US09386732B2
A communication apparatus performs communication through a power line. The communication apparatus includes an electrical power plug which is capable of connecting to the power line and provides the communication apparatus with a power supply. The communication apparatus also includes a power line communication unit which performs communication through the power line, and a heat radiator which radiates heat generated from the power line communicator, wherein the heat radiator is disposed at a location where is not to overlap the power plug.
US09386731B2
A magnetic shield for shielding adjacent coils of an ICPT system. One or more conductors are configured to distribute induced eddy currents from the surface of the shield to below the surface and thus reduce heating due to eddy currents.The magnetic shield may be employed to transfer power over rotary couplings, such as the shaft of a wind turbine.
US09386722B2
A server includes a mid-plane board, a storage backplane module, a plurality of first storage units, a vertical interposer board, a first electronic module, a second electronic module and a plurality of power supply units. The vertical interposer board is vertically inserted and thus electrically coupled to the mid-plane board. The storage backplane module, the vertical interposer board, the first electronic module, the second electronic module and the power supply units are electrically connected to each other through the mid-plane board.
US09386715B1
A liquid tight electrical housing is described herein and can include a housing body. The housing body can include a first housing body piece and a second housing body piece removably coupled to the first housing body piece, where the second housing body piece includes a third opening and a fourth opening, where the fourth opening includes a complementary housing coupling feature that removably couples to a housing coupling feature in a second opening of the first housing body piece. The housing can also include a first coupling component disposed in a first opening of the first housing body piece, where the first coupling component is configured to couple to a first electrical enclosure. The housing can also include a second coupling component disposed in the third opening of the second housing body piece, where the second coupling component is configured to couple to a second electrical enclosure.
US09386712B2
An electrical chassis for use in high temperature environments is disclosed. The electrical chassis may be employed, for example, in close proximity to the combustion chamber of a jet engine. The electrical chassis is constructed with a substrate formed from a material with low thermal conductivity and low electrical conductivity, such as polyetheretherketone. A reflective surface may be disposed on a housing containing the substrate to reduce the absorption of radiation. A heat sink and fluid inlet and outlet may also be arranged to remove heat generated by the electrical components.
US09386707B2
With a nozzle being moved in one direction to a substrate unit, conductive ink is discharged out of a slit of the nozzle in a belt-like manner to the substrate unit. The conductive ink is discharged in a belt-like manner to the substrate unit on which a liquid-repellent region having a liquid repellency to the conductive ink and a lyophilic region having a lyophilic property to the conductive ink and having the same form as a desired circuit pattern are formed. Thereby, the conductive ink is applied to the lyophilic region, while the conductive ink is repelled at the remaining liquid-repellent region and flows into the lyophilic region.
US09386695B2
There is provided a wiring substrate including: a core substrate including: a first core substrate including: a plate-shaped first glass substrate; and a first through electrode formed through the first glass substrate; a second core substrate including: a plate-shaped second glass substrate; and a second through electrode formed through the second glass substrate, wherein a diameter of the second through electrode is different from that of the first through electrode; and an insulating member encapsulating the first and second core substrates, and a wiring layer formed on at least one surface of the core substrate. The first and second core substrates are arranged to be separated from each other when viewed from a top.
US09386683B2
One embodiment of a particle accelerator includes: a particle source from which a particle beam is extracted with a beam pulse width of not greater than 2 μsec; a linear accelerator for accelerating the particle beam extracted from the particle source; a synchrotron for receiving the particle beam transported thereto from the linear accelerator and causing the particle beam to circulate in order to accelerate it until it gets to a predetermined energy level; a bump electromagnet for shifting the circulating path of the particle beam each time it makes a full turn; and a control unit for controlling the extent of magnetic excitation of the bump electromagnet and for controlling the timing of magnetic excitation of the bump electromagnet according to the pulse timing of the particle source.
US09386674B2
A device for generating x-rays has an enclosing vessel having a structure suitable to provide an enclosed space at a predetermined fluid pressure, wherein the enclosing vessel has a window portion and a shielding portion in which the shielding portion is more optically dense to x-rays than the window portion; a mechanoluminescent component disposed at least partially within the enclosing vessel; and a mechanical assembly connected to the mechanoluminescent component. The mechanical assembly provides mechanical energy to the mechanoluminescent component while in operation, and at least some of the mechanical energy when provided to the mechanoluminescent component by the mechanical assembly is converted to x-rays.
US09386672B2
The present invention relates to a method of running up a discharge lamp (1), in particular a UHP or HID lamp, in which a driving power (8) is increased or decreased to a target value during a single or during a plurality, for example two, of consecutive time periods. The method can comprise the steps of controlling the driving current (5) of the lamp (1) to keep constant during the first of said two or more consecutive time periods, if applicable, and controlling the driving power (8) of the lamp (1) to reach the power target value during the single or during the last time period. The driving current (5) of the lamp (1) is not allowed during the single or following time periods to increase faster than a preset rate and to exceed a fixed upper current limit, which can be selected to avoid an overheating of the electrodes of the lamp (1). With the proposed method and the driving device adapted to carry out the method, the risk of overheating the electrode tips of the discharge lamp during run-up is significantly reduced.
US09386667B2
A method for controlling detached lighting units uses source light of a capable flashlight to communicate information. The capable flashlight encodes an ID Tag in modulated light, and the detached lighting units recognize the specific ID Tag and responds, for example by activating and creating illumination. A user can illuminate selected areas by shining the beam of the flashlight on detached lighting units to selectively activate them, and since the detached lighting units only respond to the encoded light, unintended activation is avoided. In addition to the encoded ID Tag, mode information can be included such that the detached lighting units can respond in a number of ways, such as selected periods of activation. Stored ID Tags can be transferred and thus shared using the same modulated light. ID Tags can be randomly re-assigned, and the new value shared among other flashlights and detached lighting units, creating a coordinated set.
US09386662B1
The present disclosure describes techniques and apparatuses for a customizable lighting controller. In some aspects a lighting controller is described that includes a display device to display selectable lighting functions, switches that each correspond to one of the selectable lighting functions, and a lighting controller manager to receive an input of a selectable lighting function at one of the switches of the lighting controller. The lighting controller manager can then initiate a display of the selected lighting level on the display device of the lighting controller. The lighting controller manager can also control a dimming module to set the selected lighting level.
US09386661B2
A driver circuit (11) for a current regulator (13), which can be coupled in series to an electrical load (14), comprises a control circuit (12) for controlling the current regulator (13). The control circuit (12) is designed to determine at least two target current values (SW1) for the current regulator current (IS1) of the current regulator (13) for at least two points in time in an operation phase on the basis of a signal (VS1, STR) that can be tapped at the current regulator (13).
US09386659B2
One embodiment of a fully integrated intelligent lighting module with built-in heat sink allows conventional electrodeless discharge lamps, LED, or electrodeless plasma lamps to be converted into intelligent electrodeless discharge lamps or electrodeless plasma lamps [with minimal effort]. Such a module may be comprised of a driver for an electrodeless discharge lamp or electrodeless plasma lamp capable of operating from 120-277V at 50/60 Hz as well as 347V and 480V in different models; a dimming chip; a sensor chip with clock to monitor the time and power used; a ROM module to store the data collected by the sensor chip; on-board non-volatile memory; a wireless communication module; and an external display and programming controls. Such a module allows users who install it into any pre-existing “dumb” light fixture to [quickly and easily] convert that fixture into an “intelligent” one.
US09386648B2
A dimmable lighting system may replace a bi-level lighting system without having to modify or supplement the existing wiring between a bi-level control unit and one or more light fixtures. The dimmable lighting system may include a dimming controller that may be configured to replace a bi-level control unit in situ (i.e., e.g., in a wall-mounted dual-gang switch box). The dimmable lighting system may also include a dimming driver that may be coupled to the dimming controller via the existing wiring of the bi-level lighting system. The dimming controller may output to the dimming driver a 0-10 volt DC dimming signal referenced to an AC utility voltage. In response, a dimmable lighting device coupled to the dimming driver may output light over a wide range of dimming light levels. Methods of replacing a bi-level lighting system with a dimmable lighting system are also provided, as are other aspects.
US09386647B2
A method for mitigating visual fluctuation of light output at low pulse width modulation levels is disclosed. The method comprises at least the step of comparing the percent change of a previously applied input voltage value to the pulse width modulation output.
US09386642B2
A semiconductor device (300a) comprising: a substrate (302) having a first surface (303); an n-type well (304) extending from the first surface (303) into the substrate (302) and configured to form a depletion region (306) in the substrate (302) around the n-type well (304); an insulating layer (340) extending over the first surface (303) of the substrate (302) from the n-type well (304), the insulating layer (340) configured to form an inversion layer (342) in the substrate (302) extending from the n-type well (304) adjacent to the first surface (303); wherein a p-type floating channel stopper (370a) is provided, configured to extend through the inversion layer (342) to reduce electrical coupling between the n-type well (304) and at least part of the inversion layer (342), and is electrically disconnected from a remainder of the substrate (320) outside of the depletion region (306).
US09386629B2
There is provided a configuration in an access point managed by a management device for dealing with a situation in which management by the management device is no longer possible. An access point 3 includes a controller 30 that controls the operation of the access point 3, and a management status detector 32 that detects the management status by a management device 2. The controller 30 changes the operation of the access point 3 by validating or invalidating an SSID according to the detecting result of the management status.
US09386626B1
Various embodiments include methods implemented on a mobile communication device for sharing network information among subscriptions when a first subscription is in a voice call and a second subscription is in an idle mode. The methods may include determining whether the first subscription and the second subscription share a network operator and are camped on a same base station. If so, the first subscription may receive network information from the base station and store the network information in a shared memory of the mobile communication device that can be accessed by the second subscription. The second subscription may then perform some idle mode operations using the network information stored in the shared memory.
US09386623B2
A first mobile station operating on a first network according to a first network protocol receives a proxy request for access to a network resource, by from a second mobile station operating on a second network according to a second network protocol. The proxy request is received according to a third network protocol. The first mobile station determines a priority of the proxy request; accepts or denies the proxy request based on the determined priority of the proxy request; allocates resources to the proxy request, if the proxy request is accepted; and serves as a proxy mobile station for the second mobile station to access the network resource.
US09386615B2
A system may receive call setup information associated with a call to be received by a terminating device via a particular untrusted wireless local area network (WLAN). The system may determine location information, associated with the terminating device, based on receiving the call setup information. The location information may include information that identifies the particular untrusted WLAN to which the terminating device is connected. The system may provide the call setup information to the terminating device via the particular untrusted WLAN. The call setup information may be provided to the terminating device based on the location information associated with the terminating device and may be provided to cause a tunnel to be created. The tunnel, when created, may allow the terminating device to receive the call via the particular untrusted WLAN. The system may cause the call to be received by the terminating device via the tunnel and the particular untrusted WLAN.
US09386614B2
A method for optimizing a data-path by a source Base Station (BS) in a mobile communication network includes determining whether a tunnel among new BSs is set up while tracking a data-flow for a Mobile Station (MS), if the tunnel among the new BSs is set up, determining whether there is a bounce-back, if there is at least one bounce-back, transmitting a first message for detecting a root of an arbitrary bounce-back among the at least one bounce-back and setting up a short-cut tunnel to other end of the arbitrary bounce-back, and after transmitting the first message, receiving a second message including bounce-back root information indicating the root of the arbitrary bounce-back from the other end of the arbitrary bounce-back. Other various embodiments including a source BS, a target BS, and a backhaul network are also disclosed.
US09386609B2
The present disclosure provides a WiFi network bridge, a WiFi-based communication method and system, the WiFi network bridge of the present disclosure may first acquire LTE communication link information, after receiving a WiFi connection establishment request sent by a WiFi terminal, establish a WiFi communication link with the WiFi terminal, and send authentication request information to a LTE base transceiver station; then the WiFi network bridge may judge whether the authentication succeeds, and if the authentication succeeds, a LTE communication link with the LTE base transceiver station is established according to the acquired LTE communication link information. That is to say, the present disclosure implements the backhaul of a WiFi AP network by using a LTE wireless network, avoiding the need to deploy a wire backhaul every time before a WiFi AP network is deployed, thereby the network topology of WiFi communications can be simplified, the engineering cost and usage cost can be lowered, and the satisfaction of user experiences can be improved.
US09386608B2
Technology for performing a Time Division Duplex (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) reconfiguration in a heterogeneous network (HetNet) is described. An evolved node B (eNB) may identify cluster metrics for a plurality of evolved node Bs (eNBs) in a cell cluster of the HetNet. The plurality of eNBs in the cell cluster may have a backhaul latency within a selected range. The eNB may select a TDD UL-DL configuration index for the plurality of eNBs in the cell cluster based in part on the cluster metrics. The eNB may transmit the TDD UL-DL configuration index to one or more user equipments (UEs) located within the cell cluster using a downlink control information (DCI) format. The TDD UL-DL configuration index may be transmitted on a Common Search Space (CSS) of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a UE-specific Primary Cell (PCell).
US09386607B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing packet data network (PDN) connectivity for a device. PDN connectivity to a local gateway can be managed at an access point with which the device is communicating based at least in part on received PDN connectivity parameters. The PDN connectivity parameters can include access points, related closed subscriber groups, public land mobile networks, etc., from which a device can request a PDN connection. The PDN connectivity parameters can be specific for the device and/or for one or more access point names. In addition, a subscription server or other core network device can communicate the PDN connectivity parameters to the device and/or the device can receive PDN connectivity parameters as a result of a failed PDN connection attempt to an access point.
US09386605B2
A mobile dynamic mesh cluster bridging method and a mobile device include scanning various wireless channels at an incident scene to identify one or more nodes transmitting a given network identifier; determining a first cluster of the one or more identified nodes are not in communication with a second cluster of the one or more nodes; determining a location for bridging the first cluster and the second cluster; and causing a bridging function to be deployed at the location to provide communication between the first cluster and the second cluster.
US09386603B2
The present invention provides a random access method, a base station, and a user equipment. The method includes: obtaining, by the UE, a PRACH sequence; and sending, by the UE, the PRACH sequence to the base station to perform random access, and carrying first information when sending the PRACH sequence so that the base station receives the first information in a random access process. In the technical solutions of the present invention, the UE sends the first information in the random access process, which improves transmission efficiency of the first information. The present invention is particularly applicable to services of small packets.
US09386602B2
A method at a user equipment for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) operation, the user equipment operating on a primary carrier having a first duplex mode and on at least one secondary carrier having a second duplex mode, the method using HARQ timing of the first duplex mode if the timing of the first duplex mode promotes acknowledgement opportunities over using HARQ timing of the second duplex mode; and using HARQ timing of the second duplex mode if the timing of the second duplex mode promotes acknowledgement opportunities over using HARQ timing of the first duplex mode.
US09386596B2
A packet service enhancement mode (60) and packet service enhancer (35) is provided for operating a packet channel (25) existing over an air interface (27) between a base station node and a user equipment unit of a telecommunications network. As one aspect of the technology, a packet service enhancement method comprises performing a monitoring of a radio link connection carried by the packet channel and, in accordance with the monitoring, both modifying an operational parameter for the packet channel and dropping non-consecutive packets from the packet channel.
US09386595B2
A wireless communications system and associated method are disclosed. The system, in one configuration, includes an antenna and a wireless communications module configured to operate and communicate with a plurality of wireless communications stations via the antenna, in compliance with a wireless communications protocol. The communications include transmitting a first control packet to disable at least one of the wireless communications stations from data transmissions in compliance with the wireless communications protocol. The system is also configured to transmit a second control packet to enable at least one of the disabled wireless communications stations to perform the data transmissions. The first control packet is transmitted using a first configuration transmission power or modulation scheme, and the second control packet is transmitted using a second configuration transmission power and modulation scheme.
US09386594B2
A method of coordinated scheduling of a downlink transmission flow from a first radio network node to a user equipment UE in a second radio network node. The method includes scheduling the downlink transmission flow so that the in-sequence delivery of the received data blocks can be kept in an acceptable level in the UE by adjusting a scheduling priority of the downlink transmission flow in the second radio network node. The method may further include estimating one or more buffer-related parameters based on buffered data for the downlink transmission flow from the first radio network node, and determining, based on the estimated one or more buffer-related parameter and/or one or more parameters associated with the operation status of the second radio network node, if the in-sequence delivery of the received data blocks to higher layers can be in an acceptable level in the UE.
US09386589B2
The present invention relates to a method to be carried out by a network support apparatus for managing resources of the apparatus, a method for managing resources of a network node, an apparatus for supporting the operation of a network and a resource management device, which particularly enable the determination of load at the apparatus or network node to allow more resource efficient scheduling of PM functions. The method carried out by the network support apparatus for managing resources comprises determining a load at the network support apparatus based on the number of events generated by recordings activated by at least one performance management function in a time period; comparing the determined load with a threshold load smaller than or equal to the maximum load supported by the network support apparatus; and performing a resource management procedure according to the result of the comparing step.
US09386584B2
Systems and methods of performing communication via a sub-1 gigahertz wireless network are disclosed. Values of one or more inter-frame spacing parameters for use in communication via the sub-1 gigahertz wireless network are also defined. The parameters may include a short inter-frame spacing (SIFS) time of 160 microseconds (μs). The parameters may also include a clear channel assessment (CCA) time of 40 μs. Additional parameters, such as air propagation time are also defined (e.g., for inclusion into a standard, such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11ah).
US09386582B2
A system and method for transmitting and receiving frequency allocation information based on identification information in a frequency overlay system are provided. The method includes transmitting a frame of a first Frequency Allocation (FA) to Mobile Stations (MSs) by inserting control information and identification information of the MSs to which frequency resources are allocated into the first FA frame, and transmitting a second frame indicating a second FA the MSs by inserting the identification information and a resource indication of the first FA into the second FA frame. Thereby, an overhead can be reduced and a frequency resource can be used efficiently.
US09386580B2
A first wireless node may determine that a first reserved retransmission frame overlaps with a second reserved transmission frame and a second reserved retransmission frame and that the second reserved transmission frame overlaps with a first reserved transmission frame and the first reserved retransmission frame. The first reserved transmission frame and the first reserved retransmission frame may be reserved for wireless communication with a first master node, and the second reserved transmission frame and the second reserved retransmission frame are reserved for wireless communication with a second master node. The wireless node may also process and acknowledge data received from the first master node during the first reserved transmission frame based on the determining, ignore data sent by the second master node during the second reserved transmission frame based on the determining, and process and acknowledge data received from the second master node during the second reserved retransmission frame.
US09386577B2
In a mobile communication system according to the present invention, with the separate use of a plurality of component carriers or with the use of a carrier set including the plurality of component carriers aggregated, a base station performs radio communication with a user equipment corresponding to the component carrier or a user equipment corresponding to the aggregated carriers. In particular, in a case where the base station performs radio communication with the user equipment corresponding to the aggregated carriers with the use of the aggregated carriers, each of a plurality of transport blocks created by dividing a transport channel is transmitted per each of the plurality of component carriers constituting the aggregated carriers, and control information related to radio communication between the base station and the user equipment corresponding to the aggregated carriers is transmitted such that physical information of the corresponding component carrier is identifiable.
US09386569B2
In general, according to an embodiment, a wireless transmitter includes a plurality of coding and modulation modules to apply corresponding coding and modulation algorithms to input information blocks. A discrete Fourier transform (DFT) precoder applies DFT processing to outputs of the coding and modulation modules, and an inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) module receives a DFT output of the DFT precoder, which is mapped to different subcarriers according to the resource allocation indicated by the base station, and applies IFFT processing to the DFT output. An output processing stage produces output signals based on the output of the IFFT module to transmit wirelessly to a wireless receiver. In a different implementation, the outputs of the coding and modulation modules can be provided to an IFFT module to produce IFFT-processed output information.
US09386562B2
A method of transmitting at least one data stream by a transmitter in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes generating a preamble section including signaling information and a data section including at least one data stream; generating a frame including the preamble section and the data section; and transmitting the generated frame, wherein the signaling information includes first information including information related to the at least one data stream.
US09386559B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for a user equipment receiving MBMS service processing a semi-permanent scheduling from an MBSFN subframe. A method for a user equipment receiving the multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) processing a downlink scheduling in a mobile communication system of the present invention comprises: a detection step of detecting the occurrence of the downlink scheduling in a random transmission time interval; a decision step of deciding whether to process the downlink scheduling, depending on whether the user equipment is set to a transmission mode 9 or whether the transmission time interval belongs to a multimedia broadcast multicast service single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe; and a processing step of processing or disregarding the downlink scheduling based on the result of the decision.
US09386554B2
The present invention provides a method of operating an idle mobile unit that is capable of communicating with first and second wireless communication systems. One embodiment of the method includes providing a location update message in response to the idle mobile unit transitioning from a first tracking area associated with the second wireless communication system to a second tracking area associated with the second wireless communication system. The first and second wireless communication systems are capable of paging the idle mobile unit following the location update message.
US09386551B2
Methods, devices, and computer program products for synchronization of wireless devices in an ad-hoc network are described herein. In one aspect, a method for synchronizing a wireless communication apparatus is provided. The method includes generating, at a wireless communication apparatus, one or more messages identifying a second device to generate prospective synchronization messages. In some aspects, the second device is a back-up root device. The method further includes transmitting a synchronization message. In one aspect, a root device for an ad-hoc network is responsible for generating synchronization messages for nodes of the ad-hoc network. The root device also generates and transmits a message which identifies a back-up root device. The back-up root device may assume responsibility for generating synchronization messages for the ad-hoc network in the event that the wireless communication apparatus no longer generates synchronization messages for the ad-hoc network. In an embodiment, the generated message identifying the back-up root device is included in a synchronization message.
US09386549B2
Synchronization in a communication system A method and apparatus for a communication system is disclosed. In the system communications occur via a multiple of nodes each providing a stratum for synchronization. It is determined that the stratum of a node is not included in a predefined set of stratums. In response to said determination synchronizing with the node is provided differently from nodes with stratums without taking the order of the stratum into account. Information about the status can be communicated between nodes.
US09386540B2
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.
US09386537B2
The present invention is a device which, when a second wireless system shares the use of a frequency which is allocated to a first wireless system, estimates receiving power when a second wireless signal which is transmitted from a transmission station of the second wireless system is received at a receiving station of the first wireless system. The receiving power estimation device comprises a correction means for correcting a receiving power estimate value of the second wireless signal at the first wireless system receiving station which is computed using an estimate value of path loss from the second wireless system transmission station to the first wireless system receiving station, said correction using a receiving power measurement value of the second wireless signal which is measured in a transmission station periphery sensor station which is a sensor station which is located in the periphery of the second wireless system transmission station.
US09386531B2
A base station configured for outer loop power control receives an uplink dedicated channel transmission from a wireless transmit/receive unit. The base station transmits transmit power control commands in response to the received uplink channel transmission and determines if the wireless transmit/receive unit is in a discontinuous transmission mode. The base station adjusts a target SIR based on which transmission mode for the wireless transmit/receive unit is detected. The value for the transmit power control command is derived from the adjusted target SIR.
US09386522B2
Systems and methods for processing, transmitting and displaying data received from an analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor, are provided. The data can be displayed on a hand-held display device having a display such as a key fob device including a user interface, such as an LCD and one or more buttons that allows a user to view data, and a physical connector, such as USB port.
US09386519B1
An access point including a first processor and a network device. The network device is separate from the first processor. The first processor transitions between first and second power modes. The network device includes a second processor and first and second interfaces. The second processor, while the first processor is in the second power mode, (i) causes the second interface to transmit a beacon, or (ii) receives a probe request from a client device. The second interface, while the first processor is in the second power mode, (i) transmits a probe response over a wireless local area network to the client device based on the beacon or the probe request, and (ii) receives an authentication frame from the client device based on the probe response. The second processor, in response to the authentication frame, signals the first processor via the first interface to transition to the first power mode.
US09386517B2
The present invention discloses an energy efficient network communication device comprising: a media-access-controller for outputting a transmission-end low power idle (LPI) indication and receiving a reception-end LPI indication; a media-independent-interface for generating a transmission-end LPI signal according to the transmission-end LPI indication, and generating the reception-end LPI indication according to a reception-end LPI signal; and a physical-layer-circuit, coupled to several pairs of transmission lines, for converting the transmission-end LPI signal into a transmission signal to send it to a reception end for requesting an LPI mode and receiving a reception signal from the reception end to convert it into the reception-end LPI signal. Said physical-layer-circuit uses some of the several pairs of transmission lines for transmission and reception when keeping the other pairs of transmission lines unused to save power; furthermore, the physical-layer-circuit can enter the LPI mode from an idle mode for additional power saving.
US09386516B2
A length of a time period corresponding to reserving a communication channel is determined, where the length of the time period exceeds the length of a beacon frame. A beacon frame is generated, the beacon frame having a duration field. The duration field is set to a value corresponding to the length of the time period in order to reserve the communication channel for the time period, the length of the time period exceeding the length of the beacon frame. The beacon frame is then transmitted.
US09386512B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques for performing neighbor awareness network (NAN) discovery operations to discover a NAN cluster comprising one or more devices synchronized to a discovery window. In some embodiments, the NAN discovery operation may include communicating a cluster discovery message to join the NAN cluster, waiting a first time period for a response to the cluster discovery message, and joining the NAN cluster based on information in the response to synchronize to the discovery window when the response is received within the first time period. Various embodiments may also include disabling, by the processing circuitry, one or more operations to perform the NAN discovery operations if the response is not received within the first time period.
US09386511B2
A wireless communication system is disclosed. More particularly, access network selection scheme in visited network in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A method for selecting a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) access network by a user equipment (UE) in a visited network may comprise: determining, by the UE, if a selected WLAN access network in the visited network is available; updating, by the UE, a WLAN selection policy with a list of excluded WLAN access network, if the selected WLAN access network in the visited network is not available; and re-determining, by the UE, if there is an available WLAN access network in the visited network based on the updated WLAN selection policy.
US09386502B2
A method for routing in a multihop network comprises, for at least one multihop network node: a/ obtaining a value of an electromagnetic field near said node; b/ predetermining a ratio between said obtained value and a predefined electromagnetic field threshold value; c/ using the predetermined ratio to optionally select said node as a routing node for at least one message in the multihop network.
US09386490B2
A first base station transmits, to a second base station and after making a handover decision for a wireless device, a first message. The first message comprises at least one parameter indicating the wireless device supports configuration of a plurality of cell groups. The first base station receives from the second base station a second message comprising first configuration parameters of a plurality of cells grouped into a first plurality of cell groups comprising a first cell group and a second cell group. The first base station transmits, to the wireless device, a third message comprising the first configuration parameters.
US09386487B2
In embodiments, an evolved Node B (eNB) of a wireless communication network may configure an enhanced physical downlink control channel (EPDCCH) physical resource block (PRB) set for a user equipment (UE). The EPDCCH-PRB set may include a plurality of PRB-pairs. The EPDCCH-PRB set may further include a plurality of enhanced resource element groups (EREGs) organized into localized enhanced control channel elements (ECCEs) having EREGs of the same PRB-pair and distributed ECCEs having EREGs of different PRB-pairs. In some embodiments, the eNB may determine a set of distributed EPDCCH candidates for the UE from the EPDCCH-PRB set, wherein the individual distributed EPDCCH candidates include one or more of the distributed ECCEs, and wherein the set of distributed EPDCCH candidates includes at least one EREG from each of the plurality of localized ECCEs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09386479B2
Apparatuses and methods that provide for implementing a body area network are disclosed. An example of a method described herein includes determining a plurality of paths from a source node to a destination node in a set of nodes; determining, for each path in the plurality of paths, a Path Figure of Merit (PFM); associating two or more paths in the plurality of paths with a connection based on a total PFM threshold for the connection; and communicating from the source node to the destination node using at least two of the paths associated with the connection. Apparatuses for implementing the methods are also disclosed herein.
US09386477B2
A method in which a user equipment processes data in a wireless mobile communication system is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a first data block from an upper layer, transferring a second data block including the first data block to a lower layer at a particular protocol layer, discarding the first and second data blocks present in the particular protocol layer if a certain period of time has passed, and transferring information associated with the discard of the second data block to the lower layer.
US09386473B2
Methods and apparatus for feeding back channel quality indication in a communication system. First, a first channel quality indication index is determined in dependence upon a channel quality estimation of a first transmission channel, and a second channel quality indication index is determined in dependence upon a channel quality estimation of a second transmission channel. A differential channel quality indication index of the second channel quality indication index is determined with reference to the first channel quality indication index in dependence upon a differential compression scheme. Then, the first channel quality indication index and the differential channel quality indication index are reported.
US09386471B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are presented for requesting parallel uplink wireless signal measurements (UL measurements), in which a measurement management apparatus determines information on UL measurements being performed or to be performed by a signal measuring apparatus over a predetermined measurement period. The measurement management apparatus further determines a capability of the signal measuring apparatus to perform parallel measurements. The measurement management apparatus determines an adjustment to a measurement configuration for the measuring apparatus. The measurement configuration relates to, for example, a number of parallel measurements to perform. The adjustment is based on a comparison of UL measurements being performed or to be performed by the measuring apparatus over a predetermined measurement period and the capability of the measuring apparatus to perform parallel measurements.
US09386470B2
Power headroom reporting and report handling are discussed in the context of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), on which a user equipment (UE) has no valid uplink grant, and a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) on which a UE has no transmission. Under these circumstances, it is not possible to directly calculate one or more parameters which are used to calculate power headroom. Accordingly, exemplary embodiments provide for predetermined, known values to be used by the UE to calculate the power headroom, and by the eNodeB to understand the meaning of a received power headroom report.
US09386468B2
There is provided a mobile communication test apparatus for performing an operation test of a mobile communication apparatus which performs wireless communication by bundling a plurality of frequency blocks. The apparatus includes: a logical channel distribution section 30 that performs a distribution process on logical channel data to be transmitted to a mobile communication apparatus, on a logical channel number basis, in accordance with preset distribution information; a plurality of communication processing sections 40 and 50, each of which is provided to correspond to each of the plurality of frequency blocks and receives the logical channel data which is distributed; and a data exchange section 60 that transmits the logical channel data from each communication processing section 40 or 50 to the communication processing section 40 or 50 to function as a transmission source of the corresponding data for the mobile communication apparatus.
US09386466B2
There is provided a method of operating a mobile device in a heterogeneous communications network, the heterogeneous communications network comprising first and second base stations, the first base station having a lower transmission power than the second base station and being within the coverage area of the second base station, the method comprising obtaining measurements of the quality of signals transmitted between the first base station and the mobile device and/or the second base station and the mobile device; and analyzing the measurements of the quality to determine whether the mobile device is located in an imbalanced region or part of an imbalanced region between the first and second base stations.
US09386464B2
A mobile device operable to perform automatic neighbor relation functions in a wireless telecommunications network, a radio network controller, methods and a computer program product are disclosed. The mobile device is operable to perform automatic neighbor relation functions in a wireless telecommunications network in which neighbor relations derived by the mobile device are provided to a network node of the wireless telecommunications network and comprises: measurement logic operable, in an automatic neighbor relation mode, to measure characteristics of a neighboring cell; and determination logic operable to determine, from the characteristics and from an indication of previously provided neighbor relations, whether a neighbor relation based on the characteristics has been provided previously to the network node and, if not, to generate a new neighbor relation to be provided to the network node. Hence, only neighbor relations which are not indicated as having been provided previously need be generated.
US09386461B2
A location aware, self-locating access point can provide a wireless link through a wireless network to a wireless device. If the wireless link bandwidth is less than a target bandwidth for the wireless device, then the location aware, self-locating access point can move itself to a new operating location that provides an increased wireless link bandwidth. If a second wireless device is added to the wireless network, then the new operating location is selected to provide an increased link bandwidth for both wireless devices. In one embodiment, the wireless devices in the wireless network can be prioritized so that the new operating location increases the wireless link bandwidth for the wireless device with a higher priority.
US09386457B2
A mobile communication system having a plurality of predefined cells that are mutually adjacent, comprises a spare cell that covers a boundary region of the plurality of predefined cells. The plurality of predefined cells use a predetermined frequency band and a first radio frame. The spare cell uses a second radio frame having a configuration different from the first radio frame so as to share the predetermined frequency band with the plurality of predefined cells through a time division.
US09386453B2
A method for operating an electronic device includes transmitting a first message including a first partial security key being a portion of a first security key to a first network; outputting a sound into which a second partial security key being a remaining portion of the first security key is loaded, after transmitting the first message; receiving a second message including a second security key from a second network; and establishing a link for connecting the electronic device and an external device through the second network if the second security key corresponds to the first security key.
US09386446B1
A system and method that utilizes social scorn, enhanced law enforcement and/or the providing of contemporaneous status of a driver's wireless device to parents, employers or insurance companies to dissuade drivers from using the wireless device while driving. The system and method provide for detecting the presence of an enabled wireless device with a moving vehicle, displaying and/or recording the status of the wireless device for the purpose of dissuading and/or inhibiting operation of the communication mode of the wireless device during vehicle operation.
US09386442B2
A method and apparatus for performing a membership verification or an access control in a wireless communication system is provided. A mobility management entity (MME) performs the membership verification or the access control of a user equipment (UE), and transmits verified UE membership information to a target HeNB.
US09386439B2
A communication device for performing device-to-device (D2D) wireless communications with a first neighboring communication device is provided. The D2D communication device includes a wireless module, a counter, and a controller module. The wireless module performs wireless transmissions and receptions. The counter has a count value and a threshold value. The controller module determines whether to broadcast proximity signal via the wireless module according to a comparison result of the count value and the threshold value, wherein the controller module determines to broadcast a first proximity signal to the first neighboring communication device via the wireless module when the count value reaches the threshold value, wherein the count value of the counter is changed according to a second proximity signal broadcasted by the first neighboring communication device.
US09386435B2
An information transmission method is provided to improve efficiency of data transmission between a cell phone and a computer. The method includes: acquiring a first operation; moving, in response to the first operation, a first object of at least one object displayed in a display module from the display module to a touch control module; acquiring current first time parameter when it is detected that the first object reaches a first edge of the display module; uploading the first time parameter to a server, so that the server determines, according to the first time parameter and second time parameter uploaded by a second device, whether to allow a first device to transmit the first object to the second device; and transmitting the first object to the second device according to a first operational instruction sent from the server.
US09386421B2
Collection and analysis of network transaction information which includes the mobile device's usage, location, movements coupled with data from non-wireless network sources allow for the automation of analysis for the detection of smuggling or other criminal behaviors and tasking of high-accuracy location surveillance.
US09386418B2
A method and apparatus are configured to recognize mobile terminals positioned within a coverage area for short range communication with a user-specific device, wherein each mobile terminal comprises identification information for the user-specific device. The method and the apparatus provide a customized service corresponding to at least one of the mobile terminals.
US09386410B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a position information acquiring unit configured to acquire first position information of an object, a provisional position and direction information acquiring unit configured to acquire provisional position information and provisional direction information based on a movement of the object with reference to the first position information, when second position information of the object is acquired, and a direction correcting unit configured to calculate a direction correction amount for correcting the provisional direction information, according to a distance between the first position information and the second position information, on the basis of the first position information, the second position information, and the provisional position information.
US09386406B2
Techniques for querying for information on location sessions in a user plane location architecture are described. In an aspect, a location server may send a query message to a terminal to query for information on active location sessions, e.g., when at least one location session for periodic triggered service or area event triggered service is deemed to be active. The terminal may return a response message containing a list of session identifiers (IDs) for the active location sessions, parameters for the active location sessions, capabilities of the terminal, etc. The location server may compare the information received from the terminal and information stored at the location server. The location server may terminate each location session deemed to be active at only the terminal or only the location server. The location server may restart or terminate each location session having inconsistent parameters at the terminal and the location server.
US09386399B2
Provided is a communication system including a base station, a communication apparatus, and a gateway apparatus including a first communication unit that communicates with the base station in a first communication method, a second communication unit that communicates with the communication apparatus in a second communication method, an identification information holding unit that holds a correspondence between first identification information in the first communication method and second identification information in the second communication method of the communication apparatus, and a category information holding unit to share category information showing a characteristic of the communication apparatus with the communication apparatus. The first communication unit performs communication of the communication apparatus in accordance with the category information with the base station by using the first identification information of the communication apparatus.
US09386396B2
A communications system is to communicate with an application server storing a plurality of applications. The communications system includes a mobile wireless communications device configured to store at least one application from among the plurality of applications, the at least one application having stored version information associated therewith. An intermediate server is configured to update the mobile wireless communications device by at least obtaining respective current version information for associated current versions of the plurality of applications and obtaining the stored application version information from the mobile wireless communications device for the at least one stored application. The stored application version information is compared with the current version information for the at least one stored application. New application portions are downloaded from a current application associated with the current version information, and the new application portions are sent to the mobile wireless communications device.
US09386393B2
A system for automatically activating a function of a mobile device with a remote device is described. The system includes a first device having an illumination component for generating illumination having a signature. A second mobile device includes a display and a light sensor. A function of the second mobile device is activated in response to the light sensor receiving the illumination having the signature.
US09386392B2
An intermediary wireless device that wirelessly communicates media content. The intermediary wireless device includes a first wireless I/O interface configured to communicate with a media content source device using a first wireless protocol, a second wireless I/O interface configured to communicate with at least one media presentation device using a second wireless protocol, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is coupled to the first wireless I/O interface and to the second wireless I/O interface and configured to receive media data from the first wireless I/O interface, modify control information associated with the media data, and provide the media data with the modified control information to the at least one media presentation device through the second wireless I/O interface. A wireless media presentation device is also provided.
US09386388B2
A method of manufacturing a stacked thin film piezoelectric filter includes the steps of forming a lower thin film piezoelectric resonator on a substrate, measuring and adjusting a frequency of the lower thin film piezoelectric resonator, forming an acoustic coupling layer on the lower thin film piezoelectric resonator where the frequency of the lower thin film piezoelectric resonator has been adjusted, forming an upper thin film piezoelectric resonator on the acoustic coupling layer, and measuring and adjusting a frequency of the stacked thin film piezoelectric filter.
US09386384B2
The present subject matter provides method and apparatus for hearing assistance devices, and more particularly to hearing assistance devices using ferroelectret (also referred to as piezoelectret) polymer foam. Various embodiments include ferroelectret polymer foam on or in the hearing instrument as a microphone. Various embodiments include ferroelectret polymer foam on or in the hearing instrument as a momentary switch sensor.
US09386375B2
A miniature speaker is disclosed. The miniature speaker includes a frame, a magnetic circuit unit positioned by the frame and forming a magnetic gap, and a vibration unit. The vibration unit includes a vibration plate having a diaphragm including a central portion, a periphery suspending the diaphragm, a suspension surrounding the central portion with an edge connecting to the periphery, a stiffener located on the central portion, a border located on the central portion and surrounding the stiffener, and a voice coil including an inner side and an outer side opposed to the inner side. The border and the stiffener cooperatively form an interval therebetween. The stiffener controls the high frequency vibrations, and the border controls the low frequency vibrations.
US09386366B2
A sound generator system (1, 70), for a vehicle with internal combustion engine (15) and/or electric motor, has an electroacoustical transducer (11) and a control unit (24, 74). Transducer (11) produces an acoustical signal based on an electrical input signal and is connected to an acoustic line. The control unit (24, 74) creates a primary audio signal with frequencies from a given frequency range, to selectively amplify selected segments (“V”) of the primary audio signal so that the audio signal (41) amplified in the selected segments has a section in which all audio signal values correspond to a maximum amplitude value that is specified for the segment, and the audio signal (41) amplified in the selected segments is continuous at transitions from the at least one section to neighboring sections, and wherein the audio signal (41) generated by the control unit (24) forms the basis of the electrical input signal.
US09386364B2
This waterproof microphone device includes a plurality of microphones, a housing, and a plurality of air-impermeable cover members. The plurality of microphones pick up sound wave and output an audio signal. The housing individually houses the plurality of microphones. The housing includes a plurality of holes. The hole guides sound wave to the microphone. The plurality of air-impermeable cover members are mounted on the housing. The air-impermeable cover member seals off the hole.
US09386362B2
Certain embodiments may take the form of an electronic device having a main housing encapsulating operative circuitry for the device. The electronic device includes an attachment member moveably coupled to the metal housing. The attachment member has an acoustical device located therein that is communicatively coupled to the operative circuitry in the main housing. The attachment member includes a recessed portion for positioning the acoustical device within the attachment member.
US09386346B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for determining a tag based on an interaction of a mobile device with a media processor. The tag is associated with a number of options of video content received at the media processor. A request is determined from the media processor for the number of options of video content associated with the tag. A transfer of the plurality of options of video content is initiated from a video source to the media processor. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09386339B2
A system for enabling the tagging of items appearing in a moving or paused image includes the use of an identification device on or within said item to be tagged. The method includes capturing moving image footage containing the image of said item to be tagged, detecting the presence and the position of the identification means within each frame of the moving image footage and hence determining the position of the item to be tagged in each frame of the moving image. By automatically determining the position of the identification device, a suitable tag can then be automatically associated with the item which has the identification device provided thereon or therein when saving or transmitting the moving image.
US09386338B2
A selection of a television program through a set-top box (STB) may be detected, and a counter value associated with the program may be incremented after the STB presents the program for a certain amount of time. The incremented counter value may be evaluated to determine whether the incremented counter value satisfies a threshold. When the incremented counter value satisfies the threshold, another broadcast associated with the program, such as another episode in a related series, may be identified. The identified broadcast is presented on a particular channel at a particular time, and the STB may automatically tune to the particular channel at the particular time to cause the STB to provide the broadcast without receiving an input from the user.
US09386335B2
A display system mounted within a vehicle is provided, where the system monitors the user's position within the vehicle's seat and automatically adjusts the location of the display to compensate for variations in the size or seating position of the user, thereby helping to alleviate the eye strain, fatigue, neck and back pain that often accompany the improper use of a monitor for an extended period of time.
US09386334B2
A method and system for remote control at a client of a multimedia content distribution network (MCDN) enables a user to configure a wireless user device as a remote control device (RCD). The RCD may communicate via a wireless network and an MCDN server to execute remote control commands at the MCDN client. The RCD may implement a remote control interface, including control elements configured for touch operation. The control elements may provide specific interactive functionality for channel selection, volume selection, playback of multimedia content, and other remote control features. The RCD may also receive feedback and status information associated with remote control commands.
US09386324B2
The present disclosure relates to a video encoding/decoding apparatus and method using a multi-dimensional integer transform. The video encoding method of the present disclosure includes: decomposing subblocks in units of a rectangular block and successively encoding rectangular block units to output a rectangularly encoded bitstream of each subblock; encoding the subblocks in units of a square block to output a squarely encoded bitstream of each subblock; calculating an encoding cost involving at least one rectangularly encoded bitstream; calculating an encoding cost not involving the rectangularly encoded bitstream; and on the basis of the calculations, using one or more of the squarely encoded bitstream and the rectangularly encoded bitstream to generate and output the bitstream of the macroblock. According to the disclosure, since the coding scheme for encoding or decoding a video with a higher efficiency is selectively determined, the prediction accuracy can increase and thereby improve the video encoding efficiency.
US09386321B2
Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation.
US09386319B2
Methods and systems for processing graphical data received at a computing system from a remote source are described. One method includes decoding received graphical content, the received graphical content including an image being compressed using a plurality of codecs, wherein decoding the received graphical content includes creating a decoded image. The method also includes, based on quality of the received graphical content, selecting from among a plurality of filters to apply to the decoded image. The method further includes applying a plurality of filters to at least a portion of the decoded image.
US09386317B2
A cost function for use in an encoding mode decision for encoding a section of a digital picture is determined using a non-default relationship between Lagrange multiplier (λ) values and quantization parameter (QP) values to determine the cost function when a number of bits per section (NBS) of the digital picture is in a predetermined range and determined using a default relationship between the λ values and the QP values to determine the cost function otherwise. The determined cost function is used to make the section encoding mode decision and the section is encoded according to the encoding mode decision. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09386304B2
A video decoding method including: receiving an encoded block of data; decoding the encoded block of data to generate decoded data; and performing a sample adaptive offset on a whole or part of the decoded data, wherein a pixel B to be modified as part of the sample adaptive offset is adjacent to pixels A and C, and the pixel B is modified as part of the sample adaptive offset if (B≦A and B≦C) or (B≧A and B≧C).
US09386293B2
A method for generating a digital stereoscopic video stream (101) includes container frames (C), having information about a right image (R) and a left image (L), wherein, when coding the digital stereoscopic video stream (101), at least one metadatum (M) is entered which is adapted to identify a region of a container frame (C) containing only one of the two images (L,R).
US09386290B2
A playback device for retrieving a data stream having video data includes a java processor for processing a Java application; and a memory operably coupled to the java processor. The Java processor includes an input for receiving an event information associated with playback of a video section of the data stream. The event information is received from a playlist for the data stream and activates functionality provided by the Java application, the functionality being activated concurrently with the playback of the associated video section. The playlist includes a mark for controlling playback of the video section, the mark includes a presentation time. The event information is information indicating that the playback device has reached the mark presentation time during playback.
US09386281B2
Image surveillance and reporting technology, in which an event that is indicative of potential physical activity within an area corresponding to a location of a camera unit is detected. In response to detection of the event, the camera unit is controlled to capture one or more images of the area corresponding to the location of the camera unit. The one or more images captured by the camera unit are analyzed to determine whether the one or more images include image data that is indicative of relevant physical activity within the area corresponding to the location of the camera unit. The one or more images are handled based on the determination of whether the one or more images include image data that is indicative of relevant physical activity within the area corresponding to the location of the camera unit.
US09386276B2
A videoconferencing system for determining alignment information for images captured by two or more cameras is disclosed. The videoconferencing system can include a plurality of endpoints and at least one control unit (CU) such as a multipoint control unit (MCU), for example. An endpoint can include a plurality of cameras and at least one projector. The projector is used to project a pattern at the near end site, which pattern is captured by the plurality of cameras. The image frames produced by the cameras are processed to determine the identity and location coordinates of the images of the projected patterns. The location coordinates can be used as reference points to be used by applications such as telepresence, 3D videoconferencing, and morphing.
US09386275B2
Technology for operating a video conferencing application at a local user equipment (UE) that supports an interactive zooming feature is disclosed. A local UE can define a region of interest (ROI) within a field of view at a remote UE. The local UE can communicate the ROI to the remote UE via a real-time transport control protocol (RTCP) feedback message, wherein the RTCP feedback message directs the remote UE to capture video within the ROI and encode the video within the ROI. The local UE can receive the encoded video within the ROI from the remote UE, the encoded video including regions within the ROI and excluding regions outside the ROI. The local UE can receive actual transmitted ROI corresponding to the encoded video from the remote UE via an RTP header extension. The encoded video within the ROI can be rendered for display at the local UE.
US09386261B2
Medical video clips are accepted, customized, and a video or image is created from the video clip. In one embodiment, the video clip is a prenatal ultrasound and the customization includes specifying biographical information for the baby and selecting border and audio. In another embodiment, video clips or images are from medical devices including CAT scans, MRIs, X-Ray systems, ultrasounds or standard digital video or still image capture devices used for procedural documentation purposes. The customization includes annotating the video clips in order to share and collaborate. Video editing and sharing is typically done via an Internet appliance.
US09386258B2
Provided are a mounting member which may be fixed to a substrate with a simple structure without using a solder, and easily mount the substrate to another member having a simple structure, while maintaining stable fixation to the substrate, a display device including the mounting member, and a television receiver including the display device. The mounting member includes a first abutting plate part formed in a square flat shape, a side abutting plate part connected to the first abutting plate part at a right angle, and a second abutting plate part connected to the side abutting plate part at a right angle. The mounting member is mounted so as to pinch a portion of an edge part of the substrate. The other member abuts the first abutting plate part, and a screw is inserted into a screw insertion hole of the other member, the screw insertion hole of the first abutting plate part, and the screw insertion hole of the substrate, and screwed to a female thread such that the substrate is mounted to the other member.
US09386257B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of controlling wireless transmission of video streams. For example, an apparatus may include a controller to control one or more windows to be displayed by a display device, the one or more windows to display video of one or more wireless video streams of a plurality of wireless video streams transmitted by a plurality of video sources, the controller is to request at least one video source of the plurality of video sources to set one or more attributes of a video stream transmitted by the video source based on at least one predefined criterion.
US09386254B2
A broadcast apparatus is provided. The broadcast apparatus is signally connected to an input apparatus, which generates a plurality of corresponding control signals according to a plurality of operations. A broadcast method is also provided. The broadcast method includes: receiving one of the control signals; determining identification information and a set of broadcast parameters when the one of the control signals matches a tag; and broadcasting according to the set of broadcast parameters.
US09386249B2
An image pickup apparatus includes: first and second photoelectric conversion units that are disposed in a semiconductor substrate, are configured to accumulate charges, and are of a first conductivity type; an electrode that is disposed on a region between the first and second photoelectric conversion units and is configured to control an electrical conduction between the first and second photoelectric conversion units; a first semiconductor region that is formed under the electrode and between the first and second photoelectric conversion units, is continuous from the first photoelectric conversion unit to the second photoelectric conversion unit, and is of the first conductivity type; and a second semiconductor region that is formed under the electrode and between the first and second photoelectric conversion units, is provided at a depth different from that of the first semiconductor region, and is of a second conductivity type.
US09386245B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a pixel array and a pixel value correcting unit. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels each having one of a different exposure time and a different exposure sensitivity and being disposed according to a predetermined rule. The pixel value correcting unit is configured to correct, among pixel values obtained from the plurality of pixels in the pixel array, a pixel value of a pixel of the plurality of pixels that applies to a preset condition, by using a pixel value of another pixel of the plurality of pixels.
US09386239B2
A thermal imaging system includes a mounting structure characterized by a first thermal conductivity and a focal plane array mounted to the mounting structure. The thermal imaging system also includes an optical system coupled to the mounting structure and a heating element coupled to the mounting structure. The thermal imaging system further includes a thermal isolator coupled to the mounting structure and characterized by a second thermal conductivity lower than the first thermal conductivity.
US09386238B2
In a thermal imaging camera (1), an infrared image data stream (5) of infrared images (4) is captured during a random movement of the thermal imaging camera (1), and the infrared images (4) are combined into a higher-resolution infrared image (9).
US09386237B2
An image processing device performs image processing on an image being captured to display the image on a display unit having a resolution lower than a resolution of the image. The image processing device includes an extraction section that extracts an edge component from the image, an edge enhancing section that enhances the edge component by performing low-pass filter processing on the edge component after performing full-wave rectification processing on the edge component, a combining section that combines the enhanced edge component with the image to generate a composite image, and a resolution conversion section that performs resolution conversion of the composite image to match a resolution of the composite image with the resolution of the display unit.
US09386236B2
The present invention relates to a method of obtaining multiple images with a spatially varying periodic fringe pattern produced by a digital light projector that is spatially and temporally synchronized to the rolling shutter exposure of a two-dimensional pixel array detector. Two or more images obtained with phase-shifted spatial fringe patterns are combined to form a composite image with the spatial fringes and other unwanted scattered light removed.
US09386232B2
An image processing apparatus which composes a plurality of images shot under different exposure conditions, comprises a detection unit which detects an exposure error according to a position on a screen using, out of the plurality of images shot under different exposure conditions, an image whose exposure amount is smaller than a predetermined value as a detection target image, a calculation unit which calculates correction information to correct the exposure error detected by the detection unit in accordance with the position on the screen, an adjustment unit which performs level adjustment according to the exposure amount of the detection target image in accordance with the correction information and position information on the screen, and an image composition unit which generates a composite image by composing the plurality of images including the image that has undergone the level adjustment.
US09386230B1
A method, executed at a camera with a Night mode and a Day mode, determines when to switch from Night mode to Day mode using one or more of: illuminant detection (detecting the type of illuminant providing ambient light based on R/G and B/G component ratios of the ambient light), lux detection (detecting the ambient light level), and tiling (performing illuminant detection and/or lux detection for sub-regions of an image sensor array so as to detect localized/narrow beam/point light sources that only illuminate a portion of a scene or are directed at the camera lens). Based on identification of the illuminant type, switching from Night mode to Day mode is done at different lux levels for different types of illuminants. E,g. when the light is due to sunlight or incandescent light switching to Day mode is done at higher lux than when the light is from other sources of visible light.
US09386229B2
An image processing system and a method for object-tracing are provided. The method includes: receiving a first wide field of view image and a first narrow field of view image, and determining a to-be-traced object therefrom and choosing one image therefrom for serving as a first output image; using an area size of the to-be-traced object in the first output image as a reference area; comparing the reference area with the area sizes of the to-be-traced object from a second wide field of view image and a second narrow field of view image respectively so as to determine one of that as a main image, and respectively zooming and deforming the main image and an area corresponding to the other image, and then fusing a zoomed and deformed second image as a second output image.
US09386224B2
An image capturing device includes a first controller operable to control image capturing; an operation section including a switch; a detector operable to detect a change to an image capturing mode and to send a signal representing the change; a second controller operable to monitor and process the sent signal, the second controller having a power consumption less than that of the first controller; and a power supply operable to supply power to the first controller, the second controller, and a functional section of the device. When the second controller receives the signal sent from the detecting section in a power saving state in which power is supplied from the power supply to the second controller, the power saving state is changed to a power supplying state capable of image capturing by supplying power from the power supply to portions of the device including the first controller.
US09386215B2
A device for measuring distances to multiple subjects includes an imaging optical system, a pupil orientation sensor having multiple pixels including photoelectric conversion elements arranged two-dimensionally, the pupil orientation sensor selectively receiving a light flux passed through any of the multiple regions, an image acquisition device configured to simultaneously acquire each of multiple images corresponding to the multiple regions from the pupil orientation sensor, a focusing control device configured to independently drive the physically-separated multiple lenses of the imaging optical system on the basis of the multiple images acquired by the image acquisition device to control the lenses to be focused on multiple subjects each having a different focusing distance, and a first calculation device configured to calculate each of the focusing distances to the multiple subjects respectively subjected to focusing control by the focusing control device.
US09386213B2
An image capture apparatus includes the image capture unit 16, the focus information acquisition unit 53, the frequency distribution calculation unit 54, and the photographing position determination unit 55. The focus information acquisition unit 53 calculates a subject focus position for each of a plurality of regions into which a photographed screen of a captured image captured by the image capture unit 16 is divided. The frequency distribution calculation unit 54 counts the number of regions that corresponds to each of the subject focus positions acquired by way of measuring. The photographing position determination unit 55 determines the focus position for photographing according to the number of regions that corresponds to each of the subject focus positions calculated by the focus information acquisition unit 53.
US09386209B2
Provided is a position estimation apparatus including: a position estimation unit configured to estimate a position of a moving object driven on an arbitrary lane according to an image frame captured by a stereo camera provided in the moving object; a posture information acquisition unit configured to obtain first posture information of the moving object from the estimated position and second posture information of the moving object at a point of time of the stereo camera capturing the image frame; a position correction unit configured to calculate: a probability distribution for a current position of the moving object by using the first posture information and the second posture information, and configured to correct a first probability of the probability distribution for the current position as a corrected position of the moving object; and a composite probability distribution based on a probability of a lane section of the arbitrary lane from a lane probability distribution chart and the corrected position output from the first position correction unit and configured to re-correct a second probability of the composite probability distribution as a final position of the moving object.
US09386207B2
It is possible to obtain the distance to an object with high precision, and it is also possible to obtain a high-quality image. Provided is an image-capturing apparatus including an image-capturing lens that focuses light from a subject; an aperture member disposed adjacent to the image-capturing lens; an image-capturing device that captures an image of the light focused by the image-capturing lens and passing through the aperture member; and a microlens array disposed between the image-capturing device and the image-capturing lens, with gaps therebetween in an optical-axis direction, wherein the aperture member includes at least one normal aperture portion having a substantially circular opening and at least two coded aperture portions having openings in a prescribed pattern.
US09386194B2
An apparatus comprises a receptacle configured to receive a mobile computing device that has an integrated image capture component. Further, the apparatus comprises a plurality of handles such that each handle is operably connected to the receptacle. Another apparatus comprises a receptacle configured to receive a mobile computing device that has an integrated image capture component. Further, the apparatus comprises a handle such that the handle is operably connected to the receptacle.
US09386191B2
A method of playing audio content to a viewer in synchronisation with a video content. The method comprises receiving and digitising an ultrasonic signal comprising ultrasonic synchronisation signal(s) encoding a respective timecode through modulation of ultrasonic carrier signal(s), a first ultrasonic carrier signal having been amplitude modulated to encode logical “1” or “0” in data-carrying segments, each data-carrying segments being followed by non-data-carrying segments in which the amplitude of the ultrasonic carrier signal does not exceed a predetermined threshold. A digitised ultrasonic synchronisation signal is processed to identify the data-carrying segments, and the corresponding timecode is extracted from the data-carrying segments. A stored audio content is played back from a playback point determined based on the timecode.
US09386182B2
A document reading apparatus includes a sensor configured to receive light from a document, an imaging lens configured to form an image of light from the document on the sensor, a first holding member to which the imaging lens is fixed, and a second holding member to which the sensor is fixed, wherein the first holding member and the second holding member are fixed using an adhesive and solder.
US09386176B2
A cutting apparatus includes a housing formed with an insertion hole, a transfer unit configured to transfer an object inserted through the insertion hole, a reading unit configured to read an image of the object, a platen located opposite the reading unit, and a cutting unit. The reading unit includes a light-transmitting plate. The housing encloses the reading unit, the transfer unit, the platen and the cutting unit. The platen includes a part openable and closable so that a surface of the light-transmitting plate is externally exposed. The platen includes a first platen having a flat surface and a second platen which has a flat surface and is opposed to the surface of the light-transmitting plate and is openable and closable. The second platen is engaged with the first platen so that the flat surface of the second platen is flush with the flat surface of the first platen.
US09386175B2
An image forming apparatus includes a switching operation unit switching a display mode of a setting screen between first and second display modes. A first display screen in a first display mode includes an icon display area displaying icons arranged in a predetermined direction and corresponding to function buttons for setting each function, and a first function button display area displaying some of the function buttons corresponding to some of the icons specified by a range specification unit. The function buttons are classified into groups according to their function attribute. A second display screen in the second display mode includes a group display instruction area provided with group specification buttons for receiving input of a group display instruction to display function buttons belonging to a specific group among the groups, and a second function button display area displaying the function buttons belonging to the specific group among the function buttons.
US09386166B2
A method and a device for starting limited-time licenses for a telecommunication system in a controlled manner in which the system comprises a number of IP terminals. The licenses acquired by the respective customer for the telecommunication system are downloaded from a central license server via a network such as the internet. A date and a time, and thus an activation time period, are configured via a browser dialog using the web-based management component which is connected to the network (e.g. the Internet) for the purpose of an activation the first time the telecommunication system is started, whereby the maximally allowed use time for using the licenses at no charge is set. After the maximally allowed use time expires, the use of those licenses for which no right of use has been acquired is prohibited
US09386159B1
Methods and systems for routing multimedia traffic are described. A method may include receiving a communication originating from a user, transposing an alias transport network over one or more existing networks to route the communication, and routing the communication based on mapping rules.
US09386153B1
Various embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and computer program products for determining a pattern for communications conducted between agents at a contact center and contact parties. In particular embodiments, the pattern is based on a utilization of one or more information resources by the agents during the communications. Depending on the embodiment, the communications may comprise one or more of telephone calls, text messages, emails, and Web chats. In addition, in various embodiments, a particular information resource from among the one or more information resources is identified based on the pattern and is associated with a keyphrase found in at least two of the communications. Accordingly, as a result of the association, the particular information resource is made available to at least one agent at the contact center during a time the agent is fielding a subsequent communication in which the keyphrase is detected.
US09386150B2
A system and method for positioning targeted sponsored content on a mobile communication facility, comprising (a) receiving data corresponding to a transaction event having occurred via the interaction of a user with the mobile communication facility, wherein the transaction event includes transmission of data representative of a first product or service being purchased by the user and a location; (b) receiving data corresponding to offline inventory within the location, wherein the offline inventory corresponds to a second product or service; (c) selecting advertising content based at least upon a relevance between (i) an advertisement for the second product or service and (ii) the purchased first product or service in the transaction event, wherein the relevance is further based on information relating to compatibility of the advertising content with the mobile communication facility; and (d) presenting the selected advertising content on a display of the mobile communication facility.
US09386149B2
Techniques, systems, apparatuses and methods to better interdict or screen calls without disturbing the callee. The phone user can implement a warning for unwanted human, i.e., live person callers, and a challenge or barrier for unwanted automated or robocalling, particularly the usage of a required response to a question. The warning and particularly the challenge would weed out undesired solicitations. The present invention also makes allowance for desired human, robotic or automated calling in addition to the proscripted calls.
US09386148B2
A method for filtering a telephone call is provided. The method may comprise receiving from a caller the telephone call directed to a communication device associated with an intended call recipient. The received telephone call may be scored based on predetermined scoring criteria to create a score indicative of a desirability of the telephone call. Furthermore, the method may comprise comparing the score to a predetermined threshold score. Based on the comparison, the method may further comprise selectively classifying the telephone call as an unwanted telephone call. Furthermore, the method may comprise selectively rejecting the unwanted telephone call.
US09386138B2
Mobile terminal device, operation procedure communication system, and operation communication method
An operation procedure communication system includes an information processing device for communicating an operation procedure and an information processing device for receiving the operation procedure. The information processing device for communicating the operation procedure includes: an operation acquisition unit for identifying and storing an input applied to an own terminal device and various states of the own terminal device in a period from application of a first predetermined operation to application of a second predetermined operation; an operation conversion unit for converting operation log stored by the operation acquisition unit to a text and/or a file to be reproduced as depiction; and an operation procedure transmission unit for transmitting an operation explanation acquired by the conversion by the operation conversion unit via communications means. The information processing device for receiving the operation procedure includes an operation procedure presenting unit for presenting the operation explanation which is transmitted from the information processing device for communicating the operation procedure and acquired via the communications means to a user.
US09386132B2
A wireless communication device includes a base board, a display module, and a metal member. The display module is located on the base board. The metal member includes a frame and a metal body. The frame surrounds the display module. The metal body extends from the frame, and is spaced from the display module to reduce electromagnetic interference between the at least one metal body and the display module.
US09386129B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for improving transmission efficiency of a wireless link. During operation, the system receives a packet for transmission, where in the packet includes an original sequence number. The system then modifies the packet by including a virtual sequence number in a header of the packet and including the original sequence number in a payload of the modified packet. The system further aggregates a number of modified packets into an aggregate frame and transmits the aggregate frame to a destination device. The virtual sequence number facilitates stateless transmission of the encapsulated packets and allows the aggregate frame to have a maximum allowable number of packets while accommodating both re-transmitted packets and regular packets.
US09386128B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus stores data packets in a buffer. In addition, the apparatus determines a delay of at least one data packet of the data packets in the buffer. Furthermore, the apparatus controls a TCP data flow rate based on the determined delay. The apparatus may also store ACKs in a second buffer and drop an ACK of the stored ACKs when one of a number of stored ACKs is greater than a first threshold or a size of the stored ACKs is greater than a second threshold.
US09386117B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for accessing application data are described. A cookie comprising location data is received from a user device, the location data comprising a cache identifier and a database identifier, the cache identifier identifying a cache of a plurality of caches. A location of the cache of the plurality of caches based on the cache identifier is derived and application data is requested from the cache based on the derived location. In one example embodiment, a determination is made whether the requested application data is not stored in the cache corresponding to the cache identifier and the requested application data is requested from a database of a plurality of databases based on the determination, the database corresponding to the database identifier.
US09386114B2
Systems and methods for accessing an update server to receive one or more updates for data are provided. In some aspects, a system includes an auto-update module configured to determine whether to access the update server directly or by proxy. If the auto-update module determines to access the update server by proxy, the auto-update module is configured to: transmit a request to a proxy manager module for proxy server data that identifies one or more proxy servers; receive the proxy server data from the proxy manager module in response to the request; and access the update server based on the proxy server data to receive one or more updates for the data. The auto-update module is subject to fewer restrictions in modifying the data than is the proxy manager module.
US09386112B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for relaying a service, including: a client connector receiving a message from a client; a content storage storing bulletin board information; a controller inserting the message into the bulletin board information; an account information registerer storing account information on each user; and a service connector transmitting the message to one or more service apparatuses corresponding to the account information.
US09386111B2
Disclosed examples involve collecting a cookie at a client device based on media accessed via a web page at the client device, and selecting a portable device identifier at the client device. The portable device identifier corresponds to a closest one of a plurality of portable devices in wireless communication with the client device. The portable device identifier is associated with a particular person. In response to instructions embedded in the media, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request is sent to a server. The HTTP request includes the cookie, the portable device identifier, and information identifying exposure to the media.
US09386110B2
A computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a processor to cause the processor to perform a method including receiving input from a first communication device of a first user identifying a target sentiment associated with a second user, monitoring current online activity of the second user to determine a current sentiment for the second user, and initiating communication between the first communication device of the first user and a second communication device of the second user in response to the current sentiment of the second user meeting the target sentiment input by the first user.
US09386109B1
A method of improving a traffic pattern through web page nodes of a website is provided, including selecting web page nodes. The traffic pattern includes a sequence of nodes. Each node represents a first page having a link to a second page in a subsequent node. A visitor to a node prior to a conversion node either navigates to a subsequent node or fails to progress to a subsequent node. The method also includes, for each web page, identifying display elements on the web page node that are associated with a decreased probability that the user progresses through the traffic pattern to a subsequent web page node in the predetermined traffic pattern, determining a metric representing an impact on a conversion attributable to the display elements, ranking the plurality of web page nodes based on the metrics for each web page node.
US09386106B1
A computer-implemented method of community detection of a missing device is described. The method includes receiving a missing device report having identifying information of a missing device, sending a search command to an agent including the missing device report, and receiving a search report from the agent comprising whether or not the identifying information of the missing device is detected in a network to which the agent is connected. Also a method of community detection of a missing device through receiving a search command having identifying information of a missing device is described. The method includes monitoring network activity of a network for the identifying information of the missing device connected to the network, and sending a search report comprising whether or not the identifying information of the missing device is detected in the network.
US09386104B2
A device may receive, from a first device, a first message that includes a first random cookie and a session cookie. The device may provide the first message to a second device. The device may receive, from the second device, a second message that includes a response to the first message. The device may generate a second random cookie. The second random cookie may be different from the first random cookie. The device may provide, to the first device, the second random cookie, the session cookie, and the response.
US09386098B2
A mobile device management system is described for managing files that are locally generated or stored on the mobile device in a cloud environment. The mobile device is configured with a phone application module, a menu module, and a web browser module to conduct a backup operation of the files on the mobile device to a cloud through a network. The cloud comprises a web server, an authentication server, and a secure storage for authenticating the mobile user's access to the cloud, and provide a secure connection to backup the files from the mobile device to the secure storage of the cloud. The mobile device can also upload the files from the mobile device to secure storage of the cloud, which alleviates the burden of carrying a large amount of files on the file storage of the mobile device. In the upload operation, the mobile device deletes the files that have been uploaded to the cloud.
US09386096B2
Systems and methods for operating in connection with mobile devices are described. The mobile devices may move between online and offline areas. In some instances, a prediction may be made as to when a mobile device will enter an offline area. The prediction may be based on sensor information. Data or a key may be transferred to the mobile device prior to entering the offline area.
US09386095B2
A method in a cable modern (CM) to adjust its timing offset when waking up prior to the termination of its sleep cycle is provided. The method includes the step of receiving a service identifier (SID) for a multicast maintenance region, receiving a message from a cable modem termination system (CMTS) to enter a sleep cycle, waking up from the sleep cycle before the end of the sleep cycle in response to an event, and sending a message to the cable modem termination system (CMTS) to adjust the CM's timing offset during the multicast maintenance region.
US09386092B1
A method for reducing data usage for wireless subscription plans. An email and an attachment are downloaded to a first device of a first recipient. An attachment is identified on the email by an attachment processing service that ensures that sharing from the first device is based on a credit policy. That there is more than one recipient for the email and attachment is determined. That a second device of a second recipient is in the vicinity of the first device is determined. Verification of the second device is established with an email fingerprint exchange handshake based on a fingerprint of the email for the second recipient that is computed from a hash of content of the email, an identifier of the attachment, and an email id of the second recipient. A second network is utilized to copy the attachment from the first device to the second device.
US09386090B2
A device and a method in a device for receiving scalable content. The method includes receiving a first portion of content to be received with a desired content quality from a first source having a first version of the receivable content. A second portion of content to be received with a desired content quality is received from a second source having a second version of the receivable content, where a value for at least one quality factor of the second version of the receivable content is different than a value for the corresponding quality factor of the first version of the receivable content. At least the first portion of content to be received and the second portion of content to be received is then combined, wherein at least one of the first version and the second version includes non-duplicative data.
US09386084B1
Systems and methods that allow transfer criteria to be defined based on one or more of several attributes, such as a particular user, site, or device, as well as whether individual images and/or image series are classified as thin slices, and applied to medical images in order to determine which images are downloaded, viewed, stored, and/or any number of other actions that might be performed with respect to particular images.
US09386082B2
An information processing apparatus configured to notify information on processing in a notification method different depending on whether the processing to be executed by a processing unit is one executed in response to a request from a web application accessed by the apparatus. The information processing apparatus registers identification information for the web application accessed by the apparatus, and determines whether a job to be executed by the apparatus is one requested by a web application corresponding to any of registered identification information. When it is determined that the job is one requested by a web application corresponding to any of the registered identification information, the progress of the job is displayed in detail. When it is determined that the job is not one requested by a web application corresponding to any of the registered identification information, the progress of the job is briefly displayed or is not displayed.
US09386074B2
Disclosed is a system for providing a cloud service. The system includes an integrated cloud providing unit which integrates contents information which is transmitted from at least one digital media server (DMS) which is connected to a first network, and provides contents to a terminal which is connected through a second network, based on the integrated contents information, and a connection management unit which manages connection of the terminal to the first network using identification information of the least one DMS.
US09386054B2
A system and method for coordinating the sharing of media among wireless devices is disclosed. An originating wireless communication device sends to at least one target wireless communication device media on a media channel and at least one command on how to use the media on a command channel. These send operations can be performed synchronously or asynchronously. Each target wireless communication device, upon receiving both signals, executes the command on the media.
US09386053B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for collaboration conferencing with multiple participants over a communications network, and more specifically for a conferencing routing service for managing and routing collaboration participants. In one embodiment, the conferencing routing server is configured to respond to a failure in a conference bridge to allow for repair to the network and/or account for split conferences that may occur due to the bridge failure. In one embodiment, the CCRS may account for moving a conference bridge into an offline state by removing the conference bridge from consideration for hosting a collaboration conference.
US09386036B2
A method for detecting and preventing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in a cloud computing environment including a plurality of clients connected to a server, the method includes collecting, by the server, file deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extracted from a file currently being executed by each of the clients and traffic information about network traffic caused by the file, from each client by using an agent that is installed in the client and that monitors the file currently being executed by the client. Further, the method includes analyzing, by the server, a risk level of a DDoS attack based on whether the file DNA of the file is malicious or unidentified and based on the traffic information. Furthermore, the method includes sending a command related to whether to block the file to the client according to the analyzed risk level.
US09386033B1
Users are authorized to access tagged metadata in a provider network. A revision control and binding mechanism may be applied to tagged metadata that is added or modified by the user. A recommendation pertaining to security and compliance for the computing resource may be determined based on an analysis of the computing resource, scoring criteria, and data pertaining to customer and system data.
US09386022B2
Systems and methods of virtual world interaction, operation, implementation, instantiation, creation, and other functions related to virtual worlds (note that where the term “virtual world” is used herein, it is to be understood as referring to virtual world systems, virtual environments reflecting real, simulated, fantasy, or other structures, and includes information systems that utilize interaction within a 3D environment). Various embodiments facilitate interoperation between and within virtual worlds, and may provide consistent structures for operating virtual worlds. The disclosed embodiments may further enable individuals to build new virtual worlds within a framework, and allow third party users to better interact with those worlds.
US09386019B1
In one embodiment, a system includes a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising one or more rules associated with access to a first server. The system further includes a processor configured to receive, a first request from a client to access a first server, the first request comprising first access information associated with a user of the client. The processor is further configured to determine, based on the one or more rules and the first access information, that the client may access the first server and retrieve second access information associated with the first server in response to determining that the client may access the first server. The processor is also configured to receive data from the first server using the retrieved second access information and the first request and send the data from the first server to the client using the one or more rules.
US09386017B2
An authentication device includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: when a registration request including authentication information to be used during authentication is received from a terminal device, generate registration information using the authentication information and key information and store the registration information in the memory, and when an authentication request including input information to be handled as the target of the authentication is received from the terminal device, generate a result of the authentication based on the input information, the registration information, and the key information, and transmit the result of the authentication to the terminal device.
US09386010B2
A request to establish a connection to a server application executed by a server device is received at a client-side authenticated-connection application programming interface (API) from a client application executed by a client device. The connection request is sent from the client device to a server-side authenticated-connection API executed by the server device. The connection request includes user identification information usable to authenticate a user of the client application with the server-side authenticated-connection API to access the server application. A connection establishment acknowledgement is received from the server-side authenticated-connection API. A handler that represents an established connection to the server application is returned to the client application as a connection establishment acknowledgement. The client application is configured to communicate with the server application using the handler over the established connection with the separate application-specific read/write API.
US09386004B2
The disclosure is related to confirming an identity of a first user of a first user device. An aspect includes receiving a request to confirm the identity of the first user, determining whether or not there is a relationship between the first user or the first user device and a second user of a second user device or the second user device based on a first list of user interactions associated with the first user device and a second list of user interactions associated with the second user device, and confirming the identity of the first user based on determining that there is a relationship between the first user or the first user device and the second user or the second user device.
US09385996B2
Data is stored on a computing device in an encrypted form using a control application. A data access application requests access to the data. It is determined whether the data access application has available a shared encryption key that is available to the control application. If a shared encryption key is available, the shared encryption key is used to encrypt a request for access to the data. If a shared encryption key is not available, a shared encryption key is negotiated with the control application, and the negotiated shared encryption key is used to encrypt the request for access to the data. The control application receives the encrypted request, decrypts the encrypted request using the shared encryption key, and makes the data stored on the computing device in encrypted form available to the data access application in response to the decrypted request.
US09385991B2
Disclosed are systems and methods to perform coordinated blocking of source addresses, such as an Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, across a plurality of network appliances (e.g., gateways). In one disclosed embodiment the method and system temporarily alter a configuration of one or more network appliances (based on user defined configuration parameters) to allow communication from a “blocked” IP address for a period of time. A network appliance can then “receive” an email and perform analysis and provide results of the analysis to a reputation service. Thereby, the temporarily allowed communication can be used to learn information about a threat which would not have been available if all communication from that IP address had actually been blocked at the network appliance.
US09385989B2
MAC addresses are flexibly and dynamically allocated across groups of devices that need MAC addresses. MAC address pools are defined for the groups by non-overlapping ranges of MAC addresses. The range of MAC addresses defined for any pool may be shrunk to support an expansion of the range of MAC addresses of another pool. The maximum number of universally-administered MAC addresses that can be defined for any MAC address pool is greater than 216, and the maximum number of locally-administered MAC addresses that can be defined for any MAC address pool is greater than 238.
US09385987B2
In one embodiment, a computer system determines a wireless transmit cost for each of one or more outgoing messages for a first user, and transmits to the first user's mobile device at least one of the one or more outgoing messages based on the mobile device's power state and respective wireless transmit costs of the one or more outgoing messages.
US09385979B1
A system and method for per-client, per-type customizations to posts in an activity stream comprises an extraction pipeline and a rendering pipeline. The extraction pipeline can include a library of embedded code, data type taxonomy and an embed converter. The data type taxonomy is coupled to an activity source to receive activity information, and to produce a first protocol buffer. The embed converter produces a type-specific protocol buffer from the first protocol buffer and embedded code based in part upon the type of activity and the type of client. The type-specific protocol buffer is provided to the client to process activity information or present activity information. The disclosure also includes a method for processing a post in an activity stream on a per-client, per-type basis.
US09385976B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for storing message data in a PubSub system. In certain examples, messages are received from a plurality of publishers for a plurality of distinct channels. The messages are ordered and stored in a plurality of buffers, with each channel having its own respective buffer. After a message has been written to a writable portion of the buffer for a channel, a pointer demarking a boundary between a readable portion of the buffer and the writeable portion of the buffer is advanced in an atomic operation. Following the atomic operation, the message resides in the readable portion and may be accessed by PubSub system components and/or processes. In general, one or more subscribers, components, or processes may read messages from the readable portion, in parallel.
US09385968B2
Methods and devices for connecting to multiple interfaces are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a client managing unit, a first data and a connection request transmitted from a first client device, wherein the connection request is used to request to connect to a first remote device; determining, by a remote device managing unit, an interface protocol of an interface controller of the first remote device according to the connection request, and transmitting the first data to an interface protocol processing unit corresponding to the interface protocol; and adding, by the interface protocol processing unit, a header corresponding to the interface controller of the first remote device to the first data and transmitting the first data adding the header to the first remote device through the interface controller.
US09385967B1
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for resource allocation in accordance with one embodiment of the present description, in which a resource allocation such as a buffer credit allocation for a port in a storage area network is initialized as a function of a measurement of a length of a communication link for the port of the storage area network. In one embodiment, the length measurement is a function of a minimum command response time of a command issued over the communication link. Other aspects of resource allocation in accordance with the present description are described.
US09385963B1
A system for allocating constrained resources (e.g., downstream services, execution threads, database connections, input/output channels, computational resources, and/or memory) to requested services that are dependent on those resources may include multiple resource queues, each of which maintains a queue of requests for a respective constrained resource, and multiple service request queues, from which requests may be subsequently serviced. As each request reaches the head of a resource queue, it may receive a resource token for a respective constrained resource. Once the request has collected resource tokens for each of the constrained resources on which it depends, the request may be passed to a service request queue that maintains a queue of requests of a particular type. Requests in the multiple service request queues may be serviced on a round-robin or weighted round-robin basis. The number of tokens available for each constrained resource may be modified based on observed system performance.
US09385959B2
Example embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for transmitting data packets between a protocol sender and a protocol receiver in a cloud environment, having either the protocol sender or the protocol receiver residing within a virtualized host. A protocol acceleration module may observe the data packets transmitted along the data path between the protocol sender and the protocol receiver using protocol stack configuration information of the protocol sender. The protocol acceleration module may override the protocol stack configuration information with policy-based protocol stack configuration information such that data packets transmitted from the protocol acceleration module to the protocol receiver use the policy-based protocol stack configuration information. For various embodiments, the protocol stack configuration information of the protocol sender is not modified.
US09385958B2
A method of estimating available capacity of a data transfer path that transfers data between a sending and a receiving data communication node of a data communication system is disclosed. The method includes: sending one or more setting packets wherein the one or more setting packets is/are used to set a traffic shaping node arranged in the data transfer path in a steady state; transmitting, from the traffic shaping node, probe packets received from the sending node, towards the receiving node at an average rate for the traffic shaping node; providing, in response to traversal of the data transfer path by the probe packets, and during the real-time operation of the data transfer path, measured data for use in estimating the available capacity of the data transfer path; and estimating the available capacity of the data transfer path using the measured data from the probe packets.
US09385941B2
A Provider Edge PE3 replicates a received packet and relays these to virtual circuits VC1, VC2 respectively, and Provider Edges PE2, PE2 respectively receive the packets from the virtual circuits VC1, VC2, whereupon the Provider Edges PE2, PE2, on the basis of an agreement between them, decide to handle the received packets such that one of the first edges relays the packet to a Customer Edge CE1 for forwarding to a Host A, while the other edge discards the packet without relaying it to the Customer Edge CE1.
US09385939B2
A method for configuring a network element of a software-defined network “SDN” includes retrieving (401), for different look-up tables, a look-up table specific resource consumption estimate indicating a load factor of at least one component of the network element when running operations related to the look-up table, determining (402), on the basis of the look-up table specific resource consumption estimates, a resource consumption estimate for at least one look-up system including one or more of the look-up tables and having functionality suitable for the network element, and sending (404) to the network element, if the network element is capable (403) of running the look-up system, configuration data defining the look-up system. The method provides a possibility to avoid configuring network elements to overload and, on the other hand, the resource consumption estimates related to different network elements can be used for optimizing the software-defined network as a whole.
US09385937B2
A system that includes a plurality of nodes to forward a data packet in a network, includes a controller to select at least a node dividing a data path of the data packet into a first path and a second path, from the nodes, based on a condition of the data path, and a node selected by the controller being capable of forwarding the packet to the first path and the second path according to an instruction from the controller. The second path includes a bypass path of the first path.
US09385930B2
In one example embodiment, a method to detect suboptimal boundary clocks is described for a node in a communications network. The method can include determining a benchmark value for a clock in a node; generating a plurality of time correction parameters associated with a plurality of time corrections for the clock; determining whether the plurality of time correction parameters meets a predetermined criteria based on the benchmark value; and generating an alert if the plurality of time correction parameters meets the predetermined criteria.
US09385929B2
Provided herein are systems, methods and devices for performing droop compensation. In particular, systems, methods and devices for performing droop compensation by modifying transmit and/or receive characteristics of a magnetic device based on changing conditions are described. For example, a plurality of operating parameters or characteristics can be measured, a droop compensation capability of a link partner can be determined and transmit and/or receive characteristics of the magnetic device can be modified based on the measured operating parameters or characteristics and the determined droop compensation capability.
US09385928B2
Systems and methods to control web scraping through a plurality of web servers using real time access statistics are described. For example, in one embodiment a web request is categorized based at least in part on a type of data access. The web request can be processed based on threshold determinations. The processing can include blocking, delaying, timely replying, or prioritizing a response to the web request.
US09385923B2
(1) A configuration management in a management server is carried out such that setting patterns regarding creation of plural types of virtual resources and setting patterns regarding connection between the plural types of virtual resources are extracted from setting information of network devices configuring a virtual network by using plural types of virtualization technologies, (2) an ID required for creating a virtual resource and a connection relation between virtual resources are extracted from the extracted setting pattern, (3) an element corresponding to a virtual resource or a connection between a pair of virtual resources is created by using information including the extracted ID, and (4) the elements created from setting information of individual devices are aggregated to thereby create logical topology information representing a topology of the virtual network.
US09385911B2
Systems and methods for communicating packets having a plurality of formats are described herein. In some aspects, a signal (SIG) field in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether an extension field, such as an extension SIG field or SIG-B field, is included in the packet. In another aspect, one or more detectors may be used to auto-detect packets formatted as one of at least two different formats based on a short training field (STF) of a received packet. In some aspects, along training field (LTF) in the preamble of a packet may indicate whether the payload is repetition coded.
US09385906B2
A method of transmitting signals by a transmitting end in a wireless communication system comprises sharing control information related to reference signal with a receiving end; generating one or more precoded reference signals considering a given rank; allocating the one or more precoded reference signals to have a specific pattern within a subframe, wherein the specific pattern is varied depending on the control information; and transmitting the subframe through multiple antennas to the receiving end.
US09385889B2
A sending device transmits a message to a receiving device. After receiving the message, the receiving device transmits a delivery confirmation to a third party notification service. The delivery confirmation includes an ID corresponding to the receiving device, an ID corresponding to the sending device, the time of transmission, the time of reception, the format of the message and/or a message ID. This delivery confirmation is subsequently stored by the notification service. The sending device then sends a delivery inquiry to the notification service. The delivery inquiry includes information that allows the notification service to identify a stored delivery confirmation. If a message corresponding to the delivery inquiry is identified, the notification service responds to the sending device affirming that the message was successfully delivered. The notification service may also respond with multiple delivery confirmations that meet the criteria of the delivery inquiry.
US09385888B2
A server, including a virtual machine identifier assigning section to assign an identifier of a virtual machine operating on the server; and a network interface to transmit a packet including a Layer 2 header information which includes the identifier of the virtual machine, wherein the network interface transmits the packet to a packet encapsulate section which encapsulates a packet field including the Layer 2 header information with a virtual network identifier, wherein the virtual network identifier represents a virtual tenant network corresponding to the virtual machine in multiple tenants network.
US09385887B2
Systems and methods for the management of virtual machine instances are provided. The hosted virtual machine networks are configured in a manner such that communications within the hosted virtual machine network are facilitated through a communication protocol. Illustrative embodiments of the systems and methods may be implemented on a virtual network overlaid on one or more intermediate physical networks that are used as a substrate network. Through the utilization of one or more virtual network mapping components in communication with the hosted virtual network components, communications to and from the hosted virtual networks can be processed by mapping relationships between the virtual network communication protocol and the router communication protocol. The mapping information can be provided in advance or as requested to the router components and hosted virtual network components to facilitate bi-lateral communications between the components.
US09385885B2
A network node for a communication network comprising a first subnetwork and a second subnetwork connected to the first subnetwork, wherein the first subnetwork uses a spanning tree protocol and the second subnetwork uses a second protocol differing from the protocol of the first subnetwork, and the network node is configured as an element for the second subnetwork and is configured for communication within the second subnetwork. In addition, the network node configured by a spanning tree functionality as a spanning tree master node for checking and controlling the second subnetwork in such a way that the second subnetwork is handled or is able to be handled by the spanning tree protocol of the first subnetwork as a virtual network node.
US09385872B2
Effecting reissue in a data processing system of a cryptographic credential certifying a set of attributes, the credential being initially bound to a first secret key stored in a first processing device. A backup token is produced using the first device and comprises a commitment to said set of attributes and first proof data permitting verification that the set of attributes in said commitment corresponds to the set of attributes certified by said credential. At a second processing device, a second secret key is stored and blinded to produce a blinded key. A credential template token produced from the backup token and the blinded key is sent to a credential issuer where said verification is performed using the first proof data and the credential template token is used to provide a reissued credential, certifying said set of attributes, to the second device, the reissued credential being bound to the second secret key.
US09385869B1
A computer-implemented method for trusting digitally signed files in the absence of verifiable signature conditions may include (1) receiving, from an agent on at least one endpoint device, signature information that indicates that a file encountered by the endpoint device has been digitally signed, (2) generating, based at least in part on the signature information received from the endpoint device, a reputation for the file that indicates the file's trustworthiness, (3) receiving a request from an additional agent for reputation information for the file, and (4) sending, in response to receiving the request, the reputation for the file to the additional agent to enable the additional agent to determine the trustworthiness of the file in the absence of verifiable signature conditions. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09385868B2
A method of testing the performance of a biometric authentication system includes conducting an initial biometric authentication transaction for an individual using data associated with the individual, and generating an initial result for the initial transaction with the biometric authentication system. Moreover, the method includes obtaining additional data associated with the individual when the additional data is required for conducting a subsequent biometric authentication transaction or after randomly determining that the subsequent transaction is to be conducted. Furthermore, the method includes conducting the subsequent transaction, generating a subsequent result for the subsequent transaction with the biometric authentication system, and updating cumulative performance records based on the initial and subsequent results. The method also includes generating a summary on a temporal or quantifiable basis that includes the cumulative performance records, and determining the performance of the biometric authentication system using the cumulative performance records or the summary.
US09385864B2
A server establishes a secure session with a client device where a private key used in the handshake when establishing the secure session is stored in a different server. During the handshake procedure, the server proxies messages to/from the different server including a set of signed cryptographic parameters signed using the private key on the different server. The different server generates the master secret, and generates and transmits the session keys to the server that are to be used in the secure session for encrypting and decrypting communication between the client device and the server.
US09385858B2
In order to initialize the phase of the recovered clock signal used in clock-and-data recovery (CDR) circuitry, the normal, on-line CDR processing is disabled. The sum of the absolute values of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) samples are generated for different clock phases over each unit interval (UI) of the analog signal sampled by the ADC for a specified period of time. The phase corresponding to the maximum sum is selected as the initial phase for the recovered clock signal for enabled, on-line CDR processing, which among other things, automatically updates the clock phase to ensure that the ADC samples the analog signal near the center of each UI.
US09385854B2
An interference coordination method includes: receiving, by a base station, an interference indicator that is in at least one subframe and sent by a user equipment, where the interference indicator includes RSSIs that are received by the user equipment in the at least one subframe and of all blocks PRBs, or sorted index values of the RSSIs of all the PRBs; determining, by the base station, a first list of candidate user equipment identities with a highest priority according to the interference indicator and uplink resource allocation information in the at least one subframe of a serving cell; and determining, by the base station, that a communication link of a macro cell corresponding to an identity, in the first list of candidate user equipment identities, of a user equipment with smallest interference is a reusable resource for D2D communication.
US09385852B2
A method in a wireless device for reporting Channel State Information (CSI). The wireless device is comprised in a wireless communications system. The method includes receiving a CSI process configuration and a request for CSI information from a network node. The method further includes reporting CSI for one or more CSI processes. The CSI reflects the state of the channel for a CSI reference resource. According to the method, the CSI reference resource is determined based on the number of configured CSI processes. Related devices are also disclosed.
US09385846B2
A data packet structure conveys data of service data units (SDU) using protocol data units (PDU). The data packet structure includes a data packet payload having at least one protocol data unit (PDU). A protocol data unit (PDU) includes a service data unit (SDU) or a fragment of a service data unit and a data packet header including an indicator indicating whether or not the data packet payload begins with a protocol data unit (PDU) being a fragment of a service data unit and whether or not the data packet payload ends with a protocol data unit (PDU) being a fragment of a service data unit.
US09385844B2
Techniques for supporting broadcast, multicast, and unicast services in a cellular system are described. A Node B may multiplex data for broadcast and multicast services and data for unicast services on radio resources available for transmission. The Node B may periodically send scheduling information used to determine the radio resources carrying the broadcast and multicast services. In one design, the Node B may time division multiplex the data for the broadcast and multicast services and the data for the unicast services. The scheduling information may convey time unit(s) used for each broadcast or multicast service. In another design, the Node B may map the data for the broadcast and multicast services to time frequency blocks. The scheduling information may (i) convey the time frequency block(s) used for each broadcast or multicast service or (ii) point to control information conveying the time frequency block(s) used for each service.
US09385837B2
A bitstream generator includes at least first and second bitstream generator stages connected in a cascaded arrangement. The first bitstream generator stage includes a first adder which receives an input signal and generates a first error signal indicative of a difference between the input signal and a first bitstream candidate representing a closest approximation to the input signal among multiple bitstream candidates generated by the first bitstream generator stage. The second bitstream generator stage includes a second adder which receives the first error signal and generates a second error signal indicative of a difference between the first error signal and a second bitstream candidate representing a closest approximation to the input signal among multiple bitstream candidates generated by the second bitstream generator stage. A third adder in the bitstream generator receives the first and second bitstream candidates and generates an output signal more closely approximating the input signal.
US09385836B2
In one embodiment, a wireless relay apparatus for replaying a signal processed by first encoding from a transmitting apparatus to a receiving apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a demodulation unit, a decoding unit, a detection unit, an extraction unit, and an encoding unit. The demodulation unit demodulates a received signal. The decoding unit performs error correction decoding corresponding to the first encoding on the demodulated signal. The detection unit detects an error in a decoded signal. The extraction unit extracts a portion pertaining to information data from the demodulated signal by hard decision, if the detection unit detects an error. The encoding unit performs error correcting coding on the extracted portion pertaining to the information data with an error. The information data encoded by the encoding unit is transmitted.
US09385832B2
Design Methodology and Method and Apparatus for Signaling with Capacity Optimized Constellation Abstract Communication systems are described that use geometrically PSK shaped constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional PSK constellations operating within a similar SNR band. The geometrically shaped PSK constellation is optimized based upon parallel decoding capacity. In many embodiments, a capacity optimized geometrically shaped constellation can be used to replace a conventional constellation as part of a firmware upgrade to transmitters and receivers within a communication system. In a number of embodiments, the geometrically shaped constellation is optimized for an Additive White Gaussian Noise channel or a fading channel. In numerous embodiments, the communication uses adaptive rate encoding and the location of points within the geometrically shaped constellation changes as the code rate changes.
US09385830B2
A transmitter module having a plurality of semiconductor laser diodes (LDs) as optical signal sources that emit optical respective optical beams with specific wavelengths different from other is disclosed. The transmitter module includes, in addition to the LDs, a driver to drive LDs in the shunt-driving configuration. Inductors through which the bias currents for the LDs are provided are mounted on the driver as interposing a spacer and a top carrier.
US09385828B2
TDMA communications between a host device and a number of clients on a communications channel are dynamically adapted to allocate or de-allocate time slots in response to changes in the number of active clients. The system initially operates in a startup mode in which the host device transmits a startup message on the communications channel and assigns a timeslot in a TDMA cycle in response to connection requests received from each of the requesting clients. After exiting the startup mode, the system operates in a normal mode in which the host device initiates the TDMA cycle by transmitting a polling message on the communications channel that indicates a number of timeslots occurring within that particular TDMA cycle. The host changes the number of timeslots indicated in the polling message to responsively adapt duration of the TDMA cycle as the number of clients communicating via the communications channel changes.
US09385827B2
A transmission apparatus includes an acquisition device that acquires a switch request for plural types of transmission sections overlapping with one another at least at apart of the sections, a selection device that selects one of the switch requests for plural types of transmission sections according to priority level information about a priority level corresponding to each of the plural types of transmission sections, and a switch device that switches the transmission paths depending on the selected switch request.
US09385825B2
A Sensor Web formed of a number of different sensor pods. Each of the sensor pods include a clock which is synchronized with a master clock so that all of the sensor pods in the Web have a synchronized clock. The synchronization is carried out by first using a coarse synchronization which takes less power, and subsequently carrying out a fine synchronization to make a fine sync of all the pods on the Web. After the synchronization, the pods ping their neighbors to determine which pods are listening and responded, and then only listen during time slots corresponding to those pods which respond.
US09385806B2
A variable impedance circuit (2) has an impedance device and is connected in series with a light source (A1). A switch circuit (Q1) is connected in parallel with the variable impedance circuit (2). A first controller (3) is configured to perform ON and OFF control of the switch circuit (Q1) and thereby to modulate an intensity of an illumination light emitted from the light source (A1). An impedance-varying circuit (Q2) is connected with the variable impedance circuit (2). The second controller (4) is configured to control the impedance-varying circuit (Q2) to change the impedance of the variable impedance circuit (2). The first controller (3) and the second controller (4) share a common hardware.
US09385801B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, the method for transmitting control information from a relay node to a base station on a backhaul link comprises the steps of: determining whether one time slot of a backhaul uplink subframe from the relay node to the base station is a first type slot having transmitted symbol with guard time set or a second type slot without guard time set; diffusing the control information in a time domain using a first length sequence for the first type slot or a second length sequence for the second type slot; mapping the diffused control information on at least one slot from the first type slot or the second type slot; and transmitting the backhaul uplink subframe having more than one slot from the first type slot or the second type slot wherein the control information is mapped.
US09385793B2
A system and method for providing multi-beam Wi-Fi access points. The system includes one or more Wi-Fi transmit antennas beamformers; one or more Wi-Fi receive antennas or receive beamformers; and a number N of co-channel Wi-Fi access points (APs) and a number of M non co-channel APS, where all APs comply with IEEE802.11xx standard, connected to the Wi-Fi transmit antennas beamformers, wherein the Wi-Fi transmit antennas beamformers are configured to produce a plurality of non spatially adjacent beams of a common frequency, directed at a plurality of Wi-Fi user equipment (UE) such that the directional beams are sufficiently isolated from each other, and at least some of the Wi-Fi UEs communicate simultaneously with the plurality of Wi-Fi access points.
US09385790B1
A method of inductive coupled communications includes providing a first resonant tank (first tank) and a second resonant tank (second tank) tuned to essentially the same resonant frequency, each having antenna coils and switches positioned for changing a Q and a bandwidth of their tank. The antenna coils are separated by a distance that provides near-field communications. The first tank is driven to for generating induced oscillations to transmit a predetermined number of carrier frequency cycles providing data. After the predetermined number of cycles, a switch is activated for widening the bandwidth of the first tank. Responsive to the oscillations in the first tank, the second tank begins induced oscillations. Upon detecting a bit associated with the induced oscillations, a switch is activated for widening the bandwidth of the second tank and a receiver circuit receiving an output of the second tank is reset.
US09385784B2
A mobile terminal, a home appliance and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a display configured to display a predetermined screen, a near field communication (NFC) module configured to transmit or receive information related to the screen to or from a home appliance by tagging to the home appliance, and a controller configured to control display of the information received from the home appliance on the display. Accordingly, it is possible to transmit information between the home appliance and the mobile terminal via NFC.
US09385783B2
Disclosed is a system that uses existing power line infrastructure in a building as a distributed reception antenna capable of receiving signals from very low-power wireless sensors, thus allowing these sensors to be detected at ranges that are otherwise impractical with over-the-air reception. Also disclosed is a wireless sensor platform that is able to be sensed throughout a building with very low current draw. The disclosed technique may also be utilized to extend the range of mid-frequency consumer electronic devices by leveraging the power line as a reception antenna.
US09385769B2
An apparatus relates generally to providing a divided signal output. In such an apparatus, a controller is coupled to receive a reference frequency count and a feedback frequency count to determine a difference therebetween to provide a control setting. A divider is coupled to receive the control setting to provide the divided signal output. The divider includes an adjustable load impedance. The control setting is coupled to adjust the load impedance of the divider to adjust a self-resonance frequency of the divider.
US09385766B2
A Fourier transform unit (111) performs Fourier transform on a digital signal on a time axis to generate a frequency domain signal which is a signal on a frequency axis. A filter unit (113) equalizes the frequency domain signal in a frequency domain using N first coefficients. An inverse Fourier transform unit (112) performs inverse Fourier transform on the frequency domain signal processed by the filter unit (113) and returns the frequency domain signal to the digital signal on the time axis. That is, the Fourier transform unit (111), the inverse Fourier transform unit (112), and the filter unit (113) compensate for waveform distortion included in the digital signal using an equalization process (that is, frequency-domain equalization (FDE)) in the frequency domain. A first coefficient setting unit (114) sets N first coefficients used by the filter unit (113) using m (provided N>m) second coefficients.
US09385765B2
Diversity receiver front end system with phase-shifting components. A receiving system can include a controller configured to selectively activate one or more of a plurality of paths between an input of the receiving system and an output of the receiving system. The receiving system can further include a plurality of amplifiers, each one of the plurality of amplifiers disposed along a corresponding one of the plurality of paths and configured to amplify a signal received at the amplifier. The receiving system can further include a plurality of phase-shift components, each one of the plurality of phase-shift components disposed along a corresponding one of the plurality of paths and configured to phase-shift a signal passing through the phase-shift component.
US09385758B2
Systems and method relating generally to data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for modifying symbols in a data set prior to re-processing.
US09385754B2
A controller includes: a low-level error correction section configured to execute low-level error correction in which an error in a code word is corrected with use of a predetermined decoding algorithm; and a high-level soft-decision error correction section configured to execute high-level soft-decision error correction in which the error in the code word is corrected with use of a high-level algorithm when the error correction by the low-level error correction section has failed, the high-level algorithm being a soft-decision decoding algorithm having higher error correction capability than error correction capability of the predetermined decoding algorithm.
US09385741B2
A digital-to-analog conversion apparatus has a first digital-to-analog converter, at least one second digital-to-analog converter, and a combining circuit. The first digital-to-analog converter is arranged to receive a first sampling clock and a digital input, and convert the digital input into a first analog output according to the first sampling clock. The at least one second digital-to-analog converter is arranged to receive the digital input and at least one second sampling clock different from the first sampling clock, and convert the digital input into at least one second analog output according to the at least one second sampling clock. The combining circuit is arranged to combine the first analog output and the at least one second analog output into a combined analog output of the digital input.
US09385740B2
A SAR ADC including a comparator, an input switch unit, a positive conversion capacitor array, a negative conversion capacitor array, and a SAR controller is provided. The input switch unit alternately couples and decouples a differential analog input signal to the comparator. The positive and negative conversion capacitor arrays sample the differential analog input signal during the sampling phase. The SAR controller resets the switches in the capacitor arrays at the end of the sampling phase to change the sampled voltage into a residual signal, generates an intermediate digital code to control the switches during the conversion phase according to an output of the comparator to convert the residual signal to the intermediate digital code, generates the digital code according to the intermediate digital code, and uses an inverted intermediate digital code to control the switches at the end of the conversion phase.
US09385723B1
CMOS level shifter circuit with self-adaptive local supply boosting for wide voltage range operation
A level shifter that supports wide voltage range operation by adaptively boosting local supply voltage to its input stage. The level shifter may interface an input (low) voltage domain and an output (high) voltage domain. In the level shifter, an input stage may receive an input signal from the input voltage domain, and an output stage may generate an output signal to be sent to the output voltage domain. In the level shifter, the power supply to the low-voltage input stage is automatically and adaptively boosted to effectuate level conversion of the input signal. A boost control signal is generated when the output signal fails to switch or is slow to switch in response to a corresponding switching of the input signal. In this manner, the voltage operating range of the level shifter is increased. Because boosting is engaged only when needed, the level shifter provides efficient operation with self-adaptability.
US09385720B2
A semiconductor device in which operation delay can be suppressed is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first logic element, a second logic element, a first circuit that has a function of controlling conduction between the first logic element and the second logic element, and a fourth circuit. The fourth circuit is electrically connected to the first circuit, and is electrically connected to the second logic element.
US09385718B1
An integrated circuit is disclosed. The integrated circuit includes an input-output (IO) buffer circuit. The IO buffer circuit further includes first and second transistors coupled in series. The first transistor receives an input signal and the second transistor receives a pulsed voltage signal. Furthermore, a method to operate the IO buffer circuit is also disclosed.
US09385714B2
Various implementations include circuits, devices and/or methods that provide closed-loop feedback crowbar current limiting for logic level-shifting between circuits with different voltage supplies. Some implementations include a level-shift circuit assembly including an input buffer and a current limiter. The input buffer is configured to receive an incoming logic signal that is set relative to a first electrical level, and in response, provide a level-shifted logic signal that is set relative to a second electrical level and is logically consistent with the incoming logic signal. The current limiter is configured to suppress the generation of current associated with the input buffer by providing a bias modification condition to the input buffer, in order to adjust the operation of the input buffer, in response to sensing a voltage difference between the first electrical level and the second electrical level.
US09385708B2
An inverter is implemented in an FDSOI integrated circuit die. The inverter includes a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor. The PMOS and NMOS transistors each include a first gate coupled to the respective source terminal of the transistor. The PMOS and NMOS transistors each include a back gate coupled to the input of the inverter.
US09385707B2
A high voltage semiconductor device, particularly a device including a number of high breakdown voltage transistors having a common drain, first well, and insulating structure between the gate and the drain as well as method for using the same is provided in this disclosure. The high breakdown voltage transistors in the device together are in an elliptical shape. A second well region, gate structure, and a source region are partially overlapping discontinuous elliptical rings having at least two discontinuities or openings in a top view. The respective discontinuities or openings define each of the high breakdown voltage transistors.
US09385699B2
A delay cell includes a first transistor and a second transistor, at least one of which has a fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) structure. A first control voltage is applied to the body of the first transistor and a second control voltage is applied to the body of the second transistors in order to adjust the delay time of the delay cell. DLL and PLL circuits includes this type of delay cell.
US09385698B2
Described is a pulse width modulation architecture for high speed digitally controlled voltage regulator. Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first phase interpolator (PI) for coupling an input to a delay element of a delay line, wherein the coupling is via a selection unit; a second PI for coupling an output of the delay element of the delay line, wherein the coupling is via the selection unit; and a third PI for providing an output, the third PI calibrated according to delay settings of the first and second PIs.
US09385697B2
Systems and methods for generating a spurious signal cancellation signal, the system comprising two direct digital synthesizers (DDS). The first DDS provides phase tracking to correct for rounding errors. The second DDS outputs a frequency that is exactly equal to N/M*CLK, where N and M are values selected to set the output frequency equal to the frequency of a spurious signal to be cancelled, and CLK is a clock frequency used to clock the first and second DDS circuits.
US09385694B2
A circuit for generating a signal comprising a first transistor having a drain, a gate and a source. A second transistor having a drain, a source and a gate coupled to the gate of the first transistor to form a current mirror. A current source coupled to the source of the first transistor. A diode-connected transistor having a drain coupled to the source of the second transistor, a source and a gate that forms an output. A variable resistor having a first terminal coupled to the source of diode-connected transistor and a second terminal. A capacitor coupled to the second terminal of the variable resistor.
US09385691B2
Provided is a timing control device including: a storage unit that stores multiple pieces of timing control information including identification information and expected value data; a first selector that selectively outputs any of the multiple pieces of timing control information; a second selector that selectively outputs any of data items output from data output devices based on the identification information; a reference data generation unit that generates reference data based on expected value data and a data item output from the second selector in synchronization with a switching of the timing control information; a comparator that compares the reference data with the data item output from the second selector and outputs a coincidence signal when the reference data and the data item coincide with each other; and an output control unit that outputs a timing signal according to the coincidence signal.
US09385690B1
An integrated circuit (IC) includes power domains and I/O multiplexing units. The I/O multiplexing units include components that are spilt across the power domains. The I/O multiplexing units multiplex signals received from the power domains and provide signals to one or more peripheral devices connected to the IC by way of I/O pads of the IC.
US09385688B2
A filter auto-calibration system comprises a multi-clock module that includes a multi-clock generator configured to generate a first variable frequency signal based on a channel setting, the multi-clock generator comprising a quadrature signal generator configured to generate an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the first variable frequency signal; and a mixer configured to generate an in-phase component and a quadrature component of a quadrature signal from a received signal other than the first variable frequency signal. The system also comprises at least one filter to be calibrated, and an auto-calibration control module coupled to the multi-clock module and the at least one filter, the auto-calibration control module configured to receive the in-phase component and quadrature component of the first variable frequency signal from the multi-clock module, and configured to control calibration of the at least one filter based on the channel setting.
US09385682B2
A high frequency component includes a multilayer body including a plurality of insulating layers stacked in a stacking direction, linear conductors extending along the insulating layers, interlayer connection conductors extending through at least one of the insulating layers, and planar conductors extending along the insulating layers. The high frequency component further includes transverse coils and internal capacitors. Each of the transverse coils includes the linear conductors and the interlayer connection conductors spirally wound in a plane in a plurality of turns around a winding axis extending in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction. Each of the internal capacitors includes the planar conductors being opposed to each other such that at least one of the insulating layers is disposed therebetween, the internal capacitor being arranged within a coil opening of the transverse coil when viewed along the winding axis of the transverse coil.
US09385674B2
A multiband limiter with selective sideband linking includes first and second frequency band splitters, a first and second plurality of limiters, first and second summers, and a plurality of selectable links coupling the first plurality of limiters to the second plurality of limiters. The first plurality of limiters each have a band input coupled to one of the first plurality of band outputs, a link port and a limiter output, and the first summer is receptive to the limiter outputs of the first plurality of limiters and has a first channel output. The second plurality of limiters each have a band input coupled to one of the second plurality of band outputs, a link port and a limiter output, and the second summer is receptive to the limiter outputs of the second plurality of limiters and has a second channel output.
US09385672B2
A common-mode feedback module is disclosed for controlling feedback in an amplifier, such as a multi-stage amplifier. The common-mode feedback module may include a feedback input stage, a cascode stage, and a feedback output stage. The common-mode feedback module may provide feedback, such as negative feedback to the amplifier to extend a bandwidth of a frequency response and/or increase stability.
US09385665B2
A linearization circuit improves the linearity of a power amplifier based on an envelope of an input RF signal. The linearization circuit comprises an RF signal generation circuit, a replica circuit, and an adaptive amplifier. The RF signal generation circuit generates the RF signal from a phase and an amplitude of an input digital signal. The replica circuit extracts the envelope from the RF signal and generates a sensing voltage based on the extracted envelope. The adaptive amplifier generates an adaptive bias voltage for the power amplifier based on the sensing voltage, and applies the adaptive bias voltage to the power amplifier and to the replica circuit to improve the linearity of the power amplifier by regulating the power amplifier and the replica circuit according to the envelope.
US09385664B2
A digital pre-distortion system which can provide the flexibility to model the highly non-linear distortion associated with High Efficiency RF Power Amplifiers while through a novel implementation of a least squares estimation process allows an implementation well suited for an FPGA application where limited resources and in particular memory resources are available.
US09385658B2
A folded cascode amplifier (FCA) including cascode stages coupled in a stacked cascode configuration, an input stage, and a switch circuit. The stages may include first and second P-type stages and first and second N-type stages, in which the first N-type stage and the input stage receive first and second bias voltages, respectively. The switch circuit couples a first cascode bias voltage to the second P-type stage and couples a second cascode bias voltage to the first N-type stage in a high power state, and decouples the first and second cascode bias voltages in a low power state. A non-switched low current bias generator provides the first and second bias and cascode bias voltages, which remain substantially stable in the low and high power states. Only low parasitic capacitance nodes are switched between power states so that the gain of the FCA recovers very quickly for the high power state.
US09385657B1
A triple-balanced mixer is disclosed. The mixer features a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) mmW (millimeter wave) integrated circuit and adds an inverted double balanced mixer to a double-balanced Gilbert cell mixer to provide a triple-balanced mixer. Another term for this type of mixer is doubly double balanced. Pairs of field effect transistor (FET) devices are interleaved into a single device. The inverted mixer provides an inverted LO feedthrough signal equal in amplitude to the LO feedthrough from the first mixer. The inverted LO feedthrough is used to cancel the LO feedthrough, or leakage, of the first mixer at the RF port.
US09385646B2
A compressed-air energy storage system according to embodiments of the present invention comprises a reversible mechanism to compress and expand air, one or more compressed air storage tanks, a control system, one or more heat exchangers, and, in certain embodiments of the invention, a motor-generator. The reversible air compressor-expander uses mechanical power to compress air (when it is acting as a compressor) and converts the energy stored in compressed air to mechanical power (when it is acting as an expander). In certain embodiments, the compressor-expander comprises one or more stages, each stage consisting of pressure vessel (the “pressure cell”) partially filled with water or other liquid. In some embodiments, the pressure vessel communicates with one or more cylinder devices to exchange air and liquid with the cylinder chamber(s) thereof. Suitable valving allows air to enter and leave the pressure cell and cylinder device, if present, under electronic control.
US09385633B2
There is disclosed a large scale energy storage system enabling balanced control of inverters, the large scale energy storage system including an inverter controller comprising a PWM generation circuit configured to generate a reference PWM signal and a first O/E converter configured to convert the reference PWM signal transmitted from the PWM generation circuit into an optical signal and to output the optical signal, and a plurality of PCS inverters configured to output a grid voltage, each of the PCS inverters comprising a second O/E converter embedded therein to convert the PWM signal and the optical signal output from the inverter controller into an optical signal and a plurality of inverter modules.
US09385629B2
An inverter device includes a substrate, upper arm elements, lower arm elements, positive and negative input electrodes, and an output electrode. The upper arm elements serve as an upper switching element and are arranged along a first direction. The lower arm elements serve as a lower arm switching element and are arranged along the first direction. At least one of bus bars of the positive and negative input electrodes and the output electrode extends parallel to the first direction. At least one of the bus bars of the positive and negative input electrodes and the output electrode has a length in the longitudinal direction that is greater than a width between two ends of the upper arm elements and the lower arm elements in the first direction.
US09385615B2
An isolated switching power supply can include a switching element connected to an input power supply, a control circuit that ON/OFF-drives the switching element and generates an AC power in a secondary winding and in an auxiliary winding of the isolation transformer, an output circuit that rectifies the AC power generated in the on a secondary winding of the isolation transformer and outputs the rectified power, an internal power supply circuit that generates a driving power supply voltage for the control circuit from the AC power generated in the auxiliary winding, an output voltage detecting circuit that feeds back an output monitoring voltage obtained from the driving power supply voltage to the control circuit to control the ON/OFF driving of the switching element by the control circuit and an output voltage controller that changes a level of the output monitoring voltage obtained from the driving power supply voltage.
US09385614B2
A switching power supply achieves simultaneously achieves suppression of surge voltage and satisfactory transient response. The switching power supply comprises a switching element connected to a primary winding of an isolation transformer, a resonance capacitor connected to the switching element, an output capacitor connected to a secondary winding of the isolation transformer through a rectifying diode, and a control circuit ON/OFF driving the switching element. The control circuit includes a restart circuit that delivers a restart signal to turn ON the switching element after a predetermined time from turning OFF of the switching element has passed. The control circuit also includes an initial operation setting circuit that sets a delay time in the restart circuit to be longer in a start up period of the power supply than in a normal operation time after the end of the startup period.
US09385610B2
A power supply injects a series of “tickle” pulses into a pulse width modulated (PWM) controller to induce the controller to generate PWM pulses at a minimum switching frequency, preferably one that is super-sonic (especially for audio applications). The switching frequency may also be selected or controlled such that it avoids resonances in the power supply. The “tickle” pulses may be clocked by the same clock that times the PWM controller, and they may be shaped to help ensure that the power supply maintains some regulation during low-load conditions.
US09385599B2
A converter circuit is described comprising a switch circuit configured to provide an output voltage, a control circuit comprising an analog control portion and a digital control portion and a noise generator configured to generate white noise, wherein the noise generator is configured to supply the generated white noise to the digital control portion of the control circuit and wherein the control circuit is configured to control the switch circuit based on the white noise.
US09385587B2
A controlled start-up circuit mechanism in a linear voltage regulator can handle a higher supply voltage at start-up and limits the voltage seen at the devices to be lower than the maximum allowed operation voltage. The circuit may regulate voltage for operating a device coupled to a host when the host supply exceeds that necessary for device operation. The controlled start-up mechanism handles a sudden ramp up or spike of supply voltage relative to the device's operational voltage.
US09385578B2
A magnetic spring arrangement for a resonant motor, comprising: a housing (12), magnets (14, 16) fixed in position at opposing ends (13, 15) of the housing, a magnet (18) positioned within the housing for movement toward and away from the fixed magnets in a reciprocal oscillating motion with a driving action produced by a stator coil (24) and an AC drive signal (26), wherein an applicator member (32) is attachable to the moving magnet for corresponding movement of a workpiece portion (34) of the applicator member.
US09385568B2
The stator of the electric motor comprises: a stator core; tooth sections being radially extended from the stator core; an even number of slots, each of which is formed between the tooth sections; an insulator covering the tooth sections; and motor coils being wound in the slots. The insulator has guide projections, each of which corresponds to each of the tooth sections so as to guide a magnet wire. The guide projections have guide sections, each of which includes a base end part and a front end part. In each of the guide sections, a radial thickness of at least one part located in the base end part is thin, a radial thickness of the front end part is thicker than that of the base end part. The guide sections are formed in same side faces of the guide projections arranged in the circumferential direction.
US09385567B2
A rotating electric machine includes a stator and a rotor. The rotor includes a plurality of permanent magnets and a rotor core. The plurality of permanent magnets are to form magnetic poles. The rotor core includes stacked steel sheets, magnet holes, a plurality of cutouts, and fixing elements. The magnet holes are provided in the stacked steel sheets. The plurality of permanent magnets are provided in the magnet holes. The plurality of cutouts are provided between the plurality of permanent magnets located adjacent in a circumferential direction of the rotor core to form different magnetic poles. The fixing elements are to fix the steel sheets to each other. The fixing elements are provided at positions on an outer peripheral side of inner peripheral end portions of the cutouts and between the cutouts and the magnet holes.
US09385566B2
A rotor of the present invention comprises a cylindrically shaped rotor core, and a plurality of magnets arranged at predetermined intervals at an outer circumferential surface of the rotor core. The outer circumferential surface of the rotor core is formed with a plurality of projections for positioning the plurality of magnets in the circumferential direction, and each of the projections extends over only part of outer circumferential surface of the rotor core in the height direction. The rotor core includes a projection-equipped cylindrical part which has an outer circumferential surface over which the plurality of projections extend, and a projection-less cylindrical part which has an outer circumferential surface over which the plurality of projections do not extend.
US09385556B2
There is disclosed a dynamic boost charging system having a monitoring component configured to measure total DC current and/or battery current and a reporting component configured to transmit output data of the total DC current and/or battery current measured. A battery charger control system in operable connection with the monitoring component receives the data of the total DC current and/or battery current measured by the monitoring component, and is configured to: obtain an initial time and/or charge measurement; determine a time and/or charge to complete a recharge cycle based on the time and/or charge measurement; selectively use at least two preset DC output voltage settings, one of the at least two preset DC voltage settings being a float voltage, and another of the at least two preset DC voltage settings being a boost voltage; and maintain the boost voltage until the time has passed the charge has been provided.
US09385554B2
A charger and a charger controlling method for a battery rod having a small battery capacity are provided, which are used to charge a battery rod comprising a charging management circuit, and the battery capacity C of the battery rod is less than 100 mAh. The method comprises: defining a preset constant charging current I based on the battery capacity C of the battery rod in order to charge the battery rod with a current of KC, wherein, the value of K is less than 1, and the value of I and the value of C conform to the following relationship: I=K*C; detecting a real-time charging current Itemp of the battery rod in real time; comparing Itemp with I, and adjusting the output charging voltage according to the comparison result to charge the battery rod with a current of KC.
US09385551B2
Devices, methods and systems disclosed herein relate to a universal charger which provides a power supply for the charging of OMTP devices and non-OMTP devices based on whether an OMTP mobile communication device or a non-OMTP mobile communication device is connected. A power charging apparatus is provided for charging a mobile communication device. The power charging apparatus includes a connector for connecting to a charging port of the mobile communication device, and a controller coupled to the connector, the controller configured to determine whether the mobile communication device connected to the connector is a non-OMTP mobile communication device or an OMTP mobile communication device, the controller further configured to charge a non-OMTP mobile communication device when a non-OMTP mobile communication device is connected to the connector, and further configured to charge an OMTP mobile communication device when an OMTP mobile communication device is connected to the connector.
US09385539B2
This invention provides a portable computing device powered by a surface-mediated cell (SMC)-based power source, the portable device comprising a computing hardware sub-system and a rechargeable power source electrically connected to the hardware and providing power thereto, wherein the power source contains at least a surface-mediated cell. The portable computing device is selected from a laptop computer, a tablet, an electronic book (e-book), a smart phone, a mobile phone, a digital camera, a hand-held calculator or computer, or a personal digital assistant.
US09385534B2
A power network having special junction boxes and an associated method for operation and evaluation which makes it possible, after construction and wiring, to recognise and to simulate the topology of the power distribution automatically is provided. On this basis the current consumption can then be determined in certain branches, for example also in a tree or ring network structure. In particular, deviations from the desired value, for example a disproportionately high current consumption, can be recognised and localised, so that as a consequence certain load and/or entire power network segments can be switched on and off. For analysis, the corresponding values of relevant electrical variables can be continuously observed, stored in a database, held for any period of time and displayed graphically. Connection errors, wire breakage and overload and undervoltage can be recognised and eliminated by analysing the values of the respective electrical variables.
US09385533B2
A system for damping power system oscillation includes a damping device controller for generating a damping control signal to compensate for a plurality of oscillation modes in the power system oscillations and a damping device to generate a damping signal based on a damping control signal. The damping device controller includes a plurality of outer closed loop paths each including an adaptive controller configured to determine an individual oscillation mode from at least one power system measurement signal. Each adaptive controller is further configured to generate an adaptive control signal to shift at least one open loop pole of an inner loop path related to the individual oscillation mode to a closed loop location.
US09385520B1
A rain tight fitting for securing PVC jacketed metal clad (PVC-MC) electrical cable to an electrical box or panel. The rain tight fitting includes a tubular fitting body having a threaded inbound and outbound end, an MC ring, a grommet, a sealing ring, a locknut, and a gland nut. The grommet includes an inbound end, an outbound end, an outer periphery and a flange extending from the outer periphery at the inbound end. The tubular sealing ring includes one or more thread engagement tabs having an apex that is aligned along the central axis of the sealing ring. The MC ring includes a base portion having an inbound end, an outbound end, and plurality of fingers extending from the outbound end. The fitting facilitates rain-tight connection and proper electrical grounding of PVC-MC cable to an electrical box or panel.
US09385515B2
A poke-thru floor system includes a poke-thru interface portion, a base and a cover. The poke-thru interface portion allows cable to pass through a floor structure. The base may be disposed on an upper surface of the floor structure and has an opening for communicating with the poke-thru interface portion. The cover interfaces with the base to form a longitudinal passage and is formed to be substantially the same shape as an upper surface of a cable raceway.
US09385506B2
The present application provides an optical comb source in which the comb is produced by seeding a gain switched Fabry-Pérot laser with light from a single mode laser, while at the same time driving the Fabry-Pérot laser with a DC bias and RF signal.
US09385503B2
A method of pumping an optical resonator includes directing light generated by a pumping light at the optical resonator, exciting a propagating surface state of the optical resonator at an interface of the optical resonator, and changing a propagating frequency of the light proximate the interface, where the changed frequency corresponds to a propagation frequency of the surface state. The optical resonator includes a photonic crystal and a material, where the interface is formed between the photonic crystal and the material.
US09385499B2
An electrical connector (100) includes a metal shield (1) defining a receiving space (10), a number of contacts (2) received in the metal shield, an insulative body (3) molding over the metal shield and having a tongue portion (31) extending into the receiving space for retaining the contacts, and a reinforcing plate (4) attaching to the tongue portion for reinforcing the tongue portion. The insulative body has a number of slits (311) at the front side of the tongue portion and a number of slots (332) at a rear side of the tongue portion for respectively receiving a mold during molding. The reinforcing plate and the contacts are exposed to both the slits and the slots along opposite, vertical directions to make sure that the inserted molds bear against both the contacts and the reinforcing plate.
US09385498B2
Disclosed is a crimp machine capable of eliminating product management for a relay connector per an ID. In the crimp machine, by a power source line, a ground line, and a signal line being positioned between a terminal mount table to which a crimp connector disposed in the relay connector is mounted and a crimp blade, and by the crimp blade being move close to a terminal mount table, the power source line, the ground line, and the signal line are thus crimped, wherein a connection terminal is disposed on the terminal mount table and an ID is made to output from the connection terminal.
US09385488B2
A connector (100) comprises a housing (1), an inner board (3) and a number of contacts (2) supported by the housing. The housing has a base portion (11), a first (16) and second side wall (15). The base portion defines a receiving cavity (14) for receiving a mating connector along a front-to-back direction. The first (16) and second side wall (15) are parallel to each other and backwardly extending from the base portion to defining a mounting room (17). The inner board is inserted into the mounting room along a back-to-front direction. The inner board has a first flange (37) cooperated with the first side wall, and a second flange (36) cooperated with the second side walls. The first side wall has a length greater than the second wall, and the first flange has a length smaller than the second flange. This relationship is used to prevent incorrect orientation of the inner board in the housing.
US09385486B2
A socket module for an electrosurgical device has a housing (10), at least two connectors (11, 12) each having two contacts (11a, 11b, 12a, 12b). A first connection member (13) electrically connects a first contact (11a) of the first connector (11) to a first contact (12a) of the second connector (12). The first connection member (13) has two contact regions (13a, 13b), of which a first contact region (13a) is connected to the first contact (11a) of the first connector (11) and a second contact region (13b) is connected to the first contact (12a) of the second connector (12). A printed circuit board (15) is arranged in the housing (10) and electrically connected to the first connector. (11) The printed circuit board (15) supports a third contact region (15a, 15b) which connects the first connector (11) to the printed circuit board (15).
US09385481B2
An electronic connector includes a transmission conductor group including two rows of plate-like contacts for insertion of a connector male portion in normal and reverse directions, a transmission conductor pin group, which is formed at a rear side of the transmission conductor group and arranged in a single row, a shielding housing, which receives therein the transmission conductor group, and an inclined cover section, which extends from the shielding housing to shield the transmission conductor pin group. As such, contacts of the transmission conductor group of the connector are provided in an arrangement of two rows so that mating between a male portion and a female portion can be made in a directionless manner, allowing for insertion in both normal and reverse directions. The transmission conductor pin group extending rearward from the transmission conductor group is set in an arrangement of a single row to maintain the convenience of manufacturing.
US09385472B2
This invention provides a cable connector including a body and a releasing member. The body has a front side and a rear side opposite to the front side. The releasing member includes a base, a pressing portion bending and extending toward the rear side from the base, a bending portion extending toward the front side and bending downwardly from the base, a supporting portion bending and extending toward the front side from the bending portion and two extending portions extending toward the rear side from the two sides of the bending portion.
US09385471B2
An electrical connector assembly includes a first connector including a first magnetic element and a number of first contacts, and a second connector including a second magnetic element and a number of second contacts. The first magnetic element and the second magnetic element include a pair of opposite poles located at two ends thereof respectively along a direction perpendicular to a mating direction of the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element. When the first connector mates with the second connector, the poles of the corresponding ends of the first magnetic and the second magnetic element are opposite.
US09385459B2
A plug connector includes a mating tongue defining top and bottom surfaces thereon. Each surface is provided with a plurality of conductors in one row wherein the characters/categories of the conductors on the top surface are sequentially arranged to be same with those on the bottom surface with a pair of power conductors in two notches at two lateral side edges. The corresponding receptacle connector mounted upon a printed circuit board, defines a receiving cavity to receive the mating tongue therein. Opposite top and bottom rows of contacts are respectively located by upper and bottom sides of the receiving cavity and categorized essentially in a same sequence with the conductors of the plug connector for respectively connecting to the corresponding conductive pads, respectively. A pair of power contacts are located by two lateral sides of the receiving cavity to couple to the corresponding power conductor portions in the notches.
US09385446B2
A connector assembly and method including a post, a port body, a post engager, an actuator and a spring assembly. The post engager is configured to engage the post in a first operating mode while the actuator is configured to release the post engager from the post in a second operating mode. The spring assembly is operably coupled to the post engager and is configured to axially bias the post against the port body during the first operating mode to facilitate an electrical ground path between the port body and the post.
US09385443B2
The invention relates to a contacting or connection terminal for electrically connecting at least one conductor (26) and at least one electrical contact body, said terminal having a housing (2) in which the contact body is arranged, and at least one pressing member (3), wherein the electrical contact body comprises a clamping conductor connector for the at least one electrical conductor (26) and has at least one punched part (5), said punched part (5) having at least one spring element (6) for the clamping conductor connector. An actuation of the pressing member (3) acts on the spring element (6) and enables an opening of the clamping conductor connector, wherein the opening path of the clamping conductor connector (WF), due to actuation of the pressing member (3), is greater than the pressing member path (WD), at least in one portion. The invention also relates to a circuit board and a luminaire with a contacting or connection terminal according to the invention.
US09385441B2
Embodiments of an apparatus for connection to a light adjustment sheet and conductive interfaces for connection to a light adjustment sheet are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus for connection to a light adjustment sheet include a power source interface configured to be connected to a power source and a sheet interface electrically connected to the power source interface. The sheet interface is configured to connect to the light adjustment sheet such that electricity can be conducted from the power source interface to the light adjustment sheet to switch the light adjustment sheet between different visibility states. Other embodiments are also described.
US09385440B2
A cylindrical braid crimp connection structure includes a cylindrical braid formed by braiding bundles of wires, a cylindrical connection portion inserted inside of a terminal of the cylindrical braid, and a ring crimp member fitted on an outside of the terminal of the cylindrical braid. The ring crimp member is crimped to form recessed deformities, and the terminal is pressed toward the cylindrical connection portion by the recessed deformities to complete an electric connection. The recessed deformities are formed with a shape larger than the meshes formed in the cylindrical braid.
US09385432B2
A wideband dual-polarized radiation element includes two pairs of cross polarized dipoles and baluns which correspondingly feed current to each dipole in a balanced manner. Each dipole includes a pair of unit arms aligned on a top end of the corresponding balun. One end of each unit arm is connected on top of the balun, and the other end of one unit arm is bending inwards to form inward loaded line, and the other unit arm is bending downwards to form downward loaded line. An antenna includes a metal reflector and at least one wideband dual polarized radiation element, which has excellent radiation and polarization performance.
US09385431B2
A dipole antenna in accordance with the present invention includes a first antenna element provided in a two-dimensional surface and having a linear shape and a second antenna element provided in the two-dimensional surface and having a spiral shape that circles around the first antenna element.
US09385428B2
A second conductor (200) is opposite to a first conductor (100), and is repeatedly arranged. A plurality of vias (400) are provided to each of a plurality of second conductors (200), and provide an inductance component between the first conductor (100) and the second conductor (200). A third conductor (300) is connected to a first one of the second conductors (200) through a via (500), and is opposite to a second one of the second conductors (200) located next to the first one of the second conductors (200), to thereby form a transmission line between the first one of the second conductors and the second one of the second conductors (200). That is, the third conductor (300) functions as a stub together with the second one of the second conductors (200).
US09385427B2
A multi-band antenna includes a radiating portion, a feed portion, a ground portion, a first switch module, and a second switch module. The radiating portion includes a plurality of connecting ends. The ground portion includes two ground sections with different impedances. The first switch module connects the feed portion to a first connecting end or a second connecting end, and the second switch module connects one of the ground sections to a third connecting end or a fourth connecting end. A wireless communication device employing the multi-band antenna is also disclosed.
US09385419B2
A communication device, including a device casing, an external connection element, and a first metal element, is provided. A ground element and an antenna element are disposed in the device casing. The ground element has a first edge, a second edge, and a first connection point. The first edge and the second edge are opposite to each other. The first connection point is disposed near or at the second edge. The antenna element is disposed near the first edge. The external connection element is formed by a non-conductive material and is outside the device casing. The external connection element has a belt-like structure and is combined with the device casing to substantially form a loop structure. The first metal element is supported by the external connection element and is coupled to the first connection point of the ground element.
US09385418B2
An antenna apparatus for a portable terminal having a main board is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a main antenna that electrically connects to a feed line of the main board. A metal frame is constructed as part of a case frame forming an exterior of the portable terminal. The metal frame is divided into first and second parts that are separated. The first part electrically connects to the main antenna or to the main board feed line, and is designed to radiate. The second part electrically connects to a ground surface of the main board. The metal frame enhances overall antenna performance rather than causing degradation through interference.
US09385415B2
A matching circuit of a near field communication (NFC) device includes a resonance unit connected between a first terminal and a second terminal of an antenna. The antenna is responsive to an electromagnetic wave. The resonance unit includes a first capacitor connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the antenna. A matching unit is configured to perform impedance matching between the antenna and an NFC chip. The matching unit is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal of the antenna.
US09385412B2
Cavity resonators have a multitude of applications in radio-frequency, microwave, and vacuum electronics. Cavity resonators are used as frequency selective filters and oscillators. In vacuum electronic devices and charged particle accelerators cavities are used to couple energy into and out of charged particle beams. Typically cavity resonators are optimized for single mode operation and are limited to sinusoidal waveforms and interactions. Harmonic cavities have many of the same applications, but because they resonate many axially symmetric harmonic modes simultaneously, the superposition of these modes is an on-axis arbitrary waveform. Harmonic cavities have both passive and active applications. When a periodic charged particle beam passes through a harmonic cavity whose resonances are at the same frequency as the beam's periodicity, the beam induces these cavity modes to resonate. The superposition of these modes, on axis, has a voltage vs. time waveform that ideally mirrors the current vs. time of the beam that induced it. Harmonic cavities can also be used to apply arbitrary waveforms to charged particle beams when driven externally. These waveforms can be used to modulate, shape, and accelerate the beam. A harmonic cavity whose axis is tilted to the beamline can be used to change the trajectory of selected particle bunches by delivering them fast kicking pulses.
US09385410B2
To provide a radio wave half mirror for a millimeter wave band which can flatten transmittance characteristics and a method of flattening the transmittance of the radio wave half mirror for a millimeter wave band. A radio wave half mirror 20 includes a metal plate 21 that has an outward shape closing a transmission line 11 and a slit 22 for transmitting electromagnetic waves that is provided in the metal plate 21 along a long side of an opening of the transmission line 11. The thickness L of the metal plate 21 in a direction in which the electromagnetic waves pass through the slit 22 is set on the basis of the transmittance characteristics of the electromagnetic waves.
US09385409B2
Provided is a multi-mode resonator in which four resonance modes are degenerated, a dielectric member is not necessarily required, and enhanced efficient use of space is obtained. A multi-mode resonator 1 is a multi-mode resonator in which four resonance modes are degenerated, this resonator including an exterior conductor 2 made of a metal material, and formed in the shape of a box, wherein both ends of a cylindrical circumferential wall section 2c are closed off by a first end section 2a and a second end section 2b; a columnar first central conductor disposed inside the exterior conductor 2, one end 3a being shorted to the first end section 2a of the exterior conductor 2 and another end 3b being left open; and a columnar second central conductor disposed inside the exterior conductor 2, one end 4a being shorted to the second end section 2b of the exterior conductor 2 and another end 4b being left open.
US09385406B2
A non-reciprocal gyromagnetic phase shift device for microwave signals is provided. The device has a section of waveguide with at least two stacked chambers in each of which ferrite-containing slabs are arranged opposite one another on top and bottom walls of the stacked chambers along a common axis, in use a magnetic field being applied to the section of waveguide along the common axis along which are positioned the ferrite-containing slabs. The phase shift device proposed may be used in different microwave circuits. For example, it may be combined with a folded magic tee and a 3 dB hybrid coupler in order to form a 4-port differential phase shift circulator.
US09385403B2
In certain embodiments, an apparatus comprises a battery housing and mechanical switches. The battery housing is configured to house one or more batteries and comprises a connector configured to provide current to a device. A surface of the battery housing forms slots, where each slot is configured to receive a battery. Each mechanical switch is coupled to a slot and is configured to allow current from the battery to flow to the connector if a battery is received in the slot, and to pass current through the slot if a battery is not received in the slot.
US09385397B2
The present invention provides a battery or supercapacitor current collector which is prelithiated. The prelithiated current collector comprises: (a) an electrically conductive substrate having two opposed primary surfaces, and (b) a mixture layer of carbon (and/or other stabilizing element, such as B, Al, Ga, In, C, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, As, Sb, Bi, Te, or a combination thereof) and lithium or lithium alloy coated on at least one of the primary surfaces, wherein lithium element is present in an amount of 1% to 99% by weight of the mixture layer. This current collector serves as an effective and safe lithium source for a wide variety of electrochemical energy storage cells, including the rechargeable lithium cell (e.g. lithium-metal, lithium-ion, lithium-sulfur, lithium-air, lithium-graphene, lithium-carbon, and lithium-carbon nanotube cell) and the lithium ion based supercapacitor cell (e.g, symmetric ultracapacitor, asymmetric ultracapacitor, hybrid supercapacitor-battery, or lithium-ion capacitor).
US09385388B2
Disclosed are a polymer electrolyte membrane for fuel cells and a membrane electrode assembly and fuel cell including the same. The polymer electrolyte membrane includes a fluorine-based cation exchange resin having proton conductivity and fibrous nanoparticles having a hydrophilic group. By using the fluorine-based cation exchange resin having proton conductivity and the fibrous nanoparticles having a hydrophilic group in combination, performance of a fuel cell including the polymer electrolyte membrane is not deteriorated and the polymer electrolyte membrane prevents gases from permeating thereinto and has enhanced durability for extended use. A fuel cell including the above-described polymer electrolyte membrane is provided.
US09385386B2
A solid oxide fuel cell system is disclosed. The solid oxide fuel cell system includes a cell stack having multiple adjacent fuel cells; a reformer that reforms raw gas and produces fuel gas supplied to the fuel cells; a combustion section that causes combustion of the fuel gas discharged from the fuel cells and heats the reformer with combustion heat of the fuel gas; an ignition device that ignites the combustion section; a combustion state confirmation device that senses that heating of the entire reformer has started using the advancement of flame transfer between fuel cells in the combustion section; and a controller programmed to start an operation of the system heating the reformer by using combustion heat from the combustion section and reaction heat from the partial oxidation reforming reaction (POX) in the reformer. During the period until the combustion state confirmation device senses that the heating of the entire reformer has started after the ignition device ignited the combustion section, the controller suppresses the amount of heat emitted by the partial oxidation reforming reaction in the reformer more than the amount of heat emitted after heating of the entire reformer has started.
US09385384B2
A power generation system includes: an air intake passage; a fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell; a case configured to house the fuel cell, a ventilator (air supply unit), and an air intake temperature detector configured to detect a temperature of the intake air supplied to the case; a combustion device that includes a combustor; an exhaust gas passage configured to discharge a flue gas generated in the combustion device to the outside; and a controller. The air intake passage and the exhaust gas passage are configured to allow heat exchange to occur between media flowing through the passages. The controller causes the combustion device to operate when the fuel cell system is activated and the temperature detected by the air intake temperature detector is equal to or lower than a first predetermined temperature.
US09385369B2
A rechargeable lithium battery includes a negative electrode including a negative active material, a positive electrode including a positive active material, and an electrolyte including a lithium salt, a non-aqueous organic solvent, and an additive. The negative active material includes a graphite-silicon composite and graphite. The graphite-silicon composite includes a graphite particle, a silicon (Si) particle on the surface of the graphite particle, and a carbon coating layer surrounding the silicon particle on the surface of the graphite particle. The additive includes fluoroethylene carbonate in an amount of about 2 to about 5 wt % based on the total amount of the non-aqueous organic solvent.
US09385365B2
Disclosed is a positive electrode according to one embodiment of the present invention that includes a current collector and a positive active material layer on the current collector, wherein the positive active material layer includes a positive active material and activated carbon coated with a fibrous carbon material.
US09385357B2
A battery assembly 51 for fitting a battery pack 52 to a frame of a cycle 2 comprises a battery holder 54 for fitting to the frame, and a connector portion 55 which forms an electrical connection between the battery pack 52 and wiring 90 for connecting to at least one other component of the cycle when the battery pack is held by the holder 54. The connector portion 55 is slideable in a linear direction with respect to the battery holder between an open position which provides clearance of the battery pack to be inserted into the holder and a closed position in which the connection is formed. A clamping mechanism is provided to clamp the battery pack into the battery holder when the connector portion is closed.
US09385355B2
A battery module includes a power assembly including a first battery cell and a second battery cell in a stacked orientation relative to each other. The first battery cell includes a first tab electrode extending therefrom, and the second battery cell includes a second tab electrode extending therefrom. The battery module also includes an interconnect assembly configured to facilitate electrically coupling the first tab electrode with the second tab electrode with the first and second battery cells in the stacked orientation. The interconnect assembly includes a crimping element disposed over the first and second tab electrodes. The crimping element is configured to apply a compressive force to the first and second tab electrodes such that the first and second tab electrodes are secured in electrical communication via direct contact.
US09385352B2
A clamp meter configured to receive a removable and rechargeable battery pack. The clamp meter includes a main body having a first axis, a handle, a clamp, a trigger, and a display. The handle has a second axis and includes a first recess configured to receive the battery pack. The first recess includes at least first and second electrical terminals which are exposed when the battery pack is not inserted into the first recess. The second axis forms an oblique angle with the first axis, and the battery pack is inserted into the first recess along the second axis. The clamp is coupled to the main body, aligned with the first axis, and operable to measure an electrical characteristic of a conductor based on an induced current. The trigger is operable to selectively open and close the clamp, and the display configured to display an indication of the electrical characteristic.
US09385351B2
A reconfigurable battery pack power system with interchangeable accessories has at least one modular, portable, rechargeable battery module having a first side, the first side having a first contour and a mounting port and a power output port, and at least one accessory module configured to receive power from the battery module. The accessory module has a second side with a second contour that mates with the first contour on the battery module, and has a power coupling connector and a fastener. The accessory module is interchangeably mateable with the battery module with the first and second contours nested together, and with the power output port engaged with the power coupling connector and with the fastener engaged with the mounting port, so that the battery module and the accessory module form a single integrated and substantially rigid structure.
US09385347B2
An optical mask includes a light-to-heat conversion layer with an improved temperature profile. The optical masks may comprise a light-transmitting base substrate; a first reflective pattern layer which is formed on the light-transmitting base substrate comprising a first opening portion transmitting light emitted from under the light-transmitting base substrate and a first reflective portion reflecting the light; a second reflective pattern layer which is formed over the first opening portion comprising a second opening portion overlapping a first area of the first opening portion and a second reflective portion overlapping a second area of the first opening portion; and a light-to-heat conversion pattern layer which is formed on the light-transmitting base substrate, being disposed in the first area of the first opening portion, absorbing at least a part of the light, and converting the light absorbed into heat.
US09385343B2
An organic light-emitting diode display panel includes a substrate on which an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) light-emitting element is mounted. The OLED light-emitting element includes an OLED organic layer. A black silicon structure is disposed on the substrate and reveals the OLED organic layer. The black silicon structure absorbs ambient light to reduce the reflectance of the ambient light. By disposing the black silicon structure around the OLED organic layer or by directly forming the OLED organic layer in the black silicon structure, the extremely high light absorbing capability of the black silicon structure is used to significantly reduce the reflectance of the ambient light. A clear display effect in a bright environment can be achieved under smaller luminance, reducing the luminance of the display panel and saving the power consumption. Furthermore, the number of films and the overall thickness of the panel can be reduced.
US09385340B2
A transparent emissive device is provided. The device may include one or more OLEDs having an anode, a cathode, and an organic emissive layer disposed between the anode and the cathode. In some configurations, the OLEDs may be non-transparent. The device may also include one or more locally transparent regions, which, in combination with the non-transparent OLEDs, provides an overall device transparency of 5% or more.
US09385331B2
A method of forming a flexible display apparatus includes: forming a flexible substrate on a support substrate; forming a light-emitting diode on the flexible substrate; forming a first encapsulation layer on the light-emitting diode; forming a second encapsulation layer; bonding the first encapsulation layer to the second encapsulation layer using an adhesive layer between the first encapsulation layer and the second encapsulation layer; separating the support substrate from the flexible substrate and cutting the flexible substrate to form the flexible display apparatus; and forming a polarizing plate on the second encapsulation layer.
US09385326B2
The present invention related to thermally stable p-conducting oligomers and polymers of triangulene of formula (I) and their use in dye sensitized solar cells.
US09385324B2
A method of operation of an electronic system includes: scanning an image for detecting a subject; detecting a potential adjustment for moving the subject within the image; and selecting an augmentation for recommending the potential adjustment and for displaying the augmentation on a device.
US09385321B1
A real-space charge-transfer device is disclosed. In particular, a Gunn diode is disclosed having a conductive structure fabricated overlying its active region. A secondary signal, other than the normal Gunn diode signal, is generated by the Gunn diode based upon a characteristic of the overlying conductive structure. For example, when the conductive structure is a grate having N teeth the secondary signal will have N secondary oscillation cycles that occur during the duration of a single normal Gunn diode oscillation cycle.
US09385312B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory. The semiconductor memory includes a plurality of first planes and a plurality of second planes which are disposed over a substrate and alternately stacked in a vertical direction over the substrate, where each of the first planes includes a plurality of first lines which extends in a first direction parallel to the substrate and each of the second planes includes a plurality of second lines which extends in a second direction parallel to the substrate and intersecting with the first direction, a plurality of variable resistance patterns which is interposed between each of the first planes and each of the second planes, each of the variable resistance patterns being disposed at a cross point between a first line and a corresponding second lines, and an air-gap which is disposed between neighboring variable resistance patterns.
US09385303B2
Provided are a resonator and a method of fabricating the same. The resonator may include a first electrode disposed on a substrate, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer, and a control layer disposed on the second electrode and having a frame with an uneven surface.
US09385296B2
An actuator is sequentially charged with output voltage “E/2” of a voltage source and output voltage “E” of a voltage source. After the charging, “Q/2” of electric charge “Q” stored in the actuator is discharged on a path returning to the voltage source. Subsequent to the discharging, the remaining all electric charge “Q/2” stored in the actuator is discharged on a closed circuit.
US09385294B2
A mechanism relates to a superconducting quantum system. A diamond substrate layer is included. A superconducting quantum device is disposed on the diamond substrate layer. The superconducting quantum device includes a superconducting quantum circuit formed on top a surface of the diamond substrate layer.
US09385291B2
A structure of a thermoelectric film including a thermoelectric substrate and a pair of first diamond-like carbon (DLC) layers is provided. The first DLC layers are respectively located on two opposite surfaces of the thermoelectric substrate and have electrical conductivity.
US09385290B2
An assembly of at least one thermoelectric element capable of generating an electric current under the effect of a temperature gradient exerted between two of its sides, referred to as the contact sides, and an electrical connection means is disclosed. The assembly includes a first deformable element electrically connecting the electrical connection means to the thermoelectric element, the first element including a first side linked to the electrical connection means and a second side linked to the thermoelectric element, the first side being deformable independently from the second side and vice versa, the assembly including a second deformable element forming a heat bridge between the first and second sides of the first element. A thermoelectric module including such an assembly and a thermoelectric device including such a module are also disclosed.
US09385279B2
A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor light-emitting element, a first resin layer, a first metallic layer, a second resin layer, and a second metallic layer. The semiconductor light-emitting element includes a semiconductor stacked body and an electrode provided on one side of the semiconductor stacked body. The second resin layer is provided on the first resin layer and has a lower surface in contact with the first resin layer and an upper surface opposite to the lower surface. The second metallic layer is provided in the second resin layer and has a metallic lower surface and a metallic upper surface opposite to the metallic lower surface. The metallic upper surface is exposed from the second resin layer. The metallic upper surface of the second metallic layer is at least partially lower in height from the semiconductor stacked body than the upper surface of the second resin layer.
US09385275B2
In a nitride semiconductor light-emitting diode having a shape of an isosceles triangle in a top view, either Group Aa consisting of the following two mathematical formulae (Ia) and (IIa) or Group Ab consisting of the following two mathematical formulae (Ib) and (IIb) is satisfied: 20 degrees≦Angle degree α≦40 degrees (Ia) and 0 degrees≦Angle degree θ≦40 degrees (IIa) Group Aa: 90 degrees≦Angle degree α≦130 degrees (Ib) and 50 degrees≦Angle degree θ≦90 degrees (IIb). Group Ab:
US09385269B2
The present invention discloses an epitaxial structure for semiconductor light-emitting device, comprising an electron injection region, a hole injection region, a multi-quantum well active region, a potential barrier layer for blocking carriers, and one or more band edge shaping layers. The doping type and/or doping concentration of said band edge shaping layers are different from those of the adjacent layers. It may trim the band edge shape of the semiconductor energy band through the local built-in electric field formed as a result of adjusting the doping type, doping concentration and/or layer thickness thereof, such that the carriers in the multi-quantum well active region are distributed uniformly, the overall Auger recombination is decreased, and the effective potential barrier height of the potential barrier layer for blocking carriers is increased to reduce the drain current formed by carriers overflowing out of the multi-quantum well active region, thereby improving internal quantum efficiency. The present invention further discloses a semiconductor light-emitting device that employs said epitaxial structure, which similarly achieves the effects of reduced Auger recombination and/or decreased drain current through the trimming of the band edge shape of the energy band structure by the local built-in electric field, thereby improving internal quantum efficiency of the device.
US09385265B2
A semiconductor structure comprising a III-nitride light emitting layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region is grown over a porous III-nitride region. A III-nitride layer comprising InN is disposed between the light emitting layer and the porous III-nitride region. Since the III-nitride layer comprising InN is grown on the porous region, the III-nitride layer comprising InN may be at least partially relaxed, i.e. the III-nitride layer comprising InN may have an in-plane lattice constant larger than an in-plane lattice constant of a conventional GaN layer grown on sapphire.
US09385248B2
A solar cell panel is discussed. The solar cell panel includes a plurality of solar cells, each solar cell including a substrate and a plurality of back electrodes that are positioned on a back surface of the substrate that is opposite a light receiving surface, the plurality of back electrodes being spaced apart from one another by a space to expose the substrate, a conductive adhesive film including a resin and a plurality of conductive particles dispersed in the resin, and an interconnector positioned on a back surface of the conductive adhesive film that is opposite a surface that contacts the substrate. The conductive adhesive film is positioned on the back surface of the substrate that is exposed through the space. The interconnector directly contacts the conductive adhesive film.
US09385241B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit coupled with an input/output (I/O) pad is provided. The ESD protection circuit includes a first field oxide device coupled between a first terminal that is capable of providing a first supply voltage and the I/O pad. The first field oxide device includes a drain end having a first type of dopant and a source end having the first type of dopant. The first field oxide device includes a first doped region having a second type of dopant disposed adjacent to the drain end of the first field oxide device and a second doped region having the second type of dopant disposed adjacent to the source end of the first field oxide device.
US09385236B1
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes a plurality of fin shaped structures and a dummy gate structure. The fin shaped structures are disposed in a substrate, where at least one of the fin shaped structures has a tipped end. The dummy gate structure is disposed on the substrate, and includes an extending portion covering the tipped end.
US09385235B2
A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure and method for forming FinFET device structure are provided. The FinFET structure includes a substrate and a fin structure extending above the substrate. The FinFET structure also includes a gate electrode formed over the fin structure, and the gate electrode has a grid-like pattern when seen from a top-view.
US09385227B2
Power devices, structures, components, and methods using lateral drift, fixed net charge, and shield
Lateral power devices where immobile electrostatic charge is emplaced in dielectric material adjoining the drift region. A shield gate is interposed between the gate electrode and the drain, to reduce the Miller charge. In some embodiments the gate electrode is a trench gate, and in such cases the shield electrode too is preferably vertically extended.
US09385224B2
An integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a single channel device having a first portion of a single shared heterostructure overlying a substrate structure in a single channel device area, and a gate contact that is in contact with the first portion of the single shared heterostructure. The integrated circuit also includes a multichannel device comprising a second portion of the single shared heterostructure overlying the substrate structure in a multichannel device area, a barrier layer overlying the second portion of the single shared heterostructure, and a superlattice structure overlying the barrier layer, the superlattice structure comprising a plurality of heterostructures. An isolation region in the single shared heterostructure electrical isolates the single channel device from the multichannel device.
US09385221B2
A nanowire device of the present description may be produced with the incorporation of at least one underlayer etch stop formed during the fabrication of at least one nanowire transistor in order to assist in protecting source structures and/or drain structures from damage that may result from fabrication processes. The underlayer etch stop may prevent damage to the source structures and/or drain the structures, when the material used in the fabrication of the source structures and/or the drain structures is susceptible to being etched by the processes used in the removal of the sacrificial materials, i.e. low selectively to the source structure and/or the drain structure materials, such that potential shorting between the transistor gate electrodes and contacts formed for the source structures and/or the drain structures may be prevented.
US09385217B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first base layer; a drain layer disposed on the back side surface of the first base layer; a second base layer formed on the surface of the first base layer; a source layer formed on the surface of the second base layer; a gate insulating film disposed on the surface of both the source layer and the second base layer; a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating film; a column layer formed in the first base layer of the lower part of both the second base layer and the source layer by opposing the drain layer; a drain electrode disposed in the drain layer; and a source electrode disposed on both the source layer and the second base layer, wherein heavy particle irradiation is performed to the column layer to form a trap level locally.
US09385216B2
A semiconductor device containing an extended drain MOS transistor with an integrated snubber formed by forming a drain drift region of the MOS transistor, forming a snubber capacitor including a capacitor dielectric layer and capacitor plate over the extended drain, and forming a snubber resistor over a gate of the MOS transistor so that the resistor is connected in series between the capacitor plate and a source of the MOS transistor.
US09385210B2
In a method for manufacturing a reverse blocking MOS semiconductor device, a gettering polysilicon layer is formed on a rear surface of an FZ silicon substrate. Then, a p+ isolation layer for obtaining a reverse voltage blocking capability is formed. A front surface structure including a MOS gate structure is formed on a front surface of the FZ silicon substrate. The rear surface of the FZ silicon substrate is ground to reduce the thickness of the FZ silicon substrate. The gettering polysilicon layer is formed with such a thickness that it remains, without being vanished by single crystallization, until a process for forming the front surface structure including the MOS gate structure ends. Therefore, it is possible to sufficiently maintain the gettering function of the gettering polysilicon layer even in a heat treatment process subsequent to an isolation diffusion process.
US09385202B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an isolated trench-electrode structure. The semiconductor device is formed using a modified photolithographic process to produce alternating regions of thick and thin dielectric layers that separate the trench electrode from regions of the semiconductor device. The thin dielectric layers can be configured to control the formation channel regions, and the thick dielectric layers can be configured to reduce switching losses.
US09385199B2
A method includes forming a relaxed layer in a semiconductor device. The method also includes forming a tensile layer over the relaxed layer, where the tensile layer has tensile stress. The method further includes forming a compressive layer over the relaxed layer, where the compressive layer has compressive stress. The compressive layer has a piezoelectric polarization that is approximately equal to or greater than a spontaneous polarization in the relaxed, tensile, and compressive layers. The piezoelectric polarization in the compressive layer could be in an opposite direction than the spontaneous polarization in the compressive layer. The relaxed layer could include gallium nitride, the tensile layer could include aluminum gallium nitride, and the compressive layer could include aluminum indium gallium nitride.
US09385196B2
Integrated circuits are presented having high voltage IGBTs with integral emitter shorts and fabrication processes using wafer bonding or gown epitaxial silicon for controlled drift region thickness and fast switching speed.
US09385190B2
The embodiments described herein provide a semiconductor device layout and method that can be utilized in a wide variety of semiconductor devices. In one embodiment a semiconductor device is provided that includes a plurality of deep trench isolation structures that define and surround a first plurality of first trench-isolated regions in the substrate, and further define a second plurality of second trench-isolated regions in the substrate. The first plurality of first trench-isolated regions is arranged in a plurality of first columns, with each of the first columns including at least two of the first plurality of first trench-isolated regions. Likewise, the plurality of first columns are interleaved with the second trench-isolated regions to alternate in an array such that a second trench-isolated region is between consecutive first columns in the array and such that at least two first trench-isolated regions are between consecutive second trench-isolated regions in the array.
US09385189B1
A method of forming a fin liner and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include forming silicon (Si) fins over negative channel field-effect transistor (nFET) and positive channel field-effect transistor (pFET) regions of a substrate, each of the Si fins having a silicon nitride (SiN) cap; forming a SiN liner over the Si fins and SiN caps; forming a block mask over the pFET region; removing the SiN liner in the nFET region; removing the block mask in the pFET region; forming a diffusion barrier liner over the Si fins; forming a dielectric layer over and between the Si fins; planarizing the dielectric layer down to the SiN caps in the nFET region; and recessing the dielectric layer to expose an upper portion of the Si fins.
US09385165B2
A photovoltaic device forming a solar cell includes a first surface on a first column and a second surface on a second column, wherein the first surface is applied with a first light absorption media and the second surface is applied with a second light absorption media. The first surface and the second surface form a resonance cavity that can trap incident light entering to enhance light absorption.
US09385162B2
Junction diodes fabricated in standard CMOS logic processes can be used as program selectors for reversible resistive devices, such as PCM, RRAM, CBRAM, or other memory cells. The reversible resistive devices have a reversible resistive element coupled to a diode. The diode can be constructed by P+ and N+ active regions on an N well as the P and N terminals of the diode. By applying a voltage or a current between a reversible resistive element and the N terminal of a diode, the reversible resistive device can be programmed into different states based on magnitude, duration, voltage-limit, or current-limit in a reversible manner. The P+ active region of the diode can be isolated from the N+ active region in the N well by using dummy MOS gate, SBL, or STI/LOCOS isolations.
US09385161B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device having a reservoir capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A first insulating layer is formed on a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region. A first conductive layer is formed on the first insulating layer, and a second insulating layer is formed on the first conductive layer. The second insulating layer is patterned to be left in a portion of the first region. A second conductive layer is formed on the second insulating layer and the first conductive layer. The second conductive layer is etched to expose a partial surface of the first conductive layer in the first region. The second conductive layer and the first conductive layer are etched to form a reservoir capacitor in the first region and form a gate in the second region.
US09385157B2
A pixel of an image sensor includes a photoelectric conversion region formed in a semiconductor substrate, a floating diffusion region formed in the semiconductor substrate, the floating diffusion region being spaced apart from the photoelectric conversion region, a vertical transfer gate extending from a first surface of the semiconductor substrate into a recess in the semiconductor substrate, and configured to form a transfer channel between the photoelectric conversion region and the floating diffusion region, and an impurity region surrounding the recess. The impurity region has a first impurity concentration at a region adjacent to a side of the recess, and a second impurity concentration higher than the first impurity concentration at a region adjacent to the bottom of the recess.
US09385156B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of manufacturing a back side illuminated (BSI) image sensor. The method includes receiving a semiconductive substrate; forming a transistor coupled to a photosensitive element at a front side of the semiconductive substrate; forming a deep trench isolation (DTI) at a back side of the semiconductive substrate; forming a doped layer conformally over the DTI; performing a microwave anneal over the back side; forming a non-transparent material inside the DTI; and forming a color filter over the doped layer.
US09385154B2
There is provided a solid-state image sensor including a pixel region in which a plurality of pixels of a preset plurality of colors are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix shape, a vertical signal line corresponding to a pixel column of the pixel region, a trigger line corresponding to a pixel row of the pixel region and supplying a trigger pulse corresponding to each of the colors of the plurality of pixels, and a trigger pulse supply part supplying, via the trigger line, the trigger pulse in a manner that a signal voltage of each pixel of a predetermined color in the pixel region is read out for each pixel row via the vertical signal line, and thereafter, a signal voltage of each pixel of another color in the pixel region is read out for each pixel row via the vertical signal line.
US09385149B2
An imaging device comprises a sensor of surface area of at least 10 cm2 and comprising: an image zone produced on a single substrate and comprising a group of pixels disposed in rows and columns, the number of pixels per column not being uniform for all the columns of pixels, each pixel collecting electric charges generated by a photosensitive element, row conductors linking the pixels row by row, column conductors linking the pixels column by column, row addressing blocks linked to the row conductors to address each row of pixels individually, and column reading blocks linked to the column conductors to read the electric charges collected by the pixels of the row selected by the row addressing blocks, the column reading blocks being situated at the periphery of the image zone; the row addressing blocks and the column reading blocks being produced on the same substrate as the image zone.
US09385144B2
An array substrate and a display device that comprises the array substrate are disclosed. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, a plurality of scan lines (Ga, 21) and a plurality of data lines (Dr, 4) that are provided on the base substrate and intersect with each other, and a plurality of sub-pixel regions arranged evenly; sub-pixel regions in two adjacent rows are configured as one pixel row group, so that a plurality of pixel row groups are arranged longitudinally, and between two rows of sub-pixel regions within each of the pixel row groups and/or between every two adjacent pixel row groups, there are provided two scan lines (Ga, 21), which overlap in partial (22b) and are insulated from each other; or, sub-pixel regions in two adjacent columns are configured as one pixel column group, so that a plurality of pixel column groups are arranged transversely, and between two columns of sub-pixel regions within each of the pixel column groups or between every two adjacent pixel column groups, there are provided two data lines (Dr), which overlap in partial and are insulated from each other. The array substrate has a relatively high aperture ratio.
US09385143B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a TFT array substrate, in which TFT elements and pixel electrodes being correspondingly connected with the TFT elements are arrayed in matrix on an insulating substrate, the TFT array substrate including: gate bus lines made from a first metal material; source bus lines made from a second metal material; pixel electrodes made from a third metal material; a clock wiring made from the first metal material; a branch wiring made from the second metal material; and a connection conductor made from the third metal material, the connection conductor connecting the clock wiring and the branch wiring at a connection part in a periphery area, the connection part having a branch-wiring via hole, which exposes the branch wiring which is covered with the connection conductor, and overlaps the clock wiring at least partly in a plane view.
US09385140B1
An integrated circuit has a buried interconnect in the buried oxide layer connecting a body of a MOS transistor to a through-substrate via (TSV). The buried interconnect extends laterally past the TSV. The integrated circuit is formed by starting with a substrate, forming the buried oxide layer with the buried interconnect at a top surface of the substrate, and forming a semiconductor device layer over the buried oxide layer. The MOS transistor is formed in the semiconductor device layer so that the body makes an electrical connection to the buried interconnect. Subsequently, the TSV is formed through a bottom surface of the substrate so as to make an electrical connection to the buried interconnect in the buried oxide layer. A body of a transistor is electrically coupled to the TSV through the buried interconnect.
US09385135B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a substrate; a channel layer projecting from a surface of the substrate, in a direction perpendicular to the surface; a tunnel dielectric layer surrounding the channel layer; a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers and a plurality of control gate electrodes alternately formed along the channel layer; floating gate electrodes interposed between the tunnel dielectric layer and the plurality of control gate electrodes, the floating gate electrodes comprising a metal-semiconductor compound; and a charge blocking layer interposed between each of the plurality of control gate electrodes and each of the plurality of floating gate electrodes.
US09385134B2
In a semiconductor device, parallel first and second conductive lines having a unit width extend from a memory cell region into a connection region. A trim region in the connection region includes pads respectively connected to the first and second conductive lines but are separated by a width much greater than the unit width.
US09385132B2
A method of forming an array of recessed access device gate constructions includes using the width of an anisotropically etched sidewall spacer in forming mask openings in an etch mask for forming all recessed access device trenches within semiconductor material within all of the array. The etch mask is used while etching all of the recessed access device trenches into the semiconductor material within all of the array through the mask openings. Individual recessed access gate constructions are formed in the individual recessed access device trenches. Other methods are contemplated, including arrays of recessed access devices independent of method of manufacture.
US09385131B2
A conductive strap structure in lateral contact with a top semiconductor layer is formed on an inner electrode of a deep trench capacitor. A cavity overlying the conductive strap structure is filled a dielectric material to form a dielectric capacitor cap having a top surface that is coplanar with a topmost surface of an upper pad layer. A semiconductor mandrel in lateral contact with the dielectric capacitor cap is formed. The combination of the dielectric capacitor cap and the semiconductor mandrel is employed as a protruding structure around which a fin-defining spacer is formed. The semiconductor mandrel is removed, and the fin-defining spacer is employed as an etch mask in an etch process that etches a lower pad layer and the top semiconductor layer to form a semiconductor fin that laterally wraps around the conductive strap structure. An access finFET is formed employing two parallel portions of the semiconductor fin.
US09385130B2
In order to achieve the reduction of contact resistance by forming a metal silicide layer with a sufficient thickness in an interface between a polycrystalline silicon plug and an upper conductive plug, the polycrystalline silicon plug contains germanium, which is ion-implanted before forming the metal silicide layer.
US09385128B2
A selection operation is performed for individual memory cells. A device includes a first memory cell and a second memory cell provided in the same row as the first memory cell, each of which includes a field-effect transistor having a first gate and a second gate. The field-effect transistor controls at least data writing and data holding in the memory cell by being turned on or off. The device further includes a row selection line electrically connected to the first gates of the field-effect transistors included in the first memory cell and the second memory cell, a first column selection line electrically connected to the second gate of the field-effect transistor included in the first memory cell, and a second column selection line electrically connected to the second gate of the field-effect transistor included in the second memory cell.
US09385117B2
An integrated circuit formed on a silicon substrate includes an NMOS transistor with n-channel raised source and drain (NRSD) layers adjacent to a gate of the NMOS transistor, a PMOS transistor with SiGe stressors in the substrate adjacent to a gate of the PMOS transistor, and an NPN heterojunction bipolar transistor (NHBT) with a p-type SiGe base formed in the substrate and an n-type silicon emitter formed on the SiGe base. The SiGe stressors and the SiGe base are formed by silicon-germanium epitaxy. The NRSD layers and the silicon emitter are formed by silicon epitaxy.
US09385113B2
Diffusion regions having the same conductivity type are arranged on a side of a second wiring and a side of a third wiring, respectively under a first wiring connected to a signal terminal. Diffusion regions are separated in a whole part or one part of a range in a Y direction. That is, under first wiring, diffusion regions are only formed in parts opposed to diffusion regions formed under the second wiring and third wiring connected to a power supply terminal or a ground terminal, and a diffusion region is not formed in a central part in an X direction. Therefore, terminal capacity of the signal terminal can be reduced without causing ESD resistance to be reduced, in an ESD protection circuit with the signal terminal.
US09385111B2
An electronic component which comprises an electrically conductive mounting structure, an electronic chip on the mounting structure, an electrically conductive redistribution structure on the electronic chip, and a periphery connection structure electrically coupled to the redistribution structure and being configured for connecting the electronic component to an electronic periphery, wherein at least one of the electrically conductive mounting structure and the electrically conductive redistribution structure comprises electrically conductive inserts in an electrically insulating matrix.
US09385110B2
A link device with a large density routing is attached to a package in order to provide a high-density interconnect pathway to interconnect semiconductor devices. In an embodiment the package is an integrated fan out package. The link device may be bonded on either side of the package, and the package may optionally comprise through package vias. The link device may also be an integrated passive device that includes resistors, inductor, and capacitor components.
US09385107B2
A device includes a substrate including an electrically insulating core, a first electrically conductive material arranged over a first main surface of the substrate, and a second electrically conductive material arranged over a second main surface of the substrate opposite to the first main surface. The device further includes an electrically conductive connection extending from the first main surface to the second main surface and electrically coupling the first electrically conductive material and the second electrically conductive material, a first semiconductor chip arranged over the first main surface and electrically coupled to the first electrically conductive material, and a second semiconductor chip arranged over the second main surface and electrically coupled to the second electrically conductive material.
US09385099B2
One example embodiment discloses a chip having a chip area, wherein the chip area includes: an overhang area; a rigid coupling area, having a set of rigid coupling points, located on one side of the overhang area; and a flexible coupling area, having a set of flexible coupling points, located on a side of the overhang area opposite to the a rigid coupling area. Another example embodiment discloses a method for fabricating a die interconnect, comprising: fabricating a rigid coupler area, having a set of rigid coupler points, within a chip having a chip area; defining an overhang area within the chip area and abutted to the rigid coupler area; and fabricating a flexible coupler area, having a set of flexible coupler points, within the chip area abutted to a side of the overhang area opposite to the rigid coupler area.
US09385096B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor chip having a main face which has a pair of long sides parallel to each other and a pair of short sides orthogonal to the pair of long sides; first bumps arrayed in a first bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the first bump placement region being positioned along one of the pair of long sides; second bumps arrayed in a second bump placement region of the semiconductor chip, the second bump placement region being positioned along the other of the pair of long sides; first power lines disposed in a region between the first bump placement region and the second bump placement region, the first power lines extending in a direction parallel to the pair of long sides; and third bumps integrated on the semiconductor chip. Each of the third bumps provides short-circuiting of the first power lines.
US09385091B2
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate, a die mounted on the substrate, a reinforcement plate bonded to the die, and an adhesive layer coupling the reinforcement plate to the die.
US09385087B2
Various embodiments include resistor structures. Particular embodiments include a resistor structure having multiple oxide layers, at least one of which includes a modified oxide. The modified oxide can aid in controlling the thermal capacitance and the thermal time constant of the resistor structure, or the thermal dissipation within the resistor structure.
US09385086B2
A robust metallization profile is formed by forming two or more layers of hard mask with different density. Multi-layer metal hard mask is helpful especially in small feature size process, for example, 50 nm and below. Lower layers have higher density. In such ways, enough process window is offered by lower layers and at the same time, round hard mask profile is offered by upper layers.
US09385083B1
An interconnect for electrically coupling pads formed on adjacent chips or on packaging material adjacent the chips, with an electrically conductive heat sink being disposed between the pads, the interconnect comprising a metallic membrane layer disposed between two adjacent pads and disposed or bridging over the electrically conductive heat sink so as to avoid making electrical contact with the electrically conductive heat sink. An electroplated metallic layer is disposed on the metallic membrane layer. Fabrication of interconnect permits multiple interconnects to be formed in parallel using fabrication techniques compatible with wafer level fabrication of the interconnects. The interconnects preferably follow a smooth curve to electrically connect adjacent pads and following that smooth curve they bridge over the intervening electrically conductive heat sink material in a predictable fashion.
US09385080B2
An interconnect structure and a method of forming an interconnect structure are disclosed. The interconnect structure includes a contact layer over a substrate; a dielectric layer over the contact layer, wherein the dielectric layer has an opening, the opening exposing a portion of the contact layer; a silicide layer over the exposed portion of the contact layer; a barrier layer along sidewalls of the opening; an alloy layer over the barrier layer; a glue layer over the alloy layer; and a conductive plug over the glue layer.
US09385077B2
Some novel features pertain to an integrated device that includes a substrate, a first interconnect coupled to the substrate, and a second interconnect surrounding the first interconnect. The second interconnect may be configured to provide an electrical connection to ground. In some implementations, the second interconnect includes a plate. In some implementations, the integrated device also includes a dielectric material between the first interconnect and the second interconnect. In some implementations, the integrated device also includes a mold surrounding the second interconnect. In some implementations, the first interconnect is configured to conduct a power signal in a first direction. In some implementations, the second interconnect is configured to conduct a grounding signal in a second direction. In some implementations, the second direction is different from the first direction. In some implementations, the integrated device may be a package-on-package (PoP) device.
US09385065B2
Thermal rectifiers using linear nanostructures as core thermal conductors have been fabricated. A high mass density material is added preferentially to one end of the nanostructures to produce an axially non-uniform mass distribution. The resulting nanoscale system conducts heat asymmetrically with greatest heat flow in the direction of decreasing mass density. Thermal rectification has been demonstrated for linear nanostructures that are electrical insulators, such as boron nitride nanotubes, and for nanostructures that are conductive, such as carbon nanotubes.
US09385064B2
A semiconductor structure includes a heat sink. The heat sink having a first major surface, a second major surface, a first sidewall surface, and a through-opening extending from one of the first sidewall surface or the first major surface of the heat sink to the second surface of the heat sink, and wherein the through-opening has an inflow region, a restrictive region, and an outflow region. The restrictive region is located between the inflow region and the outflow region, wherein the inflow region has an inflow surface opening at the one of the first sidewall or the first major surface, and the outflow region has an outflow surface opening at the second major surface. A cross-sectional area of the restrictive region is less than an area of the inflow surface opening and less than an area of the outflow surface opening.
US09385063B2
Provided by the present invention are a thermally conductive sheet feeder and a method for feeding a thermally conductive sheet, which are a thermally conductive sheet feeder and a method for feeding a thermally conductive sheet using an emboss carrier tape, wherein the emboss carrier tape provided on its surface with a plurality of pockets, each having one thermally conductive sheet accommodated therein, and a cover film to protect surface of the emboss carrier tape are rolled up in a reel-like form.
US09385061B2
A semiconductor device includes: semiconductor modules in which a circuit board having at least one or more semiconductor chips mounted thereon is sealed with a mold resin material and an attachment hole is formed; main terminal plates that individually connect individual connection terminals of the plurality of semiconductor modules which are arranged in parallel; and a module storage case into which the plurality of the semiconductor modules connected by the main terminal plates are inserted integrally with the main terminal plates from an opening portion and which holds the plurality of semiconductor modules such that the position of the semiconductor modules can be adjusted during attachment and includes attachment insertion holes facing the attachment holes of the semiconductor modules.
US09385060B1
Integrated circuit packages with enhanced thermal conduction are disclosed. A disclosed integrated circuit package includes a package substrate. An integrated circuit die with a layer of metal on its backside is mounted on the package substrate at a first temperature (e.g., reflow temperature). The package further includes a heat spreading lid that is bonded to the integrated circuit die at a second temperature, which is less than the first temperature. The heat spreading lid is formed over the integrated circuit die in which the heat spreading lid makes physical contact with the integrated circuit die via the layer of metal.
US09385055B2
A method of assembling a semiconductor chip device is provided that includes placing an interposer on a first semiconductor chip. The interposer includes a first surface seated on the first semiconductor chip and a second surface adapted to thermally contact a heat spreader. The second surface includes a first aperture. A second semiconductor chip is placed in the first aperture.
US09385051B2
A semiconductor material is patterned to define elongated fins insulated from an underlying substrate. A polysilicon semiconductor material is deposited over and in between the elongated fins, and is patterned to define elongated gates extending to perpendicularly cross over the elongated fins at a transistor channel. Sidewall spacers are formed on side walls of the elongated gates. Portions of the elongated fins located between the elongated gates are removed, along with the underlying insulation, to expose the underlying substrate. One or more semiconductor material layers are then epitaxially grown from the underlying substrate at locations between the elongated gates. The one or more semiconductor material layers may include an undoped epi-layer and an overlying doped epi-layer. The epitaxial material defines a source or drain of the transistor.
US09385046B2
An embodiment is an integrated circuit structure including two insulation regions over a substrate with one of the two insulation regions including a void, at least a bottom surface of the void being defined by the one of the two insulation regions. The integrated circuit structure further includes a first semiconductor strip between and adjoining the two insulation regions, where the first semiconductor strip includes a top portion forming a fin over top surfaces of the two insulation regions, a gate dielectric over a top surface and sidewalls of the fin, and a gate electrode over the gate dielectric.
US09385042B2
This invention provides a technique advantageous to improve the operating speed of an integrated circuit. In a semiconductor device in which an n-type transistor and a p-type transistor are formed on the (551) plane of silicon, the thickness of a silicide layer which is in contact with a diffusion region of the n-type transistor is smaller than that of a silicide layer which is in contact with a diffusion region of the p-type transistor.
US09385038B2
A method of forming a wiring structure for an integrated circuit device includes forming one or more copper lines within an interlevel dielectric layer (ILD); masking selected regions of the one or more copper lines; selectively plating metal cap regions over exposed regions of the one or more copper lines; and forming a conformal insulator layer over the metal cap regions and uncapped regions of the one or more copper lines.
US09385034B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate; a conductive wiring in the dielectric layer; and a metal carbide cap layer over the conductive wiring.
US09385033B2
A metal precursor and a method comprising decomposing a metal precursor on an integrated circuit device; and forming a metal from the metal precursor, wherein the metal precursor is selected from the group consisting of (i) a Co2(CO)6(R1C≡CR2), wherein R1 and R2 are individually selected from a straight or branched monovalent hydrocarbon group have one to six carbon atoms that may be interrupted and substituted; (ii) a mononuclear cobalt carbonyl nitrosyl; (iii) a cobalt carbonyl bonded to one of a boron, indium, germanium and tin moiety; (iv) a cobalt carbonyl bonded to a mononuclear or binuclear allyl; and (v) a cobalt(II) complex comprising nitrogen-based supporting ligands.
US09385031B2
According to one embodiment, a method for processing a semiconductor device is provided including forming a final metal layer forming a passivation layer over the final metal layer and structuring the passivation layer and the final metal layer to form a patterned metal layer and a patterned passivation layer, wherein the patterned metal layer includes a pad region covered by the patterned passivation layer.
US09385021B2
System and methods for plasma processing of a wafer include a chamber with an electrode having a support surface and an outer edge region defined thereon. A radio frequency power is communicated to the electrode via a conductive delivery connection and returned through a conductive return connection. A capacitance is applied to a first end that causes appropriate capacitive adjustment and opposite impedance adjustment at a second end of the conductive delivery connection that is coupled to a dielectric surround structure that surrounds the electrode. The dielectric surround structure presents the opposite impedance adjustment near an outer edge of the electrode, such that increasing the capacitance at the first end causes a corresponding increase of impedance at the second end and a corresponding increase in voltage distribution near the outer edge region of the electrode that decreases toward a center of the support surface of the electrode.
US09385014B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes arranging a melted resin on a substrate, arranging a semiconductor chip on the melted resin, pressing the semiconductor chip and flip-chip mounting the semiconductor chip on the substrate, and hardening the melted resin with the melted resin being subjected to a fluid pressure and forming a resin portion.
US09385013B2
Provided is a technique including forming a film by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes: (a) forming a discontinuous first layer including the first element and having a thickness of less than one atomic layer on the substrate by supplying a gas containing the first element into a process vessel accommodating the substrate; and (b) forming a second layer including the first element and the second element by supplying a gas containing the second element into the process vessel to modify the first layer under a condition where a modifying reaction of the first layer by the gas containing the second element is not saturated.
US09385004B2
Embodiments of the disclosure generally relate to a support cylinder used in a thermal process chamber. In one embodiment, the support cylinder comprises a ring body having an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, wherein the ring body comprises an opaque quartz glass material and wherein the ring body is coated with an optical transparent layer. The optical transparent layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion that is substantially matched or similar to the opaque quartz glass material to reduce thermal expansion mismatch that may cause thermal stress under high thermal loads. In one example, the opaque quartz glass material is synthetic black quartz and the optical transparent layer comprises a clear fused quartz material.
US09385001B1
A P-N junction gate high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device with a self-aligned gate structure and a method for making the HEMT device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the HEMT device includes a heterojunction comprising a barrier layer formed on a channel layer. A gate layer is formed on the barrier layer, the gate layer comprising a P-type group III-V semiconductor material suitable for depleting the carriers of a current conducting channel at the heterojunction when the HEMT device is off. A gate electrode comprising indium tin oxide (ITO) is formed on the gate layer, the gate electrode and the gate layer having substantially the same length.
US09384998B2
Various embodiments herein relate to methods, apparatus and systems for forming a recessed feature in dielectric material on a semiconductor substrate. Separate etching and deposition operations are employed in a cyclic manner. Each etching operation partially etches the feature. Each deposition operation forms a protective coating on the sidewalls of the feature to prevent lateral etch of the dielectric material during the etching operations. The protective coating may be deposited using methods that result in formation of the protective coating along substantially the entire length of the sidewalls. The protective coating may be deposited using particular reactants and/or reaction mechanisms that result in substantially complete sidewall coating at relatively low temperatures without the use of plasma. In some cases the protective coating is deposited using molecular layer deposition techniques.
US09384995B2
A non-volatile memory device and a method for forming the non-volatile memory device are disclosed. During fabrication of the memory device, a tungsten salicide is utilized as an etch-stop layer in place of a conventionally used aluminum oxide to form channel pillars having a high aspect ratio. Use of the tungsten salicide is useful for eliminating an undesired etch-stop recess and an undesired floating gate that is formed when an Al oxide etch-stop layer is conventionally used.
US09384994B2
Disclosed herein is a method of forming a structure, comprising forming a mandrel layer over a substrate, masking the mandrel layer with a first mask and performing a first etch on the mandrel layer, the first etch forming a first opening exposing a first portion of the substrate. The mandrel layer is masked with a second mask and a second etch is performed on the mandrel layer. The second etch forms a second opening exposing a second portion of the substrate, and also forms a protective layer on the first portion of the substrate and in the first opening.
US09384993B2
An oxide etching method includes loading an object to be processed, on a surface of which a patterned silicon oxide film is formed, in a chamber, supplying HF gas and NH3 gas as reactant gases and a diluent gas to the chamber to conduct a reaction treatment in which the HF gas and the NH3 gas are reacted with the silicon oxide film. Thereafter, a heating process is performed to remove a reaction product generated by the reaction treatment. In the reaction treatment, a pressure in the chamber is increased to a predetermined value by increasing a flow rate of the diluent gas so that no etching residue remains and an etching shape has high verticality after the heating process.
US09384987B2
Embodiments related to metal oxide protective layers formed on a surface of a halogen-sensitive metal-including layer present on a substrate processed in a semiconductor processing reactor are provided. In one example, a method for forming a metal oxide protective layer is provided. The example method includes forming a metal-including active species on the halogen-sensitive metal-including layer, the metal-including active species being derived from a non-halogenated metal oxide precursor. The example method also includes reacting an oxygen-containing reactant with the metal-including active species to form the metal oxide protective layer.
US09384984B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device is disclosed. A substrate having a dielectric layer thereon is provided. The dielectric layer has a gate trench therein and a gate dielectric layer is formed on a bottom of the gate trench. A work function metal layer and a top barrier layer are sequentially formed in the gate trench. A treatment is performed to the top barrier layer so as to form a silicon-containing top barrier layer. A low-resistivity metal layer is formed in the gate trench.
US09384982B2
A method is provided, along with a corresponding apparatus, for filling a high aspect ratio hole without voids or for producing high aspect ratio structures without voids. A beam having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the hole is directed into the hole to induced deposition beginning in the center region of the hole bottom. After an elongated structure is formed in the hole by the beam-induced deposition, a beam can then be scanned in a pattern at least as large as the hole diameter to fill the remainder of the hole. The high aspect ratio hole can then be cross-sectioned using an ion beam for observation without creating artefacts. When electron-beam-induced deposition is used, the electrons preferably have a high energy to reach the bottom of the hole, and the beam has a low current, to reduce spurious deposition by beam tails.
US09384978B1
The present invention provides a method for forming trenches. First, a mandrel layer is formed on a substrate, wherein the mandrel layer comprises a stop layer and a sacrificial layer. A spacer is formed on at least a sidewall of the mandrel layer, following by forming a material layer on the substrate for covering the spacer and the mandrel layer. After performing a removing process to remove apart of the material layer, apart of the spacer and the sacrificial layer; the spacer is removed to form at least one first trench in the remaining material layer and the mandrel.
US09384970B2
Provided is a technique including forming a film on a substrate, the film including a first element and a second element different from the first element, by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes: forming a first layer including a discontinuous chemical adsorption layer of a molecule constituting a gas containing the first element by supplying the gas containing the first element to the substrate under a condition where chemical adsorption of the molecule on a surface of the substrate is not saturated; and forming a second layer including the first element and the second element by supplying a gas containing the second element to the substrate to modify the first layer under a condition where a modifying reaction of the first layer by the gas containing the second element is not saturated.
US09384962B2
A method of manufacturing a metal gate is provided. The method includes providing a substrate. Then, a gate dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. A multi-layered stack structure having a work function metal layer is formed on the gate dielectric layer. An O2 ambience treatment is performed on at least one layer of the multi-layered stack structure. A conductive layer is formed on the multi-layered stack structure.
US09384960B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a continuous silicate glass structure over a first surface of a semiconductor body, including a first part of the continuous glass structure over an active area of the semiconductor body and a second part of the continuous glass structure over an area of the semiconductor body outside of the active area. A first composition of dopants included in the first part of continuous glass structure differs from a second composition of dopants of the second part of the continuous glass structure.
US09384956B2
A nebulizer characterized in being provided with: an inner tube, which is disposed coaxially with an outer tube in which a nebulizing outlet is formed and which, together with the outer tube, forms a gas channel therebetween; a sample channel, which is formed inside the inner tube and through which a liquid sample to be nebulized flows; and a reticular membrane disposed with a gap from the sample outlet that is formed at one end of the inner tube and in which multiple holes, through which liquid sample drops flowing out from the sample outlet pass along with a gas, are formed. Using the nebulizer, the particle size of the nebulized liquid droplets can be made uniformly fine over a broad range of sample liquid flow volumes while retention of sample liquid in the nebulizer is reduced.
US09384953B2
A measurement condition memory stores a CID gas condition table indicating a relation between the scan speed of a mass scan by a front-stage quadrupole mass filter and a CID gas supply pressure. If the scan speed is high, an influence of a decrease in speed of ions due to collisions with a CID gas inside a collision cell is relatively large. An appropriate CID gas supply pressure that reduces the decay of a peak waveform on a mass spectrum and makes the ion intensity as high as possible is examined in advance for each scan speed, and is stored in advance. During measurement of a target sample, if a precursor ion scan measurement mode or the like is designated, a CID gas supply pressure corresponding to the currently set scan speed is obtained based on the CID gas condition table, and the CID gas supplier is controlled.
US09384952B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising alternating between a first mode in which parent ions are analysed and a second mode in which parent ions are fragmented and their fragment ions are mass analysed. In the first mode the parent ions are charge reduced before being analysed, so as to simplify the parent ion spectral data obtained. In the second mode, the parent ions are not charge reduced prior to fragmentation, so that it remains relatively easy to induce the parent ions to fragment. The parent ions are then associated with their fragment ions using the mass spectral data obtained.
US09384947B2
A cold plasma mask application device for delivery of a cold plasma to the face of a patient. An appropriate gas is introduced into a gas containment area that is energized by one or more electrodes that receive energy from a pulsed source. The plasma can be prevented from contact with the patient's face, or can be allowed to make contact with the patient's face at the appropriate treatment area. A three-layer approach to the manufacture of the cold plasma mask application device is also described. Such a device and method can be used to treat acne as well as complex facial wounds such as those resulting from trauma, melanoma, and other cancers of the face, rosacea, and psoriasis.
US09384920B1
A locking knob has a mounting base and a knob. The mounting base is shaped to be mounted to a fixed base of an electronic device, and includes a knob receiver extending upwardly to form a knob receiving portion. The knob has a knob top that is adapted to be grasped for manipulating the knob. The knob is positioned in the knob receiving portion of the knob receiver to operably engage a shaft of the electronic device so that the knob can be used to turn the shaft. A position selection mechanism enables locking the knob in either a lowered position or a raised position, and a locking feature of the knob interlocks with the locking base when the knob is in the lowered position, but leaves the knob free to rotate when in the raised position.
US09384909B2
The present invention is the field of electrical elements, related to the technology for improving the connection performance of the static contact device for strong current in high voltage switches, especially for a type of static contact device for strong current in high voltage earthing switches. It includes a base, with two Contact Pieces standing face-to-face on it and vertical to its upper end surface. Outside each of the two Contact Pieces, there is a supporting plate, the lower end of which is firmly fixed on the base. Two groups of coaxially stacking Belleville springs are set between each supporting plate and the contact piece on the same side. By way of setting two groups of Belleville springs on one side, the present invention enlarges the contact surface between the Contact Piece and the moving contact blade, effectively reinforcing the gripping for each other. Compared with the scheme in which a single group of Belleville springs is used on one side with equal pressure, this new scheme can prolongs the products' service life as well as ensure good connection performance of the static contact.
US09384906B2
The present invention provides a nonaqueous electrolytic solution capable of improving electrochemical characteristics at high temperatures, which comprises at least one organic phosphorus compound represented by the following general formula (I), an energy storage device using the nonaqueous electrolytic solution, and a specific organic phosphorus compound. (In the formula, R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an alkoxy group, a cycloalkoxy group, an alkenyloxy group, an alkynyloxy group, a halogenoalkyl group, a halogenoalkoxy group, an aryl group, or an aryloxy group; R3 and R4 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or an alkyl group; m is an integer of from 1 to 4, n is 0 or 1, q is 1 or 2. When q is 1 and n is 0, X represents an alkoxy group, an alkynyloxy group, an alkyloxyalkoxy group, an aryloxy group, etc.; when q is 1 and n is 1, X represents an alkyl group, an alkynyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkynyloxy group, an alkyloxyalkoxy group, etc.; and when q is 2, X represents —O-L3-O—, —OC(═O)—C(═O)O—, or a single bond.)
US09384903B2
An energy storage device comprises at least one porous structure (500, 900) containing multiple channels (510), each one of which has an opening to a surface (505) of the porous structure. Each one of the channels has a first end (511) having a first average width (513) and a second end (512) having a second average width (514), with the first end being located where the channel opens to the surface of the porous structure and the second end being located at a distance from the first end as measured along a length of the channel. For at least some of the channels, the first average width is larger than the second average width.
US09384899B2
A tantalum capacitor may include: a capacitor body containing a tantalum powder and having a tantalum wire exposed to one end surface thereof; a positive electrode lead frame including a positive electrode terminal part, a vertical support part vertically extended from one leading edge of the positive electrode terminal part, and a positive electrode connection part extended from the vertical support part toward the positive electrode terminal part and connected to the tantalum wire; a negative electrode lead frame having the capacitor body mounted on an upper surface thereof; and a molding part formed to allow a lower surface of the positive electrode terminal part of the positive electrode lead frame and a lower surface of the negative electrode lead frame to be exposed, while enclosing the capacitor body.
US09384896B2
There are provided a multilayer ceramic electronic component to be embedded in a board and a manufacturing method thereof, and particularly, a multilayer ceramic electronic component to be embedded in a board, in which a thickness of a ceramic body in an entire chip is increased by not allowing for an increase in a thickness of an external electrode while forming a band surface of the external electrode to have a predetermined length or greater for connecting the external electrode to an external wiring through a via hole, such that chip strength may be improved and the occurrence of damage such as breakage, or the like may be prevented, and a manufacturing method thereof, may be provided.
US09384891B2
Methods and systems for a metal finger capacitor with a triplet repeating sequence incorporating a metal underpass may comprise repeating triplet capacitors integrated on a semiconductor die. The capacitors may comprise a first set of interconnected metal fingers comprising a first terminal of a first capacitor, a second set of interconnected metal fingers comprising a first terminal of a second capacitor, and a third set of interconnected metal fingers comprising a common node that surrounds the first and second sets of interconnected metal fingers. The common node may comprise a second terminal of the capacitors. A repeating pattern of fingers may be: (third set/second set/third set/first set . . . ). The repeating pattern of metal fingers may be arranged in two parallel rows to mitigate variations in the semiconductor die. The interconnected metal fingers may comprise first and second metal layers formed on the semiconductor die.
US09384885B2
Described herein are improved configurations for a wireless power transfer. The parameters of components of the wireless energy transfer system are adjusted to control the power delivered to the load at the device. The power output of the source amplifier is controlled to maintain a substantially 50% duty cycle at the rectifier of the device.
US09384884B2
A current transformer is described which comprises a housing having one or more apertures, each for receiving a primary cable or busbar, one or more magnetic cores enclosed within the housing and being positioned proximate to respective ones of the apertures so that a magnetic field is produced in a magnetic core when a primary current flows through a primary cable or busbar received through the respective aperture, and one or more secondary windings enclosed within the housing, each secondary winding being wrapped around at least a portion of a respective magnetic core so that a secondary current is induced in a secondary winding when a magnetic field is produced in the respective magnetic core. Shunt circuitry is enclosed within the housing and is connected across the secondary windings to generate a respective voltage signal for each secondary winding. A connector socket is integrally mounted to the housing for outputting the voltage signals. In this way, the labor costs incurred during installation of the current transformer can be reduced, a risk of wiring errors can be avoided, and a risk of electrocution from secondary terminals being left open-circuit is removed.
US09384881B2
A balanced magnetic string and methods for forming same are described. The balanced magnetic string includes at least a plurality of magnetic elements linearly arranged in an alternating magnetic polarity pattern and each comprising a first magnetic volume and a compensating magnetic element having a second magnetic volume that is different than the first magnetic volume. The plurality of magnetic elements and the compensating magnetic element magnetically interact to provide a resultant magnetic field having a desired magnetic field strength at a point of interest.
US09384874B2
Connector 1 comprising: a plurality of twisted-pair cables 6 each comprising two twisted wires 7, 8, each of said wires 7, 8 being connected to a terminal 23, 24; a plurality of cavity blocks 9, each of said cavity blocks 9 has two cavities 17, 18 for accommodating the terminals 23, 24 of one of said twisted-pair cables 6; a housing 3 having an accommodation chamber 10 for accommodating the plurality of said cavity blocks 9.
US09384867B2
A new approach is conceived for the development of organic polymeric conducting materials synthesized from nanocomposites of nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) and polyaniline (PANI). The process involves oxidative-radical polymerization of aniline in the presence of NCC using either in situ or emulsion polymerization. The resulting NCC-PANI nanocomposite material can be obtained in film or powder form and exhibits electrical conductive properties typical of semiconducting materials. Unlike PANI, a brittle conductive polymer, NCC-PANI nanocomposite materials can be engineered to possess significant flexibility, strength and/or hardness as a result of the NCC acting as a reinforcing scaffold. Depending on the preparation conditions, electrical conductivities for the NCC-PANI nanocomposite materials prepared according to this disclosure range from 9.98×10−5 to 1.88×10−2 S·cm−1; they could also have hardness ≧0.189 GPa or be formed into flexible films of tensile strength of the order of 9.74 MPa and stretch of the order of 0.54%. These unique electrical and mechanical properties render these materials suitable for use in a variety of value-added industrial products, such as batteries, electronics, electrical sensors, separation membranes, anti-static coatings for aerospace applications, as well as anti-corrosive coatings for automotives and other industrial applications.
US09384862B2
A method of fabricating a liquid-metal coolant includes adding nanoparticles to the liquid-metal coolant to change neutronic properties of the liquid-metal coolant. The nanoparticles have neutronic properties different from that of the liquid-metal coolant.
US09384856B2
A memory system includes a memory and a built-in self-test (BIST) unit coupled to the memory. The BIST unit is configured to run a test pattern on the memory to accumulate a fault signature, and store fault signature information based on the accumulated fault signature at multiple locations in the memory.
US09384853B2
A shift register includes a plurality of stages each outputting k composite pulses each including an A-scan pulse and a B-scan pulse. At least one stage includes an A-sub-stage for controlling a voltage at an A-set node and a voltage at at least one A-reset node in response to an external A-control signal and generating an A-carry pulse based on the voltage at the A-set node. The voltage at the at least one A-reset node and any one A-clock pulse, at least one B-sub-stage for controlling a voltage at a B-set node and a voltage at at least one B-reset node in response to an external B-control signal and generating a B-carry pulse, and a scan output controller for generating k A-scan pulses and k B-scan pulses and outputting one of the A-scan pulses and one of the B-scan pulses corresponding to each other as one composite pulse.
US09384852B1
A semiconductor device which includes a normal cell, a replica cell, a word line, a first bit line, a bias generation circuit, a second bit line, and a current generation circuit. The normal cell is a one-time programmable (OTP) type memory cell. The replica cell has characteristics equivalent to those of the normal cell. The word line is electrically connected in common to a control terminal of the normal cell and a control terminal of the replica cell. The first bit line is electrically connected to an input-output terminal of the replica cell. The bias generation circuit is electrically connected to the first bit line. The second bit line is electrically connected to an input-output terminal of the normal cell. The current generation circuit is electrically connected to the second bit line. The bias generation circuit and the current generation circuit are controlled through a common control line.
US09384843B2
A nonvolatile memory includes a memory array. The memory array is connected to m word lines and (2+n) bit line pairs. These bit line pairs include an erase bit line pair, a program bit line pair and n data bit line pairs. Each word line is connected with (2+n) differential cells of a corresponding row. The (2+n) differential cells include an erase flag differential cell, a program flag differential cell and n data differential cells. The erase flag differential cell is connected with the erase bit line pair. The program flag differential cell is connected with the program line pair. The n data differential cells are connected with the data line pairs. The n data differential cells are determined as erased cells or programmed cells according to setting conditions of the erase flag differential cell and the program flag differential cell.
US09384835B2
Circuits and methods for performing search operations in a content addressable memory (CAM) array are provided. A system for searching a CAM includes a circuit that selectively activates a main-search of a two stage CAM search while a pre-search of the two stage CAM search is still active.
US09384829B2
A memory device includes n (n being an integer of 2 or more) resistance change films being series connected to each other. Each of the resistance change films is a superlattice film in which plural pairs of a first crystal layer made of a first compound and a second crystal layer made of a second compound are alternately stacked. An average composition of the entire resistance change film or an arrangement pitch of the first crystal layers and the second crystal layers are mutually different among the n resistance change films.
US09384826B2
In aspects of the present application, circuitry for storing data is provided including a static random access memory (SRAM) circuit operable to store data in an array of SRAM cell circuits arranged in rows and columns, each SRAM cell coupled to a pair of complementary bit lines disposed along the columns of SRAM cells circuits, and one or more precharge circuits in the SRAM memory circuit coupled to one or more pairs of the complementary bit lines and operable to charge the pairs of complementary bit lines to a precharge voltage, responsive to a precharge control signal. The precharge control signal within the SRAM circuit is operable to cause coupling transistors within the SRAM circuit to couple a pair of complementary bit lines to the precharge voltage responsive to mode signals output from a memory controller circuit external to the SRAM circuit, indicating a bitline precharge is to be performed.
US09384816B2
In a conventional DRAM, when the capacitance of a capacitor is reduced, an error of reading data easily occurs. A plurality of cells are connected to one bit line MBL_m. Each cell includes a sub bit line SBL_n_m and 4 to 64 memory cells (a memory cell CL_n_m_1 or the like). Further, each cell includes selection transistors STr1_n_m and STr2_n_m and an amplifier circuit AMP_n_m that is a complementary inverter or the like is connected to the selection transistor STr2_n_m. Since parasitic capacitance of the sub bit line SBL_n_m is sufficiently small, potential change due to electric charge in a capacitor of each memory cell can be amplified by the amplifier circuit AMP_n_m without an error, and can be output to the bit line.
US09384809B2
A word line divider which has a simplified circuit structure and can operate stably is provided. A storage device which has a simplified circuit structure and can operate stably is provided. A transistor whose leakage current is extremely low is connected in series with a portion between a word line and a sub word line so that the word line divider is constituted. The transistor can include an oxide semiconductor for a semiconductor layer in which a channel is formed. Such a word line divider whose circuit structure is simplified is used in the storage device.
US09384795B1
In an array that qualifies each row according to a valid/invalid state, each row may each include valid-gated read circuitry to conditionally block a read wordline from toggling unless the row stores a data word that has a valid state or a read force signal is asserted. Furthermore, in a write operation, each row may have valid-gated write circuitry that conditionally blocks a write wordline from toggling unless input data to be written to the row has a valid state or a write force signal is asserted. Moreover, output latch clocking may be blocked from toggling unless a row to be read stores a data word that has a valid state or the read force signal is asserted, and input latch clocking may also be blocked unless the input data to be written has a valid state or the write force signal is asserted.
US09384793B2
A data storage system includes data storage and random access memory. A sorting module is communicatively coupled to the random access memory and sorts data blocks of write data received in the random access memory of the data storage. A storage controller is communicatively coupled to the random access memory and the data storage and being configured to write the sorted data blocks into one or more individually-sorted granules in a granule storage area of the data storage, wherein each granule is dynamically constrained to a subset of logical block addresses. A method and processor-implemented process provide for sorting data blocks of write data received in random access memory of data storage. The method and processor-implemented process write the sorted data blocks into one or more individually-sorted granules in a granule storage area of the data storage, wherein each granule is dynamically constrained to a subset of logical block addresses.
US09384781B2
This invention provides a method of sparse representation of contents of high-resolution video images which supports content editing and propagation. It mainly comprises five steps which are: (1) to input the original images or videos of high resolution to summarize the characteristic information of their pixels; (2) to acquire the highly sparse samples of the original images or videos through the sparse representation technique; (3) to reconstruct each pixel of the input images or videos with a small number of the original sparse samples to calculate a coefficient of reconstruction; (4) to edit and propagate the original sparse samples to yield a result of new sparse samples; (5) to generate a result of final images or videos of high resolution according to the result of sparse samples and the coefficient of reconstruction. This invention only edits and propagates the highly sparse samples rather than all the information of pixels. Thus, the memory consumption can be greatly reduced so as to possibly process the images or videos of high resolution in a very small memory space. It is very potential to be widely applied in the fields of image processing, computer vision and augmented reality technique.
US09384774B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a disk and a head actuated over the disk, wherein the head comprises a laser configured to heat the disk while writing data to the disk. The laser power is adjusted and a pattern is written to a target track at the adjusted laser power. The pattern is read from the target track to generate a read signal, and a quality metric is generated based on the read signal. The process is repeated at least once, and a write power for the laser is configured based on a slope of the quality metric.
US09384769B2
A write head having a write pole with a tip portion defining a pole tip and a paddle portion extending from the tip portion away from the pole tip, the paddle portion defining a back edge. The write head also has a coil structure having at least two active turns crossing the paddle portion, wherein a back of the coil structure is no more than 1 micrometer past the back edge of the write pole. In some implementations, a length from the pole tip to the back edge is no more than 4.5 micrometers.
US09384766B2
Rotational latency is reduced in a standard conventional form factor HDD system by replacing, for example, the prior art rotary arm actuator of a conventional HDD, with one or more belts and pulleys and one or more read/write heads mounted on, or otherwise associated with the belts. Multiple scaled iterations facilitate energy savings and power optimized systems, without compromise to data access performance.
US09384759B2
Implementations include systems, methods and/or devices operable to detect voice activity in an audible signal by detecting glottal pulses. The dominant frequency of a series of glottal pulses is perceived as the intonation pattern or melody of natural speech, which is also referred to as the pitch. However, as noted above, spoken communication typically occurs in the presence of noise and/or other interference. In turn, the undulation of voiced speech is masked in some portions of the frequency spectrum associated with human speech by the noise and/or other interference. In some implementations, detection of voice activity is facilitated by dividing the frequency spectrum associated with human speech into multiple sub-bands in order to identify glottal pulses that dominate the noise and/or other inference in particular sub-bands. Additionally and/or alternatively, in some implementations the analysis is furthered to provide a pitch estimate of the detected voice activity.
US09384753B2
A sound outputting apparatus and a method of controlling the same are provided. A method of controlling a sound outputting apparatus includes extracting a noise signal and a desired signal, estimating a direction of arrival (DoA) of the extracted desired signal, and outputting sound.
US09384752B2
An audio device transfers voice data which requests playback, generated by a user to a portable player. The portable player performs voice recognition of the transferred voice data. Control for playback start is started in accordance with the content as the result of the voice recognition. The audio device starts monitoring for a playback state of the portable player. If the start of the playback operation is detected within a predetermined period, an output source of sound to be output is changed to the portable player.
US09384748B2
A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) that may process a window sequence based on mode switching is provided. The USAC may perform encoding or decoding by overlapping between frames based on a folding point when mode switching occurs. The USAC may process different window sequences for each situation to perform encoding or decoding, and thereby may improve a coding efficiency.
US09384743B2
An apparatus and method for encoding/decoding a multi-channel signal may be provided. The apparatus of encoding a multi-channel signal may insert information about whether to encode a phase parameter indicating phase information of a plurality of channels, included in the multi-channel signal, in a bitstream of the multi-channel signal. The apparatus of decoding a multi-channel signal may determine whether to up-mix a mono signal using the phase parameter based on the information about whether to encode.
US09384735B2
A method for facilitating the updating of a language model includes receiving, at a client device, via a microphone, an audio message corresponding to speech of a user; communicating the audio message to a first remote server; receiving, that the client device, a result, transcribed at the first remote server using an automatic speech recognition system (“ASR”), from the audio message; receiving, at the client device from the user, an affirmation of the result; storing, at the client device, the result in association with an identifier corresponding to the audio message; and communicating, to a second remote server, the stored result together with the identifier.
US09384727B2
The present invention refers to an active sound reduction system and method for attenuation of sound emitted by a primary sound source, especially for attenuation of snoring sounds emitted by a human being. This system comprises a primary sound source, at least one speaker as a secondary sound source for producing an attenuating sound to be superposed with the sound emitted by said primary sound source, a reference microphone for receiving sound from said primary sound source, and at least one error microphone being allocated to each speaker to form a speaker/microphone pair. The at least one error microphone is provided as a directional microphone pointing at its allocated speaker to receive residual sound resulting from the superposition of the sounds from the primary sound source and the corresponding speaker. The error microphone and speaker of at least one speaker/microphone pair and the primary sound source are arranged substantially collinear. A control unit is provided to receive an output reference signal of the reference microphone representing the sound received by the reference microphone and an output error signal of the at least one error microphone representing the sound received by the at least one error microphone and to calculate a control signal for the speaker from the output reference signal and the output error signal.
US09384710B2
A display has a spatial light modulator (10) for dynamically controlling a luminance of each pixel according to an input signal, the spatial light modulator having a non uniform spatial characteristic, the display also having an optical filter (20) having a spatial pattern to alter the luminance to compensate at least partially for the non uniform spatial characteristic. An electronic signal processing element applies some pre compensation predominantly of higher spatial frequencies for the non uniform spatial characteristic. Such dynamic and optical compensation can enable tuning for different optimizations or for compensating for variations over time. A backlight has an optical source and an optical filter, the source having a color output which has a non uniform spatial characteristic, and the optical filter having a spatial pattern to alter the color to compensate in part at least for the non uniform spatial characteristic.
US09384708B2
The present document provides a method and apparatus for managing a display screen, and the display screen includes at least two display areas. The method includes: detecting a first display effect damaged value of a first display area in the at least two display areas; comparing the first display effect damaged value with a predetermined threshold value, and outputting a first comparison result; and when the first display effect damaged value is larger than the threshold value, adjusting a display effect of the first display area to a first display effect based on the first display effect damaged value, to match the first display effect with a second display effect of a second display area without stains. Through the above technical scheme, adjustment is performed on display effect of the display screen, which guarantees the display effect of the display screen and makes the user experience of users enhance greatly.
US09384707B2
A display device including optical sensors in a pixel region, in which the number of bus lines for supplying driving signals to the optical sensors is reduced, is provided. The display device includes a display pixel circuit (8) and a sensor pixel circuit (9) that are provided in a pixel region (4) of an active matrix substrate. The sensor pixel circuit (9) includes: a light receiving element (D1); an accumulation node for accumulating charges corresponding to an amount of light incident on the light receiving element (D1); and a readout switching element (T2) that reads out charges in the accumulation node. The display device further includes; a driving circuit that supplies a sensor driving signal for controlling a resetting operation and an accumulating operation of the accumulation node, to the sensor pixel circuit (9), via a source line (SL) for supplying a display data signal to the display pixel circuit (8); and a protection switching element (M1), (M2) connected to a sensor control line (EL) provided in addition to the source line (SL), the protection switching element protecting the sensor signal of the sensor pixel circuit.
US09384706B2
A voltage generating circuit includes a voltage dividing part connected between a main voltage source and a ground configured to divide a main voltage into a plurality of driving voltages and output the plurality of driving voltages, a delay part connected between a driving voltage source and the ground, and configured to delay a driving voltage by a predetermined period and apply the driving voltage to an input terminal of a driver circuit, and a discharge part connected between the voltage dividing part and the delay part, and configured to discharge a voltage charged in the delay part to a ground when the driving voltage is blocked. The discharge part comprises an amplifier, an inverting input of the amplifier being connected to the driving voltage source and a non-inverting input of the amplifier being connected to an output terminal of the delay part.
US09384702B2
The present invention provides a multiple primary colors liquid crystal display and a driving method thereof. The multiple primary colors liquid crystal display comprises a LED backlight source (1) and a liquid crystal display panel (3); the LED backlight source (1) comprises a plurality of red, green, blue and cyan LEDs (11, 12, 13, 14); the liquid crystal display panel (3) comprises a CF substrate (33), and the CF substrate (33) comprises a plurality of red, green and blue filters (331, 333, 335). The red, green and blue LEDs (11, 12, 13) are activated as showing the first color frame, and lights transmitting through the red, green and blue filters (331, 333, 335) respectively are red light R, green light G and blue light B; the red and cyan LEDs (11, 14) are activated as showing the second color frame, and lights transmitting through the red, green and blue filters (331, 333, 335) respectively are the red light R, a first cyan light C1 and a second cyan light C2, capable of basically and completely achieving all objects' colors of nature.
US09384696B2
A display device includes a sensing driver, a memory, a first compensator, and a second compensator. The sensing driver measures a first voltage value applied to a light emitter in a pixels. The memory stores a second voltage value previously measured for the pixel. The first compensator calculates a temperature of the light emitter at a time of measuring the first voltage value, and compensates for the first voltage value based on the temperature. The second compensator compensates for input data for the pixel based on a voltage variation obtained from the temperature-compensated first voltage value and the second voltage value.
US09384682B2
An electronic circuit includes: a plurality of RS latch circuits each configured to enter a metastable state in accordance with a clock signal input to the RS latch circuit; a determination circuit configured to determine whether an output of each of the RS latch circuits is a random number or a fixed number; and a selector configured to select whether to maintain the clock signal input to the RS latch circuit, to change the clock signal input to the RS latch circuit to another clock signal having a different frequency, or to input a clock signal for fixing a signal output from the RS latch circuit, as the clock signal input to the RS latch circuit, in accordance with a result determined by the determination circuit.
US09384680B2
A buttocks intramuscular injection training model is provided. The buttocks intramuscular injection training model includes a hip model having a similar shape to a human hip; injection modules inserted into both sides of the hip model and each being configured to comprise electrode layers to detect a needle and a muscle layer into which injection liquid is injected; a controller connected to the electrode layers to detect a location of the needle; and an input and output device wired or wireless connected to the controller for bidirectional communication with the controller and configured to visibly output the location of the needle.
US09384678B2
An adaptive learning system and method provides for automatically generating question types to a user for word comprehension and selecting multiple choice answers for display. Questions are developed for the user by obtaining online content and indexing the content into individual sentences and questions. The system provides questions in a series of rounds to the user and then adaptively tracks the progress of the user based on the categorization of each question.
US09384676B2
Described herein is a technology for facilitating skills-training mode in athletic sports that utilize a sporting-object. At least one implementation of that technology includes a rotational sensor configured to measure a series of angular velocities about a defined axis of a sporting object; a launch determiner configured to determine whether the sporting object is in a skills-training mode based upon one or more measured angular velocities of the series; and a trainer configured to both ascertain, during the skills-training mode, whether a consecutive sequence of measured angular velocities of the series falls within a defined range of angular velocities and generate an audible signal in response to the ascertainment.
US09384674B2
A method for determining an insurance premium based at least in part of a vehicle driver's proficiency at detecting hazards, having steps including: visually presenting at least one driving module that comprises at least one hazard; recording where within the visual presentation the driver looks to detect hazards during the visual presentation; determining the driver's hazard detection proficiency by evaluating whether the driver looked at hazards during the visual presentation; and calculating an insurance premium based at least in part on the driver's hazard detection proficiency.
US09384661B1
A route-determination module (RDM) is provided, with the RDM having as input one or more cognitive preferences of a traveler. Further, the RDM receives input on a current or a forecasted cognitive state of the traveler, along with the cognitive load associated with one or more potential routes for traveling to a destination. A recommended route is determined based on the preference(s), state, and/or cognitive load.
US09384656B2
Embodiments of intrusion detection systems are described and which include an intrusion detection panel that receives binary and metadata sensor data from which the presence of an alarm condition is detected. In addition sensor devices analyze sensor data received from other sensor devices that are in a peer to peer relationship with the corresponding sensor device to validate whether the indicated alarm condition is a valid alarm or a false alarm.
US09384655B2
A control panel is used to monitor events within a security system or other automation system. In the event an intruder enters a physical location, the intruder may attempt to damage the control panel to disrupt its operation. One or more sensors of the control panel may detect disruption in the operation of the control panel. Example sensors may detect an impact force, sudden acceleration, removal from a mounted location, or disruption of communication with an input/output element, such as a display device. When an event is detected at the control panel itself, the control panel can send a signal to a remote service provider, and the remote service provider can follow-up with the customer. The control panel and/or remote service provider may also determine when the control panel loses partial or complete power loss to identify the disruption as a potential crash-and-smash entry.
US09384652B2
The present application discloses methods and systems for transferring primary alarm notification on patient monitoring systems from a bedside monitor to one or more secondary devices which may operate on a less than fully reliable network. The bedside monitor includes an attached physiological parameter measurement device which detects when a specific physiological parameter measures outside a predetermined range. The bedside monitor then directs the secondary device(s) to annunciate its alarm. Primary alarming responsibility reverts from the secondary device(s) back to the bedside monitor whenever communication between the two is lost or when acknowledgement of the alarm condition by the secondary device is not relayed back to the bedside monitor within a predetermined amount of time.
US09384638B2
To provide a sounder that outputs alarm sound to notify an abnormality in a monitored region. The sounder includes: a sound source that outputs alarm sound when a pulse signal is applied to the sound source; a pulse signal application unit that applies the pulse signal to the sound source; a storage unit that stores plural combinations of a frequency and a pulse width that the pulse signal can take; and a pulse signal control unit that controls the pulse signal application unit so that the pulse signal corresponding to the combination of the frequency and the pulse width stored in the storage unit is applied to the sound source.
US09384636B2
The invention is directed to methods and gaming units for conducting a multi-player wagering game in which at least one of the players may win the occurrence of the wagering game by matching a game-winning pattern of game indicia on one or more game arrays having unique combinations of game indicia based on matching the game indicia on the game arrays to game indicia randomly selected for the occurrence of the wagering game. Each player matching a game-winning pattern may receive game-winning award, and may receive a game-winning award for each game array on which a game-winning pattern is matched. The method and gaming unit may further include an alternate outcome display wherein an outcome of a second wagering game may be displayed that corresponds to the outcome for the player on the one or more game arrays for the occurrence of the multi-player wagering game.
US09384635B2
In an embodiment of a gaming method, an identifier may be received from a first gaming unit, wherein the identifier is associated with a tournament game card, wherein the tournament game card is provided to a player in response to paying a fee. Whether the identifier received from the first gaming unit is authentic may be determined. A duration the player may play in a tournament may be determined based on the identifier, and the first gaming unit may be enabled for play in the tournament for the duration if the identifier is authentic. A tournament score of the player may be received, and a winning player of the tournament, if any, may be determined. Data indicative of a value payout to be awarded to the winning player may be generated if the winning player of the tournament is determined.
US09384620B1
A vending machine includes a dispensing head, stationary shelf, and integrated mechanism. By turning an actuation mechanism handle the dispensing head rotates through a dispensing cycle delivering a lowermost container of one of a plurality of container stacks of a rotatable carousel off the dispensing head to a temporary position on the shelf below a dispensing opening of a hopper and therefrom to a discharge location accessible at the machine exterior. The integrated mechanism is disposed on a top cover, coupled both to an assembly rod and the carousel, and operable through an oscillatory rotational motion to tighten or loosen a clamping force applied to both secure the top cover on an open top of an outer enclosure while enabling rotation of the carousel to place a selected one of the container stacks at a dispensing position overlying the dispensing opening of the hopper and the dispensing head.
US09384618B2
A memory region on an IC card has a hierarchical structure. Each application allocated on the memory region is registered in a directory, and the memory region is managed in directory units. A personal identification code is set for each application and directory, and the access right is controlled in application units or directory units. If a mobile terminal is lost, the right to access each application in the IC card automatically disappears. Therefore, the right to access each application allocated to the memory region on the IC card is efficiently controlled.
US09384617B2
In an apparatus for checking sheet material a plurality of sensors are arranged along a sensor path along which the sheet material, such as e.g. bank notes, is transported. The sensors each have two components which are arranged at opposite sides of the bank note transport path. For the functioning of many sensors it is necessary that the opposing sensor components are exactly aligned to each other. So as to achieve that the alignment of the sensor components arranged opposite each other is set with high accuracy and reproducible, the relative position of the sensor components opposing each other is defined by means of docking elements.
US09384616B2
Chip sorting devices and methods of ejecting chips from chip wells are disclosed. In some embodiments, chip sorting devices may include at least one chip ejection unit including at least one finger member selectively movable between a first position outside of at least one channel of a chip conveying unit and a second position within the at least one channel. In additional embodiments, a chip sorting device may include a separating wheel comprising a plurality of chip wells, each chip well configured to hold a plurality of chips. In yet additional embodiments, methods of ejecting a chip from a chip well may include urging a selected chip out of the chip well with the at least one finger member and at least one wall segment of a trailing segmented wall of the chip well.
US09384615B2
The invention relates to a device for sorting coins, the diameter and thickness of which are within predefined size ranges.
US09384614B2
A drawer 72 includes a coin container receiving unit 74 and a plurality of types of coin containers 76a, 76b having different shapes, each of the coin containers 76a, 76b can be placed in the coin container receiving unit 74, and wherein a number of the coin containers 76a, 76b installed in the drawer 72 is changeable according to a combination of the types of the coin containers 76a, 76b placed in the coin container receiving unit 74.
US09384612B2
A method for distributing a sequence of access codes to a plurality of users, comprising comprises storing a set of sequences of access codes, wherein each sequence of access codes of the set can be programmed for use by a remote access device with an access system of a specific type. A same sequence of access codes is provided to both a first remote access device of a first user and to a second remote access device of a second user.
US09384605B2
Methods and systems are provided for authentication of a user, such as using a user-specific card, which may provide data for implementing a plurality of security steps in an electronic device (e.g., using a particular application running therein), performed individually or in combination, such as depending on a desired security level and/or the application. The user-specific card may store a user identifier, an operator identifier, and a plurality of application identifiers, and other related data. The user identifier may be read from the user-specific card and may be authenticated. The operator identifier may be read from the user-specific card and may then be forwarded to a server of an operator, which may then verify the operator identifier. Further, additional information for the user may be requested from the server. An application identifier may be read from the user-specific card and may be verified.
US09384604B1
A dongle for transferring electronic information from and to a vehicle module. The dongle collects and stores data specific to a module or component in the original format and enables that original data to be written or uploaded to a repaired or new module or component. Preferably, the dongle is programmed for limited use and will disable itself after a successful data transfer to the module or component.
US09384590B2
A method, apparatus, computer program product, and device with various means are disclosed for determining the time it takes to a traverse a transportation structure by enclosing a representation of a transportation structure with a bounding polygon, specifying a plurality of gates which represent legitimate entry or exit points of the transportation structure as one or more edges of the bounding polygon, and computing the travel time for a probe traveling through the bounding polygon via the gates. Computing the probe's travel time comprises generating a location trace of movement of the probe, determining an entry and exit time, and calculating the difference between the exit time and the entry time. Determining the entry and exist time can be done by interpolation. An average of a set of computations can be used to get an average of the time it takes traverse the transportation structure.
US09384581B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for enhancing a sequence of video images to add depth and presenting the enhanced images to the user through a lenticular lens arrangement on a display screen for viewing the enhanced images in three-dimensions (3D). The embodiments include the application of image enhancing algorithms which measure spatial and temporal differences between sequential images in an input video stream in order to measure depth within the images and produce one or more interleaved images with depth. Multiple sequential interleaved images may then be created in real-time as the images from the video stream are received, and the sequence of interleaved images may then be presented immediately as a video stream on a display fitted with a lenticular lens to effectively display a 3D video to the user.
US09384578B2
An augmented reality design system is disclosed. The augmented reality design system allows a user to create a design for an article in real time using a proxy. The system can be configured using a head mounted display for displaying at least one virtual design element over a proxy located in a real-world environment. The system can also be configured using a projector that projects at least one virtual design element onto a proxy located in the real world.
US09384576B2
A method is provided for computing a change in an image scale of an object. The method includes a step of recognizing, a step of providing, a step of scaling, a step of ascertaining, and a step of combining. Image coordinates of characteristic image areas are recognized in an instantaneous image in the step of recognizing. The characteristic image areas depict object features at least of the one object in the instantaneous image. A model is provided in the step of providing, model coordinates of the model representing a selection of positions of recognized object features of the object in a preceding image. The model is scaled in the step of scaling in order to obtain a scaled model. At least a portion of the model coordinates is correlated with the recognized image coordinates.
US09384575B2
Systems and methods for automated rule-based labeling of space constrained small format visual analytics are disclosed. A label engine receives visual analytic data and metadata. Using default or specific rules, the label engine analyzes the metadata to determine a number of measures and dimensions of the visual analytic data. The label engine then analyzes the measures, dimensions, and other metadata according to the rules to generate a set of labels, and a set of locations within the visual analytic into which to insert the set of labels. Placement of the labels can be based on the size and format of the visual analytic. In addition, the placement of the labels can be based on a dashboard framework in which the visual analytic is disposed. Any labels that are redundant with the information in the context of the dashboard framework can be omitted from visual analytic.
US09384572B2
A data analysis system (1) for displaying data facilitating visual analysis of communication transaction is disclosed. The system includes a transactions database (3) operable to store transaction records (5) defining communication transactions and a processing module (11) operable to determine a hierarchy having a tree structure wherein leaf nodes in the lowest level of the hierarchy correspond to sources and destinations associated with communication transactions represented by transaction records 5) stored in the transactions database (5). The processing module (11) then causes representations of the communication transactions to be displayed on a display screen (13) by determining for each transaction a first set of control co-ordinates comprising co-ordinates associated with elements in a path in the tree structure connecting the source and destination associated with a communication transaction via the closest common parent in the hierarchy common to the source and destination; determining for each transaction a second set of control co-ordinates for drawing a straight line between co-ordinates associated with the source and destination associated with the communication transaction; calculating as a set of control co-ordinates for representing a transaction weighted averages of corresponding co-ordinates in the first and second set, weighted by a bundling factor; and representing each of the communication transaction as a line drawn utilizing the calculated control co-ordinates for each transaction.
US09384570B2
A graphics processing system includes a central processing unit that processes a cubic Bezier curve corresponding to a filled cubic Bezier path. Additionally, the graphics processing system includes a cubic preprocessor coupled to the central processing unit that formats the cubic Bezier curve to provide a formatted cubic Bezier curve having quadrilateral control points corresponding to a mathematically simple cubic curve. The graphics processing system further includes a graphics processing unit coupled to the cubic preprocessor that employs the formatted cubic Bezier curve in rendering the filled cubic Bezier path. A rendering unit and a display cubic Bezier path filling method are also provided.
US09384569B2
A waveform display device with a data management function acquires drive-axis data of a machine tool from a numerical controller for controlling the machine tool and acquires parameters of the numerical controller from the numerical controller. The waveform display device manages the drive-axis data and the parameters in association with each other, based on a time at which the drive-axis data is acquired and a time at which the parameter is acquired. These times of acquisition of the drive-axis data and the parameters are set by a timer of the waveform display device.
US09384566B2
Described here is a system and method for image reconstruction that can automatically and iteratively produce multiple images from one set of acquired data, in which each of these multiple images corresponds to a subset of the acquired data that is self-consistent, but inconsistent with other subsets of the acquired data. The image reconstruction includes iteratively minimizing the rank of an image matrix whose columns each correspond to a different image. The rank minimization is constrained subject to a consistency condition that enforces consistency between the forward projection of each column in the image matrix and a respective subset of the acquired data that contains data that is consistent with data in the subset, but inconsistent with data not in the subset.
US09384558B2
An image processing device of the present invention acquires the positional information of a boundary line for a case where a first image is segmented into a foreground and a background by a segmentation processing that segments an image into a foreground and a background, and controls the segmentation processing to segment a second image having a predetermined relationship with the first image by use of the positional information of the acquired boundary line.
US09384554B2
What is disclosed is system and method for contemporaneously reconstructing images of a scene illuminated with unstructured and structured illumination sources. In one embodiment, the system comprises capturing a first 2D image containing energy reflected from a scene being illuminated by a structured illumination source and a second 2D image containing energy reflected from the scene being illuminated by an unstructured illumination source. A controller effectuates a manipulation of the structured and unstructured illumination sources during capture of the video. A processor is configured to execute machine readable program instructions enabling the controller to manipulate the illumination sources, and for effectuating the contemporaneous reconstruction of a 2D intensity map of the scene using the second 2D image and of a 3D surface map of the scene using the first 2D image. The reconstruction is effectuated by manipulating the illumination sources.
US09384548B1
An image processing apparatus comprising a volume data unit for obtaining a volumetric image data set, and a rendering process unit configured to set a position of a light source, determine a plurality of sample points with respect to the volumetric image data set, for each sample point, determine at least one offset point, wherein the or each offset point is positioned at a respective offset distance from the sample point, for each offset point, determine an irradiance arising from light virtually emitted from the light source, determine or refine an irradiance at each sample point based on the irradiance at its respective at least one offset point, and render, based on the determined or refined irradiances at the sample points, an image.
US09384544B2
In a method and apparatus for measuring a ratio of a variable for assessment in medical imaging data of a subject, a viewable image is generated from source imaging data of the subject. A pair of regions of interest for arrangement on the viewable image is then generated, and a value of the variable for each region of the pair from the source imaging data is determined. The ratio of the two values is then determined from the pair.
US09384542B1
The method and system may be used to provide an indication of a color value for a particular siding sample and to color match a specific siding product to the color value of the siding sample. The system receives a digital image of a siding sample and a desired color value to be matched. A color query module plots this desired color value as a desired color point in a multidimensional color space together with a plurality of color reference points. Each color reference point represents the color value of an existing siding product. The system determines a “distance” between the desired color point and each plotted color reference point within the color space and identifies the siding product associated with the color reference point that is located the shortest distance to the desired color point within the color space.
US09384535B2
Methods and systems for reducing or eliminating perceived ghosting in stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image display are described. A stereoscopic image that includes image content can be received. Display system parameters can be received. A local region of the stereoscopic image can be identified using the image content. The local region can include ghosting. Psychovisual factors can be selected using the image content. A modified stereoscopic image can be generated from the stereoscopic image by reducing or eliminating the ghosting of the local region using the psychovisual factors and the display system parameters. The modified stereoscopic image can be outputted for display.
US09384530B2
A method and related system for improving resolution and frame rate of ultrasound images that includes specifying individual element transmit characteristics for each transmit beam in a set of transmit beams; determining various attributes of the transmit beams at field points in the field of view; using one or more of the attributes to determine if received ultrasound echo signals contributed by each transmit beam are qualified for use in image formation, and if so, how the signal should be processed; storing the determined information for each field point for repeated use with each new image frame; using the stored information to select and process subsequent received echo signals for each field point to produce an image parameter at the field point for each qualified echo signal; and combining multiple image parameters from overlapping transmit beams for a field point to produce a final image parameter that constitutes the field point value for the image frame.
US09384526B2
Examples of systems and methods are provided for handling remote drawing commands. A system may comprise a buffer module configured to receive, at the system from a remote server system over a remote access connection between the system and the remote server system during a remote connection session, remote drawing commands, according to a drawing command rate, of a remote application running on the remote server system. The buffer module may be configured to store the remote drawing commands. The system may comprise a timer module configured to facilitate sending at least some of the remote drawing commands in the buffer module to a graphics module according to a refresh rate that is less than the drawing command rate. The timer module may be application agnostic.
US09384524B2
According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a receiver, a write controller, and a transmission controller. The receiver is configured to receive image data which forms an image to be displayed on a display apparatus. The write controller is configured to control to divide the image data into a plurality of regions and write compressed image data obtained by compressing the image data for each region, to a frame memory. The transmission controller is configured to control to transmit, to the display apparatus, original image data, which is restored by reading the compressed image data from the frame memory and decompressing the compressed image data for each region. Each of the regions has an overlap portion which is overlapped by a part of an adjacent region.
US09384518B2
A biometric registration and verification system and method is usable for registration, for verification and/or for participation, and may comprise: a biometric sensor for capturing biometric data; a data entry device, a computer processor for receiving captured biometric data and entered data; and a database storing records thereof. The identifying biometric data may be related to the entered data in the database record. The biometric sensor may capture verification biometric data and the data entry device verification data; and the processor compares the verification biometric data and the received verification data with the identifying biometric data and entered data from the database. If the verification biometric data and the received verification data of the person to be verified corresponds to database identifying biometric data and entered data, then an indication of verification of the person is provided.
US09384515B2
A location of a shared vehicle is identified. Shared vehicle usage data is obtained for the location. An instruction is provided to adjust an operating mode of the shared vehicle based at least on the shared vehicle usage data and the location.
US09384509B2
Data streams are generally selected according to user preferences and transmitted to the user in general alignment with expressed preferences of the user. Such data streams may be music, including music videos. Users may indicate their general or specific preferences with regards to song, artists, or albums. Any other aspects or factors that might affect the user's preferences can be taken into account. A playlist is created that combines all of these factors. The playlist then serves as the basis for feeding the data streams to the user. Each user is able to express his or her own preferences and receive music corresponding to those preferences on an on-going basis.
US09384501B2
In general, a method includes enabling a user to specify a rule that causes a message to be formed, the rule being based on a reputation of a product and the reputation being based on information, from an online source, that is indicative of the reputation of the product.
US09384497B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for determining and providing an offer to a customer based at least in part on product level data associated with a transaction. The system, method, and computer program product are configured to receive unstructured data from a customer account, wherein the unstructured data comprises product level data for a transaction; convert the unstructured data into structured data; determine a transaction at a financial institution corresponding to the structured data; determine an offer for a customer based on the product level data and the transaction; and provide the offer to the customer. Typically, product level data related to transactions is not available to financial institution. This disclosure describes a system and method for identifying and using product level data.
US09384494B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a user state detector configured to detect a state of each of a plurality of users based on sensing data provided from the plurality of users together with position information, a user state integration unit configured to integrate the detected state for each user group defined based on the position information to generate integrated state information, and a state display generator configured to generate information for displaying the integrated state information in association with a position.
US09384481B2
The present invention is directed to apparatuses, methods, and computer-program products for a multipurpose wearable device that is associated with one or more financial accounts wherein, in use, the wearable device is configured to facilitate a financial transaction using at least one of the one or more financial accounts. The wearable device comprises: a wearable article, wherein the wearable article comprises one or more features securing the wearable article to a person or an item associated with the person; and a portion comprising a machine-readable indicia, wherein the machine-readable indicia, when successfully read, provides payment information for conducting a financial transaction.
US09384480B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for wirelessly executing financial transactions. A payment card includes an interface, a communication module, secure memory, a user-interface module, and a processing module. The interface connects to a slot of a mobile host device. The communication module wirelessly receives RF signals from and transmits RF signals to a retail terminal. The secure memory stores user credentials and a payment application used to execute financial transactions with the retail terminal. The user credentials and the payment application are associated with a financial institution. The user-interface module presents and receives information through the GUI of the mobile host device. The processing module executes the payment application using the user credentials in response to at least a transaction request received by the communication module and transmits a transaction response to the retail terminal based, at least in part, on the executed application.
US09384477B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for receiving a customization that will be displayed on the screen of an ATM based on a customer initiating a session with the ATM. The customization is associated with a function to perform a financial transaction. The function is performed as a result of the customer interacting with the customization on the screen of the ATM. The customization may be altered based on a handicap impairment of the customer. The displaying of the customization may be restricted for security purposes or as a request of the customer.
US09384473B2
Sales people (agents) get engaged with a lot of contacts from past, present and future prospects that manifests on multiple contact platforms. They end up having their contacts and calendars split in multiple places including communication and messages leading to inefficiencies, loss of business and delayed response time to the end customer. Customer Relationship Management today is still a one dimensional tool, one that featured Email as the core for direct agent-client relationship. CRM should be redefined and relabeled as Communication Management to open up the idea that relationships with clients are developed across multiple platforms though multiple channels. As will be understood by reading below, the invention accomplishes this in an elegant manner. The phrases Communication Management in the main patent title and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) have the same semantics in this document.
US09384463B2
Systems and methods for implementing a web browser which operates to secure all Internet connections of the user using SSL and HTTPS protocols. One implementation is a browser that operates to send all browser navigation commands and send and receive all web traffic through SSL encryption tunnel. In other words, the browser turns all web pages that support only HTTP protocol into HTTPS-enabled web pages. As would be appreciate by those of skill in the art, the use of the SSL and HTTPS secures the user's connection and provides security for user's data. The system may be used to secure email communications, login information for websites, selection of shopping items and all other online activity of the user. All of the above information is encrypted by the inventive system using highly-secure SSL encryption.
US09384453B2
An engine diagnostic system in accordance with an embodiment not only captures the written feedback from each technician, but also tracks every step/click that the technician took during the diagnostic process and classifies those clicks into desirable or undesirable behavior patterns that indicate missing or miss-tagged content, inefficiently presented materials, or training issues such as not following troubleshooting guidance. The system provides daily updates of troubleshooting status's of diagnoses being conducted on millions of engine systems that represent a great amount of different engine models and types from around the globe, and provides data reduction techniques and metrics that guides the analyst/service engineers to high priority emerging issues reduced to specific actionable events that can be corrected and immediately monitored for their impacts on the troubleshooting system efficiency measures. Therefore, the technician not only provides direct information through purposeful feedback, he is also providing very valuable but less direct information through tracking his interactions with the system.
US09384452B2
Methods for generating tracing information for gas cylinders are provided comprising a metal cylinder body manufactured from an unrefined metal piece, wherein such a method comprises the steps of equipping the metal piece with an individual marking, identifying, during at least one transformation or control step of the piece, an identification code of the piece by reading the individual marking and associating one or more process parameters of the transformation step or control results with the identification code, and storing the process parameters and the association with the identification code in a database. Systems for generating tracing information for gas cylinders are also provided.
US09384449B2
An affordable artificial intelligent (AI) computer is invented by combining present computer with a parallel hardware search system. Such a computer can be treated as a Turing Machine. Instead of sequentially processing computer instructions, this computer executes AI logic reasoning. The parallel hardware search system use pure parallel hardware to execute virtual B-tree search. Hierarchical page table and hash techniques are also used for very large data volume. The prototype of this invented system is successfully built into a PCIE card which mainly contains a Xilinx's Kintex7 FPGA chip and two DDR3 memory modules. FPGA chip includes: 32 32-bit processing units (PUs), one PCIE controller, one search/delete/insert controller and two DDR3 controllers.
US09384447B2
A system and method involve acoustic source localization using passive sonar and capitalizing on the sparse nature of a source location map (SLM). Two types of sparsity are exploited, namely sparsity in the support of the SLMs and sparsity in the innovations across consecutive SLMs. The first type is motivated by the desire to construct SLMs whose non-zero entries corresponded to locations where sources are present. The second type of sparsity is motivated by the observation that few changes occur in the support of consecutive SLMs. Per time instant, an SLM is obtained as the solution of a regularized least-squares problem, where the regularization terms are chosen to encourage the desired sparse structures in each SLM and the innovations. Each SLM may be obtained via a specifically-tailored, computationally-efficient proximal gradient algorithm.
US09384446B2
A management system for guiding an agent in a media-specific dialog has a conversion engine for instantiating ongoing dialog as machine-readable text, if the dialog is in voice media, a context analysis engine for determining facts from the text, a rules engine for asserting rules based on fact input, and a presentation engine for presenting information to the agent to guide the agent in the dialog. The context analysis engine passes determined facts to the rules engine, which selects and asserts to the presentation engine rules based on the facts, and the presentation engine provides periodically updated guidance to the agent based on the rules asserted.
US09384442B2
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to computer-based simulations and synthetic environment generation, and more particularly, to a system, a computer-readable medium, a method and an apparatus for generating synthetic environments in a distributed architecture to, among other things, introduce dynamic content.
US09384432B2
An image forming apparatus that shifts to a power saving state includes a detection unit that detects an abnormality occurring in a device of the apparatus, a storage unit that stores, when the apparatus is to shift to the power saving state, information indicating the detected abnormality, a reception unit that receives a request to wake up from the power saving state, a determination unit that determines, when the reception unit has received the request, whether the device identified by the stored information is to be used, a control unit that performs control to supply power to the detection unit if the determination unit determines that the device is not to be used, and a display unit that displays information on the abnormality.
US09384431B2
An apparatus includes an image processing circuit to perform quantizing processing of image data, which has a plurality of rasters, each of which is formed with a plurality of pixels, by an error diffusion method, to generate print data. The image processing circuit is capable of performing quantizing processing of image data for N colors, and performs the quantizing processing multiple times in image processing of image data for colors more than N colors. In a case when the image processing circuit performs image processing for image data for colors more than the N colors, the image processing circuit repeatedly performs at least first image processing for performing image processing of image data of a first color group and second image processing for performing image processing of image data of a second color group for each band.
US09384409B1
A word segmentation method uses a recursive technique to segment a text line image into word segments. Spacing segments of the line are obtained; an initial word segmentation is performed to classify the spacing segments based on their lengths into candidate character spacing segments and candidate word spacing segments. The initial segmentation result is evaluated to determine whether the candidate character spacing segments still have a bimodal or multi-modal distribution or a large spread in the distribution, or whether the line contains long words and too few words. If the conditions indicate that the initial segmentation is inadequate, another classification step is performed for the candidate character spacing segments to further classify them into new candidate character spacing segments and new candidate word spacing segments. The process is repeated until the word segmentation is deemed adequate based on the evaluation.
US09384407B2
A method of identifying, tracking, and counting human objects of interest based upon at least one pair of stereo image frames taken by at least one image capturing device, comprising the steps of: obtaining said stereo image frames and converting each said stereo image frame to a rectified image frame using calibration data obtained for said at least one image capturing device; generating a disparity map based upon a pair of said rectified image frames; generating a depth map based upon said disparity map and said calibration data; identifying the presence or absence of said objects of interest from said depth map and comparing each of said objects of interest to existing tracks comprising previously identified objects of interest; for each said presence of an object of interest, adding said object of interest to one of said existing tracks if said object of interest matches said one existing track, or creating a new track comprising said object of interest if said object of interest does not match any of said existing tracks; updating each said existing track; and maintaining a count of said objects of interest in a given time period based upon said existing tracks created or modified during said given time period.
US09384405B2
A method and apparatus for processing an image are provided. A processor is configured to detect a region of at least one object from the image, define a plurality of straight lines approximating a boundary of the detected region of the at least one object, and based on the number of points at which each of the plurality of first straight lines coincide with the boundary, extract first image data for a polygonal region. The polygonal region has vertexes at a plurality of first intersection points at which the plurality of straight lines intersect each other. Second image data may be generated by correcting distortion of the first image data. A storage unit stores the second image data, which may also be displayed or transmitted.
US09384397B2
A programmable media includes a graphical processing unit in communication with a memory element. The graphical processing unit is configured to detect one or more settlement regions from a high resolution remote sensed image based on the execution of programming code. The graphical processing unit identifies one or more settlements through the execution of the programming code that executes a multi-instance learning algorithm that models portions of the high resolution remote sensed image. The identification is based on spectral bands transmitted by a satellite and on selected designations of the image patches.
US09384390B2
Directional albedo of a particular article, such as an identity card, is measured and stored. When the article is later presented, it can be confirmed to be the same particular article by re-measuring the albedo function, and checking for correspondence against the earlier-stored data. The re-measuring can be performed through us of a handheld optical device, such as a camera-equipped cell phone. The albedo function can serve as random key data in a variety of cryptographic applications. The function can be changed during the life of the article. A variety of other features are also detailed.
US09384389B1
Some examples include detecting errors in text that has been recognized using automated text recognition technology. For instance, errors in the recognized text may be detected based on glyph image similarity and the use of a language model, dictionary information, or the like. Some implementations may group together glyphs based on association of the glyphs with the same glyph identifier and a similarity of the appearance of the glyphs. Furthermore, the words associated with each glyph may be checked against a language model, such as to check a spelling or other validity of the words, and a score may be assigned to each group of glyphs based on the validity of the words corresponding to the glyphs in that group. Groups that have a score that fails to meet a threshold may be reviewed by a person or may undergo automated correction techniques.
US09384384B1
A computing device can acquire a set of images, each image including at least a portion of a user's face. The images can be acquired using one or more cameras and/or from an image library/database associated with the user. Based on the images including the user's face (or portions thereof), a virtual representation for the user's face can be generated. The device can subsequently receive or identify an image including a facial representation (e.g., face or portion thereof) to be adjusted. The device can analyze the image including the facial representation and determine that the facial representation sufficiently matches the virtual representation. Using the virtual representation, (at least a portion of) the face can be adjusted. For example, one or more variations or details associated with the user's face, which are provided via the virtual representation, can be used to replace, improve, or otherwise modify the face in the image.
US09384379B1
Electronic consent for telemarketing calls can be obtained by soliciting consent from an individual using two-dimensional barcodes, such as quick response (“QR”) codes. The QR code can be printed on an advertisement and read by a smart phone. The reading of the QR code causes communication to be originated from the individual's smart phone for the purpose of requesting the individual to be contacted for a particular purpose. The communication can be construed by the enterprise as providing electronic consent for the enterprise to contact the individual with a subsequent telemarketing call. The sender's telephone number and other relevant information can be stored in an electronic consent database used to ensure compliance with appropriate marketing regulations.
US09384378B2
A portable data terminal including a multi-core processor having at least a first core and a second core, at least one illumination assembly and at least one imaging assembly and data storage means configured to store a plurality of program instructions, the program instructions including at least one one-dimensional decoder and at least one two-dimensional decoder.
US09384372B2
A barcode detecting and marking device can include a base, a transmission mechanism mounted on the base, a marking mechanism mounted on the base, a code reader adjacent to the transmission mechanism, and a controlling platform adjacent to the base. The transmission mechanism can include a supporting assembly mounted on the base, and a transmission assembly coupled to the supporting assembly. The transmission assembly can include a feeding tray coupled to the supporting assembly, a rolling tray coupler to the supporting assembly, and a first driver coupled to the supporting assembly and the rolling tray. The first driver rotates the rolling tray. The marking mechanism can include a driving member mounted on the base, and an execution member. The controlling platform can be electrically coupled to the transmission mechanism and the code reader.
US09384367B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a single trusted platform module per platform may be used to handle conventional trusted platform tasks as well as those that would arise prior to the existence of a primary trusted platform module in conventional systems. Thus one single trusted platform module may handle measurements of all aspects of the platform including the baseboard management controller. In some embodiments, a management engine image is validated using a read only memory embedded in a chipset such as a platform controller hub, as the root of trust. Before the baseboard management controller (BMC) is allowed to boot, it must validate the integrity of its flash memory. But the BMC image may be stored in a memory coupled to a platform controller hub (PCH) in a way that it can be validated by the PCH.
US09384358B2
A method and apparatus for controlling document access and application usage using centrally managed rules. The rules are stored and manipulated in a central rule database via a rule server. Policy enforcers are installed on client systems and/or on servers and perform document access and application usage control for both direct user document accesses and application usage, and application program document accesses by evaluating the rules sent to the policy enforcer. The rule server decides which rules are required by each policy enforcer. A policy enforcer can also perform obligation and remediation operations as a part of rule evaluation. Policy enforcers on client systems and servers can operate autonomously, evaluating policies that have been received, when communications have been discontinued with the rule server.
US09384356B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for obscuring Internet tendencies. It is determined whether a user tends to access a category of information over the Internet more than an average user. If the user accesses the category of information over the Internet more than the average user, a user profile associated with the user is adjusted such that the user profile is proportional to an average user profile associated with the average user.
US09384348B2
In some embodiments, techniques for computer security comprise preventing and/or mitigating identity theft such as phishing.
US09384347B1
A system, method, computer program, and/or computer readable medium for providing hierarchical interception for applications within isolated environments The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. The computer-executable instructions may be for installing interceptors, configuring interceptors, preloading shared libraries, using trampoline functions, removal of interceptors, mapping between resources inside and outside the isolated environment, providing an interception database, loading the interception database, redirection of resources, and providing the hierarchy of interceptors.
US09384345B2
An aspect of the present invention relates to methods and systems involving receiving a request for web content from a client computing facility, presenting the web content, and retrieving an indicia of a reputation assessment of the web content and delivering the indicia to the client computing facility in coordination with delivery of the web content to the client computing facility.
US09384340B2
A device to detect a portable device associated with a user accessing an accessible region of the device with a sensor, identify the portable device and log the user into the device with a profile of the user if the accessible region is accessed by the portable device, and generate a session on the device based on the profile of the user.
US09384335B2
A managed wireless distribution network includes multiple devices that communicate with one another via multiple wireless networks (e.g., multiple Wi-Fi networks). Each device in the managed wireless distribution network can host at least one wireless network and/or join at least one wireless network. Content in the managed wireless distribution network is protected so that the content cannot be consumed unless permission to consume the content is obtained. Devices can host portions of protected content regardless of whether they can consume the protected content, and can obtain portions of protected content via the wireless networks of the managed wireless distribution network without having to access a content service over the Internet.
US09384327B2
A system for managing and exchanging electronic information provides a rules management component for executing conceptual rules, an ontology management component, an information model management component, and a system configuration management component. The ontology management component manages at least one ontology and mappings between members of different ontologies. The ontologies may include a code system and a terminology. The ontology management component may manage a value set that is a subset of the terminology. The information model management component manages one or more information model schemas, each defining an information model and comprising information defining at least one slot within the information model. The system configuration management component manages configuration information on the configuration of each system component. The system configuration component utilizes services of the rules management component, information model management component and ontology management component to dynamically bind value sets to slots of the information model.
US09384322B2
A computer-implemented method can include acquiring data from at least one data source, the acquired data including health data for a patient. The acquired data can be transformed into episode model data according to a context-specific data model and the episode model data can be stored in a database. The method also includes generating at least one inverted index document for at least a portion of an episode for the patient based on the episode model data.
US09384319B2
A computer implemented method for validating a design is presented. The method includes generating, using the computer, a graph non-decomposable to a colored graph representative of the design, when the computer is invoked to validate the design. The method further includes identifying, using the computer, at least one guidance to at least one conflict in a mask layout associated with the design, the conflict causing the graph to be non-decomposable.
US09384318B2
Methodologies and an apparatus for enabling OPC models to account for errors in the mask are disclosed. Embodiments include: determining a patterning layer of a circuit design; estimating a penetration ratio indicating a mask corner rounding error of a fabricated mask for forming the patterning layer in a fabricated circuit; and determining, by a processor, a compensation metric for optical proximity correction of the circuit design based on the penetration ratio.
