an appropriate responder provided by central monitoring system regularly, intermittently when the user is away from the building, or on a per-alert basis.
US09183577B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting thumbnail images to display with text advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes identifying landing page non-textual content items from a landing page to which the textual content item links and which a user device requests when the textual content item is selected at the user device; for each landing page non-textual content item, determining a relevance measure that measures the relevance of the landing page non-textual content item to the content of the landing page; selecting one or more of the landing page non-textual content items for display with the textual content item based on the relevance measures of the landing page non-textual content items; and storing, in a data storage system, data associating the selected landing page non-textual contents with the textual content items.
US09183573B2
In one embodiment, a computing device may collect a plurality of information items of a plurality of types relevant to a user; rank the plurality of information items based on their respective degrees of relevance to the user; construct an information feed that includes the plurality of information items in an order of their respective ranks; and send the information feed to a user device associated with the user for presentation of the plurality of information items to the user in the order of their respective ranks.
US09183572B2
A system for obtaining revenue through the display of advertising on fixed or moving objects id disclosed. Such objects receive, store, poll and extract data to present content based on the time of day, locations, and relative movements in a specific environment, where data and information stored in moving or mobile objects within that environment can be transmitted between those objects or to stationary objects, where it is then used to enable and control such displays for which the owners of those objects are then compensated. The system enables the display of hyper-relevant ad content with synchronized remote audio, personal messaging and public service alerts on surrounding objects and provides for the real-time logging and later downloading of data to confirm communications and content deliveries between objects, track and measure consumer engagement, verify consumer's direct responses to ad viewings with accountability systems.
US09183569B1
Text and display may be generated automatically for an online service platform. Dynamic data is received from a provider offering items, the data comprising information about the items. Content is generated and keywords are assigned to the content. Content may include dynamic text and images. The generated content and keywords are configured into the online service via an application programming interface. The text and display may comprise text and display advertisements. The online service platform may comprise online advertise service platform such as search engine platform that also presents advertisements or information associated with entered search keywords.
US09183568B1
Method and system for assessing the suitability of an entity using a proxy. A description of a behavior associated with a desirable audience is received. A proxy behavior estimated to be characteristic of the desirable audience is selected. The proxy behavior comprises the performance of proxy events related to the consumption of media received by an entity over a network, which can be found in an entity's consumption history. An entity can be assessed for inclusion in a proxy audience, by examining the entity's consumption history for proxy behaviors. A behavioral model is built using a training set comprising the proxy audience. By applying the behavioral model to the consumption history of a specified entity, the specified entity's suitability for selection can be determined. Advantageously, in an embodiment, the invention enables the use of behavioral modeling techniques even when the complete behavior of the desirable audience is not available.
US09183567B2
A method and system for providing the centralized collection of click-through traffic information. The method includes receiving a DNS query for a domain name at a third party auditing service from a requesting computing resource. The domain name is configured to include click-through information as a subdomain, and wherein a URL associated with the domain name provides content. The click-through information is parsed from the domain name without establishing a connection between said third party auditing server and any web server providing the content. An IP address for the web server associated with the domain name is sent to the requesting computing resource.
US09183561B2
Automatic trend analysis is provided on a dataset. Upon selection of a data cell or chart point within a data representation, a trend chart is automatically generated in order to demonstrate how the data within the selection trends over time. The system may automatically configure the trend chart based on the metadata of a data source associated with a selected data such that no input or configuration is needed by a user. The system may identify the time hierarchies and other data attributes included in the metadata of the data source associated with a selected data cell and may automatically configure the axis settings and the trend lines according to metadata of the data source. The trend chart may also be configured to display multiple trend lines for comparing multiple data set trends over a specified time period.
US09183557B2
Advertising targeting metrics for individuals can be derived from images associated with those individuals. Such advertising targeting metrics can include physical attributes, as well as preferences based on prior activity, or history. Public images associated with specific user identities can be processed and advertising targeting metrics can be derived therefrom to more accurately tailor the advertisements displayed to the individuals associated with those user identities. Additionally, non-public images can be likewise processed, either remotely or, for greater privacy, locally if so allowed by the user. Advertisers can then utilize the greater breath of advertising targeting metrics that can be derived from images to more accurately target advertisements to specific groups. In doing so, advertisers can submit their own images of exemplary targeted users, and the targeting metrics for those advertisers' advertisements can be automatically derived from the submitted images utilizing equivalent algorithms.
US09183552B2
An approach is provided for conducting transactions via an audio token base payment system. An audio payment manager receives a request, at a device, for payment to a merchant, the request including a password. In response, the audio payment manager retrieves a personal identification number from a user of the device, an identifier associated with the user, a session code, or a combination thereof. The audio payment manager then generates an audio token at the device based, at least in part, on the password, the personal identification number, the identifier associated with the user, the session code, or the combination thereof, and causes, at least in part, conveyance of the audio token to the merchant to initiate the payment.
US09183543B2
Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems associated with tracking display of digital content objects, and in particular digital content objects in delivered electronic messages. Digital content objects may be identified and associated with a digital content item. Digital content objects may be presented together in digital container. Different presentation layers containing one or more digital containers may be defined and transmitted in electronic messages. A digital content object tracking system may identify delivered and displayed digital content objects, and associate the display with digital content objects contained therein. The digital content object tracking system may compare displays or activations of one or more digital content objects with reference to co-displayed digital content objects. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09183539B2
Techniques for relaying presence information of an entity to a user are provided. The techniques include obtaining a portion of the presence information of the entity from servers associated with the communications networks, and assembling an image in accordance with the at least one portion of the presence information of the entity, wherein at least a portion of the image represents a highest ranked communication option of a plurality of communication options for contacting the entity based on a rule set that evaluates the presence information of the entity, in its entirety, in accordance with at least one item of communication-related information, the image conveying presence information of the entity for at least the highest ranked communication option, and in accordance with communication parameters associated with the entity and the user, communication preferences of at least one of the entity and the user, and communication capabilities of the user.
US09183535B2
A social network model, based on data relevant to a user, is used for semantic processing to enable improved entity recognition among text accessed by the user. An entity extraction module of the server, with reference to a general training corpus, general gazetteers, user-specific gazetteers, and entity models, parses text to identify entities. The entities may be, for example, people, organizations, or locations. A social network module of the server builds the social network model implicit in the data accessed by the user. The social network model includes the relationships between entities and an indication of the strength of each relationship. The social network module is also used to disambiguate names and unify entities based on the social network model.
US09183524B2
Techniques for virtualized workflow processing are presented. A processing state of workflow within a first processing environment is imaged and configured for a second processing environment. The image is received in the second processing environment where it is authenticated and initiated within the second processing environment as a virtual machine.
US09183520B2
Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting device-identifier data corresponding to at least one communication device; accepting network-participation identifier data associated with a verified real-world user associated with the at least one communication device; and assigning a unique identifier at least partly based on the device-identifier data and the network-participation identifier data.
US09183512B2
The present disclosure includes systems and methods for detecting an anomaly in crowd behavior. The method includes receiving sensor data representing a crowd, and partitioning the sensor data into local areas forming neighborhoods. The method further includes, for each local area, characterizing motion in the local area to determine real-time estimates of motion of sub-populations based on the sensor data, providing a crowd model for each local area, representing continuous functions describing expected motion near each local area, and determining parametric values of the crowd model based on the real-time estimates of the motion of the sub-populations. The method further includes learning and adapting auxiliary stochastic models characterizing normal evolution of the parametric values of the crowd model over time associated with each local area, and identifying a potential anomaly associated with the local area by comparing predictions from an auxiliary stochastic model with parametric values of the crowd model.
US09183511B2
A computer implemented question answering (QA) system and method is provided that automatically finds one or more accurate and concise answers for a natural language question. An automated training routine is provided that includes learning a proper mapping from the natural language question to one or more structured queries by discovering and summarizing parallel semantics between a knowledge base and pairs of a natural language question and its answer. The system and method generate as output concise texts answering the natural language question intended by a user.
US09183508B2
Quantum processor architectures employ unit cells tiled over an area. A unit cell may include first and second sets of qubits where each qubit in the first set crosses at least one qubit in the second set. Angular deviations between qubits in one set may allow qubits in the same set to cross one another. Each unit cell is positioned proximally adjacent at least one other unit cell. Communicatively coupling between qubits is realized through respective intra-cell and inter-cell coupling devices.
US09183459B1
A method for detecting one or more target objects is provided including obtaining 2-dimensional imaging information and 3-dimensional point cloud information of a target zone. The method also includes determining a ground plane in the point cloud information and removing the ground plane to generate modified 3-dimensional information. Also, the method includes identifying a set of 2-dimensional candidate objects from the 2-dimensional imaging information, and identifying a set of 3-dimensional candidate objects from the modified 3-dimensional information. The method also includes determining, for each of at least some of the 2-dimensional candidate objects, a corresponding 3-dimensional candidate object from the set of 3-dimensional candidate objects. Further, the method includes modifying the 2-dimensional confidence measure for each of the at least some of the 2-dimensional candidate objects to generate fused confidence measures based on whether the 2-dimensional candidate object corresponds to a 3-dimensional candidate object.
US09183447B1
Classification of an object in the field of view of a camera. A processor is configured to capture multiple image frames from the camera. A candidate image is detected in the image frames. Alignment of the candidate image is determined relative to at least one previously known training image by inputting the candidate image into a trained alignment classifier and outputting one or more alignment variables therefrom associated with the candidate image. The candidate image and the alignment variable(s) are input into a trained object classifier. The object is classified responsive to the alignment variable(s).
US09183438B1
Provided are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining a salient region of a geographic map. Areas defined by map coordinates and corresponding to viewports from previously executed user queries are determined. The areas are overlaid on a geographic map portion having a fixed grid of points. Each point is assigned a weighted scores based on the number of areas that overlay each point. A polygon enclosing a set of points having weighted scores above a threshold is determined, and the region enclosed by the polygon is identified as a salient region of the geographic map.
US09183435B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with feature generalization leveraging topological model functionality are described. In one embodiment, a method includes loading primitives associated with a first feature and a second feature into a topological model. The topological model may be an existing topological model or a topological model that is created by the feature generalization methods and systems described herein. The topological model stores primitives that are shared by the first feature and the second feature as a single unique shared primitive. The method includes generalizing respective primitives including at least one shared primitive to produce corresponding respective generalized primitives, and associating a generalized primitive corresponding to the shared primitive with the first feature and the second feature, while maintaining alignment across shared edges of adjacent features and hierarchical relationships between features.
US09183433B2
A biometric authentication system includes: an image acquisition unit for acquiring an image of a living body; a light source with a predetermined wavelength band; an authentication information storage unit for, if light is emitted by the light source, setting a predetermined distance for a first distance to a first image acquired by the image acquisition unit in a depth direction so that quality of the first image is improved, extracting a first feature to be used to perform biometric authentication from the first image whose quality has been improved, and storing authentication information regarding the first feature; a feature extraction unit for, if light is emitted by the light source when performing authentication, setting the predetermined distance for a second distance to a second image acquired by the image acquisition unit in the depth direction so that quality of the second image is improved, and extracting a second feature for biometric authentication from the second image whose quality has been improved; and a comparison unit for comparing the authentication information regarding the first feature and authentication information regarding the second feature.
US09183428B2
The present invention provides a method and device for implementing original handwriting trace, and an electronic device. The method comprises: continuously sampling handwriting trace in time order, and detecting location information and the actual stroke widths at the sampling points; for every two adjacent sampling points, determining the former point as the starting sampling point, determining the latter point as the ending sampling point, using a line connecting the two points as the center line of the stroke between the two sampling points, obtaining location information of and the corresponding longitudinal stroke width at each point on the center line, and determining, according to the location information of and the corresponding longitudinal stroke width at each point on the center line, the fill gray value of each pixel in the stroke; and filling, according to the fill gray values, the corresponding pixels, and displaying the pixels. In this manner, graphic processing of the system is avoided, thereby accelerating the stylized trace processing, and bringing smooth writing experience to users.
US09183427B2
A diagnostic system comprises a spectral image pickup means that picks up a spectral image in a predetermined wavelength region in a body cavity and obtains spectral image data, an image processing means that obtains, from the spectral image data, an index-value for discriminating between a diseased portion and a healthy portion, and generates and outputs an indicator image based on the index-value, and a monitor on which the indicator image is displayed, wherein, for each pixel of the spectral image, the image processing means defines β obtained by a predetermined expression as the index-value, while using the spectral image data P1 at a first wavelength which is around a wavelength of 542 nm, the spectral image data P2 at a second wavelength which is around a wavelength of 558 nm and the spectral image data P3 at a third wavelength which is around a wavelength of 578 nm.
US09183419B2
A radiofrequency identification (RFID) device includes an active RFID tag that includes a power source and a passive RFID tag reader, the passive RFID tag reader electrically coupled to the power source of the active RFID tag.
US09183414B2
A memory controller includes a security key and parameter storage unit and a security engine. The security key and parameter storage unit stores at least one security key and at least one parameter that are used during encryption or decryption. The security engine receives encrypted data stored in an external boot memory, decrypts the received encrypted data by using the security key and the parameter, and outputs the decrypted data to a central processing unit (CPU), in a security operation mode.
US09183407B2
A technique for protecting the privacy of a query is provided using permissions that may be derived from an analysis of the context of the query. A monitoring component can be provided to receive or intercept queries directed at a datastore, and a privacy component is provided that analyzes permissions associated with the queries. The privacy component can also determine access levels of the queries based on the analysis of the permissions. A response component can then be provided to answer the queries in accordance with the access levels of the queries.
US09183397B2
A system for providing automated computer security compromise as a service, contains a web server having a web front end running on the web server. The Web server has stored therein pentest definitions. A command and control component processes the pentest definitions, builds pentest task tickets and reporting task tickets, and monitors at least one penetration tester component and/or at least one report generator component. The command and control component interacts with a cloud computing environment to scale up or down the number of penetration tester components and the number of report generator components, and assigns task tickets to the penetration tester and report generator components. At least one penetration tester component runs penetration testing modules available inside the penetration testing framework as instructed by the pentest task tickets. At least one reporter generator component generates reports based on the reporting tasks tickets generated by the command and control service.
US09183396B2
Systems and methods for performing hybrid symbolic execution to detect exploitable bugs in binary code are described. In some example embodiments, the systems and methods determine that resources associated with an execution client performing symbolic execution of a target program are below, at, or above a threshold performance level, generate checkpoints for active executing paths of the online symbolic execution, and cause the execution client to perform symbolic execution in response to the determination that the resources are at or above the threshold performance level.
US09183390B2
Systems and methods for providing anti-malware protection on storage devices are described. In one embodiment, a storage device includes a controller, firmware, and memory. The firmware communicates with an authorized entity (e.g., external entity, operating system) to establish a secure communication channel. The system includes secure storage to securely store data.
US09183387B1
Detecting online attacks is described, including identifying one or more events associated with users on a social graph. For each type of event of the one or more events, generating at least one directed acyclic graph (DAG), where each node on the DAG represents a node on the social graph where an event of the type occurs and each edge on the DAG represents a propagation of the event from a first node of the edge to a second node of the edge.
US09183384B1
A method and apparatus for automatically training a data loss prevention (DLP) agent deployed on an endpoint device is described. In one embodiment, the method includes monitoring information content on a client computer system for violations of a policy. The method further includes determining, with the client computer system, whether a violation of the policy has occurred for the information content based on a classifier. The method may also include transmitting monitored data indicative of a policy decision and the information content to a remote system and receiving a response from the remote system including an updated classifier, wherein the updated classifier was automatically generated by the remote system utilizing fingerprint matching.
US09183374B2
Techniques for providing identity-enabled interfaces for deployment are presented. Specifically, an agent of an enterprise infrastructure authenticates and acquires an agent identity for interacting with a cloud processing environment. Once the agent is deployed in the cloud processing environment, enterprise policy can be enforced within the cloud processing environment on actions occurring within the cloud. The agent acts as an Application Programming Interface between the enterprise and the cloud processing environment. The reverse is also achievable, where a cloud deploys an agent to the enterprise to deploy a cloud interface within the enterprise for policy enforcement.
US09183362B2
A method and system is provided for verifying human presence at a mobile device. The method includes receiving a request for verification. Further, the method includes sending a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) challenge to the mobile device. Further, the method includes receiving a response to the CAPTCHA challenge. Finally, the method includes verifying the human presence by matching the response received to the CAPTCHA challenge sent.
US09183355B2
A method and system for analyzing and retrieving breast tissue abnormality tracking data, providing a tool for a radiologist that includes a report summarizing the statistical frequency of diagnosed patients, both locally and nationally, with breast tissue region-of-interest classifications similar to the breast tissue images taken of the anatomy of an individual patient. In one embodiment, a computer aided diagnostic program can be tested or verified against the breast tissue images and the region-of-interest classifications that have been validated by definitive patient diagnosis. Another embodiment allows the efficient collection of all of the breast tissue abnormalities for a given medical facility in order to provide trending data or radiologist performance analysis. In yet another embodiment, the region-of-interest abnormalities in a single location in a patient's tissue are correlated across a variety of imaging modalities including X-rays, mammogram, CT, ultrasound, MRI, or other imaging technologies. In another embodiment, the region-of-interest feature descriptors based on a location of an abnormality can be correlated by features and images for a plurality of imaging modalities as well as the pathological outcome.
US09183344B2
Some embodiments provide a method that identifies a first physical design solution for positioning several configurable operations on several reconfigurable circuits of an integrated circuit (IC). The method identifies a second physical design solution for positioning the configurable operations on the configurable circuits. One of the identified physical design solutions has one reconfigurable circuit perform a particular configurable operation in at least two reconfiguration cycles while the other identified solution does not have one reconfigurable circuit perform the particular configurable operation in two reconfiguration cycles. The method costs the first and second physical design solutions. The method selects one of the two physical design solutions based on the costs.
US09183341B2
Some embodiments relate to a system that pre-colors word lines and control lines within a memory cell to avoid timing delays that result from processing variations introduced through multiple patterning lithography processes. The system has a memory element that stores a graphical IC layout with a memory circuit having layout features including a plurality of word lines and a plurality of Y-control lines. A pre-coloring element pre-colors one or more of the plurality of word lines and Y-control lines, to indicate that pre-colored word lines and Y-control lines are to be formed on a same mask of a multiple mask set used for a multiple patterning lithography process. A decomposition element assigns different colors to uncolored layout features of the memory circuit, to indicate that different colored memory features are to be formed on different masks of the multiple mask set.
US09183333B2
A method and apparatus of a device that performs a generalized moment based variation aware timing analysis on a circuit design is described. The device receives a signal path that traverses a plurality of gates. For each of the plurality of gates, the device retrieves a statistical distribution that represents delay variation at the gate. The statistical distribution for each gate is measured by a number of statistical moments that include higher order statistical moments besides the mean and the standard deviation of the distribution. The device computes statistical moments to represent the timing variation on the signal path by propagating statistical distributions of the gates on the signal path. The device reconstructs a statistical distribution function for timing variation on the signal path based on the computed statistical moments.
US09183328B2
A method and apparatus for accessing a data representation of a model associated with a fluid system, the data representation including at least one interior cell and at least one ghost cell, calculating a physical volume value and physical surface area value for at least one interior cell and at least one ghost cell, generating at least one control volume based on one or more physical volume values, generating at least one control surface based on one or more physical surface area values; substituting one or more of the at least one control volume parameter and the at least one surface area for corresponding elements of mathematical conservation equations representative of the fluid system, and solving the mathematical conservation equations representative of the fluid system.
