US09210672B2
Embodiments of the present invention may separately utilize transmit paths of a mobile transmit diversity device to initialize communication with a base station over a random access channel, particularly where the transmit paths have power amplifiers with different characteristics, e.g., different power amplification.
US09210663B2
A method and apparatus for power control in a wireless communication involves establishing at least two orthogonal sub-channels within a channel for communication and controlling transmitted power in each sub-channel independently.
US09210648B2
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an access point may provide multiple access to a single medium by providing time division multiple access to the medium. During a first phase to communicate with devices of a first type, the access point may transmit a beacon to indicate to devices of a second type not to communicate during the first phase. During a second phase to communicate with devices of the second type, the access point may transmit a beacon to indicate to devices of the first type not to communicate during the second phase. In one particular embodiment, the access point may transmit a medium reservation packet to indicate reservation of the medium for affected devices. Phases may be adaptively extended by transmitting additional medium reservation packets until it is desired to end the present phase and transition to the second phase.
US09210646B2
A local router for a home network pairs with a mobile device via a local network connection. The local router is also connected to a wide area network. The local router receives, from the mobile device and over the local network connection, configuration settings for a backup path for the wide area network. The backup path includes the local network connection and a mobile broadband connection using the mobile device. The local router detects an interruption with the local router's connection to the managed wide area network and forwards, based on the detecting, critical traffic from the home network via the backup path.
US09210643B2
A method for enabling a forwarding to network operation in a cellular mobile communication system is described, the cellular mobile communication system comprising a plurality of mobile stations and at least one base station, the method comprising: reporting forwarding capability of a first mobile station of the plurality of mobile stations with the at least one base station; discovering neighboring mobile stations to the first mobile station; selecting a second mobile station from the neighboring mobile stations and establishing a forwarding link between the first mobile station and the second mobile station; allocating radio resources for a link between the first mobile station and the second mobile station; and synchronizing the link between the first mobile station and the second mobile station to establish the forwarding network.
US09210640B2
A mobile station associated with a base station determines a measure of the quality of a communication link between the mobile station and the base station. The measure is determined by comparing either i) an expected data rate for communications over the link and an actual data rate of communications over the link, wherein the expected data rate takes into account radio frequency (RF) power levels of signals received at the mobile station over the link, or ii) an expected RF power level for communications over the link and RF power levels of signals received at the mobile station over the link, wherein the expected RF power level takes into account the actual data rate of communications over the link. This measure of the quality of the link may be a factor in triggering the mobile station to initiate a handoff.
US09210639B2
A method for use of a Global System of Mobile Communication (GSM) and Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) (GSM/UMTS) mobile communication network by a user equipment attached to a core network of an Evolved Packet System (EPS) mobile communication network, the use of the GSM/UMTS mobile communication network being the result of a fallback operation, includes, prior to an invocation of a service that triggers the fallback operation: performing an updating operation regarding assignment of a Location Area Code (LAC) and/or a serving Mobile Switching Center (MSC) to the user equipment; and/or performing, autonomously by the user equipment, a measurement operation regarding a current General Packet Radio System (GPRS)/EDGE Radio Access Network (GERAN) or UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) (GERAN/UTRAN) radio environment in order to identify potential CSFB target cells of the user equipment.
US09210637B2
A method, apparatus and system for cell handover in the communication system supporting Carrier Aggregation (CA). The method includes: after receiving a performance measurement report for one or more neighboring cells from the served terminal, according to the performance measurement report, and basing on the CA mode for one or more candidate BSs corresponding to the one or more neighboring cells, a source Base Station (BS) in a communications system selects an algorithm suitable for the CA mode to calculate the priority levels of the one or more candidate BSs; from the one or more candidate BSs, selecting the BS having the highest priority as a target BS; and selecting one more cells to access from all cells being subject to the target BS in the one or more neighboring cells.
US09210631B2
According to one exemplary embodiment of a method of bandwidth aggregation for radio accessing on multi-networks, a UE on a first network and a network device supporting the first network and a second network exchange or set one second network information of each other. At least one first network dedicated channel is established between the UE and the network device. According to the information of the at least one first network dedicated channel, the UE and the network device may use the first and the second networks to transmit at least one packet belonging to the at least one first network dedicated channel.
US09210629B2
A method for a user equipment adapted for wireless communication with a base station, comprising, when the user equipment operates in a CELL_FACH state and performs user data transmission over a first carrier: receiving from the base station a message indicative of a second carrier to be used for the user data transmission; and transferring the user data transmission from the first carrier to the second carrier, in response to the message. A method for a base station, a user equipment and base station are also described.
US09210626B2
In a wireless communication system, a user equipment is configured to repeatedly send a measurement report associated with updating active set to a network and records mobility information before receiving a corresponding acknowledgement message from the network. After having sent the measurement report over a predetermined period of time, the user equipment is then configured to analyze the mobility information.
US09210624B2
Methods for performing change of primary cell during carrier aggregation operation are described. A mobile station (MS) receives a message to change a primary cell and to perform a random access communication with a new primary cell. Upon receiving a random access response message from the new primary cell, the MS starts transmitting a control channel to the new primary cell. In one embodiment, the MS releases the configuration of an uplink control channel and transmits uplink control information through an uplink shared channel. Upon completion of the primary cell change procedure, the MS starts transmission of an uplink control channel to the new primary cell.
US09210620B2
When performing a handover of a user equipment, a base station selects one of first and second algorithms based on a handover state of the user equipment. Then, the base station determines a format of a communication channel with the user equipment based on the selected algorithm and quality of communication with the user equipment.
US09210616B2
A packet data system such as a TCP/IP network transmits packets containing a variety of data types along links in the network. Packets are transmitted in a stream between nodes interconnected by the links connections which conform to a transport layer protocol such as TCP, UDP, and RSTP, and includes wireless links, which transmit packets using a radio frequency (RF) medium. Typical protocols, however, are usually developed to optimize throughput and minimize data error and loss over wired links, and do not lend themselves well to a wireless link. By examining the data in a packet, performance characteristics such as a port number are determined. The performance characteristics indicate the application type, and therefore, the data type, of the packets carried on the connection. Since certain data types, such as streaming audio and video, are more loss tolerant, determination of the data type is used to compute link control parameters for the wireless link which that are optimal to the type of data being transmitted over the link.
US09210609B2
The purpose of this invention is to provide a technique for preventing collisions between a numerous response packets generated in broadcast communication. A communication device (A1-A16) transmits a response packet (220) using a time slot corresponding to the terminal number (A1-A16) of the device, in response to a broadcast packet (210) transmitted from an information processing unit (20). The information processing unit (20) transmits a broadcast retransmission packet (230) including information representing the terminal numbers of communication devices that have succeeded in transmitting a response packet. Among communication devices that have received the broadcast retransmission packet (230), the communication devices that require retransmission transmit a retransmission response packet (240) using the time slot of another randomly selected device.
US09210602B2
Indication(s) of a configuration of first interference measurement resources in first subframe(s) and of a configuration of second interference measurement resources in second subframe(s) are received at a first BS and from a second BS using an interface between the first and second BSs. The first BS transmits zero or low power REs that coincide with the REs belonging to the first interference measurement resources in the first subframe(s). The first BS transmits full power REs that coincide with the REs belonging to the second interference measurement resources in the second subframe(s). The first interference measurement resources in the first subframe(s) are to be used by a UE (e.g., attached to the second base station) to measure interference for zero or low power REs and the second interference measurement resources in the second subframe(s) are to be used by the UE to measure interference for full power REs.
US09210601B2
A mobile station includes: a processor coupled to a memory, configured to: measure an amount of traffic in a serving cell, determine a condition for transferring to another cell based on the measured amount of traffic, measure a received signal power of the serving cell and the another cell, and control transfer from the serving cell to the another cell when the measured received signal power satisfies the determined condition.
US09210599B2
A first layer one link aggregation master comprises a first port coupled to receive customer traffic; a first channel; a second channel; an aggregation engine coupled to the first and second channels; a first switch circuit coupled to the first port and to the first channel, and configured to communicate the customer traffic from the first port over the first channel to the aggregation engine, the aggregation engine including a splitter circuit configured to use layer one information to segment at least a portion of the customer traffic into a first virtual container and a second virtual container, the aggregation engine further including an encapsulation circuit configured to encapsulate the second virtual container using Ethernet standards for transport over the second channel; a radio access card configured to generate an air frame based on the first virtual container for wireless transmission over a first wireless link of a link aggregation group to the receiver; and a second switch circuit coupled to the second channel, and configured to communicate the Ethernet-encapsulated second virtual container over an Ethernet cable to a slave for wireless transmission over a second wireless link of the link aggregation group to the receiver.
US09210598B1
An embodiment of a low power system for measuring passive intermodulation (PIM) includes a port, a test signal source, a dielectric frequency domain multiplexer and a receiver. The test signal source provides a test signal including two tones each capable of producing a signal at the test port of amplitude +30 decibels referenced to one milliwatt (dBm) or less. The dielectric frequency domain multiplexer connected with the port and the test signal source and is adapted to multiplex the test signal provided by the test signal source and a measurement signal obtained at the port. The receiver receives the multiplexed measurement signal from the dielectric frequency domain multiplexer and provides a signal indicative of PIM.
US09210587B2
Deploying multiple access points on multiple wireless communication channels to optimize coverage area. Additional channels provide additional communication capability which multiple AP's, and their associated stations, can collectively use. An additional set of AP's can be disposed in the additional communication channel, with multiple communication channels possibly physically intersecting. The system control element collects information from devices in the wireless communication system, and automatically configures which AP is assigned to which communication channel. The system control element determines which AP's are servicing which physical locations, in response to feedback from AP's and stations in those locations. The system control element assigns, or re-assigns, AP's in each physical location, with the effect of optimizing coverage.
US09210581B2
A method of commissioning a wireless field device is provided. The method includes communicatively coupling a handheld field maintenance tool to the wireless field device to obtain a wireless field device identifier. A wireless network is selected. Wireless communication is generated between the handheld field maintenance tool and a wireless gateway to automatically obtain a join key for the wireless field device identifier. The join key is written to the wireless field device with the handheld field maintenance tool.
US09210580B2
Methods of controlling a network node, network nodes and a computer program product are disclosed. A method of controlling a network node includes, upon determining a proposed change to characteristics of the network node, providing a first indication of the proposed change to other network nodes within a predefined network node cluster of which the network node is a member; and, in the absence of a second indication from the other network nodes within the network node cluster rejecting the proposed change to the characteristics of the network node, making the proposed change to the characteristics of the network node.
US09210574B2
Methods and apparatus for verifying authenticity of device information of an end-user device are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for verifying authenticity of device information of an end-user device may include sending a request to verify device information of an end-user device receiving, responsive to the request, verification information regarding the device information sent, and performing a verification analysis on the verification information received.
US09210573B2
A method and apparatus for providing authentication of a computing device with a communications service. A subscriber identity module image is transmitted to the device and stored in a general memory of the device and soft SIM data. A secure module on the device permits access to the soft SIM data. The Soft SIM data is registered with the service provider in association with a unique identification of the device. The soft SIM data has a one to one relationship with the device. A device can have many instances of soft SIM data.
US09210565B2
In a multicast control method, when an SSID or a BSSID of a specified VAP that will be delivered to an access point AP enables a multicast control function, an AC sends to the AP a CAPWAP multicast control message that includes multicast control enabling information, so that the AP creates a multicast control table according to the CAPWAP multicast control message that includes the multicast control enabling information and performs multicast control according to the multicast control table. With the method, the AC is responsible for delivering a multicast control policy to the AP, and the AP implements multicast replication and WLAN station rights control, which relieves the multicast control and multicast replication pressure on the AC effectively, improves the utilization of the network bandwidth, and overcomes the operator's difficulties in meeting multicast service requirements in the WLAN thoroughly.
US09210558B2
A method for updating voicemail data at least partially stored at a device can include obtaining a command to update the voicemail data at a device. The device can activate a data session through which voicemail data can be downloaded to the device. In some embodiments, the device can automatically activate a data session upon the occurrence of a trigger event, for example, upon the receipt of a message waiting indicator, or upon powering on the device. In other embodiments, the device can wait for a user action or command to download voicemail data. The action or command can be received at the device after a trigger event, or at any other time. Exemplary devices and communications networks for implementing these and other embodiments are disclosed.
US09210553B2
A management method and apparatus for a Closed Subscriber Group (CSG) white list are provided in the present invention, which can avoid the case that causes the CSG white list of a User Equipment (UE) to include a new Operator CSG List (OCL) and an old Allowed CSG List (ACL). The method includes the following steps: a User Equipment (UE) receives an updated Operator CSG List (OCL) or an Allowed CSG List (ACL) from a network side; according to the updated OCL or ACL, UE generates the CSG white list. With the present invention, when UE performs cells selection or handover according to the CSG white list which is provided to a non-access stratum by an access stratum as a basis for access control, the selected CSG identifier can not be refused by the network, the user experience can not be reduced, and unnecessary network signaling overhead can not be increased.
US09210551B2
In the invention, wireless communication devices transmit beacon frames in an order in compliance with a CSMA/CA protocol. A wireless communication device as a transmitting station of a multicast frame uses one of the beacon frames to notify wireless communication devices as receiving stations of the multicast frame that an ACK frame is to be transmitted when the multicast frame is received. On receipt of the multicast frame, the wireless communication devices as the receiving stations transmit ACK frames in order of transmitting the beacon frames at SIFS intervals.
US09210550B2
Technology is discussed for allowing a wireless mobile device, such as a User Equipment (UE), to coordinate with a Radio Access Network, such as an Evolved-Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN), to tear down a power intensive messaging connection, such as a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, to met needs of both the UE and the E-UTRAN. The UE can initiate the tear down process based on information at the UE about the potential need of the UE for the RRC connection and/or the state of the UE's battery charge. The E-UTRAN can then determine whether to grant the request based on the potential overhead involved. The determination can be important to the E-UTRAN because of the large overhead associated with frequent disconnection and re-establishment of the RRC connection. Upon receipt of an affirmative response, the UE can tear down the RRC connection to save battery power.
US09210546B2
Providing location information on a mobile device includes receiving signals from external devices. Each signal includes information that specifies a geographic location for the external device that has provided the signal. A geographic location for the mobile device is calculated by using the information contained in each of the received signals. A representation of the geographic location of the mobile device is generated. The representation of the geographic location is included within an electronic message that provides information describing a user of the mobile device to other users of an electronic communications system. The electronic message is transmitted to another device to provide an indication of the geographic location for the user to one of the other users of the electronic communications system.
US09210543B2
Disclosed is a method for determining an indoor location which includes receiving signals including IDs and information on floors from a plurality of APs that is provided at floors of the multi-story building; measuring reception signal strengths of the received signals, and selecting candidate floors by using the measured reception signal strengths; predicting reception signal strengths of the other candidate floors by using the reception signal strengths of the APs provided at the respective candidate floors; and calculating variance values for the reception signal strengths of the candidate floors, and estimating a current location by using the variance values.
US09210538B2
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method, system and computer readable medium for providing context-based listing services. The method comprises registering at least one first service provider with an second service provider wherein registering comprises that the first service provider provides the information via a communication network to the second service provider and it validates the information. Validating comprises identify the location of the first service provider and/or request to at least one predefined user located nearby the location of the first service provider. At least one user requests the second service provider for the information via the communication network. At least one user retrieves the information and provides ranking to category of services so as to update the information in the second service provider.
US09210533B1
A wireless base station schedules allocated resource blocks from an OFDM resource block structure to a UEs and holds unallocated resource blocks from the OFDM resource block structure for machines. The base station decodes wireless OFDM signals based on the OFDM resource block structure to obtain user data from the UEs using the allocated resource blocks and to obtain machine data from the machine devices using the unallocated resource blocks. The base station processes the machine data from the unallocated resource blocks to validate authorization marks in individual resource blocks. The base station transfers portions of the machine data having the valid authorization marks for delivery. The base station inhibits the transfer of machine data not having the valid authorization marks.
US09210531B1
A wireless client device includes a receiver, controller, and transmitter. The receiver is configured to wirelessly receive a beacon from a wireless access point. The beacon includes an information element indicating whether the wireless access point is capable of providing a wireless application service. The controller is configured to, in response to the information element indicating that the wireless access point is capable of providing a wireless application service, generate a wireless application service request. The wireless application service request identifies a requested wireless application service, and identifies a source of an application to be obtained, installed, and executed by the wireless access point. Execution of the application enables the wireless access point to provide the requested wireless application service to the wireless client device. The transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit a packet to the wireless access point. The packet includes the wireless application service request.
US09210530B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method, related apparatus, and system for configuring an application parameter of a mobile terminal, so as to configure an application parameter of a mobile terminal conveniently. The method includes: establishing, by the mobile terminal, a near field communication (NFC) connection with a configurator; negotiating, between the mobile terminal and the configurator, a type of an application parameter to be configured and a manner for receiving the application parameter through the NFC connection; receiving, by the mobile terminal, the application parameter from the configurator according to the negotiated manner; and performing, by the mobile terminal, an application parameter configuration for the mobile terminal according to the received application parameter.
US09210529B2
Methods, program products, and systems for location-based application program management are described. A mobile device can receive a first application program to be executed in an application subsystem. The first application program can be configured to be invoked or notified when the mobile device is located at a defined location. The mobile device can register the first application program to a second application program that executes in a baseband subsystem. The mobile device can set the application subsystem to a power-saving operating mode. The second application program can monitor a current location of the mobile device. When the mobile device is currently located at the defined location, the second application program can set the application subsystem to an active operating mode, and invoke the first application program.
US09210524B2
An aircraft audio panel includes a plurality of audio inputs each configured for receiving audio communications from an audio source; a plurality of audio outputs each configured for outputting the audio communications to audio equipment in the aircraft; selecting circuitry for selecting the audio communications between the audio inputs and the audio outputs; a single selector for permitting selection of one of the audio inputs or audio outputs for adjustment; and a single audio controller for permitting adjustment of an audio characteristic of the selected audio input or audio output. The audio panel may also include an audio characteristic indicator for indicating an audio characteristic of the selected audio input or audio output. The selecting circuitry may also implement a routing mode in which a user may first initiate the routing mode, then select one of the audio inputs for routing, and then select any one of the audio outputs for receiving audio communications from the selected audio input.
US09210492B2
Embodiments of the invention include a microphone assembly having a microphone soldered on a bottom side of a bottom ported microphone flex circuit carrier, and a rigid coupler soldered on the top side of the carrier, opposite to the microphone. The coupler is inserted into and sealed to a microphone boot made out of a soft material. The top of the boot may be sealed to an electronic audio device into which the assembly is integrated. Acoustic openings through the housing, boot, coupler and carrier allow acoustic signals to reach the microphone. However, the seals between the housing, boot, coupler, carrier and microphone provide sound isolation, as well as a moisture and dust seal between the ambient and the inside of the electronic device. Such seals may include rings, grooves, threads, O-rings between the boot and coupler; or a reinforcing ring around the soft material of the boot.
US09210489B1
The present disclosure provides an off-axial audio speaker using single audio source. The audio speaker includes a bass sounding unit and a treble sounding unit. The bass sounding unit is off-axially surrounded by the treble sounding unit and includes two magnets, a single magnetic gap mechanism, a vibration sounding membrane disposed with a single sound coil, and a wiring board. A magnetic resistance ring is selectively disposed within the bass sounding unit, and the treble sounding unit is disposed in the magnetic resistance ring. The vibration audio source point of the bass sounding unit is horizontally aligned with the vibration audio source point of the treble sounding unit. Therefore, the size of the audio speaker can be reduced, and vibration audio source points are aligned for realizing a relatively broader range of electrical adjustability and enabling the audio speaker to output both bass and treble sound.
US09210488B2
A method performed by a FCU comprising receiving a MPCP request message from a CNU via an electrical network, wherein the MPCP request message comprises a first timestamp, adjusting the first timestamp in the MPCP request message by an electrical network delay, and forwarding the MPCP request message with the adjusted timestamp to an OLT via an optical network. Also disclosed is a method performed by an OLT comprising receiving a MPCP message from a CNU via a FCU and an optical network, obtaining an arrival time of the MPCP message, adjusting a timestamp in the MPCP message by subtracting an electrical network delay from the timestamp, and computing a RTT delay based on the timestamp and the arrival time.
US09210481B2
Systems and methods for performing smooth visual search of media encoded for adaptive bitrate streaming using trick play streams are disclosed. One embodiment of the invention includes requesting and buffering portions of video from at least one of the alternative streams using a playback device, decoding the buffered portions of video using a decoder on the playback device, receiving at least one user instruction directing the playback device to perform a visual search of the media, requesting and buffering potions of video from the trick play stream using the playback device, and decoding the buffered portions of the trick play stream using a decoder on the playback device.
US09210477B2
Methods for automatically buffering and displaying video feeds associated with a live event are described. The video feeds displayed on the mobile device may comprise live video feeds or replays associated with the live event. A replay may comprise a playback of one or more buffered video feeds in a particular sequence and at a particular playback rate. The particular sequence may be determined based on the viewing behavior of the end user of the mobile device and/or the viewing behaviors of one or more other end users using other mobile devices at the live event. In some cases, the replay may comprise a shared replay in which a group of end users attending the live event may interact with each other while sharing a common replay.
US09210474B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus includes interface circuitry to receive signals including video signals and drawing commands, and a command interpreter to receive the drawing commands and provide on screen display (OSD) signals in response to the drawing commands. Video processing circuitry processes the received video signals to provide processed video signals, and a blender to blend the OSD signals and the processed video signals to produce blended video signals including the OSD signals and the processed video signals. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09210473B2
This invention provides a system and method of integrating video games into live sporting events, or the converse, in an interactive way. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a viewer watching a broadcast sporting event can elect to become a “phantom participant” in an event. At one or more designated points in the event (e.g., a golf tournament), the viewer's set-top box will switch from feeding the broadcast event to the viewer's television screen to feeding a stream from a video game unit to the same television screen. The video game unit is configured to receive information from the broadcast feed that includes information such as, but not limited to, the event location, the hole being played (in the golf example), the participants, and statistics related to the performance of the participants. This information may be used by the video game unit to present the viewer with the opportunity to “virtually” compete with the participants in the broadcast event.
US09210465B2
The present invention relates to a communication system, a transmitter, a receiver, a communication method, a program, and a communication cable for providing high-speed bidirectional communication while maintaining compatibility. When an HDMI (R) source performs bidirectional IP communication with an HDMI (R) sink using a CEC line and a signal line, a switching control unit controls a switch so that, when data is transmitted, the switch selects a constituent signal forming a differential signal output from a converting unit and, when data is transmitted, the switch selects a constituent signal forming a differential signal output from a receiver. When bidirectional communication is performed using only the CEC line, the switching control unit controls the switch so that the CEC signal output from the HDMI (R) source or the receiver is selected. The present invention is applicable to, for example, HDMI (R).
US09210461B2
An exemplary method includes a theme-based media program discovery system 1) concurrently maintaining data representative of a first active media program curation heuristic that specifies a first set of curation parameters associated with a media program theme and a second active media program curation heuristic that specifies a second set of curation parameters associated with the media program theme, 2) curating, based on the first active media program curation heuristic, a first set of one or more media programs related to the media program theme, and 3) curating, based on the second active media program curation heuristic, a second set of one or more media programs related to the media program theme. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US09210457B2
Systems and methods for generating domain-compliant image data. Domain-specific usage rights may be evaluated. The domain-specific usage rights may be associated with the transfer of particular encoded image data to a particular computing system other than the computing system. The domain-specific usage rights may specify maximum allowable spatial frequency content of the particular encoded image data. Domain-compliant image data may be generated by removing particular disallowable spatial frequency content from the encoded image data prior to transfer to the particular computing system.
US09210451B2
Provided are systems and methods for making a replication decision in a P2P VoD architecture. A system according to the present application may comprise a plurality of peers; a plurality of videos distributed over the peers; and a server maintaining a replication indicator for each of the plurality of videos. In the system, each of the peers reports a first piece of information regarding one or more first videos of the plurality of videos which are stored in the peer and a second piece of information regarding a second video of the plurality of videos which is required to be stored in the peer to the server when the peer does not have enough space for storing the second video. The server then determines, according to the first and second pieces of information and the replication indicators for the first and the second videos, whether the peer is to replace one of the first videos with the second video.
US09210440B2
A moving picture coding method includes: coding, using a motion vector, a current block to be coded; generating a plurality of predictive motion vectors; and coding the motion vector using one of the predictive motion vectors, and when a co-located block included in a coded picture and co-located with the current block has two reference motion vectors and reference directions of the two reference motion vectors are the same, a first prediction vector is generated using a first reference motion vector and a second prediction vector is generated using a second reference motion vector in the generating of a plurality of predictive motion vectors.
US09210436B2
Disclosed are a distributed video encoding/decoding method and a distributed video encoding/decoding apparatus, which can improve loss resilience and the quality of service. The distributed video encoding method first involves checking the state of a channel, determining a channel coding rate and the size of video data to be transmitted based on the checked state of a channel, determining the number of motion prediction performance steps based on the determined size of video data to be transmitted, encoding the video data to be transmitted by performing motion predictions according to the determined number of motion prediction performance steps, and channel-coding the encoded video data according to the determined channel coding rate. Accordingly, it is possible to improve loss resilience, even without additionally occupying network resources, thereby being capable of reducing the probability of decoding failure.
US09210435B2
A video encoding apparatus includes a frequency transform unit for executing an orthogonal transform on a prediction difference or an original image; a quantizing unit for quantizing transform coefficients outputted by the frequency transform unit; a variable-length coder for executing variable-length encoding on a bit string generated from the quantized transform coefficients; a rate controller for performing a rate control to control a code bit stream outputted by the variable-length coder to be maintained at a bit rate; and a code amount estimating unit for estimating a code amount to be generated by the variable-length coder based on a length of the bit string and an occurrence frequency of symbol in the bit string. The rate controller executes the rate control based on the estimated code amount.
US09210430B2
A previously signaled reference picture set (RPS) corresponding to a current picture is indicated. A first flag for a picture in the previously signaled RPS is set if the picture is to be used as a reference picture for the current picture. A bitstream is sent.
US09210428B2
Provided is an image processing apparatus including: area determination unit configured to determine whether or not an area of a control block functioning as control unit for filtering of an image includes a processing-target slice area of a plurality of slices formed in a frame of an encoded image; control information creation unit configured to create filter control information representing whether or not the filtering is performed for the area of the control block including a processing-target slice for each area of the control block including the processing-target slice when the area determination unit determines that the area of the control block includes the area of the processing-target slice; and filter unit configured to perform filtering for the image based on the filter control information created by the control information creation unit.
US09210426B2
When removing a block distortion occurring in a local decoded image, a loop filtering part 11 of an image coding device carries out a filtering process on each of signal components (a luminance signal component and color difference signal components) after setting the intensity of a filter for removing the block distortion for each of the signal components according to a coding mode (an intra coding mode or an inter coding mode) selected by a coding controlling part 1.
US09210422B1
A method and system for staggered parallelized video decoding system decodes a compressed video stream at approximately double the performance of conventional systems, and outputs the decoded stream to a video display device. Even and odd video frames from the video stream are identified and stored in a memory. A first decoder processes a first portion of a first even frame from among the stored even frames. After the first decoder completes processing the first portion of the first even frame, a second decoder begins processing a first odd frame from among the stored odd frames. The processing start times of the odd frames are staggered with respect to the even frames and vice versa, and the even and odd frames are simultaneously processed using first and second decoders.
US09210421B2
Techniques and tools described herein help manage memory efficiently during video decoding, especially when multiple video clips are concurrently decoded. For example, with clip-adaptive memory usage, a decoder determines first memory usage settings expected to be sufficient for decoding of a video clip. The decoder also determines second memory usage settings known to be sufficient for decoding of the clip. During decoding, memory usage is initially set according to the first settings. Memory usage is adaptively increased during decoding, subject to theoretical limits in the second settings. With adaptive early release of side information, the decoder can release side information memory for a picture earlier than the decoder releases image plane memory for the picture. The decoder can also adapt memory usage for decoded transform coefficients depending on whether the coefficients are for intra-coded blocks or inter-coded blocks, and also exploit the relative sparseness of non-zero coefficient values.
US09210419B2
Systems and methods are described for determining a set of three quality metrics for audio and/or video signals transmitted through a packet network. The set of three metrics provide more insight into which factors are affecting the quality of the received signal as perceived by the end-user. These three quality metrics measure reductions in quality due to lossy media transmission, packet loss concealment from packet loss and/or packet/frame jitter, and long periods of silence and/or frozen video. Because each metric quantifies a different aspect of transmitted quality, a deficiency in the transmitted signal can be identified by reference to the set.
US09210418B2
A method and an apparatus for calibrating a multi-spectral sampling system are provided. The method includes: sampling scene information of a scene to obtain a two-path multi-spectral image comprising a multi-spectral image consisting of a plurality of sampling points and a RGB color image; calibrating a spectrum of each of the plurality of sampling points to obtain a spatial location thereof and a spectral wavelength corresponding to the spatial location; providing two scanning videos in different scanning directions, demonstrating and shooting the two scanning videos to obtain two two-path multi-spectral videos, in which each two-path multi-spectral video comprises a multi-spectral video and a RGB color video; and based on the spatial location of each of the plurality of sampling points, obtaining a matching point of each of the plurality of sampling points, so as to implement a spatial location calibration of the multi-spectral sampling system.
US09210415B2
A three-dimensional picture viewing system includes: display system (2) that multiplexes and displays, in a time-division manner, three or more pictures including two or more pictures with different parallaxes and at least one subtitle picture and outputs a control signal indicating a switching timing of the pictures; input means (7) for designating an arbitrary display mode among a plurality of different display modes in which display pictures to be viewed are determined from among the three or more pictures; two shutters that switch a state between light transmission and light blocking; and a shutter driving circuit that specifies switching timings of the display pictures corresponding to the display mode designated by input means (7) based on the control signal, and independently controls opening/closing of the two shutters at the specified switching timing of the pictures.
US09210410B2
According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a displaying device capable of displaying a three-dimensional image; a detector configured to detect a viewer; an obtaining device configured to obtain, on the basis of a detection result from the detector, a second position of the viewer in a second coordinate system fixed to the detector; a first calculator configured to calculate a difference between a first position in a first coordinate system fixed to the displaying device and the second position; and a second calculator configured to calculate a correction value for at least one of a set position of a viewing zone in which the viewer can view the three-dimensional image and the second position so as to compensate for the difference.
US09210405B2
Embodiments are directed towards enabling digital cameras to digitally process captured two dimensional image sequences at a real time video rate, to convert the two dimensional image sequences into stereoscopic three dimensional image sequences. In one embodiment, using a pipelining architecture, various statistics are obtained for a captured two dimensional sequence. The statistics are used to estimate depth within each frame image within the sequence, in real time. Using the depth data a disparity map is generated that is provided to a warping component to generate a second perspective of the two dimensional image. The two images for the frame provide a three dimensional perspective for the frame within the sequence. Together the two perspective images for the frame are provided to a video encoder component to encode the stereoscopic three dimensional frame for the sequence.
US09210402B2
An image coding method includes: (i) determining, for each of one or more associated blocks, whether to add a motion vector of the associated block to a list, and (ii) adding the motion vector of the associated block to the list when determining that the motion vector of the associated block is to be added to the list; selecting a motion vector from the list as a motion vector predictor; and (i) coding a current block using a motion vector of the current block, and (ii) coding a difference between the motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor, and in the determining, it is determined that the motion vector of the associated block is not to be added to the list when an associated picture and an associated reference picture match temporally or when a current picture and a current reference picture match temporally.
US09210400B2
A method and an image processing device for adjusting a stereo image are provided. The method includes: obtaining a disparity map between a first image and a second image; dividing the disparity map into layers which correspond to first layers of the first image and second layers of the second image; generating a first cost according to displacements of pixels of an ith first layer and an ith second layer; generating a second cost according to a difference between displacements of pixels of the ith first layer and a jth first layer, and a difference between displacements of pixels of the ith second layer and a jth second layer; executing an optimization algorithm at least according to the first cost and the second cost to obtain all the displacements; and adjusting the positions of the corresponding pixels according to the displacements. Therefore, a viewer may have a better viewing experience.
US09210399B1
A head-wearable device includes a support structure having a center support with a nosepiece configured to rest on the nose of a user. A first side arm extends from a first end of the center frame support, and an earpiece extends therefrom. The earpiece defines a first portion adjacent the side arm and a second portion remote from the side arm. A display is affixed to the support structure and is positionable adjacent an eye of the user. The device is configured to be wearable in a first position with the first portion of the earpiece in contact with the ear of the user and the display positioned above a center of a line of sight of the user and in a second position with the second portion of the earpiece in contact with the ear and the display positioned over the center of the line of sight.
US09210395B2
There is provided an image processing device including an image input unit that performs image division on an input image, an evaluation value generation unit that generates an evaluation value based on an image signal of the input image, and a plurality of signal processing units that perform signal processing on the image signal based on the evaluation value generated by the evaluation value generation unit, wherein the plurality of signal processing units perform the signal processing using image signals of divided images divided by the image input unit.
US09210382B2
According to one embodiment, a method of descrambling digital multimedia content starts by sending an out-of-band request for encrypted control data to a headend. A descrambler integrated circuit may then receive digital program data in a scrambled format and the encrypted control data. The encrypted control data may then be decrypted entirely within the descrambler integrated circuit using a multiple-step decryption process starting with a unique key permanently stored in the descrambler integrate circuit and using the partial decryption of control data from the previous decryption step to generate a key to decrypt subsequent encrypted control data. The scrambled digital program data may then be descrambled in the descrambler integrated circuit using the decrypted control data from the last decryption step. Other embodiments are described.
US09210379B2
Implementations generally relate to displaying a presenter during a video conference. In some implementations, a method includes providing a user interface of a video conference between at least a first user and a second user, where the first user is associated with a first endpoint and the second user is associated with a second endpoint. The method also includes determining view rank values for each of the first endpoint and the second endpoint. The method also includes causing the user interface to display a first user video stream in a current presenter position and to display a second user video stream in a secondary presenter position based on the view rank values.
US09210368B2
A method and apparatus is provided for recording a program being advertised during a broadcast of another program. The method begins by receiving a user request to record the program being advertised in an advertisement appearing in a broadcast of the other program. The other program is embodied in a video signal received from an external broadcasting source. At least one prescribed keyword is identified in a locally stored segment of the video signal that contains the advertisement. The prescribed keyword(s) pertains to a time at which the program being advertised is to be broadcast. A recording session is established in accordance with the prescribed keyword(s) to record the program being advertised. Finally, the program being advertised is recorded during the established recording session.
US09210366B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for processing multimedia to provide a simulated experience where a plurality of remote users simultaneously view the same content even though one of the users is viewing the content at a different time. The method includes reading out information regarding user reactions to content during playback of the content, displaying a history of user reactions according to the information regarding the user reactions, and playing back a portion of content corresponding to a selected time point from the history of the user reactions at which the user reactions occurred.
US09210361B2
The present disclosure relates to a system for multiplexing (i.e. combining multiple signals into one signal) both a plurality of video content (live and deferred time) and multiple video access mediums (such as cable television, satellite, internet video (clips, programming and movies), video games, DVD players, etc.) in a viewer friendly manner to enhance entertainment and other entertainment possibilities. The output of a selected video content is seen in a container known as a video container. Multiple video containers can be resized and positioned on a large screen television or other display device under viewer control. Control of video containers' video content or other content viewed, audio, and a host of other properties are done via web page controls or preferably connected mobile devices such as smart phones, tablets or other devices.
US09210356B2
A method for reconfiguring an entertainment system to restore audio/video content to a user is presented. In the method, a request to reconfigure the entertainment system is received at a first component of the entertainment system. In response to the request, an indication of a configuration command for a second component of the entertainment system is transmitted from the first component to a remote control device. In response to receiving the indication of the configuration command at the remote control device, the configuration command is transmitted from the remote control device to the second component.
US09210354B2
Disclosed is a reception apparatus including a basic service reception unit to demodulate and channel-decode a signal received through one broadcasting channel among broadcasting channels for a basic service, and to extract a transport stream, an additional service reception unit to demodulate and channel-decode a signal received through a broadcasting channel for an additional service combined with the basic service, and to extract a transport stream, an integrated demultiplexer to respectively demultiplex the transport stream provided for the basic service and the transport stream provided for the additional service in order to extract at least one transport stream, and a source decoder to respectively decode the demultiplexed transport stream provided for the basic service and the demultiplexed transport stream provided for the additional service in order to broadcast at least one of a basic source and an additional source combined with the basic source.
US09210349B2
In an A/D conversion circuit and a solid-state imaging device, a latch circuit is in a disable state until a first timing at which an output signal of a comparison unit has been inverted, and is in an enable state until a second timing at which a delay time of the inversion delay circuit has passed from the first timing. The latch circuit is in the enable state until the second timing according to comparison start in the comparison unit. The latch circuit latches an output signal of a delay unit at the second timing. A determination unit determines whether the latch circuit accurately latches the output signal of the delay unit, and outputs a signal indicating a determination result to a delay controller. The delay controller controls the delay time of the inversion delay circuit based on the determination result.
US09210343B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a signal processing unit, a frequency dividing unit, a noise processing unit, a noise frequency unifying unit, an edge processing unit, an edge frequency unifying unit, a synthesizing unit, and a control unit. The control unit controls the rates of the noise processing results of respective frequency components unified by the noise frequency unifying unit, and the rates of the edge processing results of the respective frequency components unified by the edge frequency unifying unit in accordance with control of operations of constituent elements included in the imaging device.
US09210342B2
Provided is a noise-removing system including: an iris controller configured to control a degree of openness of a lens iris; a noise image analyzer configured to perform an analysis of a noise image that is obtained in a state when the iris controller closes the iris; a normal image analyzer configured to analyze a normal image that is obtained in a state when the iris controller opens the iris; and a noise remover configured to remove noise from an image, based on a result of the analysis performed by the noise image analyzer and the analysis performed by the normal image analyzer.
US09210338B2
There is provided an image processing device including a characteristic estimation portion that, from one of image information obtained from an image sensor and information attached to the image information, estimates a characteristic of the image sensor that is used to generate the image information, and a processing portion that processes the image information in accordance with the characteristic of the image sensor estimated by the characteristic estimation portion.
US09210337B2
An imaging device has a sensor chip and a signal processing chip. The sensor chip includes a pixel array in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in a 2-dimensional matrix and a data output terminal group made up of a plurality of data output terminals which output analog signals of pixels for each pixel column of the pixel array. The signal processing chip includes a data input terminal group electrically coupled to the data output terminal group, a plurality of A/D converters which convert analog signals of pixels received by the data input terminal group into digital signals for each pixel column of the pixel array, and a control unit which controls operation of the plurality of A/D converters.
US09210331B2
A camera device is provided. The camera device includes a flash unit, an image capture module, and a controller. The flash unit generates a preset flash with a predetermined Correlated Color Temperature value to illuminate an object, and the image capture module captures a test image from the object when the preset flash illuminates the object. The controller determines an adjusted CCT value according to a color difference between the test image and a predetermined color. When the controller has determined the adjusted CCT value, the flash unit generates an adjusted flash with the adjusted CCT value to illuminate the object. When the adjusted flash illuminates the object, the image capture module captures an adjusted image.
US09210327B2
Users are provided with feedback regarding blurriness of an image in real-time. When an image is received, a blur score is automatically generated in addition to a visual that indicates the extent of blurriness across the picture. The blur score is calculated by aggregating an image_blur_score and optionally a motion_blur_score. A user can also be provided with suggestions on improving image sharpness and help in determining if another image needs to be taken.
US09210313B1
Method and device are described for customizing the content selection to present on a display device based on identifying the viewer of the device. In one embodiment, the present disclosure relates to selecting from among a group of digital images, those images that are most likely to be of interest to the viewer. In general, many of the images available to the display device will be comprised of images containing subject faces. Using the relationship information to predict subject affinity, the display device computes an image affinity for each image by accumulating the individual subject affinity predictions between the viewer and each subject identified in each image. The image affinities are used to select images for presentation on the display device.
US09210299B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an adaptor device for a source device that can reduce a connection time to a switching destination in the case where a connection destination is switched. For this, an adaptor device for a source device (104) includes a storage unit (206) that stores format information that is information indicating the format of the video signal; a dummy signal generating unit (204) that generates a dummy signal that is a dummy video signal having the same format as that specified by the format information obtained from the storage unit (206); a control unit (203) that causes the dummy signal generating unit (204) to generate the dummy signal when the video signal is not obtained from the source device; and a wireless transmitting and receiving unit (202) that selectively wirelessly transmits the video signal and the generated dummy signal.
US09210297B2
From a cost and productivity perspective, the recording and color-measurement of a test pattern to determine whether it is necessary to execute calibration places a heavy burden on a user. The present invention determines the need for processing to generate a color correction parameter without recording a test pattern. More specifically, the present invention determines whether it is necessary to execute color correction parameter generation processing based on an increase in a dot count since color correction parameter generation processing was previously executed, or a change in a ejection rate.
US09210284B2
An image forming apparatus communicates with a plurality of data processing apparatuses via a plurality of interfaces. The image forming apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a communication state with the plurality of interfaces, and a control unit configured to perform control to switch between a first sleep mode in which power supplied to any one of the plurality of interfaces is turned off and a second sleep mode in which power supplied to the plurality of interfaces is repeatedly turned on and off at predetermined time intervals according to the communication state determined by the determination unit.
US09210280B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquiring unit that acquires data indicating duration for dispersing access to a management apparatus for each period of time, a specifying unit that specifies the duration corresponding to a time which is designated by a user on the basis of the acquired data, a selection unit that selects an access time to the management apparatus from a time range based on the designated time and the duration specified by the specifying unit according to a predetermined criterion, and a unit that accesses the management apparatus on the basis of the access time selected by the selection unit.
US09210270B2
A method includes accessing signal data descriptive of a transmission sequence and pre-determined values associated with the transmission sequence. The signal data and the pre-determined values may be stored in a memory. The method includes transmitting a signal from a speaker of an electronic device according to the transmission sequence. The method includes generating a frame based on one or more signals received at a microphone of the electronic device. The one or more signals include an echo signal associated with the transmitted signal. The method includes processing the frame using the pre-determined values to produce an output frame in which a contribution associated with the echo signal is reduced.
US09210268B2
An improved system and method are disclosed for conference bridging. In one example, the method enables a device engaged in a conference call as a participant to bridge the conference call and to transfer the bridge to another device engaged in the conference call as a participant.
US09210258B2
In one implementation a computer-implemented method includes generating a group of telephone contacts for a first user, wherein the generating includes identifying a second user as a contact of the first user based upon a determination that the second user has at least a threshold email-based association with the first user; and adding the identified second user to the group of telephone contacts for the first user. The method further includes receiving a first request to connect a first telephone device associated with the first user to a second telephone device associated with the second user. The method also includes identifying a contact identifier of the second telephone device using the generated group of telephone contacts for the first user, and initiating a connection between the first telephone device and the second telephone device using the identified contact identifier.
US09210257B2
Methods of testing at least a transmission line of interest within a group of transmission lines for anomalies using Time Domain Reflectometry are provided. The testing methods set forth herein aim to improve, for example, the quality and accuracy of information collected when propagating signals along a length of transmission line in order to pinpoint specific anomalies. To achieve this and other benefits, the testing methods simultaneously impose, for example, pulses of equal magnitude and form onto a group of transmission lines, such as the phases cables of a three phase power transmission cable system. From this, at least one transmission line from the group is monitored for reflected signals caused by impedance change. An example TDR is also provided.
US09210256B1
The inappropriate use of a mobile device and/or a motor vehicle may be ameliorated through audit by a supervisor, parent or peer using a system that monitors vehicle movements and mobile device use and notifies the supervisor, parent or peer of potentially inappropriate use, such as simultaneous vehicle and mobile device use, use of the mobile device generally at times when such use is normally inappropriate according to a calendar of events, and use of the motor vehicle generally at a location or at a time and location that is normally inappropriate.
US09210249B2
A dialing mode of a telematics unit in a vehicle is controlled by monitoring for dialing digits from a vehicle occupant, determining whether the type of dialing digits are continuous dialing digits or discrete dialing digits, establishing a continuous mode for receiving continuous dialing digits or a discrete mode for receiving discrete dialing digits based on the determination, and if the type of dialing digits changes, switching the established mode.
US09210248B2
A method and an apparatus for displaying contact information using an image including the contact information. The method includes displaying an image; detecting when a preset region of the image is selected; and displaying the contact information corresponding to the preset region of the image, when the preset region is selected.
US09210247B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for managing a subset of user contacts on a telecommunications device are provided. In one embodiment, a software application executed by a processor of a telecommunications device determines at least two contact groups from a subset of contacts accessible by a telecommunications device. The software application executed by the processor of the telecommunications device also generates a contact display including a representation of at least a portion of the first or second contact groups and a divider display object. The divider display object partitions the first contact group from the second contact group and is positioned adjacent to at least one contact from the first or second contact groups presented in the contact display.
US09210234B2
System(s), method(s), and/or techniques (“tools”) are described that enable electronic document functionality for a limited-capability computing device. The tools may enable a computing device with limited display capabilities to present and enable navigation through nested items or hierarchical view levels of an electronic document. The tools may also build renderable view information by which a device may enable electronic document functionality based on the capabilities of that device.
US09210233B2
A method for sending content to a media device. The method comprises receiving a request by a mobile phone for content, the mobile phone including an antenna effective to communicate with a base station or a satellite. The method comprises sending the request from the mobile phone over the Internet to a content server. The request further comprises receiving the request at the content server; sending the request to a memory; receiving the content from the memory and sending the content from the content server to the mobile phone. The method further comprises receiving the content from the content server at the mobile phone; sending at least some of the content from the mobile phone to a media device; receiving the at least some of the content at the media device; and outputting the content on the media device.
US09210229B2
A computerized method and system to generate individualized shortened URLs and track user activity is disclosed. A method includes generating an individualized shortened URLs for each of a plurality of recipients, sending communications to each of the plurality of recipients, wherein each of the communications includes the individualized shortened URL, receiving a request from at least one of the plurality of recipients for the individualized shortened URL, and referring the request to a destination URL.
US09210224B2
The invention relates to a service provisioning method in a communication system. In the method information regarding a communication control entity capable of servicing a user of the communication system is received at a first entity associated with the communication system from a storage entity. Based on said information, an originating request is then signalled from the first entity to the communication control entity.
US09210223B2
In one embodiment, a first network device receives a priority message from a second network device, wherein the priority message conforms to a connection establishment protocol and indicates a priority associated with the second network device. The first network device obtains the priority from the priority message and stores the priority. The first network device allocates resources for at least one of control or data plane processing to the second network device in accordance with the priority.
US09210220B2
Monitoring and control of electromechanical devices from a central data center. The data center may be located at a separate geographic location, using broadband communication channels, such as Internet or telecom channels, and wireless HAN (home area network) communications. Such electromechanical devices may comprise, for example, an HVAC system at a small-business or residential site, a grounds-maintenance sprinkler system, or a small wind or solar energy generation and storage station.
US09210208B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to monitor streaming media content are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein to monitor streaming media content comprises extracting metering data having a first format from media content to be provided to a content presentation device via a transport stream, the extracted metering data identifying at least one of the media content or a source of the media content, the extracted metering data not being decodable by a meter associated with the content presentation device, transcoding the extracted metering data to form transcoded metering data having a second format decodable by the meter associated with the content presentation device, and encoding the transcoded metering data into a metadata channel to send the transcoded metering data to the content presentation device, the metadata channel being associated with the transport stream.
US09210207B2
A client device streams content from a streaming server via a buffer, with the content containing segments of requested content and segments of time-sensitive content (TSC). The client device scans metadata associated with the buffer to determine whether an instance of TSC in the buffer is optimal. Responsive to determining that a given instance of TSC in the buffer is not optimal, replacing the given instance of TSC with a replacement instance of TSC stored on the client device.
US09210205B2
Various embodiments for a system and method for providing streaming data to a device are provided herein. In one example, a method comprises receiving a request for streaming data from a mobile device, receiving settings with regards to the delivery of the streaming data to the mobile device, retrieving the streaming data from a source of the streaming data, reformatting the streaming data for the mobile device according to the settings and sending the reformatted streaming data to the mobile device in accordance with the settings.
US09210202B2
A system, method, and wireless communication device for sharing media in a group communication among a plurality of wireless communications devices, such as among a Push-to-Talk (PTT) group. A wireless communication device that is a member of the communication group can send group-directed media, such as graphics, multimedia and applications, to other members of the communication group, either during a ongoing PTT communication, or independently therefrom. In one embodiment, a group communication computer device stores information on communication groups on the wireless communication network that includes the member wireless communication devices of one or more communication groups, and receives group-directed media from a sending wireless communication device sends the group-directed media either directly to the other member wireless communication devices of the communication group or stores the group-directed media such that the other member devices can access and download the group-directed media.
US09210195B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for processing service data are provided in embodiments of the present invention. The method mainly includes: receiving, by a network storage server, a service data request sent by a terminal of a user, and sending, by the network storage server, a network storage address or a local storage address corresponding to the service data to the terminal based on a network condition of the terminal and a storage condition of the service data on the network storage server and a local storage server. The embodiments of the present invention are capable of fully exerting the complementarity of the local storage server and the network storage server in terms of capacity, and flexibly selecting whether to provide a local storage service or a network storage service to the terminal of the user.
US09210184B2
Determining the vulnerability of computer software applications to attacks by identifying a defense-related variable within a computer software application that is assigned results of a defense operation defending against a predefined type of attack, identifying a control-flow predicate dominating a security-sensitive operation within the application, identifying a data-flow dependent variable in the application that is data-flow dependent on the defense-related variable, determining whether the control-flow predicate uses the data-flow dependent variable to make a branching decision and whether a control-flow path leading to the security-sensitive operation is taken only if the data-flow dependent variable is compared against a value of a predefined type, determining that the security-sensitive operation is safe from the attack if both control-flow conditions are true, and determining that the application is safe from the attack if all security-sensitive operations in the application are determined to be safe from the attack.
US09210183B2
Anomalous activity is detected using event information that is received from accounts from within an online service. Generally, anomalous activity is detected by comparing a baseline profile that includes past event information for accounts of the online service with a recent profile that includes recent event information for the accounts. Anomalous activity is detected when the recent profile shows that one or more events are occurring more frequently as compared to the occurrence of the event the associated baseline profile. The events that are recorded and used in the anomaly detection may include all or a portion of events that are monitored by the online service. One or more reports may also be automatically generated and provided to one or more users to show activity that may be considered anomalous activity.
US09210176B2
Attempts by computing devices to access centralized data are managed according to device classification level rules. A request to access centralized data is received from an unclassified computing device. The unclassified computing device is classified into a specific one of the defined classes, based at least partially on information concerning the computing device read from the received request. Where a definition of the unclassified computing device has already been assigned to a specific class, the unclassified computing device is classified accordingly. Otherwise, the unclassified computing device is compared to multiple classified computing devices, and the unclassified computing device is classified according to the one that is most similar. Responsive to the classification of the computing device, the received request to access centralized data is governed according to a device classification level rule which specifies access policy for computing devices of the defined class.
US09210171B1
In an embodiment, a method comprises intercepting, using a server computer, a first set of instructions that define a user interface and a plurality of links, wherein each link in the plurality of links is associated with a target page, and the plurality of links includes a first link; determining that the first link, which references a first target page, is protected; in response to determining the first link is protected: generating a first protected link that is different than the first link and includes first data that authenticates a first request that has been generated based on the first protected link and that references the first target page; and generating a first decoy link that includes second data that references a first decoy page and not the first target page; rendering a second set of instructions comprising the first protected link and the first decoy link, but not the first link, and which is configured to cause a first client computer to present the first protected link in the user interface and hide the first decoy link from the user interface; sending the second set of instructions to the first client computer.
US09210170B1
Securing access to one or more applications in an enterprise zone (e.g., a set of protected applications) is disclosed. A last activity time associated with a use of at least one mobile application in the protected subset may be retrieved from a shared storage location associated with a protected subset of two or more protected mobile applications. It may be determined that the last activity time is within a session expiration time period associated with the protected subset. Access to one or more applications in the protected subset may be allowed without credential verification based at least in part on the determination.
US09210166B2
A method includes transmitting a User ID and a full Password of a user of a client device to a server via the client device, and then establishing a network connection between the client device and the server after the User ID and the full Password. The method also includes receiving, from the server via the client device, an encrypted secret PIN (ESPIN) and a challenge for corresponding positions of a Partial Password, entering the Partial Password via the client device, and computing a secret PIN (SPIN) from the ESPIN via the client device in response to a correct entry of the Partial Password. The Additional Factor is unlocked using the SPIN, and the unlocked Additional Factor is transmitted to the server to request authentication of the user of the client device. The client device includes a processor and memory having instructions for the above method.
US09210160B2
A proxy hardware system includes at least one processor configured to initiate and/or perform the following. A login page being sent to a browser executing on a client associated with a user from a back-end server is intercepted. A routine is added to the login page to generate a modified login page. The modified login page is forwarded to the browser. The browser, upon executing the routine, loads an asynchronous engine configured to execute a login process with an authentication profiling service to retrieve login information for the back-end server, and complete an authentication process with the back-end server.
US09210159B2
An information processing system includes a receiving unit that receives user identification information and organization identification information from an external device, and an authentication unit that performs authentication of the user identification information and the organization identification information received by the receiving unit using a first storage unit storing one or more sets of user identification information in association with organization identification information. When the authentication unit receives a federated authentication request to access an external service from the external device that is authenticated, the authentication unit sends a federated authentication response to the external device if the organization identification information received from the external device and the external service designated in the federated authentication request are associated with each other in a second storage unit storing the organization identification information in association with information on one or more external services that have established a trust relationship for authentication.
US09210157B1
An enterprise zone is disclosed. An attempt to use an application in a zone of applications may be received. The application may find that the zone of applications is locked. A passcode may be requested to unlock the zone of applications. A received passcode may be validated. An application bus may be updated. Use of the application may be allowed.
US09210150B2
Systems and methods for authenticating defined user actions over a computer network. An authentication service receives an authentication request from an authenticating service to perform an action on behalf of a user. The authentication service then sends a permission request to a mobile device associated with the user, asking the user whether or not the action should be allowed. The user sends a permission response via the mobile device to the authentication service, granting or denying the action. The user may automate future similar responses so long as at least one automation criterion is met (e.g., the physical location of the mobile device), eliminating the need to manually provide a response to future permission requests. Information necessary to determine whether the automation criterion is met is stored locally on the mobile device.
US09210147B1
There is disclosed a technique for use in providing an assessment of authentication requests. In one embodiment, the technique comprises receiving an authentication request with post-authentication feedback and an authentication request with no post-authentication feedback. In the same embodiment, the post-authentication feedback can include a marking indicating that the request is one of a genuine or fraudulent status after review by an analyst. If a request does not possess a post-authentication feedback then it is considered genuine status. The technique can then assign the status of the requests to a distinctive attribute associated with the requests before performing a computation which produces a computational result that is indicative of the risk associated with the distinctive attribute.
US09210146B2
Technologies are generally described for peer-to-peer or peer-to-server-to-peer communication systems based on mobile devices, servers, and personal computers, which utilize proximity communication and optical codes such as two-dimensional barcodes, in order to securely initiate and authorize digital data, file, and multimedia transfers, as well as digital financial transactions.
US09210144B2
In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving, at a set-top box from a server, a temporary authentication token that enables access to an account accessible by one or more devices. The temporary authentication token is generated after validation by the server of a particular authentication token received at the server from a first device. The first device is distinct from the set-top box. The method further includes initiating, at the set-top box, presentation of the temporary authentication token.
US09210142B2
Method and system are disclosed for providing a telephone user with a capability to use Internet-based applications. The method comprises the following steps: At a first server, receiving an indication transmitted from the telephone denoting a request to be connected to an Internet-based application residing at a second server. Establishing a communication path that extends between the telephone and the second server via said first server. At the first server, creating a virtual client entity specific to that telephone and the Internet-based application to be used. The virtual client allows communication between the telephone device and that Internet-based application. The virtual client entity is maintained for the duration of a communication session that is about to take place between the telephone user and the Internet-based application. Thereby providing the telephone user the capability to use the Internet-based application, and enable exchanging communications between the second server and the telephone.
US09210135B2
Embodiments are directed towards resynchronizing the processing of a monitored flow based on hole detection. A network monitoring device (NMD) may be employed to passively monitor flows of packets for a session between endpoints. The NMD may receive copies of the monitored flow and perform processes on the monitored flow. In some situations, some copies of packets may not be fully processed by the NMD, creating a hole in the processing. If a hole is detected in the monitored flow and the processing of the monitored flow is desynchronized, then the NMD may suspend processing until it is resynchronized or for a remainder of the session. If the processing is desynchronized, then the NMD may resynchronize the processing by resuming the processing of the monitored flow at a downstream position of the monitored flow based on the detected hole.
US09210133B2
A method and system of authenticating a computer resource such as an application or data on a mobile device uses a contactless token to provide multi-factor user authentication. User credentials are stored on the token in the form of private keys, and encrypted data and passwords are stored on the device. When application user requires access to the resource an encrypted password is transmitted to and decrypted on the token using a stored private key. An unencrypted data encryption key or password is then transmitted back to the device under the protection of a cryptographic session key which is generated as a result of strong mutual authentication between the device and the token.
US09210132B2
A data warehouse and method of providing a record that includes both desired demographic information and undiscoverable individual information are described. Data records including subscriber-identifiable information associated with a device of a subscriber to the network service provider and demographic attributes associated with the network subscriber are initially extracted from the record. A hash value based on subscriber-identifiable information associated with the subscriber device is generated and used to generate a user identifier hash value based on the subscriber-identifiable information and a periodically-updated salt value. The record is updated to form a hashed record that includes the demographic attributes of the network subscriber, the hash value, and the user identifier hash value. The hashed record is then supplied in response to a request from a query server.
US09210120B2
The invention relates to a communication system and method wherein a user equipment contains, or is provided with, a list of items of service-related information. The list of service-related information represents a list of service provider names, services and/or service types or the like. When intending to establish or modify a session or connection or use a service, the user equipment selects, in one of the embodiments, an item from the list and performs a DNS query to resolve the name of the selected item to an IP address which then is used for set-up. The list may be provided by an DHCP server or in a PDP context message. The list may comprise one or more service provider default names, in particular for visited and home networks.
US09210119B2
Systems and methods for using a subset of a group to determine if a given message or post is suitable for broadcast to the entire group. The method may include receiving and tabulating responses to a stimulus for a first period of time from a portion of the population. It may be determined that the tabulated responses exceed a threshold prior to expiration of a timeout period and the threshold may be based on size of the population or size of the portion of the population. In response to determining that the threshold has been exceeded, a broadcast of the stimulus to the population may be triggered.
US09210107B2
A first network device includes a host and a memory. A media access controller receives data from the host and stores the data in the memory at a first rate. A physical-layer device receives the data from the memory and transmits the data from the first network device to a second network device. The memory is connected between the media access controller and the physical-layer device. An amount of the data stored in the memory is based on the first rate and a second rate at which the physical-layer device transfers the data from the memory to the second network device. The first rate is greater than the second rate. A control circuit, based on an amount of the data stored in the memory, transmits a first frame to the media access controller. The media access controller, in response to the first frame, decreases the first rate.
US09210104B2
A system and methods of using commodity switches to produce a switch fabric are disclosed. The system comprises switches organized in tiers. Each switch is connected to switches in higher tiers via its uplink switch ports and to switches in lower tiers via its downlink switch ports. A packet received from any downlink switch port is forwarded to one of the at least one link aggregation of uplink switch ports. A packet received from any uplink switch port is forwarded according to the first label in the packet. Each switch in the highest tier is configured to insert one or more labels in a packet to be sent out via the switches. A value in a label indicates the switch port to be selected to send out the packet received at a switch.
US09210103B1
A packet is received at an ingress port of a network device. A set of user defined bytes corresponding to the packet are populated with data included in or associated with the packet. One or more user defined bytes are selected, from the set of user defined bytes, to be used in a key for the packet. An ordering of the selected user defined bytes to be used for generating the key is specified. The key is generated using the selected user defined bytes and according to the ordering of the selected user defined bytes specified for the key. A processing action for the packet is determined based on the key. The network device processes the packet using the processing action.
US09210102B1
A bandwidth allocation and quality control system interacts with a manifest for a mobile communication platform (MCP), to identify specific IP addresses designated for bandwidth guarantees and corresponding a particular passenger of the MCP. The system monitors IP addresses of packets communicated between the MCP and a machine communication network external to the MCP, and compares the IP addresses of the packets to the IP addresses corresponding to the particular passenger, and if the packets are from the particular passenger and match one of the corresponding IP addresses, and if a limited duration event is underway for the MCP, to communicate the packets to the external machine network with a bandwidth guarantee.
US09210094B1
A traffic management device (TMD) is situated between a one or more network devices providing jumbo network traffic and one or more device providing non-jumbo network traffic. The TMD is configured to employ TCP segmentation offload hardware within a Network Interface Card (NIC) at the level two/four layers of the OSI stack by rewriting maximum segment size (MSS) information during initial handshake operations, such that jumbo frames may be split into digestible size frames for a non-jumbo network communications.
US09210083B2
Techniques are provided for hash-based routing table management in a distributed network switch. A frame having a source address and a destination address is received by a switch module having bridge elements and a routing table divided into slices of buckets, each slice having a respective property and including one or more buckets. If a routing entry for the source address is found in a first slice of a first set of buckets of the routing table responsive to a lookup request for the source address, and the property of the first slice satisfies a replication condition, then the routing entry is replicated to a second set of buckets of the routing table.
US09210070B2
Shortest-path spanning trees are created outward from each portal on a Rbridge network with nodes on the network being assigned to the spanning trees. For those nodes equidistant to two portals, an election process is used to determine which tree the node should join. To enable routes associated with nodes on the Rbridge network to be distinguished from routes external to the Rbridge network, messages may be transmitted between the portals. The messages enable portals to identify routing updates received from the external network as containing internal routes, so that traffic that is required to pass between nodes on different trees may pass over the Rbridge network rather than over the external network.
US09210065B2
The invention is directed to providing cloud-based services using dynamic network virtualization. Embodiments of the invention provide a cloud-based service over a system that has a dynamic network virtualization architecture. The architecture includes a set of distributed forwarding elements with centralized control, and at least one virtual machine that is bound to one of the forwarding elements. These features enable the virtual machine to be migrated across a wide area network while maintaining its original IP address and service continuity.
US09210062B2
Various systems and methods for probing a communication channel. These systems and methods transmit an error vector probe packet from a first transmitter while a second transmitter is active and transmitting. A network device may receive the error vector probe packet and measure an error vector magnitude based on the received error vector probe packet. Using the error vector magnitude, the network device estimates channel characteristics such as signal-to-noise ratio, data capacity, etc. The transmission can occur when more than one transmitter is active and transmitting. At least some of the other transmitters are active and transmit an analog zero signal, e.g., all digital zeros on the input to the digital-to-analog converter of a network device when an error vector probe packet is transmitted.
US09210053B2
A system and method for management of network monitoring information includes a data collector for collecting real-time network information from network switching units, an aggregator for periodically aggregating the collected real-time network information and generating corresponding history information, a preprocessor for periodically determining results for first queries based on the collected real-time network information and the history information, a data storage system, and a data retriever for retrieving information from the data storage system. The data storage system stores the collected real-time network information, the aggregated history information, and the preprocessed results of the first queries. The data storage system also periodically purges the stored real-time information based on a first time-to-live value and the stored history information based on a second time-to-live value. The information is retrieved based on the stored real-time network and history information, the stored preprocessed results of the first queries, the first queries, and second queries different from the first queries.
US09210051B2
Technologies are presented for providing compound certificates via a certificate intermediary. In some examples, a certificate intermediary may generate a compound certificate that captures the certified behavior of an application and its underlying sub-services without revealing the identities of the sub-services for providing to a customer. The certificate intermediary may receive individual certificates from a certification authority. In other examples, the certification authority may generate the compound certificate, or the certificate intermediary may act as the certification authority for at least a portion of the sub-services.
US09210048B1
Host machines and other devices performing synchronized operations can be dispersed across multiple racks in a data center to provide additional buffer capacity and to reduce the likelihood of congestion. The level of dispersion can depend on factors such as the level of oversubscription, as it can be undesirable in a highly connected network to push excessive host traffic into the aggregation fabric. As oversubscription levels increase, the amount of dispersion can be reduced and two or more host machines can be clustered on a given rack, or otherwise connected through the same edge switch. By clustering a portion of the machines, some of the host traffic can be redirected by the respective edge switch without entering the aggregation fabric. When provisioning hosts for a customer, application, or synchronized operation, for example, the levels of clustering and dispersion can be balanced to minimize the likelihood for congestion throughout the network.
US09210039B2
An embodiment may include circuitry to be included, at least in part, in at least one node in a network. The circuitry may generate, at least in part, and/or receive, at least in part, at least one packet. The packet may be received, at least in part, by at least one switch node in the network. The switch node may designate, in response at least in part to the packet, at least one port of the switch node to be used to facilitate, at least in part, establishment, at least in part, of at least one path for propagation of at least one flow between at least two other nodes in the network. The packet may be generated based at least in part upon (1) at least one application classification, (2) at least one allocation request, and (3) network resource availability information.
US09210033B2
A system for scheduling resources and rules for routing includes a server connected to a network, a scheduling application executable from the server, and at least one programmable software agent for scheduling routing rules. The scheduling application receives statistics about forecast arrival rates for incoming interactions and current resource availability data and schedules resources and routing rules according to the forecast requirements the software agent propagating the portion of scheduling relative to the routing rules.
US09210031B1
In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes accessing, using one or more processing units, application parameters associated with an application. The application parameters define constraints for hosting the application using one or more of a plurality of provisioned computing environments available over a computer network from multiple computing resources vendors. Each vendor is associated with a corresponding vendor-specific provisioned computing environment that includes computing resources available to be provisioned for use by a multiple entities distinct from the vendors. The method includes accessing, using the one or more processing units, vendor-specific data for the vendor-specific provisioned computing environments. The method includes determining, using the one or more processing units, from among the vendor-specific provisioned computing environments and based on the application parameters and the vendor-specific data for the provisioned computing environments, a first vendor-specific provisioned computing environment for hosting the application.
US09210028B1
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to aggregate requested multimedia content and location-based content. Aggregating requested multimedia content and location-based content can be facilitated by determining the location of a client device based on information received from the client device, retrieving location-based content segments and aggregating location-based content segments with user-requested content segments.
US09210025B2
The present invention discloses a method for correcting an IQ signal. includes: saving an I signal of a last frame and a Q signal of the last frame that are output by a receiving front end; eliminating a direct-current offset of an I signal of a current frame and a direct-current offset of a Q signal of the current frame according to the I signal of the last frame and the Q signal of the last frame; and geometrically correcting an I signal of the current frame after direct-current offset elimination and a Q signal of the current frame after direct-current offset elimination according to an I signal of the last frame after direct-current offset elimination and a Q signal of the last frame after direct-current offset elimination to obtain a corrected I signal of the current frame and a corrected Q signal of the current frame.
US09210022B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder encoding service data, a time interleaver interleaving the encoded service data, a mapper mapping the interleaved service data into a plurality of OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) symbols to build at least one signal frame, a frequency interleaver interleaving data in the at least one signal frame by using a different interleaving-seed which is used for every OFDM symbol pair comprised of two sequential OFDM symbols, wherein the frequency interleaver calculates an interleaving address for the different interleaving-seed based on a main-PRBS sequence and a cyclic shifting value, a modulator modulating the frequency interleaved data by an OFDM scheme and a transmitter transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein an interleaving-seed is generated based on a cyclic shift value and an FFT size of the modulating.
US09210020B1
Embodiments are provided to suppress the peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) in MC-Multi-Carrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) and derivative systems. The embodiments include transmitter and receiver configurations for limiting the level of PAPR in the transmitted and received signals. The PAPR is limited to a PAPR of typical OFDM signals. At the transmitter, a sequence of Newman phase rotations (rotors) is applied to a sequence of transmitted signals prior to an inverse Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) function. With the correct choice of Newman phases, the PAPR of the transmitted signals is sufficiently suppressed. The sequence is also repeated for subsequently transmitted signals. At the receiver, the sequence of Newman rotors is removed after a FFT function. The transmitter and receiver are configured by adding an additional module or function without changing other existing used modules or functions.
US09210013B2
A technique is used to realize a generalized decision feedback equalizer (GDFE) Precoder for multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems, which significantly reduces the computational cost while resulting in no capacity loss. The technique is suitable for improving the performance of various MU-MIMO wireless systems including future 4G cellular networks. In one embodiment, a method for configuring a GDFE precoder in a base station of a MU-MIMO wireless system having k user terminals, each user terminal having associated therewith a feedforward filter. The method comprises computing a filter matrix C using one of a plurality of alternative formulas of the invention; and, based on the computation of the filter matrix C, computing a transmit filter matrix B for a transmit filter used to process a symbol vector obtained after a decision feedback equalizing stage of the GDFE precoder, a feedforward filter matrix F, and an interference pre-cancellation matrix G.
US09210006B2
A method includes receiving a signal including a co-channel interference, channel equalizing the received signal and processing the channel equalized signal based on a first precoding vector such that the co-channel interference is mitigated.
US09210004B2
A device that identifies a current channel estimate based on previously received pilot tones; and iteratively, for each instance of receiving a set of new pilot tones: generates an updated channel estimate by replacing contributions to the current channel estimate that depend from the previously received pilot tones with contributions that depend from the set of new pilot tones; and considers for the next iteration the updated channel estimate as the current channel estimate and the set of new pilot tones as the previously received pilot tones.
US09209978B2
Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are described. An example method includes identifying metadata from media. The media is converted into converted media having a streaming format. The converted media is encrypted using an encryption key. A manifest is created in association with the converted media, the manifest identifying a first location of the encrypted media and a second location of a decryption key.
US09209975B2
An improved approach for secure access of electronic documents and data is provided.
US09209967B2
An authenticated encryption method includes receiving, by an Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) engine, a cipher key and computing a hash key using the received cipher key. The computed hash key is stored in a storage memory. The AES engine then receives a packet of data and encrypts the packet of data using the received cipher key. The hash key from the storage memory is sent to a GHASH engine which is used to authenticate the packet of data. Encrypting the packet of data is performed after the hash key is stored in the storage memory. Input flow of the packet of data is enabled after the hash key is stored in the storage memory.
US09209960B1
A method relates generally to a receiver. In such a method, a check of a clock and data recovery block of the receiver for a metastable state is performed. A phase input to a phase interpolator of the receiver is changed to cause the clock and data recovery block of the receiver to exit the metastable state within a time limit. To check for the metastable state, a phase difference in received data is determined, and the phase difference is determined to be less than a threshold for the clock and data recovery block being in the metastable state.
US09209959B2
A method and apparatus for synchronizing a carrier frequency of a node included in a distributed network are provided. The apparatus includes a frequency offset estimating unit, an offset average value calculating unit, and a frequency adjustment value calculating unit. The method includes receiving preambles from a plurality of nodes adjacent to the node, estimating offsets of the carrier frequencies from the received preambles for each of the plurality of neighbor nodes, calculating an average value of the estimated offsets, calculating an adjustment value of the carrier frequencies with respect to the entirety of the plurality of neighbor nodes by using the average value, and adjusting a carrier frequency of the node on the basis of the adjustment value.
US09209955B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus receives extended bandwidth information indicating availability of an extended bandwidth. The extended bandwidth includes a base carrier and an extension carrier within a legacy guard band of the base carrier. The apparatus receives data on a downlink in the extension carrier based on the extended bandwidth information.
US09209953B2
The present invention is directed to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention is directed to a method and an apparatus of controlling uplink transmission at a user equipment in a wireless communication system, wherein the user equipment is connected to multiple component carriers, which includes receiving configuration information for transmitting an uplink signal from a base station; and identifying a time for transmitting the uplink signal to the base station on a corresponding uplink component carrier in use of the configuration information, wherein if the corresponding uplink component carrier is in a non-available state at the time for transmitting the uplink signal, the uplink signal is not transmitted.
US09209944B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting enhanced uplink (EU) data is disclosed. Configuration parameters for EU operation are received, including a priority associated with each MAC-d flow and a maximum number of H-ARQ transmissions associated with each MAC-d flow. A H-ARQ process to use for transmission for a next TTI is identified. On a condition that the identified H-ARQ process is available for new data for the next TTI, data is selected for transmission over the EU channel based on MAC-d flow priority, a transmission status is set to indicate a new transmission, and the selected data is transmitted in accordance with the identified H-ARQ process. On a condition that the identified H-ARQ process is not available for new data for the next TTI, the transmission status is set to indicate a retransmission, and data associated with the identified H-ARQ process is retransmitted.
US09209938B2
A method and system for transmitting data are described including packetizing the data, performing forward error correction (FEC) encoding on the packetized data in order to generate at least one parity packet, appending FEC information as padding to the end of payload data of the packetized data and transmitting the packetized data and the at least one parity packet. Also described are a method and system for recovering from loss of a packet including receiving a data packet, receiving at least one parity packet, buffering the received data packet, detecting packet loss, forward error correction decoding the at least one parity packet to recover from packet loss using forward error correction information extracted from the data packet and from the at least one parity packet and forwarding the recovered packet via an internal socket. Also described is a method for staggercasting.
US09209933B2
In accordance with one or more aspects and corresponding disclosure thereof, various aspects are described in connection with channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback in connection with one or more downlink carriers. An anchor carrier scheme is employed to provide channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback of one or more downlink carriers. An indication is set to identify that a designated uplink carrier is used to convey the CQI feedback. An uplink carrier is selected from a set of uplink carriers as an anchor carrier to convey the CQI feedback. CQI feedback is transmitted for one or more downlink carriers using the designated carrier.
US09209930B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for managing quality of service for communication sessions. In an implementation, a method may include determining network condition associated with a communication session. The method may also include calculating one or more anticipated performance attributes for each of a plurality of error correction codes based on the network condition. The method may also include determining a quality of experience metric for each of the plurality of error correction codes based on the calculated one or more anticipate performance attributes for each of the plurality of error correction codes. The method may further include establishing one of the plurality of error correction codes for the communication session based on the quality of experience metric for each of the plurality of error correction codes.
US09209924B2
An apparatus for detecting a periodic timing reference in a received signal comprises a correlator and an integrator. The correlator is configured to correlate the received signal with a template to produce a correlated signal indicating the presence of the periodic timing reference in the received signal. The integrator is configured to produce an accumulated signal by overlaying one or more delayed versions of the accumulated signal onto the correlated signal, and is further configured to delay the accumulated signals by integer multiples L of a period of the periodic timing reference, the integer multiples L being at least two.
US09209915B2
A calibration device includes a continuous wave signal generator that generates a continuous wave signal having a predetermined amplitude, a quadrature modulator that amplifies the continuous wave signal using a variable gain and performs quadrature modulation of the amplified continuous wave signal to generate a radio frequency signal, an envelope detector that detects an envelope of the radio frequency signal, a gain adjuster that adjusts the variable gain, based on power of the detected envelope, a correction value searcher that searches for a correction value that provides a minimum value of a fluctuation amount of an amplitude of the envelope, and a corrector that adds the correction value obtained through the search by the correction value searcher to the continuous wave signal and outputs the continuous wave signal after the addition to the quadrature modulator.
US09209907B2
Methods and systems for a narrowband, non-linear optoelectronic receiver are disclosed and may include amplifying a received signal, limiting a bandwidth of the received signal, and restoring the signal utilizing a level restorer, which may include a non-return to zero (NRZ) level restorer comprising two parallel inverters, with one being a feedback path for the other. The inverters may be single-ended or differential. A photogenerated signal may be amplified in the receiver utilizing a transimpedance amplifier and programmable gain amplifiers (PGAs). A received electrical signal may be amplified via PGAs. The bandwidth of the received signal may be limited utilizing one or more of: a low pass filter, a bandpass filter, a high pass filter, a differentiator, or a series capacitance on the chip. The signal may be received from a photodiode integrated on the chip, where the photodiode may be AC coupled to an amplifier for the amplifying.
US09209902B2
A quasi-optical coupling system launches and extracts surface wave communication transmissions from a wire. At millimeter-wave frequencies, where the wavelength is small compared to the macroscopic size of the equipment, the millimeter-wave transmissions can be transported from one place to another and diverted via lenses and reflectors, much like visible light. Transmitters and receivers can be positioned near telephone and power lines and reflectors placed on or near the cables can reflect transmissions onto or off of the cables. The lenses on the transmitters are focused, and the reflectors positioned such that the reflected transmissions are guided waves on the surface of the cables. The reflectors can be polarization sensitive, where one or more of a set of guided wave modes can be reflected off the wire based on the polarization of the guided wave modes and polarization and orientation of the reflector.
US09209878B2
A method and system for adapting the structure of a codebook for precoding, by changing parameters, in downlink MIMO transmission using a plurality of transmitting antennas, is disclosed. A codebook adaptation method to adapt a codebook for precoding applied to downlink MIMO transmission includes the steps of reporting the codebook size of the codebook, defined with a plurality of parameters pertaining to gain information and phase information, from one communication apparatus to another communication apparatus, and, at the other communication apparatus, adapting the structure of the codebook, based on the codebook size reported from the one communication apparatus.
US09209875B2
Provided is a method of wireless communication which includes selecting a codebook from a plurality of codebooks in accordance with an antenna characteristic, and transmitting an indication of the selected codebook. Each of the plurality of codebooks is associated with one of a plurality of antenna characteristics. In some designs, channel state information is received from a user equipment. The channel state information may be used to determine downlink scheduling and/or precoding. In some designs, the channel state information may include feedback elements associated with different subband granularity. The feedback elements may also indicate a selection of a subset of precoder column vectors and/or a phase offset between two groups of transmit antennas.
US09209861B2
A Frequency Position Modulation system for encoding signals for transmission. A signal's discrete frequency support is used to represent symbols. The signal can be non-uniformly spread over many GHz of instantaneous bandwidth, resulting in a communications system that is resilient to interference and difficult to intercept. The FPM symbols are recovered using adaptive projections that use an analog polynomial nonlinearity paired with an analog-to-digital converter that is sampling at a rate at that is only a fraction of the instantaneous bandwidth of the signal. In the presence of partial band interference, nonlinearities generated by the transmitter of are exploited by the receiver to help unambiguously recover tones that could otherwise be lost. The nonlinearities are generated by driving the power amplifier of the transmitter into saturation to induce distortions at a desired level.
US09209851B1
A method for improving signal quality for a mobile electronic device and an apparatus embodying the method, comprising a protective case comprising a shell that encases at least a portion of the mobile electronic device; an external antenna assembly position-ably attached to the shell; a transmission line attached to the shell and electrically interconnected to the case antenna; and a near-field coupling device attached to the shell and having a feed port electrically interconnected to the transmission line, the near-field coupling device configured to near-field couple to a native antenna of the encased mobile electronic device to capture an electromagnetic signal generated by the native antenna of the mobile electronic device.
US09209848B2
Various embodiments of wireless communication systems and methods in which the system seamlessly dual-uses a receiver chain for incoming transmissions and for other signal sensing purposes. The system is configured such that there are multiple receiver chains, and at least one receiver chain alternates between receiving a communication signal with information payload and receiving other signals solely for the purposes of monitoring and/or improving some aspects of the system. In various embodiments, the alternating receiver chain receives alternatively signals with information payloads and signals which have passes through a power amplifier with amplifier distortion characteristics. In various embodiments, the alternating receiver chain receives alternatively signals with information payloads and signals which may be associated with background noise, or other radio transmissions.
US09209847B2
A method and apparatus for achieving China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) diversity reception are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring respective Analogue-to-Digital Converter (ADC) data of two antennas; respectively conducting a synchronization and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) operation on the ADC data of the two antennas, acquiring delay information about the two antennas, and according to an operation result, selecting a signal to noise ratio (SNR) configuration parameter; according to the delay information, conducting delay compensation on the operated data; and according to the selected SNR configuration parameter, merging the data of the two antennas on which the delay compensation is conducted, and outputting the data. The method and apparatus are able to acquire a signal with extremely small interference and acquire a higher mobile performance.
US09209843B2
A receiver may process a received signal to generate a processed received signal. The receiver may generate, during a sequence estimation process, an estimate of a phase error of the processed received signal. The receiver may generate an estimate of a value of a transmitted symbol corresponding to the received signal based on the estimated phase error. The generation of the estimate of the phase error may comprise generation of one or more phase candidate vectors. The generation of the estimate may comprise calculation of a metric based on the one or more phase candidate vectors. The calculation of the metric may comprise phase shifting the processed received signal based on the estimated phase error resulting in a phase-corrected received signal. The calculation of the metric may comprise calculating a Euclidean distance based on the phase-corrected received signal and one or more symbol candidate vectors.
US09209837B1
Methods, software, circuits and systems involving a low complexity, tailbiting decoder. In various embodiments, the method relates to concatenating an initial and/or terminal subblock of the serial data block and outputting decoded data from an internal block of the modified data block. The circuitry generally includes a buffer, logic configured to concatenate an initial and/or terminal subblock to the serial data block, and a decoder configured to decode the data block, estimate starting and ending states for the data block, and output an internal portion of the serial data block and the one or more sequences as decoded data. The invention advantageously reduces the complexity of a suboptimal convolutional decoder, ensures smooth transitions at the beginning and end of the serial data block during decoding, and increases the reliability of the starting and ending states, without adding overhead to the transmitted data block.
US09209836B2
This disclosure generally relates to encoding, transmission, and decoding of digital video, and more particularly to methods and systems for minimizing decoding delay in distributed video coding (DVC). In one embodiment, a video decoding method is disclosed, comprising: obtaining side information; obtaining a syndrome bit chunk corresponding to a non-key-frame bit-plane; performing, via one or more processors, at least one non-key-frame bit-plane channel decoding iteration using the side information and the syndrome bit chunk; generating a decoded bit-plane via performing the at least one non-key-frame bit-plane channel decoding iteration; determining a bit error rate measure for the decoded bit-plane; determining, based on the bit error rate measure, a number of additional syndrome bit chunks to request; and providing a request for the additional syndrome bit chunks.
US09209832B2
A method for encoding a reduced polar code is disclosed. The method generally includes (a) modifying an input codeword including polar code encoded input data by removing one or more bits from one of (i) a first part of the input codeword and (ii) a second part of the input codeword and (b) generating an output codeword by concatenating the first and the second parts of the modified input codeword.
US09209830B2
In a decoding device for a Manchester-encoded signal, at least one moving data average and/or one moving clock average is/are formed relative to mutually differing average times using moving-type averaging units, and from these moving average values, binary output signals are made available as data signal and/or clock signal with the aid of comparators.
US09209819B2
A phase locked loop having a normal mode and a burn-in mode. The logic portion is coupled to a logic power supply terminal and includes a clock receiver coupled to a phase frequency detector. The analog portion has a charge pump coupled to the phase frequency detector and to an analog power supply terminal. The analog portion also has a voltage controlled oscillator coupled to the charge pump at an analog node and to the analog power supply terminal. The phase locked loop has a node control circuit that is coupled to the analog node during the burn-in mode that controls a voltage at the analog node sufficiently below a voltage at the analog power supply terminal to avoid over-stressing the charge pump and the voltage controlled oscillator during the burn-in mode.
US09209816B2
Certain semiconductor processes provide for the use of multiple different types of transistors with different threshold voltages in a single IC. It can be shown that in certain ones of these semiconductor processes, the speed at which high threshold transistors can operate at decreases with decreasing temperature. Thus, the overall processing speed of an IC that implements high threshold transistors is often limited by the lowest temperature at which the IC is designed (or guaranteed) to properly function. Embodiments of a system and method that overcome this deficiency by “pre-heating” the IC (or at least portions of the IC that implement the high threshold transistors) such that the IC can operate at a frequency (once pre-heated) higher than what would otherwise be possible for a given, minimum temperature at which the IC is designed (or guaranteed) to properly function at are provided.
US09209799B2
A fourth n-channel MOSFET has a source terminal and a back-gate terminal connected to each other. A switch element is connected between the source terminal of the fourth n-channel MOSFET and a ground potential, and the source terminal of the fourth n-channel MOSFET is made become the ground potential when the fourth n-channel MOSFET is OFF. A protection circuit is provided between a connection node of the source terminal of the fourth n-channel MOSFET and an input terminal of the switch element, and the ground potential so that a negative inflow current from the drain terminal of the fourth n-channel MOSFET caused by electrostatic discharge flows to the ground potential.
US09209794B2
A magnetic element control device of the present invention includes an excitation signal generation unit that generates an alternating signal, an excitation signal adjustment unit that generates an alternating voltage signal from the alternating signal, and generates an excitation signal which is applied to an exciting coil on the basis of the alternating voltage signal, a detection signal comparison unit that detects a detection signal of a positive voltage or a negative voltage which is generated by an induced electromotive force when a current direction of the excitation signal switches, and a feedback signal adjustment unit that generates a feedback signal for applying a magnetic field, cancelling a stationary magnetic field which is applied to a magnetic element from voltage information, to a feedback coil.
US09209791B2
A method of canceling nonlinear distortions in pulse width modulated signals includes receiving an input signal. A first signal that is the modulated input signal is generated. The first signal has quantized levels representing the input signal. A pulse width modulated (PWM) sequence that is representative of the first signal is generated. A second signal that is the PWM sequence mixed with a carrier signal is generated. An error signal is generated in response to the first signal and modeled from the second signal. The error signal is added to the input signal.
US09209787B2
We describe a controller (130) for controlling a power semiconductor switching device (132) into a selected one of a plurality of states, the states including a fully-off state, a saturated-on state, and at least one intermediate state. The switching device controller includes a voltage sense input (142) to sense a voltage on the device; a current sense input (current feedback) to sense a current passing through the device; a negative feedback control circuit (138) coupled to the sense inputs, a control output (136) to provide to the power semiconductor switching device a drive signal with a response dependent on one or more adjustable parameters; and a circuit controller (140) to control the adjustable parameters responsive to state command data, to control the switching device into a selected state, in particular by controlling an effective resistance of the device. Preferred intermediate states include an active low current state and an active low voltage state.
US09209786B1
An impedance tuner includes a controller, an RF transmission line, and a movable capacitive object configured for movement commanded by the controller relative to the transmission line to alter impedance. A position sensor is configured to provide feedback position data to the controller indicative of the actual position of the capacitive object after it is moved. The controller is configured to utilize the feedback position data in a closed loop to position the capacitive object at a desired position within a tolerance.
US09209782B2
The present invention provides a system and method for representing quasi-periodic (“qp”) waveforms comprising, representing a plurality of limited decompositions of the qp waveform, wherein each decomposition includes a first and second amplitude value and at least one time value. In some embodiments, each of the decompositions is phase adjusted such that the arithmetic sum of the plurality of limited decompositions reconstructs the qp waveform. These decompositions are stored into a data structure having a plurality of attributes. Optionally, these attributes are used to reconstruct the qp waveform, or patterns or features of the qp wave can be determined by using various pattern-recognition techniques. Some embodiments provide a system that uses software, embedded hardware or firmware to carry out the above-described method. Some embodiments use a computer-readable medium to store the data structure and/or instructions to execute the method.
US09209781B2
A oscillator device includes: a first substrate that has a first surface, a second surface, and a through hole extending between the first surface and the second surface; a crystal oscillator that is disposed on the first surface of the first substrate, the crystal oscillator including an electrode; a second substrate that is disposed on the crystal oscillator; a through electrode that is disposed in the through hole, that has a diameter smaller than a diameter of the through hole, that is electrically coupled to the electrode, and that extends between the first surface and the second surface; and a filling member with which an area between an inner wall of the through hole and the through electrode is filled.
US09209776B2
An electrical resonator comprises a substrate comprising a cavity. The electrical resonator comprises a resonator stack suspended over the cavity. The resonator stack comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; a piezoelectric layer; and a temperature compensating layer comprising borosilicate glass (BSG).
US09209775B2
An electronic circuit includes: a switch that includes ports, and selects a port to be connected to an antenna from among the ports; a first filter connected between a first port and a first terminal, and having a pass band which overlaps with a transmission band of a first band; a second filter connected between a second port and a second terminal, and having a pass band which overlaps with a transmission band of a second band; a third filter connected between a third port and a third terminal, and having a pass band which overlaps with reception bands of the first and the second bands; wherein when a signal in the first band is transmitted and received, the switch selects the first and the third ports, and when a signal in the second band is transmitted and received, the switch selects the second and the third ports.
US09209774B2
There is provided a splitter circuit means for use with a CATV network comprising a signal input (34) in communication with a transformer or balun (32) to supply two signal outputs (36, 38), with a resistor (52) connected in parallel between the outputs (36, 38) and wherein additional capacitive, inductive and resistive elements (48, 50, 52, 54) are associated with the resistor (42), thereby to give an insertion loss in to out in the range of 3 to 10 dB and isolation 10 out to out of <17 dB for signal frequencies in the range 1125 MHz to 1700 MHz, while at the same time maintaining good RF performance in the frequency range 5 MHz to 1000 MHz.
US09209768B2
An RF receiver is described comprising a common gate common source LNA with a variable resistor in the source of the common gate transistor, a variable resistor in the source of the common source transistor, and a variable resistor in the RF input. A Smart Gain Control varies the resistance in the resistors to produce linear amplification in the LNA while maintaining input matching. Further, a broad dynamic range RSSI is described that implements a feedback control loop to maintain signal power within a sensitivity range of the power detector in the RSSI.
US09209760B2
According to one embodiment, a high-frequency, broadband amplifier circuit includes two drive elements, a matching circuit, a Balun circuit, a power supply, and a power supply circuit. The matching circuit includes two pattern circuits. The pattern circuits convey, in differential mode, the high-frequency signals supplied from the two drive elements. The Balun circuit converts the high-frequency signal to a single-end mode signal. The power supply circuit is connected one of the pattern circuits, and supplies at least the output of the power supply to the other pattern circuit.
US09209758B2
A radio frequency (RF) power amplifier system or transmitter includes one or more power amplifiers and a controller that is configured to adjust amplitudes and phases of RF input signals of the one or more power amplifiers and supply voltages applied to the one or more power amplifiers. In embodiments where multiple power amplifiers are used, a combiner may be provided to combine outputs of the power amplifiers.
US09209756B2
An optical receiver module includes a light receiving element that converts a received light signal into an electric signal, a bias pad supplied with a bias power. The bias pad is included in the light receiving element and/or a carrier on which the light receiving element is mounted. The optical receiver module also includes a thin film resistor arranged in contact with the bias pad so as to connect in parallel to the bias pad. An electric resistance of the thin film resistor is larger than an electric resistance of the bias pad. The optical receiver module further includes an amplifier that amplifies the electric signal.
US09209751B2
There is disclosed a power supply stage, and a method of controlling such, comprising: a means for generating an intermediate supply signal in dependence on a reference signal representing a desired power supply; and a plurality of adjusting means, each adapted to generate an adjusted supply signal tracking the reference signal, in dependence on the generated intermediate supply signal and the reference signal.
US09209747B1
An oscillator includes an amplifier and a piezoelectric crystal coupled across a portion of the amplifier. A low pass filter (LPF) passes the common-mode voltage component of the crystal output signal. An auxiliary bias circuit uses a shared LPF component to charge a crystal load capacitor during start-up of the oscillator, and to provide a DC bias operating point to the oscillator driver transistor. A buffer amplifier receives the common-mode voltage component on the non-inverting input. The buffer amplifier output is coupled to both the inverting input and the drain terminal of the oscillator driver transistor such that the gate and drain DC bias voltages of the oscillator driver transistor are substantially the same. An automatic loop control circuit receives the crystal output signal and the common-mode voltage signal, and generates a bias control signal to bias the amplifier and the auxiliary bias circuit.
US09209743B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus includes an first storage unit to store a value output by a communication unit, a second storage unit to store positional data indicating a place the modules, an third storage unit to store an output model indicating the relationship between a sunshine condition and an electrical output, a estimation unit to estimate a sunshine condition for each module based on the value and the output model, a forth storage unit to store the sunshine condition estimated, a correction unit to correct the sunshine condition, and a detection unit to calculate an expected electrical output for each module based on the corrected sunshine condition and the output model, and to detect a fault in the modules.
US09209742B2
A method for determining a spatial arrangement of photovoltaic module groups in a photovoltaic installation includes measuring a sequence of values of an illumination-dependent electrical characteristic variable of different photovoltaic module groups while the photovoltaic installation is subject to light incidence with an incidence intensity which varies over time and spatially. The relative spatial arrangement of the photovoltaic module groups with respect to one another is then determined by comparing sequences of measured values associated with different photovoltaic module groups.
US09209726B2
The invention relates to a method wherein the speed of the rotor of an electronically commutated synchronous machine is determined or controlled by means of one or more rotor position sensors, in particular, three rotor position sensors that are fixed to the stator, and a time measuring device, wherein the angle traveled by the rotor and the time lapsed during the travel are measured, wherein the measured angle traveled by the rotor is corrected by means of one or more first correction constants, in particular a differential for correcting for the influence of non-uniform positioning or expansion of the position marking of the rotor, and a circuit configuration for actuating an electronically commutated synchronous machine.
US09209718B2
Apparatus for preventing output of an input signal is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a signal control unit comprising a signal buffering unit having an input and an output, the signal buffering unit arranged to receive an input signal and pass the input signal to the output when the signal buffering unit is powered, wherein a negative power supply terminal of the signal buffering unit is arranged to be supplied by a first power source having a voltage. The signal control unit also comprises a boost circuit arranged to boost the voltage of the first power source to a boosted voltage higher than the voltage of the first power source and supply either the voltage of the first power source or the boosted voltage to a positive power supply terminal of the signal buffering unit. The signal buffering unit is powered when the boosted voltage is supplied to the positive power supply terminal of the signal buffering unit and the signal buffering unit is not powered when voltage of the first power supply terminal is supplied to the positive power supply terminal of the signal buffering unit. Also disclosed is an apparatus for providing output voltages for driving a motor as well as a motor drive system.
US09209710B2
We describe a modular adjustable power factor renewable energy inverter system. The system comprises a plurality of inverter modules having a switched capacitor across its ac power output, a power measurement system coupled to a communication interface, and a power factor controller to control switching of the capacitor. A system controller receives power data from each inverter module, sums the net level of ac power from each inverter, determines a number of said capacitors to switch based on the sum, and sends control data to an appropriate number of the inverter modules to switch the determined number of capacitors into/out of said parallel connection across their respective ac power outputs.
US09209697B2
A resonant converter circuit generates an output voltage from an input voltage by switching first and second FETs. A subsequent-stage switching control circuit alternately subjects the first and second FETs in the resonant converter circuit to on/off control with a fixed on-duty ratio and a fixed switching frequency. A boost converter circuit includes an inductor, a smoothing capacitor, and a third FET arranged to switch the energization of the inductor. A previous-stage switching control circuit subjects the third FET in the boost converter circuit to on/off control with a controlled on-duty ratio, and adjusts an output voltage to the resonant converter circuit.
US09209687B2
A DC-DC converter includes a control circuit, a switching element, and a constant-voltage generation portion which generates an output voltage on the basis of an input voltage supplied through the switching element. The control circuit includes AD converters which convert the input voltage and the output voltage, a signal processing circuit, a pulse modulation circuit, and a power supply control circuit which controls supply of a power supply voltage to the signal processing circuit in accordance with digital values of the input voltage and the output voltage. The signal processing circuit determines the duty ratio in accordance with the digital value of the output voltage, and the pulse modulation circuit controls the switching element. The signal processing circuit includes a memory device including a memory element, a capacitor for storing data of the memory element, and a transistor for controlling charge in the capacitor. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor.
US09209684B2
The invention is a radiation hardened charge-pump system and method of using polysilicon diodes and metal-to-metal capacitors in a standard CMOS process technology that provides boosted positive or negative voltages higher than power supply voltage levels, that reduces or eliminates field leakage, bipolar snap-back, SEL problems, and the SEGR problem. The charge-pump system is arranged as multiple parallel redundant pumps to harden the circuit so that if there is a single-event transient, or an unknown polysilicon-diode failure in a new technology, the remaining pumps will continue to operate. A diode placed at the end of each redundant pump section allows charge to be placed onto the high voltage node without removing charge due to failure of one of the sections. With the use of auxiliary circuits, such as a voltage doubler, this hardened charge pump can be used reliably at low power supply voltage levels.
US09209682B2
Disclosed include switching-mode power supplies and control methods thereof. A disclosed switching-mode power supply is coupled to an input power node and a ground node, comprising a controller, a first inductor, and a bootstrap circuit. The controller is for controlling a power switch coupled to the input power node and a connection node. The controller is powered by the connection node and an operation power node. The first inductor is coupled between the connection node and a discharge node. The bootstrap circuit is coupled between the discharge node, the operation power node and the connection node, to make an operation voltage at the operation power node substantially not less than a discharge voltage at the discharge node. The discharge node is coupled to power an output load.
US09209680B2
Circuits, arrangements and systems may provide for configuring a portion of an integrated circuit to receive an electrical component, and configuring the integrated circuit to operate in a first mode when the electrical component is a first electrical component or in a second mode when the electrical component is a second electrical component.
US09209679B2
In one aspect of the teachings herein, a self-commutated current source converter is operated in a manner that compensates for the reactive power consumption and/or harmonics generation of a line-commutated current source converter used in the transfer of electrical power between an AC power system and a DC power system. In this regard, the line-commutated current source converter is operated as a first converter in a hybrid converter apparatus and the self-commutated current source converter is operated as a second converter in the hybrid arrangement. According to one example, the first and second converters are stacked, such that each shares a portion of the DC voltage on the DC side of the hybrid converter apparatus, while in another example, the second converter is not used for power conversion and instead is used solely for compensation with respect to the first converter.
US09209677B2
When an overcurrent detection section detects an overcurrent, a control circuit performs ON-OFF control for switching devices each switchable between a forward direction and a reverse direction, in a mode in which a current having flowed is reduced, such that when the mode is a mode in which a current is passed through any of diodes, a switching device connected in parallel with the current-passed diode is turned ON. Thus, even when an overcurrent occurs, the current flowing in the diode connected in parallel with the switching device is reduced, and the diode is protected from being deteriorated or broken by the overcurrent.
US09209676B2
Embodiments for a battery charger include a single conversion switched mode power supply having a bias winding on the primary side of the power transformer. The bias winding produces an output that is proportional to the voltage produced on the secondary winding, and is sensed by a programmable voltage sensing circuit. The programmable voltage sensing circuit is programmed by a voltage select signal from the secondary side of the charger to produce an sense signal that is proportional to the output of the bias winding by a selected factor corresponding to a battery type of a battery being charged.
US09209675B2
A device comprises a first power cell, a second power cell, a power factor correction module, a boost inductor switch circuit, and an output. The first and second power cells are configured to provide first and second currents in response to an input voltage. The power factor correction module is configured to continuously activate and deactivate the first and second power cells based on an input current level, on the input voltage, and on an output voltage. The boost inductor switch circuit is configured to disable the first power cell in response to the input current level being below a predetermined level. The output is configured to provide the output voltage based on the first and second currents when the input current level is above the predetermined level, and to provide the output voltage based on the second current when the input current level is below the predetermined level.
US09209664B2
A vehicle rotating electrical machine includes a pulley unit and a cap that covers an opening portion of the pulley unit. The pulley unit includes a pulley shaft that has a hollow cylindrical shape and is mechanically connected to a rotation shaft. On an inner peripheral surface of the pulley shaft, a polygonally-shaped hole portion, a first and a second circular hole portions, and an inner diameter thread portion are formed. The cap includes a planar section and a plurality of pillar sections. The planar section covers the opening portion. The pillar sections extend from the planar section to the inner diameter thread portion, and include a bulge portion that bulges outward in a radial direction of the pulley shaft. The bulge portion is located at a position corresponding to the second circular hole portion in a state where the opening portion is covered by the planar section.
US09209661B2
An electric machine housing includes a housing body having an outer surface provided with a plurality of materially integrally formed ribs defining a plurality of coolant channels. Each of the plurality of materially integrally formed ribs has an outer surface portion. A sleeve is provided on the housing body extending about the outer surface. The sleeve has an inner surface section that is matingly engaged with the outer surface portion of each of the materially integrally formed ribs.
US09209660B2
A particularly cost-effective electric-motor brake actuator which is useable in a highly flexible manner in respect of structural boundary conditions has an integrally formed cup which is equipped with a permanent magnet assembly and can be equipped with a separately manufactured, electromagnetic rotor assembly. In this manner, the equipment outlay is reduced as is the construction costs.
US09209657B2
An electric motor, a hoisting machine and also an elevator system are disclosed. The electric motor includes a stator, which stator includes slots, into which slots a concentrated winding is fitted. The electric motor also includes a rotating rotor, which rotor includes permanent magnets placed consecutively in a ring in the direction of the rotational movement. The ratio (LM/LP) of the width of a permanent Lp magnet at the point (LM) of the center line of the magnet and the width (Lp)′ of a magnetic pole of the rotor is at least ⅔ and at most ⅘.
US09209648B2
A self-contained, portable unit for charging a battery of an electric vehicle is disclosed. The portable unit includes a moveable docking pad that has a generally flat, horizontal base and is formed with a compartment for holding at least one storage battery. The first end of a column is mounted onto the docking pad and oriented to extend upwardly from the docking pad to a second column end. A solar array is affixed to the second end of the column for deployment over the docking pad. The electric current from the solar array is fed to the storage battery using a charge management system. The battery, in turn, is connected to an EV charge station which produces a charging current to charge the battery of an electric vehicle.
US09209644B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a battery heating circuit, wherein: the battery comprises a first battery E1 and a second battery E2, the heating circuit comprises a first switch unit 10, a second switch unit 20, a damping component R1, a damping component R2, a current storage component L1, a current storage component L2, a switching control module 100 and a charge storage component C; the first battery, the damping component R1, the current storage component L1, the first switch unit 10 and the charge storage component C are connected in series to form a first charging/discharging circuit; the second battery, the damping component R2, the current storage component L2, the charge storage component C and the second switch unit 20 are connected in series to form a second charging/discharging circuit.
US09209633B2
A charging apparatus is provided with a connector, a pair of power lines, a charger, a holding part and a controller. The connector has a pair of connection terminals electrically connectable to an object to be charged. The power lines electrically connected to the connection terminals. The charger is connected to the power lines for charging the object to be charged. The holding part holds the connector. The controller is programmed to determine the conduction state on the power lines and the connection terminals. The holding part has a conduction part for bringing about conduction through the connection terminals.
US09209632B2
Embodiments of the systems and methods of direct cell attachment for battery cells disclosed herein operate without the protection FETs and the protection IC, thereby enabling the direct attachment of battery cells to the system without compromising safety. A charger IC comprises a switching regulator whose output is used to charge the battery through a pass device. In example embodiments of the disclosed systems and methods of direct cell attachment, a combination of switching FETs and the pass device are used as a protection device instead of the charge and discharge FETs. During normal operation, the pass device may be used to charge the battery using the traditional battery charging profile. Under fault condition, the switching FETs and pass device may be driven appropriately to protect the system.
US09209619B2
An ESD protection component includes a ceramic material and a BGA or LGA termination. In addition, an ESD protection component includes a basic body with a lower side. The basic body includes a ceramic material. At least one floating inner electrode is located at a distance from the lower side of two to 100 ceramic grains. Also a component includes a carrier, on which an LED and an ESD protection component are arranged.
US09209617B2
A device for preventing arc flashes in electrical systems is provided. The device may include at least one heat sensor for measuring a temperature of an electrical conductor, and a controller operatively coupled to the at least one heat sensor and configured to arrest current in the electrical conductor if the measured temperature exceeds a predefined threshold temperature.
US09209613B2
The invention relates to a mounting (1) for holding an elongate object (13) such as an electric cable in position relative to a structure (12). According to the invention, said mounting comprises: two parts for connecting the mounting to the structure (2, 3, 21, 22) each of which has a bearing surface (2a, 3a, 21a, 22a) suitable for resting each side of the structure against a bearing surface (12a, 12b) of the structure, said two connecting parts being assembled together by a clamping means (7, 8, 10), at least one supporting part (4, 23, 24) suitable for maintaining said elongate object (13) via a holding means (50, 31, 37, 69), characterized in that said mounting part is provided in the form of a substantially cylindrical railing (23, 24), secured to a connecting part.
US09209612B2
Attachment of electrical junction box mounts to junction box by a single step or through a single motion. Mounts may be constructed as a single part. Electrical junction box ceiling mount includes a spanning element for traversing an acoustical ceiling tile and a support element connected to the spanning element. The support element includes a fastener adapted to engage a sidewall of an electrical junction box, including one or more faces of the sidewall. The support element may also include a bracket configured to support a portion of a rim of the front opening of the electrical junction box. The fastener may include a bracket configured for an interference fit with the sidewall of the electrical junction box. The fastener may also include a bracket adapted to engage an outside face of the sidewall on opposing sides of the electrical junction box.
US09209611B2
An assembly includes a flange that can be fixed to an interior wall structure, such as an electrical box. A planar surface of the flange abuts the outer surface of the wall substrate thus providing tight contact between the wall substrate and the interior structure. Mating elements of the flange engage an electrical device to maintain the device in flush and parallel alignment with the substrate.
US09209609B2
A cable tray system including cable trays formed of a first side rail and a second side rail arranged substantially parallel to one another and transverse rungs extending between and connecting the first and second side rails. The first and second side rails each include a vertical web, a portion of which is inwardly protruding. The cable tray system further includes a splice plate for splicing or joining multiple cable trays. The splice plate includes a vertical web, a portion of which is inwardly protruding, wherein the inwardly protruding portion of the splice plate cooperates with the inwardly protruding portion of the first and second side rails. Holes in the first and second side rails can be aligned with holes in the splice plate through which fasteners may be inserted through to secure the splice plate to the side rails.
US09209604B2
Described are embodiments of apparatuses and systems including a hybrid laser including anti-resonant waveguides, and methods for making such apparatuses and systems. A hybrid laser apparatus may include a first semiconductor region including an active region of one or more layers of semiconductor materials from group III, group IV, or group V semiconductor, and a second semiconductor region coupled with the first semiconductor region and having an optical waveguide, a first trench disposed on a first side of the optical waveguide, and a second trench disposed on a second side, opposite the first side, of the optical waveguide. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09209590B2
A device for amplifying a laser beam along an axis comprises: an amplifying bar structure of index nc, delimited by a surface connecting the input and output faces of the structure, having a dimension e along the axis and Φ along a perpendicular direction, with e<Φ, and intended to be pumped to become a gain medium with a maximum along a face, and a liquid of index nA which surrounds the structure in relation to its surface and which is absorbent or scattering at the fluorescence wavelength of the amplifying bar structure. The surface comprises a first tooth in the form of a chamfer at its junction with the maximum gain face, to avoid causing parasitic transverse lasing and the liquid of index nA has a heat capacity of greater than 3000 Joules per kilogram per K° to dissipate the thermal power induced by the pumping.
US09209588B2
The different advantageous embodiments provide an apparatus and method comprising a substrate configured to increase an intensity of light at a desired wavelength. The substrate has a front side, a back side, and an outer edge. The substrate is configured to reflect the light received on the front side of the substrate. The substrate comprises ceramic. The substrate comprises a plurality of sections. The method and apparatus also comprise a material configured to attenuate the light passing between the plurality of sections. The material surrounds an edge of each section of the plurality of sections. The apparatus and method also comprise a cooling system configured to allow liquid nitrogen to be transmitted through the cooling system and receive heat generated in the substrate from the back side of the substrate.
US09209577B2
Provided is a socket for a connecting jack, which is capable of preventing a popping noise from being generated. The connecting jack includes a connecting part including a tip having an end of a cone shape to perform a function of transmitting a signal through a cable and a sleeve having a cylindrical shape to perform a ground function. The connecting jack is inserted into the socket of a guitar or an amplifier. The socket includes: a cover member buried in a fixing part of the guitar or the amplifier; a signal terminal fixed to the cover member and protruding toward the fixing part; a ground member hinge-coupled in the cover member; and an elastic piece.
US09209558B2
A magnetic electrical connector is provided which has particular application to use in vehicles or aircraft to prevent damage due to passenger movement. The connector includes a socket having a housing with a front face, a plurality of conductor contact regions provided on the front face, and a magnet provided in the housing to physically retain a plug in connection with the socket in use.
US09209554B2
A housing for an electronic circuit includes a plug-housing part having an electric plug connector and a venting channel. A web is shaped onto an inside of the plug-housing part so as to delimit an installation area. A pressure equalizing element is disposed in the installation area below the venting channel and glued to the inside of the plug-housing part. The plug-housing part includes, in the installation area, a venting cutout having a first cross section disposed between the pressure equalizing element and a first venting channel. The first venting channel has a second cross section that is smaller than the first cross section and opens up into a second venting channel that runs essentially perpendicular to the first venting channel. The second venting channel is disposed inside a housing projection on an outside of the plug-housing part and has, at each axial end, an opening to the outside.
US09209549B2
A downhole cable termination apparatus for terminating a cable that extends downhole into a downhole environment from a tubing hanger to electrical equipment is provided.
US09209538B2
A memory card connector includes first and second connectors including first and second housings having first and second storage sections, respectively, and first and second contacts which connect with terminals of first and second memory cards removably-inserted into the first and second storage sections, respectively. The first and second connectors are superposed on each other in a direction of thickness thereof. Each first contact includes a first tail which is mountable to a circuit board and positioned on an outer peripheral side of a first side surface of the first housing. The second housing includes a second side surface located at a different position from the first side surface as viewed in the thickness direction. Each second contact includes a second tail which is mountable to the circuit board and positioned on an outer peripheral side of the second side surface.
US09209532B2
A multi-core cable terminating housing includes an upper case and a lower case. The upper case has a first plurality of grooves; the lower case has a second plurality of grooves; the grooves and the cases are shaped for mating with each other. Mating of the upper case with the lower case defines a cable plenum and a cable egress, and joins the first plurality of grooves with the second plurality of grooves to define a plurality of collars that open in parallel alignment from the cable plenum toward a front side of the housing opposite the cable egress, for receiving cable terminating connectors.
US09209531B2
A bus bar component connection apparatus including an electrically conductive bus bar having a thickness and at least one bore, the bore having a diameter, a male bushing portion including a body having two opposing planar surfaces, at least one shoulder extending from the body at a first end and including a threaded portion disposed toward a second end and spaced from the first end by an undercut portion, and an axial bore through the body and the shoulder, a female bushing portion having two opposing planar surfaces, a first end, a second end, and an inner surface including a threaded portion disposed toward the second end and spaced from the first end by a first smooth portion, and wherein the female bushing portion is configured to threadably receive the shoulder through the hole of the bus bar.
US09209524B2
A wireless terminal installation device on which a wireless terminal is to be installed includes a housing and a substrate provided at an inside of the housing. The substrate includes at least a printed board, a mounting part that is provided on the printed board and mounted with a conductor, a conductor-free part which is an area that excludes a conductor, and a parasitic antenna that is provided on the conductor-free part to re-emit a radio wave received.
US09209520B2
An antenna structure (111) commences at a feed point (202) that is coupled to an inverted F antenna section (204). The inverted F antenna section is coupled to a monopole section (210) that is further coupled to a helical section (216). The inverted F section, monopole section, and helical section are coupled in series together.
US09209509B2
A configuration for routing electrical signals between a conventional electronic integrated circuit (IC) and an opto-electronic subassembly is formed as an array of signal paths carrying oppositely-signed signals on adjacent paths to lower the inductance associated with the connection between the IC and the opto-electronic subassembly. The array of signal paths can take the form of an array of wirebonds between the IC and the subassembly, an array of conductive traces formed on the opto-electronic subassembly, or both.
US09209503B2
In one embodiment, a metal oxygen battery is provided. The metal oxygen battery includes a battery housing including a first compartment and a second compartment. The first compartment includes a first electrode and an oxygen storage material in communication with the first electrode. The second compartment includes a second electrode and the second electrode includes a metal material (M). In another embodiment, the oxygen storage material is configured as a number of particles disposed within the first electrode. In certain instances, at least a portion of the number of particles are each contained within a selective transport member. In certain other instances, the selective transport member is oxygen permeable and electrolyte impermeable.
US09209498B2
An electrical storage device includes electrical storage elements (11); and spacers (13) arranged alternately with the electrical storage elements (11). Each of the spacers (13) includes an opposing surface that faces the adjacent electrical storage element (11), plural ribs that form cooling medium passages for a cooling medium flowing along the opposing surface, a side surface that is located on a side of end portions of the cooling medium passages, and a leg portion that protrudes from the side surface and supports the spacer (13). An upper surface of the leg portion includes a first inclined portion that extends in a manner such that a distance between the first inclined portion and the side surface increases in a direction toward a bottom surface of the leg portion.
US09209497B2
A sensor module includes an enclosure adapted to hermetically seal an opening or a hole on the outer surface of a casing or packaging, a sensor element and a membrane. The membrane is arranged between the enclosure and the opening or hole of the casing or packaging.
US09209491B2
Disclosed herein is an electrode assembly constructed in a structure in which a plurality of electrochemical cells, formed of full cells having a cathode/separator/anode structure, as basic units, are overlapped, and a continuous separator sheet is disposed between the overlapped electrochemical cells, wherein a unit electrode surrounded by the separator sheet is located at a middle of the overlapped electrochemical cells, which is a winding start point, and the full cells disposed above and below the unit electrode are symmetrical to each other about the unit electrode in the direction of electrodes of the full cells. The electrode assembly is manufactured with high productivity while the electrode assembly exhibits performance and safety equal to those of a conventional stack/folding type electrode assembly.
US09209488B2
A method for manufacturing a solid electrolyte includes dissolving first polymers and second polymers in a cosolvent including a first cosolvent and a second cosolvent to provide a preparation solution; adding a lithium solution to the preparation solution to provide a mixture solution; removing the second cosolvent from the mixture solution to prepare an electrolyte paste that exhibits thixotropy; and coating the electrolyte paste onto a substrate to form an electrolyte film, wherein the electrolyte paste in a gel state is characterized by the first polymers being aligned in parallel to one another in one direction; the second polymers randomly surrounding the first polymers and having an average molecular weight that is greater than that of the first polymers; and a lithium solution provided between the first polymers and the second polymers.
US09209485B2
An electrolytic copper foil, which is particularly suitable for the application of a lithium ion secondary battery, has a shiny side and a matte side with a roughness of less than 2 μm. Based on the total sum of the texture coefficients of a (111) surface, a (200) surface, a (220) surface and a (311) surface of the electrolytic copper foil, the sum of the texture coefficients of the (220) surface and the (311) surface of the electrolytic copper foil is greater than 60%.
US09209482B2
A positive active material for a rechargeable lithium battery, a method of manufacturing the same, and a rechargeable lithium battery using the same, the positive active material including a secondary particle formed of a plurality of primary particles, the primary particles being made of a metal compound capable of intercalating/deintercalating lithium; and a coating layer on a surface of the secondary particle in an island arrangement, the coating layer including a metal oxide, wherein the secondary particle includes pores formed by the primary particles, the pores including a surface pore on the surface of the secondary particle and an internal pore inside the secondary particle, and the metal oxide of the coating layer fills a portion of the surface pore of the secondary particle.
US09209481B2
A rechargeable lithium battery including an electrode assembly having a positive electrode including a positive current collector partially coated with a positive active material to form a positive coated region and a positive uncoated region, a negative electrode including a negative current collector partially coated with a negative active material to form a negative coated region and a negative uncoated region and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The electrode assembly is spirally wound a plurality of times with the positive uncoated region and the negative uncoated region together forming a core central to the spirally-wound electrode assembly and wound from 3 to 15 times.
US09209476B2
The invention concerns the use as a redox a catalyst and/or mediator in a fuel cell catholyte solution of the compound of Formula (I) wherein: X is selected from hydrogen and from various functional groups; R1-8 are independently selected from hydrogen and various functional groups; wherein R1 and X and/or R5 and X may together form an optionally substituted ring structure; wherein R1 and R2 and/or R2 and R3 and/or R3 and R4 and/or R4 and R8 and/or R8 and R7 and/or R7 and R6 and/or R6 and R5 may together form an optionally substituted ring structure; wherein (L) indicates the optional presence of a linking bond or group between the two neighboring aromatic rings of the structure, and when present may form an optionally substituted ring structure with one or both of R4 and R8; and wherein at least one substituent group of the structure is a charge-modifying substituent.
US09209465B2
Disclosed are a separator for a fuel cell that improves power characteristics of the fuel cell, and a fuel cell including the same. The separator includes a plurality of current-carrying units, and an insulating unit interposed between the current-carrying units, wherein each current-carrying unit includes a first polymer matrix in which carbon-based particles are dispersed, and the insulating unit includes a second polymer matrix in which insulating inorganic particles are dispersed. The separator for fuel cells includes an insulating unit that exhibits low gas permeability and superior electrical insulation property, and the current-carrying unit that exhibits superior strength characteristics and conductivity, thus increasing voltage generated per one cell and considerably increasing a power generated per a constant area, when applied to the fuel cells.
US09209462B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery with excellent durability is provided using a two-phase coexisting compound as a positive electrode active material. This lithium-ion secondary battery is provided with an electrode body having a positive electrode containing a positive electrode active material and a negative electrode containing a negative electrode active material, and a non-aqueous electrolyte solution containing a lithium salt in an organic solvent. The positive electrode active material is mainly composed of a two-phase coexisting compound containing lithium, and also contains particles of a lithium-transition metal oxide with a layered structure. The particles of the layered oxide have an average particle diameter of 2 μm or less, and the percentage content thereof in the positive electrode active material is 5 mass % or less.
US09209458B2
Rechargeable lithium battery cell having a housing, a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an electrolyte containing a conductive salt, wherein the electrolyte comprises SO2 and the positive electrode contains an active material in the composition LixM′yM″z(XO4)aFb, wherein M′ is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of the elements Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn, M″ is at least one metal selected from the group consisting of the metals of the groups II A, III A, IV A, V A, VI A, IB, IIB, IIIB, IVB, VB, VIB and VIIIB, X is selected from the group consisting of the elements P, Si and S, x is greater than 0, y is greater than 0, z is greater than or equal to 0, a is greater than 0 and b is greater than or equal to 0.
US09209455B2
A particle, including: a plurality of crystallites including a first composition having a layered α-NaFeO2-type structure and including lithium in an amount of about 0.1 to about 1.3 moles, per mole of the first composition, nickel in an amount of about 0.1 to about 0.79 mole, per mole of the first composition, cobalt in an amount of 0 to about 0.5 mole, per mole of the first composition, and oxygen in an amount of about 1.7 to about 2.3 moles, per mole of the first composition; and a grain boundary between adjacent crystallites of the plurality of crystallites and including a second composition having the layered α-NaFeO2-type structure, a cubic structure, or a combination thereof, wherein a concentration of cobalt in the grain boundary is greater than a concentration of cobalt in the crystallites.
US09209453B2
A negative electrode active material for an electric device includes an alloy containing silicon in a range from 25% to 54% exclusive, carbon in a range from 1% to 47% exclusive, zinc in a range from 13% to 69% exclusive in terms of mass ratio, and inevitable impurities as a residue. For example, the negative electrode active material can be obtained with a multi DC magnetron sputtering apparatus by use of silicon, carbon and zinc as targets. An electric device using this negative electrode active material can improve the initial charge-discharge efficiency while keeping the cycle property.
US09209443B2
The disclosure relates, in one aspect, to porous solid-state films with controlled pore structures obtained by laser perforation. A thin laser-perforated film can comprise a slab defining a plurality of pores distributed in a predetermined arrangement, the plurality of pores having a distribution of sizes bound by a predetermined magnitude. In an aspect, the plurality of pores are formed in the slab with a laser having a wavelength less than about 400 nm and the slab has a transmission of the laser light of equal to or less than about 70% measured at a thickness of the slab of 100 micrometer or less.
US09209438B2
A hermetically-sealed electrical feed-through device includes a conductor, an insulating sleeve, and an outer ferule interconnected in a manner preventing relative rotation therebetween and/or includes a thermocouple in direct contact with the conductor for monitoring temperature. The conductor can have a body section extending along an axis and having an outer contour including flats or an outwardly-extending eccentrically-shaped lobe. The sleeve confronts and covers the body section of the conductor and accommodates and engages the outer contour at the flats or lobe to prevent rotation of the conductor relative to the sleeve, and the outer ferrule sandwiches the insulating sleeve between the outer ferrule and the outer contour of the conductor. The outer ferrule accommodates and engages the sleeve adjacent the outer contour of the conductor at the flats or lobe to prevent rotation of the insulator sleeve relative to the outer ferrule.
US09209435B2
A rechargeable battery including an electrode assembly; a case containing the electrode assembly; a cap plate covering an opening of the case; and an external insulating member on an outer surface of the case, the external insulating member including an insulating cover on the cap plate, and an insulating tape coupled to the insulating cover on the case.
US09209433B2
A modular system for mounting batteries that includes one or more modules mounted on a base. Each of the modules includes a top tray and a bottom tray and two side walls. The first end of each tray has a wall extending from the surface and the opposing sides have a section that is inserted into slots in the side walls. The side walls have a flanged edge on all four sides. A plurality of apertures in the top tray, the bottom tray, the tray walls and the flanges of the side walls are aligned and fastening devices are used to secure the trays to the side walls and to attach adjacent modules to form the modular system.
US09209429B2
A battery pack is disclosed. In one aspect the battery pack includes a battery cell including an electrode assembly and a pouch that seals the electrode assembly and a frame that accommodates the battery cell, wherein the frame comprises i) a main frame that surrounds the battery cell and ii) a rib that crosses the main frame. The pouch includes i) a pair of side-wing units each having a shape substantially similar to a side surface of the battery cell and extending in a direction and ii) a terrace unit connected to the side-wing units. Each of the side-wing units includes an extension unit that extends on the terrace unit along the direction. The frame includes an insertion unit into which the extension unit is inserted, and the rib is located on the terrace unit. According to embodiments, the capacity of the battery pack increases.
US09209427B2
In this embodiment, an interval distance between a deposition source holder 17 and an object on which deposition is performed (substrate 13) is reduced to 30 cm or less, preferably 20 cm or less, more preferably 5 to 15 cm, and a deposition source holder 17 is moved in an X direction or a Y direction in accordance with an insulator (also called a bank or a barrier) in deposition, and a shutter 15 is opened or closed to form a film. The present invention can cope with an increase in size of a deposition apparatus with a further increase in size of a substrate in the future.
US09209425B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescence element, including: a light reflective electrode; a light transmissive electrode; an emission layer formed between the light reflective electrode and the light transmissive electrode; a low-refractive index layer having a refractive index at a maximum peak wavelength of an emission spectrum of light emitted from the emission layer lower than that of the emission layer, the low-refractive index layer being formed between the light reflective electrode and the emission layer; and a light extraction member for changing an exiting direction of the light emitted from the emission layer, the light extraction member being formed on the light transmissive electrode, in which an optical path L between a maximum emission surface of the emission layer and the light reflective electrode satisfies a specific expression.
US09209422B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a first electrode defined into red, green and blue sub-pixel regions; a first light emitting unit disposed on the first electrode and configured with a hole injection layer, a first hole transport layer, a first organic emission layer and a first electron transport layer. The device further includes a second light emitting unit disposed on the first light emitting unit and configured with a second hole transport layer, a second organic emission layer and a second electron transport layer; and a second electrode disposed on the second light emitting unit. A separation between the first organic emission layer and the second organic emission layer is larger than a separation between the first electrode and the first organic emission layer.
US09209420B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel. A protective window is formed on the display panel. The protective window includes a first transparent member. The first transparent member includes a plurality of protrusions. The first transparent member is made of an elastomer. A second transparent member is provided on the first transparent member. The second transparent member is made of a high-hardness polymer material. The second transparent member fills spaces between the plurality of protrusions and forms a flat surface.
US09209419B2
An organic electroluminescence device of the present invention adapts a new concept in its configuration to improve its efficiency in addition to obtain a high reliability and good yielding. The organic electroluminescent device having an electroluminescent film containing an organic material capable of causing an electroluminescence and being arranged between a first electrode and a second electrode, includes: a carrier generation layer, which is a floating electrode, is embodied in the electroluminescent film; an insulting film between the first electrode and the electroluminescent film, and an insulating film between the second electrode and the electroluminescent film, wherein the organic electroluminescent device is driven by an alternating current bias.
US09209417B2
An organic EL device includes at least a light-emitting layer provided between a pair of electrodes. The light-emitting layer includes at least a hole transporting host material and an electron transporting phosphorescent material, and the concentration of the electron transporting phosphorescent material in the light-emitting layer decreases from a cathode side toward an anode side.
US09209411B2
Novel carbazole-containing compounds are provided. The novel compounds also contain electron donor groups, aryl linkers, and at least one nitrogen heterocycle. These novel organic compounds are useful in OLED devices and can exhibit delayed fluorescence.
US09209401B2
Method for manufacturing organic EL element, including: reducing internal pressure of vacuum chamber by vacuum pump connected thereto in state where substrate with applied film formed thereon is placed in vacuum chamber, applied film having been formed by applying material of organic light-emitting layer to substrate; and purifying applied film having passed through reducing the internal pressure of the vacuum chamber. Diphenylamine is used in portion of vacuum pump that is connected to inside of vacuum chamber. Reducing internal pressure of vacuum chamber is performed such that molecules of diphenylamine fly from vacuum pump into vacuum chamber and some of molecules are taken into applied film, and purifying is performed so that content of diphenylamine in applied film is in range from more than 0 nmol/cm3 to 13.8 nmol/cm3.
US09209400B2
A method of fabricating an organic electronic device is provided. The organic electronic device has a structure including an upper conductive layer and an underlying layer immediately beneath said upper conducting layer and having at least one solution process able semiconducting layer. The upper conducting layer preferably has a thickness of between 10 nm and 200 nm. The method includes patterning said upper conductive layer of said structure by: laser ablating said upper conductive layer using a pulsed laser to remove regions of upper conductive layer from said underlying layer for said patterning; and wherein said laser ablating uses a single pulse of said laser to substantially completely remove a said region of said upper conductive layer to expose said underlying layer beneath.
US09209391B2
An electronic device includes a first electrode made of an inert material; a second electrode made of a soluble material; a solid electrolyte made of an ion-conductive material, wherein the first and second electrodes are in contact respectively with one of the faces of the electrolyte, either side of the electrolyte, wherein the second electrode supplies mobile ions flowing in the electrolyte towards the first electrode, to form a conductive filament when a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes. The second electrode is a confinement electrode that includes an end surface in contact with the electrolyte which is less than the available surface of the electrolyte, such that confinement of the contact area of the confinement electrode on the solid electrolyte is obtained.
US09209390B2
A memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of parallel trenches therein, a memory region formed in the substrate including an array of memory cells having a plurality of vertical selection transistors with respective channels formed in trench sidewalls, a plurality of buried source electrodes in trench bottoms, a plurality of paired gate electrodes formed on paired trench sidewalls, a first and second stitch region disposed adjacent the memory region along a trench direction including a first and second row of gate contacts, respectively, and a row of source contacts disposed in the first or second stitch region with each of the source contacts coupled to a respective one of the source electrodes. One of each pair of the gate electrodes is coupled to a respective one of the first row of gate contacts and the other one of each pair of gate electrodes is coupled to a respective one of the second row of gate contacts.
US09209378B2
Disclosed are methods for the manufacture of n-type and p-type filled skutterudite thermoelectric legs of an electrical contact. A first material of CoSi2 and a dopant are ball-milled to form a first powder which is thermo-mechanically processed with a second powder of n-type skutterudite to form a n-type skutterudite layer disposed between a first layer and a third layer of the doped-CoSi2. In addition, a plurality of components such as iron, and nickel, and at least one of cobalt or chromium are ball-milled form a first powder that is thermo-mechanically processed with a p-type skutterudite layer to form a p-type skutterudite layer “second layer” disposed between a first and a third layer of the first powder. The specific contact resistance between the first layer and the skutterudite layer for both the n-type and the p-type skutterudites subsequent to hot-pressing is less than about 10.0 μΩ·cm2.
US09209374B2
Disclosed are a thermoelectric material and a method of forming a thermoelectric material having an optimal stoichiometry, the method including obtaining a first precursor material, wherein the first precursor material is an antimony precursor, and obtaining a second precursor material, wherein the second precursor is chosen from the group consisting of a tellurium precursor and a selenium precursor. The method further includes combining the precursor materials, heating the combination of precursor materials, and isolating a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals from the heated precursor materials.
US09209369B2
Methods and systems may provide an alignment scheme for components that may reduce positional deviation between the components. The method may include placing a first component on top of a substrate, wherein the first component includes a receiving alignment feature, and coupling a second component to the first component, wherein the coupling includes inserting a protruding alignment feature of the second component into the receiving alignment feature of the first component. In one example, the first component includes an edge-emitting semiconductor die and the second component include one or more of an optical lens and an alignment frame.
US09209362B2
A semiconductor light emitting device has a light emitting element, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a seed electrode layer and a plated layer. The light emitting element has a nitride-based III-V compound semiconductor on a substrate. The light emitting element having a light extraction surface. The first electrode layer on the light extraction surface. The second electrode layer is provided on a surface opposite to the light extraction surface of the light emitting element. The seed electrode layer is configured to cover the entire surface of the second electrode layer. The plated layer is provided on the seed electrode layer. The light emitting element has a light emitting layer, a first conductive type semiconductor layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer. The light emitting element has a forward tapered shape of a width which gradually narrows in order of the second conductive type semiconductor layer, the light emitting layer and the first conductive type semiconductor layer.
US09209356B2
A light-emitting element includes: a light-emitting stack including an uneven upper surface; a transparent conductive layer formed on the uneven upper surface; an insulating layer formed on the transparent conductive layer and filling the uneven upper surface, and partial regions of the transparent conductive layer are exposed; a reflective layer formed on the transparent conductive layer and the insulating layer; and a contact interface including a current blocking area formed between the insulating layer and the reflective layer and a plurality of first contact regions formed between the transparent conductive layer and the reflective layer; and an electrode structure formed on the reflective layer, and the reflective layer is between the light-emitting stack and the electrode structure in a vertical direction of the light-emitting element; wherein the current blocking area and the plurality of first contact regions are coplanar.
US09209354B2
Light emitting devices for light emitting diodes (LEDs) are disclosed. In one embodiment a light emitting device can include a substrate and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed over the substrate in patterned arrays. The arrays can include one or more patterns of LEDs. A light emitting device can further include a retention material disposed about the array of LEDs. In one aspect, the retention material can be dispensed.
US09209351B1
A method for manufacturing a light emitting element includes: preparing a wafer that has a substrate in which a first main face is provided with a plurality of convex components; and dividing the wafer along first dividing lines and second dividing lines. The convex components are in the form of circular cones or truncated circular cones, each of which having a circular bottom face and a side face that is connected to the bottom face, and disposed regularly so that a plurality of bounded regions are present around the convex components, and a shortest distance between the convex components and the centers of the bounded regions is less than a radius of the bottom faces of the convex components. The first and second dividing lines extend in a direction that intersects straight lines that link the centers of the plurality of bounded regions around a single convex component.
US09209348B2
A method and structure for stabilizing an array of micro devices is disclosed. A stabilization layer includes an array of stabilization cavities and array of stabilization posts. Each stabilization cavity includes sidewalls surrounding a stabilization post. The array of micro devices is on the array of stabilization posts. Each micro device in the array of micro devices includes a bottom surface that is wider than a corresponding stabilization post directly underneath the bottom surface.
US09209342B2
Processes for making light to current converter devices are provided. The processes can be used to make light to current converter devices having P-N junctions located on only the top surface of the cell, located on the top surface and symmetrically or asymmetrically along a portion of the inner surface of the via holes, located on the top surface and full inner surface of the via holes, or located on the top surface, full inner surface of the via holes, and a portion of the bottom surface of the cell. The processes may isolate the desired P-N junction by etching the emitter, forming a via hole after forming the emitter, using a barrier layer to protect portions of the emitter from etching, or using a barrier layer to prevent the emitter from being formed on portions of the substrate.
US09209320B1
A method of fabricating an avalanche photodiode pixel includes growing a second doped semiconductor layer on a first doped semiconductor layer having a first doping concentration. The second doped semiconductor layer is grown with a second doping concentration and is of an opposite majority charge carrier type as the first doped semiconductor layer. A doped contact region having a third doping concentration is formed in the second doped semiconductor layer between the doped contact region and the first doped semiconductor layer. The doped contact region is of a same majority charge carrier type as the second doped semiconductor layer. The third doping concentration is greater than the second doping concentration. A guard ring region is formed in the second doped semiconductor layer, is of an opposite majority charge carrier type as the second doped semiconductor layer, and extends through the second doped semiconductor layer surrounding the doped contact region.
US09209319B2
A method for manufacturing a sensor device is provided. The method prevents corrosion of metal electrodes of a sensor due to outside air with high humidity and preventing the occurrence of warpage of the sensor due to resin sealing of the sensor, thereby reducing the influence on sensor characteristics, and provides the sensor device. The method includes arranging a sensor on a substrate, the sensor having a fixed part, a movable part positioned inside the fixed part, a flexible part connecting the fixed part and the movable part, and a plurality of metal electrodes, electrically connecting the plurality of metal electrodes of the sensor and a plurality of terminals of the substrate with bonding wires, and covering portions of the plurality of metal electrodes of the sensor connected to the bonding wires with a resin so that a part of the bonding wires between the plurality of metal electrodes and the plurality of terminals is exposed.
US09209318B2
A vertical junction field effect transistor (JFET) includes a drain, a source, a gate, a drift region, and a body diode. The source, gate, drift region, and body diode are all disposed in the same compound semiconductor epitaxial layer. The drain is vertically spaced apart from the source and the gate by the drift region. The body diode is connected between the drain and the source.
US09209309B2
A thin-film semiconductor device) having two thin-film transistors, wherein one of the thin-film transistors includes: a first gate electrode; a first gate insulating film; a first semiconductor film; an intrinsic semiconductor layer; a first contact layer of n-type in contact with and above a portion of the intrinsic semiconductor layer; a first source electrode; and a first drain electrode, and the other of the thin-film transistors includes: a second gate electrode; a second gate insulating film; a second semiconductor film; an intrinsic semiconductor layer; a second contact layer of p-type in contact with portions of sides of the semiconductor film and the intrinsic semiconductor layer; a second source electrode; and a second drain electrode.
US09209305B1
An integrated circuit transistor is formed on and in a substrate. A trench in the substrate is at least partially filed with a metal material to form a source (or drain) contact buried in the substrate. The substrate further includes a source (or drain) region epitaxially grown above the source (or drain) contact. The substrate further includes a channel region adjacent to the source (or drain) region. A gate dielectric is provided on top of the channel region and a gate electrode is provided on top of the gate dielectric. The substrate is preferably of the silicon on insulator (SOI) type.
US09209303B2
The present disclosure provides a fin-like field-effect transistor (FinFET) device. The device includes a substrate having a first region, a second region and a third region. The first region includes a first fin structure, a first high-k (HK)/metal gate (MG) stack wrapping over an upper portion of the first fin structure and a first source/drain features, separated by the first HK/MG stack, over the recessed first fin structure. The second region includes a second fin structure, the first source/drain features over a portion of the recessed second fin structure. The third region includes a dummy gate stack over the second fin structure and the two first regions are separated by the second region, or by the third region.
US09209298B2
A metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) includes a substrate, a source and a drain in the substrate, a gate electrode disposed over the substrate between the source and drain, and a gate dielectric layer disposed between the substrate and the gate electrode. At least a portion of the gate dielectric layer is extended beyond the gate electrode toward at least one of the source or the drain.
US09209285B2
A p-channel tunneling field effect transistor (TFET) is selected from a group consisting of (i) a multi-layer structure of group IV layers and (ii) a multi-layer structure of group III-V layers. The p-channel TFET includes a channel region comprising one of a silicon-germanium alloy with non-zero germanium content and a ternary III-V alloy. An n-channel TFET is selected from a group consisting of (i) a multi-layer structure of group IV layers and (ii) a multi-layer structure of group III-V layers. The n-channel TFET includes an n-type region, a p-type region with a p-type delta doping, and a channel region disposed between and spacing apart the n-type region and the p-type region. The p-channel TFET and the n-channel TFET may be electrically connected to define a complementary field-effect transistor element. TFETs may be fabricated from a silicon-germanium TFET layer structure grown by low temperature (500 degrees Centigrade) molecular beam epitaxy.
US09209284B2
A tunneling field effect transistor with a new structure and a preparation method thereof are provided. The tunneling field effect transistor includes an active region between a source and a drain, a gate dielectric layer, and a gate located on a side of the gate dielectric layer deviating from the source, and a tunneling region disposed between the gate dielectric layer and the source and in contact with both the gate dielectric layer and the source. The source includes at least a first area and a second area perpendicularly connected in an “L” shape. The tunneling region is in contact with at least the first area and the second area. The gate dielectric layer is in contact with at least the tunneling region and the source.
US09209280B2
A method of doping a FinFET includes forming a semiconductor fin on a substrate, the substrate having a first device region and a second device region. The semiconductor fin is formed on a surface of the substrate in the second device region and has a top surface and sidewalls. The first device region is covered with a hard mask and the semiconductor fin and the hard mask are exposed to a deposition process to form a dopant-rich layer having an n-type or p-type dopant on the top surface and the sidewalls of the semiconductor fin. The dopant from the dopant-rich layer is diffused into the semiconductor fin by performing an annealing process in which the first device region is free of diffusion of the diffused dopant or another dopant from the hard mask.
US09209276B2
A method of producing a trench gate type MOSFET is provided in which each intersection trench is formed as a two-stage trench structure. A gate trench is backfilled with a mask material and the mask material is then patterned to form a mask used for forming each intersection trench. The intersection trench intersecting the gate trench is provided so as to be deeper than the gate trench. A Schottky electrode is provided in the bottom of each intersection trench 10p. In this manner, there is provided a trench gate type semiconductor device and a method of producing the same, in which: the cell pitch can be reduced even when a wide band gap semiconductor is used as a main semiconductor substrate; good ohmic contacts can be obtained; and an excessive electric field is prevented from being applied to an insulating film in the bottom of each trench.
US09209272B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate of a transistor at a surface of a wafer, removing the dummy gate, and filling a metallic material into a trench left by the removed dummy gate. A Chemical Mechanical Polish (CMP) is then performed on the metallic material, wherein a remaining portion of the metallic material forms a metal gate of the transistor. After the CMP, a treatment is performed on an exposed top surface of the metal gate using an oxidation-and-etching agent comprising chlorine and oxygen.
US09209269B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure comprises following steps: providing an SOI substrate, forming a gate stack on the SOI substrate, forming sidewall spacers on sidewalls of the gate stack, and forming source/drain regions on each side of the gate stack; depositing a first metal layer on surfaces of an entire semiconductor structure, and then removing the first metal layer; forming an amorphous semiconductor layer on surfaces of the source/drain regions; depositing a second metal layer on surfaces of the entire semiconductor structure, and then removing the second metal layer; and annealing the semiconductor structure. Accordingly, the present invention further provides a semiconductor structure. The present invention is capable of effectively reducing contact resistance at source/drain regions.
US09209255B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a nitride semiconductor layer, a first electrode provided on the layer, a second electrode provided on the layer, a insulating film provided on the layer, a first control electrode provided on the film, and a conductor provided on the film. The first control electrode includes a first edge, and a second edge. The first edge is provided between the second edge and the first electrode. The conductor includes a first portion and a third edge positioned between the first portion and the first electrode. An electric field strength at a first region is substantially equal to an electric field strength at a second region. The first region overlaps the first edge when projected onto a plane perpendicular to a stacking direction. The second region overlaps the third edge when projected onto the plane.
US09209254B2
In a structure including a gallium nitride-based semiconductor having an m-plane as a principal plane, and a metal layer provided on the principal plane, the principal plane has an n-type conductivity. An interface between the gallium nitride-based semiconductor and the metal layer contains oxygen. The metal layer includes a crystal grain extending form a lower surface to an upper surface of the metal layer.
US09209253B2
A nitride based semiconductor device includes a first metallic junction layer, a Schottky junction layer on the first metallic junction layer, a first group III nitride semiconductor layer on the Schottky junction layer, a first insulating pattern layer on the first group III nitride semiconductor layer, the first insulating layer pattern including curved protrusions, a second group III nitride semiconductor layer laterally grown on the first group III nitride semiconductor layer, a first type group III nitride semiconductor layer on the second group III nitride semiconductor layer, the first type group III nitride semiconductor layer being simultaneously doped with aluminum (Al) and silicon (Si), an ohmic junction layer formed on the first type group III nitride semiconductor layer, a second metallic junction layer on the ohmic junction layer, and a metallic supporting substrate on the second metallic junction layer.
US09209251B2
One object is to provide a new semiconductor device whose standby power is sufficiently reduced. The semiconductor device includes a first power supply terminal, a second power supply terminal, a switching transistor using an oxide semiconductor material and an integrated circuit. The first power supply terminal is electrically connected to one of a source terminal and a drain terminal of the switching transistor. The other of the source terminal and the drain terminal of the switching transistor is electrically connected to one terminal of the integrated circuit. The other terminal of the integrated circuit is electrically connected to the second power supply terminal.
US09209249B2
To realize a semiconductor device having a power MOSFET satisfying both a low conduction resistance and a high junction breakdown voltage by a simple and easy manufacturing method. Over an n-type substrate, a p-type epitaxial layer of a low concentration is formed, and, in an active part, a plurality of active regions is defined by a plurality of trenches that is formed in the epitaxial layer and extends in a first direction with first intervals in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. In the epitaxial layer between the adjacent trenches, an n-type diffusion region that functions as a drain offset layer is formed, and, in the epitaxial layer between a side wall of the trench and the n-type diffusion region, a p-type diffusion region connected with a channel region (the p-type diffusion region) is formed, to constitute a super junction structure. Further, by forming an n-type diffusion region in the epitaxial layer, having a prescribed width from a side wall of a trench lying in the end part of the active part toward an outer periphery part, to achieve the improvement of a drain breakdown voltage.
US09209248B2
A power transistor includes a number of transistor cells. Each transistor cell includes a source region, a drain region, a body region and a gate electrode. Each source region is arranged in a first semiconductor fin of a semiconductor body. Each drain region is at least partially arranged in a second semiconductor fin of the semiconductor body. The second semiconductor fin is spaced from the first semiconductor fin in a first horizontal direction of the semiconductor body. Each gate electrode is arranged in a trench adjacent the first semiconductor fin, is adjacent the body region, and is dielectrically insulated from the body region by a gate dielectric. Each of the first and second semiconductor fins has a width in the first horizontal direction and a length in a second horizontal direction, wherein the length is larger than the width.
US09209245B2
A photomask has a mask blank and a light shielding film formed on the mask blank. The light shielding film includes a plurality of opening traces extending in a first direction. An end of a first opening trace in the first direction and an end of a second opening trace in the first direction are in different positions in the first direction. The second opening trace adjoins the first opening trace.
US09209239B2
The method includes forming a metal interconnection layer and a first interlayer insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, forming a reservoir capacitor region by etching the first interlayer insulating layer to expose the metal interconnection layer, forming a barrier metal layer on the reservoir capacitor region, forming a sacrificial insulating layer on the barrier metal layer in a lower portion of the reservoir capacitor region, performing a pre-cleaning process to remove the barrier metal layer on a sidewall of the reservoir capacitor region, and removing the sacrificial insulating layer.
US09209235B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate; a thin film transistor (TFT) on the substrate; a pixel-defining layer (PDL) disposed on the TFT and comprising a first area having a first thickness and a second area having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and a via hole in the first area; a pixel electrode disposed on at least a portion of the first area, and electrically connected to the TFT via the via hole; an intermediate layer on the pixel electrode, the intermediate layer comprising an emission layer (EML); and an opposite electrode on the intermediate layer. According to a method of manufacturing the organic light emitting display apparatus, the PDL is formed on the substrate and then the pixel electrode is formed on the first area.
US09209227B2
An organic electroluminescence (EL) display panel includes an anode electrode formed above a bank and formed opposite to a plurality of cathode electrodes, and a charge functional layer commonly formed for each of the organic light-emitting layers across a plurality of aperture areas formed in the bank. A distance from the center of the display region to the end of the anode electrode is shorter than a distance from the center of the display region to the end of the charge functional layer.
US09209225B2
A cell structure of a non-volatile memory is provided. The cell structure includes a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, a first material layer, a second material layer, a first transition layer, a second metal layer, a second dielectric layer, a third material layer, a fourth material layer, a second transition layer, and a third metal layer. The first dielectric layer has a first via, and the first metal layer is exposed through the first via. The first material layer and the second material layer are reacted with each other to form the first transition layer. The second dielectric layer has a second via, and the second metal layer is exposed through the second via. The third material layer and the fourth material layer are reacted with each other to form the second transition layer.
US09209222B2
A surveillance device includes a circuit card assembly disposed in a housing and a plurality of light emitting diodes disposed on the circuit card assembly, each of the plurality of light emitting diodes configured to emit a narrow beam of light. The surveillance device further includes a diffuser disposed in the housing, the diffuser configured to spread the narrow beam of light and a Fresnel lens disposed in the housing, the Fresnel lens configured to spread and redirect light emitted from the diffuser.
US09209205B2
A thin film transistor includes a semiconductor which is disposed on a substrate and includes a source region, a drain region and a channel region, a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode, contact holes defined in the interlayer insulating layer, the contact holes respectively exposing the source region and the drain region of the semiconductor, and a source electrode and a drain electrode which are disposed on the interlayer insulating layer and respectively contact the source region and the drain region through the contact holes, where at least one of the contact holes exposing the source region and the drain region obliquely traverses the semiconductor.
US09209204B2
A thin film transistor array panel and a method of manufacturing the same, the thin film transistor array panel including: a polysilicon thin film transistor formed on a substrate, in which a source region and a drain region of a semiconductor layer of the thin film transistor are electrically connected to a power supply line. The power supply line is configured to apply a voltage to remove a floating state of a polysilicon semiconductor layer.
US09209201B2
A multilayer semiconductor structure having a layout footprint with a first region and a non-overlapping second region and different transistor types fabricated using different channel material. The semiconductor structure comprises a first transistor layer comprising a first type of channel material in the first region but no channel material in the second region. The semiconductor structure further comprises a second transistor layer comprising a second type of channel material in the second region but no channel material in the first region. The second transistor layer is vertically elevated above the first transistor layer. A first transistor is fabricated on the first transistor layer. A second transistor is fabricated on the second transistor layer, and the first transistor is interconnected with the second transistor to form a circuit.
US09209189B2
A capacitive element has improved electrical properties. The capacitive element is configured in a DRAM cell and has a lower electrode, a capacitive insulator film formed over the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed over the capacitive insulator film. The upper electrode has a structure in which from the capacitive insulator film side of this electrode, a first upper electrode, a second upper electrode and a third upper electrode are stacked in turn. The third upper electrode is a tungsten film that may contain an impurity. Between the first and third upper electrodes, the second upper electrode is interposed which is a barrier film for preventing the possible impurity in the third upper electrode from diffusing into the capacitive insulator film.
US09209188B2
An integrated circuit including a link or string of semiconductor memory cells, wherein each memory cell includes a floating body region for storing data. The link or string includes at least one contact configured to electrically connect the memory cells to at least one control line, and the number of contacts in the string or link is the same as or less than the number of memory cells in the string or link.
US09209182B2
The described embodiments of mechanisms for placing dummy gate structures next to and/or near a number of wide gate structures reduce dishing effect for gate structures during chemical-mechanical polishing of gate layers. The arrangements of dummy gate structures and the ranges of metal pattern density have been described. Wide gate structures, such as analog devices, can greatly benefit from the reduction of dishing effect.
US09209176B2
Electronic modules, and methods of forming and operating modules, are described. The modules include a capacitor, a first switching device, and a second switching device. The electronic modules further include a substrate such as a DBC substrate, which includes an insulating layer between a first metal layer and a second metal layer, and may include multiple layers of DBC substrates stacked over one another. The first metal layer includes a first portion and a second portion isolated from one another by a trench formed through the first metal layer between the two portions. The first and second switching devices are over the first metal layer, a first terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the first portion of the first metal layer, and a second terminal of the capacitor is electrically connected to the second portion of the first metal layer, with the capacitor extending over the trench.
US09209175B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a gate stack over a semiconductor substrate, and an opening extending into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the opening is adjacent to the gate stack. A first silicon germanium region is disposed in the opening, wherein the first silicon germanium region has a first germanium percentage. A second silicon germanium region is over the first silicon germanium region. The second silicon germanium region comprises a portion in the opening. The second silicon germanium region has a second germanium percentage greater than the first germanium percentage. A silicon cap substantially free from germanium is over the second silicon germanium region.
US09209172B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure within a semiconductor substrate is provided. The method may include forming, on the substrate, a first group of fins associated with a first device; a second group of fins associated with a second device; and a third group of fins located between the first group of fins and the second group of fins, whereby the third group of fins are associated with a third device. A shallow trench isolation (STI) region is formed between the first and the second group of fins by recessing the third group of fins into an opening within the substrate, such that the recessed third group of fins includes a fin top surface that is located below a top surface of the substrate. The top surface of the substrate is substantially coplanar with a fin bottom surface corresponding to the first and second group of fins.
US09209171B2
Provided is a semiconductor element having, while maintaining the same integratability as a conventional MOSFET, excellent switch characteristics compared with the MOSFET, that is, having the S-value less than 60 mV/order at room temperature. Combining the MOSFET and a tunnel bipolar transistor having a tunnel junction configures a semiconductor element that shows an abrupt change in the drain current with respect to a change in the gate voltage (an S-value of less than 60 mV/order) even at a low voltage.
US09209168B2
A circuit comprises a first layer comprising a first voltage line, a first transistor coupled with the first voltage line, a second transistor coupled with the first voltage line, and a first line coupling a drain of the first transistor with a gate of the second transistor. The circuit also comprises a second layer comprising a second voltage line, a third transistor coupled with the second voltage line, a fourth transistor coupled with the second voltage line, and a second line coupling a drain of the third transistor with a gate of the fourth transistor. The circuit further comprises an inter-layer interconnect structure coupling the first transistor with the third transistor, and the second transistor with the fourth transistor.
US09209162B2
Disclosed herein is a light emitting device including at least three light emitting diodes having different peak emission wavelengths to primarily emit light in a blue, green or red wavelength range, and a wavelength-conversion means to convert primary light into secondary light in a visible light wavelength range. The light emitting device of the current invention has a high color temperature of 2,000 to 8,000 K or 10,000 K and a high color rendering index of 90 or more, and emits yellow-green light or orange light having a wide emission wavelength range. Since the light emitting device having high color temperature and excellent color rendering properties can easily realize desired emission on the color coordinate system, it is applicable to mobile phones, notebook computers, and keypads or backlight units for various electronic products, and in particular, automobiles and exterior and interior lighting fixtures.
US09209160B2
A provided memory device is compatible with a mono-rank or multi-ranks. A plurality of memory layers are stacked in the memory device. The memory device receives an address signal and chip select signals in response to a chip identification signal and a mode signal used to determine a mono-rank or multi-ranks. The plurality of memory layers operate as the mono-rank accessed by the address signal, or operate as the multi-ranks accessed by the chip select signals.
US09209157B2
The formation of through silicon vias (TSVs) in an integrated circuit (IC) die or wafer is described in which the TSV is formed in the integration process prior to contact or metallization processing. Contacts and bonding pads may then be fabricated after the TSVs are already in place, which allows the TSV to be more dense and allows more freedom in the overall TSV design. By providing a denser connection between TSVs and bonding pads, individual wafers and dies may be bonded directly at the bonding pads. The conductive bonding material, thus, maintains an electrical connection to the TSVs and other IC components through the bonding pads.
US09209152B2
A method and apparatus for packaging a semiconductor chip is presented. A semiconductor device includes a chip, a lead, and an encapsulant. The encapsulant includes a stabilization layer, a laminate molding layer connected to the stabilization layer, and a conductive strip connected to the laminate molding layer. The conductive strip electrically connects the contact area of the chip to the lead.
US09209151B2
A package structure includes a dielectric layer, at least one semiconductor device attached to the dielectric layer, one or more dielectric sheets applied to the dielectric layer and about the semiconductor device(s) to embed the semiconductor device(s) therein, and a plurality of vias formed to the semiconductor device(s) that are formed in at least one of the dielectric layer and the one or more dielectric sheets. The package structure also includes metal interconnects formed in the vias and on one or more outward facing surfaces of the package structure to form electrical interconnections to the semiconductor device(s). The dielectric layer is composed of a material that does not flow during a lamination process and each of the one or more dielectric sheets is composed of a curable material configured to melt and flow when cured during the lamination process so as to fill-in any air gaps around the semiconductor device(s).
US09209150B2
Embedded packages are provided. The embedded package includes a chip attached to a first surface of a core layer, a plurality of bumps on a surface of the chip opposite to the core layer, and a first insulation layer surrounding the core layer, the chip and the plurality of bumps. The first insulation layer has a trench disposed in a portion of the first insulation layer to expose the plurality of bumps.
US09209142B1
A transfer substrate with a compliant resin is used to bond one or more chips to a target wafer. An implant region is formed in a transfer substrate. A portion of the transfer substrate is etched to form a riser. Compliant material is applied to the transfer substrate. A chip is secured to the compliant material, wherein the chip is secured to the compliant material above the riser. The chip is bonded to a target wafer while the chip is secured to the compliant material. The transfer substrate and compliant material are removed from the chip. The transfer substrate is opaque to UV light.
US09209140B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a plurality of contact pads disposed over the substrate. The contact pads are arranged in a ball grid array (BGA), and the BGA includes a plurality of corners. A metal dam is disposed around each of the plurality of corners of the BGA.
US09209136B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques and configurations for hybrid carbon-metal interconnect structures in integrated circuit assemblies. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a substrate, a metal interconnect layer disposed on the substrate and configured to serve as a growth initiation layer for a graphene layer and the graphene layer, wherein the graphene layer is formed directly on the metal interconnect layer, the metal interconnect layer and the graphene layer being configured to route electrical signals. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09209128B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit assembly includes forming an insulator layer on a preliminary semiconductor assembly. The preliminary semiconductor assembly includes a semiconductor substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a semiconductor circuitry layer formed on the first side of the semiconductor substrate, and a conductive via extending through the semiconductor substrate from the semiconductor circuitry layer to the second side. The insulator is formed on the second side and an end of the conductive via. The method includes forming a polymer layer on the insulator layer, removing a quantity of the polymer layer sufficient to expose the end of the conductive via through the insulator layer, and forming a conductive contact on the polymer layer and the end of the conductive via.
US09209126B2
An interconnect structure and methods for making the same include sidewall portions of an interlevel dielectric layer. The sidewall portions have a width less than a minimum feature size for a given lithographic technology and the width is formed by a thickness of the interlevel dielectric layer when conformally formed on vertical surfaces of a mandrel. The sidewall portions form spaced-apart openings. Conductive structures fill the spaced-apart openings and are separated by the sidewall portions to form single damascene structures.
US09209122B2
Provided herein is a bump including a diffusion barrier bi-layer, the bump having: a conductive layer; a first diffusion barrier layer formed on or above the conductive layer, and comprising an alloy of nickel and phosphorus; a second diffusion barrier formed on or above the first diffusion barrier layer, and comprising copper; and a solder layer formed on or above the second diffusion barrier layer. A manufacturing method for producing a bump is also provided.
US09209110B2
Some novel features pertain to an integrated device that includes a substrate, a first die coupled to the substrate, a first encapsulation layer coupled to the substrate and the first die, and a second encapsulation layer in the first encapsulation layer. The second encapsulation layer includes a set of wires configured to operate as vias. In some implementations, the integrated device includes a set of vias in the first encapsulation layer. In some implementations, the integrated device further includes a second die coupled to the substrate. In some implementations, the second encapsulation layer is positioned between the first die and the second die. In some implementations, the integrated device further includes a cavity in the first encapsulation layer, where the second encapsulation layer is positioned in the cavity. In some implementations, the cavity has a wall that is non-vertical. In some implementations, at least one of the wires is non-vertical.
US09209104B2
Provided herein are electronic devices assembled with thermally insulating layers.
US09209103B2
A circuit for heating a battery includes the battery including parasitic damping and current storage components, a switch unit, a switching control component coupled to the switch unit, a charge storage component, and a current limiting circuit. The damping component, current storage component, switch unit, and charge storage component are connected. The switching control component is configured to turn on and off the switch unit so as to control a first current flowing from the battery to the first charge storage component and a second current flowing from the first charge storage component to the battery. The current limiting circuit is configured to limit the second current flowing from the charge storage component to the battery. The circuit for heating the battery is configured to heat the battery by at least discharging and charging the battery.
US09209082B2
Various embodiments include localized hardening of dicing channels in an integrated circuit (IC) wafer. In some embodiments, a method includes: applying localized heat to a metal interconnect in a wafer kerf on an IC wafer using a heat source; and removing the heat source to cool the metal interconnect after the applying of the localized heat to the metal interconnect, wherein the applying of the heat and the removing of the heat source increases a hardness of the metal interconnect.
US09209080B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip including a first main face and a second main face. The second main face is the backside of the semiconductor chip. The second main face includes a first region and a second region. The second region is a peripheral region of the second main face and the level of the first region and the level of the second region are different. The first region may be filled with metal and may be planarized to the same level as the second region.
US09209076B2
A method includes performing a double patterning process to form a first mandrel, a second mandrel, and a third mandrel, with the third mandrel being between the first mandrel and the second mandrel, and etching the third mandrel to cut the third mandrel into a fourth mandrel and a fifth mandrel, with an opening separating the fourth mandrel from the fifth mandrel. A spacer layer is formed on sidewalls of the first, the second, the fourth, and the fifth mandrels, wherein the opening is fully filled by the spacer layer. Horizontal portions of the spacer layer are removed, with vertical portions of the spacer layer remaining un-removed. A target layer is etched using the first, the second, the fourth, and the fifth mandrels and the vertical portions of the spacer layer as an etching mask, with trenches formed in the target layer. The trenches are filled with a filling material.
US09209066B2
The invention relates to an isolation structure of a semiconductor device. An exemplary isolation structure for a semiconductor device comprises a substrate comprising a trench; a strained material in the trench, wherein a lattice constant of the strained material is different from a lattice constant of the substrate; an oxide layer of the strained material over the strained material; a high-k dielectric layer over the oxide layer; and a dielectric layer over the high-k dielectric layer filling the trench.
US09209063B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for transferring a substrate. The apparatus includes a supporting member; an elevating and rotating member; a transferring unit; a first arm whose one end is supported by the elevating and rotating member to be rotatable; a second arm whose one end is supported by the transferring unit to be rotatable and whose the other end is supported by the other end of the first arm to be rotatable; and an arm driving part, installed on the first arm, which drives the other end of the second arm to pivot on the other end of the first arm to allow the first arm and the second arm to be folded or unfolded and thus removes the state of singularity by rotating the other end of the second arm based on the other end of the first arm.
US09209061B2
An electrostatic chuck device is provided in which it is possible to uniformize an in-plane temperature distribution in a placement surface on which a plate-shaped sample such as a wafer is placed and it is possible to improve in-plane uniformity of plasma etching of the plate-shaped sample by uniformizing plasma density on the plate-shaped sample. The electrostatic chuck device includes an electrostatic chuck section that has an upper surface as a placement surface on which a plate-shaped sample is placed, and is made to have an internal electrode for electrostatic adsorption built-in, and a cooling base section that cools the electrostatic chuck section, wherein a heater element (4) having a heater pattern (21) of a predetermined shape is provided between the electrostatic chuck section and the cooling base section, and an island-shaped portion (24) that is independent from the heater pattern (21) and is made of the same material as the heater pattern (21) is provided in a gap portion (23) of the heater pattern (21).
US09209052B2
A semiconductor manufacturing apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a vacuum chamber. A stage mounts a semiconductor substrate thereon within the vacuum chamber. An electrostatic chuck fixes the semiconductor substrate onto the stage. A sensor detects a height of a surface of the semiconductor substrate fixed onto the stage by the electrostatic chuck. A processor determines whether the surface of the semiconductor substrate is distorted based on the height of the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The processor calculates correction values for a pattern transferred onto the surface of the semiconductor substrate by exposure based on the height of the surface of the semiconductor substrate when the surface of the semiconductor substrate is distorted. An exposure part exposes the surface of the semiconductor substrate to light using the correction values.
US09209051B2
In one embodiment the mounting apparatus mounts an upper chip on a lower chip, and thermally presses the upper chip with the lower chip. The mounting apparatus includes a first movement part for mounting the upper chip on the lower chip and preliminarily bonding by thermal pressing, and a second movement part for mainly bonding the plurality of upper chips preliminarily bonded with the plurality of lower chips for a longer time. The second movement part thermally presses the upper chips preliminarily bonded on the lower chip in a state that the upper chips are adsorbed on an adsorption surface parallel to a loading surface of the lower chip on which the upper chips are loaded.
US09209050B2
A laser crystallization system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the laser crystallization system includes i) a mother substrate including first, second, and third display regions sequentially arranged in a first direction and ii) a stage for supporting the mother substrate and moving in the first direction and in a second direction. The system also includes i) a first laser irradiation unit for irradiating a first laser beam having a width greater than or identical to a width of a side of one of the display regions in the first direction and ii) a second laser irradiation unit spaced apart from the first laser irradiation unit and irradiating a second laser beam having a width greater than or identical to the width of the side in the first direction. Furthermore, the first and second laser beams may correspond to widths of sides of the first and third display regions.
US09209043B2
In a semiconductor manufacturing method for performing thermal treatment of a substrate with plasma while moving the substrate on which devices are formed relatively to a plasma generating apparatus which generates the plasma by allowing electromagnetic fields to act on a plasma gas, a second surface of the substrate is irradiated with the plasma of the plasma generating apparatus in a state where the second surface of the substrate which is the opposite side of a first surface of the substrate on which the devices are formed faces the plasma generating apparatus.
US09209036B2
An ashing chemistry employing a combination of Cl2 and N2 is provided, which removes residual material from sidewalls of a patterned metallic hard mask layer without residue such that the sidewalls of the patterned metallic hard mask layer are vertical. The vertical profiled of the sidewalls of the patterned metallic hard mask layer can be advantageously employed to reduce pattern factor dependency in the etch bias between the pattern transferred into an underlying layer and the pattern as formed on the metallic hard mask layer. Further, the ashing chemistry can be employed to enhance removal of stringers in vertical portions of a metallic material layer.
US09209035B2
Provided are methods of trimming photoresist patterns. The methods involve coating a photoresist trimming composition over a photoresist pattern, wherein the trimming composition includes a matrix polymer, a thermal acid generator and a solvent, the trimming composition being free of cross-linking agents. The coated semiconductor substrate is heated to generate an acid in the trimming composition from the thermal acid generator, thereby causing a change in polarity of the matrix polymer in a surface region of the photoresist pattern. The photoresist pattern is contacted with a developing solution to remove the surface region of the photoresist pattern. The methods find particular applicability in the formation of very fine lithographic features in the manufacture of semiconductor devices.
US09209032B2
This disclosure relates to a plasma processing system for controlling plasma density near the edge or perimeter of a substrate that is being processed. The plasma processing system may include a plasma chamber that can receive and process the substrate using plasma for etching the substrate, doping the substrate, or depositing a film on the substrate. This disclosure relates to a plasma processing system for controlling plasma density near the edge or perimeter of a substrate that is being processed. In one embodiment, the plasma density may be controlled by reducing the rate of loss of ions to the chamber wall during processing. This may include biasing a dual electrode ring assembly in the plasma chamber to alter the potential difference between the chamber wall region and the bulk plasma region.
US09209026B2
A method of forming a thin-film device includes forming an oxide-semiconductor film formed on the first electrical insulator, and forming a second electrical insulator formed on the oxide-semiconductor film, the oxide-semiconductor film defining an active layer. The oxide-semiconductor film is comprised of a first interface layer located at an interface with the first electrical insulator, a second interface layer located at an interface with the second electrical insulator, and a bulk layer other than the first and second interface layers. The method further includes oxidizing the oxide-semiconductor film to render a density of oxygen holes in at least one of the first and second interlayer layers is smaller than a density of oxygen holes in the bulk layer.
US09209025B2
The present invention provides a method for making low temperature poly-silicon thin film, including the step of growing amorphous silicon layer, the step of firstly growing a layer of silicon oxide over the amorphous silicon layer; then forming a plurality of concave surfaces across the silicon oxide layer, wherein the concave surfaces will reflect light beams vertically projected toward the silicon oxide; and finally, the step of projecting excimer laser beam toward the amorphous silicon layer through the silicon oxide layer to transform the amorphous silicon layer into the low temperature poly-silicon thin film. The present invention further provides a low temperature poly-silicon thin film made from the method described above, and also a low temperature poly-silicon transistor. When the excimer laser annealing process is implemented to make the low temperature poly-silicon thin film, the starting point and direction of the recrystallization can be controlled so as to attain larger grain size.
US09209020B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of epitaxially forming a semiconductor layer in a recess of a semiconductor device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of epitaxially forming a semiconductor layer in a recess may include: providing a chemical vapor deposition system; placing a semiconductor substrate having a recess into the chemical vapor deposition system, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes at least one fissure extending from a surface of the recess into the semiconductor substrate; epitaxially forming a liner including a first semiconductor material within the recess and over the at least one fissure; and epitaxially forming a semiconductor layer including a second semiconductor material over the liner.
US09209015B2
Provided is a substrate processing apparatus, which comprises a process chamber configured to process a substrate, a first plasma generation chamber in the process chamber, a first reactive gas supply unit configured to supply first reactive gas into the first plasma generation chamber, a pair of first discharge electrodes configured to generate plasma and to excite the first reactive gas, a first gas ejection port installed in a side wall of the first plasma generation chamber to eject an active species toward the substrate, a second plasma generation chamber in the process chamber, a second reactive gas supply unit configured to supply second reactive gas into the second plasma generation chamber, a pair of second discharge electrodes configured to generate plasma and to excite the second reactive gas, and a second gas ejection port installed in a side wall of the second plasma generation chamber to eject an active species.
US09209014B2
A method of forming a patterned substrate includes casting a layer of a block copolymer having an intrinsic glass transition temperature Tg, on a substrate to form a layered substrate. The method also includes heating the layered substrate at an annealing temperature, which is greater than about 50° C. above the intrinsic glass transition temperature Tg of the block copolymer, in a first atmosphere. The method further includes thermally quenching the layered substrate to a quenching temperature lower than the intrinsic glass transition temperature Tg, at a rate of greater than about 50° C./minute in a second atmosphere. The method further includes controlling an oxygen content in the first and second atmospheres to a level equal to or less than about 50 ppm to maintain the annealing and quenching temperatures below a thermal degradation temperature Td of the block copolymer.
US09209013B2
Some embodiments include methods of forming rutile-type titanium oxide. A monolayer of titanium nitride may be formed. The monolayer of titanium nitride may then be oxidized at a temperature less than or equal to about 550° C. to convert it into a monolayer of rutile-type titanium oxide. Some embodiments include methods of forming capacitors that have rutile-type titanium oxide dielectric, and that have at least one electrode comprising titanium nitride. Some embodiments include thermally conductive stacks that contain titanium nitride and rutile-type titanium oxide, and some embodiments include methods of forming such stacks.
US09209012B2
A method of etching silicon nitride on patterned heterogeneous structures is described and includes a remote plasma etch formed from a fluorine-containing precursor and a nitrogen-and-oxygen-containing precursor. Plasma effluents from two remote plasmas are flowed into a substrate processing region where the plasma effluents react with the silicon nitride. The plasmas effluents react with the patterned heterogeneous structures to selectively remove silicon nitride while very slowly removing silicon, such as polysilicon. The silicon nitride selectivity results partly from the introduction of fluorine-containing precursor and nitrogen-and-oxygen-containing precursor using distinct (but possibly overlapping) plasma pathways which may be in series or in parallel.
US09209008B2
A fast starting induction RF fluorescent lamp that is able to replace an ordinary incandescent light bulb, both in its ability to screw into a standard incandescent light bulb socket and to have the general look of the ordinary incandescent light bulb, but with all of the advantages of an induction lamp, as described herein. The present disclosure describes structures for an induction RF fluorescent lamp that includes a bulbous portion, an electronics portion, and a screw base, creating an external look that is similar to the profile of an ordinary incandescent light bulb, and with structures within the bulbous portion that facilitate rapid luminous development during the turn-on phase of the induction fluorescent lamp.
US09209007B2
A short arc discharge lamp that includes: a body that includes a reflection surface and a front opening, the reflection surface is curved in a concave shape and includes a first reflection surface section having a shape along a first quadric surface of revolution and a second reflection surface section having a shape along a second quadric surface of revolution; a cathode and an anode opposed to each other in discharge space defined by the reflection surface; and a window member covering the front opening. The first reflection surface section has a focal point at a position between the cathode and the anode, and the second reflection surface section is continuous from the first reflection surface section, and has a focal point at a position displaced toward front from the focal point of the first reflection surface section.
US09209005B2
A method for analyzing ions according to their mass-to-charge ratio and mass spectrometer for performing the method, comprising directing a collimated ion beam along an ion path from an ion source to an ion detector, causing a portion of the ion beam to contact one or more surfaces prior to reaching the ion detector, wherein the method comprises providing a coating on and/or heating the one or more surfaces to reduce variation in their surface patch potentials. The method is applicable to multi-reflection time-of-flight (MR TOF) mass spectrometry.
US09209004B2
Provided is a method for quantitatively estimating the probability of substance identification based on the result of an MS2 analysis using a certain MS1 peak as the precursor ion, before performing the MS2 analysis. Based on the result of MS1 and MS2 analyses and substance identification performed for each of a number of fractionated samples obtained from a known preparatory sample, an identification probability estimation model creator grasps m/z and S/N ratios of MS1 peaks having high probabilities of successful identification, calculates a parameter which determines the order of MS1 peaks and a parameter representing an identification probability estimation model, and stores the parameters in a memory. When identifying a substance, an approximate order is calculated for an MS1 peak obtained by the analysis. The identification probability for that peak is estimated from the approximate order with reference to the identification probability estimation model.
US09209003B2
Methods and systems for quantifying analytes in a biological sample are provided comprising preparing a biological sample for mass spectrometric analysis, utilizing an ionization source to ionize at least a portion of the prepared biological sample to generate an ionized analyte flow, introducing the ionized analyte flow into a differential mobility spectrometer set at a compensation voltage selected to extract ionized analyte molecules from the ionized analyte flow, introducing an output analyte flow of the differential mobility spectrometer into a mass spectrometer to detect and quantify analyte ions in the output analyte flow.
US09209002B2
A Geiger-Muller counter tube includes an enclosing tube, an anode conductor, a cathode conductor, an inert gas, and a quenching gas. The enclosing tube is at least partially cylindrical and has a sealed space. The anode conductor includes an anode electrode and a linear first metal lead portion. The anode electrode is arranged inside the space and formed in a rod shape. The first metal lead portion is connected to the anode electrode and supported at an end of the enclosing tube. The cathode conductor includes a cylindrical cathode electrode and a linear second metal lead portion. The cathode electrode surrounds a peripheral area of the anode electrode inside the space. The second metal lead portion is connected to the cathode electrode and supported at the end of the enclosing tube. The cathode electrode has a side surface through a part of which a through-hole passes.
US09208994B2
The present invention provides an electron beam apparatus comprising a means for visualizing an axial displacement of a retarding electric field, and a means for adjusting axial displacement. The axial displacement visualizing means includes a reflective plate (6), and an optical system (2, 3) for converging a secondary electron beam (9) on the reflective plate (6), and the axial displacement adjusting means includes an incline rotation mechanism (8) for a sample stage (5). With this configuration, in electron beam apparatuses such as SEM and the like, such problems as visual field displacement caused by displacement of the axial symmetry of the electric field between an objective lens (3) and a sample (4) and inability to measure secondary electrons and reflected electrons that provide desired information can be eliminated.
US09208993B2
A method of investigating a flux of output electrons emanating from a sample in a charged-particle microscope, which flux is produced in response to irradiation of the sample by a beam of input charged particles, the method comprising the following steps: Using a detector to intercept at least a portion of the flux so as to produce a set {Ij} of pixeled images Ij of at least part of the sample, whereby the cardinality of the set {Ij} is M>1. For each pixel p, in each image Ij, determining the accumulated signal strength Sij, thus producing an associated set of signal strengths {Sij}. Using the set {Sij} to calculate the following values: An average signal strength S per pixel position i; A variance σ2S in S per pixel position i. Using these values S and σ2S to at least one map of said part of the sample, selected from the group comprising: A first map, representing variation in energy of detected electrons as a function of position. A second map, representing variation in number of detected electrons as a function of position. The set {Ij} may be produced in different ways, such as: By iteratively repeating a procedure whereby an entire nth image In is captured before proceeding to capture an entire (n+1)th image In+1, or By iteratively repeating a procedure whereby, at an nth pixel position, a plurality M of different detector samples is collected before proceeding to an (n+1)th pixel position.
US09208980B2
The present disclosure relates to an advanced pneumatic detector (APD) alarm switch. The present APD may comprise a deformable diaphragm configured to make contact with a contact surface. This contact surface may be integral to a surface of the insulating material within the APD.
US09208978B2
An electromagnet mechanism is coaxially disposed with a vacuum interrupter that is disposed in a circuit breaker, and has a movable core and a fixed core facing each other and an electromagnetic coil that makes the movable core and the fixed core separate or come into contact in response to electromagnetic force. A driving rod which is movably disposed in the axial direction of the electromagnet mechanism is coupled to the movable core, and in which one side is coupled to the circuit breaker and the other side passes through an opening side end plate of the electromagnet mechanism to be extended outward from the opening side end plate of the electromagnet mechanism. An indication unit is disposed on the opening side end plate of the electromagnet mechanism, and indicates a state of the circuit breaker in conjunction with the movement of the driving rod.
US09208972B2
A slide fastener includes rows of elements arranged so as to face one another along edges of opening-closing ends of opposing fastener tapes; and a slider. The slide fastener can be interposed between a powered device on an output side and a power supply unit and a signal unit on an input side so as to form an input-output line that activates the powered device with a closing operation of the slide fastener. The elements form a top holding section by bringing ends of element-upper-leg portions arranged so as to face one another closer to or away from one another; and a bottom holding section by bringing ends of element-lower-leg portions arranged to face one another closer to or away from one another in cooperation with interlock or separation of the interlock portions of the elements arranged to face one another, which form part of the input-output line.
US09208970B2
A key assembly for an electronic device having a one-piece keycap and an electronic device having such a keycap are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a key assembly for use in an electronic device, comprising: a keycap having a plurality of rigid key portions separated by mechanically deforming portions; and a flexible member having opposed first and second sides, the first side having a plurality of key stems which are attached to the plurality of key portions, the second side having a plurality of actuators for actuating dome switches of the electronic device.
US09208948B2
A method for manufacturing a monolithic ceramic electronic component includes the steps of preparing a first ceramic outer layer, stacking a plurality of inner electrodes and a plurality of ceramic green sheets on the first ceramic outer layer, forming an inner portion, applying first pressing in the stacking direction, forming an outer portion on the inner portion to form a second ceramic outer layer, applying second pressing in the stacking direction to form a multilayer body, cutting the mother multilayer body to obtain individual multilayer bodies, sintering the individual multilayer bodies to obtain ceramic bodies, and forming first and second outer electrodes on the outer surface of each of ceramic bodies.
US09208941B2
A transformer core apparatus includes a body of highly magnetically permeable material, a permanent magnet arranged in a safe state position for saturating the body with a permanent magnetic field, and means for removing the permanent magnetic field from the body.
US09208939B2
At least two winding modules nested hollow-cylindrically one inside the other and extending around a common winding axis, wherein said winding modules are spaced radially apart from one another within at least one hollow-cylindrical cooling channel arranged therebetween by means of insulation strips, wherein the insulation strips have a cross-sectional form which avoid a surface profile radially with respect to the winding axis, the insulation strips including one of a fiber-reinforced epoxy, polyester resin, or from an unreinforced thermoplastic material.
US09208935B2
An electronic component including a substrate, an insulating unit provided on the substrate, and a conductor coil provided within the insulating unit, wherein a distance from the outermost portion of the conductor coil in one axial direction to the outermost portion of the substrate in one axial direction is greater than 0.0125 times a length of the substrate in one axial direction, thus having enhanced reliability.
US09208929B2
A feed-through element for harsh environments is provided that includes a support body with at least one access opening, in which at least one functional element is arranged in an electrically insulating fixing material. The electrically insulating fixing material contains a glass or a glass ceramic with a volume resistivity of greater than 1.0×1010 Ωcm at the temperature of 350° C. The glass or a glass ceramic has a defined composition range in the system SiO2—B2O3-MO.
US09208928B2
The present invention provides a method of producing a multi-layer graphene-laminated substrate which comprises laminating, on a substrate surface, multi-layer graphenes from a mass of multi-layer graphenes. The method of the present invention can provide an electrically conductive film and a transparent electrically conductive film made of graphenes more easily and stably.
US09208927B2
A shielded electrical cable includes conductor sets extending along a length of the cable and spaced apart from each other along a width of the cable. First and second shielding films are disposed on opposite sides of the cable and include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in transverse cross section, the cover portions of the films in combination substantially surround each conductor set. An adhesive layer bonds the shielding films together in the pinched portions of the cable. A transverse bending of the cable at a cable location of no more than 180 degrees over an inner radius of at most 2 mm causes a cable impedance of the selected insulated conductor proximate the cable location to vary by no more than 2 percent from an initial cable impedance measured at the cable location in an unbent configuration.
US09208925B2
A wire or cable comprises a core (10) and a sheath including a wrapped film (16) of polyetherether ketone (PEEK) and a flameproofing layer (14) comprising mica particles dispersed in a polymer matrix such as a silicone. An outer coating (18) of PEEK or another polymer may be provided, which may be sintered to provide a tough outer protective covering. The PEEK and mica layers combine synergistically to provide a sheath of increased flame resistance as well as high flexibility and resistance to mechanical stresses, while being of reduced weight and diameter.
US09208923B2
Interpolymer resins having ethylene monomer residues and residues of a non-conjugated diene comonomer. The non-conjugated diene comonomer can be a dialkenyl phthalate. Incorporation of non-conjugated diene comonomers into interpolymers can provide additional labile unsaturation sites for cross-linking. The interpolymers and cross-linked variations thereof can be employed in a variety of articles of manufacture, such as, for example, as insulation material for power cables.
US09208907B2
A method to perform signal validation for either reactor fixed incore detectors and/or core exit thermocouples to enhance core monitoring systems. The method uses a combination of both measured sensor signals and expected signal responses to develop a ratio of measured to expected signals. The ratios are evaluated by determining the expected ratios for each detector based on the behavior of the remaining collection of detectors, taking into account the geometry/location of the other detectors. The method also provides for automatic removal of invalid detectors from the core power distribution determination if sufficient detectors remain on line to adequately characterize the core's power distribution.
US09208904B2
A tie rod for reinforcing a nuclear fuel assembly. The tie rod includes an outer, hollow tubular member that extends from above the top nozzle through the bottom nozzle of the fuel assembly and has an axially split lower tip with an enlarged end and an upper portion having a circumferential threaded region. An inner rod extends axially through the hollow of the outer tube and has a slightly enlarged tip which spreads the split tip of the outer tube to lock the split tip below the lower nozzle of the fuel assembly. A nut is turned down on the upper threaded portion of the outer hollow tube and staked in position to lock the tie rod in position.
US09208900B2
A method and a system are provided for performing address-based memory access assist. An address is received for a memory access and a determination is made, based on the address, that access assist is enabled for at least one storage cell corresponding to the address. The access assist is applied to the at least one storage cell to perform the memory access.
US09208895B1
Techniques and corresponding circuitry are presented for controlling the amount of current flowing through the cells of a memory circuit during a sensing operation though a feedback arrangement. The amount of current supplied to bit lines from an external power supply by regulation circuitry is compared with a reference level. Based on this comparison, the level on the control gates of clamp transistors in the sense amp circuits is set to control the amount of current supplied to the bit lines. This can reduce device variation since the levels are replicated locally at the generator on the chip. The circuitry can also be used more generally to determine the current level drawn during a sensing operation.
US09208894B2
A method of operating a data storage device can be provided by receiving first power and second power at a data storage device, that includes a semiconductor memory, upon powering on of the data storage device or hot-plugging of the data storage device. The first power can be applied to the data storage device and the second power can be applied after a delay to an auxiliary power supply included in the data storage device based on when an inrush current, generated from applying the first power, occurred. Related devices are also disclosed.
US09208891B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatuses and methods including a three-dimensional memory apparatus having upper strings and lower strings. The upper strings can include a first string of memory cells and a second string of memory cells arranged substantially parallel and adjacent to one another. The lower strings can include a third string of memory cells and a fourth string of memory cells arranged substantially parallel and adjacent to one another. The strings can each have a separate sense amplifier coupled thereto. The first and third strings and the second and fourth strings can be configured to be respectively coupled in series with each other during a read operation. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09208888B1
Methods and apparatus to improve reliability and/or performance of partially written memory blocks in flash memory systems are described. In some embodiments, a storage device stores information corresponding to a partial write operation performed on a partially programmed memory block of a non-volatile memory. Memory controller logic then cause application of a reduced voltage level and/or an offset value to portion(s) of the non-volatile memory during a read or write operation to the non-volatile memory based at least in part on the stored information. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09208887B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment includes: a cell array; and a data writing unit that repeatedly executes a write loop including a programming operation of applying a program voltage to a selected word line and a passage voltage to non-selected word lines during writing of data, in which, when a difference between the passage voltage used in an n-th write loop and the passage voltage used in an n+1-th write loop is expressed as ΔVn and when a condition of L
US09208885B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a semiconductor region extending vertically from a first region of a substrate; a plurality of gate electrodes disposed on the first region of the substrate in a vertical direction, but separated from each other along a sidewall of the semiconductor region; a gate dielectric layer disposed between the semiconductor region and the plurality of gate electrodes; a substrate contact electrode extending vertically from the impurity-doped second region of the substrate; and an insulating region formed as an air gap between the substrate contact electrode and at least one of the plurality of gate electrodes.
US09208881B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatus, and system configurations for NAND memory arrays with mismatched cell and bitline pitch. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09208879B2
A fail address detector includes cam latch groups configured to store fail addresses and a comparing section connected to the cam latch groups in common and configured to detect whether or not a fail address corresponding to a comparison address exists among the fail addresses received from the cam latch groups. The cam latch groups share the comparing section in time division.
US09208864B2
A memory includes cytokines, such as macromolecule proteins, as a poly-state data storage. Each fold state of multiple fold states of a protein are associated with a data value. Current flow through the protein is associated with a resistance of the protein associated with its current fold state. Application of light, electric fields or heat via an associated element or elements facilitates placement of a protein in a fold state that corresponds to an associated resistance and correlates with an incoming data value. Measuring of current or resistance allows for reading of a data value associated with the protein.
US09208860B2
Described is an apparatus comprising a plurality of memory arrays, local write assist logic units, and read/write local column multiplexers coupled together in a group such that area occupied by the local write assist logic units and the read/write local column multiplexers in the group is smaller than it would be when global write assist logic units and the read/write global column multiplexers are used. Described is a dual input level-shifter with integrated latch. Described is an apparatus which comprises: a write assist pulse generator operating on a first power supply; one or more pull-up devices coupled to the write assist pulse generator, the one or more pull-up devices operating on a second power supply different from the first power supply; and an output node to provide power supply to a memory cell.
US09208849B2
The memory circuit has a first writing mode in which data can be retained for a long time and a second writing mode in which data can be written at high speed. The memory circuit in which data reading is performed on the basis of a determined conductive state of a transistor includes first and second capacitor parts that are connected through a switch and retain electric charge corresponding to the data. The first writing mode is a mode where the switch is on and electric charge corresponding to the data is accumulated in the first and second capacitor parts that are electrically connected. The second writing mode is a mode where the switch is off, electric charge corresponding to the data is accumulated in the first capacitor part, and electric charge corresponding to the data is not accumulated in the second capacitor part.
US09208844B1
An integrated circuit receives a DDR (Double Data Rate) data signal and an associated DDR clock signal, and communicates those signals from integrated circuit input terminals a substantial distance across the integrated circuit to a subcircuit that then receives and uses the DDR data. Within the integrated circuit, a DDR retiming circuit receives the DDR data signal and the associated DDR clock signal from the terminals. The DDR retiming circuit splits the DDR data signal into two components, and then transmits those two components over the substantial distance toward the subcircuit. The subcircuit then recombines the two components back into a single DDR data signal and supplies the DDR data signal and the DDR clock signal to the subcircuit. The DDR data signal and the DDR clock signal are supplied to the subcircuit in such a way that setup and hold time requirements of the subcircuit are met.
US09208841B2
A circuit is in a memory macro and comprises a write path, a read path, a selection circuit, and a clock generator circuit. The write path includes a first signal generated based on a first edge of a clock signal in a write operation of the memory macro. The read path includes a second signal generated based on a first edge of the clock signal in a read operation of the memory macro. The selection circuit is configured to select the first signal as a third signal in the write operation of the memory macro, and to select the second signal as the third signal in the read operation of the memory macro. The clock generator circuit is configured to generate a second edge of the clock signal in the write operation or in the read operation based on the third signal.
US09208838B2
Disclosed in the disclosure are a terminal for accessing a wireless network and a method for running the same, wherein the terminal includes an expanded external RAM and is configured to store the terminal firmware program obtained from the host side into the expanded external RAM, run the same and interact with the host side to complete a service. the terminal in the disclosure need not expand the FLASH storage space, and the terminal stores the terminal firmware program obtained from the host side into the expanded external RAM thereof, then runs the same and interacts with the host side to complete the service. The terminal does not use FLASH to store the terminal firmware program, avoiding the failure of not being able to be upgraded or used, wherein the failure is due to the exception of the terminal FLASH and reducing the costs of the wireless network access terminal.
US09208835B2
A phase-change memory includes a phase to provide an upper row address from a row address buffer, a phase to combine the upper row address with a lower row address to select data for a row data buffer, and a phase to output the data from the row data buffer, where an activate command starts and following activate commands are ignored until a preset time has elapsed.
US09208834B2
A latch circuit may include a plurality of latches configured to operate in response to power supplied to a pull-up power supply node and a pull-down power supply node, a delay unit configured to generate a 1st delayed reset signal and a 2nd delayed reset signal by delaying a 1st reset signal and a 2nd reset signal, a power supply unit configured to supply identical power to the pull-up power supply node and the pull-down power supply node in response to the activated 1st reset signal or the activated 2nd reset signal, a 1st reset unit configured to reset a plurality of latches to a 1st level in response to the 1st delayed reset signal and a 2nd reset unit configured to reset the plurality of latches to a 2nd level in response to the 2nd delayed reset signal.
US09208829B2
A memory channel can be divided into two or more memory sub-channels, wherein each one of the memory sub-channels includes two or more memory components configured to store data made accessible on that memory sub-channel, and wherein the two or more memory components in each one of the memory sub-channels are respectively connected via at least one transmission line and can be individually accessed (addressed) on their associated sub-channel.
US09208825B1
A novel hermetically sealed disk drive comprises a disk drive enclosure that includes a disk drive base with a bottom face, four side faces, and a top cover. The disk drive also comprises a peripheral foil seal overlapping each of the four side faces and having a first opening therethrough that overlies the upper surface of the top cover. The peripheral foil seal conforms to the disk drive enclosure and is adhered to the top face and to each of the four side faces by a first continuous adhesive layer. The hermetically sealed disk drive also includes a central metal cap completely covering the first opening and being adhered to the upper surface of the top cover through the first opening by a second continuous adhesive layer. The central metal cap is thicker than the continuous metal foil, and the disk drive enclosure is helium-filled.
US09208821B2
A method to process digital audio data displays the digital audio data in one or more tracks along a time line in a graphical interface of a computer system and defines arrange regions within the time line of the digital audio data as objects for manipulation. Tracks within a selected arrange region are processed as an entity in accordance with commands received through the graphical user interface.
US09208819B1
This disclosure relates to dynamic split-frame preview of video editing effects. An editing component determines a set of editing effects for the video, generates a copy of the video, applies the set of editing effects to the copy, and provides the video and the copy to a rendering component. The rendering component generates a mask based on a set of mask criteria, renders a split-frame composite video using the video and the edited video based at least in part on the mask, and provides playback of the split-frame composite video. The split-frame composite video provides a dynamic split-frame preview of video editing effects, wherein one frame includes the video, and another frame includes the edited copy of the video.
US09208814B2
A compact disc (CD) player and method for ejection control thereof is provided. The CD player has: a CD tray, an eject button, a front-end module, a back-end module, and a fast response eject module, wherein the front-end module and the back-end module are coupled to each other and integrated in an integrated circuit (IC). The fast response eject module has a tray control module for detecting a status of the eject button, and an ejection detection module for controlling the ejecting/inserting of the CD tray according to the detected status of the eject button after the CD player is powered up and before the front-end module starts to work. The CD player of the invention may quickly respond to the status of the eject button and control ejecting/inserting of the CD tray immediately after the CD player is powered up.
US09208807B2
Methods and apparatus concern testing a disk drive suspension. Testing includes moving a first portion of a suspension relative to a second portion. A pair of motors is mounted on the suspension. The testing further includes measuring an electrical signal that is intrinsically produced by the motors, combined in a circuit, in response to the relative movement. The testing further includes identifying a characteristic of the electrical signal and determining whether an orientation of one or both of the motors is reversed relative to an intended motor orientation based on the characteristic of the electrical signal. The testing can determine whether the orientation of both motors matches the intended motor orientation, whether the orientation of one motor is reversed in a same polarity condition, whether the orientations of both motors are reversed in a mutual reverse polarity condition, or whether the suspension has a mechanical or electrical defect.
US09208802B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording head includes a main pole configured to apply a recording magnetic field to a recording layer of a recording medium, a trailing shield opposed to the main pole with a write gap therebetween, and a high-frequency oscillator between the main pole and the trailing shield in a range of a width of the main pole in a track width direction, and configured to generate a high-frequency magnetic field. The high-frequency oscillator includes a spin injection layer, an intermediate layer, and an oscillation layer, and at least the oscillation layer comprises divided oscillation regions.
US09208796B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for estimating speech energy of an encoded bit stream based on coding parameters extracted from the partially-decoded bit stream are disclosed. In an embodiment, a disclosed method includes receiving a CELP-encoded bit stream, partially decoding the bit stream, and estimating the speech energy of the bit stream based a set of four or fewer CELP parameters extracted from the partially decoded bit stream. In another embodiment, a disclosed method includes receiving a CELP-encoded bit stream, partially decoding the bit stream, extracting at least one CELP parameter from the partially decoded bit stream, and estimating the speech energy of the bit stream based on the extracted at least one CELP parameter without calculating a linear prediction coding (LPC) filter response energy.
US09208794B1
Voice enhancement and/or speech features extraction may be performed on noisy audio signals. An input signal may convey audio comprising a speech component superimposed on a noise component. The input signal may be segmented into discrete successive time windows including a first time window spanning a duration greater than a sampling interval of the input signal. A transform may be performed on individual time windows of the input signal to obtain corresponding sound models of the input signal in the individual time windows. A first sound model may describe a superposition of harmonics sharing a common pitch and chirp in the first time window of the input signal. Linear fits in time of the sound models over individual time windows of the input signal may be obtained. The linear fits may include a first linear fit in time of the first sound model over the first time window.
US09208779B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating a static language model from a mixture of n-gram language models. One of the methods includes receiving a set of development sentences W, receiving a set of language models GM, determining a set of n-gram language model weights λM based on the development sentences W and the set of language models GM, determining a set of sentence cluster weights γC, each of the sentence cluster weights corresponding to a cluster in a set of sentence clusters, each cluster in the set of sentence clusters associated with at least one sentence from the set of development sentences W, and generating a language model from the set of language models GM, the set of n-gram language model weights λM, the set of sentence clusters, and the set of sentence cluster weights γC.
US09208765B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to an audio visual display device, which includes a transparent display module, a sensing module, and a controller. The sensing module generates sensing signals in response to detecting an object at a disc jockey side of the transparent display module. The controller includes stores computer executable codes which, when executed at a processor, are configured to: generate display signals for the transparent display module to control its pixels to display an image corresponding to the display signals; receive the sensing signals from the sensing module, and generate an object coordinate according to the sensing signals; in response to an audio visual display instruction, generate the display signals corresponding to a virtual disc jockey equipment; and in response to the object coordinate matching coordinates of the virtual disc jockey equipment, generate an audio effect command for the virtual disc jockey equipment.
US09208763B2
A device for providing feedback to a user of a string instrument is described. The device comprises receiving circuitry operable in use to communicate with at least one finger sensor capable of detecting the force of a finger on a string, a camera operable in use to capture an image and a display operable in use to display data, wherein the receiving circuitry, camera and display are connected to processing circuitry which is operable to: detect, from the receiving circuitry, the force of a user's finger on at least one string at a given time; detect, from the camera, the position of the user's finger on the at least one string at the given time; compare the detected force of the user's finger and the position of the user's finger on the at least one string at the given time with a predetermined value of force and position at the given time; and generate, on the basis of the said comparison, feedback to display on the display.
US09208759B2
A compound resonance driver or CRD may be used to enhance the tonal qualities of a bass drum system or other sound system. A CRD may comprise a flex ring having two hinge pieces. The flex ring may further comprise a plurality of magnets and the flex ring may be easily folded and placed in a drum and then unfolded. A fixed circular component with a complementary magnet orientation may secure the flex ring. The fixed circular component may be attached to outwardly facing components that resonate or otherwise improve upon the sound of a drum or any sound producing, or sound shaping device or instrument, encompassing properties of an acoustic enclosure. The mass and shape of the CRD may increase the excursion of a drumhead. This longer excursion produces a more natural low frequency waveform.
US09208749B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes a light sensor, an algorithm engine, an adjustment engine, and a display. The light sensor detects an ambient brightness around the electronic device. The algorithm engine is coupled to the light sensor. The algorithm engine determines at least one adjustment function according to the ambient brightness. The adjustment engine is coupled to the algorithm engine. The adjustment engine adjusts the luminance component of each pixel of an image according to the at least one adjustment function to enhance the brightness and/or the contrast of the image. The display is coupled to the adjustment engine for displaying the adjusted image.
US09208748B2
A unique input mechanism for controlling several operations of an electronic device is provided. Using the unique input mechanism, which may be the single input mechanism for providing user inputs to the electronic device, a user may provide different inputs or combinations of inputs to control different operations based on the current mode or capacity of the electronic device. For example, a single, short click of a button may control a media operation (e.g., play/pause) in a media mode, and the same input may control a telephony operation (e.g., initiate/terminate call) in a telephony mode. In some embodiments, different inputs may be associated with different types of operations. The unique input mechanism may include, for example, a button, a switch, a key, or an actuator.
US09208743B2
A display driving circuit having a shift register is formed on the display panel. The shift register includes a first stage having first and second transistors and a second stage having a third and fourth transistor. A voltage of a control electrode of the first transistor is boosted by a voltage of a first pulse line changing from low to high. In an On state, the second transistor connects the control electrode of the first transistor and a constant voltage line. A voltage of a control electrode of the third transistor is boosted by a voltage of a second pulse line changing from low to high. In an On state, the fourth transistor connects the control electrode of the third transistor and a constant voltage line. The fourth transistor is switched on by a signal from the first stage.
US09208742B2
To provide a semiconductor device including a narrowed bezel obtained by designing a gate driver circuit. A gate driver of a display device includes a shift register unit, a demultiplexer circuit, and n signal lines. By connecting the n signal lines for transmitting clock signals to one stage of the shift register unit, (n−3) output signals can be output. The larger n becomes, the smaller the rate of signal lines for transmitting clock signals which do not contribute to output becomes; accordingly, the area of the shift register unit part is small compared to a conventional structure in which one stage of a shift register unit outputs one output signal. Therefore, the gate driver circuit can have a narrow bezel.
US09208741B2
On a display panel 10, a first scanning signal line drive circuit 12 is formed along a side of a display region 11 and a second scanning signal line drive circuit 13 is formed along the opposite side by the same process as pixel circuits. The size of a transistor included, the width of a wiring line, or the like, differs between the first and second scanning signal line drive circuits 12 and 13, and the two scanning signal line drive circuits have different sizes in a lateral direction. By this, the center of the display region matches that of a non-integral-type display panel, ensuring compatibility with the non-integral-type display panel. Moreover, by suitably determining the widths of or spacings between wiring lines included in the two scanning signal line drive circuits, leakage between the wiring lines and breaks in the wiring lines are reduced, improving yield of display panels.
US09208738B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate and a display area and a peripheral area on the substrate. The peripheral area is outside the display area, and a gate driving circuit is disposed in the peripheral area. The gate driving circuit includes a first stage coupled to a first gate line and a second stage coupled to a second gate line, and the first stage and the second stage are configured as mirror images of each other.
US09208735B2
A voltage adjustment method and apparatus of a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. The method comprises: acquiring initial reference voltage (RV) values of gamma voltage pairs corresponding to respective gray scales, which includes a first and a second gamma voltage; fixing the first gamma voltages, adjusting respectively the second gamma voltages in accordance with flicker values of the brightness of the LCD panel and the initial RV values of the second gamma voltages, and acquiring the adjusted voltage values of the second gamma voltages; and adjusting synchronously, with an equal proportion, the initial RV value of the first gamma voltage and the adjusted voltage value of the second gamma voltage corresponding to each gray scale respectively, so that the brightness corresponding to the gray scale is adjusted to be the same as the brightness corresponding to the same gray scale in the gamma standard voltage curve.
US09208729B2
According to various embodiments of the invention, gamma curves for multiple pixel groups can be calibrated using look-up tables or by using reference voltage groups provided by gamma voltage generators so that the pixels can display multiple images with correct gray levels at different view angles. Therefore, color shift can be avoided or lessened without necessarily using extra circuitry on the display panel. Also, any related light transmittance or light utilization efficiency reduction may be decreased or eliminated.
US09208723B2
A semiconductor device of the invention includes a data line, a power source line, a first scan line, a second scan line, a first transistor, a second transistor, a memory circuit, a third transistor, and a light-emitting element. A gate of the first transistor is connected to the data line, and a first terminal thereof is connected to the power source line; a gate of the second transistor is connected to the first scan line, and a first terminal thereof is connected to a second terminal of the first transistor; the memory circuit is connected to a second terminal of the second transistor and the second scan line; a first terminal of the third transistor is connected to the light-emitting element; and the memory circuit holds a first potential inputted from the power source line or a second potential inputted from the second scan line, and applies the potential to a gate of the third transistor to control emission/non-emission of the light-emitting element.
US09208721B2
A method of fabricating an organic EL display apparatus includes: obtaining a representative current (I)-voltage (V) characteristic of a display panel including pixels each having an organic EL device and a driving transistor; dividing the display panel into a plurality of divided regions, and calculating a light-emitting efficiency and a light-emission starting current value for each of the divided regions calculated by a luminance (L)-I characteristic of the divided region; measuring luminance of light emitted from each of the pixels and calculating an L-V characteristic of each of the pixels; calculating an I-V characteristic of each pixel by dividing each luminance value of the L-V characteristic calculated for the pixel by light-emitting efficiency, and by adding a light-emission starting current value; and calculating a correction parameter for each pixel such that the I-V characteristic of each pixel is corrected to the representative I-V characteristic.
US09208720B2
An organic EL displaying apparatus which suppresses a defective display caused by a leak current at a time when an emission period controlling transistor is off is provided. The organic EL displaying apparatus comprises a plurality of pixels each of which includes an organic EL element, a power supply line, a driving transistor and the emission period controlling transistor, a data line, and a control line. In this apparatus, in a certain one of the pixels, a resistance Roff—ILM between source and drain electrodes of the emission period controlling transistor in an off state of the emission period controlling transistor, and a resistance Rbk—Dr between source and drain electrodes of the driving transistor in a state that a minimum gradation displaying data voltage has been applied to a gate electrode of the driving transistor satisfy Roff—ILM≧Rbk—Dr.
US09208719B2
A driving method of a display device is disclosed. According to one aspect, the method includes applying a first voltage of a predetermined level to an anode of a plurality of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) included in a plurality of pixels. A plurality of driving transistors are driven to be connected to the plurality of OLEDs. The method further includes transmitting a first power source voltage of a logic high level to the anode of the plurality of OLEDs as a threshold voltage to compensate a threshold voltage of the plurality of driving transistors, and applying a data voltage to a plurality of pixels as a data writing step turning on a plurality of driving transistors. The second power source voltage applied to the cathode of the plurality of OLEDs is changed to a second voltage of the logic low level in a state in which a plurality of driving transistors are turned on. In the turned on state, light is emitted from the plurality of OLEDs.
US09208717B2
Brightness irregularities that develop in a light emitting device due to is persion among pixels in the threshold values of TFTs used for supplying electric current to light emitting devices become obstacles to improved image quality of the light emitting device. As an image signal input to a pixel from a source signal line, a desired electric potential is applied to a gate electrode of a TFT for supplying electric current to an EL device, through a TFT having its gate and drain connected to each other. A voltage equal to the TFT threshold value is produced between the source and the drain of the TFT 105. An electric potential in which the image signal is offset by the amount of the threshold value is therefore applied to the gate electrode of the TFT. Further, TFTs are disposed in close proximity to each other within the pixel, so that dispersions in the TFT characteristics do not easily develop. A desired drain current can thus be supplied to the EL device even if there is dispersion in the threshold values of the TFTs among pixels, because this is offset by the threshold value of the TFT.
US09208712B2
A display panel driving apparatus includes a first switching element and a second switching element. The first switching element applies first pixel data to a first pixel connected with a first data line of a display panel during a first sub frame period. The first switching element is connected with a data channel of a data driving part. The second switching element applies second pixel data having a level higher than a level of the first pixel data to a second pixel connected with a second data line of the display panel during a second sub frame period. The second switching element is connected with the data channel. Thus, display quality of a display apparatus may be enhanced.
US09208709B2
Systems and devices are provided for using an organic light emitting diode (OLED) as a backlight for a liquid crystal display (LCD) device. In one embodiment, an OLED backlight may include one or more OLED elements disposed between two substrates. The OLED backlight may be optically bonded to the back of an LCD, and may further be electrically connected with the LCD active matrix. In one embodiment, information transmitted to selected pixels of the LCD active matrix may also be used by elements of the OLED backlight which are electrically connected to the selected LCD pixels. For example, the OLED backlight may respond to grayscale information transmitted to selected LCD pixels by emitting a corresponding intensity of light. In some embodiments, the LCD device may include other functions, such as touch sensing capabilities, which may be integrated with the LCD and OLED backlight.
US09208702B2
The invention relates to an advertising device that includes: a base having a lower support surface and a longitudinal channel in the upper part thereof for mounting and attaching an advertising poster, three-dimensional advertising designs made of a flexible shape-memory material, a means of attaching the advertising poster to the base, and a means of attaching the base to the ground.
US09208698B2
An electronic device displays on a display a first three-dimensional map view of a respective map location. The first three-dimensional map view is viewed from a first angle while an orientation of the electronic device corresponds to a first orientation. The electronic device detects a rotation of the electronic device with at least one orientation sensor, and determines a respective orientation of the electronic device. The respective orientation is distinct from the first orientation. While detecting the rotation of the electronic device, the electronic device updates the first three-dimensional map view with a respective three-dimensional map view of the respective map location. The respective three-dimensional map view is viewed from a respective angle distinct from the first angle. The respective angle is determined in accordance with the respective orientation of the electronic device.
US09208697B2
A method is provided for displaying information. The method comprises displaying, on a touch screen, at least one representation of a geographic location. The method further comprises detecting contact between an operating member and a position on the touch screen; and displaying, based on the detected contact, information associated with the geographic location. The method still further comprises detecting removal of the operating member from the touch screen; and maintaining display of the geographic location information after detection of the removal.
US09208691B2
An overtaking control system is disclosed for use with a plurality of machines operating at a common worksite. The overtaking control system may have an input device that is configured to receive an input from an operator of the first machine of the plurality of machines indicative of a desire to overtake a second machine of the plurality of machines. The overtaking control system may also have a location device configured to generate a location signal indicative of a location of the first machine at the common worksite. The overtaking control system may further have at least one controller configured to make a comparison of a projected path of the first machine with a map of the common worksite based on the location signal, and selectively activate the input device only when the comparison indicates that the projected path of the first machine does not overlap with a no-overtaking zone at the common worksite.
US09208690B2
A method for calculating a Time To Go value between a vehicle and an intruding object. First and second images of the object are retrieved at first and second points of time. A scaling factor is selected and the second image scaled with the scale factor. The scaled image is resampled to a set position. Correlation values are calculated between the first image and the resampled scaled image for different horizontal displacements and/or different vertical displacements for the resampled scaled image. A maximum correlation value is found based on the correlation values. Selecting the scaling factor, resampling, calculating the correlation values, and finding the maximum correlation values are repeated a second predetermined number of times. A largest maximum correlation value is found among the maximum correlation values and the scale factor associated with the largest maximum correlation value. The Time To Go is calculated based on the associated scale factor.
US09208682B2
A controller receives probe data from a vehicle traveling on a path segment. The probe data may be collected by a mobile device. The path segment may be a multilane roadway. The controller identifies a first lane of the path segment from the probe data. The controller associated a forked route with the first lane of the path segment. The controller calculates different traffic values for the lanes of the path segment. One traffic value may be calculated directly from speeds derived from the path data. Another traffic value may be calculated by the probe data and a historical relationship.
US09208679B2
A system and method used to configure a smart device to command functional operations of a target appliance. The smart device retrieves from a controllable appliance, such as a settop box, data indicative of a codeset identity of the target appliance wherein the codeset identity was determined during a process used to configure a conventional universal remote control to command functional operations of the target appliance and wherein the process used to configure the conventional universal remote control is performed in cooperation with the controllable appliance. A remote control application resident on the smart device then uses the data indicative of the codeset identity retrieved from the controllable appliance to also configure the smart device to command functional operations of the target appliance.
US09208669B2
Systems and methods for annotating a display of a video data stream with customized information are provided. Methods include selecting a video data stream, creating a video graphic help file (VGH file) associated with the video data stream, a data capture device associated with the video data stream, a monitored area captured by the data capture device associated with the video data stream, or a salvo view, adding customized information to the VGH file, determining a need to access the VGH file, recalling the VGH file, and displaying customized information in the VGH file.
US09208665B2
An automated self-monitored alarm verification solution including at least a premises portion, a server portion, and an end user device portion. Alarm verification includes capturing by an image capture device at least one image in response to a detection event, and transmitting a first data signal including the image to a local signal processing device. The signal processing device transmits a second signal including at least a portion of the image to a remote hosted server according to at least a first set of predetermined parameters. After receiving the second signal, the server transmits a third signal including at least a portion of the image from the hosted server to a user device. Using the user device, a user views the image and indicates a validity status of the alarm based at least in part on the content of the image. Based at least upon either the validation status indicated by the user, or upon a failure to receive a message including a validation status from the user within a predetermined duration of time, the server portion may send an alarm signal to an emergency response service.
US09208662B2
Mobile devices having haptic interfaces located on an edge or back of mobile phones for selectively controlling and varying surface texture and/or force levels are provided. The haptic interfaces may allow for haptic interaction with the user of the mobile device when audio or visual feedback is not practical. The haptic interface may be an electro-mechanical system that may include a matrix or array of individually addressable actuators that can convey haptic information through the deformation of a flexible surface or membrane covering the array of individually addressable actuators. The array of “individually addressable” actuators may provide each actuator the ability to be separately addressable or addressable as a group (i.e. two or more) actuators.
US09208656B2
On the slot machine, a slot game including a base game and free games is caused to proceed on a display. On the base game reel strips, on all of a plurality of reels, symbols whose each kind is the same, other than feature symbols and wild symbols, are arranged in succession. On the free game reel strips, on all of a plurality of reels, symbols whose each kind is the same, other than the feature symbols and the wild symbols, are arranged in succession and in addition thereto, only in a case of top symbols whose payout multiplying factor is the highest, the top symbols whose number is larger than a number of top symbols displayed on the base game reel strips are arranged in succession.
US09208652B2
In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for a computer system that includes a processor executing the code to: receive an indication indicating that a player desires to participate in a lottery game based on a near field communication (NFC) between a mobile device of the player and a first game piece associated with the lottery game conducted by a game conducting authority; conduct a drawing in accordance with rules of the lottery game; receive an indication identifying an action performed by the player in accordance with the rules of the lottery game where the action is based on: i) a result of the drawing and ii) NFC communication between the mobile device of the player and a second game piece associated with the lottery game; and distribute a prize to player in accordance with the rules of the lottery game.
US09208651B2
A gaming system for conducting a wagering game includes a display device configured to portray wagering game outcomes indicated by symbols populated in symbol arrays. The gaming system receives a first wager and displays a first symbol array to indicate the outcome for the first wager. The gaming system receives a second wager and displays a second symbol array to indicate the outcome for the second wager. During portrayal of the second outcome, the first symbol array is displayed simultaneously with the second symbol array, and the first symbol array is modified according to one or more symbols in the second symbol array. The gaming system provides an award according to the improvement, if any, in the second symbol array resulting from the modification.
US09208650B2
A method of gaming, game controller and gaming system wherein an amount wagered on a game is determined and symbols selected from a symbol set to display in designated symbol positions, the resulting symbols used to determine a first game outcome. Symbols are re-selected for at least one of the designated symbol positions a number of times depending on the amount wagered, to provide a corresponding number of further game outcomes in which a jackpot prize is eligible to be awarded.
US09208644B2
A gaming system includes one or more controllers and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by at least one of the one or more controllers, cause the gaming system to initiate a wagering game to be played via a gaming machine and in response to a pause event, temporarily pause the wagering game-in-progress, prior to revealing a final outcome of the wagering game. While the game-in-progress is paused, the one or more controllers allow the gaming machine to participate in a community event along with a plurality of other gaming machines and in response to an end-pause event associated with the community event, reinstate the paused game-in-progress at the gaming machine.
US09208636B2
In a gaming system including gaming terminals, each gaming terminal executes a bonus game when the result of a base game satisfies a predetermined condition. If a first gaming machine that does not have an entry right exists among the gaming terminals when the base game is executed, the controller performs drawing of the entry right for the first gaming terminal. The controller sets an award expected in a bonus game of a first case to be greater than an award expected in a bonus game of a second case. The first case is a case that the bonus game is triggered in a gaming terminal that has the entry right when the base game is executed, and the second case is a case that the bonus game is triggered in the gaming terminal that does not the entry right when the base game is executed.
US09208619B1
Tracking the use of at least one destination location is disclosed. Initially, four or more first images are received from a first camera having a first field of view. It is then determined that the first vehicle is stopped within the at least one destination location at a first time and that the first vehicle has left the at least one destination location at a second time. A first characteristic of an occupant of the first vehicle based on a first image is determined to correspond to a second characteristic of the occupant of the first vehicle based on a second image. It is then determined that the occupant of the first vehicle traveled between the first vehicle and a payment station. Payment information specifying a period of time that was received by a third-party parking payment system is received. The period of time is then associated with the first vehicle.
US09208616B2
A mobile terminal and a method of controlling a mobile terminal are provided. A depth level of a stereoscopic graphic object using binocular parallax is controlled according to a user's usage pattern, and displaying of the stereoscopic graphic object is controlled according to various events such as various input signals.
US09208615B2
There is provided an image processing device including a superimposition display position determining unit which determines a position of an object having a predetermined flat surface or curved surface out of an object imaged in an input image based on an environment map, a superimposition display image generating unit which generates a superimposition display image by setting superimposition display data at the position of the object determined by the superimposition display position determining unit, an image superimposing unit which superimposes the superimposition display image on a visual field of a user, an operating object recognizing unit which recognizes an operating object imaged in the input image, and a process executing unit which executes a process corresponding to an item selected based on a position of the operating object recognized by the operating object recognizing unit.
US09208606B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for extruding an object through a two-dimensional scene. In use, a two-dimensional object is identified within a two-dimensional scene. Additionally, a three-dimensional model is determined that corresponds to the two-dimensional object. Further, the three-dimensional model is extruded through the two-dimensional scene to create a three-dimensional object.
US09208602B2
An apparatus may include an index buffer to store an index stream having a multiplicity of index entries corresponding to vertices of a mesh and a vertex cache to store a multiplicity of processed vertices of the mesh. The apparatus may further include a processor circuit, and a vertex manager for execution on the processor circuit to read a reference bitstream comprising a multiplicity of bitstream entries, each bitstream entry corresponding to an index entry of the index stream, and to remove a processed vertex from the vertex cache when a value of the reference bitstream entry corresponding to the processed vertex is equal to a defined value.
US09208601B2
Road network data can include two dimensional (2D) coordinates corresponding to junctions and non-junctions in the road network. Height values for roads at junctions can be obtained from optimizing a cost function or as input. Height values for roads at non-junction locations can be obtained from a height function defined using the height values for the junctions. Pitch, yaw, and roll vectors can be obtained for non-junction locations using the height function, the 2D coordinates, and one or more road parameters, respectively. These vectors can define a coordinate frame for the road, along with which a width can provide points for defining polygons for the road. Road surface data can be constructed from the polygons. The polygons can be provided to a device display for rendering of a three dimensional image of navigation data.
US09208587B2
A method of compressed sensing for multi-shell magnetic resonance imaging includes obtaining magnetic resonance imaging data, the data being sampled along multi-shell spherical coordinates, the spherical coordinates coincident with a plurality of spokes that converge at an origin, constructing a symmetric shell for each respective sampled multi-shell to create a combined set of data, performing a three-dimensional Fourier transform on the combined set of data to reconstruct an image, and de-noising the reconstructed image by iteratively applying a sparsifying transform on non-sampled data points of neighboring shells. The method can also include randomly under-sampling the imaging data to create missing data points. A system configured to implement the method and a non-transitory computer readable medium are also disclosed.
US09208575B2
In the present disclosure, a plurality of frames of input images sequentially received for a predetermined time interval is obtained, and a face detecting operation is performed on a first frame if a full detecting mode is implemented. If a face is detected from a specific region of the first frame during the face detecting operation, a face tracking mode is implemented, a second frame is divided to produce the divided input image portions of the second frame, and the face tracking operation is performed on a surrounding region of the specific region of the divided input image portions of the second frame that corresponds to the specific region in the first frame. If the face is not detected in the face tracking mode, a partial detecting mode is implemented, and the face detecting operation is performed on image portions resized on divided input image portions of a third frame to which a specific region of the third frame corresponding to the specific region of the first frame belongs.
US09208571B2
Digitizing objects in a picture is discussed herein. A user presents the object to a camera, which captures the image comprising color and depth data for the front and back of the object. For both front and back images, the closest point to the camera is determined by analyzing the depth data. From the closest points, edges of the object are found by noting large differences in depth data. The depth data is also used to construct point cloud constructions of the front and back of the object. Various techniques are applied to extrapolate edges, remove seams, extend color intelligently, filter noise, apply skeletal structure to the object, and optimize the digitization further. Eventually, a digital representation is presented to the user and potentially used in different applications (e.g., games, Web, etc.).
US09208560B2
An image registration method for registering images into a coordinate system includes the following steps: (a) performing image normalization on a source image and generating a normalized image; (b) retrieving at least one color-deconvoluted image from color-deconvoluting the source image; (c) determining at least one image feature from the at least one color-deconvoluted image; (d) comparing the at least one image feature of the at least one color-deconvoluted image with a target image, and generating a relative matching structural feature result; and (e) transforming the normalized image into a registered image according to the matching structural feature result.
US09208558B2
A computer implemented method for determining the 3-dimensional shape of an implant to be implanted into a subject includes obtaining a computer readable image including a defective portion and a non-defective portion of tissue in the subject, superimposing on the image a shape to span the defective portion, and determining the 3-dimensional shape of the implant based on the shape that spans the defective portion.
US09208556B2
Computerized interpretation of medical images for quantitative analysis of multi-modality breast images including analysis of FFDM, 2D/3D ultrasound, MRI, or other breast imaging methods. Real-time characterization of tumors and background tissue, and calculation of image-based biomarkers is provided for breast cancer detection, diagnosis, prognosis, risk assessment, and therapy response. Analysis includes lesion segmentation, and extraction of relevant characteristics (textural/morphological/kinetic features) from lesion-based or voxel-based analyzes. Combinations of characteristics in several classification tasks using artificial intelligence is provided. Output in terms of 1D, 2D or 3D distributions in which an unknown case is identified relative to calculations on known or unlabeled cases, which can go through a dimension-reduction technique. Output to 3D shows relationships of the unknown case to a cloud of known or unlabeled cases, in which the cloud demonstrates the structure of the population of patients with and without the disease.
US09208555B1
Exemplary methods for inspecting electrical equipment in a power distribution network can include the steps of recording, by a mobile device, a photograph with a view of the object, transmitting recording information of the mobile device and the photograph to a computer server hosting a power network description database; generating, from a model stored in the power network description database of a candidate object and based on the recording information of the mobile device, a representation of the candidate object, and comparing the transmitted photograph and the generated representation to identify and characterize the object in the photograph as the candidate object.
US09208549B2
A method and an arrangement for color transfer between images for compensating color differences between at least two images as a first and a second image represented by pixel data are recommended, wherein for corresponding feature points of the images a color map and a geometric map are calculated for compensating a first image by applying said geometric map and said color map to the first image resulting in a compensated first image for detecting regions where a compensation fails by comparing the compensated first image with the second image to perform a color transfer excluding image regions where the compensation failed. The method can be performed on the fly and is applicable for equalizing color differences between images different in geometry and color.
US09208531B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein employ a scanning system for capturing highly detailed digital dental models. These models may be used within a dentist's office for a wide array of dental functions including quality control, restoration design, and fitting. These models may also, or instead, be transmitted to dental laboratories that may, alone or in collaboration with the originating dentist or other dental professionals, transform the digital model into a physical realization of a dental hardware item.
US09208524B2
Devices, systems, and methods of automatic Financial-Instrument (FI) management. In some embodiments, a system includes, a memory having stored thereon financial-instrument-based (FI-based) management instructions; and a processor to execute the FI-based management instructions resulting in a FI-based management application, wherein the FI-based management application may receive portfolio data corresponding to a plurality of financial-instrument portfolios associated with a plurality of clients, wherein the FI-based management application may automatically identify one or more portfolios of the plurality of portfolios satisfying at least one criterion, wherein, for each identified portfolio, the FI-based management application may receive client-specific management data corresponding to a client associated with the identified portfolio, wherein the client-specific management data includes at least client-specific destination information defining at least one destination, and wherein, for each identified portfolio, the FI-based management application may automatically communicate portfolio-related data corresponding to the identified portfolio to the destination defined by the management data.
US09208521B2
The number of users viewing a given variable directly affects the rate of change and/or outcome of said variable. In the case of eCommerce, pricing of products and/or services is based upon a user accessing a website on which products and/or services are for sale. An initial price indicia associator associates initial price indicia with the products and/or services files. The initial pricing can be based upon historical indicia or the engine itself. Thereafter, a price indicia adjuster adjusts the pricing responsive to user access of the website or related website. A user interface meter shown on the website indicates to potential buyers how much interest there is in the product and/or service being sold so that peer activity is exhibited to potential buyers to encourage sales and impulsive buying behavior. Pricing is dynamic and adjusts in real-time at a rate determined by the amount of users accessing the website.
US09208516B1
Methods and systems for providing audio information based on gaze information are described. In an example, a computing device may be configured to receive gaze information indicative of a wearer-view associated with the computing device. Based on the gaze information, the computing device may be configured to determine content displayed in the wearer-view. Further, the computing device may be configured to determine audio information relating to the content and cause an audio stream associated with the audio information to be played at the computing device.
US09208513B1
A mobile phone comprising a processor, a memory comprising a system partition and a data partition, and an application stored in the system partition of the memory. When executed by the processor, the application determines a brand identity associated with the mobile phone, accesses branding assets associated with the application based on the brand identity, and adapts the function of the application based on the accessed branding assets.
US09208506B2
The present invention is a fan networking system (FNS), available through a software application, executing on fans' portable smart devices for an event to be held in a venue. A FNS may offer event-customized services to fans, such as messaging, fan groups, mementos, coupons, “friends”, and contests. The level of services might depend on whether a fan is attending; timing (pre-, during, post-performance); for a competitive event, whether the fan affiliates with the home or away team; and the category of fan (e.g., audience, management, performer). Determination of whether a fan is attending may be done with geolocation services, e.g., through GPS. A fan might need to remain within the venue for some period of time to qualify as attending. Services to attending fans may extend for a period beyond the event itself.
US09208498B2
Methods and apparatuses to track keywords used for matching advertisements that provide references to make calls for real time communications. One embodiment includes: selecting an advertisement based on a condition; providing a reference for presentation with the advertisement, to identify the condition and the advertisement; and charging an advertisement fee in response to a call via the reference for a real time communication session.
US09208492B2
Systems and methods are provided for authorizing a user in connection with a transaction at a transaction terminal. The systems and methods described herein enable a series of operations whereby a user using a mobile device can capture a code that uniquely identifies a transaction terminal. In addition the mobile device can also capture a user's biometrics, generate a biometric identifier and biometrically verify the user's identity by comparing the biometric identifier to a previously generated biometric identifier. If the user is biometrically authenticated the mobile device can generate a transaction request including, a user identifier, a mobile device identifier, and the transaction terminal code and transmit the transaction request to a system server. Based on the transaction request, the system server can further authenticate the user and/or approve the requested transaction. If the user is authenticated, the system server can instruct the terminal to advance the financial transaction.
US09208475B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for storing emails, comprising a neural network arranged to receive information associated with an email, to determine a storage location of the email according to one or more of the attributes of the email and to output information identifying the determined storage location.
US09208473B2
Technologies are generally described for a social networking service (SNS). In some examples, a method performed under control of a server may include receiving a user input associated with the user responding to content posted in an online forum, determining whether a threshold condition set by the user is satisfied for the user's response to be disclosed with regard to a particular piece of content posted in the online forum, and disclosing the user's response to the particular piece of content posted in the online forum when the threshold condition is determined to be satisfied.
US09208468B2
The present disclosure provides an inventory management system that offers significant improvement over existing systems by automating requests to restock inventory. The present disclosure details an inventory management system that provides real time visibility to stock levels and streamlines materials management activities, while addressing the issues of human resource misallocations, inaccurate inventory data management and related out of stock conditions. Moreover, the system of the present disclosure promotes a high level of confidence in inventory data that enables on-hand inventory levels to be reduced, thereby reducing costs and waste.
US09208467B2
In one embodiment, optimizing inventory includes accessing service level band sets. Each service level band set is associated with a policy group, and includes service level bands. Each service level band of a service level band set has a service level priority with respect to any other service level bands of the same service level band set. An inventory band set is determined for each service level band set. Each inventory band set includes inventory bands, where each inventory band satisfies a corresponding service level band assuming an unconstrained network. Each inventory band of an inventory band set has an inventory priority with respect to any other inventory bands of the same inventory band set. A feasible supply chain plan that satisfies the inventory band sets is generated in order of the inventory priorities until a constrained network is depleted.
US09208454B2
A system and method for providing a unified messaging and modeling infrastructure (UMMI) is disclosed. The system may comprise an input module of a first operations support system configured to receive information for processing at the first operations support system and a processor module of the first operations support system configured to process the information received at the first input module and an output module of the first operations support system configured to transmit a standardized data sheet to the second operations support system. The system may comprise an input module of the second operations support system configured to receive the standardized data sheet and a processor module of the second operations support system configured to update the standardized data sheet based on processing operations at the second operations support system and to generate executable code to support interface functionality based on definitions of the standardized data sheet.
US09208453B2
Methods and systems for extracting targeted data for real-time reporting are discussed. In an example, a system can include a data store, a server, and a denormalized database. The data store can maintain data created by an application. The server can be communicatively coupled to the data store. The server can include a data extraction module and a data compression module. The data extraction module can extract a subset of the data stored in the data store according to an extraction scheme. The data compression module can compress the extracted subset of the data into a set of aggregated key value pairs. The denormalized database can store the aggregated key value pairs.
US09208451B2
A computer-implemented method, an apparatus and a computer program for automatically extracting useful information for functional verification. The method comprising performing repeatedly both operating an instruction generator associated with a Design Under Test (DUT), whereby a generated instruction is determined, the generated instruction having one or more instruction attributes; and collecting information relating to the generated instruction. Based on the generated instruction and the collected information, a classification technique is utilized to classify the information based on the instruction attributes.
US09208448B2
A method for learning a data format is disclosed including but not limited to inputting an initial description of a data format and a batch of data comprising data in a new data format not covered by the initial description, instructions to use the first description to parse the records in the data source; discarding records in the input data that parse successfully, instructions to collect records that fail to parse, instructions to accumulate a quantity, M of records that fail to parse, returning a modified description that extends the initial description to cover the new data, transforming the first description, D into a second description D′ to accommodate differences between the input data format and the first description D by introducing options where a piece of data was missing in the input data and introducing unions where a new type of data was found in the input data.
US09208446B2
Systems and methods are provided for improving fidelity of a quantum operation on a quantum bit of interest. A controlled quantum gate operation, controlled by the quantum bit of interest, id performed on an ancillary quantum bit. An energy state of the ancillary quantum bit is measured to facilitate the improvement of the fidelity of the quantum operation.
US09208444B1
A computer-implemented method that includes the actions of receiving a request for data indicative of a user segment of a social networking platform, accessing user data of the social networking platform, identifying a portion of the accessed user data, analyzing contents of the portion of the accessed user data, determining happiness scores for the users in the user segment, identifying a first subset of the users as being happy users, and identifying a second subset of the users as being unhappy users, determining a frequency at which the particular user performs one or more actions, comparing the determined frequencies at which the users in the second subset perform the one or more actions to a threshold frequency, identifying a third subset of the users included in the second subset, and generating a happiness index for the user segment that is based on one or more determined happiness scores.
US09208438B2
A packet classification system, apparatus, and corresponding apparatus are provided for enabling packet classification. A processor of a security appliance coupled to a network uses a classifier table having a plurality of rules, the plurality of rules having at least one field, to build a decision tree structure for packet classification. Duplication in the decision tree may be identified, producing a wider, shallower decision tree that may result in shorter search times with reduced memory requirements for storing the decision tree. A number of operations needed to identify duplication in the decision tree may be reduced, thereby increasing speed and efficiency of a compiler building the decision tree.
US09208431B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure support a technique for strategic synaptic failure and learning in spiking neural networks. A synaptic weight for a synaptic connection between a pre-synaptic neuron and a post-synaptic neuron can be first determined (e.g., according to a learning rule). Then, one or more failures of the synaptic connection can be determined based on a set of characteristics of the synaptic connection. The one or more failures can be omitted from computation of a neuronal behavior of the post-synaptic neuron.
US09208428B2
Presently disclosed subject matter is directed to an identification article, methods of its manufacture and a sheet material forming part thereof. The article in accordance with the disclosed subject matter has a first end and a second end configured for attachment to each other through a contact section configured at either the first end or the second end. The article comprising a first, top layer including a bottom side, a second, bottom layer including a top side, and an identification component, wherein the bottom side of the first layer and the top side of the second layer bonded to at least encapsulate therebetween the identification component. In addition, the contact section comprises a release section constituting an end portion of the second layer, coated with a release agent on the top side thereof.
US09208419B2
A controlling apparatus, which controls a first printing apparatus that prints an image on a continuous sheet and a second printing apparatus that prints on the continuous sheet on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of the continuous sheet, stores a printing state of the first printing apparatus and a second printing apparatus. When an error is detected in the first printing apparatus, conveyance of the continuous sheet is suspended, and occurrence position of the error is specified. When it is detected that the error is solved, and conveyance of the continuous sheet is restarted, control is performed such that the second printing apparatus performs printing on the continuous sheet on which printing has been finished by the first printing apparatus before the detection of the error, based on the specified occurrence position of the error.
US09208416B2
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that includes a processor. The processor is configured to calculate a corrected tone value of a target pixel using a tone value of the target pixel and an error value of a previously processed pixel; determine a dot value of the target pixel by comparing the corrected tone value with a threshold value; calculate an error value of the target pixel using the corrected tone value and a first density value when the dot value indicates to form a dot and the dot to be formed is a first dot formed in isolation; and calculate an error value of the target pixel using the corrected tone value and a second density value when the dot value indicates to form a dot and the dot to be formed is a second dot formed at a particular location in consecutive dots.
US09208408B2
In an apparatus including a first acquisition unit configured to acquire information of an operation amount of a conveyance unit configured to convey a printing medium, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire information of a density of an image printed by a printhead, and a specify unit configured to specify the density of the image based on histogram collection on the information of the density of the image acquired by the second acquisition, the following correction is made. More specifically, a correction value of the information of the operation amount based on a histogram on the acquired information of the operation amount is decided. Then, based on the decided correction value, the acquired information of the operation amount is corrected.
US09208407B2
An image forming apparatus includes an operating section accepting an operation by a user, a receiving section receiving data for a print job from an externally connected instrument, an image forming section starting an image forming based on a print job if the operating section accepts an operation to start the print job or if the receiving section receives data for the print job, a display section displaying varieties of information for printing on a display area, a lighting section illuminating the display section from a back portion thereof, and a control section causing lighting of the lighting section to be turned off gradually part by part until finally turned off entirely if entire lighting of the lighting section is in a state of keeping being turned on when the image forming section starts an image forming.
US09208400B2
Information of different scans of physical objects may require comparison, for example to determine if the scans are of the same object or if an object has changed, or better information for a three dimensional model may be desired. Different scans of physical objects may be compared by determining lines or planes tangent to a surface at a discrete number of points, registering three dimensional information provided by the scans using the tangent lines or planes, and determining a measure of discrepancy between the surfaces. Three dimensional information of different scans of the same object may also be merged after determining lines or planes tangent to a surface at a discrete number of points and performing registration and merging.
US09208397B2
A service provider receives, from a user, picture information captured by a user device from a picture mark associated with a product or service of a merchant. It determines a matching picture image by comparing the picture information with picture images in a server, previously registered by the merchant. It also determines, out of attributes previously registered by the merchant, a matching attribute set uniquely associated with the matching picture image. The attributes may be web links, mobile APPs, or any media files that the merchant desires to communicate to users about its products or services. The service provider then communicates to the user the matching attribute set to be loaded on the user device and direct the user to the web links, mobile APPs, or media files that the merchant predetermined.
US09208396B2
In image processing of multi-viewpoint image data including image data captured with different focal lengths, an image of high quality, distance information with high precision, etc., are obtained by utilizing image data with different angles of view (focal lengths). An image processing device for generating combined image data using multi-viewpoint image data including image data acquired with different focal lengths, includes a resolution converting unit configured to perform resolution conversion for at least part of image data in multi-viewpoint image data in accordance with a focal length to be output and an image combining unit configured to generate combined image data with the focal length to be output using the resolution-converted image data.
US09208394B2
The present application concerns the visual identification of materials or documents for tracking or authentication purposes.It describes methods to automatically authenticate an object by comparing some object images with reference images, the object images being characterized by the fact that visual elements used for comparison are non-disturbing for the naked eye. In some described approaches it provides the operator with visible features to locate the area to be imaged. It also proposes ways for real-time implementation enabling user friendly detection using mobile devices like smart phones.
US09208392B2
Methods and apparatus for performing efficient pattern matching in a client-server network are described herein. A communication device acquires an object to be matched. At least one reduced set of features is extracted from the object to be matched and a determination as to whether the object to be matched matches one of a plurality of known objects in a local library stored on the communication device is generated. An indication representing a match of the object is presented if the determination indicates a local match exists in the local library. A match request including the at least one reduced set of features is transmitted for a remote matching determination when the determination indicates that no local match exists in the local library. In accordance with some aspects, a series of one or more match requests may be transmitted for a remote matching determination.
US09208385B2
A method is provided for an intelligent video processing system based on object detection. The method includes receiving an input video sequence corresponding to a video program, obtaining a plurality of frames of the input video sequence, and obtaining a computational constraint and a temporal rate constraint. The method also includes determining one or more regions of interest (ROIs) of the plurality of frames based on the computational constraint and temporal rate constraint, and selecting a desired set of frames from the plurality of frames based on the ROIs such that the desired set of frames substantially represent a view path of the plurality of frames. Further, the method includes detecting object occurrences from the desired set of frames based on the selected desired set of frames such that a computational cost and a number of frames for detecting the object occurrences are under the computational constraint and temporal rate constraint.
US09208383B2
A commodity recognition apparatus, which recognizes, from an image captured by an image capturing section and stored in a storage section, a commodity imaged in the image, identifies, for each image captured by the image capturing section, an image capturing condition of light source for the image. The commodity recognition apparatus selects the image captured by the image capturing section under a given image capturing condition identified and displays the selected image on a display section.
US09208382B2
Novel tools and techniques are described for identifying objects and/or persons. In one aspect, a method might comprise obtaining a digital image of an object(s) with a digital image recording device. The digital image may be transmitted to a remote computer system, and compared to multiple preexisting digital images using an image comparison software application running thereon. A set of preexisting digital images matching the digital image of the object(s) may be identified, and a (best match) keyphrase associated with the preexisting digital images may be determined. The keyphrase may be returned to a user computer for user confirmation or rejection. In some embodiments, a point cloud may be generated for each object in the image, and fitted with available 3D models, so as to confirm the keyphrase. In some embodiments, the confirmed keyphrase may be sent to a user computer for implementation in a cadastral survey application.
US09208376B2
Method(s) and system(s) for identification of an unknown person are disclosed. The method includes receiving skeleton data comprises data of multiple skeleton joints of the unknown person from skeleton recording devices. The method further includes extracting G gait feature vectors from the skeleton data. Further, the method includes classifying each gait feature vector into one of N classes based on a training dataset for N known persons and computing a classification score for each class. The method also includes clustering the training dataset into M clusters based on M predefined characteristic attributes of the known persons, tagging each gait feature vector with one of the M clusters based on a distance between a respective gait feature vector and cluster centers of M clusters, and determining a clustering score for each M cluster. The method further includes identifying the unknown person based on clustering scores and classification scores.
US09208372B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus including an image processing unit configured to carry out adjustment that makes disparity larger than disparity corresponding to processed images, which are moving images to be processed, based on an amount of change over time in a magnitude of the disparity corresponding to the processed images.
US09208371B2
A system and method are disclosed for conserving power during navigation, e.g., user device pointer/cursor navigation, using a fingerprint image sensor, that may comprise processing, via a computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a first finger navigation mode; processing, via the computing device, fingerprint image sensor data indicative of finger position and movement with respect to a fingerprint image sensor surface in a finger navigation mode to determine if the finger is in a second finger navigation mode; and transitioning, via the computing device, the fingerprint image sensor from a first power consumption mode to a second power consumption mode, based on detecting a transition from the first finger navigation mode to the second finger navigation mode.
US09208364B2
The present invention provides an identification information access device configured to read identification information stored in an RFID tag even if the RFID tag is located at a position at which identification information of the RFID tag has been difficult to read. An identification information access device includes: a first antenna unit configured to read identification information stored in an RFID IC tag included in a storage medium; a control device configured to be electrically connected to the first antenna unit and to drive the first antenna unit so as to acquire the identification information in accordance with an electromagnetic wave transmitted from the first antenna unit; and a second antenna unit configured to be independent from the first antenna unit, to be disposed at a position separated from the first antenna unit, and not to be electrically connected to the first antenna unit and to the control device.
US09208361B1
A magnetic stripe card reader useful for reading magnetic stripe bearing cards having at least one magnetic track, the magnetic stripe reader including a magnetic stripe reader head including multiple magnetic sensors including at least one magnetic track reading sensor for reading data encoded in a magnetic track of a magnetic stripe and at least one magnetic sensor which does not read encoded data, the magnetic stripe reader head providing magnetic sensor outputs including at least one magnetic track sensor reading output and at least one magnetic sensor output which has no encoded data therein and a subtractor operative to subtract at least a portion of the at least one magnetic sensor output, which has no encoded data therein, from the at least one magnetic track sensor reading output having card data encoded thereon, thereby to cancel interference from the at least one magnetic track reading output.
US09208359B2
A platform including an always-available theft protection system is described. In one embodiment, the system comprises a power management logic to selectively power elements of the system, a disarming logic to disarm the platform from an armed mode when a disarming command is received via an interface, the interface powered when the platform is in the armed and suspecting modes to detect the disarming command. The system further comprises, in one embodiment, a risk behavior logic to detect a potential problem via a interface, the interface powered when the platform is in the armed mode to detect the potential problem, and a core logic component to provide logic to analyze the potential problem, and to move the platform to a suspecting mode, when the potential problem indicates a theft suspicion, the core logic powered when the risk behavior logic detects the potential problem.
US09208354B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to the provision and use of a secure enclave defined within a storage of a computing device by a processor element thereof to store executable instructions of an OTP component implementing logic to generate and use one-time passwords (OTPs) to enable access to services provided by another computing device. An apparatus includes a storage; a first processor element; and first logic to receive a one-time password (OTP) routine, store the OTP routine within a first secure enclave defined by the first processor element within the storage, obtain a measure of the contents of the first secure enclave with the OTP routine stored therein, transmit the first measure to a computing device, and receive an OTP seed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09208349B1
A functional library can secure data gathering devices of a personal computing device on behalf of a secure application program to provide a more secure computing session during which sensitive data gathering activities are performed using any of those data gathering devices. The functional library, when incorporated within a personal computing device, creates a secure personal computing device on which to execute application programs such as mobile banking applications. The secure functional library acquires exclusive access to one or more of a predetermined plurality of the data gathering devices on behalf of a calling secure software application. Exclusive access is achieved by gaining access to each of the predetermined set and then locking that access throughout either the entire computing session, or at least until the execution of sensitive data gathering activities being performed during that computing session have been completed. The data gathering devices to be included in the predetermined set can be those that are deemed particularly vulnerable to exploitation in view of the types of sensitive data gathering activities to be conducted, or simply all of them for maximum security. The predetermined set can be defined and set for a particular application, or they can be defined more generally within the context of specific sensitive tasks or activities to be conducted.
US09208341B2
A method and system for synchronizing an encrypted file with a remote storage is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises providing a user with a user application and an encryption key in a portable memory device. The user runs the user application to securely access to a storage on a cloud storage system. A file is encrypted with the encryption key stored in the portable memory device and synchronized with the cloud storage system.
US09208331B2
A method begins with a processing module receiving a request to store a data object from a first requesting device. The method continues with the processing module determining that a substantially similar version of the data object is currently stored in a DSN. The method continues with the processing module determining that a number of unique combinations of retrieving the plurality of sets of encoded data slices has exceeded a threshold and, when so, encoding, with a same decode threshold number and an increased pillar width number, the data object to create and store a plurality of sub-set of redundancy encoded data slices. The method continues with the processing module creating a unique combination of retrieving the data object for the first requesting device based on the plurality of sets of encoded data slices and the plurality of sub-set of redundancy encoded data slices.
US09208330B2
An apparatus having a first memory circuit, a plurality of arithmetic modules, and a plurality of second memory circuits. The first memory circuit may be configured to read or write data to or from a host. The plurality of arithmetic modules each may be configured to be enabled or disabled in response to control signals received from the first memory circuit. The plurality of second memory circuits may be configured to read or write data to or from the first memory circuit through a data exchange layer. The arithmetic modules provide cryptographic protection of the data.
US09208328B2
A device comprising an operating system to run processes and a middleware layer operable to launch applications. An application launched by the middleware layer is run using one or more processes in the operating system. The operating system has a user layer and a kernel wherein the processes run in the user layer and interact with other processes running in the user layer through the kernel, the interaction being in response to calls to the kernel made by the processes. The device has one or more policy files defining policies for interaction of processes with the kernel of the device, and a monitor configured to monitor interaction of a process with the kernel to link or associate defined policies to the process, and to read code defined in the policy file or files linked or associated to the process.
US09208322B1
A binary application suitable for the .Net framework is disassembled into human readable code. Or, CIL or MSIL code is obtained. The methods are put into a representation indicating which methods of the code call other methods. A source method call chain having a source API and a sink method call chain having a sink API are discerned from the representation. APIs are put into the same format as the methods to allow matching. A method in common between the two call chains indicates that a privacy leak exists. The application is downloaded from a remote server to a computing device where the analysis occurs.
US09208318B2
A networked device performs integrity authentication by determining, using a processor, a measured integrity value of the device. The measured integrity value is compared by the processor to an embedded integrity value of the device. Application of a policy to the device is facilitated by the processor based on the comparison.
US09208315B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying telemetry data. A particular method scans a file and compares the file to at least one attribute to be used for telemetry collection. When the file is identified as a telemetry candidate, an offer to submit a sample of the file is sent to a server. A response to the offer is received from the server. If the response to the offer indicates an acceptance, a sample of the file is sent to the server.
US09208314B1
A computer-implemented method for distinguishing code of a program obfuscated within a packed program may include (1) retrieving memory of the packed program that includes the code of the obfuscated program in an unobfuscated state and unpacking code that unpacks the code of the obfuscated program when the packed program is executed, (2) identifying an import address table within the memory of the packed program, (3) determining that the import address table is an import address table of the code of the obfuscated program, (4) determining that a region of code within the memory of the packed program may be the code of the obfuscated program by determining that the region of code uses the import address table, and (5) performing a security operation on the region of code. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09208311B2
Disclosed is a method for detecting a threat against a host computer coupled to the front-end computer. A communication connection is established between the host computer and a source computer with a handshake procedure through a front-end computer. Application data is received in the front-end computer from the source computer. The received application data is returned from the front-end computer to the source computer. It is monitored in the front-end computer if a predetermined message is received from the source computer in response to the return of the application data. If the predetermined message is received in the front-end computer, it is determined that the source computer is a trusted communication party, But if the predetermined message is not received, the source computer is determined as a threat. The invention relates also to computing device implementing the method and a computer program product.
US09208303B2
The present invention discloses a mobile terminal and an application program login method thereof. The method includes acquiring the to-be-authenticated fingerprint information inputted by a user when the user is required to log into an application program; determining whether the to-be-authenticated fingerprint information is the same as a correct fingerprint information which is locally preset and corresponds to the application program; if yes, then acquiring, according to the identifying fingerprint information, a user name and a password corresponding to the application program from a login information file which is locally preset; and logging into the application program according to the user name and the password. By logging into the application program via fingerprint, the present invention not only ensures the security of personal information, but also allows the user to quickly log into the application program, thereby improving user experience.
US09208300B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, receiving a baseline credential and an external credential, mapping the external credential to the baseline credential in a secure element memory, receiving a request for an authentication from a secure device processor of the communication device where the request for the authentication includes a user credential inputted into the communication device, comparing the user credential with the baseline credential to verify the authentication, and providing the authentication and the external credential to the secure device processor without providing the baseline credential to enable the secure device processor to provide the external credential to an external entity device that is remote from the communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09208293B1
A method of authenticating a content reference that is related to a public information display to reduce third party interference with the content reference is provided. The method comprises reading information from a tag, the information including a content reference, wirelessly transmitting the information, and comparing the information with authentication information associated with the content reference. The content reference identifies a content. The method also comprises sending an authentication result, wherein the authentication result is based on the comparing, and requesting the content when the authentication result is positive.
US09208292B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods, and for entering a secured system environment using multiple authenticated code modules are disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes a decoder and control logic. The decoder is to decode a secured enter instruction. The control logic is to find an entry corresponding to the processor in a match table in a master authenticated code module and to read a master header and an individual authenticated code module from the master authenticated code module in response to decoding the secured enter instruction.
US09208287B2
A tele-health services cabin includes a plurality of vital signs monitoring devices, a cabin management unit, and videoconferencing hardware via which a remote practitioner in a remote medical call center videoconferences with a patient in the cabin to diagnose symptoms of the patient. The cabin management unit includes a processor that controls the cabin, a data input at which patient data is provided from the vital signs monitoring devices, and a transmitter connectable to a communication link for bi-directional communication between the cabin management unit and the medical call center, where the transmitter transmits the patient data to the medical call center. The tele-health services cabin may include a patient chair including a motorized seat back and at least one sensor encapsulated in the seat back. The tele-health services cabin may include a hands-free medical device station. The tele-health services cabin may include an automatic cleaning system.
US09208270B2
A system and method for implementing, on one or more processors, a bidirectional link between a design system and a multiphysics modeling system includes establishing via a communications link a connection between the design system and the multiphysics modeling system. Instructions are communicated via the communication link that include commands for generating a geometric representation in the design system based on parameters communicated from the multiphysics modeling system. One or more memory components can be configured to store a design system dynamic link library and a multiphysics modeling system dynamic link library. A controller can be operative to detect an installation of the design system, and implement via the dynamic link libraries, bidirectional communications of instructions between the design system and the multiphysics modeling system.
US09208261B2
An apparatus and method for saving power during TLB searches is disclosed. In one embodiment, a TLB includes a CAM having a plurality of entries each storing a virtual address, and enable logic coupled to the CAM. Responsive to initiation of a TLB query by a thread executing on a processor that includes the TLB, the enable logic is configured to enable only those CAM entries that are associated with the initiating thread. Entries in the CAM not associated with the thread are not enabled. Accordingly, an initial search of the TLB for responsive to the query is conducted only in the CAM entries that are associated with the thread. Those CAM entries that are not associated with the thread are not searched. As a result, dynamic power consumption during TLB searches may be reduced.
US09208260B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for enhancing selecting relevant and diverse advertisements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an initial query, selecting one or more additional queries relating to the initial query, including selecting a first additional query and a second diverse additional query, identifying one or more content items for each of the additional queries, the one or more content items forming a content block, and providing a content block and associated additional query to be displayed at a client device along with search results associated with the initial query.
US09208259B2
An approach is provided that uses symbols to represent search criteria. In this approach, a symbol is received from a user in a search request. Search criteria that corresponds to the received symbol is retrieved from a computer accessible data store. Data stores are searched for the plurality of search criteria that correspond with the received symbol and search results are retrieved based on the searching performed. These retrieved search results are then provided to the user.
US09208253B2
Web content for different user platforms is provided in an efficient way. A request is received for an identified page of content from a client device, through a communication network, at a computer system configured as an application server. The user platform implemented by the client device is identified, from among user platforms supported by the application server. A View of the identified page of content is retrieved from storage by a processor of the computer system. The View of the identified page of content is processed to in a format reproducible on the client device for presentation to a user via execution of the identified user platform. For example, the View of the identified page of content is transmitted through the communication network to the client device in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) or Extensible Markup Language (XML).
US09208248B2
A degree of social network separation of a social network user that generated expressive content of a social media posting is identified relative to a specified social network user for each of a group of social media postings. Social media postings with an equivalent identified degree of social network separation relative to the specified social network user are grouped. Differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at different degrees of social network separation are determined. The determined differences between the expressive content of the grouped social media postings at the different degrees of social network separation are rendered.
US09208246B2
A content distribution system allows authors to freely syndicate their content to content distributors in a way that ensures that the author receives appropriate credit for the impact of the content upon readers. The system provides an embeddable control that publishers can embed in a web site or other distribution channel. Authors provide the content displayed within the embeddable control and can include advertisements as well as any content restrictions. For advertisers, the system allows them to advertise with the content instead of the publisher, and allows them to do so in all of the venues that host the content. This places control of monetization of content back in the hands of the author, and incentivizes the author to maximize the distribution of his content to reach the widest possible audience rather than to hoard content at his own site.
US09208244B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for referencing a change in data utilizing a network resource locator. An interface component can receive one or more requests that are associated with a data set from a client, and send, based on the one or more requests, a network resource locator and at least one portion of the data set to the client. Further, a data service component can compute a parameter that is associated with a change of the data set, and include the parameter in the network resource locator. In other embodiments, the data service component can receive a request utilizing the network resource locator, determine the change of the data set based on the parameter, and send the change of the data set to the client.
