US09515672B2
A system includes an analog-to-digital converter receiving a plurality of input signals. One particular input signal has a particular analog value and the analog-to-digital converter uses a fixed reference to convert the particular analog value to a particular digital value. The analog-to-digital converter uses the particular analog value as a reference for converting the analog values of the remaining input signals.
US09515670B2
An atomic cell includes: alkaline metallic atoms, a body portion and window portions forming an inner space in which alkaline metallic atoms are sealed, and a getter material disposed in the inner space. The getter material is an alloy including at least one of titanium, barium, tantalum, zirconium, aluminum, vanadium, indium, and calcium, or an Al—Zr—V—Fe based alloy.
US09515668B2
An all digital phase-locked loop (PLL) and a method of controlling the PLL is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a reference signal (fREF) at a controller and a time-to-digital converter (TDC), the controller and TDC being coupled to multiple tunable delay elements; receiving at the multiple tunable delay elements a first signal input via the controller and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) circuit; providing an PLL output (fDCO) to the TDC at least partially based on the first signal input; and generating a phase error output (ΦERR) based on the reference signal (fREF) and the PLL output (fDCO), wherein the phase error output (ΦERR) is provided as feedback to the controller to control the PLL output (fDCO).
US09515661B2
A circuit with a reduced leakage current is provided. A first transistor, a third transistor, and a second transistor are electrically connected in this order in series, a drain of the second transistor and a source of the third transistor are electrically connected to each other and are electrically connected to an output node. The first transistor is a p-channel transistor. The second and third transistors are n-channel transistors each including a semiconductor region including an oxide semiconductor. The third transistor functions as a switch that controls electrical connection between a drain of the first transistor and an output node of the circuit. In the standby mode, the third transistor is in an off state.
US09515640B2
Apparatuses and devices are provided for bias level correction. An example apparatus includes: a bias-voltage generator configured to generate a bias voltage; a first transmission component configured to receive the bias voltage and generate a first output signal based at least in part on the bias voltage and one or more first data signals; and a first bias-level correction component configured to generate one or more first pulses based at least in part on the one or more first data signals to suppress one or more ripples associated with the bias voltage.
US09515636B2
Apparatuses and methods have been disclosed. One such apparatus includes a plurality of gates coupled together in series. A first pull-down circuit can be coupled to a node between two adjacent gates of the plurality of gates and controlled responsive to a first control signal. A second pull-down circuit can be coupled to an output of one of the gates and controlled responsive to a second control signal. A duty cycle of a signal provided by the plurality of gates can be increased responsive to the first control signal and can be decreased responsive to the second control signal. The plurality of gates and the first and second pull-down circuits can make up a duty cycle adjuster circuit that can adjust the duty cycle of the signal by adjusting only a single type of edges of the signal.
US09515632B2
A first coil element includes a first loop-shaped conductor and a second loop-shaped conductor. A second coil element includes a third loop-shaped conductor and a fourth loop-shaped conductor. The first loop-shaped conductor and the second loop-shaped conductor are sandwiched in a stacking direction between the third loop-shaped conductor and the fourth loop-shaped conductor. A conductive pattern which is a portion of the first loop-shaped conductor and a conductive pattern which is a portion of the second loop-shaped conductor are connected in parallel. Then, each of a conductive pattern which is a remaining portion of the first loop-shaped conductor and a conductive pattern which is a remaining portion of the second loop-shaped conductor is connected in series with the parallel circuit.
US09515622B2
In some example embodiments, there is provided an apparatus. The apparatus may include a direct current voltage source and/or an alternating current voltage source to track a power envelope of a radio frequency signal. The apparatus may further include first and second power amplifiers with bias voltage inputs and a supply voltage inputs, and a switch matrix. The first input may be coupled to the direct current voltage source, the second input may be coupled to the alternating current voltage source. The outputs may be coupled to the bias and supply inputs to the power amplifiers. The switch matrix may enable activation of the first power amplifier, the second power amplifier, both the first and second power amplifiers, or neither power amplifier.
US09515609B1
A signal generation circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator configured to generate a differential oscillator signal having an amplitude. A passive mixer has first differential inputs coupled to the voltage controlled oscillator to receive the oscillator signal. The passive mixer also includes second differential inputs. A filter circuit is coupled between the voltage controlled oscillator and the second differential inputs of the passive mixer. The filter circuit is configured to filter the differential oscillator signal as a function of the amplitude of the differential oscillator signal to thereby generate a filtered differential oscillator signal and to provide the filtered differential oscillator signal to the second differential inputs of the passive mixer.
US09515607B1
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the common mode voltage at the LC tank node and/or the power supply voltage of a VCO with an LC resonator in order to force oscillation start-up by temporarily increasing gain. Methods according to certain preferred embodiments may reduce power consumption and/or overcome threshold voltage limitations and/or increase frequency and frequency tuning range during normal (steady-state) operation.
US09515601B2
An electrical connection system comprising a plurality of electrical components electrically interconnected by a plurality of multi-terminal electrical connector devices. Each electrical component has first and second electrical terminals, each connector device having a plurality of electrical terminals arranged in first and second rows each row comprising a plurality of said terminals. One row is positioned along one side of the connector, the other row being positioned along the other side of the connector. First and second of the connector terminals are electrically connected to a respective one of the first and second terminals of a respective one of the electrical components. Each connector device is configurable such that its terminals may adopt a selected one of a plurality of terminal configurations.
US09515597B2
An electric machine has a primary mechanical output or input, a plurality of electric sub-machine rotors each having an output or input shaft, a plurality of electric sub-machine stator magnets proximate the rotors, a drive train connecting each of the output or input shafts of the plurality of electric sub-machine rotors to simultaneously drive, or be driven by, the primary output shaft. Each sub-machine is selectively engaged or disengage depending on machine power.
US09515595B2
The embodiments described herein include one embodiment that provides a motor drive that includes driver circuitry that controls operation of an inverter in the motor drive to output power to a motor, control circuitry that controls operation of the driver circuitry, and a switched mode power supply that supplies electrical power to the driver circuitry, the control circuitry, or both. The switched mode power supply includes a primary coil, in which a primary controller stores electrical energy in the primary coil by selectively connecting the primary coil to a power source, and a secondary coil electrically isolated from the primary coil, in which the secondary coil outputs electrical power based at least in part on the electrical energy stored in the primary coil, in which a secondary controller controls the electrical power supplied to the driver circuitry, the control circuitry, or both by selectively connecting the secondary coil to a power output of the switched mode power supply.
US09515587B2
A phase detector includes a crossing-point phase detection circuit to compare signals levels of pairs of sensor signals and output crossing-point phase detection signals indicating phases of crossing points between the pairs of the sensor signals, each having a signal level corresponding to a rotational position of a rotor of a motor having coils, a crossing-point level detection circuit to output crossing-point level signals indicating crossing-point levels detected, a signal selection circuit to select one of the sensor signals as a selection signal, a phase detection circuit to detect that a signal level of the selection signal has reached a threshold level, and output a phase data signal indicating a phase of the rotor corresponding to the threshold level, and an in-phase level adjustment circuit to adjust and output in-phase levels of the sensor signals to approach each of the crossing-point levels to a predetermined signal level.
US09515583B2
A rotary electric machine control system includes a rotary electric machine (second motor generator), a number-of-revolutions sensor that measures the number of revolutions per predetermined time period of the rotary electric machine, and a controller. The controller has a threshold changing unit for changing a control switching phase that is a control switching threshold to be used for switching the control mode of the rotary electric machine, according to a measurement result of the number of revolutions.
US09515571B2
A current-rectifying device includes a switching component and an impedance transformer. A conductance between first and second nodes of the switching component is controlled based on a voltage between high-impedance control and control-reference nodes of the switching component to determine an amount of current that is permitted to flow between the first and second nodes. The impedance transformer includes a positive input node electrically connected to one of the first and second nodes based on AC voltage swings, a negative input node, a positive output node electrically connected to the high-impedance control node, and a negative output node, and which senses an AC voltage swing derived from the AC input voltage with the positive input node and the negative input node, and provides an AC voltage swing between the high-impedance control and control-reference nodes that is greater than the AC voltage swing derived from the AC input voltage.
US09515569B2
An AC/DC electrical converter device having a source mode and a recovery mode, and for connection, on the AC side, to an AC voltage source and, on the DC side, to a DC power distribution network. It includes an AC/DC converter, a switching cell with two switches (K1, K2) that are bidirectional for current, the switches sharing a common point (A) and each having a respective end terminal (B1, B2), a filter stage, and a control unit for the cell; the converter is for connection on the AC side to the voltage source and is connected on the DC side to the cell; in use, the first switch (K1) is connected between the converter and the DC power distribution network via the filter stage, the second switch (K2) forming a combination in parallel with the filter stage and the DC power distribution network. The control means are able to manage a short-circuit current in source mode by operating on the first and second switches.
US09515557B2
In a step-up step-down converter device, a diode is connected in parallel to a switch connecting a positive pole side and a negative pole side for stepping up and stepping down an input voltage, a diode is connected in parallel to a switch in a positive pole side of a closed circuit constructed between an input direct voltage and an output side load, and a control circuit detecting an output voltage generates 1st Phase PWM and 2nd Phase PWM obtained by logically adding and multiplying two difference values having phase difference in comparison with a triangle waveform signal which is 180 degrees different in phase from an error signal based on a difference value between the output voltage and a target reference voltage, and alternately turns on and off switches respectively by using 1st Phase PWM or 2nd Phase PWM at the step-down or step-down operation time.
US09515545B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes driving an electronic switch in a switched-mode power converter in successive drive cycles, wherein driving the switch in each of the drive cycles comprises switching on the electronic for an on-period and subsequently switching off the electronic switch for an off-period, and measuring an operation parameter of the switched-mode power converter during the on-periods of the drive cycles, and storing the operation parameter measured in an on-period if a duration of the on-period met a predefined criteria. The method further includes forcing the on-period of a drive cycle to meet the predefined criteria if the operation parameter has not been stored for a predefined number of drive cycles, or for a pre-defined time duration.
US09515540B2
A linear vibrator includes a housing providing an internal space; a fixed part including a coil fixed to the housing to be disposed in the internal space; a vibrating part including a magnet disposed to face the coil and generating electromagnetic force by interacting with the coil; and an elastic member having one end fixed to the housing and the other end fixed to the vibrating part to elastically support the vibrating part, wherein the elastic member includes a first fixed part fixed to the housing, a second fixed part fixed to the vibrating part, and a deformable part connecting the first fixed part and the second fixed part to each other and elastically deformed, and the first fixed part includes a welded part being welded and coupled to the housing at the outside of a portion of the first fixed part to which the deformable part is connected.
US09515539B2
The disclosure relates to a three-phase electric motor that uses high magnetic energy permanent magnets and that has a low detent torque. The motor consists of a rotor with N pairs of poles and of a stator portion with teeth extending radially from an annular gear. The teeth have windings and the ends thereof comprise an arc of circle, the middle of which is located on a radius R1 and two sides defining an alpha angle, the vertex of which is located on a radius R2. The ratio R2/R1 is substantially equal to (1+/−0.26/N), and the alpha angle is between 110 and 135°.
US09515531B2
Flywheel systems are disclosed that provide increased energy density and operational effectiveness. A first bearingless motor and a second bearingless motor may be configured to simultaneously suspend the central rotor in a radial direction and to rotate the central rotor. However, certain implementations may have one motor or more than two motors, depending on the design. A plurality of the flywheel systems may be collectively controlled to perform community energy storage with higher storage capacities than individual flywheel systems.
US09515525B2
An electric motor has a supplementary field magnet including a magnetization coil, a yoke serving as a magnetic path for magnetic flux produced by the magnetization coil, and a variable magnet. The supplementary field magnet is arranged on one axial end side of the rotor with a gap. A rotor core is provided with first projections projecting toward one axial end side of the electric motor from first magnetic pole portions, and second projections projecting toward the one axial end side from second magnetic pole portions and arranged radially inward of the first projections. The yoke includes an outer magnetic pole portion axially opposed to the first projections, and an inner magnetic pole portion axially opposed to the second projections such that an annular gap is formed between the inner magnetic pole portion and the outer magnetic pole portion.
US09515517B2
The invention relates to a system for the electronic management of a photovoltaic generator, said system comprising a plurality of n static converters (11, 12, 13) connected in parallel, each converter (11, 12, 13) being electrically connected to at least one photovoltaic cell (10) of the generator. The number of converters connected is determined by comparing the generated power to thresholds P1, P2, . . . , Pn-1 which are defined as the power values substantially at the point of intersection of the performance curves for an increasing number of converters. The invention also relates to a generator comprising said system and to the associated control method.
US09515515B2
A contactless charging system of the disclosure includes a transmitting unit having a primary coil and a receiving unit having a secondary coil and which charges a battery electrically connected to the secondary coil by the electromagnetic induction generated between the primary coil and the secondary coil and which supplements the charging efficiency of the battery by varying a charging frequency used in the electromagnetic induction in proportion to the charging efficiency of the battery that varies according to the position of the secondary coil relative to the primary coil. In addition, a contactless charging method of the disclosure includes a step of detecting a charging frequency when a charging operation is performed by enabling the primary coil to get close to the secondary coil, and a step of outputting the charging efficiency of the battery acquired from the detected charging frequency such that a user may know the charging efficiency.
US09515504B2
A battery charger with power factor correction is provided. In particular, the battery charger is configured to work in a discontinuous current mode with a power factor that is almost unity but no bulky electrolytic capacitor is needed in the charger. The charger has a rectification circuit producing a rectified voltage to a first controllable switching circuit, whose output is fed to a series resonant tank series-connecting a first winding of a high-frequency transformer. The second winding thereof is connected to a second controllable switching circuit, whose output is a DC voltage for battery charging. The charger includes a control unit for generating a first control signal and a second control signal to control the first and the second controllable switching circuits, respectively, such that the current flowing in the first winding is substantially phase-aligned with the first control signal's waveform, thereby facilitating power factor correction.
US09515502B2
An apparatus and method of managing power for a mobile device is disclosed, which can prevent an inflow of overcurrent to the device when the device is charged. The apparatus includes a state judgment unit to judge whether a battery of the mobile device is being charged, a voltage level detection unit to detect a voltage level of the battery if the battery is judged as being charged, and a control unit to control a driving of the mobile device in accordance with the detected voltage level.
US09515498B2
A temperature detection unit detects the temperature of a power plug. A control unit stops electric conduction to a battery when the detected temperature detected by the temperature detection unit is equal to or higher than a predetermined specified temperature (T1). The control unit recovers the electric conduction to the battery when the detected temperature detected by the temperature detection unit decreases to a specified temperature (T2) or lower, the specified temperature (T2) being lower than the specified temperature (T1).
US09515494B2
A wireless power system for powering a television includes a source resonator, configured to generate an oscillating magnetic field, and at least one television component attached to at least one device resonator, wherein the at least one device resonator is configured to wirelessly receive power from the source resonator via the oscillating magnetic field when the distance between the source resonator and the at least one device resonator is more than 5 cm, and wherein at least one television component draws at least 10 Watts of power.
US09515493B2
A power feeding coil unit includes a first power feeding coil and a second power feeding coil that generate a first magnetic flux, a first auxiliary coil that generates a second magnetic flux interlinking with the first power feeding coil, and a second auxiliary coil that generates a third magnetic flux interlinking with the second power feeding coil. An axial direction of the first auxiliary coil is nonparallel to an axial direction of the first power feeding coil, and an axial direction of the second auxiliary coil is nonparallel to an axial direction of the second power feeding coil. A direction of circulation of the second and third magnetic fluxes are opposite to a direction of circulation of the first magnetic flux.
US09515492B2
Examples of the invention include methods and apparatus for wirelessly transmitting power to a vehicle using electromagnetic radiation. An example apparatus includes a transmitter coil associated with a first metamaterial lens, and a receiver coil associated with a second metamaterial lens, the receiver coil being located within the vehicle. The metamaterial lenses each have a negative magnetic permeability, and are separated by a lens spacing including an air gap. The first and second metamaterial lenses (and the lens spacing) act cooperatively to focus the electromagnetic radiation from the transmitter coil on the receiver coil.
US09515488B2
A method and apparatus are directed to a dynamic means for correcting imbalance and harmonic distortion in an electrical system. In one embodiment, the device includes an imbalance and harmonics measurement module configured to measure power parameters for determining imbalance and harmonics within the electrical three-phase system. Within this system a series of capacitors are configured to respond to measured demands reported and designated to correct for imbalance and harmonics distortion. The device is networked among various source load controllers are responsible for designating master and slave relationships within the closed system.
US09515487B2
A power flow control apparatus comprising a current distribution circuit arranged to distribute an input current into a plurality of branches such that the input current is distributed into a plurality of individual branch currents; wherein each of the plurality of branches includes an inductive arrangement arranged to form an inductive coupling with an associated inductive arrangement of at least one other associated branch, and a plurality of compensator units in electrical communication with the plurality of branches, wherein each compensator unit is arranged to deliver a branch compensating voltage relative to the branch current.
US09515483B2
Switching and switchover devices for DC networks make it possible to realize, particularly in the event of faults, rapid and reliable switching processes in combination with good overvoltage damping and low energy losses during normal operation. The switching devices furthermore have short turn-off times and require no cooling since they have no on-state power losses during normal operation.
US09515482B2
Consciousness of environmental conservation is increasing nowadays, and there are power generators for a portable device and employing power generation schemes without a co2 discharge, such as solar power generation and hand-crank power generation. When, however, power is supplied, information indicating that the power is obtained from clean energy without a CO2 discharge is unknown at the portable-device side. When power is supplied from the power generator to the portable device, a power generation scheme identifier for identifying a power generation scheme is transmitted. The portable device identifies the power generation scheme identifier, and can recognize the power generation scheme of the connected power generator. A supplied power level is recognized based on a power level of the storage battery of the portable device at a time point of starting the power supply, and a power level of the storage battery at a time point of terminating the power supply. Since the power level in the storage battery is managed in this manner using the power generation scheme identifier, it becomes possible to determine whether or not the power generation scheme of the power in the storage battery is a clean scheme.
US09515475B2
An electro-optical (EO) radiation collector for collecting and/or transmitting EO radiation (which may include EO radiation in the visible wavelengths) for transmission to an EO sensor. The EO radiation collector may be used with an arc flash detection device or other protective system, such as an intelligent electronic device (IED). The arc flash detection device may detect an arc flash event based upon EO radiation collected by and/or transmitted from the EO radiation collector. The EO radiation collector may receive an EO conductor cable, an end of which may be configured to receive EO radiation. A portion of the EO radiation received by the EO radiation collector may be transmitted into the EO conductor cable and transmitted to the arc flash detection device. The EO radiation collector may be adapted to receive a second EO conductor cable, which may be used to provide redundant EO transmission and/or self-test capabilities.
US09515473B2
An electric wire holding device is composed of an electric wire holding member made of a resin to hold an electric wire, a cylindrical member made of an electrically conductive metal, including an inner surface to be mated around and receive at least a mating portion of the electric wire holding member, and a plurality of protrusions formed around an outer circumference of the at least mating portion of the electric wire holding member for the cylindrical member to be mated therearound. The plurality of protrusions are brought into contact with the inner surface of the cylindrical member.
US09515470B2
A grommet assembly, such as for height adjustable desks, comprising the components: a universal cylindrical desktop grommet; a grommet flat plate (optional) with a centrally located aperture, and affixed to the underside of the desk aperture; a grommet fabric sleeve configured as a vertically oriented housing suspended downward from the desktop aperture comprising a cylindrical exterior and interior side wall; and, an internal retaining ring encased between two folds within the sleeve interior side wall by folding the sleeve top end inward and downward, the retaining ring functioning to hold the sleeve in position with the desktop aperture. The grommet assembly allows cables to move up/down within a grommet sleeve easily, unimpeded while protecting the cable(s) from damage due to abrasive surface contact and bending of the cable. This is especially suitable for height adjustable desks to allow free movement of the cable as the desk moves up/down.
US09515468B2
This invention is directed to a strengthening adapter 7 for securing a standard electrical device 4 such as a switch or female receptacle within a standard electrical box 3 positioned within a space 5 in drywall 2 by sandwiching the strengthening adapter 7 between electrical device 4 and the drywall and at the same time covering any space 5 in the drywall 2 around the electrical box 3.
US09515459B2
A power supply module for intelligent electronic apparatuses and capable of transforming the energy of the LV network and of a battery into energy that can be used by said apparatuses is produced to serve as support for said apparatuses. In particular, for a use in a telecontrol equipment item, the casing of the power supply module is flat, can be installed on wall-mounted DIN rails, and includes, on its front face, a DIN rail for fixing the apparatuses that it powers, that is to say other functional modules of the equipment. The casing also includes an apron for the connections. Preferably, the power supply is produced by series connection, and the power supply module includes a port dedicated to external communication via a module of the equipment.
US09515458B2
A mounting system (1) arranges electric devices (2), in switchgear cabinets. The mounting system (1) includes horizontal mounting strip (3) to which a device (2) can be secured. At one of its longitudinal edges, the mounting strip (3) includes a receiving device (20) extending along the longitudinal axis of the mounting strip and receiving components (7, 8, 9, 10, 11). The receiving device (20) has locks (22, 23) to be interlocked with an associated lock (26) of the component (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) inserted into the receiving device (20). Depending on the design of the associated lock (26) of the component (7, 8, 9, 10, 11), the interlocking action can be cancelled exclusively by a pulling force acting on the additional component (7, 8, 9, 10, 11) or cannot be so cancelled but is self-locking.
US09515456B2
Described are embodiments of apparatuses and systems including a hybrid laser including anti-resonant waveguides, and methods for making such apparatuses and systems. A hybrid laser apparatus may include a first semiconductor region including an active region of one or more layers of semiconductor materials from group III, group IV, or group V semiconductor, and a second semiconductor region coupled with the first semiconductor region and having an optical waveguide, a first trench disposed on a first side of the optical waveguide, and a second trench disposed on a second side, opposite the first side, of the optical waveguide. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09515425B2
An audio interface (1) comprising a socket (3) arranged to receive a plug (30), the socket arranged to transfer an audio signal to the plug when connected to the socket, the interface comprising a detector (10) to determine whether an audio signal is received at the socket, the detector arranged to cause generation of a test signal to indicate that an audio signal is received at the socket, at least when the plug is not connected to the socket.
US09515416B2
A card edge connector for receiving a memory card includes an insulative housing with a central slot for receiving the memory card and a plurality of terminal contacts retained in a plurality of grooves defined by the insulative housing and a retainer positioned on the housing. The retainer defines a body portion mounted on the housing, a locking portion extending into the housing from the body portion and a elastic engaging portion extending downwardly into the central slot from inner side of the body portion for steadily locking the memory card.
US09515411B2
A connector assembly has first and second connectors (10, 40). The first connector (10) has a housing (11) with a terminal accommodating portion (13) for accommodating terminal fittings (12) and a lever accommodating portion (14). The second connector (40) has a receptacle (44) for receiving the first connector (10). A lever (30) is provided in the lever accommodating portion (14) and can be operated to connect or separate the connectors (10, 40). Guide grooves (15) are provided between the terminal accommodating portion (13) and the lever accommodating portion (14) and guide ribs (48) project on an inner peripheral surface of the receptacle (44). The guide ribs (48) engage in the guide grooves (15) to prevent the connectors (10, 40) from inclining during a connecting operation.
US09515404B2
An electrical contact plug has a cable with a plurality of conductor cores connected thereto. A plug housing extends in the longitudinal direction and extends from a front contact region up to a rear insertion region. The cable is introduced into the plug housing in the rear insertion region and is surrounded by an injection-molded encapsulation. In order to avoid reliably the ingress of injection-molding compound into the front contact region during the injection-molding operation, the plug housing has a conical receptacle in the rear insertion region, with a cone element being formed as insert part in said conical receptacle, through which cone element the conductor cores are passed individually. Reliable and safe sealing of the conductor cores with respect to the contact region is performed via the cone element.
US09515397B2
Contact protection system for power busbars having planar contact protection modules which each comprise holding feet for engaging behind the power busbars and latching elements for mutually latching with adjacent contact protection module, wherein the contact protection modules comprise for each power busbar a terminal-receiving region for receiving connecting terminals which are provided for electrically contacting the respective power busbar.
US09515394B2
An insulation displacement connection contact has a base plate extending along a longitudinal axis and having a mating end and an opposite terminating end. The base plate has a contacting portion positioned proximate to the mating end, a plate-like wire supporting portion integrally extending outward from the base plate at the terminating end, and an insulation displacement connection member positioned between the contacting portion and the wire supporting portion, proximate to the terminating end.
US09515382B2
An antenna device includes a feeding coil antenna and a booster coil antenna electromagnetically coupled to the feeding coil antenna. The feeding coil antenna includes a plurality of coil portions including at least one magnetic body and each including a coil conductor wound around the at least one magnetic body. The plurality of coil portions are connected to one another in an in-phase mode, and are arranged near one another such that winding axes of the coil conductors are oriented approximately in the same direction and at least portions of respective openings of the coil conductors face one another.
US09515374B2
A mechanism is disclosed to dismantle/erect a portable antenna that includes a linkage between radial driven elements and radial ground plane elements of the antenna which acts to cause them to move together between a collapsed and an erect arrangement.
US09515368B2
One example discloses a transmission line interconnect, comprising: an antenna coupling surface; a transmission line coupling surface; and a dielectric molding compound electromagnetically coupling the antenna coupling surface to the transmission line coupling surface. Another example discloses a method of manufacture, for a transmission line interconnect, comprising: forming a dielectric molding compound; defining an antenna coupling surface on the dielectric molding compound; and defining a transmission line coupling surface on the dielectric molding compound whereby millimeter wave frequencies received at the antenna coupling surface are electromagnetically coupled to the transmission line coupling surface.
US09515366B2
A dielectric waveguide may be manufactured by forming a set of parallel channels in a planar sheet that has a lower dielectric constant value. The set of channels is then filled with a material having a higher dielectric constant value. The planar sheet is sliced into a plurality of strips that each contain one or more of the channels.
US09515365B2
Dielectric coupler devices and dielectric coupling systems for communicating EHF electromagnetic signals, and their methods of use. The coupler devices include an electrically conductive body having a major surface, the electrically conductive body defining an elongate recess, and the elongate recess having a floor, where a dielectric body is disposed in the elongate recess and configured to conduct an EHF electromagnetic signal.
US09515363B2
Signals on a dielectric waveguide are filtered to pass or block selected frequencies. A combined signal is received in the DWG, wherein the combined signal comprises at least a first frequency signal with a first wavelength and a second frequency signal with a second wavelength. The combined signal is split into a first portion and a second portion. The first portion of the combined signal is delayed by an amount of delay time to form a delayed first portion. The delayed first portion is joined with the received combined signal to form a filtered signal such that the first frequency signal is enhanced by constructive interference while the second frequency signal is diminished by destructive interference. A portion of the filtered signal is provided to a receiver, whereby the amplitude of the second frequency signal is attenuated in the filtered signal.
US09515353B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte, lithium-ion secondary battery includes an electrode group in which positive and negative electrode plates are wound via a separator accommodated into a battery container into which a non-aqueous electrolyte is injected. In the positive electrode plate, a positive electrode mixture layer including a lithium transition metal complex oxide is formed at both surfaces of an aluminum foil. A flame retardant layer containing a phosphazene compound as a flame retardant and a polyethylene oxide of a binder having ionic conductivity is formed at a surface of the positive electrode mixture layer. In the negative electrode plate, a negative electrode mixture layer including a carbon material of a negative electrode active material is formed at both surfaces of rolled copper foil. Ionic conductivity is secured by the polyethylene oxide, and the phosphazene compound decomposes when a battery temperature rises due to battery abnormality.
US09515351B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery including an electrolyte and/or an electrode, the electrolyte including an electrolyte salt and an electrolyte solvent, i) a cyclic carbonate compound substituted with at least one halogen element; and ii) a compound containing a vinyl group in a molecule thereof, and the electrode including a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer partially or totally formed on the surface thereof by electrical reduction of the two compounds.
US09515339B2
An ion exchanger includes an apparatus body having a lower filter and an upper filter. Ion exchange resin fills a space between the lower filter and the upper filter. A water supply port is provided at a lower position of the apparatus body, and a water discharge port is provided at an upper position of the apparatus body. An air container is provided at an upper position of the apparatus body, and an electric conductivity meter is provided in the air container at a position above the water discharge port.
US09515330B2
A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell stack, a partial oxidation reformer, and a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger is provided on one side of the fuel cell stack, and the partial oxidation reformer and the exhaust gas combustor are provided on the other side of the fuel cell stack. The partial oxidation reformer is provided around the exhaust gas combustor. The fuel cell module includes a first thermoelectric converter and a second thermoelectric converter for performing thermoelectric conversion based on a temperature difference between the combustion gas and the oxygen-containing gas.
US09515328B2
In at least certain embodiments, the present invention provides a diffusion media and fuel cells and systems employing the diffusion media. In at least one embodiment, the diffusion media comprises a porous matrix having an outer surface and a hydrophilic polymeric coating on at least a portion of the porous matrix with the hydrophilic coating comprising the cured product of a formulation comprising a hydrophilic monomer.
US09515326B2
A bipolar plate and a fuel cell are provided. The bipolar plate for the fuel cell has a plurality of flow channels, and a rib is defined between neighboring two flow channels. A top surface of the rib may be a roughened surface or have a porous structure in order to improve performance of the fuel cell.
US09515321B2
The present disclosure relates to a binder solution for an anode, comprising a thermally cross-linkable polymer binder that is cross-linked by heat, and a solvent for dissolving the thermally cross-linkable polymer binder, and exhibiting a concentration of hydrogen ions corresponding to pH 2.5 to pH 4.5; an active material slurry for an anode, comprising the binder solution; an anode using the slurry; and an electrochemical device comprising the anode. The binder solution for an anode according to one aspect of the present disclosure can relieve the volume expansion of an anode active material by the intercalation and disintercalation of lithium during cycles of electrochemical devices to improve the durability of an anode active material layer, thereby enhancing the life characteristics of the electrochemical devices, and also can provide good dispersibility to the active material slurry for an anode, thereby improving the coating stability of an anode active material layer.
US09515314B2
Disclosed is a cathode active material including a lithium manganese-based oxide. The lithium manganese-based oxide has a spinel structure represented by Formula 1 below and high lithium ion diffusivity since (440) planes are predominantly formed in a crystal structure thereof. Li1+xMyMn2-x-yO4-zQz (1) In Formula 1, 0≦x≦0.3, 0≦y≦1, and 0≦z≦1, M includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Al, Mg, Ni, Co, Fe, Cr, V, Ti, Cu, B, Ca, Zn, Zr, Nb, Mo, Sr, Sb, W, Ti, and Bi, and Q includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of N, F, S, and Cl.
US09515310B2
Methods are provided for forming films of orthorhombic V2O5. Additionally provided are the orthorhombic V2O5 films themselves, as well as batteries incorporating the films as cathode materials. The methods use electrodeposition from a precursor solution to form a V2O5 sol gel on a substrate. The V2O5 gel can be annealed to provide an orthorhombic V2O5 film on the substrate. The V2O5 film can be freestanding such that it can be removed from the substrate and integrated without binders or conductive filler into a battery as a cathode element. Due to the improved intercalation properties of the orthorhombic V2O5 films, batteries formed using the V2O5 films have extraordinarily high energy density, power density, and capacity.
US09515304B2
A battery tray (1) has a base for receiving a base (16) of a battery housing (2), opposed side walls (17, 18), an end wall (19) that connects the side walls (17, 18) and a clamp (22) that is connectable to the base (16). The end wall (19) and a first side wall (17) have grooves (24, 23) running parallel to the base (16) for receiving projections (10, 12) of the battery housing (2). The clamp (22) connects to the base (16) on the side of the battery tray (1) that faces away from the end wall (19). The clamp (22) has a block-forming element (29) for positioning the battery housing (2) on the side facing the second side wall (18), and the second side wall (18) has a block-forming element (30) in the region of the end wall (19), for positioning the battery tray (2) on the side facing the second side wall (18).
US09515303B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of unit cells; a protective circuit module on the plurality of unit cells and coupled to the unit cells, and an upper cover on the protective circuit module and including openings defined in its sides. Each of the unit cells includes a can, an electrode assembly accommodated in the can, a cap plate coupled to the can, and a holder between the unit cell and the protective circuit module and including protrusions coupled to the openings of the upper cover. The unit cells are oriented side by side along a first direction such that the cap plates are exposed along the same direction, and the protective circuit module includes grooves defined in its sides and corresponding to the protrusions of the holder.
US09515302B2
A rechargeable battery pack includes a frame accommodating a unit cell including a rechargeable battery; a protection circuit module electrically connected to the unit cell and in the frame; and a pair of cases coupled to opposite sides of the frame and accommodating the unit cell and the protection circuit module, and wherein the frame has coupling grooves in the sides and wherein each of the pair of cases comprises coupling protrusions, the coupling protrusions of each case being alternately coupled to the coupling grooves.
US09515301B2
Disclosed is a coin battery including: positive and negative electrodes, a separator interposed therebetween, and an electrolyte; and a housing accommodating these elements. The housing includes: a cylindrical battery case having a bottom, and a first side wall rising from the periphery thereof; a sealing plate having a top, and a second side wall extending from the periphery of the top and along inside the first side wall; and a gasket between the first and second side walls. The sealing plate has: a first curved portion at the boundary between the top and the second side wall, a second curved portion continued from the first curved portion, a third curved portion continued from the second curved portion, and a descending portion continued from the third curved portion. The ratio: R1/R2 where R1 and R2 are outer radii of curvatures of the first and second curved portions is 0.22 to 1.88.
US09515300B2
There is provided an electric storage device including a power generating element, a housing container for housing the power generating element and including an upper face, a bottom face, and four side faces and a covering member formed by winding an insulating sheet around the housing container. The housing container includes round portions or chamfered portions formed between the adjacent side faces and round or chamfered boundary portions formed between the bottom face and the side faces. The covering member covers parts of the boundary portions, the side faces, and the round portions or the chamfered portions.
US09515299B2
Provided is a molding packaging material that can have an increased use life, can suppress a decrease over time in inter-layer lamination strength, and can have superior molding properties in extrusion molding, draw forming, and the like. The laminate molding packaging material contains: an outside substrate layer (2) comprising a heat resistant resin; an inside sealant layer (3) comprising a thermoplastic resin; and a metal foil provided between the two layers as a barrier layer (4). A matte coat layer (6) comprising a heat resistant resin coating film containing a dispersion of inorganic or organic solid microparticles is formed on the outer surface of the outside substrate layer (2), and the gloss value of the surface thereof is suppressed to no greater than 30%.
US09515286B2
A method of sealing a workpiece comprising forming an inorganic film over a surface of a first substrate, arranging a workpiece to be protected between the first substrate and a second substrate wherein the inorganic film is in contact with the second substrate; and sealing the workpiece between the first and second substrates as a function of the composition of impurities in the first or second substrates and as a function of the composition of the inorganic film by locally heating the inorganic film with a predetermined laser radiation wavelength. The inorganic film, the first substrate, or the second substrate can be transmissive at approximately 420 nm to approximately 750 nm.
US09515282B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting electrochemical cell (LEC) is disclosed. The LEC comprises a first electrode, a second electrode, and a first light-emitting active material in electrical contact with and separating the first and second electrodes. The first active material comprises mobile ions in an amount sufficient for doping the active material. The method comprises a step of depositing the first active material by spray-coating at an ambient gas pressure of at least about 1 kPa.
US09515253B2
A TMR stack or a GMR stack, ultimately formed into a sensor or MRAM element, include insertion layers of Fe or iron rich layers of FeX in its ferromagnetic free layer and/or the AP1 layer of its SyAP pinned layer. X is a non-magnetic, metallic element (or elements) chosen from Ta, Hf, V, Co, Mo, Zr, Nb or Ti whose total atom percent is less than 50%. The insertion layers are between 1 and 10 angstroms in thickness, with between 2 and 5 angstroms being preferred and, in the TMR stack, they are inserted adjacent to the interfaces between a tunneling barrier layer and the ferromagnetic free layer or the tunneling barrier layer and the AP1 layer of the SyAP pinned layer in the TMR stack. The insertion layers constrain interdiffusion of B and Ni from CoFeB and NiFe layers and block NiFe crystalline growth.
US09515251B2
A mechanism is provided for fabricating a thermally assisted magnetoresistive random access memory device. A bottom thermal barrier is formed on a bottom contact. A magnetic tunnel junction is formed on the bottom thermal barrier. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a top ferromagnetic layer formed on a tunnel barrier. The tunnel barrier is formed on a bottom ferromagnetic layer. A top thermal barrier is formed on the top ferromagnetic layer. A top contact is formed on the top thermal barrier. The top contact is reduced to a first diameter. The tunnel barrier and the bottom ferromagnetic layer each have a second diameter. The first diameter of the top contact is smaller than the second diameter.
US09515248B2
There is provided a vibration generating apparatus including: an elastic member having both end portions thereof fixedly installed on a support part of a lower case; a piezoelectric element installed on one surface of the elastic member; and a mass body part connected to the elastic member to increase an amount of vibrations, wherein the mass body part is provided with protrusion portions for first contacting the lower case at the time of an external impact.
US09515246B2
A vapor phase method for forming a thermoelectric element comprises providing a substrate in a reaction space, the substrate including a pattern of a metallic material adjacent to the substrate, which metallic material is configured to catalyze the oxidation of the substrate. The metallic material is then exposed to a gas having an oxidizing agent and a chemical etchant to form holes in or wires from the substrate.
US09515244B2
A novel and effective structure of a stackable element (A1, A2) or more generally adapted to be associated modularly to other similar elements to form a septum of relatively large dimensions for a Seebeck/Peltier thermoelectric conversion device, may be fabricated with common planar processing techniques. The structure basically consists of a stack (A1, A2) of alternated layers of a first dielectric material (2), adapted to be deposited in films of thickness lesser than or equal to about 50 nm, of low heat conductivity and which is etchable by a solution of a specific chemical compound, and of a second dielectric material (3) of low heat conductivity that is not etched by the solution. For the whole width, the stack is interrupted by parallel trenches (T1, T2, T3) the width (w) of which may correspond to the minimum linewidth of definition allowed by the resolution of the lithographic process used for defining the parallel trenches, but which may eventually be limited by other parameters, in primis the height of the stack (h) to be subjected to the vertical etch to cut the stack in order to form the parallel trenches.
US09515243B2
Temperature sensor devices and corresponding methods are provided. A temperature sensor may include a first layer being essentially non-conductive in a temperature range and a second layer having a varying resistance in the temperature range.
US09515233B2
A wavelength-converting element having the shape of a small flat plate having a basic shape with an outer contour, wherein the wavelength-converting element includes a cut-out compared to the basic shape which is defined by a boundary edge, and at a conjunction of the boundary edge and the outer contour, an angle of less than 90° is enclosed.
US09515224B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a substrate, a first reflective layer disposed on the substrate and including first openings, a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer grown in and extending from the first openings and connected on the first reflective layer, a second reflective layer disposed on the first conductivity-type semiconductor layer and including second openings having lower surfaces disposed to be spaced apart from upper surfaces of the first openings, and a plurality of light-emitting nanostructures including nanocores extending from the second openings and formed of a first conductivity-type semiconductor material, and active layers and second conductivity-type semiconductor layers sequentially disposed on the nanocores.
US09515209B2
Manipulation of the passivation ligands of colloidal quantum dots and use in QD electronics. A multi-step electrostatic process is described which creates bare QDs, followed by the formation of QD superlattice via electric and thermal stimulus. Colloidal QDs with original long ligands (i.e. oleic acid) are atomized, and loaded into a special designed tank to be washed, followed by another atomization step before entering the doping station. The final step is the deposition of bare QDs onto substrate and growth of QD superlattice. The method permits the formation of various photonic devices, such as single junction and tandem solar cells based on bare QD superlattice, photodetectors, and LEDs. The devices include a piezoelectric substrate with an electrode, and at least one layer of bare quantum dots comprising group IV-VI elements on the electrode, where the bare quantum dots have been stripped of outer-layer ligands.
US09515206B2
Electron-deficient fluorous porphyrin molecules may have dual functions of light harvesting and electron accepting or donating and may be ideally suited for use in organic solar cells. Methods of making electron-deficient fluorous porphyrin molecules are described.
US09515201B2
Provided is a solar cell module comprising a crystalline silicon wafer, at least one amorphous silicon layer provided on at least one of a top and bottom of the crystalline silicon wafer, a transparent conductive film provided on a surface of the at least one amorphous silicon layer, electrodes provided on a surface of the transparent conductive film and a division unit to divide the transparent conductive film into a current-carrying region and a non-current-carrying region, wherein the current-carrying region is electrically connected to the electrodes and the non-current-carrying region is electrically disconnected from the electrodes.
US09515198B1
A lateral bipolar junction transistor (BJT) magnetic field sensor that includes a layout of two or more adjacent lateral BJT devices. Each BJT includes a semiconductor base region of a first conductivity type doping, a semiconductor emitter region of a second conductivity type doping and laterally contacting the base region; and a first semiconductor collector region of a second conductivity type doping contacting said base region on an opposite side thereof. A second collector region of the second conductivity type doping is also formed contacting the base region on the opposite side thereof in spaced apart relation with the first collector region. The first adjacent lateral BJT device includes the emitter, base and first collector region and the second adjacent lateral BJT device includes the emitter, base and second collector region. The sensor induces a detectable difference in collector current amounts in the presence of an external magnetic field transverse to a plane defined by the layout.
US09515190B2
A method for manufacturing polysilicon thin film transistor is disclosed, and the method comprises the following steps: forming a semiconductor material layer on a prefabricated substrate; forming an intermediate layer on the semiconductor material layer; forming a photoresist layer on the intermediate layer, and exposing the photoresist layer with a photomask for a first time; moving the prefabricated substrate in a predetermined direction relative to the photomask, and exposing the photoresist layer with the photomask for a second time; forming a photoresist region which comprises a central part and a wing part and a hollowed-out region which contains no photoresist material in the photoresist layer; and forming an ion lightly doped region corresponding to the wing part and an ion heavily doped region corresponding to the hollowed-out region in the semiconductor material layer.
US09515183B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a trench and including an active area including a channel area formed along an inner surface of the trench and source/drain areas formed at both ends of the channel area and sandwiching the trench, a gate insulating film formed on the inner surface of the trench, and a gate electrode formed in the trench in which the gate insulating film is provided. A main surface of the semiconductor substrate has {100} plane orientation, a portion of the channel area parallel to a side surface of the trench has {110} channel plane orientation and has <100> channel orientation in a channel length direction, and tensile stress in the channel length direction and compressive stress in a channel width direction are applied to the portion of the channel area parallel to the side surface of the trench.
US09515178B1
Semiconductor device structures and related fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary semiconductor device includes gate structures within a semiconductor substrate, a shielding structure within the semiconductor substrate that includes a first portion underlying a first gate structure and a second portion proximate an end of the gate structures, and a conductive structure overlying the second portion of the shielding structure and an end region of the semiconductor substrate. The conductive structure provides an electrical connection between the second portion of the shielding structure and the end region of the semiconductor substrate residing between the gate structures proximate the end of the gate structures.
US09515175B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device are provided. In a semiconductor device including a bottom-gate transistor in which an insulating layer functioning as a channel protective film is provided over an oxide semiconductor film, elements contained in an etching gas can be prevented from remaining as impurities on a surface of the oxide semiconductor film by performing impurity-removing process after formation of an insulating layer provided over and in contact with the oxide semiconductor film and/or formation of source and drain electrode layers. The impurity concentration in the surface of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 5×1018 atoms/cm3, preferably lower than or equal to 1×1018 atoms/cm3.
US09515170B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a semiconductor device having a fin-type transistor that is excellent in characteristics by forming a fin-shaped semiconductor portion and a gate electrode with high precision or by making improvement regarding variations in characteristics among elements. The present invention is a semiconductor device including a fin-shaped semiconductor portion having a source region formed on one side thereof and a drain region formed on the other side thereof, and a gate electrode formed between the source region and the drain region to surround the fin-shaped semiconductor portion with a gate insulating film interposed therebetween. One solution for solving the problem according to the invention is that the gate electrode uses a metal material or a silicide material that is wet etchable.
US09515169B2
There is provided a FinFET fabricating method, comprising: a. providing a substrate ; b. forming a fin on the substrate; c. forming a channel protective layer on the fin; d. forming a shallow trench isolation on both sides of the fin; e. forming a sacrificial gate stack and a spacer on the top surface and sidewalls of the channel region which is in the middle of the fin; f. forming source/drain regions in both ends of the fin; g. depositing an interlayer dielectric layer on the sacrificial gate stack and the source/drain regions, planarizing later to expose the sacrificial gate stack; h. removing the sacrificial gate stack stack to form a sacrificial gate vacancy and expose the channel region and the channel protective layer; i. covering a portion of the semiconductor structure in one end of the fin with a photoresist layer; j. removing a portion of the spacer not covered; k. removing the photoresist layer and filling a gate stack in the sacrificial gate vacancy; l. planarizing the semiconductor structure formed by the foregoing steps to expose the channel protective layer and forming a first separated gate stack and a second separated gate stack. Comparing with the prior art, control ability of independent-gate-voltage FinFET can be effectively improved and it is good for device performance.
US09515168B2
After formation of gate structures over semiconductor fins and prior to formation of raised active regions, a directional ion beam is employed to form a dielectric material portion on end walls of semiconductor fins that are perpendicular to the lengthwise direction of the semiconductor fins. The angle of the directional ion beam is selected to be with a vertical plane including the lengthwise direction of the semiconductor fins, thereby avoiding formation of the dielectric material portion on lengthwise sidewalls of the semiconductor fins. Selective epitaxy of semiconductor material is performed to grow raised active regions from sidewall surfaces of the semiconductor fins. Optionally, horizontal portions of the dielectric material portion may be removed prior to the selective epitaxy process. Further, the dielectric material portion may optionally be removed after the selective epitaxy process.
US09515159B2
An electronic sensor apparatus for detecting chemical or biological species includes a semiconductor chip, a sensor device, and a substrate. The chip is produced from a semiconductor substrate and is configured for one or more functions such as: amplifying and/or evaluating an electrical voltage, amplifying and/or evaluating an electric current, amplifying and/or evaluating an electrical charge, and amplifying and/or reading out capacitance changes. The sensor device has an active surface configured to detect chemical or biological species and generate an electrical signal based on a species-characteristic interaction with the active surface. The electrical signal can be an electrical voltage, an electric current, an electrical charge and/or a capacitance change. The substrate is produced from a melt-moldable material and has a surface including first and second regions. The chip is at least partly embedded in the first region, and the sensor device is at least partly embedded in the second region.
US09515151B2
Methods of forming memory cells including a charge storage structure having a gettering agent therein can be useful for non-volatile memory devices. Providing for gettering of oxygen from a charge-storage material of the charge storage structure can facilitate a mitigation of detrimental oxidation of the charge-storage material.
US09515146B2
According to one embodiment, a nitride semiconductor layer spreading along a first surface is provided. The nitride semiconductor layer includes a first region and a second region. A length of the first region in a first direction parallel to the first surface is longer than a length of the first region in a second direction parallel to the first surface and perpendicular to the first direction. The second region is arranged with the first region in the second direction. A length of the second region in the first direction is longer than a length of the second region in the second direction. A c-axis being is tilted with respect to the second direction for the first region and the second region. The c-axis intersects a third direction perpendicular to the first surface.
US09515139B2
A trap rich layer for an integrated circuit chip is formed by chemical etching and/or laser texturing of a surface of a semiconductor layer. In some embodiments, a trap rich layer is formed by a technique selected from the group of techniques consisting of laser texturing, chemical etch, irradiation, nanocavity formation, porous Si-etch, semi-insulating polysilicon, thermal stress relief and mechanical texturing. Additionally, combinations of two or more of these techniques may be used to form a trap rich layer.
US09515136B2
An integrated device has: a structural layer of semiconductor material doped with a first conductivity type and having a top surface defining a plane; a functional region, doped with a second conductivity type, arranged in an active area of the structural layer at the top surface, in the proximity of an edge area of the integrated device, which externally surrounds the active area; and an edge termination region, doped with the second conductivity type, joined to the functional region and arranged in the edge area. The edge termination region has a doping profile and a junction depth that vary in a first direction parallel to the plane.
US09515127B2
An organic electroluminescent display apparatus includes: a base substrate; a first electrode; a hole transport region; a light-emitting unit; a common layer; a first resonance auxiliary layer; a second resonance auxiliary layer; an electron transport region; and a second electrode. The light-emitting unit includes a first light-emitting layer disposed on the first pixel region and a second light-emitting layer disposed on the second pixel region. The first resonance auxiliary layer and the second resonance auxiliary layer may be separated from the common layer.
US09515115B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a pixel formed, upon forming a structure where a photoelectric conversion layer is laminated on a wiring layer constituting a pixel circuit, by forming at least the photoelectric conversion layer and a wiring layer bonding layer on a different substrate from a semiconductor substrate in which the wiring layer is formed, and by bonding the wiring layer bonding film of the different substrate and the wiring layer of the semiconductor substrate together.
US09515108B2
An image sensor package including a barrier structure to prevent image sensor die contamination is described. A barrier structure may surround an image sensor die that is attached on an image sensor carrier. The barrier structure may be attached to a transparent window structure as well as a package substrate. The barrier structure may extend through a hole in the package substrate. The image sensor carrier may be mounted to the package substrate using a thermal compression head that is able to apply independently varying compressive forces to corresponding regions of a surface at a given time. The thermal compression head may be used to cure the barrier structure and/or adhesives used in the image sensor package. Underfill adhesive may be deposited between discrete mounting structures used to mount the package substrate to the image sensor carrier, after the barrier structure has been applied.
US09515106B2
A photosensor pixel includes a thin film transistor (TFT) and a metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) photodetector. The TFT includes a gate, a gate insulator layer, a semiconductor layer forming a channel region, a drain, and a source. The MIS photodetector includes a transparent conductor layer, a semiconductor layer including a photosensitive semiconductor, and an insulator layer between the transparent conductor layer and the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer of the MIS photodetector is connected to the source or the drain of the TFT, and the thickness of the insulator layer of the MIS photodetector is less than the thickness of the gate insulator layer of the TFT.
US09515104B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a light receiving element region, a peripheral region, a boundary region, a plurality of signal lines, and a conductive layer. In light receiving element region, light receiving elements for performing photoelectric conversion are formed. Peripheral region is formed outside light receiving element region for performing input/output of an electric signal from/to the outside of the semiconductor substrate. Boundary region is formed between light receiving element region and peripheral region. The plurality of signal lines are arranged in boundary region for performing input/output of electric signals between light receiving element region and peripheral region. Conductive layer is arranged in a layer different from each of the plurality of signal lines. A relative position of conductive layer as seen from each of the plurality of signal lines is all identical, and conductive layer is all arranged in an identical layer.
US09515091B2
A thin film transistor array panel includes a gate line elongated in an extension direction and including a gate and dummy gate electrode extended therefrom; and a source electrode, and a single drain member including a drain electrode at a first end thereof and a dummy drain electrode at an opposing second end thereof. The drain electrode faces the source electrode with respect to the gate electrode, and the dummy drain electrode overlaps the dummy gate electrode. The drain and dummy drain electrode respectively include a plurality of first and second regions each having a predetermined width in the extension direction. A second region includes an edge which forms an angle from about 0 degrees to about 90 degrees with the extension direction, and a planar area of at least one of the plurality of second regions is different from that of remaining second regions.
US09515089B1
Fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate, wherein the substrate is comprised of a base layer, a doped silicon layer on top of the base layer, and an undoped silicon layer on top of the doped silicon layer; forming a hard mask layer on top of the substrate; forming at least one mandrel on top of the hard mask layer; forming a spacer layer on top of exposed portions of the hard mask layer and the at least one mandrel; etching portions of the spacer layer; removing the at least one mandrel; etching regions of the hard mask layer and the undoped silicon layer not protected by remaining portions of the spacer layer to form at least one fin; and removing the remaining portions of the spacer layer.
US09515088B1
A semiconductor structure is provided with fins on a substrate, including: a first active layer with a first source, first channel, and first drain, each doped with the same concentration of dopant as each other; a dielectric layer on the first active layer; a second active layer with a second source, second channel, and second drain, each doped with the same concentration of dopant as each other; and a first and second gate disposed on an opposing first and second sidewall of the channels, respectively. A method for making such a semiconductor structure is also provided.
US09515087B2
A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device that includes a peripheral logic structure including peripheral logic circuits disposed on a semiconductor substrate and a first insulation layer overlapping the peripheral logic circuits, and a plurality of memory blocks spaced apart from each other on the peripheral logic structure. At least one of the memory blocks includes a well plate electrode, a semiconductor layer in contact with a first surface of the well plate electrode, a stack structure including a plurality of electrodes vertically stacked on the semiconductor layer, and a plurality of vertical structures penetrating the stack structure and connected to the semiconductor layer.
US09515086B2
Provided are a three dimensional semiconductor memory device and a method of fabricating the same. In the three dimensional semiconductor memory device, a stack of gate electrodes and insulating layers may be formed on a substrate, a channel structure may extend through the stack and connect to the substrate. A blocking insulating layer, a charge storing layer and a tunnel insulating layer may be formed between each gate electrode and the channel structure. The tunnel insulating layer may include a high-k dielectric layer with a low charge trap site density. The tunnel insulating layer may also include a first and a second tunnel insulating layers, and the high-k dielectric layer is provided between the first and second tunnel insulating layers.
US09515081B2
A semiconductor device includes bit lines provided in a semiconductor substrate; an ONO film that is provided along the surface of the semiconductor substrate and is made of a tunnel oxide film, a trap layer, and a top oxide film; and an oxide film that is provided on the surface of the semiconductor substrate in the middle between the bit lines and contacts the side face of the ONO film, in which the film thickness of the oxide film is larger than the sum of the thicknesses of the tunnel oxide film and the top oxide film, and smaller than the thickness of the ONO film.
US09515078B2
Various embodiments provide semiconductor structures and methods for forming the same. In an exemplary method, a semiconductor substrate is provided. A first stop layer, a first sacrificial layer, a second stop layer, and a second sacrificial layer are formed sequentially on the semiconductor substrate. The second sacrificial layer, the second stop layer, the first sacrificial layer, the first stop layer, and the semiconductor substrate are etched to form a groove, the groove then being filled to form an isolation structure. The second sacrificial layer is removed to expose sidewalls and a top of an exposed portion of the isolation structure. The second stop layer is removed, and the exposed portion of the isolation structure is etched to reduce a width of the top of the exposed portion of the isolation structure. The first sacrificial layer is removed. A floating gate is formed on the first stop layer.
US09515075B1
Structure and method of fabrication of F-RAM cells are described. The F-RAM cell include ferroelectric capacitors forming over and with a pre-patterned barrier structure which has a planarized/chemically and/or mechanically polished top surface. The pre-patterned barrier structure includes multiple oxygen barriers having a structure of a bottom electrode layer over an oxygen barrier layer. The bottom electrode layer forms at least a part of the bottom electrode of the ferroelectric capacitor formed thereon.
US09515072B2
Present disclosure provides a FinFET structure, including a plurality of fins, a gate, and a first dopant layer. The gate is disposed substantially orthogonal over the plurality of fins, covering a portion of a top surface and a portion of sidewalls of the plurality of fins. The first dopant layer covers the top surface and the sidewalls of a junction portion of a first fin, configured to provide dopants of a first conductive type to the junction portion of the first fin. The junction portion is adjacent to the gate.
US09515065B2
Provided are a driver circuit which suppresses damage of a semiconductor element due to ESD in a manufacturing process, a method of manufacturing the driver circuit. Further provided are a driver circuit provided with a protection circuit with low leakage current, and a method of manufacturing the driver circuit. By providing a protection circuit in a driver circuit to be electrically connected to a semiconductor element in the driver circuit, and by forming, at the same time, a transistor which serves as the semiconductor element in the driver circuit and a transistor included in the protection circuit in the driver circuit, damage of the semiconductor element due to ESD is suppressed in the process of manufacturing the driver circuit. Further, by using an oxide semiconductor film for the transistor included in the protection circuit in the driver circuit, leakage current in the protection circuit is reduced.
US09515064B2
In a static electricity protection circuit according to the invention, a first wiring is electrically connected to a drain of a first p-type transistor and a gate and a source of a first n-type transistor; a second wiring is electrically connected to a gate and a source of the first p-type transistor, a drain of the first n-type transistor, a drain of a second p-type transistor and a gate and a source of a second n-type transistor; and a third wiring is electrically connected to a gate and a source of the second p-type transistor and a drain of the second n-type transistor.
US09515059B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor proximity sensor includes providing a flat leadframe with a first and a second surface. The second surface is solderable. The leadframe includes a first and a second pad, a plurality of leads, and fingers framing the first pad. The fingers are spaced from the first pad by a gap which is filled with a clear molding compound. A light-emitting diode (LED) chip is assembled on the first pad and encapsulated by a first volume of the clear compound. The first volume outlined as a first lens. A sensor chip is assembled on the second pad and encapsulated by a second volume of the clear compound. The second volume outlined as a second lens. Opaque molding compound fills the space between the first and second volumes of clear compound and forms walls rising from the frame of fingers to create an enclosed cavity for the LED. The pads, leads, and fingers connected to a board using a layer of solder for attaching the proximity sensor.
US09515056B2
A multi-emitter solid state lighting device includes at least one narrow spectral output solid state light emitter, such as may be in the green range, having a full width-half maximum emission value of no greater than 30 nm. First, second, and third electrically solid state emitters may include dominant wavelengths in the ranges of 485-505 nm (or 491-505 nm), 526-545 nm, and 615-625 nm. Aggregate emissions of a solid state lighting device may comprise a scotopic/photopic (S/P) ratio value that exceeds threshold values for conventional white light-emitting devices including at least one phosphor-converted LED by at least 10%, 20%, 30%, or 40%, in combination with reasonably high gamut and brightness, over a range of desired CCT values.
US09515051B2
The present invention provides a stabilized fine textured metal microstructure that constitutes a durable activated surface usable for bonding a 3D stacked chip. A fine-grain layer that resists self anneal enables metal to metal bonding at moderate time and temperature and wider process flexibility.
US09515037B2
In The semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate has first and second surfaces. A circuitry layer is formed over the first surface and a first insulating layer is further formed over the circuitry layer. A second insulating layer including a first insulating element is formed over the second surface. A third insulating layer including a second insulating element different from the first insulating element of the second insulating layer is formed over the second surface with an intervention of the second insulating layer therebetween. A penetration electrode penetrates through the semiconductor substrate, the circuitry layer, the first insulating layer, the second insulating layer and the third insulating layer.
US09515034B2
A conductive structure is formed in a last metal layer of an integrated circuit. Passivation material is patterned over a portion of the conductive structure. A first trench is patterned around a selected portion of the passivation material. The selected portion represents a bond region of a wire bond to be formed above the passivation material. A portion of the passivation material completely covers a bottom of the trench. A layer of conductive material is conformally deposited over the passivation material. The conformal depositing resulting in a second trench forming in the conductive material over the first trench in the passivation material. The second trench is positioned to contain at least a portion of a splash of the conductive material when the wire bond is subsequently formed.
US09515030B2
An X-ray obscuration (XRO) film comprising one or more metallic wire mesh layers and an adjacent layer of indium foil having portions which extend into openings of the wire mesh and in contact with metallic portions thereof. The XRO film can be capable of absorbing at least a portion of X-ray energy thereby creating an interference pattern when the XRO film is coupled with an electronic circuit and placed between an X-ray source and an X-ray detector and subjected to radiographic inspection. The interference pattern can create sufficient visual static to effectively obscure circuit lines in the electronic circuit when subjected to radiographic inspection techniques. The XRO film can be substantially thinner than existing solutions for preventing X-ray inspection with an exemplary embodiment being no more than 5 mils thick. The metallic XRO film can also provide electromagnetic shielding and/or heat dissipation for electronic circuits.
US09515019B2
The present invention has for its purpose to provide a technique capable of reducing planar dimension of the semiconductor device. An input/output circuit is formed over the semiconductor substrate, a grounding wiring and a power supply wiring pass over the input/output circuit, and a conductive layer for a bonding pad is formed thereover. The input/output circuit is formed of MISFET elements in the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region, resistance elements in the resistance element forming regions and diode elements in the diode element forming regions functioning as protective elements. A wiring connected to the protective elements and positioned under the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring is pulled out in a pulling-out region between the nMISFET forming region and the pMISFET forming region and between the grounding wiring and the power supply wiring to be connected to the conductive layer.
US09515007B2
A substrate structure includes: a substrate body defined with a layout area, a sealing member and a cutting area, the sealing member being adjacent to the layout area, and the cutting area being adjacent to the sealing member; a wiring layer formed on the layout area; an insulating layer formed on the layout area and the wiring layer; and a metal layer formed on the insulating layer and the layout area. The insulating layer is prevented from being delaminated due to the formation of the metal layer.
US09515005B2
A package mounting structure includes: a first substrate having wiring; a second substrate having wiring; at least one cooling unit having a first face and a second face different from the first face; at least one power supply unit that is mounted on the first substrate and is joined to the first face of the cooling unit; and at least one electronic component that is mounted on the second substrate and is joined to the second face of the cooling unit, wherein the power supply unit supplies power to the electronic component through the wiring of the first substrate, the cooling unit, and the wiring of the second substrate.
US09515003B1
Embedded air core inductors are described for integrated circuit package substrates. The substrates have a thermal conductor for the inductors. One example includes a package substrate to carry an integrated circuit die, the package substrate having a plurality of top side pads to connect to the die on a top side and a plurality of bottom side pads to connect to an external component on a bottom side. An inductor is embedded within the package substrate, A thermal conductor is embedded within the package substrate adjacent to the inductor to conduct heat away from the inductor, and a heat sink is thermally coupled to the thermal conductor to receive the heat from the conductor.
US09514988B1
Packaged semiconductor devices and methods of packaging thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of packaging semiconductor devices comprises attaching a first substrate to a film. A first portion of the film is attached to a first region of the first substrate and a second portion of the film is attached to a second region of the first substrate. The method further comprises separating the first portion of the film from the second portion of the film.
US09514982B2
A semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a trench, a stacked strip structure formed in the trench, and at least a conductive structure. The stacked strip structure includes a plurality of interlaced conductive strips and insulating strips. Each of the conductive strips has a horizontal conductive segment and two vertical conductive segments connected to the corresponding horizontal conductive segment. Each of the insulating strips has a horizontal insulating segment and two vertical insulating segments. The conductive structure is electrically connected to at least one of the conductive strips. The stacked strip structure has a horizontal stacked portion corresponding to the horizontal conductive segments and two vertical stacked portions corresponding to the vertical conductive segments, wherein a width of the vertical stacked portions is larger than a thickness of the horizontal stacked portion.
US09514980B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an insulation layer over a substrate; forming an open portion in the insulation layer; forming a sacrificial spacer over sidewalls of the open portion; forming, over the sacrificial spacer, a first conductive pattern in a lower section of the open portion; forming an ohmic contact layer over the first conductive pattern; forming an air gap by removing the sacrificial spacer; capping the air gap by forming a barrier layer over the ohmic contact layer; and forming a second conductive pattern over the barrier layer to fill an upper section of the open portion.
US09514978B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a first photo-sensitive layer over a contact pad, wherein the contact pad is on a substrate. The method further includes patterning the first photo-sensitive layer to form a first opening over a portion of the contact pad. The method further includes plating a conductive via in the first opening; and removing the first photo-sensitive layer. The method further includes forming a passivation layer over the substrate, contact pad, and conductive via, and exposing the conductive via by grinding the passivation layer. The method further includes forming a second photo-sensitive layer over the conductive via and passivation layer. The method further includes patterning the second photo-sensitive layer to form a second opening larger than and completely exposing the conductive via. The method further includes plating a conductive pillar in the second opening; and removing the second photo-sensitive layer.
US09514973B2
A lid-opening/closing device includes a device body, a lock-opening/closing mechanism, and a container-securing unit. A pod including a container body, a lid portion defining a bottom portion that is openable and closable with respect to the container body, and a locking mechanism performing unlocking and locking of the lid portion with respect to the container body is placed on the device body. The lock-opening/closing mechanism performs unlocking operation to cause the locking mechanism to perform the unlocking, and performs locking operation to cause the locking mechanism to perform the locking by moving an engaging portion configured to engage with the locking mechanism when the pod is placed on the device body. The container-securing unit secures the container body to the device body in conjunction with the lock-opening/closing mechanism when the locking mechanism is caused to perform the unlocking.
US09514970B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe an attachment device for mounting a module to a substrate comprises a module leg with two ends and a module foot. One end of the module leg is configured to be attached to a bottom surface of the module and the other end of the module leg is configured to be attached to the module foot. At least a portion of the module foot is configured to be attached to the substrate. Also a portion of a surface area of the module foot is configured to be exposed outside of an area covered by the module. 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.
US09514961B2
A method for chemically passivating a surface of a product made of a III-V semiconductor material in which a) a P(N) polymer film is formed by deposition in a solvent comprising liquid ammonia. The film is formed by deposition, without electrochemical assistance, in the solvent, in the presence of an oxidizing chemical additive comprising phosphorous and generating electrical charge carriers in said surface.
US09514953B2
Implementations described herein generally relate to semiconductor manufacturing and more particularly to methods for etching a low-k dielectric barrier layer disposed on a substrate using a non-carbon based approach. In one implementation, a method for etching a barrier low-k layer is provided. The method comprises (a) exposing a surface of the low-k barrier layer to a treatment gas mixture to modify at least a portion of the low-k barrier layer and (b) chemically etching the modified portion of the low-k barrier layer by exposing the modified portion to a chemical etching gas mixture, wherein the chemical etching gas mixture includes at least an ammonium gas and a nitrogen trifluoride gas or at least a hydrogen gas and a nitrogen trifluoride gas.
US09514945B2
A charge-storing device includes a charge-storing layer including nanocrystals. The nanocrystals are formed by a deposition technique incorporating deuterated hydrides. The deuterated hydride can be used to form an amorphous semiconductor material that is annealed to form nanoparticles to be incorporated into the charge-storing layer.
US09514943B1
A method for etching a gate includes forming a high-k material layer over a substrate; forming an overlying layer over the high-k material layer; performing a first etching process for etching the overlying layer to form an overlying layer pattern; forming a spacer on a sidewall of the overlying layer pattern; and performing a second etching process using plasma including a etch gas and an additive gas, to etch the high-k material layer, wherein an amount of the additive gas is substantially the same as the main etch gas to increase an etch selectivity with respect to the substrate.
US09514938B2
According to one embodiment, a method of forming a pattern includes applying a polymer material having a first segment and a second segment in openings formed in a guide, heating the polymer material to achieve microphase separation of the polymer material to form a self-assembled pattern which includes a first polymer portion having a cylindrical shape which includes the first segment, and a second polymer portion including the second segment and surrounding a lateral portion of the first polymer portion, and selectively removing the first polymer portion. A molecular weight ratio of the first segment to the second segment in the polymer material is approximately 4:6.
US09514915B2
In one embodiment, a charged particle beam drawing apparatus performs drawing by deflecting a charged particle beam with a deflector. A method for evaluating the apparatus includes making a shot of a first pattern, controlling a deflection amount by the deflector to move an applied position of the beam from the first pattern along a first direction to make a shot of a second pattern, controlling the deflection amount to move the applied position from the second pattern along the first direction to make a shot of a third pattern, controlling the deflection amount to move the applied position from the third pattern along a second direction opposite to the first direction to make a shot of a fourth pattern between the second pattern and the third pattern, calculating an interval between the second pattern and the fourth pattern, and comparing the calculated interval to a reference interval.
US09514912B2
A processing apparatus may include: an extraction plate disposed along a side of a plasma chamber, the extraction plate having a first and second aperture, and middle portion between the first and second aperture, the first and second aperture being configured to define a first and second ion beam when the plasma is present in the plasma chamber and an extraction voltage is applied between the extraction plate and a substrate; a hidden deflection electrode disposed adjacent the middle portion outside of the plasma chamber, and electrically isolated from the extraction plate; and a hidden deflection electrode power supply to apply a bias voltage to the hidden deflection electrode, wherein the bias voltage is configured to modify a mean angle of incidence of ions and/or a range of angles of incidence centered around the mean angle of incidence in the first and second ion beam.
US09514908B2
The invention relates to a method for generating a focused charged-particle beam, comprising at least the steps of: a) generating a charged-particle beam (10); b) emitting a laser pulse (40); c) generating a focusing magnetic field structure in a target (50) by means of an interaction between the laser pulse and the target; and d) making the charged-particle beam penetrate the focusing magnetic field structure at least partially.
US09514897B2
Disclosed is a magnetic contactor. The magnetic contactor includes a frame, a bobbin provided in the frame, and configured to include a hollow part, a movable core movably inserted into the hollow part in an axial direction, a yoke disposed at the outer surface of the bobbin to be separated from the coil and to face each other, and configured to act as a fixed core, and a manipulating circuit part disposed at the outer surface of the bobbin in parallel with a moving direction of the movable core to intersect the yoke. The coil is wound around an outer surface of the bobbin. Accordingly, a coil having a broad rated voltage range is used. Also, a structure of a product is simplified, and a space is broadly used.
US09514895B2
Provided are an electric storage device in which a current collector is not easily broken even when vibration is applied, and a vehicle having this electric storage device. This electric storage device includes a case having a first inner surface and a second inner surface adjacent to the first inner surface, an electrode assembly housed in the case and including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate insulated from each other, an electrode terminal disposed outside the case, and a current collector housed in the case and electrically connecting the electrode assembly and the electrode terminal to each other. A distal end edge of a distal end portion of the current collector is supported on the first inner surface of the case.
US09514892B2
The present invention relates to a yarn-type micro-supercapacitor fabricated by twisting a hybrid nanomembrane coated with a conducting polymer on a carbon nanotube sheet. Thus, the yarn-type micro-supercapacitor has superior performance. Particularly, since a 2-ply electrode manufactured by being twisted together with a metal wire has very high power and energy density in liquid or solid electrolyte and also has superior mechanical strength and flexibility, the yarn-type micro-supercapacitor may be variously deformed—for example, bent, twisted, or woven—to maintain superior electrochemical performance.
US09514888B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of electrolyte capacitors having a low equivalent series resistance and low residual current for high nominal voltages, electrolyte capacitors produced by this process and the use of such electrolyte capacitors.
US09514883B2
A multi-layer ceramic capacitor is made by alternately layering a dielectric layer constituted by a sintered body of a ceramic powder, and an internal electrode layer. The ceramic powder contains barium titanate powder having a perovskite structure with a median size of 200 nm or smaller as measured by SEM observation, wherein the barium titanate powder is such that the percentage of barium titanate particles having twin defects in the barium titanate powder is 13% or more as measured by TEM observation and that its crystal lattice c/a is 1.0080 or more. The ceramic powder has a wide range of optimum sintering temperatures and thus offers excellent productivity and is particularly useful in the formation of thin dielectric layers of 1 μm or less.
US09514878B2
A coil includes a coil unit provided with a wire and a self-melting layer formed on surfaces of the wire, and a resin member affixed to the wire. The wire is adhered and affixed to the resin member by the self-melting layer.
US09514877B2
During the assembly process of an amorphous core transformer, when an offset has arisen between a coil and the amorphous core, and when an offset has arisen between the coil and the core due to a shock resulting from unloading or vibrations during transport, there has been the risk of breakage of an insulating member between an amorphous core and a coil, causing amorphous fragments to be scattered. The object of the present invention is to prevent scattering of amorphous fragments. The amorphous core transformer, which results from assembling a coil and an amorphous core having a joint section, is characterized by folding an insulating member having a rectangular cylinder and flanges, inserting the folded insulating member into the hole of the coil, expanding the cylinder and the flanges of the insulating member, disconnecting the joint section of the amorphous core, inserting the open-ended amorphous core into the cylinder of the insulating member placed within the coil, lapping the disconnected joint section of the amorphous core, and covering/wrapping yokes of the amorphous core with the flanges of the insulating member.
US09514871B2
Provided is a sintered ferrite magnet 10 that comprises Sr ferrite having a hexagonal crystal structure, wherein the total amount of Na and K is 0.004 to 0.31% by mass in terms of Na2O and K2O, an amount of Si is 0.3 to 0.94% by mass in terms of SiO2, and the following Expression (1) is satisfied. 1.3≦(SrF+Ba+Ca+2Na+2K)/Si≦5.7 (1) [In Expression (1), SrF represents an amount of Sr, on a molar basis, other than Sr which constitutes the Sr ferrite, and Ba, Ca, Na, and K represent amounts of respective elements on a molar basis.]
US09514866B2
A touch-type variable resistor structure includes a resistor-base plate, a conductive base plate and a separator member. The resistor-base plate further includes a main plate body and a resistance layer. The resistance layer extended along an extension direction is located on the main plate body. The conductive base plate located on the resistor-base plate includes an electricity-conductive layer facing the resistor-base plate. The separator member located between the resistor-base plate and the conductive base plate further has a central opening. One of the main plate body and the main conductive plate body is formed as a flexible-touch base plate. While the flexible-touch base plate is depressed, part of the electricity-conductive layer would pass through the central opening to electrically couple the resistance layer.
US09514864B2
A flexible solid-state resistor comprises a string of ceramic resistors that can be used to charge the capacitors of a linear transformer driver (LTD) used in a pulsed power machine. The solid-state resistor is able to absorb the energy of a switch prefire, thereby limiting LTD cavity damage, yet has a sufficiently low RC charge time to allow the capacitor to be recharged without disrupting the operation of the pulsed power machine.
US09514859B1
Heat resistant cables and cords that are used with portable communications equipment wherein the user thereof must be able to operate in extremely hostile environments including being present in a fire are requisite in order to provide continual communications. These fire and heat resistant cables and cords ensure that emergency responders, such as fire and rescue responders, using such a communications system is in constant contact with others on the team and also with the outside so as to be able to call in for help or additional resources and thus ensure the safety of that first responder.
US09514852B2
A method of reducing the volume of a boiling water reactor fuel channel for storage in which the fuel channel is sealed with an outer sleeve that is closed at its upper and lower ends. The sleeve, which is made of a malleable metal is then laterally compacted and sheared into segments suitable for transport and/or storage.
US09514834B2
An integrated circuit memory device includes an array of non-volatile, charge trapping memory cells, configured to store data values in memory cells in the array using threshold states, including a higher threshold state. Retention check logic executes to identify memory cells in the higher threshold state which fail a threshold retention check. Also, logic is provided to reprogram the identified memory cells.
US09514831B2
A circuit for providing a plurality of clock signals of differing frequencies includes: a phase locked loop section including a first voltage controller oscillator, connected to receive a reference clock value and generate therefrom a first voltage level, wherein the first voltage controller oscillator receives the first voltage level and generates therefrom a first clock signal; and one or more second voltage controller oscillators, each connected to receive the first voltage level, a corresponding trim value and a corresponding control voltage and derive therefrom a corresponding second clock signal.
US09514829B2
Memory devices and methods are disclosed, such as devices configured to store a number of access line biasing patterns to be applied during a memory device operation performed on a particular row of memory cells in the memory device. Memory devices are further configured to support modification of the stored bias patterns, providing flexibility in biasing access lines through changes to the bias patterns stored in the memory device. Methods and devices further facilitate performing memory device operations under multiple biasing conditions to evaluate and characterize the memory device by adjustment of the stored bias patterns without requiring an associated hardware change to the memory device.
US09514819B2
A programming method, a memory storage device and a memory controlling circuit unit are provided. The method includes: receiving a first write command; and selecting a first physical erasing unit and sending a first skipping write command sequence according to the first write command. The first skipping write command sequence instructs to execute a first skipping programming process. The first skipping programming process includes: programming first data into a first word line of the first physical erasing unit; and after the first word line is programmed, skipping a second word line adjacent to the first word line, and programming the first data into a third word line not adjacent to the first word line.
US09514813B2
A method for operating a memory device includes sensing a temperature of the resistive memory device, setting a level of a set voltage or current for writing to a memory cell based on the temperature, setting a level of a reset voltage for reset writing to the memory cell based on the temperature, and performing a write operation on the memory cell based on the level of the set voltage or current and the level of the reset voltage. The memory device may be a resistive memory device.
US09514811B2
Systems, integrated circuits, and methods to generate access signals to facilitate memory operations in scaled arrays of memory elements, are described. In at least some embodiments, a non-volatile memory device can include a cross-point array having resistive memory elements and an access signal generator. The access signal generator can be configured to access a resistive memory element in the cross-point array.
US09514801B1
A semiconductor device includes a temperature code latch circuit and a period selection circuit. The temperature code latch circuit latches a count code having a logic level combination corresponding to an internal temperature to output the latched count code as a temperature code. The period selection circuit selects a period of a refresh signal in response to the temperature code. A period variation rate of the refresh signal according to variation of the internal temperature is controlled by a first gradient selection signal in a first temperature section and is controlled by a second gradient selection signal in a second temperature section.
US09514791B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprises one or more memory devices and one or more processors coupled to a circuit board. The memory devices are configured according to a second memory technology. The processors are configured to receive messages conforming to a first memory technology, translate the messages from the first memory technology to the second memory technology, and send the translated messages to the memory devices.
US09514785B2
A system and method to provide content item manipulation actions for a content item on an upload web page is presented. The method can include initializing an upload process for a content item to be uploaded to a server. The method can also include prior to completion of an upload data transfer of the upload process, providing, on a user interface (UI) comprising an upload progress indicator of the upload process, an option to add the content item to at least one playlist. Furthermore, the method can include subsequent to completion of the upload data transfer and completion of a processing operation of the content item, providing, on the UI comprising the upload progress indicator, an option to edit the content item and/or an option to share the content item.
US09514784B2
A method of controlling a mobile terminal, and which includes obtaining, via a camera of the mobile terminal, an image of a user; playing a video on a display unit of the mobile terminal; determining, via a controller of the mobile terminal, if the user is viewing the video being played based on the obtained image; storing, in a memory associated with the mobile terminal, video viewing information indicating when the user is viewing the video being played and when the user is not viewing the video being played for a specific playback section in an entire playback section of the video being played; receiving an input requesting the video viewing information be displayed; and displaying the video viewing information as a progressive bar on the display unit.
US09514778B2
There is provided an optical disc device that performs recording on a land and a groove, including an optical path splitter configured to split a luminous flux returning from an optical disc into first and second optical paths, a first detector configured to receive a whole of the luminous flux that has passed through the first optical path, a second detector configured to receive a luminous flux of an inside part of the luminous flux that has passed through the second optical path, a spherical aberration error signal generation unit configured to generate a spherical aberration error signal on the basis of a difference between a first focus error signal obtained on the basis of a detection signal of the first detector and a second focus error signal obtained on the basis of a detection signal of the second detector, a spherical aberration correction unit, and an adjustment unit.
US09514776B2
The method of manufacturing hexagonal ferrite magnetic particles includes providing hexagonal ferrite magnetic particles by conducting calcination of particles comprising an iron salt and an alkaline earth metal salt to cause fertilization; and further includes preparing the particles comprising an iron salt and an alkaline earth metal salt by adhering a glass component, followed by the alkaline earth metal salt, to the iron salt; and conducting calcination of the particles prepared to form a calcined product in which hexagonal ferrite is detected as a principal component in X-ray diffraction analysis.
US09514768B2
An audio reproducing method for quickly and correctly extracting extra data, including: receiving a data stream including the extra data including an end marker disposed immediately before main data and data length information, which is length information of the extra data, disposed immediately before the end marker; checking the presence/absence of the end marker; and if the end marker exists, extracting the extra data by using the data length information.
US09514765B2
A method for reducing noise is used to divide a received voice into plural voice segments and set a predetermined energy value. The energy of voice segment which is higher than the predetermined energy value is determined as normal voice and outputs directly, and the energy of voice segment which is lower than the predetermined energy value is determined as noise and will be processed.
US09514757B2
A stereo signal encoding device is provided that enables a lower bitrate without decreasing quality when applying an intermittent transmission technique to a stereo signal. A stereo encoding unit generates first stereo encoded data by encoding the stereo signal when the stereo signal of the current frame is an audio section. A stereo DTX encoding unit is a means for encoding the stereo signal when the stereo signal of the current frame is a non-audio section. The stereo DTX encoding unit generates second stereo encoded data by encoding each of a monaural signal spectral parameter that is a spectral parameter of a monaural signal generated using the first channel signal and the second channel signal, first channel signal information relating to the first channel signal, and second channel signal information relating to the second channel signal.
US09514756B2
A frame error concealment method based on frames including transform coefficient vectors including the following steps: It tracks (S11) sign changes between corresponding transform coefficients of predetermined sub-vectors of consecutive good stationary frames. It accumulates (S12) the number of sign changes in corresponding sub-vectors of a predetermined number of consecutive good stationary frames. It reconstructs (S13) an erroneous frame with the latest good stationary frame, but with reversed signs of transform coefficients in sub-vectors having an accumulated number of sign changes that exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US09514744B2
Techniques for conversion of non-back-off language models for use in speech decoders. For example, an apparatus for conversion of non-back-off language models for use in speech decoders. For example, an apparatus is configured convert a non-back-off language model to a back-off language model. The converted back-off language model is pruned. The converted back-off language model is usable for decoding speech.
US09514743B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for natural language processing. One of the methods includes receiving a first voice query; generating a first recognition output; receiving a second voice query; determining from a recognition of the second voice query that the second voice query triggers a correction request; using the first recognition output and the second recognition to determine a plurality of candidate corrections; scoring each candidate correction; and generating a corrected recognition output for a particular candidate correction having a score that satisfies a threshold value.
US09514741B2
Training speech recognizers, e.g., their language or acoustic models, using actual user data is useful, but retaining personally identifiable information may be restricted in certain environments due to regulations. Accordingly, a method or system is provided for enabling training of an acoustic model which includes dynamically shredding a speech corpus to produce text segments and depersonalized audio features corresponding to the text segments. The method further includes enabling a system to train an acoustic model using the text segments and the depersonalized audio features. Because the data is depersonalized, actual data may be used, enabling speech recognizers to keep up-to-date with user trends in speech and usage, among other benefits.
US09514732B2
A sound-absorbing material has a membrane having multiple piezoelectric fibers, the fiber density of the membrane is below 50 g/m2, the thickness of the membrane is below 1 mm, sound-absorbing coefficient of the membrane is larger than 0.1 at absorbing frequency at 100 Hz+/−10%, and the sound-absorbing coefficient of the membrane is over 0.05 at absorbing frequency at 800 Hz to 1000 Hz. PVDF electrospinning nanofiber membranes of the present invention are thinner and more flexible compared to conventional sound-absorbing material, the membranes in the present invention performs excellent low frequency sound absorption with very thin membrane.
US09514728B2
A musical performance apparatus is provided with a tone generation circuit 15 and a sound system 16 for emitting musical tones of musical instruments and control tones corresponding to musical score data SD which controls a musical score display apparatus 20. The tone generation circuit 15 has a tone volume adjustment circuit 15a3 which changes tone volume of only the musical tones in accordance with player's instruction and maintains tone volume of the control tones at a certain tone volume. The tone generation circuit 15 also has a pan adjustment circuit 15a4 which localizes the control tones so that the control tones will be emitted only from a certain speaker. Furthermore, the musical performance apparatus is designed such that the control tones are formed only of frequency components included in a certain high frequency band. Furthermore, the tone volume of frequency components which are included in frequency components representative of the musical tones and are further included in the certain high frequency band is controlled to be lower than the tone volume of the control tones.
US09514726B2
Electromagnetic transducers suitable for a variety of uses, including but not limited to musical instrument pickups. Such a transducer has a primary loop formed by an electrically conductive strip having oppositely-disposed ends and a slot extending therebetween that defines electrically conductive runners. The strip is bent to define a first section of the primary loop that overlies a second section of the primary loop and a gap therebetween. The transducer further comprises sensing or driving elements that are at least partially received in the slot in the first section of the primary loop and a transformer electrically connected to the strip at one of the ends thereof opposite the first section of the primary loop.
US09514725B1
Disclosed in certain arrangements is a musical instrument that can include a plurality of tine tone generators. The musical instrument can include a keyboard including a plurality of keys. The plurality of tine tone generators can be configured to correspond with one of each of the plurality of tine tone generators. The musical instrument can also include a plurality of hammers, wherein each of the plurality of hammers is configured to strike one of the plurality of tine tone generators when one of the plurality of keys is depressed. The tine tone generator can be configured to form a single unitary piece and can include a tone bar and a tine. The tine can further include a tuning spring and can include a ferro magnetic tip.
US09514724B2
The present invention receives sound wave data from a sound inputted into a microphone and samples the sound wave data received using a CPU to obtain sampled data as a digitized tone data, which is then stored in a sampling memory. The CPU performs auto-play of a sound using the digitized tone data sampled by the sampling and stored in the sampling memory. Thus, a result of the sampling is automatically provided to the user after the sampling takes place and the user can intuitively understand what can be done through sampling.
US09514716B2
Considered is a case where an adjustment chart is projected larger than a screen that is a projection target and an outer frame is not projected on the screen. The position of a top side of the outer frame can be easily identified from an interval between intersections of a top side of the screen and sides of a rhombus. Similarly, the position of a right side of the outer frame can be easily identified from another interval, and a bottom side of the outer frame from still another interval.
US09514713B2
A timing controller, a source driver, and a display driver integrated circuit (DDI) having improved test efficiency and a method of operating the DDI are provided. The timing controller includes a code generation unit for generating a first code from display data, a protocol encoder for generating a data sequence including the display data and the first code, and a transmission unit for providing the data sequence to a source driver through a link.
US09514707B2
An approach is provided for automatically calculating and delivering proportional pointer locations during transition between multiple visual display devices (e.g., in regard to their characteristics, which may be heterogeneous, homogenous, or a mixture thereof). Specifically, the approaches described herein provide a solution for finding proportional locations of a pointer's on-screen graphic as the pointer is being transitioned/moved between multiple display devices (e.g., controlled by a single computer or controller).
US09514702B2
The present disclosure provides a source driver IC. A first sub-driver circuit is provided to, within a time period, control polarities of driving voltages for a first subpixel and a third subpixel in pixel units at odd-numbered positions in a pixel row to be reverse to polarities of driving voltages for a second subpixel and a fourth subpixel in the pixel units at the odd-numbered positions in the pixel row, and a second sub-driver circuit is provided to, within the time period, control polarities of driving voltages for a first subpixel and a third subpixel in the pixel units at even-numbered positions to be identical to polarities of driving voltages for the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel in the pixel units at the odd-numbered positions but reverse to polarities of driving voltages for the second subpixel and the fourth subpixel in the pixel units at the even-numbered positions.
US09514701B2
A method of driving a display panel includes: selectively providing a resistance using resistor parts in response to address signals, where the resistor parts have resistances, respectively; and outputting common voltages to the display panel based on the selectively provided resistance.
US09514689B2
A display device includes at least one light source array configured to provide a display panel with light, a dimming signal generating unit configured to receive an image data signal and generate a dimming signal, a first comparator configured to receive the dimming signal output from the dimming signal generating unit and a preset critical value and generate a comparison signal, a dimming modulating unit configured to receive the comparison signal output from the first comparator and the dimming signal output from the dimming signal generating unit and modulate the dimming signal, a constant current controller configured to receive the dimming signal output from the dimming modulating unit and a voltage from a sensor node, and to control a light driving current driving the light source array, and a resistor controller configured to change resistors connected to the sensor node by the comparison signal output from the first comparator.
US09514685B2
A display device that may minimize voltage drop of a power source supplied to a pixel is disclosed. The display device comprises a power generator generating a driving power source; a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the display panel displaying images using the driving power source; and a printed circuit board having a power transfer line for transferring the driving power source output from the power generator to the display panel, wherein the power transfer line is provided in a closed-loop type.
US09514671B2
Disclosed is a power supply unit including a DC-DC converter including an output terminal and resistor coupling terminal and an external resistor coupled to the resistor coupling terminal, where the DC-DC converter includes a first power generation unit which outputs a predetermined current to the output terminal, and a sensing circuit unit that includes a sensing resistor located between the first power generation unit and the output terminal and stops an operation of the first power generation unit depending on a current value flowing in the sensing resistor. A power supply unit and an organic light emitting display including the power supply unit include a sensing circuit unit that stops operation of the power supply unit to prevent an additional damage when an abnormal current occurs.
US09514664B2
A latency measurement system includes an event generation device that generates an initial event used to measure system latency. A component test system receives the event and in response outputs a test component output signal and a zero-latency indicator. An electronics system including a multifunction display unit receives the test component output signal and displays a visible element on the multifunction display unit. A camera generates a series of recorded images, where each recorded image contains an image of the zero-latency indicator and an image of the visible element. A processor then determines the system latency by determining a time difference in the series of recorded images between a representation of an occurrence of the event in the image of the zero-latency indicator and a representation of the occurrence of the event in the image of the visible element.
US09514662B2
A system for selectively revealing indicia to an observer comprises a transitioning window having a receiving surface and a viewing surface. The receiving surface is positioned in optical communication with an indicia holder that is configured to removably retain indicia, such as information content. During operation, the transitioning window transitions from a substantially opaque state to a substantially transparent state so as to reveal or otherwise display the indicia to an observer via the viewing surface.
US09514656B2
Embodiments for using an observation platform to measure and assess social skills are disclosed. Communications between at least two devices are intercepted and/or relayed by a computer system wherein a portion of the communications correspond to an audible source and wherein the forwarding or processing of communications is based on a combination of historical, contextual and/or commanded information derived from current and past communications by the computer system. Primary statistics are measured based on the communications and contextual information. Secondary statistics are derived related to a user wherein the secondary statistics quantify social skills and behavioral factors of the user in one or more dimensions against one or more profiles or roles.
US09514655B1
An illustrative mobile computing device executing weight, nutrition, health, behavior and exercise application software serves as a simulated combination personal trainer and dietician/nutritionist for the user using comprehensive databases storing personalized health, nutrition and exercise information. A mobile computing device, such as a smartphone, executing such software monitors, tracks and/or adjusts caloric intake, energy expenditure taking into account nutritional information and behavioral factors. The mobile computing device receives food consumption, exercise-related, behavior and other input using speech input and the device's GPS subsystem to ease data entry burden on users and to promote continued long-term usage. The system rewards user goal achievement in an automatic, seamless manner, through, for example, downloading music, books, or other media. In illustrative implementations, the system assists users to make healthy food and exercise choices by using a comprehensive color code system to identify good choices, bad choices and those in between.
US09514640B2
An information processing method and a user equipment, wherein the method includes receiving an information processing request message, if the information processing request message is not processed within a predetermined time, collecting at least one type of environment state information, generating prompt information according to the at least one type of the collected environment state information. Therefore, a user can perceive in time the information processing request message that has been received but not processed by the user equipment in time, and thus effectively increasing the usability of the user equipment.
US09514632B2
A method for disseminating emergency notification content from an emergency originating source. The method comprising: delivering the emergency notification content from the emergency originating source to at least one transmitting party; selecting a subset of users from among a set of users for dissemination of the emergency notification content based on the subject matter of the emergency notification content; and delivering the emergency notification content from the at least one transmitting party to a device corresponding to each user from the selected subset of users.
US09514630B1
A vehicle key monitoring system using a keychain device is provided. The system comprises a location database and a vehicle key monitor (VKM) device, which comprises a processor and memory and is connected to the location database. The VKM receives, from a location transmitter, a keychain location identifier and stores it in the location database. The VKM compares the location identifier to a plurality of location identifiers comprising an authorized zone for the keychain. The VKM transmits the current location to a client operated by a vehicle owner. The VKM determines that the keychain device location does not match the plurality of location identifiers for the authorized zone. The VKM generates an alert indicating that the keychain device is outside its authorized location zone. The VKM transmits the alert to the client, causing the client to display the alert and the current location of the keychain.
US09514629B2
A vehicle door opening warning system including a control unit, a projection unit and a detection unit is provided. The control unit is disposed at a door of a vehicle. The projection unit is disposed at the door and is electrically coupled to the control unit. The detection unit is disposed outside of the vehicle and is electrically coupled to the control unit. When the detection unit detects a moving object existing within 5 to 30 meters of the vehicle, the detection unit produces a signal. The control unit receives the signal and controls the projection unit to project a warning message according to the signal. A vehicle door opening warning method is also provided.
US09514626B2
A method of detecting impairment of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes sensing, using a sensor, a position of the driver's head at a plurality of time points; determining, using a microprocessor, changes in the position of the driver's head between the plurality of time points; evaluating, using a microprocessor, whether the changes in the position of the driver's head between the plurality of time points exhibit at least one of a periodic and a quasi-periodic pattern; determining whether the driver is impaired based on the pattern of the changes in the position of the driver's head; and if the driver is impaired, alerting the driver using an alarm.
US09514610B2
A system and method for a gaming chip identification system are disclosed. Briefly described, one embodiment comprises a plurality of gaming chips, each gaming chip operable to emit a respective unique electromagnetic signature in response to incident non-optical electromagnetic radiation, a computer-readable medium that stores information indicative of the electromagnetic signatures of at least a number of the plurality of gaming chips, and a processor-based system configured to verify that the electromagnetic signature from an interrogated gaming chip in an interrogation zone is a member of the plurality of gaming chips.
US09514609B2
A system and method for allowing multiple players to place independent wagers on a single game is disclosed. The game may be played on either a gaming machine or at a gaming event. A main player is physically located at a system operator, such as a casino. Additional players may join the main player and place wagers on the games that the main player is playing. The wagers that the additional players place are treated and paid out independently from the wagers placed by the main player. Furthermore, the players and the main player may communicate with each other throughout the betting process.
US09514607B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to systems and methods, which may receive primary wagers on a first payline and a second payline. The systems and methods may receive one or more secondary wagers on one or more selected paylines. The selected paylines may be based on data received from a player. The systems and methods may determine a selected paylines payout based on the one or more selected paylines.
US09514606B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for triggering a bonus game with a wagering game machine are described. A bonus triggering module is used for adjusting a payout frequency to trigger one or more bonus games. In some embodiments, the bonus triggering module uses a player selection to trigger a bonus game. In various embodiments, occurrences of hidden events are generated to mystery trigger a bonus game. Wagering game machines according to the various embodiments of the invention are also disclosed.
US09514605B2
A gaming system and method for exchanging one or more triggered individual bonus games for one or more current plays of a community game or one or more future plays of a community game. If an individual bonus game is triggered in association with an individual gaming device, the gaming system enables the player to: (i) play the triggered individual bonus game, (ii) skip the individual bonus game and play or participate in a community or group game, or (iii) skip the individual bonus game and save an entry to play or participate in a future community or group game. In these embodiments, the gaming system determines one or more features or attributes of the available community game (which the player may play or defer play of) based, at least in part, on which of a plurality of different individual bonus games are triggered.
US09514604B1
A system and method for playing a multiple iteration, goal-oriented game with wagering involved at each iteration, such as in a golf wagering application. The system and method comprises providing a computer application to connect multiple users in a network to play through bet sequences and play sequences during multiple iterations of play such as each golf hole, wherein in each play sequence each user moves closer to the goal such as taking the lowest number of virtual strokes on a virtual golf hole. Players may win by reaching the goal before other players, or by causing opponents to drop out of a game during betting sequences.
US09514575B2
A system (100) for displaying a multi-dimensional image and an annotation located therein, the system comprising receiving means (110) for receiving: the multi-dimensional image, the annotation, and representation data associated with the annotation, the representation data being indicative of a preferred representation of the multi-dimensional image and the annotation located therein; display means (130) for displaying an initial representation (300) of the multi-dimensional image and the annotation located therein; input means (120) for enabling a user to provide a visualization request when the initial representation shows at least a first part (310) of the annotation; and the display means (130) being arranged for, after receiving the visualization request, displaying the preferred representation (400) of the multi-dimensional image and the annotation located therein in accordance with the representation data, the preferred representation showing at least a second part (410) of the annotation, the second part being different from the first part.
US09514568B2
Methods and systems for roof estimation are described. Example embodiments include a roof estimation system, which generates and provides roof estimate reports annotated with indications of the size, geometry, pitch and/or orientation of the roof sections of a building. Generating a roof estimate report may be based on one or more aerial images of a building. In some embodiments, generating a roof estimate report of a specified building roof may include generating a three-dimensional model of the roof, and generating a report that includes one or more views of the three-dimensional model, the views annotated with indications of the dimensions, area, and/or slope of sections of the roof. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US09514562B2
Systems and methods for partitioning a set of animation objects using a node in a render setup graph are provided. The render setup graph may be used to configure and manage lighting configuration data as well as external processes used to render the computer-generated image. The render setup graph may include a dependency graph having nodes interconnected by edges along which objects and object configuration data may be passed between nodes. The nodes may be used to provide a source of objects and object configuration data, configure visual effects of an object, partition a set of objects, call external processes, perform data routing functions within the graph, and the like. The objects can be partitioned based on attributes of the objects and associated configuration data. In this way, the render setup graph may advantageously be used to organize configuration data and execution of processes for rendering an image.
US09514558B2
The present invention converts an image into a transparency, or “foreground image layer”, on which the readability of text and other detail is preserved after compositing with a background, while maintaining color information of broad areas of the image. In an embodiment, a matte is determined for the background image to reduce transparencies in the foreground layer, so as to prevent irrelevant parts of the background image from showing through. This is in distinction to only using the original foreground image data (prior to its transformation to a layer) to compute a matte (or mask, or alpha channel) to form a foreground layer.
US09514556B2
A system and method may analyse and display intestinal motility events, based on an image stream captured by an in vivo imaging device. According to some embodiments, the system includes a storage unit to store image frames from the image stream, a processor to select a strip of pixels from a plurality of image frames of the image stream and to align the selected strips adjacently to form a motility events bar, and a visual display unit for displaying the motility events bar to a user.
US09514553B2
A method for creating a personalized content layout for a user interface is provided. The method may comprise providing a content layout framework, monitoring and storing usage data over time of a content fragment, displayed in the content layout framework, promoting or demoting the content fragment in respect to its presentation within the content layout framework based on a first value of a first parameter of the parameter model, wherein the promotion or demotion uses an abrasion factor, such that a content fragment appearance degrades or increases from session to session of usage of the content layout framework depending on a predefined function deployed to the first value of the first parameter of the parameter model.
US09514552B2
Disclosed are an information processing apparatus etc., which can display an operation object while switching according to an operation unit that is operated by a function that is in operation, includes a conversion unit that, when a switch from an operation performed by a first function which detects an operation performed by a first operation unit to an operation performed by a second function which detects an operation performed by a second operation unit, converts a description regarding an operation object related to the first operation unit in at least one description to display on a display unit that operates by the first function into a description regarding the operation object related to the second operation unit, and a drawing unit that displays the description obtained by conversion performed by the conversion unit on a display unit that operates by the second function.
US09514547B2
When a driving support apparatus is under automatic driving of a vehicle or an automatic driving button is pressed under manual driving, vicinity image data is acquired from an in-vehicle camera. When a predetermined target object is recognized in the vicinity image data, a visibility reduction process is applied to image data of the recognized target object. The visibility reduction process applies at least one of defocusing; decreasing color information; and decreasing edge intensity, to the image data of the recognized target object. In contrast, any visibility reduction process is not applied to any other image data other than the image data of the recognized target object. An image display apparatus displays the vicinity image by a combination of the image data of the recognized target object of which the visibility is reduced and the other image data of which the visibility is not reduced.
US09514543B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating color names for colors corresponding to images and/or palettes. A color image is obtained, and one or more color palettes corresponding to the color image are identified. The color palette may be generated based on palette generation criteria, which may facilitate or control a palette generation process. Illustratively, the palette generation process may include image pre-processing, color distribution generation, representative color identification, palette candidate generation, and palette determination. A color name for each color identified in the color palette and/or the color image can be identified based at least in part on color name popularity information. Color name popularity information may be identified from color name-related voting results provided by a social network site. Aspects of the disclosure are further directed to processing the identified color name(s), such as updating color name metadata associated with the original color image and/or the color palette.
US09514537B2
What is disclosed is a system and method for adaptively reconstructing a depth map of a scene. In one embodiment, upon receiving a mask identifying a region of interest (ROI), a processor changes either a spatial attribute of a pattern of source light projected on the scene by a light modulator which projects an undistorted pattern of light with known spatio-temporal attributes on the scene, or changes an operative resolution of a depth map reconstruction module. A sensing device detects the reflected pattern of light. A depth map of the scene is generated by the depth map reconstruction module by establishing correspondences between spatial attributes in the detected pattern and spatial attributes of the projected undistorted pattern and triangulating the correspondences to characterize differences therebetween. The depth map is such that a spatial resolution in the ROI is higher relative to a spatial resolution of locations not within the ROI.
US09514535B1
According to the present invention, firstly multiple reference parameter values of each color sample in a color chart are set, or a photograph and a measurement are performed on a standard color chart or a user-defined color chart in a certain standard lighting environment, multiple reference parameter values, SPD (λ)×R (λ) and brightness of each color sample are obtained. Then the SPD (λ)×R (λ) and the brightness of each color sample are reproduced by using a spectral tunable lighting source. Then each reproduced color sample is photographed by using the camera under the same settings to obtain multiple reproduced parameter values of each color sample. The two groups of parameter values are compared and a color calibration model is established. Finally color calibration of each batch of camera modules is implemented without the helping of a color chart and standard lighting environment. The present invention has the characteristics of high automation degree, high flexibility and adaptability, and high convenience in color changing and color sample calibrating, and thus has an extremely high practical value.
US09514534B2
A system and method implements video capture technology, in combination with computer program engines and proprietary algorithms to capture, analyze and objectively score human movement, and to identify, differentially diagnose and assess the root causes of observed pathokinematic (pathological movement) patterns. The system calculates demographic risk of injury and compares with identified movement issues to determine potential performance issues and associated relative risks for the subject. Specific, individualized corrective measures or interventions are selected and targeted to the individual and his or her movement patterns, to improve those pathokinematics. The result is decreased likelihood of certain types of lower extremity injuries, faster and more effective rehabilitation, the reduction of movement related pain, and significant improvement on specific performance based metrics used in activities and professions requiring athleticism, and quality measurement of the quality of normal “activities of daily living”.
US09514532B2
An image processing apparatus includes an identifying unit configured to identify a region relating to the movement of blood cells on a fundus image captured by an ophthalmologic imaging apparatus that includes an adaptive optics system, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information relating to a tissue that is positioned on a back side of a position where the movement of blood cells is recognized, when it is seen from an anterior eye part side, in the identified region.
US09514531B2
The present invention comprises: capturing a medical image of a subject by an image-capturing unit; generating compressed image data by compressing on the basis of a plurality of pixels of uncompressed image data, where the uncompressed image data is image data of the captured medical image of the subject, by an image data compression unit; setting a search range of the compressed image data and also setting a search range of the uncompressed image data, by a search range setting unit; and setting a region of interest for the medical image on the basis of the search range of the uncompressed image data and the search range of the compressed image data, by a region-of-interest setting unit.
US09514520B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, partitioning the image into a group of blocks, calculating principle bilateral filtered image components for a first subset of the group of blocks where the principle bilateral filtered image components are not calculated for a second subset of the group of blocks, and applying an infinite impulse response filter to the image using the principle bilateral filtered image components. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09514510B2
An exemplary data arrangement method for a picture includes at least the following steps: obtaining pixel data of a plurality of first N-bit pixels of the picture; and storing the obtained pixel data of the first N-bit pixels in a plurality of M-bit storage units of a first buffer based on a raster-scan order of the picture, wherein M and N are positive integers, and M is not divisible by N. Besides, at least one of the M-bit storage units is filled with part of the obtained pixel data of the first N-bit pixels, and the first N-bit pixels include at least one pixel divided into a first part stored in one of the M-bit storage units in the first buffer and a second part stored in another of the M-bit storage units in the first buffer.
US09514503B2
Methods and apparatus to generate and use content-aware watermarks are disclosed herein. An example disclosed method includes detecting a watermark in a first media composition, the watermark encoded with a word present in an audio track of the first media composition, the word audible during playback of the audio track. The example method also includes retrieving the word from the watermark. The example method also includes determining whether the word retrieved from the watermark matches a keyword, and presenting a second media composition when the word matches the keyword.
US09514500B2
A watermark generator for providing a watermark signal as a sequence of subsequent watermark coefficients based on a stream of subsequent stream values representing discrete valued data includes a differential encoder. The differential encoder is configured to apply a phase rotation to a current stream value of the stream values representing the discrete valued data or to a current watermark symbol, the current watermark symbol corresponding to a current stream value of the stream values representing the discrete valued data, to obtain a current watermark coefficient of the watermark signal. The differential encoder is configured to derive a phase of a previous spectral coefficient of a watermarked signal which is a combination of the host signal and the watermark signal, and to provide the watermark signal such that a phase angle of the phase rotation applied to the current stream value or the current watermark symbol is dependent on the phase of the previous spectral coefficient of the watermarked signal.
US09514493B2
A system of systems to monitor data for carbon flux, for example, at scales capable of managing regional net carbon flux and pricing carbon financial instruments is disclosed. The system of systems can monitor carbon flux in forests, soils, agricultural areas, body of waters, flue gases, and the like. The system includes a means to identify and quantify sources of carbon based on simultaneous measurement of isotopologues of carbon dioxide, for example, industrial, agricultural or natural sources, offering integration of same in time and space. Carbon standards are employed at multiple scales to ensure harmonization of data and carbon financial instruments.
US09514491B2
A device and method of capturing one or more images and determining associated interest information are provided. After receiving a data input, an item is identified based on the data input. Subsequently, an instruction to capture an image of the item is received and the image of the item is captured in response thereto. An interest level of the item is measured based on a quantity of times that the image of the item is captured and the interest information is then provided to a server device. The interest information may be used to identify an interest level trend of the item, and/or create or update a user profile that stores information regarding the item.
US09514484B2
A system is disclosed for allowing a merchant to create offers for distribution via multiple distribution channels. The distribution channels may include social media networks and location based services. The method may include receiving offer parameters for generating the offer, generating offer data based on the offer parameters and merchant transaction data, and determining data subsets of the offer data for distribution through multiple electronic distribution channels. The systems and methods may include associating a transaction account of the account holder with the offer, monitoring a transaction of the transaction account, comparing with a criterion governing the offer, and generating a report for the merchant. The report may include various metrics of the offer, such as return on investment, tracking information on the number of repeat customers and new customers during an offer period, and may occur approximately real-time with the transaction.
US09514472B2
An approach is provided for receiving, in association with first content to be rendered on user equipment, a vector of one or more values for a corresponding one or more sliding scales. A determination is made of a relationship of the first content to second content based, at least in part, on the vector received. Each value of the vector represents a relative position along a corresponding sliding scale between a minimum label and a maximum label for the sliding scale.
US09514470B2
Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for implementing enhanced search suggestion technology. In at least one implementation, a personal information application includes a search suggestion element in which both search suggestions and contacts suggestions may be presented. The personal information application includes a search element in a user interface to a personal information service in which a search query may be entered. Search suggestions and contact suggestions can be identified based at least in part on the search query and presented via a suggestion element in the user interface. An indication of interest made with respect to a contact suggestion results in the presentation of contact details for an associated contact. The presentation of at least the search suggestions persists while the contact details of the associated contact are presented.
US09514465B2
Techniques are presented for process tracking and monitoring. A tracking service monitors a good or service through a processing plan and takes selective measurements. A dashboard service presents the processing plan, locations for the good or service, and other metadata. The dashboard service also identifies cause and effect relationships derived from the metadata. A case management tool permits exceptions to the processing to be handled in a user-defined manner.
US09514461B2
A content analyzer retrieves content items from one or more content sources. The content items have a corresponding date and time assigned representing when the content item was published. The content analyzer is further configured to determine a frequency count for each of a plurality of terms within the plurality of content items for a specified time period. In some embodiments, the content analyzer identifies a change in the frequency count for each of the plurality of terms relative to a respective baseline frequency count for the respective one of the plurality of terms. In some embodiments, a report representing the change in the frequency count for each of the plurality of terms is generated.
US09514447B2
A computer-implemented method includes storing a plurality of scheduled elements in a memory area, displaying a time horizon via a display device, and displaying a first portion of the plurality of scheduled elements within the time horizon. In response to a user input, the time horizon is adjusted and a second portion of the plurality of scheduled elements is displayed within the adjusted time horizon.
US09514444B2
Realtime communications between communicants in a virtual area are administered. Assemblies of copresent communicants in the virtual area are detected. For each of respective ones of the detected assemblies, a respective meeting object linked to information relating to communicant interactions in the assembly is generated. Respective meeting summary data is determined based on the information linked to selected ones of the meeting objects. The determined meeting summary data is transmitted to a network node for display. A visualization of summaries of respective assemblies of copresent communicants in the virtual area is presented on a display.
US09514434B2
An automated method for creating work instructions to manufacture a product. Monitoring for a user input modifying a model for the product is performed. Responsive to detecting the user input modifying the model for the product, a number of work instructions for a modification to the model of the product is identified. The model of the product is displayed with the modification on a display device. The number of work instructions is displayed on the display device in association with the modification of the model of the product.
US09514430B2
A method of handling parcels (2) and a logistics center (1) for handling parcels, use is made of superposable racks (5) and motor-driven shuttle carts (6) that are remotely controlled by a central processing unit (7) to travel in freely guided manner and that are suitable for docking with each rack (5), each parcel (2) is unloaded onto a rack (5) and the destination of the parcel is identified (103), a specific location is assigned (104) to said rack (5) using an outward shipping plan, and said corresponding shuttle cart (6) is caused to move (105) so as to store said parcels (2) side-by-side and in superposed manner, and then, using an inward delivery plan, each rack (5) is docked (110), and each parcel (2) is transferred (111) from said stowage zone (11) to a loading point (3) so that parcels (2) are presented in their order of delivery.
US09514429B2
Systems, devices, and methods for global enterprise workflow management are disclosed. The system may include a communications module, memory, and processor for executing a method of managing job information. The system receives job information and uses a model to identify a desirable resource to execute the job. Then the system sends the job information to the identified resource for execution. The resource may send back information associated with the running and/or completion of the job. Various models may be used in identifying a desirable approach, including a cost model, a staffing model, and other models.
US09514425B2
A method for providing user-customized contents, includes: receiving contents order information from a user and constructing a contents order information DB; opening the contents order information DB; receiving contents corresponding to the contents order information from a contents provider; and providing the received contents in a user-customized form.
US09514423B2
A test planning tool for defining a test plan for testing updates to a software product aggregates information from a variety of diverse sources to generate an application model. The application includes a detailed model of the components of the application and their dependencies, a logical structure of the components, requirements associated with changes to the components, organizational entities responsible for the changes, and various other information, such as test coverage and defect information. The application model is presented to the user in a manner that allows the user to select components of interest, drill down and view change details and requirements, and to use that information to develop a test plan.
US09514413B1
In an embodiment, information for use in identifying a plurality of sub-solvers may be acquired. The plurality of sub-solvers may be used in a first attempt to find at least one solution to a problem that may be defined in the acquired information. At least two of the sub-solvers in the plurality of sub-solvers may be of different sub-solver types. The sub-solvers may be identified based on the acquired information. One or more starting points for the identified sub-solvers may be identified and transferred to the identified sub-solvers. One or more outputs, that indicate one or more results associated with the first attempt to find at least one solution to the problem, may be acquired from the identified sub-solvers. One or more sub-solvers may be identified, based on the acquired one or more outputs, for use in a second attempt to find at least one solution to the problem.
US09514407B1
An improved technique involves generating KBA questions based on facts from fact sources pointed to by an activity log. A KBA system obtains an activity log from a computer of a user in an organization. For example, the computer records the user's web browsing history. The KBA system then considers each entry in the activity log as a source of facts for deriving KBA questions. In the case of a web browsing history, the KBA system generates facts from web pages that the user visited. The KBA system then derives new KBA questions from the facts so derived.
US09514405B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring concept terms using a deep network. One of the methods includes receiving an input comprising a plurality of features of a resource, wherein each feature is a value of a respective attribute of the resource; processing each of the features using a respective embedding function to generate one or more numeric values; processing the numeric values to generate an alternative representation of the features of the resource, wherein processing the floating point values comprises applying one or more non-linear transformations to the floating point values; and processing the alternative representation of the input to generate a respective relevance score for each concept term in a pre-determined set of concept terms, wherein each of the respective relevance scores measures a predicted relevance of the corresponding concept term to the resource.
US09514404B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using embedded function with a deep network. One of the methods includes receiving an input comprising a plurality of features, wherein each of the features is of a different feature type; processing each of the features using a respective embedding function to generate one or more numeric values, wherein each of the embedding functions operates independently of each other embedding function, and wherein each of the embedding functions is used for features of a respective feature type; processing the numeric values using a deep network to generate a first alternative representation of the input, wherein the deep network is a machine learning model composed of a plurality of levels of non-linear operations; and processing the first alternative representation of the input using a logistic regression classifier to predict a label for the input.
US09514400B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer program products for information exchange using color space encoded images. A color space encoded image can be displayed, for example on media such as posters, billboards, or paper, or on a display of a first device such as smartphone displays, palmtop displays, camera displays, tablet displays, or e-reader displays. A second device can acquire the displayed encoded image, for example by photographing the image. The second device can decode the color space encoded image or transfer the color space encoded image to a device that decodes the image.
US09514394B2
An image forming apparatus that changes image data into document data includes a character recognition unit, a font matching unit, and a character attribute data setting unit. The character recognition unit recognizes a character from the image data. The font matching unit performs matching so as to determine which of a plurality of fonts and a plurality of character sizes a recognized character corresponds to, with respect to an area of the image data, recognized as the character by the character recognition unit. The character attribute data setting unit sets, in the document data, a font and a character size whose matching is established by the font matching unit and sets an origin of drawing, a character width, and a side bearing as a drawing position of a character so that the origin of drawing, the character width, and the side bearing correspond to the image data.
US09514393B2
A print method for making a bank card is provided, which includes the following steps: S10, determining print times and print designs each time according to the convex words and/or designs to be printed; S20, fixing the bank card to be printed to a print position; S30: printing the bank card to be printed several times according to the print times and print designs each time in order to form the convex words and/or designs on it. A print device is also provided for making a bank card. The print method and print device for making the bank card can print convex words and/or designs on the surface of the bank card cheaply and efficiently.
US09514387B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system for monitoring and analyzing operation of a widely distributed service operated by an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) tenant but deployed on a set of virtual resources controlled by an independent IaaS provider. The set of virtual resources can be organized into clusters in which resources are expected to behave similarly to each other. Virtual resources that do not behave similar to peer resources in the same cluster, i.e., outliers, may be indicative of problems that need to be addressed. The monitoring system can collect performance metric data from virtual resources, and compare the performance of each virtual resource in a cluster with the performance of every other virtual resource in the cluster to detect outliers. This comparison can involve correlation analysis, ANOVA analysis, or regression analysis.
US09514382B2
A binarization processing unit generates a binary image by comparing the visual feature of each pixel of an input image with a predetermined binarization threshold and binarizing the value of each pixel of the input image based on the comparison result. The binarization processing unit performs this process while changing the binarization threshold, thereby generating a plurality of binary images. A contour detecting unit calculates the area of a closed region having an overlap between the plurality of binary images, and determines the binarization threshold to be used for detecting a boundary of the corresponding closed region as a contour of an object, based on the area change rate of the corresponding closed region caused by changing the binarization threshold.
US09514378B2
Three-dimensional imagers have conventionally been constrained by size, weight, and power (“SWaP”) limitations, readout circuitry bottlenecks, and the inability to image in sunlit environments. As described herein, an imager can illuminate a scene with spatially and temporally modulated light comprising a viewpoint-invariant pattern. The imager can detect diffuse reflections from the illuminated scene to produce a first image. The first image is background-corrected and compared with respect to a known reference image to produce a depth image. The imager can perform in sunlit environments and has improved SWaP and signal-to-noise (SNR) characteristics over existing technologies.
US09514365B2
An integrated circuit has an image sensor to receive at least one image comprising a plurality of pixels from a camera comprising a lens, a buffer communicatively connected to the image sensor for storing values associated with the plurality of pixels, and a comparator communicately connected to the buffer to locate and identify the iris of a subject, in which locating and identifying the iris of the subject is based on a location of each pixel in a brightest pixel set. A method for locating and identifying an iris in an image includes capturing at least one image of an illuminated subject, determining a brightness value for each of the plurality of pixels, determining a location corresponding to each pixel in a brightest pixel set, and identifying the iris in the at least one image based on the location of each pixel in the brightest pixel set.
US09514360B2
A processing application receives peak information associated with multiple known references samples. The processing application partitions a spectrum into multiple different sized range bins such that a substantially equal number of the peaks associated with the known reference samples reside into each of the multiple different sized range bins. To identify a set of candidate reference samples in a library of reference samples that potentially are a good match an unknown sample under test, the processing application compares peaks associated with the unknown sample to the multiple different sized range bins. The greater the number of range bin matches based on peaks in the unknown sample and peaks in a corresponding reference sample, the greater the likelihood that the unknown sample matches the corresponding reference sample.
US09514349B2
The present invention relates to a method of guiding a user of a portable electronic device when operating a fingerprint sensor comprised with the portable electronic device. The invention allows for an improved enrollment process as well as for general improvements when using the fingerprint sensor. The invention also relates to a corresponding electronic device and to a computer program product.
US09514348B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a conversion unit. The acquisition unit acquires from a read image including a machine-readable code at least one of a position of the machine-readable code and character information included in the machine-readable code. The determination unit determines, based on the information acquired by the acquisition unit, a conversion method for a character code included in the machine-readable code. The conversion unit performs conversion of the character code in accordance with the conversion method determined by the determination unit.
US09514347B2
An authentication server receives a request for a user-identification code from a computing device. The authentication server generates the user-identification code. The authentication server also generates an expiration date associated with the user-identification code. The authentication server transmits the user-identification code and the expiration date to the computing device. The authentication server also validates the user-identification code received from a code scanning system.
US09514345B1
Wearable scanners or readers may be mounted to and operated from at least one extension of the human body, such as a portion of a hand or wrist of a user. The wearable scanners or readers may include one or more manual or automatic actuators for initiating a scanning or reading of a marking on an object. Such actuators may be worn about the portion of the hand or wrist of the user, including within a palm of the hand, or in a ring-like device surrounding at least one finger of the hand. Additionally, the wearable scanners or readers may include optical elements configured to capture images in one or more directions or along one or more axes, and may further include any type of display elements (e.g., touchscreens, LED or LCD displays, or electrophoretic displays) formed in substantially flat or curved shapes.
US09514341B2
The presence or absence of objects is determined by interrogating or exciting transponders coupled to the objects using pulsed wide band frequency signals. Interrogation is broken down into a number of subsample scan cycles each having interrogation cycles a start time forward in time by a fraction of a period of an expected transponder response signal. Ambient or background noise is evaluated and a threshold adjusted based on the level of noise. Adjustment may be based on multiple noise measurements or samples. Noise detection may be limited, with emphasis placed on interrogation to increase the signal to noise ratio. Matched filtering may be employed. Presence/absence determination may take into account frequency and/or Q value to limit false detections. Appropriate acts may be taken if detected noise is out of defined limits of operation, for example shutting down interrogation and/or providing an appropriate indication.
US09514339B2
A method for controlling a controlled device is disclosed, wherein the controlled device has a host connection to an RFID tag, the method comprising the following steps: (s1) the controlled device writes operational parameters to the RFID tag through the host connection; (s2) a user interaction device reads the operational parameters from the RFID tag through an RFID connection; (s3) a user changes the operational parameters via a user interface comprised in the user interaction device; (s4) the user interaction device writes the operational parameters to the RFID tag through the RFID connection; (s5) the controlled device reads the operational parameters from the RFID tag through the host connection and adapts its behavior based on the operational parameters. Furthermore, a corresponding controlled device, a user interaction device and a computer program product are disclosed.
US09514328B2
Access control methods provide multilevel and mandatory access control for a database management system. The access control techniques provide access control at the row level in a relational database table. The database table contains a security label column within which is recorded a security label that is defined within a hierarchical security scheme. A user's security label is encoded with security information concerning the user. When a user requests access to a row, a security mechanism compares the user's security information with the security information in the row. If the user's security dominates the row's security, the user is given access to the row.
US09514325B2
Systems and methods for establishing a secure file system are disclosed, in which system endpoints such as files and directories in a file system are protected using a security appliance. The security appliance protects each endpoint in the file system from unauthorized access by making those endpoints invisible to unauthorized users. The security appliance organizes users and endpoints into various communities of interest (COI). A user COI groups users such that all users associated with that particular COI have authorization to view the same one or more endpoints located in file storage.
US09514323B2
A method according to one embodiment includes receiving data from a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag; receiving waypoint information relating to the RFID tag; setting ownerships of discrete portions of the data based at least in part on the waypoint information; allowing an owner of one of the discrete portions of the data to view the discrete portion of the data owned by the owner, or derivative thereof; and not allowing the owner to view discrete portions of the data that are not owned by the owner.
US09514320B2
A method for managing an external portable storage device includes at least the following steps: when the external portable storage device having at least a non-encrypted partition is electrically connected to an electronic device, searching the external portable storage device for a default image file which is an encrypted partition; and when the default image file is found in the external portable storage device, mounting the default image file to an operating system of the electronic device, such that the encrypted partition and the non-encrypted partition are both available to the operating system for data access.
US09514318B2
The present invention provides an approach to manage and control document transmission and electronic communication. Specifically, the present invention provides control over data associated with multiple types of data communication. Along these lines, embodiments of the present invention provide a hub and spoke communication model in order to achieve multiple benefits in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, flexibility, and control. This type of granular control is critical for information sharing within a networked computing environment. This approach is also useful for collaboration tools and can be augmented by the creation and management of access control lists (ACL's) for the hub-spoke system. To this extent, embodiments of the present invention provide functionality to automatically update ACL's as documents are being forwarded or otherwise communicated between multiple parties. These ACL's are kept up to date through the analysis of to whom (and where) a document has been sent.
US09514317B2
An embodiment includes a method executed by at least one processor comprising: initializing first and second secure enclaves each comprising a trusted software execution environment that prevents software executing outside the first and second secure enclaves from having access to software and data inside the first and second secure enclaves; the first secure enclave (a)(i) inspecting a policy, (a)(ii) authenticating the second secure enclave in response to inspecting the policy; and (a)(iii) communicating encrypted content to the second secure enclave in response to authenticating the second secure enclave; and the second secure enclave (b)(i) decrypting the encrypted content to produce decrypted content, and (b)(ii) inspecting the decrypted content. Other embodiments are described herein.
US09514314B2
Techniques are disclosed for efficient computation of consecutive values of one-way chains and other one-way graphs in cryptographic applications. The one-way chain or graph may be a chain of length s having positions i=1, 2, . . . s each having a corresponding value vi associated therewith, wherein the value vi is given by vi=h (vi+1), for a given hash function or other one-way function h. An initial distribution of helper values may be stored for the one-way chain of length s, e.g., at positions given by i=2j for 0≦j≦log2 s. A given one of the output values vi at a current position in the one-way chain may be computed utilizing a first helper value previously stored for another position in the one-way chain between the current position and an endpoint of the chain. After computation of the given output value, the positions of the helper values are adjusted so as to facilitate computation of subsequent output values. Advantageously, a storage-computation product associated with generation of the output values of the one-way chain has a complexity O(log s)2).
US09514302B2
An information processing apparatus including: an attack detection unit that detects an attack; and a strength adjustment unit that incrementally raises the strength of a security measure every time that an attack is detected by the attack detection unit.
US09514301B1
Corruption of program stacks is detected by using guard words placed in the program stacks. A called routine or module executing on a processor checks a guard word in a stack frame of a calling routine or module. The checking determines whether the guard word has an expected value. Based on determining the guard word has an unexpected value, an indication of corruption of the stack frame is provided. Some modules, however, may not support use of guard words. Thus, modules that are interlinked may have differing protection capabilities. A determination is made as to the differing protection capabilities, an indication of the same is provided and the modules are executed with failing due to the differing protection capabilities.
US09514290B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to implementing an authorization cache. An authorization fact is determined based on a grant. The authorization fact is cached. The grant is revoked. The authorization fact is revoked based on a grant index.
US09514275B2
Apparatus includes an imaging system with a user interface, and a hospital radiological information system (RIS) coupled to the imaging system such that the user interface allows for bi-directional data transfer between the imaging system and the RIS.
US09514270B2
On embodiment of the gaming system: receives a base wager from a player for a play of a wagering game; enables the player to select to cause a modifier to be applied to the play of the wagering game or the modifier to not be applied to the play of the wagering game; displays an outcome of the play of the wagering game; if the outcome is a losing outcome and if the player caused the modifier to be applied to the play of the wagering game, reset the modifier; if the outcome is the losing outcome and if the player caused the modifier to not be applied to the play of the wagering game, increase the modifier; if the outcome is a winning outcome and the player caused the modifier to not be applied to the play of the wagering game, provide a first award to player based on the winning outcome and the base wager, and reset the modifier; and if the outcome is a winning outcome and the player caused the modifier to be applied to the play of the wagering game provide a second different award to the player based on the winning outcome, the base wager, and the modifier, and reset the modifier.
US09514263B1
A method to generate chemo-epitaxy masks includes receiving a device pattern comprising a plurality of device geometries, wherein the device pattern conforms to chemo-epitaxy constraints, enlarging the device geometries along a width of the device geometries to provide enlarged device geometries, and using the enlarged device geometries to generate at least one chemo-epitaxy mask corresponding to the device pattern. The at least one chemo-epitaxy mask may include a neutral hard mask and one or more cut masks. The method may also include bridging device geometries that are within a selected distance along a length of the device geometries and merging device geometries that overlap. The method may also include filling break regions between the device geometries with a neutral fill pattern. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
US09514257B1
A method, apparatus and computer readable medium for visualizing an event from unstructured data is described, including generating a plurality of structured data units from a plurality of unstructured data, each structured data unit having a time value, an identity value, a location value and a behavior value; and generating a data structure comprising a sequence of the structured data units.
US09514255B2
A discrete element method for modelling granular or particulate material, the method including a multiple grid search method wherein the multiple grid search method is a hierarchical grid search method, and wherein entities, such as particles and boundary elements, are allocated to cells of respective grids based on size. The search method further includes: (a) performing a search of cells in a first of the grid levels to determine pairs of entities which satisfy predetermined criteria to be included in a neighbor list for which both entities belong to the first grid level; (b) mapping each nonempty cell in the first grid level to each of the other grid levels, determining neighboring cells in each of the other grid levels and determining all pairs of entities belonging to a pair of levels that satisfy the predetermined criteria for inclusion in the neighbor list; and (c) repeating (a) and (b) for all grid levels.
US09514254B2
A computer-implemented modeling-and-simulation coordination module is provided for coordinating components by exchanging and sequencing instructions. The module includes a scenario file generator, a plug-in loader, an interface loader, a module classifier, an event detector, a response initiator, a simulation processor, a model request processor, an instance receiver, and an output provider. The scenario file generator creates a blank scenario file. The plug-in loader loads plug-in modules. The interface loader loads GUIs into corresponding containers. The classifier sets a classification to a highest rank plug-in module. The event detector monitors updating events. The response initiator prompts the operator to select an experimental plug-in module. The simulation processor executes a simulation in response to the operator loading a scenario, setting experimental parameters, and selecting the simulator plug-in. The model request processor provides parameters from the experimental frame to the model plug-in module. The instance receiver receives model instances from the model plug-in module. The output provider displays information based on time controls. The simulation processor instructs the simulator plug-in to execute instructions until satisfaction of terminal conditions and in response to initiation by the experimental plug-in module.
US09514249B2
Improved, re-arrangeable, and/or customizable data tree hierarchies, and methods of use thereof, are provided. In one embodiment, a method for customizing a data tree hierarchy includes providing, to a plurality of communication devices that are each associated with one or more respective users, access to a data tree hierarchy. The data tree hierarchy is adapted to include a plurality of data items, and each of the plurality of data items is positionable at one of a plurality of hierarchal levels. The method also includes receiving input from one or more of the communication devices to change a position of one or more of the plurality of data items in the data tree hierarchy, and changing the position of the one or more of the plurality of data items in the data tree hierarchy in response to receiving the input from the one or more of the communication devices.
US09514248B1
A system comprising: an index structure that associates devices with device feature information; a pairing engine to determine device pairs based upon device feature information; a feature vector generation engine to produce feature vectors corresponding to determined device pairs based upon feature values associated within the index structure with devices of the determined device pairs; a scoring engine to determine scores to associate with determined device pairs based upon produced feature vectors; a graph structure, wherein nodes within the graph structure represent devices of determined device pairs, and wherein edges between pairs of nodes within the graph structure indicate determined device pairs; a clustering engine to identify respective clusters of three or more nodes within the graph structure that represent respective groups of devices.
US09514246B2
A method and apparatus relate to recognizing anchored patterns from an input stream. Patterns from a plurality of given patterns are marked as anchored patterns. An anchored state tree for the anchored patterns of the plurality of given patterns is built, including nodes representing a state of the anchored state tree. For each node of the anchored state tree, a failure value equivalent to a node representing a state in an unanchored state tree representing unanchored patterns of the plurality of given patterns is determined.
US09514238B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for providing additional content on a webpage is provided. In example embodiments, an indication of a webpage load at a client device is received. The indication may include an identifier for the webpage. A determination is made that a rule set in a rules database corresponds to the identifier for the webpage. The rule set, which indicates additional content to be injected into the webpage, is provided. The additional content is caused to be injected into the webpage.
US09514236B2
A recommendation network is described. In some embodiments, the recommendation network includes recommenders that explicitly or implicitly recommend, rate or refer items and recommendation receivers that receive the recommendations. In some embodiments, the recommenders can be recommendation receivers, and vice versa. In some embodiments, recommendation receivers assign rust ratings to recommenders. The recommendation receiver can assign separate trust ratings to individual topics for which the recommendation receiver trusts the recommender. The separate trust ratings represent the recommendation receiver's amount of trust in the recommender to makes valuable recommendations for the specific topic. The recommendation network can use the separate trust ratings, along with ratings provided by the recommender, to rank recommendations per the separate topics. The recommendation receiver can assign the recommender to different bundles, topics, channels, etc. to which other recommendation receivers can subscribe.
US09514234B2
An industrial automation system includes automation components, such as a motor drive, configured to provide signals to perform automation operations, such as driving an electric motor. A barcode is disposed on an industrial automation component is configured to be scanned by a user device to provide the user device with information relating to the automation component or operation of the automation component. The barcode may be dynamically generated by the automation component and may utilize various mechanism for permitting access to the information.
US09514229B2
A network element comprising a processor configured to receive a plurality of search responses from a plurality of media content service providers associated with a search request triggered by the search request, and rank the search responses based on maximizing an end user's quality of experience (QoE). Included is a network element comprising a processor configured to receive a plurality of media content from a plurality of media content service providers, store the plurality of media content for a plurality of end users, receive a media content search request from a user terminal, rank the media content based upon maximizing the user terminal's QoE. Also included is a method comprising requesting media content from a plurality of media content service providers on behalf of a user terminal, receiving data associated with the media content from the plurality of media content service providers and aggregating the media content data.
US09514228B2
An embodiment relates generally to a method of editorial control. The method includes providing for at least one piece of content and determining a set of banned tags. Each banned tag is prevented from being applied to the at least one piece of content. The method also includes associating the set of banned tags to the at least one piece of content as a policy and receiving a tag term for the at least one piece of content at the first website. The method further includes comparing the tag term with the policy.
US09514227B1
A computer-implemented communications method is discussed. The method includes receiving a typed user input in a texting conversation on an electronic communication channel between two or more users of electronic communications devices; analyzing the user input to identify whether the user input contains a reserved word for triggering a search; submitting a search query received in association with the reserved word to a search engine, if the user input contains a reserved word; receiving one or more search results from the search engine; and providing, in the electronic communication channel for incorporation into the texting conversation, at least one of the one or more search results.
US09514226B2
The present invention relates to novel methods and implementing systems that afford a user the ability to analyze a certain stream of data, e.g., independent of size, and identify the people that influence the conversation.
US09514209B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing method and a data processing device. If to-be-compressed data includes a data fragment that is the same as a first half of a variable block in a duplicate database and is different from a second half of the variable block, a new variable block with granularity smaller than that of the matching variable block can be generated, and the new variable block is added to the duplicate database. The granularity of the new variable block is smaller, which increases the probability of subsequent to-be-compressed data matching the updated duplicate database, thereby improving compression efficiency.
US09514205B1
Computer implemented systems and methods are disclosed for importing data from electronic data files. In accordance with some embodiments, source electronic data files are received at a data importation system and managed by the data importation system. The data importation system may apply detector/transformer plugins to the received source electronic data files to transform the files for importation into one or more data analysis systems and/or databases. The data importation system may also receive user inputs for mapping source electronic data files to transformation templates. The inputs may include, for example, an assignment of a file format to the source electronic data file, identification of a file type identifier associated with the source electronic data file, and a mapping of a the source electronic data file to a transformation template. The data importation system may store the received inputs as a file type profile in a database.
US09514203B2
Resources for data lineage discovery, data lineage analysis, role-based security, notification. The resources may include or involve machine readable memory that is configured to store a technical data element (“TDE”); a receiver that is configured to receive a query for data lineage information corresponding to a business element identifier; and a processor configured to: register a logical association between the business element identifier and the TDE; and formulate the data lineage information of the TDE associated with the business element identifier. The receiver may be configured to receive a criterion that is required to access one or more technical data elements (“TDEs”) associated with the business element identifier. The receiver may be configured to receive an election to receive a notification of a change of data lineage. The processor may be configured to toggle between a first data lineage graph and a second data lineage graph.
US09514197B2
Systems and methods of returning location and/or event results using information social media content are provided. One or more social networking servers are accessed to retrieve social media content. One or more items within the social media content are then identified. These items may then be categorized. Information about the categories of the one or more items are stored in a database storing information about locations or events. A search query for a location or event may be received, and results for the search query may be selected by accessing the database and utilizing the information about locations or events as well as the information about the categories of the one or more items. The results may then be returned to a user device for display.
US09514194B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining duration performance of websites. In one aspect, a method includes, for each website of a plurality of websites: obtaining duration measurements of user device visits to resources of the website for a plurality of different users, obtaining data describing a plurality of categories to which the website belongs; determining, for each category of the plurality of categories to which the website belongs, a category duration score for the category based on the website duration score for the website; and determining, from one or more of the category duration scores, a duration performance score for the website.
US09514191B2
A method, system, and one or more computer-readable storage media for visualizing ranking factors for items in a search result list are provided herein. The method includes generating a search result list for a query and generating a visualization of one or more ranking factors for each of a number of items in the search result list.
US09514186B1
The subject matter of the disclosure is embodied in a method that includes identifying a user-list which is based on owned or permissioned data, wherein the user-list is associated with a corresponding owner database. The method also includes providing an application programming interface (API) configured to communicate with the owner database, and receiving, from the owner database through the API, metadata related to the user-list. The metadata at least includes data describing a category for the user-list. The method further includes storing in a searchable database a user-list identifier corresponding to the user-list and the associated metadata, and providing a user-interface that includes the user-list identifier and the corresponding associated metadata. The user-interface is configured to receive one or more management instructions related to the user-list from a user-list subscriber.
US09514182B2
Techniques for managing data relationships are presented. A database element from a first database table is linked with a database element of a second database table via a Graphical User Interface as directed by a user. The link establishes a data relationship having attributes and properties. The relationship along with the attributes and properties are graphically presented to the user for inspection and analysis.
US09514178B2
Data is converted into a minimized data representation using a suffix tree by sorting data streams according to symbolic representations for building table boundary formation patterns. The converted data is fully reversible for reconstruction while retaining minimal header information. A scanning operation is performed by searching a suffix of each of the sorted data streams for identifying a data sequence that includes a first symbol representing textual data, and a second symbol representing numerical data. The suffix tree for the converted data is then built.
US09514176B2
An information processing device includes an access requesting unit, an access type determination unit, a notified party information acquisition unit, and a notifying unit. The information processing device is able to access a notified party information storage unit that stores information of a notified party in association with location information of particular data stored in a database server. The access type determination unit determines whether or not an access request issued by the access requesting unit is an access request relating to updating. If the issued access request is an access request relating to updating, the notified party information acquisition unit acquires information of a notified party corresponding to location information of data to be updated by the access request, from the notified party information storage unit. The notifying unit gives notice to a notified party specified in the acquired information of the notified party.
US09514175B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is organized into discrete events with normalized time stamps and the events are indexed by time and keyword. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time indexing mechanism, keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.
US09514173B2
A real-time index system is provided for maintaining the consistency of an index of a database. The real-time index system can receive data associated with an inconsistency detected in the index, compute an index key value from the received data, and obtain the index record and data record associated with the computed index key value. The real-time index system can further compare the data in the data record with the corresponding data in the index record to identify a mismatch in data between the data in the index record and the data in the data record. The real-time index system can maintain the consistency of the index by modifying a portion of data in the index record to be consistent with a corresponding portion of data in the data record.
US09514169B2
Shuffling data stored in columnar tables improves data storage security, particularly when used in conjunction with other security operations, such as tokenization and cryptography. A data table is accessed, and pointer values of at least one column of the accessed table are shuffled, generating a protected table. An index table mapping index values to the shuffled pointer values is generated, allowing a user with access to both the protected table and the index table to generate the original table. Without both tables, users are only able to see either the shuffled data or the index values. Example shuffling methods include, but are not limited to, random shuffling, grouped shuffling, sorting by column value, and sorting by index value.
US09514168B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a method includes allocating an arena block of a shared memory of a database node server. The arena block is divided into one or more slots. The one or more slots include a discreet and constant area of memory within the arena block. Each slot is assigned a constant-memory address relative to an arena-block's shared memory address. The index is implemented as a red-black tree data structure. Each red-black tree node is mapped to a slot. Each red-black-tree node is provided a pointer to one or more neighbor nodes. The index stored in shared memory can be used during a ‘warm’ rebooting process.
US09514167B2
A computer implemented method for matching data records from multiple entities comprising providing respective transaction logs for the entities representing actions performed by or in respect of the entities, determining a matching score using the transaction logs for respective pairs of the entities and for predetermined combinations of merged entities by generating a measure representing a gain in behavior recognition for the entities before and after merging, and using the gain as a matching score.
US09514165B2
Methods and systems for handling lock state information between a first storage system node and a second storage system node coupled via a network link are provided. The second storage system node stores lock state information at a storage device previously managed by the first storage system node and notifies the first storage system node of a storage device location where the lock state information is stored. The second storage system node then transfers ownership of the storage device to the first storage system node that copies the lock state information from the storage device location to a memory location managed by the first storage system node. The first storage system node uses the lock state information to reconstruct any locks for storage space presented to a client and then processes client requests for reading and writing information at the storage device.
US09514164B1
A device may receive information that identifies a source database and a destination database, and may receive information that identifies an entity instance included in the source database. The device may determine a base data structure, included in the source database, that is associated with the entity instance, and may generate a dependency graph that identifies a dependency between the base data structure and another data structure. The device may receive an instruction to perform an operation associated with the destination database, and may determine an evaluation order for traversing the dependency graph to generate code for performing the operation. The device may traverse the dependency graph in the evaluation order, and may generate code corresponding to respective data structures identified by the dependency graph. The device may cause execution of the code, based on the evaluation order, which may cause the operation to be performed.
US09514162B2
For smart polling frequency in datastores by a processor device in a computing environment, individual polling operations are performed for refreshing each one of the datastores according to polling frequencies. Each one of the polling frequencies depends on recent system activity and each one of the datastores. Each of the polling frequencies are dynamically adjusted for each one of the datastores.
US09514160B2
A method, system, and computer program product. The method for non-intrusive redeployment of a standby database facility comprises configuring a database system having a shared lock manager process to synchronize two or more concurrent access instances, then granting lock requests for access to a cache of database blocks. At some moment in time, the shared lock manager process may fail, and a monitor process detects the failure or other stoppage of the shared lock manager process. A new shared lock manager process and other processes are started, at least one of which serves for identifying the database blocks in the cache that have not yet been written to the database. The identified blocks are formed into a recovery set of redo operations. During this time, incoming requests for access to the cache of database blocks are briefly blocked, at least until the recovery set of redo operations has been formed.
US09514157B2
Multi-dimensional content browsing may include assigning images from a plurality of images into a plurality of groups. An interface that includes first and second dimensions may be displayed. The interface may allow browsing in the first dimension among the plurality of groups and may also allow browsing in the second dimension among one or more images of one of the groups. A request to prefetch image data in at least one of the dimensions may be generated based on an anticipation to display the image data.
US09514150B2
Example embodiments relate to automatic WORM-retention state transitions. In example embodiments, a storage computing device may detect a request to access, via a file system, a file that is associated with a first retention state. The first retention state may indicate either a first type of WORM-retention protection for the file or no WORM-retention protection for the file. The storage computing device may determine, in response to the request, that the file should be designated with a second retention state. The second retention state may indicate a second type of WORM-retention protection for the file. The determination may be based on a retention policy file that is tightly integrated with the file system and metadata of the file. The storage computing device may transition the file (e.g., by communicating with the file system) to be associated with the second retention state instead of the first retention state.
US09514137B2
Disclosed is a method for hybrid garbage collection of objects in a file system. An example method includes associating, with each object in the file system, a reference counter, an expiration time, and a version identifier. The object is can be kept in the file system while the reference counter of the object is non-zero. After determining that the reference counter of the object is zero, the object can be kept in the file system up to the expiration time associated with the object. When a reference referring to the object is deleted, the expiration time of the object is updated to the latest of the expiration times of the object and the reference. Furthermore, the object can be kept in the file system while the version identifier of the object is larger than a predetermined version number.
US09514136B2
A first device may receive an instruction to add a first marker that identifies a first time index associated with particular content and a particular account used to access the particular content; receive an instruction to add a second marker that identifies a second time index associated with the particular content and the particular account; store the first marker and information associating the first marker with the first time index, the particular content, and the particular account; store the second marker and information associating the second marker with the second time index, the particular content, and the particular account; receive selection of the first marker or the second marker, associated with the particular content and the particular account; and cause a second device to play back the particular content at the first time index or the second time index.
US09514129B2
Technologies for providing textual information are described. In some embodiments the technologies include an audio sensor, a loudspeaker, and a voice to text server. The audio sensor may function to detect an audio input and produce a first signal containing auditory information. The auditory information may be conveyed to the loudspeaker and the voice to text server. The voice to text server may function to convert the auditory information to textual information and transmit the textual information to one or more client devices, e.g., in a text message. Systems, methods, and devices including or utilizing such technology are also described.
US09514124B2
A natural language question and answer system analyzes a question to determine key characteristics (such as focus and lexical answer type), and matches those characteristics to business processes from business process repositories. The matching business processes are ranked and at least one is presented as a recommended answer to the user. The system can offer the user a trigger to invoke the particular business process. The analysis includes examining a user profile to determine an attribute relevant to the question, and further includes named entity searching and fuzzy string matching against the business process repositories. Each business process in a repository is designated as either idempotent, non-binding or retrieve-only. The matching can include performing a factorial LDA algorithm on both extracted named entities and latent factors of the business processes in the repositories.
US09514122B1
Creating and processing a natural language grammar set of data based on an input text string are disclosed. The method may include tagging the input text string, and examining, via a processor, the input text string for at least one first set of substitutions based on content of the input text string. The method may also include determining whether the input text string is a substring of a previously tagged input text string by comparing the input text string to a previously tagged input text string, such that the substring determination operation determines whether the input text string is wholly included in the previously tagged input text string.
US09514121B2
A custom dictionary is generated for an e-book. A dictionary management system receives a custom dictionary request from a user client operated by a user, the custom dictionary request identifying the e-book and including dictionary management information describing the user. The dictionary management system chooses a group reader profile that has an associated group reading score for the user based on the dictionary management information and candidate words are identified in the identified e-book for inclusion in the custom dictionary. The dictionary management system selects words for inclusion in the custom dictionary from among the candidate words responsive to the associated group reading score for the chosen group reading profile. The dictionary management system generates the custom dictionary using the selected words, and provides the generated custom dictionary to the user client.
US09514120B1
A computing device hosting a server identifies one or more potential typographical errors in a work using an initial reference. The computing device sends data indicative of the presence of the potential typographical errors to users. The computing device collects feedback for the work from the users. The feedback for the work indicates whether the potential typographical errors are author-intended strings. The computing device combines the user feedback for the work with user feedback for other works and sorts the combined user feedback based on one or more selected parameters. The computing device determines, based on the sorted user feedback, that one or more of the potential typographical errors includes an acceptable string and updates the initial reference to include the acceptable string.
US09514118B2
The invention comprises a method, system and computer program for database implementation of electronic checklists. The invention implements using at least one processor, the steps of (i) displaying at a user interface, a first electronic checklist template within a template editor (ii) defining a modified electronic checklist template, wherein defining the modified electronic checklist template comprises modifying the first electronic checklist template based on inputs received at the template editor; and (iii) generating a database implemented electronic checklist template. The database implemented electronic checklist template may comprise a markup language encoding of the modified electronic checklist template and at least one system controlled column. Data input within data fields of the at least one system controlled column may be determined by one or more system information parameters, and one or more predefined rules of system behaviour associated with the at least one system controlled column.
US09514117B2
The present invention provides a system and method for tagging digital documents. A method for creating digitally tagged documents includes creating a data template for a digital document, assigning signature locations and data fields in the data template, and linking the template instructions with the digital document. A system for creating digitally tagged documents includes a processor; a display; and a memory containing stored programming instructions operable by the processor to create a data template for a digital document, assign signature locations and data fields in the data template, and link template instructions with the digital document.
US09514113B1
A method includes accessing a document and generating a ranking score for each of a plurality of passages from external documents. The ranking score is based at least on a degree of semantic similarity of each passage with respect to a portion of the document. The method also includes modifying the document to include a footnote link for the portion of the document, the footnote link including a link to the external document having the highest ranked passage therein, if the ranking score of the highest ranked passage with respect to the portion of the document exceeds a threshold value. The document is not modified to include the footnote link for the portion of the document if the ranking score of the highest ranked passage with respect to the portion of the document does not exceed a threshold value.
US09514111B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing autocomplete suggestions. A computing device can receive an n-gram of characters. Cached autocomplete suggestions can be identified in a local cache of the computing device. Additional autocomplete suggestions can be requested at a first time. The computing device can prevent presentation of the cached autocomplete suggestions until a presentation event occurs. The presentation event can include (i) receiving the requested additional autocomplete suggestions by the computing device or (ii) the end of a predetermined period after the first time. The computing device can determine that that the presentation event has occurred, and in response, can display one or more autocomplete suggestions.
US09514108B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automatic reference note generation are disclosed herein. The method includes identifying an information element that has been copied to a transfer buffer, collecting source reference information associated with the information element, wherein the source reference information includes at least one source identifier indicative of an origin of the information element, generating a reference note based on the source reference information and a reference note format specification, inserting the information element into a destination document, inserting the reference note into the destination document, wherein the reference note is associated with the information element.
US09514107B1
A webpage creation tool for developing mobile device specific webpages for at least one mobile computing device having a hypertext generator and a domain free interface traverser to simultaneously collect predefined data from different third party servers, store the collected data and maintain consistency throughout. The webpage creation tool can have a replication feature, a plurality of common stylistic rules and a document processor to merge predefined data into a mobile device specific webpage document template creating the mobile device specific webpage and storing the mobile device specific webpage. A plurality of self-generating data entry screens can develop the mobile device specific webpage and a plurality of computer instructions can convert the mobile device specific webpage to a mobile version, transmit the mobile version for display and maintain the mobile version of the mobile device specific webpage for use on the mobile computing device.
US09514099B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for a documentation system. Documentation topics for publishing in a node are received from a client. Embodiments of the disclosure determine whether the documentation topic has been assigned a topic identifier. Topic identifiers are assigned if the documentation topic has not been assigned a topic identifier and the documentation topic is assigned to at least one node in the documentation system. The documentation topics are stored in a data store and the topic identifiers are transmitted to the client. The topics are then published in at least one node of the documentation system.
US09514096B2
The invention is a method of developing a sedimentary basin from a stratigraphic simulation of multilithologic filling accounting for fine sediment transport. The sedimentary basin is divided into geologic layers with each geologic layer being subdivided into a series of climatic layers. Each climatic layer is associated with at least one constant climatic parameter. A stratigraphic simulation is performed within each climatic layer using a stratigraphic model. The sediment transport in the continental domain and sediment bottom layer transport in the marine and lacustrine domains are modelled using nonlinear diffusion equations under maximum erosion rate constraint. Suspended sediment transport in the marine and lacustrine domain is modeled using an advection-diffusion equation accounting for a particle fall rate and of a marine and lacustrine current velocity. The climatic layers belonging to a single geologic layer are then homogenized and the basin is developed according to the stratigraphic simulation results.
US09514085B2
Method, apparatus, and systems employing novel dictionary entry replacement schemes for dictionary-based high-bandwidth lossless compression. A pair of dictionaries having entries that are synchronized and encoded to support compression and decompression operations are implemented via logic at a compressor and decompressor. The compressor/decompressor logic operatives in a cooperative manner, including implementing the same dictionary update schemes, resulting in the data in the respective dictionaries being synchronized. The dictionaries are also configured with replaceable entries, and replacement policies are implemented based on matching bytes of data within sets of data being transferred over the link. Various schemes are disclosed for entry replacement, as well as a delayed dictionary update technique. The techniques support line-speed compression and decompression using parallel operations resulting in substantially no latency overhead.
US09514079B2
An Adaptive Channel Selection (ACS) system is disclosed. A computing device uses wireless docking to provide a separate monitor and full-size input devices. The computing device requests docking, receives data wirelessly from the full-size input devices, and provides compressed video display data wirelessly for display on the separate monitor. An adaptive docking adapter receives and decodes compressed video display data and provides the decoded compressed video display data to a separate monitor for display. A wireless connection is disposed between the computing device and the adaptive docking adapter to provide wireless transmission of signals between the computing device and the adaptive docking adapter.
US09514077B2
A method to provide transfer of data without the use of a network from an application program to an embedded device. A routing service establishes a communication channel without the use of a local area network. The routing service then manages the control of this communication channel for the transfer of data and closes the channel in an appropriate period.
US09514070B2
A method and apparatus store a command in a command register and set, with a control circuit, a first operation mode associated with a split transaction for freeing a bus in a time period between a command transfer request and a command transfer operation. The method and apparatus set, with the control circuit, a second operation mode in which a split transaction is not issued and transfer, with the control circuit, the command to a processing unit via the bus in response to the command transfer request when in the second operation mode where after the processing unit executes the command and issues a subsequent command transfer request to the control circuit, the control circuit performs the split transaction when in the first and second operation modes.
US09514065B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and apparatus for operating a host device (e.g. a ‘plug-and-play’ host device) coupled to a peripheral device (e.g. a mobile phone). In some embodiments, the host device may analyzed peripheral device-descriptive data (e.g. including but not limited to USB endpoint data) and determine information about the peripheral device in accordance with the results of the analysis. Operations that may be carried out by the host device in accordance with results of the analysis include but are not limited to protocol selection, retrieval of cell phone data, and determining software or hardware resource(s) of the peripheral device. In some embodiments, it is possible to actively suppress natural OS behavior whereby a device driver(s) specified by the peripheral device (e.g. in a hardware identifier) is loaded by the host device. For example, it is possible to load a surrogate driver instead. In one example, the hardware identifier is intercepted and not forwarded to a plug-and-play manager executing on the host device.
US09514060B2
Device, system and method of accessing data stored in a memory. For example, a device may include a memory to store a plurality of data items to be accessed by a processor; a cache manager to manage, a cache within the memory, the cache including a plurality of pointer entries, wherein each pointer entry includes an identifier of a respective data item and a pointer to an address of the data item; and a search module to receive from the cache manager an identifier of a requested data item, search the plurality of pointer entries for the identifier of the requested data item and, if a pointer entry is detected to include an identifier of a respective data item that matches the identifier of the requested data item then, provide the cache manager with the pointer from the detected entry. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09514057B2
A storage module and method for managing logical-to-physical address mapping are disclosed. In one embodiment, a storage module is provided comprising a memory having a plurality of wordlines and a controller. The controller is configured to use a logical-to-physical address map to convert a logical address to a physical address of a wordline. A plurality of logical addresses in the map point to a single wordline, and the single wordline contains both data associated with the plurality of logical addresses and information about where to find each of the plurality of logical addresses in the single wordline . Storing the information about where to find each of the plurality of logical addresses in the wordline itself avoids the delay and complexity of using a larger logical-to-physical address map or multiple maps.
US09514055B2
This disclosure is related to distributed media cache for data storage systems, such as disc drives, flash devices, or hybrid devices. In one example, a data storage device comprises a data storage medium and a controller adapted to selectively divide a media cache into a plurality of physically separate media cache portions on the data storage medium based on a physical attribute of the data storage medium and to store data received from a host system into the media cache portions.
US09514051B2
A cache memory is shared by N cores of a processor. The cache memory includes a unified tag part and a sliced data part partitioned into N data slices. Each data slice of the N data slices is physically local to a respective one of the N cores and physically remote from the other N-1 cores. For each core, the cache memory biases allocations caused by the core towards a physically local slice of the core. The cache memory may be arranged as a set-associative cache memory, and allocations may be based on a miss rate of a data slice and a number of M ways allocated to a core. A dispatch queue dispatches requests in a schedule fashion so that only one of the N data slices at a time returns data to each core.
US09514046B1
A hint bit detection and correction method uses two additional bits as part of every cache directory. These bits represent the lwarx and stwcx instructions (larx disp, stcx disp). When a hint bit event occurs, depending the on combination of these two bits, there can be an indication of a hint bit error. Once a hint bit error is detected a software interrupt is issued and the hint bit correction method identifies and corrects the incorrect hint bit.
US09514038B2
A memory controller (MC) is associated with a remapping table to enable access to content in a memory system that includes asymmetric memory. The MC receives a request for a memory read or an Input/Output (I/O) write from a central processing unit (CPU) for a physical address specified by the system's memory management unit (MMU). The CPU uses the MMU to manage memory operations for the CPU, by translating the virtual addresses associated with CPU instructions into physical addresses representing system memory or I/O locations. The MC for asymmetric memories is configured to process the MMU-specified physical addresses as an additional type of virtual addresses, creating a layer of abstraction between the physical address specified by the MMU and the physical memory address with which that address is associated by the MC. The MC shields the CPU from the computational complexities required to implement a memory system with asymmetric components.
US09514036B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for generating comprehensive test cases covering new events yet to be covered. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to receive a request to generate a test case, wherein the request comprises a coverage schema associated with a first set of events to be covered in the generated test case. Embodiments of the present invention includes updating the coverage schema, wherein the updating the coverage schema comprises adding a second set of events to be covered in the generated test case and generating constraints used to satisfy requirements for meeting the first set of events and the second set of events in the updated coverage schema. Embodiments of the present invention can generate a test case using the generated constraints and the updated coverage schema.
US09514029B2
A method, system and program product for recording a program execution comprising recording processor context for each thread of the program, results of system calls by the program, and memory pages accessed by the program during an execution interval in a checkpoint file. Processor context includes register contents and descriptor entries in a segment descriptor table of the operating system. System calls are recorded for each program thread, tracked by an extension to the operating system kernel and include returned call parameter data. Accessed memory pages are recorded for each program process and include data, libraries and code pages. The program address space, processor context, and program threads are reconstructed from checkpoint data for replaying the program execution in a different operating system environment.
US09514022B1
A system and method for creating an accurate black-box model of a live storage system and for predicting performance of the storage system under a given workload is disclosed. An analytics engine determines a subset of counters that are relevant to performance of the storage system with respect to a particular output (e.g., throughput or latency) from performance data in counters of the storage system. Using the subset of counters, the analytics engine creates a workload signature for the storage system by using a recursive partitioning technique, such as a classification and regression tree. The analytics engine then creates the black-box model of the storage system performance by applying uncertainty measurement techniques, such as a Gaussian process, to the workload signature.
US09514018B2
Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for scaling processing systems. For instance, in certain example embodiments, a scaling master receives a user-specified scaling and/or alerting query. The scaling and/or alerting query is transmitted to scaling agents at respective ones of the processing elements, the transmission using the connection layer. Each of the scaling agents executes the at least one scaling and/or alerting query. Each of the scaling agents reports a result of the executing to the scaling master using the connection layer. The scaling master forms a scaling decision based on the result reported by each of the scaling agents.
US09514015B2
A method of distributing data in a distributed storage system includes receiving a file into non-transitory memory and dividing the received file into chunks. The chunks are data-chunks and non-data chunks. The method also includes grouping one or more of the data chunks and one or more of the non-data chunks in a group. One or more chunks of the group is capable of being reconstructed from other chunks of the group. The method also includes distributing the chunks of the group to storage devices of the distributed storage system based on a hierarchy of the distributed storage system. The hierarchy includes maintenance domains having active and inactive states, each storage device associated with a maintenance domain, the chunks of a group are distributed across multiple maintenance domains to maintain the ability to reconstruct chunks of the group when a maintenance domain is in an inactive state.
US09514014B2
A method of managing a distributed storage space. The method comprises mapping a plurality of replica sets to a plurality of storage managing modules installed in a plurality of computing units, each of the plurality of storage managing modules manages access of at least one storage consumer application to replica data of at least one replica of a replica set from the plurality of replica sets, the replica data is stored in at least one drive of a respective the computing unit, allocating at least one time based credit to at least one of each storage managing module and the replica data, iteratively renewing the time based credit as long a failure of at least one of the storage managing module, and the at least one drive and the replica data is not detected plurality of storage managing.
US09514006B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, a system, and a computer program product for processing multiple transactions within a transaction execution environment. The transaction execution environment includes a first transaction that is assigned a first transaction identification number, and a second transaction that is assigned a second transaction identification number which process on a processor. The processor processes the first transaction and the second transaction on one or more threads of the processor. A first rollback save state is created for the first transaction and a second rollback save state is created for the second transaction. An interference is detected prior to ending a transaction, between the processing of the first transaction and the processing of the second transaction. In response to the interference, the second transaction is rolled back to the second rollback save state.
US09514002B2
Systems and methods for performing backups to a storage device are provided. For virtual disks of a virtual machine, snapshots are used to backup data periodically to a storage device. A disk virtualization layer “retires” data blocks associated with a snapshot, while retaining a list of block addresses, for comparison in future backup operations. The retired snapshot can be compared against future snapshots to generate incremental backups without occupying storage space with data blocks that have already been copied to another storage device.
US09514000B2
A method of backing up a computing device comprises storing in the computing device, prior to any first backup of the computing device, a selected pre-populated Reference File that comprises one or more references to at least some of the data blocks stored in the computing device. A first backup may then be initiated. The first back may cause references to data blocks in the computing device that are unrepresented in the pre-populated Reference File to be added to the Reference File. The data blocks corresponding to the added references may then be sent to a backup server over a computer network.
US09513993B2
Embodiments relate to stale data detection in a marked channel for a scrub. An aspect includes bringing the marked channel online, wherein the computer comprises a plurality of memory channels comprising the marked channel and a remaining plurality of unmarked channels. Another aspect includes performing a scrub read of an address in the plurality of memory channels. Another aspect includes determining whether data returned by the scrub read from the marked channel is valid or stale based on data returned from the unmarked channels by the scrub read. Another aspect includes based on determining that the data returned by the scrub read from the marked channel is valid, not performing a scrub writeback to the marked channel. Another aspect includes based on determining that the data returned by the scrub read from the marked channel is stale, performing a scrub writeback of corrected data to the marked channel.
US09513991B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a memory device configured to include a buffer memory block and a main memory block, and to correct data read from the buffer memory block based on error information, and to perform a program loop to store corrected data in the main memory block, and a memory controller configured to perform an error checking and correction (ECC) operation on the data and to output the error information obtained through the ECC operation to the memory device.
US09513986B2
A signal auto-tuning system is provided, which comprises a host, a controller, an expander, and a storage unit. The expander comprises a first error counting unit, a second error counting unit, an error-count temporary table, an error-count evaluating unit, and an adjusting unit. The expander receives/transmits a first signal with relation to the controller, and the expander receives/transmits a second signal with relation to the storage unit. The adjusting unit determines whether to adjust either of the first signal and the second signal, based on a result determined by the error-count evaluating unit.
US09513985B1
An approach for improving efficiency of cycle-reproducible debug in a multi-core environment is provided. The approach executes an exerciser image on one or more cores, wherein the exerciser image includes one or more different seeds. The approach determines a seed from the one or more different seeds that locates a fail-condition. Responsive to determining a seed from the one or more different seeds that locates the fail condition, the approach determines an upper bound and a lower bound of the fail-condition. The approach determines an exact cycle where the fail-condition occurs. The approach constructs a multi-cycle trace for the fail-condition.
US09513978B2
Converting data for an application ported from an operating system (OS) platform of a first computer to an OS platform of a second computer. Configuration information associated with ported application including the first computer's OS platform is stored on the second computer. The ported application executing on the second computer receives first data encoded in a first code set. The OS of the second computer receives a request to convert the first data to a second data encoded in a second code set, locates a first-code-set-to-second-code-set mapping based on at least maintained code set mappings of the OS of the first computer, and converts the first data to the second data using the located first-code-set-to-second-code-set mapping. The second data is compatible for processing on the second computer and output from converting the data on the second computer is equivalent to an output from converting the data on the first computer.
US09513976B2
A computer-implemented method and a corresponding computer system for emulation of Extended Memory Semantics (EMS) operations. The method and system include obtaining a set of computer instructions that include an EMS operation, converting the EMS operation into a corresponding atomic memory operation (AMO), and executing the AMO on at least one processor of a computer.
US09513973B2
A device and method for synchronizing tasks executed in parallel on a platform comprising comprises several computation units. The tasks are apt to be preempted by the operating system of the platform, and the device comprises at least one register and one recording module installed in the form of circuits on said platform, said recording module being suitable for storing a relationship between a condition to be satisfied regarding the value recorded by one of said registers and one or more computation tasks, the device comprising a dynamic allocation module installed in the form of circuits on the platform and configured to choose a computation unit from among computation units of the platform when said condition is fulfilled, and for launching the execution on the chosen computation unit of a software function for searching for the tasks on standby awaiting the fulfillment of the condition and notifications of said tasks.
US09513970B2
Techniques are provided for sending address information of virtual machines to a physical switch. A migration of a virtual machine to a physical server is detected. The physical server obtains address information of the virtual machine, and upon obtaining the address information of the virtual machine, the physical server sends the address information to a first physical switch that is connected to the physical server.
US09513968B1
A computing system includes a computer in communication with a tiered storage system. The computing system identifies a set of data transferring to a storage tier within the storage system. The computing system identifies a program to which the data set is allocated and determines to increase or reduce resources of the computer allocated to the program, based on the set of data transferring to the storage tier. The computing system discontinues transferring the set of data to the storage tier if a resource allocated to the program cannot be increased.
US09513966B2
A human-machine interface (HMI) application (26) uses parallel processing. The HMI engineering system (24) allows explicit specification (44) of different cores of a multi-core processor (16) for different elements and/or actions. The programmer may design the HMI application for concurrent operation. The HMI engineering system (24) or runtime system (28) may test (56) for data dependency amongst the elements or actions and automatically assigns different cores where data is independent. During runtime, different threads for the HMI application (e.g., different elements and/or actions) are scheduled for different cores.
US09513965B1
A data processing system includes an interrupt controller that counts, as an interrupt processing execution count, executions of interrupt processing by threads executed by data processing devices; and a processor that is configured to select one scheduling method from among a plurality of scheduling methods, based on the interrupt processing execution count.
US09513953B2
Performing a checkpoint includes determining a checkpoint boundary of the checkpoint for a virtual machine, wherein the virtual machine has a first virtual processor, determining a scheduled hypervisor interrupt for the first virtual processor, and adjusting, by operation of one or more computer processors, the scheduled hypervisor interrupt to before or substantially at the checkpoint boundary.
US09513950B2
Aspects of the disclosure allocate shares of processing resources or other physical resources among virtual machines (VMs) operating as, for example, virtual desktops on a plurality of host computing devices. Allocations of resources are adjusted based on the user activity, VM activity, and/or application activity detected by an agent executing on each VM. Allocated shares may be boosted, unboosted, or normalized, depending on the type and duration of detected activity, by a resource allocation manager executing on a management server.
US09513947B2
An adaptive request handler (ARH) receives a virtual machine (VM) request from a user and determines whether to automatically approve the VM request using a tolerance that defines an allowable amount of deviation from preset resource specifications. In some embodiments, the ARH adaptively varies the tolerance based on one or more monitored factors, such as an aggregate system resource utilization by and/or a billing history of the user or a group that includes the user. In some embodiments, the VM request is based on a template selected by the user from among a plurality of templates eligible for automatic approval, wherein a plurality of tolerances each defines an allowable amount of deviation from preset resource specifications of a respective one of the eligible templates. The ARH may, in some embodiments, vary each of the plurality of tolerances independently based on one or more monitored factors.
US09513946B2
Techniques are disclosed for maintaining high availability (HA) for virtual machines (VMs) running on host systems of a host cluster, where each host system executes a HA module in a plurality of HA modules and a storage module in a plurality of storage modules, where the host cluster aggregates, via the plurality of storage modules, locally-attached storage resources of the host systems to provide an object store, where persistent data for the VMs is stored as per-VM storage objects across the locally-attached storage resources comprising the object store, and where a failure causes the plurality of storage modules to observe a network partition in the host cluster that the plurality of HA modules do not. In one embodiment, a host system in the host cluster executing a first HA module invokes an API exposed by the plurality of storage modules for persisting metadata for a VM to the object store. If the API is not processed successfully, the host system: (1) identifies a subset of second HA modules in the plurality of HA modules; (2) issues an accessibility query for the VM to the subset of second HA modules in parallel, the accessibility query being configured to determine whether the VM is accessible to the respective host systems of the subset of second HA modules; and (3) if at least one second HA module in the subset indicates that the VM is accessible to its respective host system, transmits a command to the at least one second HA module to invoke the API on its respective host system.
US09513941B2
Some embodiments provide method of generating application programming interfaces (APIs) in a codeless manner. The method generates a schema description of a data storage with which an API-accessible object may have to exchange data (e.g., from which the object may have to read data and/or to which the object may have to write data) to process an API request during the execution of an application. Based on the generated schema description, the method constructs one or more data graphs, with each data graph representing one set of relationships between different sets of fields in the data storage. After generating the data graphs, the method generates a large number of possible API permutations by using the generated data graphs. The method presents the generated sample APIs so that a developer can select and customize one or more APIs while developing an application.
US09513940B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide efficient systems and methods for scaling past the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) thread limit in a Java Virtual Machine. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to ensure that a received workload is executed, even if the workload is greater than a JVM thread limit of the system, by spawning a reduced number of threads from a main process, in order to provide enough resources for the effective execution of a received workload.
US09513935B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for configuring auto-scaling parameters of a computing environment, as well as alerting a user when auto-scaling operations are not attainable given current operating configurations.
US09513927B1
Certain aspects direct to a computing device, which include a processor, a random access memory (RAM) having a frame buffer, a video controller configured to read video data from the frame buffer, and a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory stores an operating system, a media player, and first video data. The processor is configured to load the boot program to the RAM and execute the boot program. The boot program is configured to, when executed at the processor, boot the operating system in a first process or thread of the boot program, and load the media player and execute the media player in a second process or thread separate from a first process or thread. The media player is configured to, when executed by the processor, read the first video data from the non-volatile memory, and write second video data representing the first video data to the frame buffer.
US09513925B2
A data processing apparatus and method of data processing are provided. The data processing apparatus comprises execution circuitry configured to execute a sequence of program instructions. Checkpoint circuitry is configured to identify an instance of a predetermined type of instruction in the sequence of program instructions and to store checkpoint information associated with that instance. The checkpoint information identifies a state of the data processing apparatus prior to execution of that instance of the predetermined type of instruction, wherein the predetermined type of instruction has an expected long completion latency. If the execution circuitry does not complete execution of that instance of the predetermined type of instruction due to occurrence of a predetermined event, the data processing apparatus is arranged to reinstate the state of the data processing apparatus with reference to the checkpoint information, such that the execution circuitry is then configured to recommence execution of the sequence of program instructions at that instance of the predetermined type of instruction.
US09513924B2
A predictor data structure is used for pipelined processing by a pipelined processor. The predictor data structure includes a predicted address to be used in return from execution of a selected instruction, and a predicted operating state associated with the predicted address. Based on determining a selected return instruction is to be executed, the predicted address to which processing is to be returned is obtained from the predictor data structure. Further, based on determining the selected return instruction is to be executed, a transitional operating state to be entered based on the predicted operating state stored in the predictor data structure is predicted, wherein at least one of the predicted address and the predicted transitional operating state are to be used to validate execution of the selected return instruction.
US09513912B2
Methods and controllers for executing an instruction set are provided. In one such method, executing an instruction set includes executing an instruction of one type in the instruction set, executing a context switch instruction, and executing an instruction of a second type in the instruction set. in one such controller, a single machine executes instructions in an instruction set with instructions having an operational code, and instructions that do not have an operational code.
US09513910B2
Methods, parallel computers, and computer program products for requesting shared variable directory (SVD) information from a plurality of threads in a parallel computer are provided. Embodiments include a runtime optimizer detecting that a first thread requires a plurality of updated SVD information associated with shared resource data stored in a plurality of memory partitions. Embodiments also include a runtime optimizer broadcasting, in response to detecting that the first thread requires the updated SVD information, a gather operation message header to the plurality of threads. The gather operation message header indicates an SVD key corresponding to the required updated SVD information and a local address associated with the first thread to receive a plurality of updated SVD information associated with the SVD key. Embodiments also include the runtime optimizer receiving at the local address, the plurality of updated SVD information from the plurality of threads.
US09513902B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to automated code coverage measurement and tracking per user story and requirement. An aspect of the invention includes receiving one or more software development requirements. One or more tasks are generated from the one or more software development requirements. A task identifier (ID) is assigned to each of the one or more tasks, and each of the task IDs is assigned to at least one code component. An application is released that includes at least one code components.
US09513894B2
A method, system, and computer program product for upgrading high-availability database systems. The method commences by specifying a subject database configuration state (e.g., an initial state) as well as an upgraded database configuration state (e.g., an upgraded state). Then, the method performs operations for compiling the specifications and validating the upgraded database configuration state with respect to the specified subject database configuration state. Compile errors are reported and a user can change the specifications. Once the compiler determines that the upgraded configuration state can be reached from the subject database configuration state, then the method generates an upgrade plan. The upgrade plan is executed by a computer-implemented controller. During execution of the plan, the controller pauses for accepting user intervention at key execution points. The controller monitors state changes to establish checkpoints. In the event of execution errors detected during execution of the plan, corrective action reports are output.
US09513888B1
A method of installing an application on a mobile communication device which comprises receiving, on a mobile communication device, a selection of a virtually preloaded application, identifying the repository from a plurality of repositories, communicating with the repository to obtain the full application, identifying a first location of an icon associated with the virtually preloaded application on the mobile communication device, relocating the icon associated with the virtually preloaded application to a second location, and installing the full application on the mobile communication device. The virtually preloaded application corresponds to a full application available in a repository.
US09513884B2
Thermal-aware source code compilation including: receiving, by a compiler, an identification of a target computing system, the identification of the target computing system specifying temperature sensors that measure temperature of a memory module; compiling the source code into an executable application including inserting in the executable application computer program instructions for thermal-aware execution, the computer program instructions, when executed on the target computing system, carry out the steps of: retrieving temperature measurements of one or more of the target computing system's temperature sensors; determining, in real-time in dependence upon the temperature measurements, whether a memory module is overheated; if a memory module is overheated, entering a thermal-aware execution state including, for each memory allocation in the executable application, allocating memory on a different memory module than the overheated memory module; and upon the temperature sensors indicating the memory module is no longer overheated, exiting the thermal-aware execution state.
US09513878B2
According to some embodiments, a method and system including a first technology stack to receive a model description describing defining aspects of an application model; to generate, according to the model description, a model entity representation of the application model; and to transfer the model description to a second technology stack; and a second technology stack to generate, according to the model description, a model entity representation of the application model.
US09513875B2
A method and system for processing instruction information. Each instruction information character string of a sequence of instruction information character strings are sequentially extracted and processed. It is independently ascertained for each instruction information character string in the sequence whether to generate a code line for each instruction information character string, by: determining whether a requirement is satisfied and generating the code line and storing the code line in a code buffer if the requirement has been determined to be satisfied and not generating the code line if the requirement has been determined to not be satisfied. The requirement relates to whether the instruction information character string being processed comprises a naming instruction or a generation instruction. It is determined that the requirement is satisfied for one or more instruction information character strings in the sequence.
US09513873B2
A compute-implemented method and apparatus for assisting release planning, including steps of: obtaining remaining requirements that are expected to be included in a current release plan; obtaining the release plan, which comprises a set of planned requirements that are already included in the release plan and a set of release constraints; determining that there is a conflict between the release constraints and the planned requirements; rendering, in response to this determination, a proposal to create a modified release plan that is a function of the remaining requirements and of the current release plan; and forecasting, as a function of the remaining requirements and of the modified release plan, whether the addition of another requirement to the release plan would create a conflict with the release constraints.
US09513867B1
A device for managing communications on a mobile communication device based upon behavior of a user has a controller, The controller reviews data stored within applications of the mobile communication device, identifies one or more key terms within applications stored on the mobile communication device, determines if the one or more key terms belongs to at least one of the plurality of pre-defined mood categories, generates one or more reminder task items associated with the data and the one or more key terms identified, identifies a genre of music being played on an audio source, and determines whether the genre of music belongs to at least one of a plurality of pre-defined mood categories. The controller generates a notification message associated with one of the reminder task items when the genre of music being played and the associated one or more reminder task items belong to the same pre-defined mood category.
US09513866B2
Systems and methods may provide for determining a usage context of a headset and detecting one or more danger-related conditions based on the usage context. Additionally, one or more settings of the headset may be adjusted in response to at least one of the one or more danger-related conditions. In one example, adjusting the one or more settings includes one or more of deactivating noise cancellation, adjusting noise cancellation to increase an intensity of at least one of the one or more danger-related sounds, or adjusting one or more audio playback settings associated with the headset.
US09513858B2
A printer 11 can connect to a tablet device 10 that generates and transmits data using a browser function; has a communication unit 20b that receives data from the tablet device 10 on either a first logical communication channel K1 or a second logical communication channel K2 and processes the received data as required according to the communication channel; and has a print unit control unit 20a that prints based on data received by the communication unit 20b.
US09513856B2
Systems, devices, and related methods for shaping near field interrogation signals are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a printer that includes a housing and a beam shaping near field communication (NFC) device secured with the interior surface. The beam shaping NFC device may include a ferromagnetic component including a core portion and a bottom flange portion. The beam shaping NFC device may further include a wire coil disposed around the core portion. The ferromagnetic component may concentrate near field interrogation signals generated by the wire coil toward a near field interrogation region and away from nearby conductive components, such as the interior surface of the printer.
US09513855B2
In one example of the disclosure, a document is received at a recipient computing device. The document is a document generated at a network-connected printer responsive to an interaction with a user interface included within or attached to the printer. The document includes installation data for the printer. The installation data is utilized to select, configure, or install at the recipient device a print driver for the printer.
US09513851B2
According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided systems and methods that involve providing user-selectable fonts to a printing device so that the printing device can facilitate printing of a print task. In this regard, a representative embodiment of a method and system for printing includes enabling a print file corresponding to a print task to be evaluated, and, if it is determined that a printing device to which the print task is directed is unable to process the print task without performing a font substitution, enabling acquiring of the fonts from a specific user. By using the uploaded fonts, the printing device is able to process the print task without performing a font substitution.
US09513847B2
Tools (such as systems, apparatuses, methodologies, executable computer program, etc.) are provided to facilitate installation of a device drivers on a user terminal by user selection of a target peripheral device, without any other required action by the user and without administrative login by the user on the user terminal.
US09513844B2
The present system enables more efficient I/O processing by providing a mechanism for maintaining data within the locality of reference. One or more accelerator modules may be implemented within a solid state storage device (SSD). The accelerator modules form a caching storage tier that can receive, store and reproduce data. The one or more accelerator modules may place data into the SSD or hard disk drives based on parameters associated with the data.
US09513841B2
When execution of a program is started, in a case where a memory region used by the program when the execution of the program was stopped is usable, the past execution conditions of the program to be reproduced are enabled without reading in data disposed in the memory region used by the program, which data was stored when the execution of the program was stopped. When the execution of the program is stopped, a stop and end managing section performs control to store at least a part of the data disposed in the memory region used by the program in association with the program while retaining the data.
US09513837B2
Techniques for allocation of storage volumes are described. Response times of a primary storage may be monitored to determine if the primary storage is input/output limited. A performance assist storage volume may be allocated and data replicated between the primary storage and the performance assist storage volume. Input/output requests may be distributed between the primary storage and the performance assist storage volume.
US09513832B2
An aspect includes a table of contents (TOC) that was generated by a compiler being received at an accelerator device. The TOC includes an address of global data in a host memory space. The global data is copied from the address in the host memory space to an address in the device memory space. The address in the host memory space is obtained from the received TOC. The received TOC is updated to indicate that global data is stored at the address in the device memory space. A kernel that accesses the global data from the address in the device memory space is executed. The address in the device memory space is obtained based on contents of the updated TOC. When the executing is completed, the global data from the address in the device memory space is copied to the address in the host memory space.
US09513812B2
Technique for analyzing memory areas based on local copies of a global counter by: (i) determining a plurality of currently-executing fast threads and a plurality of currently executed slow threads; (ii) intermittently incrementing a global counter variable to have a current global counter value; (iii) intermittently setting the local counter of the data set for each fast thread of the plurality of fast threads to be equal to the current global counter value; (iv) determining that no slow threads of the plurality of slow threads reference the first memory region; (v) assigning a free-after value to the first memory region; (vi) determining whether the free-after value of the first memory region is less than or equal to all of the local counters of the fast thread data sets of the plurality of fast threads; and (vii) de-allocating the first memory region.
US09513808B2
A controller used for multi-storages is provided. The multi-storages include a first storage for storing the data of an operating system and at least a second storage for storing the data of user. The first storage and the second storage are formed into a virtual storage supporting the start-up of the operating system by the controller.
US09513806B2
One method includes receiving partitions, generating assignment plans for assignment of the partitions to servers based on dimensional values of dimensions as determined by different assignment heuristics, selecting one of the assignment plans for execution based on analyzing the dimensional values in accordance with the assignment plans, and executing the selected assignment plan on scalable storage. Another method includes determining, for a triggered optimization module that a server is over utilized on a dimension, selecting candidate operations for partitions assigned to the server, for a higher priority optimization module than the triggered optimization module, removing a candidate operation from the candidate operations that would diminish a modeled state of scalable storage, determining an operation of the candidate operations that would improve the modeled state of the scalable storage with respect to a metric of the dimension on the server, and executing the operation on the scalable storage.
US09513803B2
In an embodiment, a command issued by an entity may be acquired by a controller contained in a storage device. The command may be issued by the entity to access a block in the storage device. The entity may be associated with a tag that may identify the entity. The tag may be associated with the block. Information about the association between the tag and the block may be stored in the storage device.
US09513802B2
A method for displaying a user interface (UI) of a display apparatus on a remote control and a remote control applying the same are provided. The remote control includes a controlling unit which identifies information regarding a UI where a cursor is located on a screen of the display apparatus, and a display unit, such as a touch screen, which displays an image corresponding to the identified UI information. Accordingly, a user may remotely control the display apparatus more intuitively and delicately using the touch screen display unit on the remote control.
US09513797B2
Securing an electronic device and associated information is facilitated. A security component facilitates display and operation of a lock track comprising a locked portion having a positive slope and an unlocked portion, including a chasm, that is adjacent to a high point of the positive-sloped unlocked portion of the lock track. A lock facilitator component (LFC) can be moved along the track between a low point of the locked portion and the unlocked portion. The LFC can be moved in response to received input, and if the input is not sufficient to move the LFC from the locked region to the unlocked region, the LFC can be moved back down the positive-sloped lock track to the low point. The security component can control information to be displayed in an overlay display region in accordance with security level(s) of the device or application.
US09513792B2
A system may include presentation of a visualization indicating a first plurality of dimension values and a respective function value for each of the first plurality of dimension values, the function values positioned in accordance with an initial scale of a function value axis, and the first plurality of dimension values positioned in accordance with an initial scale of a dimension value axis, detection of an input gesture to change the indicated first plurality of dimension values, and, before completion of the input gesture, determination of a second plurality of dimension values to indicate in the visualization based on the input gesture, determination of an updated scale of the function value axis based on the respective function values for each dimension value of the second plurality of dimension values, and display of the respective function values for each dimension value of the second plurality of dimension values positioned in accordance with the updated scale.
US09513783B1
A technology is described for determining an available screen area for a computing device. An example method may include referencing the dimensions of a root view associated with an application in order to determine an available screen area for a device display. The available screen area may be a portion of the device display that is not occupied by an operating system GUI (Graphical User Interface). A child view attribute associated with a child view descending from the root view may include the dimensions of the root view. The child view attribute may be referenced by an associated application component to obtain the dimensions of the root view and display properties of the application component may be calculated based at least in part on the dimensions of the root view.
US09513775B2
A system that incorporates the present disclosure may include, for example, a method for receiving from a first media device a selection of replacement content, where the replacement content corresponds to a portion of media content presentable by the first media device, and where replacement content is selected according to a plurality of options presented by the first media device as the portion of the media content is being presented. The method may further include retrieving the replacement content with a metadata pointer provided with the media content, transmitting to a second media device a request to accept the replacement content, and transmitting the replacement content to the second media device for presentation at the second media device in response to receiving an acceptance response from the second media device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09513774B2
A digital downloading jukebox system including a mechanism for delivering custom services to a recognized user, including services for creating playlists, communicating with others, accessing other features, etc. is provided. In some exemplary embodiments, after a user is recognized, the jukebox system allows users to access a special front-end via an Internet-enabled device or on an actual jukebox. Then, the user may, for example, create playlists, share songs with friends, send messages to friends, and access other value-added content. Such a system preferably learns about networks of friends, and enables managers to send similar messages to regular customers and/or others known to the system. In some exemplary embodiments, changes via a first user interface on a first device are reflected on second user interface on other properly-configured devices.
US09513771B2
A system implementable on a computing device for handling color assignment within a complex document includes a user interface to facilitate user modification of at least one first color to at least one second color within a previously chosen color scheme for a component of the document. The color scheme has a predetermined number X of principal colors and a predetermined number Y of associated subordinate colors per principal color. The system also includes a color handler to modify the color scheme to produce an updated color scheme to match a perceived brightness of the at least one second color throughout at least a portion of the updated color scheme and a color processor to process and apply the updated color scheme at least to the component.
US09513768B2
Technologies pertaining to computing depth images of a scene that includes a mobile object based upon the principle of light falloff are described herein. An infrared image of a scene that includes a mobile object is captured, wherein the infrared image has a plurality of pixels having a respective plurality of intensity values. A depth image for the scene is computed based at least in part upon square roots of respective intensity values in the infrared image.
US09513745B2
A touchscreen system for locating an opaque object in a target region, detects interruption of light beams. Each of the touchscreens have one or more optical emitters to create the beams, and one or more optical detectors to provide detection signals arranged to use emission wavelengths which are compatible with night vision apparatus, and having an NVIS radiance smaller than 1.7×10−11 NR.
US09513741B2
A bandpass sense amplifier circuit (FIG. 2A) is disclosed. The circuit includes a capacitor (C0) having a first terminal coupled to receive an input signal (Vin) and a second terminal. A current conveyor circuit (200-206,212) has a third terminal (X) coupled to the second terminal of the capacitor and a fourth terminal (Z) arranged to mirror a current into the third terminal. A voltage follower circuit (214) has an input terminal coupled to the fourth terminal of the current conveyor circuit and an output terminal.
US09513739B2
Apparatuses and methods to operate a display device of an electronic device. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a user setting or input of a display control parameter, and causing or altering, based on the user setting or input, an effect of an ambient light sensor value (ALS) on control of the display control parameter. The user input may be an unlock of a touch screen input capability of the display device, and a wake of the display device from inactivity dim. Also, according to embodiments of the inventions, a method of operating a display of an electronic device includes receiving a change to one of a display brightness output level and an ambient light sensor output level, and altering, according to the change, a display brightness or contrast output level. Other apparatuses and methods and data processing systems and machine readable media are also described.
US09513738B2
An input device (10) has a contact plate (12) having a contact surface (14) and being least partially coated with an electrical resistive layer (16) on a surface opposite the contact surface (14). The electrical resistive layer (16) has at least two electrically conducting contacts (18). A measuring circuit (20) is provided for measuring a sensing capacitor (24) formed by the electrical resistive layer (16) and an electrostatically chargeable object (22) arranged at a contact position on the contact surface (14). Further, a processing unit is provided for determining coordinates (X, Y) of the contact position of the electrostatically chargeable object (22) on the contact surface (14) by means of a determination of the ohmic resistances (Rn) between the contact position of the electrostatically chargeable object (22) and the electrically conducting contacts.
US09513733B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device which includes an OLED array formed on a lower substrate; a touch panel attached to the lower substrate and including first and second sensor electrodes for sensing a touch and a routing line electrically connected to at least one of the first and second sensor electrodes and exposed to an upper surface of the touch panel; and a connection line electrically connecting the OLED array and the touch panel through an exposed portion of the routing line.
US09513726B2
A device, for example a mouse pad, configured to illuminate, fluoresce, or glow depending upon user input or user motion. The pattern, format, shape, and/or direction of illumination by the mouse pad depend upon user-directed motion of an input source relative to the mouse pad. For example, the illumination pattern or profile of the mouse pad can depend on user-directed motion of an illumination source, for example a LED source carried by an optical mouse, relative to the mouse pad. The mouse pad includes a first layer that includes a first luminescent composition and a second layer that includes a second luminescent composition. The first luminescent composition and the second luminescent composition can have different luminescent properties or characteristics. The first luminescent composition and the second luminescent composition can be selected for establishing or providing the mouse pad with a desired, intended, or target set of illumination characteristics. The ratio of the first luminescent composition to the second luminescent composition can also be selected and/or varied to provide the mouse pad with a desired, intended, or target set of illumination characteristics.
US09513724B2
A method for adjusting object illumination with a mobile device having a display device is described. The method includes detecting illumination of an object and generating illumination data information; and adjusting a luminance of the display device in dependence on the object illumination data to adjust image lighting.
US09513711B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a motion recognition unit which recognizes motion of an object and a control unit which, if a push motion in which the object located in front of the electronic device is moved in a direction of the electronic device is sensed by the motion recognition unit, activates a motion recognition mode, tracks the motion of the object, and performs a control operation of the electronic device corresponding to a subsequent motion of the object. The control unit may inactivate the motion recognition mode if an end motion in which the motion of the object is in a direction to contact a body part of a user or an additional object is recognized by the motion recognition unit while the motion recognition mode is activated. Furthermore a voice recognition mode may be activated by recognition of a motion different from the push motion.
US09513709B2
A system that generates a haptic effect generates a drive cycle signal that includes a drive period and a monitoring period. The drive period includes a plurality of drive pulses that are based on the haptic effect. The system applies the drive pulses to a resonant actuator during the drive period and receives a signal from the resonant actuator that corresponds to the position of a mass in the actuator during the monitoring period.
US09513705B2
An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.
US09513703B2
A gesture-based waking and control system to wake a smartwatch device from a low-power state is described. In one embodiment, the system utilizes a pressure or proximity based wake gesture that is interpretable by low-power sensors. An embodiment of the system can be integrated within a wearable device, such as a smartwatch accessory that can be paired with a mobile electronic device, such as a smartphone. In one embodiment, the wearable device includes a set of low-power sensors that are to detect the wake gesture. In one embodiment, the wake gesture causes the device to enable an additional set of sensors and sensor processing logic to detect more advanced commands or gestures. In one embodiment, the wake gesture enables a display of the wearable device.
US09513699B2
Embodiments include an apparatus, a system, a device, a computer program product, and a method. A method embodiment includes a method implemented in an environment that includes a person interacting with an electronic device via a user device. The method includes detecting a reaction by the person to a displayed first content. The method also includes determining a content attribute of the displayed first content. The method further includes facilitating a search for a second content based on the detected reaction and on the determined content attribute. The method includes displaying the second content in a manner perceivable by the person.
US09513689B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes a core to execute instructions, a power controller to control an operating frequency of the core, and a context filter logic coupled to the power controller to prevent a performance state change request from being granted by the power controller based at least in part on a context of a system including the processor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09513682B2
A transportable electrical power-supplying device for supplying AC and DC electrical power to a group of electrical appliances and/or electronic devices located in an environment. The transportable device has a housing supporting a plurality of electrical power receptacles for supplying AC and DC electrical power to a plurality of electrical appliances and/or electronic devices. The transportable device also has one or more external power cord storage compartments, for managing the excess length of power cords associated therewith. Any excess power cord can be wound up about a power cord spool within the power storage compartment, held firmly in place and concealed behind a set of spaced apart elastomeric structures forming a perimeter power cord opening. At the same time, any remaining power cord is allowed to exit the perimeter power cord opening at any point about the transportable device, and routed to an electrical appliance or electronic device requiring AC or DC electrical power in the workspace environment being serviced by the transportable device.
US09513677B2
A backplane configured to receive electrical components is provided. The backplane in one example includes a substantially planar substrate comprising an at least partially flexible material and formed in a non-rectangular shape, a series of alternating connector islands formed along two substantially parallel axes, wherein each connector island is able to move independently of other connector islands, a plurality of backplane traces extending from the series of alternating connector islands to a backplane connector region of the substrate, with a number of backplane traces increasing closer to the backplane connector region, and one or more spring elements bridging between a particular connector island and the substrate, with the one or more spring elements allowing the particular connector island to flex with respect to the substrate and absorb vibrations.
US09513664B2
An electronic device having a housing structure that is configured to receive at least one glass cover is disclosed. The glass cover serves to cover a display assembly provided within the electronic device. The glass cover can be secured to the housing structure so as to facilitate providing a narrow border between an active display area and an outer edge of the housing structure. The enclosure for the electronic device can be thin yet be sufficiently strong to be suitable for use in electronic devices, such as portable electronic devices.
US09513652B2
A power multiplier and method are provided. The power multiplier includes a power multiplying network that is a multiply-connected, velocity inhibiting circuit constructed from a number of lumped-elements. The power multiplier also includes a launching network, and a directional coupler that couples the launching network to the power multiplying network. The power multiplier provides for power multiplication at nominal power generation frequencies such as 50 Hertz, 60 Hertz, and other power frequencies, in a compact circuit.
US09513647B2
The present invention relates in one aspect to a DC linear voltage regulator circuit for generating a regulated DC output voltage based on a DC input voltage. The DC linear voltage regulator circuit comprises a DMOS pass transistor comprising drain, gate, source and bulk terminals wherein the drain terminal is connected to a regulator output which is configured to supply the regulated DC output voltage and the source terminal is connected to a regulator input for receipt of the DC input voltage. The DC linear voltage regulator circuit comprises a switchable leakage prevention circuit, connected to the bulk terminal of the DMOS pass transistor, and configured to automatically detect and interrupt a flow of leakage current from the regulator output to the bulk terminal.
US09513645B2
Systems and methods for maximum deviation multi-phase operation provide techniques for controlling voltage regulators and tap changers in a multi-phase system to operate within a maximum deviation window. The maximum deviation window comprises a low boundary value and a high boundary value. In an example embodiment, systems and methods provide techniques for setting the low boundary value and the high boundary value. In another example embodiment, systems and methods provide techniques for optimized power factor correction in a multi-phase system.
US09513644B1
The invention relates to systems having linear regulators and methods of operating the systems. The system includes: a linear regulator responsive to an input voltage and operative to output a regulated voltage; a first circuit responsive to the regulated voltage and configured to operate at a first voltage difference between the regulated voltage and a ground level; and a second circuit responsive to the input voltage and the regulated voltage and configured to operate at a second voltage difference between the input voltage and the regulated voltage. The second circuit is coupled to the first circuit so that an entire portion of a current flowing through the second circuit is configured to enter into the first circuit during operation, wherein the current flowing through the second circuit bypasses the linear regulator.
US09513642B2
The current application is directed to an intelligent-thermostat-controlled environmental-conditioning system in which computational tasks and subcomponents with associated intelligent-thermostat functionalities are distributed to one or more of concealed and visible portions of one or more intelligent thermostats and, in certain implementations, to one or more intermediate boxes. The intelligent thermostats are interconnected to intermediate boxes by wired and/or wireless interfaces and intelligent thermostats intercommunicate with one another by wireless communications. Wireless communications include communications through a local router and an ISP, 3G and 4G wireless communications through a mobile service provider. Components of the intelligent-thermostat-controlled thermostat-controlled environmental-conditioning system may also be connected by wireless communications to remote computing facilities.
US09513634B2
System and method for behavior based control of an autonomous vehicle. Actuators (e.g., linkages) manipulate input devices (e.g., articulation controls and drive controls, such as a throttle lever, steering gear, tie rods, throttle, brake, accelerator, or transmission shifter) to direct the operation of the vehicle. Behaviors that characterize the operational mode of the vehicle are associated with the actuators. The behaviors include action sets ranked by priority, and the action sets include alternative actions that the vehicle can take to accomplish its task. The alternative actions are ranked by preference, and an arbiter selects the action to be performed and, optionally, modified.
US09513628B2
A device for diagnostic of an electronic based product includes a plurality of sensors for monitoring parameters associated with product. Each sensor generates at least one of an analog signal and a digital signal upon monitoring of a parameter. The device further includes a plurality of converters for converting analog signals to digital signals, a processing module for determining abnormal parameter conditions based on comparing digital signals to threshold parameter values. Each abnormal parameter condition corresponding to a parameter is determined based on comparison of a digital signal associated with the parameter and a threshold parameter value corresponding to the parameter. The device further includes a memory module configured to store information associated with the abnormal parameter conditions, and a communication interface to provide the information to external devices for diagnosis of the product.
US09513626B2
Disclosure is a method of dispatching semiconductor batch production, including: measuring an actual line width to calculate an estimated value of line width bias reference level, an estimated value of product bias, an estimated value of chamber bias and a standard error of chamber bias, and storing in a historical data module; inputting a product category, a line width measurement before manufacturing and a target line width after manufacturing in a batch production module; calculating a similarity index of each chambers by a computing engine of a matching module according to the data stored in the historical data module; transforming the similarity index into a priority of machine allocation by a dispatching module and dispatching a production machine; updating the historical data module by measuring a line width after manufacturing. The line width bias generated by various variations will be eliminated during the manufacturing process.
US09513625B2
A device and method for assembling parts, products or machines in a random build order that integrates or combines the delivery of loose components to be assembled on a carriage that itself supports the device being assembled along an assembly line path of travel. The loose parts onboard the carriage that also supports the device being progressively assembled substantially improves the logistics in an assembly plant and efficiency in building the part, product or device, for example a vehicle sheet metal body.
US09513621B2
A manipulation monitoring device includes a first storage unit that stores screen information of a manipulation monitoring screen prepared for each manipulation monitoring area of a plant, a second storage unit that stores relevance information indicating logical relevance of process elements constituting a process realized in the plant, a display unit that displays the manipulation monitoring screen according to the screen information stored in the first storage unit as a first manipulation monitoring screen, a search unit that searches the first storage unit based on the relevance information stored in the second storage unit to obtain the screen information related to the first manipulation monitoring screen displayed on the display unit, and a display control unit that performs display control to cause a second manipulation monitoring screen according to the screen information obtained by the search unit to be displayed on the display unit with the first manipulation monitoring screen.
US09513619B2
In order to enable tapping to be performed precisely and with an appropriate machining time irrespective of the diameter of a tapping tool, a configuration of the present invention includes: a program analysis unit (12) that analyzes a loaded machining program and extracts thread-related information in tapping; a gradient determination unit (14) that determines acceleration regarding movement velocity of the main spindle or the feed shaft on the basis of the thread-related information obtained by the program analysis unit (12); and an interpolation and acceleration/deceleration processing unit (13) that generates a movement command for the main spindle and the feed shaft using the acceleration determined by the gradient determination unit (14). In addition, the gradient determination unit (14) varies the acceleration during acceleration/deceleration of the main spindle or the feed shaft in accordance with the diameter of a tapping tool.
US09513613B2
Provided is a method of controlling a component for a network system. The method of controlling a component for a network system, which is communicable with the other component, includes recognizing energy information or additional information except for the energy information; and providing recommended information related to an operation of the component within a recommended range on the basis of the recognized energy information or the additional information.
US09513607B2
An operating device is provided with an operating section, in which a plurality of operating keys for operating a control target is laid out, and a display section, in which a screen corresponding to an input of the operating keys is to be displayed. The operating section does not have names of the operating keys printed thereon. The operating device or a controller has a storage means that stores guide information that guides the names of the operating keys. The names and an image of the operating keys corresponding to a selected language are displayed on the display section in accordance with a predetermined operation.
US09513595B2
A developing cartridge includes a case having a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, and a developing roller disposed between the first sidewall and second sidewall. The developing roller can include a developing roller shaft and a developing roller member configured to carry a developing agent thereon, the developing roller member disposed around the developing roller shaft. Also, the developing cartridge can include an electrode disposed on the first sidewall adjacent to the developing roller shaft, the electrode electrically connected to the developing roller member, and a driven coupling disposed on the second sidewall. The electrode can include, an extending portion extending in a direction away from the first sidewall. An outermost periphery of the driven coupling defines a projection plane projecting in a direction towards the electrode, wherein at least a part of the extending portion is disposed within the projection plane.
US09513588B2
An image forming apparatus includes a curved conveyance path being formed by an outer guide and an inner guide, and a control unit configured to control a first conveyance unit disposed on upstream of the conveyance path and a second conveyance unit disposed on downstream of the conveyance path such that a conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit is set greater than a conveyance speed of the second conveyance unit, in a case where an image surface of the recording material on which an image is formed faces the inner guide, and perform control of the first and the second conveyance units in such a manner that the conveyance speed of the first conveyance unit is set less than the conveyance speed of the second conveyance unit, in a case where the image surface of the recording material on which the image is formed faces the outer guide.
US09513582B2
A transfer assist member comprising a plurality of layers, at least one of the layers being a check film layer comprised of a crosslinked alkoxyalkylated polyamide.
US09513581B2
A transfer device (35) includes a conveyance belt (351), a transfer roller (352), and a stretch roller (354). The conveyance belt (351) is in contact with an image carrier (31) that carries a toner image, and conveys a sheet via a contact position with the image carrier (31). A voltage having a polarity opposite to a charging polarity of toner that forms the toner image is applied to the transfer roller (352), and the transfer roller (352) transfers the toner image carried by the image carrier (31) onto the sheet at the contact position. The stretch roller (354) is in an insulated state, and stretches the conveyance belt (351) at a separation position in which the sheet is separated from the conveyance belt (351) and which is downstream of the contact position in a conveyance direction in which the sheet is conveyed by the conveyance belt (351).
US09513575B2
A removable device is removably attachable to an image forming apparatus main body. The removable device includes an information storage device, a holder, and a low frictional structure. The information storage device includes: an information storage unit that stores information to be communicated between the apparatus main body and the removable device; a terminal to be contacted with an apparatus main-body terminal, for communicating information with the apparatus main body; and a substrate that holds the information storage unit and the terminal and that includes a guide to be fitted to a protrusion provided on the apparatus main body. The holder holds the substrate such that the substrate can move, when the removable device approaches the apparatus main-body terminal, on a virtual plane intersecting with a moving direction of the removable device. The low frictional structure is arranged on a contact area between the substrate and the holder.
US09513573B2
An image forming method includes exposing a surface of an image bearer with light according to an image pattern including an image portion and a non-image portion, the image portion constituted of a plurality of pixels, to form an electrostatic latent image correspondent to the image pattern, comparing the image pattern adjacent to each of the pixels with a comparison pattern constituted of a plurality of pixels to specify at least a group of pixels existing at a boundary with respect to the non-image portion as a group of non-exposure pixels among the pixels constituting the image portion, and executing determination of specifying at least a group of pixels adjacent to the group of non-exposure pixels as a group of high power exposure pixels exposed with light of a higher light power than a predetermined light power required for exposing the image portion among the pixels constituting the image portion.
US09513571B2
A magnetic carrier contains a resin-filled magnetic core particle and a resin covering layer provided on a surface of the resin-filled magnetic core particle. The resin-filled magnetic core particle is a porous magnetic particle containing a resin in pores thereof. The magnetic carrier has a 50% particle diameter (D50) of 30.0 μm or more and 80.0 μm or less on a volume basis. An electric current flowing through the magnetic carrier at a voltage of 500 V ranges from 8.0 to 50.0 μA.A proportion JR1 of a composition that is made up of the resin in a magnetic carrier portion of a region R1 and a proportion JR2 of the composition in a magnetic carrier portion of a region R2 satisfy the following relationship. The region R1 and the region R2 are illustrated in FIG. 1. 1.20≦JR2/JR1≦2.00.
US09513570B2
An electrostatic charge image developer contains toner including toner particles, and strontium titanate particles having a volume average particle diameter of 3 μm to 7 μm. The electrostatic charge image developer also contains a carrier including core particle, and a coating layer that coats the core particle and contains a cyclohexyl methacrylate resin.
US09513563B2
An exposure head according to the invention includes: a transparent substrate; a plurality of exposure light sources which is formed in the transparent substrate and emits exposure light; at least one condensing lens which condenses the exposure light from the exposure light sources on the exposure object; an imaging unit which is disposed on the opposite side to the condensing lens with the transparent substrate interposed therebetween and images the exposure object; and a control unit which controls the turning on of the exposure light sources based on image information imaged by the imaging unit. An exposure device according to the invention includes the exposure head according to the invention. By virtue of such a configuration, it is possible to improve alignment precision of the exposure object and to improve exposure precision of the exposure object.
US09513561B2
A lithographic apparatus having a plurality of individually controllable radiation source units each providing a portion of a patterned beam of radiation, a control system configured to monitor a parameter of performance of each of the individually controllable radiation source units, and a replacement mechanism configured to replace one of the individually controllable radiation source units with a replacement unit responsive to the control system determining that a criterion has been met based on the monitored parameter of performance.
US09513557B2
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a reflective mask includes: forming a reflection layer on a major surface of a substrate; forming a capping layer containing ruthenium on the reflection layer; forming an absorption layer on the capping layer; forming a pattern region in the absorption layer; removing a first resist mask used in forming the pattern region; and forming a light blocking region surrounding the pattern region in the absorption layer, the capping layer, and the reflection layer. The removing the first resist mask used in forming the pattern region includes: performing dry ashing processing using a mixed gas of ammonia gas and nitrogen gas or only ammonia gas.
US09513549B2
A compound represented by formula (I): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a C1-C6 alkyl group which may have a halogen atom; R2 and R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6 monovalent saturated hydrocarbon group, and R4 represents a C1-C6 monovalent saturated linear hydrocarbon group, a C3-C6 monovalent saturated branched hydrocarbon group, a C5-C12 monovalent alicyclic hydrocarbon group or a C5-C12 monovalent alicyclic hydrocarbon-containing group, or R3 and R4 represent a C2-C6 heterocyclic ring together with an oxygen atom and a carbon atom; A1 represents a single bond, or *-A2-X1-(A3-X2)a— where A2 and A3 each independently represent a C1-C6 alkanediyl group, X1 and X2 each independently represent an oxygen atom, a carbonyloxy group or an oxycarbonyl group, and “a” represents 0 or 1; A4 represents a C1-C6 alkanediyl group; Ad represents a divalent adamantanediyl group.
US09513543B2
A method for forming a non-deformable patterned template includes providing a stable mesh, wherein the stable mesh is resistant to deformation; providing a curable liquid polymer; placing the stable mesh in the curable liquid polymer such that the stable mesh is completely enclosed within the liquid polymer; curing the liquid polymer to form a polymer sheet with the stable mesh embedded therein; and forming a surface pattern on at least one of the faces of the polymer sheet, the surface pattern including at least two fiducial marks.
US09513542B2
A first embodiment is a lithography mask comprising a transparent substrate and a first molybdenum silicon nitride (MoxSiyNz) layer. The first MoxSiyNz layer is over the transparent substrate. A percentage of molybdenum (x) of the first MoxSiyNz layer is between 1 and 2. A percentage of silicon (y) of the first MoxSiyNz layer is between 50 and 55. A percentage of nitride (z) of the first MoxSiyNz layer is between 40 and 50. The first MoxSiyNz layer has an opening therethrough.
US09513538B2
There is provided a projector comprising: a polyhedral main body portion made up of a plurality of surfaces which includes a projection unit; and a support plate which has substantially the same size as that of a first surface of the plurality of surfaces of the main body portion and which is detachably attached to the first surface, wherein the support plate has in a substantially central portion a fixing portion to which a second surface of the plurality of surfaces which is smaller than the first surface is fixed, and wherein when the main body portion is placed on the support plate in such a way that the second surface functions as a bottom surface, the second surface of the main body portion is fixed to the fixing portion of the support plate, whereby the main body portion is allowed to stand alone.
US09513528B2
A constitution of the display device of the invention is shown in the following. The display device includes a pixel unit including TFTs of which the active layer contains an organic semiconductor material for forming channel portions in the opening portions in an insulating layer arranged to meet the gate electrodes. The pixel unit further includes a contrast media formed on the electrodes connected to the TFTs for changing the reflectivity upon the application of an electric field, or microcapsules containing electrically charged particles that change the reflectivity upon the application of an electric field. The pixel unit is sandwiched by plastic substrates, and barrier layers including an inorganic insulating material are provided between the plastic substrates and the pixel unit. The purpose of the present invention is to supply display devices which are excellent in productivity, light in weight and flexible.
US09513524B2
We describe a wide band variable transmission optical device having an electronically active cell comprising a guest-host mixture of a liquid crystal host and a dichroic guest dye material contained between a pair of plastic substrates. The liquid crystal host has an axis orientation that is alterable between a clear state orientation and a dark state orientation and the dichroic guest dye material includes one or more dichroic dyes. The optical device is characterized in that it exhibits a wide absorption band that is greater than 175 nm within a visible wavelength range of 400-700 nm, has a clear state transmission equal to or above 30% and a dark state transmission equal to or below 40%.
US09513522B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display panel that improves the reliability of thin film transistors while suppressing a degradation in display quality. A G TFT (120g) connected at its drain electrode (125d) to a G pixel electrode (130g) is disposed on the opposite side of the G pixel electrode (130g) from a B pixel electrode (130b). The distance between a B TFT (120b) connected at its drain electrode (125d) to the B pixel electrode (130b) and the B pixel electrode (130b) is greater than the distance between the G TFT (120g) connected at its drain electrode (125d) to the G pixel electrode (130g) and the G pixel electrode (130g). The distance between an R TFT (120r) connected at its drain electrode (125d) to an R pixel electrode (130r) and the B pixel electrode (130b) is greater than the distance between the B TFT (120b) connected to the B pixel electrode (130b) and the B pixel electrode (130b).
US09513519B2
A liquid crystal display device having a uniform gap between a TFT substrate and a CF substrate even in cases where a sealant is to be applied to a slim frame formed on the outside of the effective display area is provided. A liquid crystal display device includes an effective display area, a color resist coated area, and a seal area which overlaps the color resist coated area and in which a sealant for sealing liquid crystal is provided, wherein the color resist coated area overlapping the seal area has slits formed therein.
US09513515B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on a first substrate, the first electrode and the second electrode being disposed at a same layer; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a third electrode and a fourth electrode disposed on the second substrate and disposed at different layers; and a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode each include a plurality of branch electrodes, but the fourth electrode does not; and wherein the first electrode is electrically connected to the third electrode.
US09513514B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first substrate including a pixel-displaying region; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a sealant disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and disposed outside the pixel-displaying region; and a spacer wall disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and disposed between the pixel-displaying region and the sealant, wherein a first side of the spacer wall is adjacent to the pixel-displaying region and a second side of the spacer wall is adjacent to the sealant, and a height of the first side is greater than a height of the second side.
US09513509B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other. A color filter is positioned on the first substrate. A liquid crystal layer is interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A first polarizer is positioned on an outer surface of the first substrate. A first compensation film is positioned on an outer surface of the first polarizer. A second compensation film is positioned on an outer surface of the second substrate. A third compensation film is positioned on an outer surface of the second compensation film. A second polarizer is positioned on an outer surface of the third compensation film. The second compensation film includes a negative C-plate, and the third compensation film includes a biaxial film.
US09513508B2
Discussed are a backlight unit and an LCD device including the same. The backlight unit includes a light guide panel, a light source part disposed at a side of the light guide panel to emit the light, an optical sheet disposed at a front surface of the light guide panel to change a traveling direction of the light to a direction vertical to the light guide panel, a guide panel separated from an end of the optical sheet, and configured to guide the light guide panel, the light source part, and the optical sheet, a reflector disposed at a rear surface of the light guide panel to reflect the light toward the front surface of the light guide panel, a side reflector adhered to a side of the light guide panel, and a cover bottom coupled to the guide panel and in which the reflector is disposed.
US09513506B2
A transflective liquid crystal display panel, a display device, an array substrate, a color filter substrate and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The transflective liquid crystal display panel comprises a first substrate (11), a second substrate (21) arranged opposite to the first substrate (11), and a liquid crystal layer (31) disposed between the first substrate (11) and the second substrate (21). The liquid crystal display panel comprises a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit comprises a transmissive region and a reflective region, and a thickness (d1) of the liquid crystal layer (31) in the transmissive region is equal to a thickness (d2) of the liquid crystal layer (31) in the reflective region. On a side facing the liquid crystal layer (31), the first substrate (11) is provided with a first common electrode (12) corresponding to the reflective region and the transmissive region and a second common electrode (15) corresponding to the transmissive region. The second substrate (21) is provided with a pixel electrode (23) corresponding to the transmissive region and the reflective region on a side facing the liquid crystal layer (31), and the second substrate (21) is provided with a reflective layer (22) corresponding to the reflective region on the side facing the liquid crystal layer (31), and the reflective layer (22) is provided below the pixel electrode (23) of the reflective region. A first electric field intensity (E1) between the second common electrode (15) and the pixel electrode (23) of the transmissive region is twice a second electric field intensity (E2) between the first common electrode (12) and the pixel electrode (23) of the reflective region.
US09513502B2
A flexible display has a display layer, a thin-film transistor (TFT) layer and a flexible substrate. The display layer has a plurality of display units. The TFT layer has a plurality of pixel control circuits and a plurality of sensing circuits. The pixel control circuits are configured to control operations of the plurality of display units. Each of the sensing circuits is configured to generate a deformation signal according to deformation of the flexible display. The flexible substrate and the TFT layer are stacked.
US09513498B2
A detector remodulator comprising a silicon on insulator (SOI) waveguide platform including: a detector coupled to a first input waveguide; a modulator coupled to a second input waveguide and an output waveguide; and an electrical circuit connecting the detector to the modulator; wherein the detector, modulator, second input waveguide and output waveguide are arranged within the same horizontal plane as one another; and wherein the modulator includes a modulation waveguide region at which a semiconductor junction is set horizontally across the waveguide.
US09513486B2
An optical imaging apparatus 10 disposing the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 abutting to or in proximity to each other when reflective surfaces 11, 13 of the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 are crossed when viewed from thereabove, the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 composed of the transparent material with a plurality of belt-shaped reflective surfaces 11, 13 vertically disposed in parallel, wherein the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 are formed with a plurality of reflectors 15-18 laminated respectively and the places of the reflective surfaces 11, 13 of each reflector 15-18 of the first and the second reflective components 12, 14 are shifted in parallel. Thus, high definition three-dimensional real image is formed inexpensively in a space a plurality of observers gaze simultaneously.
US09513484B2
A device focuses laser light into a working plane. The device contains a deflection mirror and a cylindrical lens. A lens apex of the cylindrical lens has an offset and which has a first transmission portion and a second transmission portion different from the first transmission portion. The device further has retroreflector device with an optical axis. The deflection mirror is arranged in the beam path of the device such that it can deflect the laser light during the operation of the device such that the light can propagate substantially parallel to the optical axis of the retroreflector device and can be transmitted through the first transmission portion of the cylindrical lens, and can then be reflected back by the retroreflector device such that the laser light can be transmitted through the second transmission portion of the cylindrical lens and can be focused into the working plane.
US09513482B2
A Heads-Up Display (HUD) system for mounting on a pair of glasses comprises a power module for providing electrical power removably mountable to one side of a lens assembly of the glasses, an electronics module connectable to receive electrical power from the power module, the electronics module removably mountable to an opposite side of the lens assembly of the glasses; and a display housing mounted on a display arm extending from the electronics module to a position within a field of vision of a user wearing the glasses. A pair of glasses adapted to receive a HUD system comprises a lens assembly providing one or more electrically conductive paths from a first side thereof to a second side thereof.
US09513479B2
With respect to an emitting side optical axis, which is an optical axis on a first surface, a sight line reference axis which is assumed as a sight line axis of the eyes of an observer extends in a slightly inclined direction. In particular, the emitting side optical axis with respect to the sight line reference axis is configured to approach the eyes from the outside (that is, a corner of the eyes) of the eyes. In addition, a long image in a vertical direction which is perpendicular to an alignment of the eyes rather than in the horizontal direction which corresponds to the alignment of the eyes, is displayed.
US09513474B2
An electrowetting element includes a surface having a display area; a first fluid and a second fluid immiscible with the first fluid; and a non-switchable color filter for further determining the display effect. A configuration of the first and second fluids is switchable, using an applied voltage, to determine a size of area that the first and second fluids adjoin the display area, which thereby determines a display effect provided by the electrowetting element. An extent of the non-switchable color filter in a plane parallel to a plane of the display area is smaller than the display area.
US09513472B2
A zoom lens system, in order from an object side to an image side, comprising: a first lens unit having positive optical power; a second lens unit having negative optical power; a third lens unit having positive optical power; a fourth lens unit having negative optical power; a fifth lens unit; and a sixth lens unit, wherein in zooming from a wide-angle limit to a telephoto limit at a time of image taking, the first lens unit, the second lens unit, the third lens unit, and the fourth lens unit move along an optical axis so that an interval between the third lens unit and the fourth lens unit at the telephoto limit is larger than that at the wide-angle limit, and wherein focusing from an infinity in-focus condition to a close-object in-focus condition is performed by moving the fourth lens unit along the optical axis.
US09513468B2
Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
US09513465B2
The present invention provides a camera device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises six lens elements positioned in an order from an object side to an image side. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements, the view angle of the optical imaging lens is efficiently increased to shows better optical characteristics.
US09513454B2
An imaging lens module includes an imaging lens assembly and a first optical component. The imaging lens assembly has an optical axis and includes a lens element. The lens element includes an effective optical portion, which is non-circular and disposed on a center of the lens element. The first optical component has a non-circular opening hole. The effective optical portion of the lens element of the imaging lens assembly is corresponded to the non-circular opening hole of the first optical component.
US09513446B2
An assembling device for assembling optical fibers in the main body includes a support member and a blocking member. The support member includes a top surface. The top surface defines a receiving cavity and a supporting recess communicating with the receiving room. The blocking member includes a blocking surface. The blocking member is partially received in the receiving cavity. The blocking surface is exposed in the supporting recess. The supporting recess is configured for supporting the main body and contacting distal ends of the optical fibers.
US09513435B1
An optical device includes an optical bench and two flip-chip bonded optical chips. The optical bench includes a large area slab waveguide structure which has an input facet facing the first optical chip, an output facet facing the second optical chip, and one or more curved facet which reflects the slab mode light such that the input optical mode coupled through the input facet diverges in the slab waveguide plane as it propagates, reflects at the one or more curved facets, and focuses to an output optical mode at the output facet with mode size larger than the input optical mode in the in-plane direction. During fabrication, after the first optical chip is flip-chip bonded, the location of the focused output optical mode on the output facet is determined, and then the second optical chip is flip-chip bonded based on the determined location of the output optical mode.
US09513433B2
An apparatus for generating long-period gratings in an optical fiber is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes an intensity adjusting unit and a period adjusting unit that come into contact with a portion of an optical fiber where gratings will be generated. The intensity adjusting unit includes a press part configured to press the portion of the optical fiber where gratings will be generated against a grating generating unit, and an intensity adjusting mechanism configured to apply force to the press part. The period adjusting unit includes a period adjusting mechanism configured to selectively increase and decrease the length of the grating generating unit.
US09513432B2
An apparatus includes a rigid support and a first cantilever including a first optical fiber and a first rigid ribbon. The first optical fiber and the first ribbon, together include a first neutral surface. The first optical fiber is connected to the rigid support. The first optical fiber includes at least one first wave-guiding core running parallel to the first neutral surface. Each of the at least one first wave-guiding core includes at least one first reflector. The first rigid ribbon is affixed to the first optical fiber and to said first rigid support. The apparatus further includes a first membrane surrounding the first cantilever.
US09513431B2
In an optical waveguide having plural cores including a pair of adjacent cores with an identical core structure, a minimum value D of center-center distance between the adjacent cores is 15 μm to 60 μm, each of the plural cores has a bent portion fixed in a radius of curvature Rb of not more than 7 mm, a bend supplementary angle of the bent portion is 58° to 90°, a height of the optical waveguide is defined as a height of not more than 10 mm, and a crosstalk of the adjacent cores is not more than 0.01.
US09513425B2
The invention provides a backlight module including: a planar illuminant portion having a first surface and emitting light from the first surface; an optical film assembly adhered to the first surface of the planar illuminant portion and having a bottom optical film and at least an upper optical film layered above the bottom optical film; and a ring-shaped frame surrounding the planar illuminant portion and having a first extension portion extending along a direction parallel to the first surface, wherein the bottom optical film extends toward the ring-shaped frame more than the upper optical film such that the first extension portion covers at least an edge of the bottom optical film.
US09513423B2
An optical device for generating a frequency comb includes an optical source and a first waveguide comprising a nonlinear optical medium operable to mix at least two input optical waves to generate a plurality of first optical waves. The optical device also includes a second waveguide concatenated to the first waveguide and characterized by a first dispersion characteristics and operable to compress the waveforms of the plurality of first optical waves and to reduce a frequency chirp introduced by the first waveguide. The optical device additionally includes a third waveguide concatenated to the second waveguide. The third waveguide comprises a nonlinear optical medium and is operable to mix the plurality of first optical waves to generate a plurality of second optical waves and to increase a total number of second optical waves with respect to a total number of first optical waves.
US09513421B2
An embodiment of an optical film includes: a polarization layer; a first phase retardation layer; a second phase retardation layer; and a light blocking layer disposed between the first phase retardation layer and the second phase retardation layer and extending along a circumference of the second phase retardation layer, wherein the polarization layer is disposed on the first phase retardation, the first phase retardation layer is disposed on the second phase retardation layer, an in-plane retardation value of the first phase retardation layer at a standard wavelength of about 550 nanometers is in a range from about 240 nanometers to about 300 nanometers, and an in-plane retardation value of the second phase retardation layer at the standard wavelength is in a range from about 110 nanometers to about 160 nanometers.
US09513412B2
Methods and systems for forming a displacement scale comprising TIR prisms on a substrate are described. A system for forming the displacement scale includes one or more rollers having a pattern of total internal reflection (TIR) prism features in negative relief. As the rollers are rotated, the scale is formed on the substrate. The rollers may also include pattern features in negative relief. Rotation of the rollers simultaneously forms the displacement scale and the pattern features on the substrate. The TIR prism features of the displacement scale may be oriented to provide measurement of one or more of lateral displacement, longitudinal displacement and angular displacement.
US09513410B2
A CISM includes a lens array in which a plurality of lenses is arranged in a row form so that the optical axes are parallel to one another, and an incident optical image is formed from one end side in the optical axis direction of the lens array, thereby forming an image on the other end side. The CISM includes a light blocking member in which a plurality of through holes that allow light to pass through is provided in a row form in the arrangement direction. In the light blocking member, the inner wall surface of the through holes that intersects the arrangement direction includes reflection surfaces that intersect a sub-scanning direction. The reflection surfaces reflect light incident on the same reflection surface in a direction that intersects the arrangement direction.
US09513408B2
This antimony-doped tin oxide powder is an antimony-doped tin oxide powder characterized by: (A) including at least three kinds of ions selected from the group consisting of Sn2+, Sn4+, Sb3+ and Sb5+; (B) having a ratio of average Sn ionic radius to average Sb ionic radius of 1:(0.96 to 1.04); and (C) having an Sb content of 5 to 25 moles relative to a total of 100 moles of Sb and Sn, wherein the average Sn ionic radius is the average of ionic radii of Sn2+ and Sn4+, while the average Sb ionic radius is the average of ionic radii of Sb3+ and Sb5+.
US09513407B2
To provide a photochromic composition which functions as an adhesive layer for bonding two optical sheets that are formed of a polycarbonate resin or the like, so that a laminate that is obtained by bonding two optical sheets with the composition being sandwiched therebetween has excellent adhesion, heat resistance and photochromic properties. In particular, to provide a photochromic composition which is capable of forming an adhesive layer that is not decreased in the adhesion between the optical sheets even in cases where the adhesive layer is in contact with hot water. Provided is a photochromic composition which contains a urethane polymer having a polymerizable group (component A) and a photochromic compound (component B).
US09513404B1
An apparatus for meteorological observation is provided. The apparatus includes: a body part; a coupling part which moves along a first and a second guiding routes alternatively by a motor; a sensor part which rotates according to a movement of the coupling part; and a shoot controlling part for measuring data of the upper atmosphere when the coupling part is placed on the top guiding member while moving along the first guiding route, (ii) measuring data of front lower atmosphere when the coupling part is placed on the first branch while moving along the first guiding route, (iii) measuring data of the upper atmosphere when the coupling part is placed on the top guiding member while moving along the second guiding route, and (iv) measuring data of rear lower atmosphere when the coupling part is placed on the second branch while moving along the second guiding route.
US09513401B2
Systems, methods, and transmitter assemblies for exploring geophysical formations at great depths. In order to explore the formation, transmitter assemblies with a size less than 500 nanometers are inserted into the formation. The transmitter assemblies include sensors and propel through the formation, analyzing fluids and conditions as each moves through the formation. The transmitter assemblies can communicate with a machine on the surface via a series of receivers and transmitters located in the wellbore. The machine on the surface is able to combine and analyze the data from the nanorobots to create a three dimensional map of the formation. The map shows the locations of pathways through the formation, pockets of hydrocarbons within the formation, and the boundaries of the formation.
US09513393B2
A technique includes distributing particle motion sensors along the length of a seismic streamer. Each particle motion sensor is eccentrically disposed at an associated angle about an axis of the seismic streamer with respect to a reference line that is common to the associated angles. The sensors are mounted to suppress torque noise in measurements that are acquired by the particle motion sensors. This mounting includes substantially varying the associated angles.
US09513392B2
Estimation of direct arrival signals based on predicted direct arrival signals and measurements can include obtaining notional source signatures for notional sources that correspond to source elements in a seismic source. A first predicted direct arrival signal at a first location and a second predicted direct arrival signal at a second location can be determined. The first location corresponds to a seismic receiver and the second location does not correspond to a seismic receiver. A transfer function can be determined based on the first predicted direct arrival signal at the first location and the second predicted direct arrival signal at the second location. An estimated direct arrival signal at the second location can be determined based on the transfer function and a measurement by the seismic receiver corresponding to the first location. The estimated direct arrival signal represents what a measured direct arrival signal would be at the second location.
US09513383B1
A scintillator device includes a scintillator layer on a substrate and a foil layer that covers the scintillator layer. The foil layer overlaps an outer edge of the scintillator layer and is adhered to a portion of the substrate surrounding the scintillator layer to form at least part of a first moisture barrier between the scintillator layer and the surrounding environment. A sealant overlaps an outer edge of the foil layer onto a portion of the substrate surrounding the foil layer to form at least part of a second moisture barrier between the scintillator layer and the surrounding environment.
US09513374B2
A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver determines a measurement error covariance from a reference position and a set of measured pseudoranges from a set of GNSS satellites. The position and velocity solution is determined from the measurement error covariance and the set of measured pseudoranges. The measurement error covariance is determined as function of the difference between a reference pseudorange and measured pseudorange. The reference pseudorange is computed from the reference position to a satellite. The measurement error covariance is determined as function of the difference only if the measured pseudorange is greater than the reference pseudorange. The GNSS receiver also determines measurement error covariance as function of one or more of correlation peak shape, difference, the correlation peak shape, a received signal to noise ratio and a tracking loop error.
US09513368B2
Methods and systems for ultrasound data processing are provided. One method includes acquiring channel ultrasound data from a plurality of channel connected to a plurality of elements of an ultrasound probe and storing the channel ultrasound data from the plurality of channels. The method further includes generating ultrasound images based on processing of the acquired channel ultrasound data and displaying the ultrasound images. The method also includes performing additional processing on the stored channel ultrasound data while the ultrasound images are displayed and displaying updated ultrasound images generated by the additional processing.
US09513366B2
A method for detecting targets using a mobile radar having a rotary antenna, notably small targets buried in radar clutter, without increasing the number of false detections, includes determining pre-detections during N antenna revolutions, including determining pre-detections revolution by revolution, each pre-detection being stored in a grid of cells centered on the position that the radar occupied at the start of the current revolution, each grid cell corresponding to an azimuth range and a distance range. This step also includes, at the end of each revolution, a step of shifting all the pre-detections stored in the grid during the previous revolutions by the movement undergone by the radar during the last revolution. The method also includes determining detections, a target being detected from the moment that a set of pre-detections stored in the grid has its distances to the radar which constitute a linear progression during the N antenna revolutions.
US09513364B2
Disclosed are techniques to authenticate tags passing through detection regions against an access control list, receive data that identifies a number of people passing through or within the detection regions, compare the number people identified by the received data with the number of tags identified by the system, and cause an alarm to be asserted when a discrepancy is detected in the number people identified with the number of tags in a detection region with personnel within the detection region.
US09513363B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining signal source probabilities. Signal source probabilities, for a plurality of sub-areas of a geographic area covered by a plurality of signal sources, may be determined. For each one of the plurality of sub-areas, the signal source probabilities may be determined based on probable field strengths of the plurality of signal sources for the one of the plurality of sub-areas, and the signal source probabilities for that one of the plurality of sub-areas indicate the probability that a mobile device, located in that one of the plurality of sub-areas, is operable to detect a particular signal source for communicating. Determining signal source probabilities may comprise calculating expected field strengths in the plurality of sub-areas. Determining signal source probabilities may comprise obtaining power information indicating a detected power of respective signals received by the mobile device from multiple transmitters.
US09513347B2
A device with a magnetic sensor includes a substrate with a device layer. A magnetic sensor is formed on the device layer and includes a first permanent magnet. The first permanent magnet has at least one alternating ferromagnetic (FM) layer and antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer, with a barrier layer disposed between the FM layer and the AFM layer. The first permanent magnet is magnetized in a first direction at a temperature higher than a blocking temperature of the AFM layer. A plurality of device pads are coupled to the magnetic sensor. An integrated circuit substrate with a plurality of IC pads, wherein the plurality of device pads are selectively eutectic bonded to the plurality of IC pads at a bonding temperature greater than the blocking temperature of the AFM layer of the first permanent magnet.
US09513346B2
A method and system for a device with a magnetic sensor includes a first permanent magnet and a second permanent magnet. The first permanent magnet and the second permanent magnet of the magnetic sensor have at least one alternating ferromagnetic (FM) layer and antiferromagnetic (AFM) layer. The first permanent magnet is magnetized in a first direction and the second permanent magnet is magnetized in a second direction which is substantially orthogonal to the first direction. The blocking temperature of the AFM layer of the first permanent magnet is higher than the blocking temperature of the AFM layer of the second permanent magnet.
US09513344B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a magnetic field sensor having a squat soft-magnetic body disposed on a surface of a substrate including a magnetic sensor array having a plurality of spatially diverse magnetic sensor elements disposed in a predetermined configuration. In the presence of an external magnetic field the squat soft-magnetic body becomes magnetized to generate a reactionary magnetic field. The plurality of magnetic sensor elements respectively measure a magnetic field value of a superposition of the external magnetic field and the reactionary magnetic field along a first axis (e.g., a z-axis), resulting in a plurality of spatially diverse measurements of the magnetic field component along the first axis. The plurality of spatially diverse measurements may be used to compute magnetic field components of the external magnetic field along a plurality of axes (e.g., x-axis, y-axis, and z-axis).
US09513338B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a state of charge of a battery. A magnetic force between the battery and a magnet is detected. The state of charge of the battery is determined based on the detected magnetic force.
US09513337B2
An integrated circuit sensor includes circuitry and methods for generating a high speed delay fault test clock signal. A trimmable oscillator generates a master clock signal for use by an output protocol processor to provide the sensor output signal. A fault test clock signal generator is responsive to the master clock signal and to a test trigger signal for generating the test clock signal having a launch pulse and a capture pulse, each having edges substantially coincident with like edges of pulses of the master clock signal and a spacing between launch and capture pulses established by the trimmable master clock signal.
US09513336B2
This disclosure describes a test architecture that supports a common approach to testing individual die and dies in a 3D stack arrangement. The test architecture uses an improved TAP design to facilitate the testing of parallel test circuits within the die.
US09513333B2
A test interface board includes a substrate including a power plane electrically connected to at least one power terminal of a semiconductor device under test, and a ground plane electrically connected to at least one ground terminal of the semiconductor device under test, and a voltage regulator arranged on the substrate and configured to supply, via the power plane and the ground plane, to the semiconductor device under test, a driving voltage.
US09513323B2
A rotary resonant three-dimensional electric field sensor is disclosed. The rotary resonant three-dimensional electric field sensor includes: a substrate (1); an X-direction electric field measurement unit (4), a Y-direction electric field measurement unit (5), and a Z-direction electric field measurement unit (6), set on the substrate (1), each of which including: a sensing electrode (8, 10, 13) fixed on the substrate (1), and a shielding electrode (7, 9, 12) vibrating relatively to the sensing electrode (8, 10, 13); and at least one set of driving mechanical structures (11, 18), is configured to generate a driving force so as to cause the shielding electrode (7, 9) to vibrate relatively to a corresponding sensing electrode (8, 10, 13), and the vibration is transferred to the shielding is electrodes (7, 9, 12) of the other two electric field measurement units (4, 5, 6).
US09513315B2
A system that measures a high electric voltage on an electrical transmission line has an electro optical voltage transducer sensor connected between the electrical transmission line and ground for providing in response to the measured high electric voltage a Sin optical intensity signal and a Cos optical intensity signal. The system also has a signal processor that operates in a first state to digitally process samples of the Sin and said Cos optical intensity signals. The process samples are used to provide a representation of the high electric voltage on the transmission line. The representation can be used for one or more of metering, relaying and transient capture.
US09513303B2
A diagnostic analyzer includes a track, a light-blocking member, a motor, and an optical testing device. The track moves a reaction vessel held by the track. The light-blocking member is disposed adjacent to the track. The light-blocking member moves from a first position apart from the track to a second position closer to the track. When the light-blocking member is disposed in the first position a sample contained within the reaction vessel held by the track is exposed to light. When the light-blocking member is disposed in the second position the sample contained within the reaction vessel held by the track is blocked from exposure to the light. The motor moves the light-blocking member between the first and the second positions. The optical testing device is disposed adjacent to the track for optically testing the sample contained within the reaction vessel held by the track when the at least one light-blocking member is disposed in the second position.
US09513301B2
An in vitro method for the risk stratification of patients with stable arteriosclerosis, especially stable coronary artery disease, is disclosed wherein the concentration of procalcitonin is determined in the circulation of such patients using a highly sensitive PCT assay, and wherein within the range of PCT concentrations in the typical normal range of healthy individuals cutoff values are defined which distinguish groups of individual patients with stable arteriosclerosis in accordance with personal cardiac risk, and patients are allotted to one of said risk groups on the basis of their individual PCT concentrations.
US09513293B2
Described herein are compositions and methods of use of anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies or fragments thereof, such as murine, chimeric, humanized or human PAM4 antibodies. The subject antibodies show a number of novel and useful diagnostic characteristics, such as binding with high specificity to pancreatic and other cancers, but not to normal pancreatic tissues and binding to a high percentage of early stage pancreatic cancers. In preferred embodiments, the antibodies bind to pancreatic cancer mucins. The antibodies and fragments are of use for the detection and diagnosis of early stage pancreatic cancer. In preferred embodiments, the anti-pancreatic cancer antibodies can be used for immunoassay of serum samples, wherein the immunoassay can detect a marker for early stage pancreatic cancer in serum. More preferably, the serum is extracted with an organic phase, such as butanol, before immunoassay.
US09513288B2
The present invention concerns methods and compositions related to type 3 phosphodiesterases (PDE3). Certain embodiments concern isolated peptides corresponding to various PDE3A isoforms and/or site-specific mutants of PDE3A isoforms, along with expression vectors encoding such isoforms or mutants. In specific embodiments, methods for identifying isoform-selective inhibitors or activators of PDE3 are provided, along with methods of use of such inhibitors or activators in the treatment of dilated cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension and/or other medical conditions related to PDE3 effects on cAMP levels in different intracellular compartments. In particular, techniques are disclosed herein relating to the identification of a test compound that binds to an isolated polypeptide such as PDE3A2 and assaying the test compound for its ability to exhibit superior ability to interfere with binding of the isolated polypeptide when compared with at least a second isolated polypeptide such as of PDE3A1 and methods of treatment of cardiomyopathy, pulmonary hypertension involving the resulting test compound.
US09513284B2
The invention provides a novel class of reactive fluorescent agents that are based on a pyrene sulfonic acid nucleus. The agents are readily incorporated into conjugates with other species by reacting the reactive group with a group of complementary reactivity on the other species of the conjugate. Also provided are methods of using the compounds of the invention to detect and/or quantify an analyte in a sample. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention provides multi-color assays incorporating the compounds of the invention.
US09513273B2
A method for determining a salt concentration of a hydrocarbon fluid using a conductivity sensor and a hydrocarbon testing solution includes forming the hydrocarbon testing solution. The electropolymerizable monomer is operable to form a resultant associated polymer at a peak potential of the electropolymerizable polymer. The method includes introducing the hydrocarbon testing solution into the conductivity sensor. The method includes inducing a range of potential across the hydrocarbon testing solution such that at least a portion of the electropolymerizable monomer polymerizes. The range of induced potential includes the peak potential of the electropolymerizable polymer. The method includes detecting a range of electrical current associated with the range of potential induced. The method also includes the step of determining the salt concentration of the hydrocarbon fluid using the range of potential induced and the range of electrical current detected.
US09513269B2
A display device on a container cover includes a substrate, a driving circuit unit on the substrate, a display element unit on the driving circuit unit, a sealing member on the display element unit, and a coupling portion to a container body.
US09513264B2
Apparatuses and methods for controlling ionic strength and/or pH of a solution are provided.
US09513259B2
Solid contents verification systems and methods are provided. The system includes a contents sensor unit, a container-carrying unit and a control unit. The contents sensor unit has at least one contents sensor configured to send and receive sonic pulses to determine a state of contents in a container. The contents sensor unit is configured to send a signal communicating a state of the contents in a container. The container-carrying unit is configured to hold a container in substantial alignment with the contents sensors to expose the contents to the sonic pulses. The control unit is operatively connected to the contents sensor unit. The control unit is configured to receive the signal communicating the state of the contents and to compare the state of the contents with a desired state of the contents.
US09513256B2
IMS apparatus has an inlet with a preconcentrator opening into a reaction region where analyte molecules are ionized and passed via a shutter to a drift region for collection and analysis. A pump and filter arrangement supplies a flushing flow of clean gas to the housing in opposition to ion flow. A pressure pulser connects with the housing and is momentarily switched to cause a short drop in pressure, in the housing to draw in a bolus of analyte sample from the preconcentrator. Just prior to admitting a bolus of sample, the pump is turned off so that the flushing flow drops substantially to zero, thereby prolonging the time the analyte molecules spend in the reaction region.
US09513254B2
In one embodiment, a microfluidic sensor device includes microfluidic sensor mounted on and electrically connected a micro lead frame substrate. The microfluidic sensor is molded to form a package body. The package body includes a molded panel portion and, in some embodiments, a mask portion having one or more open channels, sealed channels, and/or a sealed chamber exposing an active surface of the microfluidic sensor. The molded panel portions and mask portions are configured to allow a material to dynamically or statically contact the microfluidic sensor for analysis.
US09513250B2
A microelectrochemical sensor includes a carrier material composed of a semiconductor substrate, and includes a chemosensitive sensor element. The chemosensitive sensor element is positioned in a first partial region of the carrier material. A heating element is positioned in a region of the chemosensitive sensor element and is configured to regulate a temperature of the chemosensitive sensor element. A microelectronic unit is positioned in a second partial region of the carrier material, and is connected to the chemosensitive sensor element and the heating element via conductor tracks integrated into the carrier material. The microelectronic unit is configured to operate the heating element and the sensor element.
US09513249B2
This sensor chip (11) comprises a substrate (15) in the form of a flat board, a sample inlet (20) that is provided in the thickness direction of the substrate (15) and into which flows the blood (3) used for measurement, a supply path (21) that communicates with this sample inlet (20), and detection electrodes (17, 18, 19) provided to this supply path (21), wherein the substrate (15) is provided with a surplus blood reservoir (25) that draws in surplus blood (3a) and holds this drawn surplus blood (3a).
US09513248B2
A potentiometric sensor includes an elongate non-glass, non-metal housing having opposite first and second longitudinal ends and a length extending between the first and second longitudinal ends. The housing defines a lumen extending along the length of the housing. A measuring half-cell assembly is received in the lumen of the housing and secured to the housing. The measuring half-cell assembly includes a glass body having opposite first and second longitudinal ends and a length extending between the first and second ends of the glass body. The second longitudinal end of the glass body is adjacent the second longitudinal end of the housing and a longitudinal extent of the glass body is less than the length of the housing.
US09513242B2
A humidity sensor may include a first substrate having a recess formed in a first side, a second substrate and an insulating layer supported by the second substrate. The second substrate and the insulating layer may be supported by the first side of the first substrate and extend over the recess to form a diaphragm with the insulating layer facing the recess. The diaphragm may be at least partially thermally isolated from a remainder of the second substrate. A resistive heater element may be supported by the diaphragm. A pair of sensing electrodes are electrically separated from each other and supported by the diaphragm. A sensing material is disposed over the pair of sensing electrodes, wherein an electrical property of the sensing material changes in response to a change in moisture content of the sensing material.
US09513241B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for interpreting multi-phase fluid flow in a conduit, such as a pipe in a wellbore. The method involves curve fitting holdup data sets and velocity data sets together wherein the second curve comprises a shape mutual to the first curve with an independent gain and an independent offset, and determining flow rates through the pipe.
US09513240B2
MEMS-based calorimeter including two microchambers supported in a thin film substrate is provided. The thin film substrate includes a thermoelectric sensor configured to measure temperature differential between the two microchambers, and also includes a thermally stable and high strength polymeric diaphragm. Methods for fabricating the MEMS-based calorimeter, as well as methods of using the calorimeter to measure thermal properties of materials, such as biomolecules, or thermodynamic properties of chemical reactions or physical interactions, are also provided.
US09513226B2
Systems, devices and techniques are disclosed for optically detecting single molecules using nanoscale chip configurations. In one aspect, a sensing device includes a composite membrane having an array of nanochannels that form openings at opposing sides of the membrane, a first and second substrate each including channels to carry a fluid containing particles, a fluidic module that is fluidically coupled to the channels to supply the fluid, a plurality of electrodes located along the channels, and an electrical module to generate an electric field via the electrodes to effectuate an electrokinetic force within the channels to steer the particles toward the openings of the nanochannels to immobilize the particles, in which the nanochannels operate as resonant structures to amplify localized fields produced in an optical interrogation of the immobilized particles.
US09513223B2
A high-resolution fluorescence image in which an afterimage is suppressed is obtained, even when a fluorescence detection interval is shortened. Provided is a scanning observation apparatus including a scanning unit that spatially scans pulsed excitation light emitted from a light source at prescribed time intervals on a specimen; a fluorescence detecting unit that detects fluorescence generated by exciting a fluorescent substance inside the specimen with the excitation light scanned by the scanning unit, in synchronization with the emission of the excitation light; and a fluorescence correcting unit that subtracts, from a fluorescence intensity detected by the fluorescence detecting unit, an afterimage fluorescence component calculated on the basis of time-sequential fluorescence detected by the fluorescence detecting unit prior thereto, at each scanning position, to correct the fluorescence intensity at the scanning position.
US09513220B1
A semiconductor device used for fluorescent-based molecule detection and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device has a fluid channel layer defining a fluid channel through which a sample stream flows. A target cell coupled with a fluorescent source is contained by the sample stream. The semiconductor device also has an excitation light source for generating excitation light that reaches the target cell coupled with the fluorescent source to generate fluorescent light. The semiconductor device also has a light filter layer for permitting the fluorescent light to pass through and to block the excitation light and a light detection layer for detecting the fluorescent light. The functional components of the device are highly integrated. Leakage of the excitation light and background noise into the light detection component can be minimized to improve the quality of detection.
US09513212B2
A photoconductive antenna that generates a terahertz wave by irradiation with a light pulse, includes: a carrier generation layer that has carriers formed therein by irradiation with the light pulse, and is constituted by a semi-insulating substrate; an insulating layer, located on the carrier generation layer, which is capable of transmitting the light pulse; and a first electrode and a second electrode, located above the carrier generation layer, which apply a voltage to the carrier generation layer, wherein the insulating layer is provided on a region which is irradiated with the light pulse between the first electrode and the second electrode in a plan view.
US09513201B2
A system and method for measuring physical properties of non-Newtonian fluids, such as fluids containing dispersed solid particulate material and having a yield stress. A fluid resistance member is moved through the non-Newtonian fluid sufficiently slowly that viscous drag on the member is negligible and fluid resistance is essentially due to the yield stress of the fluid. The torque required to maintain the movement of the member through the fluid is measured, and at least one physical property, other than apparent viscosity of the fluid, is determined by employing a known relationship between the measured torque and the physical property of interest.
US09513199B2
This invention provides mixing, reaction and ejection devices for small volume samples. This invention also provides cooling devices, sample preparation apparatuses and sample preparation methods for studying chemical and biological reactions. The mixing, reaction and ejection devices of this invention allow ejection of small volume liquid samples from a microfluidic channel. Cooling devices of the invention enable serial cooling and collection of samples in an efficient and accurate manner. This invention also provides apparatuses comprising the mixing, reaction and ejection devices and cooling devices. This invention provides methods of using the novel devices and apparatuses.
US09513191B2
A method for monitoring a subsystem installed in a motor vehicle involves a diagnostic unit checking the subsystem for system errors at least during driving cycles of the motor vehicle, the check being carried out for an occurrence as well as for a correction of a system error. The diagnostic unit carries out a misuse assessment based on a frequency of detection of the occurrence and/or the correction of the system error in order to determine whether the detected occurrence and/or the detected correction of the system error is/are based on misuse. If occurrence of the system error is detected, a restricted operating mode is activated or an activated restricted operating mode is continued in which drivability of the vehicle is restricted after a predefinable number of driving cycles has elapsed or after a predefinable travel distance has passed without the correction of the system error being detected.
US09513187B2
An apparatus for the testing of valves, particularly compressor valves, to ensure that the valve assemblies are pressure tight, has a valve holder which is generally conical shaped with a generally circular cross section when viewed from above, and a resilient inner wall surface. The valve holder has an open throat end, and a smaller diameter apex end. A pump or plenum for forming a below-atmospheric (vacuum) volume is fluidly connected to the apex of the valve holder. A valve is placed in the valve holder so as to seal against the resilient inner wall. A pressure differential is created across the valve by the vacuum source, and the pressure in the space below the valve is monitored to detect any leakage across the valve.
US09513180B2
A fluid pressure indicating device is disclosed. The pressure indicating device includes a housing defining a cylindrical bore therein, and a piston movably disposed within the cylindrical bore. The housing includes a first portion that is permeable to visible light, a first end member, and a second end member opposite the first end member. A first variable volume is defined by the cylindrical bore, the piston, and the first end member of the housing. An inlet port is defined by the first end member of the housing and is in fluid communication with the first variable volume. A piston bypass channel is disposed outside the cylindrical bore and is in fluid communication with the inlet port. An outlet port is defined by the second end member, such that the outlet port is in fluid communication with the piston bypass channel.
